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@gipsojo And all for the low low price of one kidney, your daughter’s hand in marriage and indentured servitude to a grinning warlord.

Man I love Nuketown. Many many hours spent on the Black Ops 1 and 3 versions. Black Ops being the first game to have bots made it even more fun in local multiplayer.

Ghostwire’s free on the Epic store too. Clearly just giving it away now.

Yummy, awkwardly framed cutscenes look shinier than ever.

Insane to demand workers with chronic illness return to office work. The great thing about modern development is that work can be done from home, a well-documented, well-planned project can be developed from anywhere. This is QA staff for God’s sake, what use is a blanket mandate for in-person work? If you screw over brilliant minds due to physical illnesses, you’re only making your team worse off.

I’ll take a grindy, difficult JRPG over easy ones. I’ve had enough of boring frictionless games, that’s why SMT is so fulfilling and I enjoyed Dragon Quest XI’s difficulty curve too. We need Etrian Odyssey back as well!

@SheerDisappointment I think so yeah, I really wish I was around when Home was big but I went from an uncle’s hand-me-down PS2 in about 2007 to my dad’s PS3 when I saw him every couple weeks so that wasn’t enough time to really play something like PS Home. I spent way more time with the Wii back then while trying to catch up with PS2 games thanks to the incredibly cheap discs you’d get after the PS3 launched. From everything I’ve seen about PS Home, it’s remarkably close to the sort of Fortnite and Roblox servers you get where people just hang out.

A catastrophe of this scale should be a sackable offence for those in charge. If they’re supposed to provide value to shareholders, what value is created by negative 200 million dollars?

@SheerDisappointment I was more referring to Studio Liverpool, I always forget what their name was after Psygnosis got renamed. Manchester and London Studios getting shut down was horrible too, Manchester were VR only but as we see, they could do with a few solid games on that front. London Studio were a killer, you always knew that given a meaty project they’d make the most of it given what they did with The Getaway, just got pushed into Singstar and VR over the years.

So we’re all in agreement that Hermen should be fired out of a cannon?

And yet Japan Studio and Psygnosis went first. It’s crazy, there were a bunch of talented studios over the years that Sony killed and yet they had studios who hadn’t even released a game.

Every single exec that signed off on this should be ousted. Start with Hulst, he can go sign on, same as the staff he’s just put a giant black mark on when laying them off.

@ZeroSum That’s literally the definition of tanking. Having support cut within a year of release. If it was that much of a success then it would have been kept around, same way Zombies keeps being brought back, same way Warzone has become its own thing.

It’s not just a live service, it’s an extraction shooter. Have they not looked at the fact that Battlefield and COD’s takes on that genre absolutely tanked and they came with a pre-existing player base and (mostly) working gameplay?

I honestly really like Dead or Alive on 3DS, that and Street Fighter 4 were mind blowing at the time. That this is pretty much it when it comes to the series now is sorta sad really.

Still can’t believe there’s been 6 Black Ops games. I have the first one on Wii 😂

This is sorta the problem with completely separate studios doing sequels, it gives such a target on the back of the devs if it doesn’t pan out and there’s a large enough fandom from the original release. I dunno, this level of hate is never ok but pretty much all the blame has been levelled at Deck Nine and there’s not exactly anywhere for it to go.

@zhoont And why can’t she show up? Play the game and find out how she’s treated. It’s not as simple as you’ve laid out.

@zhoont That’s not a spoiler at all, it’s no different from Mass Effect 2 carrying forward from Mass Effect 1. It’s literally the premise of the entire game.

My best friend is a lesbian and it seems like this has absolutely bombed among that community, which is probably its biggest audience. Having to cater to both endings of the first game has scuppered it. She’s distraught 😂

@TooManyBrownies Concord as a 7 is not on the Metal Gear Survive 8/10 level. That’s the one I’ll never let go 😂

Never been a fan of the series since Origins but I’m glad it’s turned out alright for the fans.

@TheOldHunter4K Unfortunately stars a nonce. Would watch otherwise.

I’ve heard BAD things. A shame.

Incredibly disgusting that action is only taken because of investors seeking a payday. Absolutely shows the moral vacuum that capitalism encourages.

Very good looking. And Little Nightmares and Limbo proved horror platformers can be a thing.

@vyseofhr ENSHITTIFICATION

Koei and Paradox together probably make up about 99% of these sorts of games. I do find it interesting they’ve remade an older one though, not the sort of genre that normally happens in.

The fact I don’t get points from a PS Plus subscription anymore is evil. It’s gone up to £120, the least they can do is give points.

@Kraven I’d probably have it up there too. It genuinely challenges the best of the genre.

Yeah I’m gonna have to wait on this one. Flawed stealth can truly ruin a game.

Super excited, love these games.

@gipsojo What a generation!

I’m sorry what the actual f*ck. This used to be a natural new feature in games. It also gives a massive advantage to players who pay for it. This is pay to win.

hoh hoh hoh fromage frais

Some elements are better but I maintain that the original lighting is more appealing. Not everything has to be more lifelike, it’s a fantasy world.

Awful news. People need to back good games with good sales.

The last 10 years have just been waiting for patches in games. First it was PS4 Pro, then PS5 now PS5 Pro.

@Flaming_Kaiser 3 is perfectly ok, it just has quite a few issues. The pacing isn’t the best, it’s not the most fun game to replay as you keep getting bogged down in an annoying section. There’s far too much combat too, and the mechanics haven’t really improved between games. It’s a decent game but it struggled to stand up to Uncharted 2.

The writing’s been on the wall for a while now. I just don’t know why they’re doubling down when it’s a free PR win to put out waffle about going back to their roots.

@zhoont I wouldn’t say the bar was raised between Uncharted 2 and 3!

Not exactly gonna be hard lol. Every year has been ‘next year will be the year PS5 arrives’

Loved Lance Reddick so much, part of me thinks it would be perfect to cast LeVar Burton, he wishes he was him after all!

Ow the edge is ready

Feels a little like it’s coming from somebody that doesn’t particularly enjoy Lego games.

Man I need this. Looks like my sort of game.

@Dalamar I will never get over the massive face downgrade. I really loved Peter’s old face, he looked like a dorky guy that had been Spider-Man for years now.

Now they can focus on pushing games on a mechanical standing rather than visually…. right?

@TomasVrboda Exactly right about used games, they’re a market that isn’t tracked in the same way. With the £70 price point almost everyone I know will either buy an older game second hand or trade their copies in once they finish a brand new game.

A pro console is a premium product. Losing the disc drive is not a premium product.