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Honestly flying heroes aren’t as hard to deal with as invincible Mr Fantastic or 100mph Black Panther. As a Groot main, if your aim’s decent then you can shred Storm and Iron Man since they’re not getting as regular heals. If Johnny has a decent sized hurtbox then he’ll be another hit and run hero. The main issue is there being obvious bans every patch now, every game of Season 0 was Hela, Hulk and Hawkeye getting banned and now this season it’s Storm, Hulk, Wolverine. Also please make the support ults last a shorter amount of time, 3 support comps with Luna, Dagger and Loki are evil.

@Clogalis Really makes that video Sony did about sharing games with friends look horribly out of date. They make fun of MS not allowing disc sharing and now they’re producing digital only consoles with no way of borrowing games, never mind even just gifting them.

For anyone scoffing at the backlash - let’s see GTA VI not release in several Western countries due to 2K account GDPR regulations or something and see what the backlash is like. It smacks of snobbery to look down on the countries where these games aren’t available and frankly a very American attitude where the West is centred as the only important part of the world.

@ear_wig Love Dark Souls 1 (top 10 of all time) and appreciate 2 more on a third playthrough to the point I have a love for a lot of it even if it’s also downright silly at times. 3 I’ve played once and thought it was good at the time but never really had a reason to go back. Bloodborne is a mixed bag, the game sort of falls apart after Yharnam imo but the DLC is brilliant at least. Elden Ring is up there with Ocarina of Time in terms of best games I’ve ever played.

Demon’s Souls is a mess. It wavers between brutally difficult and incredibly easy with no actual difficulty curve throughout the game. The lack of bonfires and barely any shortcuts makes it more similar to a King’s Field which makes the many, many stupid enemy placements and annoying traps that much worse. There were like 3 good bosses, Flamelurker, Penetrator and Tower Knight. The reliance on gimmick bosses makes most of them either irritating or pathetic. The final boss I got hit only a couple times the entire fight and I was playing it blind, he posed very little threat and mostly just did a giant telegraphed wind attack that you could easily avoid. The final boss is a complete letdown so I assume it’s a troll thing but that meant the previous boss is even more of a letdown as it’s the final boss and not the penultimate one. In all honesty, the game peaks very early on and once you narrow your paths down by beating some of the worlds then it becomes a lot less interesting. I had the most fun pushing myself in the opening sections of each area to eke out upgrades to my build than actually exploring some of the later areas. The swamp is a disaster on every front, annoying, unforgiving and visually drab to the point I’d rather play Blighttown over and over again on original hardware. Don’t even get me started on the buggy Maneaters, being pushed off the edge by a terrible invisible hitbox is not fun and will never be fun. The Bell Gargoyles stomp them as bosses despite being much easier. I can’t think of anything in that game that isn’t done much better in another From game.

To be honest I finally beat Demon’s Souls last year and I sort of agree that it’s crap. That’s with the hindsight of every other Souls game though, it was probably better on release.

This is a marketing issue. If the market changed without a fight then you’re just weak.

@RatmCky It’s more just a bizarre mishmash of two very different experiences.

@RatmCky What are you on about? Pro Skater 1, 2 and 3 have timed runs on levels with a set of goals. Pro Skater 4 is a free roam game with an unlimited timer and individual missions. It’s one of my favourite games but it fundamentally is structurally different to the first 3 games.

@PegasusActual93 Unreal Engine 3 didn’t have Nanite or Lumen. It was less of a homogeneous engine and more open to individual implementations of design styles. UE5 is just the new Unity, often poor performance and with a distinctive ‘look’ that instantly makes it stand out and not always in a good way.

That’s absolutely mad. People are way too good at these games.

@Ralizah That’s the problem imo, Sony’s output is bought by almost all Playstation owners because that’s what you do. Being just one of a million publishers makes things very different and the actual quality of their recent output has been exposed in a way as honestly not fantastic when removed from the PS ecosystem. The same will be true for Xbox games on PS5, the games have to stand on their own two feet instead of being bought en masse/downloaded off Game Pass solely because it’s a first party game. If anything, I’d say it’s not really devalued the brand much at all considering the low sales, clearly people want to play PlayStation games on their PlayStation. Nixxes aren’t exactly doing much else so I don’t see an issue with them being put to work porting these. It’s not new either, FF7 and Metal Gear Solid and the like got PC ports almost 30 years ago and they’re still thought of as PS exclusives.

I hate how every dev is just using Unreal Engine 5 now. Everything ends up looking so corporate with the same artistic direction. Lighting in particular being out a box is soulless.

@Ralizah Nooo don’t make sense, this is a site where you’re supposed to be partisan.

Good job. Cheaters are awful and the charity is well deserving.

That’s just mad, those poor devs. The game’s a success on so many fronts.

@Athrum I just wish the Doctor Who sets were in Arena, I can’t think of anything possibly aimed towards me more.

Man this is my childhood. I got Soaked and Wild for Christmas in 2005 I think. Really brilliant game.

YESSSSSSS

(Also 3+4 makes no sense, they play completely differently)

@Athrum I do wish the sets were included with MTG Arena and MTGO, but I guess FOMO and them not being actually usable decks means they have to target physical only. Although I think these new ones are legal so technically they could bring them over.

@ThomasHL @Athrum Good to know, from the article it sounded like all we were getting was the Commander decks.

If anything it bodes well for AC Shadows that it’s tracking above what for many is a £10 upgrade.

@Reform I’m sure @get2sammyb can confirm that unless what you’re meaning to say is a thinly-veiled attack on minorities then any such comment would be left well alone. But that couldn’t possibly be the case, right?

@MysteriousMudkip Cecil I’d argue is the most iconic character in the 2D games, crazy he’s not got a card for each of his two sides, or even some sort of darkness mechanic.

@Reform How can you not target a modern audience? Do Chinese devs target people born in 1745?

The game sounds interesting from that one pitch but clearly it’s a bit of a mess behind the scenes. Would need to actually see solid game footage.

These are basically targeted at me, having made FF, Assassin’s Creed and Doctor Who.

Must say that them only doing a few FF games is a bit annoying, considering they had basically every Doctor and Companion in the Doctor Who set.

@BamBamBaklava89 The series has had expansions for 25 years. The expansion packs are a highlight, giving you time to get to grips with the core mechanics of the base game before weaving more into the game after development time and player feedback. The issue is the smaller packs that add a Civ or leader or two, which are clearly just to make extra money on the side.

I’m enjoying it. Very different, but not a bad thing after VI which I wasn’t as into as IV or V. Unlocking Civs is good fun too. The ahistorical parts don’t wind me up as much as I thought, the games have always been silly and III literally had modern day Abraham Lincoln models and Chairman Mao as a caveman. In all honesty, the vast changes have actually increased the scope of where they can go from here, instead of being stuck on a road with only one exit. The UI is a pain though!

I dunno, I’m more than burned out by third-person melee action games, that seems to be all they’re making these days without an actual Devil May Cry to show the imitators how it’s done. Elements of the trailer looked incredibly AI generated too (I literally worked as a model trainer so I do know what I’m talking about), it’s more likely that it’s been used in the design process to generate scenarios than any generated art has remained in the game.

It’s the game equivalent of the actual Funko figures in that it’s landfill material. Shame for those losing their jobs but this was a disaster from the top down.

Elements of this feels manufactured personally. Stock manipulation is the most reasonable motive. Ubisoft have for all intents and purposes been sticking to the same formula for years across multiple series and it was a sustainable business model, there wasn’t this level of panic for Watch Dogs Legion or Far Cry 6 which were panned by their communities but there is for AC Shadows, which seems to move the series forward mechanically in a meaningful way and the fanbase generally is excited for it. Star Wars Outlaws is a lot of the issue with how it bombed which is mad because I’ve seen so much praise for it, and it was the centre of a targeted hate campaign for both having a woman in it and also Star Wars fans being miserable *****. The problem with Avengers is that it being dreadful has killed a couple of undeserving games, Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars Outlaws by tenuous links that nobody can exactly pinpoint. I’m not sure how Avatar performed but it’s possible the licensing has just killed the profit margins for it same as Star Wars.

I’m enjoying the game so far, much more video-gamey which I don’t mind, I think VI leaned too far into board game mechanics like Catan and such and forgot it’s a video game series. I’ll need to play more games but it’s been fun learning a new version. Plus unlocking a new Civ like it was Super Smash Bros was insanely cool. Felt old school given how unlockables are almost entirely missing from modern gaming thanks to DLC.

@Fyz306903 I think there’s a clear gulf between early PS4 titles and the late PS4 ones that I could pinpoint a certain ‘look’ the early Sony PS4 efforts have with regards to their texture quality and lighting. Apart from The Order 1888 which looks incredible still from what I’ve seen (still need to actually play it). Thinking about it, Infamous Second Son is old enough to actually warrant a PS5 remaster and would massively benefit from it.

I was thinking about how if they’re going to do remasters then I’d rather have older stuff that got flawed HD versions years ago like Killzone, Ratchet and Clank etc and then I remember the key fact - this requires little effort and remastering games from further back than last Tuesday would be too much effort for Sony to give a f**k about.

It’s sort of weirdly working on me. I’m looking forward to DOOM, Indiana Jones, Forza Horizon etc far more than anything Sony have on the horizon.

Shinobi looks cool. I struggled to pick two others but plumped for the octopus game in that I’d play it if it dropped on PS Plus.

There’s probably a fancy Latin name for the whole ‘rhymes when written down but not said out loud’ but the Sigmund Feud name irritates in that exact way. A minuscule gripe given the game’s obvious other themes and clear passion.

It’s a bit of a shame that the PS5 Remote Play architecture isn’t compatible with Vita anymore. I liked using my Vita to stream PS4 games and it wasn’t a useless brick without an internet connection, you can still play games on it that are installed.

Super happy for the Extra games. Premium still a bit crap. Topspin I’m actually really excited to play.

The trailer was *****. It’ll probably bomb if it ever comes out.

@Fyz306903 It’s mad, we had bloody Jedi Power Battles before Rogue Squadron. We’ll end up getting Masters of Teräs Käsi next.

Seriously tempted just to play The Angel of Darkness again, got about halfway through the PS2 version and it’s fascinating in that there’s clearly a great game in there but it was rushed so much that it’s just pants in many places. Shame the remaster doesn’t just cut Kurtis out completely, he looks like the sorta guy that blows into town, gets a church girl onto heroin and dies after slamming his Harley into a brick wall.

Also I preferred Chronicles to The Last Revelation, which did my head in with its structure. Probably a crime punishable by death to admit.

Maybe by the end of Season 4, Bella Ramsey will actually look their age. Nothing will top Stranger Things though, 5 seasons in 4 presidential terms.

Yet another thing that’s just worse on PS5 for literally no reason. I don’t see any tangible benefit for enforcing single apps for games.

Playing a Chinese game? I’ll show you something interesting. In China there are two types of video games, Genshin Impact and Devil May Cry. Infinity Nikki? Genshin Impact. Phantom Blade Zero? Devil May Cry. Despite being a third-person action game, Naraka Bladepoint is Genshin Impact.

It looks great personally. Looks like it’s selling well on Amazon UK if the charts are to be trusted.

I dunno why it’s coming out in April, it would probably be a pretty big hit at Halloween.