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Ah. Well there’s that then.

@DennisReynolds Wouldn’t be the first time that stuff was cancelled after being leaked!

@DennisReynolds To be fair, Insomniac are just stretched super thin. Wolverine and that whole massive hack debacle have scuppered them. That being said, I’ve been holding off on this just because I thought there might be an ultimate edition coming.

Spider-Schlong mod when?

@NEStalgia To them, perhaps it’s more like China making 9/11 The Game. Close to home subject matter and it’s possible they just don’t want to release it there for those reasons, similar to the way Germany subdued Nazi imagery in games either refusing to rate them or requiring changes.

The people of Kuwait are really missing out on what will likely be the most nuanced take on the Gulf War of all time.

I hate nerfs that just make games less fun. If I have a giant death ray and it becomes a laser pointer for ‘balance’ then it rubs me up the wrong way. Screw balance when it comes to single-player games, create the most fun set of tools possible instead.

This is a game from a fake poster inside a Call of Duty map.

Vikings Valhalla just finished. Yes it was absolute dogsh*t but I’m all Vikinged out. It was the new zombies for a while there.

It’s there, it just lacks any sort of use. You have to actively go into it which defeats the purpose of quick access.

It’s a worrying time, devs are being laid off or studios are getting folded into live-service fodder. First-party has the security to chase fun experiences more than external studios and so they should lead the way.

They just have nothing left. I used to play loads, dropped it cause of the Blizzard mess. By most accounts, it really fell off a cliff and this really doesn’t give off the vibes of a thriving team.

Industry’s cooked. But then a lot of industries are. Not like there’s simple fixable reasons either, there’s a whole range from Brexit, Covid, general enshittification, late-stage capitalism, cost-of-living etc. It’s scary times.

You’d think it wouldn’t be that difficult to avoid the atomic bomb given the game’s set rather a long time before 1945.

@LogicStrikesAgain I disagree that a jump in scope of game is only possible because of technology sucking before that. Without devs willing to make a leap, technology can be cutting edge and the games won’t evolve. You just have to look at the PS1, where 2D games were incredibly common at the beginning of the console’s lifespan and the massive evolution in 3D gaming without any increase in the specs of the console. And it’s not about graphics at all, we have so many PS4 remasters on PS5 that are exactly the same game but cost more and look better, in place of actual sequels that are a step forwards.

Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart is the best example of the direction Sony should take with their output. Take a series and look at what the PS5 could innovate and improve on, that really only the PS5 could. It’s even just things like Uncharted 4, which benefitted from a newer physics engine which the grappling hook was tied to; visual improvements and gameplay improvements hand in hand. Cross-gen definitely plays a part with the games being neutered to cater for the PS4 but Sony have to make the argument that the PS5 isn’t just a box, it needs to carve out the exact reasons why people should play them on this console, and not on a PC. That’s what Nintendo do well, the games may vary in quality but there’s a marriage of controller uniqueness and gimmicks that make devs want to develop unique games for that audience. If Sony push forwards, other devs will follow and that’s always been the role of first-party studios.

My first thought was that’s kinda cool, I enjoyed things like the futsal mode in the old FIFA games and Rush is pretty great this year. But it costs extra and the game’s like £70 for casino mechanics. I dunno, I’m pretty sure they make enough money from VC to subsidise the development of this? It also is just blatantly a different game, like it’s not even just a different mode or anything.

@ztpayne7 Ahh, makes sense that the others are more voice actors, I was the same as @LavenderShroud in that I just took all-star to mean screen actors!

@J2theEzzo I really love (elements of) the DualSense and that’s part of why Astro’s Playroom felt so good on launch. The 3D rumble stuff was great, the bit with the rain falling blew my mind. The spongey buttons, crap D-Pad and massive problems with drift are less fun but I really think the controller should be the star that it just isn’t. Small things like the wind in Ghost of Tsushima was just a cool touch that makes the console feel more unique than playing the games on a PC. Consoles should have an identity and that’s what’s been missing from Xbox for over a decade and has creeped into Sony these last few years. If they’re releasing games on PC and consoles become a soulless box, it all blends into a corporate mess.

@LogicStrikesAgain An industry that saw price spikes due to mining which didn’t go back down when mining died. So the only winners are shareholders.

@LavenderShroud Ben Starr did FFXVI (I know him from TV mostly) but the rest outside of those two I have never heard of.

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk Astro’s Playroom is unironically still the highlight of the PS5 for me. What a game. I’ll get Astro Bot when I can!

@Tecinthebrain @wildcat_kickz @LogicStrikesAgain The specs change, the actual core design methodologies remain the same. This is the problem, games evolved between even PS3 and PS4 in terms of scope and scale. Games between PS4 and PS5 have not had a meaningful bump in ambition, just focusing on meaningless details which brings us to PS5 Pro, a console entirely focused on those stupid details. The Switch is old old hardware but Tears of the Kingdom focused on extreme optimisation and creative, new gameplay elements that haven’t been seen outside maybe Dreams, which got taken out the back and shot. I go back and forth with modern Nintendo but they’re pushing evolution of games in a much more interesting direction without focusing on just visual boosts.

It’s pathetic. This just shows that we won’t get any games that push boundaries the way that Rift Apart did on launch. We’re stuck with PS4 level games boosted to PC level specs. A colossal disappointment of a generation, and honestly the death knell for consoles. Roll on Nintendo to give at least a glimmer of hope.

This, Star Citizen’s story mode and that game with her from the Witcher that’s ‘multimedia’ all feel like fake games. Like the mix of stupid names, studios you’ve never heard of and actual actors in the cast having clearly cost money just gives me weird vibes.

It’s downright madness. You can wait the couple days.

RetroAchievements clear!

@NEStalgia I’d say we take our rudimentary workers rights for granted in the UK but it did come with decades of struggle and is currently under threat by yet more men in suits!

@NEStalgia Apropos of nothing, I used to think this was the more adult site in terms of the general comment sections compared to NLife. Except over there on the equivalent of this article, they’re actually talking about the practice of oidashibeya and how loneliness is weaponised. What I’ve realised is that this maybe was a more adult, nuanced site 5 years or so ago but having an older readership has pushed it into sort of brain-worm territory over the years with nowhere near enough younger readers to fill the void. So now we have 50 year old men stuck in a rut chatting absolute bollocks. That can’t continue, you need that influx of new users.

Absolutely pointless. The game’s already cinematic, what does this add other than the feeling that games aren’t ’real’ media? They’ll have to pick a canon ending too.

@NapoleonDynamite Yes. It’s a basic universal right.

@NapoleonDynamite Having such a thing as severance pay and strong unions to actually look after the interests of workers is far superior to the way that Japanese conglomerates overwork and undervalue staff.

Japan’s lack of worker rights is downright crazy. Cannot even imagine being a young worker over there, no wonder the rates of burnout are through the roof.

It’s not like the stuff you get in return is any good either. A shame.

It’s an advert. Essentially anti-culture in a space where shows are cancelled left, right and centre.

For a first draft, it looks bloody impressive. Fight Night Champion will probably remain untouched for now but they just need a couple dev cycles to catch up.

@Gremio108 Definitely a loss, there’s too much media with dubious reputations that needs defending!

@get2sammyb The Paris street level stuff in TAOD I thought was great. The tombs weren’t too bad either even if a couple traps were truly irritating. The problem’s more it being a laughable mess of bugs and trying to just plonk PS1 style gameplay onto a new engine. And Kurtis is a disaster. Everything wrong with the early 00s in one guy.

And the museum part is great! Man I wish Rog was still on here, he helped me push through the trilogy on the Vita even when they got a bit dicey at times.

Isn’t The Last Revelation pretty much widely regarded as a great game? I wasn’t too fond of it to be honest but then I really loved about half of Chronicles so maybe I’m just an idiot. Got about 70% through The Angel of Darkness and it wavers between utter rubbish and some genuinely great ideas.

I prefer the Kingdom of Lovely if we’re comparing micronations. And yes that’s microNATIONS thank you very much.

I used to think Zuck was the most hateable of that lot but Musk is so so much more pathetic in so many more ways. Zuck is more just your classic soulless corpo-bot, except he looks like he eats flies with a giant frog tongue.

Honestly a lifeless vestige of a fictional man is probably still a better dating prospect than almost all men on dating apps.

I honestly prefer the Vita version of a lot of the old PS2 ports, you don’t mind the dodgy emulation as much.

@LowDefAl British voice casts are the best cause then you realise that important characters are voiced by someone off Eastenders.

@Orpheus79V

Been pretty openly full of nonces for years. Yet nothing gets done.

I always forget that Australia still has these strict ratings boards. A lot of countries have gone through phases over the years but it’s pretty standardised by now.

God I wish things had turned out differently.

This is typical of basically any website. Horrific for sure but very very common. Which makes me think this lawsuit has been brought forward by people with a bone to pick.