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@Royalblues you obviously haven’t played any of the best PC VR racing titles like Dirt Rally 2.0, Automobilista 2 etc or Half life: Alyx, MS Flight Sim 2020, Pavlov.
VR is more than ready

Feels like a retread of last years showcase. GT 7 was the only thing that really looked great, but that was well edited.

GTA looked like a nice game on the PS4 Pro but the PC version with all the RT & real city/vehicle mods still Lois way better.

God of War looks like more of the same…on a PS4 Pro.

Is current gen suffering from these decisions to release on previous gen? I also wonder if this is another reason for all these delays

Will we have to have Warzone installed to play it?
It pisses me off when I’m running out of space & the one mode that wasn’t part of Modern Warfare is now a compulsory install & can’t be uninstalled if you want to play normal multiplayer or singleplayer.
Hell, even the Icon has changed to Warzone!

Cheers @kidboruto. It’s an impressive list, but there’s not many impressive AAA next gen games on there. With the exception of a couple, most are cross gen enhanced games.
Game pass is looking like the better option for this year

Are there any big games left coming out this year?
Feels like everything is inevitably being delayed until 2022

Looking forward to Tom Clancy’s Assassins Creed which is an RPG card game full of microtransactions and nothing to do with Assassins Creed or Tom Clancy

Maybe they found the response to a Rainbow Six game with Aliens wasn’t what their insane minds expected (compared to an actual R6 game with Rainbow Six Vegas or earlier DNA) …or they haven’t quite found a way to add enough microtransactions & game passes & need more time to find ways to milk our teats

@Dislecksier except a real clutch isn’t, the clutches on the sim pedals aren’t & the point where the clutch is on is when the pedal is 100% down. You can’t have any pressure on the accelerator when the clutch is down otherwise it’ll miss the shift.
It makes quick gear changes unpredictable (& just plain crappy).

GT Sport probably has the worst implementation of a clutch in any game & they strive to be close to a realistic sim.

Let’s hope the clutch isn’t binary like it is in GT Sport.

I think Sony have changed course & it’s going back to a PS4 live stream.
PS5 owners will be able to watch the same stream in a higher resolution & 60fps frame rate.

Ubisoft are pretty good at giving us everything, except what we want.

Any chance of a real Splinter Cell & Rainbow Six (Vegas or pre Vegas) game that isn’t barstadised?

Also, why announce the Vr versions of Assassins Creed & Splinter Cell last year when you’re not going to give us anything at your official events in the future?

@xRetrox yeah I’m not happy about paying $70 for a game, but would find it acceptable if it wasn’t a buggy mess in release & wasn’t designed around & had zero microtransactions.

What I would complain about is something like NBA 2k series or anything of EA’s that contains microtransactions, battle passes & asks for full price. They shouldn’t be asking for both

@xRetrox my point exactly & I won’t.
Looks like a few other commenters won’t either.

@CelticSavagery hey I enjoyed Battlefield 4’s single player campaign.

Your argument that Battlefield started off as a multiplayer only game & so should be considered a multiplayer only game falls flat when you consider COD was primarily a singleplayer only game & has now evolved into a massive multiplayer game as well. Battlefield had evolved. It’s not the same game as it was when it first game out. It was also only on PC. Does that mean it shouldn’t come on consoles because the first one didn’t?

$70 is still $70. When you consider COD can do multiplayer & a singleplayer campaign as well as a free to play Battle Royal for the same price & the ***** show that was the last Battlefield. I’d say I have enough reason to want more for my money.

Besides some people play these games for the campaigns, whether you like it or not

@CelticSavagery previous iterations didn’t have a multiplayer component (there wasn’t any) & the current game didn’t have microtransactions.
It also didn’t cost $70. So the answer to your question is ‘No’

You’re paying more for less (with the great opportunity to pay even more through battle passes)

So is half a game half price?
Gonna skip this one

@Otherbarry yeah I’d love them to do another Rainbow Six Vegas game, but just wouldn’t trust Ubisoft to do it any service. We’d get another buggy open world RPG with microtransactions that has nothing to do with Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy & Vegas

Great. More porridge.
Remember when Ubisoft used to innovate

No interest in this, but to be honest, I wouldn’t trust Ubisoft to make a decent Splinter Cell game that wouldn’t be barstardised into an open world RPG full of microtransactions & no gameplay that relates to the former games.

Ubisoft, please at least show some respect to Tom Clancy & not exploit his name with your turd franchises.

Just give us Splinter Cell & Rainbow Six Vegas remakes & you can go turn all your other games into generic porridge

I can see why they want to milk the PS4 base but at the same time there’s no real next designed gen games aside from Ratchet & Clank which still hasn’t come out yet.

The new system needs some system sellers. The fact that all these games are coming out on both consoles means the development & testing takes even longer.

They’ve already shown how level design is restricted by the hard drive speeds on older consoles, *****, GT Sport in PSVR on the PS4 Pro was held back because the OG PS4 couldn’t handle more than 2 cars on the screen. The entire VR version suffered.

...so what I really spent my money on was a PS4 Pro Pro

Gran Turismo 7 & PSVR2 will have me sold!
Hopefully a next gen version of Firewall with a proper single player campaign will come out too. Awesome game but just couldn’t be bothered playing because of the lobby wait times

Looking forward to some generic turd sequel with the biggest open world ever, built around microtransactions, bugs & RPG elements & having nothing to do with its predecessors in any way.

As much as I really want a Splinter Cell or Rainbow Six Vegas 2 sequels, I don’t really want Ubisoft to be the ones who make them

@Otherbarry I was so looking forward to that R6 game before it got cancelled.

I enjoyed R6 Seige, but it didn’t have anything to do with R6. Ubisoft just started churning out generic, dumbed down open world games that don’t really have much to do with their predecessors.

I’m sure Tom Clancy would be rolling in his grave at what they’ve done to his name.

I’d love a new Rainbow Six or Splinter Cell game but don’t have any faith in Ubisoft making anything but a soul less open world turd with RPG elements designed around microtransactions & no relevance to the previous elements that made their predecessors great.

Would love to see what they could do with the Syphon Filter franchise now.
I wouldn’t trust Ubisoft to bring out a quality Splinter Cell title that’s close to its Tom Clancy roots these days so think this team could fill in that void

If it was a fully interactive PSVR2 game, yes.

Otherwise the game still looks & plays good in its current remastered state so unless it’s improved even more than TLOU2, then why bother?

I really enjoyed Watchdogs 2 (although the driving mechanics were still way too arcadey). Watchdogs 3 is just more of the same except with characters you don’t care about, a story that’s meh & no character progression system because of the ability to choose anyone (a technical marvel but gameplay misstep in my opinion).

I just wish Ubisoft would give us what we’ve been asking for - a new Splinter Cell & proper Rainbow Six (Vegas) game. Although I’m afraid it would be a barstardised, soulless open world game built around microtransactions & broken AI that has nothing to do with Tom Clancy’s vision or the games that came before it.

@figboot just you buddy. It’s a sport. Sports don’t have stories. As long as it captures the finesse, subtlety’s & offensive/defensive strategies of the sport, it will be a hit with boxing fans.
Pong doesn’t have a story or diverse player interaction & was a great game

@Wavey84 tether free on the quest 2 is a huge game changer, even with the limited FOV of the Q2, I much prefer that over the PSVR. Replaying a lot of games I already own on the PSVR & they’re way more fun on the Quest 2.

No weight from the cable & nothing getting in the way means you can really get into the room scale games. Not to mention the increased resolution of the Q2 screen makes everything sharper.

You can tell there is some compression with Virtual Desktop, but to play HL:Alex on a wireless headset beats every PSVR game I’ve played.

You’re looking into the numbers & dismissing it already. Wait until you experience it for yourself & you’ll see how important having no cables can be

Since I got a quest 2, I can’t be bothered firing up the PSVR. I’ve got a PS5 & a had a switch box to deal with the HDR issue but that doesn’t work with the new console.
I really want to try the games that had patches for PS5 resolution unlocks but I have a mental lazy barrier that compares the grab it & go ease of use with the quest & then I just can’t be bothered.
Really want to have a few races of GT Sport with the wheel, but then have to hook that up too. I hope Sony come out with a wireless option too. Virtual Desktop works well with the quest - no reason Sony can’t do something similar

• inside out tracking
• new controllers with thumb sticks & haptics
• ideally would’ve been wireless but single cable has already been confirmed
• wider FOV
• higher resolution

All the game modes are too similar & the handling is too much on the arcade side for my liking. Was hoping for something a little more similar to DriveClubs slightly more realistic arcade sim handling.
Definitely needs a lot more tracks, which sounds like we’re not getting.
I’d say that playgrounds is probably the best thing about this game. Not much else. They don’t even have replays which has been a staple of the Dirt/Colin McCrae series.

EA Sports UFC 4 has some of the worst, irrelevant cosmetics in a game. The majority have nothing to do with MMA or the UFC.
They’ve put in all these fortnite type emotes, instead of focusing on actual fighter animations. I’m not sure what they’re actually thinking - are they making sports games or pokie machines these days?

I’ve returned two controllers for the broken R2 spring issue. First broke within a month. Just before I received my replacement my second controller had the same issue. The springs they use are just as flimsy (if not more) than the PS4 triggers

I ordered on day one. Got the confirmation that it had been sent on November 13th & still waiting (NZ).
I’ve ordered stuff from AliExpress since & it’s arrived faster.
Gave up waiting & bought a Quest 2. It’s pretty amazing!

@wittypixel yeah I downloaded it & can only play the PS4 version. Can’t see anything related to PS5. Wanted to try out the haptics but will give it a miss if this is the case

@2cents Days Gone has had quite a few patches since before the PS5 came out, so it’s not really an apples to apples comparison.
EA UFC 4 on the other hand was a buggy piece of ***** on release. Now it’s a slightly buggy fart.

Sums up EA Sports this year.
EA UFC 4 is still a horrible mess. Going back to UFC 3, you’d think they were made in reverse order

EA have been absolute ***** this year. EA UFC 4 is still unfinished, buggy as ***** & in many cases worse than the 2 year old UFC 3. NFL 2021 another cut & paste mess that’s still glitchy but features slick micro transactions

What has EA been doing in the last year?
NFL was a buggy mess, EA UFC 4 is a buggy dumpster truck of recycled animations & even less gameplay than UFC 3 (which they had 2.5 years to develop),
FIFA on switch is just a player update charged at full price & now this!
These guys are just coasting while adding more micro transactions for useless content & slowly turning these games into ***** casual mobile ball snot.

@RudeAnimat0r the ads don't fit the presentation. They had full screen ads appearing at the end of the rounds & 3 times when you finished the fight & tried to skip the replays.

The game came out with a gamebreaking bug which was only just fixed in that ad patch & that's what we were rewarded with. It's still a buggy mess with less features than it's predecessor. Not even an annual release - this took 2 years.

If they want to put in ads that match the broadcast presentation style, then they need to put effort into the whole broadcast presentation (individual walkouts, commentator interviews, getting rid of the ***** pre fight emotes) & polish the damn game.

They're still reusing animations from UFC 1

UFC need to ditch EA as well.

After reviews have already gone out for UFC 4 (which is horribly buggy & is missing a lot of elements from UFC), they patched in-game ads into the 4 week old game last night.

I hope @get2sammyb picks this up. EA are nickle & dimming us for a full price game, that already has microtransactions as a focus

#UFCdropEA 🖕🏻

If they make it fully playable in VR, I’m sold.

EA UFC 4 is the same. Spent more time over the last 2 years introducing ridiculous cosmetics removing game modes than releasing a polished & upgraded game.
I can’t even play the ranked mode because of the purple screen of death bug

Where are you Gran Turismo 7 with full VR support?

They didn’t really give what mma & EA UFC fans wanted. They focused more on trying to bring casuals into the game.
Still using animations from UFC 1.
The new clinch & takedown system is awesome but the ground game is worse. EA focused on a simple control system at the expense of overhauling the ground game which now feels worse than UFC 3.
Submission system is now so simplified it’s not fun & ground attacks such as elbows & transitions off your back have been removed.
The character customisation has more pointless fortnite accessories & emotes & misses out apparel that was in the last game.
Overall, it’s slightly better than UFC 3, but worse in many ways.

I wish Ubisoft would sell the Splinter Cell rights to another team, like Insomniac or Naughty Dog. I’m worried the next SC game will be a generic open world RPG looter with absolutely no connection to what made Splinter Cell great. It’ll be designed around micro transactions, poor AI & the biggest map ever for a video game. Sam Fisher will probably be a Viking

@thefirst I think you have emotional intelligence confused with maturity - none of which I stated that I have. I do appreciate the old dig with sarcasm though & glad I could make you laugh.

@thefirst that's a great idea! I was trying not to kill you knowwho during the fight & died because of that.
Would also be interesting to match the results of those ending choices to peoples reviews (and maybe emotional intelligence).
I'd suspect the ones that chose to kill would be the one's slamming the game.
While I thought the very ending could have been more powerful - as a whole I loved the journey & the fact that a game could make me feel certain ways about the characters - whether good or bad.

@carlos82 I loved it too. Was so refreshing to play an adult game with great themes.
I thought it was going to end the 2nd time with Ellie rescuing Abby, then deciding to sacrifice her body to Abby & the fireflies for research.
There seem to be a lot of butt hurt, immature people who just can't handle character evolution & adult themes. I'm just happy we got something this amazing. I'm struggling to find any current movies of this sort of quality to watch