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@Bez87 before mobile phones, games like this used to be on consoles.

@Kidfunkadelic83 it's 4 quid. A game you know everyone praises. Take a punt, you can afford it. What's the worst that can happen? You can't get the bus to Poundland?

If you have PSPlus then you can buy it for £3.59 so just do it. I think Sony really missed a trick not signing it up for PSPlus.

@Czar_Khastik it's been found guilty and sentenced to death.

Everyone knows the best way to ignore a load of nonsense on Twitter is to keep reporting on it to let people know you think its nonsense.

It's rumoured that Kojima doesn't play Concord.

@BecauseBecause very nice! Loved my Amiga. Best machines I ever owned during the best times for gaming in any era (I've been a gamer since the 70s) Had most of the Amigas, 500, 500+, 600 and 1200. An absolute dream of a machine in an age of gaming after the madness off the free-for-all of the 80s and the psychological manipulation of the internet age.

@FinneasGH that presumption is not logical. More people have played this than Concord by a massive margin, especially considering this is f2p. So considering you have to pay for Concord to play it, the higher probability is in favour of someone saying Concord is more bland knowing what they are talking about, because there's a likelier chance of that player having played both.

Hit registration is apparently a problem, but the real problem is CoD coming out soon.

@PerpetualBoredom you sure about that mate? You may need to look into it before you accuse people of misinformation. A rudimentary internet search would've stopped you from spreading misinformation.

@themightyant that's true. I had a mate at an independent outlet who used to sort me out games early in my Amiga days. And then before that an older brother of a friend worked at WHSmiths where they used to keep the cassettes in the case on the shelf. He used to get us Spectrum games well in advance!

"Astro Bot doesn't release until the 6th September — this Friday! — but it would appear that physical copies of the game are already out in the wild.."

Why so surprised? This is normal. Back when I used to buy games from Shopto and simplygames they'd regularly dispatch them ahead of release day and I'd have them days early. This 'news' is as old as internet shopping.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner have you forgotten MS need PS gamers now?

@themightyant yeah, the last series seemed to not know what to do with Juliana.

@yazzika haha, I know the feeling 👍

@yazzika that literally means he needs to bow to somebody 😁

The book is better, but the TV show is good until the last series which let's it down a little. Still well worth watching though, it wasn't enough to spoil it like how GoT was spoiled by the last series.

@Hyena_socks The Man in the High Castle is an interesting take on America if it became a Japanese territory after WWII. Have you read it?

'Amidst the headlines decrying shrinking player numbers and abysmal sales figures..'

@Khayl, no one is decrying that. 'Decry' means to condemn or criticise as reprehensible. That's not what the articles PS put up did, they just reported on the news.

@PegasusActual93 those are two VERY different viewpoints. It'd be interesting to see it 😁

@Balie3000 mate, the entire article needs proofreading 😁👍

@Khayl, in the subheading it should read, 'we'd have' not 'we'd of'. Also, in the questions you posed, it's 'percolating' not 'peroclating'. Couple of other things too but they are the main ones. Hope that helps.

@nomither6 it's made by Chinese devs.

There's irony in a Chinese company making a game about Japan buying land in America when that's what China is doing, not only in America where they're buying farmland near American military bases, but also in many countries in Africa where they are increasing their profile.

I got 10/10 but my browser glitched at the last question so my score didn't go up on the leaderboard. Could you add it in manually? In case it's a draw, the time I did it in was 2 seconds. Plus I was blindfolded.

@Flaming_Kaiser agreed. It's why Hoyoverse games are doing well. There's so much content to get your teeth into, the gameplay is engaging, and they've listened to the community and are more generous than they were with 5 star characters and the grind to get them without paying.

I played Genshin for a while, didn't pay a things, and easily got as much fun and content from it than a full priced game.

There is definelty a place for well crafted GaaS games, and in the case of games like Helldivers, it was easy to fair the credits required to purchase the DLC each time it came out.

If anything we should be turning our annoyance at games like FIFA that release EVERY year for full price with hardly any really substantial differences (sometimes the game is even worse than the year before) AND still they monetise it and concentrate on funneling people to UT and away from offline modes. Games like that are worse than even F2P mobile whale farming games.

@Logonogo it's also a mobile game. He missed that too.

Easy solution. Employ game testers to play the game and charge gamers microtransactions to 'buy' a team of game tester to play with.

Balls, I shouldn't have put this thought out there for them to see.

@LikelySatan very true. And then when something interesting happens, like a streaker running on the pitch, the studio director refuses to show it!! 😐😆

Shopping centres. Anyway. I've always thought Sony marketing is some of the best in the industry. That huge tower of supercars promoting GT7 was amazing.

@Matroska I'm referring to TV advertising, I should've been clearer. It's why Americans networks can't get thier head around football, they can't comprehend going more than 45 minutes without an ad. American sports have become built around TV.

@Danbottomburp agreed. American sports have morphed in platforms for advertising rather than sport. Long, dull, stat heavy bore-a-thons.

@get2sammyb then you believe wrong 😁 I live in London, and unless you're in the City, the financial district, nowhere sells coffee for 4 quid. £2.20 at my local cafe i stop at each morning, which is kind of lazy of me considering i have two DeLonghi coffee machines.
Bloody love coffee. A beer however, they're stupidily priced.

Where the hell do you buy your coffees from, and why would you pay that much?! Doesn't even cost that in London.

Great game. It's a 10. There's nothing to knock a point off for. What made it a 9?

@W0rl0ck if anyone thought of VS as trash, they wouldn't know a good game even if it kicked them in the [insert vulnerable body part]

Seems like choosing D every time isn't a foolproof method.

Vampire Survivors should've been one of the games.

@gbanas92 oh so you mean it in direct comparison with 2 rather than as a game overall. Right, that I understand, because as a general criticism I thought it unfounded. Ta.

Finally someone is saying it! ***** an all digital future where we own nothing, and nothing is playable when the servers are turned off!

@Malaise that's a bit better 😁

@jrt87 as usual I agree with you.

@Malaise no company builds mountains as a mountain is unable to sustain growth.

@Deoxyr1bose it probably has competition from Anthem.

@commentlife agreed. I think there's been a series of mistakes made with this game, but the main one was charging money for it when there are games in the same niche as it that are free, established, with more content, better character design and arguably better gameplay. It's not like Helldivers 2 that brought something new to GaaS with its visceral, bombastic, satirical co-op mayhem that understood how to give players a spectacle.

People didn't buy the game because they didn't want to. Nothing to do with campaigns.

There was a massive campaign against Hogwarts and people still parted with thier money in huge numbers. Every year there's plenty of negativity against FIFA and COD and they still sell well. GTA is usually accompanied by a campaign against it for various reasons. Diablo Immortal faced a campaign because it was on mobile, and made millions anyway.

The number of games that have failed because of a pre-launch campaign can be counted on the fingers of a mitten. Even Star Wars BF2 sold loads at launch and we all knew if was full of lootboxes because of a huge campaign!

If this game were appealing it would've sold. Unfortunately, it seems the characters in it are totally unappealing, from what I've read.

Whatsmore, IF by some quirk of fate a campaign against this game were the result of it not selling, well that would show us that gamers who play this type of game agree with the campaign and so why should anyone be upset? Especially those who never intended to buy it anyway.

We are not required to buy a game we don't want no matter how much work devs have put into it. Know your audience. Don't make something people don't want. This is why Disney is failing with Star Wars TV shows and recent Marvel films, until Deadpool.

@jrt87 yeah, I watched sone too and I was not impressed. It's not a bad game but it's definetly not anything special, and it really should be if it's Star Wars otherwise what's the point.

@LikelySatan they are, but the subjective details are usually demonstrated. In this case I'm not seeing how the review shows that this game is devoid of creativity to the degree attributed to it, which is why I asked my question?

At least I asked for clarification. I wasn't sarcastic or insisted the review was wrong. It would've been nice if you treated me the same way, but you'll get your likes on your reply to me I'm sure.

@Matroska thank you. That sounds so highly subjective that it doesn't bear mentioning as the main criticism of a game. Especially when it can't be demonstrated or backed-up.

I'm struggling to understand 'corporate' as a criticism. As I understand that word, many games since the era of microtransactions have a strong whiff of 'corporate' about them and in a way that's fundementally worse than this game will ever be.

So, what is corporate about his game? In what sense do you mean it? Is it just because it's not innovative? Every game Ubisoft make is reeking of corporate, for example. Most games are corporate in some sense. Am I understanding it right?

@jrt87 Dustborn looks like something I'm going to avoid. I don't like that by its own admission it's politicised.