@glassmusic "So GvK will always be referring to the first of the two."
For people who follow the minutiae of the movies on a gaming website maybe, but since the sentence was "set shortly after the events of the Godzilla vs Kong movie" and not "set shortly after the events of "Godzilla vs Kong" then I have to think people some people might think the game is set after the more recent Godzilla and Kong movie b/c the difference between and vs and an x isn't all that much. And this site never uses quotes to tell if it's referring to an actual movie title or simply a Godzilla and Kong movie. So if the article meant "Godzilla vs Kong" then it should at least be in quotes to avoid any confusion.
Announcing Borderlands 4 as the movie has crashed and burned inside of a week while the Deadpool and Wolverine movie is the highest grossing R rated movie of all time but no mention of the upcoming Wolverine game perfectly sums up this show. 🤪
@riceNpea Game is based on the Funko toys but there isn’t any toys-to-life connection, though they are selling toys based on characters in the game based on the toys.
“Funko Fusion bears a striking resemblance to the more modern LEGO titles, doesn’t it?”
Except for missing the one thing that made the Lego games fun, couch co-op. Would have been day 1 for us but now I’ll just skip it until it’s in a rental service maybe. My wife is a big Battlestar Galactica fan.
@somnambulance I spent a lot of my time playing Stellar Blade calling it “Bayonetta 4”, which basically started out as what I suppose this crowd would call “DEI Dante” 🤪 and really enjoyed it, but have to skip this one b/c I’m not up for the challenge. Which is a shame b/c we’re a big “Journey to the West” household. Any movie or tv show based on it, that we know about, we watch. But I just can’t.
@Titntin Congrats on the big 6-0 and the continued gaming, I turned 59 last month and am feeling old. I like the look of this one, reminds me of Stellar Blade which I just finished Sunday night, on Easy Story mode, with way too many “Game Over” screens, so I’m sitting this one out. 😩
Only game I’m currently interested in playing when I sign up for a $15 month of Extra next month to play Plucky Squire is FF Crisis Core Reunion, so glad to see that isn’t being dropped yet. Oh and I may sign up next week to get Castle Crashers for $1.50. I already own it on PS3 but that system is just sitting unplugged on the floor like a fat bearskin rug, all of those controllers have issues so nobody wants to use them.
“ after the events of the Godzilla vs Kong movie “
Might want to point out it’s after the first G v K movie (though technically the 2nd if you count the one that came out before all of us were born) and not the more recent G v K movie.
@get2sammyb I know this article is a few weeks old so you may no longer care but the video says it has been taken down. Might just be a me being in the US thing but thought I’d let you know.
I recently watched the new Indy movie on Disney+ and thought it was a nice attempt at being good like the original, not a big fan of the sequels. I’m pretty sure most of it was in 3rd person though, not sure how I would feel like I’m “playing an Indy movie” in 1st person. Oh well, maybe I’ll play Uncharted 2 again if this comes to PS5. I’m assuming it must have been remade or remastered by now since I played the original.
U2 is still my all time favorite “interactive movie”, curious if it holds up. Replayed FF7 recently, my favorite JRPG for 20 years, and it was basically trash now, barely playable. Still a good story, characters and music but actually dealing with the menus and items was archaic.
Didn't vote for any, don't need to see any more of Astro Bot, Lego Horizon or Plucky Squire, so I wrote in Wolverine, b/c if you aren't going to try and capitalize on the world's highest grossing R-rated billion dollar blockbuster why even have a marketing department? Sure, it may not be out for awhile, but it should be out before Elder Scrolls 6 and hopefully close to GTA 6, so just put out a short 1 minute something.
So have they announced how much it will cost yet? I'm figuring $40, maybe $30 digital, but you'd think if we know it's digital first, and on PS+ EXTRA, then physical later, we'd know how much it was going to be by now.
I know a lot of people don't care about price but some of us do. And it's not a matter of all PS5 games being $70 either, Astrobot is $60, they already told us that.
Edit: Had the price of Astrobot as $50, not $60, for reasons I still don't understand.
Was considering this for my kids birthday next month but now leaning towards a month of PS+ Extra for $15 and playing Plucky Squire and Crisis Core Reunion. Though maybe that’s for me and my kid still gets Astrobot? Guess we’ll wait on reviews.
@nessisonett " there’s a certain charm missing from the site now! "
I think that's partly Kate leaving but also people waiting on Switch Pro for like 5 years and Switch 2 for another couple. Sure Switch still has a lot of games coming but people cheer up around new console launches. Surely Nintendo will tell us something in the next 6 months, then good times. 😁
@somnambulance I do care how long it is, that's a direct correlation for most of my purchases, but I don't think there are a lot of indie games lasting 25 hours these days, though I could be wrong, I have very limited interests in indie games as I'm a graphics snob. So I'm guessing 8-10, my kid says "everything is 12 now" though I think they were generalizing a bit.
I know they just played $30 Cat Quest 3 which took them about 8 hours, played it in 3 nights, and they 100% it. Cat Quest 2 took them about 12 hours, 4 nights, so the new game was both more expensive and shorter.
If Plucky Squire is $40 and 12 hours I can live w/ that b/c it looks that good and my kid wants to play it as well. I wonder what we get first, reviews or a price? 🤷♂️
@nessisonett Well technically they do have a woman doing community service work, DreamlandGem or some such, and a few contributors, but yeah for the most part here and NL have been sausage fests for most of their existence. I don't know about PureXbox but I can't imagine why any woman would want to work there. 😂 Every once in a while a woman will get a prominent role, Kate Gray at NL recently, and there have been at least 2 woman here I recall writing mostly about obscure JRPG which is mostly Shogun's domain now, but that's about it.
In fairness to both NL and PS everyone seems pretty cool and I can't imagine they are purposely not hiring females and it is mostly a lack of qualified applicants. Of course I have to think that or I'd have to leave, but I do. 😁
Thanks, you know that rules me out. 😂 I'm at 60% in Stellar Blade on easy story mode and the game took me awhile to get used to it before I stopped dying. Octopi still make me pay attention, the bosses and enemy ambush are right where I'd like to be, evenly matched. That section going up and down through the laser maze can bite me though. 😝
Too bad, I would have liked to give this one a play thru, but not if I can't get through it w/o throwing my controller at the TV.
@somnambulance I wish companies would announce a games price when they announce the release date. World of Goo 2 just released recently and I don't think they announced that price until the afternoon the game released.
My kid and I were discussing it yesterday and we decided on $40 for Plucky Squire b/c it doesn't seem as nice as $50 Astrobot but certainly better looking than WoG2 at $30. And companies almost never bother trying something not ending in 0, so it's not going to be $38 or $42. Well maybe in other countries, the US likes everything ending in $*9.99. 🤑
So I'm going to guess that $45 upgrade would work out well for you. I added Dave the Diver to my wishlist though I really only want to play it for the Godzilla dlc which is extra. Same for Gigabash. Godzilla is everywhere these days, except it's own game. 😥
@Ralizah Sign up for 1 month of PS+ Extra for $15 (or your local currency equivalent) instant sale. I doubt this will be more than a 12-15 hour game.
@ztpayne7 My memory isn’t wrong it’s just non-existent. I guess the 1 good thing about losing your memory when you get old is forgetting how old you are.😝 I am in for $15 for 1 month for this though, also really want to play FF Crisis Core Reunion after we just finished Rebirth. So $135 bad, $15 good. I know it’s kinda splitting hairs but I’m an old cheap unemployed penny pincher.🤑
@somnambulance JFC I just looked it up and PS+ Extra cost $135 a year, I wasn't even close w/ my $100 guess. 🤑 Though paying $14.99 for a month to play this, can't imagine it's more than a dozen hours, would be cheaper than buying it. Maybe I can find a 1 week free trial if I look really hard.🤷♂️
Nice smooth update about PS+ Extra @Quintumply Was thinking about maybe subscribing again but I honestly don't even know how much Extra cost, gotta be close to $100, so I'll just buy this game instead. If this and Astrobot were on PS+ Extra then maybe.
Have been looking forward to this one for 2 years, as has my kid, and it releases on their birthday, so that's a given.
Being on PS+ at any level makes me think it will be cheaper than $50 Astrobot as we don't see a lot of $60 games Day 1 on there. I didn't buy World of Goo 2 b/c $30 seemed like too much for just more of the same but $30 would be a steal for this.
First off, it's a yearly rental service so you aren't BUYING anything, so screw them. If you give them $40 today and they go bankrupt tomorrow will you still be playing those games for the 11 months you already paid for? I'm guessing not.
Second, based on those games this is seems like a $1.99 a month service tops. I know $39.99 isn't much more than $1.99 a month but I'm not paying a year up front for a rental service.
And if anyone says "You are BUYING a license to rent the games for a year" well screw them too. 😂
@Porco " it is anyone's guess how that all turns out "
But until then I think I'm going back to my regular game watching. "The Plucky Squire" was supposed to release last year, and maybe earlier this year, but still no release date, and Sony's big game after Astrobot, "Horizon Lego Adventure", still isn't dated despite supposedly releasing in the next few months. Yes I know they said "Holiday 2024" but to me when you're in August that is in the next few months. GTA 6 might as well be 2026 as far as my old swiss cheesed brain is concerned.
@NEStalgia " just replacing the whole WoW population "
As part of the conversation w/ my kid, see above comment for further details, we decided FF 14 had replaced WoW. I can't imagine a WoW 2 doing well. See Destiny 2 and Overwatch 2 and Plants vs Zombies 2. Sequels are rarely a good idea. 😂
@Porco I was just discussing GTA V w/ my soon to be 22 yo college graduate who has a lot of friends who play a lot of video games but doesn't know anyone who plays GTA V and no one has mentioned GTA 6 so I guess maybe that's my reference? They actually mentioned "lighting in a bottle" but did say it was sure to move some PS5 though how many is anyone's guess.
So now I'm intrigued. Not about the game itself, don't really care, but it's reception and impact. Like, will it really run ok on Series S or are we looking at GTA on PS3 levels of unplayability? Or Cyberpunk on PS4? And will Switch 2 be in the discussion if Series S can run it properly? Will it be optimized of PS5 Pro?
So many questions for a game I'll never play. Something to watch for after the election I suppose.
@NEStalgia I know Overwatch 2 came out and didn't do as well as 1. I know Destiny 2 doesn't seem to have gone over as well as they had hoped. I feel like Splatoon 3 came out too soon after Splatoon 2 but Japan was like GIVE US MORE. And I feel like it's been too long since GTA V for GTA 6 to have the same impact, people change, gamers change.
I hear ya about the FOMO though. That should be there marketing line: "Buy GTA 6 B/C You Know All Your Friends Will" followed by #1337 or some such. 😝
@NEStalgia We agree on a lot of stuff so I shouldn't be surprised but you and I having such a similar take on GTA 6 is still weird. I guess it's b/c you seem to be coming from a place of knowing what you're talking about and I'm just gut feeling it as I have no concept of their online. Or maybe we're just both too cynical. 😂
@Ralizah "LOTS of casual gamers are gonna buy a PS5 to play this"
It's so weird as I'm just not feeling it. Or don't get it. Or understand it. Can't put my finger on it? 🤷♂️
I guess I'm just too negative of a person to ever expect anything that's the "next big thing" to pan out. You ever hear of Segway?
In case that doesn't come across right it's not that I just don't play the game, I don't play FIFA, CoD, or Minecraft but I know how big they are. And I know GTA V continues to be the top selling game every week for the past 10 years. I suppose it's a "lightning never strikes twice thing". Or is it " catching lightning in a bottle"? I'll just end here w/ "I'll believe it when I see it". 😎
I stayed up last night to watch this through a half hour delay but finally called it quits a little after midnight b/c midnight so I haven't actually watched it yet, maybe later. 😝
I'm never really excited for skins, I mean we just got Magneto and I already have Spider Gwen so that's pretty much all the Marvel variety any one person should need, plus I have every battle pass skin for the past 3 years so how many can 1 person use, but I do hope for some cool stuff w/ this.
They should add the FF hovercar, I mean I only play solo but it would be great for teams, and the X-Men danger room, which come to think of it they may have already had before I started playing, there has already been a ton of Marvel stuff as I watched numerous times in the trailers through the 30 minute plus delay.😜
Anyway I actually do play Fortnite for the story, and once I finish the story for the season like I did a few weeks ago I usually play less, so hopefully we get some decent story to go along w/ the skins. And by story I don't mean just lore but feel. This past season's Mad Max meets Twisted Metal car-nage was very different from the previous seasons Immortals Fenix Rising game. And the summer festival last year, or maybe it was the year before, was fun. I like when they mix it up.
Basically what everyone else who is playing Reload hates I like. 😂
So I showed up a little after 11:00PM ET and I’m watching the big screen that says “Show Starts Soon” and it’s showing 1 minute long clips of things looping, maybe 5 or 6 of them. Collected the 100 coins, about ready for bed. Maybe I’ll go check twitter to see what’s up.🤷🏻♂️
10:30 on a Saturday night is not happening for me but I could see myself watching it for 10 minutes one afternoon while I'm half napping so thanks for the island code.
Leaving this link here for anyone who read the title and didn't know what D23 was. I mean I follow a lot of Disney stuff and I'm not even sure I could fully explain it. Disney Comic-con I guess.🤷♂️
@Ralizah " Do you seriously think GTA VI isn't going to make mad bank and move tens of millions of PS5s? "
Well I can't speak for them, but yeah I do think that's what they're thinking b/c it's what I was thinking when they agreed w/ me. Well to be fair it was more of a "I don't get it, who knows how good this game will do, maybe it won't move the needle?" more than saying it would flop. My reasoning being, GTA games are for the hardcore gamers, not the casuals waiting for a price drop, and the hardcore already bought 60 million PS5, so even if, or ok when, the game sells well, that doesn't mean it will move consoles. By the time it comes fall 2025 or later out most people who want a PS5 will probably already have one. 🤷♂️
@NEStalgia " fortnite, it's not a game, it's a social media platform and virtual hangout space "
I play Fortnite every weekday, weekend's are for better things, and I socialize and hang out w/ no one, it's a time waster for me. And claiming victory at my age over all the kids, especially the ones who stop and build. 😂
In honor of the pre-order of the $80 controller I went to Target today and paid $70 for a black one.
I already have a red one that drifts and a purple one that drifts to the point of being unusable so I needed a new one but not an $80 new one that I'll have to replace when it drifts. The white one that came with our system has never drifted, hoping the black one is the same.🤞
I don't know if it counts as a "PS Productions" but Uncharted 2 feels like it should, whether it technically does or not, made by Sony based on the PS series, so that was my write in vote.
Update comment: I was thinking they should have called it "Metro Exit 9" but then I remembered there is already a Metro series of games so this will have to do I guess. 🤷♂️
@TommyNL DLC is "Insurrection: The Search for Cosplay Camo". 😝
@PuppetMaster "It could just as well mean people who bought a Switch or Xbox bought any AAA games" "your logic sounds silly af"
Maybe my logic sounds silly b/c you missed the point?
Switch exclusives Mario Odyssey and Tears of the Kingdom sell consoles PS5 exclusives God of War Raganrok and Horizon Forbidden West sell consoles
Except GoW:R and HFW were NOT PS5 exclusives, they were also on PS4, where they sold copies. So people didn't have to buy a PS5 for them. But if they had a PS5 of course they were buying that version. People who already had a Switch weren't buying the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild.
So of course if people bought a PS5 for some other reason, Ratchet & Clank being the main big one, they were going to buy the PS5 versions of the other dual releases they wanted. But people who didn't buy a PS5 could still buy GoW:R and HFW on PS4 and not buy a PS5.
@TommyNL "Incharted" - Play as a lone incel Nuthin Fake searching throughout his house after his mother takes away and hides his collection of pron magazines. Tomb Raider meets The Sims." IGN says 7 out 10 too many tissues. 😂
@Porco As the last person on Earth to not have played GTA V I really don't get all the hype for GTA 6. I know it's like the best selling game of all time or some such, and people seem addicted to their online, but who knows if 6 will even be any good? You're far from the only person to make the point, I guess I just don't believe hype anymore. Every game is the next big thing, until it isn't.
That said I do think Elder Scrolls 6 will be big, but not until PS6. But what do I know, I don't play those either. 🤷♂️
@PuppetMaster In my 2nd post, or maybe it was my 3rd or 4th or 5th, I did mention that I forgot Spiderman 2 in my first post, so already covered that mistake on my part. And I played it too. 😜
Just b/c some PS5 games sold well doesn't mean people bought a PS5 to play those games, it could just as well mean people who bought a PS5 bought any AAA game they could b/c they already spent $500 on the console. And it doesn't mean PS5 wouldn't have sold more if HZW and GoW:R weren't PS5 exclusive. I'd have to assume it would have, though the games may have sold less w/ the PS4 install base.
@Luigia "things don’t get cheaper anymore"
I stand corrected, things worth owning don't get cheaper anymore. Can probably get a Ford Pinto or Microsoft Zune pretty cheap if you can find one. 😂
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Re: Kong: Survivor Instinct Is the Most Unexpected PS5 Side-Scroller of the Year
@glassmusic "So GvK will always be referring to the first of the two."
For people who follow the minutiae of the movies on a gaming website maybe, but since the sentence was "set shortly after the events of the Godzilla vs Kong movie" and not "set shortly after the events of "Godzilla vs Kong" then I have to think people some people might think the game is set after the more recent Godzilla and Kong movie b/c the difference between and vs and an x isn't all that much. And this site never uses quotes to tell if it's referring to an actual movie title or simply a Godzilla and Kong movie. So if the article meant "Godzilla vs Kong" then it should at least be in quotes to avoid any confusion.
Re: Borderlands 4 Announced, Coming to PS5 in 2025
Announcing Borderlands 4 as the movie has crashed and burned inside of a week while the Deadpool and Wolverine movie is the highest grossing R rated movie of all time but no mention of the upcoming Wolverine game perfectly sums up this show. 🤪
Re: Mega Man's Finally Appearing in a New PS5, PS4 Game, But Not the One You Expected
@riceNpea Game is based on the Funko toys but there isn’t any toys-to-life connection, though they are selling toys based on characters in the game based on the toys.
Re: Mega Man's Finally Appearing in a New PS5, PS4 Game, But Not the One You Expected
“Funko Fusion bears a striking resemblance to the more modern LEGO titles, doesn’t it?”
Except for missing the one thing that made the Lego games fun, couch co-op. Would have been day 1 for us but now I’ll just skip it until it’s in a rental service maybe. My wife is a big Battlestar Galactica fan.
Re: Black Myth: Wukong Becomes Steam's Biggest Ever Single Player Launch
@somnambulance I spent a lot of my time playing Stellar Blade calling it “Bayonetta 4”, which basically started out as what I suppose this crowd would call “DEI Dante” 🤪 and really enjoyed it, but have to skip this one b/c I’m not up for the challenge. Which is a shame b/c we’re a big “Journey to the West” household. Any movie or tv show based on it, that we know about, we watch. But I just can’t.
@Titntin Congrats on the big 6-0 and the continued gaming, I turned 59 last month and am feeling old. I like the look of this one, reminds me of Stellar Blade which I just finished Sunday night, on Easy Story mode, with way too many “Game Over” screens, so I’m sitting this one out. 😩
Re: 12 Major PS5, PS4 Games Leaving PS Plus, Including Horizon Forbidden West
Only game I’m currently interested in playing when I sign up for a $15 month of Extra next month to play Plucky Squire is FF Crisis Core Reunion, so glad to see that isn’t being dropped yet. Oh and I may sign up next week to get Castle Crashers for $1.50. I already own it on PS3 but that system is just sitting unplugged on the floor like a fat bearskin rug, all of those controllers have issues so nobody wants to use them.
Re: Kong: Survivor Instinct Is the Most Unexpected PS5 Side-Scroller of the Year
“ after the events of the Godzilla vs Kong movie “
Might want to point out it’s after the first G v K movie (though technically the 2nd if you count the one that came out before all of us were born) and not the more recent G v K movie.
Re: Anticipated PS5 Platformer Astro Bot Looks Absolutely Outstanding in Gameplay Demo
@get2sammyb I know this article is a few weeks old so you may no longer care but the video says it has been taken down. Might just be a me being in the US thing but thought I’d let you know.
Re: Rumour: Xbox's Indiana Jones Game Coming to PS5 in First Half 2025
I recently watched the new Indy movie on Disney+ and thought it was a nice attempt at being good like the original, not a big fan of the sequels. I’m pretty sure most of it was in 3rd person though, not sure how I would feel like I’m “playing an Indy movie” in 1st person. Oh well, maybe I’ll play Uncharted 2 again if this comes to PS5. I’m assuming it must have been remade or remastered by now since I played the original.
U2 is still my all time favorite “interactive movie”, curious if it holds up. Replayed FF7 recently, my favorite JRPG for 20 years, and it was basically trash now, barely playable. Still a good story, characters and music but actually dealing with the menus and items was archaic.
Re: Poll: What PS5 Games Do You Most Want to See at Gamescom 2024?
Didn't vote for any, don't need to see any more of Astro Bot, Lego Horizon or Plucky Squire, so I wrote in Wolverine, b/c if you aren't going to try and capitalize on the world's highest grossing R-rated billion dollar blockbuster why even have a marketing department? Sure, it may not be out for awhile, but it should be out before Elder Scrolls 6 and hopefully close to GTA 6, so just put out a short 1 minute something.
https://www.ottplay.com/news/deadpool-wolverine-joker-highest-grossing-r-rated-film-ever-1-billion/ef3ec4a033677
Re: Death Stranding 2 Seems Like a Lock for Gamescom Opening Night Live
I wonder what I'm more likely to play first, Death Stranding or GTA V?
Probably DS, don't think my library has GTA V. DS may also have the Directors cut on PS+ Extra, so maybe.
Re: The Plucky Squire Getting Physical PS5 Edition, But Won't Be Ready in Time for Launch
So have they announced how much it will cost yet? I'm figuring $40, maybe $30 digital, but you'd think if we know it's digital first, and on PS+ EXTRA, then physical later, we'd know how much it was going to be by now.
I know a lot of people don't care about price but some of us do. And it's not a matter of all PS5 games being $70 either, Astrobot is $60, they already told us that.
Edit: Had the price of Astrobot as $50, not $60, for reasons I still don't understand.
Re: 15 Minutes of Astro Bot PS5 Footage Has Leaked Online
Was considering this for my kids birthday next month but now leaning towards a month of PS+ Extra for $15 and playing Plucky Squire and Crisis Core Reunion. Though maybe that’s for me and my kid still gets Astrobot? Guess we’ll wait on reviews.
Re: Poll: Are You Hyped for Gamescom 2024?
Gamescon could win this years best award show if they only have a release date for Silksong. Not that I care, just saying.
Fairly decent Bell Curve on the survey after 465 votes though, so that was thoughtfully made. 👍
Re: Site News: Where's Our Black Myth: Wukong PS5 Review?
@nessisonett " there’s a certain charm missing from the site now! "
I think that's partly Kate leaving but also people waiting on Switch Pro for like 5 years and Switch 2 for another couple. Sure Switch still has a lot of games coming but people cheer up around new console launches. Surely Nintendo will tell us something in the next 6 months, then good times. 😁
Re: Never Has a Game Looked So Good Yet So Jank as PS5's Neo Berlin 2087
I thought I was watching a "Watch_Dogs" remaster trailer. I'll be calling this one "Neo_Berlin" from now on. Might have bene the coat? 🤷♂️
Re: The Plucky Squire Launches on PS5 This September, Day One on PS Plus Extra
@somnambulance I do care how long it is, that's a direct correlation for most of my purchases, but I don't think there are a lot of indie games lasting 25 hours these days, though I could be wrong, I have very limited interests in indie games as I'm a graphics snob. So I'm guessing 8-10, my kid says "everything is 12 now" though I think they were generalizing a bit.
I know they just played $30 Cat Quest 3 which took them about 8 hours, played it in 3 nights, and they 100% it. Cat Quest 2 took them about 12 hours, 4 nights, so the new game was both more expensive and shorter.
If Plucky Squire is $40 and 12 hours I can live w/ that b/c it looks that good and my kid wants to play it as well. I wonder what we get first, reviews or a price? 🤷♂️
Re: Site News: Where's Our Black Myth: Wukong PS5 Review?
@nessisonett Well technically they do have a woman doing community service work, DreamlandGem or some such, and a few contributors, but yeah for the most part here and NL have been sausage fests for most of their existence. I don't know about PureXbox but I can't imagine why any woman would want to work there. 😂 Every once in a while a woman will get a prominent role, Kate Gray at NL recently, and there have been at least 2 woman here I recall writing mostly about obscure JRPG which is mostly Shogun's domain now, but that's about it.
In fairness to both NL and PS everyone seems pretty cool and I can't imagine they are purposely not hiring females and it is mostly a lack of qualified applicants. Of course I have to think that or I'd have to leave, but I do. 😁
Re: Hands On: Black Myth: Wukong Is Brilliant, But We Have PS5 Concerns
@ShogunRok " No difficulty settings "
Thanks, you know that rules me out. 😂 I'm at 60% in Stellar Blade on easy story mode and the game took me awhile to get used to it before I stopped dying. Octopi still make me pay attention, the bosses and enemy ambush are right where I'd like to be, evenly matched. That section going up and down through the laser maze can bite me though. 😝
Too bad, I would have liked to give this one a play thru, but not if I can't get through it w/o throwing my controller at the TV.
Re: The Plucky Squire Launches on PS5 This September, Day One on PS Plus Extra
@somnambulance I wish companies would announce a games price when they announce the release date. World of Goo 2 just released recently and I don't think they announced that price until the afternoon the game released.
My kid and I were discussing it yesterday and we decided on $40 for Plucky Squire b/c it doesn't seem as nice as $50 Astrobot but certainly better looking than WoG2 at $30. And companies almost never bother trying something not ending in 0, so it's not going to be $38 or $42. Well maybe in other countries, the US likes everything ending in $*9.99. 🤑
So I'm going to guess that $45 upgrade would work out well for you. I added Dave the Diver to my wishlist though I really only want to play it for the Godzilla dlc which is extra. Same for Gigabash. Godzilla is everywhere these days, except it's own game. 😥
Re: The Plucky Squire Launches on PS5 This September, Day One on PS Plus Extra
@Ralizah Sign up for 1 month of PS+ Extra for $15 (or your local currency equivalent) instant sale. I doubt this will be more than a 12-15 hour game.
@ztpayne7 My memory isn’t wrong it’s just non-existent. I guess the 1 good thing about losing your memory when you get old is forgetting how old you are.😝 I am in for $15 for 1 month for this though, also really want to play FF Crisis Core Reunion after we just finished Rebirth. So $135 bad, $15 good. I know it’s kinda splitting hairs but I’m an old cheap unemployed penny pincher.🤑
Re: The Plucky Squire Launches on PS5 This September, Day One on PS Plus Extra
@somnambulance JFC I just looked it up and PS+ Extra cost $135 a year, I wasn't even close w/ my $100 guess. 🤑 Though paying $14.99 for a month to play this, can't imagine it's more than a dozen hours, would be cheaper than buying it. Maybe I can find a 1 week free trial if I look really hard.🤷♂️
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps-plus/
Thanks. I'm gonna go start a movement on Twitter where everyone signs up for 1 month of Extra for $15 to play this then drop it. mwah ha ha ha ha 🤣
Re: The Plucky Squire Launches on PS5 This September, Day One on PS Plus Extra
Nice smooth update about PS+ Extra @Quintumply Was thinking about maybe subscribing again but I honestly don't even know how much Extra cost, gotta be close to $100, so I'll just buy this game instead. If this and Astrobot were on PS+ Extra then maybe.
Re: The Plucky Squire Will Finally Tell Its Story on PS5 This September
Hey @Quintumply Eurogamer says this is DAY ONE on PS+ (though they didn't say at which level) thoughts?
https://www.eurogamer.net/hugely-promising-indie-the-plucky-squire-launches-next-month-day-one-on-playstation-plus
Have been looking forward to this one for 2 years, as has my kid, and it releases on their birthday, so that's a given.
Being on PS+ at any level makes me think it will be cheaper than $50 Astrobot as we don't see a lot of $60 games Day 1 on there. I didn't buy World of Goo 2 b/c $30 seemed like too much for just more of the same but $30 would be a steal for this.
Congrats to the PS+ subscribers, nice get.
Re: Antstream Lets You Stream 1000s of Retro Games, and It's Coming to PS5, PS4
First off, it's a yearly rental service so you aren't BUYING anything, so screw them. If you give them $40 today and they go bankrupt tomorrow will you still be playing those games for the 11 months you already paid for? I'm guessing not.
Second, based on those games this is seems like a $1.99 a month service tops. I know $39.99 isn't much more than $1.99 a month but I'm not paying a year up front for a rental service.
And if anyone says "You are BUYING a license to rent the games for a year" well screw them too. 😂
Re: Square Enix Has Got Fans Talking About a Final Fantasy 13 Remake, Not a Remaster
Can't wait for the FF13 trilogy remake.
PT 1
2028
2031
2034
PT 2
2037
2040
2043
PT 3
Never happens b/c Squenix went bankrupt making PTs 1 & 2.
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
@Porco " it is anyone's guess how that all turns out "
But until then I think I'm going back to my regular game watching. "The Plucky Squire" was supposed to release last year, and maybe earlier this year, but still no release date, and Sony's big game after Astrobot, "Horizon Lego Adventure", still isn't dated despite supposedly releasing in the next few months. Yes I know they said "Holiday 2024" but to me when you're in August that is in the next few months. GTA 6 might as well be 2026 as far as my old swiss cheesed brain is concerned.
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
@NEStalgia "didn't totally replace XI"
Maybe they'll all finally switch to GTA 6?😂
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
@NEStalgia " just replacing the whole WoW population "
As part of the conversation w/ my kid, see above comment for further details, we decided FF 14 had replaced WoW. I can't imagine a WoW 2 doing well. See Destiny 2 and Overwatch 2 and Plants vs Zombies 2. Sequels are rarely a good idea. 😂
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
@Porco I was just discussing GTA V w/ my soon to be 22 yo college graduate who has a lot of friends who play a lot of video games but doesn't know anyone who plays GTA V and no one has mentioned GTA 6 so I guess maybe that's my reference? They actually mentioned "lighting in a bottle" but did say it was sure to move some PS5 though how many is anyone's guess.
So now I'm intrigued. Not about the game itself, don't really care, but it's reception and impact. Like, will it really run ok on Series S or are we looking at GTA on PS3 levels of unplayability? Or Cyberpunk on PS4? And will Switch 2 be in the discussion if Series S can run it properly? Will it be optimized of PS5 Pro?
So many questions for a game I'll never play. Something to watch for after the election I suppose.
Re: GTA 6 Won't Be on Subs Like PS Plus at Launch Because Take-Two Makes 'Rational' Decisions
@Andy22385 " GTA V sold over 10 million day one "
That's nuts. And 20 million would be nuts. Guess I'll start paying attention, thanks.
Re: Unsurprisingly, the Borderlands Movie Has Completely Bombed
One of the movies I'll watch, like "Madam Web", just so I can enjoy the Honest Trailer. 😂
I'm expecting a sequel called "The Borderlands". 😎
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
@NEStalgia I know Overwatch 2 came out and didn't do as well as 1. I know Destiny 2 doesn't seem to have gone over as well as they had hoped. I feel like Splatoon 3 came out too soon after Splatoon 2 but Japan was like GIVE US MORE. And I feel like it's been too long since GTA V for GTA 6 to have the same impact, people change, gamers change.
I hear ya about the FOMO though. That should be there marketing line: "Buy GTA 6 B/C You Know All Your Friends Will" followed by #1337 or some such. 😝
Re: It Took PS5 Longer Than PS4 to Pass 4 Million Units Milestone in the UK, But There's Context
@Dodoo "brexit made me stub my toe"
Elon says you're in full scale civil war so try not to get the other toe shot off. 😂
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
@NEStalgia We agree on a lot of stuff so I shouldn't be surprised but you and I having such a similar take on GTA 6 is still weird. I guess it's b/c you seem to be coming from a place of knowing what you're talking about and I'm just gut feeling it as I have no concept of their online. Or maybe we're just both too cynical. 😂
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
@Ralizah "LOTS of casual gamers are gonna buy a PS5 to play this"
It's so weird as I'm just not feeling it. Or don't get it. Or understand it. Can't put my finger on it? 🤷♂️
I guess I'm just too negative of a person to ever expect anything that's the "next big thing" to pan out. You ever hear of Segway?
In case that doesn't come across right it's not that I just don't play the game, I don't play FIFA, CoD, or Minecraft but I know how big they are. And I know GTA V continues to be the top selling game every week for the past 10 years. I suppose it's a "lightning never strikes twice thing". Or is it " catching lightning in a bottle"? I'll just end here w/ "I'll believe it when I see it". 😎
Re: Fortnite's Next Season Will Make Unthinkable Sums of Money on PS5, PS4
I stayed up last night to watch this through a half hour delay but finally called it quits a little after midnight b/c midnight so I haven't actually watched it yet, maybe later. 😝
I'm never really excited for skins, I mean we just got Magneto and I already have Spider Gwen so that's pretty much all the Marvel variety any one person should need, plus I have every battle pass skin for the past 3 years so how many can 1 person use, but I do hope for some cool stuff w/ this.
They should add the FF hovercar, I mean I only play solo but it would be great for teams, and the X-Men danger room, which come to think of it they may have already had before I started playing, there has already been a ton of Marvel stuff as I watched numerous times in the trailers through the 30 minute plus delay.😜
Anyway I actually do play Fortnite for the story, and once I finish the story for the season like I did a few weeks ago I usually play less, so hopefully we get some decent story to go along w/ the skins. And by story I don't mean just lore but feel. This past season's Mad Max meets Twisted Metal car-nage was very different from the previous seasons Immortals Fenix Rising game. And the summer festival last year, or maybe it was the year before, was fun. I like when they mix it up.
Basically what everyone else who is playing Reload hates I like. 😂
Re: Expect Big Fortnite News at Disney's D23, And Livestream It All in the PS5, PS4 Game
So I showed up a little after 11:00PM ET and I’m watching the big screen that says “Show Starts Soon” and it’s showing 1 minute long clips of things looping, maybe 5 or 6 of them. Collected the 100 coins, about ready for bed. Maybe I’ll go check twitter to see what’s up.🤷🏻♂️
Re: GTA 6 Won't Be on Subs Like PS Plus at Launch Because Take-Two Makes 'Rational' Decisions
"sell tens of millions of copies day one"
Is this hyperbole or are people really expecting a game to sell more than 20 million copies in 1 day? 30 million? 40 million? 🤷
How many versions are we expecting? $70 basic, $100 deluxe play 3 hours early, , $250 w/ a statue, what else?
I'm sure this will sell but I'm feeling a little like Noel saying Oasis is bigger than the Beatles. 😂
https://www.nme.com/news/music/paul-mccartney-14-1192208
Re: Pour One Out for PS4 Exclusive WiLD, No Longer in Active Development
@NEStalgia “ Half the interesting games announced a decade ago got canned and in their place we get 50 copy paste cashgrab live services. “
The film equivalent of that sentence from last night.😂
Re: Expect Big Fortnite News at Disney's D23, And Livestream It All in the PS5, PS4 Game
10:30 on a Saturday night is not happening for me but I could see myself watching it for 10 minutes one afternoon while I'm half napping so thanks for the island code.
Leaving this link here for anyone who read the title and didn't know what D23 was. I mean I follow a lot of Disney stuff and I'm not even sure I could fully explain it. Disney Comic-con I guess.🤷♂️
https://ultimatefanevent.d23.com/
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
@Ralizah " Do you seriously think GTA VI isn't going to make mad bank and move tens of millions of PS5s? "
Well I can't speak for them, but yeah I do think that's what they're thinking b/c it's what I was thinking when they agreed w/ me. Well to be fair it was more of a "I don't get it, who knows how good this game will do, maybe it won't move the needle?" more than saying it would flop. My reasoning being, GTA games are for the hardcore gamers, not the casuals waiting for a price drop, and the hardcore already bought 60 million PS5, so even if, or ok when, the game sells well, that doesn't mean it will move consoles. By the time it comes fall 2025 or later out most people who want a PS5 will probably already have one. 🤷♂️
https://www.gamingbible.com/news/gta-6-release-date-update-621268-20240809
@NEStalgia " fortnite, it's not a game, it's a social media platform and virtual hangout space "
I play Fortnite every weekday, weekend's are for better things, and I socialize and hang out w/ no one, it's a time waster for me. And claiming victory at my age over all the kids, especially the ones who stop and build. 😂
Re: Poll: Have You Pre-Ordered an Astro Bot PS5 DualSense Controller?
In honor of the pre-order of the $80 controller I went to Target today and paid $70 for a black one.
I already have a red one that drifts and a purple one that drifts to the point of being unusable so I needed a new one but not an $80 new one that I'll have to replace when it drifts. The white one that came with our system has never drifted, hoping the black one is the same.🤞
Re: Shooting on the Twisted Metal TV Show's Second Season Is Underway
I don't know if it counts as a "PS Productions" but Uncharted 2 feels like it should, whether it technically does or not, made by Sony based on the PS series, so that was my write in vote.
https://screenrant.com/uncharted-2-movie-confirmed-development-sony/
Re: The Exit 8 Ripoff Changes Its Name and Logo on PS5 Following Original Game's Release
Update comment: I was thinking they should have called it "Metro Exit 9" but then I remembered there is already a Metro series of games so this will have to do I guess. 🤷♂️
@TommyNL DLC is "Insurrection: The Search for Cosplay Camo". 😝
Re: It Took PS5 Longer Than PS4 to Pass 4 Million Units Milestone in the UK, But There's Context
@get2sammyb When we were discussing price yesterday I think my US mindset may be very different from your UK mindset. 😁
Also obligatory #BlameBREXIT 🤑
Re: PS5 Sales Reach 60 Million Milestone, Now at 61.7 Million Consoles Sold
@PuppetMaster "It could just as well mean people who bought a Switch or Xbox bought any AAA games" "your logic sounds silly af"
Maybe my logic sounds silly b/c you missed the point?
Switch exclusives Mario Odyssey and Tears of the Kingdom sell consoles
PS5 exclusives God of War Raganrok and Horizon Forbidden West sell consoles
Except GoW:R and HFW were NOT PS5 exclusives, they were also on PS4, where they sold copies. So people didn't have to buy a PS5 for them. But if they had a PS5 of course they were buying that version. People who already had a Switch weren't buying the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild.
So of course if people bought a PS5 for some other reason, Ratchet & Clank being the main big one, they were going to buy the PS5 versions of the other dual releases they wanted. But people who didn't buy a PS5 could still buy GoW:R and HFW on PS4 and not buy a PS5.
Re: PSA: Buying The Exit 8 on PS5? Don't Get Ripped Off by The Exit 9
@TommyNL "Incharted" - Play as a lone incel Nuthin Fake searching throughout his house after his mother takes away and hides his collection of pron magazines. Tomb Raider meets The Sims." IGN says 7 out 10 too many tissues. 😂
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
@Porco As the last person on Earth to not have played GTA V I really don't get all the hype for GTA 6. I know it's like the best selling game of all time or some such, and people seem addicted to their online, but who knows if 6 will even be any good? You're far from the only person to make the point, I guess I just don't believe hype anymore. Every game is the next big thing, until it isn't.
That said I do think Elder Scrolls 6 will be big, but not until PS6. But what do I know, I don't play those either. 🤷♂️
Re: PS5 Sales Reach 60 Million Milestone, Now at 61.7 Million Consoles Sold
@PuppetMaster In my 2nd post, or maybe it was my 3rd or 4th or 5th, I did mention that I forgot Spiderman 2 in my first post, so already covered that mistake on my part. And I played it too. 😜
Just b/c some PS5 games sold well doesn't mean people bought a PS5 to play those games, it could just as well mean people who bought a PS5 bought any AAA game they could b/c they already spent $500 on the console. And it doesn't mean PS5 wouldn't have sold more if HZW and GoW:R weren't PS5 exclusive. I'd have to assume it would have, though the games may have sold less w/ the PS4 install base.
@Luigia "things don’t get cheaper anymore"
I stand corrected, things worth owning don't get cheaper anymore. Can probably get a Ford Pinto or Microsoft Zune pretty cheap if you can find one. 😂