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@DennisReynolds
If true that’s great. Could you show were the outfit is the same as before the patch. Do you have a link or something? Would be much appreciated. All I see is more proof that NG+ outfits with this design are censored also.

@RR529
It wouldn’t stop me playing the game, but it would stop me giving Sony / the publisher money. I’d just get the physical (uncensored) version secondhand.

The struggle is that I’m pretty sure it would be a Sony edict to change, but more honesty from the publisher would be required for me to give them my support and to care about their earnings

@RR529
That theory is rubbish!

Simply looking at the stylisation of the game makes it clear the devs wouldn’t suddenly gain an aversion to exposed skin immediately before sending it for review.

I smell Sony’s malodorous influence.

My only hope is that the new costumes added with the NG+ patch have somehow either gotten mixed up, and it’s causing people’s costumes to be switched with new ones, or some type of “balancing” has taken place to make base game costumes slightly less revealing in order to make the NG+ ones seem more rewarding by being ultra revealing.

I doubt any of that is the case.

@The_Pixel_King
I removed mine because there is a chance the “censorship” of the outfits is a mistake or faked. I’ll post again if it’s shown to be true.

@ErrantRob
Well, OK, as I can’t corroborate myself I’ll remove the comments. But it seems legit from the posts and pictures I see. I’ll certainly not be buying it until I know for certain.

@glennthefrog
WTF!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for letting me know. I’ll delay purchase and keep an eye on it.
Hopefully this becomes more widely known and they can get deserved backlash rather than trying to sneak it in after release uncontested.

@Terra_Custodes
Don’t expect consistency from Sony. They refuse to publish their guidelines or requirements precisely to avoid that type of scrutiny.

@TheFakulty
Yes, the setting and related messaging (particularly of the second) was not great.

I’d like them to stop working on all this social rubbish and just give me my VR trophy room!

@ThaBen
Very good information.

Their description of their own board game really makes clear the direction they are taking. I wasn’t aware of it until your post. Really puts this article into a wider perspective of their “moral” position, so thank you. I’m sure others can just google it.

The world really has gone to crap since the time the original games were released.

What do I think? It’s stopped me buying the game. Just as the censorship in DMC5 stopped me buying that. I won’t be funding such disgusting moral arbiters. Disappointed, but I have a million other games to play.

@Flaming_Kaiser
Not really wasting time. Maybe using a few seconds to get on a stream of a game isn’t worth it for you to get 60p, but it would bug me after a few months knowing I’d just thrown money away🤷‍♂️

The only thing that annoys me now is not being able to get rewards for trophies I’ve already earned. Should just be given to anyone who has the trophy (although I guess that wouldn’t create the FOMO they are looking for when “encouraging” people to buy games at release, rather than on sale)

@rusty82
I was under the impression you always needed plus to get coins for purchases. Which is a bit rubbish but hasn’t changed I don’t think.

Ok. A free 150 points. Which I think is about 60p or something. Every little helps I guess

Stupid idea, but I have no problem with it for single player games, and as long as it disables trophies. I don’t think either of those things will be the case though. The game publishers will want those free engagement hours to show their investors, and Sony don’t care about trophy challenges.

You may think it didn’t need stating, but where Sony is concerned it’s always necessary unfortunately.

Seems reasonable. After all, it would be pretty easy to see someone with glowing eyes in reality. The idea that, previously, it could happen yet the player be totally unaware just seems strange. Being more noticeable logically means it wouldn’t spread as much…

Then again, I’ve not played the game. Maybe it’s already a rarity.

To me the idea of important NPCs dying is something that would just annoy me and make me feel like I was missing out.

Again though, not played it, maybe anything important would just move to a different NPC.

Just couldn’t get into this. Seemed like I’d already played it a dozen times. A good introduction to this type of game for others though, I’m sure.

@Gigawatt-Kapow
Yes it is. Such a great game. Although I’ve not tried chopping vines consciously, lol.

Having great fun delving into Ancient Dungeon. Completed two runs so starting to upgrade my weapons and get used to what abilities are best for my play style. Very addictive game, and so many hours of great gameplay for the price.

These are fun games. Got the plat for the first two and will likely make it the set when this releases (or perhaps a year or so afterwards).

The wife and I would be happy just getting a straight up sequel.

@TruestoryYep
I want it added to my existing collection. I know it may seem silly, but I’d like my (recent) gaming history recorded in one place, with one set of stats, lists, photographs/videos etc. I don’t want start in another ecosystem.

Trophies on PC! Now I would seriously consider getting a PC. No, that isn’t a joke. Next they need to do the same for mobile and I’ll play games there too. This is good news. If they can convert pc achievements to PSN trophies that would be brilliant.

@NEStalgia
Maybe it’s just one of those things different people are more or less able to detect as you suggested before. The only time I can’t feel a difference between monotone rumble and true haptics is when the devs haven’t implemented a difference (which is most of the time these days for reasons stated above).

Regarding cyube, it sounds like you should just kill yourself to teleport back lol. I take it the draw distance isn’t good enough to climb to the highest mountain peak and spy it from a distance?

@NEStalgia
But the bit about haptics just supports the point - there is indeed no difference, but not because it isn’t actually a discernible difference as you think, but because it simply isn’t utilised, even in PS5 games, because it would put off people from buying an Xbox version even if that’s all they have access to (in the same way I don’t buy censored PS games even though I wouldn’t buy them on switch anyway). Nobody wants to get a game if they are hit with a second best version.

I’m the same about VR though. Not completely on topic, but I got Ancient Dungeon at the weekend. Really fun game, although I do wish there was more progression possible in your stats and abilities. Not really feeling like I’m getting stronger, but I haven’t unlocked the anvil yet i guess.

@NEStalgia
Whilst not disagreeing with most of that, I stand by the fact that it is a sad state of affairs. Even small things, like MS not having proper haptics and motion controls in their controllers, has held devs back from fully utilising those options. On the console level it hasn’t been evident due to devs having to support last gen/Series S, but I guarantee things like the immense PS5 I/O throughput wouldn’t have been utilised anyway in most third party games as it would have required an entirely different development model for the Series X and S (I’m sure PS5 would have held back Series X in its way too before anyone piles on, I’m just not as familiar with that architecture).

Fact is, only exclusives allow us to fully utilise our consoles so I wish the business case was there for more of them. Alas, that’s no longer the case (and yes, I realise I say this from a privileged position of being able to get all the consoles if I wanted all the exclusives, but that doesn’t change the main point just because there are also disadvantages).

@3Above
It’s inevitable when most devs have to go multiplatform to be profitable. This is why platforms making exclusive content is still important. Unfortunately we seem to be moving the other way.

Hmmm, am part way through a FFX playthrough (well, I stopped for a few months due to some Yakuza games and others, plus I’m at the stage where I have to capture a certain number of all the enemies and it’s bloody tedious). Things mildly annoying, especially as I already have it for the VITA but don’t think saves carry over for this version.

I would recommend that anyone who hasn’t plays World of Final Fantasy. Little gem of a game.

It’s got to the point where I’d honestly rather a less graphically accomplished game that comes out in a reasonable timeframe for a reasonable price. Nothing against hardware upgrades, but until AI automates much of the busywork of making games I’ll stick to those that do not strive for performance greatness. Perfectly happy with Infinite Wealth as it was for example, and glad I don’t have to wait a third of my life for the next one, like with GTA.

In have to finish the second playthrough to get the plat. The damage buff should help that be not too much of a grind.

Bought ancient dungeon. Only done a few runs but fun so far and only £16. Looking forward to seeing how deep it goes.

They really are scum.

I just get my free £5 credit every now and again for normal purchases and streaming a few games for a second. Nothing else is worth it.

Because meta paid for the release or because the dev didn’t think the PSVR2 userbase was high enough compared to Meta Quest 2 (and 3)? If the later it may well just be ported later once the work is done.

@Specky
Perhaps if you’ve been gaming for several decades as I have, but there are a lot of kids who have only ever played Fortnite for example…demos are good to get a certain demographic into single player non-free to play games, so I welcome them.

Was waiting for trophies to be fixed. Hopefully this patch might do that. Outside hope the plats would be added to the PS5 version but can play the ps4 one anyway.

@breakneck
If a game doesn’t have a platinum that means it usually has far fewer trophy challenges to go for. Less content is never good. It’s not that I wouldn’t play a great game without lots of /any trophy challenges, but I have so little time, and my backlog is so big, that the choice would be “great game without platinum” VS “great game with platinum challenge”, thus, in effect, I’d be less likely to buy a game with the lack of a platinum campaign.

This definitely looks like a bit of me. A great bedtime Portal game methinks.

@Dragoon1994
Yes, but I don’t want content drip fed to me a year, or longer, after I’ve finished a single player game and moved on. I would have forgotten the story, not to mention the game mechanics by that time, and likely given the game away or traded it. At least with live service games that wouldn’t my be the case (presuming I wanted to imprison myself within a single game like that, which I don’t).

Don’t even know most of them. Guess I’ll have to look into those. Of the ones I do know I have zero interest. Really think I’ll not renew again.

If a game has a season pass or battle pass I know not to buy it.

I really hope every “game” like this crashes and burns. It shouldn’t be part of the gaming industry. No sympathy for the addicts - I mean players - there is a long history of this type of thing they could have learned from.

@ShadowofSparta
Well, it is pretty obvious the industry was supporting more jobs in the bubble than it could long term, that’s why loads of people are losing their jobs industry wide. The question of should these people be losing their jobs is the same as asking should these jobs have been created in the first place. These people would otherwise have been employed in different markets perhaps, but those markets were still there, they were just given the opportunity of a preferred job in the games industry. Now they have experience they can take forward.

Exactly as I said yesterday, lots of jobs were created during the pandemic boom. Now they have to be shed as the market ebbs and flows. It sucks that people are losing their jobs, I’ve been there myself, but would they have preferred that their jobs had never been created? I don’t think so.

The real problem I had with the whole situation is the industry consolidation and all the myriad problems that entails. But we can’t really blame him for doing his job and trying to create a competitive advantage that way.

Infinite wealth for me.

@NEStalgia
And it may not all be to do with the TV…

https://www.digitec.ch/en/page/study-shows-some-people-perceive-the-world-at-a-higher-frame-rate-32518#

It’s very rare prices drop. They may stay the same for the next couple of decades while inflation eats away at the profit, but only if such profit is increased first through the use of AI greatly speeding up game creation (which is very possible).

@Jey887
It’s actually a very organised language. Labels for each part of the sentence (topic/subject, object, etc), verb conjugations deal with most other things; there’s no genders, which is what stops me learning most languages. Admittedly reading Kanji will be hard, but hiragana and katakana can be learned in a day, and internalised after a few weeks reading practice. Overall it seems one of the easier languages. Don’t think I’ll ever get the pitch accent right, but compared to tonal langauges it really is smooth going.

@Jey887
19 months and counting for me. Determined to have some form of understanding of the language so I’m studying an hour or so a day. Definitely taking an empty suitcase with me lol.