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@dimi exactly. It's kinda weird to me that I'm able to convey so much more information with two comments than the professionally written article above?

I'm sure that as with the earlier games, I'll set to the animated suits asap and stick with them

Here's some new screenshots shared on the WoD Discord server, which are described as post-alpha

And here's an update summary for this week from the Community Development person:

Short Summary

https://youtube.com/watch?v=04O1AGH4Cvc

This article is somewhat misleading as the announcement states that there will be need at the end of September including who the new studio is.

The pre-orders have been cancelled because what will release is significantly different to what people were promised, and the physical items with collectors editions will be different if they even exist.

I'm not worried given how the Discord server has been reorganized and they've revealed a new community manager for the game.

@Khayl would it be possible to include any of this in the main article body? Maybe a screenshot of the linked message for those who won't click through?

This looks like it could very much be a game of two halves, the gunplay looks like a slog, but the detective game side of things looks interesting.

@REALAIS ah, I don't shop with them often enough to make gold worthwhile, but it's useful info

Just took advantage of this for another year of Extra. The best discount on ShopTo right now is the £84 card for £69.85 which is 16.8% off. The £80 card is 16.4% off, etc (I ended up writing a script to crush the numbers, output at the end).

That left £21.01, of which I spent £15.99 on Burning Shores, so I still have £5.02 sitting in my wallet

£10 costs £9.85: 1.50% discount
£5 costs £4.85: 3.00% discount
£20 costs £18.85: 5.75% discount
£15 costs £13.85: 7.67% discount
£25 costs £22.85: 8.60% discount
£30 costs £26.85: 10.50% discount
£35 costs £30.85: 11.86% discount
£40 costs £34.85: 12.87% discount
£50 costs £42.85: 14.30% discount
£100 costs £84.85: 15.15% discount
£90 costs £75.85: 15.72% discount
£45 costs £37.85: 15.89% discount
£32 costs £26.85: 16.09% discount
£80 costs £66.85: 16.44% discount
£84 costs £69.85: 16.85% discount

I guess that just shows what a big franchise name can do to sell a game without it actually being any good, and that your average punter doesn't read reviews?

It can't all be streamers buying it for some sort of meme value?

To me the Spider-Man games are good, but not the masterpieces they seem to be described as. Decent stories and fun movement mechanics, but the combat and the crime fighting leaves a lot to be desired. It feels like they're 7 or 8/10 games which are hyped as 10/10s and they just don't hold a candle in my mind to GoW or Horizon.

All of that said, I can definitely see improvements in the trailer, and anyone who thinks it looks like the PS4 game is tripping

I'm not sure I'd frame those stats this way. 28% of respondents said it's was better than Okay, whereas 44% said it was worse than Okay.

@AaronBayne why don't you tell us what you really think? 😂

I'm kinda actually impressed they managed to do such a poor job of this without apparently managing to conjure any charm.

Things must be dire if there are only 9 strategy games better than Evil Genius 2. I played through it for nostalgia's sake but it was such a drag

@lolwhatno presumably because it makes it a much easier trademark to defend

@naruball don't forget electricity and internet. Probably water and heating too if you want to be comfortable all year round. It's a huge investment when you put it all together.

How much do you need to engage with the F2P gubbins if you just want to play a couple of games?

@3Above to be fair I'll likely wait on a sale for the second game. I'm currently saving Burning Shores, for instance, to play when I've got time to do it all in one go, so there's plenty in my backlog, but if you think that going straight through to MM would be fine even if I was looking forward to playing 2 asap, that probably tells me I'm good to play straight through

I've finished the story in Spider-Man and I'm trying to decide whether to finish all the crimes and various other map icons, move straight on to Miles Morales, or take a break and start Kena.

What do you all think? Will going straight into MM just mean I'm burned out on the franchise before I'm finished, or does it keep things fresh and introduce enough new stuff to keep things interesting?

To me PS+ Extra provides the bread and butter of my gaming diet, but the meat of it comes from purchases, and I don't see that changing

Wow, some people here are real salty about the idea of disabled people getting to enjoy their hobby. Always glad to see more accessibility options whether they're personally useful or not

Currently playing Spider-Man before it disappears (about to start act 3). Finding the combat kinda irritating (reminds me a lot of the Rocksteady Batman games which I didn't particularly enjoy) but everything else is pretty cool. How different Vs more of the same is Miles Morales?

It's like up is down, I remember joking about their poor offerings on PC way back in the day, now this fits consoles better:

E. A. Ports: It's in the name

Well I guess we'll see how good a performance she pulls off when the game releases. I'm not sure what else there is to say until then?

@GodofCapcom a previous announcement showed a mount that flies but also dives under water. There's definitely new machines, they're just not showing too many of them

I only finished the platinum a few weeks ago, so I'm going to play a few other games and come back to it, but I'm definitely looking forward to a second playthrough. Not doing what I did with the 2018 game though - the platinum for that needed something like 3 playthroughs and I did them back to back, so when I played through recently to refresh myself before starting GoWR it felt incredibly stale.

Bit of a weird one, but in between Hitman Freelancer I've been playing Zombi, which I started years ago on the WiiU at an old workplace (in lunch breaks) and never finished before I moved on to the next job.

@SJBUK sounds about right - the m.2 drives are for general use, while the onboard storage was optimised for gaming where read speeds are a lot more important than write speeds.

It's important to note that there has been a couple of years for fabrication of the faster chips to get cheaper, and the onboard storage had to be a fixed spec for the life of the console generation, and that while a higher spec might have been possible, it would have made the console more expensive.

As much as I'd love to see a price drop so I can afford it at some point, you really can't trust anything Bloomberg publish nowadays

@Snake_V5 I can tell you for a fact that if you don't touch the screen, they go away. There will be black bars if your aspect ratio doesn't match because otherwise things will be stretched and gross, but if you've got an OLED screen then you really don't notice, it's just like having bezels

@Jayslow you don't, but the official client only supports the Dualsense and the Dualshock 4, or touch controls, so if you want to use a third party controller you need to use a third party app

Probably more Hitman Freelancer, although I'm looking for a more chilled out game to play in-between. I gave Anno 1800 a go while it was on trial, but that just showed me that I'm burned out on that genre, all I won't buy it to carry on.

@AFCC I feel like Wick's gun-fu might be hard to do well, and IOI wouldn't be the right studio for it - they make cool slow games of stealth and deception, while John Wick is about cool streamlined action.

I kinda see John Wick as a Max Payne style thing with active pause

To be honest, assuming their Bond game uses the same engine, I could see them updating Hitman VR as an exercise in familiarising themselves with the changes if the intend to include a VR mode for the Bond game

This looks like it'll scratch that XCom itch even less than Midnight Suns. The description was interesting, but the video shows it to be almost entirely unlike said description

More Hitman Freelancer mode. It feels like the cost of failure is a little more punitive than I'd like (it would be better if you lost all the money and stuff from that run, but keep the stuff from previous runs) but I'm slowly building up my weapons and my safehouse (just got access to the vault so I'd better see what that's about)

I used this right up until I got native dualsense compatibility on my phone, at which point the official app had better controller support, and it's about the same in terms of latency, ease of use, etc

I got the Platinum for GoW Ragnorok this week, and I've just reinstalled Hitman ready to give Freelancer mode a go

Looks like it's voice only which is a shame would be nice to be able to share your gameplay to Discord without having to go through Twitch or YouTube

I'm going to try this out later. Does this let you share your screen? If you have the PS5 camera can you connect that to the Voice Chat?

It's kinda an odd quirk of Discord that Voice Chat does video too

@jrt87 the pandemic affected the rest of Europe too, so why have they coped better?

@Bricktop33 well the cost of food and fuel has gone up, inflation is through the roof, and a lot of small and medium sized businesses have gone bust. Meanwhile the national debt continues to soar without seeing any meaningful investment in public services. We are, as a nation, in all respects worse off than we were in 2016 , and by a considerable margin more than the rest of the continent.

If 52% of those who voted had voted for Remain and the things the Leave campaign had claimed were on the horizon (like an EU army, etc) had come to pass I'd expect that you'd be frustrated too.

All of this is however a massive distraction from the fact that yes England, like the rest of the UK, is still geographically a part of Europe.

@TommyNL Europe is a continent. The EU is an organisation made up of nations within that continent. England is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which has left the EU, but that didn't change its geographic status.

@Bricktop33 I feel like the series of economic crises we've gone through since 2017 and how much worse we've faired through them kind of speak for themselves. The money we paid into the EU benefitted us in terms of both subsidising our industries and making trade much easier. Everything the Remain campaign warned of has turned out to be grounded in facts.

Folks here are really acting like they think committing economic suicide by leaving the EU somehow moved us to a new continent. Of course Europe includes the UK.

I finished the story yesterday in GoW Ragnorok so I've still got plenty of content to finish off before I choose what to play next. Completed the Musphelheim trials but then got my arse handed to me by Gna so I'm going to have to come back for that once I've upgraded my gear a few levels.

Probably also finally get back to the woodworking now that my finger is up to it and I've got myself some new safety equipment. Its been about 6 weeks and I can't wait.

@themightyant before you know it we'll be giving ourselves hints for every little thing. I just need to type this message and hit the send button

@Stevemalkpus given it's the British Academy, they have an award category specifically to showcase stuff from British studios, which given how much of the market is dominated by American studios seems fine?

Just passed the point of no return in the story, and I can say that so long as they don't completely fluff the ending, this game deserves every one of those awards. Great stuff!

Just a 6'2" short arse here 😂

I can imagine that as with anything where you're trying to get a good fit around the head, hair is an issue - I presume those with long straight hair are having the biggest issue, with bald folks having nary a problem, and everyone else fitting somewhere in between?

@burning_as_souls am I wrong?

This week I finally started Dad of Boy Ragnorok. I'm about half way through the story according to a mate I was talking to. Great stuff so far and I have all sorts of twisty ideas for how things could end up resolved, and who will be left standing by the end. Trying not to mention spoilers for anyone who hasn't got around to it yet.