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I can understand not being a free upgrade for the reasons stated, but not offering a discounted route for those with the originals seems like a misstep

Is there any way to jump into ME3 and tell it where you were up to in the other two? I played the first two on Steam back in the day, but then the third required Origin, which at the time was essentially malware.

I'll probably give Biomutant a go at some point, but based on reviews my expectations are low.

All in all, a great month for some, and I'm mostly happy for me.

This is roughly what I was hoping for:

Graphics have never been Firaxis' strong point, and are arguably a waste of performance budget in a complex tactical game. The thing which made me nervous was the state Xcom2 released in, which was fun enough to be worth it, but laden with performance issues, hitches, crashes, and the sort of bugs that would end an Ironman run through no fault on the player's part. War of the Chosen (the expansion) was a vast improvement and it seems like they've learned their lesson as a studio.

I'm looking forward to picking this up, but not day 1 like XCom 3 would be, especially at I still have to play GoW:R (although I finally have a moving date and it's next week)

On top of @Jaz007 's statements which I agree with, I'm not sure that clubbing people over the back of the neck after interrogating them with a gun to their head counts as nonviolent? It's great to have clean hands options, but it feels like it's easy to overstate things.

this fresh take on Sam Fisher's origin story can also apparently be completed without violence

@Pandalulz yeah I think it's an attempt to prevent cheating with save editors. Honestly though multiplayer stuff should be saved on the server and never trust client-side data, and if people want to cheat on single player games I don't see why anyone should stop them

It looks great, don't get me wrong, but £550? I'm going to need to see what the library looks like in 12-18 months

@thedevilsjester I knew he'd killed the Greek pantheon, that he'd been somewhat of a rage monster, but I didn't know it was because he'd been tricked into murdering his family

@thedevilsjester huh, I went in blind(ish) and loved it, maybe I should watch some let's play videos

I'm in the middle of a house move so I'm saving this for when I'm in the new place (an indeterminate number of weeks, but hopefully before Xmas)

Honestly since I moved over to Mastodon and a lot of the folks I follow have also moved there, every time I look at Twitter I get the impression that all the decent folk have left, are no longer posting. Its been a pure trashfire for the past week or so there, which is just polarising stuff like this even more.

I can't say I ever had any doubt that this one would be a right barnstormer

@Ravix @huyi 3 was on Extra, 2 and the remake were Premium

Great games, and I'm glad I bought the collection second hand a year of so ago

@The_Flapjack £480 + 20% VAT = £576, so there's actually a slight discount, likely to factor in that the Tories keep tanking our economy so the basic cost of living has shot up, affecting affordability at a given price point.

I'm disappointed, but not all that surprised, I was thinking £50 less than the console, not £75 more, but this thing will still sell

I'm pretty sure that in the UK this would fall under the Sale of Goods Act, entitling the customer to receive what was advertised. A bit like how if a shop mislabeled the price of an item them have to offer it at the advertised price. (I know about 7 people who got a Sony Bravia entertainment system (TV, stand, speakers, VHS) for £199.99 back in the late 90s because there was a typo on an advert (was supposed to be £1999.99 which was already a bargain)

Having lived and worked in Hoxton/Shoreditch during its gentrification this hits hard

@racinggamefanatic this exactly,

Embrace a competing product
Extend it with content exclusively available on your platform
Extinguish it once they're reliant on you, so your own product can flourish

The tune has never changed, but different leaders have emphasised the first and second stages differently.

@andy24king seems pretty simple, implement an allowlist (aka whitelist) of available games on the console which is updated every time you're online. If you put in a disk that's not on the list then it tells you that you can't play it, and if you're offline it prompts you to connect to the server. The whole thing could be implemented in the part of the OS which deals with installing and launching games without being active at any other time.

While toying with the idea as a thought exercise I considered allowing an entry with a date in the future when it becomes available, but without verifying against a server then it becomes vulnerable to people messing with the system clock. As proposed it would still be vulnerable to people with hacked consoles, but you'll never fully deal with that, and people who haven't installed the update that added the allowlist feature.

It sucks that it forces you to connect to servers to play a physical game, but you should be installing firmware updates anyway, and you can play anything that was released prior to the last time you connected without issue.

@Pokemaniacal why's that?

I'll give Heavenly Bodies a go, but Nioh isn't the sort of thing I generally get along with, and I'm not even claiming the Lego TERF game

I think I saw something online saying the first Witcher game is getting a UE5 remake, which could be cool

https://twitter.com/witchergame/status/1585270206305386497

Can't say I'm a fan, I'd prefer they find other ways of making things one-way, like ledge drops.

If the devs say it's not to hide loading though, I'll happily believe them

@Steve30000 to be fair I haven't missed seeing any of their views since I added them to my ignore list a while back

@EquiinoxGII one imagines they're doing it for Xbox but including PS5 because they want the CMA to let them have ABK

@UltimateOtaku91 that's how it has worked for all my other physical games that got upgrades: Mafia Remake, CP2077, Fallen Order, Borderlands 3, etc etc

@UltimateOtaku91 the good news is that the second hand market is flooded with copies at this point, and the PS4 version is regularly on digital sale, I picked up the GOTY after playing a bit for free because I wanted the DLC and I paid < £20, about 2 years ago

@UltimateOtaku91 I mean it's free with the PS5 Collection, so if you have ps+ you own it already. If you don't, then why do you expect to get a free game for nothing?

The update I was is for Sony to allow custom models from mods, the availability of mods for PlayStation is so much lower than other platforms.

@UltimateOtaku91 @ShogunRok It says on the link at the bottom of the article that it'll be a free upgrade.

Emphasis mine:

Prepare for the future: A next-gen update is coming to Fallout 4! Coming in 2023, this free update will be available for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and Windows PC systems, including performance mode features for high frame rates, quality features for 4K resolution gameplay, bug fixes and even bonus Creation Club content!

Someone call Sony and let them know that 68% of this poll's recipients are happy to buy a £3000-5000 games console.

I was about to comment that as long as you can maintain fidelity I'll take the highest stable frame rate you can manage but honestly some games are far more relaxing to play at 30fps than 60fps. Others feel like crap at anything under 60fps. Anything is better than an unstable frame rate.

Console gaming has never been able to keep up with PC but it's a helluvalot cheaper over the period of a generation, and much more convenient. If you don't like the tradeoffs then PC is right there, and nowadays you can even buy a graphics card.

Someone mentioned Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines so I'm taking a break from AC: Valhalla to play that again. The 00's jank is real, but it's just such a good game with such a well realised world and characters, I don't think there's much that comes close, let alone doing things better, and I really hope the sequel delivers whenever it resurfaces (I was going to say when it sees the light of day, but let's not)

@KidBoruto ah, good to hear it was temporary, who would have thought that Apple stuff wouldn't "just work"?

(It me: I've been forced to use a load of their gear professionally and it has given me a deep seated loathing for their software)

@rjejr heh, as someone who's body is falling apart in myriad ways, accessibility options is my first port of call in any game - glad I could help!

@rjejr huh I haven't got round to Miles Morales yet, did it not give an option under Accessibility?

I could see Spidey as a Spring release and Wolverine in the Autumn

@Netret0120 it has already been replaced by FIFA, at least in the UK. It's good to see people buying it anyway.

@3Above I'd guess so, pretty sure it's supposed to be a launch title. I can hope it's DLC, but Call of the Mountain is more likely

@KidBoruto I can tell you that both Android TV on my Bravia and my partner's Fire Stick have all the features, sorry to hear that Apple TV is lacking.

@KidBoruto for at least Prime Video, Netflix, Disney+, and all the UK free streaming services, you just need to log in on another device and all your watchlists and history will still be there.

Years of life is kinda meaningless for a peripheral. The total number of hours of use is more useful, while the number of button actuations or sum total angle of movement of each stick axis, while impossible to accurately track, are the actual useful metrics.

I have a launch day console, and put about 1000 hours into the controller that came with it, then bought a midnight black controller when it released, relegating the original controller to be player 2 or a spare, and put about 800 hours into that until it developed stick drift. I RMA'd it and the replacement has about 1200 hours on it, still going strong.

On the one hand it's actually pretty impressive that ⅔ of the DS5 controllers I have owned are still pinpoint accurate with over 1000 hours of use, but in the other hand, when the controller that failed did so, it degraded pretty badly, pretty fast. On the first day of drift it was fine to just press the reset button with a pin. The next day I needed to set dead zones in HFW, but it was still usable. On the third day it was unusable and I had to switch back up my launch day controller while I arranged the RMA.

I've not had a controller on PC develop stick drift since the 90s, although they've all had much larger dead zones, while the 90s controllers, which needed calibration every time you reconnected them, never showed that sort of rapid progressive failure.

At £210 I would want an incredibly long and comprehensive warranty otherwise I'm far better off modding the standard Dualsense, especially once aftermarket hall effect modules become available like they are for the Switch and the Steam Deck.

Not £210 much, for that I can buy 3 standard controllers and afford to break 2 of them trying to DIY the improvements.

@sanderson72 I don't really want to have to buy a new thing - the cost and the energy involved in manufacture probably aren't worth it for the period until I move house. I'd also have to juggle HDMI ports again to make things simple for the less tech savvy members of my household.

Gah! My TV's All4 app is part of YouView so needs an aerial (we only have a satellite dish, which is fine for Freesat but YouView won't let you set up without being able to scan for channels), so I frequently use the PS5 as a media box so I can watch everything on one device. I guess I'll have to get used to switching away for anything other than All4, and look forward to having an aerial when I move house (which is taking ages)

I have a bunch of trophies, but no points, and the only way I can see if getting points, is by buying games I don't want.

It's not costing me anything though, it's not hurting anyone, and it's not causing me any inconvenience, so "Meh".

Hopefully it improves, but if not I'll just forget about it and not be any worse off

@SirRealDeal I can't see it being a huge issue, a lot of VR doesn't have static UI or menus, and it's also less likely to be used for 8-10 hours at a time, so a lot less potential than monitors and TVs, where the issue has been somewhat overstated

Still plugging away on AC: Valhalla which is fine, I just have continual issues with traversal controls doing the wrong thing and a few instances of falling through the world. Got the St George gear and a load of stuff from Nifelheim, but I should probably get back to the main story at some point

@djlard generally you'll have estimated the work involved as much as possible in advance, and base your release date on how long it'll take to complete that work with the team you forecast having over the duration of the project.

Old school folks might have a Gantt Chart, while more modern practices might be using Kanban principles, but nobody is going to get far into a large project without having some forecast of how long things will take when money is on the line.

The estimates generally aren't all that accurate on an individual feature level, but over a project things generally shake out (I've had features that were expected to take a week take anywhere between 2 days and 3 months, but things generally averaged out to week, and missing a release date was fairly rate)

@Titntin @Hengist is this just knock-off Civ, or is it more like Empire Earth where it did something original (in this instance, reimagined Civ as an RTS)?

If folks don't like the way English people use the English language, maybe come up with your own?