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@C25CLOUD Nothing wrong with games being political, so long as it makes sense in the world and setting that's it really.

My Son plays Roblox much to my dismay, he's 9. I don't want to ban him from playing it, because alot of his friends play it but I can't stand it. It's full of stolen assets from other companies I have no idea how they have not been sued into oblivion. I will play a few round of Fortnite with him, but I refuse to install this trash on my console.

Luckily as time has gone by, because the quality of the games is usually so bad he plays it rarely. I have tried to explain to him that it's a platform that is full of low effort garbage who's main goal is to get you to spend. If he wants a new experience he is better off buying an actual game than wasting his money here.

@Matroska Mass Effect's gameplay is pretty lackluster if you ask me, all 3 of them. I did enjoy them but for me those games were carried by the choices you made, the story, world and characters. The same system seems to be here in Veilguard, the debuff / detonator I was not a fan of it ME, hopefully it's implemented better in Veilguard.

I get what you mean about BG1 but it doesn't really feel like a realtime game to me, if you compare it to Diablo they are very different. In Diablo you are clearing screens of enemies by spamming 1 or 2 abilities. In BG if you play without pausing you are not going to get very far.

@ShadowofSparta Don't get me wrong, I feel the identity politics are being pushed in some games, like AC Shadows. But you are correct I don't think that applies here. It's turned into a bit of a Witch (Or Woke) Hunt

Doubt this has much to do with arachnophobia, probably looking for cuts to make and this one made the most sense. I mean if you want to do them properly they probably take a alot of animation work and you can only use them in dark caves or forests.

I do wonder about this game though, I have played all the DA games and enjoyed them, though I did think Inquisition was by far the weakest.

I'm playing the original Baldur's Gate on my PS5 right now, I last played it 20 years ago. It's so good, even today, the mechanics are complex and the story and world building are amazing. Yes it's clunky and obtuse by today's standards but maybe that's why it sucks you in. There is a reason BG3 was such a success, people like deep games, the thing that worries me about Dragon Age is each iteration has tried to appeal to the mainstream, I think they will just end up with no one. If it doesn't sell well I do wonder if it's the end of Bioware, they have become something else, Larian carries the torch now.

I'm going to wait until player reviews are out before I consider Veilguard, Bioware was once an automatic buy for up until Inquisition. I don't understand why they felt the need to move away from their niche, I guess because of greed. People have been asking for a follow up to Origins since they released it and instead we get a 3rd person action game with no party control.

The Original is low key one of my favourite PS5 games. I won't be in day one because they usually add an absurd amount of DLC. But I will pick up a complete edition when the price is right.

Dead Space alone makes this month, unfortunately I have already played it.

You have to admire the staying power of this franchise. I watched Z as a kid, and I played the DBZ Kakarot game a few years back, it was alright but fighting games are not really my thing. To be honest anything topping Call of Duty makes me happy, even if it's not for me we need the diversity.

@S1ayeR74 I actually mean the developers who don't get on Gamepass. I can imagine there are a fair amount of people who will put off buying because they hope the game will eventually come to Gamepass. There are no guarantees of course, and I imagine older games get much less lucrative deals. It happens on PlayStation too of course with Extra, but there are more potential customers so it's less of a risk.

I have never subbed to Extra, but if I had I imagine I would also buy less games, I don't know what percentage of the XBOX player base is subbed to GamePass but the last numbers I could find are around 30 million (This does include PC though) vs the 7 million on Extra. Given that PS5 consoles outnumber XBOXs more than 2:1 a huge number of their players are subbed to Gamepass vs Extra. It makes sense since that is their whole push.

I think it's hard to deny that Gamepass doesn't have a negative overall impact on game sales, I mean they added an extra tier to try and offset the no doubt enormous amount of money they were going to lose on Call of Duty sales this year that says enough.

Gamepass, smaller market, Series S limitations, declining market share, juice not worth the squeeze.

The Industry has conditioned us to buy later, better product for less money. I'm sure this isn't the only reason but if for any reason you are on the fence for any game it makes zero sense to get in early. It's taken more than a decade but I guess consumers are starting to wise up now that money is tighter for most people.

My library is fully digital since the PS3, and my son's is too. Worth noting this morning he dragged me out of bed before school because his games were not working.

To be specific these games didn't work

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3
Poppy Playtime Chapter 2
Fortnite
Roadblox

What did work

Astrobot

I was suprised that Poppy Playtime failed to load, both of them are single player games with no online features. Obviously Fortnite and Roadblox need a connection to PSN to function.

I wanted the anniversary bundle, but it was sold out, so I settled for the Pro. I put off playing many of the games with compramised performance modes like Rebirth and Alan Wake. Looking forward it!

Metro Awakening
Ghost
Dragon Age if it doesn't suck. Waiting for player reviews on that one

I held off playing Rebirth, Alan Wake 2, and Dragons Dogma 2 because of the bad image quality. There is absolutely room for more powerful hardware, if this gets rid of blurry 60 fps modes then I'm all for it. I'm done with 30 fps, it needs to die and I'm glad most console gamers now agree.

I played and Platinumed all three Dragon Age games. I can't remember what I did in Inquisition ... But as always this kind of stuff is fluff anyway it's not really going to have a massive impact on the story, it never does.

I am still on the fence about the game, I can't get the first trailer with the elf jumping out of the vale like a fortnite character out of my mind. I'll wait and see how it is received, and maybe pick it up later. Larian is a new Bioware for me, I do hope this game turns out well, but something about it feels off.

The standard P5Pro is now sold out in the NL PSdirect store. Pretty good for a cosole that no one wanted.

I missed out on the 30th edition but bagged a pro. Good luck everyone.

I was level 63 with 372 Plats, now I am 636. I like the changes they made, looking forward to my Gold Logo on PS5!