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@OldGamer999 That's because you did 🤣

@OldGamer999 I think @DennisReynolds meant he was hoping for a patch that improved the wonky PSSR upscaling on Pro, which doesn't seem to be referenced in the patch notes.

@ShogunRok @Max_the_German Yeah, I was about to say that I thought B1 was considered one of the best in the series. Robert, are you perhaps thinking of Battlefield V? Or is there some statistic that I'm not aware of?

@nessisonett Yeah, the coop had a lot of promise, but ultimately fell short. From what I remember, those missions just got way too hard and in many cases couldn't even be attempted without a party of four. That said, the parkour is second to none in the series.

@nessisonett I'll be booting it up tonight! I got it installed last night and played through the tutorial. Glad you've been enjoying. Pretty happy to about the 4K addition, too. I wonder if anyone will do a side-by-side of the built in PS5 Pro upscaler of PS4 games pre-patch and the native 4K post-patch.

Here's hoping Unity is up next! Would absolutely love an FPS and resolution bump (900p yuck!) for that too.

@DrClayman @Oram77 You're both wrong. AC Origins is the GOAT! 😛

I would love the big publishers, like Sony, to create indie-style publishing arms and use them as testing grounds for novel, out-of-the-box ideas in the A and AA space. Treat this publishing wing almost like the way sports leagues have farm teams: cultivate and nurture talent and, if they prove themselves, pull them into the big leagues and give them a bigger budget.

Sony kinda does this already with their China, India, and MENA Hero projects.

There should be a "Best DLC" category. Seems really stupid to have DLC in the running for Best Game. It even felt weird when Blood & Wine won best RPG, back in the day. If you can't play the DLC as a standalone, it shouldn't be considered a full "game."

@NapoleonDynamite If any of those games should be associated with ass, I think Stellar Blade would be more appropriate

@NapoleonDynamite Them's fightin' words.

@ECharles A good mix of games, can't go wrong with any of them! If you're using the awards shows as a means to find new games, then I can definitely see the utility in that.

@ECharles There doesn't seem to be a standardization from year to year, in terms of categories or which games should be considered for a category. It makes it hard to find value when the parameters don't feel consistent. For example, last year, Cyberpunk 2077, which is a single-player RPG, won "Best Ongoing Game." Also, last year, it felt like they really deemphasized the awards in favor of more trailers. So many winners felt like they were announced as an afterthought.

If you're looking for meaningful awards in the Video Game industry, I'd put more stock in the DICE awards, which are voted on by folks within the industry itself, rather than influencers and the public.

Best Ongoing Game award goes to... Assassin's Creed Shadows! Because development is ongoing!

@PerpetualBoredom Well, I did say that first bit and only agree with part of the second. They have all rights to try, but not necessarily to succeed. Unions are made of people, so are not inherently correct when an argument is made. As I said, I'm for collective bargaining as a principle, but if the coverage of the strikes is fairly accurate and the main complaint is mandating a removal of WFH allowances as the norm, then I think the employees don't have a solid argument to strike. None of us have all the facts, but looking to your comment #49, if the crux of the issue is WFH, I don't find that exploitative. Employees certainly have a right to argue for better working conditions, but companies also have a right to set what they consider the culture of the workplace and to not be wasteful in their resources. If a company thinks their employees are more productive in the office, then I think it's reasonable to ask their employees to return to office work.

I'm very pro collective-bargaining, but I can't say I feel much sympathy for people striking over the rescinding of WFH allowances. Better pay and better benefits? Yes. Better work/life balance? Yes. WFH? Sorry, don't care.

I'm sure there's more to the union's bargaining than WFH mandates, but the fact that that's what's driving the news cycle for this is pretty silly, in my opinion.

@chasimus @Matthewnh I'm actually kind of hoping he doesn't try to imitate Reddick and just finds his own way based on the character on the page. It would also be a pretty ballsy move to change the appearance to more closely match Russ's. I get that Sylens was modelled after Reddick and his mannerisms are tied in there, but if you can't replace him, then why try? It certainly wouldn't be the first time an actor was replaced after a death and then the character was altered to more closely align with the new one. I'm thinking Dumbledore in the HP movies, as an example.

To me, it's more problematic to leave the appearance of Sylens unaltered. It would feel like Sony was pulling a bait-and-switch and unintentionally insinuating that we don't actually need Lance Reddick to have Lance Reddick in a game.

Not gonna lie, this actually looks super cool. I'm a huge sucker for historical fiction and the eldritch themes are just icing on the cake.

I love Tim Russ! Tuvok for the win! He's a pretty prolific voice actor too, so I think this is a great fit.

@NEStalgia I got the PS5 Pro and am very happy with my purchase, but you're not wrong. The changes for the majority of the games that have a Pro patch are incremental, at best. There are some standouts, like Hogwarts, FF VII Rebirth, and the Crew, but most can essentially be distilled down to "Fidelity mode at 60fps."

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Oh, I totally get it! I'm just saying that PS probably makes money off ads and clicks, so more articles = more ads and more clicks. If there's no other news going on to write articles about, they need to fill the site with something. Not ideal, but here we are...

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I really think there's just not that much else to talk about at the moment. No big game releases imminent, no new game announcements, still a month away from the Game Awards. If not the Pro, what do you think PS should write about right now?

@LogicStrikesAgain Haha, oh I totally get it. Unfortunately, there's more of an incentive to provide these nice, definitive updates to shareholders, rather than customers. Us customers have to deal with the wishy washy, non-committal updates from Herman.

@LogicStrikesAgain He's already got a better job, haha. He's president of Sony!

Just waiting on the UPS driver!

What awesome news!!! So happy to hear Xbox owners can play this weird, art-house, fantastic game.

@djlard @Kidfunkadelic83 they don't make the news, they just report it!

I played the remaster all weekend and I love it! Such a huge leap in graphical fidelity to the original. Does the original still look beautiful? Yes! Does the remaster look way better? Yes!

@get2sammyb @LiamCroft Makes sense, thanks fellas!

@themightyant I actually just checked the source article on PlayStation Blog and this is just a "sampling" of the 50+ games available on Nov 7 with Pro patches, so that explains some of the omissions.

@LiamCroft Shouldn't Lords of the Fallen be on this list? Or is that not day 1?

@GamingFan4Lyf Let me be clear - I don't like that Sony closed the studio. They had already sunk a lot of resources into acquiring them. That said, Concord is one of if not the biggest commercial gaming bombs in history. The brand of that studio is now tainted in a way that I don't think can be recovered. If they hadn't closed the studio, the next game they put out would be from the makers of the biggest fail in the industry. Equating that failure to cancelled projects doesn't compute. This title was released and no one cared.

However, buying the studio from another publisher (who, by the way, has cancelled virtually every other game in their pipeline) and then closing the studio because the studio did not hold up their end of the deal by making a marketable and profitable game is in no way an example of monopolization. It just doesn't make any sense.

Your argument that this suit is valid just because people need to be critical of Sony also doesn't make any sense. By making bogus claims and criticism, you devalue valid ones. It's the man who cried wolf.

@GamingFan4Lyf Yeah, because Naughty Dog has a long history of successful products. Firewalk has... let me do the math... none.

@GamingFan4Lyf Or maybe they closed Firewalk because they spent considerable time and money on a product that bombed harder than the Manhattan Project...

@McTwist MW3 2023 might be worth a look. It may have started with just MW2 2009 remake maps at start, but in conjunction with a bunch of MW2 2022 maps that were brought forward and post-launch original maps, there are like 50 different MP maps on rotation and most are really solid.

I've been back in the office since 2021 and haven't complained, so forgive me for not having a ton of sympathy for QA testers on strike at the end of 2024.

If you want to work from home, find a job that lets you do it. Otherwise, go to the office and get back to work. No one is forcing these people to work at this specific job.

Sony could have very easily made the form factor work with the Slim plates. This was a deliberate choice and smells like more nickel-and-diming by Sony.

Pay extra for disc drive, pay extra for vertical stand, pay extra for new plates...

I pre-ordered the Pro, but they won't be seeing any money from me for these things. I'll stick with the white plates, thanks very much.

@Casco I started on the other side, but the more I've seen of Veilguard, the less interested I've become, which is a bummer for me, since I actually really enjoyed the first three games.

I'm sure I'll get to it eventually, but I'm just not feeling particularly moved to buy it at full price and at launch.

Sorry, Dragon Age. Between $10 and $70, I know what I'm playing tomorrow...

@Rich33 Interesting. I was under the impression that Sony had certain criteria for developers if they wanted to get the "PS5 Pro Enhanced" moniker, but didn't mandate that there be a PS5 Pro patch for every release. Maybe things changed?

@get2sammyb Hopefully, there will be some sort of deep-dive exposé in the future on what exactly happened here. Something for the history books!

@get2sammyb I mean, it's a nice marketing beat for developers, but there's no real requirement for all future games to support the Pro, right?

@Member_the_game they're permanent

I would love to see stuff like this happen. Even if these projects were released under a "fan" umbrella or label, ensuring that Sony isn't held "responsible" for potentially sub-par products, it would allow passionate developers a chance work with an IP they love.

Edit: Even if Sony ultimately chose not to release whatever these folks work on, it would be a really cool opportunity to incubate novel ideas. Seed money, baby!

@colonelkilgore I'm pretty sure that's the default for PS4 to PS5 ports, remasters, etc. The backend treats PS4 and PS5 versions of games as completely separate, even for games when both versions are released at the same time.

Can't wait to boot this up on my Pro. I'm getting together a list of the first games to play, when it arrives. Currently: HZD, Lies of P, Hogwarts, Ratchet & Clank

@Mostik I've actually seen it! It kinda tailed off in quality towards the end, but the first couple seasons were super solid. I thought both Reddick and John Noble were great in the show.

I've been watching the Wire recently and have been reminded what a truly fantastic actor he was. A true loss.

CoD always has to walk this incredibly fine line between entertainment and commentary. While they are obviously creating these Michael Bay-style products for entertainment, war is the most political act in the world, so there's no way to not piss people off when you base the game around real-world events.

It's pretty great, all around. The only thing I wish is the ability to have two different storage tiles visible (one for each SSD) at a glance without needing to tab through them.

@Fyz306903 I would also assume "young" means a Bond in his 20s. I wish more people understood that Bond was a book series first and a film series second. The fact that the game isn't retelling a movie doesn't preclude them using stories from the books (which are way better, in my opinion) and I actually think might translate much better to games than the films. In the books, you get a peak into Bond's internal thoughts, which is something you never get in the films, and could be really cool to explore in a game.

I also would love the game to be set contemporaneously with the books (1950s-1960s), but I don't have a ton of hope for that.