I disagree. It certainly does in many ways, but the game is way too easy and the handholding is through the roof in the sequel. Not only does it give you more tools to solve a simpler version of the same problems, but it even bails you out in most cases where you actually make a mistake. It makes me wonder why there even are 4 difficulty levels, since the highest one already feels like easy mode.
I was hoping they'd go in the opposite direction and make the game more di...
It's crazy this even has to be pointed out, considering that's how physical media has worked on other consoles for 2 generations at this point.
You can buy the CE and the physical game seperately and get both delivered on release date. Frankly the production and packaging issue is far from unsolvable by itself, but if they don't want to bother putting the game inside the packaging of the collector's box, they could just treat them as a bundle purchase and solve it that way or just sell the collectors items at a lower price, independently from the game, so people could decide for themselves whether they want the physical or di...
Unfortunately a lot of people don't seem to understand how to vote with their wallets, which is why we'll keep seeing more of these.
I've seen quite a lot of people who complain about the lack of a disc in the CE and many more about the 2 day early access for the digital-only special edition of Death Stranding 2, only to take the bait and fork out the money anyway.
Your complaints don't matter if you end up buying the product anyway. The...
The PS5 is power-limited, so it's just a coincidence that this is happening during DS2. Any console that overheats during DS2, would also overheat during many other demanding games. This is probably happening because it's summer and a ton of people are playing DS2 right now. The raised ambient temperature is enough to push a subset of consoles that either have dust-buildup, blocking airflow or a liquid metal dry-spot on the APU over the edge.
Tacoboto, one of the dumbest arguments people like yourself are constantly making on the internet is arbitrarily grouping people together and treat them like an individual to call out some supposed hyporcrisy. How do you take a quote from my comment that specifically points to a standard I've set for myself, and then try to counter it by pointing at something that has nothing to do with me at all? I'm responsible for my own actions, not for the actions of others.
@Tacoboto: You do realize that there is a large overlap between the people complaining about the issue you're mentioning and the one I'm talking about?
Of course at some point if there is no other option, most people won't stop gaming and just take what they can get, such as in the case of the optional disc drive for example, but just because people are forced to relunctantly accept a one time online activation of a disc drive, doesn't mean they should accep...
Yeah it's 2025, which is why it's surprising to me that the actual issue still has to be explained considering these kind of discussions have been happening for a good decade at this point.
It's not about the disc. Maybe it is for collectors, but for most people it's about ownership. Discs just happen to be the only way to get offline decentralized DRM management on console. Unless there is a digital alternative that doesn't use expiring licenses that re...
If you're gonna charge a higher price at least put the damn game on disc instead of releasing a boxed download code.
He's just warning people that the trailer will contain a ton of spoilers, as launch trailers typically do.
They know it's gonna cost them sales of the inevitable Remake that'll probably come around the PS6 launch.
Expecting a 12-15h game to be $45 is part of the problem. These games don't sell well at full price anymore and relatively speaking it takes a lot fewer resources to stretch it into a 30-40 hour game that can be sold for full price.
We can complain about padding all we want, but most people simply pay more for padded games.
How hard can it be to simply port the PS3 collections and Ascension over and bundle them all together with the God of War III PS4 port? Sony has multiple studios that specialize in that kind of work and yet significant parts of their back-catalog remain unaccessible on current gen consoles, because of Sony's stupid 'Remake-or-nothing" philosophy.
Digital-download for collector's editions still seem strange to me.
Two days early accesss is also stupid. The game will be done and the day-0 patch will most likely be out by that point. It's just artificially delaying the proper launch to entice people to buy the more expensive versions.
I was planning to avoid social media for a couple weeks anyway, but I bet there will be plenty of spoilers, before most people even got their hands on the gam...
@Christopher: Why make a PS6 when they can remaster the PS5?
I just hope it's Bluepoint and not SSM. Frankly a simple port of the existing PS3 collections and Ascension would be all that's needed, but apparently Sony has forgotten that that's an option. If it has to be a Remake, let Bluepoint handle it. They'll be much more conservative with it.
They're gonna offer a disc drive, if just for backwards compatibility reasons, but it'll probably be very overpriced to push people into the digital-only space (which is kind of what we're already seeing). The physical sales sector will further shrink as a result of that. Depending how much of the physical market is left after that, more and more publishers might decide to forego physical releases over time, especially with no new optical media standard to catch up to the rising g...
Microsoft are effectively killing off their console brand. Don't expect them to put a ton of R&D budget into next-gen hardware.
If they're making another Xbox, you're probably gonna get something that's closer to a pre-built PC with an Xbox logo on it. Using off-the-shelf parts, running a limited version of windows in a fancy custom case.
If they're still naive enough to put their hope into Gamepass growth, they might still want to...
It doesn't have the same performance as the 4090. Not even close. Don't fall for Jensens marketing nonsense. It uses 4x frame generation to get there which the 40 series doesn't have. Multi Frame generation significantly inflates frame rate, but doesn't increase performance. It just smothes the motion, which may be great if you have a 360Hz (or more) monitor, but really not that useful at lower frame rates.
Nvidia has one benchmark on their website without D...
Agreed, Reunion is the best option by far. It fits perfectly.