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I think that was the plan for the likes of Crash Bandicoot or possibly Lara Croft back in the early days of PlayStation, but I think the system has kind of grown past that now. PS has its own away of exclusive IP's and with many iconic characters, but I don't think they need an answer to Master Chief, Sonic or Mario any more, if they did at all.

I'm not gonna lie, I'm angry. To reiterate what I said in the OP for the one of the games OTHER delays, It's always better to delay a game than have it come out busted, so the delay is not what I'm angry about. I'm angry that game companies think it's OK to announce release dates and start taking in pre-orders well before they know the game will meet that schedule. I don't care how much everyone loves CDPR, make no mistake about it, this happened because of greed. CDPR wanted to cash in on pre-orders, to make money from a game they hadn't released. This is exactly why companies like EA and Activision want you so badly to pro-order their games. There's no way in my mind that Covid-19 and other, unexpected external circumstance can account for all the missed release dates for Cyberpunk 2077. Clearly this game was never going to be ready for its original announced release date back in April... and the other two. And you know what, don't be shocked if the have to push back the December date as well. (Credit to IGN for the pick) Having said that, It's still never OK to send death threats to developers over anything. It's counterproductive because it drowns out legitimate complaints and it's pointless because we all know those pathetic, keyboard warrior cowards would never actually go through with it anyway. More than anything, more any scummy business practices, more than cheating, that needs to stop in gaming immediately.

It turns out my PS4 downloaded the update before I had a chance to stop it and there are definitely issues with friends lists and loading of the PS4's indigenous apps like TV and Video, PS Now and The PSN store. They work, but rarely load properly the first time. I've always hated the way that the PS4 (and other modern devices) hold features hostage the way they do unless you have the latest updates. I know it's frustrating, but to have the features be faulty and temperamental has got to be better than not being able to access them at all. My advice would be to just let the machine download the update and hope Sony fixes this soon. EDIT: Just an example. Got a spam message as I'm sure most people do, tried to load the offending profile to block them and after several minutes of loading, this is what I got...

You can mod Skyrim without including cheats pretty easily, it's mostly graphical enhancements, bug fixes, gameplay improvements and additional in-game content. I completely understand why someone would want to beat the game in its vanilla state first, I'm the same in that regard. Modding be complicated and seems daunting at first, but there's lots of guides and helpful people who can help you get to grips with it. Our resident tech guru @Crazycrab, despite smelling like stagnant choral muck, is one of the best people I know to help you get started.

A polite reminder to you both, but especially @skyfireas the one who first derailed the topic, that this is not a topic about social politics. Please stick to the matter at hand.

The best place to play Skyrim given the choice will always be PC. The variety and availability of mods you can have on PC that you can't on other platforms is staggering. The Switch is a cool place to play the game because it's a portable console, but still PC all the way.

OK, who went down on whom to convince T3 to print that article? I can't even get past the headline without laughing.

Locking this thread as this topic can be discussed just and easily on this thread, an entire new topic just isn't required. Please use the search feature to see if similar topics already exist.

One of the best I encountered was Dragons Dogma and it pretty much let you customize everything. Facial details, hair, tattoos, scars, gender, height, weight, apparent age, many of which even has gameplay effects. I haven't really seen a system like that before or since and it's an example worth following. Cyberpunk sounds like it might be the one to present a new lever of customization to the concept, allowing the customization of apparently everything, including one's... eh, you know... junk.

The PS2 is a great shout. So many great games and I feel I was the perfect age at the time to really get into it.

My nominee is @Reality vs Adventure. Insightful, compelling, well-thought-out content and, after an unfortunate few differences, has shown a fresh and bright attitude. Well worthy for MOTM.

Oh, fanboys! FUCKING FANBOYS! Oh how I HATE thee! I wish o could create a pill to turn these fanatics sworn to idiocy into rational, human beings. Failing that, just ship them to a island whare than only interact with other fanboys, bot digitally and in reality, and leave the rest of us to enjoy our hobbys and our passions in peace. Don'tget me wrong, I love opinions. I love having them, I love hearing them and most of all I love learning from them. Seeing another perspective and way of thinking through the free exchange of information is wonderful and even essential. Fanboys, however, are not interested in any of that. Seeing someone either blindly defending or a attacking in the name a certain brand, product or coperate entity that doesn't care if said individual died tomorrow annoys me to the extreme. I mean I usually find myself getting more hyped up for what PlayStation has coming as opposed to Xbox, but that's because what PlayStation tends to offer fits me better, but dose that mean I'm gonna take up arms for Sony when the do something stupid? No! If you consider yourself a true fan of something, you'll expect and even demand the very best of of whatever it is, not accept and defend it when they get something obviously wrong.

I tried it and the grind doesn't seem too bad, you level up pretty quickly, although item level could become an issue. The lootboxs are iffy because they do contain gameplay altering items, and that's irritating, but the gameplay is sold, the games good and runs very well.

Venom (2018) on Netflix. Couldn't be bothered playing a game so gave this a go, and I want that time back. Good Things; Tom Hardy's performance as Eddie Brock was solid. Showed great imagination and looked invested in the role. Vemon's design was creative, looked animated and fluent, but still reflected the comic well. Eddie Brock and Venom's inner dialogue was funny at times and made me giggle. The rest. The plot had various gears in its pacing and the characters were very forgettable. The story wasn't interesting and was just a copy/paste of so many superhero and anti-hero stories. The supporting actors looked desperate to clock out the and special effects weren't that impressive. Action was mediocre at best and just tried to be more violent (but still not at all gory or bloody) than other MCU movies rather than more exiting and fun to watch. The worst thing is though is those complaints and others also apply to Venom himself. His motivations somehow managed to be both overly simplistic, yet very poorly explained all at the same time. The plans that Venom's people have to destroy the world, because of course that's the motive, nothing more, don't actually make sense given that it was human involvement that created the opportunity through people capturing members of the alien race that includes venom to actually allow the opportunity at all. Then, with the click of a finger, he changes his mind. No explanation other than "Eddie changed his mind". That's it. This was pure Hollywood fodder that could have been so much more. 3/10

There's good reason to believe my fears are coming true. According to Xbox CEO Phil Spencer, Microsoft do not need to bring future Bethesda titles to other platforms to make this $7.5Billion deal work for them. PC Gamer Article. This likely means The Elder Scrolls VI and other future Bethesda titles will be Xbox Brand Exclusives. When Sony turned Spiderman into a PlayStation exclusive, I said at the time that whilst I understood how upset people were, I didn't mind it, because it was within Sony's rights as the owner of the IP, and that to make it exclusive made business sense. More importantly and as I expected, in the end, as exclusives tend to be on PlayStation, what we got as a phenomenal game devoid of the usual AAA bullshit. There are few people I hate more than a hypocrite and fully acknowledge how this is about to sound, but this feels different and I don't like it. Xbox has not had the same quality in its exclusive games as Nintendo and PlayStation in recent years. Even the big hitters, like Halo 5 and Forza, Microsoft could not help themselves and included a level of microtransactions and other nonsense that just simply don't appear in PlayStation or Nintendo exclusive games. Then there's Bethesda, it's not the same company that made Skyrim. With Skyrim, they were heroes on top of the world and have published some superb titles in the last few years (Like DOOM), but have taken a huge reputation hit when it comes to their own IP's with a decent, but still very flawed Fallout 4, a very poor early run for The Elder Scrolls Online and nothing short of a catastrophe with Fallout 76. Pair that with Xbox, and I'm a long way from convinced that this will be better for Bethesda's games as a publisher, but especially as a developer. Sony and Nintendo understand that a high quality with exclusive games is important to sell consoles, but I don't think that's Xbox's focus. They want Xbox to become, more than anything else, a gaming brand rather than a gaming console. I will find a way to play TES VI when it comes out I'm sure, so I'm not worried about that, but I'm still concerned about what this will do to the game. I just want them not to fuck this game up.

Another great topic, but also really belongs in Forum Games and Fun. Moved to the appropriate section.

Just for context, this is how my laptop looks after almost a year with mix of older games, smaller indie style games with a few bigger, newer games in there as well along with other files; Yeah, given the likely installation sizes of next gen games, I'd be upgrading storage sooner rather than later.

Great thread, but I am going to move it to Forum Games and Fun.

There was a time when video games were toys. From video games very earliest inceptions in very late 60's-early 70's all the way up to early-mid 90's calling them video games toys would have been accurate. Even companies like Nintendo and SEGA existed for decades as toy makers before they ever made a video game or a console. However, I believe it was around 1994-1995 is when it all changed and video were very suddenly not toys any more and for a very specific reason. Things like this stated to appear on game boxes; This is when video stopped being toys and became an entertainment medium alongside movies, TV shows, literature and music. And just like those other aspects of entertainment media, some is made for young children, some are made for adults and everyone in between. So, anyone who says "video games are for kids" are about 25 years out of sync. When you tell them video games are not toys, it's not you as a 20-30 something trying to justify a "juvenile" hobby, it's just the truth. Of course, it's always the same people who say "Video games are kids' toys" that also say "There's too much violence/sex/drugs" and so on in these games. Well Karen, if you let precious little Jimmy plays GTA and you get shocked and shaken at all the gun killing, naughty words and lap-dancing boobies, you've got nobody to blame but yourself and you lack of understanding. You wouldn't sit precious little Jimmy in front of a mature rated movie, you why let him play a mature rated video game?

A laptop screen isn't connected to the components of the laptop itself the same way a PC monitor is. There isn't a physical conversion interface, like HDMI. It's all connected, converted and processed directly through the machines internal circuitry, even an expert would barely know where to begin, not to mention you'll likely damage the laptop screen in the process anyway. If all you want is a 3rd screen to show windows, a discord tab or whatever non-gaming related task, a small, cheap monitor or cheap LCD TV would suffice. It wouldn't be very expensive and would be light enough to fit any wall if you wanted.

I appreciate this from Microsoft as real world video game stores have had a hard time in recent years. The huge increase digital sales and the efforts of certain AAA game publishers *cough, cough...EA...cough* to destroy the used games market, and would all but mean the end for stores like GameStop. Who would have though after seeing what Microsoft had originally tried to do with the Xbox One we'd be seeing this for the next generation. You have to give them credit, there does seem to be a genuine change in attitude from this company in reads to this.

Thanks for the warning. I'll be sure to avoid this update until this is resolved.

I wanna make something clear, I would never abuse my moderator powers, and this perfect opportunity is the proof. I would love so much to edit this topic title so the word "Snap" would become the word "Strap". Anyway, this is undeniably cool and some cleaver engineering went into it, but I'm just not convinced it's really that useful outside very specific games. Still, I'm not at all sad they this guy did this. Kudos to him.

Video games have a control choice and player input element that other entertainment media's lack, but even so nobody sane would confuse real life with something they see through a screen and sense, as well as interact with, through a control interface. Movies and TV shows have been photorealistic for decades because they are literally filmed, and have not had that effect. The concerns you express are exactly what certain groups and governments want you to believe, so they can keep using entertainment media as a scapegoat. With all due respect, it's ridiculous to believe that games, no matter how real they look, have that much power to influence.

There's a couple of games offered free a week. They vary in quality, genre, scale, purchase price and personal appeal, but's it is definably something Epic are doing right and there is some really good games offered. Project Storm 2: Vietnam is also free right now. As for ABZU, I haven't tried it yet, but knowing the developer and their other work, this isn't a game themed around action, challenge or role-play, it's about relaxation, therapy and captivating visuals to suit.