Shagger

A puzzle is something you approach with no immediate solution. One has to employ problem solving to find the way past it, but there is no skill involved, just logic. It's a test of the the mind In an obstacle coerce the way through is obvious, it's all bout having the reflexes and skill to make it through. That is a test of skill, not strategy or logic. So what is the difference between a puzzle and an obstacle course? In short, everything. I do recall the platforming puzzles in game like Tomb Raider and the relic ruins in Horizon: Forbidden West that do combines puzzle solving and platforming together (what I would call environmental puzzles or platforming puzzles), but those are a combination of those two different components into one mechanic. To me the idea of a "jump puzzle" just sounds like a stupid name for something that already exists.

I would never find myself in a position to have my pessimistic expectations for a game be justified because if I thought a game would be crap I wouldn't consider buying it in the first place.

Honestly, I don't know why they wouldn't just make up player names for EA Sports Collage football if they can't get every name and likeness licensed. I mean, who is going to check to see if "John Smith" really plays for the Cincinnati Bearcats?

I don't understand why you struggle with the idea of doing a quick search on the internet to find these things out for yourself. Yes, it's out, has been for about a week on Xbox Platforms and PC.

I would develop an opinion on this, but I'm paralyzed by not caring very much. Seriously though, this is actually interesting in that EA are full of shit. Clearly, this delay has nothing to do with trying to "meet or exceed our player expectations" or any form of quality control (You only need to look at Madden to know they couldn't care less about that), it's because collage athletes have them over a barrel when it come to licensing and I think that's fucking hilarious.

I sense a major case of retro-gouging is about to happen here. To me, they would be justified at selling this for the same price as an Xbox Series controller if it comes with the same features. From what I can see in the article, it does seem to be effectively a bang up to date controller with the 360 paint job with what looks like the same compatibly, Bluetooth wireless and USB-C charge port. I do like it, but I have no faith that they will sell it at a fair price.

We've already had a conversation over PM, but welcome to VGR. The channel looks promising.

Look again at the title of the thread; "What game do you struggle with that everyone claims is easy?" That's not what a souls game is to anyone because they're punishingly hard by design, like I said. It's also clear form what you've posted that is not what a souls game is to you either. You said your friends recommended the games to you, not that they claimed they were easy. Understand a topic before you comment on it. You have actually posted to this same topic several times already, so I don't understand why you get it.

The title of the thread is "What game do you struggle with that everyone claims is easy?". Setting aside my own personal distain for these types of game because I feel thier cheap, not hard, Soul's games and Souls likes are hard by design, it's all about the difficulty. There may not be any game or game series more inappropriate to discuss in this thread. You find them hard, but so does everyone, that's the whole point. In fact people are so obsessed with the difficulty in these games that they're completely blind to the games faults.

If this is PlayStation doing this only now, it's long overdue. The PS Store is not nearly as bad as Steam when it comes to shovelware, poor quality control and achievement farming games, but the fact that they have got these games on the store at all is bad enough. I mean, who went down on who for games like Life of Black Tiger to not only get on the PlayStation store, but be promoted on PlayStation's YouTube channel? Then there's Gilson B Pontes, does he have photos of Jim Ryan at an orgy or something? How else would he get his game onto PlayStation year after year?

I played the first two (Well, I think the first two) Thief games back in the day. They felt very advanced for thier day with how they looked and in particular the enemy AI. It's possible that they haven't aged all that well, but I haven't played them for some time. I haven't played the 2014 game, so I can't comment, but I remember not exactly impressing critics nor gamers much at the time.

The sequel Middle Earth: Shadow of War has actually been out for quite some time. Not sure if there's another game in the works.

Mine looks normal, it must be something to do with your settings either on the browser or on YouTube. You probably did so on purpose, but just in case you didn't, I should point out that the text in you post was also all in italic.

@Crazycrab and @Justin11 Enough. This is something to discuss on either the sports or the debate sub forum. Move the discussion off this thread or don't have it at all.

How did my life bring me to a point whare I'm even being asked that question?

It's fine to have high hopes for this as it's the same film company that took Power Rangers and turned it into something that wasn't shit.

@Justin11, I don't get you. OBVIOUSLY they violated Xbox's terms and conditions, otherwise they wouldn't be banned. That's like pondering if somebody got banned from driving for violating driving laws. Just so you know, It's not okay to kill people, because that would violate laws about killing people. What you do is state, or re-state, the blatantly obvious because a comment with any indigenous thought or personality would be more effort than it's worth and it's annoying. If you have nothing to say, then why not say nothing? This for reference, this is what a comment that has had thought and care put into it looks like. Whether or not all the suspended accounts should have been banned comes down to looking at individual circumstance, but don't expect anyone who were banned for using slurs or harassing anyone to get any sympathy from me. Anyone reading this thread who has played on Xbox live, played games online or simply read thier community standards or just behave like a civilised human being on Xbox live will know the minimum standard expected is and wouldn't trip over the line by accident. Xbox live is full of petulant cowards who think that the screen they stare though would hide them form the consequences of what they say. So good on you Xbox, keep it up. Now, if people do get banned for nothing, I would take up my pitchfork and torch and fight for them, I really would, but they will be in the vast minority of those 4.78 million accounts.

Flower. The game my better half finished (who is not a gamer) and I didn't. Meant to be a fully therapeutic and relaxing experience It really says something about what it's like to live with me... This game has literally no challenge and no story, but the task is meant to empty your mind to achieve pure ambiance and a feeling of pure peace. (Full disclaimer, we both played this game on PS3, but PS3 footage because of the way the copyright protection worked on that console looks like shit these days, so this is from somebody else's PS4 playthrough I found on YouTube)

If it's for racial and/or homophobic slurs, it's not nearly enough. Honestly, I think the amount of "accidental" bans will be at a minimum if you are in tune with reality. Calling somebody a "fa**ot", a "ni**er" or whatever is not any more more OK online than it is in real life. Nor is is OK for people to make inappropriate comments that we all happen the time toward girls and woman online that are sexual in nature. If you're not mature enough of play games online with a mature attitude, you're not old enough to play games online. And if you're in you 30's or +, that's just makes it more embarrassing for you. Grow. The. Fuck. Up.

I wouldn't reed too much into this. Companies file patents to prepare for "maybe's" in the market all time with no definite intent to actually do anything with them. NFT's have already gone out of fashion and Sony know that. If I were Sony, I would have patented tech to take advantage of the trend as well just in case they the turned out not to be wasteful, flash-in-the-pan, unsustainable fad that they they were. And I say that in the past tense proudly because the are dead. NFT's are dead, Sony know that, all they were doing is covering thier bases. No reason to panic.

What, Lapin? As in Rabbit (In French)? OK, apparently so... To be fair, it looks decent.

I agree. If you're not invested in the story enough that you want to watch the cut scenes, it's probably not that great of a story.

Because game streaming is the future, like it or not, I really doubt a major company is going to throw thier hat into the ring and come out with a new console now, it's just not worth it.