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Quite honestly, the biggest uproars I've seen about video games have come form gamers themselves, and with far more frequency. Some of what you described was back in the 80's and early 90's honestly was kind of justified back then because the ratings system didn't exist and video games were still marketed as kid's toys, not the age-rated, entertainment medium that they are today. If today something was marketed as a family film, TV show or why not, a game that featured the kind of violence Mortal Kombat had, I think parents would be justified in being upset and angry about it. As people who grew up with it, we know it was harmless fun, but the concerns expressed at the time, whilst extreme, I'd say were mostly fair. Now though, with the ratings systems and regulation in place, if Mummy Karen was to notice little Jimmy getting a lapdance or blowing somebody's head off while playing GTA5, she has nobody to blame but herself. I will agree with you the whole devil worship thing was complete nonsense. Onto the uproars from games. Sometimes they are justified, like the backlash that faced Battlefront 2 and it's horrendous monetisation or companies like Ubisoft and Activision/Blizzard have got over the abuse suffered buy thier employees. Destroying fun for greed or producing games at he expernce of the physical and metal health of employees is never justified. I would burn all of my favourite games out of existence, like The Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West, C&C Red Alert 2, Dungeon Keeper, Skyrim, Fallout, Final Fantasy, Tales of Berseria, all of then if people didn't have to suffer to make them. Expecting people to work hard and be productive and dedicated is one thing, but abuse is quite another. Other times they are at least as ridiculous as some of the things you described. Like the TLOU2 when people who choose to view the leaks, and thus likely had no intention of playing the game anyway, review bombed the game for having "trans" in it. Or Battlefield V. LOTS of good reasons to hate on that franchise and the companies behind it, but putting a woman on the cover because "Woman didn't fight in WW2" (When they did) whilst ignoring the fact that same woman was wearing a prosthetic limb well beyond 1940's technology was apparently OK. In the end, uproars are mass expressions of an extreme point of view, and extremes in points of view rarely represent the logical truth and the approach to a beneficial outcome. They can draw attention to something wrong and even start progress towards something better, but without filtering them though a process of rational, impartial discussion and civilised debate, it is likely to just make a problem worse.

I'd like think that now EA can't use the FIFA name and it's copyright protected assets that they might actually put some damb effort into this franchise for a change, but until another company starts making the official FIFA games, EA FC remains as the mainstream monopoly of these genre, so it's going to be the same shit. The best I'll expect from EA on this game is them actually changing the all the logos and banners that appear in the game and nit show the ones from last year because they were either too lazy or incompetent to change them. I'm not joking, that has happened in the past. But back to the point, it'll be the same half-assed, copy-paste, reheated leftovers from last year with the same egregious microtransactions and monotisation.

They are both fantastic games, you're in for a treat.

Have you posted this somewhare before? I swear I've seen this before... Regardless, looks interesting but a concept/idea is one thing, what actually comes out of it if the idea is developed into an actual game can change considerably for a number of reasons, and in this case I do see difficulty balance being a big potential issue.

Gravity Rush 2 and Sunset Overdrive are both phenomenal games that deserved way more success than they got. Gravity Rush 2 in particular is one of my favourite games on PS4. I've always been interested in Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, but never got round to buying. Maybe I need to change that...

You can play the original PS1 classic on your web browser at this link. Credit to PushSquare and Thier article for brining this to my attention. That's really all I had to say. I just wanted to share this. Enjoy!

There were a smattering of G.I. Joe video games on home console and arcades in the 80's and early 90's, but in more recent years there has only really been two. G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009). A licenced tie-in (Although technically a canonised sequel) to the movie of the same name, and was received about as well. Then only two an a half years ago, there was G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout, third person shooter that, as far as I can tell, the entire world on every platform agrees to be "meh". Painfully average. Can't say I'm surprised, though. For obvious reasons G.I. Joe has never been very popular outside the US, so would never have the same kind of support a more internationally recognizable franchise would. And let's be honest, it would be wrong to expect much from something that, in the end, is based on toys from the 60's turned into the 80'iest of 80's cartoons.

More information has been coming out about these ports of RDR coming to PS4 and Switch and it not's not good. For a start, they are posts of the game that was on XB360. Not a remaster, not a remake, just a straight port with no enhancements other than the game running at 1080p on the PS4 and the Switch in docked mode. So even on the PS5, it won't run at 4K. Also, because it's just a straight port of a 7nth gen game, its 30fps across the board. And for this, they want $50. Rockstar and Take Two can go shove one of them 13 year old digital cactuses up thier ass! No wonder they aren't brining this to the Xbox Series X/S as you can already play that game on that hardware through Xbox's backwards compatibility, and at 1440p on the Series S 4K on the Series X! You literally buy RDR GOTY with all the DLC and multiplayer for XB1 for nearly half the price of this bullshit port with more content and enhancements right now. Yes, it's still 30fps, but it's better than what this "new" version is offering. This is a shitshow and the fans deserve better than this.

Honestly, I don't get why so many people are just not noticing how many single player games have been coming out, especially this year. Hogwarts Legacy, Forspoken, Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, Zelda: TOTK, Atomic Heart, Hi-Fi Rush, Dead Island 2, Remnant 2, Final Fantasy XVI, Baldur's Gate 3, Spiderman 2 and with big hitters life Life of Pi, Robocop and Starfield still to come. That's just to name a few. Most of the popular live service multiplayer games right now have been out for a while with more recent games not doing that well.

I sympathize with you in this situation, I really do, but posting about it like this can't exactly be helpful in avoiding this person tracking you here. Don't draw attention to yourself with this. The last thing any of us want is this person stalking and harrasing you on VGR. If he does show up, he will be dealt with, but please stop poking the bear. Thread locked.

This Web3, NFT stuff is just not something I'm interested in I'm afraid, but congratulations on this launch and the very best of luck with your game.

I'm in the same boat as @Reality vs Adventure and am pretty much a solo gamer these days, so would obviously want that to be more of a focus to game publisher/developers. However, trying to think outwardly rather of just myself and online multiplayer obviously has mass appeal, and there is nothing with that. However, I don't think the situation now is as bad as it was a few years ago when companies like EA were trying to claim single player games were dead in a pitiful effort to make them dead to the public when that clearly wasn't the case. A lot of great single player games are still being made and a lot of them, like Hogwarts Legacy The Last of Us and just recently Baldur's Gate 3 have been massively successful. I would like to see games offer quality in both multiplayer and single player as well, and it's in THAT area we're in a bit of a slump. For some reason game dev's/publishers can deliver good games dedicated to one or the other, but not both in the same package recently. This could be for a number of reasons; Game dev's aren't getting the resources and time they need to make games that offer both single player and multiplayer options. Game dev's themselves are spending to much time working only on one or the other because that studio is specialised and thus are not developing the wider range of skills they would need to make games that offer both single and multiplayer options. It could be sheer incompetence and laziness. Or it could be like @Reality vs Adventure said and publishers can't help themselves, thus detract focus from single player in these types of games and pull resources to focus of the potentially more lucrative multiplayer options and microtransactions. It's not there aren't games that have had both done well, like Titanfall 2, COD MW, Halo, Gears of War and Bioshock 2. Even The Last of Us and The Last of Us Remastered when they first came out had Factions, a fantastic multiplayer mode, but Naughty Dog and Sony have long since abandoned it. However, it feels like its been ages since we had a really good game like that and they are sadly missed.

I just want to point out that you don't need to use BB code on this forum. The UI for posts include word processing tools, including an italics tool. You can find these tools at the top of the space whare you type your posts and messages.

It's been a long time since I played these games, but I feel you can just jump right into Second Son and be fine.

Important Announcement It has been announced that on September 1st 2023 Xbox Games with Gold is coming to an end and will be dissolved into Xbox Gamepass as a new, starter tier called Xbox Gamepass Core. Current Xbox Live Gold members will be added to this new tier of Gamepass automatically. Full story from Gamespot. When this change occurs, this thread meant to keep VGR members up to date with the latest offerings through Games with Gold will become obsolete. There is really two options to choose from when it comes to moving forward. Reorganise this thread into a Gamepass Update thread. Retire and lock the thread. Having considered these options and consulted with my fellow staff members, I have decided to retire and lock this thread once this new service goes live. Trying maintain this thread as a Gamepass thread in such a way that is is useful would be laborious and time consuming. Xbox Gamepass user's receive updates on what is happening with the service that I don't think that a Gamepass Update thread would be worth the considerable effort that it would take to keep it up to date. If there is enough support from VGR members to have a Gamepass thread, I will of course make it so. Please share your thoughts on this in the replies.

And @LeoGrun, I need you to stop poking fun at @CawayGeway. Yes, even I and my fellow moderator @The Blackangel had a little fun with this at first and your posts have made me chuckle, but this has evolved from something comically odd to something more concerning, so please stop.

First, @CawayGeway, it is very important that you do NOT like this post. I will explain why further down, but do NOT like this post. For me, it's becoming evident that @CawayGeway doesn't understand what people are saying on this thread, so I'm locking this. If @CawayGeway cannot communicate, there is no point in keeping this thread open. And @CawayGeway, you need to convince me that you are able to understand what people are saying. I know that English is not a first language for you, but if can't understand the posts from other members and if they cannot understand you, there is no point in you being a member of VGR. Please help me to help you and tell me what languages you do understand and tell me how I can help. Please send this information to me via private message as soon as possible. You can send private messages to me by clicking on my avatar... Then click on this icon on my profile. From there, you can type a message to me. As a test to see if you do understand, I am instructing you to NOT "like" this post. If you do "like" this post, I will assume you cannot understand and will have to recommend you be banned from the forum for your own sake. I tell you again, do NOT like this post. I do not know how I can make that any clearer, so please follow my instructions.

OK, I know that me and others have had a little fun here, but it's time to get serious. I think I speak for all of us when I say we have no idea what it is you're talking about. Birds using laptops? Are we supposed to be taking this seriously? There must be something getting lost in translation here. There is no way you're trying make a serious point about birds using laptops. I understand that English is not a language you speak day to day and we want he help as best we can, but if we cannot understand you and you don't ask for help, then I may have no choice but to lock this thread.

I actually think you have an understanding of your priorities when it come to your options pretty nailed down. Exclusives are the most important thing. It's a shame we don't have foresight over what the XBox Series S/X and PS5 will offer in 5-10 years time, so all you can really do is make your judgement based on what being offered now and in the neer future. If Starfield is too important too ignore, than going the Xbox is totally understandable, but if you buy into a platform for the sake of one game, you might regret it, especially if that game will have a long shelf live witch seems likely for Starfield given how Bethesda's single player games tend to go.

Well, that was interesting... (Sorry about the lack of an embed, this is from F1's official YouTube Channel, it is what it is) This new rule they're trailing has certainly shaken things up a bit. I'm still unsure how I feel about it, but I'm not ready to dismiss it quite yet either. I feel for George Russel, he's clearly out of place in 18nth, but delighted for Lewis Hamilton for pulling that one out the bag. Given that the even numbers start on the inside of the track, the dirty side, I think Max Verstappen has more to worry about from Lando Norris in third than Lewis Hamilton has to Worry about Max Verstappen in second. If max does have a weakness as a driver, I'd say it is his starts, so the start of tomorrow's race is going to interesting.

Wow, it looks if we'd just get "Murder by Numbers" this week, but Epic has squeezed in The Elder Scrolls Online at the last minute. Well, If any of you here at VGR want to clan up, let me know.

I didn't play on a PlayStation until the PS2 came out. As for the first game I played on it, I'm not exactly sure. I think it was Final Fantasy X, but it might have been something else.

I just came back to this thread to find that video I embedded in the opening post, witch was the official trailer for "The Last Hope" from the developer's YouTube channel, has been nuked via copyright claim by Sony Interactive Entertainment! Well done, Sony, Right on! I'm editing the original post so the video displayed will now be the review of the game from Digital Foundry instead, I just wanted to have this post here as a record that this glorious moment actually happened.

There is no way red Bull would be allowed to share designs, parts or staff with AlphaTauri. Like you said, it wouldn't make sense to see these two teams "book-end" the grid if they were allowed that. The two teams are both owned by the same conglomerate, that being Red Bull GmbH, but make no mistake about it they are separate teams in competition with each other, just like the rest of the grid. The, let's say, business politics between the two would make moving Daniel Riccardo from the Red Bull reserve driver position into the AlphaTauri car a little simpler, but such trades of drivers are perfectly possible between all the teams.