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  • Armoured_Bear 19 Aug 2019 23:32:42 31,233 posts
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    Derblington wrote:
    Because it’s come up during the show I’ll mention it here - Sony are buying Insomniac.
    Good acquisition, and not really unexpected.
    Yeah, solid studio and Sony should just let them get on with it.
  • Armoured_Bear 19 Aug 2019 23:33:16 31,233 posts
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    Looking forward to the Yakuza 3 confirmation, hopefully 3,4 and 5.
  • Nitrous 20 Aug 2019 06:44:15 2,295 posts
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    Anyone tried that new Erica game out now on the PSN? I usually like these interactive type games.
  • Frogofdoom 20 Aug 2019 07:05:29 17,973 posts
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    The backpack in death stranding is stupidly big it annoyed me within about a minute of the gameplay demo.

    Oh it shrinks after a while, thank god for that. Not seeing anything gameplay wise yet that looks great other than having a ladder.

    Edited by Frogofdoom at 07:07:24 20-08-2019
  • Derblington 20 Aug 2019 07:08:39 35,161 posts
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    What? You rock the baby with the motion controls!
  • Frogofdoom 20 Aug 2019 07:26:41 17,973 posts
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    Can you kill it by shaking it too hard like any good british child minder would.
  • DUFFMAN5 20 Aug 2019 07:35:17 26,890 posts
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    JamboWayOh wrote:
    Derblington wrote:
    JamboWayOh wrote:
    Derblington wrote:
    Because it’s come up during the show I’ll mention it here - Sony are buying Insomniac.
    Good acquisition, and not really unexpected.
    Yeah, they really should have bought them years ago because they were essentially 1st party.
    They own the Sunset Overdrive IP too, so I'd fully expect to see that franchise appear on PS at some point (though Spider-man and Ratchet & Clank sequels will likely come first).
    I imagine Spider-Man 2 is probably first on the list. Hell I wouldn't even mind a new Resistance but with some less janky gameplay.
    I love Resistance 2 and especially 3. Closest I got to Gears on the PS ;)
  • DUFFMAN5 20 Aug 2019 07:41:28 26,890 posts
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    Derblington wrote:
    I don’t think Gears has ever really done anything meaningful.
    New modes and stuff, sure, but it’s never really done anything of its own, just borrowed ideas from other games and put them into it’s own brand.
    Really ?

    Although not the first "cover based shooter" Gears 1 was one of the very earliest to have this and is synonymous with introducing that style of gameplay to a huge audience with Gears.

    It is seen as industry wide as the definitive Coop/Survival game in the shape of the original Horde in Gears 2.

    Obviously both modes have been copied to death, by other Gears games for a start! but I think it is unfair to say "I don’t think Gears has ever really done anything meaningful"
  • Derblington 20 Aug 2019 07:45:26 35,161 posts
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    The cover mechanics were copied literally wholesale from Kill.Switch. Gears was certainly more popular than that game but it doesn’t change the fact.
    Horde gave us the term “horde”, sure, but survival modes weren’t created by Gears. CoD Zombies, L4D survival and Gears2 all launched in the same month.

    Edited by Derblington at 07:46:42 20-08-2019
  • Deleted user 20 August 2019 07:49:17
    Jesus, today Derbs woke up and decided to pick a fight with diff.
  • Derblington 20 Aug 2019 07:51:33 35,161 posts
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    I posted yesterday, this was Duff :)
  • DUFFMAN5 20 Aug 2019 07:53:12 26,890 posts
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    Graxlar_v3 wrote:
    Jesus, today Derbs woke up and decided to pick a fight with diff.
    ;)
    He is always bustin my balls, don't know why as I'm sure he is a teddyBear IRL

    ...I suspect he is rubbish at Gears hence the hostility towards it, no matter
  • DUFFMAN5 20 Aug 2019 07:54:12 26,890 posts
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    Derblington wrote:
    I posted yesterday, this was Duff :)
    Indeed. I was too upset over the shite Horde 4.0 reveal yesterday to post, I read it though ;)
  • Decks 20 Aug 2019 09:12:56 31,013 posts
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    They're really making it difficult to like Death Stranding. It looks utter bollocks.
  • sport 20 Aug 2019 09:18:35 17,064 posts
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    Let's just say, "ordinary" people won't get Death Stranding.
  • Frogofdoom 20 Aug 2019 09:22:52 17,973 posts
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    *baby shaking simulator
  • Rogueywon 20 Aug 2019 09:33:50 12,387 posts
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    Decks wrote:
    They're really making it difficult to like Death Stranding. It looks utter bollocks.
    It looks to me a lot like what happens when you take a vision-driven auteur and release him from the constraints of the evil, corporate money-men.

    You actually get a pile of self-indulgent shite, because it turns out those evil, corporate money-men were actually a necessary part of the creative process that fired his earlier works.
  • DUFFMAN5 20 Aug 2019 09:53:10 26,890 posts
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    Decks wrote:
    They're really making it difficult to like Death Stranding. It looks utter bollocks.
    Have to agree with this.
  • JamboWayOh 20 Aug 2019 10:01:23 25,236 posts
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    Rogueywon wrote:
    Decks wrote:
    They're really making it difficult to like Death Stranding. It looks utter bollocks.
    It looks to me a lot like what happens when you take a vision-driven auteur and release him from the constraints of the evil, corporate money-men.

    You actually get a pile of self-indulgent shite, because it turns out those evil, corporate money-men were actually a necessary part of the creative process that fired his earlier works.
    I would normally agree with this but Konami haven't really helped themselves with their terrible output.
  • Decks 20 Aug 2019 10:10:09 31,013 posts
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    If anything what we're seeing isn't weird enough for me. Everything they release is just the weaselly guy off the zombie thing carrying a baby in an Asda bag around a big field. Is that it?
  • Frogofdoom 20 Aug 2019 10:16:45 17,973 posts
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    Yes
  • Decks 20 Aug 2019 10:18:27 31,013 posts
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    I play games for escapism, not to do stuff I normally do on a Friday night anyway.
  • sport 20 Aug 2019 10:37:14 17,064 posts
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    Even da Vinci and van Gogh were seen as hacks in their time. Over time, we'll start to see what Kojima has given us.
  • JamboWayOh 20 Aug 2019 11:20:44 25,236 posts
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    Super soldier arses in tight combat uniforms and tits because plot. God bless you Kojima.
  • ChiefGB 20 Aug 2019 13:03:25 13,815 posts
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    Have to say death stranding does look a bit too out there. I mean msg got a bit weird but you always had snake and post Cold War shenanigans as the backbone and he’s just a fantastic creation.

    Shifty fucker off of walking dead...........not so much so far.
  • SnackPlissken 20 Aug 2019 14:26:41 3,512 posts
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    It just doesn't look like a fun game.
  • sport 20 Aug 2019 14:31:36 17,064 posts
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    A game doesn't need to be fun to be a masterpiece.
  • wuntyate 20 Aug 2019 14:38:27 17,493 posts
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    DUFFMAN5 wrote:
    Decks wrote:
    They're really making it difficult to like Death Stranding. It looks utter bollocks.
    Have to agree with this.
    As much as I don't want to agree with this. I do. The very first teaser relased aeons ago looked really cool and I was still hyped/disappointed after what happened with PT/Silent HIlls so was looking forward to it. Since then everything I've seen is just getting increasingly more "wtf" in a bad way. Carrying a baby through some hills, pissing everywhere and making ladders, in order to what, deliver parcels to people? It really does look like crap so far.
  • JamboWayOh 20 Aug 2019 14:40:30 25,236 posts
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    But he made a ladder! A fucking ladder!
  • Rogueywon 20 Aug 2019 14:41:00 12,387 posts
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    @sport I used to think that, but I remember a point, around 3 hours into The Last Guardian, where, frustrated by the godawful controls, shite camera and appalling framerate, I came to the realisation that no amount of artyness can save a genuinely shit game from being shit.
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