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NEStalgia

@kkslider5552000 If you aren't and idealogue with emotional issues into controversial story driven big budget games about problematic dads and cycles of violence, why do you even own a Playstation? I mean that + Zombies makes up the entire exclusive catalogue!

@Dezzy The average critic, especially of the Youtube variety seems to think Need for Speed is epic story-writing, and anything that says Sony on the box is Dante as their rubric for storytelling seems to come from Hollywood, at best, gaming alone, at worst. I remember when Half-Life was overwhelming because the story was written by an actual C-list novelist.

I think it's a fair requisite.

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Ninfan

theres a game i saw on music to games on GINX esoprts tv where you collect some energy and boot up a robot and get into it and can shoot at other players, anyone know what the game is called.

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TimelessJubilee

It's kind of telling that the best moment(to me at least) in Last of Us Part 2 is watching some kid get his teeth knocked out by some fat dude with shades. And watching Duke Nukem Jr reaction to it is the best.

Only Neil Druckman can write this slop and call it a day. How this hack still has a job, I will never know.

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Anti-Matter

I saw on game stores or online shopping website that Crash Bandicoot Trilogy PS4 also appeared with CTR Nitro in one bundle.
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Is that bundle contain two different games in one disc or half of them are digital download?

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@Octane
Ooooh...! 😮😮😮
So it will be White strip with Black fonts and Blue box case as PS4.
Pretty nice. 😀
Looks very Wii.

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Magician

Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise is marked down to $15 on the NA PS Store.

I assume this game won't get a Switch port, so I made the purchase.

Switch Physical Collection - 1,537 games (as of December 22nd, 2025)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)

Dezzy

Well Ghost of Tsushima seems like another example of where there's a noticeable distance between the "critics" and the general audience. Much smaller a distance than with TLOU2 though.

It's 83 on metacritic, which is kinda average in terms of Sony first party games. Most of their AAA first party games score higher than that.

But it's at 9.2 on the user score, I've heard nothing but positivity from the audience, and there are dozens of youtubers saying this is pretty much Game of the Year.

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TimelessJubilee

Dezzy wrote:

But it's at 9.2 on the user score, I've heard nothing but positivity from the audience, and there are dozens of youtubers saying this is pretty much Game of the Year.

People(especially YouTubers who are simply following a trend)throw out "Game of the Year" like it's candy on Halloween. I wouldn't take them so seriously.

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Dezzy

@MsJubilee

I don't know if that's true.

Like with traditional written critics, most of them get the game ahead of time and play it before they know other people's opinions on it.

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Zuljaras

@Dezzy "Like with traditional written critics, most of them get the game ahead of time and play it before they know other people's opinions on it."

Actually some of them do not even play the games. That is why their reviews look so generic and close to each other.

In other words do not believe anyone.

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@Zuljaras

Right, like when IGN's Xenoblade review called the characters Rain and Duncan. Lol Dunban's name is literally spoken like 10 times in the first 10 minutes of the game. Impossible to get that wrong unless you just didn't play it.

I think that's a small minority of cases though. In that case I think IGN just told someone to use the Xenoblade review from the Wii and put it into new words, given that the core game is almost identical.

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NotTelevision

From what I’ve read, Ghost seems to be an Assassin’s Creed game set in ancient Japan with a great combat system.

Sounds pretty good to me. If you go into it expecting it to offer a significantly different gameplay loop than other open world games, you’ll probably be disappointed.

I didn’t expect that, so I’m looking forward to playing it at some point.

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Anti-Matter

LOL
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I found upcoming game like this from playasia. 🤣
The game was multi release console so available on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One version too.
More quirky games like this on PS4 or multi platform is very welcome for me regardless i will be very interested or not.

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Wargoose

@Dezzy I think a lot of places have a person who plays the game and writes the review, and a separate person who does the videos/reads the review.

I'm much more trusting of critics reviews than user reviews. There's way too many trolls out there, looking to bury games they've no interest in playing.

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TimelessJubilee

Dezzy wrote:

MsJubilee

I don't know if that's true.

Like with traditional written critics, most of them get the game ahead of time and play it before they know other people's opinions on it.

And most of the time they barely know what they're talking about. I sometimes trust these reviews on indie or smaller games, but big exclusives or triple-A games? It's always endless praise without any criticism. Or just endless criticism and no praise.

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-Green-

A former employee from IGN did a video explaining partially why sites and reviewers tend to overly praise big title games. She basically said it’s because these games come with huge expectations from gamers and it places a sort of bias/pressure on the reviewer to want to rate the game well so as to avoid backlash. So they’ll commonly avoid focusing too much on criticisms. It sounds like almost peer pressure

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TimelessJubilee

@-Green- I believe this. Fans rip apart any reviewer when a game they're interested or defending doesn't get a good score(look at Jim Sterling's BOTW review) Or Gamespot's review on the Last Of Us Part 1. It got an 8, and many people started ripping apart the reviewer and his review(that they didn't even bother to read no doubt).

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NotTelevision

@MsJubilee I’m actually a fan of gaming criticism, but it has just become more and more of an echo chamber.

When it comes to video reviews, as slanted as Jim Sterling and “Yahtzee” Crowshaw are, they are offering a unique perspective that is of their own.

Most critics hide behind this veil of “objectivity” but it’s all a ruse. It’s just gutless pandering.

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BruceCM

Yet most fans are quite reasonable .... It's a minority of them that are doing such things! I suspect most of the people doing it aren't actually fans of any games

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