Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

@Operative2-0 @Ralizah Aw, look at that sweet little badg... ARGHHH!

They were the bane of my existence. I especially hated them during a certain sidequest where you had to fend them off from villagers. I lost a few haha

@Ralizah Forgive my ignorance, but aren't Montana and the south located at the opposite ends of the US?

@Octane Woops, is it set in Montana? Totally missed that.

Bah, what a missed opportunity.

It's actually a Western state, close to Canada.

@Peek-a-boo Yeah, they suck. Vicious, but, more annoyingly, small enough that they're difficult to hit.

Ugh...I hated the honey badgers but the Eagles always had me ducking for cover. I think they are worse in Primal as well.

@Octane The RiME review embargo has been lifted, and you'll be pleased to know that Edge are not alone in finding an awful lot to love about this game as well as the message it carries.

Eurogamer: Recommended

Rime does the things you expect of this kind of puzzly exploration game, the kind of things you want if you enjoy Zelda dungeons or the intricate, lonely dereliction of an Ico or The Witness. But it does all these things with surprisingly inventive twists. It has a lot of ideas, and they are all wonderfully small, manageable, comprehensible ideas, married to a sense of epic scale that serves as its own reward. A game about other games, but one that is still worth playing in and of itself? Yes, please.

This game has it all, really. It has a sense of wonder, of poise and, over time, a true sense of emerging character. And it has something to say. Something that is worth hearing.

Other notable places gave the game a high score too; Attack of the Fanboy (9), Edge (9), Game Informer (8), The Guardian (four stars), IGN (9.0), Press Start (9), Nintendo Life neighbours, Push Square (8) and the outlier review score from GameSpot (6), the latter reviewer of whom didn't seem to enjoy this kind of genre, let alone this kind of game.

@Peek-a-boo Good to know. A copy is on its way. I wanted to go digital, but I couldn't resist that lovely box art.

@Octane My copy is downloaded and ready to go. I wanted to buy a physical copy, but I couldn't resist that lovely dynamic theme.

I have got RiME to look forward to playing this weekend, then Tekken 7 in two weeks time. I haven't gone longer than a month without buying a game this year (so far). It has been a really good year for video games!

I'm getting it because if it is a fighting game I'll buy it, but I think I'm going to get GG first and wait on Tekken's PC version.

@Ryu_Niiyama Aw, I was hoping we could play over PlayStation Network.

Any chance I can persuade you otherwise? Tekken 7 on the PlayStation 4 may not be as technically accomplished as the PC version, but it does have exclusive bits and bobs that may be worth considering.

The PlayStation 4 version of Tekken 7 will contain exclusive content: legacy costumes from Tekken 4 and Tekken 2 for King, Xiaoyu and Jin as well as a Jukebox Mode where fans can listen to classic Tekken music tracks and even create playlists of Tekken music to listen to while they play. Also features DLC access to Eliza, the famed vampire character that made her Tekken debut in Tekken Revolution.

Tekken 7 supports PlayStation VR too, if you are that way inclined.

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@Peek-a-boo Well never say never, I usually buy a 3 month card for live and psn for the summer months (hold over from college even though I have way less free time) so I miiiiiiiight get it, but all of the PC parity with fighting games now is making me less inclined to go console since I don't have to pay extra for online. I'm not saying no, but after I just preordred the Amaterasu statue from f4f (I have no shame) I'm a little light in the pockets for things like double dipping (I'm also saving for a SQL Server Conference and a Taiko conference so I really shouldn't be buying anything...sigh). I would have bought Injustice 2 already otherwise... I am making some friends in my area that like fighting games so that may also push me to buy it on ps4 as well. I'll post if I get it.

Haha, yeah I can't physically use VR or 3d...need two eyeballs for that. Otherwise it is like sticking your eye in an electrified bath and then an oven...kinda painful. I'll jump in when they have holodecks available. lol!

Far Cry 5 looks pretty damn good:

I think their political messaging department did quite a good job after all.

The religious cult are called Eden's Gate, which sounds like a parody of Heaven's Gate. That was the religious cult that convinced like 50 people to commit mass suicide a few decades ago.

Main bad thing is that it's due for release at the same time as Red Dead 2. Lol people might see them as too similar and everyone will just go with Red Dead.

@Dezzy They don't seem similar at all, though. One is set in the wild west, and the other is about crazed cultists in Montana. Very little overlap there.

@Ralizah While what you are saying is very true, there are a number of people that will go Rural Montana and Wild West (do we even know what state) and will go...cowboy game. I'm likely going to go with far cry because I have little love for the romanticized wild west (my father is a horseman and pretty much all he watched was westerns...I'm very, very over the whole idea.)

@Ralizah

Well given the range of all possible settings, they seem fairly close together. They're culturally quite similar places. Both have that kind of honour culture, everyone needs a rifle, thing going on.

They're different in the way Titanfall and COD are different, which lead EA to think they wouldn't be in competition. Which didn't work.

@Ryu_Niiyama Yeah, that makes zero sense to me. Are there even going to be horses in FC5? I don't get it.

RE: RDR2, if it's like the original, it'll take place partly in a fictionalized state that's a cross between Arizona and New Mexico and partly in northern Mexico.

A horseman... so he wrangled horses?

@Dezzy I mean, that description could apply to several different regions of the United States.

@Ralizah Yep. Still does. Although at 70 he is slowing down so the horses are more oversized dogs than horses at this point.

I never said gamer logic made sense but people do lump things together very easily in gaming.

@Ryu_Niiyama Heh. Sounds like an interesting job. I'm not even sure I've ever ridden on a horse before.

Well, lumping things together is probably a more universal human flaw. Or, more precisely, the human tendency to generalize everything, which is probably where stereotypes come from to begin with.

I can't say anything. If I see a movie with football or some other sport in it, I say "eww, sports movie" and change the channel. Even though I know that so-called "sports movies" are often not really about the sports at all.

Source: http://kotaku.com/far-cry-5-is-a-game-about-resisting-an-amer...

"In a change for the series, you can choose to play as a man or woman and pick your skin color."

This is going to court a ton of controversy, haha. Watch a lot of the same characters who ridiculed people who were upset about a white guy mowing down black zombies in RE5 get all flustered about a black woman blowing up trucks full of cultist yokels.

Makes sense, though, considering previous protagonists didn't have a ton of personality to begin with. More customization is always a good thing.