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God of War is doing remarkably well, the first Sony game to stay in first place for 2 consecutive weeks, also, this top 10 looks absolutely AMAZING!
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I'm sure someone has tried to RCE on the PS5 but i haven't seen anything mentioned and tbh i would expect that info to be kept secret among a small group of people until it was confirmed and a working exploit was found. You wouldn't go telling Sony that you have a PS5 hack until you are well and truly in and have a working procedure and code or they'll shut the door on you before you can do anything.
I'd expect some security people to be looking into it as well. As far as i am aware this explot was known about a while ago but nothing was done so they went public. There was a util/tool/mod called Blue Sentinel people were talking about but i don't know if it guards against this explot too.
I'd expect some security people to be looking into it as well. As far as i am aware this explot was known about a while ago but nothing was done so they went public. There was a util/tool/mod called Blue Sentinel people were talking about but i don't know if it guards against this explot too.
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Another piece of news (which is kind of interesting)
While not directly related to the weekly top 10, Playstation's publisher page reached the 200k followers milestone thanks to GOW's release on the platform. Slowly but steady making sure it gets a good position among the big publishers on the Steam platform.
While not directly related to the weekly top 10, Playstation's publisher page reached the 200k followers milestone thanks to GOW's release on the platform. Slowly but steady making sure it gets a good position among the big publishers on the Steam platform.
Wonder why steam suddenly got that growth? People hyped for the deck in non pc gaming countries?
Where's Hitman 3?God of War is doing remarkably well, the first Sony game to stay in first place for 2 consecutive weeks, also, this top 10 looks absolutely AMAZING!
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Well, I guess it does for me as those games are my cup of tea hehe.It does?
God I feel so cynical, outside of RDR2 and Elden Ring it does nothing for me
Omicron, Winter, people relaxing in their homes playing or checking their Steam profiles, it can be a lot of things, you know.
Hitman 3 fell rather quickly, it went from 6th top seller in the first hour to top 50, Hitman 3 has performed poorly on Steam due to multiple problems and different reasons.Where's Hitman 3?
Even if you don't like the specific games, the diversity of genres and development budget+Sony on PC is quite nice I think.God I feel so cynical, outside of RDR2 and Elden Ring it does nothing for me
It barely surpassed 2k concurrent players on a sunday. I think it's safe to say it did absolutely terrible. I'm sure they expected a simultaneous Gamepass release to eat into their launch numbers and made calculations around that, but I also don't think they expected to fumble the Steam release this hard.Where's Hitman 3?
Rather interesting how two games (MH Rise and Hitman 3) both got 1 year exclusivity elsewhere and priced similar, and one is doing fine and the other one will be irrelevant next week.
One comes from a company who seems to actually care about PC, the other doesn't give a shit.
I was willing to pay $30 for a Steam version of Hitman 3 since I already own 1 and 2 on that platform, but the fact they launched at full price means I just downloaded the Game Pass version instead. It'll probably run better on my Xbox than my aging PC anyway.
Hitman 3 is a huge disappointment compared to Hitman 2Where's Hitman 3?
IOI did everything wrong...
Is the actual game bad or just IOI's handling of the non EGS release?Hitman 3 is a huge disappointment compared to Hitman 2
IOI did everything wrong...
the latter, game itself is great except for the VR port apparently
latter, although my main didn't like 1 of the levels for being too linear, and said there's less challenges and mission stories compared to 2
Hitman 3 is where it belongs, and I say this as someone who bought Hitman 2 + the season pass at launchWhere's Hitman 3?
clearly everyone who wanted to play it on PC already got it on EGS. I think it's a clear sign that EGS is slowly but steadily chipping away at Steam's core audience.Where's Hitman 3?
After years of basic research, they also created things like a wishlist and shopping cart now, so pretty much feature parity with Steam (give or take some more obscure things)
Fewer mission stories is absolutely a plus though, opportunities are much more well integrated into the levels organically in 3.
After finishing Yakuza Kiwami 2 a couple of days ago, and having finished Zero and Kiwami 1 in the past, I think it's time to vent a little and lay bare a couple of ideas I have about the games, the good, the bad and the ugly. I'll try to avoid spoilers and hide any major plot point or mechanic I have to mention.
Combat
I have to start somewhere so might as well start in the main mechanic of the game. The two most common questions when it comes to combat will forever be: Is it good? Is it fun? Well.... Let's just say I don't believe these games are loved because of their combat, so the answer to the first question is a resounding NO! The combat is bad, it's just rythmic X & Y button mashing to perform a couple of combos on an enemy with the others wait their turn to be beat up like good boys. I guess this would be acceptable 20 years ago or so but after experiencing melee combat in games like Dark Souls or Batman Arkham it's almost inexcusable to have combat this simplistic and boring. The fact there's so many random mobs around the city and every quest is solved by combat doesn't help since it only further exacerbates the problem.
As for the fun factor yes it is fun, at least for a bit. There's no denying the cathartic feeling of bashing someone's head with a trafic cone or a bike, that'll always be fun, however it will inevitably get old by the 4th time you do it. The enjoyment after that is in finding new objects or new animations, because they're fun but mostly to spice combat a bit and keep it interesting a little bit longer.
I like the combat in 2 the best, it seemed more "honest" and straightforward without the pseudo-complexity of styles in 0 and 1, that I don't think add anything to the game, but I wish they added some more moves or heat actions to counterbalance the removal because, as it is, it's too bare bones.
Main Story and Storytelling
The main stories are good, for the most part, and were actually the main driving force that pushed me to finish the games. If I had to rank them it would be 2 > 0 >> 1., mainly because 2 has a more straightforward and consistent story where the lows in aren't as low as they are in 0 or 1 even though the highs aren't as high as in 0. It also felt good to have a happy ending for once.
Kiwami 1's story is mostly trash and serves only as window dressing. The character motivations change each chapter, there's no overall plot line to follow, it's just people doing stuff for the sake of it. And the least we talk about the finale the best.
Zero's story can't be addressed as a whole because of the dual protagonist setup. Kiryu's story is fine if a bit underwhelming and doesn't really get going until the midway point. It felt like he was mostly used as a prop-character to explain the family's hierarquy and connections to the overall plot rather than having any agency or moving the plot forward, so, even though he's the main protagonist of the series, I don't think he's the main protagonist of this game, the star of the show is Majima. His story is super well written and has some truly heartfelt moments. Of all 3 games I played it was this storyline that had the highest highs, by far. But, because good things don't tend to last, the ending was moronic and destroyed the whole character development he had made throughout the story. I understand they had do make his personality sync with what had already been established in earlier games but surely there were better ways to do it than a complete sudden 180 of his character.
The storytelling is a double-edge sword. On one hand the animated cutscenes are very good and the voice acting is excelent, particularly for Kiryu and a couple other main characters. On the other hand the amount of "dialogue" done through text boxes with "click clack" typping noises and the random "Ah" or "Oh" grunts from characters makes no sense in premium games like these. Plus the transition between voiced cutscenes to unvoiced text dumps is so egregious it makes me wonder if the devs played their own game. Other than that it's sadly the same overexplanatory mess as most stories are, meaning dialogue could be cut in half and the flow would improve tenfold. There's a lot of merit in the "show don't tell" phylosophy and I wish games would stop treating players as morons that need every bit of information dictated to them and trust on their audience's intelligence.
Side Stories and Minigames
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Side stories are trash! They serve no purpose other than padding the length of the game and their lightheartedness shocks in comparisson with the bleakness and urgency of the main plot. It's almost like they don't belong in the same game. I understand why people like them, they are comedic reliefs and random little stories thrown around for you to "enjoy", but those are the exact reasons I hate them, they don't elevate the main plot or provide any character development, in fact they do the opposite, they drag everything down. The games would be much better without them.
[flame shield off]
Minigames and side activities, like the cabaret, darts, golf, etc... are perfectly fine and fun. They are the perfect yin to the main story yang (one more reason that side stories are unecessary). The best one's are the cabaret, which they could easily transform into it's own game, the dancing and karaoke. The construction clan thingy in K2 was painful to play and the real-estate game in 0 was ok but I wish it wasn't as necessary/mandatory as it turned out to be.
Progression
In zero you get stronger by spending cash, in K1 by fighting Majima and in K2 by doing stuff (fighting, eating, etc), so I think K2 is the clear winner here. Zero's dependence on cash forces you to play the real estate side game which impacted negatively my enjoyment of that side game and the game as a whole. K1 reliance on combat, sigh, to get better at combat is idiotic to say the least.
Conclusion
I'm pretty sure there's still a lot to talk about but I don't have the strength to go into every little detail of these games and I think I touched upon the biggest mechanics and points. I enjoyed the games but the reality is I can only muster the courage to play one per year (zero in 2020, K1 in 2021 and K2 in 2022) as they are exausting to play and become a chore quickly if you engange with the side stories and everything in them. That's perhaps why I enjoyed K2 so much and much more than the others, I didn't engage in any side stories or activities, besides the cabaret, and focused on the main story.
Sorry for the wall of text.
Combat
I have to start somewhere so might as well start in the main mechanic of the game. The two most common questions when it comes to combat will forever be: Is it good? Is it fun? Well.... Let's just say I don't believe these games are loved because of their combat, so the answer to the first question is a resounding NO! The combat is bad, it's just rythmic X & Y button mashing to perform a couple of combos on an enemy with the others wait their turn to be beat up like good boys. I guess this would be acceptable 20 years ago or so but after experiencing melee combat in games like Dark Souls or Batman Arkham it's almost inexcusable to have combat this simplistic and boring. The fact there's so many random mobs around the city and every quest is solved by combat doesn't help since it only further exacerbates the problem.
As for the fun factor yes it is fun, at least for a bit. There's no denying the cathartic feeling of bashing someone's head with a trafic cone or a bike, that'll always be fun, however it will inevitably get old by the 4th time you do it. The enjoyment after that is in finding new objects or new animations, because they're fun but mostly to spice combat a bit and keep it interesting a little bit longer.
I like the combat in 2 the best, it seemed more "honest" and straightforward without the pseudo-complexity of styles in 0 and 1, that I don't think add anything to the game, but I wish they added some more moves or heat actions to counterbalance the removal because, as it is, it's too bare bones.
Main Story and Storytelling
The main stories are good, for the most part, and were actually the main driving force that pushed me to finish the games. If I had to rank them it would be 2 > 0 >> 1., mainly because 2 has a more straightforward and consistent story where the lows in aren't as low as they are in 0 or 1 even though the highs aren't as high as in 0. It also felt good to have a happy ending for once.
Kiwami 1's story is mostly trash and serves only as window dressing. The character motivations change each chapter, there's no overall plot line to follow, it's just people doing stuff for the sake of it. And the least we talk about the finale the best.
Zero's story can't be addressed as a whole because of the dual protagonist setup. Kiryu's story is fine if a bit underwhelming and doesn't really get going until the midway point. It felt like he was mostly used as a prop-character to explain the family's hierarquy and connections to the overall plot rather than having any agency or moving the plot forward, so, even though he's the main protagonist of the series, I don't think he's the main protagonist of this game, the star of the show is Majima. His story is super well written and has some truly heartfelt moments. Of all 3 games I played it was this storyline that had the highest highs, by far. But, because good things don't tend to last, the ending was moronic and destroyed the whole character development he had made throughout the story. I understand they had do make his personality sync with what had already been established in earlier games but surely there were better ways to do it than a complete sudden 180 of his character.
The storytelling is a double-edge sword. On one hand the animated cutscenes are very good and the voice acting is excelent, particularly for Kiryu and a couple other main characters. On the other hand the amount of "dialogue" done through text boxes with "click clack" typping noises and the random "Ah" or "Oh" grunts from characters makes no sense in premium games like these. Plus the transition between voiced cutscenes to unvoiced text dumps is so egregious it makes me wonder if the devs played their own game. Other than that it's sadly the same overexplanatory mess as most stories are, meaning dialogue could be cut in half and the flow would improve tenfold. There's a lot of merit in the "show don't tell" phylosophy and I wish games would stop treating players as morons that need every bit of information dictated to them and trust on their audience's intelligence.
Side Stories and Minigames
[flame shield on]
Side stories are trash! They serve no purpose other than padding the length of the game and their lightheartedness shocks in comparisson with the bleakness and urgency of the main plot. It's almost like they don't belong in the same game. I understand why people like them, they are comedic reliefs and random little stories thrown around for you to "enjoy", but those are the exact reasons I hate them, they don't elevate the main plot or provide any character development, in fact they do the opposite, they drag everything down. The games would be much better without them.
[flame shield off]
Minigames and side activities, like the cabaret, darts, golf, etc... are perfectly fine and fun. They are the perfect yin to the main story yang (one more reason that side stories are unecessary). The best one's are the cabaret, which they could easily transform into it's own game, the dancing and karaoke. The construction clan thingy in K2 was painful to play and the real-estate game in 0 was ok but I wish it wasn't as necessary/mandatory as it turned out to be.
Progression
In zero you get stronger by spending cash, in K1 by fighting Majima and in K2 by doing stuff (fighting, eating, etc), so I think K2 is the clear winner here. Zero's dependence on cash forces you to play the real estate side game which impacted negatively my enjoyment of that side game and the game as a whole. K1 reliance on combat, sigh, to get better at combat is idiotic to say the least.
Conclusion
I'm pretty sure there's still a lot to talk about but I don't have the strength to go into every little detail of these games and I think I touched upon the biggest mechanics and points. I enjoyed the games but the reality is I can only muster the courage to play one per year (zero in 2020, K1 in 2021 and K2 in 2022) as they are exausting to play and become a chore quickly if you engange with the side stories and everything in them. That's perhaps why I enjoyed K2 so much and much more than the others, I didn't engage in any side stories or activities, besides the cabaret, and focused on the main story.
Sorry for the wall of text.
I can't speak about the rest of the series, I have only played 0, Kiwami 1, 2 and Yakuza 3 so far. But the only game where I felt the side missions were amazing was Zero. Each and everyone of them felt interesting, complex, had amazing presentation and something very meaningful to say. yes, they are a tonal whiplash to the main story, but that never bothered me much. I disagree on the idea that they don't provide character development. They show you who Kiryu or Majima really are, in many ways. At least in the better side missions, which leads to my big issue with the chronologically latter games:
In Kiwami 1 the side stories just aren't very well thought out. Coming from Yakuza 0, it was a huge step down, Kiwami 2 is a bit better, but there's far too many side missions that feel completely forgetable. The Cabaret minigame story line was great, but the tower defense game was just boring story wise.
.And Yakuza 3 feels as bad as Kiwami 1 again.
Given that the Kiwami games were very close remakes of older PS2 games, and Yakuza 3 itself the earliest PS3 game, maybe it wasn't until much, much later (Yakuza 0 ) that the developers figured out how to make side missions really work.
Ehhh, I liked the mission stories, my mate loved them so he was a bit miffed
Agreed. I've stopped doing the Yakuza side stories tbh
+1 to ignoring the Yakuza side content
i also admit and agree that at their core the yakuza gameplay itself isn’t really that great to be frank.
So I’ve played Y0-4 so far for their main stories alone tbh but I can’t see myself continuing the rest for a good while now after 5 of them cos it does get exhausting
(I’ve heard Y5 is the longest and I didn’t particularly like Y4 actually so I’m in no rush)
i also admit and agree that at their core the yakuza gameplay itself isn’t really that great to be frank.
So I’ve played Y0-4 so far for their main stories alone tbh but I can’t see myself continuing the rest for a good while now after 5 of them cos it does get exhausting
(I’ve heard Y5 is the longest and I didn’t particularly like Y4 actually so I’m in no rush)
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I don't see it. Pubg got like 200 to 300k ccu more since F2PPUBG became F2P
*me envisioning playing Anno 1800
And I never go beyond the first expedition because something else shiny has my attention
ANYWAY
Is that a scenario, mod or what? A look at he map tells me that there is a massive island at the edge of the map.
And I never go beyond the first expedition because something else shiny has my attention
ANYWAY
Is that a scenario, mod or what? A look at he map tells me that there is a massive island at the edge of the map.
Pissing game with an adventure game stapled in idk
So, it seems that The Usual Suspects are now running interference for IOI on Hitman 3 criticism
Seen three different stories in my feed reducing it all down to "Toxic entitled Gamers review bomb Hitman 3 for being MSRP!", and all three of them from outlets that shilled EGS hard.
To quote myself from a Discord...
Seen three different stories in my feed reducing it all down to "Toxic entitled Gamers review bomb Hitman 3 for being MSRP!", and all three of them from outlets that shilled EGS hard.
To quote myself from a Discord...
I was tempted to bend, but if IOI is paying the Shill Outlets to Soyjak critics like this, well...
It is always the same process:
1. big company does something shitty or releases a shit product
2. general outcry from customers
3. there is someone who goes to far
4. company goes hard on the victim complex, will always use an example of a single dev getting harrassed by the one who goes to far and shames their customer into going back to be little responsible
Won't somebody think about the billion dollar companies?
PCGamer being anti-PC Gamer is on brand. It must hurt knowing they missed out on the Bobby Kotick bag.
This is a bit heavy-handed, no? I doubt IOI are doing much of anything in terms of dealing with media outlets if theyre doing this much, this poorly with damage control on their own. Easier for media to side with the dev, for its own business reasons than actual collusion. To start seeing it as some kind of conspiracy every time a corporation does something stupid or shitty just leads down a bad path. IOI didn't have a plan in place for the pushback/negative launch and took the gaslighting path because it's easy. "The fans are the problem' requires way fewer man hours than changing their release structure.. This is the EGS exclusivity money rearing it's head post-release instead of pre-release.
Doesn't this comic have a pretty bad (like literal nazi shite) source as its original? feel like there's better memes to make fun of PCGamer than this.
yes, it’s Stone Toss, a literal alt-right webcomic. I assume folks weren’t aware of the source but fyi
PC Gamer website going hard on riding controversy for clicks? I'm shocked.
Gosh, same here. Even though I'm a big Squeenix fanboy, i've even forgotten stuff like Kingdom Hearts and FF7 lol. Until people bring them up, i don't even think of them... I do really want them, but I'm patiently waiting for Steam releases. (And if it's true FF7 is a shit port, well hopefully a year is enough time to patch it lol) I feel like there are other things on EGS i want also, but I can't remember... I don't have an account or wishlist there either so I can't track. >_<
EGS Beta testers lol.
I'm presently waiting for March when, hopefully, I can get the Kingdom Hearts games on PC. I never got to play them as a Nintendo-then-PC kid, gimme gimme.
That's about all the tought I spare for EGS presently.
That's about all the tought I spare for EGS presently.
Oh dear, looked at the bios for who's confirmed to be at Nagoshi Studio, and what we feared is true - NetEase is indeed looking to poach pretty much all of RGG Studio.
This kinda reminds me, no non-Free2Play Sony first-party games have no microtransactions, just good old Expansion packs like good old days.God of War's latest top review:
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