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Yesterday I talked about the QA team and about their importance and the time they require right? So this news is hot right now. For the people who are 'truly' interested about what goes under and what can collapse a whole project. And why it TAKES TIME to make games.

What are your thoughts on fans? ?

Nice! Cut together this Mumbai - Pune flight from earlier today. Can follow my descent process from around the 20th minute onwards Also ended up getting the skin pack too

Platinum #5: Tales of Arise The game was absolutely amazing and I finished it on launch. I did not try for the Platinum though. Tried for it much later - and it was absolutely amazing journey. Post-Game there were huge dungeons and absolutely bonkers bosses, plus awesome cameos from the other Tales Games, if you're a fan. Some trophies were a bit boring to get (requiring some farming) but it was a wild and enjoyable ride to the Platinum.

It was not directed at your speculation about game development. You can speculate as much as you want, no harm done. But when somebody actively engaged in AAA game development tries to give you an informed explanation, and you come back with something like this (even though not directly to him)- it does not look like you are asking a genuine question. It just looks like you are being a dick to somebody online for no good reason.

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I did read, snakes post was actually EU nations, not USD but the same applies, they're not selling game+console price either. You would have known this if you actually read.

The original post was not from India. In India it isn't even an official bundle, sellers basically slapping the game to a console and asking to buy both or no sell. Apple and Microsoft are greedy, and so is Sony in their own way. I don't know what the f*** you are reading to get that 90% share number.

Actually it's 20USD less than Console MRP + Game MRP. Increasing base price of the console will only piss off everyone, even the media will drag them out. This is more like a safe way to make more money, like any corporate company would do if they can, but not everyone has that kind of market power.

Days gone The average reviews held me off but I am really enjoying the game. It’s slow paced especially in the beginning but camp 3 onwards, you really get immersed in the story and characters

Just clearing an information. Development is a collaborative process. Even a junior artist and animator works with engine to develop a task. So don’t invent new stuffs for internet debate please.

Sure. I'll explain some of the complexities in general term. Excluding the graphics, lookdev, animation and whatnot. Note, this is general terms, and applicable to general game development. 1. Open world speed tree mechanism and procedural object placement system used to be simple instances with some variables, with little to no physics in them. Now open world games weather system and the environment reacts upon that, ie more dynamic. This is to make world more believable. Environment and setdressing is more complex due to this, and player interaction is more elaborated. This is to make world more immersive, afterall game is an interactive and immersive media. Some of the engines even support dynamic object placement and remembers that in the world, such as BGS games, their engine could be janky in many area, but their engine do remembers the object matrix based upon world space. 2. Specially SP games focuses much more functional development of the game mechanism. AI development takes a huge chunk of time, it's not simple NPC or enemy path in game lvl anymore where enemies will only move to certain area or simple follow their moveset. These AI are given toolset of reaction which changes based upon player's function trigger. Games like TLOU2 spent a huge CHUNK of time to develop this. Thus, the enemy is more believable than it's predecessor. Again, details! As in emulating humanlike behaviour. 3. Hitbox detection and dynamic hitbox system. Nowadays every games has dynamic deformation and hitbox generation, and it's also getting much detailed over time. Again here, comes the AI reaction trigger that I mentioned in my last point. Look up in TLOU2. Enemy reacts differently based upon where they were being shot at, and with which weapon. All these details are, to push the immersion. 4. In RPG, the stat change is not just a simple hitbox number increase now, it has effects implied. Plus, there are more attributes that shows visible changes and playstyle nowadays. And it requires much robust balancing the toolset and testing. With each iteration, every RPG games do this. Divinity 2 plays better and has more diversity in classes than Divinity 1, thusly. 5. Third person Player movement is not like stick figure anymore, doesn't have 8 directional moveset like old times. It's 360 degree dynamic physics based set. Where player and npcs reacts upon world event trigger. Although it's rig and animation engineering but still, the functionality of characters are more fleshed out. 6. Gameplay! Yeah in a simple layman's term it's shooting or something. But these blunt looking functions also have much more nuances than you can imagine. Decal, hitcone and falloff calculation, particle generation, splash hit based on object detection and many many other functionality relies on it nowadays for most games. 7. Now, testing.....I feel bad for testers nowadays because they get the bashing by game communities and gamers....it's a stressful job and complex games require all these thousands of permutation and combination to go through to filter out everything...and even then it's not fully possible, specially for Open world games. More complex the game, more time require to find and report issues. I could go on. But this took me abit of time to write down and I have other things to do. Thanks.

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It’s not like they have a single critically acclaimed game to give away with their console. ? so it makes sense to make someone feel they’re getting 100 odd games for a month (where 80% is horrible indie BS)

Sony hating seems to be a full time job for some here. Starfields 2011 graphics, terrible NPCs??? Horizon being the best looking 2022 game and rated 89 on MC - ???

The Horizon hating by bots is interesting given that their fav consoles only release this year Xfire is panned everywhere

Thought they'd at least announce the SoP date today, false alarm I guess. On the bright side, Ragnarok is rated in South Korea.

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Horizon bundles are selling out. So it's definitely something people want and need. However giving out free subs with items such as candies and chips just to increase (rather, to artificially inflate your subscription count) is ludicrous indeed. When nothing works, you engage in such antics.

Btw : Pacman remake/remastered was just announced at nintendo direct mini few hours back

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They did this with older gens, might come out in time. ............................. In other news, new prepaid cards for new ps+ are already out.

But i agree with one point. Instead of giving a title, they should rather give out ps plus sub for 3/4 months. Or Bundle the system with a physical copy

Some are equating forced bundling by retailers (that's happening in india) with an official bundle by sony. Next they'll say sony is charging 75k for PS5, controllers and a batch of games.

It's not ideal yes . But it is what it is. And i don't think Horizon and GT7 are in top 5 because of the bundles. They are in top 5 because people are buying it . I mean how many consoles is Sony even selling in UK per week . Restock happens very rarely there as well . if it's because of bundle it would either impact physical sales or digital if it's bundled with a code .. Not both .

Forcefully bundling a $70 title with a $500 device is more ludicrous

I'm sure they have faith in the quality, these are PS Studios after all. But why would that stop them from making sure they get more money, and when they know they can.

Sony: I agree. But if there's only bundled versions, I think people will buy rather than wait, especially when PS5s go out of stock so quickly.

No, he had a parasite or the artifact called emergency repairs which heals when Selene's health bar goes below 25%

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I can understand. 5 was way too long. With 6, I directly went for the main storyline and later all the side content in premium mode. Definitely don't miss that one. I can tell you it's way better than 5 for sure and you'll enjoy it.

The movie is an experience. I'm so, so glad that I got to experience it in 4DX. It was made for it, I felt. Even after almost a month since it's release, the cinema hall was almost full with only a few empty seats. It's extremely rare to see a movie with such kind of theatre-longevity these days. The story is kinda cliche, but that's totally alright! Not all stories have to take risks and be totally out-of-the-box. It even kinda reminded me of Creed in some parts. My wife hadn't seen the original and despite that, she thoroughly enjoyed it, too. Like I said, it's a wonderful experience to watch this movie. Since I've seen it in 4DX now, I simply cannot imagine the same feeling in a normal theatre for this movie. But if anyone hasn't seen it yet, even if it's a normal theatre, please watch it on a big screen. If there was ever a movie to experience on the big screen, this is the one!

My 2nd attempt at Ixion boss fight with half health, no health items or figurines

If you're comparing FALD to OLED, prepare to be disappointed. We have a Sony FALD at home, and the PQ is nowhere close to an LG OLED.

Dude, what’s done is done don’t derail the thread please. I won’t ask again

Finally got the long pending plat of Persona 5 Royal

"DLC" selling more than some "standalone" aaa games developed/published by you know who...