I think exclusives are a bit of a none starter now. Previous gens of consoles certainly had a good chunk of exclusive games that may have enticed people in. But this gen has had very few that would be “system selling good”. And then you have all of the pc exclusives as a counter argument.

I would also say that you have a significant backlog of incredible games that you can still buy and play, and don’t tend to disappear as you move between generations on PC, so unless you are wanting the newest shiny game, you will have too much to play in your life time.

Also windows 11 isn’t terrible… It isn’t good, but it’s fine. And I don’t think I agree with it being cleaner to boot up a console and just play a game. If you have steam run at start up, they are pretty equal.

You would be surprised how often it is in games. It stands out so much to me it makes games hard to play with it on.

For me there is quite a lot I am enjoying.

Star Wars Galactic Racer is the new hotness, fantastic pod racer follow up. And really enjoyed what they did with the story mode(rogue lite inspired), my current main criticism is how little colour options you have for shade.

Started Witcher 3 recently but I am not enjoying the combat so far, it feels exceptionally terrible. So may end up dropping it if I can’t click with it.

Now the longer term games:

Still enjoying Forza Horizon 6, but 500 hours in and I am rocking through the motions and just keeping up with the play lists. Looking forward to seeing what the expansions are going to be now.

The Finals has been an incredible amount of fun, have been mostly playing their “rush” inspired game mode this season, 8v8 with loads of destruction and chaos. Ticks a whole bunch of tick boxes for me to keep me interesting and having fun.

Sim Racing is also a big part of my game time as well, mostly split between Le Mans Ultimate and Assetto Corsa. Throw in some others as well for good measure(wreckfest, PMR, AC Rally, etc) in-between league races.

I am excited for several things as well… Such as, checks back log… Fuck

Ohhh well, I won’t be complaining about finally playing Witcher 3, maybe a 2nd Baldurs gate play through.

A vehicle tax applied to everything, based on weight, once we have switched to a majority of EVs.

Heck I would happily pay for my bikes, apply it evenly between everything, and I will pay £1 per kilo a year. Less than £40 for my bikes, but not sure many car drivers are going to be happy paying £1500 - £3000+.

Sill, a good way to get the infrastructure fixed, and maybe more people onto public transport or bikes

I am going to throw my thoughts in. Spiderman is as good as Arkham City, and I think it depends on which super hero you prefer.

From a game standpoint, they are very close to each other, I think batman has slightly better stealth, but Spiderman has better traversal. Combat is good enough in both to give you enough room to be expressive if you want, and the open world fluff is mostly not insulting (maybe not those riddler trophies though).

Both are good 8/10 games.

But everything thing I have seen about Wolverine is at best fine, and then you just have the Devs insulting the players and their intelligence.

I am surprised wolverine is getting scores as high as it is, but from a glance and an outside point of view, I am offering a 4 or 5/10.

And one last note, Arkham Asylum is better than City, the more intricate level design is better than an open world.

No, that is honestly still too much time spent on DSP. If you don’t know who he is, I wouldn’t recommend wasting that time, you can’t get it refunded.

Is Tokon classed as a first party? Isnt it technically a second party game, because it is developed by Arc who arent owned by Sony, but published by Sony?

Way more fun, and might actually be more acceptable to use in public

I will say the point, it is an extension of your phone essentially. A very expensive, pointless, and ultimately creepy extension.

It’s like buying a smart watch, so you can ask it stuff, and not use anything else it can do. When your phone can probably still listen to you perfectly fine.

I don’t think free to play would have made any real difference to Concord (highguard says hi).

At the time of announcement, I was in a discord call, and I would say 9 or 10 people were interested at the cinematic trailer, when they had missed it being a multiplayer game, and they assumed it was a action RPG/ space opera.

Everyone who had any inclination of excitement, lost it immediately at the gameplay trailer.

They honestly didn’t care for another multiplayer game, especially with Marvel Rivals having been played and looking better around then as well.

I think I am biased as I don’t have a ps5, and Sony is definitely on a crusade at the moment. But I really like Spiderman and Miles Morales, and enjoy Spiderman 2 albeit not as much.

However, Wolverine just never stood out from what I had seen briefly, then I saw the sentinel fight. That looked beyond shit, like gameplay had regressed 20 years or more.

I think that was the point I expected it to be bad, even if it is not completely terrible on the combat side.

I mean, I can do the Oculus Air Link from my quest 3, definitely a thing on the quest 2, and after a quick search, was released in April 2021.

I currently mostly use the steam link app on quest. Especially as it has cabled support as well now(in beta).

It is so strange and incredible reading americans having issues with auto payments. But I presume you do not have anything like Direct Debit, and the protections that some with that, like having to notify you well in advance of payment changes, or if the wrong amount is taken you get it back.

https://www.directdebit.co.uk/direct-debit-guarantee/

You can also cancel it directly from your bank app as well, no messing around, its a simple 2 click process.

Use Heroic instead.

Also to add on to this, while we are in a cost of living crisis, that doesn’t mean people can’t save money towards purchases like this either. If you started putting back 5 or 10 a month since it was announced you’d have plenty saved, especially with the delays.

I don’t think it’s a good idea considering we haven’t seen anything yet, but I am not their audience.