General PS5 Stuff

I did sound like my dad the other day. My daughter does her GCSEs this year and she mentioned she might like to do the game design course at the local college. ‘You must be crazy’ left my lips before I even had chance to think.

If she does want to be loosely connected with the industry consider HW IP design. It pays very well with few skilled people being in high demand from competing companies.

Yeah my place had redundancies recently but anyone half decent walked straight into Arm, AMD etc. but with fat redundancy cheques as a bonus.

I was also thinking about the fact that Sony intended to release 14 GaaS games. Obviously this is not the case anymore.

After the positive comments in here I ordered a PS Portal. Tried the Remote Play app for the first time to see what the results might look like and it actually seems pretty decent to me so hopefully be a worthwhile purchase.

Also I never get the TV anyway so should get some use out of it!

Seems expensive for what it is though but I'm paying for it by flogging off the old Switch.

@frog well they're making Marathon which is looking like it'll be a bit of a flop. (I'd momentarily forgotten it even existed)
I'm sure D2 will have a big spike in player numbers with the expansion as usual, but doubt it'll hit the previous highs.
I might dip in to D3 if it arrives as F2P, but my days of being a mega ultimate edition expansion preorder fanboi are long gone.

They just need to port destiny's gunplay into a FPS game which isn't a life replacement. There is a market waiting for it but they need to come in with anti cheat as good as valorant from the get go.

In one of skillups expansion reviews he said destiny feels good to play and he is right. Few shooters feel as good as destiny to play but it's need to try and keep people constantly on it works to it's detriment.

Haven't played Destiny 2 since it came out. Certainly one of the best feeling shooters around but yeh everything around levelling up and all the different currencies etc makes it a tough sell to come back too. Even with the sunsetting guns and gear and even content. Isn't it the case that all the campaign stuff that came with the original Destiny 2 is now no longer available to play? How's a new player meant to keep up with the story?

If they did a Halo style single player with multiplayer as good as the early trilogy it would sell loads.

I just don't understand the cutting of content unless it was total shit.  I did try to get back into Destiny 2 as it is a very accomplished shooter but it just seemed a bit of a incoherent mess and not clear as to the story or progression.  I get annoyed when you feel completely left out of a game because you are not playing it consistently every single week. 

And they could still have a huge MP part to it, and do season updates and micro transactions and all that. You know, like Halo.

I'd buy it.

There's a balance between cranking out content for a title to keep an established player base engaged, and creating an accessible title for newcomers.

Europa Universlis IV, which is playable as a single player stategy, now exists as a subscription model because so many DLCs have been released over the years that it would just be prohibitively expensive to buy the full package. Also imho the Civ series has got increasingly complicated and granular with it's rules over multiple releases you really have to be a die hard fan to be bothered to learn how to play the recent version. So it's not just multiplayer games thisncan affect.

I'd love there to be an accessible Density that I can jump back in to cos I loved those games on release. I'm guessing though that I'm just not the target audience, because filthy caduals like me are notexploitable for an ongoing income stream, and am more likely to just wander off for the next shiny shiny.

There must be a point where attrition in the player bases and a steep barrier to entry establishes a decline for a title. I have no idea where that would be, but just because I don't like it doesn't mean it's not making money.

There is a golden period of destiny between installing it again and trying to work out what the fuck is going on and it eventually starting to feel like a job that is almost unmatched.

It is quite amazing how quickly I fall off it, though. The minute I start rubbing up against its tendency to come at me with a begging bowl I'm pretty much done.

Not only that but you bought "season 3" and they've decided they won't let you "watch" it.

Once they started vaulting stuff is when I gave up giving them any money.

Did they ever give a legitimate reason for why they were vaulting paid content?