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Some dear ported it? Good on them for lending a hand. But on PC, will it fit like a glove? Will it accept a Steam key, or must I use a handshake code. I hope it doesn't give me the finger.
 
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Look The Witcher 3 came out and Ubisoft immediately pivoted to make Assassin's Creed Origins more like what Witcher did.
Which just kinda makes their posturing as innovators even more pathetic, I think.

Some dear ported it? Good on them for lending a hand. But on PC, will it fit like a glove? Will it accept a Steam key, or must I use a handshake code. I hope it doesn't give me the finger.
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It's a problem of adapting a game that is already cinematic. We've already been through this same thing over and over again, without much success. After uncharted, I really feel this is unnecessary. I know they're trying to get a God of War movie off the works for years, but that all fell through. A TV series doesn't exactly excite me.
 

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It's a problem of adapting a game that is already cinematic. We've already been through this same thing over and over again, without much success. After uncharted, I really feel this is unnecessary. I know they're trying to get a God of War movie off the works for years, but that all fell through. A TV series doesn't exactly excite me.
In all fairness I think TV series stand a better shot than movie adaptions. There is more that can be done with a story in an episodic format vs merely a two hour jaunt. It’s what’s helped Castlevania and The Witcher see such a strong following. One can only hope it’s done well, because there’s still far more paths to failure than success with these already well-established stories.
 

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“Let it be heard let it be noted that I lament greatly, and with (no?) satisfaction, that the Ubisoft formula that is (has?) permeated into all major AAA open world games 1/? (huh?)

I know Twitter speak is…often like digital shorthand in a way but maybe I’m too old and out of touch to get that last part especially.
There's a French flag on his profile, so perhaps not a native English speaker, and some stuff got lost in translation. I'm guessing he just meant to say he dislikes how the Ubisoft formula has become the standard for open world, including for non-Ubisoft games e.g. Horizon. Which he does have a point, there is little variety in the basic structure of open world games.

Tho all that vitriol aimed at Elden Ring from Guerilla and Ubisoft pepps honestly just comes across as them being butthurt because From Soft arguably stole their thunder
 

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In all fairness I think TV series stand a better shot than movie adaptions. There is more that can be done with a story in an episodic format vs merely a two hour jaunt. It’s what’s helped Castlevania and The Witcher see such a strong following. One can only hope it’s done well, because there’s still far more paths to failure than success with these already well-established stories.
While true, I still remain skeptical. It's like I said before, it doesn't help that the game is already cinematic enough. There's really not much a live action TV series can add. Also, in the Witcher's case, it was already a book first. The games certainly did help though.
 

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Tho all that vitriol aimed at Elden Ring from Guerilla and Ubisoft pepps honestly just comes across as them being butthurt because From Soft arguably stole their thunder
I mean Elden Ring surely stole the air from Horizon's wings. Which is funny considering Breath of the Wild did the exact same thing to the first game. Their timing for releasing games is really fucking awful, because as good as Horizon is it doesn't do the open world any differently than you'd typically expect. So when BotW and ER come out and stand out as different, they completely overshadow Horizon.

While Horizon's over world is just another open world, what makes Horizon shine is combat agains the robots and the characters which I think are far better than anything Ubisoft has ever done.
 

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To be fair. The witcher show is based off the books not the games. The popularity from the games helps but they arent following any of that story.

And book adaptations typically fair way better than video game ones in all respects.
True. I’m was mostly saying TV adaptions typically fair better than movies, and it’s pretty much regardless of source material.


While true, I still remain skeptical. It's like I said before, it doesn't help that the game is already cinematic enough. There's really not much a live action TV series can add. Also, in the Witcher's case, it was already a book first. The games certainly did help though.
I’m wonder if they’ll delve further into Greek mythology (and Norse), considering the games also based themselves upon those as it is. It would make sense to dig way back into Kratos’s childhood or something since the games only ever hinted at it, ie with Deimos.
 

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There's a French flag on his profile, so perhaps not a native English speaker, and some stuff got lost in translation. I'm guessing he just meant to say he dislikes how the Ubisoft formula has become the standard for open world, including for non-Ubisoft games e.g. Horizon. Which he does have a point, there is little variety in the basic structure of open world games.

Tho all that vitriol aimed at Elden Ring from Guerilla and Ubisoft pepps honestly just comes across as them being butthurt because From Soft arguably stole their thunder
Mostly was confused by the 1/?

Guessing it signifies a ratio of indefinite dilution or something.
 
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I’m wonder if they’ll delve further into Greek mythology (and Norse), considering the games also based themselves upon those as it is. It would make sense to dig way back into Kratos’s childhood or something since the games only ever hinted at it, ie with Deimos.
The only way I can see this working is that they correct the story and mistakes of II and III.

Money, my dear boy. Money.
That money might as well be spent somewhere else better. If I need a live action adaption of God of War that badly, then I can watch The Clash of the Titans remake and it's sequel, Wrath of the Titans. And Immortals for the gore. Those are pretty much God of War movies.
 

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Apparently the rumors of a new state of play sometime this month were true. And Surprise it's tomorrow!

 

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Apparently the rumors of a new state of play sometime this month were true. And Surprise it's tomorrow!

It’ll probably be to promote whatever the next upcoming exclusive is, which might’ve meant Forespoken until it got delayed five months. So with any luck it’ll be about GoW: Ragnarok (GoW and March have historically gone together after all, even though 2018 released in April) with a release date and open gates for preorders.
 

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It’ll probably be to promote whatever the next upcoming exclusive is, which might’ve meant Forespoken until it got delayed five months. So with any luck it’ll be about GoW: Ragnarok (GoW and March have historically gone together after all, even though 2018 released in April) with a release date and open gates for preorders.
Kitase did say that there was going to be a FF7R Part 2 reveal this year so.....my mind is one track right now.
 

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It’ll probably be to promote whatever the next upcoming exclusive is, which might’ve meant Forespoken until it got delayed five months. So with any luck it’ll be about GoW: Ragnarok (GoW and March have historically gone together after all, even though 2018 released in April) with a release date and open gates for preorders.
I would also accept "We'll be releasing another 10 million PS5s into the wild to make it easier to get one"

My local grocery/department store has two set up for Demos. To my knowledge they've never had one for actual sale, so at this point I'm unclear what the point of the demo console is. I wander over there at random when I visit just to see if they quietly restocked and have yet to see one available.

I tried asking the guy working the area last time and he didn't know what a PS5 was, no doubt because he was pulled from another part of the store to cover electronics due to staffing shortfalls
 
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It’ll probably be to promote whatever the next upcoming exclusive is, which might’ve meant Forespoken until it got delayed five months. So with any luck it’ll be about GoW: Ragnarok (GoW and March have historically gone together after all, even though 2018 released in April) with a release date and open gates for preorders.

They announced it's going to focus on Japan Publishers!!!!

*EXCITEMENT INTENSIFIES*

No God of War in this case though.