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This show has been going for how many season now? Im tired of this will they wont they bullshit! Mads Mikkelsen needs to step aside and let love bloom on the battlefield!

@spacemanspiff00: Actually PS Now would let you play the catalog of games online even without PS+. You would get cloud saves because how else would you save progress when you streamed, you just couldn't download/upload saves, or get the monthly games. It was a stupid good deal for $60 if you didn't own most of the games you wanted to play on there. It really sucks for people who only had Now because its basically $120 now for the same deal, but now you are forced to pay for PS+ which you didn't even need before. I wish they just added the $40 tier as an option for PS+ for the download only games and kept Now the way it was. But hopefully this gets us better/newer games.

Multi-trillion dollar company competing with multi-billion dollar company. But yeah i get the point.

I have to assume more of those games that where already on PS Now will show up. Unless there are legal reasons, because this is a new service that they have to go back to all those companies again and make another deal. They had over 800 games on Now, and this list is not worth the $120 asking price. But getting a PS1/PSP emulator out of it is cool with me. I just hope they can bring most if not all of those PS1/PSP games that where already being sold on PSN over. But for now im sticking with the basic PS+.

It was $60 for PS+ and $60 for PS Now, so it was already $120 if you had both so no real savings. Kinda sucks if all you had and wanted was PS Now. Because the only way to get it is at $120 rather then the stand alone $60 that it was. And PS Now had online play for any of the PS Now games and let you download PS4 games. Other then the middle tier and adding PS1 and PSP games, this is exactly the same, but screws over PS Now only customers buy raising the price and breaking it into tiers. They probably should have just kept it $60 for PS+ and Now and just added the middle tier at $40.

Have you tried the reset button on the controller itself and then re syncing it? As far as im aware the PS5 controller wont work at all with a PS4. The only thing i can think of is that the "power on" signal is close enough but not exactly the same on the consoles, and maybe with some random interference its interpreting it as the correct signal. But i would also think the syncing would probably change the blue tooth channels and PIN (or how ever they differentiate devices) and a regular re sync would have helped. Definitely an odd bug.

@thetafox: If you haven't tried the beta version try that. It works on some of my Roku devices, but not all, but its your only option as far as i know. https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bug-reporting-33/roku-app-issues-5222020-1808125/

You specifically say open world games but then talk about Hollow Knight and the new Tomb Raider's, which i would just toss in the metroidvania/action-adventure genre, and Mario which is a platformer, not open world. So i would probably say you just don't like bad or bland games, open world or otherwise, which is obviously a very subjective thing. Ubisoft and EA games are some of the most shallow, by the numbers, designed by committee games out there. And i always approach them knowing there games are going to be the "Law and Order" of video games. Something to keep me entertained, but ultimately shallow and something to keep my mind busy for a few hours until the actual good games come out. And Ubisoft specifically with there open worlds are filled with busy work quest with no good story reason for what you are doing.

I still have not finished Breath of the Wild, stopped playing for some reason and intend to go back at some point. But the story was one of the major things about that game that i was hating, and driving me away from it. If im remembering the story i got from that game after beating three of the four weapons, it was like that section in Destiny 1 where the speaker says he could tell you a story... then just moves on not explaining anything. The lack of building up the characters felt very shallow. But i kept on doing the temples and snatching up those seeds because they where fun puzzles, and the overall gameplay was fun.

But the thing that drove me in Zero Dawn absolutely was the story. The gameplay is a little clunky here and there, but overall enjoyable. From the start you ask "why are there robot dinosaurs? what is with these old crumbling buildings?", and you can make some assumptions that would be correct, but its the details and characters that where interesting. Even the side quest i remember liking the story and characters in them, which is why i did them all. And all the different tribes and there religions. There has been something missing in the start of Forbidden West, because you get your answers in Zero Dawn and the only thing motivating you is plants are over fertilized or something, and one of the bad guys from the last game is still out there, and you need to wrap up a few loose ends from the last game. And its kinda just more Horizon without any major advancement with adding new mechanics. But as soon as i hit that moment where you meet those four people i was hooked back in. And that also when the game opens up and you see more of the new tribes, which i have also found interesting.

A good developer can make an open world and "lock you in" for a half hour or more, then "let you out" after the quest is done. If they give you a story beat of "hey so and so is dangling from a rope, you should probably go save him" while letting you spend ten hours doing side quests, then yeah there can be some massive disconnect from the story that feels clunky. And that is something they should not have brought up, or forced you to do that quest right then and there. But if the game is actually fun to play, im not going to care that the story was good or bad, just that i had fun, but i would prefer a well written story and characters.

Bioshock as a movie i have no interest in at all, especially if it is based on the first game. A lot of what made that game's story and twist work was the fact that it was you controlling it. As a show i could see this working out much better. Jump around a little between times telling the story of Rapture's rise and fall, developing characters along the way, and potentially get some of Infinite in there and hop universes. But i also have not been a fan of Netflix's quality of work. They seem to just want as much content out there, regardless of quality. As apposed to an HBO or Disney and even Apple now with there shows.

@thepanzini: I skimmed the article. Obviously missing the last few paragraphs taking about there plans for there completely open app store, and CoD continuing on PS platforms. I think that you, me and @bigsocrates are all in agreement that MS is a company and everything they do in the end is financially motivated. In this case potentially even more so with people getting fed up with big tech and how they handle data, right to repair, app stores etc. and saying one thing, while doing the opposite. Like in the case with Ori and the developer being told no that game cant go to PS, or keeping Elder Scrolls exclusive. All the while MS is saying they don't want artificial barriers.

So when they say they want CoD on everything, i do believe them. But that's because Microsoft need to make 70 billion dollars back and keep investors happy, or it will be used as leverage in some way to get you on there platform. Not because Activision really wants it on PlayStation or Nintendo platforms.

All they want is in some way shape or form you paying them, ideally on there platform where they get 100% profits.

They also don't want new laws or regulations being made, or for this deal to fall through (which i also think is going to go through). So from my perspective they are just playing nice right now to keep governments and gamers happy and stop new laws and regulations, and potentially get an app store that can compete with Google and Apple. And years down the road there going to try and push this line back as far as possible for the most profits, which might include keeping CoD off other platforms. Or maybe this is them finally making good on the no artificial barriers ideology, but the cynic in me doesn't believe so.

@thepanzini: You are telling me Bethesda is making the choice not to put two of there newest games on PS5, Elder Scrolls VI and Starfield? The company that ported Skyrim to my washing machine? Like @nameredacted said, this if for the FTC. If it was profitable to port CoD to Nintendo platforms, each of the mainline games up till now would be on Nintendo platforms. They learned that it was not worth the time and money to port to a lower powered machine with a very different architecture some time ago. But now that the PS5/XSX are out with an even bigger power gap, now is the time?

It made sense in the case of Minecraft, it was already out on PS4 by the time MS bought it, and im sure had a much larger user base then XONE. All they where going to do with messing with Mincraft was piss alot of kids off, and cut into the profits.

If they where to continue to sell CoD on other platforms, why not say all CoD games will be on PlayStation going forward. Not the next three, that we are contractually obligated to do, will be on PS? They spent that money for a reason, the games on there platform. Whether that platform is GamePass/Xcloud or a PC/XSX.