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[Bobby Hundreds]

They need to make an 80s assasins creed set in Colomendy.

[Lee909]

Reading last night rumour is late sep early Oct. 

[Allan]

The trailer (which is very fucking good by the way).

 

 

[Allan]

2 hours ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Holiday 2020 is definitely the Christmas period.

Thanksgiving onward.

 

The new AC will defo be released in or around November. It's a PS5 launch title, and most "experts" believe we'll see the PS5 in November.

[Guest]

48 minutes ago, Dynamite said:

The trailer (which is very fucking good by the way).

 

 

IGN have published a breakdown of the video...

 

 

[Paul]

13 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

They need to make an 80s assasins creed set in Colomendy.

Ha, ha, ha!!! I took 130 absolutely psychotic Year 7s from the North End of Birkenhead there about eight years ago. Those three days felt like a fucking eternity and that trip was easily the toughest thing I’ve ever done in my professional life. Fuck me, those kids were mad. I’d gladly have used some hidden blades if I’d had them with me... probably on myself to get some fucking peace. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

18 hours ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

IGN have published a breakdown of the video...

 

 

 

There was also a breakdown video on the US official site where they interviewed two of their blokes who worked on the game. It was released the same day as the official Trailer. 

[Elite]

I don't mind  the odd Assassin's Creed game but Ubisoft churn out the same shit over and over, they are like the gaming version of a puppy farm

 

[Red Phoenix]

This guy has a rep for being reliable as far as I know, says The Last of Us II leak wasn't by an employee :

 

 

[sh#t waffle]

New footage released by Naughty Dog (no spoilers) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEKQaQ8IO-s

Looks absolutely incredible.

[Red Phoenix]

Another Bloodlines 2 trailer, no new release date yet after the delay but glad to see something new.

 

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I watched the sneak gameplay teaser of the upcoming games earlier. That Bloodlines 2 looks very good, I was expecting more from AC Valhalla. Looks great, but the gameplay teaser told us very little. Breakdown by JorRaptor here..........

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

I can't wait for cyberpunk 2077. 

[Elite]

On 12/05/2020 at 08:22, Bobby Hundreds said:

I can't wait for cyberpunk 2077. 

You might be waiting until 2077 until you can play it.

[skend04]

 

This looks amazing.

[Vincent Vega]

I have this on pre-order and am off on launch day, it better turn up early.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/jun/12/the-last-of-us-part-ii-review-zombie-fiction-playstation-4-naughty-dog-sony

The Last of Us Part 2 review – post-apocalyptic game is groundbreaking and powerful

5 out of 5 stars.

PlayStation 4; Naughty Dog/Sony
This intense game set in a post-disaster world poses moral questions about the motivations for violence and is brilliantly acted by its human contributors. (Spoiler free)

Keza MacDonald

Fri 12 Jun 2020 10.41

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” So goes the saying popularly (if spuriously) attributed to Confucius – a proverbial truth that The Last of Us Part II explores, unflinchingly and sometimes gruesomely, for 30 hours. It is difficult to explain how exactly it does this without robbing players of the chance to experience it for themselves, but I will say this: no video game has ever gone to these lengths to humanise the enemy, or to interrogate the violence that it asks the player to perform.

 

We play as Ellie, a 19-year-old born a few years after a fungal illness devastated human civilisation, turning the afflicted into shambling, deformed husks and the world’s cities into overgrown relics. Since the events of The Last of Us (2013), she has been living in a stable community of survivors, making friends, learning the guitar, kissing girls at dances. But a traumatic event drives her to leave the relative safety of Jackson on a revenge mission that takes her to the remains of Seattle.

 

The city has been ravaged first by the military, then by the infected, and finally by nature. Vegetation grows through the cars rooted to the highway and rusting skyscrapers preside over ominously empty streets. Abandoned storefronts and apartment buildings might hide notes from doomed former residents, scrap with which to fix up Ellie’s weapons or craft improvised explosives and health kits – or dormant infected ready to tear her to bits. Before long, she comes into contact with the remaining human residents of the city: the remnants of a well-equipped militia and the unsettling followers of a brutal cult, whistling creepily to each other as they hunt Ellie down.

 

There is shooting and molotov cocktails, and even a flamethrower at one point, but there is also an awful lot of hiding, running away, and creeping through long grass, desperately hoping not to be found. This isn’t a game that makes you feel powerful. Ellie can take care of herself, but I spent much of this game feeling horribly imperilled. It is usually difficult but possible to sneak past undetected or run away from fights, but good luck when finding the best paths through knots of soldiers or navigating a subway station full of zombies on your first try.

 

More often, I was forced into desperate, scrabbling combat, trying not to get overwhelmed, wasting bullets in a panic. Very occasionally this felt slightly farcical; once I was stuck hiding on top of a shipping container, having exhausted all my ammo for every weapon, waiting for an opening to dash to the door I needed to get through to end the scene. But more often it feels intense and dramatic; immense relief descended on me every time I made it through a scene unscathed. This game pulls the occasional horror trick on you, sending you falling through a floor into a dark basement full of zombies or confronting you with horrendous Resident Evil-inspired new variants on the infected, but the scariest parts for me were when I was probing through seemingly empty buildings, or hiding in a corner praying that guard dogs wouldn’t sniff me out. 

 

The violence is extreme, sometimes uncomfortable, and consequential. It’s hard to feel too bad for shooting, bludgeoning or blowing up the grotesque and suffering infected as they run at you, gasping, moaning and making hideous clicking noises, but when Ellie is choking a struggling human enemy, grim-faced, it’s not pleasant to watch. In video games we are accustomed to an action-movie suspension of disbelief in relation to body counts, and to a straightforward moral assumption that the player characters whose perspective we inhabit are the goodies, and that the people on the other side of the aiming reticle are the baddies. The Last of Us Part II challenges both of these assumptions.

 

This isn’t a straightforward violence-is-bad story. As in most zombie fiction, violence is baked into this world and our interactions with it. Instead, it’s about the motivations for that violence, the endless cycles of retribution that pull individuals or whole populations down into destructive spirals, and what it takes to break those cycles. There were parts of it that I had to endure rather than enjoy, furious or disgusted by what characters were doing – and, by extension, by what I was doing. There will be many players who don’t like where this story takes them, but by God, it’s emotionally effective. I was obsessed with it from the first hour, and now that I’ve finished it, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it for days.

 

This effectiveness is the result of some fine acting from The Last of Us Part II’s human stars, and the immense technical skill on show in translating those performances to the screen. Never for a moment did the awareness that I was watching 3D models interact with each other intrude on my experience of this story. You can see every scar, scratch and micro-expression on their faces, read their body language, hear the venom or fear or conflict in their voices – and these characters are, not incidentally, the most diverse set to feature in a game as big as this. It is rare in games for the moments when you’re not playing to be as memorable as those when you are.

 

The writing is extremely good, not only the dialogue but also the masterful use of flashbacks and other narrative devices to flesh out personalities and motivations, having you revisit scenes and places in new contexts that make you see things differently. Chases, shootouts and horribly tense forays through long-abandoned, zombie-infested buildings are balanced with quiet (or quietly devastating) scenes where all you do is talk and look around. The game’s graphical and technical accomplishments are just as key to its power: everything from the animation to the scene-setting, every building and battered piece of furniture and tiny trinket that makes up this post-apocalyptic Americana, is meticulous and astounding.

 

This is an unlikely comparison, but now that I’ve had some time to absorb The Last of Us Part II, it reminds me thematically of Shadow of the Colossus, another game about how consuming grief and anger can be. I was similarly poleaxed by that game’s clever manipulation of the player’s power, the way it also used the language of video games to make you think twice about your actions. The Last of Us Part II is another story that could only work as a game, the kind of challenging, groundbreaking work that comes along two or three times a decade.

[Bobby Hundreds]

I'm looking forward to cyberpunk 2077 more than the Ps5. For me the witcher 3 and it's DLC is up there with the best media ever made. The game developer loves what they do. I hope it reaches even half it's expectations.

[Aventus]

Anybody else seen the latest leaks for the last of us 2?

 

I'm not going to spoil anything, but if you aren't that arsed about spoilers or don't have any intention of buying it then I recommend you have a look, it's pretty wild. 

[Allan]

Cyberpunk 2077 delayed until November.

 

 

An important development update pic.twitter.com/uFGrt9Tqpi

— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) June 18, 2020

[Red Phoenix]

No spoilers :

 

I decided against getting The Last of Us Part II because it looked too gloomy to deal with at the moment for 20-30 hours and I couldn't shake off being wary of it after seeing the leaks. If it was open world/rpg maybe I'd have gone for it, but it's not so I passed. Yesterday though I decided I'd watch a bit of someone streaming it to get a better impression, then switched over to a different stream on twitch (I'd never watched a playthrough stream for any real length of time at all before I don't think) and ended up sat there for 12-13 hours as they completed the second half of the game.

 

After seeing that I think the disconnect between reviewers giving it 10/10 and players not happy with how the game turned out could be a talking point for a while to come. It looks like it's definitely more than review bombing going on, but at the same time it's clearly not a 3/10 game like metacritic is showing at the moment with all of the actual review bombing. I can't see how it's a 10/10 game either though.

 

It looks like you're watching a film at times during gameplay, is probably the best looking game I've ever seen and this was from seeing it on twitch that will have had a drop in quality due to streaming. It's mental to think they've done this on a PS4 (PS4 Pro on stream I saw) and it left me wondering what developers could manage to do on a PS5 if they're used to working with it and really push it to/near its limits. The graphics are definitely what stuck with me the most after watching so much of it.

 

There wasn't much else that I was really interested in though apart from graphics and being impressed at the effort that's gone into creating the environments and characters/npc's. I have other thoughts but it'd could be hard to go into whilst also trying to avoid going into spoiler territory. I might end up buying it in the future but maybe when it's on sale or reduced.

[Red Phoenix]

I went back to watch some more streaming of The Last of Us Part II and the more I watched the more interested I was in playing it, so have just ordered it. I know how most of the story plays out and not bothered. I've got it to be immersed in the world, fighting, upgrading weapons and crafting, taking screenshots, roaming around, looting stuff, etc. It looks too well made for me to pass on then sit around for months wondering about playing it and when it'll be reduced or on sale.

[Allan]

[Baresi]

4 hours ago, Dynamite said:

It’s a day one purchase for me that. Can’t wait. 

[Lee909]

Been waiting for Ghosts for a while. Don't watch much in the way of leaked footage etc. Might get it day 1 for my first day's off or tempted to wait till September as I have a week off everyonth from then till Xmas 

[Allan]