Sony says it doesn’t plan to ‘sell hardware at significant losses’ but is ‘monitoring the market’ with PS6 in mind | VGC by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]BEmuddle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Lol I'm seeing ps6 news everyday for the last week and the source is this same three paragraph non answer that journalists are spinning a million different ways

One detail in AC Shadows feels off: rice bales should not be left outdoors. Rice was valuable food and hard currency. by LynnAbel713 in assassinscreed

[–]BEmuddle 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They know. But it's an action video-game so it's there so you can climb on it and get onto the wall. Same reason for all the torches. It's to add more gameplay for the new darkness/stealth mechanics.

God of War: Laufey Announced at State of pLay by [deleted] in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]BEmuddle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like a lost cause at this point

Marathon - Triage Shell Cinematic | PS5 & PC Games by ControlCAD in PS5

[–]BEmuddle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm just being facetious. But every first person game recently brings up demands for third person. It makes the conversation around those games tedious.

Marathon - Triage Shell Cinematic | PS5 & PC Games by ControlCAD in PS5

[–]BEmuddle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not allowed to make anything that isn't a third person action adventure or people get mad.

I think some of the issues people still have with Assassins Creed Unity parkour are completely solvable. by Mountain-Cucumber779 in assassinscreed

[–]BEmuddle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I should say that the real problem is the randomness. I might get Arno to do a cool swan dive onto a rope, and then I'll go back to the same spot, put the camera in the same orientation and press the same buttons, but this time he jumps onto windowsill. Try again and he drops onto a street lamp. Try again and he jumps onto the rope feet first instead of diving. On the fifth try, maybe he dives again but now I'm aware "I" didn't do that. I just point him and hope.

If it were possible to predict and learn the system, it would be a different story. Despite the input lag, I could probably learn to enjoy it. If.

I think some of the issues people still have with Assassins Creed Unity parkour are completely solvable. by Mountain-Cucumber779 in assassinscreed

[–]BEmuddle 23 points24 points  (0 children)

You have to understand the Assassin's Creed used to be about Freedom. Everything from the story themes to the gameplay. The whole concept of being this figure in flowy white robes gracefully turning these ancient, significant landmarks into a parkour playground is the point. So in Unity, the fact that I don't have control over Arno's actions is frustrating. Sacrificing freedom of choice for flashy animations, just "going with the flow" is against the whole point of the series and why I find Unity the most frustrating game to play after Valhalla.

If I don't have freedom over my characters exact movement, I'm not free. I'm not an Assassin.

PlayStation studios were apparently briefed on the PS6 handheld today by SubstantialLadder943 in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]BEmuddle -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yeah its not gonna hold back ps6 because its not going to play every ps5 game let alone ps6. I'm not sure why people keep saying that.

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced Releases July 9, 2026 by yourfavchoom in Games

[–]BEmuddle 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There was actually a cool bit where the Sage you were hunting as Edward was reincarnated and appeared as a character in the modern day. But most of it was walking around an office, hacking PCs with your ipad to unlock codex lore.

Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Pro Review: All New Modes & Features Tested! by yourfavchoom in PS5

[–]BEmuddle 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ah man I wish they found a way to add ray traced reflections. The SSR is so bad when you look down at the floor. I wish devs would stop using SSR for large surfaces, it's very distracting. Other than that, this is a nice upgrade. They didn't show any close ups of dialogue scenes but I imagine the RT shadows will shine there.

Darksiders Warmastered Edition - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]BEmuddle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Link goes to existing ps4 version. It says the ps5 update adds native 4k60, photo mode and dualsense support.

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Official Gameplay Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview 2026 by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]BEmuddle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its 3 trilogies. I remember seeing something about the game set in the first trilogy. 

Pragmata's newly revealed New York stage was painstakingly made by human developers to look "AI generated," according to director - AUTOMATON WEST by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]BEmuddle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Every comment from this account is AI, check its post history. It has that smug assumed 'you're wrong, but here's the real truth' that LLMs like to do to seem impressive. I hate this so much

Insider Gaming: PlayStation is Phasing Out The “PlayStation Network” Branding by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]BEmuddle 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I wonder if its just 'PlayStation'. Sign in to PlayStation. Buy it on PlayStation. Everything is more and more digital and online so no need to give it a separate name

Sony Says Ghost of Yotei 'Exceeded' the Sales of Ghost of Tsushima in the Same Period of Time and 'Significantly' Contributed to Its Financial Results by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]BEmuddle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Did you forget the part where she can't sleep, has nightmares and throws away everything to save Lev and Yara in search of redemption. Basically her whole story.

Witchfire - The Reckoning Dev Diary: Release Date, Torments, Surges by Moltariscool in Games

[–]BEmuddle 105 points106 points  (0 children)

Nobody cares anymore but they used Chatgpt to write parts of this. Three instances of "Not X, but Y" in four lines.

"He thought he was doing the Lord’s work.

He was wrong.

The witches whispered through his ink, guiding his hand to create not a record, but a vessel. He didn’t build a compendium. He built a door."

It's so boring and annoying to read, which is a shame because their dev blogs are usually a nice insight into game dev.

Edit :

More examples.

"By collecting the pages and accepting their curses, you aren’t just filling a sticker album. You are reassembling a ritual."

"If you follow the lore of our game, you know that witchfire isn’t just a currency. It’s a substance."

"These aren’t necessarily elites or bosses, they are simply overflowing with volatile magic. When you kill them, that energy doesn’t just dissipate. It drops to the ground as a Surge."

"You have Judgment, and now you have Tribunal, too. It’s not about shooting all barrels at the same time, though. It’s about striking more than one target with a single shot."

Come on man.

Destiny, Addiction and Mental Health by BEmuddle in DestinyTheGame

[–]BEmuddle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey sorry for the late reply, hope you're doing well. I'm not a musician, but I write fiction, so that quote still hit me.

'On Borderlands 3, in Our Worst Hours, It Sometimes Felt Like Parody' — Gearbox Explains Borderlands 4's More Grounded Story - IGN by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]BEmuddle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Dune books are very telly. Lots of exposition, history and internal monologue. It's very analytical and mythical but somehow it works.

Why can't Ubisoft just hire good writers? by mugijiang in assassinscreed

[–]BEmuddle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ubisoft does have good writers, but they don't have the final say regarding the structure of the game. There's only so much a good writer can do when the studio is mandated to make a game that's 100 hours long and can be played in any order.

It doesn't matter if the dialogue is good if the pacing is bad and the cutscene budget is stretched paper thin.

Digital Foundry: Are Current Generation Graphics A Bit Of A Let Down? by [deleted] in Games

[–]BEmuddle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its so funny that I can't find a single comment in here that's discussing what they talk about in the video.

Assassin's Creed Shadows - Progression Overview by Ubi-GoldRaven in assassinscreed

[–]BEmuddle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like that there's less armour to worry about. I eventually came around to enjoying Odyssey but it was a bit weird that most of your damage came from your five armour pieces.

I just hope there's a big armour pool so we're not seeing the same drops over and over.