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Newegg is selling 1 year PSN codes for $49.99 and there's a promo code to get an extra $10 off. Code is: EMCTBVT44 Sale is good through Wednesday. Not sure how long the code is good for but it still worked as of a few hours ago. Good through March 2022 now I think. >_>

Show was phenomenal. Not sure how it compares to the book as I've never read it, but I've heard good things on that end too. Also, if the show itself weren't good enough, there's this: https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/06/20/thousand-petition-netflix-to-cancel-good-omens-even-though-it-ai/ They've since admitted to the error and redirected the petition, but holy hell.

14.) The Turing Test Have always been semi-interested in this game but never quite enough to buy it. Seemed like it might just be a straight Portal knockoff. Was in the collection on the Game Pass for PC thing that Microsoft has which I decided to try out for the $1 for a month promo they did and tried this out first. Definitely has a bit of a Portal feel to it, but without the funny. Super serious but really interesting. Puzzles were phenomenal and could be thought through logically without any guess work. Story was interesting and was a really good with a heavy emphasis on AI as an 'individual' philosophy type stuff. Was a pleasant experience all around.

Whelp. I guess that might answer some questions about where things will go with Billy.

Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith defends 2077 from post-E3 criticism

I'm about half way through it. Have enjoyed it so far. Character development for secondary characters has been really solid too. Makes me wish it would still be around after this. ?

You are severely understating the content in Midgar. It's collected areas equal about half of the other places you listed at least and they can potentially add some of the other sectors, and the story content within it is pretty fucking stacked. I can see it being it's own "story" with everything that happens there. A lot of the rest of it won't fare nearly as well though so they can't cut it up too much. However this plays out, I don't foresee it being more than 4 releases (though I sincerely hope it is less). I'm willing to go through with this first one and see it before I freak out and judge from there, but there is a breaking point in this somewhere and if they manage to hit it, they're going to fuck themselves. Having said that, I will say they are being far too aloof about what the plan is right now though and it's kind of bullshit. "How many 'games' is this going to be?" "We can't tell you because even we don't know lololololol." No. Not cool. How have you not already planned this shit out some time in the past decade you dumb fucks? I don't care if the first one is so extensive it takes 2 Blu-ray disks and that makes the potential for the rest a bit hazy. Sort your shit out. We don't have long before a new console generation too so logistics if this takes too long is going to be fucking miserable for both sides knowing how Square likes to function anymore.

Yeah, they seem to really big on accessibility so they're pushing things to be wider and easier to jump in to. Trying out the PC game pass thing for the month since it's a dollar right now to see how it is. One interesting thing I've seen with it so far is it looks like you can have up to 10 devices linked to your account (whether they be PCs, XBoxes, etc. ) and it doesn't seem to care if multiple things are using it at the same time. Downloaded the beta app for it and tested it out and could run a game on my computer through my account and also logged in on my wife's computer and was able to run a game there too at the same time with no complications that I could see.

I honestly like Phil Spencer. Ever since he took over I've been impressed with how he's handled their progress over the years. The XBone went from "What a fucking joke, I would never touch one of these in my life." to "I would consider buying one of those, maybe." His work, if nothing else, has really been highlighting Sony's lack of forward momentum since they stole the show for the PS4. His stances on a lot of pertinent issues to console gaming in recent years are exactly what I want to hear, and he tends to be really candid on difficulties with what he wants to do and/or things that people want to see. Still don't like their controller though. XD

They probably honestly don't know depending on how much they add I guess. I see the rest coming out faster though once they have the main models and all the combat mechanics and everything set, it should speed up the pace a bit. You of all people shouldn't care anyway since you haven't played the first game. If what you're getting is a full game with a full story and you have no functional context for any more story beyond that, but are still complaining, then you're just being difficult. There's definitely some stuff going on in the trailer that was not in the original game, so it looks like they've certainly added to it. If they split this up too much it's going to be kind of dumb though the approach right now seems to be that any splits to it will be where there is a fully functioning story. I can see where that works during the first part of the game, but am not entirely sure how they'll play that out after that point unless they go all out bullshit cliffhanger type episodic stuff. I'm willing to buy a well rounded game/story even if I know it's not the "whole" story. I don't want some Telltale shit though. Really like how the gameplay looks though. Looking forward to that much at least.

They say that now. That's literally how they described it. Not saying it makes a difference in whether you should play it or not before waiting, but and they will almost certainly sell another edition of the game with this as part of it after it comes out (they did this with FFXV as well. They added stuff to the core game as DLC thing and then also resold the game as "FFXV Royal Edition" or whatever it was. You could just get the DLC if you had the game or buy the game with everything if you didn't have it yet).

Saw that today. The person playing seems like he has no idea what he's doing half the time. XD

They said during the thing that the first part is JUST the stuff in Midgar but that they have expanded the story and everything there by a large amount and it functions as a full game story on its own I thought?

That's basically what this is. Instead of doing a "Final Mix" type of thing like they always used to do, they're doing this.

Showed a new mini-trailer at the FFVII symphony thing that was last night I think. Also got a release date. March 3rd 2020. Should get more specific info tonight at Square's conference I would imagine.

New story trailer. Also recommend actually watching the part of the Microsoft E3 presentation where it was shown. I don't think anyone is quite as hyped as Keanu Reeves. Edit: Here it is. There's a quick reel of gameplay bits at the end of it too:

Gameplay trailer from E3:

Pre-Disney Star Wars games let you do shit like that too. Force Unleashed had some pretty insane shit too including pretty much everything seen in this with the exception of pulling the "stop blaster bolts in midair" thing I think. When it comes down to it, it's a game, and they're going to put anything cool seen in the movies into it whether it makes sense for this kid to be able to do them or not. Though likely it's not something you'll be able to do right away anyway and will have to level up and acquire the skill at some point to do a lot of that.

If they insist on going that route, at least do more stuff between 6 and 7. They've shoved a plethora of things between 3 and 4 now but we've had minimal stuff showing the other and one of those was Battlefront 2 which was kind of meh ultimately in terms of story.

Okay, so they clarified some things a bit. Mainly, the fact that, though the Cataclysm event is 8 weeks long, that doesn't mean the content will go away after 8 weeks, and that it would be kind of weird to make a whole new area and all this other stuff, and then remove it 8 weeks later. Was rather vague on details, but there is more to this than just the 8 week event they were referencing.

Finally. Really hoping for something impressive from Crystal Dynamics at this point. Edit: sounds like some details were leaked online. One such mentioned 4-player co-op. ?

I find that funny, because that basically IS a version of Spider-man.

Doing stream right now. Talking about the Cataclysm event and showing off the new area. - Cataclysm will be an 8 week event, 2 of which is a "pre" event period. - Will have leaderboards and support a repeatable, competitive element. - New story, missions, and high end cutscenes will be involved - This will take place in a new area of the game. - New faction has formed within the Dominion as a result of the main games story, their leader Vara will be the main antagonist from the sound of it. - Map contains various "arenas" with different events and objectives to score points. - Can only spend certain amount of time flying in the cataclysm itself before you take damage. - Gain points meeting objectives and completing arenas and things of that nature. - There will be a time limit that is extended as you complete objectives, as well as score multipliers and things of that nature. When time runs out you're given a score. - Event will have "Inversions" that give buffs to certain things each week. Things like 400% increased ult charge, half time on ability charge or double damage on certain weapon types. So basically like the things on Nightfall strikes in Destiny, but everything is a beneficial effect. - New weapons and masterwork gear - Melee equippable slot. Not DIFFERENT weapons for the javelines, but will have different effects. Example given was Ranger melee is a primer electric ability. Can change it to be a detonator instead. Plan is for all Javelin's to be able to swap between different elements and primer or detonator for their melee. - Masterwork and Legendary Support gear (FINALLY) - New items will have a higher power level than existing items (kind of expected, but it's probably good they say so or I might worry. >_> ). -Event will have currency tied to it and a special vendor you can buy chests from ( ). Items available in chests will change throughout the event. - Removing luck stat, all Javelin's will have set "luck" to what the max was when it was a stat so effectively more loot will drop for people unless they were try-harding the game already. Any gear with the luck stat is having it replaced by armor. - PTS will go up sometime next week and will be up for 2 or 3 weeks. They really want feedback on the systems they're putting in before it goes live. First week will be strictly testing for the event itself, and after they will patch the new loot in for feedback on that. Definitely looks good overall. Not sure how I feel about this being an "event" (even if it does go for 8 weeks). The only way this is going to work is if they keep their dev. cycle really strong and have shit progress consistently. So this event will finish and another of equal size/length will start within a week or two after and keep progressing the story/world forward. This is basically going to be end game content so they can't just end it and then wait a month or more before something else happens or people will lose it. Time will tell. Austin has a LOT of experience with online services and this style of development and whatnot so I have some hope that once they stabilize with what they're doing, we'll see some consistent stuff from them. PTR is PC only which sucks for me I guess. Might actually consider contributing feedback on this since they probably legit need it and will be hard up for people not just screaming "LOOT" over and over again which is usually what 75% of the stream chat is. It's already been clipped for anyone that might want to actually watch it: