There's been controversy about the main character
#Yasuke
in Assassin's Shadows, largely from folk who don't want to see a black protagonist/Samurai, and give the excuse it's historical perversion.
To that I ask, since when has that ever been an issue in this FICTIONAL
After years of constant
#WhiteWashing
, many of the same folk who stayed quiet, are only now piping up to challenge when it's black characters getting similar treatment. Lol.
Rules for thee but not for we? 🤔
WhiteWashed film list;
-Prince of Persia - Gyllenhaal as Persian
Watching certain
#Xbox
fan reactions to Indiana Jones'
#PS5
release announcement is almost as entertaining as Gamescom was Lol
Here's a little compilation! 🤭
#Helldivers2
is the most fun I've had in any PVE since Destiny 1 raids.
Its high octane tension, pyromania, team play and sheer spectacle makes it intensely engrossing. No other MP game's made me feel as much a centre of a blockbuster action scene. None. Gameplay screens.
#PS5
#WRECKED
😭🤣
They rioted and attacked a local mosque in retaliation for...a man born in Wales with Christian parents, having heinously and tragically murdered children
These same folk ironically criticised recent riots by the Roma community, again wrongly blaming it on Muslims
Don't usually get into this topic and enjoy diversity in games, but while I appreciate lighting, no make-up, angles, tech limitations etc play a role, it's weird more games are making characters notably less attractive compared to their real life actresses
#StarWarsOutlaws
#Fable
#WRECKED
😭🤣
They rioted and attacked a local mosque in retaliation for...a man born in Wales with Christian parents, having heinously and tragically murdered children
These same folk ironically criticised recent riots by the Roma community, again wrongly blaming it on Muslims
Loving these streamer reactions to the Final Fantasy XVI demo. Fair to say mine was also along same lines.
Some big streamers among these, so have to imagine exposure/word of mouth will have positive impact to sales. Not sure source of orig edit, but credit to
@Perlrulez
.
#FF16
Oh dear. So
#Xbox
turned down exclusivity on:
- Destiny
- Guitar Hero
- Genshin Impact
- A choice of any Marvel IP
- Grand Theft Auto III
Which were all super successful. They're not the best at picking them lol. Lest we forget GTA3, Spider-Man etc were HUGE for
#PlayStation
.
Conversation at
@Guerrilla
on Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores.
Dev: "How much foliage density did you want?"
Director: "Yes."
Gameplay screenshots.
#BurningShores
#PS5
As much as I love Final Fantasy XVI and the VII Remake's, can't help watching the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer's slick, modernised turn based combat, and thinking FF might be better served with similar. 🤔
It's time to go back to turn-based. Combat vid
#Expedition33
#Xbox
Playing Astro Bot reinforces how bad we need Switch 2.
#Nintendo
are masters of their craft but art direction can only take you so far.
#AstroBot
's the ultimate testament to how technology can massively enhance gaming exp. Graphics, physics, DualSense etc. Gameplay screens
#PS5
Don't let Astro Bot lul you into a false sense of security with its difficulty. It ramps up! A LOT. 👀 Especially the optional or secret side quest planets.
Here's a video example. Still making short work of em! 💪🏽
#PS5
#AstroBot
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is THE best looking game I've ever played. At times it actually looks unreal, almost CGI esque. Bravo
@Guerrilla
, and thanks for making this current-gen only. The results speak for themselves. Gameplay screenshots.
#BurningShores
#PS5
Damn, Digital Foundry's John Linneman on Astro Bot! 🤖
"Single handedly reminded me why I enjoy video games"
"Truly goes toe to toe with the best Nintendo has to offer"
"From a technical perspective, I would describe the execution as flawless"
"Astro Bot is just about as
Feel like
@Guerrilla
were flexing capabilities of Decima on PS5 only throughout Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores DLC, but this final Horus boss! 😱 INSANE! 🤯 GOW boss vibes with current-gen only fidelity and physics....at 60fps....in an OPEN WORLD game!
#PS5
#BurningShores
IGN's Destin Legarie asks Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter how much an equivalent PS5 Pro performing PC would cost
He says a fair bit more expensive, that no equivalent AMD GPU currently exists with its next-gen RDNA4 features. That
#PS5Pro
's more Nvidia like, closer to 4070
An ex-employee of
#Bungie
who was laid off, calls on Bungie CEO Pete Parsons to step down, also says he is a liar and a thief, and claims this isn't on
#Sony
but Bungie leadership.
Pete has also supposedly bought a whopping 24 vehicles from a single auction site, since the
@OrdinaryGamers
Beyond: Two Souls 2013, Until Dawn 2015, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare 2016, Hellblade 2017 etc, just a few examples. We've had high quality facial scanning and fairly to highly accurate models for a decade now.
@emiliacosplay
It's a shame none of the men you've ever met conform to all 3 of these criteria, but I assure you plenty do lol. It's important however, not to conflate actual tangible mental instability with general flaws, mistakes etc, as nobody is perfect afterall.
If you're buying Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 on console, own both and insist on 60fps, pick up the Series X version. Oddly has a big advantage over PS5 of 10-15fps or 21% in places
Performance mode runs 720p-1080p FSR, Quality ~locked 30fps on both consoles at 1080p-1440p FSR
More I play Black Myth WuKong the more it's a top GOTY contender.
Saw this insanely ornate and detailed design in a shrine, only to later be miniaturised INTO IT for a boss + trapped in a magic bag!
Attention to art detail and creativity is incredible! 🔥
#PS5
#BlackMythWukong
@hiiipowers
Lot of people thinking he's saying he's better than Lamar, he's not. He's saying trying to go against him is akin to going against Lamar, aka suicide as far as beefs go. It's actually a compliment not a diss, acknowledging Kendrick is of a similar level as Eminem.
@Mashouf
May Allah reward this brother in abundance. 🤍
Also, the entire American prison system and industrial complex needs top down overhaul. It's akin to modern day slavery, and I'm not being sensationalist when I say that.
Here it is, the HARDEST Shape Challenge in Astro Bot; To The Beat (X)! 🥵🤕
May look simple, but it's infuriating lol. If pace is off beat by a millisecond, you're almost done for. Plus there's electricity, lava, spikes, flipping pads, homing attacks etc too! 😭
#PS5
#AstroBot
OMG. Astro Bot x God of War level is just PERFECT 😭. The retractable Leviathan axe, all the franchise tie-ins! 🪓
#AstroBot
is a labour of gaming love. 🎮🤍 Gameplay video.
#GodofWar
#PS5
Lot of conversation around NPC animations across different games atm. As far as open world games go, Horizon Forbidden West is still easily the gold standard for me. Incredible level of fidelity/nuance for an open world game. Gameplay dialogue clips.
#PS5
#HorizonForbbidenWest
Lunatic Ignus, a leaker who's previously correctly leaked past State of Play's and game announcements, says
#PlayStation
will have a State of Play on the 19th or 20th of September, revealing the PS5 Pro, plus "first-party games and potentially a world premiere". 👀
#PS5Pro
#PS5
Black Myth WuKong's actually insane lol. Here's me with my lil warthog buddy, we rocked up to the island on THE BACK OF A GIANT TURTLE! 😅🔥
These kinds of things make it feel more like Chinese God of War than Soulsborne. An epic grand fantasy adventure.
#PS5
#BlackMythWukong
For the melanin phobic and fragile, just know that you can choose to play as either
#Yasuke
or
#Naoe
.
A Ubisoft dev has confirmed that outside of a few moments, you can play almost the entire game with one character or the other, should you choose.
Though I have a feeling many
Who actually was
#Yasuke
, and what do we know about him from original accounts at the time?
Part 1
I've heard folk say that he was merely a pen scriber or sword carrier, but this is based on unsubstantiated sourcing (including from a now edited Wikipedia excerpt).
The point
This was one of the coolest gunfights I've had in a game in a while. Zero gravity, set in a space casino, lighting, colours, art, music; superb! 🔥
Olympus system, Almagest station. A must visit. Jackpot code nets 3700 creds & contraband in cache 23,550+.
#XboxShare
#Starfield
At this point, based on the actual numbers, it's pretty clear some of the big Xbox fan accounts on Twitter, are orders of magnitude more toxic in their volume of console war negativity, over any other platforms.
Whilst at work I figured I'd do some analysis on the numbers, since
#PlayStation
's Mark Cerny confirms the Ray Tracing in PS5 Pro is RDNA4 tech not yet available in AMD consumer GPU's.
Digital Foundry alluded to as much and claimed it'll be the same for its AI silicone.
"𝙋𝙎𝟱 𝙋𝙧𝙤 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙧𝙖𝙮
Look at the language Phil Spencer uses here. You'd think career moments would be things like innovating, creating great product, games etc, but for Phil Spencer, acquiring Nintendo would be his "career moment". Sigh...
Digital Foundry when asked which PC GPU most closely matches PS5 Pro's say $579 RX 6800 or $500 RX 7800 XT with a downclock
But that neither are a match as they're missing RDNA4 RT features and machine learning HW they think
#PS5Pro
has; future RDNA4 GPU will offer closer match.
GT7 vs Real Life gameplay video; Toyota GR010 Hybrid Hypercar, La Sarthe. INSANE how accurately they nailed the track! 😱 Each undulation, bump, details, scale, even shape/size of trees! Suspension travel too. Full lap YT link
#PS5Share
#GranTurismo7
#GT7
Real talk,
#Helldivers2
should be pulled from both
#Playstation
's store and
#Steam
till server capacity issues are sorted.
Unacceptable new and existing customers can't play the game they've paid for. Why's it available for sale if more buyers = worse queues? Can't get in.
#PS5
Digital Foundry's John Linneman who's currently testing PS5 Pro, says Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on the Pro has superior image quality to PS5's 30fps Quality mode, while running at 60fps! 👀 🔥 Also;
"PSSR...looks a lot better than generic upscaling they previously used"
#PS5Pro
@MixyPisa
@ajitxsingh
@FranceskAlbs
Yes it is. Israel controls Gaza's airspace, territorial waters, land crossings, borders, trade, energy, supplies, gas, exports/imports, construction etc. They even limit basic goods. Gaza isnt truly sovereign or free.
@TRobinsonNewEra
Except you literally did.
"Get them out of them hotels, get them gone!"
"They're endangering the safety of our families!"
"Men will rise up!"
"They have to rise up to defend their families!"
"You've bought this WAR on our shores."
@Lowkey0nline
Sue them.
"How can you arrest me if you don't even know what it means though?"
Is the correct response. Absolute abuse of power and shocking policing. Also, do NONE of these officers know images/photos can be translated by Google Translate? 😐
Alex before the PS5 Pro reveal
"You'll never get these leaked specs unless the console's $699 or higher!"
Leaked specs are confirmed true and price $699 or higher
"$699?!?! HAHAHAHA"
These PC cats routinely contradict or trip over their own words. He deleted the the tweet lol
@Dark_Mesyah
@CH37083178
@assassinscreed
You didn't complain about Nioh featuring a white main character? 🤔 A character who like Yasuke, is also loosely based on a real historic figure.
You racists are too transparent.
Drake supposed to be the numbers guy but
+Each of Kendrick Lamar's diss tracks have more YT views than Drake's
+Not Like Us 19m views in a day & a club hit
+NLU & Euphoria
#2
#3
Spotify Global top 50, Family Matters
#13
+NLU & Euphoria
#1
#2
Apple most played, Family Matters
#3
#FORSPOKEN
demo; not overly impressed. Good sense of scale, fun parkour mobility/thrill, cool magic, but garish muted art style, mid visuals, combat tad janky/unrefined, oft unideal hit animation/enemy tells, bad HDR, weak VA/dialogue +bit repetitive & bland. Not so sure now...🤔
This isn't actually true.
PS4 - 1.84 Tflop
PS4 Pro - 4.19 Tflop
128% increase
PS5 - 10.28 Tflop
PS5 Pro - 33.5 Tflop
226% increase
PS5 Pro also has advanced next-gen RDNA4 features with RT and AI accelerating silicone for PSSR. PS4 Pro never had anything similar over the PS4.
Not one person in the comments can show me where I was wrong.
The leap in GPU power from PS4 to PS4 Pro was over 128%, the PS5 to PS5 Pro is around 75-95%.
IM RIGHT 😂😂😂
Genuine question, does ANY other game have NPC's as detailed as Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores during full moveset GAMEPLAY? Esp faces. I can't think of one. The fidelity of NPC gameplay models up close is bordering absurd! 😵
Gameplay screenshots.
#BurningShores
#PS5
It's actually quite surprising how mixed the messaging is at Xbox, especially in a pre-recorded business update video lol. Some of it arguably deceptive.
Sarah Bond: "𝙎𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝟯𝟰 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚
Turns out there's a final multi shape challenge in Astro Bot; Great Master Challenge. Arguably the games HARDEST! Here's a vid 👑
I eagerly await droves of anime/cartoon profile pic insecure fanboys who've likely not played
#AstroBot
telling me this isnt hard/original lol.
#PS5
Asgard in Ragnarok is absolutely incredible graphically, also peak character/world building. Lighting, textures, sense of scale/scope etc majestic. Overall the game may not be as graphically impressive as say Horizon FW, but it still wows, esp artistically.
#GodofWarRagnarok
#PS5
When you're holding 6 ultra rare samples and have no more strategems on Helldivers difficulty (hardest poss).
Thankfully team was clutch, baited multiple Bile Titans, Chargers and an army away from me. Extracted solo but samples priority! Only my mic recorded.
#Helldivers2
#PS5
Hogwarts Legacy's graphics/art are underrated. Considering this was Avalanche SW's 1st major AAA production, open world, cross-gen & 60fps on current-gen consoles (without RT), it looks superb! 🪄 Fantastic interior material shaders, lighting & sense of scale
#PS5
#HogwartsLegacy
Screenrant complained Black Myth WuKong lacks diversity with no female characters, but among mostly talking animals, it has multiple. Review also implies they played only 2/6 chapters! 😐
One of the coolest bosses in the game is a woman! 🔥 Gameplay video.
#PS5
#BlackMythWukong
Do LEGO games usually look this good, or is this Guerilla Games co-developed sauce? Because LEGO Horizon Adventures looks practically real to me lol. Incredible lighting/shaders, almost akin to the movies.
Official gameplay screenshots captured on
#PS5
.
#LegoHorizonAdventures
@OliLondonTV
Interesting you single out a Muslim, while ignoring the MP who swore on the Hebrew Bible, the three who swore on the Bhagavad Gita and the one who swore on the Sundar Gutka. Your islamaphobic bigotry continues.
The more I play
#Starfield
, the less compelling the experience is getting. Roughly 60 hours in now and the gameplay repetition plus aspects of dialogue and inventory/upgrade mundanity, is making the main quests somewhat of a chore.
Do I really have to collect my umpteenth
@broseph_stalin
Respect to Marc on the his interview. Tied him up on the contradictions and contravention of international law, real quick. If only other journalists could be less spinless in order to challenge the same.
Mike Ybarra is savage lol.
The Ex Blizzard president and Xbox Live VP refers to IGN's Executive Producer Daemon Hatfield, as a clown for saying nobody wants a PS5 Pro lol.
#PS5Pro
@JAAY_ROCK_
You've made 73 (yes, SEVENTY THREE!) negative Spider-Man 2 tweets or retweets to your timeline, in just a single day lmao.
That surely has to be a console war toxicity world record? 🤣
"The graphics feel like they're a couple of generations behind." 😐
Even playing the game for less than 5 minutes you know this particular opinion lacks credibility. Gameplay screenshots;
#HogwartLegacy
#PS5
Kendrick's Not Like Us video really is diabolical in the best way
+OVO owl (Drake brand) smashing/caging and Push Ups references
+Whitney and family dancing
+Early image release trolling Drake fans to claim she was unhappy
+Dave Free co-directing
+YG at shoot
+Compton united
Etc
New PlayStation 5 (PS5) Slim launching holiday season. 30% less volume, 24% less weight. 1TB instead of 825GB.
Horizontal stand included, vertical stand sold seperately. Modular design, can add disk drive after.
Disc $499/£479
Digital $449/£389
Disk drive $79/£99
Stand $29/£25
@imraansiddiqi
Pretty clear he's been instructed not the use the word "civilian" to describe.....civilians.
Abhorrent dehumanisation and genocide facilitating reporting language.
Black Myth WuKong even on
#PS5
, is one of the best looking and most technically impressive games this gen. Unlike a few other 30fps titles, on the whole it actually looks next-gen and so often truly visually stand out.
Here's some
#PS5
gameplay screenshots.
#BlackMythWukong
When it comes to wet weather racing, Driveclub is still the king.
IQ aside, a 9 year old launch year PS4 exclusive, made for a 1.84 tflop weak CPU system, is still showing up new releases on both new consoles.
Snippet of Cycu1's
#Driveclub
vs
#ForzaMotorsport
wet comparison.
@courtbembridge
@adnanelbursh
@Rushdibbc
I'm usually extremely resilient with this sort of thing, but I saw other videos of numerous children and babies in Gazan hospitals injured or dead. In one, a child was shaking screaming in pain, covered in burns and injuries, and reminded me of my 3 year old son. Similar look,
Bloomberg's Takashi Mochizuki is unreliable and once again wrong on Sony reportage. Claimed Sony put up PS5 production and later heavily reduced it, Sony clarified it never changed. Did similar with PSVR2 +reported its sales would be 270k in 5 weeks, when they're ~600k in 6 weeks
Black Myth WuKong is an incredible looking game! 🔥 Lighting, shaders, geometric density, textures etc all on point.
This is possibly the first title that's made me a believer of Unreal Engine 5, and really does feel properly current-gen.
#PS5
gameplay screenshots.
#GodOfWarRagnarok
mini review: SSM's magnum opus. A grandiose epic adventure & huge triumph, despite minor flaws. Superb, powerful, diverse & deep combat/builds. Some side quests better/more ambitious than key main quests in other games; entire regions, huge bosses, lore, island
It's cool to see
#PlayStation
putting this much marketing behind Astro Bot! 🔥 Building presence in countries around the world. 🌎
Hope it does well so they continue these sorts of games.
#PS5
#AstroBot
Astro Bot has had a storming start in terms of reception. It currently sits at 4.96/5 (99.2%) purchase confirmed user score on
#PlayStation
, and 9.5 Metacritic user score.
It's the
#1
game in What's Hot on PSN, and the
#4
best selling in total.
It's also
#1
best selling in
My thoughts on PlayStation Portal; Whilst I'm confident Sony's making a big margin on it, I don't actually think it's poorly priced vs alternative options and will find a small market.
Your partner wants to use the TV for Netflix but you want to keep playing PS5? Don't want to
@SkyNews
@Baddiel
David, with respect, there were thousands of Jewish people at the protest. Some of the most powerful speakers at these pro-Palestine and ceasefire, anti genocide protests, have been beautiful, empathetic Jewish voices who deserve nothing but adoration and respect. Case in point.