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#1 Star67
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@i_p_daily: Nope more than 1 learn to count and look at other posts.

1. Price

2. Dev Friendly

3. Improved online, don't care it was free for PS3; it's vastly improved now

4. Better controller, they finally made it more comfortable to hold

that's 4, last I checked 4>1

quit being ignorant

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#2 Star67
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@ermacness: Yes! I forgot about the controller. The DS4 is a great improvement.

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#3 Star67
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@i_p_daily: Are you serious? You can't see how Sony learned from the disaster that was the PS3 launch?

1. Price - they didn't make the PS4 $600

2. Ease of Development - Sony ditched the cell and went with an easier architecture for developers.

3. Dropped the Cocky attitude - Remember when Sony execs said people should get another job to afford a ps3? Hmmm they haven't said stupid crap like this with the PS4

4. Better Online - Yeah they charge for online now.....but so does MS. Lemmings always say how much better live is, well PS4 greatly improved on party chat, social interaction and content sharing, and the network is pretty stable. A huge improvement over the PS3 online infrastructure.

I know I'm feeding a troll, but come on man try harder

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#4 Star67
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I'm gonna defend Breakpoint a little.

I've put around 30 hours into the game with a friend and we are both having a good time. It's like an extension of Wildlands somewhat.

Not once have we been pressured to buy anything with real money, and the game gives out in game currency frequently and liberally. In fact, you have to want to navigate to the store, it's at the end of the in game menu. I've never even accidentally navigated to it during play. So I feel the entire micro transaction thing is a little over blown.

HOWEVER the game has some issues.

1. The gear level system is confusing. I can get Gold level gear and then 5 minutes later get a blue or green gear with a better level that increases my gear level. Even though the gold gear has better stats. I just don't get it, and it's a chore to be constantly changing gear to increase my level.

2. The AI is dumb! They will walk in a straight line and let you kill them. They show no signs of tactics

3. There's bugs and glitches, nothing game breaking that I've encountered but they are there.

4. No AI team mates makes solo play boring

5. The menu navigation for quests is convoluted! You finish a quest item and then you have to go into the menu to read Intel to progress. Why can't there be an on screen prompt to read the Intel I just collected?

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#5  Edited By Star67
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@i_p_daily said:

This service is a waste to me as the time I spent working would mean I would end up wasting money. I also like to reward devs buy purchasing their games when they come out and are great.

I'm also not a cheapskate, nor do I binge game which I find to be the thing most people do with this service, they're trying so hard to play as many games before they are removed and don't put in the time to fully experience the games.

I'm also a gamer who likes to play like 1 perhaps 2 games at any one time, so again a waste for me.

I like to own my games and play them at my leisure not rush to play just anything because its there.

See people keep comparing the service to Netflix and I don't really think it translates that well.

Movies and TV shows can be watched and consumed in 3 hours or less at a time. A lot of games have well over 10 hours of play time.

What the service does is devalue games, sometimes unlimited choice is over whelming and you spend more time trying to find something to play rather than actually playing. OR you play a game for a few hours then move on to something else. I do this with PS plus games.

Right now Im playing Breakpoint and Astral Chain and can barely find enough time to play both of those. Now Outer Worlds came out and I want to play that, but if I start playing that I'll probably drop the other 2 games.

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#6 Star67
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I don't like the idea of companies when and how long I could play my games so no thanks.

I get it...most normal gamer's want a netflix style type service for games. This is my hobby, and I want the best way to play....and that's either DD I own or a disc

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#7 Star67
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Really enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn, Spiderman PS4 (not sure if this counts), Dead Cells

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#8 Star67
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@vagrantsnow said:

Hard to say. If you don't know how to build your own PC it will be crazy expensive and a lot of folk would either not want to learn or would find it too daunting and time consuming to do so.

And then some company would be like "Hmmm there's a market for mid tier gaming machines that are simple to use and affordable to own"

And you would have consoles again.

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#9  Edited By Star67
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I'm playing the game right now, and I think people are over reacting about the micro transactions. Yes they are there and there are too many of them, but I'm level 31 in the game and have put quite a bit of time in and I've never felt pressured or felt like the micro transactions have been put in my face annoyingly. In fact I don't even know how to spend real money on them.

I felt like the game gives you in game currency at a good rate to buy new guns and apparel, and I'm leveling up and finding skill points at a decent rate as well. I don't feel like i'm being held back.

HOWEVER the game has some flaws.

1. The social hub feels straight out of Destiny and is a vast departure from Wildlands. It doesn't feel needed either as you can access PVP and COOP through the menus.

2. The game has to be always online. This is my biggest gripe with the game. Wildlands could be played offline solo, so I feel like there's no point in why this has be connected to the internet to play.

3. No AI team mates. Once again Wildlands has this, and it made playing solo a little easier as you could do sync shots. There's a drone sync shot option but it's a consumable and you're limited to it's use. I hear rumors that AI squad mates will be added, so maybe this will get fixed.

4. The enemy AI is dumb, and the robots are basically bullet sponges. I'm playing on normal so maybe the more advanced difficulty will fix this, but IDK.

5. There's glitches. Guns disappear from my hands, my co op team mates ride outside of their vehicles, etc. Nothing game breaking but they are there.

I'm enjoying the game as it's basically wildlands when playing with a friend. I'd give it a soft 7 out of 10.

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#10 Star67
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I kinda went crazy for a little while and tried to be one of those collectors that collecting everything.

Ending up selling/giving away a gamecube, Saturn, original Xbox, 32X, Sega CD, an extra PS1, an extra Genesis and a wii. And quite a few games for each.

Still have PS1-4, Genesis, N64, Dreamcast, Switch, and a Retron 5 when I get an itch to play some SNES/NES