@nintendians: I think the same. I understand there is level where players control this Farah character, as a young girl, where she witnesses Russians killing her father, and eventually kills Russian soldier later in that level.
I will not buy this game. Not because it doesn't sell in Russia or because Russians are the antagonists. In my decades of gaming, I have "fought" Russians in many games - Bad Company franchise, Battlefield, you name it. I also played as Russian in early COD games, probably elsewhere, fighting Germans. Speaking of which, I have also been German in recent Battlefields.
But I think that this political correctness is crossing the line - at least, for me. A clumsy attempt from devs and publishers to get in bed with political structures in the western world, who are always keen on painting Russians as the biggest evil in the world, while supporting "democratic rebels" (who often evolve into worst and most freedom-depriving terror groups and pseudo-states) is the best thing since peanut butter. In a situation where west "democratic initiatives" have been responsible for much more suffering and death of innocent civilians, in the last couple of decades, than Russia. Either directly or via proxies.
Clumsiness and irony aside, such attempts can still brainwash and indoctrinate generations of young gamers. I wouldn't be surprised if these concepts haven't already been think-tanked in detail. Gaming industry should really stay out of these swamps. There are so many baddies that everyone can agree on - drug cartels, human traffickers, actual terror outfits, tribal militants performing genocide in some parts of world. We should not allow politicians drag us into their agenda via an amazing media such as gaming is.
@dashaka: SSD alone, if reasonably sized, will have to push price over original PS4 on release... or even PS4 Pro on release. It doesn't make much sense offering less than 1TB of SSD, imho. 2TB should be available, if not standard. Unless it is some sort of hybrid - but hybrids are nowhere as performing as proper SSD.
They can differentiate on this alone - same hardware, one with HDD (or hybrid), one with SSD. Easily USD100+ difference. Toss in 2nd controller with more expensive option, or even bundle it with PSVR or at least PS Eye (PSVR ready?)... hopefully core hardware - CPU/GPU/RAM - will be the same.
@aross2004: Well, $600 PC was more expensive than PS4.
I doubt it is that brilliant still. My 1070 GPU, from 2017, is showing signs of aging. No more ultra settings on 1080p. Mostly can do Very High, but combination of Very High and High settings is becoming more common.
Still better than my base PS4... but. GPU was NZD900-something in 2017. PS4 was NZD500-something in 2014. With NZD100 controller bundled.
Maybe Canadians pay less for PC and more for console hardware...?
@emptycow718: It does sound like like something MS has introduced in their current controller. We will have to wait and see the implementation - devil is in the details.
But eventually, it is not like others haven't borrowed from Sony. Out of my head, Sony was first with:
First dual analogue stick controllers
First 3D capable console with ODD (original Playstation)
First DVD console capable of playing DVD movies (PS2)
First BD console (PS3)
I don't have problem of others borrowing some good ideas here, it benefits us gamers. Just as I have no issues with Sony borrowing something others have tried first.
Though, I couldn't care less about negative sentiments. I have outgrown that level of insecurity a few decades ago... I am planning on buying PS5 on release, quite excited about everything I have seen about it so far. I haven't been Xbox gamer historically, PS and PC were satisfying my gaming needs just fine - but I hope next Xbox also rocks. Good things come out of healthy competition.
@arc_salvo: Yah I wish they have started with old worn gear and let you progress towards modern 21st century gear... both uniform and guns. In which case Kevlar would protect better than metal and metal better than canvas, full stop. There's no reason for "RPG" mishmash when you can do realistic progression by starting weapons tree with rusty bolt action Mauser (or good old .45 cal lever action rifle, or... bow and arrows?) and end with something like SA80A2.
Realistic it ain't, but we still enjoy it quite a bit. Neither of us 4 plays it single, so there's that, too.
I'm playing this with same 3 friends I have played Wildlands with. We're always keen for some PvE co-op.
We enjoy both. Changes in this one feel mostly artificial and the game can be played pretty much the same way as Wildlands, while ignoring many of these new "mechanics"... well, at least so far. The game does look noticeably better.
Idea of using such venerable name as Ghost Recon probably looked like good idea to devs, but is backfiring. I think have they named these games differently - Delta/Seal/SAS/... Team or something, and leave GR moniker to proper tactical team shooters, people might have gone easier on game's concept.
But name aside, for some light shooting/flanking/driving/flying around with buddies, this is decent playground. Maybe it is 4 for GR game, but I'd give it 6 - 7 for the game without any reference to GR. All 4 of us are having fun with it.
I'd be somewhat keen to see what is Activision-free Bungie doing with the game.
That said, I don't think I'll be seriously playing it again... if devs don't upsize the team to 4 players in co-op.
Seriously. I have 3 colleagues and we play together a lot - Division 1 and 2, Wildlands, L4D 1 and 2, others... incoming Breakpoint already queued in the pipeline. While we did play Destiny 2 for a while, it really irked us that we usually had to drop one of us (first come, first served, last come, no service) from most sessions.
Not major, maybe, but it made us choose other games over D2, whenever we were planning to play together.
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