Personally, I have more problem with the tone and atmosphere of the boss fight, the mechanic itself is fine. The way the boss is revealed is masterfully well done. Everything leading to the boss fight has this eerie, suspenseful, scary tone, but Naughty Dog ruins it with one moment.

Completely disagree, although I was also on Hard, so it apparently wasn’t as save-scummy. The only thing I really didn’t like is that once it spawned the “baby”, I tried very hard to kill it, thinking it was the easier target, and just so I didn’t get blindsided by it while trying to fight the Rat King, only to…

I was too stressed the fuck out to even think about the mechanics of this fight. I was running for my life and taking every chance I could to shoot it or throw bombs at it. It felt like an accomplishment after it finally went down, when I had no idea how long it was gonna take or if I was gonna have enough supplies to…

The build-up to the Rat King was fantastic, no other part of the game got my heart rate up like that stretch between turning the power on and seeing the massive bloody and terrifyingly empty hole it left behind. But like you said, the boss fight itself was so lack luster. Not being able to dodge around it meant you…

I mean, it’s not really supposed to be a tactical, dynamic fight, it’s supposed to be a mad scramble just to stay alive while you unload every single bullet and pipe bomb you have into the thing. The game stocks you up plenty beforehand and there’s ammo littered everywhere in the environment where the fight takes…

Ummmmmmm...yeah all day long. My PS4 was horribly loud and I followed an FAQ to disassemble and clean it. Since it required disassembly to the point of separating the heat sink from the CPU you need to clean the up the old and replace the thermal paste (which was crusty and obviously poorly applied when manufactured).

Lmfao, recommending replacing the thermal paste on a functional PS4 just because it’s loud?! I hope to god that’s an elaborate attempt at trolling. A word of warning to people considering this: don’t. If you somehow manage to do this without fucking something up in your PS4, it probably still won’t be any quieter.

for the record too i don’t mean to act high and mighty i know it’s some kind of generational pathology too great to describe while in the midst of experiencing and i’m just as complicit

“AVCLUB employee benefits package”

Cruel, but fair.

anyway ignore me or profit or whatever idc i’ll just read your replacement 

not like you really have another option right now, but, try to remember:

Their initial message was muddled. They’ve been pretty crystal clear since (see: blog update I posted) and people have continued to (I can only assume willfully at this point) misinterpret everything they say.

Again, I repeat, “you”, a hypothetical non-descript generalized consumer, cannot have it both ways. Either you want a console that plays “the coolest looking new games” or you do not. You cannot simultaneously demand wildly huge improvements over a previous generation while also demanding to have it at an infeasible…

As revealed in March, Sony is targeting the top 100 most-played PS4 games, ranked by playtime, for backwards compatibility, but the PS4’s catalog is more than 4,000 titles deep. According to Mark Cerny, the console’s lead architect,due to some technical restrictions, each game has to be hand-tested for PS5…

Look, I still don’t see how $599 was some kind of “insane” asking price. You can’t demand companies keep pushing hardware limits, giving you bleeding edge tech with unlimited teraflops and then also demand they do it for “As Seen On TV” prices.

It’s no longer 1991. There hasn’t been a issue with white plastic for over a decade now.

Haha its funny because I was disappointed that it wasn’t black. Then I was like wait a minute... don’t I have enough black consoles? 

Same.