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@colonelkilgore I'll be interested to hear his take because he tends to be more open minded when it comes live service titles

I can’t remember which of the videos it was, I think it was Skillup, but it seems like Helldivers 2 is live-service until stated otherwise, since Sony said the only games releasing day and date on PC are live service. Ah well. It was the most interesting looking to me of the 4 Sony Sci-Fi shooters shown. I never played the first one, but I’m fairly certain it was really different from what this game appears to be.

@Th3solution The first game was a isometric twin stick shooter, though less arcadey feeling then Housemarque's games. The game was pretty tough to play especially solo though other players can randomly join your missions if you allowed it. I seem to recall you can call for airstrikes or request new weapons to be dropped. Everything in the first game seems to have carried over. As for the live service element, I can see them doing seasonal missions and locations with the MTX been focused on cosmetics.

@colonelkilgore That comment aged poorly

The news about The Last of Us is so weird to me. I was really looking forward to Factions, but I never really saw it as this AAA Destiny-like service game. Just a standalone updated version of the first Factions, in which they didn't care about keeping the game running for aeons and aeons, just a product to cash in on TLOU hype. A kind of AA release.

Apparently it was shaping up to be something different, bigger. And that's puzzling to me. Why would you let a studio like Naughty Dog, that is great at a certain thing, not just be great at that thing? Wouldn't if be way easier to find a good multiplayer studio, to let them make a big TLOU game?

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