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This man is taking two of every PlayStation game into the ark in preparation for an all digital deluge.

I’d like to report an issue. The rating slider for Metal Gear Solid only goes to 10, not 11. This is clearly an oversight that needs fixing.

Thanks to the article writer for including an option for not giving a crap about portable gaming. A handheld means less than nothing to me.

Why would I want to hunch over a tiny screen with cramped controls for a compromised experience when I can game from the comfort of a plush armchair on a glorious 77” 4K@120hz OLED with a Dualsense? No one goes to rooftop soirées like in those embarrassing Switch ads. Not everyone has a 2hr commute on the train or school bus. I can’t speak for others, but when I’m sitting on the porcelain Xbox I’m not glued to a screen. I don’t understand the draw of a handheld, outside that of maybe schoolchildren.

It sold over 9,000!

How Yamaguchi still has a job is beyond me. Anyone that bad at what they do is usually relegated to begging for bread in the street. Hopefully he gets replaced with someone competent, someone who puts the gamer first instead of his own selfishness. Here’s a thought; maybe patch the trash you failed at so badly instead of taking the easy way out and issuing a meaningless apology after the fact?

PS4 version running in back compat is vastly superior. It doesn’t have that god awful rogue lite mode shoehorned in where it doesn’t belong, along with poorly thought out, mandatory trophies forced down everyone’s throats.

Interesting, but I’m secretly hoping it’s to keep whoever is responsible for curating the trophy list in line.

So is this a demo or a trial?

I’ve avoided trials like the plague, as I’m not sure whether or not they’ll add trophies to your list (because a trial is just that—a timed portion of the same full game you can choose to buy thereafter). Demos have never awarded any trophies, so they’re safe. The last thing I want is to start a game trial, end up hating the game, but be locked into playing trash for x amount of hours because the trial added trophies. I wish everyone would call a demo a demo and a trial a trial and not try to use them interchangeably.

A solid 8. It doesn’t push any crazy or inventive new ideas, but what it does it does well.

Saw a post where the piece of - that designed the trophy list for FF7 Rebirth made a formal apology for how bad it was and promised to do better for part 3. Maybe I’ll actually buy part 3 then. Devs need to learn to do their job and cater to their audience, not their own selfish whims.

@Fiendish-Beaver GoW Ragnarok had the same issue with puzzles, and that eventually got patched. Maybe there’s hope for Veilguard.

Shibuya, huh, huh, shibuya roll call!

Wake me up when they make the entire game playable offline

A hearty thank you to Team Green’s beta testers!

The visual aesthetic is a turn off. It looks like an anime, but not a good anime. It resembles a soulless, generic looking anime bereft of individuality. I’d wager with a decent visual presentation this could have been something special.

That article title is a savage (game studios) burn

It was worth it.

Not being able to extend an existing Extra or Premium membership at any sort of discount is pretty trash.

This would be GotY for me in whatever year it arrived, the whole ‘Sgould remakes/remasters/dlc even be included?’ discussion be darned.

Gee, you mean the ‘learning’ part in machine learning means it takes time to train the ai to get better across different scenarios? Kind of like how the first iteration of DLSS was garbage, but now it’s a godsend? Who could have guessed.

The more Microsoft tightens their grip, the more star systems will slip through their fingers…

My least favorite souls game. Yeah, you read that right.

Meanwhile, Bloodborne languishes in 30fps, bad frame pacing purgatory.

To this day it bothers me that a janky, undercooked, bug-filled, glitch ridden broken mess like Skyrim won GotY over the original Dark Souls. What a travesty of justice.

Good. About time these young ‘I prefer real time combat because I have no attention span and like to mash buttons’ whippersnappers get burnt by old school glory.

There should be a poll option ‘Yes, as long as the developers design the trophy list with trophy hunters in mind’. I have passed on literally dozens upon dozens of games simply because the developers shoehorned in horrendously poorly designed trophies.

No complaints this month.

Do these people not understand the “learning” part of machine learning? DLSS was trash in its first iteration as well. Are the implementations for certain games at the moment poor? Yeah. But these things take time.

I’d rather remove the airship and have a trophy list that caters to trophy hunting.

A UI bug? Uh-huh 😒

Elden Ring dlc will win, but we all know Astrobot is what should truly win GotY.

Is there a definitive answer yet as to whether the PS4 image enhancement tech inside the Pro is machine learning-based or not? I’m curious if it’s a case of ‘this is what you get’, or if it’ll improve over time like machine learning based solutions all do—PSSR, DLSS and so forth.

I would have bought this in a second if it was entirely playable OFFLINE . Until then, I have less than no interest. You want my $70 Sony? Patch in support for a feature that should have been there at launch.

Hhnnnghhhh…looks good— DAMN good —I want some more!

Been keeping my eye on this one (giggity). If the add on content comes out and doesn’t butcher the trophy list, I’ll be picking this one up post haste.

Astrobot, Astrobot, and oh yeah, Astrobot.

The way trophies and achievements are handled by all platform holders is garbage. There needs to be industry wide standardization as to what is acceptable trophy criteria, and what is not.

We need the option to PERMANENTLY DELETE GAMES WITH PARTIALLY COMPLETED TROPHY PERCENTAGES FEOM OUR ACCOUNTS. Not merely ‘hiding’ them, permanent erasure. This is one switch that needs flipping on the backend, and to anyone whining ‘they use that data for metrics regarding sales, progression etc’ too bad. Get that data by another means.

Developers need strict guidelines as to acceptable criteria—no forced multiplayer trophies in ostensibly single player games. How many games out there have unobtainable platinums/100%’s because of server shutdowns? Build in backup methods of obtaining online trophies in single player games .

No additional trophies attached to game mode types not part of the original experience. I would never have played God of War Ragnarok, TLoU Part 2 Remastered, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Days Gone or Ghostwire Tokyo if I had known some garbage, low effort tacked on rogue lite/wave survival/challenge mode crap would be shoehorned in post-release with trophies unavoidably attached. Go ahead—add the modes, just do not add trophies.

Difficulty related trophies need to cater to people of all skill types. What’s the point of creating an accessibility controller for people with various disabilities if a trophy is attached to a time trial in a racing game with a margin of error in the tens of thousandths of a split second? How can the majority of these unfortunate souls hope to beat a given game on turbo ultra hardcore nightmare sadist difficulty in one life, under two hours, on a Tuesday when Jupiter is in the eastern hemisphere? This is the kind of filth scummy developers include as restrictive criteria in trophy lists time and time again.

In the end, trophies and achievements do not function like real world trophies. Only one person or team ever wins the gold in a given event, whereas trophies and achievements were designed from the start so that anyone who buys the game can obtain them. At least they would be able to, if platform holders outlined clear rules and developers put gamers first.

@cburg by “decertation” do you mean ‘dissertation’?

These devs deserve commendation for recalibrating the difficulty settings without infringing on players’ trophy rights. This is how it’s done. Now anyone and everyone, even people with disabilities physical or otherwise, have an equal opportunity to earn all trophies no matter their skill level.

This sort of policy ought to be mandated across the board by all platform holders, for all games. Remember, people: These do not function or serve the purpose of real world trophies, and were never intended to. Only one person/team wins the gold at the Olympics, whereas trophies and achievements were inherently designed so that all players could obtain them. Or at least in theory, if they are properly designed. These are essentially collectibles tied to one’s account, a visible record of someone’s gaming journey. None should be excluded.

Bring over Halo:MCC, the good Gears games, Forza (the open world ones, not the ‘we have Gran Turismo at home’ sims), and a few odds and ends (Sunset Overdrive, Quantum Break etc) and I’ll gladly wipe the Xbox hardware platform from my memory database to free up some storage space.

@Major_Player Wouldn’t those PlayStation gamers have only paid Microsoft 70% of ”FULL price”, with the other 30% going to Sony? In any case, they’re probably people who prefer ownership in lieu of ever increasing rental fees.

Never heard the word “tat” before. Pulled the old Merriam Webster off the shelf, blew off the dust, and looked it up.

“a small protein produced by a lentivirus (such as HIV) that greatly increases the rate of viral transcription and replication and enhances the susceptibility of T cells to infection
also : the viral gene that codes for the tat protein“

No, I don’t think I’m interested in this.

Shame they shoehorned that god awful rogue lite mode in to the remaster. I’ll be avoiding that slop like the plague and stick with the PS4 version with its superior trophy list.

But how will teens keep up with tweets from the International Drainage Commission?

Guy was an unsung hero character actor. Of all things, I really enjoyed the way he played a Vietnam vet in an old X-Files episode. Really fantastic stuff! Rest well, Mr Todd

It’s all because I was stupid enough to buy that $30 stand for the Pro 😆 If you’re listening Sony, I will take a Bloodborne 60fps patch as a thank you.

Regarding scalpers, I prefer the Palpatine approach to the situation.

”Wipe them out. All of them.”

Been awhile since I platinum’d FF16. I love the game, but seeing that ugly purple sky in these screenshots reminded me what a waste that was. Instead of gorgeous vistas with baby blue skies, we got…gorgeous vistas with barfed up pedialyte skies.

My GotY across all consoles/platforms, easy. Nothing else even comes close.