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Re: Final Fantasy 16's Retail Marketing has Begun in Japan

Balosi

@MB81 you think it's kids keeping physical alive? I assumed the opposite, the older holdouts such as myself refusing to let it die.
Though in switches case there's a variety of reasons. Games hold their resale value, it's a cartridge which makes it feel like a tangible product, and general distrust of Nintendo's legacy console interest.

Re: Round Up: The Last of Us TV Reviews Praise a Great Adaptation

Balosi

@GreatAuk The 'joel doomed mankind' thing is more open ended I think. It's never clarified that the fireflies killing Ellie would actually have found a cure, and the whole plan sounds a bit desperate to be honest.

Edit : And when you finally meet them in the final act, they hardly rolled out the red carpet for Joel and Ellie, they treated the situation terribly.

Re: Round Up: The Last of Us TV Reviews Praise a Great Adaptation

Balosi

@RainbowGazelle I really liked the gameplay in 1, limited resources to keep it exciting but never enough to be frustrating. I remember clearing out entire human areas just figuring out patterns and stealth killing everyone, not needing to fire a bullet. Not very realistic but I certainly enjoyed it.

Re: 30 Promising RPGs Coming to PS5, PS4 in 2023

Balosi

Retro picks for me, final fantasy 1-6, p3p and suikoden. Sea of stars, diablo 4 and octopath 2 runners up.
I'd love final fantasy xvi on my list, but from what I've seen so far, I'm not even sure if it's going to be an RPG.

Re: Game of the Year: #2 - Elden Ring

Balosi

@ItsBritneyB_tch the souls supposed difficulty has always been it's main selling point, take that away and I suspect it prob just be a series of little interest to most people.

Re: Persona 3 Portable Trophies on PS4 Ask You to Beat the Game Twice

Balosi

@Milktastrophe there's a couple trophies for the original, the twins fight as said, and a special persona I think that you only get quite far into a second run.

Edit : and that's not even mentioning that following a step by step guide really isn't the best way to play it first time round. Though I guess that's just opinion, maybe some people enjoy it.

Re: Game of the Year: Best PS5, PS4 RPG of 2022

Balosi

@Deljo the RPG category seems to expand ever outward. It's bloated a long way since the original days of simply meaning a computer game attempt at d&d. Other genres take elements traditionally associated with RPGs, which puts their own category into question, while traditional RPGs strive to lose the same elements, in the name of simplicity!

Re: Game of the Year: #7 - Sonic Frontiers

Balosi

If a games got enough people to rate it as a top ten game, then it's a top ten game.
Sure, it probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't Sonic, but he's a beloved character who has proven to be really hard to make decent 3d games for. I guess it's a big achievement they've made something the fans are happy with.

Re: Fill Your PS5, PS4 Trophy Cabinet with Dirt Cheap Platinum Games

Balosi

munches tobacco back in my day a platinum meant something. I still remember getting my first final fantasy 13, took me ages, and even that was considered to be one of the easier ones at the time.

Edit : I remember someone on the official playstation forum (rip) talking about having 50 platinums. They were met with both awe and a discussion about whether they had a life or not.

Re: 'Flawless' New PS5 with Some Devs, Features Detachable Disc Drive

Balosi

@sanderson72 Did it ever get confirmed that the ps4/5 disc drives are physically incapable of reading CDs? I've always assumed it's just that the drivers etc aren't there.
To this day the thought of a drive that is literally unable to read a cd (but dvds and blu rays) seems odd to me. I'm not that knowledgeable on the subject though.

Re: Persona 3, 4 PS4 Ports Likely Priced $20 Each, Add Difficulty Settings and Quick Save

Balosi

@thefourfoldroot1 the save system in p4 golden isn't that bad anyway really. The dungeons are floor based (like mementos in p5) and each floor is quite short. If you need to save then just use a gohom to get back to the start, and can re-enter at the floor you left.
If you die, you get the option to resume at the start of the floor you are on. So usually not much progress is lost.
My biggest setback was accidently fusing my main persona without updating it in the registry sometimes. That was irritating, I guess an autosave feature would've saved me from that maybe.

Re: PSVR2 Pre-Orders No Longer Require an Invite

Balosi

@NEStalgia Yes the world at the moment is probably hurting vrs chances of taking off, it's still pretty pricey technology.
Vr as a concept isn't going anywhere though I think, it's been an ambition of video games since video games started. The last few years really have been quite exciting, seeing it take great strides.
One day it will be mass market, probably not any time soon, and all the nft/meta nonsense is probably doing more harm than good, but sooner or later a vr machine will become a household staple I'm sure.