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This is going to flop hard, isn't it?

There is a real possibility that Adolf Hitler was familiar with Big Chungus as the episode debuted before the end of the war and Hitler was known to enjoy American animation.

Something to ponder on a late night. We may never know the truth.

If you've ever compared the region-specific lists of games over the years on PSNProfiles you'll see the same; the American stack almost always has a lower average rarity than the European one. The Japanese one however tends to be highest because of hunters who import it for the extra stack, making a bigger difference against Japan's smaller population.

Only game I can think of that has an American stack that's less rare than the European one is Persona 4 Golden on the Vita.

Is the remaster still unplayable on PS5?

@CWill97 Game text in English, trailer voiceover in English.

Suppose this is Japanese-developed? Looks like it. Based superior Japanese gentlemen of taste smashing it out of the park again.

Thirteen games bought in the past 365 years; ten physical, three digital. Most expensive game was Judgment [PS5] at 35 GBP or whatever I paid for it from Argos.

That's in addition to 18 games played that I pulled off Plus (old Plus, Extra Plus, Premium Plus).

Do today's kids even know who this character is?

@huyi looks likeRGG Studio confirmed on Twitter that the remasters will be on Extra too. Poor communication, honestly.

@TheCollector316 only Kiwami 1 was on Plus previously. The original PS3 versions of 4 and 5 were too, but this time it's the remasters which are different SKUs.

On a separate note, why is Push Square using the Chinese cover for the article header? Pretty rare to see that one.

FAN-****ING-TASTIC

These are amazing games, and more people getting to play them is brilliant. Loving this from SEGA and Sony.

LIKE A DRAGON! FINALLY!

I bought it on release to support the franchise (remember the wait for Yakuza 5? I remember), but never played it. It being a Plus Essential game will give it a much-needed decrease in Trophy rarity. Super excited to have more people try the franchise too - full announcement of the sequel really must be imminent now.

No new Trophies ;_;

@AdamNovice was a slam dunk for me considering I had the original Sims game. Bit glitchy but worked well back on the PS2

I always get sub 10, but out of nowhere it's 13 this time. Elden Ring and AI: The Somnium Files tripping me up - no, I didn't play Elden Ring.

I love consooming!

What's up with the bizarre comments in this thread? Little changed over the centuries, except we as individuals have outsourced our share of animal suffering through supermarkets and their suppliers.

This game and others of its ilk are a bunch of pixels. If it keeps actual hunters off the streets/out of the woods for a little, you lot should be applauding instead of trying to apply morals to a video game you won't be playing anyway.

Wouldn't be surprised to see the original as a monthly Essential game in the run up to release then. Same angle as Man of Medan took this month to hype the next title in that series.

Come now, it'll be the same sh*te with marginal improvements as we've seen for ages. It'll STILL get beaten by NFL 2K5 in terms of depth. Just hoping the Trophies won't be glitched this time.

This will please the weirdoes unhappy about last year's cover I guess. Not big on the art direction on this one but at least it's better than Maddens 21 and 22.

@ApostateMage How prophetic

Rare month where I redeemed all three - not that I'll ever bother with Naruto or even GoW, I think.

Illustration shows a PSP, but not a Vita. God dammit Sony, just how much can you hate your own products?

Moon Quay.... monkey.... hahah, geddit? Anyone?

Such a nice message on the day that Ubisoft announces its sunsetting the servers for all PS3 Asscreed games save for Black Flag, plus a few other titles like Splinter Cell and Rayman.

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/help/gameplay/article/decommissioning-of-online-services-september-2022/000102396

@LiamCroft worth writing an article for?

Have the technical issues since been ironed out?

But how many abused Singaporeans did they churn through to make this possible?

The Crayon Shin Chan game is getting localized for PS4 I hear - now there's a game I'd play, closest we may ever get to having Boku No Natsuyasumi localized in the West.

Might be worth dedicating an article too ngl

Oh no!

Anyway... won't be the last to close. Remember Hood from PS Plus a while back? That'll go one daysoon. Lawbreakers a fee years ago. Many such cases.

Separate Trophy list for each game, one would hope. I never played the originals but saw the TV show (and collected the metal dics from crisp bags) so might give this collection a look.

The boys on the cover kinda being done dirty by the four Champions being on the 'Champions' edition cover. Use to be that it was an honour, now it feels like being second-best.

It shows how little care Sony puts into the store - its principal moneymaker- that these emails are still labelled as purchases even though they technically aren't and risk confusing customers. Clearly 'add to library' is just categorized as a 0,00 purchase in the backend, hence the mails being triggered automatically as they would for a priced purchase.

If I set up email notifications like these for a customer I'd be looking for a new job before long. Just set up a mail with different wording, e.g. 'PS Store redemption successful'.

No doubt Tekken 3 will be coming as part of the drip feed of 'new' old games over the coming months and years. It'd be a much more hyped inclusion in an announcement than Tekken 2 and generate bigger headlines as part of a mid-month update.

And yet I'm struggling to find something I'm really keen on playing. Oh well, Syphon Filter it is!

It's bizarre that Playstation's back catalogue of historical titles is one of their biggest advantages over the XBox family of consoles, yet Sony completely and utterly neglects these time and again.

The inFamous titles hold up to this day. Re-releasing them in whatever shape or form would be a slam-dunk. But here we are, reading an article like this. And the original Last of Us is getting a full-blown update. Bizarre.

EDIT; back when Playstation still had more Japanese influence on its leadership, retro collections were trotted out for the PS3 and Vita en masse. Again, a slam dunk in that these were quality games that could be updated at relatively little cost and would massively expand a platform's library. PS5-exclusive retro collections (e.g. all three Jak games, all Ratchet games, Sly collection, Killzone trilogy with online stripped out) would give PS5 owners more games to spend money on. But nope, half-assed streaming it is.

Servers deserted within three months, PS Plus monthly game within 18, plug pulled in 2026 give or take.

Premium-chad reporting in, nothing like stacking years of Now at a discounted price to wiggle my way into the highest tier at a fraction of the cost.

Now to not play any of these quickly cobbled-together ROMs for the entirety of the five year subscription I've bought.

I remember when these things came in actual cases like proper retail games. How times change.

I'd call it a long term loan more than anything else, considering the annual sports games are usually jettisoned from the service and delisted from online stores after about two years. Wasn't Madden 20 taken down just the other day?

@Resi32 From what we've seen of Trophy-supported PS1 games, the Trophy lists are very straightforward and essentially only ask you to beat the game. This may well end up being just an 'uncommon' Platinum.

Two big system sellers, now available across pretty much every platform. Good for gamers in general but I do wonder whether Sony shouldn't have kept these exclusive as best they could. Might have been an uphill battle.

PS Plus inclusion as the inevitable monthly dead multiplayer game when? You know it's coming.

So this is the power of late-stage capitalism.

This was the only right decision for Madden 23, but credit where it is due; for once EA didn't fumble here.

Would love a new Killzone, but only if I can play it without VR. Absolute no-go for me if not.

Just close shop already, Mafia III was putrid garbage and nigh unplayable at launch with issues persisting to this day. The remake didn't do the original justice, and every other project of this studio that had details leaked sounded just as bad.

The Mafia series should have stayed with Vávra and the original developers.

Month 1X of asking for any Yakuza game.

@shadow2k Senior leadership is Western as well. Asfaras Playstation goes nowadays, it's Japanese in name only.

Do I want them to buy SEGA to make sure Microsoft doesn't make Yakuza exclusive, or do I want them to stay away from SEGA so they don't ruin the company (any further than SEGA has ruined itself)? Decisions, decisions.

They were never going to be perfect. Given the state of Sony, we should be grateful these are playable at all.