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One of those games is definitely a new Super Monkey Ball.

Good to know, there's a lighting glitch on RE7 where the sky in daytime looks like some kind of watercolour painting when playing on PS5. Granted 90% of the game is in the nighttime, but still, it's pretty jarring when starting a new game.

The brushstroke style is a better match for their Japanese logo which also uses that type. Makes sense for a bit of consistency.

@GeneJacket I don't think any of those things more than double the production budget though.

It's time for Knack's big screen debut...

@RBMango $400-450 to break even? On a $120 million budget? Cut $100-150 million and that would make more sense.

Edit: didn't notice your edit until I refreshed.

Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate was also day and date in PS Now last year, so this isn't the first time, but admittedly that was overshadowed by it also launching as a PS Plus game for that same month. Perhaps for that reason this is a little more important.

RE Engine Street Fighter 😯

@Porco those numbers are good for a domestic opening weekend, especially when it was projected to make $30 million. Provided it has any legs, it should be on it's way to a $300 million international box office at least.

I don't think the 10 year pre-production really adds as much to the cost as you're suggesting either. I don't think things ever went any further than some script drafts, and I'd be surprised if any of the previous directors and actors got paid for work that they never did.

Seems like a sure bet the second one will be a hit. Audiences mostly loved the first, so it has that momentum, and it's including a lot more elements from the games while being more action focused. At bare minimum it'll earn the same box office haul I think.

I don't know if this is new, but there's a trial version you can download. Giving it a download now. I'm assuming this is one of those ones where the countdown starts as soon as the download does, but hopefully I have enough time to give it a whirl to feel it out before dropping the 20 quid.

Nice, I was always waiting for the next gen version to drop. I knew from a mile away the current (last)-gen versions were gonna have a rough time.

@themightyant "In an ideal world i'd love to see them stay open in perpetuity."

Better yet, in an ideal world we wouldn't need those old storefronts to stay up because those games would be available on modern hardware.

It's not showing my PSN activity on my account after linking, even after I set privacy settings to anyone. Weird.

The constant Jim Ryan doom and gloom will truly never end will it?

@naruball it's a money maker by just doing nothing with it. Like Minecraft flr Microsoft, but not as huge.

@SlySnake0407 To be fair this is a very different Bungie. I doubt more than a few of those old guys are still around.

@riceNpea It's a DLC for a game that was already given to Plus members in 2019. They've effectively given us the same thing twice. Decent I suppose if you didn't claim the Handsome Jack Collection back then, but it's easily one of the weakest offerings in a while right next to the Godfall half-game.

I really liked Kao 2 on PSP back in the day.

@LuisCruz13 My thoughts exactly lol

Tiny Tina is a bit of a joke as an inclusion.

I don't care, this looks great. I love how sincere it is in it's tone. Usually something like this would be pretty self aware about it's silliness.

Only have a Vue and Odeon locally so missing out on this offer, but that's fine. Vue is pretty cheap for tickets anyway, I don't mind paying for the movie ticket.

6/10? So not as good as Metal Gear Survive then, eh?

@Bleachedsmiles
>having pc like options in console games is great

Well, yeah actually I would say so unironically. I think if we didn't get this trend of performance settings, we'd still be seeing 30fps in the majority of games. And it's usually only a few presets that have still been optimised to make good use of the specs within the target of each mode. Not like they're giving us a whole page of individual settings to tweak like on PC, now that would be annoying.

@BenGar97 it's a choice between 60 and RT. We might see a 60fps RT mode down the line, but I'd say not to expect much from third party games in that regard. It's probably easier to do both when you're first party.

@Grumblevolcano Yeah, they wouldn't announce FF16's release date in a blog post.

@naruball Yeah, Microsoft love to play dirty. Looking at how they conquered the PC market back in the day, they're different from other competition. If they get spooked, they go ballistic. Only reason it took this long for them to be like this with the Xbox division is the wider corporation didn't take it as seriously. Now they know how big gaming can be, they're pulling their weight.

Pretty standard Sony movie trailer. They've always been average at best.

Quite frankly, as someone who has been a PC gamer in the past and even had it as my main platform from like 2014-2019... I don't care. I mean, I don't care about the PC anymore. It has it's benefits, but I've ended up coming back to consoles primarily, especially with the current market for components still being a nightmare.

I think most people outside of the hardcore bubble don't really care either if you can play PlayStation Games on PC. There was much gloom over Microsoft's decision to put all if their 1st party on PC day and date, and I was one of them, but we can see that the Xbox consoles have been doing just fine. Series S and X are apparently only a few million behind PS5, they're in a better state than this same time last gen, despite the hardcore consensus being "there's no reason to buy an Xbox anymore, all of their games are on Steam anyway."

Oh and BTW, seeing Xbox button prompts in God of War is bizarre lol.

@Integrity It is a good game, but it's easily at the bottom of Arkane's output in the last 10 years. It's a 7 imo.

@Oscarjpc It's diet Arkane. I don't get it.

@Jimmer-jammer His writing has always been humorous to me, though not exactly purposefully.

Finally, a new Armored Core, or any FromSoft game that isn't just the Souls formula.

Another group of children have just been allowed by their parents to play GTAV.

@Col_McCafferty Actually Jeff confirmed it was the sales and not reviews that put Sony off.

Yeah, Covid concerns sounds like an excuse/cover up. Seems to happen often. See the recent delay of Morbius for one.

Good to know it's not like Red Dead 2.

@Mauzuri They'll be coming shortly after I'd bet

When are they dropping Tobey and Andrew skins?

@hypnotoad well let's not get hasty here. This is the same Ubisoft who announced that Sands of Time remake so it's not guaranteed to be better yet. Hopefully they learned from that debacle.

@thor5656 Well the big difference is Spider-Man 2 had to introduce it's villain and his motivations. No Way Home's villains are all from previous movies, so that job has already been done. We've already seen Alfred Molina and Willem Dafoe become Doc Ock and Green Goblin, so that gives the film a lot of extra space in the runtime to accommodate all 5 villains, plus the 3 Spider-Men.

@Haruki_NLI They tried what? I wouldn't consider Forces to be trying at anything. It's everything I said in my first comment. Basic, safe, milquetoast, mostly 2D, low budget - the premise had potential for a lot of scope but literally nothing was done with it.

@wiiware Sonic Origins is the latter.

Good. I'm so tired of "3D" Sonic games being extremely basic, safe, and mostly 2D. Is an open world too ambitious for Sonic Team? Maybe, probably. But it's nice to see a game with some actual scope and budget put into it after Forces and it's milquetoast efforts. And if they actually pull this off, fantastic.

@JB_Whiting They probably just altered his design from the first movie.

Fortnite beating Avengers at the Spider-Man thing. Wasn't expecting that.

@fR_eeBritney sadly this director/screenwriters is an RE fan. That alone doesn't matter when you're just a generally bad filmmaker.

@AndyKazama I'm guessing "remaster" in this situation is basically another word for port. Vesperia's remaster was pretty much the same as the original on the visual level, just rendered at a higher res.

What were Square's sales expectations, and how much did it sell though? I remember them being disappointed with Tomb Raider selling 5 or 6 million back in 2013.