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I rated the games that I played on it fairly and i tried to do so without nostalgia. As I discovered recently with the MGS Master Collection, a lot of these games are best left in my memories.

I would not be surprised if GamePass comes to PS5 one day.
With every year, what once would have been a bizarre suggestion inches closer.

@Boucho11 Until I am inevitably proven right, then everyone acts as though what I was saying was the common opinion all along.

@Ravix I will accept that we still have the classic risk-taking Rockstar after the release of GTA6. Right now all I see is a dev that hasn't put out a full game in a LONG time.

These games were very of their time in both story and gameplay. The fashion, the bullet time, the attitudes, the tone, the feel, the minimalist graphics, the length.

I would have preferred a remaster to a remake. I am not convinced that any modern dev will do what it was justice. It'll be a very different game, for better, for worse.

@DonJorginho It was allowed to release the way it was because too many gamers have no standards.

The devs know, provably so with multiple examples, that they are rarely punished by releasing crap. Such games are now greeted with an expectant sigh rather than outrage.

I will never buy No Man's Sky, Fallout 76 or Cyberpunk. Yes I know that I am missing out on great games but that is my personal moral standard. I will not give you money if you think so little of me. And if everyone followed suit, suddenly, miraculously, we would start getting good games again.

@ATaco I seriously wonder if that is true tbh. Dragon Age has been a disaster of its own making, it would not surprise me if many games saw an uptick in its wake.

I have long since come to the conclusion that the Shenmue franchise has a very loud but actually very small fanbase. That is why despite the fanfare of its launch the third game went on to incredibly disappointing sales and ended up in obscurity soon after.

I just cannot recommend Shenmue 3. Not only does it end up with a cliffhanger that might never be resolved, but it's gameplay just has not moved on in twenty years barring the graphics. Still the same stilted dialogue, still the same long stretches of nothing happening, still a very stop-start story. And worse, they even managed to bugger some things up such as adding stamina mechanics and simplifying the combat.

Do yourself a favour and just buy Yakuza. Shenmue walked so it could run.

@Mikey856 I mostly play Civ 5 on mine so I've never noticed 😂

But yeah, it is already a pretty outdated piece of kit.

I would be surprised if we got another PSP or Vita tbh. Nintendo and mobile gaming have cornered the market.

A PlayStation Steam Deck however, is a real possibility. The Portal was a warm up to the main meal - just like the Pro to the PS6.

The 2000s called. They want their video game movie back.

Dark Souls Live Service incoming.

The elephant in the room here is just how few Western devs are getting nominated.

Never buy anything day 1!

How many more times do people need to be burned before they learn?

It is a terrible look however you slice it.. This console has exactly one selling point. If it does not do that then...

It has always amused me how much some people care about a number on the screen. Just play to have fun and you'll level up eventually. Why do you care if it is at double the speed or not?

Is prestige still a thing? Where you can reset your level for a medal? That never made much sense to me either. Why would I want to play the game again with all of the crappy guns and perks?

''The public gets a 10% share of the vote.''

So it doesn't mean anything then.

@ButterySmooth30FPS It is if Ford gives you a car that only does 30 miles per gallon when they promised you a car that does 75.

@JB_Whiting So far.

Lol. COD hasn't feigned realism for about ten years at least. It certainly isn't going to start now that Fortnite has proven how successful this model is.

Whoever was responsible for first releasing this game needed to have the balls, guts, spine or other organs required to stick their head up and declare that it needed another six months. They certainly needed to tell them not to delist the original games.

This was a disaster. Rockstar is very lucky that this mud has not stuck to them as it would to another dev.

@DonJorginho That's your opinion. Mine is that she can.

@AhmadSumadi Agreed, Rey Palpatine's faults were no fault of her actress. She has the looks and the athleticism to play the modern version of Lara.

Jolie was the perfect original Lara pick, the modern equivalent imo would be Gal Gadot.

Come on. Be honest with me now: no one here has ever imagined this woman as Lara Croft. Not the 90s fans, not the 10s fans, not the film fans; no one.

Anyone else smell that? Yep. It's the whiff of subverting our expectations. Because that always works out well.

I think that adapting Shep is a terrible idea. He has no character beyond what the player gives him which means that he will never satisfy the bulk of viewers. And even saying "he" is up for debate.

Very worried for this. They should have just made an original story.

The entertainment industry in general is going through radical change right now. AI is the big one, but also changing viewer habits. The mass lay-offs we are seeing from game devs are happening in Hollywood too.

By all means strike. Get what you can get. Get what you deserve. But just be aware that by most insider accounts that I have read, normal service never resumed after the Hollywood strikes. The suits took that as an excuse to further automate the industry to prevent their employees from ever doing it again. They signed their own death warrants.

Hashtag Bring Back Concord will be trending the day after. I'm only half joking, I can see it happening.

The best console advert of all time? Life is short from Xbox. That's the one that has a man flying through the air to his death.

Sonic 06 is one of those games that everyone hates but seemingly no one has actually played. I enjoyed it, simple as that.

And a note on that scene where Elise kisses Sonic, let's get real about this: what was shocking in 2006 is small potatoes in 2024. That is not even on my radar anymore. Give me thirty seconds and I'll find you an anime much worse than "just" a girl kissing a hedgehog.

Speaking of losing games, I thought that I would inform those of you who were thinking of buying it that Sega is removing the Mega Collection from digital storefronts in December. Not sure why, I would assume that another collection is on its way, but just a heads up.

@TruestoryYep Sarcasm Mode Activated:
Sure lol, that is exactly who I was referring to.

"Considering that would make it some five years old, it's impressive stuff!"

I know that you mean, but graphical limitations are often budgetary rather than technical. There are games on the PS3 that still blow a lot of recent games out of the water.

I haven't platinumed a single GTA since 3 solely due to the fact that the promised "hundreds of hours of gameplay" involves things like collecting packages, finding stunt jumps, reaching 100 million dollars etc.

Or in other words, completely unfun and pointless busy work. Most games that claim to have a lot of content don't really have a lot of content.

The fact that Nintendo is being Nintendo when it comes to the Game Boy versions seriously harms this collection imo.

@Matroska Agreed, it is the controls more than anything else that really hurts this series. I'm not not normally one for "dumbing down" but I would much prefer a single button press over the complicated CQC system of MGS3. I know seasoned players can work magic with it but I always struggled to get it to do what I wanted it to do. One flick of the stick in the wrong direction was the difference between success and failure.

@CielloArc Yep. The cynical side of me cannot help but think that a lot of these bans are a response to a certain somebody buying Twitter.

I love Metal Gear, but yeah, it is badly dated. Although ironically not MGS3 so much. It is the game that is universally liked so it makes sense to start with it.

If there was any merit to these social media bans then they should have happened back in 2008. That ship has long since sailed.

Besides which, granddad government is always about 5 steps behind the kids when it comes to tech. They aren't policing this.

"Our only caveat though is that if you are sitting any more than a few feet away from your screen or monitor, or you are maybe rocking a mid-range TV"

Y'know, that really is the key point that should be emphasised here. Buying a Pro without upgrading your tv first is not advisable.

Here is the next lesson that you need to learn: Insulting your playerbase on Twitter just makes things worse.

@KawakiisaFraud No one is saying that the PS5 is dead or a failure.

They are saying that the PS5 is disappointing given how many of its games are from one to two console generations ago. I agree with one of the posters above: there has never been a better time to buy a PS5 because based on current trends it'll probably reach its high point about three years into the lifespan of the PS6.

@ApostateMage This is sadly a very real problem on the horizon.

More to the point though, Shep is a character without a personality. It is your choice to make them good or evil, social or a loner etc. You will never be able to please the majority of people.

This has to be a troll article.

Another live service failure.

Good.

I see no reason to buy one. The PS5 has yet to even slightly live up to its full potential - and now Sony wants me to buy its discless PS6 test bed for 800? A device which seemingly has no exclusive games and is just a graphics amp for the last decade of games?

I found this insulting a couple of months back and I still find it insulting now.

@NEStalgia You never know quite how other people will react when it comes to spoilers. I guess going by the laws of averages there must be at least one person here who doesn't know about it lol.

@NEStalgia Hollywood in general respected the maturity of children far more back then than it does today. The most obvious proof of this would be Bambi. I know for a fact that there have been numerous arguments behind-the-scenes regarding ''The Scene'' when it comes to a live-action remake.

There are a lot of Disney animated films that would not have been made in the same way today and I am not just talking about the changing cultural values regarding certain groups.

Is review bombing taking place? Yes.

But just so we are clear about this: The review bombing is happening both ways. I've seen some ridiculously high scores just as I've seen some ridiculously low scores. Both sides are guilty of inflicting the culture war upon us this time.

Watch a Let's Play and decide for yourself.

I am suddenly massively worried for the tv series. I was under the impression that the series was meant to be making up for the extreme liberties that the films took by being a more accurate adaptation.

But now they are going to be linking this wholly original content to it? What a soul crushing disappointment this news is. And I bet that I am not the only Harry Potter fan who thinks this.