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I don't care either way tbh.
Although I have to say, WE HAVE DEFEATED GENDER is absolute cringe.

"It feels like the correct balance has been struck between faithfully restoring the original game and helping modern audiences."

Are kids today less intelligent than I was back in 1996? Less patient? Less observant? Because I wasn't a particularly remarkable child and yet I managed to reach the end of the game just fine.

"Modern audiences" just seems to be a bit of a stealth insult on the part of the developers tbh.

I'm certainly not going to rain on anyone's parade when it comes to trophies - I've enjoyed a platinum or two in my time. But I just do not understand why they are such a dealbreaker for so many people.

@itsfoz I would be very surprised if that ever happens. Bully was already controversial THEN which is why it is called "Canis Canem Edit" in the UK. The very title was seen as too much.

Maybe, perhaps, I could see it happening if it incorporated a GTA5 switching system so that you could get multiple perspectives at once. Perhaps bully, victim and teacher? The bullying would certainly be less glorified either way.

The first game absolutely was not my cup of tea but I hope that the sequel is a success. In this age of live service slurry we need artists like Kojima who are still not afraid to put out fresh and original ideas.

Looking at the PS Plus Premium poll I can immediately tell how many of you here did not have a PS2 when you were a kid lol. I do not know anyone from the early 00s who does not love at least one Timesplitters game.

@Specky No offence intended, but did you learn that from some stranger on Twitter or Facebook? Because I just ran a Google search and even the Smithsonian agrees that he existed. Incidentally, Wikipedia has an undeserved reputation. It gets corrected very quickly once vandalism is discovered and thus I am inclined to believe it over your source - unless you are able to provide a citation of course.

"Move swiftly across rooftops with Naoe’s new parkour moves."

Ah, yes. Play as the 16th century Japanese ninja who uses 20th century French acrobatics to move around. Because I guess admitting that she is about as authentic a ninja as Naruto is too hard. Ironically the black samurai is actually more historically accurate than she is because he is an actual real person.

The biggest problem with this game was the terrible execution of its story because it SHOULD have been a classic. All of the building blocks are there. But the script was just so darn repetitive to the point it was as if some child wrote it.

"We are L'Cie, enemies of Cocoon" repeated so, so, so many times as if we are all dumb as bricks and won't be able to get it otherwise.

@trev666 We need this confirmation.

Timesplitters?!
OK. That's it. PS Plus Premium is finally worth it. Hopefully I can buy them too.

I've been hearing a lot of people in recent years claim that that the old video game adaptation curse no longer exists and directors are finally taking the medium seriously.

But tbh, I can only think of four franchises that have actually been good as far as adaptations go: Sonic, Mario, TLOU and Fallout. I think that they were the exception rather than the rule. I know some people liked Halo but I thought it was absolute pants.

@Clytorial_Impact That's what I do not understand either. It is very easy to make something "inspired by" and get away with it. Look at all of the PUBG and COD clones out there.
Hopefully, after Death Stranding 2, that will be what he does next.

"It’s worth noting that this data is ranked by revenue, and the PS Portal is one of the more expensive items on the market".

That is a pretty big addendum though let's be honest. But fair's fair: it did better than I thought.

@LordAinsley Or... I did listen to the take and still do not agree.

@nomither6 I fail to see how.

@Dragoon1994 Tifa has gone down from a J cup to an F cup. She is still mightily stacked so I don't really think we can apply the same criteria tbh.

@wiiware Manga vs comics is another example.

@Ogbert I can see absolutely everything you just said coming out of Jack Thompson's mouth.
I didn't agree then. I don't agree now.
Like I said earlier: anyone encouraged by a game to commit a crime is excuse hunting. No more, no less.

BTW, you know what really grinds my gears about this sort of thing? We have NEVER lived in a more sexually charged time than 2024. There are women out there making a fortune on OnlyFans. We have people twerking at the Olympics. We have chart-topping songs with titles that are variations of the words ''soggy cat''. We have award winning tv shows like Game of Thrones that has nudity every other episode.
Why is anyone pretending that there are standards or that society somehow finds sex unacceptable nowadays? It doesn't. It is everywhere.

Anyone who murders, rapes, takes drugs or assaults someone because they saw it in a video game was going to do that shizzle anyway. Because guess what? Bad or crazy people are always excuse hunting.
''GTA made me do this.''
No it didn't. You're lying. You were already a bad egg to begin with.

@Bingbongboyo Some games have obnoxious platinum requirements that even top level players cannot achieve. Final Fantasy 9's jump rope minigame for example.
But I do think that having at least one gold or a handful of silver would be fair.

I agree with what everyone else is saying here that there needs to be a minimum playtime requirement and maybe even a trophy or two.
When the next game that comes out that is the ''Internet Devil of the Week'' I want to know that you've actually played it before giving me your opinion on it.

Sorry, but without the original soundtrack I just can not get behind this. It would be like re-releasing GTA Vice City but without V Rock. You've just taken away one of the main reasons why I play your game.

@Deadlyblack Pages of lore in fact. They have really complicated what should be a very simple concept.

@Gaia093 @PuppetMaster
Here's the thing:
Different people have different views so of course there are people complaining about too much and too little content. This is why you should never aim to please everyone.

And sorry, but I do not think that it is true that modern gamers are incapable of "enjoying the smaller things in games" when we live in a universe where Minecraft exists. There are streams with tens of thousands of viewers where someone just grinds one building material for hours and hours at a time.

The Final Fantasy 7 remake reminds me of the Hobbit films - one game's worth of story stretched out over three games for no reason.
Heaven spare us if this is the intended strategy for the rest of their remakes.

@KilloWertz The problem as I see it is that TV Ellie is not the same character as Game Ellie. What worries me is her capability to handle going John Wick for a whole season.

@UncleByron It's not a very small number. It's the minority based on the sales, I'll give you that, but there are Youtube reviews that complain about TLOU2 which have millions upon millions of views.

Joel is a beloved character. If he wasn't, the first game would not have been as successful as it was. Of course people got pissed off and it had nothing to do with "DEI" either.

@get2sammyb It was all about the Official UK PlayStation Magazine. A bit more expensive than the others but you got a demo disc with it. I will never forget the time that I spent the whole week playing the Tekken 3 demo - just two characters lol, Eddy and Xiaoyu. Good times.

The first reboot film was OK. Just OK.
Thing is, the high camp was what made the 1990s movies for me. And I miss that camp oh so much. You don't get that in films today - Deadpool aside.

"Your SOUL is MINE!!" Absolute iconic banger of a line.

No reboot of Street Fighter will compare to Raul Julia either.

My only request of 7 is that they return to the realistic character designs of 5.

Whilst there is very much such a thing as too much handholding, for example Fallout 4 with its omnipresent Arrow of Fate on the compass, I think that games are more pleasant experiences with subtle player aids.

No one really wants to spend half an hour clicking on the action button trying to find something or running around an open field trying to find that one cave.

@jrt87 The older I get, the more I realise that I was very harsh on Final Fantasy 13's railroading. Give me a 20-30 hour story driven hallway over some big open field with nothing to do in it any day.
That is not to say however that I am right, or that anyone else is wrong, just my preference.

@Waitinonpsvr2 You bought in early. Your choice. They owe you nothing.

@trev666 Every PlayStation before the PS5 can lay claim to being the GOAT imo but the PS3 is definitely near the top. The drop in quality has been extreme.

@PuppetMaster The PS3 is still the only Sony console that you can play Final Fantasy 13.

@Yousef- The opening ceremony really was kind of tacky tbh. Hundreds of years of art, culture and events to draw upon, and they end up giving us that nonsense. Look up Beijing 2008, that is how it should be done.

@jrt87 This appears to be a common excuse that defenders of VR like to use. "This is amazing if ONLY you would actually try it."

They seem unwilling or unable to accept that maybe we actually have tried it, and that is how and why we came to this conclusion.

@DennisReynolds That is also true in reverse though. "Americans choose convicted criminal over woman of color" says just as much.

@Ravix Whilst I do not disagree with the general principal of what you are saying, this is also the exact same excuse people used for the Sixaxis and touch sensitive controls back in the day.
95% of the games that supported these functions only did so "just because" and many of them had worse experiences as a result.

@Tecinthebrain She's too old to play this character. Like you say I have nothing against her personally, but Lilith should not look like someone's aunt at Comiccon. What a weird choice.

The West needs to understand that not everyone in the world thinks like we do, especially when it comes to ESG and DEI.

That said, bro, it's Assassin's Creed. It has always been a comic in game form. Getting funny about it being historically inaccurate is kind of dumb tbh.

@get2sammyb For every successful live service game with a rough launch that you can name me, I'll name you five that failed.

This is a game only for those with bottomless pockets.

Only a few days ago there was an article on here pointing out that most new games have no retention in the sales charts.

People stick with what they love, sometimes for decades. Breaking into this market with The Next Big Thing is next to impossible right now.

@Frmknst This character is brave? She looks rather generic and cookie-cutter to me.

I'm surprised that people are surprised tbh.

@ShogunRok There is a serious discussion to be had about the state of this industry if new games are no longer being bought.
There will certainly be a PS6. But beyond that? I'm not so sure. Maybe it'll be little more than a fancy emulation box.

@wiiware It is very interesting to ponder just how controversial toplessness would have been in Stellar Blade huh?