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The patents are very broad and also were filed AFTER Palworld came out. This seems like nothing more Nintendo flexing their muscles and also try to tie up PP in legal proceedings.

@Stevemalkpus I want to see a modern remaster of Pandemonium! from the PS1.

@Oram77 The Gex trilogy is getting a remaster, though, through LimitedRunGame's Carbon Engine, I believe.

@Gaia093 Expedition 33 is set to get a new trailer this week, on October 16, so it might not be at the Partner Preview.

Just to clarify, I like Level-5's games and want them to succeed, but they are just too far in over their heads.

Level-5 is trying to do too much at once. They are trying to develop like seven games at once, when they are a company of only around 300 people. They also want to make every IP of theirs into a multimedia project, when they should just make the games be games. Not everything needs to be an anime and other stuff.

@RiotShieldsHurt I know you said it was imperfect, which it was, since the Vita TV couldn't play every single Vita game. I know I do regret not getting a Vita TV when they were really cheap here.

@somnambulance Lego games are fairly fun, in terms of being basic action-adventure games. Most of them play similarly and it mostly comes down to the licensing portion of the game, if you want to play them or not.

@Amnesiac Mad Maestro might be difficult to put on the PS4/5, since it required the pressure sensitive buttons. I do hope they find a workaround for it, as I enjoyed the heck out of that game.

@SodaPop6548 The Messenger got trophies for its free DLC, so this one might also get a few when this DLC hits.

@TripleKing333 Except for Trails in the Sky 3 in the west, where it was only released on PC.

@IntrepidWombat Never played Discworld and not much knowledge about British actors/actresses, since I'm from the US and all.

9/10. I only had to guess on the Discworld question, and goofed on the dragon one.

It doesn't come on disc. All of the games are digital codes, which makes this worthless, IMO.

@rjejr Trials of Mana was the last one released, which was a remake of a Super Famicom/SNES one. The series is known as Seiken Densetsu in Japan and Trials of Mana was Seiken Densetsu 3, so it was a "sequel" to Secret of Mana (the second game in the series).

The gameplay looked fine to me. I don't need state of the art graphics in my games, and I thought the 10 minute gameplay video looked pretty good. I'm not even a Star Wars fan, so it's not like I'm biased with that. Whether I get it day one or not depends on a few things, but if that doesn't work out, I can always get it on discount later.

I'm guessing this is an issue if you are subscribed to PS Premium, because I only have Essential and don't see this problem on my wishlist.

I mean, two of Falcom's biggest announcements were already leaked through official channels, in the Oath in Felghana remaster and Trails through Daybreak II. The only other thing I'd want from them is NISA announcing the limited edition for Ys X.

@UltimateOtaku91 I think one of the positions mentioned was a 2D Animator, so that should say the type of game.

@Deadlyblack I mean, if they complain, then they didn't look at the right side of the Steam page, where it says you need a PSN account for multiplayer and/or the PSN overlay. That message has been there since the game went up for preorder.

@Maubari There are a few times where the game gives you a vague hint on where to go next, but most of the time, there is a map marker that points you in the story direction. I've been playing the game for a good number of hours now and have once never felt lost on where to continue the main story.

By the way, that March 14 date is for the Asia version of the game, which will have English voices/subtitles. The western version is still just slated for Spring 2024.

@Bagwag82 32 characters at launch, none of those are DLC. Of course, there is going to be DLC outside of those 32, though, with the first one being released in the spring (Eddy Gordo).

@Blaze215 The game comes out in less than two weeks, but it looks like they are still working on Eddy, as shown in the video. Sure, they could just delay the game and add him in then, but I'm guessing they just started working on his character, due to him coming in the spring.

Steam is now listing it as March 21.

The biggest problem here is that they are offering the same value for the gaming side, as they were before the price hike. Sure, the price increase is still in its infancy, but there hasn't been any word from them that indicates a better value for the increased price.

"I can't wait for Sony to go back to making those smaller, artistic games that were fun!"

People don't realize that those games didn't really sell that well. I enjoyed the heck out of the Studio Japan games, but they didn't do too well. We saw this with all of the Clover Studio stuff at Capcom, too. Okami was a great game, but it sold like crap. After Kamiya went to make Platinum Games, even their games didn't sell all too well. That's why we got all of these third person games from Playstation, because those did make a lot of money for them.

Yeah, the video mentions that the PC release isn't until Early 2024.

@Ryall The numbers have returned to the normal Disgaea numbers, instead of the inflated versions in Disgaea 6.

Can't wait to play it!

@thetraditional On the PSBlog, they said that you won't be able to carry over stuff from game to game, as each is a standalone experience, in terms of that. If you do have a save file on your PS5 from Remake, though, you will get a special bonus in Rebirth.

Isn't Like a Dragon 8 also said to be releasing in Early 2024?

Yeah, the Yakuza games are almost always on sale, in one form or another, and for pretty damn cheap, too.

Yet, it will probably sell a lot of copies, because it's a beloved game and the internet community is but a tiny fraction of the main populace.

@Pat_trick Just because some cosmetic costumes are ridiculously overpriced, doesn't mean that the game is bad. In fact, the game is amazing and there's a lot of content in there that you get for just purchasing the game.

The only problem with games like these is that the market is probably a bit oversaturated with them. While it might have some early boost to the population, I imagine there will be something that people don't like or they just get bored of it after a short while. They will then go back to the most popular live service games and continue playing those. The $60 price tag definitely doesn't help at all.

@WhensDinner If you buy a physical game through LRG, you buy it because you're most likely a collector. You don't buy from them, expecting a quick release like normal physical games. I've come to terms a long time ago that ordering from LRG is like a random surprise on when it shows up in the mail.

@Deshalu Game Pass might be a good deal for the consumer, but I have never liked it. I'm a big fan of physical games, despite digital encroaching to its dominance over it. Game Pass is nothing more than a glorified rental service and I still don't think it's sustainable in the long run. Games on it leave the service all the time and instead of people actually purchasing the games, all you ever hear is "I'll wait for it on Game Pass." MS has deep pockets and they know they can afford to keep shoveling money into GP.

It's part of the reason why Sony have gone on record, stating they wouldn't be able to sustain the same model. Their first party games don't go on PS+ at launch, because they would never make money from the sales the games bring.

Basically, no, I don't think this purchase will push Microsoft into the number one spot in the gaming sphere. However, the deep pockets they have make them more prone to continue gobbling up other companies, so they can try to compete with Sony and Nintendo. There's no one to blame for their third place position, other than themselves, honestly. They have the money to foster new talent/studios, but they flounder it all and don't produce megahits. Their management of their current studios isn't exactly stellar.

@Deshalu I never said that others weren't doing it, because it's been happening for years. However, this whole ABK thing is on another level, as ABK is probably the biggest independent third party publisher in the world, for games. MS going after them sets an even worse precedent that will involve the other big publishers.

@Deshalu It sets a bad precedent, though, once the deal goes through. This entices Sony, as well as bigger entities (like Amazon, for example), to start looking at and purchasing more studios/publishers. This is just bad all around, because there will be more consolidation under single umbrellas, which means that games which might have been third party to be exclusive to one platform, so gamers are losing out.

I've heard that the FTC is going to look into filing an appeal on the decision, although, I believe they only have a few days to do it. Of course, I don't really expect much change there, since the FTC didn't exactly do all too well.

@Cordyceps To be fair, there's a lot of demand from people who want the older titles on modern hardware, so it's not just them releasing things out of the blue. In fact, a lot of companies are re-releasing their older catalogs of games in some manner.

@Pepsiman_100 I believe the dev that did the My Hero Academia fighting games is doing this one (the My Hero One's Justice games).

@Enuo There was a 3DS tactical RPG that wasn't too bad (for Korra).

@Neverwild Pretty sure it's still day one on Game Pass, but there's a Premium Upgrade that gives five days early access (costs like $35 or something). So, I guess you could purchase that and not the full game, but still get the early access?

@Cashews Exoprimal is going to be a live service game, so something like Game Pass heavily helps those.

@Bez87 And therein lies the problem with Game Pass. Even for something like Starfield, you could get two months of GP for less than half the cost of just buying the game. In those two months, you could probably bleed the game of everything to do, then drop GP and just wait for the next big game. So, instead of buying Starfield for $70, you could play it for something like $32 (the two months), meaning that MS would be losing out on $38 for each copy.

And that's just for first party games, and the AAA ones at that. For third party games, Microsoft has to fork out money to the publisher/dev, then they also aren't getting their cut from the game sales for people who play on GP. Although, I imagine the money for the GP subscription would probably offset that some.

Isn't Kingdom Hearts owned by Disney? Unless they have a contract with sole rights to develop the games, Disney could just take Kingdom Hearts away from SE and hand it over to another developer. It was the same situation (I believe) with Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, in the PS1 days, since ND and Insomniac only had the rights to so many games before their contract expired. Sure, KH is synonymous with Square, but they don't own the IP (outside of their characters).

@YonkoBuggyTheClown They would actually have the game sell, since most people would be playing it on Game Pass, should that still be around when ES6 releases, of course. You never know, though, as Sony might have their own version of Game Pass by then, where games debut day one on the service, unlike the current service. Why buy a new game for $70, when you can rent it for two months for less than half of that cost? So, when you think about it, a new game will be losing $35-40 per unit, since that person will just decide to play it on Game Pass. Sure, MS is pocketing the cost of the subscription, but Sony didn't make a dumb decision to include new games day one on PS+.

Either way, we know it isn't going to come out on Playstation, so I don't get why he's trying to be vague about it with his answer. Hell, for all we know, Microsoft might not even be in the console business by the time ES6 releases, so who knows what will happen.

It's always funny that Microsoft has been painting themselves as extreme underdogs in this whole debacle. They "lost the console war" and "only resorted to buying Zenimax to avoid Sony getting timed exclusivity on Starfield." If laws weren't there, I imagine Microsoft could buy both Nintendo and Sony, without breaking a sweat. Of course, the FTC lawyers didn't exactly help in the arguments against the merger/buyout.

Microsoft losing the "console war" is not because of Sony, but because of their own incompetence. They don't know how to run their own studios, as evidenced by the fact of a lack of first party titles in the first few years of the Xbox Series launch. Sure, Phil definitely improved their public image after taking over for Mattrick (who was one of the worst leaders there), but I feel Phil is more of a snake in the grass than other executives in the gaming industry.