And I just googled various newspapers from the 80s and headlines are either ALL IN CAPS WHICH WE ALL KNOW IS ANNOYING TO READ, or written like that BBC headline above.
>"And Charles Young, editor-in-chief of video game website IGN China, was equally effusive in his praise for the title.
>"We often boast about the thousands of years of splendour in Chinese culture, but this can sometimes come across as a bit of self-promotion," he told the ABC.
>He said he thought Black Myth: Wukong had "already achieved" great success in promoting Chinese culture overseas."
If you're using the phrase "thousands of years of Chinese splendour" then you know your brain has already been fried by BS. Imagine a British dev or journalist talking about thousands of years of British "splendour" and "promoting British culture overseas".
I'm doubtful of this. Both in terms of being individual, actual live viewers and also in terms of that translating to the "bigness" or cultural relevance of the show.
If you went into a pub and asked random people if they know what the Oscars are, everyone would. Now imagine asking random people if they know what the Game Awards are. Ask random people which game won GOTY in any year at the Game Awards. You might as well ask an 80 year old couple who their favourite Honkai Star Rail girl is.
On a different note, it's funny that Reggie is most surprised by it supposedly being watched more than the Super Bowl, a game in a sport infamous for only being cared about in a single country.
@RudeHero "You obviously haven't astro bots booster/hover jump is straight from mario sunshine for example. Enough said." So just out of interest, going off your own logic, do you think Nintendo copied Sega when they made BotW since the gliding and climbing is just like Sonic and Knuckles? Even being able to climb, then glide off and stick to another wall and climb again.
@LifeGirl I think it's that sort of game that's perfect for PS+. Broadly speaking, there are games you really want to play and you get them ASAP, there are games you have zero interest in and wouldn't play even if they were free, then there's games that you don't massively care about but there's still something interesting about them. They can put all the CoDs they like on Plus and I'll never play them, they could put a game I was hyped for like DD2 but I already played it. But something in that odd grey area like Forspoken or Sonic Frontiers and that's perfect.
I love how some people are saying it looks generic but those same people wouldn't have said a game where an American guy travels the world and shoots people is generic when ND made Uncharted.
Onimusha and Okami getting sequels makes me so happy. And a new Ueda game. My dream thing was seeing an announcement of FFIX remake but I still got a lot of good news from this.
Some points where my brain tuned out, but overall it was very good. New Ueda game, new Onimusha, new Okami - that is dream tier. Several other amazing things, not least of which are TW4 and the new ND game. But then various bouts of nothing. But I'd say it felt like a great E3 in general.
Well, I've been vaguely interested in Frontiers but wouldn't buy it unless it was like £6 so that's decent for me. Used to love Sonic as a kid, but like most people from that era, it stayed as something from my childhood rather than being something I kept interest in - at least post-Dreamcast. So it'll be interesting to see how the little smug git is doing nowadays.
Forspoken will be interesting to play just to have a nice soak in a warm bath of absolute cringe for as long as it's entertaining.
I just wish they'd make story mode easier (while still allowing the what-ifs). I bought this game at launch and only played it once because it was so horribly unfun. I loved BT1-3, by the way, and never found them particularly difficult, but this was the least fun I've had playing a game in many years. Well, apart from the minigames in Rebirth. Only case of buyer's remorse I've had in probably at least a decade.
@Briarback Well to be honest, the Game Pass defence doesn't really work on PC because every offline game can just be pirated for free. So every offline game has this free alternative and yet they still normally do way more then 12k. You get crazy things like Palworld being on GP but having over 2 million concurrent players. But like I said, even without GP most games have that free alternative option.
@ItsAlwaysSunnyyy It feels like a weird kind of QVC shopping channel for games. A QVC-type channel where they give awards for the best vacuum cleaners and watches to pretend it's not just a series of adverts. And yeah, E3 had this proper event feel to it, something more weighty and genuine.
@PuppetMaster Yep, I know. That's why I was asking if this restriction was only for GOTY because I knew Left Behind didn't get that but it did win something. It seems odd to count DLC as a game for all categories but one if they're going to take issue with it being treated as a "regular game".
TLoU: Left Behind won a BAFTA despite being DLC. It was later released as a standalone thing but that was the year after it won a BAFTA. Or is this only for the GOTY award specifically?
Yeah, like many others I get what is presumably the first page of it, that'd have my avatar and username displayed, but it just has loading swirls in their place. Then it does the error message others have posted. Sony seem really bad at the technical side of things like this. Same as how awful the PSN shop is, lack of folders etc.
@breakneck @LavenderShroud It sounds much more like he knows Geralt is in it but didn't realise he wasn't meant to announce it, then got told by CDPR to say it was just a misunderstanding.
It'd be kind of weird for the VA of Geralt to hear that he'd be returning to voice the character from some random rumour and not say to CDPR "I heard this rumour I'm coming back but you haven't asked me yet. So am I coming back?" and to instead announce it publicly several times even though, supposedly, no-one from CDPR has asked him.
@dskatter Rocksteady didn't make Origins so if you're okay with a game made by an entirely different dev team (from an entirely different country, even) the lack of original members in Rocksteady shouldn't really matter.
@Gunnerzaurus I was going to say the same thing until I actually read his tweet, so I'm guessing you haven't read it yet and just assumed the same thing I did. He specifically claims the name is copied because of the word "widow" and makes no other claim of similarity between them.
@MeanBeanEgg Yes, the market that Square Enix thought would dramatically change XVI's fortunes. Remember how it was only being on the PS5 that caused it to underperform? Then they release it on PC and it gets outperformed by a NES game with a fresh coat of paint.
The all time peak concurrent players is interesting. This very old school game with basic presentation has almost doubled the count of a considerably more expensive game that turned a JRPG into an action game in order to chase more customers.
@3Above For a basic remake of a NES game, the third basic remake of a NES game, to sell almost a million copies outside of Japan in this short time is pretty amazing.
"adapting this famous old franchise." Something about that annoys me. I mean, it's a newer franchise than Star Wars, slightly, and I don't think anyone referred to Outlaws as "adapting this famous old franchise".
@LifeGirl How could you personalise the PS1 and 2? What really happened is with each PlayStation they added the ability to customise it and then recently they took it away. 60% of Playstation consoles had zero customisation. If you want to customise your system, why not get a PC? The whole console deal is incredibly limited control but, at least in theory, you exchange that for a really simple user experience. Don't get me wrong, I'd like themes too, but it's an odd complaint about things that are basically budget PCs defined by their total lack of user control.
@Balaam_ It's not as simple as plural and singular for those words, if you think about it. You wouldn't say "I has a sandwich". Nor would you say "everyone are happy", you'd say "everyone is happy" as if it was just one person. Or "everyone has a problem", not "everyone have a problem". But then to really confuse things, "does everyone have a problem?" is correct, not "does everyone has a problem?"
@Azex Yeah, depends how you look at it. This is basically a birthday for PlayStation. Are these themes the equivalent to the present, which you keep after the event, or equivalent to the party, which only lasts a short time? Seems like they looking at it as the party and we're looking at it as the present.
@TheTraditional Pretty sure they are since you can pirate amiibos using your phone to write the data to NFC tags. And yeah, I agree. BotW becomes pay-to-win with amiibos. They also locked the TP dungeon behind Wolf Link.
@Oxy You're saying that while self-censoring on a site that doesn't allow words that everyone uses every day. I'm not defending Fortnite, I haven't even played it and don't typically like multiplayer games, but it's a pretty ironic post.
@Robocrop_Duster Older consoles still sell in poorer countries. In their main run they're too expensive because console prices don't tend to scale for each country. So to make up an example, a PS4 could cost a month's wages on some countries until more recently. And apply that to each console generation.
Definitely, especially if they make all enemies visible. It's one of my favourite games of all time. I didn't like it at first, I think I expected all JRPGs to be like FF back then.
@Godot25 @KyushuTrail "We all live in a simulation" is a famous theory that states we are almost definitely living in a Matrix-like simulation. I have absolutely no idea why he's using it in the context of CoD selling well.
@BlaizeV I know what you're getting at, but they didn't make or even publish these to begin with. Ever17 came out about 2002 and had nothing to do with them. Never7 is a bit older. These are just two old VNs being brought to modern consoles by them.
DQIII. Man, it puts most JRPGs released since the original to shame with the sense of adventure and exploration. It's brought my Veilguard playthrough to a screeching halt.
>"Sparking! Zero is based upon — the Budokai Tenkaichi series" It's not based upon them, it's the same series. The Sparking series was called Budokai Tenkaichi in the West to tie them into the Budokai series for marketing purposes. You had Sparking, Sparking Neo and Sparking Meteor, which we got as BT1-3.
I really didn't like FFXVI but Ben seems really cool and like he really appreciates and respects his role in it, and the wider gaming community. "60fps, get 'em Torgal!"
@riceNpea I know, every time I see "tidbit" and stuff like that... I guess that's the issue with being an internet journalist, you're just embedded so much in American culture.
@Zemo55 It's a jokey word used in a lighthearted way, like yank and limey. Also, remember, a word is only offensive if you find it offensive. Australians use it in a bantery way, I can't imagine a British person in Australia being surrounded by Aussies as they're taunted with "pom" while crying. It's just a little fun jab, and we do the same back. Like how you're cheekier with your friends than you'd be with a stranger.
@LavenderShroud Well it should be the least English thing since he's using Australian slang (and is Australian, but he's playing it up here because the article's about Australia) whereas the other writers are English. 😄
As always, some of these discounts are pretty weak. You can get Sonic for just £4 more on Amazon and that's not a discounted price.
@breakneck It was 45% off on Amazon the other day but sold out almost immediately. There are a few games up there that are newer than Metaphor, I think, like Astro Bot.
@Drago201 Well this one isn't even made by the same company. It's just the same Lego license. Everyone seems to think it's the same devs as the other ones. I don't think any of them are that good, but this seems to be an absolutely bare bones game that would basically be a minigame in another game. The others are basically Metroidvania collect 'em ups.
@danzoEX DQ is, and was, way bigger in Japan than CT.
According to Wikipedia: "Dragon Quest III sold over one million copies on the first day, with almost 300 arrests for truancy among students absent from school to purchase the game.[59] It set sales records by selling 1.1 million game cartridges in Japan within a day[60] and 3 million in a week,[61]"
And Chrono Trigger "The game was a best-seller in Japan,[140] where two million copies were sold in only two months.[141]"
Both huge successes, both all time greats, but DQ in Japan is on another level. I think the only thing on its level is Monster Hunter.
@Nem It's not what about I consider an indie developer, it means "independent" as in "independent from a major publisher" the same a with indie music and indie films being independent of a major record label and film studio respectively. If you mean "low budget" then just say that - major publishers like Nintendo or Ubisoft can still do low budget games.
Yes the tone is different with Yakuza and Shenmue but they're both massively about exploring the town you're in and getting really familiar with it until it feels like a real place to you. They're both very character focused. They both typically have stories based on getting revenge for something (a classic martial arts movie trope). In Yakuza you could spend hours playing darts and Virtua Fighter before doing some karaoke. It's not just constant fighting. Even the style of combat is similar, very martial arts movie style, very arcadey - Shenmue combat was modified Virtua Fighter.
@Nem The same indie descriptor is meaningless. Cyberpunk 2077 is an indie game. Bastion, which seems like an indie game, is published by Warner Bros, one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world. And Yakuza is clearly built on the ideas in Shenmue. You explore an urban location that's depicted in amazing detail. There's an intimate, almost soap opera style to the story, but crossed with a melodramatic martial arts storyline. The gameplay is basically a beat 'em up. You can play various Sega arcade games. There's life sim elements.
The creator of Yakuza, Toshihiro Nagoshi, worked in AM2 for years under Yu Suzuki, the creator of Shenmue. He was even the supervisor on the first Shenmue game. He was the director and producer of Shenmue in the last months of development despite saying prior to that that he wasn't happy how it had turned out. He's said since there's no one he's learned more about game development from than Yu Suzuki.
@Anke "the joy and life of a Persona." The joy of everyone becoming depressed and listless before turning into a coffin? Or the joy of miming a gun suicide thousands of times? Or the joy of an abused schoolgirl attempting suicide? I love the Persona series, I was absolutely obsessed with 4 when it came out, but I don't really link joy with them. Also since so much of it is so mundane, boring daily life - intentionally, I know, but still - it doesn't feel full of life, just that it's depicting the more repetitive and regimented elements of it.
@Wario_Waha You're talking about Sony not making their own games but doing deals for things to be exclusives, then saying you love Nintendo even though they're the same. The companies that make Pokémon, Smash Bros, Kirby and Fire Emblem are all made by companies not part of Nintendo but bound to them with certain games through legal contracts. Intelligent Systems, who make FE, have also made Wario Ware and Paper Mario games.
Then you have Nintendo buying up other companies and stopping them making games for other platforms, like Monolith Soft and the Xeno series. And they've been doing exclusivity deals since the NES with Mega Man, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and just about every third party game that didn't appear elsewhere. This is the company that sued the creator of Fire Emblem for leaving Intelligent Systems and making his own game like Fire Emblem for PS1. Imagine if Sony sued Miyazaki for making a game with similar gameplay to Bloodborne for the Switch.
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Re: Industry Analyst Argues Either Sony or Microsoft Will Need to Exit the Console Market
@dskatter They haven't done it like that, at least not much. Look, here's a BBC article on their site:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgnj7e8028o
And I just googled various newspapers from the 80s and headlines are either ALL IN CAPS WHICH WE ALL KNOW IS ANNOYING TO READ, or written like that BBC headline above.
Re: Random: Former IGN China Editor Refutes Game Science Crying Claim
>"And Charles Young, editor-in-chief of video game website IGN China, was equally effusive in his praise for the title.
>"We often boast about the thousands of years of splendour in Chinese culture, but this can sometimes come across as a bit of self-promotion," he told the ABC.
>He said he thought Black Myth: Wukong had "already achieved" great success in promoting Chinese culture overseas."
If you're using the phrase "thousands of years of Chinese splendour" then you know your brain has already been fried by BS. Imagine a British dev or journalist talking about thousands of years of British "splendour" and "promoting British culture overseas".
Re: The Game Awards Is Now Allegedly Bigger Than the Super Bowl
I'm doubtful of this. Both in terms of being individual, actual live viewers and also in terms of that translating to the "bigness" or cultural relevance of the show.
If you went into a pub and asked random people if they know what the Oscars are, everyone would. Now imagine asking random people if they know what the Game Awards are. Ask random people which game won GOTY in any year at the Game Awards. You might as well ask an 80 year old couple who their favourite Honkai Star Rail girl is.
On a different note, it's funny that Reggie is most surprised by it supposedly being watched more than the Super Bowl, a game in a sport infamous for only being cared about in a single country.
Re: Random: PS5, PS4 Shovelware Isn't Even Trying to Hide Its Plagiarism Anymore
@RudeHero "You obviously haven't astro bots booster/hover jump is straight from mario sunshine for example.
Enough said."
So just out of interest, going off your own logic, do you think Nintendo copied Sega when they made BotW since the gliding and climbing is just like Sonic and Knuckles? Even being able to climb, then glide off and stick to another wall and climb again.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for December 2024?
@LifeGirl I think it's that sort of game that's perfect for PS+. Broadly speaking, there are games you really want to play and you get them ASAP, there are games you have zero interest in and wouldn't play even if they were free, then there's games that you don't massively care about but there's still something interesting about them. They can put all the CoDs they like on Plus and I'll never play them, they could put a game I was hyped for like DD2 but I already played it. But something in that odd grey area like Forspoken or Sonic Frontiers and that's perfect.
Re: Naughty Dog's New PS5 Game Is Finally Announced, Sci-Fi Action Title Intergalactic
I love how some people are saying it looks generic but those same people wouldn't have said a game where an American guy travels the world and shoots people is generic when ND made Uncharted.
Re: Round Up: What Was Announced at The Game Awards 2024?
Onimusha and Okami getting sequels makes me so happy. And a new Ueda game. My dream thing was seeing an announcement of FFIX remake but I still got a lot of good news from this.
Re: All The Game Awards 2024 Winners
Best game that wasn't mentioned: FFIX Remake.
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate The Game Awards 2024?
Some points where my brain tuned out, but overall it was very good. New Ueda game, new Onimusha, new Okami - that is dream tier. Several other amazing things, not least of which are TW4 and the new ND game. But then various bouts of nothing. But I'd say it felt like a great E3 in general.
Re: Concord 'Didn't Bring Unique Value' to Players, Says Marvel Rivals Director
Thaddeus Sasser sounds like one of the super villains we'll be playing as in future seasons.
Re: 12 New PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Arrive Next Week
Well, I've been vaguely interested in Frontiers but wouldn't buy it unless it was like £6 so that's decent for me. Used to love Sonic as a kid, but like most people from that era, it stayed as something from my childhood rather than being something I kept interest in - at least post-Dreamcast. So it'll be interesting to see how the little smug git is doing nowadays.
Forspoken will be interesting to play just to have a nice soak in a warm bath of absolute cringe for as long as it's entertaining.
Re: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero's Biggest Update Incoming, Improves Versus Mode, Brings Huge Balance Changes
I just wish they'd make story mode easier (while still allowing the what-ifs). I bought this game at launch and only played it once because it was so horribly unfun. I loved BT1-3, by the way, and never found them particularly difficult, but this was the least fun I've had playing a game in many years. Well, apart from the minigames in Rebirth. Only case of buyer's remorse I've had in probably at least a decade.
Re: Gamers Drawn to Troy Baker's Mesmerising Indiana Jones Like Moths to Flame
@Briarback Well to be honest, the Game Pass defence doesn't really work on PC because every offline game can just be pirated for free. So every offline game has this free alternative and yet they still normally do way more then 12k. You get crazy things like Palworld being on GP but having over 2 million concurrent players. But like I said, even without GP most games have that free alternative option.
Re: You Can Get Excited for The Game Awards, Says Reputable Journalist
@ItsAlwaysSunnyyy It feels like a weird kind of QVC shopping channel for games. A QVC-type channel where they give awards for the best vacuum cleaners and watches to pretend it's not just a series of adverts. And yeah, E3 had this proper event feel to it, something more weighty and genuine.
Re: Elden Ring DLC Not Eligible for BAFTA's Best Game Award
@PuppetMaster Yep, I know. That's why I was asking if this restriction was only for GOTY because I knew Left Behind didn't get that but it did win something. It seems odd to count DLC as a game for all categories but one if they're going to take issue with it being treated as a "regular game".
Re: Elden Ring DLC Not Eligible for BAFTA's Best Game Award
TLoU: Left Behind won a BAFTA despite being DLC. It was later released as a standalone thing but that was the year after it won a BAFTA. Or is this only for the GOTY award specifically?
Re: PlayStation Wrap-Up 2024 Available Now, See Your Gaming Stats for This Year
Yeah, like many others I get what is presumably the first page of it, that'd have my avatar and username displayed, but it just has loading swirls in their place. Then it does the error message others have posted. Sony seem really bad at the technical side of things like this. Same as how awful the PSN shop is, lack of folders etc.
Re: Geralt Actor 'Slapped by CD Projekt', Walks Back The Witcher 4 Comments
@breakneck @LavenderShroud It sounds much more like he knows Geralt is in it but didn't realise he wasn't meant to announce it, then got told by CDPR to say it was just a misunderstanding.
It'd be kind of weird for the VA of Geralt to hear that he'd be returning to voice the character from some random rumour and not say to CDPR "I heard this rumour I'm coming back but you haven't asked me yet. So am I coming back?" and to instead announce it publicly several times even though, supposedly, no-one from CDPR has asked him.
Re: Suicide Squad Season 4 Will Be Its Last, Offline Mode Coming Tomorrow
@dskatter Rocksteady didn't make Origins so if you're okay with a game made by an entirely different dev team (from an entirely different country, even) the lack of original members in Rocksteady shouldn't really matter.
Re: Former Blizzard Boss Slams Marvel Rivals, Comparing It to Horizon-Like Light of Motiram
@Gunnerzaurus I was going to say the same thing until I actually read his tweet, so I'm guessing you haven't read it yet and just assumed the same thing I did. He specifically claims the name is copied because of the word "widow" and makes no other claim of similarity between them.
Re: Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake Ships 2 Million Worldwide, Japan Accounts for at Least Half
@MeanBeanEgg Yes, the market that Square Enix thought would dramatically change XVI's fortunes. Remember how it was only being on the PS5 that caused it to underperform? Then they release it on PC and it gets outperformed by a NES game with a fresh coat of paint.
Re: Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake Ships 2 Million Worldwide, Japan Accounts for at Least Half
The all time peak concurrent players is interesting. This very old school game with basic presentation has almost doubled the count of a considerably more expensive game that turned a JRPG into an action game in order to chase more customers.
@3Above For a basic remake of a NES game, the third basic remake of a NES game, to sell almost a million copies outside of Japan in this short time is pretty amazing.
Re: Round Up: Indiana Jones Reviews Are Live, Mostly Very Strong
"adapting this famous old franchise."
Something about that annoys me. I mean, it's a newer franchise than Star Wars, slightly, and I don't think anyone referred to Outlaws as "adapting this famous old franchise".
Re: PS5 Users Are Begging for Themes, PS1 Startup Screen to Stay
@LifeGirl How could you personalise the PS1 and 2? What really happened is with each PlayStation they added the ability to customise it and then recently they took it away. 60% of Playstation consoles had zero customisation. If you want to customise your system, why not get a PC? The whole console deal is incredibly limited control but, at least in theory, you exchange that for a really simple user experience. Don't get me wrong, I'd like themes too, but it's an odd complaint about things that are basically budget PCs defined by their total lack of user control.
Re: Infinity Nikki's Epic Story Trailer Introduces the Cosiest PS5 Game Ever
@Balaam_ It's not as simple as plural and singular for those words, if you think about it. You wouldn't say "I has a sandwich". Nor would you say "everyone are happy", you'd say "everyone is happy" as if it was just one person.
Or "everyone has a problem", not "everyone have a problem". But then to really confuse things, "does everyone have a problem?" is correct, not "does everyone has a problem?"
Re: Sony Brings Back Iconic PS1 Startup Screen on PS5, But Only for a Limited Time
@Azex Yeah, depends how you look at it. This is basically a birthday for PlayStation. Are these themes the equivalent to the present, which you keep after the event, or equivalent to the party, which only lasts a short time? Seems like they looking at it as the party and we're looking at it as the present.
Re: PS5 Home Screen Customisable with PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 Themes for the 30th Anniversary
@TheTraditional Pretty sure they are since you can pirate amiibos using your phone to write the data to NFC tags. And yeah, I agree. BotW becomes pay-to-win with amiibos. They also locked the TP dungeon behind Wolf Link.
Re: Fortnite Attracts 14 Million Concurrent Players to Hip-Hop Concert Event
@Oxy You're saying that while self-censoring on a site that doesn't allow words that everyone uses every day. I'm not defending Fortnite, I haven't even played it and don't typically like multiplayer games, but it's a pretty ironic post.
Re: Infinity Nikki Can Shrink Like Astro Bot with New Outfit in PS5 Platformer
Big Big Small Land (it may have a different name, I can't remember) in Mario 64 was the best level.
Re: The Wacky But Promising Baby Steps Now Slated for 2025
Finally a videogame character I can relate to.
Re: As the Switch Closes in, Sony Confirms PS2 Sold 160 Million Units
@Robocrop_Duster Older consoles still sell in poorer countries. In their main run they're too expensive because console prices don't tend to scale for each country. So to make up an example, a PS4 could cost a month's wages on some countries until more recently. And apply that to each console generation.
Re: Outstanding PS2 RPG Dragon Quest 8 Is Now 20 Years Old
Definitely, especially if they make all enemies visible. It's one of my favourite games of all time. I didn't like it at first, I think I expected all JRPGs to be like FF back then.
Re: Black Ops 6 Is the 'Biggest Call of Duty Ever', Player Engagement Through the Roof
@Godot25 @KyushuTrail "We all live in a simulation" is a famous theory that states we are almost definitely living in a Matrix-like simulation. I have absolutely no idea why he's using it in the context of CoD selling well.
https://academic.oup.com/pq/article-abstract/53/211/243/1610975
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4wMhXxZ1zNM
Re: Two Legendary Visual Novels from an Industry Icon Will Make Their Western Debut on PS4 Next Year
@BlaizeV I know what you're getting at, but they didn't make or even publish these to begin with. Ever17 came out about 2002 and had nothing to do with them. Never7 is a bit older. These are just two old VNs being brought to modern consoles by them.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 556
DQIII. Man, it puts most JRPGs released since the original to shame with the sense of adventure and exploration. It's brought my Veilguard playthrough to a screeching halt.
Re: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Is the Most Successful Dragon Ball Game Ever in the US
>"Sparking! Zero is based upon — the Budokai Tenkaichi series"
It's not based upon them, it's the same series. The Sparking series was called Budokai Tenkaichi in the West to tie them into the Budokai series for marketing purposes. You had Sparking, Sparking Neo and Sparking Meteor, which we got as BT1-3.
Re: Random: Even Clive from Final Fantasy 16 Is Begging for Bloodborne at 60fps
I really didn't like FFXVI but Ben seems really cool and like he really appreciates and respects his role in it, and the wider gaming community. "60fps, get 'em Torgal!"
Re: Australia's Planned Social Media Ban Won't Include PSN After All
@riceNpea I know, every time I see "tidbit" and stuff like that... I guess that's the issue with being an internet journalist, you're just embedded so much in American culture.
Re: Australia's Planned Social Media Ban Won't Include PSN After All
@Zemo55 It's a jokey word used in a lighthearted way, like yank and limey. Also, remember, a word is only offensive if you find it offensive. Australians use it in a bantery way, I can't imagine a British person in Australia being surrounded by Aussies as they're taunted with "pom" while crying. It's just a little fun jab, and we do the same back. Like how you're cheekier with your friends than you'd be with a stranger.
Re: Australia's Planned Social Media Ban Won't Include PSN After All
@LavenderShroud Well it should be the least English thing since he's using Australian slang (and is Australian, but he's playing it up here because the article's about Australia) whereas the other writers are English. 😄
Re: Huge PS Store Black Friday Sale Live Now, 500+ PS5, PS4 Games on Offer
@breakneck Wow, Astro seems way more recent to me. Time is going way too fast.
Re: Huge PS Store Black Friday Sale Live Now, 500+ PS5, PS4 Games on Offer
As always, some of these discounts are pretty weak. You can get Sonic for just £4 more on Amazon and that's not a discounted price.
@breakneck It was 45% off on Amazon the other day but sold out almost immediately. There are a few games up there that are newer than Metaphor, I think, like Astro Bot.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give LEGO Horizon Adventures?
@Drago201 Well this one isn't even made by the same company. It's just the same Lego license. Everyone seems to think it's the same devs as the other ones. I don't think any of them are that good, but this seems to be an absolutely bare bones game that would basically be a minigame in another game. The others are basically Metroidvania collect 'em ups.
Re: Japan Sales Charts: Dragon Quest 3 Is an Absolute Monster, PS5 Pro Falls Off
@danzoEX DQ is, and was, way bigger in Japan than CT.
According to Wikipedia:
"Dragon Quest III sold over one million copies on the first day, with almost 300 arrests for truancy among students absent from school to purchase the game.[59] It set sales records by selling 1.1 million game cartridges in Japan within a day[60] and 3 million in a week,[61]"
And Chrono Trigger
"The game was a best-seller in Japan,[140] where two million copies were sold in only two months.[141]"
Both huge successes, both all time greats, but DQ in Japan is on another level. I think the only thing on its level is Monster Hunter.
Re: Shenmue 3 Publishing Rights Passed to ININ on Fifth Anniversary
@Nem It's not what about I consider an indie developer, it means "independent" as in "independent from a major publisher" the same a with indie music and indie films being independent of a major record label and film studio respectively. If you mean "low budget" then just say that - major publishers like Nintendo or Ubisoft can still do low budget games.
Yes the tone is different with Yakuza and Shenmue but they're both massively about exploring the town you're in and getting really familiar with it until it feels like a real place to you. They're both very character focused. They both typically have stories based on getting revenge for something (a classic martial arts movie trope). In Yakuza you could spend hours playing darts and Virtua Fighter before doing some karaoke. It's not just constant fighting. Even the style of combat is similar, very martial arts movie style, very arcadey - Shenmue combat was modified Virtua Fighter.
Re: Shenmue 3 Publishing Rights Passed to ININ on Fifth Anniversary
@Nem The same indie descriptor is meaningless. Cyberpunk 2077 is an indie game. Bastion, which seems like an indie game, is published by Warner Bros, one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world. And Yakuza is clearly built on the ideas in Shenmue. You explore an urban location that's depicted in amazing detail. There's an intimate, almost soap opera style to the story, but crossed with a melodramatic martial arts storyline. The gameplay is basically a beat 'em up. You can play various Sega arcade games. There's life sim elements.
The creator of Yakuza, Toshihiro Nagoshi, worked in AM2 for years under Yu Suzuki, the creator of Shenmue. He was even the supervisor on the first Shenmue game. He was the director and producer of Shenmue in the last months of development despite saying prior to that that he wasn't happy how it had turned out. He's said since there's no one he's learned more about game development from than Yu Suzuki.
Re: SEGA Heaps Praise on Atlus Following Strong Metaphor: ReFantazio Sales
@Anke Yeah, to be fair, it does do the feeling of a group of friends really well. Well, for me 4 and 5 did. I never really clicked with 3's cast.
Re: SEGA Heaps Praise on Atlus Following Strong Metaphor: ReFantazio Sales
@Anke "the joy and life of a Persona."
The joy of everyone becoming depressed and listless before turning into a coffin? Or the joy of miming a gun suicide thousands of times? Or the joy of an abused schoolgirl attempting suicide? I love the Persona series, I was absolutely obsessed with 4 when it came out, but I don't really link joy with them. Also since so much of it is so mundane, boring daily life - intentionally, I know, but still - it doesn't feel full of life, just that it's depicting the more repetitive and regimented elements of it.
Re: SEGA Heaps Praise on Atlus Following Strong Metaphor: ReFantazio Sales
@ApostateMage It was on sale for £35 on Amazon yesterday but it seems it's gone back up again now.
@Balaam_
Yes, very generic. All those anime with... whatever this thing is.
Re: Feature: Why Would Sony Want to Buy Kadokawa?
@Wario_Waha You're talking about Sony not making their own games but doing deals for things to be exclusives, then saying you love Nintendo even though they're the same. The companies that make Pokémon, Smash Bros, Kirby and Fire Emblem are all made by companies not part of Nintendo but bound to them with certain games through legal contracts. Intelligent Systems, who make FE, have also made Wario Ware and Paper Mario games.
Then you have Nintendo buying up other companies and stopping them making games for other platforms, like Monolith Soft and the Xeno series. And they've been doing exclusivity deals since the NES with Mega Man, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and just about every third party game that didn't appear elsewhere. This is the company that sued the creator of Fire Emblem for leaving Intelligent Systems and making his own game like Fire Emblem for PS1. Imagine if Sony sued Miyazaki for making a game with similar gameplay to Bloodborne for the Switch.