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@tpepper1985 To be fair, you can tell your party when to use their moves/spells and what to use them on. The only thing you can't tell them to do, as far as I can see, is where to stand.

In terms of chasing what's popular, well BG1 did that. It was meant to be turn-based, like actual DnD, but the higher-ups insisted it play like an RTS because they're were incredibly popular at the time. Bioware didn't want to do it but in the end gave in, with the RTwP compromise. It was the equivalent thing at the time of if Dragon Age had been made into a hero shooter - at least in terms of combat - because that's what's popular now.

It's also worth remembering that everyone loves ME1 yet that saw Bioware going from making deep, tactical, top-down RPGs with full party control to... A cover-based third-person shooter (very much the flavour of the month at the time) where you only directly control one character as you run through linear corridors with your military super commando shooting aliens. Yet, again, people typically love it.

Wokeness has gone too far. You can't even scare someone with a virtual spider nowadays. In the good old days it would be Spider Age: The Spider Guard and it'd be wall to wall spiders.

@Digit2021 It's really weird when people blame a real life thing on a game when the game only has that activity because it's copying reality in the first place - like car theft in GTA. it's like if I was arrested for assaulting someone, then months later my nephew punches someone at school, inspired by me. Then in my court hearing I say I only assaulted someone because I was copying my nephew. It's absolute madness.

I mean, if only Hitler hadn't played Command and Conquer, then we wouldn't have had WW2.

>"You could be milking an animal in one place or bungee jumping in another"
Okay but I can do both of those things in real life. I play games so I can do both those things at the same time.

Is there a what-if scenario where Mystic Gohan is actually good and beats Buu? It was such a disappointment how he ends up. Also can you do an all AI World Tournament? I think you could do that in a previous BT and it was surprisingly fun to watch.

Also, as a side note, it'd be cool if they had a character customisation like Super Dragon Ball (I think that's what it was called) where anyone could learn anything, so you could have Videl doing Kamehamehas and so on.

@Ralizah Yeah, it's like that Sims movie. You take away the fact it's a game and it's just a drama with generic people. With Until Dawn, you have a generic horror movie that doesn't stand out. By contrast, while a Zelda movie would be fairly standard fantasy, it has incredibly iconic characters, locations and scenarios. It survives the transition from game to film.

It's almost as if they're minigames from a bigger game that have been extracted and sold on their own - like if there was a standalone Blitzball game, or like that PS1 chocobo racing game. Not saying that's what's happened, it just feels like that since they're so basic and poorly executed.

@z0d15g0d No, Vegeta gets hit with a Spirit Bomb at some point, as an Oozaru he gets his tail cut off by Yajirobe so he turns back into his normal form, Gohan turns into an Oozaru and ultimately lands on top of Vegeta and crushes him. In the end, Vegeta can't even stand up and drags himself back to his pod thing. Krillin or someone says they should kill him but Goku lets him go. It's true that Goku couldn't beat him alone, though.

£60 for a mediocre horror film where you sometimes make choices is way too much, especially when it's almost a decade old. Particularly in the PC ecosystem where games tend to be cheaper, and these "cinematic experiences" tend to be looked down on way more than on consoles.

@Frmknst How is Master Chief dumber than, say, Bubsy or Leisure Suit Larry? Or frankly, more seriously, even iconic characters like Mario or Sonic? And how do you know anything about the character if you haven't played the series, hmm?

@TruestoryYep If all it did was copy the Metacritic scores then it would be irrelevant because we can just look at the Metacritic scores already. That said, and while in general they haven't just gone off the highest rated games, Black Myth Wukong and Stellar Blade both have 81 on MC whereas Dragon's Dogma 2 has 86; in this case you have the critical reception the wrong way around.

The games are nominated by people from "PC Gamer, FGS, Edge magazine, Retro Gamer, GamesRadar and a variety of industry experts" according to their site. I'd trust that more than whatever games happened to get review bombed least, or suffers least from illiterate gibberish like "Nothing especiall Normal graphics,weak story, bad level design,it was a waste of time and money for me" (one of the recent negative reviews I just saw while checking the critic scores).

@Slidebomb What an embarrassing post.

Dragon Age Inquisition for obvious reasons. I think it's actually improved with age, like a fine Orlesian wine.

The original unnerved me so much I could only play it if I ruined the atmosphere by putting Metallica on as I played it. I want to get this but I don't think I could handle it. 😂

@LavenderShroud "I recently got Star Ocean: The Last Hope"
Man, you should've got the enhanced edition on PS4. It's even got the illustrated portraits like the original PS3 version whereas the 360 version has the ugly 3D renders they made for us westerners. The remastered Last Remnant is on PS4 too.

@Ribbitsneed I've never gone to buy a physical game at launch and found it had sold out everywhere. People don't typically preorder for that reason. Normally it's for whatever bonuses you get and, at least in my case and the case of people I know, just to get the spending out the way so you know where you stand with your money. It's not like the price is going to drop at launch.

Also, lastly, you can play digital games at midnight, the very second it becomes launch day, and usually you can install the game in advance for that reason - but of course, only if you've bought it already. You could pointlessly resist preordering and only pay once it's actually launch day, but then you have to wait for it to download and install. Long story short, you lose nothing and gain various things.

The store still worked for me but my trophies were screwed up. I had to go offline to see the info - and it was saying I had zero trophies in games where that isn't the case.

@ChrisDeku Yeah but he means the animations are simply motion capture. The PS1 could have those animations if the motion capture tech was there at the time. The graphics are amazing, but I think the other poster was simply saying applying motion capture data to a model is not linked to the power of the hardware. However, for the visuals (models , textures, lighting etc) to be so good and running smoothly is of course down to the hardware.

Edit: Like, look at this. This is a Mario model from SSB on the Wii. It's being rendered terribly and looks awful but it has 1:1 motion capture with a real person.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=COcq__eXTsQ

The main thing here is Kojima has the desire and budget to capture so many unique animations from the actors just for a photo mode.

@B0udoir I'm not sure why people keep bringing up this competition thing. The PS1 was amazing yet it turns out it had no real competition as the Saturn was a flop and the N64 was Nintendo's worst selling console so far (at the time). If you add both Sega and Nintendo's sales together, the PS1 outsold them by about 60 million (it more than doubled their combined sales).

The PS2 sold about triple what the Xbox, GameCube (sold even worse than the N64) and Dreamcast sold combined. If you add all three up, the PS2 outsold them by 100 million. The Dreamcast sold so badly it finished Sega as a console manufacturer and the Xbox lost MS billions it did so badly.

Both amazing consoles from Sony with no strong competition at all. Then the PS3 was their first stumble and, get guess what, it was the time they most had competition, from the Xbox 360 of course (Sony ended up selling just 3 million more), as well as the Wii being Nintendo's best selling console at the time. Sony have actually had increasing competition over time. Their golden age was when all them competitors combined were still massively outsold by them.

Almost all were me. You can find them on my eBay shop for a mere £5,999. I've got to pay for the eventual PS6 somehow.

@get2sammyb Yeah, as @AdamNovice says, imagine if the new main character of Ghost of Yotei, Atsu, brutally murders Jin with a mastercrafted samurai golf club. The internet would hate that too.

I actually think what they did was good from a story perspective in the sense that Joel did a lot of bad things, especially at the end of the first game, and he'd have enemies. And how it pays off with Ellie becoming another Abby, the cycle repeating.

You just can't introduce a new character in that way and expect people to typically like them, though. Imagine if there was a Lord of the Rings 2 and an early scene is the new protagonist murdering Sam while Frodo looks on, screaming. Granted, Sam didn't go on a killing spree... unless you count him killing orcs with a frying pan.

So Capcom are almost literally going to take their customers for a ride?

@ATaco True. You could have an article announcing a new amazing indie game with 2 comments, then an article like this which is basically "look at this tweet by a man who hasn't changed his underwear in 4 months" and it gets flooded with replies. And I'm part of the problem, argh.

Ghost of Tsushima wasn't "a game based on masculinity," it was a game based on humanity. The various characters' perspectives based on personal morality and duty vs pragmatism, and how past experiences and trauma shape you.

If this guy played GoT and thought it was all about being a man, he's emotionally and intellectually disabled, stuck at age 11 for his entire life.

@PloverNutter "These people wouldn’t be defending if Ubisoft made it a white foreigner be the hero of AC Shadows as they would rightfully call that out as racist too."
The people okay with Yasuke were also okay with the white main character in Nioh,. including the Japanese, presumably, since the game did well. That guy was also an actual figure from history, too.

@Fiendish-Beaver I said playable character. I know Plato was real, obviously, but it's not like Cassandra was, and so on.

@LikelySatan And not to mention, Yasuke is actually a historical figure. In fact, I might be wrong about this as I'm no AC expert, but he might be the only AC playable character that's actually a real historical figure.

@mountain_spider Yeah. I'd hate it if someone else invades Tsushima and Jin is like "looks like it's time... to become the Ghost again!" as he needlessly but dramatically draws his sword. Certain other devs repeat the same thing ad nauseum with their characters and plots so I'm glad to see SP not doing that here.

"See that mountain? You can climb it," feels fresh again. Hopefully you do get to, though I'd imagine it might be the final part of the story. Also, one of the only things I didn't like about the original is that the towns, while sometimes beautiful, felt kind of dead. Just buildings with what were effectively mannequins standing around. Hopefully they can love them up and make them really interesting places, like the towns in BotW.

I've got the trophies for the Quidditch launch one but it's not unlocking. I played it the day it came out but I'm just now realising this. So as well as the purchase-based ones not being retroactive, the trophy ones aren't either? It doesn't matter as it's just for one of the collectibles but it's still stupid if true. They should at least align the Stars thing with the launch of the game.

Is it really that important what colour something you pretty much never look at is? I mean surely either you're using the PS5 and thus looking at the screen, or you're doing something else and not just sitting there staring at the certain-coloured plastic you just spent hundreds on? I kind of feel like I've put my 'They Live' shades on here...

@Ralizah Well my point is that if you visited 150 Switch owner's houses, we all know most of them would have Mario Kart. How many Switch owners do you know that don't have it? And yet if you visited 100 Switch owners, apparently about 60 of them wouldn't have it on average.

With other platforms no one sees certain games as an automatic buy as much as they do with Nintendo.The Switch doesn't get most games, people aren't split in as many directions. It's a lot harder to imagine a Switch owner not having BotW and Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart 8 than is is to imagine a PS owner not having Spider-Man, GoW and GoT. Basically, how many people do you know with a Switch without MK8? Is it twice as many as those you know with it? Because that's what the stats say. And how many people have you seen on Nintendo Life or other sites that say they have a Switch and an OLED or Lite? Or various SEs? It's incredibly common on gaming sites to see this, especially with Nintendo.

You might want to say that's just hardcore, internet people, but as I said, the PS4 Pro's sales were 40% regular PS4 owners. So the total unique owners was a lot lower than it sounded. Now bear in mind the Switch has three models and loads of SEs. The unique owners and the total sales are increasingly different as the number of models increases.

@NEStalgia Well All-Stars was £50 which is £100 now. And the time to complete all four of the games is probably less than 10 hours. Whereas this like 60 to 100 hours for probably £50 to £60. And with the sequel thing, I can see why you thought what you did but I didn't mean to compare sequels to remasters but just give a sense of the passage of time. Like going from FFVI to X feels like a huge chunk of my life, but HZD feels like it came out so recently. It really is weird how time speeds up as you get older. 🤯

Don't get me wrong, this is a pointless remaster. I just think the reasons we're critical of stuff now often aren't applied equally to older things. All that aside, this is bad for Sony's image. It's just a bad look to do this even if you accept what I said above. With this generation feeling like it still hasn't started, the lack of big exciting PS5 exclusives, and the embarrassing Concord flop, this is not what Sony need to be doing.

In reference to the Pro point, the thing is many of those sales will be current PS5 owners. I think something like 40% of PS4 Pro owners were people that already bought a regular one. So it's not expanding the userbase as much as it seems, not increasing the potential for software sales and subscriptions.

Same as with things like the Switch Lite and OLED, and all these special edition versions of various consoles. I mean, talking of the Switch, that's sold something like 150 million now, right? And as impressive as it is, Mario Kart 8 has "only" sold 60 million IIRC. Considering it's been charting highly (and therefore consistently selling very well on a weekly basis) since it released and that it's such a must-have game for the system, it's very weird that 90 million Switch owners haven't bought it. Unless you consider that the actual userbase is considerably smaller than what the sales suggest. Of course there are other factors, like people buying a console but then not using it after a while (like my nephew with his Switch...)

@NEStalgia I have no interest in this Zero Dawn remaster but, in fairness, by the time it comes out, if it comes out in 2025, HZD will be 8 years old. That's a bigger time difference than you have between the very first Sonic game and Sonic Adventure. Or a bigger time difference than between FFVI and FFX. It does feel pointless to me but at the same time the age of the game isn't really the issue, yet people commonly focus on that as an issue. As you get older each year seems quicker and 8 years doesn't seem like much now.

I mean, it's crazy to me that the difference between when the first Sonic game came out and when the PS1 came out is just 3 years. When Super Mario All-Stars came out, no one complained that it was just remasters of games aged between 5 to 8 years old because back then that seemed like an immense amount of time to us (and admittedly Lost Levels sweetened the deal).

I've been having issues with it for a while now - but then I was in the last beta so this still makes sense. Flickery shadows and complete crashes. The last crash was particularly bad as it was during the finishing scene and the last autosave was before the final boss.

If you got a regular PS5 at launch, are going to get the Pro and paid £10 a month for PS+ for as long as you've had it, you'll have paid a total of £1,620. Even without PS+, that's £1,150. You could've got an amazing PC for that first figure and a pretty good one for the second figure - and paid less for all your games too. And that PC isn't going to be made totally redundant in a few years when the PS6 comes out. And you'd have various things we keep asking for like PS3 emulation - and even folders!

Star Wars Outlaws. I'm not even into Star Wars but I'm really enjoying it. I've seen videos of the terrible AI but that's not what I'm experiencing myself. I love the atmosphere and feel of it - it's like the Hogwarts Legacy of Star Wars. I'm going to get Caravan Sand Witch too. I've got a fiver off so it'll only be about £12.

"You can still order physical games online, but considering the state of the postal service, it’s easy to understand why players are transitioning to digital storefronts"
I'm sure most people buying games online use Amazon and I always get things the day after ordering, sometimes even the same day. Not many online services use Royal Mail. Sports Direct uses Evri, for example.

@Northern_munkey "Being crowned on" doesn't make any sense, though. Unless it's placed in a very specific format of "Charles is being crowned on Tuesday". But "it is being crowned on BY" something is gibberish. Being "clowned on" just means people are taking the piss out of it. For a grammatically similar but more harsh version, it's like "being sh*t on by the entire internet".

I mean, surely you know this already , but "clowned" is the past participle of the verb version of "clown", which means to act foolishly - but there's the more modern meaning of it, as used above, where it's being done in a mocking way, like clowns often do (e.g. when they make fun of the king, like in King Lear or the Northman). Yeah it's zoomer slang but it makes sense.

@waynesworld This isn't because it's an exclusive. As the chart above shows, there are 6 million PS5 owners in Japan. Only 12,000 of them wanted this game. That's 0.2% of owners. 99.8% of Japanese PS5 gamers didn't want to buy this game.

Yes, this is physical only but that's still awful. Yes, it will sell more over time but games almost always sell way better in the earlier weeks than they do in later weeks.

@dardel Yeah, to be honest I haven't wanted to play a platform game since I was about 11. No one I know does either. I'm not saying this to diss people who do like to play them (play what you like, of course!), but for everyone I know, it was a thing you'd play back in the Mega Drive or SNES days. Even my 7 year old nephew is drawn to games like GTA, THPS, Hogwarts Legacy or FFXVI - more 'adult' art styles and more to gameplay than, frankly, jumping to the right place at the right time. Also, and to be honest I haven't checked, but I doubt anyone I know even knows this game exists, other than my one friend who's a terminally online guy.

Long story short, it's a genre that doesn't generally appeal to most adults, and less kids nowadays than in the 90s, and this particular game isn't backed up by being a household name like Mario.

@NoHope It says
"The Welcome hub is now available in the home screen. For users in North America, this enhancement replaces the Explore hub."
That should be clear enough, but he's saying the US had something called the Explore hub and no one else did. The Welcome hub is for everyone internationally but is being rolled out over time. For users in the US it will replace the Explore hub.

All those games that could've been on PS4 that looked better on the PS5 will look a bit better on the PS5 Pro - but still worse than if you'd bought a PC within the last 5 years or so. Or in other words, this would've been easier to swallow if this gen hasn't basically been PS4 games on higher settings.

@The_Elder What they mean is how he has this sloppy way of doing things where he scrappily kinda bumbles his way through things a lot. He's brave and has good instincts but he's not exactly John Wick. He always makes mistakes (e.g. the incredibly iconic boulder scene is him screwing up) but gets through in the end.

Another example:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hl8e9i6YiA8

I played it the night it came out and enjoyed it, but then I was drinking some beer and got to the point where I became terrible at the game. Now my memories of it are all of me not knowing which direction I should be flying in. But anyway, yeah, I liked it but I'm not sure if it has that much longevity. It has this Foamstars kind of vibe to it for me.

I mean, he can't even spell "shill" so it's even more embarrassing to see him say that stuff.

Brings back memories...

@dark_knightmare2 And this is more like 1 year and a quarter too. I've got to say, it feels like way longer than that to me - I'd have guessed it was about 2.5 years ago.

@Max_the_German Well in an Occam's razor approach it's more likely one company is lying than two companies. Especially when that company is being sh*t on by one of the other ones in terms of success. And especially when Sony normally happily announce timed exclusives.