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I remember importing the original ages ago when I lived in Manchester. I don't think I ever finished it but I remember it having a really wholesome and characterful feeling.

@sanderson72 The Cell processor isn't some unique, mystical thing that other CPUs can't comprehend. My relatively cheap PC from 2015 can emulate the PS3. All it has is an i5-6500, a not great but not terrible CPU from a decade ago. I have no idea why Sony are hanging back so much with this. The PS5 has something similar to a Ryzen 7 3700X. This is a comparison between that and my CPU.

@B0udoir @KillerIsD34D While there's obviously similarities and shared enemies, Persona was never referred to as an SMT thing in Japan. They did that in the West to sell more copies as, back then, SMT was the better known series. If you look at the Japanese cover of Persona 4 it doesn't say "Shin Megami Tensei" whereas the Western covers do.

On a related note, this review also does that thing of saying it's a "more mature version of Pokémon" even though SMT came out years before Pokémon. I think a lot of people think of it as a Pokémon inspired series.

@SLRC98 You can emulate PS2 games at 4K, or any res you like, on a PC. You can also run them at 60fps if they've been patched, and this game has. The PC that could do that could be way worse than a PS5. And as the article says, for less than 5% of the price of this new release, you could get the PC version that can run at any res and framerate.

@Olmaz Did you use IRC back in on the 90s and early 2000s? Discord is basically that but with a more modern look - and actually less confusing and needlessly complicated. I can't remember exactly what you had to do but even changing your name was weirdly complex.

@REALAIS What are you talking about? It's the same MMORPG that exists on PC but now it's on other platforms. Why would you think they've redesigned it as a single-player game? To be honest, I have no interest on this game so I have been following it, but I just googled around a bit and nothing suggests any change.

@DanteDevilHunter I've owned every Playstation and got a PS5 at launch and those games bore the crap out of me too. I couldn't be less interested in Sony's first party stuff. Bear in mind, Spider-Man sold about 20 million on PS4 which means over 80% of PS4 owners didn't buy it. God of War sold far less. The vast majority of owners don't buy those games (same for almost any game ever).

"how do you even make different looking trees?"

To be fair, lots of games have such a distinctive art style, all sorts of things are instantly recognisable from them

A lot of these aren't really games I'm personally interested in playing but there's that Obsidian game set in the Pillars of Eternity world that we hopefully get. It's called Avowed and is meant to be out this autumn.

@Northlander Sean Murray lies countlessly in interviews leading up to release. Specific claims that we're not at all true. They even made gameplay sequences that didn't happen in the game, featuring creatures and AI behaviour that didn't exist in the game, and warring factions having space battles and so on. They claimed it would have co-op. I can agree that people hyped themselves up but Sean lied loads of times very blatantly.

The first one is more jokey, but look at this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-tgaE37UE

https://www.psu.com/news/the-touryst-is-the-first-native-8k-60fps-game-on-consoles-on-ps5/

Yet as it says in the article (from 3 years ago) it doesn't actually output at 8k, bit it is running at 8k. Sounds like a planned feature but possibly only this one game could run at 8k anyway.

@NEStalgia Seemingly it exists to gain viewers for adverts, like any commercial TV event. It's a shame there isn't an actual celebration of gaming with big announcements and moments, but instead we have what's basically bait to get eyes on ads.

@Malaise Gachapon is the Japanese name for those machines you put a coin in, turn the handle, and get a toy in a plastic capsule. But I'm terms of videogaming it's a game where you get characters or equipment through a random draw that you use virtual or real currency to pay for.

To be fair, you can typically play them without using real money and some are genuinely great games - but the gacha elements do make them worse.

@KilloWertz It's capped at level 4 for some reason.

@sanderson72 Same here. I've had most consoles ever made and used them a lot. No issues with any controller until my first Dualsense which had to be sent back due to drift. Then the replacement got a really loose R2 after a while.

Who are we to argue with Gohn Romero?

@NoHope Though going off the sound of the PS4 Pro, you'd think they were making nuclear reactors.

I tend to leave games running a lot, maybe I cook something, go to the shops, have a long conversation... So this feature isn't that useful to me - even if it worked. I supposedly have something like 600 hours in Pirate Warriors 3, which I really doubt. Within a week of Dragon's Dogma 2 coming out, I had like 70 hours despite being about level 8 and not even in the first city yet.

@Blofse Well yeah, the typical birth years for a millennial are 1981 to 1996, though there's some variance - especially for the end year. It seems like a really stupid generational definition since there's a colossal difference between someone that was, say, 9 in 1990 and someone who was 9 in 2005. Totally different worlds, especially the difference between being about 15 when the internet took off, versus being born into a world where it was already everywhere.

@Deityjester Why on earth would you finish a game even once, let alone three times, if you think it's boring? What's wrong with your life that that was the best thing you could do with that time? 😨

@UltimateOtaku91 To be fair, with a digital pre-order you get to download the game days before release and then play it the second it turns midnight. Physical is arguably less justified because you could probably just buy it from a shop on launch day and get it sooner than it would've been delivered from a pre-order. Though obviously this can vary and not everyone would be able to do that.

@riceNpea Sadly it's been going on for ages. There's an old Fry and Laurie sketch about it; filling out a form instead of filling in a form and so on. Sean Lock did a bit about the "can I get a..." thing too. To be fair, I do say "ass" instead of "arse" (hopefully Push Square's inconsistent swearing rules are okay with me saying that).

Pretty soon there'll be a two degrees of separation thing going where every single franchise or media entity will be connected via Fortnite. If they ever go after an elderly audience for Fortnite, we'll get a Bargain Hunt crossover. It's slightly worrying that many people under 20 are going to grow up thinking of stuff like Resident Evil or Tomb Raider as "those skins you could get in Fortnite when we were 13”.

@sanderson72
"Yes, some will be a PS5 that's being used by more than one subscriber, though the same argument to say that half those users are on a PS4 with multiple accounts?"

To a point this is true, but out of the total number of PSN accounts, if there are multiple accounts on PS5, that eats into the amount of accounts that are on PS4. So if there's 118 million PSN users and 59 million PS5s, but if each PS5 has an average of 1.5 accounts, that's about 90 million users on a PS5, leaving only 29 million accounts to be on PS4 - and then to a lesser degree, PS3, Vita, and PC. And of those, let's say, 27 million accounts on PS4, if they're sharing the same PS4 to the same amount (1.5 per console) then that's 18 million actual PS4 households to buy games.

@riceNpea I thought the same. It's like when Sammy says tidbit instead of titbit.

@MikeOrator Well I only bought the original, VC, and SA. And only finished VC. That said, this does interest me more than the series usually does.

@Kidfunkadelic83 It'd be great if you could use him as a dummy in training mode. I'd pay for it if it was DLC.

@InvaderJim I don't agree with this. The PS1 and PS2 were the golden age for Sony and they had very little competition. The PS1 outsold the N64 and Saturn combined by tens of millions. The PS2 sold at least double the sales of the Xbox, Dreamcast and GameCube combined, IIRC. The Xbox sold so badly it lost MS $5 billion.

The 360 was the worst selling console of its generation yet was the closest they came to outselling Sony and all that did was encourage Sony to copy Xbox with things like paid online and achievements. It was also a generation where countless Japanese franchises hit a nadir via trying (badly) to cater to Western trends. The PS4 saw off the XB1 and Wii U, but the Switch then competed genuinely with it, same with PS5. And through all of that the PC gaming world went from strength to strength. And what happened to PS is that it basically became a budget PC with less games and a fixation on cinematic corridor sims as first-party games.

In short, Sony did better and had way more identity and way more legendary games under a lack of strong competition. When they had some competition they just became bland and felt the need to appeal to generic American tastes more.

@feral1975 It's not bullying, it's a part of the game. It's like saying someone tackling someone in football is bullying. Phil's free to nuke their camp back.

@WolfyTn The higher the FPS the better but that comes at the cost of lower graphics settings. In many cases, though, the worse graphics aren't noticeably worse.

The idea with 40fps is that many games can't run at 60 - or they can but it's inconsistent. Typically you'd limit the game to 30fps because an inconsistent framerate feels bad, so it's better to have it always be 30 than be all over the place in the 40-60 range. The framerate of the game needs to fit into the refresh rate of the TV (how many times a second it updates the image, measured in hertz or hz). If the PS5 is sending 40 frames a second, that can't fit equally into 60 refreshes per second. 30 does obviously fit evenly into 60, though.

However (sorry, this explanation is taking longer than I thought, ha) if you have a 120hz TV then 40fps does fit in evenly, with each frame lasting 3 refreshes. So if a game can't manage a consistent 60, capping it to 40 is better - and better than capping it at 30.

@dskatter You couldn't pay for fast travel. Ferrystones are used for fast travel and you can't buy them with real money. You could pay for one, and only one, extra fast travel point that you could place (a portable port crystal) but fast travel itself was not for sale. Do you watch Jim Sterling videos by any chance? He was one of various content creators that BS'd about the DLC in the mad rush for views after DD2's release.

>combination of the excellent, game-changing Dark Arisen expansion
I might be misremembering, but I keep seeing people saying this yet DA was the exact same game but with a new dungeon and hard mode. Imagine FFXVI's first DLC, a new dungeon, being described as changing the entire game. People talk about it as if it was Cataclysm, which totally redesigned all the vanilla areas and quests in WoW.

But of a ramble here, but I think they messed up with Remake and Rebirth by inexplicably making them into quite tough and gruelling combat gauntlets. The original was easy and most battles could be won by repeatedly pressing X and picking 'Attack'. To take that and make a pretty punishing, challenging action game seems quite odd. Perhaps they were going for a Dark Souls style Twitch buzz with livestreams going viral and 'fail compilations' flooding YouTube.

Either way, I love the original but Remake - after the excitement wore off - just brings to mind the words "slog", "stressful" and "off-putting" when I think about it now. I had high hopes that the more adventurous and exploration focused Rebirth would remedy that, but it still has random enemies way harder than anything in the OG game, it still forces you down overlong corridor dungeons, it still gives me this apprehensive attitude to what's next.

After forcing my way to the point of no return in Rebirth I did the rare thing of deciding to drop a game. I just didn't want to force myself through hours of stuff I knew would just be stressful and annoying. When I started playing Dragon's Dogma 2 afterwards, I genuinely thought "Ah, this is what it feels like to enjoy the game I'm playing!"' I'd legit forgot after basically gaslighting myself into thinking I was enjoying Rebirth. Looking at how many players didn't return for Rebirth despite it being a direct sequel, it seems a lot of others were put off too. Anyway, thanks for reading my blog.

@MrBook It's not the modern gaming industry, it's always been like this. Fighting games and other arcade games are the original microtransactions. Imagine if Tekken 8 was free to download but you couldn't play it until you paid £1. Then when you lose, another £1. Oh you beat arcade mode without losing? Nice. Now put in another £1 to play again.

Your friend wants to play with you? That'll be £1. Inevitably one of you will lose within the next few minutes. Want to carry on? For just £1 you can! Honestly, if you spent a weekend playing like that, you'd have spent way more than Tekken 8, its season passes and battle passes will cost.

Is it still the case that you can't actually manually customise your character, you just randomly generate one repeatedly until you get the least ugly one?

I bought the game when it came out and can't get the PS5 version for some reason. I see people above saying it's working for them now so I'll try again a bit later.

Really is a great example of how you can't polish a turd. It's a very ugly game and not because it's post-apocalyptic. I'm interested in playing it again because of the show but damn was I shocked when I played the PS4 version again recently - and I remembered it looking rough even at the time.

I'm a bit confused. I own it on PS4 but if I go to the PS5 version page it wants to charge me about £15. Do you need to own all DLC to upgrade?

@UltimateOtaku91 The weird thing is it does have a browser, and small section in the settings related to it. As far as I know you can only access it by messaging a friend a URL, then clicking that yourself. There, now you have a web browser open.

Isn't there already a Mario game that completes the level for you if you get stuck? That already happened, people didn't complain, and gaming hasn't changed due to that.

@BugCatcherGarl Because you're saying it's not a good thing by saying "Amazon doing a girl-power series about Fallout doesn't make me want to play them again". And we're just saying it isn't that. If I said "Amazon making a Metroid series where Samus is an old lady doesn't make me want to play Metroid" you'd understandably assume I had a problem with Samus being old. And if Samus wasn't actually old in the series and I'd got the wrong idea, you may well point that out. That's all. 🤷

@BugCatcherGarl Lucy barely beats up or kills anyone. I'd agree if she stepped out the vault and was like the Ghoul character, who is a total badass. The Mary Sue archetype is annoying, I agree, but one thing I like about this show is that she isn't magically killing people that are wearing power armour, and she actually needs to be saved sometimes rather than that being seen as sexist. Her main abilities seem to be diplomacy and being optimistic, which aren't the typical Mary Sue or Girl Boss things - in fact they usually do the opposite.

@NEStalgia Well also bear in mind that FO4 was 9 years ago so if someone was, say, 9 back then they probably didn't play it but now they'd be 18. Not to mention people that just didn't get around to it at the time, or perhaps people that did buy it at the time but lost or traded in their copy and are now in the mood again due to the series.

I watched an episode with my nephew - a pretty tame one in terms of inappropriate things - and he immediately wanted to play one of the games afterwards. He wasn't even born when FO4 came out.

@B0udoir I don't disagree with what you say about Bethesda's games, although I'll give them credit for having actual memorable party members in FO4, a first for their RPGs. That said, the Fallout TV series is actually genuinely good. It's interesting that despite Bethesda's part in making the show, it's set in California like the true FO games and not on the East Coast like Bethesda's stuff.

@ChrisDeku Oh I know that, I was just saying the stories all take place post-2077 when the bombs dropped. Obviously there's build up to that but, like Star Trek, there's an element of of alternative history in the backstory, but to call the stories of the series alt-history seems wrong when they're all in the future. It's not exactly The Man in the High Castle.

When the article says "increased focus on the alt-history that binds it (the Fallout series) all together" it seems pretty clear he thinks the whole thing is alternative history.

>"increased focus on the alt-history that binds it all together"
It's not alt-history when it happens in the future, surely. Alternative history is something that actually happened being changed, like if the Nazis won WW2. Would you call Star Trek alt-history? Though, granted, a small part of the setting might cover alternative versions of actual historical events, that's not the focus at all.

@B0udoir Yeah, he called it that before too. There are 5 Fallout games made by Interplay or previous key staff that worked on the series there. There are 3 games made by Bethesda. Of those three, one of them is more like an MMO Lite, so that should really be the black sheep. And given that the series started as a turn-based tactical RPG, at the time FO3 was definitely the black sheep.

@tameshiyaku Ah, cool. Well hopefully it isn't stuck in development hell. I'm guessing the Mike one didn't have the playfulness of the game series?

@tameshiyaku Well there's already a Like A Dragon film. Did they actually announce a new one or refer to the old one?

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk You can still buy games you have the PS+ version of. Can't remember exactly how, but it's probably in the "..." menu to the right of the play/download/buy buttons

@sanderson72 My PC is from 2016 and wasn't particularly good back then (it's a lot worse than a PS5) and I can emulate PS3 games on it at full framerates. It's probably more of a licensing cost vs profit thing, as well as the fact they'd be closing the door on making money from remasters.

Also, you say "archaic x64" but that simply refers to it being 64-bit, which is what the Cell processor is. From Wikipedia: "Cell is a 64-bit multi-core microprocessor microarchitecture that combines a general-purpose PowerPC core of modest performance with streamlined coprocessing elements."
A PowerPC core is very common and shows up in the 360, GameCube, Wii, Wii U as well as lots of Apple products.