But seriously, I don't mind this. The characters in the remake trilogy are like fighting game characters with a lot of complexity - then add in the fact it's an RPG and they all have their own customisations and so on. I like the idea of them focusing on a few characters per game, and really getting them right and letting them shine against certain bosses. Also, if this ends at the end of Disc 1, like they've implied, you'd not have much plot time with Vincent or Cid anyway (same as Red XIII in the last game).
In the original the party were all effectively the same character but with slightly different stars and their own limit breaks (which were functionally just damage multipliers for the most part) whereas here they're much more distinct and unique.
@UltimateOtaku91 To be fair most phones now are way more powerful than the Switch. I'm playing Ever Crisis on my phone at a way higher resolution and framerate than it'd be on Switch. Phones, even mid-range ones like mine, are roughly at least PS4 Pro level now. Though obviously usually with awful touchscreen controls.
This is Tifa's model in EC, it's surprising how much like Remake it can be running on a phone.
Well PSN was playing up for me recently. I couldn't access my trophies, I just had a little icon of a trophy with a cross next to it. And every screenshot I took failed to upload. Could be linked somehow. Maybe BG3 is sending data about player activity to Larian - lots of games have stuff like this - but if PSN is down, it can cause crashes because of weird implementation?
@carlos82 Nintendo's HD rumble is just regular controller vibration with tiny, cheap motors. It's not haptic feedback. Nor are the Xbox's triggers. Sony didn't invent haptic feedback but they did or before MS or Nintendo - same as Atari did analogue WAY before Nintendo but you can maybe give them credit for bringing it back before Sony and Sega - albeit terribly implemented with a single, tall stick, hexagonal gate and no way to use the dpad at the same time; all things ignored by the standard going forwards. If remember correctly, the Steam controller had haptic first out of all major platforms but still didn't invent it.
A lot of excellent games... That I already own. Oh well, I still gave it a good rating anyway since quality is quality.
@Cashews You're not in a minority, it's always been a niche series and post-3 has widely been regarded as bad, with the more recent one turning it around but not exactly setting the world on fire. I really like the series, even have some fond memories of 4 and 5, but SO fans are quite rare. There's a special Japanese kind of jank that you have to have a taste for to enjoy 4 onward, even 3 onwards really, compared to how good the first two are - especially 2.
@thefourfoldroot1 "I need to defeat Pride and Joy Prototype, so I can get the accessory to make the hard playthrough a bit easier I think, then will finish up a couple of spare tasks to get the plat."
You can only fight it in Chapter 17 of Hard Mode which is right at the end. Can you pick any chapter in Hard Mode from the beginning of the playthrough? If not, you can't really get that item to make your playthrough easier - making it another case of the best rewards being at the end of games seeming a bit pointless.
Well that's the end of Disc 1 and they've said that the whole thing will be a trilogy, so the next game has to cover Disc 2 and 3. My personal guess before was that they'd get to Meteor being summoned in this game, which is about 30% through Disc 2. Then again, Disc 3 is incredibly short so it's not as much to cover in the third part as it might sound.
@Mintie It varies depending on what exactly we're talking about, but things like levels are just an abstraction anyway. The enemies they're fighting in the second part are stronger so you could have everyone start at level 50 and have the enemies be level 50, or you could have them start at level 1 and the enemies start there too. It doesn't really matter, it's the same relative strength.
Then things like items are somewhat abstract, though obviously not on the same level as, well, levels. Like, are we really meant to think that Cloud is constantly carrying around 8 swords or whatever, and that they're all invisible until he wants to use them? And hundreds of pieces of armour and accessories? And thousand of potions, phoenix downs, etc?
Trying to take "gamey" things and explain them usually just backfires. Like Shepard dying at the start of ME2 to justify why they're level 1 again - and yet that doesn't justify why remaking them exactly as they were before they died de-levelled them, or why other characters in your party are de-levelled, or why you don't relearn many of the same skills but entirely new ones in a different kind of levelling up system.
Yeah, it basically generates random scenarios as if it's a sandbox kind of experience but as you play through them in what's a board game and VN style, you get distinct story events. Certain story events can only be got in certain types of scenarios. You loop through time, Groundhog Day style, mixing up the scenario to unlock more of the story that way.
The true ending and how you get to it is one of the most meta and impressively imaginative things I've seen in a game.
@zhoont At least you could have the AI control your character so you could watch a film or whatever while grinding. Were there even trophies attached to the Towers of Time? I remember the Klassic Towers had a trophy for completing what was basically a five fight arcade mode with 10 different characters, but that's fine.
It's always the online ones that are the platinum ruiners. I'm not going to win X online games or play King of the Hill online, etc. Hopefully nothing like that in MK1.
@GymratAmarillo That generation happened a while ago. This kid was 3 when the PS4 came out. If someone was, say, 10 when the PS1 came out, they be 39 now. It seemed like a huge amount of time back then but the time between the NES and PS1 was only 11 years. So weird to think that the PS1 came out only 3 years after games like LttP and SMW. It came out before Chrono Trigger, strangely.
You mention Ronda Rousey as being an example of them having someone from Hollywood in a Mortal Kombat game instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger? They also had Stallone, and less famous but the actor that played Robocop and the actor that played Shang Tsung in the original MK movie (all face captures only, not voice acting apart from Shang Tsung).
@Cashews Well MK1 is a huge release. The last one sold over 15 million units, was the fourth best selling PS4 game of the year and the fifth best selling of the year on any platform. BG3 is undoubtedly massive too, I'm a huge fan of the first two myself, but millions of people have already been playing it for years in early access on PC and even more for the last month or so. That does kind of take some wind out of its sales as a big hitter from a purely PS5 perspective. Not sure why it's not on the list, though.
@Jaz007 It's not a recommendation list - it's a list of games coming out soon with the four major ones at the top. It's hard to make a list of upcoming games without also effectively advertising them.
@lindos What if it's buy 2 get 1 free? Or a free bar in a hotel? It's really down to the seller what you're paying for and what's a bonus, like free sauce or bread in a restaurant.
If you buy an apple tree, and get the apples off it for years, at what point do the apples become free? After the cost of all those apples was covered by the initial cost of the tree? Or are the apples always costing you money infinitely? I mean, with PS+ you've paid some money, sure, but not enough to cover 36 games a year plus other things. Even if it was 100% unambiguously free, you're still paying to play it because of the electricity cost of the PS5, TV and speakers.
@Northern_munkey I agree overall but the N64 sold poorly, less than the NES and SNES, and it was outsold by the PS1 by more than 3 to 1 (it had a bit over 30 million lifetime sales and two thirds of that was in America alone, so its total sales across the planet outside of America was a mere 10 million-ish). The Dreamcast did even worse, not even managing to sell 10 million units worldwide in its whole lifespan.
You then say the Xbox launched to stupid amounts of units selling. Well that only sold 24 million worldwide, and only 8 million of those were outside America. So yeah, each of the aforementioned consoles sold very poorly by modern standards, especially certain ones outside of America. But I overall agree because the PS1 and 2 were insane successes, especially the latter. It was really just down to them, though, until the Wii and Switch.
@CutchuSlow Yeah, if Genshin Impact was a normal offline game it would genuinely be one of my favourite games of all time. Instead I played it for a couple of weeks at launch and that was that. All the stuff that's meant to keep you playing daily, and the FOMO that's meant to get you hooked on spending money or doing dailies to get special currencies, just has the opposite effect and completely puts me off.
Meanwhile on, say, DuckStation or PCSX2, you can play (your legally dumped ISOs) at whatever resolution you want, and have been able to for many years. These modern remasters of games are already largely pointless if all they do is a res boost - but this doesn't even do that properly.
A bit late but "Piccolo Jr., as the evil reincarnation became known (the good becoming Kami)" isn't right. Kami existed first, came from Namek to Earth, became Kami ("God" in Japanese) by pushing the evil out of himself which created King Piccolo. Then much later King Piccolo gives birth to regular Piccolo by spitting out an egg.
@AverageGamer You've been able to play it on PC at 4K at 60fps for a long time already. That just makes this port even more worthless and embarrassing.
@PixelDragon They were outsold by Sony and Nintendo in the 360 generation too - despite having at least a year head start, too. It's always been an illusion that they were doing well at any point. The first one lost MS billions and is one of the worst selling consoles ever. Their greatest success is being outsold by Sony's worst selling console - with a year head start! And I say all this as someone who had an original Xbox and a 360.
@SillyBoyJudas It means both here, especially as a verb - if you scheme it's usually implied to be a bad thing. But as a noun it's neutral and changes by context. Like "there's a new government scheme to encourage recycling" vs "he has a scheme to trick people into giving him their bank details". It's the same in the US, apparently - like it says in this American definition, you'd still say "colour scheme" (well, "color") and I'm guessing that doesn't sound like there are evil colours plotting something. And the first definition says it's especially a crafty thing, not always.
They seem like a virus or a cancer, just consuming things for the sake of it. It feels like it shouldn't really be allowed to buy 1000s of people's careers and then terminate them - at least temporally.
I played the early access a while ago and updated to the full version yesterday but I've been playing Nier Automata instead. I know when I start BG3, that's it for a long time. I might as well have been abducted by aliens. It's nice to see an actual proper RPG do so well. The originals were received really well, and in some ways BG2 is like the FFVII of PC gaming, but they didn't shift loads of copies. They came out when 3D had been all the rage for a while so more casual members of the master race ignored them.
I love Nier and Drakengard - I'm playing Automata this very moment - but it seems like an odd crossover since Yoko's works are very experimental, single-player, atmospheric, emotional journeys... And the other game is a F2P online game. It's like trying to shift more PlayStations by giving away free Master Chief figures with each one (though bad example as you know they'd end up on eBay for £100s.) Okay, a free animal skull with each pack of vegan burgers? Something like that.
They all look like mocapped corpses to me. There's always that weird plastic/dead look that goes into uncanny valley territory because they've motion captured it. They have awful 3D artists (no skilled devs want to work on FIFA, like that open letter from an ex-FIFA dev's wife said) but they have the money to have a mocap suite, I guess.
@Vega37 "The CCP already influences content made by American and European companies simply by being a massive source of consumers devs have to edit content for just so they can release it in their market" Sure but non-American devs have been doing that for years to get games released in America. Costume edits, character age changes, dialogue changes, edited character backstory, changing religious symbols, even things like 'Holy' in older FFs being renamed to 'Pearl'.
I guarantee you that almost every game you've played that was Japanese has been changed for a US market in some way, even if it's just pointlessly changing the age of a character like Penelo in FFXII. And typically those changes are carried into the European version, which is even worse.
@Jaz007 Well there's Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, and that Legend of Sword and Fairy series that started in the 90s. Some are on PS4, pretty sure.
@KilloWertz I do the same - it's really a "just in case" thing. I never play spots games but a few years ago I went through a weird phase of playing FIFA and UFC3. Only kept it up for a few weeks. Then also there's a chance someone will be around and want to play one of the games. I don't tend to play platformers, especially more kiddy ones, but my nephew really liked that Sackboy game.
This should have been obvious to people. Of course it would still work on a slower HDD but it would, surprise surprise, load more slowly. You can run Doom on a microwave so of course a PS5 game could work on a PS4, just badly - exactly the same as running a new game on an old PC.
Personally I don't mind just taking the PS5 up to the bedroom and plugging it into the TV there - much bigger and with better audio than this. Gives me a good workout too, like carrying a fridge upstairs.
@UrdnotTitan Go on YouTube and watch gameplay of previous AC games and see if you think it looks like Dark Souls. I think the DS association is actually going to harm this game. I think people are expecting DS but in a mech.
@KaijuKaiser It makes no sense to compare a game review score to educational grades - especially one in a single country. In the UK, 70% at GCSE level would be an A - and the questions would be different and of a different standard to US high schools, so you can't even compare one curriculum to another. Either way, that's grading children on information retention, not marking them on their graphics, gameplay and storyline. They're totally different things; it's like equating getting a Michelin star for your restaurant to getting a review score of 0 to 3.3 out of 10 because it's in the lower third of the possible range of Michelin stars.
On the topic of FFXVI sales vs RE4R sale: RE4 has more of a struggle since it's a remake of a game that's been released on every platform going for twenty years. It'd be more relevant to compare FFVII Remake to RE4 Remake. If a brand new Final Fantasy, the first in seven years, has to be compared to a remake of a game from twenty years ago to look good, there's a problem.
I mean, for example, RE Village sold more and faster than 4 Remake despite 4 being regarded as the best one by many. Incidentally, FFVII Remake sold 3.5 million in 2 days compared to 3 million in a week for XVI - and Remake sold worse than the original as remakes almost always do. RE4R actually sold better in the initial period than the original but not by that much considering the original was on a console with about 15 million units sold.
Worth it for Samurai Warriors 5 alone, personally. I've been putting off playing that for years because there was always something else that just edged it out but now it's free (or "free", if you prefer) so it's time to finally play it.
@Olmaz Did you have the same outrage when violence and murder were completely normalised in games years ago? Surely having sex with a bear isn't as bad as slaughtering another human? Yet I'm sure you lost count of how many virtual murders you've committed.
@Darude84 For me it's the other way around. I'm playing for the story but the combat is really repetitive and bland for me. I think because it's an action game with upgradeable skills rather than an RPG with, say, different builds or a proper skill tree with things you're building up to, it feels pretty flat to me. There's a boss fight later in the game where it just won't end. I was pretty tired when it started and genuinely my eyes kept closing during the fight. My friend was watching me on Twitch and I had to assure him that the fights aren't normally so dull. It was definitely a low point yet it was presented as some epic, titanic clash.
@trev666 That makes no sense. You'd rather them permanently block all of a studio's games from being multiplatform than temporarily block one game? If, say, Nintendo hadn't bought Monolith, we'd have Xenoblade Chronicles on other platforms now. They've paid to keep all games exclusive forever - how is that better than one game being exclusive for a bit?
And do you find things like Fire Emblem, Kirby, Pokemon or Smash Bros being exclusive "abhorrent"? None of those games are made by Nintendo or a studio Nintendo own.
@Rob_230 I used to only buy physical but over time I've found the convenience of not having to switch the disc, or locate it in the first place, as well as being able to go to someone's house and download my games on their PS, are just worth the slightly higher cost. I used to have about 60 PS4 and PS5 discs but I sold them all recently just to get rid of the clutter. It's also great for if you move house, or go on holiday, if you have everything digitally - all your books, all music, all games and no extra baggage.
With FFXVI I had a tenner off due to that PS Stars thing so it was only a few quid more than a disc and I got to start playing at midnight which felt worth it to me.
I don't typically stream games but a few years ago when I was drunk, I streamed a Korean horror game on PS4 called White Day - even I had around 30 viewers then. I'm not sure how multiple (presumably) people streaming a game in a famous franchise only got that many.
That said, the article says 30 percent of sales were mobile games, which no actual gamer counts as games, so it's more like 60:40 in favour of digital.
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Re: Tales of the Shire Is a Cosy New Lord of the Rings Game from Weta Workshop
If it's like Fantasy Life (3DS) but in the Shire, that might be the most comfy game ever made.
Re: Final Fantasy 7's Coolest Companions Won't Be Playable in PS5's Rebirth
Oh no, Cid's take-off has been aborted again.
But seriously, I don't mind this. The characters in the remake trilogy are like fighting game characters with a lot of complexity - then add in the fact it's an RPG and they all have their own customisations and so on. I like the idea of them focusing on a few characters per game, and really getting them right and letting them shine against certain bosses. Also, if this ends at the end of Disc 1, like they've implied, you'd not have much plot time with Vincent or Cid anyway (same as Red XIII in the last game).
In the original the party were all effectively the same character but with slightly different stars and their own limit breaks (which were functionally just damage multipliers for the most part) whereas here they're much more distinct and unique.
Re: Apple Insinuates iPhone 15 Pro Will Be a Better Games Console Than PS5, PS4
@UltimateOtaku91 To be fair most phones now are way more powerful than the Switch. I'm playing Ever Crisis on my phone at a way higher resolution and framerate than it'd be on Switch. Phones, even mid-range ones like mine, are roughly at least PS4 Pro level now. Though obviously usually with awful touchscreen controls.
This is Tifa's model in EC, it's surprising how much like Remake it can be running on a phone.
Re: PSN Is Apparently Causing Baldur's Gate 3 Crashes on PS5
Well PSN was playing up for me recently. I couldn't access my trophies, I just had a little icon of a trophy with a cross next to it. And every screenshot I took failed to upload. Could be linked somehow. Maybe BG3 is sending data about player activity to Larian - lots of games have stuff like this - but if PSN is down, it can cause crashes because of weird implementation?
Re: Xbox Poised to Borrow from PS5's DualSense Controller
@carlos82 Nintendo's HD rumble is just regular controller vibration with tiny, cheap motors. It's not haptic feedback. Nor are the Xbox's triggers. Sony didn't invent haptic feedback but they did or before MS or Nintendo - same as Atari did analogue WAY before Nintendo but you can maybe give them credit for bringing it back before Sony and Sega - albeit terribly implemented with a single, tall stick, hexagonal gate and no way to use the dpad at the same time; all things ignored by the standard going forwards. If remember correctly, the Steam controller had haptic first out of all major platforms but still didn't invent it.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium for September 2023?
A lot of excellent games... That I already own. Oh well, I still gave it a good rating anyway since quality is quality.
@Cashews You're not in a minority, it's always been a niche series and post-3 has widely been regarded as bad, with the more recent one turning it around but not exactly setting the world on fire. I really like the series, even have some fond memories of 4 and 5, but SO fans are quite rare. There's a special Japanese kind of jank that you have to have a taste for to enjoy 4 onward, even 3 onwards really, compared to how good the first two are - especially 2.
Re: Square Enix Reveals Where Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Will End
@thefourfoldroot1 "I need to defeat Pride and Joy Prototype, so I can get the accessory to make the hard playthrough a bit easier I think, then will finish up a couple of spare tasks to get the plat."
You can only fight it in Chapter 17 of Hard Mode which is right at the end. Can you pick any chapter in Hard Mode from the beginning of the playthrough? If not, you can't really get that item to make your playthrough easier - making it another case of the best rewards being at the end of games seeming a bit pointless.
Re: Square Enix Reveals Where Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Will End
Well that's the end of Disc 1 and they've said that the whole thing will be a trilogy, so the next game has to cover Disc 2 and 3. My personal guess before was that they'd get to Meteor being summoned in this game, which is about 30% through Disc 2. Then again, Disc 3 is incredibly short so it's not as much to cover in the third part as it might sound.
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Remake PS5, PS4 Save Data Gets You Bonus Rebirth Items
@Mintie It varies depending on what exactly we're talking about, but things like levels are just an abstraction anyway. The enemies they're fighting in the second part are stronger so you could have everyone start at level 50 and have the enemies be level 50, or you could have them start at level 1 and the enemies start there too. It doesn't really matter, it's the same relative strength.
Then things like items are somewhat abstract, though obviously not on the same level as, well, levels. Like, are we really meant to think that Cloud is constantly carrying around 8 swords or whatever, and that they're all invisible until he wants to use them? And hundreds of pieces of armour and accessories? And thousand of potions, phoenix downs, etc?
Trying to take "gamey" things and explain them usually just backfires. Like Shepard dying at the start of ME2 to justify why they're level 1 again - and yet that doesn't justify why remaking them exactly as they were before they died de-levelled them, or why other characters in your party are de-levelled, or why you don't relearn many of the same skills but entirely new ones in a different kind of levelling up system.
Re: Acclaimed Social Deduction RPG Gnosia Is Coming to PS5, PS4
Yeah, it basically generates random scenarios as if it's a sandbox kind of experience but as you play through them in what's a board game and VN style, you get distinct story events. Certain story events can only be got in certain types of scenarios. You loop through time, Groundhog Day style, mixing up the scenario to unlock more of the story that way.
The true ending and how you get to it is one of the most meta and impressively imaginative things I've seen in a game.
Re: Mortal Kombat 1's PS5 Trophies Won't Take Long to Finish Them
@zhoont At least you could have the AI control your character so you could watch a film or whatever while grinding. Were there even trophies attached to the Towers of Time? I remember the Klassic Towers had a trophy for completing what was basically a five fight arcade mode with 10 different characters, but that's fine.
It's always the online ones that are the platinum ruiners. I'm not going to win X online games or play King of the Hill online, etc. Hopefully nothing like that in MK1.
Re: This 13-Year-Old Game Dev Is Making a PS5 Exclusive
@GymratAmarillo That generation happened a while ago. This kid was 3 when the PS4 came out. If someone was, say, 10 when the PS1 came out, they be 39 now. It seemed like a huge amount of time back then but the time between the NES and PS1 was only 11 years. So weird to think that the PS1 came out only 3 years after games like LttP and SMW. It came out before Chrono Trigger, strangely.
Re: Megan Fox Lends Her Likeness to Nitara in Mortal Kombat 1 on PS5
You mention Ronda Rousey as being an example of them having someone from Hollywood in a Mortal Kombat game instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger? They also had Stallone, and less famous but the actor that played Robocop and the actor that played Shang Tsung in the original MK movie (all face captures only, not voice acting apart from Shang Tsung).
Re: Upcoming PS5, PS4 Games for September and October 2023
@Cashews Well MK1 is a huge release. The last one sold over 15 million units, was the fourth best selling PS4 game of the year and the fifth best selling of the year on any platform. BG3 is undoubtedly massive too, I'm a huge fan of the first two myself, but millions of people have already been playing it for years in early access on PC and even more for the last month or so. That does kind of take some wind out of its sales as a big hitter from a purely PS5 perspective. Not sure why it's not on the list, though.
Re: Upcoming PS5, PS4 Games for September and October 2023
@Jaz007 It's not a recommendation list - it's a list of games coming out soon with the four major ones at the top. It's hard to make a list of upcoming games without also effectively advertising them.
Re: Saints Row May Be Free on PS Plus Soon, But Its Developer Is No More
@lindos What if it's buy 2 get 1 free? Or a free bar in a hotel? It's really down to the seller what you're paying for and what's a bonus, like free sauce or bread in a restaurant.
If you buy an apple tree, and get the apples off it for years, at what point do the apples become free? After the cost of all those apples was covered by the initial cost of the tree? Or are the apples always costing you money infinitely? I mean, with PS+ you've paid some money, sure, but not enough to cover 36 games a year plus other things. Even if it was 100% unambiguously free, you're still paying to play it because of the electricity cost of the PS5, TV and speakers.
Re: PS5 Is Now Trending Ahead of PS4 Life-to-Date Sales in US, Despite All the Stock Setbacks
@Northern_munkey I agree overall but the N64 sold poorly, less than the NES and SNES, and it was outsold by the PS1 by more than 3 to 1 (it had a bit over 30 million lifetime sales and two thirds of that was in America alone, so its total sales across the planet outside of America was a mere 10 million-ish). The Dreamcast did even worse, not even managing to sell 10 million units worldwide in its whole lifespan.
You then say the Xbox launched to stupid amounts of units selling. Well that only sold 24 million worldwide, and only 8 million of those were outside America. So yeah, each of the aforementioned consoles sold very poorly by modern standards, especially certain ones outside of America. But I overall agree because the PS1 and 2 were insane successes, especially the latter. It was really just down to them, though, until the Wii and Switch.
Re: Project Mugen Is the Next PS5 Gacha Gunning for Genshin Impact's Crown
@CutchuSlow Yeah, if Genshin Impact was a normal offline game it would genuinely be one of my favourite games of all time. Instead I played it for a couple of weeks at launch and that was that. All the stuff that's meant to keep you playing daily, and the FOMO that's meant to get you hooked on spending money or doing dailies to get special currencies, just has the opposite effect and completely puts me off.
Re: PS2 Games Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 Will Be Just 720p on PS5, PS4
Meanwhile on, say, DuckStation or PCSX2, you can play (your legally dumped ISOs) at whatever resolution you want, and have been able to for many years. These modern remasters of games are already largely pointless if all they do is a res boost - but this doesn't even do that properly.
Re: Kakarot's 23rd World Tournament DLC Looks a Nostalgic Treat for Elder Dragon Ball Fans
A bit late but "Piccolo Jr., as the evil reincarnation became known (the good becoming Kami)" isn't right. Kami existed first, came from Namek to Earth, became Kami ("God" in Japanese) by pushing the evil out of himself which created King Piccolo. Then much later King Piccolo gives birth to regular Piccolo by spitting out an egg.
Re: Hands On: Red Dead Redemption PS4 Port Seems Solid, But Should Be So Much More
@AverageGamer You've been able to play it on PC at 4K at 60fps for a long time already. That just makes this port even more worthless and embarrassing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tXMaJHGnGDU
Re: PS5's Meteoric Rise Underlined by Staggering German Sales Graph
@PixelDragon They were outsold by Sony and Nintendo in the 360 generation too - despite having at least a year head start, too. It's always been an illusion that they were doing well at any point. The first one lost MS billions and is one of the worst selling consoles ever. Their greatest success is being outsold by Sony's worst selling console - with a year head start! And I say all this as someone who had an original Xbox and a 360.
Re: Poll: Did You Buy Red Dead Redemption's PS4 Port?
Wow, apparently 2% of the people here work for Rockstar.
Re: Mortal Kombat 1 PS5 Fights Back with New Single Player Invasions
@Damage99 https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/instalment
Though, to be honest, I'd write "installment" too. Usually it's American English that goes for single Ls rather than doubles (e.g. Traveling vs Travelling).
Re: PS Stars May Finally Be Integrated into PS5 Soon
@SillyBoyJudas It means both here, especially as a verb - if you scheme it's usually implied to be a bad thing. But as a noun it's neutral and changes by context. Like "there's a new government scheme to encourage recycling" vs "he has a scheme to trick people into giving him their bank details". It's the same in the US, apparently - like it says in this American definition, you'd still say "colour scheme" (well, "color") and I'm guessing that doesn't sound like there are evil colours plotting something. And the first definition says it's especially a crafty thing, not always.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Feast Continues, Cracks Steam's Top 10 Most Played Games List
See, you can make an actual RPG instead of a corridor-bound action game and have it do well commercially and critically.
Re: Embracer Starts Shutting Studios As the Downsides of Consolidation Surface
They seem like a virus or a cancer, just consuming things for the sake of it. It feels like it shouldn't really be allowed to buy 1000s of people's careers and then terminate them - at least temporally.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Orders Skyrocket on PS5 Following PC Launch
I played the early access a while ago and updated to the full version yesterday but I've been playing Nier Automata instead. I know when I start BG3, that's it for a long time. I might as well have been abducted by aliens. It's nice to see an actual proper RPG do so well. The originals were received really well, and in some ways BG2 is like the FFVII of PC gaming, but they didn't shift loads of copies. They came out when 3D had been all the rage for a while so more casual members of the master race ignored them.
Re: Battle Royale Naraka: Bladepoint's Obligatory NieR Crossover Content Is Coming to PS5
I love Nier and Drakengard - I'm playing Automata this very moment - but it seems like an odd crossover since Yoko's works are very experimental, single-player, atmospheric, emotional journeys... And the other game is a F2P online game. It's like trying to shift more PlayStations by giving away free Master Chief figures with each one (though bad example as you know they'd end up on eBay for £100s.) Okay, a free animal skull with each pack of vegan burgers? Something like that.
Re: EA Sports FC 24 PS5, PS4 Puts the Commentary Team in the Game
They all look like mocapped corpses to me. There's always that weird plastic/dead look that goes into uncanny valley territory because they've motion captured it. They have awful 3D artists (no skilled devs want to work on FIFA, like that open letter from an ex-FIFA dev's wife said) but they have the money to have a mocap suite, I guess.
Re: Juri's Third Street Fighter 6 Outfit Will Make Capcom All the Money on PS5, PS4
From the thumb, I thought the top-right pic was Ganondorf after a bath.
Re: Here's Your First Real Look at the Return of Fatal Fury
@Vega37 "The CCP already influences content made by American and European companies simply by being a massive source of consumers devs have to edit content for just so they can release it in their market"
Sure but non-American devs have been doing that for years to get games released in America. Costume edits, character age changes, dialogue changes, edited character backstory, changing religious symbols, even things like 'Holy' in older FFs being renamed to 'Pearl'.
I guarantee you that almost every game you've played that was Japanese has been changed for a US market in some way, even if it's just pointlessly changing the age of a character like Penelo in FFXII. And typically those changes are carried into the European version, which is even worse.
Re: Lost Soul Aside Pushes PS5 to Its Limits, Likely Cancelled on PS4
@Jaz007 Well there's Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, and that Legend of Sword and Fairy series that started in the 90s. Some are on PS4, pretty sure.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for August 2023 Announced
@KilloWertz I do the same - it's really a "just in case" thing. I never play spots games but a few years ago I went through a weird phase of playing FIFA and UFC3. Only kept it up for a few weeks. Then also there's a chance someone will be around and want to play one of the games. I don't tend to play platformers, especially more kiddy ones, but my nephew really liked that Sackboy game.
Re: Told You So! Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Really Wouldn't Have Worked on PS4
This should have been obvious to people. Of course it would still work on a slower HDD but it would, surprise surprise, load more slowly. You can run Doom on a microwave so of course a PS5 game could work on a PS4, just badly - exactly the same as running a new game on an old PC.
Re: PS5's Remote Play Portable Appears to Leak Online
Personally I don't mind just taking the PS5 up to the bedroom and plugging it into the TV there - much bigger and with better audio than this. Gives me a good workout too, like carrying a fridge upstairs.
Re: Nine Additional Characters Coming to One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, Over Three Years After Launch
Many live service games would be jealous of how long after launch this game is getting content.
Re: New Armored Core 6 Trailer Puts Plot Ahead of Bullets and Missiles
@UrdnotTitan Go on YouTube and watch gameplay of previous AC games and see if you think it looks like Dark Souls. I think the DS association is actually going to harm this game. I think people are expecting DS but in a mech.
Re: Exoprimal (PS5) - One of the Most Promising Online Co-Op Shooters in Eons
@KaijuKaiser It makes no sense to compare a game review score to educational grades - especially one in a single country. In the UK, 70% at GCSE level would be an A - and the questions would be different and of a different standard to US high schools, so you can't even compare one curriculum to another. Either way, that's grading children on information retention, not marking them on their graphics, gameplay and storyline. They're totally different things; it's like equating getting a Michelin star for your restaurant to getting a review score of 0 to 3.3 out of 10 because it's in the lower third of the possible range of Michelin stars.
Re: Resident Evil 4 Remake Sales Reach Five Million Milestone
On the topic of FFXVI sales vs RE4R sale: RE4 has more of a struggle since it's a remake of a game that's been released on every platform going for twenty years. It'd be more relevant to compare FFVII Remake to RE4 Remake. If a brand new Final Fantasy, the first in seven years, has to be compared to a remake of a game from twenty years ago to look good, there's a problem.
I mean, for example, RE Village sold more and faster than 4 Remake despite 4 being regarded as the best one by many. Incidentally, FFVII Remake sold 3.5 million in 2 days compared to 3 million in a week for XVI - and Remake sold worse than the original as remakes almost always do. RE4R actually sold better in the initial period than the original but not by that much considering the original was on a console with about 15 million units sold.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for July 2023?
Worth it for Samurai Warriors 5 alone, personally. I've been putting off playing that for years because there was always something else that just edged it out but now it's free (or "free", if you prefer) so it's time to finally play it.
Re: Another Six-Month Apple TV+ Free Trial Available Now on PS5, PS4
@Member_the_game With these things you can usually cancel immediately but the trial still continues but won't turn into a sub.
Re: Larian Studios Gets TikTok Ban for Bear-Form Druid Sex Scene in Baldur's Gate 3
@Olmaz Did you have the same outrage when violence and murder were completely normalised in games years ago? Surely having sex with a bear isn't as bad as slaughtering another human? Yet I'm sure you lost count of how many virtual murders you've committed.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 484
@Darude84 For me it's the other way around. I'm playing for the story but the combat is really repetitive and bland for me. I think because it's an action game with upgradeable skills rather than an RPG with, say, different builds or a proper skill tree with things you're building up to, it feels pretty flat to me. There's a boss fight later in the game where it just won't end. I was pretty tired when it started and genuinely my eyes kept closing during the fight. My friend was watching me on Twitch and I had to assure him that the fights aren't normally so dull. It was definitely a low point yet it was presented as some epic, titanic clash.
Re: Sony Wants More PS5 Exclusives from South Korea
@trev666 That makes no sense. You'd rather them permanently block all of a studio's games from being multiplatform than temporarily block one game? If, say, Nintendo hadn't bought Monolith, we'd have Xenoblade Chronicles on other platforms now. They've paid to keep all games exclusive forever - how is that better than one game being exclusive for a bit?
And do you find things like Fire Emblem, Kirby, Pokemon or Smash Bros being exclusive "abhorrent"? None of those games are made by Nintendo or a studio Nintendo own.
Re: Over 56% of Final Fantasy 16 UK Launch Sales Were Digital, But the Charts Only Count Physical
@naruball I've never had to be home for a delivery. Not even food shopping unless it has alcohol in it. Maybe this changes by region?
Re: Over 56% of Final Fantasy 16 UK Launch Sales Were Digital, But the Charts Only Count Physical
@Rob_230 I used to only buy physical but over time I've found the convenience of not having to switch the disc, or locate it in the first place, as well as being able to go to someone's house and download my games on their PS, are just worth the slightly higher cost. I used to have about 60 PS4 and PS5 discs but I sold them all recently just to get rid of the clutter. It's also great for if you move house, or go on holiday, if you have everything digitally - all your books, all music, all games and no extra baggage.
With FFXVI I had a tenner off due to that PS Stars thing so it was only a few quid more than a disc and I got to start playing at midnight which felt worth it to me.
Re: There's Already Concern Over Crash Team Rumble's Future
I don't typically stream games but a few years ago when I was drunk, I streamed a Korean horror game on PS4 called White Day - even I had around 30 viewers then. I'm not sure how multiple (presumably) people streaming a game in a famous franchise only got that many.
Re: Publishers Don't Like 'Value Destructive' Subs Like Xbox Game Pass, Says Sony Boss
I don't think anyone has spent so much money on so little success as Microsoft with Xbox. Maybe James Bond villains but that's all I can think of.
Re: UK Sales Charts: PS5 Exclusive Final Fantasy 16 Debuts at Number One
@CutchuSlow
"Almost 90% of games sold in UK in 2022 were digital - ERA"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64187547
That said, the article says 30 percent of sales were mobile games, which no actual gamer counts as games, so it's more like 60:40 in favour of digital.