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My first impression was "female Cloud and white Barret".

I'm amazed Sony even managed to announce PSVR2 is available to buy.

@NotSoCryptic Oh yeah, totally agree. I'm just saying in theory it needn't be that much more. I'm sure it'll be massive because, most likely, they can't reuse the same textures and assets to the same degree as Remake where everything was in one location (albeit a large one).

I've only managed to play it twice so far. Once with my young nephew who button mashed so fast I thought my Dualsense was going to burst into flames. The other was a bit of a drunk session with a friend in which we both admitted we were pretending we were playing Super Turbo (ignoring any more recent mechanics or strats). I haven't even started the RPG mode yet. It does seem very good, though. And thanks to the difficulty settings and beginner control scheme, my nephew could beat Zangief's arcade mode by literally doing nothing but spinning piledrivers.

@saffeqwe Well in this case it'll be down to texture quality, audio quality and amount of voiced lines - but the point is that the previous game was also 2 discs so it's not noteworthy that this also is. It's like getting excited that the next MCU movie has superheroes in.

Why is it repeatedly pointed out that it's on 2 discs as if that's some special thing? Remake was on 2 discs too.

>"Giant German Convention"
So this is where all the tallest Germans get together and get drunk?

@swagbag7
>"I feel like those who are reacting that negatively don’t watch much tv."
Or maybe they don't watch bad TV? With the internet there's no need to sit through 7 hours of Cash in the Attic, Dickinson's Real Deal and Coronation Street just to get to the one half an hour of the day that isn't awful. You could watch TV shows all day and never watch a bad thing if you have just one streaming service (or be a naughty boy and visit certain free streaming sites). Thankfully this isn't the era of 4 channels and you have to watch what they put on, when they put it on.

FFVII Rebirth was cool and all but I'm pre-ordering a Doordash pizza as we speak. If you pre-order now you get free stomach cramps the next day.

@NotSoCryptic That's right. But technically the play disc could only have 100mb of data on. It just means the game is over 50gb, not that it's 100gb. It's a weird boast when most games are 50 to 100gb nowadays. FFXV on PC was about 150gb.

@KaijuKaiser Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. Especially after that Naruto villain-esque bad guy in the Yuffie DLC.

@Uncharted2007 Yeah, that's right. All it means is it's at least about 50gb, if disc 1 is dual layer.

Edit: you edited your post! Before it said Remake was the same.

This is the closest we'll get to Dino Crisis. I hope they eventually add Makoto to SF6 - I love how she basically had a realistic version of the shoto style (Ryu's style).

@Darude84 That's the chronological order, yeah, but bear in mind CC was written to make sense after FFVII. It's up to you, I don't think either way is wrong, but it's like do you watch SW Episodes 4-6 before or after 1-3? They're designed in release order but it's still cool to watch in chronological order.

Don't forget to play Dirge of Cerberus too 😉

@Uromastryx Yeah I think they're trying to make it ambiguous by playing that line over footage of Tifa but there's a bit in part 1 where Aeris walks off and it's made to look like the bit in the original when Cloud is chasing after Aeris to the city of the Ancients - which leads to her death. And when Cloud sees this (in Remake) he sheds a tear. There's definitely something where events from the original are something characters in Remake are vaguely aware of. Not to mention how we see Meteor in part 1 too.

Also I just rewatched it and at the end Sephiroth seems to say that Aeris isn't actually Aeris ("You know that I killed her and so... Who is she?") which is interesting. Like, he does kill her but after everything we've seen in this trailer. So it seems like this is chronologically after the original as some theorised. We're going full Kingdom Hearts in terms of Nomura-isms.

@KaijuKaiser That was the Ever Crisis trailer, not Rebirth. Though who knows what Nomura will do in Rebirth.

@mariomaster96 I wonder what they mean by that. If I remember correctly, the first part came on two discs too but one was an installation disc and the other the play disc, like older PC games would do. But I'd love it if it was as big as it seems. You seem to at least get to Cosmo Canyon (so we'll see the Gold Saucer) but I think they need to get to the Temple of the Ancients - at the very least - if they have a chance of this being a three parter.

What I wanted from Rebirth was the feeling of walking through the world and then noticing Junon (or other locations) on the horizon and making my way towards them as they grow bigger and eventually loom over you. This seemed to show that. It's an amazing setting, with so many iconic and atmospheric locations and I just want to get that in modem graphics with an immersive sense of scale. The trailer made me feel the devs got that.

The Toriyama game and, of course, Rebirth made it for me. There were lots of games that could be cool but I don't think enough big hitters to make it excellent. I would have lost it if they had more on DQXII, though.

I Iove Toriyama so this is my favourite game so far, even though I know next to nothing about it. It reminds me of a PS2 game in that it's this out of nowhere game that just seems to exist because the people making it just wanted to make it.

@Olmaz Really? I think she's hot and, in a dumb way, it draws me to the game.

@dark_knightmare2 Very true. Every fighting game that's a big hit has great, extensive single player modes. Well, at least as of roughly the PS1 or PS2 gen. With SF2 it was a different time so that wasn't expected.

Who was that wolf guy at the end? I recognise him from an old Sonic game but I can't think what.

@shonenjump86 Same here. It always felt like the fighting game equivalent of a straight to DVD movie to me. But this looks like it'll be a nice, different kind of exp from SF6 and Tekken 8. A bit of a palate cleanser. They tend to have really good tutorials too, so it's just fun to learn.

"Masterworks all, you can't go wrong," to quote one of the main characters from Dragons Dogma.

@NotSoCryptic Yeah. I'm playing FFIV Pixel Remaster at the moment but they're different audiences - we're the more diehard fans. There are photos on Twitter of FFXVI being discounted already in Japan, and SE are saying it's tracking behind XV even taking into account only being on one platform. The existence of expensive ROMs of FF to FFVI (that aren't even the best versions of each of the games, sadly) isn't going to help that.

@Americansamurai1 But they've just done a 7 part countdown to today. 7 posts across 7 days ending on the very day Geoff Keighley tries to make me buy Doritos again. It would be very weird if they do nothing after that.

Maybe because they're reportedly worried about XVI, this is a marketing strategy to get us stirred up for a FF we actually want but can't have yet, so we'll be in a FF mood and will be like "well I can't have Rebirth yet but man am I in the mood for some FF now! Time to get some XVI!" It's a large scale version of when, ages ago, a girl's strategy to pull me was to put Transformers on and go on about how hot Megan Fox is, then ask me what I wanted to do to her (Fox). Sort of seduction-by-proxy. This feels like that, but only FFVII Rebirth is a lot sexier than Megan Fox.

I'm going to get it but it feels like a sad visit to an old friend who has dementia and has forgotten who he is. It's due to the bond I have with the series rather than looking forward to anything in particular in the game.

@Nem So it'll run at 60fps and not vaguely 22 to 30, and also have anti-aliasing and even raytracing. Same with BotW - though personally I'd rather keep it on the PC and not a tiny screen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g2a5PmIhryA&pp=ygUWYm90dyBjZW11IHJheSB0cmFjaW5nIA%3D%3D

@number1024 Everything I just said is factual. To begin with, this game has sold 1 million on a platform with over 100 million users so therefore has sold to less than 1% of owners. Not sure how much more simple I can make it. I gave you numbers in most cases and you can Google the MH stuff yourself. It's a well known thing, again you can Google it (see below).

Here's the Witcher 3 sales distribution

@NEStalgia That's the Climhazard of using social media too much.

So this means 99.5% or so of Switch owners didn't buy it. This has long been a problem with Nintendo's consoles where most people don't buy third party games. Like when TW3 came out on Switch, 4 years after its initial release, the Switch version was almost the worst selling version of the year with only 11% of sales on Switch. The worst was on Xbox (10%) while for context the PS4 version was 26% of sales. The latter two were after 4 years and millions of sales, bear in mind. Can't remember the numbers but MH also sold surprisingly badly on 3DS, a very low percentage of owners bought each game.

@naruball I don't even read the headline, just head straight into the comments and post the first thing that comes into my head.

@bkeswick It was originally meant to be FF Gaiden (side story) but at some point in development they decided to make it into a full-blown mainline game. It was meant to be a love letter to the older games.

It's why there are references in it to Cloud and other elements that go simply beyond recurring elements like chocobos. I also bet it's why the game seems to lose something after the Mist Continent, which was so dense and soulful and varied; the other continents were added on after the decision to make it into IX.

@kyleforrester87 There's some mild evidence that FF8 put people off. In Japan, last time I checked, FF8 was the best selling FF of all time. It also did very well worldwide. So you'd think there'd be loads of spinoffs, movies, anime specials and so on, right? Even a sequel? But no, until the very low effort remaster, it didn't get anything.

FF4 got a sequel and "midquel" thing, 7 has loads of stuff, 10 onwards got sequels, spinoffs, expansions, DLC expansions etc. In PS1 FF onwards, 9 and 8 stand out as ignored. 9 makes sense because it didn't sell well but the only reason I can think of why 8 was left alone was despite strong sales, feedback was negative. In the same way 7 drove up demand for 8, the latter looks to have driven down demand.

We really don't need multiple player houses when the initial one has 9 floors of 4 rooms when fully upgraded. I feel like I'm living in the tower block from The Raid.

@czDante92 You can shoot some hoops in NBA2K23. 😉

But yeah, it's crap for me because I didn't like sports games, I do like city builder or Theme Park type games but not on console, and Trek to Yomi looks like the kind of game I put on once, play for 10 minutes that feels like 30 minutes, think "I'd probably have liked this on the Mega Drive when I was 11," and then just never play or think about it again.

He looked a lot like Duke Nukem when he was 15.

@eagletrippin Well it's not specifically to do with playing outside, it means you can start playing a game straight away instead of downloading 150gb. And that you don't need either storage space or an expensive console with the latest CPU, GPU and SSD. In theory you could play, let's say, PS7 games on something akin to a PS3 and have amazing graphics, performance, instant loading... And all without downloading it first. Having good connections being widespread is needed first, of course, but that'll happen eventually.

Edit:
Even now the latency isn't much of problem. My crap connection has a delay of 7ms whereas the Dualsense with Spider-Man Remastered has an input delay over over 180ms and people seem to be okay with that. It's more to do with the stability at the moment.

@Judal27 Yeah but TW games aren't one big story that's been split into parts like Remake. TW series is like the typical film series where they'll make a film as a one-off and then keep adding more on if it's successful - like John Wick, Terminator, Star Wars etc. With Remake it's a story split into thirds like LotR. So this is like saying you don't need to watch Fellowship, you can just start with Two Towers.

But yeah I think the people saying it'll be a recap video are right. Since the previous game only covered what was originally a fairly small part of the story, it shouldn't be too hard.

@kyleforrester87 Yeah, there's a BBC article saying that certain voice actors have not been contacted about rerecording their lines - Volgin included. This Push Square article makes it sound like they're using the same script, but it in fact sounds like it's the same sound files.

I played the demo and it seemed to be pretty bland, and trying to please too many people at once. Firaxis normally make excellent games but this was a very simple strategy game combined with a very simple card game combined with totally cringe-worthy MCU fluff.

If I want a strategy game I'll play Civ, FFT or Crusader Kings, etc. If I want a card game there's obviously MtG, but also Library Of Ruina and loads of other great ones on Steam. I think the genres were off-putting to the average 12-year-old lured in by the license, and to most fans of those genres they were woefully simplified in a failed attempt to not put off said kids. The old adage of chasing too many rabbits at once and losing all of them. Also reminds me of how Forspoken was too western for typical Japanese gamers and too Japanese for typical western gamers; you can't pull in too many directions at once.

@RadioHedgeFund Come on, it's time to move on. In a few months the PS5 will have been out for three years - that's the same time difference between the first Sonic game and the release of the PS1. There are plenty of PS5 game that could run in diminished form on the PS3 but you understand they have to step away at some point; you wouldn't expect PS3 releases even though there's 80 million plus PS3s out there.

@Green-Bandit What's your ping, though? That's what actually matters for online gaming. The bandwidth isn't important (well, without crazy extremes like still having a 56k connection 😉)

Games typically use 100MB or less an hour, so you'd need a quarter of a Mbit connection. Fighting games are at the lower end because there's only two sets of inputs to send back and forth. A whole match is a few dozen kilobytes in SFIV. It's obviously amazing to be able to download a game very quickly, though; to just have the sudden urge to play something and be able to be in the game minutes later. But yeah, check the ping and that's the measure of the lag you'll get. It should be under 10 ideally. I get 12 on my phone when I'm on a different floor from the router.

@Arisen They're not really unknown though most of their games aren't on consoles so console-only gamers are less likely to have heard of them. They've made a lot of successful point-and-click adventure games in fantasy settings as well as adapted Pillars of the Earth into game form, so that'd would actually line them up well for making a LotR game. Problem is that they normally make lower budget, 2D games so they were really overreaching with this. It's like if the guys that made Shovel Knight tried to make a game like FFXVI.

@KaijuKaiser Given the subject matter, you'd think it'd be an action adventure game but it looks more like an arena fighter in that trailer. Something like One Piece Burning Blood.

@NEStalgia That's actually not true. It's been said for a long time that MS specifically wanted to beat Sony and that's why they entered the console market. Even a former MS executive said as much.

"I mean, at least a portion of Sony is [an entertainment company], and they had some really good things going there, but as soon as they came out with a video console, Microsoft just looked at that and said 'well, we have to beat them, so let’s do our own.'"

https://www.vg247.com/microsofts-entered-the-console-race-to-stop-sony-claims-former-exec

I'm much more hyped for Dragon's Dogma 2 (one of my most anticipated games ever) than I am for Naughty Dog's next interactive movie shooting gallery - yet I think it is still a bad look to have so much dependency on third party stuff that's going to be everywhere else apart from the Switch.

@KundaliniRising333 I said this before but it seems like a modern version of Streets of Rage in a fantasy setting rather than a modern version of an actual FF (or even an RPG in general). Walking through very artificial feeling linear areas with nothing to do but beat things up is not what an RPG is. It shows how much audiences have changed that FFXIII was savaged for its more action-y combat and linear areas yet people are reacting well to this game which is more linear and more action-y by a long shot.

Been wanting to play Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin for a while but never got around to buying it so it's nice to see it here. Rune Factory 4 too.