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The real news here is that Pure Xbox is back! =)

I've been playing Resident Evil games since January, waiting for RE3. After finishing Claire's 2nd run in RE2 last week, I decided to wait for Jill v. Nemesis replaying Last of Us - another game I'd like to finish prior to its sequel. =)

PlayStation is becoming a platform, and gamers will stick with one due to their personal library. Eventually, hardware will be optional, so they're not losing money by doing this, only reaching a wider audience.

However, it feels really wrong.

Everything is back where it belongs. Now I can safely trust the Almighty Typewriter again.

Edit: Ok, it seems Nemesis can and will show up in areas with typewriter, so they're no longer almighty. Instead, we shall glorify the Greatness of the Rooms With Elevator Music.

As long as they make the now Dangerous Rooms larger for us to run around when Nemesis shows up, fine. But I gotta say, being chased everywhere is my least favorite part of RE2, I hope they find a balance that allow us to explore our surroundings instead of simply running like there is no tomorrow.

Well, Google is playing its cards. It has so much money that it can afford lots of years until Stadia hits.

It scares me though. Google is everywhere. I can't even access a result of a search directly anymore, they redirect us to caches in their own servers. Any business domain they're not in yet, they purchase a company that is. I love PlayStation and Nintendo; for their sake and ours, I hope Stadia fails.

@LiamCroft New question, are we safe from Nemesis in any rooms?

Well, too much focus on combat gets me worried. They did this for FFXIII and look at what happened... Exploring is a big part of any RPG.

Happy birthday Aloy and Stephen!

RE Engine is amazing!

@LiamCroft So you have to stun Nemesis every time it finds you? Is there any way to avoid it?

@mrbone PS4 Pro 1TB costs about $ 500.00, while PS4 Slim 1TB costs around $ 350.00. Yep, taxes are to blame, but the dolar has been high for a while too: 1 USD equals roughly 4.50 BRL.

I'm looking forward to be one of the numbers in this total. Hopefully it's priced reasonably. The PS4 initial cost in Brazil was over $ 1000.00, so I had to wait 3 years for mine.

100GB for the Part 1? I wonder how much the complete "series" is gonna take. But then, given Square Enix history, all parts will take about 20 years to be released. Streaming will probably take over by then, I guess.

I miss Prince of Persia. They should take inspiration on Sands of Time (the game, not the awful movie) and release something new for PlayStation 5.

I just got a brand new Nintendo Switch. At least I have the entire year to save for PS5. Not to mention we can always sell the PS4 to get some extra money for PS5. =)

The brazilian PlayStation site also has this subscription page to know more.

@Octane Then maybe we have a chance of them coming back some day.

They should announce remakes of Harry Potter games. The three first ones were amazing back on PlayStation and PlayStation 2.

Sooner than expected? Great, a new Kingdom Hearts is coming prior to PlayStation 6!

Anyway, I see some people complaining about KH3, and as a long time fan, let me add something to this discussion. Overall, KH3 has the most amazing graphics and animations the series has ever seen. The worlds are vast and cool to explore. The story is nice IMO, the only problem being that the ending didn't really finish the saga for me, instead leaving a huge question mark.

But the game's biggest flaw really is something called Attractions. They pop up every minute in every fight, turning a really cool fight full of animations into a boring mini-game that beats all the enemies. It's amazing when you're fighting Titans and a rollercoaster pops up, but it's not so cool to skip every single fight with spinning cup teas or whatever. Seriously, if they could add a "Disable Attractions out of boss battles" option to the game, it would become a whole lot better.

That aside though, I enjoyed my time playing KH3.

Well, they want talented developers to build their next engine, probably. It's extremely unlikely that Sony would put Naughty Dogs' games on PC. It would be similar to Nintendo adding Super Mario games to PC.

Well, April had FF7R, RE3 and Cyberpunk. I'm glad they moved, hehe. But now it's on the 'wait for PS5' list as someone else mentioned.

Works in Latin America too, there's a Brazilian website at least.

Just found out I spent 5% of the year playing games. We spent around 25% of the year sleeping, so 5% is a big number, haha. =D

@keihtg Some dialogue like Jill sandwich would be fun, haha. I kinda prefer the over-the-shoulder perspective, since I enjoy watching the animations of the characters. But I do get your point on how they can take the horror to the next level in first person perspective.

I'm sold. This game looks amazing! I'm in a horror games trend at the moment, currently playing all RE games since Zero. Sure, this one is actually gonna be more action than scare (with Nemesis aside), but still I really want to play it.

But starting a discussion, given the remakes of RE2 and RE3, and how different they are to RE7, and the fact that all of these are amazing, which way RE8 is going to take?

What I read was that it's going to be completely different from RE8. I feel that the gang is gonna be back for more, and the gameplay will be akin to RE2/RE3 with the horror focus of RE7. Maybe a new mansion? =D

I watched more than half of it, but couldn't make it to the end, it was past midnight and I was quite tired. These are my impressions based on what I saw:

• Xbox reveal was, well... Ok, I guess. I expected more excitement for a new console announcement. This and the fact that it looks awful! Stadia's argument for "your console takes space from your living room" seems to apply to the new green box.
• Speaking of Stadia, funny ad, but I still don't buy their selling points. Game streaming is the future, but globally we're not quite ready yet.
• The show looks like the Oscars. But that's pretty much it. I couldn't care less about the awards or nominees. They distribute them like candy. "Hey, for Best Gamers in the Living Room we have A, B, C and D, the winner is B! And the next award is...". Come on, prepare a video or something for each nominee so that we're aware of what they did. That's a big part of the Oscars, you get to know about some interesting movies you missed, and learn about new artists.

It doesn't need a remake. The only thing Capcom could do is remaster it, and honestly, the game still plays and looks fine today, so leave it alone.

Code Veronica, RE0 and RE1 deserve some love, though.

This looks amazing! Seriously, Capcom became one of my favorite publishers.

Resident Evil has been amazing up to RE4, then it became divisive, we all know. I really hope RE8 brings a brand new story instead of expanding old characters. Normal professionals under terrible situations has been a much better formula than overpowered-bioterrorism-super-heros fighting The Enemy.

I understand your troubles, Liam. But I pray that price parity does not happen across regions. You see, in Latin America prices are high for the average salary, but if you translate to US dollars it's probably cheaper than in US. Having separate price tags allow companies to adapt to each market, specially in emergent countries.

I kinda doubt they'll have enough time for a PS5 version if an announcement is imminent. Unless this has been in development for PS5 from the beginning.

The real question is what is the difference? With PS4 library being a part of PS5 library, all games are cross-gen.

The only problem is that my planned vacation from work ends Feb 21, 2020. Besides that, I'm more than hyped about this game!

It was solid, compared to the others. But as pointed out by @get2sammyb, it is still far away from Nintendo Direct's worst days.

Well, the problem here is that PlayStation barely has news to share for PS4. Nintendo uses Directs to share everything, news, updates, nindies, developers' opinions, 3rd parties, with a nice pace to the videos, and they also avoid announcing games until they're closer to release. PlayStation announces games 4-5 years before actual release...

Anyway, there is no reason why Sony can't learn. Hopefully they use it better next generation.

In Brazil, Circle button is more often called Bolinha ("little ball") - people grew up calling it that and well, that's what it is. We also call X by the letter instead of cross (which sounds terribly wrong btw).

Excellent month! Looking forward to playing both games!

Wow! That's great news and completely unexpected! Always thought they would remain independent forever...

I wouldn't mind new games for Crash and Spyro, but Activision should be careful with the timing of these releases. They remade 3 games for each of these properties already; I actually heard a friend recently say he had enough of Spyro for a long time after obtaining the Platinum trophy for the trilogy.

You know, it's Activision after all. They pass me this feeling of "it either sells zillion dollars or the IP is dead".

I suggest that PushSquare posts an article every now and then with a list of games that are being "retired", so to speak. Just in case anybody in this community wants to grab it while still available.

As for the servers, I wouldn't worry too much. Nowadays with everything in the cloud, and public data centers, and how the global economy could suffer a huge hit if these servers crashed, it gets harder to shut a platform down. I'd get really worried if they started disabling purchased games, though.

Really nice interview, @get2sammyb! Hope we get more interviews in PushSquare, it's fun to read them. =)

Since I barely play online at all, I'm honestly considering ending my subscription after this cycle. The discounts alone don't justify it, since I could use the money to cover the decrease in price. There are lots of sales anyway in PSN.

Also, there has been an increase in price in Brazil too.

This is one of those buzzwords that is better to be ignored. Sure, run PS3 games on PS4 and there won't be loading times. Now, let's make the same experiment with a third-party game built for next-gen three years after PS5 launch.

Seriously, Cloud is innovative? It's actually more powerful hardware too behind the scenes. And its evolution is completely based on more powerful hardware and higher quantity of units. So it's basically the same thing, but without the box.

And let's face it, even if we had the Wi-Fi quality necessary to run Cloud gaming at home, there's no way we will do it on the go in mobile phones anytime soon.

In other words, we'll be playing in a TV or computer monitor with a controller the same type of games we've been playing. Yay, innovation! 😒

Yeeeeeeessss!!

Time to play Watch Dogs 2. To be honest, I didn't even finish the first one...

Now that's how you do merchandising! Hahah

Hold on, now, Sammy! I actually thought you were joking when I read the headline. That's crazy!

That's a stealth mode announcement if there is such a thing. Love the sound of it, I'm just worried about the price, but well, I can wait a year to purchase if it is the only way to go.

And yay! We're not gonna lose Crash, Kingdom Hearts, Spyro and new masterpieces such as Horizon, God of War and Spider-Man! =)

Here is to future of gaming! o/

In Brazil, the only discount I'm aware of is Spotify, which offers a 10% discount for PS Plus subscribers. I wish we had more.

Yes, I've changed mine. Not as soon as I could, though, I just had something better in mind. The one I often use was not available, and I ended up adding numbers to it originally, which I never really liked. Now I've picked up my second most used username, which thankfully was available. =)

They are doing it wrong. Not just Sony, though, all companies eventually shutdown servers for their online games. GaaS is fine when done right, but publishers need to either include a dedicated offline mode such as GTA / GTA Online, or allow all of the game to work offline as-is, with CPU and local multiplayer replacing the online needs, when they decide to shutdown.

The worst thing about these games right now is that they're dead once the audience moves on! It doesn't matter if some people still like it or if others would like to try it years after release. So I believe they should move the game to offline prior to shutting down servers. Maybe even adding a P2P component so that servers aren't directly necessary for Online VS modes.

The second question is missing the "Not looking forward to any of them" answer.

@DreamerAbe86 Hahaha. I was on a bus, don't worry! =)

@Derpie1 Yeah, that's unfortunate... It would be easier to watch. But then there wasn't much for me in this particular State of Play thing, at least. I'm not interested in VR yet (and the price is too high). I do wish that corporations do more events in weekend, though.