UnlimitedSevens

Found it, pre-ordered, then promptly realized there aren't any games I'm excited for beyond RE4. But I am - very - excited about RE4.

I might be rationalizing here, but if you look at it like a console launch (the price certainly matches up to a new console), the games are always lacking up front and you are always sort of gambling on that promise of future content. While it's technically a peripheral I guess, the PSVR 2 is its own platform distinct from PS5 in my mind. It has its own processors, screen, and games library.

VR is the only truly new frontier in gaming to me, so the price wasn't as much of an object. Pretty disenfranchised with current gen gaming so far (incremental, slight improvements). I do wish the price was lower so it was more accessible to others though. I want more people to try VR, however they can (Quest/PSVR/whatever).

@Fight_Teza_Fight

I suppose that makes sense, having more reviews approaches the "true" average and the score is less affected by outliers. So less reviews equals the scores varying wildly for the same game. Haven't thought about it that way 🤔

Great point. Though, if Xbox has less reviews and therefore more variation in the score, wouldn't you see Xbox underperform the PS version just as often (as the outliers could bring the score either up or down)? Why does it seem Xbox consistently has a one to two point boost? I was typing in random multiplatform games and every one I looked up, the Xbox version scores were equal or higher, never less. But again, I was just randomly looking up games, not exactly scientific. Might be confirmation bias on my part.

Looks amazing. Sensing possible H.P. Lovecraft vibes and possible eldritch goings-on, similar to the monoliths from Dead Space.

Get to the back of the line peasants. Level 4 Playstation Stars member here! swaggers on up to the front sipping a code red mountain dew

Haha. Sony what the heck man.

I don't know if it was fair of me, but I always viewed overly enthusiastic Stadia supporters similarly to Scientologists. Strange folks who live on the fringes of society and have their own secret clubhouse or something. A very passionate bunch for sure though. "Streaming is the future!"

@NEStalgia

Amen brother. I never really understood it. But then again, I'm finding there are many things I do not understand about modern culture 😔

Somebody understands it though, because some of these people make more money than I would in 100 lifetimes. Buuut... if being poor is the price for being able to avoid the more insane aspects of the internet and "news" media, that is a price I am willing to pay. Can't put a dollar amount on my mental health.

"Influencers"

Yeah. This burgeoning generation of Youtube and social media influencers always felt off. Pedaling their opinion and commentary like it's some sort of commodity. Some have original content or good humor so I don't want to paint them all with the same brush. But why do we want to watch people who self-indulgently stare at a camera screaming out their opinion for a living? We live in a world where opinions aren't worth the air they travel through to reach your ears, why am I interested in their take? I mean, what's the value proposition here?

7. I have failed you all.

@MaikonCSGarcia

Nobody expected the UK regulators to re-examine the deal. All I heard over and over is regulators dont't actually do their job (true) and allow almost every merger with no resistance. The situation with US Airlines and telecom corps. merging after '08 is a ridiculous example of what I'm talking about.

The deal will go, but it hopefully prevents more mega-publisher buyouts... for either of these two huge soulless companies. What can I say, I'm an optimist.

Alternatively, it goes through and Sony responds by buying a big publisher (though not as big as Activision of course) and we continue to descend further into this maelstrom of corporate greed. From Software's IPs? SquareEnix? I don't like any of this.

I'm not sure I care which Fortune 500 company comes out on top. But this whole trend of consolidation is no good.

There will be some hemming and hawing but the deal will go through. Microsoft probably getting more pushback to this than it expected. Good news to this story - whichever plastic box you have meaninglessly self-identified with - is Microsoft is done with the mega acquisitions after this one, at least for a good while. No more buying mega publishers for a good while after this pushback (hopefully). They blew their load on Candy Crush and Call of Duty, which is a relief to me. Commercially successful garbage, but garbage nonetheless.

Buying a large publisher is ridiculous and should be off limits, in an ideal world... build your own stuff like everyone else.

"The PSP was also notable for its pioneering XMB interface, which would later be adopted by the PS3 as well."

Little know but interesting factoid (to me, anyways): the XMB pre-dated the PSP. The first iteration appeared on the Playstation 2, specifically the PSX which was a Japan-only turbocharged PS2 with digital video recording capabilities. It looks like a huge white TiVo and was the most "fully featured" version of that console.

This will go real good next to my huntin gear.

Well all I can say is this update is

PREMIUM

@LiamCroft

I stand corrected.

But seriously, one review? Get on it guys!

@straw-hat-crew

Noice!

Visage has a user review score of 6.8/10. Should put it in the number 7 spot on this list but still absent.

Best horror game I've played in years.

Reading the title of this gave me a stroke.

Only game I played which I saw it implemented/used was Destruction All-Stars. Gave and received like 20 as there was a menu option at the end of each match to leave an accolade.

Other online games - Ghosts of Tsushima Legends and GT7, I never figured out how to actually utilize them. Pretty rough implementation but I liked the idea.

I wake up every day, sometimes multiple times a day. So I guess you could say I'm pretty aware of social issues and whatnot. Probably moreso than whoever is reading this comment, as I do take a lot of naps.

Thanks for attending my Ted Talk.

This looks fun.

First Game: Mario Bros (NES)

Last Game: TMNT: Shredder's Revenge (PS4)

Favorite Game: Final Fantasy VI (SNES)

Game You Play the Most: The Witcher 3/Elden Ring (PS4)

Game you want to play next: Calisto Protocol

First game you'd show a caveman: Visage

@Jettstyles

Yes, what you see in the VR headset is displayed to the TV so others can see. There are actually a few really clever takes on this function for multiplayer in some VR games (Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - CAUTION: This game will test relationships).

@NeonPizza

Agreed on every single point you made! What excites me about VR most is what I believe will be profound generational evolutions, unlike the current console landscape where each new system is only a slight upgrade over the previous (in my eyes).

I'm thinking about the jump between PS1 to PS2. That was a big leap. Then we saw smaller and smaller upgrades over time. To the point I cannot always tell the difference between native PS4 and PS5 games sometimes.

I think PSVR2 will be that huge leap. It's a relatively new technology in the mainstream space with massive untapped potential. A lot of people (rightly) point out how a lot of VR games feel like tech demos. But games like RE VII and Astro Bot showed us something special. There were times playing games like Thumper or Wipeout Omega where I truly forgot I was playing a game and I was just there. Nothing else can do that for me.

Just imagine where VR can go from here. The features you talked about would definitely go a long way toward making it truly seamless. And we are at ground zero with VR now, there is nowhere to go but up. The limitations of current VR hardware are actually what excites me in a weird way - leaves so much room for growth. There is not much more room for growth in consoles in my humble opinion. We are topped out, I'm guessing PS6 will be a negligible upgrade over PS5, and so on.

Definitely excited. Just hope I can get my hands on one ha.

@Trousersnake

Agreed, I think when it comes to videogames, the only thing I'm truly excited about is the future of VR. Just an incredible amount of untapped potential and a lot of room for it to mature to something phenomenal.

Glad you feel the same way! Us cranky old people have to stick together!

Neil if you are reading this, I only have one thing to say:

Your mother is a hamster and smells of elderberries.

Give ya about three fiddy for it.

VR is one of the few things that warms my old jaded gamer heart. To me, one of the last remaining untapped frontiers of interactive entertainment. Everything else is diminishing returns.

Super excited!

I think there is a meme element to all the praise for this game (given that a cat is the oldest and most powerful avatar of internet memery since the first days of the internet. Think cat photos.)

The gameplay is straightforward and linear. Doesn't do anything new at all there. Couple neat ideas which incorporate cat behavior occasionally, like scratching a blind to open it or meowing to distract someone. Very basic puzzles, light exploration.

In spite of this, the game deserves the high scores due to the combination of atmosphere, setting, characters, and focused/simple gameplay just working to make it better than the sum of its parts (the X Factor another commenter called it). If you think the reason it's getting good scores is solely because it features a cat, you are interpreting the game in a dense, far too literal way. Sort of being reductionist and pedantic, sucking the joy out, and missing the forest for the trees because it's a linear platformer at the end of the day. I think you are getting distracted by the fascination with the game on social media, which shouldn't be construed as an overarching declaration of the game's quality, either for or against.

Think about Journey or Inside, two games with bare-bones basic gameplay which nail the atmosphere and overall tone. PushSquare gave both Journey and Inside astounding 10/10 scores (which I feel they did not deserve for arguments somewhat similar to yours, although I felt they were overall very good games), and those games are about the closest analogues to Stray in my personal gaming experience. Hard to argue they aren't very, very similar to Stray, and I think Stray does it best of the three. They were front and center in my mind throughout my playthrough.

If you are confused about the praise for this game, ask your coworkers why they rated Inside and Journey so high. That's gonna be your most direct, honest and productive answer. Maybe they can explain it in a way the internet mob can't.

Or maybe it is time to reflect on your latent hatred for cats and all things cat related.

If you replace Sonic the Hedgehog with a human, whaddya got? Just a drunk guy running up ramps left to right, and falling down a lot. Think about it, it's actually a 3/10 game.

Just been overhyped because everyone loves hedgehogs. Think people!

@Amin1998

If it's worth it to you, then it's worth it. Doesn't matter if you are in the minority or majority there. Have fun, live life, and most importantly... don't take any of these comments too seriously.

@ApostateMage

Hey woah there buddy. What are you POOR or something? Don't tell Naughty Dog how to live their lives! It's not about you!

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Sorry, I'm not sure what just came over me there. I get real insecure on the internet.

@jmac1686

Well I can tell a big baller when I see one. You are giving off straight up hyper alpha energy in these comments. Before I read your input, I would've rather donated my 70 bucks to NAMBLA than buy this game. Now, after reading your eloquent arguments... I'm buying two copies. Then I'm gonna call everyone who bought only one copy poor in the comments to flex.

Playing it, loving it. It's a small but very focused game. My favorite Annapurna game of any I've played.

As another commenter mentioned, we definitely need a dog game set in a dystopian future now.

@pharos_haven

Well you see I have a theory about this. Crash was a Bandicoot who ate hundreds of fruit in rapid succession. And based on my own research, my dog will not eat fruit. However my cat will.

Therefore, Crash Bandicoot is a cat.

There's a naughty dog on the prowl,
Coming to your place to grab your cash.
Seventy dollars for one fresh dookie,
Time for some old fashioned gamer backlash.

@jmac1686

For $70 you could buy a dog.

Can we talk about the real issue here? The fact that Naughty Dog Studios has never made a game starring a dog. Feel like they are capitalizing on our love of dogs to GRAB OUR CASH.

The real outrage in my mind.

This naughty dog has flees ladies and gents.

It's just that $69.99 price tag... I'm the last person that gets upset about the price increase this gen, but c'mon. This is a remaster of a remaster.

Them porting it from PS3 to PS4 made sense - no back compatibility, and it was budget priced. Another port (or remaster/remake) from PS4 to 5 doesn't make the same sense, as you can just
... play the PS4 version on PS5.

I always say if you don't like it, don't buy it. But this is just sort of egregious at this point (if the leaked footage is an accurate representation of the final product).

@DixyViking

Timer starts when you actually boot up the game. Time to download doesn't count. 👍 Keep in mind time varies by game (1 to 5 hrs) and only a select few game trials are currently available (16 titles as of this writing).

Now, I know you all have the attention spans of goldfish (don't worry, I do too), but history lesson time!

when Sony launched their PS1 Classics initiative on PS3, waaaaay back in 2006, before some of you here were born, there were only five (yes, five) titles available day 1. All first party stuff. It didn't get much better for years either, with only one or two new games added per month. It picked up in 2009-2010, with 10 games added per month not being uncommon. They kept that pace up, ending the program with around 265 PS1 titles in 2016, which I consider an impressive number. That's roughly an average of 2.5 games per month over about a 10 year span.

I know a few things are much different this time around, but it looks like Sony is following this same exact template so far (the five games they released in '06 on day 1 are mostly the same as those released day 1 on Premium, with the exception of Crash Bandicoot).

So the news is good and bad, depending on how you look at it. I think they are operating out of the same exact playback this time around, meaning two things:

1.) Don't expect a huge flood of classics on Premium at any one time - best you can hope for is maybe two games per system, per month (at first). And:

2.) They will consistently release games over time, and it will ramp up after a year or two, leading to an impressive catalogue in 5 to 10 years' time. So it will be extensive... someday. But not tomorrow, and not next year. If you are paying for Premium now, consider yourself to have been charged an early adopter tax.

Where the heck is Visage, you heathens? As far as real horror, it beats anything on this list. Sort of the ultimate PT incarnation.

Love RE8, but not scary (outside of one particular section - you know the one).

A company without a vision.

Pacific Northwest native here. Can confirm it is indeed vast.

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That is all.

Hopefully you guys across the pond get another classic or two added to the list (NA release had a whopping whole one more PS1 Classic added compared to the Japan release).

Going for the platinum in these old games is surprisingly fun, hope they add that capability to more games.

Hope people give some of these classic games a chance. I'm not gonna say they hold up (Ape Escape/Syphon Filter control schemes are atrocious), but they got the "fun" part down still, after all these years. Rewind is a lifesaver.

All I can say is... good luck getting an Albatross in Hot Shots Golf!!!

As a RE purist, I'm cool with this.

Just make the enemy AI more aggressive to compensate similar to RE7 or RE8. In the original RE4, enemies would casually saunter up to you and swing so slow to compensate for the tank controls. Move and shoot is fine, just make the enemies faster. Which looks like exactly what they are doing.

Very excited about the remake.

@get2sammyb

We don't know anything yet, but multiplayer is a dirty word these days. So comments like "live-service game" or "This looks like it will be great, I'm super excited" are equally disingenuous. Just a big ol' pile of... nothing really. We shall see.

@naruball

It's not really an argument, more of a statement. I've went in depth on the topic elsewhere on this site, and a guy can only write so many essays in a day!

Look at @NEStalgia or any number of other commenters on here for more info as to how it is "common sense". They are more eloquent.