@AdamNovice do you really wanna talk about exclusives? Both consoles have exclusives, PlayStation has more than triple the amount of exclusives Xbox has.
Gamepass on PlayStation would be nice, I could have everything on a single console, I actually don't even get why Xbox would want this they would literally stop selling consoles altogether.
@Wolfie_Pie volition went bankrupt once... Creators owe absolutely everything to their costumers... Without costumers they have nothing.
The character design in this thing is abhorrent, it doesn't matter that the boss is customizable... The main crew look like a bunch of tiktokers.... The villains in that trailer look way better than the main crew.
@Omniicron just because gamepass exist it doesn't mean you can't buy games you really like, and you do so with 10 to 20% off.
And to me, I've been playing 90% of the time on the Xbox nowadays just because it offers much more option for much less. Games tend to stay there for much more time than people seem to believe, most games stay there for almost a year, some stay for much more, most games you play, you play only once and never go back.
It's funny to see people comparing a trillion dollar company to a billion dollar company. Xbox is just a tiny division for Microsoft, console war is a joke, it's only for kids to feel that they matter. Sony will be using Microsoft cloud service in the future, Sony and Microsoft are not really competing. It would be almost impossible for Sony to buy a studio as big as Bethesda, but for Microsoft this was pocket money, they could purchase Bethesda 10 times and not even feel, Sony would have to make a big time sacrifice to aquire a company as big as Bethesda. So chill out people, Sony and Microsoft are not enemies.
@nessisonett because this is only a issue when it's about Japanese games. Sony sure didn't have any problems with a sex scene between two underaged characters in life is strange 2... So yeah, this selective censoring looks like something that aim to please a certain group, and not at all about censoring "underage sexual content". besides, they censor a bunch of things in Japanese games that are not related to underage characters.
@MrGawain they can get away with absolutely anything at this point, just look at this comment section, a bunch of people are already making excuses and saying "I don't mind being a cash cow". People do whatever it takes to please their corporate overlords nowadays, it's our new religion our new gods.
Crash racing was the exact same thing. Marketed as "don't have microtransactions and won't be added later" then they added it and everyone was fine with it. That's the new strategy, just let the water slowly heating so the frog don't notice when it's boiling.
My only problem with Sony is the censorship policy, I dislike censorship and specifically a censorship so biased against Japanese media make me not want to stay on Playstation. I liked Sony because they were the best place to play western games and Japanese games, the perfect balance, and now, after 19 years I decided to go somewhere else, the next Playstation is clearly not for me, at least that's the message Sony is sending my way. and please, don't even try to make stupid arguments like "they're censoring pedophilia" because everyone knows it's not the reality, they don't even have a clear policy, it's 100% arbitrary and only hurts Japanese devs.
For some unknown reason, Japanese publishers seems to not have any self steem, there are entire communities focused on translate games and all kinds of content that Japan just don't release in West for absolutely no reason. Sega always do the same, they're always afraid to localize games no matter how much their fans beg...the reason is beyond me.
Just finished Nier automata for the fourth time, I'm going back to bloodborne as soon as I finish getting all the costumes and all sidequests for nier.
Hardware differences are not that important on consoles, to me what really matters are the services and policies. And until today Xbox showed way better stuff for the next gen. I'm waiting to see what Sony has to show.
@KingdomHeartsFan It was a sarcastic way to criticize Sony because it's the company that affects me the most, since all my consoles are from them and I don't even have a pc good enough to run from Sony's censorship.
I don't know what others have been doing because I only look for news of what interest me and what interest me in consoles is news about the consoles I have.
Now, I'm not a fanboy of any company, there's some companies who make games I like more than others but none of them will scape my criticism if they do something I don't like or don't agree with as long as it affects me and I'm aware of it, so no, I'm not going for a hunt of companies that censor things just to be "fair" with Sony. Like I said, I only care about what companies do if that affects me.
@KingdomHeartsFan There's no such a thing as "heavy censorship" censorship is censorship if a game is for mature people censorship has no place in that game whatsoever. just some links from this own site but you can find way more censoring if you look on YouTube for example.
Sony censors everything coming from Japan because sensitive westerners dislike sexuality and they hate Japan because Japanese people like sexuality more than violence and they refuse to bend the knee to the west.
People discussing video-game characters age that can literally be as old as the creators want is the epitome of the collective hysteria thats widespread in the west. We live in a age were people can't understand the difference between real and fantasy, it's a little deplorable but it's also funny.
I like DOA and I never ever saw any problems with any kind of fanservice they provide and I'm yet to see an rational argument that can make me think different.
First I lost Kirby, and even though I was very young, his loss was a heavy one to me. This year I lost the other two, Ditko and Lee... Now the reality of losing them is crushing me in a way I never believe it could, losing all three of them made me realize that it's over, it's officially over, now I feel empty and the ones that inspired me are no more.
@dellyrascal "My point was that those arguing over the censorship of SK, are asking why DreamDaddy isnt being considered for censorship and it makes no sense in the current climate. Like i said this does not have sexualised content, so other than the homosexual angle"
It's a DATE SIMULATOR, the ultimate goal is to have sex...Even if the game don't directly show sex scenes, you're playing a game in which the goal is to have sex, it's a game made for the player to seek sex with the characters.
Senran Kagura is a fighting game with fanservice, it's very different.
If someone don't wanna play something they can just not play. Censorship is terrible and hurt the industry, but if you'll start to censor, being selective and having double standards is even worse.
I never liked DLCs to begin with. "Expansion" is one thing "DLC" is another, but I don't really care, I stopped buying games on release date because of this. Spiderman is a game I really want to play, not only he is my favorite hero but I also dream with a game like this since the first Batman Arkham, but I'll only buy this game, when the truly complete experience comes, they usually call it "GOTY version" or whatever, I estimate that will come next year, some months after the three DLCs.
In a few years this will be commom and everyone will be paying extra for the "privilege" of not having to wait a purposely delayed release. Gamers are their own worst enemies, just see how people pay for "DLC" that should be in the game already, this is how they do.
Luckily EA couldn't hold their greed and lootboxes are now hated enough to not be viable.
@keihtg clothes are the least of the problems. They changed girls proportions, they changed the game physics, they changed the gameplay to be more casual (as if the game weren't easy enough for everyone to learn) and it's not about being a pervert but like people already said many times, gore is a part of MK in a way that when you talk about MK, Gore is one of the first things that comes to mind and DoA is as much fanservice as MK is gore. It's the DNA of the game and it's not wise to change that because a couple of journalists don't like sexy women.
PS2 is still the console that I had the most fun with and I don't see that changing since the fun I had was partially because of my age and amount of responsibilities...Maybe the PS1 share the first place with it.
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Re: Fairgame$ May Be Sony's Most Tone Deaf PS5, PC Title to Date
What a cringe article...had to check twice if I wasn't on kotaku or rock paper shotgun.
Re: Shocking: Sony Doesn't Want Game Pass on PlayStation, Microsoft Has a Pop at PS Plus
@AdamNovice do you really wanna talk about exclusives? Both consoles have exclusives, PlayStation has more than triple the amount of exclusives Xbox has.
Gamepass on PlayStation would be nice, I could have everything on a single console, I actually don't even get why Xbox would want this they would literally stop selling consoles altogether.
Re: Have a Gander at Saints Row's Santa Ileso
@nessisonett at least Johnny gat doesn't look like a tiktoker.
Re: Tales of Arise Is the Fastest Selling Tales Game Ever, Hits 1 Million Copies in Less Than a Week
How long until Twitter start making demands to change the game?
Re: Naughty Dog's Multiplayer Game Described as Cinematic Experience Between Players
Cinematic is a buzzword Sony likes to use because it hypes casual players, which makes up for the majority of gamers nowadays.
Re: Saints Row Reboot Faces Huge Fan Backlash, Devs Say 'We Are Not Backing Down'
@Wolfie_Pie volition went bankrupt once... Creators owe absolutely everything to their costumers... Without costumers they have nothing.
The character design in this thing is abhorrent, it doesn't matter that the boss is customizable... The main crew look like a bunch of tiktokers.... The villains in that trailer look way better than the main crew.
Re: Rumour: Sony Planning More Expensive PS Plus Option That Could Include Crunchyroll
Would never pay a dime for crunchyroll and I like anime.
Re: Days Gone Director on Skipped Sequel: 'If You Love a Game, Buy It at F***ing Full Price'
"Pay to be our beta tester"
No, thank you.
Re: Rumour: Sony Planning 'Counterpunch' to Xbox Game Pass
@Omniicron just because gamepass exist it doesn't mean you can't buy games you really like, and you do so with 10 to 20% off.
And to me, I've been playing 90% of the time on the Xbox nowadays just because it offers much more option for much less. Games tend to stay there for much more time than people seem to believe, most games stay there for almost a year, some stay for much more, most games you play, you play only once and never go back.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077's Main Story Is 'Slightly Shorter' Than The Witcher 3's Because Players Complained About Length
Sad to see that they're catering to the Netflix Witcher people who are playing to feel included instead of people who actually like the game.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
It's funny to see people comparing a trillion dollar company to a billion dollar company.
Xbox is just a tiny division for Microsoft, console war is a joke, it's only for kids to feel that they matter.
Sony will be using Microsoft cloud service in the future, Sony and Microsoft are not really competing. It would be almost impossible for Sony to buy a studio as big as Bethesda, but for Microsoft this was pocket money, they could purchase Bethesda 10 times and not even feel, Sony would have to make a big time sacrifice to aquire a company as big as Bethesda. So chill out people, Sony and Microsoft are not enemies.
Re: Sony Wants to Conquer the Anime World Next
@nessisonett because this is only a issue when it's about Japanese games.
Sony sure didn't have any problems with a sex scene between two underaged characters in life is strange 2... So yeah, this selective censoring looks like something that aim to please a certain group, and not at all about censoring "underage sexual content".
besides, they censor a bunch of things in Japanese games that are not related to underage characters.
Re: PS5 Patent Has Some Fans Panicking Sony's Going to Push Microtransactions on Players
@MrGawain they can get away with absolutely anything at this point, just look at this comment section, a bunch of people are already making excuses and saying "I don't mind being a cash cow". People do whatever it takes to please their corporate overlords nowadays, it's our new religion our new gods.
Re: Resident Evil 3 Team Is 'Determined to Surpass' Mr X with Nemesis
@kyleforrester87 To me that is probably a "death scene".
Re: Don't Worry, There Are No Microtransactions in DOOM Eternal
Crash racing was the exact same thing. Marketed as "don't have microtransactions and won't be added later" then they added it and everyone was fine with it. That's the new strategy, just let the water slowly heating so the frog don't notice when it's boiling.
Re: Don't Get Your Hopes Up, Kingdom Hearts Game 'Coming Surprisingly Soon' Is for Mobile
@naruball don't know if you're trolling but this is the first time I agree with you in the comment section of this site.
Re: Sony Insists PS4 Is Still the Best Place to Play with Montage Trailer
The best place to play is the one that doesn't take content out of the games.
Re: PS Vita Remains a Viable Platform in 2020
Who's laughing now!?
Re: Guide: Best Resident Evil Games Ranked
Can't take this serious when there's no RE Revelations 2.
Re: Reaction: PlayStation's Most Ardent Fans Are Feeling Frustrated and Insecure
My only problem with Sony is the censorship policy, I dislike censorship and specifically a censorship so biased against Japanese media make me not want to stay on Playstation. I liked Sony because they were the best place to play western games and Japanese games, the perfect balance, and now, after 19 years I decided to go somewhere else, the next Playstation is clearly not for me, at least that's the message Sony is sending my way.
and please, don't even try to make stupid arguments like "they're censoring pedophilia" because everyone knows it's not the reality, they don't even have a clear policy, it's 100% arbitrary and only hurts Japanese devs.
Re: SEGA 'Not Sure' If Yakuza Ishin's Feudal Japan Setting Would Appeal to Western Gamers
For some unknown reason, Japanese publishers seems to not have any self steem, there are entire communities focused on translate games and all kinds of content that Japan just don't release in West for absolutely no reason.
Sega always do the same, they're always afraid to localize games no matter how much their fans beg...the reason is beyond me.
Re: Soapbox: Nintendo Switch Lite Signals the Need for a PS4 Super Slim
@WillMerfi nope, I'll never buy another Sony handheld in my life.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 279
Just finished Nier automata for the fourth time, I'm going back to bloodborne as soon as I finish getting all the costumes and all sidequests for nier.
Re: Three Cyberpunk Projects Currently in the Works at CD Projekt, One of Them Is Probably Multiplayer
I doubt that there'll be any "gwent" or something like this in cyberpunk and I doubt that they're talking about dlcs at all.
I firmly believe that we will have a strategy turn based cyberpunk game.
Re: Rumour: Word That PS5 Is More Powerful Than Project Scarlett Corroborated by Colin Moriarty
Hardware differences are not that important on consoles, to me what really matters are the services and policies. And until today Xbox showed way better stuff for the next gen. I'm waiting to see what Sony has to show.
Re: Talking Point: Should Sony Introduce a Game Pass Subscription of Its Own?
It's definitely a thing... I mean, at least for the foreseeable future it's better than stream of games.
Re: E3 2019: Crash team Racing Nitro-Fueled Reveals Free Seasonal Content, New Characters, and Spyro Crossover
Those are not good news at all, it seems to me that they just opened the microtransactions floodgates.
I don't trust companies like Activision.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 265
Divinity original sin II.
Re: Talking Point: What Did You Think of Sony's State of Play Livestream?
If they've did with the Vita what they're doing with VR...
Re: Kill la Kill - IF Release Date Confirmed, Blasts onto PS4 This Summer
@KingdomHeartsFan It was a sarcastic way to criticize Sony because it's the company that affects me the most, since all my consoles are from them and I don't even have a pc good enough to run from Sony's censorship.
I don't know what others have been doing because I only look for news of what interest me and what interest me in consoles is news about the consoles I have.
Now, I'm not a fanboy of any company, there's some companies who make games I like more than others but none of them will scape my criticism if they do something I don't like or don't agree with as long as it affects me and I'm aware of it, so no, I'm not going for a hunt of companies that censor things just to be "fair" with Sony. Like I said, I only care about what companies do if that affects me.
Re: Kill la Kill - IF Release Date Confirmed, Blasts onto PS4 This Summer
@KingdomHeartsFan criticism is not hate and Sony doesn't care about you or need your protection.
Re: Kill la Kill - IF Release Date Confirmed, Blasts onto PS4 This Summer
@KingdomHeartsFan There's no such a thing as "heavy censorship" censorship is censorship if a game is for mature people censorship has no place in that game whatsoever.
just some links from this own site but you can find way more censoring if you look on YouTube for example.
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/03/sony_censorship_row_re-erupts_with_inexplicable_devil_may_cry_5_edit
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/10/japanese_developer_sheds_more_light_on_sony_censorship_scenario
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/10/sony_underfire_in_renewed_ps4_censorship_row
Sony censors everything coming from Japan because sensitive westerners dislike sexuality and they hate Japan because Japanese people like sexuality more than violence and they refuse to bend the knee to the west.
Re: Kill la Kill - IF Release Date Confirmed, Blasts onto PS4 This Summer
Let's see how Sony will be censoring this one.
Re: February 2019 NPD: ANTHEM Lands BioWare's Second Highest US Launch
The reason gamers are treated like cattle.
Things will only get worse and worse.
Re: Google's Stadia Controller Has an Awful Lot In Common with the PS4's DualShock 4
@DerMeister yup, don't know what people want more than this... If they changed too much, everyone would complain.
Re: PlayStation Could Have Fresh Competition in Stadia, Google's New Game Streaming Platform
@Octane well, you do have a good point here, I never thought like this before, thank you.
Re: Rumour: EA Access Spotted on Brazilian PlayStation Store
I don't think it's true, I can't find it here, the only thing I can find that resembles this icon is the EA deal that's currently going on.
Re: We Can't Imagine Sony's Happy with This Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Scarlet Trailer
People discussing video-game characters age that can literally be as old as the creators want is the epitome of the collective hysteria thats widespread in the west. We live in a age were people can't understand the difference between real and fantasy, it's a little deplorable but it's also funny.
I like DOA and I never ever saw any problems with any kind of fanservice they provide and I'm yet to see an rational argument that can make me think different.
Re: Comicbook Legend and Co-Creator of Spider-Man Stan Lee Dies Age 95
First I lost Kirby, and even though I was very young, his loss was a heavy one to me. This year I lost the other two, Ditko and Lee... Now the reality of losing them is crushing me in a way I never believe it could, losing all three of them made me realize that it's over, it's officially over, now I feel empty and the ones that inspired me are no more.
Re: Dream Daddy Flirts with PS4 on 30th October
@dellyrascal "My point was that those arguing over the censorship of SK, are asking why DreamDaddy isnt being considered for censorship and it makes no sense in the current climate. Like i said this does not have sexualised content, so other than the homosexual angle"
It's a DATE SIMULATOR, the ultimate goal is to have sex...Even if the game don't directly show sex scenes, you're playing a game in which the goal is to have sex, it's a game made for the player to seek sex with the characters.
Senran Kagura is a fighting game with fanservice, it's very different.
If someone don't wanna play something they can just not play. Censorship is terrible and hurt the industry, but if you'll start to censor, being selective and having double standards is even worse.
Re: Catherine: Full Body's Safety Difficulty Setting Lets You Enjoy the Story with Little or No Gameplay Challenge
You mean "casual mode"?
Re: Dream Daddy Flirts with PS4 on 30th October
Playstation: Hey! You can't play senran kagura whitout censorship.
Also PlayStation: Let's play a date sim!
Re: Insomniac on Spider-Man PS4 DLC: Are People Ever Satisfied with How Much You Give Them?
I never liked DLCs to begin with.
"Expansion" is one thing "DLC" is another, but I don't really care, I stopped buying games on release date because of this. Spiderman is a game I really want to play, not only he is my favorite hero but I also dream with a game like this since the first Batman Arkham, but I'll only buy this game, when the truly complete experience comes, they usually call it "GOTY version" or whatever, I estimate that will come next year, some months after the three DLCs.
Re: Soapbox: Publishers Want You to Pay to Play Early, And It's a Worry
In a few years this will be commom and everyone will be paying extra for the "privilege" of not having to wait a purposely delayed release. Gamers are their own worst enemies, just see how people pay for "DLC" that should be in the game already, this is how they do.
Luckily EA couldn't hold their greed and lootboxes are now hated enough to not be viable.
Re: Fortnite Players on PS4 Can Now Login on Other Consoles
Oh no! I was told that with crossplay Sony would lose precious money, they'll lack money to make new exclusives with this dire decision.
But to me it's good news, I don't have to be afraid to play fortnite on ps4 now.
Re: Dead or Alive 6 Release Date Set, Grabs a New Story and Gameplay Trailer
@keihtg it's not too bad, but it's casualization nonetheless.
Re: Dead or Alive 6 Release Date Set, Grabs a New Story and Gameplay Trailer
@keihtg they added a "one button combo" to the game.
Re: Dead or Alive 6 Release Date Set, Grabs a New Story and Gameplay Trailer
@keihtg clothes are the least of the problems.
They changed girls proportions, they changed the game physics, they changed the gameplay to be more casual (as if the game weren't easy enough for everyone to learn) and it's not about being a pervert but like people already said many times, gore is a part of MK in a way that when you talk about MK, Gore is one of the first things that comes to mind and DoA is as much fanservice as MK is gore.
It's the DNA of the game and it's not wise to change that because a couple of journalists don't like sexy women.
Re: 19 Years Later, the PS2 Is Officially Done, Dead, Finished as Sony Ends Customer Support
PS2 is still the console that I had the most fun with and I don't see that changing since the fun I had was partially because of my age and amount of responsibilities...Maybe the PS1 share the first place with it.
Re: 'No Plans' for Microtransactions in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice on PS4
I wasn't that concerned, but I don't pre-order anything anyways, in my mind this will always be a terrible practice.