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The CMA is embarrassing itself worse than the FTC did. The deal is going through at this point. The CMA doesn't get to choose that anymore. All it gets to choose is if the UK gets any say in how it moves forward or not. If they keep pouting Microsoft will just move forward without them. If they actually talk then they get some say in possible concessions or stipulations.

I'd rather this deal didn't happen but it's already set in stone at this point.

@ATaco There have been multiple live-service MonHun games, they just weren't released in the West.

@Cashews Warframe is and was free.

How is a SAG actor working on a non-SAG project?

They should absolutely be paid but if the call is to make the project a union one then only union actors can work on it, and if you're working on it now when it's non-union then you're not a union actor, so...? Is it different for voice acting?

I can't wait for this to be an Austin Eruption video where he gets the platinum and the game shutters a month later.

Wish the physical wasn't through LRG.

@Dusk_Actual lmao you just cutting to the chase I see

@get2sammyb While what you said is true, it's also somewhat the responsibility of the site to be honest in what its content is about. "Push Square. Playstation news and reviews! Also Xbox sometimes, I guess, if it's topical and will get clicks. Maybe Nintendo too I dunno it's early."

@GeneJacket The answer to my first question is obviously yes. It was meant as a baseline to show how easy it is to move to a situation where the answer isn't so clear. While I think most can easily agree that using someone's voice against their will isn't right, what if the end result is the exact same but their voice wasn't actually used to make the product? Without ways to answer these questions we can't even begin to make a framework for what's legal and what's not.

This is going to be an absolute mire to figure out legally. If I use your voice as training data, does that give you a legal right to take down the results of that AI model? What if instead I just try really hard to do an impression of what you sound like, tweak it in a DAW until it sounds close, and then use that to train the AI? What if I find someone on Fiverr that does a spot-on impression and pay them to make me some recordings to use as training data? How would you tell these situations apart? How can you be certain that AI was even used? What if I just paid someone that sounds exactly like you to make my dumb meme? I'm not obligated to prove anything to anyone about the content I make unless you sue me and a court forces me to. Are you going to sue everyone that makes something that sounds kind of like you in case your actual voice was used at some point in the pipe?

I don't even like most AI generated stuff. Once the novelty of hearing Dagoth Ur spout memes or hearing the president do the GTA V Lamar roast wears off it's all so soulless and empty.

@pharos_haven You can do all the content in the game with the characters given for free. The exception being the very top-end challenges that require multiple teams, though you'll likely be able to do those with free characters as well after the game has been out for a bit longer and more free characters join you as part of the story.

It doesn't look good. But maybe it'll be okay second-monitor content for when I'm grinding in an MMO or something.

@Feena As I mentioned above, the first planet that you visit is very good. Absolutely worth it for the gameplay, characters, and story. Fully enjoyable for free and with no real push to spend any cash. The second planet is where the current content is, and I feel it's a bit weaker, but still pretty good. It's a fun game with enjoyable combat and intuitive character kits you can use to build effective teams.

That said, it is a gacha game, so if that is a hard turn off for you then this game isn't going to change your opinion. I think it's good even if you spend no/very little money (there's a $5 monthly pass that's good value) unlike others in its genre, but it is still very much in its genre.

I went hard on this game when it came out. The first planet was really well done and I loved the whole story and the gameplay too. The next planet hasn't really been doing it for me and I've kind of fallen off on playing. I have like 36k Jades saved up, and I'm hoping to jump back in when the PS5 version drops.

This game has to be some kind of tax write-off or hobby project for someone at Capcom. It looks like an afterthought multiplayer mode for a larger, singleplayer game.

@rachetmarvel I can't tell if you're trolling or misinformed, but they've already said plainly and directly that it will not have the FES or Portable content.

Without the FES or Portable content? Absolutely not. The trend of remakes that aren't even definitive commanding higher than AAA price tags needs to stop yesterday. I'll get it when it's on a deep sale at some point in the future. Or I may not get it at all, honestly. I was hoping that we'd finally get a non-2D/VN edition of Portable's scenes and exploration, but we're not. At least not yet. I wouldn't be shocked if they sell a "FES" or "Ultimax" version of this in a couple years that does include that stuff.

Well I mean it's not really a Final Fantasy game. It's an action game with Final Fantasy flavoring. I don't get what's so hard to understand about this. It can both be a good game and also not really be a Final Fantasy game.

@Cashews As a huge Metal Gear fan, It really is that simple, honestly.

@BeerIsAwesome It's a shame because Ghost Babel is legit a great 2D game and a great jumping off point to the older MSX games and Portable Ops has a really unique and fun gameplay loop. Portable Ops with better controls would be a delight.

While I don't think it's bad, I'll still be playing it in Japanese. I've spent so much time in the Yakuza games and even though I do not understand Japanese I'm not going to change voice actors now. I've heard these characters speak for more than a decade and I'm not about to swap.

It's really weird how they seemingly make exactly one game per generation, and they're not even large games. Both games are an easy afternoon platinum. I guess we'll need to wait for PS6 for Astro's Great Day Out or Astro's Revenge or whatever.

My click was baited.

Maybe the game itself was good, but it was buried under so much technical baggage that it was not enjoyable. It was almost totally unplayable on last gen. Now that the technical issues have been mostly smoothed over and we've come to terms with the disparity between what was described vs what was sold, then yes, it's a good game. It's a good game now. It was absolutely not a good game then. This kind of revisionist spin is total nonsense and embarrassing to try and sell.

While he's not wrong, it's also kind of foolish to think that Microsoft won't favor exclusivity on such a big game on their platform, whatever that platform actually is when it releases. While it's true that we don't know what "Xbox Next" or "PS6" look like, it's fairly safe to say they'll be like the consoles we have now, but better, just like every console generation before.

Also in cases like this anything other than a straight answer should be taken as the answer that makes them look the worst. IE: "Of course it'll be Xbox exclusive, we're not spending all this money for nothing."

So I guess you can basically just say anything and make up whatever facts you want in these cases.

How many times are you all going to use this weird 16/Agni's Philosophy image? It's misleading and confusing.

I wonder what will be in Vol 2? Maybe a portable-focused pack? That could be Ghost Bable/MGS-GBC, Portable Ops, Portable Ops +, Peace Walker, and that's it? Maybe the two Ac!d games as well? If they include 4 there would just be Ground Zeroes, Phantom Pain, and Survive left. Rising maybe? I guess they could include Rising in Vol 2, then if possible include 4 alongside GZ, V, and Survive. Then again they look to be going in order. All bets are kind of off. Also it's Konami, so they could also bungle it.

I'm still very skeptical they'd include 4. From reading technical articles both at the time and alongside the development of PS3 emulation MGS4 was crafted directly around the PS3 to the extent that there are features of the PS3 OS that only MGS4 uses.

I'm also not 100% sure I'm down to play MGS4 again lol. I played and loved it the first time but I'm not sure I'm down for its specific blend of Kojima-ness anymore.

Still buying it 100% tho.

I mean, yeah of course they're going to make games Xbox exclusive. Why else would they bother? They're buying a game publisher and stable of developers to get the games. This isn't rocket science. Sure keep CoD multiplat, because i doubt CoD sells systems anymore, but future Bethesda games will no doubt be Xbox exclusive.

This is like when your power company or internet provider changes up how you're billed for their service. They're for sure not doing it so that you pay them less.

FF16 is in a class of game that I don't really value review scores for. Yeah it's "good", it's going to be a 10/10 for someone, somewhere. The rub lies in seeing if that someone is me or not. Just like TotK is a 10/10 for a lot of people, it's a foregone conclusion that media outlets are going to praise it. But that doesn't mean your/my 10/10 lines up with their 10/10.

I feel as though reviews for AAAA games are almost useless, because they very seldom get anything but near-perfect scores and those that don't get those scores are usually still 10/10 games to someone, it just happened to not be the reviewer.

I guess I'm not really sure where I'm going with it other than that my reaction to "FF16 gets near perfect score" is "well, yeah. doesn't say much". In an idea situation you'd have people who love different types of games all review a game with a range of scores so that you can tell what type of person enjoyed the game, but that'd require outlets paying a whole panel of people to play and review a game, and it would involve giving "golden" games like FF16 low scores if they just weren't your thing. Considering how much the internet recoils when you dare to give a game it likes a low score I guess it's just not realistic.

Soapbox over. tl;dr: "yeah ff16 good of course".

It's a shame they're going to match solo players with duos and trios. It feels horrible to get smashed in that scenario and the only reason tarkov gets away with it is because the whole game is designed in such a player-hostile way on purpose to a stubborn degree. General console players are not going to accept "just get good" when they get matched into games as a solo player where there are trios just farming people.

At this point the PS4 is the best gaming investment of all time. If you bought a PS4 on release day in 2013 you are still getting new AAA games for your nearly ten year old console, and it doesn't actually look to be slowing down at all. New Street Fighter, RE4 remake, Both Horizon games, both God of War games. New Diablo. And still many more coming.

With how everything is going the PS5 is going to end up having been the PS4 Pro 2. If Sony does announce a PS5 Pro it will be a huge joke because games are still coming out for the PS4. We're apparently nowhere even near the end of the transition period between last gen and this one.

It doesn't really seem that confusing to me. I'm not sure there needed to be a whole article mocking their attempt to explain.

In Japan it's 8 because it's a long series and there's no divide in old and new fans there. There's no subtitle because they don't feel it needs one.

In the West there are a lot of fans who started with Like a Dragon, so to avoid a Final Fantasy 3/6 situation they're going with another subtitle instead of a number. Going without a subtitle or adding a 2 or 8 would cause confusion.

It's a very Japanese game made by Japanese people who are trying to communicate and include their western fans directly. There's both a language and cultural barrier they're going to cross. It's really not that complex and surely isn't worth trying to make fun of.

Bravo to the brave souls in the comments rolling the chambers.

I'd avoid d-brand. Their support is really poor.

While I can't deny that Game Pass is a great offering, I'm not really miffed about waiting for big first party games. I already have so much to play that I don't get most new games on release anyway, and despite having had Game Pass on and off both on PC and Xbox Series S I haven't really used the service to play many day-1 games. If the model is working for them then stick with it.

Premium just doesn't seem worth it. I know that it's not that much more than Extra, but what am I really getting for it? Despite Sony trying really hard to convince everyone otherwise the streaming just doesn't work that well. Not as well as Xbox Cloud, GeForce Now, or Stadia (RIP), and the catalog of "classics" is so thin. The only way I would consider Premium is as a one-month upgrade here or there to play any particular games that are on it.

I think this two-tier setup is just devaluing the whole offering and giving people confusion and room for displeasure. They should just consolidate all of it in two tiers, I think. As in PS Plus Base and PS Plus Premium.

Maybe it's different for newer players who haven't had the chance to play all the classics games over and over both on the original systems and as downloadables on the PS3/Vita.

We Armored Core fans have been hungry so long. Day one purchase. I don't even care if it's good or not. I haven't had a way to support more AC games with my wallet in so long.

I hope the mission count and structure is more like the PS2 games.

It was a little too cinematic for me. A lot of the gameplay felt kind of fake. The segment where you're shooting fireballs as the bird just dragged on and on with zero stakes because the sequence is going to last the same if I play well or not. The boss fights felt like I was just playing until the game had shown me the special animations it wanted me to see. You and your team are just wailing on the boss and the health is just barely moving. It felt more like I was just expected to stagger a set number of times.

Modern final fantasy is full of this kind of "just watch" stuff. This may just be because it's the demo and you're on rails with a set power level, though. I'll probably still get the game on release. The combat against the lesser enemies was good.

Waste of time. I knew it was going to be all padding once they spent like 5 minutes explaining what Ghost Trick was. The game is 13 years old. We get it.

Total nothingburger.