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You're probably better off with the PS classics version of Grandia, the "HD" version is based upon it anyway rather than the better looking Saturn version and the smoothing of the artwork is hideous

@gymratAmarillo oh I agree that they can't keep just making these huge budget games and should mix them up with smaller titles. Not just Sony either but the entire AAA gaming industry

@gymratAmarillo console sales may be a big income source but not necessarily for profit. PS5 just had its most successful year in terms of selling hardware yet their profit margin was below 6% for the holiday quarter. Something will have to give

There are plenty who are opposed to the end of exclusivity but the reality is with these ever expanding budgets and development times, it is something that simply is unsustainable.

People keep saying these games wouldn't be made without exclusivity but if for example Sony thinks they can sell an extra 10 to 15 million copies of Spider-Man 3 if it launched elsewhere as well as PS5, then of course they'll make the game.

Of course there is a balance but it's painfully obvious that the margins on the current business model are shrinking

@ShogunRok I wonder if it's the reported length of the game or many like myself who enjoyed Remake but weren't blown away by it as it kind of dragged on and may be put off. Or perhaps the lacklustre visuals in the demo, or even an indication of many have nostalgia for Midgar as the opening part of the original game but many may not have actually finished it.

For me its just there are too many games at the moment and coming off the back of Like A Dragon I don't want to commit to another big game yet and then there's Dragons Dogma soon

At this point I never expected it to be on Xbox anyway, Remake is already a few years old and on PC, so of it was going to Xbox it would have already happened.

Playstation originally built its brand upon 3rd party exclusives and given how long development times have increased, it makes sense to try again, whether that's good for gamers or the games themselves is up for debate.

It's funny to think that I started with PS1 playing Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy VII and Tekken and now these are still the games I've been playing most on PS5 over the last 12 months with their latest entries

@RBMango yeah I'd go with this, some of its individual parts don't necessarily look great but the overall image is often stunning. It's certainly one of my favourite Playstation exclusives, in fact I'd go so far to say it's in my top 2 or 3 Sony exclusives for the PS4.

One I'll double dip for on PC

It's more likely that most of them have no idea what the framerate is, nor have the measuring tools to do so and are just guessing

PC version it is then and they really should cap it to 30fps on PS5

They all look at live service games as winning the lottery but all whilst ignoring the price of a ticket is their rent/mortgage repayments

"Showcase mode cutscenes far too lengthy" I actually don't mind that, I'm rather looking forward to seeing these matches again. I've been looking forward to playing this

@Voltan that's great news, I'll look forward to see what they come up with by themselves

Good, it means I can play on my save between PC and PS5 and I'll be able to play this with my son now too

Sony don't help themselves by closing their smaller studios who could be making lower budget games and they seem to be putting all their eggs in one basket with the huge budget AAA games. I watched a video yesterday which shows the difference in the number of games published by Sony across their generations and the number on PS5 is tiny compared to what it used to be. Sure many of those were 3rd party developed but it was surprising how few there are today.

In general the industry and gamers need to start normalising smaller games with simpler graphics. Astro Bot is a great example, a free game included with the PS5 and is absolutely amazing but where is a sequel? Last year Robocop and the short Like A Dragon Gaiden were amongst my favourite games and I'd love more games like this

@breakneck and realistically they can't raise the prices anymore as people simply won't/can't pay it. There needs to be a major rethink in how gaming goes forward

Who? And what are those two even saying to each other?

@get2sammyb this is from Harada himself and whatever anyone thinks of microtransactions, the fact is they are necessary now for a game to be supported going forward. I don't mind as long they're reasonably priced and I'll be playing this game for a long time

"Development costs are now 10 times more expensive than in the 90's and more than double or nearly triple the cost of Tekken 7. Even the Fight Lounge servers are costly to maintain. In the past there weren't so many specs and there wasn't online. Plus they didn't have such high resolution and high definition. Now, So many people want the game to run and be supported for a long time. It costs money to continually update the game for that reason. However, he probably only keeps good memories of the old games he experienced as a boy and does not pay attention to these changing times and increasing costs. The economic situation and everything else is changing. If we simply do nothing as he suggests, the game will simply stop running in a few months. I think that is what he wants. So there is no point in talking to him about these realities. He wants us to stop economic activity and stop updating and supporting the game."
https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/1760182225143009473?t=Iay1okkn6B06VarsTtnHcQ&s=19

Obviously this is affecting many industries and not just gaming but gaming is going to have to change and very quickly and is with Xbox putting their games on Playstation and Sony onto PC.

That said they and gamers need to start normalising smaller budget games with less graphical fidelity. It's exciting when games look really nice but they aren't any more enjoyable to play

Square are getting as bad as George Lucas 😂

You better finish Rebirth before they change the ending of that too

@lankieBD yep and I'll finally be able to play it with my son, him on the PS5 and me on the PC

I've not gone back to Black Flag yet but I have started playing Sea of Thieves yet again, now that is a pirate game

@AndyKazama I've certainly picked that song a couple of times, I rather like Seonhee as well

Only Warner Bros could be surprised that turning a long standing beloved single player series into a live service looter shooter, in which you kill off the hero from said series, might not be a big success

@Jaz007 standalone VR does have its advantages though, many of the games I played on PSVR/2 aren't visually demanding such as Beat Saber, and the freedom of standalone means I don't have to take over my living room to play it, plus some of the mixed reality games do look great fun.

There's certainly pros and cons either way but for my use case the Quest is the better option

@ShogunRok great review. Personally I felt Remake was a bit bloated already and I had to leave it for a bit to get the motivation to finish it. This sounds very much like I'd feel the same way.

Ironically though, it's mainly Like a Dragon that's going to make me skip this at launch as I'm having way too much fun with it and it's battle system is what I would have loved from a modern Final Fantasy game. I'll pick this up at some point when I've got more time to play it

@TrickyDicky99 yeah I've sold my PSVR2 largely to buy the Quest 3. It's good that they are trying that with PSVR2 but Quest 3 has so many advantages over it now

The grinding is what immediately turns me off this game, it doesn't sound fun grinding one thing just to grind another. From this and what I've seen elsewhere it's largely what I expected, a potentially fun pirate game largely spoiled by Ubisofts awful RPG mechanics.

I may pick it up in a big sale down the line but for now I'll stick to Sea of Thieves

"a launch that will be a shot in the arm for the entire gaming industry" I'm not sure how the masses just fawning over and playing one game benefits the rest of the industry but whatever

At this point I'll probably buy a PS5 Pro if it's a noticeable jump, not for GTAVI but the PS5 is already showing it's age with many 60fps modes looking low res and even playing Like A dragon on PS5 it's unstable in quite a few areas. I've since started playing that on my PC and in those same areas I'm over 100fps at a higher resolution too. I'm not expecting it to match my PC but locked 60fps and a sharper image would be nice

@CielloArc For the time being I'd expect that to be the case but just a few years ago it was unthinkable that a PlayStation game would launch on PC but today, Returnal, Spider-Man, The Last of Us, God of War, Ratchet and Clank, Days Gone, Sackboy, Horizon and Uncharted are all on PC and the upcoming remake of Until Dawn looks to be launching at the same time on PC.

Don't get me wrong, I don't expect their bigger games to launch day one on PC but that gap will shrink

@themightyant I don't see it happening anytime soon but it's pretty clear that some are at least getting closer to that and it is an avenue that Sony are exploring. Just how Xbox are testing the waters with putting their games on PS5, I feel these are the first baby steps to moving away from being a console only platform

@Jamesblob you're conflating day and date with PC and putting games on a subscription service day one. I don't see the downside in Playstation games coming to PC at launch or much closer to it and it looks increasingly likely that this will happen

@Jamesblob or how about they look at the state of their own profit margins. It's looking increasingly likely that we're coming towards the end of console exclusives being a successful business model

I'm really looking forward to Crazy Taxi, it was amongst the very best arcade and Dreamcast games which I still regularly play and as @tameshiyaku says, the Crazy Eats mini game in Infinite Wealth keeps the spirit alive.

Some more Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth, which is just brilliant fun and a very well made JRPG which highlights what we've lost with modern Final Fantasy games.

I'm also playing Tomb Raider Remastered and these games are like a breath of fresh air compared to modern games. No map markers, no hand holding, no messy hud, no talking to yourself or an annoying sidekick, just well designed levels that leave you alone with the tools at your disposal to explore them. Oh and the tank controls still work great

@Kidfunkadelic83 well Sea of Thieves is a good game and Skull and Bones is erm......

In all seriousness, in Skull and Bones you just drive a ship like in Black Flag. In Sea of Thieves you control a pirate and have to manually sail the ship at the wheel, control the sails, load and fire the canons manually, I find it way more engaging

@ShogunRok we just need Sega to bring back Virtua Fighter with a brand new entry

Best fighting game I've played since Virtua Fighter 4 on the PS2. Absolutely brilliant and very welcoming to newcomers and returning players

There's more than enough PvP games out there, I'm glad there are more PvE options

I'd love it to be true, I'd be way more excited for a new Astro Bot game then any of their supposedly "major" franchises.

Astro Bot Rescue mission is still my favourite VR game and Astro's Playroom is still my favourite PS5 exclusive

@get2sammyb even outside of Nintendo, Capcom have manager to release multiple Resident Evil games in a relatively short time frame and they all look excellent, or RGG with multiple Yakuza games and these have basically carried this generation for me.

We must surely be getting to a point where these long development cycles for AAA games are simple unsustainable

There's sadly a lot of focus on graphics these days which seems to drastically increase development times for many

Isn't a very high proportion of that revenue just simply microtransactions which flow through the PS store and straight to EA, Activision and Epic?

Whilst I do like the PS5, this is easily the most disappointing generation and so far it just feels like a high powered PS4. You could have ignored PS5 for it's first 3 years and missed virtually nothing game wise.

It does increasingly look like that long term survival will be putting more of their games elsewhere

"these games very much subscribe to a classic design philosophy that’s largely outdated by 2024’s standards"

"you really need to think about how you’re going to get to where you need to be"

My two favourite sentences from this review, I've not played these for a long time outside a brief go of an RT mod. Thats said I have also long since grown tired of many modern AAA games with their largely automatic and frankly boring traversal, it's also one of the reasons I enjoyed Death Stranding so much as it made it a challenge again.

Personally the lack of rewind isn't a negative for me as I'd much rather not have such a crutch available, the only choice is now whether to play on PS4 or PS5, I don't suppose save files transfer between them?

Out of these I'd say probably the Razor vs Shawn Michaels match and fingers crossed the Bret Hart/Stone Cold match from WM13 is in there as one of the all time greats

40 million on marketing and all they seemed to say is that it was on Unreal 5, like anyone cares.

As a fan of the genre, I can't say this has ever appealed to me. It's sad for those that had to suffer from the ridiculous decisions and spending of those in charge

Sonic Superstars was a bizarre release, from the timing of it, to its price being more than double that of Mania. Then you had Gaiden which is a great game but didn't get a physical release in the West, luckily having an English version I could import.

They've certainly had a better last few weeks

Demo was decent, don't think it was great visually and certainly didn't look any better than the previous game but the updated combat is fun. I've long since had the Deluxe version preordered and am looking forward to it.

Though I'm unlikely to be playing it at launch as Like A Dragon is too much fun and I doubt I'll have finished it by then

AAAA 😂😂😂😂

It looks just like the sailing bit from Black Flag minus the rest of the game. After playing Sea of Thieves, this looks to have the mechanical depth of a puddle

Final Fantasy VIII is my favourite in the series and in part due to the junction system, it was easy to use and allowed for some great customisation. I'm going to have to find time to replay the original

At some point I'll jump back on this, I've only played a couple of hours but got distracted by other games

It worked out so well for Halo Infinite that it was only natural for COD to follow