jrt87

I've long curated my own retro collection and currently use my MiSTer, PC, Analogue Pocket and CFW loaded PSP to play them all. I've also hundreds of digital versions of retro games spread across my PC/PS/XB and Switch libraries.

Never really seen a need for something like this. I'll also never ever stream a game.

Stellar Blade not had a drop yet?

@Amnesiac The "self-righteous" comments are those demanding everyone stop having a laugh over the signposted failure of a lavishly budgeted video game. It's really not that deep.

Will watch the broadcast replay the day after so I can tap right arrow through all the Geoff waffling and cozy indie game trailer parts.

@JP80 In our uni house many years ago, our mate passed out drunk and left his debit card on the living room table. Being owed a prank back from a few weeks prior, he may or may not have had delivered a £50 lifesize rubber fist.

If this was August 2024, he'd be the proud owner of a digital copy of Concord.

This is what VR was made for.

I hope the 71 people who plan to play on launch have checked they have the required disk space free.

@LifeGirl

Along with the rise of streaming, I think it's had a monumental influence on the horror genre. I believe it also helped paved the way for the acceptance of mainline Resident Evil games adopting the first person view.

For anybody who doesn't know, you can replay this on PC as it was ported almost one-for-one into Unreal Engine by a few different parties. One of the latest even has support for VR. Just search for Unreal P.T.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner

Never really put my thoughts down about this, but why not.

For me the two biggest turn-offs to going to the cinema nowadays are the easily distracted kids/teenagers on their phones/chatting and the fact that I have a pretty decent movie viewing setup at home. Add to this that the wait from cinema to home availability is near minimal and the price and why would I go?

The first can be largely mitigated by going during school hours if your job allows (mine does), but watching a film on my 65" OLED with a decent home sound system isn't like watching a 19-21" CRT with tinny speakers from across the room used to be in 2003. My home setup isn't that as diminished an experience as a cinema auditorium once I'm immersed.

Lifestyle habits change, and cinemas are on the way out, at least for me.

Makes sense.

Anyway, gaming has evolved enormously since 2001-2005 and even 2013. Everything's open world these days and GTA and its sandbox has largely lost its USP.

It'll become the biggest and fastest selling game of all time, get perfect scores in every publication/from every YTer and we'll be told we have to play it...but I could take or leave it.

@LordAinsley I mentioned it because of your suggestion that something should be banned because it rewards the player with points. That was exactly her line of argument in that infamous article.

Anyway, no point debating this: I think things that upset some modern sensibilities are absolutely fine so long as they are couched in an absurd and satirical context as everything in Dead Rising 2006 is. You clearly don't.

@LordAinsley

You remind me of a daft Anne Diamond Daily Mail article from back in the day where she claimed Modern Warfare 'rewards the player with points for throttling dogs'.

Dead Rising was satire and Frank West a caricature of a chauvinistic American everyman who still enjoys all his foibles — doesn't mixing alcohol reward you with some of the best health items? — even when the world is falling apart around him. Nobody achieved that particular bonus in the game and saw it as condoning IRL harassment then, and I doubt they do now.

Taking a photo of a female zombie or survivor in a swimsuit and getting an 'erotic' bonus score is part of the campy humour that pays homage to horror b-movies. Nobody who actually plays the game is remotely offended by it.

Leave the original experience intact or don't bother remastering it. I'll stick with my version on Steam.

No interest in this whatsoever. Went with an all Midnight Black colourway (faceplates and two Dualsense) a few years ago and this wouldn't fit with it. Don't think I've ever bought a novelty/limited edition controller for any system ever, now I think about it.

@mariomaster96 Or removes that boring Atreus section when you go picking fruit and looking at paintings with that girl whilst riding a yak.

That's the kind of stuff movie editors leave on the cutting room floor.

@WhiteRabbit Consoles and PC are both awesome.

@WhiteRabbit Or from console-only folk who've convinced themselves that the incredible PC gaming ecosystem is evil, and Sony releasing on it folly, based upon a few PCMR trolls that called them mean names online once.

@Frmknst

It's simple enough to begin with, but I have over 40 hours in two years of play on PC/Steam Deck.

Then again, I also have 120 hours on Cookie Clicker.

One of the worst games of all time considering its budget and what had come before from Rocksteady. I doubt they'll ever come back from this.

Really enjoyed the first one, even though it did suffer from shader comp stutter pretty awful on PC. The second had all kinds of performance issues. Bought it just after launch and refunded. Bought three months later after several patches and refunded. Bought one last time at £25 after their DLSS patch...and refunded. Dead series to me now.

Would have got one more £70 sale from me had the demo not showed how blurry the visual quality was at 60fps.

Will get it on the cheap off Ebay if they patch it for PS5 Pro, otherwise I'll wait on a sale on the PC version.

@Ralizah

'Questionable messaging from the company aside, I think it's probably best to regard the remake as its own beast and not freak out whenever it doesn't slavishly imitate the original in every way.'

Couldn't agree more: as somebody who's replayed 1-4 in the past few months for the umpteenth time, the Team Silent games stand alone.

I've never replayed Origins, Shattered Memories, Homecoming or Downpour, but I don't consider their existence a detriment to the originals, and neither should Bloober's game (which I plan to get, but don't have much hope for).

@riceNpea Hopefully more in the vein of Stellar Blade and Lies of P. Extremely well optimised games from Asian studios tackling their first big game.

Can be the latest on a technical level to embarrass the clowns over at Square Enix who keep serving up janky and/or blurry looking slop.

Been top of my Steam wishlist for a long while, but I still want to know what this game really is before I make my purchase.

Looked to be a smaller Souls like in the vein of Lies of P early on, but the most recent previews I read said it was essentially a boss rush with not much exploration.

Optimisation is another unknown quantity here, too.

@TruestoryYep I have a 4070ti and 13600k and 32gig of RAM. I regularly play PS2/Dreamcast games PC in a manner far superior to original hardware. Xbox emulation isn't reliable enough for me yet, though.

@Cloud39472

Good to know, cheers.

I generally cannot stand minigames in story driven action games. Machine Strike in Horizon: FW and Robotics Club in Lost Judgment come to mind.

If it wasn't for backwards compatible stuff I have locked to the Xbox console ecosystem and cannot officially play elsewhere (lots of the stuff on Rare Replay, Ninja Gaiden Black & II, Splinter Cell OG trilogy, Soulcalibur I and II, Guardian Heroes & Timesplitters 2) I would have sold my Series X by now.

@PuppetMaster

Not played Rebirth yet due to the reasons in my earlier post, but no, I personally don't need silly mini games and open world mechanics padding the game out unnecessarily. Like many I have a large backlog, diminishing time for gaming and earn a living so am not interested in "value".

Intergrade was about 52 hours for me and ran a perfect length IMO. You have to think that in the future people will play all three parts as one cohesive whole game. Does anyone need the middle part hanging around that long.

Hopefully most of these games are brief or skippable. I'll find out when we finally have a clean looking 60fps version.

@RiotShieldsHurt If it works for you than that's awesome.

I just don't see any benefit other than maybe price or trophies to read a VN on PS over Switch. I do so almost exclusively in handheld mode, so prefer having them run natively than needing to fiddle around with remote play/buy a Portal/leave my PS5 on when I leave the house.

They seem to care more about this minigame than ever having Rebirth run at a smooth modern framerate without suffering from low and blurry visual quality!

If they don't patch this game to take advantage of the PS5 Pro's touted upscaling features, they've lost the plot.

@RiotShieldsHurt

Comes a distant third to a Switch or Steam Deck.

@r_p_trzy Yes, that's what I've decided.

I was planning to start -a piece of blue grass moon- this week (despite what I typed above, I actually bought the Limited Edition from Amazon US) — and assumed stay/night wouldn't release until the autumn.

Doesn't really change much. Overthinking it!

I only buy VNs on handheld capable platforms anyway (Switch and Steam).

Will pick this up on the JP eshop as it's only ¥3100 and I stocked up on credit for my JP account when I was over there in the spring.

Didn't expect it to launch so soon, so now I'll have to figure out whether to play this or Tsukihime first.

@LifeGirl Like most, I always picked it up for the demos when my pocket money allowed, but would more often than not get the cheaper mags like Play and PS Max.

I used to pour over those things for hours getting excited for games I'd probably never even be able to find in the local shops even if I did have the cash for them!

@IOI

We all came here to post the exact same comment, didn't we?

It's just an emulation port, not a remaster, so I'll stick with playing the original through MiSTer. Not worth £15.

@Keyblade-Dan It's an Asian-American woman in a bathrobe.

@PuppetMaster

The Ryan plan was to scale back the traditional single player first party games, move on from all those boring old retro games and IPs, and then focus on several concurrent live service cash cows to rival the industry's juggernauts.

It underestimated the rise of the Chinese gacha, and gamers' stubbornness to move away from long established titles, while overestimating Sony's ability to actually bring to market an ongoing and engaging product. Helldiver's 2 may be a success, but what of Concord, Fairgames, Marathon and the others they've announced?

For many, Bungie haven't released a game they've wanted to play for almost 15 years.

Sony should never have wasted all that money on them. So many poor decisions were made during Ryan's tenure.

Barring the technical issues caused by the unlocked framerate (instead of just locking to 30fps), I thought it was absolutely fine for a two hour freebie.

Then again, I've found enjoyment in recent years playing stuff like Kuon, Curse: Eye of Isis, Carrier and Chaos Break, so I suppose I have a high tolerance when it comes to survival horror.

@NEStalgia

Ok, so I've done a total 180 based upon yours and other's enthusiasm last night and I'll give VR one last shot at this price point.

I've ordered the headset through Playstation Direct as well as bought 7th Guest VR, The Dark Pictures - Switchback VR and Madison VR. I think Metro Awakening looks good too. Will finally play Half-Life: Alyx on Steam, too once I get the adapter.

I still maintain it's just another experience, however, and cannot ever hope to replace "pancake" gaming.

@NEStalgia

Like I said, broad church (and the discomfort IS a salient factor, yes).

Will a VR game ever leave me feeling like Symphony of the Night; Silent Hill 2; MGS3, Wind Waker; or Bloodborne do every time I roll their end credits? Unlikely.

Maybe I'm just getting older and too set in my ways, but just like the 3D movie craze, I've tried "the future", and I'm content enough enjoying the medium through the way I always have.

@WaveBoy Just goes to show the broad church that is our hobby. Give me "pancake" any day.

I experimented with PSVR for three months in 2019 and a Oculus Rift S for a summer in 2021. In almost thirty years of gaming — and years of dreaming about it growing up — VR turned out to easily be my least favourite way to experience video games.

I think it's the beginning of the end for PSVR2 over at Sony HQ. They repeated past mistakes with this product.

Regardless, the flash sale is good if you've seriously had your eye on one and identified at least a handful of games you'd play on it/will get use out of it on your PC.

If your main reservations are borne from your experiences with the first PSVR or a perceived lack of must play PSVR2 titles, then it doesn't really change anything. You shouldn't drop £350 on an accessory just because it was £200 more a week ago.

@LifeGirl Agreed. IMO it's to their detriment that more and more big budget narrative driven games insist on being bloated open world 80 hour slogfests.

It also puts you off ever replaying them as you might a twenty hour experience.

@Waitinonpsvr2

Never understood this line of thinking. Price drops are part of the accepted risk of being an early adopter, alongside future hardware revisions or early batch defects.

I was the Fry from Futurama meme when it came to the first wave of 27" OLED 240hz monitors released at the end of 2022/beginning 2023. I ordered at £999 as soon as they went up, knowing they could drop in price later in the year. Saw mine for £799 six months after I bought it. Shrugged. I was an early adopter, I knew the risks. Similar thing happened with the OLED Steam Deck just over a year after I got my LCD one.

@WaveBoy

I think the "vast majority of naysayers", among which I'd include myself, had experience with PSVR.

I experienced that initial wow factor. I suffered from the motion sickness in certain titles. I went through the discomfort of trying to use my glasses, before giving up and accepting I'd need to wear my contacts (if I didn't go to hassle of ordering custom inserts from Germany). I played through the three or four titles that appealed to me in three weeks. It then sat in a box for three months as I realised having a helmet on my face and feeling mildly queezy wasn't the most relaxing gaming experience. I sold it.

It's never been a money issue for me, I just don't see the point of getting it to play a few Resident Evil games I already played one and three years ago no matter how transformative it is.

@KundaliniRising333 We've all been price gouged to hell and back these past four years as companies have been able to exploit a climate of legitimate supply shortages/cost increases to test just how much consumers will pay for any given product or service.