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@darkswabber That’s beyond rubbish. Part of what I loved about the PS1 games was taking my mech across them and getting more powerful as the new parts were introduced. And I had to take about 5 minutes effort to transfer the saves on PC when it was much simpler on an actual console!

Prince of Persia’s a great get for the service. Will the Armored Core games save transfer? I played them all emulated last year and enjoyed them.

@Kraven I hate the way they’re turning him into a nonce. There’s whole swathes of the Cold Steel games that are pretty unforgivable but that’s up there.

No the 3DS is DS2

@N1ghtW1ng They’d probably lose more money in transaction fees than they’d earn back.

“Just £399.99” might be the most tone-deaf thing I’ve read on here in a while. Energy bills still massively high, council tax rises through the roof, rents increasing in April but don’t worry, you can drop £400 on a VR set that Sony seem to have forgotten about.

@EchoRange Hopetown being billed as a spiritual successor to Disco Elysium is akin to the bargain bin flick ‘Donkey Xote’ having the tagline “From the producers who saw Shrek”.

It’s a playtest so I do understand that all facets of the game need to be tested. But idk why they aren’t just using Monopoly money if they’re going to refund players anyway. Working theory is that any testing would be skewed if players know the money isn’t real, so this way they can accurately work out what would be popular enough to be bought with real money and real stakes, even if it’s getting refunded later on. Bit of an extreme testing environment but I can see the logic in that case

Not sure I’d really want to support the insidious corporate greed of those who took over ZA/UM.

@LogicStrikesAgain It must be nice to still have faith.

@LogicStrikesAgain ‘Enhance NPCs’ isn’t really being very specific though. You’d have to clarify how you’re proposing they tie work by writers with chatbot style responses.

@LogicStrikesAgain What you’re failing to realise is that all of these human interactions with chat bots like this would be logged, recorded and used to train more models. It’ll end up an easy method to gather large datasets about entire demographics which obviously will be used for nefarious purposes. No matter how ‘cool’ talking to fake people is, the end result of mass data gathering is targeted advertising which directly leads into algorithmic manipulation of what you see at any given time. Twitter’s coming close to it already, the replacement of your timeline being people you follow turning into whatever the algorithm decides you’ll see being a prime factor. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re using the Grok data to tailor the timeline further into what they think you should be consuming, especially as more sophisticated AI start populating social media.

@LogicStrikesAgain As somebody who has actually worked in the AI field, this isn’t hyperbole at all. The world is on the brink of disaster. Democracy runs entirely on trust and the use of AI will obliterate that completely as the average voter will be unable to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s been generated.

@JustMyOpinion Everything inside a game as of this moment has been written by a writer. It has intent. Every line is designed to convey the writer’s message. If it’s generated instead then you don’t have a clear link between the intent and what’s been farted out by a neural network, you have a prompt which is fed into a process that the user cannot see, and then you have your output. Plus there’s no indication of what the network is trained on, it would have to be copyright-free writing that matched the tone and cantor of the specific game’s style otherwise it doesn’t fit the setting at all. So that would imply that writers would have to generate a heap of reference material to train with, which defeats the purpose of the chatbot anyway. It’s only cool to people that aren’t educated in the field.

@wildcat_kickz That implies all Israeli Jews support genocide. Which isn’t true.

I’m really really not sure Druckmann is the best guy to be asking about faith and religion, given his comments about Gaza. The Last of Us 2 was already essentially a lib milquetoast ‘violence is bad equally’ stance.

Lego Horizon was SH*T so not sure how I really feel about any games not involving TT.

Nope. Completely destroys any semblance of narrative intent. The control shifts from writers to a neural network trained on data that they haven’t disclosed. It’s an astoundingly terrible idea that saddo nerds will lap up because they don’t understand the implications. Unfortunately these saddo nerds essentially have control of the entire world so enjoy the Earth’s last few years.

I’ve been watching the Ken Burns baseball doc so this mode really does appeal, I forgot to play it when I tried out last year’s game through PS Plus. So many great players who never got to play in the major league because of the racism of the team owners. Plus Buck O’Neil is literally the nicest man of all time when they talk to him in that doc.

Nothing says current like David Guetta and Sia, who’ve been kicking about for like 25 years.

@Drnsnsr XV is only terrible in its back half where it’s literally on rails. The open world stuff is great. XVI was a huge disappointment.

With Podiots going at the end of this year, it’s just nice to have more Ben content on here!

God it’s bad. Keep meaning to go back and give it another go but it was just rubbish.

@KeenAerondight A third would be great but they’ll probably have to do some narrative jiggery-pokery to figure out where Cal was during the original trilogy.

Literally playing Jedi Survivor through PS Plus now. It’s pretty good so far, a bit of a technical disaster at times and the more ‘open world’ structure just makes things more tedious than it needs to be but combat plays well and the Metroidvania elements are a joy.

@Porco EA and 2K for sure have had it for years now. It’s irritating. I think WB have had it too, I seem to remember having to sign in for a couple games.

So functionally identical to the Sony releases on PC. Fair’s fair.

@freddquadros That’s not true. THPS4 on PS1 had free roam and individual goals that you approached to start them, just replacing NPCs with static icons instead. Pro Skater 3 was still timed runs same as the PS2 version.

@Balie3000 I wouldn’t say that’s necessarily true, 99% of this site’s output is regurgitating press releases rather than leaks or rumours. We’d just only hear about things half an hour after a Twitter post.

Calling it now, the ‘remasters’ are going to be a God of War drop on PS Plus with emulated games rather than the HD Collection.

@Rog-X I’ll trust a Cockney who made his money acting over a Cockney who made his money selling overpriced double glazing to old ladies.

The Football Factory’s a classic to be fair. And Rockstar is just a Yank enterprise incorporating IPs and talent from Dundee and London.

What a time we live in. Being sold a PS5 Pro to get closer to PC performance and then PC ports don’t bloody work either.

Talking about PS6 when it barely even feels like PS5 has gotten out from PS4 era design.

Baffling that this is the PSP version when the PS2 version is right there but you could say that about loads of games on there. Another Lego platinum is downright evil though, I’m going to have to go for it now. Yes I’ve played this game a million times but not the PSP version. I’d only be missing Skywalker Saga, LotR, Hobbit, Incredibles, Movie 2 and the myriad of Ninjago platinums then. I even have the Lego Chima platinum and that game is pretty terrible.

@AinsleyE I also hope Skate won’t suck, it being free to play honestly doesn’t bother me because I’ve spent years playing Skate 3 as a sandbox and barely even remember the actual missions at this point.

@zhoont Pro Skater 4’s approach meant we got incredibly creative goals in every single level like competitions on a flotilla, races, helping prisoners escape Alcatraz, feeding seals, doing a slalom on the Kona Snake Run and so forth, none of which are possible in the 2 minute format. Not to mention that every Pro got their own challenge designed around their career like Bob Burnquist getting a loop with a giant upside down gap that you did tricks between or Bam Margera getting a shopping trolley challenge down the Alcatraz switchback. Heaps of imagination down the toilet in favour of collecting SKATE and getting 100k. Genuinely look up videos of the goals from 4 and you’ll see why it’s such a leap forwards for the series.

What an absolutely colossal sh*tshow. Just do 3 at that point and price it accordingly. This isn’t Pro Skater 4, this is 3 with bonus levels that aren’t designed for 2 minute runs at all. Super super disappointing, I was hyped for this at first, most exciting announcement of the year so far, but they’re trying as hard as possible to ruin that with some classic Activision hubris. Was killing VV worth it?

It does look very polished. There’s been a few AC games that the lack of polish detracts from otherwise brilliant games (Unity and Syndicate most of all) so I’m hoping the game manages to balance ambition with polish.

I started Jedi Survivor and it’s yet another game with the choice between 60FPS PS4 graphics or 30FPS PS5 graphics. The PS5 Pro at this point is essentially what the base PS5 was being touted as before it came out.

Sort of horrid design. The balance of black and white just does not work imo.

If Naughty Dog get a pass for not including the multiplayer in their remasters then MS get one too.

The PC version is pretty calamitous, I’d keep any ports in the oven until it actually runs on PC.

@Ashkorsair The music that plays in the towns in Suikoden 1 is super chill. It definitely has a vibe that’s pretty unmatched.

I just finished New Dawn last night funnily enough. Primal’s probably my favourite one but they’ve all been at least good fun, although I’ve not heard great things about 6. It’s an odd one, the individual stories scattered around the maps following certain characters are leaps and bounds ahead of even first party games, some really great stuff being done there, but the main stories often feel a bit formulaic. I really like the more experimental take that the DLCs go for and so I’d be up for something like that. Just not an extraction shooter!

One of the first games I played on my Vita was Suikoden actually. Wouldn’t have gotten through it without @Gremio108!

@get2sammyb New developers thinking they knew better than the original ones is how we ended up with Pro Skater HD. And Pro Skater 5. More info would definitely be nice but as it stands, the community really are not enthused by the messaging coming from the blurb, the trailer went over really well but then there was half a glimpse of College and no other footage from 4 actually in that trailer, it was all stuff from 3. This whole thing just sort of reiterates why VV releasing 3 as an expansion to 1+2 for half the price of the base game would have been the ideal scenario.

I’d imagine an online Horizon would be endless chasing of increasing damage numbers with any tactical gameplay from the single-player games gutted in favour of a never-ending grind that just so happens to be sped up using real money. To be fair, you could just have any plot stuff outsourced to ChatGPT and it would be indistinguishable from the quality of the NPC interactions of the other games. I’m sure the chuds could make their sex doll protagonist of their dreams in a character creator even if the lack of any dialogue or emotion would only take it one shade of cardboard below Aloy as a protagonist.

This smacks to me as an excuse to can first-world jobs in order to pivot to cheaper devs in less unionised countries. Could see a lot of Eastern companies scaling back their American operations anyway for obvious reasons.

@Lowdefal Bam was a skateboarder first but Jackass definitely made him more of a name than his skating did (although CKY was fairly big in its own right a year before). He’s hopefully doing better now but there’s no way he’ll be in these games any time soon.

I’d argue Tony Hawk would still have been the biggest skater in the world without the 900 or even his games, skating was at its peak when he was at his peak and the X Games were a commercially friendly output for an often alternative and underground lifestyle. He’d probably be the one skater brought to mind but wouldn’t be as much of a name that even your nan knows as he is thanks to the games. Bear in mind though that Pro Skater 1 came out in ‘99, you could argue that skating was past its cultural peak when Pro Skater revived it. I mean by that point, Spike Jonze had directed Being John Malkovich and Jason Lee was pivoting away from the skating too, a lot of the skater kids had ‘grown up’ by then.