Which is how it should have normally been, but gamers' fan heads and consumerist buttocks begged to differ. By now it would have been naive to think that a straight price bump to reflect the development and publishing costs of today would mean an end to microtransactions - the F2P market runs entirely on them, and investors will eat for breakfast any major publisher who will dare the abolition as well. At least as long as audiences continue whaling this stuff, booing at a mobile Nintendo game for 10 bucks but opening their wallets towards a mobile Nintendo game character for 40.
We consumers goaded the industry into this all, let's have the guts to admit that any way back will not be an easy or fast one.
Not while two (if not technically FOUR) of its six currently represented platforms are increasingly underrepresented in these sales. Not to sound entitled - it's their biz and the publishers' biz whether/when to discount anything, - but as long as we're running comparisons, Steam continues to discount 1995-2005 games regardless of how many users' hardware can still run them without shamanic compatibility dances.
I admire the resolve of creators like Neil to brave the storm of fanship and keep wading through towards their goal, but that does NOT excuse the kind of bullcrap discussed. And it bears stating such an obvious thing because even now, as the news of attacks on Laura Bailey is making rounds online, there are dirty fanmouths barking in response that "she knew what she was in for when she became a famous actress and auditioned for such a fandom-disrespecting plot".
Already got NBA 2K20 on Switch (yes, from THAT sale😆), but the other two sound neat... as always, provided RoTR controls on Vita well. If Erica is an "interactive movie", I don't think I need to question the latter aspect there.
11/15. Might've done worse if not for the telltale keywords in many cases (or an outright familiar eShop description triggered from the depths of my ever arbitrary long term memory in at least one).
So unlike Animal Crossing, this one's ALREADY lower than Big Rigs. Like I said before, the only thing fandoms manage to discredit into oblivion here is the very tool they abuse, not the target.
As a working adult, I beg to differ. 😅 Even for Switch, a format consciously endeavouring to remove/reduce many of those limits, that would be somewhat bold a slogan, but for a home console?
Sure, maybe that's an implication towards what we all know I'd want it to be an implication towards. But I'm a bit too cautious to assume this by default. And even that scenario would have its footnotes like it already did for the two previous generations. Yeah, I'm not sure anything in the industry can quite justify such a statement beyond - no argument here - the usual aspect of hyperbolic marketing talk. But hey, PS4 was never "for the players" either - and still felt like the most game-dedicated hardware in PlayStation's entire home console history to date. No "F*** Nintendo + Budget CD Player", no "Budget DVD Player", no "Budget BD Player" - for the first time outside handhelds, Sony made a console that felt like a console first and foremost rather than a media center running video games.
So here's hoping PS5 will try to live up to its slogan to SOME extent, too.
PS3 (a notable PS1 library on the store) - Cel Shaded HD
Vita (notable PS1 and PSP libraries on the store) - the aforesaid plus Dragon Sinker, Garou and The Last Blade 2.
All of which are a safe guess to be featuring mainly because of their PS4 crossbuy status.
Meanwhile on PS4, this article itself highlights Bloodstained. Does that mean New Super Mario Bros series counts as "retro", too?😅
I mean, nothing unexpected from digital sales nowadays, but in this case one remains tempted to wish Sony would at least come up with a more informative name for the whole event.
Frankly, I don't even expect the digital edition to hit anything below 500 (or 499 if we're speaking Marketese), and the standard one will probably repeat PS3's risky move if Sony's psychological prep-sounding comments are any indication. Better to be pleasantly surprised about it later. Hardly (no pun intended) unfair prices for such ridiculous innards either, but people's buying capacity around the end of the year will play first fiddle here anyway.
If anything, I daresay it could be a bit better for Sony to announce the price ASAP those it may deter are likely not in the urgent market for the nuances like 3D audio and fast loading times anyway, and those already sold on that (or itching to play the recently showcased lineup) will at least know in advance what sum to start saving up.
What would blow my mind is not a game announcement (unless it's of the kind that no one would ever sanely expect, but that would have nothing to do with PS5 either), although it still qualifies as a "dream announcement" - the make-or-break aspect of the deal that I've often mentioned before and often acknowledged just how damn unlikely it appears in this day and age. Whether I like it or not, it's safe to assume Sony really doesn't see much if any PlayStation future outside living rooms. But since wishful thinking (not to be confused with fanheaded bullying) is a free action, I'll have an ear perked towards Thursday showcase as well. PS4 still has plenty to offer me if nothing comes out of it (as long as I can actually play it - what the heck is this "NS-16157-0" lately, and why is it yet another error code the entirety of PSN FAQs and Google appears just as clueless about? :V ).
As for "more realistic game announcements"... I don't know, maybe something Gran Turismo?They did experiment with 8K and such fluff way back when.
I understand the concept of exclusivity but don't relate to it. I buy hardware not for the exclusive games but for the ability to play these games on it; if I don't get this ability due to oft-discussed factors (as is the case with the majority of home consoles nowadays), the games practically as locked out for me as if I didn't have the console at all. But as long as I get this ability, I give zero hoots about where else they are also released. Like I said before, PlayStation can have BotW, SMO and all the other such stuff for all I care.
So in this case, my take on the new games to be announced is more about PS5 features to be revealed. An estimatedly home console through and through, it can only put me in the relative market with its streaming options (Vita would be a confident yes but is extremely unlikely, laptops and mobiles would be a vague and reluctant maybe); if it doesn't, I will naturally be biased towards the idea of having them be cross-gen and appear on PS4 for as long as possible.
9/15. Some were sheer guesses as well. I suppose that's what happens when you spend the fifth generation on 8 bits (and the sixth one on 16). I knew a select few titles on the PS1 as a child, but my more profound acquaintance only came later in the emulation age - and unlike with the earlier console libs, the size of images pitched against my internet (I had dial-up as late as 2007, kids, let that sink in😆) didn't allow for as much of said acquaintance - I mostly homed in on JRPGs and other certain things of prior interest to me.
"In our area it means games, it means number of games, depth of games, breadth of games, quality of games, price of games..."
Too bad there's no mention of accessibility of games because that, again, will be a kind of make-or-break point for me in PS5's regard. Just like it has been with other gaming hardware for years now. But we'll all know in due time.
Might check out CoD at some point, provided it has an amicable relationship with Vita's control schemes. Still haven't played the first SWBF properly so it'll be a good while before I get to the second game. But as far as IGC boosters go, why not? Not gonna lie, though, if not for more or less both being on Switch, the oh so dramatically maligned May lineup would be a lot more valuable for me - and chances are, they control well in RP, too!😋
Not watching State of Play to begin with - I only tasted the first game after its PS+ arrival, so no point in seeking more spoilers about it than the internet may already causally feed me. But eventually, once I'm through with it, TLoU2 will be on my wishlist, too. On which platform? Only time will tell.
It's not even the gaming industry alone - Mike Oldfield reportedly added synthesizers to the Voyager album after a Warner Music exec's daughter found the initially all-acoustic version boring. Granted, I'm too biased to complain, but such cases do evoke healthy skepticism, although the creators and execs probably choose to heed them as test screening feedback from a representative of the potential audience. Generally, I'd much rather they didn't - but it's up to them, and I can only hope they still pump the external idea full of their own "handwriting" if they do.
Still a bit odd to see this released on PS4 a year AFTER Switch.😅 Otherwise, I've played it since release there and found it much more entertaining even beyond the tone and atmosphere than this article makes it sound. Side activities get boring after "a couple times"? Sounds about right, because that's usually the last portion of relatively peaceful cases - proceed to the last targets of, say, vehicle theft side quest, and suddenly it feels like GTA on 5-star heat. Gang wars, too - not sure if GTA ones feature an enemy walking up to the vehicle you're in and casually tossing it over.
But to a JRPG nerd like me, the main appeal is arguably in the grind the game offers in more explicit capacities than GTA. Especially the unlock system with its variety of upgrades and an in-all-but-name experience counter you can contribute to with almost every sneeze. All in all, glad to have it and glad to see SR4 on Switch now as well (while the PS4 version was how I discovered Saints Row, it has woefully proverbial issues with Vita controls). SR2? Started it on PC some time ago, but still getting acclimatized to the driving mechanics in that game.😅
It may "be still crazy how...", but running a successful digital marketplace with plenty of third publishers on it kinda remains the elephant in the room here.
Every 60 seconds a minute passes. If the storefronts are ignoring the takedown requests, it's most likely because they aren't convinced those are warranted. If the copyright infringement dispute hits the "yes" - "nah" - "yes!" - "nah" phase, at some point there are few negotiation options left apart from dragging a third party arbiter (a court) into the fray, which is done with lawsuits.
Time will tell, but Westworld Mobile did go down in the end.
@Dodoo um, guys, you're discussing Apple and Google worrying about customers in a country where they barely have a market to begin with? I dare suspect what Chinese still use their products (discreetly or otherwise) already have more motivation to do so than a spat with a local amazon can seriously affect.
Barely found it via Google and regional page redirections. It's one thing to have Russian PS Store arbitrarily list different games with English OR Russian titles, but when the Russian ones end up flying entirely under the Latin alphabet search radar...
For the record, the giveaway is also happening on Steam. Not holding any breaths for eShop (although it's the only version I'd give an actual try in the visible future), but quite generous of them as it is.
This article will age as a container of a rare good thought from IGN - lowering expectations is always recommended. Hype is ultimately detrimental in itself - except for the effects on various forms of media event attendance, which understandably leaves folks like Keighley biased towards it.
@DeepSpace5D it may be beyond current hardware capabilities, but it's no longer the stage where you can telegraph as much with yesteryear's effectiveness. One of the commercial problems with all these high definitions, ray tracings and other blast processings is that it's getting harder to showcase them out the gate, especially when reaching out to wide online audiences who may or may not use matching hardware to perceive this stuff. Some may well be just watching these presentations on YouTube, possibly on smart devices! Of course it'll look underwhelming. Switch took one narrationless ad to spell out its concept and strengths with enviable clarity; XBSX and PS5's early marketing seems in danger of having to be crutched on digital foundries, especially now that their launch year has been corona-ing out a whole slate of public events with hands-on value. Even the dev-touted "bigger and more detailed worlds" aren't something you can often parade over the very first trailer.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons Sony has focused so much of its early PS5 talk on the SSD and loading time reduction - at least that's something a casual viewer can notice with relative ease. Where they vividly remember previous entries' loading screens, that is - otherwise, we're back to double footage comparisons Digital Foundry style.
Typically obscene as the fandom reactions are (regardless of what's there in the leaks), it's a bit embarrassing that companies of Sony's caliber even fuss this much over social media reactions, be it proverbially ODE and fanship-smeared comments or the concept that even social media frequenters themselves have long dubbed "fake internet points". I understand it may be stressful to look at from the team's perspective, but it's one of the last (if any) things that matter in the end. Even though this fact doesn't excuse such behaviour's existence either. Dogs bark, the caravan moves on.
Offering two strategy/simulation titles is called "dumbfounding". Phrasing of the month. But then again, we're talking the fandom and the internet - two of the least verbal awareness environments one can possibly imagine.
I don't even have any problems with the present day sections in the first Assassin's Creed. This connection between distant epochs is one of the most intriguing points about the franchise for me, and it says something that watching the movie which focused on the present conflict was the last decisive push motivating me to start the games.
Hmmm... Cities Skylines on Switch... not sure about Farming Simulator, but probably not - the numberless one we got before FS20 came out all the way back in 2017. Don't mind if I do, then.
Welp, DS4 is no longer Sony's most complimentingly Nintendoesque controller. "Departures" aside, D....ualSense (on the flipside, I guess abbreviating it is gonna be more awkward😄) seems like pretty much everything that was in DS4 (assuming the light bar manages to work the same with games like Tearaway) plus the Switch's haptic feedback and its own "adaptive triggers". And it looks pretty neat, too! Even if I end up barely using it like DS4 itself (for the reasons I believe I need not reiterate again), I like what I see here.
@Kidfunkadelic83 maybe they should make a red'n'blue palette DualSense, just to troll this kind of people.😆
@Jayofmaya or, as is common with Switch versions, because the former is a comfortably portable version while on PS4 the long available SR4 itself is among the unfortunate number of games with awkward Remote Play controls. The same factor, in fact, that encourages many to double-dip with the ports of other titles long available in "home console resolution" and superiority (to the point where some conspirologists like to explain belated Switch ports as the publishers hoping to milk the double-dip audience).
Thing is, if you get the PS4 port first, the Switch one comes later to pitch a tangible alternative in regards to one's gaming experience. But vice versa? Unless there's something equally tangible, like the guaranteed stable 60 FPS (which the pixel chase and the growing complexity of games seem to have made an increasingly uncertain prospect in PlayStationland as well, at least on OG/Slim models), can crisper looks alone readily unzip the wallets for another launch price?
So what I mistook for the announcement and inattentively commented on last week (forgetting the calendar hijinks applied to the schedule yet again) was a leak? Ugh. At least it came from an official source, but shame on me still.
Trivial as this SSD buzz may be as compared to portability (I'll always take waiting even fifty more seconds to play a level to waiting five more weeks/months to play the game), this part actually impacts the gameplay experience from the sound of it. Credit where it's due if they pull it all off.
My PS4 peeves? Like the RP's default Vita scheme acting in denial of the console's own remapping options or the inability to autoreboot after a power outage? All context considered, I wouldn't hold my breath about those.
@nessisonett fans aren't something to care for, fans are something to survive in spite of. As for "the swarm of defenders", there are also human voices which precisely remember that Nintendo is a corporation and it's about business - which warrants a simple customer/business relationship without EITHER side obliged to worship the other. But unsurprisingly, 99% of "Nintendo doesn't care" comments come bundled with fanminded implications that Nintendo SHOULD care. OR ELSE. There are few unpleasant truths fanship rejects more adamantly than the notion of its own complete dispensability.
@Callmegil "Therefore, the best approach is to make it and not publish it."
People are finally starting to embrace this seeming piece of rocket science?
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Re: God of War Director Prefers PS5 Price Increases Over Microtransaction Hellscape
Which is how it should have normally been, but gamers' fan heads and consumerist buttocks begged to differ. By now it would have been naive to think that a straight price bump to reflect the development and publishing costs of today would mean an end to microtransactions - the F2P market runs entirely on them, and investors will eat for breakfast any major publisher who will dare the abolition as well. At least as long as audiences continue whaling this stuff, booing at a mobile Nintendo game for 10 bucks but opening their wallets towards a mobile Nintendo game character for 40.
We consumers goaded the industry into this all, let's have the guts to admit that any way back will not be an easy or fast one.
Re: Talking Point: Is the PlayStation Store Starting to Rival Steam Sales?
Not while two (if not technically FOUR) of its six currently represented platforms are increasingly underrepresented in these sales. Not to sound entitled - it's their biz and the publishers' biz whether/when to discount anything, - but as long as we're running comparisons, Steam continues to discount 1995-2005 games regardless of how many users' hardware can still run them without shamanic compatibility dances.
Re: Industry Rallies Around The Last of Us 2 Voice Actor After Hate Messages Are Revealed
I admire the resolve of creators like Neil to brave the storm of fanship and keep wading through towards their goal, but that does NOT excuse the kind of bullcrap discussed. And it bears stating such an obvious thing because even now, as the news of attacks on Laura Bailey is making rounds online, there are dirty fanmouths barking in response that "she knew what she was in for when she became a famous actress and auditioned for such a fandom-disrespecting plot".
Re: PS Plus July 2020 PS4 Games Announced
Already got NBA 2K20 on Switch (yes, from THAT sale😆), but the other two sound neat... as always, provided RoTR controls on Vita well. If Erica is an "interactive movie", I don't think I need to question the latter aspect there.
Re: Can You Name These PS4 Games from Their PlayStation Store Descriptions?
11/15. Might've done worse if not for the telltale keywords in many cases (or an outright familiar eShop description triggered from the depths of my ever arbitrary long term memory in at least one).
Re: PS Plus Will Celebrate Its 10th Anniversary Next Week
To commemorate the beginning of this long journey, July lineup will be PlayStation Minis again.
That'll teach you karens to value city/farm simulators.😆
Re: Of Course The Last of Us 2 Is Being Review Bombed
So unlike Animal Crossing, this one's ALREADY lower than Big Rigs. Like I said before, the only thing fandoms manage to discredit into oblivion here is the very tool they abuse, not the target.
Re: Play Has No Limits Is the PS5's Official Slogan
As a working adult, I beg to differ. 😅 Even for Switch, a format consciously endeavouring to remove/reduce many of those limits, that would be somewhat bold a slogan, but for a home console?
Sure, maybe that's an implication towards what we all know I'd want it to be an implication towards. But I'm a bit too cautious to assume this by default. And even that scenario would have its footnotes like it already did for the two previous generations. Yeah, I'm not sure anything in the industry can quite justify such a statement beyond - no argument here - the usual aspect of hyperbolic marketing talk. But hey, PS4 was never "for the players" either - and still felt like the most game-dedicated hardware in PlayStation's entire home console history to date. No "F*** Nintendo + Budget CD Player", no "Budget DVD Player", no "Budget BD Player" - for the first time outside handhelds, Sony made a console that felt like a console first and foremost rather than a media center running video games.
So here's hoping PS5 will try to live up to its slogan to SOME extent, too.
Re: PlayStation Store Remasters & Retro Sale Has Deals on PS4 Games of Old
PS3 (a notable PS1 library on the store) - Cel Shaded HD
Vita (notable PS1 and PSP libraries on the store) - the aforesaid plus Dragon Sinker, Garou and The Last Blade 2.
All of which are a safe guess to be featuring mainly because of their PS4 crossbuy status.
Meanwhile on PS4, this article itself highlights Bloodstained. Does that mean New Super Mario Bros series counts as "retro", too?😅
I mean, nothing unexpected from digital sales nowadays, but in this case one remains tempted to wish Sony would at least come up with a more informative name for the whole event.
Re: Poll: How Much Do You Think the PS5 Will Cost?
Frankly, I don't even expect the digital edition to hit anything below 500 (or 499 if we're speaking Marketese), and the standard one will probably repeat PS3's risky move if Sony's psychological prep-sounding comments are any indication. Better to be pleasantly surprised about it later. Hardly (no pun intended) unfair prices for such ridiculous innards either, but people's buying capacity around the end of the year will play first fiddle here anyway.
If anything, I daresay it could be a bit better for Sony to announce the price ASAP those it may deter are likely not in the urgent market for the nuances like 3D audio and fast loading times anyway, and those already sold on that (or itching to play the recently showcased lineup) will at least know in advance what sum to start saving up.
Re: Persona 4 Golden Fans Remain Hopeful of a PS4 Port
Grumpy Nintendo fans:
And hold up, Vita's screen is called "tiny" now? Then what's the word for DS ones with this generation? 😅🙄
Re: PS5 Console Revealed, Standard and Digital Only Edition
Pretty neat. Gives me some inexplicable Wii vibe- gets dogpiled
Re: Gran Turismo 7 Is Real, Confirmed for PS5
Me, correctly guessing a PlayStation 5 game reveal? 2020 is getting more and more surreal.
Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season Four Is Out Now, But Fans Are Angry
"a 32.5GB patch is still pretty ludicrous, right?"
In the age of ludicrous texture resolutions and VFX? Yes, but actually no.
Re: Feature: Our PS5 Reveal Event Predictions, Hopes, and Dreams
What would blow my mind is not a game announcement (unless it's of the kind that no one would ever sanely expect, but that would have nothing to do with PS5 either), although it still qualifies as a "dream announcement" - the make-or-break aspect of the deal that I've often mentioned before and often acknowledged just how damn unlikely it appears in this day and age. Whether I like it or not, it's safe to assume Sony really doesn't see much if any PlayStation future outside living rooms. But since wishful thinking (not to be confused with fanheaded bullying) is a free action, I'll have an ear perked towards Thursday showcase as well. PS4 still has plenty to offer me if nothing comes out of it (as long as I can actually play it - what the heck is this "NS-16157-0" lately, and why is it yet another error code the entirety of PSN FAQs and Google appears just as clueless about? :V ).
As for "more realistic game announcements"... I don't know, maybe something Gran Turismo?They did experiment with 8K and such fluff way back when.
Re: Talking Point: Do You Agree with PS5's Approach to Generations?
I understand the concept of exclusivity but don't relate to it. I buy hardware not for the exclusive games but for the ability to play these games on it; if I don't get this ability due to oft-discussed factors (as is the case with the majority of home consoles nowadays), the games practically as locked out for me as if I didn't have the console at all. But as long as I get this ability, I give zero hoots about where else they are also released. Like I said before, PlayStation can have BotW, SMO and all the other such stuff for all I care.
So in this case, my take on the new games to be announced is more about PS5 features to be revealed. An estimatedly home console through and through, it can only put me in the relative market with its streaming options (Vita would be a confident yes but is extremely unlikely, laptops and mobiles would be a vague and reluctant maybe); if it doesn't, I will naturally be biased towards the idea of having them be cross-gen and appear on PS4 for as long as possible.
Re: Can You Name These PS1 Games?
9/15. Some were sheer guesses as well. I suppose that's what happens when you spend the fifth generation on 8 bits (and the sixth one on 16). I knew a select few titles on the PS1 as a child, but my more profound acquaintance only came later in the emulation age - and unlike with the earlier console libs, the size of images pitched against my internet (I had dial-up as late as 2007, kids, let that sink in😆) didn't allow for as much of said acquaintance - I mostly homed in on JRPGs and other certain things of prior interest to me.
Re: PS5 Will Represent the Best Possible Value, Says Sony
"In our area it means games, it means number of games, depth of games, breadth of games, quality of games, price of games..."
Too bad there's no mention of accessibility of games because that, again, will be a kind of make-or-break point for me in PS5's regard. Just like it has been with other gaming hardware for years now. But we'll all know in due time.
Re: All PS Plus June 2020 PS4 Games Officially Announced
Might check out CoD at some point, provided it has an amicable relationship with Vita's control schemes. Still haven't played the first SWBF properly so it'll be a good while before I get to the second game. But as far as IGC boosters go, why not? Not gonna lie, though, if not for more or less both being on Switch, the oh so dramatically maligned May lineup would be a lot more valuable for me - and chances are, they control well in RP, too!😋
Re: Talking Point: Will You Be Buying The Last of Us 2?
Not watching State of Play to begin with - I only tasted the first game after its PS+ arrival, so no point in seeking more spoilers about it than the internet may already causally feed me. But eventually, once I'm through with it, TLoU2 will be on my wishlist, too. On which platform? Only time will tell.
Re: Assassin's Creed Would Have Shipped Without Side Quests if it Wasn't for Ubisoft CEO's Kid
It's not even the gaming industry alone - Mike Oldfield reportedly added synthesizers to the Voyager album after a Warner Music exec's daughter found the initially all-acoustic version boring. Granted, I'm too biased to complain, but such cases do evoke healthy skepticism, although the creators and execs probably choose to heed them as test screening feedback from a representative of the potential audience. Generally, I'd much rather they didn't - but it's up to them, and I can only hope they still pump the external idea full of their own "handwriting" if they do.
And have more than five days for that.
Re: Naughty Dog Blocks The Last of Us 2 Trolls with New Twitter Feature
@Matroska truly, the internet isn't for porn. It's for a brutal sport called soapboxing.
Re: Saints Row The Third Remastered - Last-Gen Game Design Stifles This Refreshingly Stupid Remaster
Still a bit odd to see this released on PS4 a year AFTER Switch.😅 Otherwise, I've played it since release there and found it much more entertaining even beyond the tone and atmosphere than this article makes it sound. Side activities get boring after "a couple times"? Sounds about right, because that's usually the last portion of relatively peaceful cases - proceed to the last targets of, say, vehicle theft side quest, and suddenly it feels like GTA on 5-star heat. Gang wars, too - not sure if GTA ones feature an enemy walking up to the vehicle you're in and casually tossing it over.
But to a JRPG nerd like me, the main appeal is arguably in the grind the game offers in more explicit capacities than GTA. Especially the unlock system with its variety of upgrades and an in-all-but-name experience counter you can contribute to with almost every sneeze. All in all, glad to have it and glad to see SR4 on Switch now as well (while the PS4 version was how I discovered Saints Row, it has woefully proverbial issues with Vita controls). SR2? Started it on PC some time ago, but still getting acclimatized to the driving mechanics in that game.😅
Re: Naughty Dog Blocks The Last of Us 2 Trolls with New Twitter Feature
Now wait until people realize that replying to these tweets or [dis]liking these YT videos is something their lives are exactly the same without.
Metacritic all over again - use a platform to try and torpedo a work's reputation, blow a hole in the platform's value instead.
Re: Incredibly, CD Projekt Is Now the Most Valuable Video Game Company in Europe
It may "be still crazy how...", but running a successful digital marketplace with plenty of third publishers on it kinda remains the elephant in the room here.
Re: Ghost of Tsushima Will Kill You Quickly
You're telling this to me, a guy who literally couldn't last two enemies when trying Nioh beta?😅
Re: Ubisoft Is Suing Google, Apple Over Rainbow Six Siege Mobile Clone
Every 60 seconds a minute passes. If the storefronts are ignoring the takedown requests, it's most likely because they aren't convinced those are warranted. If the copyright infringement dispute hits the "yes" - "nah" - "yes!" - "nah" phase, at some point there are few negotiation options left apart from dragging a third party arbiter (a court) into the fray, which is done with lawsuits.
Time will tell, but Westworld Mobile did go down in the end.
@Dodoo um, guys, you're discussing Apple and Google worrying about customers in a country where they barely have a market to begin with? I dare suspect what Chinese still use their products (discreetly or otherwise) already have more motivation to do so than a spat with a local amazon can seriously affect.
Re: There's a New The Smurfs Game in Development
Da ba dee da-
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Re: LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game Is Currently Free for Everyone on PS4
Barely found it via Google and regional page redirections. It's one thing to have Russian PS Store arbitrarily list different games with English OR Russian titles, but when the Russian ones end up flying entirely under the Latin alphabet search radar...
For the record, the giveaway is also happening on Steam. Not holding any breaths for eShop (although it's the only version I'd give an actual try in the visible future), but quite generous of them as it is.
Re: Geoff Keighley Hypes Up Incoming Next-Gen Game Reveals Following Xbox Criticism
This article will age as a container of a rare good thought from IGN - lowering expectations is always recommended. Hype is ultimately detrimental in itself - except for the effects on various forms of media event attendance, which understandably leaves folks like Keighley biased towards it.
Re: Can You Name the PS4 Game from Just the Box Art?
8/10, wrong Knack and wrong CoD. Given my comparative PS4 experience, I expected worse, though
Re: Reaction: Sony Needs to Show Us a True, Next-Gen PS5 Exclusive After Lukewarm Inside Xbox
@DeepSpace5D it may be beyond current hardware capabilities, but it's no longer the stage where you can telegraph as much with yesteryear's effectiveness. One of the commercial problems with all these high definitions, ray tracings and other blast processings is that it's getting harder to showcase them out the gate, especially when reaching out to wide online audiences who may or may not use matching hardware to perceive this stuff. Some may well be just watching these presentations on YouTube, possibly on smart devices! Of course it'll look underwhelming. Switch took one narrationless ad to spell out its concept and strengths with enviable clarity; XBSX and PS5's early marketing seems in danger of having to be crutched on digital foundries, especially now that their launch year has been corona-ing out a whole slate of public events with hands-on value. Even the dev-touted "bigger and more detailed worlds" aren't something you can often parade over the very first trailer.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons Sony has focused so much of its early PS5 talk on the SSD and loading time reduction - at least that's something a casual viewer can notice with relative ease. Where they vividly remember previous entries' loading screens, that is - otherwise, we're back to double footage comparisons Digital Foundry style.
Re: Mass Effect Trilogy HD Remaster Is Finally Happening, Apparently
Labeled "news" because VentureBeat said so. You're truly Nintendo Life's "sister site", PS.😅
Re: PlayStation Disables Likes, Dislikes, and Comments on The Last of Us 2's New Trailer
Typically obscene as the fandom reactions are (regardless of what's there in the leaks), it's a bit embarrassing that companies of Sony's caliber even fuss this much over social media reactions, be it proverbially ODE and fanship-smeared comments or the concept that even social media frequenters themselves have long dubbed "fake internet points". I understand it may be stressful to look at from the team's perspective, but it's one of the last (if any) things that matter in the end. Even though this fact doesn't excuse such behaviour's existence either. Dogs bark, the caravan moves on.
Re: PS Plus Members Launch Petition Against 'Dumbfounding' May 2020 PS4 Games
Offering two strategy/simulation titles is called "dumbfounding". Phrasing of the month. But then again, we're talking the fandom and the internet - two of the least verbal awareness environments one can possibly imagine.
Re: PS Plus May 2020 Reveal Has Been a Disaster, One of the Worst Received Months Ever
"Two similar games at once", implying these genres aren't conspicuously rare guests on PS+ to begin with.
Re: Of Course Assassin's Creed Valhalla Brings Back the Worst Part of the Series
I don't even have any problems with the present day sections in the first Assassin's Creed. This connection between distant epochs is one of the most intriguing points about the franchise for me, and it says something that watching the movie which focused on the present conflict was the last decisive push motivating me to start the games.
Re: PS Plus May 2020 PS4 Games Announced
Hmmm... Cities Skylines on Switch... not sure about Farming Simulator, but probably not - the numberless one we got before FS20 came out all the way back in 2017. Don't mind if I do, then.
Re: UK Sales Charts: The Last of Us Remastered Makes Surprise Return to the Top 10
Returning to top 10 not only years down the road but mere months after being an IGC offer... remarkable indeed.
Re: PS5 Controller Revealed, Named DualSense with Create Button and Built-in Microphone
Welp, DS4 is no longer Sony's most complimentingly Nintendoesque controller. "Departures" aside, D....ualSense (on the flipside, I guess abbreviating it is gonna be more awkward😄) seems like pretty much everything that was in DS4 (assuming the light bar manages to work the same with games like Tearaway) plus the Switch's haptic feedback and its own "adaptive triggers". And it looks pretty neat, too! Even if I end up barely using it like DS4 itself (for the reasons I believe I need not reiterate again), I like what I see here.
@Kidfunkadelic83 maybe they should make a red'n'blue palette DualSense, just to troll this kind of people.😆
Re: Saints Row The Third Remastered Brings Dumb Fun to PS4 in May
@Jayofmaya or, as is common with Switch versions, because the former is a comfortably portable version while on PS4 the long available SR4 itself is among the unfortunate number of games with awkward Remote Play controls. The same factor, in fact, that encourages many to double-dip with the ports of other titles long available in "home console resolution" and superiority (to the point where some conspirologists like to explain belated Switch ports as the publishers hoping to milk the double-dip audience).
Thing is, if you get the PS4 port first, the Switch one comes later to pitch a tangible alternative in regards to one's gaming experience. But vice versa? Unless there's something equally tangible, like the guaranteed stable 60 FPS (which the pixel chase and the growing complexity of games seem to have made an increasingly uncertain prospect in PlayStationland as well, at least on OG/Slim models), can crisper looks alone readily unzip the wallets for another launch price?
Re: Saints Row The Third Remastered Brings Dumb Fun to PS4 in May
Wait, it didn't come out last year alongside the Switch version? What kind of portal did I fall through? 😅
Re: This Is What the PS5 Could Look Like in Stores
We don't know what the console looks like, but people already design boxes?
Re: PS Plus April 2020 PS4 Games Announced
So what I mistook for the announcement and inattentively commented on last week (forgetting the calendar hijinks applied to the schedule yet again) was a leak? Ugh. At least it came from an official source, but shame on me still.
Re: PS Plus April 2020 Free PS4 Games Leaked Early
Racers aren't overly common guests in IGC, and now I have all four Uncharted flagships to "complement" my Golden Abyss. Neat!
Re: Poll: Should Sony Giveaway Free PS4 Games for Those in Isolation?
There are no shoulds in such contexts. End of discussion.
Re: Sony Wants Playing PS5 Games to Be 'as Easy as Netflix'
Trivial as this SSD buzz may be as compared to portability (I'll always take waiting even fifty more seconds to play a level to waiting five more weeks/months to play the game), this part actually impacts the gameplay experience from the sound of it. Credit where it's due if they pull it all off.
Re: Reaction: PS5's Been Designed to Solve All Your PS4 Pet Peeves
My PS4 peeves? Like the RP's default Vita scheme acting in denial of the console's own remapping options or the inability to autoreboot after a power outage? All context considered, I wouldn't hold my breath about those.
Re: Nintendo Putting Pressure on Sony to Remove Dreams Creations on PS4
@nessisonett fans aren't something to care for, fans are something to survive in spite of. As for "the swarm of defenders", there are also human voices which precisely remember that Nintendo is a corporation and it's about business - which warrants a simple customer/business relationship without EITHER side obliged to worship the other. But unsurprisingly, 99% of "Nintendo doesn't care" comments come bundled with fanminded implications that Nintendo SHOULD care. OR ELSE. There are few unpleasant truths fanship rejects more adamantly than the notion of its own complete dispensability.
@Callmegil "Therefore, the best approach is to make it and not publish it."
People are finally starting to embrace this seeming piece of rocket science?
Re: Fans Show Displeasure at Disappointing Road to PS5 Reveal
Fans Show Displeasure
Non-news
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