Price increases are never welcome news on the customer side, but I've already renewed my Premium at a discount until late next July, and chances are next year's renewal may likewise strike a sale. If anything, more depends on the eventual estimation of whether I'll still need the current tier and even Extra or not (I intend to maintain Essential in any case), but that's a bridge to cross when I get to it.
As for September lineup, I've already commented favourably elsewhere. IGC can never have enough freeroam actventures and RPGs in my book, so the fanheaded drama across the article and the comments here looks smirkworthy at best.
Pretty damn neat. Two action open-worlders including a driving one from a renowned series, as if to "make up" for me missing out on NFS Heat last September, and an MMORPG I would have quite enjoyed during my mobile acquaintance therewith if not for the touchscreen controls. And while the former two are more likely to be experienced on Deck in due time (although a legal access box to check somewhere is still welcome since Volition stuff is locked on Steam these days), MMORPG compatibility remains anything but a given there, so chances are I'll revisit this one on my PS4 for the time being.
Reported hotspot support and a stomachable threshold of 5 Mbps at least make it a viable Remote Play successor after all, and raise my odds of ever buying a PS5... above zero, anyway.
On the other hand, being limited to PS5 is a bit of a flipside, especially disappointing with a fully equipped controller that could have addressed all the control scheme issues PSP and Vita faced when streaming their respective peers before. And PS4 was something to buy on top of the handheld I had plenty of use for in general; Portal's $200 apparently net you a glorified paperweight unless/until you spend another $400. When you factor in myself already paying out a Steam Deck loan, saving up several hundred bucks within the next couple years would probably require me to lock all or most of my remaining allocatable hobby funds, and an eventual Switch successor is the only new piece of gaming hardware that could realistically compel me to do so. Colour me vaguely in the market for PS5+Portal combo, but with a bold type "maybe someday" footnote.
In related [shower] thoughts, I just realized that PlayStation Portal abbreviates to "PSP".π
@Jayslow "This probably started as a Nintendo switch port. Having it on PS4 so we can play on modern consoles is just a bonus"
You know the fandom has sent the concept of console generations out the window when a previous generation machine is called a "modern console" in contrast to a current gen one.π€π
@Luigia holding it back from what, tracing more rays or tasking the draw distances with yet more skin-pore-magnifying resolutions for wall carpet TVs and/or PSVR2? Or has the industry come up with something yet unheard of in terms of gameplay and worldcraft proper that wouldn't have been technologically possible over the last two or three generations?
How exactly would it work, though? A demo-like compilation of memorable moments from the games or the whole thing? Because the latter case automatically encourages a playthrough and once you commit to a playthrough, you find yourself playing 8/16 bit games... with a whole Gen 7 MMORPG for a launcher? The novelty might surrender to the tedium rather quickly.
Unlike Death's Door, PGA Tour 2K23 isn't on Switch [yet], but Dreams - the glorious analogue of Nintendo's Game Garage Builder from one of Sony's most Nintendoesque studios this side of the late Japan Studio (they're behind LBP and Tearaway, after all) arguably steals the month's spotlight. One of the best IGC offerings this year, that's for sure.
Phew, always reassuring to know a modern game won't be offering me extensive amount of gameplay routines and other content as opposed to... the arcade-inherited trollish difficulty of the past classic I grew up with and am nostalgic about.π
@Triumph741 well, I'm playing AC2 these days (following AC1) and I'm fine with the current state of AC, so I guess I can fathom it alright.π
@Th3solution Borderlands 3 is even featured in one of the current PS Stars tasks. Which has 22 days left, meaning the game will be leaving shortly after.
It'll be funny if the sale finally discounts NFS 2015 (multiplat yet fully online which obviously rules out sideloading its region-locked Windows port) for the first time since February. I had kept wallet funds for it on standby for a month or two... before pulling the trigger on the [still] platform-exclusive Sakura Wars the other day instead.π
I've yet to look into BOCW as the only non-Switch title here. If it has a single player campaign akin to Modern Warfare games, colour me curious. If not... Β―(γ)/Β―
@Logonogo I'm not sure if "playing games and going about their lives instead of publicly embellishing their underwhelmed parasitic hedonism" is quite within the definition of "hiding".π
Between Switch and Deck, a lot of these are a hard sell on a home/streaming console (barring the cases that may bonk you with a compatibility bat Deckside), but Far Cry 6 may come in handy since, despite making a spare US Ubi account for the respective PSN one, I have yet to investigate if it's any viable for purchasing PC versions as well (the website accepted my bank card as a saved payment method but may yet rebel at potential billing address/location discrepancies), and first party exclusives like Killzone Liberation go without saying.π
"For all platforms" - well, we Switch users will be the judges of that.π And with bold statements like this, he may come to be thankful that Amico is in apparent limbo now.
Also, is the logo meant to be an optical illusion, or are its middle part's vibrations purely on my owl brain after getting up at half past seven?π΅π
After all the time it took Catherine Full Body and Persona flagships to get announced for Switch, I can't say I'm sweating much about this one.π We'll get there when we get there.
@KaijuKaiser sequels sticking to newer gen I can understand - it's the DLC cases that are actually odder. If you already play the base game on PS4, then it better have a cross-save with PS5 (like, say, Horizon Forbidden West thankfully appears to) or you'd be forced to start the DLC on a clean run or even replay a fair portion before accessing it (the kind of FWP I ended up facing with Ace Attorney SoJ for other reasons last yearπ). Then again, perhaps FFVIIR DLC is a standalone mode in the first place?
Wham of the month so far. A racing open-worlder RPG with animesque visuals and a female protagonist AND Switch among the announced platforms. Don't wake me up just yet.
Given that video games, even those based on or inspired by our world's history or concurrent events, remain interactive Fiction, I've honestly always found this whole "player likeness" somewhat overrated. Neat as an option when reasonably possible, but when it threatens to bloat the budget? I daresay it's more engaging to follow the journey of an original or avatar protagonist than to put yourself in extremely approximate and ultimately impactless shoes of some IRL sports star.
Enough gameplay to look forward to playing the game someday? Yes, I have.
Enough gameplay to buy a home console with no proper Remote Play (the jury is seemingly still out on PSQ) where even a mindblower like Xenoblade X never coerced me into doing that with Wii U? There's probably no such thing to see.
Trash as rumours are by definition, the thought of getting a remake on the heels of a straight port is admittedly not QUITE as farfetched since Trials of Mana came out.
But hey, this is an investment in the future. Several years down the road, surely you will want to have a couple other games installed besides the latest CoD.
E3 was simply dealt the same lockdown blow as cinemas when everyone had to default to YouTube for its core content and subsequently realized that, unless you're in the market for the con vibe and/or invited "influencers", this is pretty much the same thing minus all the hassle. But cinemas are recovering since not everyone can afford (and/or bother) to install comparable experience equipment at home; game trailers aren't long enough to highlight the practical difference between a monitor/phone screen and a theater one.
I don't think this will necessarily be the death of E3, seeing as other and much less industry-backed conventions survive to this day. But it may well take them longer to get back on their feet.
With all respect, all this emphasis on "grittier and more grounded" can sometimes come across like Yoshida-san being under some impression of XVI having invented gritty and grounded for the series. Mog, for one, is the source of much goofy cuteness in XIII-2 which doesn't make it any less grimdark in the wide range of other story/lore aspects (including but not limited to its ending). And the list goes on.
@Shadcai FFI (and FFII as far as moogles are concerned):
It's... nice. Props to all the work and talent that went into it, but I guess I'm really too old to appreciate what looks like extra VFX fluff on top of the series graphics long having reached their logical ceiling in Gen 7. Neat when available but hopefully not THE reason for eating hardware specs for breakfast (although IIRC the game promised to make use of the console's trademark loading speeds as well).
If anything, the best part of the video was the reminder of the Stagger mechanic coming back again with even more of the familiar Gran Pulse flavour this time around.
Is there even a legal obligation to do so? From Nintendo's deal with Yandex Market way back when to their AND Sony's occasional Humble Bundle events, I've been under an impression that this was mostly on a voluntary, negotiable and specifically advertised basis. And then, on PC side, we have third party key markets like G2G which recurrently get accused of selling ban-risking fake codes, which probably doesn't encourage console makers to open their doors too wide either.
"βInnovation is our passion, and that applies to not just what games you play, but how you play them,β said boss Jim Ryan about something that PSP started two generations ago. But hey, it's the thought that counts. This announcement is moving me the closest I've ever been to considering a prospective PS5 purchase, although I'd be lying if I claimed not to take the news with caution. Vita's native resolution can handle PS4 streams even on 3G (as long as you squeeze past the whimsical "internet quality" startup bouncer), but this one seems bound to target 720p and upwards, something that even 4G tends to struggle with (while 5G might be lucky to hit us second-worlders by 2030). And as Wii U is our witness, limiting portability to the immediate apartment area will only turn so many heads despite what QoL perks it does supply. That said, I feel compelled to note that this is the only discussion angle appropriate to bring up Nintendo's underrated home dualscreener; all the above comments claiming that Project Q outright "reinvents Wii U" in a single (if most popular) feature sound as literate about gaming history as Ryan just did. If anything, it was PS4 that briefly tried to jump on the bandwagon by giving Vita select "second screen" pairup functionality... or do this site'a visitors likewise remember Vita as much as Sony does?ππ
@MrGawain they already made Vita to play God of War on a bus (alongside other big experiences from Resistance and Gravity Rush to NFS MW12 and [a reportedly rough but ultimately playable] Borderlands 2), not to mention PSP's likes of GTA and GUN a generation prior or Nintendo's hybrid queen that filled many a commute with all kinds of God of War Ragnarok tier journeys a generation after. The tech is there, so hope springs eternal. Leading Aloy through the HZD wilderness on the go courtesy of Deck feels downright worth having forfeited my sizeable PS4 playthrough and more "transformative" than ten PSVRs could hope to be.π
Credit where due, the streams have proven decent at least on home WiFi, so on top of that much more games, the function can viably mitigate the first world storage struggles of Catalogue-induced gluttony (or even just PS Stars campaigns where you find 50 extra points nice but not nice enough to [clear up and] download 30+ Gb for them) - and for the twenty buck difference in yearly subs, too.
I'd naturally rather see them give some older diamonds Switch versions (from Bound and Gravity Rush 2 to Folklore and MotorStorm), but PC versions are also worth a shot to me now. One of the first things I did after picking up my Deck was splurge on a handful of Steam games (yes, besides the usual bunch of more Switch onesπ) including a discounted Days Gone and a full-priced Horizon Zero Dawn. Sure helps that, unlike several other publishers, Sony's games with the inexplicable exception of the first Spider-Man (Miles Morales still shows up) are still available on local Steam... or maybe it's really just their seeming tendency to forget that Belarus exists?π
Colour me confused. So the game has problems syncing back with 2K servers but this, instead of failing to upload the local save now and then, forcibly downloads the earlier backup to overwrite the local???π€ As someone mostly dealing with cloud storage on Switch (where it's more system-level for most games), I've been used to it outright demanding that you close the game before downloading the respective save file (and being quite vocal in its repercussion warnings overall), so this kind of situation being possible at all sounds... sounds unorthodox to say the least.
In the same vein, Switch also likes to jam its connections in sleep mode which, IIRC, may result in temporary 2K server cut for Bioshock or Borderlands (emphasis on "IIRC" because I rarely pay attention to that). But I wouldn't dream of it just overwriting the latest local save behind my back upon reconnecting. Or is it something like the game itself specifically being designed to prioritize cloud over local somehow? I think I'm too humanitarian for this [beep].π΅π
Most of the list evokes reassuring eShop deja vus, but Agents of Mayhem is certainly a bummer - like Spider-Man, it's been among my first and most recurrent PS4 playthroughs since going for the Catalogue. Oh well, time will tell if I pick it up on PSS itself to resume later or restart it on a different option I'm currently weighing all the pros and contras of (the latter mainly revolving around 36 months of 30 buck payments and the former obviously revolving around native portabili- WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS GAME IS ALSO LISTED AS "UNSUPPORTED"?!πΉ).
Homophobic bigotry is not unlikely to change, at least. But I wouldn't hold my breath for the mentality that attacks anyone's contribution to a fiction work on the asinine premise of having "ruined it". Fans gonna fan, alas. Best we can do is suppress the ones that nest inside us.π
@Uromastryx all fandoms are full of "Dbags" by nature - addictions and entitlements rarely breed lasting positivity. It's just that Online Disinhibition Effect is also a catalyst, and gamers were among the first fiction audiences to embrace the online environment (and its communicative segment) as it spread.
Maybe someday someone will make a documentary on Sony's licensing paperwork. It seems more action-packed than us on the outside would ever expect it to be.
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Re: Reaction: Has Sony Put Together the Worst PS Plus Month Ever?
Price increases are never welcome news on the customer side, but I've already renewed my Premium at a discount until late next July, and chances are next year's renewal may likewise strike a sale. If anything, more depends on the eventual estimation of whether I'll still need the current tier and even Extra or not (I intend to maintain Essential in any case), but that's a bridge to cross when I get to it.
As for September lineup, I've already commented favourably elsewhere. IGC can never have enough freeroam actventures and RPGs in my book, so the fanheaded drama across the article and the comments here looks smirkworthy at best.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for September 2023 Announced
Pretty damn neat. Two action open-worlders including a driving one from a renowned series, as if to "make up" for me missing out on NFS Heat last September, and an MMORPG I would have quite enjoyed during my mobile acquaintance therewith if not for the touchscreen controls. And while the former two are more likely to be experienced on Deck in due time (although a legal access box to check somewhere is still welcome since Volition stuff is locked on Steam these days), MMORPG compatibility remains anything but a given there, so chances are I'll revisit this one on my PS4 for the time being.
Re: Poll: Are You Sold on PlayStation Portal?
Reported hotspot support and a stomachable threshold of 5 Mbps at least make it a viable Remote Play successor after all, and raise my odds of ever buying a PS5... above zero, anyway.
On the other hand, being limited to PS5 is a bit of a flipside, especially disappointing with a fully equipped controller that could have addressed all the control scheme issues PSP and Vita faced when streaming their respective peers before. And PS4 was something to buy on top of the handheld I had plenty of use for in general; Portal's $200 apparently net you a glorified paperweight unless/until you spend another $400. When you factor in myself already paying out a Steam Deck loan, saving up several hundred bucks within the next couple years would probably require me to lock all or most of my remaining allocatable hobby funds, and an eventual Switch successor is the only new piece of gaming hardware that could realistically compel me to do so. Colour me vaguely in the market for PS5+Portal combo, but with a bold type "maybe someday" footnote.
In related [shower] thoughts, I just realized that PlayStation Portal abbreviates to "PSP".π
Re: Poll: Will You Be Buying Red Dead Redemption on PS4?
No chance. You've all seen the announcement - how, indeed, would I be motivated to buy the game for my PS4 after an announcement like this?
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Re: PS5 Game Cloud Streaming in Public Testing Right Now with PS Plus Premium Members
"It appears you will be able to choose a streaming resolution of up to 4K"
Cool, I didn't know NASA breakrooms had PS5s installed.
Re: Red Dead Redemption Out on PS4 This Month, Not a Remaster
@Jayslow ah, I see. Indeed, in this case PS4 may have been a more familiar platform to port to as well.
Re: Red Dead Redemption Out on PS4 This Month, Not a Remaster
@Jayslow "This probably started as a Nintendo switch port. Having it on PS4 so we can play on modern consoles is just a bonus"
You know the fandom has sent the concept of console generations out the window when a previous generation machine is called a "modern console" in contrast to a current gen one.π€π
Re: Baldur's Gate 3's Bear Sex Just the Tip of the 'Horny' Iceberg, Apparently
laughs in Crush Crush
Re: PS5 Sales Absolutely Explode in the UK Following Price Cut
@Luigia holding it back from what, tracing more rays or tasking the draw distances with yet more skin-pore-magnifying resolutions for wall carpet TVs and/or PSVR2? Or has the industry come up with something yet unheard of in terms of gameplay and worldcraft proper that wouldn't have been technologically possible over the last two or three generations?
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Could One Day Be Playable in Square Enix's PS5, PS4 MMO
How exactly would it work, though? A demo-like compilation of memorable moments from the games or the whole thing? Because the latter case automatically encourages a playthrough and once you commit to a playthrough, you find yourself playing 8/16 bit games... with a whole Gen 7 MMORPG for a launcher? The novelty might surrender to the tedium rather quickly.
Re: Poll: Who's the Best Final Fantasy Protagonist?
If I'm forced to choose just one, then Lightning it is.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for August 2023 Announced
Unlike Death's Door, PGA Tour 2K23 isn't on Switch [yet], but Dreams - the glorious analogue of Nintendo's Game Garage Builder from one of Sony's most Nintendoesque studios this side of the late Japan Studio (they're behind LBP and Tearaway, after all) arguably steals the month's spotlight. One of the best IGC offerings this year, that's for sure.
Re: Don't Worry, Ubisoft Promises Star Wars Outlaws Won't Be a '300 Hour Epic Unfinishable RPG'
Phew, always reassuring to know a modern game won't be offering me extensive amount of gameplay routines and other content as opposed to... the arcade-inherited trollish difficulty of the past classic I grew up with and am nostalgic about.π
@Triumph741 well, I'm playing AC2 these days (following AC1) and I'm fine with the current state of AC, so I guess I can fathom it alright.π
Re: Claudio Serafino Gets Sirius in Tekken 8 Character Trailer
I've yet to beat this dude in Tekken 7's campaign.π
Re: Yet Another Live Service Game Is Shutting Down After Just One Year
Ouch. Guess Bamco's freemiums can't stay afloat for long even on consoles.
Re: One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 Plunders New PS4 DLC Over Three Years After Release
"You're going to Luffy it"
I'm used to the puns from NL and this site, but bruh... how do you guys pronounce Luffy's name, again?π€
Re: Another 10 PS5, PS4 Games Leave PS Plus Extra, Premium in August
@Th3solution Borderlands 3 is even featured in one of the current PS Stars tasks. Which has 22 days left, meaning the game will be leaving shortly after.
Re: Sony's Massive PS Store Summer Sale Starts Next Week
It'll be funny if the sale finally discounts NFS 2015 (multiplat yet fully online which obviously rules out sideloading its region-locked Windows port) for the first time since February. I had kept wallet funds for it on standby for a month or two... before pulling the trigger on the [still] platform-exclusive Sakura Wars the other day instead.π
Re: Accused GTA 6 Leaker Deemed Unfit to Stand Trial by Psychiatrists
@WolfyTn "but Your Honor, this whole case of sexual assault would have never happened if she had agreed to date me in the first place"
Nobody owes us entertainment, even the industries making money on it.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for July 2023?
I've yet to look into BOCW as the only non-Switch title here. If it has a single player campaign akin to Modern Warfare games, colour me curious. If not... Β―(γ)/Β―
Re: Gollum Dev Daedalic Entertainment to Focus on Publishing After Disastrous Launch
@Logonogo I'm not sure if "playing games and going about their lives instead of publicly embellishing their underwhelmed parasitic hedonism" is quite within the definition of "hiding".π
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for June 2023?
Between Switch and Deck, a lot of these are a hard sell on a home/streaming console (barring the cases that may bonk you with a compatibility bat Deckside), but Far Cry 6 may come in handy since, despite making a spare US Ubi account for the respective PSN one, I have yet to investigate if it's any viable for purchasing PC versions as well (the website accepted my bank card as a saved payment method but may yet rebel at potential billing address/location discrepancies), and first party exclusives like Killzone Liberation go without saying.π
Re: Sonic Origins Plus Isn't Even Out on PS5, PS4 Yet But Fans Are Already Mad
How does fans being perpetually mad - and Sonic fans at that - still qualify as "news"?
Re: GTA Writer and Rockstar Co-Founder Dan Houser Unveils New Company Absurd Ventures
"For all platforms" - well, we Switch users will be the judges of that.π And with bold statements like this, he may come to be thankful that Amico is in apparent limbo now.
Also, is the logo meant to be an optical illusion, or are its middle part's vibrations purely on my owl brain after getting up at half past seven?π΅π
Re: There's Growing Concern Over Persona Dev's Metaphor: ReFantazio Being an Xbox Exclusive
After all the time it took Catherine Full Body and Persona flagships to get announced for Switch, I can't say I'm sweating much about this one.π We'll get there when we get there.
Re: No, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Is Definitely Not Releasing on PS4
@KaijuKaiser sequels sticking to newer gen I can understand - it's the DLC cases that are actually odder. If you already play the base game on PS4, then it better have a cross-save with PS5 (like, say, Horizon Forbidden West thankfully appears to) or you'd be forced to start the DLC on a clean run or even replay a fair portion before accessing it (the kind of FWP I ended up facing with Ace Attorney SoJ for other reasons last yearπ). Then again, perhaps FFVIIR DLC is a standalone mode in the first place?
Re: Highly Stylised Racing RPG Resistor Looks Like a PS5 Winner
Wham of the month so far. A racing open-worlder RPG with animesque visuals and a female protagonist AND Switch among the announced platforms. Don't wake me up just yet.
Re: EA Sports Accused of Exploiting College Football Stars Over Low Pay for New PS5 Game
Given that video games, even those based on or inspired by our world's history or concurrent events, remain interactive Fiction, I've honestly always found this whole "player likeness" somewhat overrated. Neat as an option when reasonably possible, but when it threatens to bloat the budget? I daresay it's more engaging to follow the journey of an original or avatar protagonist than to put yourself in extremely approximate and ultimately impactless shoes of some IRL sports star.
Re: In a Shock Twist, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Will Have Music on PS5
@Blackmagehobbit damn, with tech like that, we could even get a separate slider for the voices!
Re: Square Enix Doesn't Think You've Seen Enough Final Fantasy 16 PS5 Gameplay
Enough gameplay to look forward to playing the game someday? Yes, I have.
Enough gameplay to buy a home console with no proper Remote Play (the jury is seemingly still out on PSQ) where even a mindblower like Xenoblade X never coerced me into doing that with Wii U? There's probably no such thing to see.
Re: Persona 3 Remake Rumours Intensify Yet Again with Updated Web Domain
Trash as rumours are by definition, the thought of getting a remake on the heels of a straight port is admittedly not QUITE as farfetched since Trials of Mana came out.
Re: In a Shock Twist, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Will Have Music on PS5
@Blackmagehobbit the real question is, will PS5's hardware be enough to handle the volume settings?
Re: After a Year of Silence, the Final Fantasy 9 Remake Rumours Have Re-Emerged
E3 or no E3, June remains the time for Reliable Sources to crawl out of the woodwork.π
Re: WD Black's Officially Licensed PS5 SSDs Now Include a 4TB Option for an Eye-Watering $550
"Look whose external storage costs a fortune now" - Vita, probably.
But hey, this is an investment in the future. Several years down the road, surely you will want to have a couple other games installed besides the latest CoD.
Re: E3 Killed Itself, Says Summer Game Fest's Geoff Keighley
E3 was simply dealt the same lockdown blow as cinemas when everyone had to default to YouTube for its core content and subsequently realized that, unless you're in the market for the con vibe and/or invited "influencers", this is pretty much the same thing minus all the hassle. But cinemas are recovering since not everyone can afford (and/or bother) to install comparable experience equipment at home; game trailers aren't long enough to highlight the practical difference between a monitor/phone screen and a theater one.
I don't think this will necessarily be the death of E3, seeing as other and much less industry-backed conventions survive to this day. But it may well take them longer to get back on their feet.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for June 2023 Available to Download Now
Not the most fun of times to have a US account in Europe.π
Re: Random: Final Fantasy 16's PS5 Performance Mode Made Moogles Look Like Hedgehogs
With all respect, all this emphasis on "grittier and more grounded" can sometimes come across like Yoshida-san being under some impression of XVI having invented gritty and grounded for the series. Mog, for one, is the source of much goofy cuteness in XIII-2 which doesn't make it any less grimdark in the wide range of other story/lore aspects (including but not limited to its ending). And the list goes on.
@Shadcai FFI (and FFII as far as moogles are concerned):
Re: Final Fantasy 16's Liquid Flame Boss Battle on PS5 Will Melt Your Eyes
It's... nice. Props to all the work and talent that went into it, but I guess I'm really too old to appreciate what looks like extra VFX fluff on top of the series graphics long having reached their logical ceiling in Gen 7. Neat when available but hopefully not THE reason for eating hardware specs for breakfast (although IIRC the game promised to make use of the console's trademark loading speeds as well).
If anything, the best part of the video was the reminder of the Stagger mechanic coming back again with even more of the familiar Gran Pulse flavour this time around.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for June 2023 Announced
Two of these on Switch but JPE2 still isn't, so there's that.
Re: Sony Under Fire for Allegedly Abusing Its Dominance in the Industry
Is there even a legal obligation to do so? From Nintendo's deal with Yandex Market way back when to their AND Sony's occasional Humble Bundle events, I've been under an impression that this was mostly on a voluntary, negotiable and specifically advertised basis. And then, on PC side, we have third party key markets like G2G which recurrently get accused of selling ban-risking fake codes, which probably doesn't encourage console makers to open their doors too wide either.
Re: Speculation Claims Sony Opted Not to Include Some Major PS5 Games During PS Showcase
"Was my 'leak' so out of touch? No, it is the Showcase program that is wrong"
Re: Sony's Portable PS5 Streaming Handheld Launches Later This Year
@BlueBeemer "will the PS6 just be a Switch clone?"
Implying this wouldn't be an unironically frabjous day.π
Re: Sony's Portable PS5 Streaming Handheld Launches Later This Year
"βInnovation is our passion, and that applies to not just what games you play, but how you play them,β said boss Jim Ryan about something that PSP started two generations ago. But hey, it's the thought that counts. This announcement is moving me the closest I've ever been to considering a prospective PS5 purchase, although I'd be lying if I claimed not to take the news with caution. Vita's native resolution can handle PS4 streams even on 3G (as long as you squeeze past the whimsical "internet quality" startup bouncer), but this one seems bound to target 720p and upwards, something that even 4G tends to struggle with (while 5G might be lucky to hit us second-worlders by 2030). And as Wii U is our witness, limiting portability to the immediate apartment area will only turn so many heads despite what QoL perks it does supply. That said, I feel compelled to note that this is the only discussion angle appropriate to bring up Nintendo's underrated home dualscreener; all the above comments claiming that Project Q outright "reinvents Wii U" in a single (if most popular) feature sound as literate about gaming history as Ryan just did. If anything, it was PS4 that briefly tried to jump on the bandwagon by giving Vita select "second screen" pairup functionality... or do this site'a visitors likewise remember Vita as much as Sony does?ππ
Time will tell, possibly including future details about oddly absent options like PS Premium streaming (Vita didn't have it for obvious reasons but nowadays, even friggen Windows 10 does). But my curbed enthusiasm still comes hand in hand with due credit - this is still a Remote Play revival that all the phone/holder/DualSense chimeras of years past conspicuously weren't. As for "5G connections"... remind me, how far did Vita's native 3G go? Most MSPs outside the usual few geographic suspects wouldn't provide dedicated sim cards even if they were hip enough to know what a "Vita" was to begin with. And now, from Switch to Steam Deck, portable gaming mostly relies on mobile hotspots instead. Don't you guys have phones?Β© π The latter are bound to get native 5G long before any other consumer tech ever does.
@MrGawain they already made Vita to play God of War on a bus (alongside other big experiences from Resistance and Gravity Rush to NFS MW12 and [a reportedly rough but ultimately playable] Borderlands 2), not to mention PSP's likes of GTA and GUN a generation prior or Nintendo's hybrid queen that filled many a commute with all kinds of God of War Ragnarok tier journeys a generation after. The tech is there, so hope springs eternal. Leading Aloy through the HZD wilderness on the go courtesy of Deck feels downright worth having forfeited my sizeable PS4 playthrough and more "transformative" than ten PSVRs could hope to be.π
Re: PS Plus Premium More Popular Than Extra, 30% of Subscribers Upgraded
Credit where due, the streams have proven decent at least on home WiFi, so on top of that much more games, the function can viably mitigate the first world storage struggles of Catalogue-induced gluttony (or even just PS Stars campaigns where you find 50 extra points nice but not nice enough to [clear up and] download 30+ Gb for them) - and for the twenty buck difference in yearly subs, too.
Re: Sony Won't Back Down on PC Ports, But PS5 Is the Priority
I'd naturally rather see them give some older diamonds Switch versions (from Bound and Gravity Rush 2 to Folklore and MotorStorm), but PC versions are also worth a shot to me now. One of the first things I did after picking up my Deck was splurge on a handful of Steam games (yes, besides the usual bunch of more Switch onesπ) including a discounted Days Gone and a full-priced Horizon Zero Dawn. Sure helps that, unlike several other publishers, Sony's games with the inexplicable exception of the first Spider-Man (Miles Morales still shows up) are still available on local Steam... or maybe it's really just their seeming tendency to forget that Belarus exists?π
Re: LEGO 2K Drive Is Reportedly Eating Pre-Order Players' Save Progress
Colour me confused. So the game has problems syncing back with 2K servers but this, instead of failing to upload the local save now and then, forcibly downloads the earlier backup to overwrite the local???π€ As someone mostly dealing with cloud storage on Switch (where it's more system-level for most games), I've been used to it outright demanding that you close the game before downloading the respective save file (and being quite vocal in its repercussion warnings overall), so this kind of situation being possible at all sounds... sounds unorthodox to say the least.
In the same vein, Switch also likes to jam its connections in sleep mode which, IIRC, may result in temporary 2K server cut for Bioshock or Borderlands (emphasis on "IIRC" because I rarely pay attention to that). But I wouldn't dream of it just overwriting the latest local save behind my back upon reconnecting. Or is it something like the game itself specifically being designed to prioritize cloud over local somehow? I think I'm too humanitarian for this [beep].π΅π
Re: 17 PS5, PS4 Games Marked as Leaving PS Plus Extra, Premium Soon
Most of the list evokes reassuring eShop deja vus, but Agents of Mayhem is certainly a bummer - like Spider-Man, it's been among my first and most recurrent PS4 playthroughs since going for the Catalogue. Oh well, time will tell if I pick it up on PSS itself to resume later or restart it on a different option I'm currently weighing all the pros and contras of (the latter mainly revolving around 36 months of 30 buck payments and the former obviously revolving around native portabili- WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS GAME IS ALSO LISTED AS "UNSUPPORTED"?!πΉ).
Re: Horizon Vocalist Receives Abuse Over the Use of Her Voice
Homophobic bigotry is not unlikely to change, at least. But I wouldn't hold my breath for the mentality that attacks anyone's contribution to a fiction work on the asinine premise of having "ruined it". Fans gonna fan, alas. Best we can do is suppress the ones that nest inside us.π
@Uromastryx all fandoms are full of "Dbags" by nature - addictions and entitlements rarely breed lasting positivity. It's just that Online Disinhibition Effect is also a catalyst, and gamers were among the first fiction audiences to embrace the online environment (and its communicative segment) as it spread.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Nothing on PS5, PS4, Can Compete with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
@Slippship @Soulless666
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Re: Next Week's PS Plus Extra Lineup Has Been Changed Again
Maybe someday someone will make a documentary on Sony's licensing paperwork. It seems more action-packed than us on the outside would ever expect it to be.