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After going through the poll 2 things came to my mind.

1) is anybody still playing or talking about pal world?

2) Borderlands... where good taste goes to die

A celebration of gaming, 250k minute by minute.

Nah, glad that Geoff still keeps some of the fun in the industry going, since Sony and Microsoft (and others) clearly forgot how to create buzz around games. Get the psblog writers typing!

Even if the game sucked, they're sitting on 7 years of assets they could repurpose to create the original vision.
History can repeat itself like with David Ayer's Suicide squad Vs James Gunn 's The suicide squad.

@nomither6 first time I'm hearing that as well. Nowadays many try to infuse "therapy speak" into everything, leading to wildly mixed results 😂

Is this the equivalent of getting traffic duty after being the world's greatest detective.

@themightyant no worries, as with any game, one doesn't have to play it. It's more for the diehard enthusiasts anyways.

I just don't get the attitude here, that because something doesn't sell like crazy it doesn't deserve to continue to exist. According to that games are purely made for the money and not because there's any passion behind it.

@Pat_trick maybe team rgg should just remake it 😉 then Shenmue goes full circle.

@themightyant sure it's old school, but that was what they went for. It definitely needs time to get you back in however and there are some positive improvements as well, but yes, it's not a modern game.
My biggest gripe was the dumb stamina system they introduced, which forced me to constantly feed Ryo with garlic 😂 no wonder he has such a hard time getting the info he needs.

That sure is unexpected. Haven't gotten the chance to play this, but I do love this era of PS1/PS2 horror.

If they'd pair a physical copy with the full art book and soundtrack, I'd be willing to pay 60€, but digital... nay

@LifeGirl get out of here with your made up "hype to sales ratio", which is absolutely your opinion. If games are measured by that alone FIFA and CoD must be some of the highest artistic achievements in games.

Shenmue 1&2 were way ahead of their time and should be regarded for that reason alone. Highly interactive environments, every NPCs had dialogue branches and a day/night cycle and so much more.
Who knows, if sega would have been as persistent as with the Yakuza games (that wouldn't exist without Shenmue), maybe they would have reached mainstream appeal as well. A few years ago nobody would have expected that from Yakuza/like a dragon.

Well thank you for the PSA Captain Obvious!

Best place to play... the touryst (great game btw)

Well I think I got my most anticipated sgf game right here. Gotta update that poll pushsquare.

No hopes and expectations thanks to preemptive expectation management. On the one hand I totally understand why Geoff does that, but still it's like going into marriage with with a lousy prenup that reads like a self fulfilling prophecy of the inevitable break up.

Blaming series s is lazy, might as well blame low and mid tier PCs as well. But of course loads of people here are looking for a scapegoat to continue their asinine tribalism.

@Radekbejbl1 I must say Yong's dub, though strange in the beginning, grew on me and I could understand why they went with his voice. However, he absolutely butchered Baka mitai

@ChrisDeku you have to also take Japan's inflation freeze from the 90s to 2021 into consideration. Those wages you listed weren't bad, but will have to adjust accordingly in the coming years as inflation is slowly growing.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/japan-1990s-credit-crunch-liquidity-trap.asp#:~:text=From%201991%20through%202001%2C%20Japan,pace%20than%20other%20industrialized%20nations.

Imagine a time where news was sourced through actual investigation rather than using social media hearsay as a crutch to create any kind of content. At the same time I'm glad I do t have the job to constantly make content just for traffic sake.
I like the articles about the gaming trips to Japan and the other seldom deep dive.
Timeextension do regularly write well researched articles, but that's probably the advantage of doing historical journalism.

@haoie absolutely amazing to see the series move out of obscurity over the years.
I hope the TV series can boost games sales as much as the fallout series did.

I didn't expect this after the long radio silence, but I'm super hyped! I hope it lives up to the games that it's a good way to catch the amazing story for people who don't sit down for a 60h game.

The art is somewhat bland compared to blue eyed samurai and the last castlevania series, but I'll definitely give it a shot.

@DennisReynolds I'm sure it's an exciting time to pad your wallets.

Of course we all know that companies generally just run that way, it's how the world runs.

But just a little thought experiment: imagine a world where (gaming) companies aren't publicly traded, but just exist to create workplaces, create a good product and get by without having to make insane amounts of profit?

Of course one would say impossible because it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, but it wouldn't hurt to dream a little bigger once in a while, would it. I recommend the book utopia for realists from Rutger Bregman.

I didn't catch wind of the leaks and still missed any element of surprise, so leaks aren't really an issue with state of play.

If this were a monthly or even quarterly showcase one could let such a (mostly, not completely) boring line up pass, but after blueballing us for ages... no sir, not how it's done.

@nessisonett agree, him and Ken Watanabe are on Hollywood's shortlist when they need a Japanese actor. Both brilliant however. Though I must say, Tadanobu Asano stole each scene in Shogun with his hilarious performance... also one of Japan's finest.

And they can't tell me it's not possible because of gimicks like eye tracking, foveat rendering and HDR.

Wouldn't it make more sense to support the big headsets like quest on ps5 instead? There's more money to be had with software than with hardware sales for Sony.

Finally some news! This looks like a must buy, but on a handheld system.

The games weren't horrid for the most part, but Sony just isn't reading the room. They blue ball the community for ages, come around E3 time and then spend half of the show with a generic PvP shooter, the most unnecessary remaster possible and pc announcements that could be relegated elsewhere, and then in the end show two big games, but no surprises.

I don't want to be negative, but Sony has been lousy with their showmanship ever since they switched to this digital format, while promoting bigger things like back when psvr2 or the new psplus tiers were announced on the psblog... why!?

I think it's a lack of showmanship and reading the room because there is a constant stream of great games, even if it's not a AAA Sony exclusive single player.
If Sony would give these MP games less time, keep the pc re-releases and remasters for separate trailers and their infamous psblog posts and give the stage to inventive indie, big 3rd party games and AA games that take some risks you'd have more of the experimental fun stuff ps1-4 stood for.

Also, FF7 remake, Shenmue 3 and the last guardian did deliver in the end! Best show ever!

@sanderev I know it's not an official solution and annoying, but it's a functioning workaround until psn is supported in affected countries. And as far as I can see nobody has ever been penalized for doing so. I wouldn't see a reason why Sony would even bother. I'm EU based and have a Japanese account as well and it's always been alright.

@sanderev you can make a free PSN account easily for any country, even without a VPN, so that's not really an issue.

Happy that this is coming to the quest as it'll be doa on psvr2.
The only things that got me worried is 1st that we barely got footage. 2nd, having rogue in the title makes me fearful that this is another short game with little content, padded out lengthwise with rogue like elements. The persistence was okay, but I want an alien game to have a proper story like isolation.

I want E3 back

Man, so much free to play stuff. Not that I'm instantly writing it off, but still a bad trend. I think I'll be to busy with zenless zone zero anyways. Since these are such time sinks studios need to be aware that this is a winner takes it all business.

This game really saved the show and proves again that Sony's only reliable pillar are Japanese studios.
I don't own a psvr2 but would hope that this game would be hybrid flat and VR release.

Maybe they should have added in the announcement "shutting servers in 2026"

@spukknik1 same, from all the samey looking chinese swordfight soulsbornes, this one did stand out.

Up to ps1 2D games proper CRT shaders can really improve the image quality, but even with upscaled PS2 3d graphics it can add to the flair.

Just hope there'll also be wide-screen hacks as well.

@get2sammyb this is great news! Does the official PS2 emulator also support widescreen and 4k. Must say I love playing these classics via nethersx2 which makes them look amazing, but I'd also like to collect ps trophies.

Reaching an young adult male demographic should be a no brainer, but at the same time, so many of that audience just play FIFA, Halo, GTA and CoD and never touch anything outside that.
Either way, while not perfect, SEGA in more than one way does take risks and I respect that.

Could this finally be the last nail in the coffin of asymmetric pvp horror? Sure hope so.

@PuppetMaster studio team sizes between now and the 80s/90s aren't comparable anymore.
My point isn't that Kojima is crap, I love a good chunk of his work and gameplay wise I find them all great. The msx originals, policenauts, snatcher and zone of Enders, all great.
Most memeroble media however came to be because the creators had certain limitations and hardships (money, time, staff, etc) and found creative ways to work around it. Compare OG star wars with the prequel/sequel trilogies, compare alien to Prometheus. Not saying that more money spoils games, but it definitely makes one more risk averse.
My other point is that if people around you keep telling you what a genius you are, eventually that can backfire (see Elon Musk as a prime example). The idea of exceptionalism is a bane to society, greatness is a collaborative effort.
I'm sure Kojima is extremely talented and lots of the fuss is his surrounding and not himself, but this adoration has led to very overindulgent storytelling that is more alienating than meaningful.

@Northern_munkey saying the same. Mgs 1-3 and peace walker are the games that got me into gaming in the first place, they still had comprehensible plots. Every game since then has also been great from a gameplay perspective (even the "walking simulator" aspect of death stranding I found very inventive and fun), however overindulgent in its storytelling, which is a shame since I did like the stories in the past.

I wanted to get this alongside my steam version, but the shipping costs are not acceptable.

I just love this guy's voice and his overall performances. American fiction was fantastic in showing the hypocrisy of corporate "social awareness" while also just being a beautiful and funny family drama. He was also great as Bernard in Westworld. Even as the watcher in what if, he's one of the few bright spots in the MCUs current mess.

@Northern_munkey the irony of it all is that despite being such a movie buff he probably wouldn't make a good movie. He doesn't value some core movie rules in his own work like "show, don't tell", brevity and tight editing.

@Northern_munkey he's been mostly alienating his audiences since mgs 4 with one brain fart after the next. Gameplay wise mgs v was fantastic, but the single-take cut scenes had such cheesy cinematography and the story was super messy. Death stranding just underlined his creative downward trend. Again gameplay wise it was fine, but the story was just plain bad.
That's what you get when you glorify a single man and write him a blank cheque... pretty looking brain farts.

I don't find Millers critique disrespectful, however considering the publisher meddling and then wb also being so stupid to force them to release the same day as mgs V and then being like "your sales were disappointing", I do get why Sunberg is salty considering accolades are given to Kojima while you're own project was undermined at every turn.

As a big MGS fan and the franchise that got me hooked on gaming I still find myself questioning that odd glorification of a single Dev like Kojima considering his games are team efforts. The more creative and financial freedom he's getting the more off the rails his work gets, and not in a positive way.
If Kojima really is the auteur creator the industry claims him to be then he should release a low budget, small team game that blows everyone away.

Reading both it's not that bad, a summary of what he said but slightly out of context. Nothing to get in arms about however. Wish him and the studio the best and all the creative freedom necessary to create great games.