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Give the car a GT7 mode and let me drive in-game using the wheel & pedals of the actual car.

Earning some goodwill back in the home market is a solid start, which it seems this cheaper model is doing, then you build on that. I think the eventual gasha-game bundles with the cheaper model will work wonders too, like how we get Fortnite bundles in the USA.

Jak & Daxter made the cut this year! Always enjoy most the ones that celebrate the studio's history.

I adored the demo for this, it's very unique, fun and heartfelt. I will buy it when I can spare the cash.

If the necklace is any indication I'd bet the remake handles a transition to merge both CD continuities. I wonder about the size of the time skip, Catalyst Lara looks noticeably older than she does in the other games.

She's a great VA, can't complain about that choice.

Really nice that we get free access if we bought any of the pieces earlier. I wish you could level up the collab weapons, even if it's just to get camos.

Fully expect his role to be like Chris in RE8, mostly in the periphery while getting a segment or 2 of playable action to represent the old guard, rather than getting the full co-protagonist treatment. Hope Jill and Claire at least get cameos, get the Raccoon City cast together for a bit.

@themightyant it's likely just a country size difference. Japan is densely populated but fairly small, while China is BIG in every way. So there's just more people to throw at any & every problem while having a similarly bad work culture. Their decision to mostly work with open engines like UE5 & Unity means on-boarding any random new hire is faster too.

It's interesting how both companies differed on the state of the project, T2 saw a salvageable project while MS saw a lost cause, to the point T2 would outright hires the leads and gives them their own studio. Assuming they make a big game in that PD style they were cooking up we might get the answer to that question.

Could see DMC start getting the remake treatment, & given how 3 is the most popular game I can see them do them in chronological order, so 3 -> 1 -> 2 -> 4. Hopefully with a DMC6 thrown in there somewhere.

I've recently been in a similar state of mind, just want to enjoy games I can chill with or engage in a different way. Been playing Sword of the Sea recently and having a blast exploring and doing tricks at my own pace.

It's a fun game to mess around casually & I really enjoyed playing through the story mode & doing a bunch of the challenges, but it really feels like it was a sort of trial-run to gauge interest in the Tenkaichi games (there's a lot of lack of care & content in it) and if it did well enough it would get a sequel that served as a proper continuation of the series. Now it did crazy numbers and Bandai is stuck supporting it long term.

I get the same feeling from the recent Bleach fighter, a solid foundation meant to be built upon in subsequent releases. Like the last 2 DLC characters feel more developed than half of the cast.

Ready to spend the whole game blowing out kneecaps. They may never walk again, but they'll live.

200K copies seems very achievable for the next game from the Shovel Knight team.

I really enjoyed the demo, but even there with the abundance of flying enemies I felt almost required to bring a flying hero into the fight. I kept whiffing my air shots with Wolverine, but had an easier time lining up with Phylla-Vel once I had her fly up to their level.

@get2sammyb I think there's a place holder mistake in the second to last paragraph with "NAME HERE" in place of the shop name.

Been playing Rocket League on-and-off since it first released and finally got the Platinum last year, first trophy earned in 2015. 9 years of slowly grinding to earn it, I'm proud of that one.

I'd be curious to see if there's an uptick of disc-drive sales following this.

@Orpheus79V True, technically there's 3 different version of Persona 5 available in the store since Royal PS4 and Royal PS5 are sold as 2 wholly separate products.

Why remove Yakuza 0 availability on PS4? Enough people still play on PS4 to warrant keeping a version circulating on the store.

Could never get it to stop crashing on my PS5, even after I started a 2nd character to get the last few trophies for the Platinum (clean up of ones I had on PS4), but I still love it so much. One of my favorite games!

Craziest part of this is that OpenAI is deeply unprofitable while doing this, they do not have the money to gobble up 40% of the world supply of DRAM on top of their usual spending, but are doing it anyway.

It's a nice upgrade, just wish it actually brought some new content like an Egghead map to go with the DLC characters, or the missing pre-time skip Straw Hats from the older games.

Also copying forward the PS4 save data unlocks most of the trophies too, except like 6 gameplay ones you can easily get in like 20 minutes.

@nomither6 I wholeheartedly agree. Games shouldn't be announced if they're over 18 months out from release, maybe 2 years at most.

2026 is pretty packed for Playstation already. Saros & MLB in spring, Wolverine in the summer, Marvel Tokon and (likely) Marathon are due out 2026, then finally the GTA6 partnership means Sony will promote that in the Autumn. It makes sense for Intergalactic to lead the 2027 year.

MS for sure saw this coming, but they're really not in an "invest on side-business" mood, so Surface and Xbox aren't getting the funding & help to secure the extra parts (if Xbox seems help deprived, the Surface team has been on life support for years now). The whole operation is mostly spending money on AI hardware and software, so any extra DRAM would have been bought and hoarded by that division.

3 years, 3 wildly different Prince of Persia games. I hope this one is as good as side-scrollers were, would really cap-off a quality run the franchise hasn't had since the early 00's trilogy.

After only serving as set-dressing in the last Bond film, as Bond stuck to the Goldfinger and Living Daylights Aston Martin's throughout, it's finally getting it's time to shine in a James Bond project.

Played the PC demo a couple weeks ago and it's pretty good. It feels like an evolution of the Little Nightmares formula, while changing it up enough that it's still uniquely separate.

I don't like some of the changes to the game-play formula. Reduced interactivity is big making me feel less immersed in the world, like pushing a plank, operating a lever or opening a door is now walking up to the object and pressing "triangle" when it's highlighted to activate an animation rather than using physics to move the object.

Figured they would do this eventually, but a week after release seems real sudden.

Linus already mentioned in the LTT Steam Machine video that it's going to be priced competitively "like a PC", and gave his own thoughts on why that would be the case. This ain't exactly news-news.
If I had to guess it's going to be around Mac Mini prices, which is like $800 for the version people should buy. I can see Valve selling the 512GB version for $750 and then $1K for the 2TB version.

Not expecting something for free, but when I saw it on the store I hoped to find a 1-time DLC for older users, like 1 million credits for $10 or a discounted 2 million option.

I wish the color palette stuck closer to the series, it's throwing off the whole look. Game itself looks decent enough, the 3 modes seem like fun fits & varied.
Just need Whyte as Qwark's VA to be confirmed, this premise needs the voice to be right.

Please, please let it be real.🙏 CTR is my favorite kart game and building up on the Nitro Fueled foundation would be wonderful.

S-Snake? Guess they wanted the easy route reusing a bunch of Hancock's moves. Of the Seraphim S-Hawk would have been cooler, since Daz Bones has never been playable & they'd still get to cheap out reusing some of Mihawk's moves.

@PegasusActual93 Yeah I'm exaggerating for effect, but I wouldn't call the wait periods long either. Last time I went to a gun store it took like an hour at most, from picking one to walking out. For me at least, long would be waiting multiple hours or even having to return another day.

It really is about the gun culture aspect imo, even places with plenty of guns like México don't revere ownership or make it as easy to buy a pistol, much less a large gun. In the US you can go into a large store like Walmart and walk out with a rifle in like 10 minutes (may take a bit longer in some States), you just can't recreate that truth in another country.

It looks pretty nice for it being early days. A lot to still do obviously, but not bad at all.
It's weird that Aang seems to only be using air bending to fight, I'd expect him to mix in the other elements, like Korra's doing. Her main combat element is fire & it's reflected properly here with most of her combo's opening with a fire attack.

Remembered P1 & P2 exist! I think remasters of the PSP versions could be very doable, like P3P got, PSP EP deserves a worldwide release after all these years. Would be nice to give them more voice acting, but I wouldn't expect Atlus to invest that much into such ports.

I'm way more sensitive to motion sickness with first-person games so I'm very happy for this mode. I'll likely get the complete edition once the new expansion is out

@nomither6 CTR is also my favorite karting game of all time! While I despise Jak X, LBPK is a very fun karting game.
What I mean is that it was the last Naughty Dog Crash game and after that we only had Crash bash before it went multiplatform. Similarly the other 2 franchises also had 1 more game, The Lost Frontier and LBP3, before Sony lost interest in continuing them (for various reasons).

The most shocking thing here as that TheChineseRoom made a competent combat system.

I think the money route is plushies, rather than plastic figures, with Astrobot wearing different outfits from other 1st and 3rd party games.
Just never release a kart game as that was the beginning of the end for Crash, Jak and LBP as mascot properties.

Rest in Peace

Gameplay has always been the weak point for the studio, & one would think they're cognizant of this. Hopefully they don't throw a gazillion dollars into it and budget it responsibly, like Remedy did for Firebreak.

It's a neat piece of tech, just prohibitively expensive.
I wish the comparisons were clearer here, it would be good to at least know the power profiles used for both machines.

@B_Lindz probably a lot less, Sony would undoubtedly subsidize it & cut some corners to hit closer to Switch 2 price. This is sold at $1K for profit with both Asus and MS taking a bite of that margin.

A full-on remake makes sense if this is meant to target everyone & isn't just an excuse to put the game on PS like GoW1 was.

@dancingstar93 thank you! I have to get around to playing FFV.