@Cooe again, you're a special kind of stupid. That is blatant false equivalency. You're talking about a physical increase in power across the board, almost like a new console generation. And games had to be specifically programmed to utilize that new hardware, almost like making a brand new game.
I don't need to cite a source either, you can find it literally on every site talking about what the companies have said of their respective consoles. Both companies have stated they are achieving the same benchmarks. So, do you honestly believe that they will scrap everything they're doing to redo their game and make it operate better on another console? Nope. They will tweak it until it works acceptably.
They make their games so they play the same on both consoles, always how it has been done. Hell, the Xbox One X is more powerful on paper than the PS4 Pro....yet Cyberpunk 2077 was delayed why??? Oh that's right, optimization issues on XBox One. Something about their setup, be it software or hardware, is requiring lots of extra work to achieve the results that the PS4 Pro can already do.
The reality here is this: This console war isn't honestly about how pretty games are. They are both within a margin of error of each other, even in this generation. This war is about exclusives and who will have the most, which is directly tied to who developers prefer to work with. That has historically been Sony. That remains to be seen in this new generation, obviously.
You are a really, really, really special kind of stupid. Like beyond dumb. I never once said 480p/10fps was the same thing as 4k/60fps. Didn't hint at it, didn't mistakenly imply it, nothing. These games will have the exact same resolution, frame rate, and graphics quality, across the board on both consoles. Both companies have already identified that. They will both achieve the same results, period. At that point, what matters is load times. Not just between levels, but assets that aren't yet in player view. How fast you can access the data. No storage medium that exists today can outpace memory, CPU, or GPU processing and transfer speeds. The entire system is literally waiting on the storage at all times. Hence why SSD's and eventually m.2 SSD with PCIe access were such a game-changer. This drive destroys that barrier almost completely, on a level the drive in the Xbox can't hope to match.
So as I said with both systems achieving the exact same graphics quality....that leaves storage.
@Cooe I am well aware of how game engines work and how GPU power is used. I'm also aware of how loading of assets works from storage into memory. Here's a prime example for you. My 5 year old PC with slower RAM, an older GPU, and faster storage than the vast majority of other PC's out there. When you lock the frame rate and the resolution of the game, even on max settings, on ANY game, my system performs just as well as systems that were built yesterday. So unless they are going to recreate different assets entirely for PS5 game, the games will look identical, this GPU power will be irrelevant.
@Cooe an SSD doesn't increase performance. It decreases performance limitations on other hardware. Both systems claim the same FPS and exact same resolutions. So, the extra GPU power clearly isn't doing diddly squat. Instant load times and seamless world exploration will be infinitely more important.
Being able to load in new assets from storage into RAM on the fly will be what defines this generation. Exclusives and smooth-running games will win the day.
@Andyhunter132 it's 100% true that social security would be gone. You're a special kind of stupid if you don't know that. These big businesses pay in half of what goes into social security for each of your paychecks. 6.2% of your income is paid by you, and another 6.2% is paid by your employer. Literally half of the entirety of the social security fund is paid by businesses. So yes, without them, no social security. Same goes for Medicare.
Also, they don't pay a lower tax rate, that's a myth. Their income tax rate is over double ours. And even after any loopholes it is still a higher percentage than we pay. Even if they paid half the percentage that we do, they'd STILL be supporting this entire nation.
I repeat, lower class and middle class people basically don't pay taxes. Their contribution is basically nothing. Social Security, even with corporate contributions is a failing system as it is. Each social security recipient receives more than they and their employer paid in each month during their working years. Social Security is HEAVILY subsidized by corporate taxes, that's the ONLY reason it exists to this day.
I also said nothing about trickle down economics, so not really sure why you are bringing this up. Any conversation you choose to have about the facts of our functioning government and taxes, you're going to lose and you're going to be wrong. I don't abide misinformation and lies and I've spent my entire life debunking myths about the government.
Does the government suck? Hell yes. Do a lot of corporations suck? Yup. Are they the source of all evil? Not by a long shot.
@Andyhunter132 I understand full well how the tax system works here, not really sure how that is relevant here either. They do find occasional loopholes, this is most definitely true, but I've also run businesses before and been management at very large companies. I am fully aware of how much tax burden companies have.
Wanna know something? Most Americans pay basically nothing in taxes, because they get almost all of it back come tax return time. Even under the tax law that is in place now, parents with two or more children don't pay a dime of taxes, not even SS or Medicare. In fact they get so much back that the government is paying THEM.
Even at those lower percentages due to some loopholes, the top 5 companies in the U.S. still pay more in taxes than the entire citizenry combined. Without these companies, you wouldn't have roads, or a military, or unemployment benefits, or even social security. You're the one that is gullible and ignorant, but you go on and keep believing what you want.
@Grindagger explain how that is a flaw? Capitalism has nothing to do with China, or what is happening there. I'm far from rich, in fact I'm barely above the federal poverty line if I'm being honest. However, these 2% you bitch about didn't take anything from you or me, or manipulate us. They created a product or service, or multiples that people wanted and they sold. Capitalism has nothing to do with ripping people off or manipulating them.
If you don't want a product, don't buy it, it is as simple as that. Nothing a single company sells in this world is something you NEED. You can quite easily live on your own and not buy a single thing from anybody, nobody is forcing you to buy.
@billyboyblue666 no, because every inch of "horsepower" is being used to run the game, even with the new generation. Game consoles are designed to just barely run the game. Any more than that and you get into PC price territory. My 5 year old PC that cost $1300 originally still out performs the latest generation coming out. Add to that the fact that I can swap in an updated graphics card and get even more years out of it.
I love consoles, don't get me wrong, but they are EXTREMELY limited. For PC games you can get away with 10's of thousands of users on one server. Consoles? Takes twice as many servers at best, much more at worst. Not to mention, the Sony and Microsoft are providing multiplayer server access and not selling the games that use them. They get a very small percentage of the overall sales on their game platform. They need supplemental income to justify running the degrees and pay the people that monitor, maintain, and control the servers. I'm sorry, the comparisons you are making don't hold water. They just don't. You cannot compare the two types of gaming experiences. The free games offered are EXTREMELY popular, the cloud saving, the streaming, video uploads, social media interaction, etc. All for $10 a month or so? Sorry, you're money isn't worth as much as you think.
@billyboyblue666 Because they can service more people by offloading a majority of the workload to each individual PC. There's no such headroom on consoles because the games themselves use every available resource. Also, the vast majority of online games force users to host the game on their PC. This server headroom is almost nothing for them. The fact that I need to explain how this all works in 2020 is sad.
@Neolit once again...no. They were required to have a special security token which was stupidly left buried in an older game, which allowed access to AWS, then they have to get their hands on a dev kit because you can't just connect any random computer or console. A security flaw can be one of a programming nature or one of a procedural nature. Either way...it is called exploiting a vulnerability. If it were as simple as someone leaving passwords lying around, leaks would have happened way more frequently and easily.
That's like having a hacker get ahold of your pre-shared key on your VPN tunnel. They still need to be able to figure out how to connect to the tunnel, even with the key in hand.
@Octane Death Stranding was ****** AWFUL. The plot was meandering and meaningless (what little there was), the gameplay mechanics and loop were borderline torture, and the concept was inane.
@Neolit you misunderstood the entire thing...not even sure where you got the credentials idea from. The hacker exploited a security flaw, pure and simple. That's EXACTLY what hackers do.
@Maximums4083 it's not authoritarian. It'd be like if you somehow got specs for Boeing's new airplane and started distributing the designs and talking about them. It is their right, as it SHOULD BE, to sanction you from speaking on the matter. That is their intellectual property. Now, if the game were released and they were copyright striking "Let's Play" personalities and game reviewers....your argument might apply.
@Dodoo you clearly didn't read it. If you had, you'd that know everything you just typed is nonsense. They reviewed the studies you refer to and found they either provided no proper evidence for their conclusions or drew incorrect conclusions, and many others did improper research techniques.
They specifically talk about the exact things you mention and the studies that made those claims, and state that their conclusions are unfounded or not based on proper scientific research methods.
There is ZERO credible evidence to suggest harmful effects caused by non-labratory RFR environments when following proper FCC regulations.
The link I shared did however acknowledge that the amount of proper, reliable, credible research done on this topic is far from being extensive enough.
@Dodoo no, no they are not. Peer-reviewed doesn't mean accurate or right. Peer-reviewed can simply mean echo chamber. The scientists involved are not reputable or respectable. Or their was something wrong with their testing, variables they didn't account for.
Here, an actual write-up from a reputable and regulated institution, reviewing studies that drew all kinds of conclusions to ultimately draw a proper conclusion.
@Ken_Kaniff not even a little. These games are massively popular. In 2019 Farming Simulator sold over 2 million copies and started an esports league with a pretty massive cash prize. Cities Skylines in about 4 years, from 2015 (it's release) to 2019 sold over 6 million copies across platforms. Just because YOU don't like them, doesn't mean they are objectively bad games.
@DonJorginho extremely niche? Not my bag, but Farming simulator sold over 2 million copies world wide in 2019. It's no GTA5, but it definitely is appealing to an extremely broader audience than you would have it seem. Wouldn't call that extremely niche. There's even an esports league for it with a 250k cash prize.
I do agree though on some of your points regarding these people never being satisfied.
@Dodoo no, no there are not. There is not one single respectable, reputable scientist or study that shows ANY negative affects from 5G technology. Your link is utter garbage. There were a lot of people saying the same thing about microwave ovens for years....yet not one reputable study or scientist supported this idea the entire time. They still don't....guess what, I use the microwave oven a LOT and stand in front of it constantly, and not one single health problem from it other than diabetes from overeating.
Contractors, external QA testers, localizers, etc....are all AFFILIATED. Contract means affiliation. This was not an ex-employee as that has been debunked by outside sources even prior to the official statement.
@Akurusu that moron talking about withholding his paycheck is talking out of his rear end. His entire tirade is absolutely ridiculous, and doesn't line up with anything in the industry. I highly doubt a company, that has been in existence for many years, would attempt to withhold a final paycheck on the grounds of paperwork that would have been and most assuredly was signed the day they were hired. Mainly because it is ILLEGAL and would have done them no good.
My bet is, this guy didn't like having to work overtime, complained, got fired, and then had a temper tantrum on Twitter and made up some bunk story. That seems FAR more likely.
Working overtime and lots of it is what you do, period. At any job. Don't like it? Make way for someone else.
Heartless? Really? Because I have no sympathy for whiney children that stamp their feet when they don't get their way? Also, you didn't refrain from anything, you implied it very, very blatantly. If you were really trying to refrain, you wouldn't have mentioned it in the first place. I have no compunction however, in saying that you are an entitled moron if you think what they do is bad business practices. It is a practice in place by almost every business, in every industry, in every state and country across the globe.
Now, I say entitled moron not because I know you, or because I have an opinion of you....on the contrary I nothing you, you are merely a paragraph of text on a screen to me. There is no malice or hate in my words. I say entitled moron because it is a qualitative statement for people that believe those are bad business practices. It is a statement of fact, nothing more. If you find that the statement qualifies you, then that is just how it is.
Working long, grueling hours at a job to survive is what you do as long as it is safe, healthy conditions. There are people that would likely and literally kill to have a job that worked them that much so they could provide for their families or at least themselves. And yet, we have people like you and others that seem keen on changing the world in a way that it doesn't need to. You'd have a world where nobody has to do anything they don't want to and nothing hurts their feelings.
If you want the truth about the situation at Naughty Dog, how about you go ask a CURRENT employee how it is there instead of some bulls*** reporter on the Internet which have proven time and time again that they are completely unreliable. In fact they very, very regularly... almost exclusively make things up just to get headlines and clicks.
But, I digress...this article is about a game, and not our world views. Something you have clearly lost sight of. Someone earlier took a LITERAL quote from your comments on a previous article showing that you contradicted your supposed values. So, will this be a good game? Most definitely for those than enjoyed the first one. I personally didn't, so it is almost a guarantee that I won't play this one.
Let people enjoy what they enjoy and keep your misguided political comments to yourself. This is not the place for them, nor will it ever be. This is a place for people to share their passion for video games. So please, keep to that and you'll easily avoid conversations like this.
@Akurusu if they underpaid their workers, truly underpaid them, nobody would work there, or work there for long. I've read all the articles about the topic and your comments very thoroughly. It is being dramatic calling them monsters, because for one they DON'T underpay their workers, and for two, being made to work long hours constantly is 100% normal.
@Akurusu monsters? Dramatic much? Perhaps you've never had an actual job in your life, because that is what it sounds like. Working 60-80+ hours a week for months at a time isn't being overworked.
It is called having a job, and a secure one to boot. If you can't handle that.....well, make room for someone that can, I guess. Doctors do it, nurses do it, factory workers do it, lawyers do it, game developers do it, farmers do it, almost every industry does it. I've never had a job that doesn't do it. As a matter of fact, I see co-workers disappointed when the overtime goes away, because they want the money. Often times they go get a part time job to replace it.
First and foremost....not really sure why leaks and articles about them are so hot these days. If spoilers ruin things for you, that's your problem, and you're a moron. A spoiler shouldn't detract from your experience of anything, period. If it does, again, you are a moron.
Second of all.... I'm so sick of hearing about what these companies supposedly do to/for their workers during "crunch" time. I don't care if it is Rockstar or Naughty Dog. It's called having a job folks. Haven't had a single job where I wasn't made to work 60-80 hours a week or more for 6 months or more straight. That's called working, it's what you do. It is also called job security. Not to mention that these game developers aren't actually doing any real, physical labor. Don't like it? Move over for someone willing to take your spot, because you clearly don't deserve it.
As far as Amy Hennig goes, none of you neck beards know what happened, I don't know what happened, nobody does except the people involved in it and a quick Google search shows that none of that group have said anything about what actually happened....it is also none of your damn business. Not your job, not your employer, not your situation, none of your business.
Gamers get more and more pathetic with each passing year. It's disgusting how many of them live in echo chambers, believing what they want because their deranged mind decides it makes sense or some other neck beard on the Internet told them it's true, so it must be. You're giving gamers a bad name. Then you wonder why people like Anita Sarkeesian are able to make the waves they do. While she's a scam artist, you provide an environment rife with opportunity.
@Jayofmaya as soon as you left Midgar you were forced to go to Kalm, then you were forced to go to the Chocobo Farm. While you could skip Fort Condor, that was far from an open world concept. It was merely skipping a side quest...which you can do in this game as well. Then you were forced to go to Junon, and after crossing you are forced to go to Costa del Sol, then you have to go to Corel, then Golden Saucer. You can skip Gongaga through a glitch, but technically you are forced to go there. Then Cosmo Canyon is forced, so is Nibelheim, then Rocket Town. Even after Rocket Town the Tiny Bronco has extremely limited open world capacity, you're still railroaded at that point pretty much. It doesn't become truly open world until much later.
@Nakatomi_Uk as a massive 7 fan myself....don't let the issues I listed dissuade you. It is a phenomenal game, and an amazing remake. As far as the "corridor" aspect goes, that's just how JRPG's works. The original had a point where it was truly open world, but that was near the end of the game and simply there so you could snag stuff you missed and grind stuff out. There really wasn't much point to it being open world to begin with. As far as the voice actors go, I think they did a phenomenal job. The voice actor for Barret is a huge FF7 fan himself. He even went so far as to stream the original game with the voice actor for Aerith to introduce her to the game.
Ultimately I think you need to set aside expectations of what you wanted in your head and just enjoy the game for what it is. It's a phenomenal story, gorgeous graphics, and hard mode is genuinely a challenge (something the original game didn't provide).
@Matroska that's all well and good, but ultimately irrelevant, but this trailer is completely spoiler free. This article is one of the stupidest ones I've ever read. This kind of article makes even Fox News look intelligent by comparison.
@ShogunRok okay, I see this everywhere I go....Zack is in the game?? OMGWTF!!1.....Zack was NOT in the game in the sense that everybody assumed. That was a Flashback to the scene where Zack and Cloud were trying to escape Shinra after being experimented on for 4 years. Same scene from the original game, just a little more towards the end of it. Nothing more. I'm not really sure why everyone keeps reading something else from this, it is a little odd to me.
@Jayofmaya first and foremost the original didn't really become open world until about 1/2-2/3 of the way through the game. Open world doesn't automatically equate to better, either. Even if open world is done really, really, really well that still doesn't make it automatically better. A well-told linear storyline will ALWAYS trump open world by massive margins. This game is episodic in nature. My bet is, character buildup will be imported from previous parts.
@ApostateMage every single event where you had to climb, crawl, or walk slowlyaybr added 5-10 minutes of actual playtime to the game. It isn't that bad. Previous iterations of FF games were FAR worse.
@Kidfunkadelic83 if you got annihilated by any bosses on a non-hard playthrough, YOU are most definitely the issue. Character building, enemy knowledge, or being unobservant. I mean no insult, truly, just pointing out that at no point in the game was there any spikes in difficulty unless for some reason you did something wrong or missed something.
@jimmate it has several open areas that you could explore freely and towards the end you are able to go about white freely to collect items, finish things up, do the Colosseum, etc.
@8-Bit_Alan while the ending wasn't my favorite, I greatly enjoyed it. That said, I can't figure out whether my enjoyment of the ending was diminished due to wanting to keep playing the story or because I genuinely didn't fully enjoy it. That said, my rating of it still stands.
@jimmate You did NOT 100% the original in 40 hours. To truly do everything. Every materia, every materia maxed out, every weapon, character, limit break, chocobos, etc is 70-80 hours. It took me 45 hours, probably about 40 hours if I'm honest because I let the game sit running a few times at safe spots without pausing for long periods. Even them, there's a bunch of stuff I didn't do like max every single materia, get every music item (missed one), missed Aerith's second limit break and Manuscript at the Colosseum, and not to mention the trophies and hard-mode exclusive content. With replaying nthe entire game on hard mode I'll likely get 70-80 hours out of the game.....sounds familiar to me.
If I'm going by the fact that FF7 is a 10/10, which genuinely believe it is, flaws and all, I give the Remake a 9/10. I adored everything they did with the story, and the music and art design.
My issues stem from the item, combat, and materia systems. I absolutely LOATHE that you can only have one summon per character. I always had a dedicated summoner character in the original. I also hate how the summons work. They need to be a one-time use attack that goes away immediately and doesn't chew up your ATB the entire fight and they need to be summonable from the moment you enter battle. Especially with how little damage they do per ATB slot. I also hate the limited materia slots you are given, even with materia slot upgrades, while showering you with Materia types. It basically forced certain materia to uselessness because of this.
I hate that you can't duplicate materia through maximizing them. It removed some of the grind from the game because half the fun was maxing out and equipping your characters with all the best materia. I also hate that the best armor in the game only gives you ONE. Meaning your other characters simply must deal with sub-par armor for no reason.
Another issue I take with the combat system is special attacks missing. A limit break should NEVER, EVER miss. It takes so long to build them up, only to have it wasted for simply no other reason than the enemy is one that doesn't sit still long enough. Also, those HP/MP Absorb Materia are hot garbage.
@Matroska They actually need to program each and every mouth movement into the game for each language. There is no magic software that just automatically syncs it up.
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Re: Sony Reiterates Sheer Speed of PS5, Processing Is '100 Times Faster Than PS4'
Oh look, benchmarks:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.rappler.com/technology/features/260912-what-tv-ps5-xbox-series-x
How about that. Same resolutions and same frame rates. Doggone it all, I must be full of crap again.
Re: Sony Reiterates Sheer Speed of PS5, Processing Is '100 Times Faster Than PS4'
@Cooe yes, they have. And it was for ALL versions of Xbox One, not just the OG. It is a software and data transfer speed issue.
Re: Sony Reiterates Sheer Speed of PS5, Processing Is '100 Times Faster Than PS4'
@Cooe again, you're a special kind of stupid. That is blatant false equivalency. You're talking about a physical increase in power across the board, almost like a new console generation. And games had to be specifically programmed to utilize that new hardware, almost like making a brand new game.
I don't need to cite a source either, you can find it literally on every site talking about what the companies have said of their respective consoles. Both companies have stated they are achieving the same benchmarks. So, do you honestly believe that they will scrap everything they're doing to redo their game and make it operate better on another console? Nope. They will tweak it until it works acceptably.
They make their games so they play the same on both consoles, always how it has been done. Hell, the Xbox One X is more powerful on paper than the PS4 Pro....yet Cyberpunk 2077 was delayed why??? Oh that's right, optimization issues on XBox One. Something about their setup, be it software or hardware, is requiring lots of extra work to achieve the results that the PS4 Pro can already do.
The reality here is this: This console war isn't honestly about how pretty games are. They are both within a margin of error of each other, even in this generation. This war is about exclusives and who will have the most, which is directly tied to who developers prefer to work with. That has historically been Sony. That remains to be seen in this new generation, obviously.
Re: Sony Reiterates Sheer Speed of PS5, Processing Is '100 Times Faster Than PS4'
You are a really, really, really special kind of stupid. Like beyond dumb. I never once said 480p/10fps was the same thing as 4k/60fps. Didn't hint at it, didn't mistakenly imply it, nothing. These games will have the exact same resolution, frame rate, and graphics quality, across the board on both consoles. Both companies have already identified that. They will both achieve the same results, period. At that point, what matters is load times. Not just between levels, but assets that aren't yet in player view. How fast you can access the data. No storage medium that exists today can outpace memory, CPU, or GPU processing and transfer speeds. The entire system is literally waiting on the storage at all times. Hence why SSD's and eventually m.2 SSD with PCIe access were such a game-changer. This drive destroys that barrier almost completely, on a level the drive in the Xbox can't hope to match.
So as I said with both systems achieving the exact same graphics quality....that leaves storage.
Re: Sony Reiterates Sheer Speed of PS5, Processing Is '100 Times Faster Than PS4'
@Cooe I am well aware of how game engines work and how GPU power is used. I'm also aware of how loading of assets works from storage into memory. Here's a prime example for you. My 5 year old PC with slower RAM, an older GPU, and faster storage than the vast majority of other PC's out there. When you lock the frame rate and the resolution of the game, even on max settings, on ANY game, my system performs just as well as systems that were built yesterday. So unless they are going to recreate different assets entirely for PS5 game, the games will look identical, this GPU power will be irrelevant.
Re: Sony Reiterates Sheer Speed of PS5, Processing Is '100 Times Faster Than PS4'
@Cooe an SSD doesn't increase performance. It decreases performance limitations on other hardware. Both systems claim the same FPS and exact same resolutions. So, the extra GPU power clearly isn't doing diddly squat. Instant load times and seamless world exploration will be infinitely more important.
Being able to load in new assets from storage into RAM on the fly will be what defines this generation. Exclusives and smooth-running games will win the day.
Re: PS Store Suspended Indefinitely in China for Supposed Security Upgrades
@Andyhunter132 it's 100% true that social security would be gone. You're a special kind of stupid if you don't know that. These big businesses pay in half of what goes into social security for each of your paychecks. 6.2% of your income is paid by you, and another 6.2% is paid by your employer. Literally half of the entirety of the social security fund is paid by businesses. So yes, without them, no social security. Same goes for Medicare.
Also, they don't pay a lower tax rate, that's a myth. Their income tax rate is over double ours. And even after any loopholes it is still a higher percentage than we pay. Even if they paid half the percentage that we do, they'd STILL be supporting this entire nation.
I repeat, lower class and middle class people basically don't pay taxes. Their contribution is basically nothing. Social Security, even with corporate contributions is a failing system as it is. Each social security recipient receives more than they and their employer paid in each month during their working years. Social Security is HEAVILY subsidized by corporate taxes, that's the ONLY reason it exists to this day.
I also said nothing about trickle down economics, so not really sure why you are bringing this up. Any conversation you choose to have about the facts of our functioning government and taxes, you're going to lose and you're going to be wrong. I don't abide misinformation and lies and I've spent my entire life debunking myths about the government.
Does the government suck? Hell yes. Do a lot of corporations suck? Yup. Are they the source of all evil? Not by a long shot.
Re: PS Store Suspended Indefinitely in China for Supposed Security Upgrades
@Andyhunter132 I understand full well how the tax system works here, not really sure how that is relevant here either. They do find occasional loopholes, this is most definitely true, but I've also run businesses before and been management at very large companies. I am fully aware of how much tax burden companies have.
Wanna know something? Most Americans pay basically nothing in taxes, because they get almost all of it back come tax return time. Even under the tax law that is in place now, parents with two or more children don't pay a dime of taxes, not even SS or Medicare. In fact they get so much back that the government is paying THEM.
Even at those lower percentages due to some loopholes, the top 5 companies in the U.S. still pay more in taxes than the entire citizenry combined. Without these companies, you wouldn't have roads, or a military, or unemployment benefits, or even social security. You're the one that is gullible and ignorant, but you go on and keep believing what you want.
Re: PS Store Suspended Indefinitely in China for Supposed Security Upgrades
@Grindagger explain how that is a flaw? Capitalism has nothing to do with China, or what is happening there. I'm far from rich, in fact I'm barely above the federal poverty line if I'm being honest. However, these 2% you bitch about didn't take anything from you or me, or manipulate us. They created a product or service, or multiples that people wanted and they sold. Capitalism has nothing to do with ripping people off or manipulating them.
If you don't want a product, don't buy it, it is as simple as that. Nothing a single company sells in this world is something you NEED. You can quite easily live on your own and not buy a single thing from anybody, nobody is forcing you to buy.
Re: PS Plus May 2020 Reveal Has Been a Disaster, One of the Worst Received Months Ever
@billyboyblue666 no, because every inch of "horsepower" is being used to run the game, even with the new generation. Game consoles are designed to just barely run the game. Any more than that and you get into PC price territory. My 5 year old PC that cost $1300 originally still out performs the latest generation coming out. Add to that the fact that I can swap in an updated graphics card and get even more years out of it.
I love consoles, don't get me wrong, but they are EXTREMELY limited. For PC games you can get away with 10's of thousands of users on one server. Consoles? Takes twice as many servers at best, much more at worst. Not to mention, the Sony and Microsoft are providing multiplayer server access and not selling the games that use them. They get a very small percentage of the overall sales on their game platform. They need supplemental income to justify running the degrees and pay the people that monitor, maintain, and control the servers. I'm sorry, the comparisons you are making don't hold water. They just don't. You cannot compare the two types of gaming experiences. The free games offered are EXTREMELY popular, the cloud saving, the streaming, video uploads, social media interaction, etc. All for $10 a month or so? Sorry, you're money isn't worth as much as you think.
Re: PS Plus May 2020 Reveal Has Been a Disaster, One of the Worst Received Months Ever
@billyboyblue666 Because they can service more people by offloading a majority of the workload to each individual PC. There's no such headroom on consoles because the games themselves use every available resource. Also, the vast majority of online games force users to host the game on their PC. This server headroom is almost nothing for them. The fact that I need to explain how this all works in 2020 is sad.
Re: Talking Point: What PlayStation Franchises Should Sony Bring Back on PS5?
Resistance, Jak and Faster, and Legend of Dragoon for me.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Leaks Apparently Released by Hackers, Not Affiliated with Naughty Dog
@Neolit once again...no. They were required to have a special security token which was stupidly left buried in an older game, which allowed access to AWS, then they have to get their hands on a dev kit because you can't just connect any random computer or console. A security flaw can be one of a programming nature or one of a procedural nature. Either way...it is called exploiting a vulnerability. If it were as simple as someone leaving passwords lying around, leaks would have happened way more frequently and easily.
That's like having a hacker get ahold of your pre-shared key on your VPN tunnel. They still need to be able to figure out how to connect to the tunnel, even with the key in hand.
Re: PS Plus May 2020 Reveal Has Been a Disaster, One of the Worst Received Months Ever
@billyboyblue666 no, online play should NOT be free. You are using their servers to play your games on. You should have to pay for that usage.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Leaks Apparently Released by Hackers, Not Affiliated with Naughty Dog
@Octane Death Stranding was ****** AWFUL. The plot was meandering and meaningless (what little there was), the gameplay mechanics and loop were borderline torture, and the concept was inane.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Leaks Apparently Released by Hackers, Not Affiliated with Naughty Dog
@Neolit you misunderstood the entire thing...not even sure where you got the credentials idea from. The hacker exploited a security flaw, pure and simple. That's EXACTLY what hackers do.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Leaks Apparently Released by Hackers, Not Affiliated with Naughty Dog
@Maximums4083 it's not authoritarian. It'd be like if you somehow got specs for Boeing's new airplane and started distributing the designs and talking about them. It is their right, as it SHOULD BE, to sanction you from speaking on the matter. That is their intellectual property. Now, if the game were released and they were copyright striking "Let's Play" personalities and game reviewers....your argument might apply.
Re: PS Plus Members Launch Petition Against 'Dumbfounding' May 2020 PS4 Games
@Dodoo you clearly didn't read it. If you had, you'd that know everything you just typed is nonsense. They reviewed the studies you refer to and found they either provided no proper evidence for their conclusions or drew incorrect conclusions, and many others did improper research techniques.
They specifically talk about the exact things you mention and the studies that made those claims, and state that their conclusions are unfounded or not based on proper scientific research methods.
There is ZERO credible evidence to suggest harmful effects caused by non-labratory RFR environments when following proper FCC regulations.
The link I shared did however acknowledge that the amount of proper, reliable, credible research done on this topic is far from being extensive enough.
Re: PS Plus Members Launch Petition Against 'Dumbfounding' May 2020 PS4 Games
@Dodoo no, no they are not. Peer-reviewed doesn't mean accurate or right. Peer-reviewed can simply mean echo chamber. The scientists involved are not reputable or respectable. Or their was something wrong with their testing, variables they didn't account for.
Here, an actual write-up from a reputable and regulated institution, reviewing studies that drew all kinds of conclusions to ultimately draw a proper conclusion.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6765906/
Re: PS Plus Members Launch Petition Against 'Dumbfounding' May 2020 PS4 Games
@Ken_Kaniff not even a little. These games are massively popular. In 2019 Farming Simulator sold over 2 million copies and started an esports league with a pretty massive cash prize. Cities Skylines in about 4 years, from 2015 (it's release) to 2019 sold over 6 million copies across platforms. Just because YOU don't like them, doesn't mean they are objectively bad games.
Re: PS Plus Members Launch Petition Against 'Dumbfounding' May 2020 PS4 Games
@DonJorginho extremely niche? Not my bag, but Farming simulator sold over 2 million copies world wide in 2019. It's no GTA5, but it definitely is appealing to an extremely broader audience than you would have it seem. Wouldn't call that extremely niche. There's even an esports league for it with a 250k cash prize.
I do agree though on some of your points regarding these people never being satisfied.
Re: PS Plus Members Launch Petition Against 'Dumbfounding' May 2020 PS4 Games
@Dodoo no, no there are not. There is not one single respectable, reputable scientist or study that shows ANY negative affects from 5G technology. Your link is utter garbage. There were a lot of people saying the same thing about microwave ovens for years....yet not one reputable study or scientist supported this idea the entire time. They still don't....guess what, I use the microwave oven a LOT and stand in front of it constantly, and not one single health problem from it other than diabetes from overeating.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Leakers 'Not Affiliated with SIE or Naughty Dog', Sony Confirms
Contractors, external QA testers, localizers, etc....are all AFFILIATED. Contract means affiliation. This was not an ex-employee as that has been debunked by outside sources even prior to the official statement.
@Akurusu that moron talking about withholding his paycheck is talking out of his rear end. His entire tirade is absolutely ridiculous, and doesn't line up with anything in the industry. I highly doubt a company, that has been in existence for many years, would attempt to withhold a final paycheck on the grounds of paperwork that would have been and most assuredly was signed the day they were hired. Mainly because it is ILLEGAL and would have done them no good.
My bet is, this guy didn't like having to work overtime, complained, got fired, and then had a temper tantrum on Twitter and made up some bunk story. That seems FAR more likely.
Working overtime and lots of it is what you do, period. At any job. Don't like it? Make way for someone else.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Will Gobble Up At Least 100GB of PS4 Hard Drive Space
Heartless? Really? Because I have no sympathy for whiney children that stamp their feet when they don't get their way? Also, you didn't refrain from anything, you implied it very, very blatantly. If you were really trying to refrain, you wouldn't have mentioned it in the first place. I have no compunction however, in saying that you are an entitled moron if you think what they do is bad business practices. It is a practice in place by almost every business, in every industry, in every state and country across the globe.
Now, I say entitled moron not because I know you, or because I have an opinion of you....on the contrary I nothing you, you are merely a paragraph of text on a screen to me. There is no malice or hate in my words. I say entitled moron because it is a qualitative statement for people that believe those are bad business practices. It is a statement of fact, nothing more. If you find that the statement qualifies you, then that is just how it is.
Working long, grueling hours at a job to survive is what you do as long as it is safe, healthy conditions. There are people that would likely and literally kill to have a job that worked them that much so they could provide for their families or at least themselves. And yet, we have people like you and others that seem keen on changing the world in a way that it doesn't need to. You'd have a world where nobody has to do anything they don't want to and nothing hurts their feelings.
If you want the truth about the situation at Naughty Dog, how about you go ask a CURRENT employee how it is there instead of some bulls*** reporter on the Internet which have proven time and time again that they are completely unreliable. In fact they very, very regularly... almost exclusively make things up just to get headlines and clicks.
But, I digress...this article is about a game, and not our world views. Something you have clearly lost sight of. Someone earlier took a LITERAL quote from your comments on a previous article showing that you contradicted your supposed values. So, will this be a good game? Most definitely for those than enjoyed the first one. I personally didn't, so it is almost a guarantee that I won't play this one.
Let people enjoy what they enjoy and keep your misguided political comments to yourself. This is not the place for them, nor will it ever be. This is a place for people to share their passion for video games. So please, keep to that and you'll easily avoid conversations like this.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Will Gobble Up At Least 100GB of PS4 Hard Drive Space
@Akurusu if they underpaid their workers, truly underpaid them, nobody would work there, or work there for long. I've read all the articles about the topic and your comments very thoroughly. It is being dramatic calling them monsters, because for one they DON'T underpay their workers, and for two, being made to work long hours constantly is 100% normal.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Will Gobble Up At Least 100GB of PS4 Hard Drive Space
@Akurusu monsters? Dramatic much? Perhaps you've never had an actual job in your life, because that is what it sounds like. Working 60-80+ hours a week for months at a time isn't being overworked.
It is called having a job, and a secure one to boot. If you can't handle that.....well, make room for someone that can, I guess. Doctors do it, nurses do it, factory workers do it, lawyers do it, game developers do it, farmers do it, almost every industry does it. I've never had a job that doesn't do it. As a matter of fact, I see co-workers disappointed when the overtime goes away, because they want the money. Often times they go get a part time job to replace it.
Honestly...your entitlement is showing.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Leak Leaves Director 'Heartbroken'
First and foremost....not really sure why leaks and articles about them are so hot these days. If spoilers ruin things for you, that's your problem, and you're a moron. A spoiler shouldn't detract from your experience of anything, period. If it does, again, you are a moron.
Second of all.... I'm so sick of hearing about what these companies supposedly do to/for their workers during "crunch" time. I don't care if it is Rockstar or Naughty Dog. It's called having a job folks. Haven't had a single job where I wasn't made to work 60-80 hours a week or more for 6 months or more straight. That's called working, it's what you do. It is also called job security. Not to mention that these game developers aren't actually doing any real, physical labor. Don't like it? Move over for someone willing to take your spot, because you clearly don't deserve it.
As far as Amy Hennig goes, none of you neck beards know what happened, I don't know what happened, nobody does except the people involved in it and a quick Google search shows that none of that group have said anything about what actually happened....it is also none of your damn business. Not your job, not your employer, not your situation, none of your business.
Gamers get more and more pathetic with each passing year. It's disgusting how many of them live in echo chambers, believing what they want because their deranged mind decides it makes sense or some other neck beard on the Internet told them it's true, so it must be. You're giving gamers a bad name. Then you wonder why people like Anita Sarkeesian are able to make the waves they do. While she's a scam artist, you provide an environment rife with opportunity.
Re: Rumour: 'Gigantic' Horizon Zero Dawn 2 Will Feature Co-Op on PS5
@Real_Obsi nobody knows what the new consoles costs, not even the remotest clue. Sony doesn't even know how much it will cost.
Re: Rumour: 'Gigantic' Horizon Zero Dawn 2 Will Feature Co-Op on PS5
@gollumb82 the quests were extremely meaningful in Horizon Zero Dawn.
Re: Rumour: 'Gigantic' Horizon Zero Dawn 2 Will Feature Co-Op on PS5
@DanM please keep everything that was Death Stranding away from all other games. It was terrible and would only serve to ruin a game.
Re: Rumour: 'Gigantic' Horizon Zero Dawn 2 Will Feature Co-Op on PS5
@Dan_ozzzy189 then don't play open world games, then?
Re: Poll: Do You Like the Final Fantasy VII Remake Ending?
The ending was absolutely phenomenal. Best game I've played in many, many years.
Re: Poll: Do You Like the Final Fantasy VII Remake Ending?
@ApostateMage the story in this is phenomenal. Best story-telling of any game in a LOOOONG time.
Re: Poll: Do You Like the Final Fantasy VII Remake Ending?
@GamingFan4Lyf people remember the middle part of FF7 so oddly. This will almost definitely be a trilogy.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy VII Remake?
@Jayofmaya as soon as you left Midgar you were forced to go to Kalm, then you were forced to go to the Chocobo Farm. While you could skip Fort Condor, that was far from an open world concept. It was merely skipping a side quest...which you can do in this game as well. Then you were forced to go to Junon, and after crossing you are forced to go to Costa del Sol, then you have to go to Corel, then Golden Saucer. You can skip Gongaga through a glitch, but technically you are forced to go there. Then Cosmo Canyon is forced, so is Nibelheim, then Rocket Town. Even after Rocket Town the Tiny Bronco has extremely limited open world capacity, you're still railroaded at that point pretty much. It doesn't become truly open world until much later.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy VII Remake?
@Nakatomi_Uk as a massive 7 fan myself....don't let the issues I listed dissuade you. It is a phenomenal game, and an amazing remake. As far as the "corridor" aspect goes, that's just how JRPG's works. The original had a point where it was truly open world, but that was near the end of the game and simply there so you could snag stuff you missed and grind stuff out. There really wasn't much point to it being open world to begin with. As far as the voice actors go, I think they did a phenomenal job. The voice actor for Barret is a huge FF7 fan himself. He even went so far as to stream the original game with the voice actor for Aerith to introduce her to the game.
Ultimately I think you need to set aside expectations of what you wanted in your head and just enjoy the game for what it is. It's a phenomenal story, gorgeous graphics, and hard mode is genuinely a challenge (something the original game didn't provide).
Re: Soapbox: Final Fantasy VII Remake's Final Trailer Is a Spoiler-Ridden Disgrace
@Matroska that's all well and good, but ultimately irrelevant, but this trailer is completely spoiler free. This article is one of the stupidest ones I've ever read. This kind of article makes even Fox News look intelligent by comparison.
Re: Soapbox: Final Fantasy VII Remake's Final Trailer Is a Spoiler-Ridden Disgrace
@ShogunRok okay, I see this everywhere I go....Zack is in the game?? OMGWTF!!1.....Zack was NOT in the game in the sense that everybody assumed. That was a Flashback to the scene where Zack and Cloud were trying to escape Shinra after being experimented on for 4 years. Same scene from the original game, just a little more towards the end of it. Nothing more. I'm not really sure why everyone keeps reading something else from this, it is a little odd to me.
Re: Soapbox: Final Fantasy VII Remake's Final Trailer Is a Spoiler-Ridden Disgrace
@SnackBox yes, yes they did. They said they did before it was even released. This is not a remaster. It is a REMAKE.
Re: Soapbox: Final Fantasy VII Remake's Final Trailer Is a Spoiler-Ridden Disgrace
@ShogunRok I don't think you understand what a spoiler is....this trailer spoiled nothing.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy VII Remake?
@Zinokoji if you bought a JRPG for anything but story and grinding, you bought the wrong game my friend.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy VII Remake?
@Jayofmaya first and foremost the original didn't really become open world until about 1/2-2/3 of the way through the game. Open world doesn't automatically equate to better, either. Even if open world is done really, really, really well that still doesn't make it automatically better. A well-told linear storyline will ALWAYS trump open world by massive margins. This game is episodic in nature. My bet is, character buildup will be imported from previous parts.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy VII Remake?
@ApostateMage every single event where you had to climb, crawl, or walk slowlyaybr added 5-10 minutes of actual playtime to the game. It isn't that bad. Previous iterations of FF games were FAR worse.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy VII Remake?
@Kidfunkadelic83 if you got annihilated by any bosses on a non-hard playthrough, YOU are most definitely the issue. Character building, enemy knowledge, or being unobservant. I mean no insult, truly, just pointing out that at no point in the game was there any spikes in difficulty unless for some reason you did something wrong or missed something.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy VII Remake?
@jimmate it has several open areas that you could explore freely and towards the end you are able to go about white freely to collect items, finish things up, do the Colosseum, etc.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy VII Remake?
@8-Bit_Alan while the ending wasn't my favorite, I greatly enjoyed it. That said, I can't figure out whether my enjoyment of the ending was diminished due to wanting to keep playing the story or because I genuinely didn't fully enjoy it. That said, my rating of it still stands.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy VII Remake?
@jimmate You did NOT 100% the original in 40 hours. To truly do everything. Every materia, every materia maxed out, every weapon, character, limit break, chocobos, etc is 70-80 hours. It took me 45 hours, probably about 40 hours if I'm honest because I let the game sit running a few times at safe spots without pausing for long periods. Even them, there's a bunch of stuff I didn't do like max every single materia, get every music item (missed one), missed Aerith's second limit break and Manuscript at the Colosseum, and not to mention the trophies and hard-mode exclusive content. With replaying nthe entire game on hard mode I'll likely get 70-80 hours out of the game.....sounds familiar to me.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy VII Remake?
If I'm going by the fact that FF7 is a 10/10, which genuinely believe it is, flaws and all, I give the Remake a 9/10. I adored everything they did with the story, and the music and art design.
My issues stem from the item, combat, and materia systems. I absolutely LOATHE that you can only have one summon per character. I always had a dedicated summoner character in the original. I also hate how the summons work. They need to be a one-time use attack that goes away immediately and doesn't chew up your ATB the entire fight and they need to be summonable from the moment you enter battle. Especially with how little damage they do per ATB slot. I also hate the limited materia slots you are given, even with materia slot upgrades, while showering you with Materia types. It basically forced certain materia to uselessness because of this.
I hate that you can't duplicate materia through maximizing them. It removed some of the grind from the game because half the fun was maxing out and equipping your characters with all the best materia. I also hate that the best armor in the game only gives you ONE. Meaning your other characters simply must deal with sub-par armor for no reason.
Another issue I take with the combat system is special attacks missing. A limit break should NEVER, EVER miss. It takes so long to build them up, only to have it wasted for simply no other reason than the enemy is one that doesn't sit still long enough. Also, those HP/MP Absorb Materia are hot garbage.
Re: Final Fantasy VII Remake's Launch Has Been a Disaster in Some Parts of Asia
@Matroska They actually need to program each and every mouth movement into the game for each language. There is no magic software that just automatically syncs it up.
Re: Bethesda's Pete Hines 'Very Impressed' After DualSense Hands On
@clvr because the gyros are even less useful for accuracy.