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@BAMozzy Please accept my apologies! You are right. I misread your post in haste. All the best.

@BAMozzy You are very wrong - check https://www.doesitplay.org/ and the stats on the front page!

Every time I see his face and it isn't telling me we're getting another Fallout or ES game I mark a notch on the mysteriously shaped bone hung from a silver cord around my neck. Over many eons this bone has become scored a thousand times and a thousand times more, the power within it builds and the time of judgement is near.

I very much encourage Todd to get to work, for all of our sakes.

It's not that other people like trophies, everyone is different, have at them, it's the total writing off or slating a game because it doesn't have them which grates on people who love the game for itself.

There's lots of "that would be like" false equivalencies here. It would be more like having diet or low fat versions of food and people being annoyed saying "but they're supposed to have sugar!". You never have to touch the version you don't like.
RE has a dark aesthetic style, exploration and puzzle based gameplay, combat, and anxiety inducing sections. The idea of optionally toning down the anxiety so more people could enjoy the rest doesn't seem that terrible. There's a lot of purity policing and gatekeeping in the gaming community.

That said I'm loving RE9 Requiem with all horror intact, just saying it wouldn't upset me at all if there were more options, same as I'm playing on Normal and don't mind there's a Casual mode.

Besides, this is just a throwaway comment. Why are people not getting upset over Ink Ribbons being optional? They're also a huge part of the series history and gameplay strategy and yet it seems most people are happy to have the option of doing away with them!

@nessisonett Retro Replay in Norwich is full of arcade machines, two floors, pay once for full access. No bar.

@Oram77 It pains me so much that Resident Evil 3 was apparently cut short when originally developed so they could rush it out to capitalise on the success of RE2, and then they did a short remake. Why do they keep doing RE3 dirty?

@4fold Fantastic news! I'm interested but don't really play twin stick shooters, so this literally makes the difference between skipping the game and allowing me to dive in! Options are good.

@Dragoon1994 Being able to switch between graphics modes on the fly would require a bit more work than a simple game collection.

I'm no expert on coding but wouldn't it require a new engine that had the game code running consistently in the background but could switch skins?

@Discol76 I loved GT on the original PSVR, and could go back to NMS in VR this time.

I think a lot of people are unaware that Polyphony are basically an R&D department for Sony that also produce a racing game.

There's a long history going back to the PS1 where Sony used PD to develop the Performance Analyser dev tool, and more recently PD were heavily involved in HDR and VR (which is why GT is so good in PSVR).

I loved my PS VR when I was using it for a few things that it worked well for, but a lot of things were ported and not built from the ground up and it didn't quite work properly.

I would buy a PS VR 2 if it was cheap enough, but the other side is you have to spend a fair bit on games which are often short and hit and miss.

Regardless of how good people thought Bluepoint was as a studio, or if the story is "Gamers moan about remakes" I fail to accept that Bluepoint would be a loss making studio if it was simply pumping out remakes of popular old Sony IP.

Amy Rose sat on a pin.
Amy rose.

I am so fed up of Todd Howard being allowed to hog three massive IP's and make so little of them. It's been 15 years since the last Elder Scrolls.

I could easily see Sony upping the price of Premium (squeezing Portal users) and Extra (GamePass price increases allow some headroom) and perhaps keeping Essential the same price to claim they are "keeping prices low" for PR purposes and to prevent pricing people out.

Change it up like the FFVII remakes, otherwise there isn't much point. The original games already exist, look fine, are what they are. I was never interested in that tedious endless waves of combat play style and much prefer what they did with the newer games.

Yes! Thank you so much for this article, I wanted these and was waiting for a sale. Now is the time!

I only played Rave Racer once in an arcade far from home. It was ok but I didn't get to explore much of what it had to offer so am really interested in this.

I always expected it to come to PS1 back in the day but loved Rage Racer so much it didn't matter.

The marketing started a long time ago, it's just going to increase. I'm going to avoid it as much as possible as I already want to buy it day one.

I played it at the time as a dutiful FFVII fan and it wasn't great but it could be easily improved upon with modern shooting mechanics.

"quick-time events"

Please, no!

If it's undisputed, why are they fighting?

FFVII: Repetition

@TensuraFan7

Thanks for the heads up! I checked How Long To Beat, but the devil is in the details when chosing which time estimate is most accurate for how long I may need.

SaGa Frontier is only 14 hours so I should be able to fit that in before it goes.

I will probably check it out, but after doin the main game I feel very much like @Dimey - it's very repetetive and grindy if you want to complete it fully after getting the ending.

I know there are plans for an all new one, but three games could be Ecco 1+2 & Jr (which was a simplified but cosy chill version actually worth a play)

Add me to the list of people who don't need to see anything or anything more, RE has been on a roll for a long time and Requiem is looking good from the glimpse I had.

Don't bother (Comment too short? Don't Bother. Enough said!)

If they want people to stop calling it slop, stop releasing sloppy AI generated content.

I think a lot of people get annoyed that it is being used and not mentioned when to many it's obviously error strewn and low quality.

Please can we just have a new Dino Crisis, or a remake?

Not that impressed with the deals, and nothing I'm interested in has gone down by much.

Would do PS Plus but mine doesn't lapse until next year. Oh well, it'll probably be discounted again when I need to renew as discounts seem to be at the same times every year.

I have no complaints. It's equivalent to a small discount on the game, which has been on sale for much less than it's current full price.

@nessisonett

I would really recommend you play 2, 4 and 6. At that point in the series there were 2 games per generation. Polyphony focused on a new game engine and physics for the first one and for the second took that and added loads more cars and races. It means the most obscure and interesting cars like the Espace F1 and mundane everyday cars like Vectras and Pandas are in the even numbered games.

@carlos82

This was my thought - not sure if I like it, but if I do it's gone forever after this month?

What the reaction shows to me is huge appetite for a proper Simpsons game or even just remake Hit & Run.

@PuppetMaster One was the perfect rental game back in the day.

I didn't misconstrue anything, thought he was very clear to begin with!

I have fond memories of Toshinden due to nostalgia rather than gameplay. It was impressive just to do a 3D fighting game at the time.

I would really love to see Bloody Roar return, I loved the gimmick. Also a nod to Tobal.

EA were....Ducks?!

@SuntannedDuck2

Had a busy week, would have replied earlier!

You are right about the devs considerations, but a lot of what you said was about offline gaming. For online racing, the devs want more cars on track (At live events theres 20 car races).

People race very differently to AI (quit/disconnect - 16 player races almost never end with 16 players) and the fans want more cars on track (esp massive tracks like Circuit de la Sarthe (LeMans) and Nurburgring Nordschleife).

It's only 16 on PS5 due to the network limitations of PS4.

That said, theres also an example of where the consoles don't hold each other back. In PS5 GT7 there are advanced AI races that need more processing power. This mode simply isn't in PS4 GT7 so I would agree that the examples where PS4 holds PS5 back are usually more down to dev choices.

Hope you enjoy GT7 when you get it!

@SuntannedDuck2 Gran Turismo 7 was going to have 24 player online races when it was a PS5 exclusive, up from the 16 that PS4 can handle.

I had a good PS4 that didn't make much noise. Wished I got one sooner, so went early on PS5. It was largely pointless. At this point I realise I could probably have skipped the PS5 altogether and caught up on the few exclusives I missed with a PS6.

There were multiple revisions of the PS1 removing components and making it cheaper. It's always happened. What has changed is the price doesn't come down. That sucks.

All people want is money off games with a few bonus boosts for doing set things (trying a demo, purchasing specific games) and everyone* would be happy!

(*ok, almost)

The Vision GT cars are often unused, unloved and unwanted by the majority of the player base.

They are a bit of PR and I'm sure a fun side project for those involved but there is a long list of real cars and tracks we want to see, but this doesn't seem to be a priority for Polyphony.

@Ultrasmiles Consoles have usually been below 50 Watts but rapidly increased beyond 150 Watts from PS3/360 onwards (Nintendo taking a lower power route) prompting a few articles and generating some attention. Offering a low power option could allay criticism, but yeah looking at the comments it's not exactly everyones most wanted feature...

@Max_the_German I've always been happy with the way the PS5 looks, it was an upgrade from the PS4 and when I get a new TV I get a further upgrade but like you say it's only a handful of games that even exceed 1080 in 60fps mode.

@rjejr Hey! Yeah, it might be nice if the option were there, but I don't know if there would be much power saving. It will be interesting to see if it is any use to PS5 users of it is mainly in place for potential handheld compatability.

I still have a 1080 TV and standard PS5, and it makes me wonder if it might simply output a lower resolution that I wouldn't notice.