ElkinFencer10

I'll die before I call it X; it's Twitter. I'll die before I call it Xbox Network; it's Xbox Live. I'll die before I call it the Department of War; it's the Department of Defense. And I'll die before I call whatever asinine new name they come up with; it'll always be Playstation Network.

PlayStation Live lmao

But fr this is dumb. Not a bad thing. Just a dumb and pointless thing. I said the same thing when Microsoft dropped the "Xbox Live" name, and I stand by it. Don't change what it's always been called unless there a concrete reason to do so.

I'm excited about the new technology. Just because it can be used to do some horrible anti-art stuff doesn't mean that it can't also be used to do some fantastic things to bring the final game closer to what the artists originally envisioned but may have been hampered by hardware capabilities. It's a tool like any other; the good or ill is in the way it's used, not some inherent trait of the tool itself.

@Weez You hit the nail on the head. Any first-of-its-class commercial product is going to have a rough launch. This hasn't made DLSS5 look as glorious as Nvidia surely hoped, but I still think it's an exciting reveal and a great technology. If I showed you a picture of Lizzie Borden's family, it would be easy to make the argument that an axe is a terrible thing because it makes it super easy to kill people while completely ignoring its use for firewood, wood for furniture making, etc. Likewise it's easy to make DLSS5 sound like a horrible anti-artist technology when the comments focus on the negative potentialities and ignore the positive ones, namely more advanced and effective upscaling. The Switch 2 already proves how effective current DLSS upscaling is at taking an extremely low-resolution image and making it look far better than it has any business looking. As DLSS continues to develop, that is only going to get better.

So sure, we could be doom and gloom about AI slop and killing true art and ruining character models with questionable tweaks, or we could be positive about the doors is opens for better lighting and shadow detail, better upscaling, etc.

My second favorite vaporware. Starcraft: Ghost will always be my #1.

This is not how you do market research into demand elasticity. You change the price for everyone for a set period - say, six months - and then put it back where it used to be and see how quantity demanded changed.

So they didn't actually reveal anything except a codename. No real name, no release date, no specs, no price, no word on physical media support, no word on backwards compatibility (although we know it'll support Xbox One and Series X games), no launch lineup...Just that it exists, has a codename, and will play PC games. All things that we already knew.

I'm not ashamed to admit how tempted I am to pick this up. A bit embarrassed, but not ashamed.

@anoyonmus I went for the Generations pack on Switch 2. It just makes more sense; you're saving like $50 vs buying all three games separately.

@AndyKazama I completely and whole-heartedly agree. I enjoyed Leon's campaign a lot. But it's still the second weakest mainline entry after 5 imo.

I understand 2 and 7 since one is a remake of a fan favorite and the other was a whole new direction for the series, but 5 and 6 surprise me. 5 is just outright not a good game imo at least when played single player, and 6 is only marginally better. 9, on the other hand, is a masterpiece imo.

I'm all for console exclusives. Make more games exclusive to one console. It gives them a unique vibe. Playing a Genesis didn't have the same vibe as playing a Super Nintendo. Even playing the same Resident Evil game just felt different on PlayStation versus Saturn.

I will always buy physical when it's an option - both for shelf eye candy as well as trying to protect against delistings - but I accept that, except for Nintendo, this will probably be either the last or second to last generation to support physical media.

Pragmata looks cool, but since I've already decided to pick that up on Switch 2 (as I do with every game that as an amiibo for me to waste money on), I don't really care about anything here. Hope it's killer for folks who are looking forward to those other games, though! It would have been nice to get a confirmation of progress on the rumored Code Veronica remake, though.

I would love to buy this, but that's just too steep for me.

@ShogunRok Thank you for the advice. I think I'll do exactly as you suggest. At some point, I'd like to go play the original 1 and 2 as well, so I guess I can just tack 3 to that list as well. Thanks!

@ShogunRok So I've only played Zero, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2, but I love the world and the characters; would I be better served playing 3 Remastered or Kiwami 3?

I HATE people who post pre-release spoilers. Especially when they do nothing to indicate that their post/video/whatever is going to contain spoilers.

I don't think releasing the PS6 this year or next year would be a bad move, per se, but I think it's better to wait a few years for this AI-driven chip shortage to settle a bit. I'm a habitual early adopter - it's a character flaw, really, because I absolutely don't have the income to do that responsibly - so I'll feel obligated by my own internal BS to buy a PS6 at launch. That would mean that, like my launch PS5, I'll pay close to a thousand dollars (if PS5 pro prices today are anything to go by) for a console with few to zero exclusive games given everyone's cross-gen fetish, maybe or maybe not a disc drive to play my old games better, and marginal at best upgrades over current gen.

Logically, yes, I should just wait a few years to jump on PS6 whenever it comes out. But gamers aren't logical. Just look at the existence of the PS5 Pro with its astronomical price tag and miniscule enhancements over base PS5.

For God's sake, PLEASE encourage Nintendo to do the same. I stg half the Switch eShop is just softcore p0rn.

I'm tempted to buy this not for the horniness - if anything, that's a turn off for me in games - but for the bizarre goofiness of it. Maybe on a deep sale.

That's a fantastic cast. I'm always very skeptical that a video game adaptation will turn out well, but Amazon has a good track record with Fallout, and the cast is definitely encouraging here. I've never been the biggest Tomb Raider fan (I like the games, but I'm a casual fan), but I'll definitely be checking this out when it airs.

I absolutely agree with him. Not only do they give each console a unique identity and feel, but like he said, you have to code for the lowest specs when you make a multiplat game. Halo wouldn't be as impressive if Microsoft made it from the get-go to run on Switch 2, and Metroid Prime 4 wouldn't take advantage of the JoyCon 2 capabilities if it had been made with a PS5 and Xbox release in mind. You can use the unique quirks and abilities of each hardware configuration to its maximum potential when you develop with only that hardware in mind.

Sounds like he just really loves slop. Stop trying to screw over workers by replacing them with energy-wasting clankers.

@DreadfulDragon I'd say there's an argument to be made that Valve could have qualified as indie up through the initial release of Half-Life 2, but they absolutely have not been at all "indie" for the past 20 years.

I'm on the fence. I usually define indie games as those without a big publisher, so a small publisher, like Limited Run Games, wouldn't disqualify it, but a huge one like EA or Activision would. I wouldn't call Kelper big enough to be with likes of EA, but it feels like a little too big to be "indie." So I don't really know if I'd call it indie or not, but I'm leaning towards no.

@Dadou Yeah, if PS6 is digital-only, I'm just skipping Playstation and going PC for those games.

@IntrepidWombat I was actually just coming back to correct myself about that lol.

Hardware upgrades are so incremental and so expensive these days that I don't think we need a PS6 until 2029 or 2030. Look at the visual jump between PS4 and PS5, and then look at it between PS1 and PS2 or between PS2 and PS3. It's just not the same value in upgrading that it used to be, and it's gotten SO expensive. The PS5 is already the most expensive console Sony has ever released - and I'm talking base console, not pro - even when adjusting for inflation. A $1000 PS6 that offers negligible noticeable visual upgrades just doesn't have a value proposition that even most hardcore gamers would have a hard time swallowing.

I'll take a shadow drop over five or more years between reveal and release ANY day of the week.

I see no reason to spend $70 on this as opposed to continuing to play Black Ops 6.

It's a solution in search of a problem. Most PC gamers will want a PC because of its versatility and upgradability. Most console gamers will want a console because of their plug-and-play nature and familiarity. Steam Machines sit in the middle providing everything except what makes either side desirable. It's got an audience, but that audience does not make up a large percentage of Playstation gamers.

If they're going to cheap out and use AI slop, they should at least slash the MSRP.

That's a bummer. I really enjoy Call of Duty campaigns. There were even aspects of Ghosts's campaign that I enjoyed, and that was NOT a good campaign. I'll be waiting for a sale on this one.

@Dalamar Resident Evil didn't get "action-y" until Resident Evil 4, and even then, it wasn't more action than horror until 5. As far as mainline games, it's really only 5 and 6 that are more action than horror.

So yes, it was inevitable given not the Xbox situation per se but with the trajectory they're intentionally taking, but it still feels weird as HECK to have the Xbox flagship series on Playstation. I have the OG Halo on PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One/Series (MCC); and soon I'll add PS5 to that list. Gotta finish the fight, yo.

After years of being blinded by the admittedly awesome value Game Pass used to offer, I'm glad more people are starting to wake up to how anti-consumer Microsoft is.

Too busy playing Pokemon Legends ZA. Also, the only Ninja Gaiden games that really clicked with me were the ones on NES. That said, I've seen a bit of NG4 from a friend's playthrough, and it looks gorgeous.

It's almost like players are increasingly turned off by live service formats.

@old_gamer74 I'm the same, but my buddies and I set up Portal servers full of bots that we put a password on so it's just us and a bunch of bots. You get the multiplayer gameplayer without getting killed five seconds after spawning.

@Northern_munkey Other people with early review copies

I DO usually buy games for the campaign...so this is a bummer for me. That said, I do play a good bit of Portal even if it's not why I buy Battlefield, so I'll still probably pick this one up on sale down the line.

I usually buy, on average, 5 to 10 games per month between digital and physical. This is my example of what NOT to do when I'm teaching my econ classes about responsible credit card use XD

I came in here ready to vote Silent Hill f...but then I saw Trails in the Sky.

lol I've only played four of these games, and only one of them on PS5

@CVCubbington Whoever it is is just a contrarian.

I say 8/10. It's not the best Silent Hill, but it is really good.

It's about dang time; its successor is five years old.

I am SOOOOOO psyched for this. I loved the original game.

A cursory eBay glance reveals that this is not a $1300 controller. It's going for a quarter of that. Which is weird because Console Variations is a pretty legit site.

I would have been, I think, four years old when it came out. I was also a Nintendo kid, and my mom was a poor single parent, so I only ever got one console per gen, and it wasn't until halfway through the gen, so I got my N64 around 1999. I eventually bought myself a used PS1, but not until 2009. It's got a fantastic library, especially for RPGs, but I always found the N64 and Saturn to be more stylish with their design. That's a personal aesthetic preference, though; the PS1's library was better than the Saturn's and N64's combined, and as a Nintendo fan first and foremost and a heartbroken Sega fan after that, that pains me to admit lol