Astro's Playroom Demon's Souls Destruction All-Stars MLB The Show 21 Returnal Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Sackboy: A Big Adventure Spider-Man: Miles Morales
That's Sony's entire 1st party launch lineup. Of those, FIVE are PS5 only, one is fully multiplatform, and only TWO actually got that free PS4-PS5 upgrade Jim Ryan said they made a commitment to provide.
@twitchtvpat The PS5 upgrade is free for HFW, $10 for every other 1st party game moving forward.
As to why the PS5 disc costs more...development costs for the PS5 features and basic manufacturing costs for the discs. PS4 uses standard 50Gb dual-layer blu-ray discs, PS5 uses 100Gb BDXL discs. They expected us to roll over and take whatever they gave us, but we didn't, so they'll eat that cost this time but it's why they're not going to honor that commitment to free cross-gen upgrades, hence the tacked on $10 upgrade.
"...it’s abundantly clear that the offerings we confirmed in our pre-order kickoff missed the mark."
Saying you "missed the mark" infers there was an attempt to f***ing hit it. No, what you did was try to fleece and screw over your customers, and rightly got called out for it. You know what you did and you did it on purpose, no excuses.
"Last year we made a commitment to deliver free upgrades for our cross-gen launch titles" and "...moving forward, PlayStation first-party exclusive cross-gen titles (newly releasing on PS4 & PS5)–both digital and physical*–will offer a $10 USD digital upgrade option from PS4 to PS5."
Notice anything...out of the ordinary...perhaps even contradictory about those two statements? A $10 upgrade isn't f***ing FREE, is it now? Seems that wasn't much of a "commitment", was it?
I love PS, it will always be my primary console of choice, but, man...Jim Ryan sucks and Sony has been not so slowly regressing to their "We're golden gods" attitude of the PS3 era, and that sucks, too. I don't mind that game prices have gone up, they should have gone up a long time ago, what makes me mad as hell is when companies play fast and loose with the expectations THEY set. If you made a commitment to provide free upgrades for cross-gen games, they F**KING HONOR THAT COMITMENT, otherwise your words mean nothing and we can't/shouldn't trust anything you say.
@BrintaPap "the gameplay itself looks basic/boring"
You just described basically every racing game. Unless it's a super dynamic Wipeout/F-Zero/Blur/Split-Second type racer, they all LOOK boring. It's all going to come down to track design and how it feels to play.
@Amppari Hulst had literally nothing to do with this. Ancel "retired" amid accusations of abuse, and the studio was independent so they weren't even Sony's to shut down.
This, along with Beyond Good & Evil 2 if I were a betting man, has probably been dead for a while and we're just now hearing about it because it's been 7 years and everyone forgot it was even a thing.
The art style and UI is damn near identical, but it just goes to show how that little bit of extra polish Dotemu/Lizardcube/Guard Crush put into SOR4, as those animations are gorgeous and fluid...while this, looks cheap and janky.
I'd give almost anything for a new Wipeout, but...without Studio Liverpool (whose closure I will NEVER forgive Sony for) I can't muster any excitement.
@kingbreww You say that like review scores mean literally anything to anyone outside of the reviewer.
A numbered score is completely arbitrary anyhow, as an 8 to you will be someone else's 5, a 2 on your scale will be a 10 for another person, etc., etc., etc. They represent what ONE person thinks, where it falls on their own personal scale, not an entire outlet or its individual writers.
Regardless, the game has a metacritic/opencritic of 88/86 on PC/Oculus, a metacritic score of 88 on PSVR, 4.75 of 5 stars on the Oculus store based on 1725 user reviews, and a "Very Positive" reception based on 650 Steam reviews...so, clearly, the general consensus is very, very good.
Whether YOU like it or not is up to you because, obviously, opinion are entirely subjective.
@rjejr If New Mutants is you worst movie of all time, you need to see more movies. New Mutants sucks, but it's nowhere near "worst of all time" territory. Hell, it's not even the worst X-Men flick, X3 and Apocalypse are worse than New Mutants.
I don't know that I've ever seen a movie adaptation that had so much potential, so much deep lore and mythology to pull from, so many varied and interesting characters...and utterly fail to capitalize on any of it.
Every single creative decision is the wrong one, the script is abysmal, and the editing is the worst I have ever seen in a theatrically released film. The score is terrible. There are about six locations in the whole thing, they all look like they cost about $20 to build and the lighting/cinematography are amateurish. AND, to add injury to insult, the fight choreography is, for the most part, super boring. There are a handful of decent fights, but most of them are staged, blocked, and edited about as bad as they could be.
It has no structure, whatsoever. Things that actually needed an explanation get none, while things that didn't need explaining AT ALL get paragraphs of exposition. It can't just be the best fighters from across the realms, they have to be "chosen" with that ***** brand. It can't just be people have superpowers because who cares, it has to be Arcana because...I don't know the reasoning behind needing to explain why characters in MK have powers...it's baffling.
Joe Taslim and Hiroyuki Sanada were brilliant, Mehcad Brooks was a great Jax, and Jessica McNamee was a solid Sonya (though, good lord, the movie has this super weird sexist undercurrent running through it, specifically aimed at Sonya), and Max Huang was a great Kung Lao. Everyone else was either completely wasted or was just awful. And before anyone chimes in with the "What about Kano, he was so funny!" No, he was not. He was a painfully unfunny, incredibly annoying one-liner delivering a-hole who never shuts his mouth, which is NOT who Kano is or ever has been. He's not Kano, he's evil Johnny Cage.
As a huge MK fan who was maybe more excited for this thing than I should have been, man this thing was just a massive disappointment on nearly every level.
Losing ground? No, not yet, and they likely won't any time soon.
That said, if they keep heading down the road they seem to be going down, they very well could eventually.
The biggest complaint against Xbox for years was their lack of big, exclusive first-party titles. They had Halo and Gears of War and...that's about it. Obviously Sony has more than just two big tentpoles, but between them restructuring and shuttering Studio Japan, killing off store services for the PS3/PSP/Vita, and all the news today of them narrowing their focus down to only the biggest, safest, most bankable titles in their portfolio, they could very well find themselves in the same situation MS found themselves in for multiple console cycles.
Sony seems to either have forgotten that the whole reason they blew up in the first place, why people are so hardcore into Playstation as a brand, is because they used to be weird and experimental and more than willing to take big risks. Whereas Sega and Microsoft had a couple of genres covered, Playstation had a wonderful spread of all that gaming had to offer. No matter your preferred genre, there was something there for you, and it feels like they're starting to lose that experimental side, which super sucks.
Played for roughly half and hour last night right as it went up and, holy hell, what a complete pile. Utterly broken, ridiculously unbalanced, nigh unplayable garbage. I don't know how they managed it, but it feels as bad as Umbrella Corps.
That's fine. Every other costume in the marketplace is either a boring pallet swap, or just sucks, and I don't know why anyone would pay a dime for them. But all other dlc is free, so I don't mind paying for new skins as long as they actually look good.
@ShiningStar Same. I've got nearly every table on Steam, not a chance in hell I'm rebuying all of them again. Seems like this was massive misfire on Zen's part, haven't seen a single comment anywhere that's happy about any of this.
Later revisions of the PS3 emulated PS2 hardware. PS2 classics on PS3 are not native ports, they're an executable wrapped in an emulator shell. The PS3 was also capable of PSP emulation (though it's locked and compatibility is terrible). The PS1 Classic mini console is running the PCSX emulator.
Sony is no stranger to emulation on/of their own hardware, they'd just have to care enough to actually implement it on the PS5, which they could easily do...but they won't.
Had they done this on the PS4 I absolutely would have paid for the option to use all my PS1/PS2/PS3 discs on the PS4. When I do manage to grab a PS5, it'll be the digital version so, no, it's not appealing to me anymore. Plus, I still have my PS1, PS2, and PS3 hardware, so if I want to go back, I can go back.
Haven't played Horizon on PC yet. By all accounts it was kind of a mess on when it released but it seems to be in better shape now, and I put nearly 200 hours into it on PS4, so I haven't had a desire to play through it again. I will pick it up on PC, eventually, but not any time soon.
I'm still a Sony Pony, but I switched to PC as my primary gaming platform for all 3rd party titles about a decade ago and I can't ever go back.
Stuff like Uncharted or Horizon or Spider-Man I had no issue playing at 30 because they were built/tuned for it and maintained a rock solid 30, but I recently tried to get into Bloodborne and just couldn't do it. The wild inconsistencies in framerate genuinely made my eyes hurt. I get that devs want to chase those ridiculous sky-high resolutions, but a higher and stable framerate is so much more important to me.
Yeah...I don't know if I buy it. Kojima has much too deep a relationship with Sony to go anywhere else. Sony treat Kojima like a God, and they'll give him plenty of funding with zero oversight, he can literally do whatever he wants, why would he ever want to work for/with anyone else? If he was working with Google, I would have to assume having a "big" project cancelled would only make him more hesitant to work with anyone aside from Sony.
WayForward or IntiCreates are the only devs who should touch Castlevania.
As far as Metal Gear...man, I just cannot even remotely picture a Metal Gear that isn't from Kojima. Something remarkably different like Revengeance notwithstanding, my brain can't comprehend what a non-Kojima MG even looks like.
@billyboyblue666 I have no ideas who that is so I can't speak to the validity of it, though I would have to assume if there was any validity to it every new site would have picked it up.
Regardless, I both would and wouldn't be surprised. On one hand, I'd be surprised because I don't trust Konami to do literally anything that treats their IP with any respect. On the other, Sony is very smart, and exclusively securing a remake from Bluepoint would be a very, very smart thing to do
@BloodNinja It's not a rumor as much as wishful thinking. Before the Demon's Souls remake was announced many, many, many folks were certain Bluepoint were working on an MGS remake, but there was never anything substantial to back that up.
I hope it's leading to an actual announcement, but I don't trust Konami to do anything that'd make us happy. It's likely just a non-official reunion stream for charity or something, which is still pretty cool.
RE4 doesn't need to be remade, but I would have begrudgingly accepted a 1:1 RE4 remake that simply updates the game with pretty new gfx and a mildly tweaked control scheme, but otherwise left everything else identical to the original.
The remix, revise, reimagine approach worked for RE2 and RE3 because those games were hampered by the limitations of the time. RE4, despite being 15 years old, is a modern game. It plays like a modern game, it looks like a modern game. It's one of those games that, through unparalleled design, was a decade ahead of its time and really hasn't aged. It wasn't just an evolution of the series, it was an evolution of the medium as a whole. It was lightning in a bottle that can't be recaptured or recreated.
I think we can 100% expect the RE8 release date. We'll likely see a trailer or sizzle reel for the new live-action movie, and maybe more details for Infinite Darkness (the netflix CG show). What I want to see is Outbreak and Revelations 3, and we might get a teaser for whatever the next remake is (hopefully CVX, but probably RE4).
A rerelease of the original trilogy...I dunno...it sounds great in theory, but I don't know that younger folks and people who never played them would forgive the tank controls, so unless Capcom updated the controls I don't see them selling well enough to warrant it. We'll see, though, I'd be happy to be wrong about that.
I also think if they really wanted to blow people away they could tease a return to Dino Crisis, but I'm not holding my breath.
They did say there will be multiple announcements, but I highly doubt they'd bother porting the original games to modern systems/pc. Seems like it'd just be a waste of resources for games that most younger generations would find unplayable because of the tank controls.
Obviously we're getting some RE8 news, hopefully a release date, but all I'm hoping for past that is that maybe the new multiplayer title is a return to Outbreak and if they are doing another remake that it's NOT RE4.
I'd also like to see another Revelations, preferably with a new Raid mode like Rev2 (which was super rad). Regardless, I'm excited to see whatever they have to show.
They wouldn't even necessarily have to make a "new" one. So few people ever played them that Capcom could cherry-pick characters and locations from Outbreak/File #2 and remake them in the RE Engine. Hell, I'd take a fairly straightforward remaster as long as it had updated controls.
Remedy signed a deal with Epic back in March to publish their next two titles, so any kind of Sony published deal would be off the table for the foreseeable future.
As well they should. CDPR did this to themselves, it's THEIR mess to clean up. Retailers shouldn't be left holding the bag for a company that blatantly lied to and mislead its customers.
I respect Geoff for managing to get a pretty solid show together despite everything going on in the world, and it was a better show than last year in spite of the the issues, but I still feel like it's a show that doesn't entirely understand who it's for.
I get that most people are only going to care about the BIG awards like best performance, best direction, goty, etc., but relegating stuff like soundtrack/sound design/art direction/etc. to the unceremonious pre-show kind feels like a slap in the face. THAT'S the stuff that should be celebrated the most, the stuff that makes the medium really WORK and stand out from other mediums.
I also feel like the categories still need some work. Like, why is there a best Esports team award at all? Not that those folks don't deserve recognition, but they're competing for millions of actual dollars, their skills are rewarded with hard cash...yet there's no category for animation or use of mocap...the more granular aspects of development aren't given recognition at all, and that sucks.
Also, as much as I love a good Get Hype moment, too much of the show is built around trailer reveals. You gotta keep your advertisers and investors happy, and that's what most people are really watching for, but the awards themselves too often feel like an afterthought, something to fill time between musical numbers and "World Premieres".
You can't make everyone happy and I do think Geoff walks the line between recognizing the industry and the necessary commercialism fairly well, but I kinda felt like it tipped a bit too far into the latter this year...which is a shame.
Housemarque pivoted from their arcady roots because they couldn't get people to pay $20 or $30 for some of the best pure arcade titles of their generations...now Sony is pulling this nonsense?
I love Housemarque and think Returnal looks great, but regardless of how good it is pricing it at $70 is going to kill any chance it might have had at being successful.
@nessisonett Pobody's Nerfect, indeed...but, damn...there's reporting bad information, then there's just making sh*t up wholecloth to back a narrative you're trying to create.
There's no "anonymous sources claim the studio is dead" or "Contacts within Sony, who wish to remain nameless...etc" caveat, there's no basis in reality for the claim at all.
The span that the conclusion was jumped to that "two people at a secret studio no one is supposed to know about, working on a project that doesn't officially exist yet, quit so the studio MUST be dead" is the size of the damn Pacific.
WTF guys? Who runs this site? Is there zero editorial oversight?
Bautista ONLY had to explain BECAUSE of this article, which insinuated that because two people had left since its inception that meant the studio was dead. That's not reporting, that's baseless speculation trying to manufacture a story.
I honestly don't know why R* seems so adverse to do anything with RDR1. By next year they will have rerelease GVAV across three generations of console...but RDR1 is still essentially stuck on PS3/360 (I know it's playable via BC on xbox and PSNow), and they seem to hate the idea of porting it to PC where it would sell another 10 million copies.
Couple that with RDR2's insistence on being far more sim-ish than the first RDR, and it kinda feels like they hate how popular RDR1 was.
I love Harmonix and want to support them, I've bought every game they've ever released and tonnes of DLC, but...holy hell, the pricing scheme for Fuser is buck wild. $60 for the game, $45 for the VIP pack, and now they want ANOTHER $50 for a pass. That's $155...it's been out for two weeks.
They're pricing tracks the same way they did for RB...but tracks don't work the same way. In RB, you bought a track because you like that track, you always had a good idea of how it would play across the various instruments, and you assumed you would play that track multiple times. That's not how tracks in Fuser work, and there's no way of knowing how any individual part of song A is going to mesh with parts of songs B/C/D until you have it and hear it it all mixed together.
I get it, licensing is expensive, but they're got to figure out a better way to offer dlc for this game.
If it were dropping within the next year-ish, I could understand targeting last and current-gen, but if they're just gearing up and it's still 2-3 years away...eyeballing a PS4/XB1 version just seems like a bad idea.
I know I'm gonna get sh*t for this, because "gamers" are an easily irritable, impatient, and reactionary bunch, but...this gen should have been delayed into next summer. Between the technical issues and all all the basic quality of life stuff that's lacking from PS5, the hardware clearly wasn't 100% ready to go. Same for MS, without a single 1st party exclusive to launch alongside the Series X|S, they should have just waited. Both would have benefitted from taking another 6 months to refine their hardware/software and make sure they had the best launch lineups they possibly could.
I'm sure Miles and Astrobot are excellent, but we didn't NEED the PS5 to play Assassin's Creed, or CoD, or Cyberpunk...all of them are coming to PS4/1X, we would have been just fine for a few more months to avoid the issues people are having.
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Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Is Massive, According to Venom Voice Actor
@3n7r0py
2024 or 2025 more than likely.
Remember that Insomniac has two teams, and are quickly becoming Sony's biggest studio in terms of head count.
Re: Soapbox: I Don't Know How to Feel About This PS4-to-PS5 Upgrade Uproar
Astro's Playroom
Demon's Souls
Destruction All-Stars
MLB The Show 21
Returnal
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Spider-Man: Miles Morales
That's Sony's entire 1st party launch lineup. Of those, FIVE are PS5 only, one is fully multiplatform, and only TWO actually got that free PS4-PS5 upgrade Jim Ryan said they made a commitment to provide.
Re: Horizon Forbidden West Will Now Offer Free PS4 to PS5 Upgrade, Sony Confirms
@twitchtvpat The PS5 upgrade is free for HFW, $10 for every other 1st party game moving forward.
As to why the PS5 disc costs more...development costs for the PS5 features and basic manufacturing costs for the discs. PS4 uses standard 50Gb dual-layer blu-ray discs, PS5 uses 100Gb BDXL discs. They expected us to roll over and take whatever they gave us, but we didn't, so they'll eat that cost this time but it's why they're not going to honor that commitment to free cross-gen upgrades, hence the tacked on $10 upgrade.
Re: Horizon Forbidden West Will Now Offer Free PS4 to PS5 Upgrade, Sony Confirms
"...it’s abundantly clear that the offerings we confirmed in our pre-order kickoff missed the mark."
Saying you "missed the mark" infers there was an attempt to f***ing hit it. No, what you did was try to fleece and screw over your customers, and rightly got called out for it. You know what you did and you did it on purpose, no excuses.
"Last year we made a commitment to deliver free upgrades for our cross-gen launch titles" and "...moving forward, PlayStation first-party exclusive cross-gen titles (newly releasing on PS4 & PS5)–both digital and physical*–will offer a $10 USD digital upgrade option from PS4 to PS5."
Notice anything...out of the ordinary...perhaps even contradictory about those two statements? A $10 upgrade isn't f***ing FREE, is it now? Seems that wasn't much of a "commitment", was it?
I love PS, it will always be my primary console of choice, but, man...Jim Ryan sucks and Sony has been not so slowly regressing to their "We're golden gods" attitude of the PS3 era, and that sucks, too. I don't mind that game prices have gone up, they should have gone up a long time ago, what makes me mad as hell is when companies play fast and loose with the expectations THEY set. If you made a commitment to provide free upgrades for cross-gen games, they F**KING HONOR THAT COMITMENT, otherwise your words mean nothing and we can't/shouldn't trust anything you say.
Re: Hot Wheels Unleashed DLC Roadmap Includes Cars from Batman, Street Fighter, and Barbie
@BrintaPap
"the gameplay itself looks basic/boring"
You just described basically every racing game. Unless it's a super dynamic Wipeout/F-Zero/Blur/Split-Second type racer, they all LOOK boring. It's all going to come down to track design and how it feels to play.
Re: Promising PS4 Exclusive WiLD Has Allegedly Been Canned
@Amppari Hulst had literally nothing to do with this. Ancel "retired" amid accusations of abuse, and the studio was independent so they weren't even Sony's to shut down.
This, along with Beyond Good & Evil 2 if I were a betting man, has probably been dead for a while and we're just now hearing about it because it's been 7 years and everyone forgot it was even a thing.
Re: Mayhem Brawler Looks So Much Like Streets of Rage 4 It Isn't Even Funny
The art style and UI is damn near identical, but it just goes to show how that little bit of extra polish Dotemu/Lizardcube/Guard Crush put into SOR4, as those animations are gorgeous and fluid...while this, looks cheap and janky.
Re: There's Talk of New Twisted Metal and WipEout Games for PS5
I'd give almost anything for a new Wipeout, but...without Studio Liverpool (whose closure I will NEVER forgive Sony for) I can't muster any excitement.
Re: Mini Review: Synth Riders (PSVR) – A VR Rhythm Game with a Different Sound
@kingbreww You say that like review scores mean literally anything to anyone outside of the reviewer.
A numbered score is completely arbitrary anyhow, as an 8 to you will be someone else's 5, a 2 on your scale will be a 10 for another person, etc., etc., etc. They represent what ONE person thinks, where it falls on their own personal scale, not an entire outlet or its individual writers.
Regardless, the game has a metacritic/opencritic of 88/86 on PC/Oculus, a metacritic score of 88 on PSVR, 4.75 of 5 stars on the Oculus store based on 1725 user reviews, and a "Very Positive" reception based on 650 Steam reviews...so, clearly, the general consensus is very, very good.
Whether YOU like it or not is up to you because, obviously, opinion are entirely subjective.
Re: Movie Review: Mortal Kombat (2021) – An Uneven, But Ultimately Enjoyable Film
@rjejr If New Mutants is you worst movie of all time, you need to see more movies. New Mutants sucks, but it's nowhere near "worst of all time" territory. Hell, it's not even the worst X-Men flick, X3 and Apocalypse are worse than New Mutants.
Re: Movie Review: Mortal Kombat (2021) – An Uneven, But Ultimately Enjoyable Film
I don't know that I've ever seen a movie adaptation that had so much potential, so much deep lore and mythology to pull from, so many varied and interesting characters...and utterly fail to capitalize on any of it.
Every single creative decision is the wrong one, the script is abysmal, and the editing is the worst I have ever seen in a theatrically released film. The score is terrible. There are about six locations in the whole thing, they all look like they cost about $20 to build and the lighting/cinematography are amateurish. AND, to add injury to insult, the fight choreography is, for the most part, super boring. There are a handful of decent fights, but most of them are staged, blocked, and edited about as bad as they could be.
It has no structure, whatsoever. Things that actually needed an explanation get none, while things that didn't need explaining AT ALL get paragraphs of exposition. It can't just be the best fighters from across the realms, they have to be "chosen" with that ***** brand. It can't just be people have superpowers because who cares, it has to be Arcana because...I don't know the reasoning behind needing to explain why characters in MK have powers...it's baffling.
Joe Taslim and Hiroyuki Sanada were brilliant, Mehcad Brooks was a great Jax, and Jessica McNamee was a solid Sonya (though, good lord, the movie has this super weird sexist undercurrent running through it, specifically aimed at Sonya), and Max Huang was a great Kung Lao. Everyone else was either completely wasted or was just awful. And before anyone chimes in with the "What about Kano, he was so funny!" No, he was not. He was a painfully unfunny, incredibly annoying one-liner delivering a-hole who never shuts his mouth, which is NOT who Kano is or ever has been. He's not Kano, he's evil Johnny Cage.
As a huge MK fan who was maybe more excited for this thing than I should have been, man this thing was just a massive disappointment on nearly every level.
Re: Movie Review: Mortal Kombat (2021) – An Uneven, But Ultimately Enjoyable Film
@Enuo Liu Kang does.
Re: Official PlayStation App Racks Up 100 Million Installs on Mobile Devices
Have had it installed for years, maybe used it twice.
Re: Poll: Is PlayStation Losing Ground to Xbox?
Losing ground? No, not yet, and they likely won't any time soon.
That said, if they keep heading down the road they seem to be going down, they very well could eventually.
The biggest complaint against Xbox for years was their lack of big, exclusive first-party titles. They had Halo and Gears of War and...that's about it. Obviously Sony has more than just two big tentpoles, but between them restructuring and shuttering Studio Japan, killing off store services for the PS3/PSP/Vita, and all the news today of them narrowing their focus down to only the biggest, safest, most bankable titles in their portfolio, they could very well find themselves in the same situation MS found themselves in for multiple console cycles.
Sony seems to either have forgotten that the whole reason they blew up in the first place, why people are so hardcore into Playstation as a brand, is because they used to be weird and experimental and more than willing to take big risks. Whereas Sega and Microsoft had a couple of genres covered, Playstation had a wonderful spread of all that gaming had to offer. No matter your preferred genre, there was something there for you, and it feels like they're starting to lose that experimental side, which super sucks.
Re: Rejoice! Hot Wheels Unleashed Looks Like a Ton of Fun
Wow...that actually looks super cool. Colour me interested.
Re: Resident Evil Re:Verse Beta Pulled Offline Just Hours After Launch
Played for roughly half and hour last night right as it went up and, holy hell, what a complete pile. Utterly broken, ridiculously unbalanced, nigh unplayable garbage. I don't know how they managed it, but it feels as bad as Umbrella Corps.
Re: Marvel's Avengers Dev Clarifies That You'll Need to Buy MCU Outfits
That's fine. Every other costume in the marketplace is either a boring pallet swap, or just sucks, and I don't know why anyone would pay a dime for them. But all other dlc is free, so I don't mind paying for new skins as long as they actually look good.
Re: Random: WipEout PS1 Intro Remake Is a Total Knockout
@Total_Weirdo It was a free update to Omega Collection, not a standalone thing.
Re: Why You Should Download These Free Play At Home Games
Only Ratchet seems to be live at the moment, but since they can't be bothered here, direct links:
UK Store:
https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/category/83ccec1a-8c8e-4ef7-bb02-ba0fdf042e6c/1
US Store:
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/category/83ccec1a-8c8e-4ef7-bb02-ba0fdf042e6c/1
Re: Pinball FX Is Coming to PS5 in 2021, But You'll Need to Rebuy Your Tables
@ShiningStar
Same. I've got nearly every table on Steam, not a chance in hell I'm rebuying all of them again. Seems like this was massive misfire on Zen's part, haven't seen a single comment anywhere that's happy about any of this.
Re: Talking Point: Would You Buy a PS1, PS2, or PS3 Emulator for PS5?
Later revisions of the PS3 emulated PS2 hardware. PS2 classics on PS3 are not native ports, they're an executable wrapped in an emulator shell. The PS3 was also capable of PSP emulation (though it's locked and compatibility is terrible). The PS1 Classic mini console is running the PCSX emulator.
Sony is no stranger to emulation on/of their own hardware, they'd just have to care enough to actually implement it on the PS5, which they could easily do...but they won't.
Had they done this on the PS4 I absolutely would have paid for the option to use all my PS1/PS2/PS3 discs on the PS4. When I do manage to grab a PS5, it'll be the digital version so, no, it's not appealing to me anymore. Plus, I still have my PS1, PS2, and PS3 hardware, so if I want to go back, I can go back.
Re: Soapbox: PS5 Has Turned Me Into a Total 60FPS Snob
Haven't played Horizon on PC yet. By all accounts it was kind of a mess on when it released but it seems to be in better shape now, and I put nearly 200 hours into it on PS4, so I haven't had a desire to play through it again. I will pick it up on PC, eventually, but not any time soon.
Re: Soapbox: PS5 Has Turned Me Into a Total 60FPS Snob
I'm still a Sony Pony, but I switched to PC as my primary gaming platform for all 3rd party titles about a decade ago and I can't ever go back.
Stuff like Uncharted or Horizon or Spider-Man I had no issue playing at 30 because they were built/tuned for it and maintained a rock solid 30, but I recently tried to get into Bloodborne and just couldn't do it. The wild inconsistencies in framerate genuinely made my eyes hurt. I get that devs want to chase those ridiculous sky-high resolutions, but a higher and stable framerate is so much more important to me.
Re: Resident Evil's Movie Reboot Has a Familiar Poster
A Resident Evil movie that's trying to cram RE1 and RE2 into a single film, with a teaser poster inspired by RE4...
Yeah...this things going to be a disaster.
Re: Google Dropped Stadia Exclusive Hideo Kojima Horror, Sources Claim
Yeah...I don't know if I buy it. Kojima has much too deep a relationship with Sony to go anywhere else. Sony treat Kojima like a God, and they'll give him plenty of funding with zero oversight, he can literally do whatever he wants, why would he ever want to work for/with anyone else? If he was working with Google, I would have to assume having a "big" project cancelled would only make him more hesitant to work with anyone aside from Sony.
Re: Poll: Who Should Develop New Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania Games If Konami Is Outsourcing Them?
WayForward or IntiCreates are the only devs who should touch Castlevania.
As far as Metal Gear...man, I just cannot even remotely picture a Metal Gear that isn't from Kojima. Something remarkably different like Revengeance notwithstanding, my brain can't comprehend what a non-Kojima MG even looks like.
Re: Mystery Metal Gear Solid Reunion Teases with 'Details Coming Soon'
@billyboyblue666 I have no ideas who that is so I can't speak to the validity of it, though I would have to assume if there was any validity to it every new site would have picked it up.
Regardless, I both would and wouldn't be surprised. On one hand, I'd be surprised because I don't trust Konami to do literally anything that treats their IP with any respect. On the other, Sony is very smart, and exclusively securing a remake from Bluepoint would be a very, very smart thing to do
I hope it is true, but I'm not holding my breath.
Re: Mystery Metal Gear Solid Reunion Teases with 'Details Coming Soon'
@BloodNinja It's not a rumor as much as wishful thinking. Before the Demon's Souls remake was announced many, many, many folks were certain Bluepoint were working on an MGS remake, but there was never anything substantial to back that up.
Re: Mystery Metal Gear Solid Reunion Teases with 'Details Coming Soon'
I hope it's leading to an actual announcement, but I don't trust Konami to do anything that'd make us happy. It's likely just a non-official reunion stream for charity or something, which is still pretty cool.
Re: Resident Evil 4 Remake Targets 2023 Launch After Development Reboot, Says New Report
This is a mistake.
RE4 doesn't need to be remade, but I would have begrudgingly accepted a 1:1 RE4 remake that simply updates the game with pretty new gfx and a mildly tweaked control scheme, but otherwise left everything else identical to the original.
The remix, revise, reimagine approach worked for RE2 and RE3 because those games were hampered by the limitations of the time. RE4, despite being 15 years old, is a modern game. It plays like a modern game, it looks like a modern game. It's one of those games that, through unparalleled design, was a decade ahead of its time and really hasn't aged. It wasn't just an evolution of the series, it was an evolution of the medium as a whole. It was lightning in a bottle that can't be recaptured or recreated.
Re: Surprises Promised for Resident Evil Showcase Stream
I think we can 100% expect the RE8 release date. We'll likely see a trailer or sizzle reel for the new live-action movie, and maybe more details for Infinite Darkness (the netflix CG show). What I want to see is Outbreak and Revelations 3, and we might get a teaser for whatever the next remake is (hopefully CVX, but probably RE4).
A rerelease of the original trilogy...I dunno...it sounds great in theory, but I don't know that younger folks and people who never played them would forgive the tank controls, so unless Capcom updated the controls I don't see them selling well enough to warrant it. We'll see, though, I'd be happy to be wrong about that.
I also think if they really wanted to blow people away they could tease a return to Dino Crisis, but I'm not holding my breath.
Re: Resident Evil Fans Muster Up Hope for Ports of Classic PS1 Titles
They did say there will be multiple announcements, but I highly doubt they'd bother porting the original games to modern systems/pc. Seems like it'd just be a waste of resources for games that most younger generations would find unplayable because of the tank controls.
Obviously we're getting some RE8 news, hopefully a release date, but all I'm hoping for past that is that maybe the new multiplayer title is a return to Outbreak and if they are doing another remake that it's NOT RE4.
I'd also like to see another Revelations, preferably with a new Raid mode like Rev2 (which was super rad). Regardless, I'm excited to see whatever they have to show.
Re: Soapbox: A Resident Evil Outbreak Reboot Makes Far Too Much Sense
They wouldn't even necessarily have to make a "new" one. So few people ever played them that Capcom could cherry-pick characters and locations from Outbreak/File #2 and remake them in the RE Engine. Hell, I'd take a fairly straightforward remaster as long as it had updated controls.
Re: Resident Evil Fans Are Freaked Out by This Incredibly Tall Woman
Replace "freaked out by" with "thirsty AF for" and you're right on the money. I think quarantine has done some things to some peoples...
Re: dbrand Reveals Black PS5 Faceplates Because You Assholes Can Install Them
@Gmork___ I was hoping so hard that the LEDs would be addressable, but alas...
Matte black with purple lighting was my dream, too.
Re: Feature: Our PS5, PS4 Predictions for 2020 - How Did We Do?
Remedy signed a deal with Epic back in March to publish their next two titles, so any kind of Sony published deal would be off the table for the foreseeable future.
Re: CDPR Willing to Pay for Physical Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds Out of Its Own Pocket
As well they should. CDPR did this to themselves, it's THEIR mess to clean up. Retailers shouldn't be left holding the bag for a company that blatantly lied to and mislead its customers.
Re: Talking Point: Did The Game Awards 2020 Meet Your Expectations?
I dunno, man...it's complicated.
I respect Geoff for managing to get a pretty solid show together despite everything going on in the world, and it was a better show than last year in spite of the the issues, but I still feel like it's a show that doesn't entirely understand who it's for.
I get that most people are only going to care about the BIG awards like best performance, best direction, goty, etc., but relegating stuff like soundtrack/sound design/art direction/etc. to the unceremonious pre-show kind feels like a slap in the face. THAT'S the stuff that should be celebrated the most, the stuff that makes the medium really WORK and stand out from other mediums.
I also feel like the categories still need some work. Like, why is there a best Esports team award at all? Not that those folks don't deserve recognition, but they're competing for millions of actual dollars, their skills are rewarded with hard cash...yet there's no category for animation or use of mocap...the more granular aspects of development aren't given recognition at all, and that sucks.
Also, as much as I love a good Get Hype moment, too much of the show is built around trailer reveals. You gotta keep your advertisers and investors happy, and that's what most people are really watching for, but the awards themselves too often feel like an afterthought, something to fill time between musical numbers and "World Premieres".
You can't make everyone happy and I do think Geoff walks the line between recognizing the industry and the necessary commercialism fairly well, but I kinda felt like it tipped a bit too far into the latter this year...which is a shame.
Re: Soapbox: PS5 Pricing Is Setting Releases Like Returnal Up to Fail
Jesus, Sony...
Housemarque pivoted from their arcady roots because they couldn't get people to pay $20 or $30 for some of the best pure arcade titles of their generations...now Sony is pulling this nonsense?
I love Housemarque and think Returnal looks great, but regardless of how good it is pricing it at $70 is going to kill any chance it might have had at being successful.
Re: Evil West Is a Supernatural Western From the Makers of Shadow Warrior
FWH is making a modern spiritual successor to Darkwatch....
SWEET JESUS, I AM ALL IN!!!!!!!
Re: Kratos Is Coming to Fortnite Season 5
@Loftimus Actual adults don't care which one "wins".
Re: Sony's Secret San Diego Studio Probably Hasn't Closed
@nessisonett Pobody's Nerfect, indeed...but, damn...there's reporting bad information, then there's just making sh*t up wholecloth to back a narrative you're trying to create.
There's no "anonymous sources claim the studio is dead" or "Contacts within Sony, who wish to remain nameless...etc" caveat, there's no basis in reality for the claim at all.
The span that the conclusion was jumped to that "two people at a secret studio no one is supposed to know about, working on a project that doesn't officially exist yet, quit so the studio MUST be dead" is the size of the damn Pacific.
Re: Sony's Secret San Diego Studio Probably Hasn't Closed
WTF guys? Who runs this site? Is there zero editorial oversight?
Bautista ONLY had to explain BECAUSE of this article, which insinuated that because two people had left since its inception that meant the studio was dead. That's not reporting, that's baseless speculation trying to manufacture a story.
This is sloppy work all around.
Re: Rumour: Red Dead Redemption Collection Leaked, But It's Almost Certainly Fake
I honestly don't know why R* seems so adverse to do anything with RDR1. By next year they will have rerelease GVAV across three generations of console...but RDR1 is still essentially stuck on PS3/360 (I know it's playable via BC on xbox and PSNow), and they seem to hate the idea of porting it to PC where it would sell another 10 million copies.
Couple that with RDR2's insistence on being far more sim-ish than the first RDR, and it kinda feels like they hate how popular RDR1 was.
Re: Fuser 2020 Backstage Pass Kicks Off
I love Harmonix and want to support them, I've bought every game they've ever released and tonnes of DLC, but...holy hell, the pricing scheme for Fuser is buck wild. $60 for the game, $45 for the VIP pack, and now they want ANOTHER $50 for a pass. That's $155...it's been out for two weeks.
They're pricing tracks the same way they did for RB...but tracks don't work the same way. In RB, you bought a track because you like that track, you always had a good idea of how it would play across the various instruments, and you assumed you would play that track multiple times. That's not how tracks in Fuser work, and there's no way of knowing how any individual part of song A is going to mesh with parts of songs B/C/D until you have it and hear it it all mixed together.
I get it, licensing is expensive, but they're got to figure out a better way to offer dlc for this game.
Re: Assassin's Creed Valhalla: All Armor Sets and Where to Find Them
Wow...I hate every single one of those.
Re: Project 007 Targeting Modern Systems, Will Run on Glacier Engine
If it were dropping within the next year-ish, I could understand targeting last and current-gen, but if they're just gearing up and it's still 2-3 years away...eyeballing a PS4/XB1 version just seems like a bad idea.
Re: 10 Things PS5 Needs to Improve
I know I'm gonna get sh*t for this, because "gamers" are an easily irritable, impatient, and reactionary bunch, but...this gen should have been delayed into next summer. Between the technical issues and all all the basic quality of life stuff that's lacking from PS5, the hardware clearly wasn't 100% ready to go. Same for MS, without a single 1st party exclusive to launch alongside the Series X|S, they should have just waited. Both would have benefitted from taking another 6 months to refine their hardware/software and make sure they had the best launch lineups they possibly could.
I'm sure Miles and Astrobot are excellent, but we didn't NEED the PS5 to play Assassin's Creed, or CoD, or Cyberpunk...all of them are coming to PS4/1X, we would have been just fine for a few more months to avoid the issues people are having.
Re: Here's Why DualSense PS5 Controller's Face Buttons Don't Have Their Iconic Colours
@StevieJ_UK1 The Dualsense is bit more complicated than DS3/DS4 but, like the console itself, it looks surprisingly straightforward to disassemble.
Re: PS5 Doesn't Have a Web Browser
Who cares? Like we don't all have 10 other things with browsers within a foot of us at all times.