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Not feeling it at all. It looks well put-together, but there's something off about it that I can't put my finger on. Art style maybe.

For such a contained, tight experience, technical issues are unacceptable. This isn't an open world with hard to find or hard to duplicate bugs - this is a linear game. For a small studio trying to make a name for itself, this is an awful look.

Insert "Corporate wants you to find the difference...." meme here.

Maybe it's my aging eyes, but I don't see a difference in those three shots. I've played other games with and without ray tracing in the past, and for my money, it's not enough difference to make a difference. If these are the changes being billed as "wow!" in 2026, then it appears to me that hardware and software developers alike have found "the wall" and smacked into it quite hard.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword and the Okami sequel are what I'd like to see. Maybe they'll tease DLC for Requiem, but I doubt it.

Persona fans: First time?

@Steelhead 8-bitdo makes a PS1/PS2 adapter that allows you to use a PS4 or PS5 controller with the older consoles. I haven't used that product specifically, but the other things of theirs that I have used have been excellent.

Can Requiem count for 2 months? I've played so little of anything lately - it's the only game that I beat in the month of March.

@Balaam_ 30fps, woof. Thanks for the report on that.

@Dimey You've been gaming for 40 years and can't handle reading opposing viewpoints?

In my experience, it's the game you play for a little while, wish you were playing something else, then go do that. Everything this game tries to make you feel, No Man's Sky does it better. I may try the PS5 version down the line when it's dirt cheap in a couple years, but I'm not lining up to play it on day one.

Those are rookie numbers. We haven't seen it hit Skyrim levels yet.

That would be about 10% more expensive than the PS1 at launch when adjusted for inflation($299.99 -> $639.90, US Bureau of Labor Statistics), and that's with a shortage of NAND and RAM. It also includes other pieces of technology like on-board storage and network connectivity that PS1 didn't have.

I haven't touched a game controller in more than a week. Not sure I will have time this weekend. If I do, I may jump back into Jedi Survivor or find a real light RPG to play.

Have a great weekend, everybody.

@Dogbreath The only place I disagree is with your last statement. Care about your colleagues enough that you establish a solid network. It's the most important thing to continued employment. As you work and leave positive impressions, people disperse and move on, and they take those impressions with them. Caring for the product is also part of that - you still want to do good work because you want to be known for being good at what you do by those colleagues. Once Corpo A decides it either wants to move on from you or has dried up of opportunities, you start talking to the connections you've built up who have moved on themselves. Most of my career has been built on networking with people; it's only in the last few years that I've been able to move around based solely on competency. Without caring about colleagues or the work that I did, I'd still be stuck at a call center.

Working for a publicly traded company is like rescuing a baby tiger. You nurse it to health, feed it, love it, care for it, spend a ton of time and money on it, but at the end of the day, it's a wild animal and will at some point try to rip your throat out. It's in their nature. You can get mad at them or call them "gross" or claim that it's unfair, but it's part of a system into which we all feed. It's the reason I've worked for 5 different companies in the last 7 years. Each move was voluntary and was a benefit to me, and all but one was a raise. If in the year of our Lord 2026 people are still naive to how this works, they're blinded by some kind of bias ("this company would never..."), they have main character syndrome, or they're cripplingly unobservant.

@AhmadSumadi Agreed on Tekken being "mid" for years. I booted up my PS3 last week and played Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection - they really haven't improved upon that in subsequent iterations.

It's kind of wild to me - I assumed it was the younger generation lapping up the FF7RE games. I played the original just after it hit Greatest Hits, and my excitement for the Remake was off the charts. It's really unfortunate how they turned out.

RE2 '98 was the first game I got with my PlayStation. I play it a few times a year - what a masterwork.

I watched ACG's review when it dropped. With enough QoL updates, I could get interested in the future. In its current state? You'd have to be a diehard open world fan, and that ain't me. I'm happy for the team that it seems to be selling well so far, though.

Leon Kennedy is Aaron Rodgers

• Past his prime
• Gray in his stubble, lines on his face
• Still an absolute beast
• No clue whether or not he'll be back
• He's married, and no one knows who she is

@Swirly Same, Andrew Garfield was my favorite Spidey as well. I had really hoped to see another movie after the second one to see how the end changed him, but it wasn't to be.

@SuntannedDuck2 This one harkens back to some of the older shooters you mentioned. It feels good to play because RE Engine is so smooth. The demo is worth playing, even on older PC hardware. It takes about 30 minutes all told.

Incidentally, Dead to Rights is awesome. I played it on the GameCube back when it came out. They had a lot of really cool ideas, one of my favorites being the use of the dog companion. I remember being in a cemetery stage and running out of ammo - you can send your dog out to attack and enemy, and he'll bring you back the bad guy's gun so that you can get back i n the fight. I always felt the gameplay was much better than Max Payne.

Diana reminds me of my daughter when she was 5 or 6, so that's neat. Like a lot of other people, the demo changed my mind on this one. Really looking forward to it!

Not sure I'll manage much gaming time this weekend. I've been very disinterested since my third Requiem run.

I think instead, I'll spend some time in the garage. My lawn mower needs new blades, and now that my dad's ATV is fixed up and out, I can start to work on my two that aren't running. I'll start with the Honda since it just needs a new battery, carb gone through, and an oil change. The Polaris is going to be a multi week adventure, so it's going to have to wait until after vacation.

If I play anything, I'll pick some more at Trails in the Sky FC before bed.

Have a great weekend, everybody.

They look like the types of game accessories you'd find at a discount shop from a brand you've never heard of with a stack of price stickers in the corner where it's been marked down and gone unsold. You know the one. It's the type of thing your well-meaning aunt would buy you on a visit because she knows how much you love your Nintendo, but it's for a console you don't own. How could she not grab it for $4.99 on clearance?

Excellent game - good adaptation of the original.

As much as I liked it, I do wish that Capcom licensed out its RE Engine for games like this. Would have loved to see SH in REE.

@TechaNinja Translation: "I don't know what I'm talking about, I've never run a business, and I'm just here to say what everyone else is saying because it's cool to hate corporations." Thanks for the clarification, bro.

@TechaNinja Oh, that's cool. Can you share with me where you were able to access and read their P&L? They're a private company, so I wasn't able to find it.

Margins are getting slimmer, the cost of hardware upgrades is skyrocketing along with the cost of energy. This makes perfect sense to maintain both margins and growth. It's an interesting way to implement it. I don't understand the vitriol here. They're raising the prices on optional cosmetic content to offset the cost of continuing to do business. I'd rather see them continue to employ their devs and charge a little more for skins.

It 100% depends on the type of game, and more important, the quality.

If Capcom had a small team locked in an office cranking out classic-style Resident Evil games complete with tank controls, PS1 graphics, and great puzzles, I'd be a sucker for each and every one of them.

Now, a mediocre side scroller based on an established IP but in a completely different genre? I don't know. It doesn't seem to fit. Why not do one in the style of the original God of War trilogy? You don't have to capture the visual aesthetic the same way, but you have to understand what the original developers did to make players feel a certain way and capture THAT.

When the greatest games are discussed, there isn't a lot of discussion about how cool the particles effects are or how accurate the MoCap was or how the ray traced light made a thing look 17% more realistic. We think about how those games made us feel. The story. The gameplay. The music. Sometimes the presentation, but not necessarily the visuals themselves, but how they were able to convey the developers' vision. That's the core of what people want when they say, "You don't have to spend insane amounts of money to crank the quality on everything to 11, just put out a solid game that costs less to make, takes less time to make, and can be sold to us for cheaper."

We're not going to just blindly put support behind something because Sony comes out and says, "Hello Gamers, here is the cheaper thing you wanted!" That's missing the point.

Man, I forgot about Fatal Frame II. I just spent a bunch of money on hunting stuff, so I'm going to pass on it for now, but if physical copies stick around, I'll check in on it in a few months.

@Nilexson I won't spoil anything, but be sure to have Trails of Cold Steel II ready to go - I think you will want to jump in immediately!

I'm three runs through Requiem at this point (only because I failed my first attempt at Speed Demon at 4:06 - the second was 2:45). I would still like to do another very slow, ponderous run on Insanity mode this time to get everything else wrapped up, but it may be time for a break.

I think I may end up back into Trails in the Sky FC. I'd like to finish it before I finally start on the Calvard games.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

PS5 owners are already in lesbians. Aloy, Ellie, Atsu, etc, etc...

This game would have been cool as an Earthbound style RPG. I understand why it's a beat-em-up, but man, what a missed opportunity.

Sony is the sole proprietor of their store. It's why I am desperate to hang on to physical media. Without the ability to buy from Amazon or some other retailer, they have no competition.

I'm 40. I guess I feel old. I bought my first house, got married, and became a father at 24. I've been grinding for a while. I went to the doc for blood work a few days ago, and he said something like, "Well, at your age..." and I'm just thinking to myself, "what the hell did he just say to me??"

And yeah, I got my PlayStation in 1998, and RE2 was the game that I got with it because a dude on the bus said I should (good call, Everett). Learning tank controls on those first couple of screens sucked, but I eventually got it. It took months, but I finally beat it all the way through.

Capcom is going for a record year of awesome or something.

@Fartingale Especially since it's a Microsoft product. It will be competing against Steam's offering which has the advantage in both OS and marketplace. I think Valve's customers tend to trust their products more and actively seek them out, where Microsoft's customers are by and large forced into doing business with them thanks to their dominance in the PC OS marketplace. This is an interesting proposition, but I do think it's a generation late.

The first Control was so much fun. It's a nice game to drop into for 20 minutes or so, have a couple of fights, and dip out for something else. If Resonant can capture that, I'll be on board.

@LordDieALot Tank controls definitely aren't for everybody. If you manage to train yourself on them, the older games have a different kind of feel to them that straddles the line between 3D action and point-and-click adventure. I can understand that they're a product of their time and that it's most likely nostalgia speaking, but RE2 and RE3 Nemesis are still peak Resident Evil.

@GeeEssEff For someone who scares easily, I can't recommend it. It leans into some Resi 7 type horror in some sections.

Resident Evil Requiem seems to be bucking that for some reason. When I went to grab my copy, there was a line out the door of the game store, and it seems to be dry pretty much everywhere. What a strange phenomenon.

I buy digital when it's dirt cheap. I buy physical even if I already have a digital copy for games that I really love. I also will buy digital on PC just for the mods, but again, only on a deep sale (basically, the price of a rental from Blockbuster).

Went down to GameStop at 10am to grab mine. I'm a couple hours in and taking a short break (my cat said so - who am I to deny that?). Taking PTO for a Resident Evil game is tradition!

I'm reading nothing, but I'll check this out sometime next week after I've had a chance to finish it. Thanks for posting it.

Not even a little bit.

Shipping is another $40. I'll have to think about it.

@Paultall I was thinking the same thing. This is a very strange hire.

Spent most of the day with my dad working on his 4-wheeler that's been stashed in my garage. Oil is changed, new battery, did some troubleshooting on the reverse switch, and tore down/rebuilt the carb (twice). We uh...ordered a new one. Real quick about my dad - He's 76, getting treatment for cancer (half way there, he's going to be fine), and still has absolutely no quit in him. He's always been smart, and he's sharp as ever. Amazing guy.

Anyway, games. I had some PSN credit, so I bought Slay the Princess. It's neat so far, but I've only spent 20 minutes with it. If I have time, I'd like to finish Control. I will also dip in and out of some Resident Evil games over the next week. I feel like a kid on the week before Christmas. Can't wait for Requiem.

Drakengard 3 didn't get the love it deserved. A simple port would have done it some justice - it somehow performs better in RPCS3 than on native hardware. To me, it was kind of a precursor to Nier: Automata with some of the things it tried to do with the combat and the writing.

@Flaming_Kaiser Oh, for sure. I was somewhat joking - I have more PCs than anyone really needs and bins of consoles. Bless companies like 8-BitDo and RetroTink for allowing us to play the older consoles with some of the modern accoutrements.

Time for those retro PC builds, fellas. To eBay for DDR3 RAM!