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@zebric21 Agree 100%. It's also a bit hard to play an "America saves the world" game right now as a European.

The last time a famous co-creator gave me a game "unlike any I've ever played before" I got Mind's Eye.

As a fan of the original I'm glad that it was cancelled tbh. From what I saw it was a generic game starring a woman with red hair.
I would rather my childhood games remain dormant forever than to have some in name only sequel share their name.

The show started OK. But as it went on (and especially its spin off) it just became gross for the sake of gross imo.

@DennisReynolds The reviews are from Wikipedia.

@DennisReynolds Tekken 1 was the first PlayStation game to shift over a million units and pulled 8's and 9's across the board upon release.
You cannot judge an old game using modern eyes.

And as for Tekken 4 being a bad game that is internet revisionism. It ALSO scored 8's and 9's across the board upon release and won E3's best fighting game of the year award.

@dodgykebaab A generation officially ends when the next console comes out.
The last PS2 game came out in 2013 but you wouldn't call it of the same generation as the PS3.

There absolutely will be a handheld. This is not even a debate at this point.

@SuperYlvis Buying an Xbox right now is like buying a Dreamcast during the PS2 era. Will you have fun? Yeah, perhaps. But it is very obvious the direction the wind is blowing.

The digital only console discount was huge - it was something in the region of £290. That is insane value.

It also shows just how many people would be willing to buy a PS5 if Sony dropped their ridiculously inflated prices a bit more often.

@Lorfarius A million dollars sounds very impressive. But the details behind those numbers are less so. According to Google that figure was reached by 5,587 backers.

Do I need to emphasise just how few people that is? There are football stadiums where you could not fill even half of a single stand with an amount that small.

@BearsEatBeets You are greatly misjudging the power of nostalgia.
That aside, I would argue that the gaming equivalent of a black and white silent movie would be the Vectrex - and yeah, you would be hard pressed to find anyone willing to play that today.
The PS1 is more like making a 1980s or 1990s throwback. And there are plenty of shows out there that prove just how popular those are.

Colin McRae Rally was a great game back in the day. I can see myself picking this up.

@species You cannot get arrested in the UK for "posting a meme".
You can however get arrested for posting something grossly offensive that should not exist in a polite society. The sort of thing that would get you punched in the balls if you said it to someone's face in real life.

@GamingGod No corporation in the world is an ally to women, gays or other minorities despite what they may claim on Twitter or on special days of the year.
When money calls, they go sniffing.

@Realist Two week old games do not normally go on sale as they are still in their prime ''everyone is still buying this product at full price'' phase.

This was the game where, in retrospect, it became obvious that Hideo Kojima needed to be replaced.
The gameplay itself was fine but the story was a convoluted mess. And I dare anyone to tell me that they understood it the first time through.
I'm glad someone else is getting a shot tbh.

I'm just saying, there is no way the casual player is going to buy the PS6 if it is above or around PS5 Pro prices. Especially if the games actually are £70-£80.

Too big to fail lol

@Dodoo These stupidly expensive long winded games will all but vanish eventually. The health of this industry beyond the Big Ten (GTA5, Fortnite, Minecraft etc.) is deeply questionable whether it can make the returns any more. So many high profile failures...

@CP2 Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3. Her main selling point was that she was just an ordinary teenager and not a big boobed model like all of the other women of the time. She has a flat chest, short hair and freckles.

Beloved character and widely regarded as an excellent game. The idea that if a woman cannot enter the roster of Stellar Blade she will be automatically hated is a hollow argument.

Why mention the "weirdos" at all apart from comment farming?
Attention is what gives these people power. Stop giving it.

VR will never be a thing until it is shrunk to the size of a pair of glasses.
Until then, just accept that most people do not want to game wearing a helmet.

Not going to happen. Trump and Vance are in bed with the tech bros like no other presidential duo before them. So much so that they reversed most of what Biden put in place to safeguard AI.

Because, like it or not, it's theft.
These fans do not own the ip. Make an exception for this and Sony will have no excuse not to make an exception for anything else. In other completely unrelated news... Sony is suing Tencent right now.

@nomither6 Buddy, even today, twenty five years later, I still shoot that ice bucket in Metal Gear Solid 2. To suggest that ''the majority of gamers'' do not care about artistic creativity and effort is a lie.

Relish these times, ladies and gentlemen. For we still live in that glorious, delicious age in which AI is still imperfect.
In ten years time you'll be completely unable to tell the difference from fiction and reality.

@RoomWithaMoose Hopefully PushSquare has learned from previous controversies cough has a lightning scar cough to steer clear of the culture wars.

The only winning move is not to play. Especially as all actual evidence from sales figures points towards BOTH sides being nothing more than a vocal minority. Actual gamers, game.

@EfYI What i said about Ubisoft is true and was found to be so in a court of law.
Google it.

@EfYI They claim.
They claim that these things happened.
I on the other hand think that trial by social media can stick it.

@EfYI Sheer greed and evil?
Lol! Ubisoft had/has literal rapists in their offices and releases broken microtransaction filled slop every couple of months.

Everyone will forget about the GTA6 delay and these protests if Rockstar releases another forever game.

@Rich33 I would recommend a Youtuber by the name of Modern Vintage Gamer who has a video on this. Basically, yes, all of the arcade versions and their ports cheated. The PS1 version has identical code to the arcade.

@seinfeldfanatic Yep. If you grew up with 80s and 90s games then you knew exactly what to expect.
This is the ''Elden Ring needs an easy mode'' argument all over again. Some games are not designed for you - get over it.

Nintendo have made their way through the faithful who would eat deadly nightshade if they got a free copy of Mario Kart out of it.

Everyone else is looking at the Switch 2 and thinking "Wow, that's expensive, and that display is kind of crap, and battery life sucks, and..."

@geordie197 And why is this not a 9/10 collection? Because some kids did not do their research beforehand? Because they were apparantly expecting a 2025 experience from a game released in 1992?

I'm not remotely suprised that today's gamers cannot play MK. They are too used to being babysat. Catch-up mechanics, hints, a big pointing arrow to the objective, the main character literally spelling out how to do a puzzle - lol.
Games before the 5th generation threw you in there like a boomer dad teaching you how to swim.

@Coolmusic Its weird as hell imo

I greatly suspect that all of those people who want PSN for free were not around when PSN went down for a month after being hacked in 2011.

Let us be clear about what "free" means in reality. It means "cost cutting because we are making no money off this service."

If something is "free", all you are doing is paying in some other way down the line. Never forget that.

@Ainu20 Only to those of us without the money to sue.
Try this s-t with Disney and see what happens.

The only reason Sony cares is because it affects them.

@SpecialT I find this criticism perplexing. You do not think that PlayStation's biggest competitor for the last twenty years going down the toilet is news worthy of a PlayStation news site?
This is the equivalent of Coca Cola no longer having to compete against Pepsi.

@HonestHick I think you may have put the wrong address into your browser, sir. The sentence you were looking for is "Pure Xbox".
I'm sure you will find the upvotes that you are seeking over there.

@Dalamar Amazon like a lot of companies over-hired during lockdown.
A lot of these job losses is pure greed too mind you.

@Questionable_Duck Yes and no. A lot of it is going nowhere. But the market valuation itself is highly inflated to the point of implosion.

Even if it does launch in 2027 it'll probably take until 2029 for any console exclusive games to come out for it.
Plenty of life in the PS5 yet.

The sad thing is, there is a lot of potential here given the large cast of characters and the time travel aspect to do something Sonic the Hedgehog adjacent.
It should have been a movie.

Halo is yesterday's news let's be honest. If this happened in the 2010's the internet would be on fire. As it is... meh... probably get it eventually...

AI is a tool. It is only as evil as its users. Sadly there are many evil people out there.

In other news, did you know that every major techbro is building a bunker in preperation for the day that we turn on true AI? Look it up.