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It is my personal opinion that subscription services in general are dying - especially ones that cost over a hundred pounds. Not only is there massive competition for your money nowadays but the current corporate aim of "you will own nothing and be happy" is just moving more and more people towards the high seas.
I think that Sony really will have to offer twice as much going forward if they are to keep its current user base let alone attract new customers.

@Truegamer79 Anyone who calls the PS4 ''retro'' is wrong and probably about ten years old.
The official figure for what constitutes ''retro'' is 20 years. The PS4 release date was 2013.
The PS3 was released in November 2006 and thus has a little over a year left before it becomes the next old man on the block.

Given how easy it is to emulate games nowadays, I really do not see what these devs are losing out on by not putting them up on the store for £5-£10 each.
There are certain old games such as the early Tekken's, the early Gran Turismo's, the early Resident Evil's that I guarantee you will sell.

@Liamsufc1 AI will lead to thousands of jobs going, but it also has the potential to lead to a workers revolution. WFH jobs for the disabled, the four day working week, lower overheads meaning more money spent on what matters.
And as far as our hobby is concerned, lower overheads means more risks, more original ip, more indy devs.

A lot of pain is coming, but a lot of good things too.

FF9 was designed as a celebration of FF1-6. That is why there are so many call-backs and homages, from the design of Vivi to the battle system.
All I'm saying is, if this ends up as a complete remake on the scale of Rebirth then they will have missed the whole blinking point of FF9.
Give me my traditional turn based RPG, Square.

@BiosNova Does that also apply to the people who stopped watching the show once the exact same thing happened?

It is this kind of willful ignorance and stubborn pride as to why Druckmann refused to change the story for the show. And do not try and tell me that he couldn't, The Walking Dead TV series is basically nothing like the comic.

He decided.
Completely off his own accord.
And nothing to do with the MASSIVE drop off in ratings once a completely new audience also decided that they hated Joel being killed off.
And if you'll believe that, i have a bridge to sell you.

@Ainu20 What consoles that games release on is objective fact.

@Oram77 GTA6 will be the point for many. Although at this point you have to wonder if you are better off waiting for the inevitable PS6 version and skipping the PS5 altogether. It all depends on your resistance to FOMO.

@Ainu20 It is objective fact that the PS5 has only just gotten going. If you take away the games that saw a simultaneous release on the PS4 then it has the smallest amount of console exclusive games of any PlayStation by a country mile.
There are many hardcore gamers who have never seen the need to upgrade away from the PS4 for a reason.

Well... I'm sure that someone knows who this is...

Out of interest, how many of you have ever bought a game solely because of a celebrity being in it? I'm just wondering if this ever works or whether it is a waste of money.

@shonenjump86 Many of us are still happy with the PS4. It plays about 90% of what is on the PS5.

@MaelysSedisia I do not like K Pop and I have never seen White Lotus.
My friend, it is not BS'ing. Some of us just do not watch what you watch.

@Frmknst Whale = term for someone who spends a lot of money on microtransactions.

And I hear that Diablo is one of those games where only the suckers grind. Deliberately so I might add - they made the game intentionally frustrating in order to sell you the solution.

Is Diablo 4 worth playing for those of us unwilling to become a whale?

I didn't enjoy cosplaying as a UPS driver in the first game and I do not enjoy it now.
Hard pass from me.

Isn't it fascinating though just how well GTA5 has stood the test of time?

Few have tried to surpass it in recent years and when they do, such as the Saints Row reboot or Mind's Eye, they come nowhere near it.

@SeaDaVie I don't care about the non-mainline games. Actual FF hasn't had turn based combat since FFX.

@Juanalf They haven't done both for about twenty years at this point. Not in the mainline games anyway.

Square has been pushing the end of turn-based combat and ''more, more, more action!'' since FF12.

I would love a return to something resembling the FF games of the 1990s but I would be very surprised to see it happen. Square seems to hate them (even though ironically they love to keep on bringing them back).

MGS4 is absolutely not worth the wait so don't worry.

Always check your sources, lads.

Tbh, I would like a bit more than "we are partly to blame for this one" because people expect more from a website such as this. I might as well go and get my news from "Random Youtuber Number 456" if this is what i can expect going forward.

It comes down to price.
If the PS6 is ''quality PC money'' like the PS5 Pro was, then why not just pay a bit more and get a dedicated gaming PC?
The ball is in Sony's court.

It just looks so gosh darn ugly.
What were they thinking?

"I bought it for the plot."
Lol.
Is that the modern day equivalent of "I just buy them for the articles, love."

Deus Ex is not a great port, but it plays well enough. Especially if this is your first time. Hopefully we also get Human Revolution at some point.

This game has PS Plus written all over it and that might not actually be a bad idea. We all know that they'll patch out the bugs eventually and it might inspire people to pick it back up again.

I played the Saints Row Reboot under similar circumstances and there was fun to be had once you hardened yourself to the enormous levels of cringe (which I will admit was a challenge.)

@Brundleflies21 "I know what we should do. Let's make the entire supporting cast of MGS3 evil and try to absolve Big Boss of every evil thing that he ever did by making out that it was a completely different guy the whole time. Oh Kojima baby, you've done it again!"

If this game flops he has just created a meme. I hope he realises that.

This explains a lot of his crappy design decisions from the past tbh.

Games like this and the Saints Row Reboot really do highlight just how good GTA actually is. Even Vice City blows the pants off Mind's Eye in terms of content from what I've seen
If GTA6 releases in a perfected state, it will absolutely have been worth the wait. Guaranteed.

@naruball Lol. As if Fortnite and Gatcha have the same audience.

BTW, i would like to introduce Sony to the concept of "the man who only ever buys one game every ten years."
That's why streaming never took off too BTW. Millions of people are happy with their one game. They are not looking for the next Fortnite because they already have the original Fortnite.

The biggest mistake according to leaks was "a culture of toxic positivity".
Or in other words, the team was scared to tell the boss that it was crap for fear of reprisal.

This is not a good port of Deus Ex.
But.
Its not a bad port either.
Play the PC version if you can, but the console version is a reasonable substitute.

@nessisonett Your average consumer does not care enough to boycott anything. And as we all know, gamer boycotts are a laugh anyway. All mean words on social media and not a lot else.

"Now fixed and better than ever."

Having played both versions of GTA3 recently I can tell you that the tone of the original is still far superior. The original Liberty City feels dirty, seedy, gritty, with litter blowing across the streets and trash in the alleys. The Remaster still feels too clean, too smooth.
And i know that many of you will know exactly what I am talking about.

I'm glad people like it, but it's not for me. I now understand how many must have felt when VII came along. This is just so unlike what came before that i find it very difficult to accept as an FF title.

@Americansamurai1 Elle Fanning would make a great Zelda imo.

I didn't have a bad time with the first game, but I've also never felt the need to play it again either.
My hope is that they veer away from its clear origins as a Fallout clone and attempt something original.

People checking the game out for the first time or people trying to wash the bad taste out of their mouths by playing the superior version of the story? You decide!

Plenty of room in this world for both realistic and exaggerated characters.
The people who create the problems for our community are those who try to censor the enjoyment of others.

@Fyz306903 There is room for both realistic characters and plastic dolls with big jugs in this world.
The people who create the problems are those who attempt to stop the fun of others.

@ChrisDeku ''Mario Kart sold a lot more so shouldn't people copy that first? Cartoon characters sells(67m vs 2m)''

A very poor comparison given how Mario is pretty much the most popular gaming character of all time. Very few games have the ability to compete with Mario.

I like to think of GTA3 as being the first true GTA game. 1 and 2 are just so unlike anything that came later and their mechanics have aged so poorly that they do not even feel like GTA games.
Honestly, at this point you probably could convince someone that Driver is the first game in the GTA series.

I think that a poll is needed.

Namco and Konami are the Japanese equivalent of EA and Ubisoft. If they can find a way for a cheap buck, they will.

@Nepp67 I doubt he does though. He is making bank off on his own.