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"Videogame God".

God damn that is cringe.

@DonJorginho I repeatedly use the same three female protagonists as examples because everyone knows them at a glance. Otherwise I will have to sit here and explain to you who Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are.

There are scores of beloved female characters. Just because a few loud bigots on Twitter say otherwise does not invalidate anything.

@DonJorginho If that's true then how do you account for the ridiculous success of Ripley or Sarah Connor or Lara Croft?

The suggestion that female protagonists are disliked is cope to disguise legitimate fan backlash. As ChimpMasta said, people go into these shows or games for a particular character and then leave when that character leaves. It is not rocket science no matter how many people try to claim that this is some layered concept.

I couldn't care less about a bald head and some product placement. But excitement for a trailer with basically no gameplay in it? Nah. Sorry. Plenty of naff games had a great trailer to it. I will reserve judgement until I see some meat.

Very interesting numbers for Forspoken. It indicates that not many on here ever actually bought it and yet nevertheless seem enthusiastic about playing it.

Very few games have been so catastrophically damaged by a trailer as this one was. If only they dialled down Frey's mouth we could have been saying some very different things about this game right now.

@AhmadSumadi Gamepass has proven why day 1 releases are a serious mistake. That argument is done, dusted and away.

@kcarnes9051 People need to remember that Firefly was nearly 25 years ago.

@FlatwellSequoia The reason for that contract is that Marvel nearly went bankrupt crashing the comic book industry in the 1990s and they needed urgent money. This is also in part what led to the Disney buy out.

I hope Sony never gives up the Spider-Man ip because i have not yet forgiven Marvel for their part in the speculator boom. Gordon Gekko would have been proud of how greedy they were in the run up to that. The Youtuber SFDebris has a great video series on it if you want to know more.

My gut is telling me that GTA6 will be released in 2026 to inch it closer to the PS6.

Yes. That is indeed a lot of sixes.

@LavenderShroud E sports have caused a lot of damage to casual gaming. Everyone wants to make the next big tournament game just as everyone wants to make the next big live service.

Problem is, very, very few ever make it so that you end up with this pile of garbage that effectively pleases no one.

It just kind of amuses me that in the week we are celebrating PlayStation's 30th birthday, we have an article telling you how to make your old games look nicer instead of all of the brand new treats we can look forward to.

"My first Gran Turismo" is a terrible name. As noted already, it makes it sound like a game for babies. I wonder what normies who do not follow the press releases will think of it.

@ChrisDeku Yep. Over on Sony you could play your music CDs and later your DVDs in addition to having bigger games.
The decision to continue with cartridges was a disaster. Even SEGA realised that. Nintendo were very lucky in retrospect that they brought their A-game when it came to their N64 first party.

@UltimateOtaku91 A little thing called GTA was a PlayStation exclusive too.

I was around on the Something Awful forums when Let's Plays were invented so I feel qualified to say why people love them.

It is the communal evolution of the 4 player couch co-op. And no, I disagree that online multilayer fits this description because half of the players you meet online are nobs, lets be honest about this. But with a Let's Play, there is a massive enjoyment you get put of being part of someone else's game, particularly if it is their first time. They probably account for a lot of my entertainment on a weekly basis.

With every console, they take a bit more of our ability to personalise it away.

Having played Tekken 2 on PSN recently I have to say that Tekken 3 is easily the superior game.
Tekken 2 is super effing hard even on Normal mode. I am almost certain the computer must be reading your inputs and you can lose your whole health bar to a single kick. You spend so long on the floor after getting hit too.

Wipeout 2097 was always my personal fave too. Wipeout 3 was a very good game, but I dunno, it was a bit like Return of the Jedi trying to live up to the Empire Strikes Back.

Better soundtrack, better hud, a more striking visual tone. It just had that edge for me.

"as well as a rising population of fake accounts and bots is seeing many start using Bluesky."

There is absolutely no reason to believe that Bluesky isn't also full of fake accounts and bots. And if it isn’t, it sure as heck soon will be.

"Originally announced as a CD-based extension for the Super Nintendo, the biggest betrayal in gaming history led to one of the greatest consumer electronics brands of all time."

It has been revealed in recent years that SEGA turned it down too. Anyway, we sure lucked out there. Nintendo wouldn't have gone for half of the games that Sony did.

You kind of know nothing yet, let's be honest about this. A very strange bump for very little.

@wildcat_kickz I guarantee you that was the reason for the rule change, i'm afraid.

Don't worry about the precedent though. Prizes by committee are the most meaningless of all prizes as they are just the opinion of a ridiculously small minority as opposed to the overwhelming majority.

@DamienSkullduck I've been buying digital for the better part of a decade and not a single one of my games has ever been removed.

@nessisonett I have never been more creeped out than when Disney brought back Peter Cushing for Rogue One and it has only gotten worse since.

Welcome to our brave new AI future. Unfortunately, contrary to what they would have you believe, the actors guild strikes were a total failure. They achieved only the most basic protections against this sort of identity theft.

This entire industry is built on "clones" and has been ever since Pong.

As long as the game is good I really could not care less tbh.

@carlos82 "Extraordinary" is the right word. Live service has a bad rep because 99% of devs do not behave with such dedication. They just pump and dump until they make it.

Doom clones, Quake clones, COD clones, GTA clones, and now Horizon clones. That is how this industry rolls and always has done.

If the clone is good, I don't care.

@naruball Ask a question but you do not like the answer. I'm not surprised tbh.

@MrPeanutbutterz Which is why it isn't woke.

@NintenGuy I meant old SEGA games in general. Reading the comment back, i agree that I was not clear.

Just a reminder: The SEGA Mega Collection is being removed from the digital store next week. If these games are your thing, pick it up now.

@ChrisDeku Toxic negativity is a very bad thing to engage in. But so is toxic positivity. I'm seeing plenty of that, too.

Sorry, but I think that 6 (or possibly 5!) for a new release with this pretigous a name is terrible.
But let's see: the most clear and obvious test is if it goes up or down and stays there.

There really is no secret to success in the Triple A gaming market: Leave the toxic baggage at the door, do not spend more than the GDP of a small country on it, and most importantly of all, make a good game.

Eastern companies currently seem to understand this to a level over their Western counterparts that is quite frankly embarrassing.

I rated the games that I played on it fairly and i tried to do so without nostalgia. As I discovered recently with the MGS Master Collection, a lot of these games are best left in my memories.

I would not be surprised if GamePass comes to PS5 one day.
With every year, what once would have been a bizarre suggestion inches closer.

@Boucho11 Until I am inevitably proven right, then everyone acts as though what I was saying was the common opinion all along.

@Ravix I will accept that we still have the classic risk-taking Rockstar after the release of GTA6. Right now all I see is a dev that hasn't put out a full game in a LONG time.

These games were very of their time in both story and gameplay. The fashion, the bullet time, the attitudes, the tone, the feel, the minimalist graphics, the length.

I would have preferred a remaster to a remake. I am not convinced that any modern dev will do what it was justice. It'll be a very different game, for better, for worse.

@DonJorginho It was allowed to release the way it was because too many gamers have no standards.

The devs know, provably so with multiple examples, that they are rarely punished by releasing crap. Such games are now greeted with an expectant sigh rather than outrage.

I will never buy No Man's Sky, Fallout 76 or Cyberpunk. Yes I know that I am missing out on great games but that is my personal moral standard. I will not give you money if you think so little of me. And if everyone followed suit, suddenly, miraculously, we would start getting good games again.

@ATaco I seriously wonder if that is true tbh. Dragon Age has been a disaster of its own making, it would not surprise me if many games saw an uptick in its wake.

I have long since come to the conclusion that the Shenmue franchise has a very loud but actually very small fanbase. That is why despite the fanfare of its launch the third game went on to incredibly disappointing sales and ended up in obscurity soon after.

I just cannot recommend Shenmue 3. Not only does it end up with a cliffhanger that might never be resolved, but it's gameplay just has not moved on in twenty years barring the graphics. Still the same stilted dialogue, still the same long stretches of nothing happening, still a very stop-start story. And worse, they even managed to bugger some things up such as adding stamina mechanics and simplifying the combat.

Do yourself a favour and just buy Yakuza. Shenmue walked so it could run.

@Mikey856 I mostly play Civ 5 on mine so I've never noticed 😂

But yeah, it is already a pretty outdated piece of kit.

I would be surprised if we got another PSP or Vita tbh. Nintendo and mobile gaming have cornered the market.

A PlayStation Steam Deck however, is a real possibility. The Portal was a warm up to the main meal - just like the Pro to the PS6.

The 2000s called. They want their video game movie back.

Dark Souls Live Service incoming.

The elephant in the room here is just how few Western devs are getting nominated.

Never buy anything day 1!

How many more times do people need to be burned before they learn?