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@leisureal88 Well given that 85% of PlayStation games sold last year were digital, you're not in a minority. What we have in the article above is a game dev that poops out broken slop, and a corporation that pays people minimum wage to create and deliver junk food, trying to get some free advertising by preaching to the choir of terminally online, permanently raging people.

@Orpheus79V Yeah, 5 came out in 99. Year after the DC (for Japan) and a year before the PS2. Also sorry to be off-topic but yes, finally a goal.

@Balosi You had SNES games coming out until not long before the PS2, too. At least in Japan.

I feel kind of lucky I'm playing less games recently. First console gen I might not bother with. (Also, come on England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

@Dogbreath To be fair he was born in a rough area to a mom struggling with drugs, yet ended up going to art school and studying poetry, acting, ballet, and jazz and performing in Shakespeare plays. He also founded a few non-proft organisations to help disadvantaged people, created a charity concert, and founded an organisation dedicated to reducing crime and keeping young black people away from criminal activity. He's not basically just the archetypal gangsta rapper.

There's numerous stories like this, too:
"After receiving a letter from Joshua's parents expressing the boy's dying wish to meet the rapper, Tupac flew from New York to Maryland to visit him. He spent time with Joshua, holding his hand and taking him to a basketball game, before the boy passed away approximately 45 minutes after Tupac left. The meeting deeply affected Tupac, leading him to dedicate his publishing company to Joshua's memory by renaming it to Joshua's Dream."

@Northern_munkey @-wc- There is actually a phenomenon where raising prices increases sales. Customers equate prices with quality so they seem more desirable. Not saying this will happen here, but luxury goods manufacturers do this strategically to actually increase desirability versus their competitors.

There are also examples like this:
https://startupproject.org/blog/how-i-doubled-the-price-of-my-software-product-and-sold-ten-times-as-many-copies/

There's also what are referred to as Giffen goods:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good

@Jireland92 There's significantly more to a GTA than a MK. And it would've cost literally hundreds of times the money to produce. It's like people complaining about it being £200 a night for a camping spot but being happy to pay £200 a night for a 5-star hotel room in Paris.

@JoeNobody Yeah but at the same time, Gears of War has local co-op and doesn't do this. Neither company has done this before. It also makes no sense for MS to insist that anyone wanting to play this has to give Sony more money. MS get nothing from this apart from probably less sales.

Not quite as bad as needing up to 4 GBAs to play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles in 2-4 player mode on the GC but this is ridiculous.

Honestly looks like a load of crap. The sort of junk that would be 50p in CeX back in the 2000s and you wouldn't even bother looking at the back of the box.

@Waa-Laa IIRC what happened is loads of people wouldnt turn up to work or school when a new DQ came out so Enix/Square Enix started only releasing them on weekends. There's a myth it's a law in Japan but it was voluntary.

@DennisReynolds "MS coming into gaming is easily one of the worst things to happen to gaming, fanboys can disagree all they want but nearly everything we hate about gaming all came from MS."

Agreed. You could see their awful approach with the 360. PS3 had controllers with rechargeable batteries, 360 had old fashioned batteries you had to buy. PS3 had a wireless connection built in, with the 360 you had to buy a wireless adapter. The PS3 was also a bluray player (still the standard for physical visual media), the 360 used DVDs and then later released a HD-DVD add on you could buy (and the format died almost immediately). The PS3 had free online, 360 charged for it.

Add in the 33% failure rate and quite honestly you have a greedy mess of a console filled with cut corners and cynical design decisions. That sums up the entire Xbox brand. Plus the weird thing of calling it the 360 because they thought people would think the Xbox 2 was worse than the PS3, yet they then released the Xbox 1 alongside the PS4. Did they ever know what they were doing?

@Dalamar It's not to copy DS for the sake of it. The reason DS did it in the first place is so your thumb is freed up to either move the camera or hover over the dodge button. Same as in FPS with R2 being shoot, though it's even more important in them since you aim with RS.

@4fold Sure but if in Dark Souls, enemies only did 0.5% of your HP bar per hit and died in one hit, it would be unbelievably easy. Typically enemies dying slower and you dying quicker emphasises the mistakes you make. There's also the fact the character they used seemed to have abilities from later in the game being used on guards from the start of the game.

Keep being tempted to buy First Light but it's a bit much for a relatively short game (I almost always play games that are 70+ hours) and it's summer now, well technically 🌦, so this is when I'm normally doing my other hobbies that are more outdoorsy.

The next games I'll definitely get are GTA6, then Fable. And of course, Fable has been delayed by months because of GTA...

So I guess Todd made a Booty call to invite him over?

Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to this. 4 and 5 didnt really move the needle for me but 6 has my interest for some reason. But I think people are really kidding themselves if they think it won't just be the same gameplay we know and (maybe) love but just looking a lot better.

And for it to inspire this kind of bizarre behaviour is mad.

@General-Foley Well the original CV had a first-person mode and a cheat to use first-person for the main game so it'd be interesting if they did the same here, even just as a nod to the original. I prefer third-person myself, but it'd still be a nice option.

@DefiledViper It's not so much disposable income as much as it is the time to play them. Most people don't just play games, they enjoy a lot of different things and gaming is something they do when there's nothing else going on. So therefore, they pick the most obvious choice for them personally, buy it, eventually finish it or get bored of it, then look at what else is out - with a probable recency bias. Inevitably loads of games just pass them by because there's always new stuff coming out.

It's kind of ironic they're called Bungie since they've fallen from a massive height. But yeah, they've really become emblematic of Sony's awful business decisions and shift from the upstart Japanese console manufacturer shaking things up to a lumbering company that seems more American than Japanese.

@Max_the_German Just saw this poll and remembered this comment. Just food for thought. This is a poll from Games Radar.

@johnedwin Not at all. Most Switch owners tend to be kids, at least outside the US. When you look at most multiplatform games that aren't for kids, they don't sell well on the Switch and there isn't the same appetite for them from Switch owners. Coincidentally, I just saw this poll on Games Radar.

It doesn't really paint a picture of domination when next to no one wants to play one of the most anticipated games on it. Even the Series X is a more popular choice.

@Rich33 Well I googled around and there's an interview with the devs from the time and they say it was just for brand recognition.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/06/08/tales-of-destiny-2-interview

• IGN: Was there any special reason for the name change, or did you just want to create more continuity with the game you'd already released? We kind of like "Eternia" better...
• AK: The first title in its series that was released in the States was "Tales of Destiny". Continuity in the title was definitely a major factor in our decision to go with the title "Tales of Destiny 2".

I don't think that kind of thing would really be copyrightable. It's too generic, it's just the word "Eternity" changed to sound like a place name. It's also something I think most people wouldn't be aware of, that He-Man is set in a place called that. I used to like He-Man as a kid in the 80s and I never associated with that when I saw Tales of Eternia.

@PuppetMaster @Rich33 I don't think it was avoid association with He-Man. That ended its original run in 1985 and this game came out 15 years later in the US. Also, people that grew up with He-Man would've been around 20 or so when this game came out and to most it was a vaguely remembered cartoon they watched when very young.

What's much more likely to be the case, guaranteed I'd say, is that when Tales of Eternia came out in the US, the only other Tales of games that had released in America was Tales of Destiny. They simply wanted to make it very clear it was in the same series.

@Greifchen "Also I don’t want to play a Girl looking 14 years old…"
That's honestly a pretty odd comment. Do you have a problem playing, say, Windwaker because you play as a boy that looks 8? There are so many games where the MC is a kid. Mario is basically a toddler with a moustache stuck on. In Pokemon you play as an 11 year old. What about when you play as Ellie in TLoU or the DLC where she's about 13/14?

@johncalmc Well theres not that much to go. It's the northern continent which is the dig site, forest, city of the ancients, snow village, snow field, cliffs, then caves leading to Sephiroth. Depends how much they expand each part.

Once that happens you've got the parts when Cloud isn't the controlled character, the submarine, Midgar, then endgame (IIRC). I can't remember exactly when they get Highwind but I think it's after Cloud rejoins so it feels like there'll be an Act 1 up until Meteor, then Act 2 with Cloud being in a wheelchair, then Act 3 onwards is Highwind open world stuff. Open world stuff being like it is, I bet that's the bulk of it because it'll be all side quests, minigame and gathering weapons and materials.

@LowDefAl If it was simply market share then the XIII games and XIV would be on the Wii not PS3. Remake, Rebirth, XV and XVI would've been on the Switch. And the PS2 wasn't the first console of its gen, the DC came out in 1999. As I said in my 2nd post, market share does play a role but not if the hardware is noticeably worse. And things like the storage medium is part of the hardware set up, in relation to VII to IX. So with future FFs, targeting the weakest by far hardware (Switch 2) makes no sense. It would be like targeting the Wii with FFXIII.

Also, with the N64 and PS1 it wasn't just down to the storage mediums.
https://www.quora.com/How-was-the-PS1-more-powerful-than-the-N64-despite-being-only-a-32-bit-system

@johncalmc Well it's post Temple of the Ancients, so the next stuff is Aeris (yes, AeriS) running off, we go north, she gets killed, we go and find the actual Sephiroth and Cloud hands him the black materia - then the Weapons appear. There isn't much to get through until Meteor appears. IIRC, disc 3 in the original release was tiny. It was basically just the Northern Crater, so it's not like each game is lining up to a disc

@Max_the_German When FFX came out it was a choice between the DC and the PS2. Before that there was the famous thing of FFVII needing a ridiculous amount of carts if it was to be on the N64, so granted it's not raw hardware power but it was based on the hardware. The PS3 was more powerful than the 360 but was harder to develop for - and both were obviously more powerful than the Wii (which FFXIII and its sequels, plus FFXIV skipped despite it being the best seller by far). In some metrics the Series X is more powerful than the PS5 but that whole teraflops thing amounted to nothing in the end. No one has mentioned it for years - apart from to say things like I'm saying now.

I agree that there's more to it - like the N64 and GC also sold terribly. And like with the N64 carts being way small than CDs, the GC discs were only 1.5gb compared to DVDs being 4.7-8.5gb. Also, as of more or less the PS4 generation, PCs tend to have almost all games that release on any given console so that tends to be taken into account; also, games are typically developed on PC then optimised (i.e. set to lower graphics settings) for the various consoles. So basically, targeting the weakest hardware makes no sense. You aim at a good PC then downscale it for other platforms.

@Max_the_German I dont think they'll do that. The Switch 2 is basically a PS4 and we're not far from the PS6. FF has always targeted the most powerful hardware. Also, post-SNES, third party games dont typically sell well on Nintendo consoles. The only third party games that sold better on the Switch than other consoles were usually distinctly kids' games.

On top of what's said above, Geoff repeatedly kept saying something like "this is about all platforms" or "we love all platforms here" and generally promoting an idea against exclusives. Which was oddly offset by a few reels that were specifically Switch focused.

Personally, the SGF was much better and more exciting than the SOP.

@AdamNovice Like the Austin Powers trailer. It came out right next to a Star Wars film and used a similar tagline.

@Icey664 Yeah, it was just for a mode called Battle Mode but there was a cheat code to enable it for the main game too. They really wanted to show off that it was the first fully 3D RE.

@Bigumamiflavor You can't spell "two" either. It's not looking good for you.

@Icey664 I agree. Though CV did actually have a first person mode so it's annoyingly possible they'll do the whole thing first person this time.

Can't wait. Revelations makes sense because not only is it when the truth behind everything us revealed, it's also potentially the end of the world like Revelations in the Bible.

@For-Kier Japanese?

Definitely getting this. Come to think of it, I still need to finish TLG. I stopped many years ago because the framerate made me feel ill. Should be better on PS5 though.

New classes are pretty weird because classes are just (non-optimally) pre-levelled characters with an equipment loadout that you'll most likely replace at some point.

@Balaam_ "I–I–I’m weak... Don’t kill me. Please"?

I know him because he released a rap album and Anthony Fantano did a fairly negative but fair review. KSI was so happy he got reviewed by Fantano, he did a gushing reaction video to that, then Fantano did a nice reaction video to that. He seems like a cool guy.

I still think they could go for Reunion. Not only is it the obvious perfect name, it doesn't really matter if CC used it too. For one thing the whole remake trilogy is about riffing on the original canon so if it's brought to a close by things lining up with the original canon stuff and Zack ends up in the same situation, the duplicate name is tying the two things back into one timeline again.

@Balaam_ Apart from it being done via virtual assistant, that reminds me of Dragon Age: Origins. Early in the game, an NPC turns up on your camp, gives you this big sob story. He needs your help. When you say you'll help him the game tries to sell you the DLC for that quest. Horrifically immersion breaking and scummy. Thanks EA.

@johncalmc Yeah it reminds me of when they paid for very Japanese games to be exclusives, like Tales of Vesperia and Idolmaster 2. A waste of money for them. Then improved versions came out on PS3 that never made it to the 360. At least this P6 thing isn't depriving the actual fans of the game for a bit.

@Boxmonkey It's sold worse than the PS4, PS2 and PS1. The Xbox has been the worst selling console of each generation it's appeared in, with the exception of the Wii U but then in the same gen the Switch came out which made up for that. For most people, especially outside of the US, there was never an actual decision to be made between the two brands. Xbox's peak achievement was the 360, the worst selling console of its gen even with a year headstart over the Wii and PS3. It's weird that they were ever seen as some strong rival.

@Flaming_Kaiser I'm saying that so much of GOW, UC and TLoU is just walking along, squeezing through gaps, moving without any gameplay while dialogue sound files play. There are entire chapters in UC where you just walk around and trigger dialogue. Apart from UC1, you can't even fail the climbing sections so it's effectively just slow walking. They're basically little combat arenas and set pieces separated by linear walking sim sections. There's no decision making process here, you just hold forwards on the left stick for huge portions of these games.

Even in levels with "gameplay" it's often just blindly following someone through a linear path and doing what they say, triggering cutscenes and listening to them talk. 38 minutes of that kind of thing in, say, UC4 Chapter 6. No combat and the only way to fail is intentionally swinging on the grappling hook away from where you're headed.

Wolverine's on 3.3 million already, and a good amount of likes vs dislikes (230k vs 8.8k).
GOW's ratio is worse despite actually having more likes (237k vs 110k).
It's striking how much off a drop off there is, though I think Wolverine's being helped by being the featured video so presumably everyone that goes on the Playstation page counts as a view (which would also explain the lower likes despite having a much better ratio). And yeah, that doesn't look good for Marathon.

@LowDefAl Definitely true in general, but in this case I wouldn't be surprised if they'd think an £80 is too expensive but a £250 game with a mass produced plastic statue and some cardboard with pictures printed on is okay. And it's odd because the game itself is much more value for money than the tat they add in to double or triple the price.

You have the thing where some players want live service multiplayer, others want story-focued singleplayer, and they're obviously two different camps by definition. I don't think there's a reason to think people willing to spend at least a couple of hundred on a game plus tat are happy with £80+ just for the game. If they were, you'd think these people would vocally defend really expensive games whenever that question comes up.

"Games are too expensive"
"This game isn't expensive enough"
Hmm.