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What might be more relevant is player numbers compared to the budget. There are plenty of bad or mediocre games with big player numbers, and excellent lower budget games with small player numbers. Planescape Torment is often said to be one of the greatest RPGs of all time, and I'd agree, but it sold terribly. So a game seen as a stone cold classic would be a "flop" according to this, and some churned out franchise slop would be supposedly an amazing game.

@Theamazing1 @Exerion76 It's not so much a young person thing as it is an anime geek thing. The average kid has no idea this exists. I only know about it because the only person I know that watches this stuff (or even knows what it is), a 43-year-old man that's never had a girlfriend, likes watching it. Even in Japan, anime isn't really mainstream. You get kids' stuff put on right after school, then the more otaku stuff that's typically on from about midnight to 3am. Some stuff breaks out into being genuinely mainstream, like how The Simpsons became an American institution, such as Doraemon, One Piece, and Studio Ghibli films.

@Leetware1 I don't know, but I'd guess it's to do with the ability to enforce the contract. This isn't about pay, it's about him not wanting them to use his voice for AI training in the future. So let's say in 8 years he finds put they have actually done that, what does he do?

Personally pay for a lawyer and all legal fees and single-handedly take on a massive international corporation? Knowing they may well somehow wriggle out of it, but even if they don't it will still be a huge financial burden on him? But presumably with a union contract, they take care of all that and have for more experience and money than a lone person.

To be fair, all people are doing is seeing if it's worth getting into the game. You don't have to be unemployed to spend 10 seconds to check a site. It seems pretty petty to resort to playground insults over it. And as one comment said in response to the "maidenless" comment:

"Don't you work for a company that just got sued by the state of California for being a bunch of creepy perverts?"

If it's pathetic to check player numbers, its even more pathetic to get so annoyed by that you get upset on Twitter. Saying this as someone who has no interest in OW or Marathon and how well, or badly, they're doing.

This would be cool. DDS1+2 are two of the games I most got into at the time. One thing with the regular SMT series I wasn't keen on was that you fight with your demons rather than yourself (like Pokemon where your trainer isn't a battle character) so I loved how it's the actual story characters fighting but in a very SMT setting. And the Demi-fiend, the MC from SMT3, being the ultimate boss and one of the hardest bosses of all time adds to it too.

@MichaelNau Thanks. I just wanna point out, I love this guy and was looking forward to this so much. But the pun just presented itself and I couldn't not say it lol.

I remember liking them both. They didnt quite stick as fully nostalgic things for me. For me, those are things like hearing old Sonic music - or certain levels/areas, and even sound effects, in SMW and LttP, but I do get like little memory gifs in my head of certain areas or bosses. I remember a level in the Lion King where you had to jump across animals like giraffes. I remember it being really annoying. And fighting Scar where you have to do like a Ryu-style back throw to throw him off the cliff, IIRC.

@GirlVersusGame Well I actually played the first Yakuza when it came out but didn't finish it. I've played a few, always liked them, but 8 (Infinite Wealth) is the first I actually finished. The Kiryu stuff with his memories, especially going to Kamurocho, hits pretty hard if you played the previous games - and also because it of course makes the player reminiscent about their own life 20+ years ago.

I didnt get burned out by Yakuza 8, though I admit I couldn't be bothered to finish Dondoko Island. It's Avowed that did that. Terrible combat, janky, kind of empty and shallow feeling, plus the stuff I said last post. I think if anything, coming at it from the overflowing, characterful and soulful Yakuza 8 made it feel even worse.

Nothing. I finished LaD: Infinite Wealth a few weeks ago (loved it despite a pretty bad story, albeit with some great moments) then got Avowed. It crashes numerous times every time I play and is generally quite lacklustre and underwhelming. I can cross a point of no return and enter the final dungeon but I'm not really feeling it. Probably just go for some runs and watch some films (not at the same time.)

It's terrifying that was 5 years ago. Jesus...

The Man Who Erased His Game...

@LordAinsley It's the other way around:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1457670/us-adults-emoji-usage-frequency-age/

Though there are certain things, like the thumbs up emoji is seen as a sign the person is old by younger people. And different generations see the same emoji as meaning different things. But I can't believe you haven't noticed how zoomers often react purely with emojis, like a skull for finding something hilarious, or the fire emoji if they think something is "fire". Millennials just tend to do a smiley face at the end of a message to show they're joking, things like that. Not to mention Twitch chat is often just floods of emojis.

@Yousef- "Take your time, slow and steady wins the race."
Not if there's someone fast and steady in the race 🙃

@UltimateOtaku91 I'm not a hater, just not my cup of tea, but its only the 22nd most played game at the moment. Games like Slay the Spire 2 have more players - in fact that has over 5 times the player count of Marathon. A game called Bongo Cat has 4 times the players. Counterstrike 2 has over 20 times the players.

@PuppetMaster It doesn't really mean that. There's no evidence that the people that pirated it would've paid if piracy wasn't an option. Imagine if someone was giving out free chocolate, they give out 1000 bars in a day. It doesn't mean they'd have made £100,000 if they'd have charged £100 per bar.

The sales figures you saw for these games on PC was the number of people that thought those games were worth paying for. It's similar to PS+ when you play a game because it was "free" but you never would've paid for it.

@Balaam_ It would have to be anachronistic since, even if we accept them speaking English instead of Old Norse, English at the time was like this:

"Fæder ure
ðu ðe eart on heofenum
si ðin nama gehalgod
to-becume ðin rice
geweorþe ðin willa on eorðan swa swa on heofenum."

And swearing isn't some new thing. Translate this Latin phrase: futue te ipsum. And no, it's not aimed at you. 😉

@Americansamurai1 I would've guessed 9 or possibly 10 but I googled it and he's 12. He is pretty baby-faced so maybe they're going for Atreus being more obviously just a kid in season 1 and in season 2 they're banking on a growth spurt, dunno.

@Ristar24 Completely agree and I think that maybe Miyazaki does too which is why he blocked it.

@HRdepartment You've misread that. It's not saying it does a 30fps graphics mode and a 60fps performance mode. It's saying it does the graphical fidelity you'd get in 30fps mode on the base PS5 but at 60fps. So it's graphics mode quality at a performance mode framerate.

@Americansamurai1 I'd guess they're taking into account the gap between each season and how he'll age. If they picked a 14 year old now, he'd potentially be in his 20s by the time they get to the parts where it's relevant he's about 14 (like romance stuff). Basically he can age I to the role rgid way instead of out-aging it.

It's like with the One Piece live action show; if they ever get to, say, Thriller Bark then Luffy will be like 30 something when he's meant to be 17. If they miraculously get to more recent manga events, Garp's actor will be long dead and Luffy will be 60 or something.

@OldGamer999 "The world’s been like it for probably 4 years"
Yeah, I remember in the good old days when all we had to worry about were two World Wars, the holocaust and nuclear strikes on populated cities. I can't believe the world's gone so downhill since then that we're now getting game dev studios shut down! Where did we go wrong?

@gigiard Haseo in GU can use 4 different weapon types, though, 5 if you include the new epilogue. He's effectively 4 or 5 different classes if we're seeing it as weapon = class. There's also various magic spells, though i didnt really use it much.

I love this series so this is great to see. This is the kind of thing that would have made me more excited about the SoP the other day.

@PuppetMaster I wasn't making a claim about false marketing. I was saying your previous post didn't add up because you said it was equivalent to if having two people on the cover, like in the 2018 game, made people think it was co-op; l said it would be also like if the title included a reference to two people and it also said "1-2 players" on the box.

Side note: Actually, I just checked on the PS App for SoS and it doesn't actually say 1-2, it says "2 players" which seem even more misleading. But that's more of a general issue that Sony don't descriptively distinguish between games that can be played by two people (Tekken) and games that must be played by two people (Split Fiction).

And weirdly, if you look on the web version of the games' pages, now they do say 1-2 players, but even for Split Fiction which is 2P only. False advertising is an often misused phrase, this is more just terrible, inconsistent information from Sony.

@Bamila There is no way to play co-op through the story. It's a separate mode you unlock (making it even more misleading, as even the above article gives the impression it's what you thought it was).

@PuppetMaster Well to be fair, that's not the equivalent thing. What would be equivalent is if GoW 2018 was called Gods of War, and it said 1-2 players on the box and in online game descriptions. Then I would think people would assume it could be played in co-op throughout.

@Gunnerzaurus Well it depends how much it changes after that hour, how long it takes to finish, and what exactly the problems are. If the game ran like crap and kept crashing, do you have to struggle through that for 30 hours before you're allowed to conclude that it runs like crap and keeps crashing? And you can finish some games in an hour so obviously you'd have to be able to come to a meaningful conclusion in an hour then. But even if it's longer, if you play the first hour of, say, Super Mario World and really don't like the gameplay, how does it particularly change after that in a way that would change your mind?

In this particular case, his various issues like its art style aren't going to change no matter how long he plays it. You're right with certain games, though. Like I didn't actually like FFVII much after a few hours and stopped playing it. I thought the whole game was just going to be in Midgar, going around blowing up reactors. I didn't know about Jenova, Sephiroth, Meteor, Aeris dying, etc and I hadn't seen the materia system's depth. But then it went on to he on of my all time favourites, so quite the change of opinion.

@Silenos No they weren't, the original gamers were typically kids in the late 70s and 80s. You think the average player of Super Mario World was 30-40 at the time? The average age of a gamer has risen since the early days (basically as those people aged) and is now about 40.

I have no idea how you've gone through life thinking people that are currently of retirement age used to be gamers. When I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s the only time you saw an adult playing a game was (probably reluctantly) with their kids.

@Dogbreath I'm pretty sure "system stability" is just their way of referring to blocking exploits that can lead to hacking the system and getting it to run pirated games and homebrew. It's not actually beneficial to us.

@LifeGirl I think it's the other way around. It's all the people living under rocks that are bickering about this kind of stuff. Take it as a good sign you weren't aware.

@cainhurst94 Boomers are typically 70+ now (62 at the youngest but as old as 80, just checked), they're not a generation that grew up with games, although a few might have got into games later in life. You mean Gen X and Millennials. But the point is that these games that are typically NES, SNES and PS1 games are the bedrock of the genre. And, to a lot of people, the peak before they started getting streamlined to the point where FFXVI is basically a beat 'em up with one character.

@Dogbreath Well, even worse, in my experience with my OLED Alienware monitor, lower quality video looks even worse on an OLED. Compression artifacts that were subtle before become glaringly obvious, especially blacks. So this will backfire and make the games look worse, especially darker ones.

@darylb24 But they paid a ludicrous amount in the first place for these studios and then had to pay for the games' development. So they're slowly trying to recover enormous losses rather than making any money. Meanwhile Sony paid nothing and so it's just pure profit for them.

I played it earlier and enjoyed it. Though oddly, it put me in the mood to play the remake of Trials of Mana/Seiken Densetsu 3 so I'm playing that now. Anyway, its a shame I-III didn't get this kind of treatment. Then again, its a shame this doesn't have the usual 3rd person camera angle to make it more immersive.

It sort of sounds like in the review like 3rd person is only in the new DLC. Sentences like "Combat is decent in the base game, but it feels much snappier in third-person [in the DLC]" But 3rd person has been added to the entire game in a free update.

Anyway, I'm not a fan of the films, I think they're very often unintentionally hilarious, but this game is genuinely good.

@singleplayerguy "Tragic" basically means very sad. A thing can't be tragic if it isn't also sad.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/tragic

Definitely want to play it. I tried it on my PC and got about 11fps so it's PS5 or nothing.

I like Lune but she has no chance against Maelle and it seems odd to have her instead of Gustave or Verso.

@Enuo Same here. It's actually the only one I'm interested in. Well, and the DQVII remake.

@SuntannedDuck2 "New games. New Fate though, interesting. Not my thing, but always interesting to see what direction/name they do next."
It's not in the Type-Moon Fate franchise. FSN and its sequels and spin-offs are about legendary heroes being summoned by mages to fight in a war for the Holy Grail. This game is about people shooting each other with guns. Also the Type-Moon stuff always has it written like Fate/whatever, so this'd be Fate/trigger.

Yeah, sure, and at this rate all their games will be playable on Tiktok too.

Remnant is very good, and yeah its definitely underrated. It's like a hidden PS2 gem with better graphics. Incidentally it can also run at 120fps if your display supports it.

@PuppetMaster Concord got its own Secret Level episode and it might be the only game in history to make zero money. Mega Man has sold 43 million going back to the mid 80s or so. Something that's actually popular is, say, Minecraft which has sold 320 million copies from just one game. I just googled it and there are over 130 games in the Mega Man franchise. Mega Man is niche but has a certain cache amongst people of our age. I'm guessing we're a similar age due to the He-Man avatar - I had all the figures and Castle Greyskull when I was a kid .

I'm not trying to crap on Mega Man but the idea that connecting something to that franchise would help it sell doesn't make sense. Each MM game has sold on average around 300,000. Shovel Knight sold over 2.5 million copies. Ni no Kuni 2, which I personally loved, but it killed the series, sold 900,000 - so three times the amount of the per game sales of Mega Man. One last example, FFXVI sold 3 million in a few days (on just PS5) and was generally seen as a disappointment in a series far past its prime. So I really don't think Mega Man is this popular franchise you think - it's certainly not a household name but it definitely is something every older gamer on the internet knows, I agree with that.

People often try to be optimistic about this and say "well it's so bad it's good" or "it's part of the charm" but imagine if Clair Obscur had voice acting like this. It's be a tragic shame that'd ruin the game. I guess if the game in general is bad, then it's not particularly ruining anything and can just be funny then.

@PuppetMaster It's not really a popular series, tbh. It might seem that way because of how it's universally recognised on the internet - well on gaming sites, anway. But it's relatively niche. The best selling game in the series only sold 2 million across four different platforms, and that was almost double the sales of the fourth most popular one, so it falls off fast.

A game with this budget and dev time would be a huge failure if it only sold 2 million copies (even if it was only on one platform instead of 3+).

@ShogunRok I think you can take screenshots with a voice command. "Take screenshot" or something. Not sure if you have to enable it beforehand.

@Noone2025 I don't get this "nothing is showing the full potential" idea. The PS5 can't even run GTA6 at 60fps. Its potential is being met - if it wasn't, it could run it at 60, 120 or whatever.

@johnedwin "a gaming pc will cost more then double what the ps6 will cost and it could cost even more than that.."
Sure but it'll be more powerful, you don't need to pay for online, and the games are cheaper (or even free...) If you bought a PS5 at launch, paid for PS+ since then, you'd have spent about £850 if you got PS+ Essential and £1,150 if you got Premium. Then factor in that you're paying more for each game. Also factor in a lot of games still have lots of bugs even after their final patch, yet on PC that's typically fixed by fan patches. You also really don't have to upgrade it that often. My PC is from 2015 and I played BG3 at pretty high settings (admittedly only at 30fps).

I think that as the libraries on PC and consoles has become more similar over time (they were almost totally separate and distinct in the 80s, 90s and 2000s) that unique console appeal, as seen so much with, say, the SNES and PS1 and 2, has gone away. Now you're basically buying a cheap pre-made PC with significantly less functions and paid online.

Pretty sure those aren't the original figures in the nostalgia bait intro scene. I had them, and they had this weird ball joint connection for the limbs that were held in with black elastic. You could pull them apart disturbingly and they'd snap back to normal again, lol.

@somnambulance Okay, fair point. I see what you mean.