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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.

@somnambulance Not saying this to defend this game which I don't care about, but the Matrix was really derivative itself. It's basically Ghost in the Shell and DBZ with a general smattering of various Hong Kong action movies mixed in. Some scenes are incredibly similar to certain DBZ scenes, or at least parts of them. And the whole scrolling numbers thing is taken straight from GitS as well as various scenes being very similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnvb2INP79M
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jYwyNA7JXbs

@TruestoryYep Well talking of the sex part, if you're 16 or 17 you could have sex, but if you took a pic or video while doing it you're breaking the law by making CP. Filming a legal act between you and another would be a serious crime that could get you years in jail. 🤦🏻

Soon we'll need to show our actual driving license to be able to get into the vehicles. 😮‍💨

To be fair, calling it Rogue-style is better than calling it Roguelike since the latter is a very specific thing not just "vaguely like Rogue in some ways," which most people, including many gaming journos, don't seem to understand. That's why people coined the term Roguelite.

@Acquiescence One of the writers on this very website described the Uncharted series as being first-person shooters.

Your know, these polls with lots of answers would benefit from auto-sorting by vote amount in descending order when the results are displayed. Just to make the ranking really clear.

They also lost the FFVIII PS1 source code which is why the Remastered version doesn't have analogue movement. They had to use the PC version as the basis and that was made to be played with a keyboard so had no analogue movement.

@Coolmusic Exactly. And it's not a "counterpart" anyway. That implies it's also a fighting game. "One that has the same functions and characteristics as another; a corresponding person or thing."

Like if you said "this is the British PM and his Japanese counterpart" it means the Japanese PM, not just a random Japanese guy.

Given the weird seething reaction in the comments section about the sales drop (physical only, in the UK) it seems he succeeded in making it divisive amongst the general public, at least. Or at least he made it attract the generic "it's pretentious (I can't explain further)" or "I don't understand the story (and that's not a me problem)" type comments.

That 4% stat is probably because they're including money spent on DLC, microtransactions and mobile games.

@Oram77 "Technically from FF7 to FF9 they used the ATB system"
Well actually from 4 onwards. It was only 1-3 and 10 that were pure turn-based.

@Czar_Khastik I can confirm this. I've already made £2.50 from both endeavours.

@Now-Let-Me-Say01 No it didn't. The Wii was the best selling console that gen by far and the PS3 outsold the 360 even though it came out a year later and was more expensive. The 360 just seemed like it was doing better because of a massive headstart in terms of release date.

@SingleStooge If you mean the one with the logs over the sea, that one isn't actually that bad. There's one later where you have to keep going higher and higher, some really specific jumps, and it takes ages to do. If you fall off it's likely you'll have to redo the whole thing unless you happen to land on an earlier part. One of the most tense things I've ever done in a game.

For me, the best three consoles of all time are the PS1, PS2 and SNES. What works so well for them is it the massive amount of third party non-exclusive games. Games like LttP, Mario World and Super Metroid are all time greats but it wouldn't matter for much if it wasn't for the massive amount of other games that were also on PC or the MD.

Look at the PS1, what do you think mastered more to its success? Gran Turismo and Wipeout or GTA, Tony Hawk, FFVII, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, etc? Also most games end up being multiplatform sooner or later anyway, like FFVI on the SNES was a huge deal but it's since been on just about everything.

@Godot25 It didn't take exactly one year to complete. They'd started trying to get it to work on Xbox before the original release, as previously stated multiple times. They didn't start on the day of the original release. Also games aren't released the day they're finished, it's usually a month or two afterwards.

Also, read the article.

The way it looks really reminds me of a current gen version of Star Ocean: The Last Hope, aka Star Ocean 4. Not just the characters but the environments. The game concept also has this PS3 era feel to it - and not saying that in a bad way.

A good amount of games I'd play but nothing that really blew me away. I agree with the above post that objectively it was varied and shows of the range of games on the PS5 as well as having many games that are coming out quite soon. Kind of workmanlike rather than seriously impressive, though.

Really want to get this, as well as carry on with Clair Obscur (pretty sure I'm right at the end of act 2 and have been for 3 weeks) but everything's been so busy recently I don't have time. On Friday I'm going to Romania for a long holiday too.

On the bright side, it'll be in its final form by the time I'm back.

@Rich33 Well there's more buzz about Harry Potter recently because of the TV show. They've been announcing cast members for a while and recently announced Harry, Ron and Hermione.

@Ray_Ray_Regasis VG Chartz is infamously inaccurate. I still quote it sometimes if there's no other source but I'd take the devs report over anything that site says.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-reliable-is-vg-chartz-sales-figures.173567/

@Hapless @thefourfoldroot1 @McBurn But it was already stated in the article that they're all one big story and that 3 happens first. To quote: "the same story arc," and that 1&2 take place "after the events" of 3. And not to mention that these games came out roughly 40 years ago - but even without that, Sammy already said that stuff.

DQ1&2 do take place after 3 but are meant to be played first because the fact 3 is a prequel to 1&2 is meant to be a surprising reveal later in the game. The underworld world map in 3 is the world from 1&2. It's pretty cool that for such old games that are pretty light on story they were creative in that way.

Definitely a 1. I might upgrade the score when I play it, though.

@ChrisDeku To be fair, Stellar Blade isn't meant to be realistic. In fact it's meant to be overtly stylised and unreal. I have no issue with Cloud having perfectly styled hair at all times or him carrying a sword that's easily twice his bodyweight, but it'd be absolutely ridiculous if Joel had Cloud's hair and sword.

@AndyKazama It does if they set it during the events of the preceding lore, or have the main character discovering it. All the Souls games' histories are very strong stories.

I'd also say that looking at by "the way" it tells its story doesn't make sense. The way LotR tells its story is via hundreds of thousands of words printed on paper. But that doesn't mean the way the Jackson films told the story had to be 12 hours of text on the screen. This doesn't have to be a silent character wandering around an open world aimlessly, while reading armour and weapon descriptions and dying 600 times. You have the history of the world, all the past events, and the main character on a quest that leads to him discovering all of this.

Definitely getting this.

@belmont Well I'm not sure, didn't finish Rebirth but as far as I know it ends at the end of Temple of the Ancients and that happens right afterwards. Does the game end with Aeris running away? If so then I guess they've already skipped it.

Censorship isn't just to do with sexual things - changing a map (like of who owns what sea or land, e.g. Taiwan) or a reference to an historical event would also be censorship. Not being able to depict a swastika in Germany is too. Any change made not for creative reasons but to try to avoid offending certain people. The worrying thing nowadays is people/developers engaging in self-censorship.

@belmont Well weirdly they did Yuffie's shorts button up. In the original and all other appearances it was undone, also for a while in Rebirth's development. Then for some reason their ethics department, who apparently travelled here from the Victorian era, thought it was too racy to have a button undone.

They also removed Cloud stealing Tifa's panties, though he can still look through the wardrobe. They also took out Tseng slapping Aeris. So they'll definitely remove the part when Cloud goes mad and repeatedly beats the crap out of a defenceless Aeris in the next part.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5sjM4oVAQ

@ChrisDeku Also Quina is non-binary.

@DaniPooo Yeah totally agreed. FFVII had this revolutionary feel at the time so it being the one to be modernised so much makes sense, even if I didn't enjoy it. It feels utterly tragic if IX ends up being the same. If VII Remake was the one to go all in with being modern and experimental, IX Remake is the one that should be a labour of love to how JRPGs used to be.

@AverageGamer Yeah and over the last 30 years how much of that was seen by someone who's now, say, 15? And even then, seeing some memes isn't the same as wanting to buy the games. How many zoomers do you think have watched Star Trek TNG because of seeing Picard doing a facepalm in a meme?

Things do move in generations typically, things start to get a legacy feel, like "oh yeah, I think my dad used to play that". WoW was huge, way bigger than Doom, yet that's absolutely a Gen X and millennial thing in terms of the majority of the players. It's why series like Final Fantasy keep trying (and failing) to reinvent themselves, to attract younger audiences so when is older people stop gaming (or die...) they still have a fanbase.

@Cornpop76 Agreed, but a boomer is 60 to 70 something. You and I are millennials. Most people that played Doom back in the day were gen X. But you're right, though, I can't imagine many people born in the last twenty years giving a crap about Doom. I doubt many even know what it is, especially the younger end (whereas even a 6 year old knows GTA or FIFA/FC whatever.)

@GirlVersusGame Really? Oh no. Imagine the trauma of slowly aging to look like Elon Musk. I suppose the ultimate evolution is to be permanently stuck in the pose of doing a constant Nazi salute.

"Hideo Kojima has constantly pushed the barrier of video games, spanning as far back as the decision to make Raiden the main character of Metal Gear Solid 2"

I'd say even before that. It was pretty unusual that MG was a game from the 80s where you were NOT meant to shoot or kill everything in sight and were generally meant to avoid enemies. And then the weird meta stuff on MG2 that was revisited towards the end of MGS2.

Later than that, later than MGS1 even, but Boktai was an interesting thing where the cartridge had a solar sensor on it that powered up your weapon the more sun you were in IRL. The idea being to get gamers to get outside (and also leave the UK if they happened to live there...)

@ApostateMage Or they'll buy it, wait for him to collect rocks and then steal them off him.

@tselliot 😆 I came here to say the same thing - well, hopefully that it'll come filled with wine.