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Not really my kind of game anyway, but even if it was, I've been too busy killing those filthy English in Jeanne D'Arc.

It's over. Bring on the PS6 and another remaster of GTA5.

@CJD87 Especially if you saw him on Hot Ones - and how completely different he is to Homelander, even down to body language and facial expressions. I mean, sure, he's not going to be a psychopath IRL but many actors still feel the same as their characters when you see them as themselves, like RDJ, Chris Evans, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks in many cases, even if the personalities are different.

Well it's not like Shepard could kill innocent people on the Citadel or decide to side with the Reapers or whatever. Bioware's RPGs have always been fairly light in terms of moral choices that actually make a difference, or in "lifestyle" variations for RP purposes. Like, Shepard can't take drugs unlike many other WRPGs. They've never got close to things like Fallout, TES, or Disco Elysium for that kind of thing. In Baldur's Gate you could kill NPCs but then you can't really complete the game as you're constantly attacked by powerful wizards teleporting in.

As far as I can remember, in DAO no one reacted to you using blood magic despite it being this deeply feared thing. You could use blood magic around Templars - who should really kill you for that - and they wouldn't even comment on it. This sounds like they're just trying to avoid that ludo-narrative dissonance.

"the only one Christophel could find that featured a display capable of rendering the seminal shooter."
Now it's a semenal shooter.

@Dragoon1994 DQ typically hasn't been developed in-house, even when it was just Enix. In fact, I think only X and XI have been developed purely by Square Enix or Enix. I-V were made by Chunsoft, the people that made the Zero Escape series and who created the Mystery Dungeon series (and subgenre).

If I had a dollar for every time I died in Elden Ring... I still couldn't afford this book.

They look like they were just laid by a giant alien worm.

@GeneticMutation Yeah you can sprint diagonally across the whole map of FO4 in 7 minutes.

Still offline for me in Europe.

Well I've already played DQ3 several times and Metaphor: ReFantazio being on a time limit is massively off-putting, so of the JRPGs mentioned above, this is by far the one I'm most looking forward to.

@Frmknst I know what you mean. I got a book on Audible about 3 months ago and kept putting off listening to it. I just thought I'd listen to it at last - and also incidentally checked my purchase history... and it turns out it wasn't 3 months ago but was actually last October. 😵

The main one for me is Dragon Age - but also Fable if that does end up on PS5. Ys IX as well. I'm vaguely looking forward to DQIII and Suikoden I&II but since I've already played them at least once, and could play them again right now, it's hard to get too excited.

@ChrisDeku I don't care about whoever this guy is, but that's a terrible analogy because if you call your boss something to his face then he has proof you did it since he saw it. It would be like killing someone in front of the police. No need for an investigation then.

However, If I went to your boss and told him you insulted him behind his back, then he would presumably want proof - and presumably you'd be annoyed if you were fired when I had no proof.

@Thrussted The TV series starts 14 years after the events of New Vegas, so it's a bit late to show the rise of the Legion. 😄

@NEStalgia Yeah, I'd agree with that. The only people with Switches I know are little kids and, to further your point, none of them are allowed to connect to the internet. You also have to wonder how many profiles that are for kids and are connected might have been set up by the parents of kids. If you look at the UK sales charts, the PS5 (sometimes even the PS4) versions of games outsell the Switch ones quite heavily unless it's a distinctly kid-oriented game like Lego Harry Potter or the Bluey game.

I think I'd have more fun putting my hand into a box that causes me maddening levels of pain.

"it's hard to shake the feeling that Bandai Namco would have shown it off during Summer Game Fest, which obviously commands a much larger audience"

Does it really matter when it's all mentioned all over the internet right after the announcement anyway? Three people could watch SGF and any gamers that read game sites or use forums would know right away anyway. Not that I'm saying it will be announced, although that would be my most anticipated thing BN could announce.

It'd be great if the game looked like the artwork. The actual in-game stuff looks like fan made assets for FF Crystal Chronicles.

I remember importing the original ages ago when I lived in Manchester. I don't think I ever finished it but I remember it having a really wholesome and characterful feeling.

@sanderson72 The Cell processor isn't some unique, mystical thing that other CPUs can't comprehend. My relatively cheap PC from 2015 can emulate the PS3. All it has is an i5-6500, a not great but not terrible CPU from a decade ago. I have no idea why Sony are hanging back so much with this. The PS5 has something similar to a Ryzen 7 3700X. This is a comparison between that and my CPU.

@B0udoir @KillerIsD34D While there's obviously similarities and shared enemies, Persona was never referred to as an SMT thing in Japan. They did that in the West to sell more copies as, back then, SMT was the better known series. If you look at the Japanese cover of Persona 4 it doesn't say "Shin Megami Tensei" whereas the Western covers do.

On a related note, this review also does that thing of saying it's a "more mature version of Pokémon" even though SMT came out years before Pokémon. I think a lot of people think of it as a Pokémon inspired series.

@SLRC98 You can emulate PS2 games at 4K, or any res you like, on a PC. You can also run them at 60fps if they've been patched, and this game has. The PC that could do that could be way worse than a PS5. And as the article says, for less than 5% of the price of this new release, you could get the PC version that can run at any res and framerate.

@Olmaz Did you use IRC back in on the 90s and early 2000s? Discord is basically that but with a more modern look - and actually less confusing and needlessly complicated. I can't remember exactly what you had to do but even changing your name was weirdly complex.

@REALAIS What are you talking about? It's the same MMORPG that exists on PC but now it's on other platforms. Why would you think they've redesigned it as a single-player game? To be honest, I have no interest on this game so I have been following it, but I just googled around a bit and nothing suggests any change.

@DanteDevilHunter I've owned every Playstation and got a PS5 at launch and those games bore the crap out of me too. I couldn't be less interested in Sony's first party stuff. Bear in mind, Spider-Man sold about 20 million on PS4 which means over 80% of PS4 owners didn't buy it. God of War sold far less. The vast majority of owners don't buy those games (same for almost any game ever).

"how do you even make different looking trees?"

To be fair, lots of games have such a distinctive art style, all sorts of things are instantly recognisable from them

A lot of these aren't really games I'm personally interested in playing but there's that Obsidian game set in the Pillars of Eternity world that we hopefully get. It's called Avowed and is meant to be out this autumn.

@Northlander Sean Murray lies countlessly in interviews leading up to release. Specific claims that we're not at all true. They even made gameplay sequences that didn't happen in the game, featuring creatures and AI behaviour that didn't exist in the game, and warring factions having space battles and so on. They claimed it would have co-op. I can agree that people hyped themselves up but Sean lied loads of times very blatantly.

The first one is more jokey, but look at this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-tgaE37UE

https://www.psu.com/news/the-touryst-is-the-first-native-8k-60fps-game-on-consoles-on-ps5/

Yet as it says in the article (from 3 years ago) it doesn't actually output at 8k, bit it is running at 8k. Sounds like a planned feature but possibly only this one game could run at 8k anyway.

@NEStalgia Seemingly it exists to gain viewers for adverts, like any commercial TV event. It's a shame there isn't an actual celebration of gaming with big announcements and moments, but instead we have what's basically bait to get eyes on ads.

@Malaise Gachapon is the Japanese name for those machines you put a coin in, turn the handle, and get a toy in a plastic capsule. But I'm terms of videogaming it's a game where you get characters or equipment through a random draw that you use virtual or real currency to pay for.

To be fair, you can typically play them without using real money and some are genuinely great games - but the gacha elements do make them worse.

@KilloWertz It's capped at level 4 for some reason.

@sanderson72 Same here. I've had most consoles ever made and used them a lot. No issues with any controller until my first Dualsense which had to be sent back due to drift. Then the replacement got a really loose R2 after a while.

Who are we to argue with Gohn Romero?

@NoHope Though going off the sound of the PS4 Pro, you'd think they were making nuclear reactors.

I tend to leave games running a lot, maybe I cook something, go to the shops, have a long conversation... So this feature isn't that useful to me - even if it worked. I supposedly have something like 600 hours in Pirate Warriors 3, which I really doubt. Within a week of Dragon's Dogma 2 coming out, I had like 70 hours despite being about level 8 and not even in the first city yet.

@Blofse Well yeah, the typical birth years for a millennial are 1981 to 1996, though there's some variance - especially for the end year. It seems like a really stupid generational definition since there's a colossal difference between someone that was, say, 9 in 1990 and someone who was 9 in 2005. Totally different worlds, especially the difference between being about 15 when the internet took off, versus being born into a world where it was already everywhere.

@Deityjester Why on earth would you finish a game even once, let alone three times, if you think it's boring? What's wrong with your life that that was the best thing you could do with that time? 😨

@UltimateOtaku91 To be fair, with a digital pre-order you get to download the game days before release and then play it the second it turns midnight. Physical is arguably less justified because you could probably just buy it from a shop on launch day and get it sooner than it would've been delivered from a pre-order. Though obviously this can vary and not everyone would be able to do that.

@riceNpea Sadly it's been going on for ages. There's an old Fry and Laurie sketch about it; filling out a form instead of filling in a form and so on. Sean Lock did a bit about the "can I get a..." thing too. To be fair, I do say "ass" instead of "arse" (hopefully Push Square's inconsistent swearing rules are okay with me saying that).

Pretty soon there'll be a two degrees of separation thing going where every single franchise or media entity will be connected via Fortnite. If they ever go after an elderly audience for Fortnite, we'll get a Bargain Hunt crossover. It's slightly worrying that many people under 20 are going to grow up thinking of stuff like Resident Evil or Tomb Raider as "those skins you could get in Fortnite when we were 13”.

@sanderson72
"Yes, some will be a PS5 that's being used by more than one subscriber, though the same argument to say that half those users are on a PS4 with multiple accounts?"

To a point this is true, but out of the total number of PSN accounts, if there are multiple accounts on PS5, that eats into the amount of accounts that are on PS4. So if there's 118 million PSN users and 59 million PS5s, but if each PS5 has an average of 1.5 accounts, that's about 90 million users on a PS5, leaving only 29 million accounts to be on PS4 - and then to a lesser degree, PS3, Vita, and PC. And of those, let's say, 27 million accounts on PS4, if they're sharing the same PS4 to the same amount (1.5 per console) then that's 18 million actual PS4 households to buy games.

@riceNpea I thought the same. It's like when Sammy says tidbit instead of titbit.

@MikeOrator Well I only bought the original, VC, and SA. And only finished VC. That said, this does interest me more than the series usually does.

@Kidfunkadelic83 It'd be great if you could use him as a dummy in training mode. I'd pay for it if it was DLC.

@InvaderJim I don't agree with this. The PS1 and PS2 were the golden age for Sony and they had very little competition. The PS1 outsold the N64 and Saturn combined by tens of millions. The PS2 sold at least double the sales of the Xbox, Dreamcast and GameCube combined, IIRC. The Xbox sold so badly it lost MS $5 billion.

The 360 was the worst selling console of its generation yet was the closest they came to outselling Sony and all that did was encourage Sony to copy Xbox with things like paid online and achievements. It was also a generation where countless Japanese franchises hit a nadir via trying (badly) to cater to Western trends. The PS4 saw off the XB1 and Wii U, but the Switch then competed genuinely with it, same with PS5. And through all of that the PC gaming world went from strength to strength. And what happened to PS is that it basically became a budget PC with less games and a fixation on cinematic corridor sims as first-party games.

In short, Sony did better and had way more identity and way more legendary games under a lack of strong competition. When they had some competition they just became bland and felt the need to appeal to generic American tastes more.

@feral1975 It's not bullying, it's a part of the game. It's like saying someone tackling someone in football is bullying. Phil's free to nuke their camp back.

@WolfyTn The higher the FPS the better but that comes at the cost of lower graphics settings. In many cases, though, the worse graphics aren't noticeably worse.

The idea with 40fps is that many games can't run at 60 - or they can but it's inconsistent. Typically you'd limit the game to 30fps because an inconsistent framerate feels bad, so it's better to have it always be 30 than be all over the place in the 40-60 range. The framerate of the game needs to fit into the refresh rate of the TV (how many times a second it updates the image, measured in hertz or hz). If the PS5 is sending 40 frames a second, that can't fit equally into 60 refreshes per second. 30 does obviously fit evenly into 60, though.

However (sorry, this explanation is taking longer than I thought, ha) if you have a 120hz TV then 40fps does fit in evenly, with each frame lasting 3 refreshes. So if a game can't manage a consistent 60, capping it to 40 is better - and better than capping it at 30.

@dskatter You couldn't pay for fast travel. Ferrystones are used for fast travel and you can't buy them with real money. You could pay for one, and only one, extra fast travel point that you could place (a portable port crystal) but fast travel itself was not for sale. Do you watch Jim Sterling videos by any chance? He was one of various content creators that BS'd about the DLC in the mad rush for views after DD2's release.