@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.
@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.
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+).
@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 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.
@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. 🤦🏻
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.
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.
@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.
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.
@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.
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Re: Brand New .hack Game Announced as CyberConnect 2 Revives Classic RPG Series
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.
Re: 'I Feel Cheated and I Want a Refund': Fans Lash Out at New PS5 God of War's Unlockable Local Multiplayer Mode
@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.
Re: 'I Feel Cheated and I Want a Refund': Fans Lash Out at New PS5 God of War's Unlockable Local Multiplayer Mode
@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).
Re: 'I Feel Cheated and I Want a Refund': Fans Lash Out at New PS5 God of War's Unlockable Local Multiplayer Mode
@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.
Re: 'One of the Worst Decisions Ever Made': God of War Creator Tears 'Total Crap' 2D Title Apart
@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.
Re: Dragon Quest VII Reimagined (PS5) - A Tip-Top Remake of a Once Tedious RPG
@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.
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Available to Download Now, Here's What It Does
@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.
Re: Launch-Aligned, Ghost of Yotei PS5 Is Selling Better Than Tsushima
@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.
Re: Dragon Quest VII Reimagined (PS5) - A Tip-Top Remake of a Once Tedious RPG
@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.
Re: Rumour: PS Portal OLED Version Coming This Year
@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.
Re: Xbox Exclusive RPG Avowed Is Coming to PS5 in February with Major New Features
@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.
Re: Hands On: Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined Could Be the Series' Best Remake Yet
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.
Re: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - From the Ashes (PS5) - Streamlined But Still Fantastic Sci-Fi Fun
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.
Re: Vince Zampella, Call of Duty Co-Creator and Respawn Boss, Tragically Dies Aged 55
@singleplayerguy "Tragic" basically means very sad. A thing can't be tragic if it isn't also sad.
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/tragic
Re: PS5 Players Ponder Avowed Port as Xbox RPG Delays Its 'Biggest Update Yet'
Definitely want to play it. I tried it on my PC and got about 11fps so it's PS5 or nothing.
Re: PS Blog Wants Your PS5 Game of the Year Nominations for 2025
I like Lune but she has no chance against Maelle and it seems odd to have her instead of Gustave or Verso.
Re: Round Up: What Was Announced in Sony's State of Play Livestream for November 2025?
@Enuo Same here. It's actually the only one I'm interested in. Well, and the DQVII remake.
Re: Round Up: What Was Announced in Sony's State of Play Livestream for November 2025?
@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.
Re: 'Our Biggest Competition Isn't Another Console': Xbox Doubles Down on Multiformat After Halo PS5 Shock
Yeah, sure, and at this rate all their games will be playable on Tiktok too.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for September 2025?
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.
Re: Capcom Shuts Down Fan Theories That Pragmata Is a Secret Mega Man Game
@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.
Re: Lost Soul Aside's Hilarious English Voice Acting Goes Viral as PS5 Action Game Launches
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.
Re: Capcom Shuts Down Fan Theories That Pragmata Is a Secret Mega Man Game
@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+).
Re: Review in Progress: Lost Soul Aside (PS5) - Long Awaited Action Is Both Awesome and Awkward
@ShogunRok I think you can take screenshots with a voice command. "Take screenshot" or something. Not sure if you have to enable it beforehand.
Re: 'There's No Real Need for a PS6': Industry Veteran Weighs in on Next-Gen Debate
@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.
Re: 'There's No Real Need for a PS6': Industry Veteran Weighs in on Next-Gen Debate
@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.
Re: Preview: Masters of the Brawliverse! The New Retro He-Man Game Hits Hard
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.
Re: PS5 Stunner Neo Berlin 2087 Walks the Uncanny Valley with New Gameplay Trailer
@somnambulance Okay, fair point. I see what you mean.
Re: PS5 Stunner Neo Berlin 2087 Walks the Uncanny Valley with New Gameplay Trailer
@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
Re: GTA 6 Might Require Age Verification, as GTA Online Checks Leak
@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. 🤦🏻
Re: GTA 6 Might Require Age Verification, as GTA Online Checks Leak
Soon we'll need to show our actual driving license to be able to get into the vehicles. 😮💨
Re: Outer Banks Star Madelyn Cline Has Exceptional Video Game Taste
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.
Re: Outer Banks Star Madelyn Cline Has Exceptional Video Game Taste
@Acquiescence One of the writers on this very website described the Uncharted series as being first-person shooters.
Re: Poll: Which Characters Do You Want to Join the Roster of Marvel Tokon on PS5, PC?
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.
Re: Square Enix Admits It Lost Final Fantasy Tactics' PS1 Source Code
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.
Re: Tekken 8 Fans in Tears of Laughter Over Low Effort Atelier Yumia Collab
@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.
Re: Kojima U-Turns on Death Stranding 2 Review Scores, 'Happy' with Them
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.
Re: UK's Death Stranding 2 PS5 Physical Sales Down 66% Compared to Predecessor, But Context Matters
That 4% stat is probably because they're including money spent on DLC, microtransactions and mobile games.
Re: Square Enix 'Aware' of Clair Obscur's Success, Ponders Turn-Based RPG Revival
@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.
Re: There's a Brutal Lack of Interest in Marathon from Hardcore PS5 Fans
@Czar_Khastik I can confirm this. I've already made £2.50 from both endeavours.
Re: Final Fantasy 16 May Have Underperformed on PS5, But It's Doing Terribly on Xbox
@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.
Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Patch 1.300 Out Now on PS5, Makes Big Balance and Difficulty Adjustments
@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.
Re: PS5's Brilliant New State of Play Breaks Records for Sony
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.
Re: Black Myth: Wukong's Secret PS5 Exclusivity Saga Rages Again
@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.
Re: Just What Is Going on in Capcom's Long-Delayed PS5 Game Pragmata, Then?
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.
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate State of Play for June 2025?
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.
Re: Fantasy Life i Is Bringing Big Improvements to Its Camera, Based on Player Feedback
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.
Re: UK Sales Charts: The Last of Us Season 2 Puts the Game Back in the Top 10
@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.
Re: Very Fittingly, Expedition 33 Has Sold 3.3 Million Copies in 33 Days
@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/
Re: Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake Compiles Two RPG Classics on PS5 from 30th October
@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.