Matroska

@Nepp67 Yeah but you're comparing all time greats with games that were mediocre even at the time. It's like how Super Mario World and LttP still play great now and really hold up, but there are literally thousands of games from the same era that are terrible, many verging on unplayable.

MGS is a classic but go and play one of its contemporaries like Deathtrap Dungeon and see how long you can take it. Or talking of LttP, go and play that and then play Brandish. Same kind of game, same console, but man does it make you appreciate the magic Nintendo worked with LttP.

@ATaco He's more like Sasuke to Naruto, really.

@Max_the_German I hate to say this since you've bought it, but I found it incredibly bland and boring. It felt like the game equivalent of the kind of action film you watch with friends while drinking, and you all end up ignoring the film and talking. That said, some people like it so hopefully you're one of them.

@TechaNinja It's not locked to the Pro artificially, the regular PS5 couldn't run this at 120fps unless the game ended up looking like a PS2 game. Better hardware gets better framerates, there's nothing nefarious about this.

It definitely seems worth a play despite the fact that characters move very slowly. It's amazing how negative that can be. I played some old PS2 JRPGs that are on PS+, ones I can't even remember the name of, but they totally passed me by back in the day. Anyway, you move so slowly in some of them that doing anything is just painful. Same in Dragon Age Inquisition. It's a major problem because it's always present. That said, at least for a shorter game it's less of an issue, and it's fitting for a horror game.

There's something comical and cartoonish about the animations which doesn't really go with the edgy, horror vibe they're going for. I played one of these games when it came out and it did stick with me - I mean, I still remember playing it - but I mainly remember it feeling quite cheap and bland. I like the thing where you can climb on your spears that are stuck in things, though. That seemed very inventive at the time.

I genuinely didn't even know this had come out yet. I thought it had just been announced but not released - I remember people complaining about the main character a while ago, but I guess that was actually the release. But yeah, to be honest you take a series that was big in the 2000s, very niche in its original incarnation, and you change it into a tired genre that oversaturates the indie space, and seemingly change the protagonist... Not gonna work, is it? Imagine if the next Tomb Raider is a 2D platformer where the main character isn't, or doesn't look like, Lara. Not a little side project but the actual next Tomb Raider and the only one in years.

@Futureshark Yeah, and in the world of gaming, Captain Anderson from Mass Effect. If you don't remember him, or didn't play it, he was like a mentor and friend to Shepard.

That's the exact face I'd make if I saw a giant Dualsense hovering in the air next to me.

@gingerfrog Sure but if they released a game where you have to escape from the Twin Towers as planes crash into them, everyone could choose not to play it but it would still be incredibly controversial in America. Or to take it to a extreme, a game where you hunt and kill children. If you don't like it, don't play it, right? But would you be surprised if it was banned? Or a game where you play as a Nazi and get points for gassing Jewish people. Is that okay?

Anything goes if the rule is "it's okay because you don't have to play it or watch it", but would you be okay with being able to romance children in Mass Effect? There are lots of things that you're okay with being banned; but if the idea was as simple as people could just not watch it or play it, you'd be in favour of it being allowed. There's obviously more to it.

This goes to @GamingFan4Lyf too. I don't like censorship either, and I said in my post I don't necessarily support this ban, yet we regularly accept things being banned because to our society it's obvious it should be banned.

@NEStalgia Well imagine if you were from Kuwait and when you were a kid, a foreign army stormed into your country, your city, and you sat in your home terrified as people you potentially knew were killed. Then you're an adult and an American company makes a fun game about it (and presumably a fun game where it's Americans doing the saving as the Kuwaitis powerlessly thank their saviours). At least with WW1&2 stuff, practically no one actually playing games based on them would've been alive then. Not saying I agree with a ban but it would be a terrifying and traumatic thing for a lot of people there still, I could imagine.

I don't know if 500 negative reviews (even overnight) that actually pertain to the gameplay, when the game has over 78,000 reviews that average "very positive", counts as review bombing. A small number of people are expressing dissatisfaction with gameplay changes - let's not throw around buzzwords we don't understand. I've not even played this game so I'm not saying this because I'm annoyed by the changes, by the way.

After that impressive victory, Yamcha deserves a nice lie down in his crater.

@lindos I doubt it. People with that low level of knowledge about gaming wouldn't know the Portal exists in the first place, let alone assume their child definitely wants one and they it's definitely worth spending £200 on.

No one I know IRL had heard of it until I mentioned it. Also, people with a low level of gaming knowledge are usually too scared to buy anything as a gift for a gamer as they're scared of messing up. All through my life, any birthday or Christmas, my parents just give me money instead of buying me a game or accessory.

I have my Switch set up so I can do remote play on it. It's nice playing in bed, especially for more story-based games like Ace Attorney. I really can't imagine paying £200 for the ability to do that, though.

To me this is mainly a game where you try to figure out how to stop being blasted around backwards. I swear to Kami-sama, I spend most of my time being combo'd around like a volleyball. I was pretty good at the previous BT.games but now I always feel like I'm Yamcha fighting a Saibaman.

@guardianoftime They're two different things. It's like comparing Dynasty Warriors to DMC - not that I'm saying either game is the same as those two, just that FighterZ is a traditional fighting game and Sparking/Budokai Tenkaichi is like a DBZ sim.

@IntrepidWombat "how many times can you possibly retread the same story beats"
The story isn't really the focus, to be fair. They just always have a story mode because people expect it, and the story is already established. This isn't aimed at you, just a general observation, but it's funny how Zelda, Pokémon and Mario never get accused of this despite being original stories that could do anything and aren't being based on a pre-existing story in another medium. Like if every FF was about trying to stop Sephiroth summoning Meteor.

@AgentGuapo Not if the framerate is capped, which is pretty common. In fact, if the game couldn't reach 60fps on a regular PS5, it's very likely it would be capped to 30. And unlike buying a GPU, it won't make the games look better without a patch. It just seems like such a limited boost. Some games will look a bit better, or will run at 60 while also being a slightly higher res. But most things won't benefit without a patch. And it's over a third of a price of an amazing PC that would have all games looking and running way better than in a Pro, all with free online and cheaper games. And a far larger selection of games.

I want to be tempted and excited by the Pro but I just can't.

@Bramble Yeah, pretty sure that's it. It's simply that quite a few games have arachnophobia mode and many ones that don't have mods for it (like Skyrim, so this idea goes back at least 13 years) so it stood out that this didn't - at least to whoever asked Bioware about this. Then they simply said "can't have an arachnophobia mode without spiders" and now, typically for the internet, people are reading into it and politicising it.

@tpepper1985 To be fair, you can tell your party when to use their moves/spells and what to use them on. The only thing you can't tell them to do, as far as I can see, is where to stand.

In terms of chasing what's popular, well BG1 did that. It was meant to be turn-based, like actual DnD, but the higher-ups insisted it play like an RTS because they're were incredibly popular at the time. Bioware didn't want to do it but in the end gave in, with the RTwP compromise. It was the equivalent thing at the time of if Dragon Age had been made into a hero shooter - at least in terms of combat - because that's what's popular now.

It's also worth remembering that everyone loves ME1 yet that saw Bioware going from making deep, tactical, top-down RPGs with full party control to... A cover-based third-person shooter (very much the flavour of the month at the time) where you only directly control one character as you run through linear corridors with your military super commando shooting aliens. Yet, again, people typically love it.

Wokeness has gone too far. You can't even scare someone with a virtual spider nowadays. In the good old days it would be Spider Age: The Spider Guard and it'd be wall to wall spiders.

@Digit2021 It's really weird when people blame a real life thing on a game when the game only has that activity because it's copying reality in the first place - like car theft in GTA. it's like if I was arrested for assaulting someone, then months later my nephew punches someone at school, inspired by me. Then in my court hearing I say I only assaulted someone because I was copying my nephew. It's absolute madness.

I mean, if only Hitler hadn't played Command and Conquer, then we wouldn't have had WW2.

>"You could be milking an animal in one place or bungee jumping in another"
Okay but I can do both of those things in real life. I play games so I can do both those things at the same time.

Is there a what-if scenario where Mystic Gohan is actually good and beats Buu? It was such a disappointment how he ends up. Also can you do an all AI World Tournament? I think you could do that in a previous BT and it was surprisingly fun to watch.

Also, as a side note, it'd be cool if they had a character customisation like Super Dragon Ball (I think that's what it was called) where anyone could learn anything, so you could have Videl doing Kamehamehas and so on.

@Ralizah Yeah, it's like that Sims movie. You take away the fact it's a game and it's just a drama with generic people. With Until Dawn, you have a generic horror movie that doesn't stand out. By contrast, while a Zelda movie would be fairly standard fantasy, it has incredibly iconic characters, locations and scenarios. It survives the transition from game to film.

It's almost as if they're minigames from a bigger game that have been extracted and sold on their own - like if there was a standalone Blitzball game, or like that PS1 chocobo racing game. Not saying that's what's happened, it just feels like that since they're so basic and poorly executed.

@z0d15g0d No, Vegeta gets hit with a Spirit Bomb at some point, as an Oozaru he gets his tail cut off by Yajirobe so he turns back into his normal form, Gohan turns into an Oozaru and ultimately lands on top of Vegeta and crushes him. In the end, Vegeta can't even stand up and drags himself back to his pod thing. Krillin or someone says they should kill him but Goku lets him go. It's true that Goku couldn't beat him alone, though.

£60 for a mediocre horror film where you sometimes make choices is way too much, especially when it's almost a decade old. Particularly in the PC ecosystem where games tend to be cheaper, and these "cinematic experiences" tend to be looked down on way more than on consoles.

@Frmknst How is Master Chief dumber than, say, Bubsy or Leisure Suit Larry? Or frankly, more seriously, even iconic characters like Mario or Sonic? And how do you know anything about the character if you haven't played the series, hmm?

@TruestoryYep If all it did was copy the Metacritic scores then it would be irrelevant because we can just look at the Metacritic scores already. That said, and while in general they haven't just gone off the highest rated games, Black Myth Wukong and Stellar Blade both have 81 on MC whereas Dragon's Dogma 2 has 86; in this case you have the critical reception the wrong way around.

The games are nominated by people from "PC Gamer, FGS, Edge magazine, Retro Gamer, GamesRadar and a variety of industry experts" according to their site. I'd trust that more than whatever games happened to get review bombed least, or suffers least from illiterate gibberish like "Nothing especiall Normal graphics,weak story, bad level design,it was a waste of time and money for me" (one of the recent negative reviews I just saw while checking the critic scores).

@Slidebomb What an embarrassing post.

Dragon Age Inquisition for obvious reasons. I think it's actually improved with age, like a fine Orlesian wine.

The original unnerved me so much I could only play it if I ruined the atmosphere by putting Metallica on as I played it. I want to get this but I don't think I could handle it. 😂

@LavenderShroud "I recently got Star Ocean: The Last Hope"
Man, you should've got the enhanced edition on PS4. It's even got the illustrated portraits like the original PS3 version whereas the 360 version has the ugly 3D renders they made for us westerners. The remastered Last Remnant is on PS4 too.

@Ribbitsneed I've never gone to buy a physical game at launch and found it had sold out everywhere. People don't typically preorder for that reason. Normally it's for whatever bonuses you get and, at least in my case and the case of people I know, just to get the spending out the way so you know where you stand with your money. It's not like the price is going to drop at launch.

Also, lastly, you can play digital games at midnight, the very second it becomes launch day, and usually you can install the game in advance for that reason - but of course, only if you've bought it already. You could pointlessly resist preordering and only pay once it's actually launch day, but then you have to wait for it to download and install. Long story short, you lose nothing and gain various things.

The store still worked for me but my trophies were screwed up. I had to go offline to see the info - and it was saying I had zero trophies in games where that isn't the case.

@ChrisDeku Yeah but he means the animations are simply motion capture. The PS1 could have those animations if the motion capture tech was there at the time. The graphics are amazing, but I think the other poster was simply saying applying motion capture data to a model is not linked to the power of the hardware. However, for the visuals (models , textures, lighting etc) to be so good and running smoothly is of course down to the hardware.

Edit: Like, look at this. This is a Mario model from SSB on the Wii. It's being rendered terribly and looks awful but it has 1:1 motion capture with a real person.

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

The main thing here is Kojima has the desire and budget to capture so many unique animations from the actors just for a photo mode.

@B0udoir I'm not sure why people keep bringing up this competition thing. The PS1 was amazing yet it turns out it had no real competition as the Saturn was a flop and the N64 was Nintendo's worst selling console so far (at the time). If you add both Sega and Nintendo's sales together, the PS1 outsold them by about 60 million (it more than doubled their combined sales).

The PS2 sold about triple what the Xbox, GameCube (sold even worse than the N64) and Dreamcast sold combined. If you add all three up, the PS2 outsold them by 100 million. The Dreamcast sold so badly it finished Sega as a console manufacturer and the Xbox lost MS billions it did so badly.

Both amazing consoles from Sony with no strong competition at all. Then the PS3 was their first stumble and, get guess what, it was the time they most had competition, from the Xbox 360 of course (Sony ended up selling just 3 million more), as well as the Wii being Nintendo's best selling console at the time. Sony have actually had increasing competition over time. Their golden age was when all them competitors combined were still massively outsold by them.

Almost all were me. You can find them on my eBay shop for a mere £5,999. I've got to pay for the eventual PS6 somehow.

@get2sammyb Yeah, as @AdamNovice says, imagine if the new main character of Ghost of Yotei, Atsu, brutally murders Jin with a mastercrafted samurai golf club. The internet would hate that too.

I actually think what they did was good from a story perspective in the sense that Joel did a lot of bad things, especially at the end of the first game, and he'd have enemies. And how it pays off with Ellie becoming another Abby, the cycle repeating.

You just can't introduce a new character in that way and expect people to typically like them, though. Imagine if there was a Lord of the Rings 2 and an early scene is the new protagonist murdering Sam while Frodo looks on, screaming. Granted, Sam didn't go on a killing spree... unless you count him killing orcs with a frying pan.

So Capcom are almost literally going to take their customers for a ride?

@ATaco True. You could have an article announcing a new amazing indie game with 2 comments, then an article like this which is basically "look at this tweet by a man who hasn't changed his underwear in 4 months" and it gets flooded with replies. And I'm part of the problem, argh.

Ghost of Tsushima wasn't "a game based on masculinity," it was a game based on humanity. The various characters' perspectives based on personal morality and duty vs pragmatism, and how past experiences and trauma shape you.

If this guy played GoT and thought it was all about being a man, he's emotionally and intellectually disabled, stuck at age 11 for his entire life.

@PloverNutter "These people wouldn’t be defending if Ubisoft made it a white foreigner be the hero of AC Shadows as they would rightfully call that out as racist too."
The people okay with Yasuke were also okay with the white main character in Nioh,. including the Japanese, presumably, since the game did well. That guy was also an actual figure from history, too.

@Fiendish-Beaver I said playable character. I know Plato was real, obviously, but it's not like Cassandra was, and so on.

@LikelySatan And not to mention, Yasuke is actually a historical figure. In fact, I might be wrong about this as I'm no AC expert, but he might be the only AC playable character that's actually a real historical figure.

@mountain_spider Yeah. I'd hate it if someone else invades Tsushima and Jin is like "looks like it's time... to become the Ghost again!" as he needlessly but dramatically draws his sword. Certain other devs repeat the same thing ad nauseum with their characters and plots so I'm glad to see SP not doing that here.

"See that mountain? You can climb it," feels fresh again. Hopefully you do get to, though I'd imagine it might be the final part of the story. Also, one of the only things I didn't like about the original is that the towns, while sometimes beautiful, felt kind of dead. Just buildings with what were effectively mannequins standing around. Hopefully they can love them up and make them really interesting places, like the towns in BotW.

I've got the trophies for the Quidditch launch one but it's not unlocking. I played it the day it came out but I'm just now realising this. So as well as the purchase-based ones not being retroactive, the trophy ones aren't either? It doesn't matter as it's just for one of the collectibles but it's still stupid if true. They should at least align the Stars thing with the launch of the game.

Is it really that important what colour something you pretty much never look at is? I mean surely either you're using the PS5 and thus looking at the screen, or you're doing something else and not just sitting there staring at the certain-coloured plastic you just spent hundreds on? I kind of feel like I've put my 'They Live' shades on here...