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I am not a fan of spiders irl but I don’t mind setting them on fire with magic in games, a little scare every now and then is fun c”mon.

@Dom_31 it’s pretty customizable, you can choose what widget to keep and their size.

Got it yesterday while in Italy: it is so convenient and it looks great.

In my restless dreams I see my backlog.

@__jamiie the Pro is marketed to a specific and niche audience with expensive TV sets etc, and it's just a premium version of the current PS ecosystem for those who care about the extra juice it can provide.
The PS6, on the other hand, will have to try to address the market at its base trying to attract as many users as it can and will have a price tag more in line with what we saw for the base PS5.

This game looked pretty good at 40fps with VRR - I still have to do new game plus and GOW combat is always fun

@sanderson72 This is just a hardware performance boost, Horizon remade the mocap and by the look of it, it seems way better than the original 🤷🏼‍♀️

They are on a league of their own in this! But I always liked this in Japanese RPGs, the UI is part of the overall aesthetic experience.
Metaphor is also good with quality of life touches, almost everything is accessible in one button press.

That said, the demo is kind of an eyesore with PS3 assets and Switch AA: my husband came back to me playing this and was like “is this out on Switch?” “Nah, this is the Ps5 version”. We tried the PC version and it’s even worse. It kinda feels like a remaster of an old game.

As a SEGA girl at heart, this article makes me giggle. They have been one of the best publishers for years and I can’t wait for those “Sega 5” games!

p.s. I was looking at the best games of 2024 by metascore just to get ideas for goty predictions and I must say that Sony also very silently had a killer year, Concord embarrassment aside: they published a trio of quality, diverse offering with Stellar, Helldivers II and Astro, while the last of us remakes and Horizon FW complete were really well reviewed.

@AaronElWhite without spoiling too much, you can inherit abilities from another archetype: the last ability you get for the healer at rank 20 is regeneration at the start of each turns and it really mixes in well with the brawler archetype, a class that uses HP for its special skills. Of course this will have you farming exp, if you want to do it in the demo, but I got addicted

I am not gonna lie, I had to hunt one down as I started to see them vanishing from online stores. Local game shop had my back.

Thank you for the review, it seems like everything I expected from the demo - I am going to enjoy this immensely, I am already over-tinkering with the job system in the demo itself 😅 (HP-regeneration on HP-consuming brawler? You gotta have it.) Day 1!

Rebirth, Stellar Blade and Astro are the best titles I played this year alongside Balatro. That’s your PlayStation “bad year” 😅

Justice for Stellar Blade OST!
Edit: Voted for Rebirth (Sorry Astro 🥹)

@voltum3l Robert has his own taste but many loved the game - it’s close to a 10 for me.
JRPGs I played this year:
Persona 3 Reload: 7,5
Final Fantasy XVI: 8,5
Octopath Traveller 2: 9
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: 9,5

If you feel personally attacked by the successful reviews of any videogame, it’s probably time to use the internet to look for some kind of professional help. We can all be better than this.

Thanks for the review, it really covered all the points. Even if I don’t think that a game’s price should impact the score (as it will inevitably change, in time) it’s weird they are not offering the 10$ upgrade for this after getting customers used to it.

Maybe I will get it in the future, on a deep sale, as it seems something fun to play in company.

Metaphor demo (finished already but I am doing an optimized save for the final game XD) and Octopath Traveller 2 because I hate myself and I started replaying it.

And SF6, as always.

@Judal27 I was pleasantly baffled by how it all kinda made sense at the end.

The BOY song had me in stitches during that whole level

Thank you for the review, I am glad this turned out well, as the original is very dear to me - would love to get it at launch but I am getting Metaphor first

I think it’s going to impact the game sales. I had to personally put this game on many of my friends’ radars.
The only real effect this deal had was giving the impression that Microsoft had a solid showing of games at the event it was presented, while it was mainly multi platform stuff and secretly they were even preparing to port their games to PS.
I blame Atlus though…you don’t go making a marketing deal for a new IP with the platform that has the lowest amount of players interested in the genre.

I preordered the pearl white pad - it really looks so good!

Fingers crossed for Silent Hill 2, it would be so nice if it scored well 😊It’s the remake of one of the most influential yet underplayed games ever.

On the Atlus side of things, based on the lengthy demo I know I will like Metaphor a lot, despite the baffling ps3 era assets

Metaphor, Horizon and, if the reviews are not bad, Dragon Age: I can’t shake a bad feeling I have about it but really want it to be good as I loved all three previous game tbh

@CrashBandicoat yeah, that makes sense - I guess the consoles I was citing where a lot more diverse and any port needed more work, even though probably sold more (in proportion).

I am not hating on Xbox but sometimes I do feel we should open an investigation on why third parties are still developing for it. Doesn’t seem profitable at all to develop a Xbox version of their games, unless it’s pay-rolled. In my life I have seen consoles I owned, like the Dreamcast, Gamecube and WiiU, all with way higher attach rates, left in the dust way sooner by some publishers.

Guys, I would laugh the reaction off as funny but it's been unruly for a good while with vitriol for ... anything? I guess I will return to browsing the site from time to time.

@InsaneWade I ship them <3

I still have PTSD from that moment in FFXV when the pictures I had taken were used to cause me emotional damage and I had a meltdown in front of a darn videogame. I hope it’s not something like that 😢

Turning down free promotion in a popular game sounds like a bad decision imho but I am biased as I would love SE bots in Astro.

"Considering how well XVI and Rebirth are doing on PC": FFXVI - not particularly well by any regard, Rebirth - not even announced for release atm.

@Ryu_Niiyama Idk tbh you are right in the sense that it's a difficult topic and many factors weight in but I must say, just for myself, that I find something like Princess Peach's classic design with the long pink gown, white gloves and crown potentially more detrimental for women than this. And I still wouldn't change it.
Also: Toriyama's bones are barely cold, were this changes to his classic designs arranged right after his funeral?
Also: overthinking - it's a iconic design from a beloved videogame series, let's just leave this as it is and maybe use our energies for pay equality.
Also: it just looks ugly - what the hell is she wearing under that bikini armor? She looks slightly deranged. Just give her messy hair and an hair clip to go with this new design and I might get onboard.

You know, underwear was once painted over the sistine chapel's fresco...Toriyama and Michelangelo's work are now connected by censorship.

That said, calling another state "a ridiculous country" is a bit unsavory, especially considering the DQ team history with revisionism…but I agree with the sentiment that this is disrespectful of the source material, of art in general, and unnecessary. It's a pixellated character from a classic videogame, relax!

@get2sammyb I had an honest “are these the actresses messing around in front of the cameras or is this the game?” moment.

This photo mode has to be one of the most graphically intense things we have seen this gen - the game is going to look absolutely incredible imho.

Kojima reiterated a lot of times that this was an event especially for Japan and that while the game release date has already been decided for next year, it will be revealed at a later date.

Training with Terry in SF6 and trying to squeeze every bit of content out of the Metaphor ReFantazio prologue: it’s a really generous offering.

@Corc11 yes. There are 3 graphical settings: resolution, performance and balanced - performance mode and balanced both run at 60fps. I would recommend the balanced mode, especially if you can run it with VRR (not required), it's quite beautiful.

His plate is really full and we’re all lucky for that! Looking forward to DS2 info and release date

As someone who was puzzled by the selectivity of the game’s gust of wind, this is welcome XD
Hopefully the Nier collab gives us more reasons to revisit.

@KilloWertz Well, performance mode should be stable and they achieved it.

As for the whole graphic debate, much have been said and written but Rebirth is visually much more striking, imposing and ambitious than Remake: it's a full world with huge environments and open areas vs a series of corridors ands confined locations.
I was constantly amazed it could run with that grade of visual fidelity at that scale: it's pretty magical tbh and it hit me with a sense of technical wonderment and awe I had missed in JRPGs since the early days of the 32-bit era. It's the rare game I decided to play at 30fps but when I occasionally switched to 60fps for the occasional challenging fight, I was glad it was actually something smooth and not as choppy as the performance mode of FF16.
Now don't get me wrong, ff16 is a looker and it compromises less in performance mode...but what's the point if the frame rate isn't even stable? This is the other rare game I played at 30fps, but just because the performance mode was inconsistent. Sorry for the wall of text, my friend.

This ad would have sold me any console I still hadn't got. Such a good group of games, and good vibe!

This looks like an absolute dream, probably day one buy - if I manage to finish ReFantazio by then.

@Korgon I am currently labbing Terry and I like him a lot but I can understand your sentiment. For now, Bison is the only character I would have happily left out of the SF6 roster.

Love Aki btw! Reached gold with her but didn’t continue playing as I am exploring new characters

Aaand sold!
Loving this Capcom - SNK crossover season.

@QuestionMarc Congratulations!

@KilloWertz Rebirth's performance mode gets a lot of hate but tbh it works way better than FF16 - it runs constantly at 60fps - a thing FF16 never does in any of its graphic modes.

Honestly can’t wait to replay but I might wait an extra week till the Pro is in the house: we are secretly that kind of annoying 4K/60fps people (but try not to be obnoxious about it)

@clvr two games have similar settings but couldn’t be more different tbh! Give it a try!

@UltimateOtaku91 As I am! Gonna miss your bot of war avatar hahaha but this is cool too

@UltimateOtaku91 Same, let’s not jinx it ehehe
@Owyn Should be less on PS5, it has really good compressing/decompressing tech

Welp, that was a cute trailer!
But now I feel like I need to have a quick Lollipop chainsaw session to regain my mental health.

Yes! And good chance to get through the opening moves so we can properly play on release day

Yes, read it on PSBlog! Will definitely finally do a NG+ run as it really looks impressive!

@Chupa_loyzer True, but for a 10$ upgrade on a game most of us received for free during the pandemic, I’ll take it. It was already looking really good on PS5 but this looks properly amazing.

@Drago201 and monster -snatching mechanic as well, from DQV. I hope the DQ designs come up in the Pal World lawsuit.

As first hand playing experience some were really shocking imho: Stunt Race FX is a blatant Virtua Racing ripoff, Breath of the wild is a love letter to shadow of the colossus. Little Big Planet was pillaged in concept and aesthetic by several Nintendo games …and yeah the list goes on and on.