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Good. People who don't want a PS6 in 2027 can wait, I'll be ready for it and the handheld by that time.

I'm still calling it Project Zero. Screw the standardised marketing.

No correlation. G-Mode released the Persona 1 phone game a couple of years ago, nothing came of it for a release of the main game.

I've always been wanting to paly this but other things kept getting in the way.

When was he last happy?

@Scottyy Bluepoint's game was the Atreus one.

It's possible dev kits aren't available just yet even to 1st party.

It looks to be far more of a Lego themed Batman Arkham game than a Batman themed Lego game so the smaller playable roster isn't surprising.

Sounds just like when I was there on holiday.

That "hear you" has about the same value as Elon Musk replying "Yep" to someone on Twitter.

Bloodborne does NOT need a remake. A simple port, no more. Nixxes was always a better fit than Bluepoint for touching Bloodborne.

Hermen Hulst is a complete and utter tw@t.

I question anyone who was seriously concerned about this. Just look at the Switch 2 footage of Rebirth, obviously lower res and 30fps, but it's basically the same thing, but with come texture compression.

@Krlozgod That, and his comparison to Yakuza 3's remaster delisting is an apples and oranges comparison. MGS4 PS3 is being delisted to make way for a PS5 port, the exact same game on newer hardware. Yakuza 3 was removed in favour of a remake that makes substantial changes (and cuts substantial content), it's a different game.

David Jaffe: former game designer, current LOLcow

@vrubayka MGS4 did in fact introduce a cutscene pause.

Not shocked about MGO as it was shut down many years ago, and while great, isn't a key part of the game. Peace Walker is a fundamentally co-op game, and never had it's online support disabled.

@ProfessorNiggle Yeah that's the part that stings about this if it turns out to be true. I wouldn't mind waiting a bit longer for a typical home console, but I really want that supposed handheld version. For the Switch 1 I double dipped a lot, but with Switch 2 I'm holding off on multiplats with the expectation of playing them portably later on PS.

The Portal isn't viable for me based on my experiences with the remote play app either.
Home connection is laggy and the workplace wifi blocks it entirely lol. Has to be a native handheld.

It's a Persona 1 PSP situation. They gave the game a new soundtrack based on the current musical direction of newer games in the series (Persona 3/Rayman Origins). It's not bad, it just doesn't fit the vibe of the game.

What's scarier than Silent Hill? Silent Hill, Scotland.

@belmont It will either be in Volume 3 (which will happen, because Revengeance isn't on PS5 or Switch, as is MGSV for Switch - Acid games too maybe) or it will be announced later. I don't think they revealed everything for Volume 1 all at once. Might be misremembering, but either way, Snake's Revenge came back, Portable Ops should have it's time.

So happy they've included the extra 120 levels from Rayman Gold.

You know what's funny? Yakuza 0 wasn't delisted in Japan. You can log into a JP PSN account and add it to your cart alongside the Director's Cut. The Japanese version of the series bundle also gives you both versions of 0.
I don't know if it will be the same for 3 Remastered, but it has me wondering...

@Fizza The whole "we hired a real creep" thing regarding Kagawa gives me that same impression. It's like when someone trips over and says they meant to do that.

This sounds even worse than Kiwami 4 and 5. A split timeline?

@Ooccoo_Jr Being a bit less hard as balls, having all the PC exclusive levels, nice widescreen presentation.

Apparently I'm in the small crowd of people who likes the visuals.

@mvhess 120fps is a big one.

They're giving away a Chaewon autographed controller on the PS Asia instagram as well. I need that, but I'll never have it.

I think it's funny that someone decided to report on a financial report released in November in February and every other outlet copied them.

Anyway, yeah selling another 1 million copies in 5 months seems like an easy task, considering this report predates any black Friday sales and the Switch 2 port's release.

@SJR All versions look like that.

They ruled out Reunion because of Crisis Core. The popular fan theory is it will be called Return.

Atari as the publisher suggests it could be another Digital Eclipse joint?

@a1904 Being hyperbolic but it's certainly not a great looker when compared to the 2009 game.

That water almost looks like it could have come from Shenmue 1.

@nessisonett It's actually shocking how poor the lighting in these Dragon Engine games have gotten, Yakuza 6 perfected it the first time and it's just deteriorated.

@Rich33 Nah, Code Veronica was never RE3. RE3 was a game being developed by a team with Hideki Kamiya as the planner set on a cruise ship. It was set for the PS1 at first until it was decided to be a PS2 game, causing a delay. Capcom wanted a numbered sequel out soon though, so they bumped up Nemesis to be RE3. Kamiya's project became RE4, he became the director of it, switching the setting to a castle, eventually morphing into DMC1.

The misinformation around this primary comes from IGN, who've reported on CV being the real RE3 with no real sourcing. Another factor is CV being announced before RE3, so people assumed it was RE3 because it made sense in that time. Shinji Mikami has also commented that he feels CV is the "true RE3" but that's an opinion of his and not a fact of it's development.

The Sony angle (namely a deal they allegedly had with Capcom mandating RE3 as a PS1 game) also has no truth to it. IGN literally made it up in 2009. The whole thing is probably the biggest Resident Evil misinformation of all time so I don't blame anyone for believing it, I did too for a long time.

This article has quotes from Kamiya himself and RE3's writer laying out all of the above.
https://bioredqueeneffect.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/why-codeveronica-is-still-mistaken-as-having-been-resident-evil-3/

@Fartingale I'd be happy with that outcome.

So have they given up on the Project Zero name in Europe? UK PSN has the title as Fatal Frame.

@Fiendish-Beaver There is one side character who is present in both 1 and 2.

They could have respected the original Okinawan characters instead of Tokyo-washing them.

Bit of an accidental running theme with the number 8 this month for extra. 8 games added, including Exit 8 and the 8th Resident Evil and Like a Dragon games.

@SergeiMeerkat They're just patches for the existing versions I believe.

Assassin's Creed still has a few 30fps titles that could do with an update - Unity being the big one, but stuff like the Ezio Collection as well. I suspect Black Flag won't be touched because of that remake on the horizon.

@JB_Whiting As a correction, while Code Veronica is mainline it was never considered RE3. That title was originally meant for the game that became DMC1. They added the number 3 to Nemesis to sell more copies, and RE3 became RE4 before becoming DMC1. The popular story goes it was a Sony mandate forcing Nemesis to get the number, but it was just a case of Capcom wanting to maximise profit for that fiscal year.

You know, this decision would be far less egregious if instead of being forced to buy a £115 bundle, you could just buy the set of 3, 4, and 5 remasters. I think they delisted that bundle when they introduced the starter pack and complete series bundles. Would be smart to reintroduce it, especially when they will obviously go and make Kiwamis 4 and 5 later as well.

@Darylb88 Kiwami versions being improved is very much subjective. Some content is changed and removed, characters recast and redesigned, balance and pacing differences, etc. Very different and distinct experiences. Kiwami 3 is catching a lot of heat from the newer fans who actually played the original, whereas the negative changes from Kiwami 1 and 2 went much less noticed because most fans post 0 started with the remakes.

Video games will continue to not be taken seriously as an art form when things like this keep happening.

Imagine if everything they remade a movie, they removed the original one from all services and stopped printing physical copies. There would be outrage. Happens all the time for games and some people even defend or downplay the seriousness of it.

It's a problem on both the companies and the consumers who keep demanding remakes of games.

@Northern_munkey There's plenty of cross gen games to pick from still. I think it's just PS4 only software getting the axe.

It's especially tragic when you look at Level 5's past output. Especially with that PS2 output - Dark Chronicle, Dragon Quest 8, Rogue Galaxy back to back. What a fall from grace after Ni No Kuni 2.

So tragic that Square loaned these games out to Forever Entertainment. The best work they've done was a slightly underwhelming remaster of Donkey Kong Country Returns, and that was with Nintendo having them on a leash. Everyone else has let them churn out low quality slop.

I think the best part about these new versions is the original theme songs are kept outside of Japan. They used to need to replace them with generic stand ins because Japanese record labels are a b-tch to deal with but now they can afford the fees to have them globally.

Looking forward to playing Yakuza 6 in 60fps with Tatsuro Yamashita's music in the near future.