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They should have a Christmas NiGHTS skin.

Honestly more skins in general would be great. Sage and the Pac-Man ghosts are the only ones who have them.

Why can't people be normal when discussing Lara Croft

@rjejr It's side scrolling Mega Man, there's no need to cancel a PS4 version as long as Sony still allow publishing on the system.

Very based of her.

Remember when they marketed the Switch version of KOTOR 2 with the cut content and then it never came? I do. I suppose with a remake they wouldn't need to worry about the legality of using work restored by modders.

There's a point in that document where they start quoting 1 out of 10 Metacritic user scores LMFAO.

Embarassing.

I'm sure I've seen some images from this before, I think MysticRyan covered it a few years ago, back then we thought it was Helldivers 2 - which hadn't been shown yet?

That tower in the second video at the 4 minute mark is very familiar.

Typical Sanae Takaichi L

That should have been the battery life for the Edge. Hopefully PS6 controllers carry this optimisation forward. We don't really need any new gimmicks, aside from rear buttons as standard that work as on the Switch 2 Pro Controller where every game can be configured individually. A small set of profiles like on the Edge just isn't enough.

But that shouldn't need a huge chunk of battery life, it's just two buttons.

You'll notice none of the camera cuts last longer than 2 seconds. One key trademark of AI, because it cannot hold up a consistent image for that long, so you make a few second long clips and string them together. There's a few other artefacts that are consistent with AI generated video that pop up from time to time. There's a warping effect on the cliffside at 0:12 seconds in. That whole flashback sequence with the 4:3 aspect ratio from 3:23 to 3:37 looks completely fake and uncanny to me as well, the way the characters move look too smooth compared to other parts.

But on the other hand, a lot of it also looks authentic enough to be believable.

This would have to be a very elaborate AI fake, given how long the video is. Think of how many generated clips would need to be made, how many that looked too bad to include, etc. Enough to burn down a forest, probably. And the AI would need to have been trained exclusively on Shenmue III footage because it's a pretty close match to how that game looked.

I'm really not a fan of the idea suggested that this is a real trailer, and YS Net are using a mix of in development assets and AI generated imagery, but I cannot rule that possibility out. They're working with such a shoestring budget that I could believe them thinking it's a good idea. Very frustrating that Sega won't just throw them a bone and return to in house production for Shenmue IV on the Dragon Engine or something, as part of their initiative for bringing back dead franchises.

That bubble cannot burst soon enough

@BearsEatBeets They've got over 1000 employees, plus they can subcontract support studios. I agree that it seems feasible, though not 100% certain they'll pull it off.

Final Fantasy VII's remake trilogy seems like it'll be hitting a similar pace of output with the first and second games in 2020 and 2024, with the third speculated to be aiming for 2027. That's with the first game being a much smaller instalment and covid troubles hitting in the earliest stages of the second's production.

I'm sure it's very impressive that they managed to navigate the legal nightmare to get all of these IP together, but I honestly felt nothing watching that.

It felt more like that scene in Space Jam 2 where all of the different Warner Brothers characters arrived at the court than Endgame's portal scene it's obviously aping - not a great comparison. The Ultimate Showdown had charm when it was some dude animating it in his bedroom.

@Max_the_German People generally like having access to affordable energy, clean water. Another issue is a primary use of genAI appears to be inciting psychosis in average people through fake content and disinformation via AI generated images and videos creates to divide and anger people. This sort of thing has existed prior of course, but the automation of it has led to it becoming all the more prevalent. Acceleration of people's laziness, isolation.

Some benefits here and there, sure. Like, cool, you can automate some more tedious parts of work. Using AI for actual creative parts of game development, as in this title? Lame. Another excuse for CEOs to cut costs by paying people less while their paychecks are safe.

@Max_the_German Hopefully an AI datacentre isn't built near your home

@8thDoctor Right? Not to mention this same company is still selling the original Persona 5 alongside Royal.

@RadioHedgeFund Likewise, if you already have a Steam account what is the point of this? Unless you've been playing on a pretty low end system this whole time. The Deck has a clear purpose, the Machine is looking like more of a hard sell the more we hear about it.

@4fold £700 minimum? That's $900. The economy hasn't gotten that bad.

@Athrum Feels like they made this version specifically for Switch and figured why the hell not put a native PS5 version out too.

@SuperSilverback They must have seperate teams working on these or something, considering the pace of these remasters. Graces F, Xillia and Berseria all in the span of about a year. Berserk coming before Xillia 2 would track if it was being handled by a different team than Xillia's and they just have it ready.

Edit: Graces F Remastered was handled by TOSE, Xillia Remastered was handled by Doki Doki Grooveworks. So they are using multiple teams and just putting out whatever is ready at any particular time.

@Oram77 Just have your sub set to expire in mid-November and you can get the discount. It's the same every year.

No OLED. My current monitor is OLED. Built in charging cradle is cool but I'll pass.

@jvecc Yeah, me. My chair is comfy enough, reclining and all that.

@dv_xedge Having a proper host was definitely a great choice too, added some personality. Should carry that forward for future SoPs.

Solid showing considering it was targeted at the Japanese market. That cheaper Japan only PS5 bundle will do good for sales over there.

Skyrim's Anniversary Edition upgrade was £10 - half the price - and had way better creations.

@vrubayka MCC is probably held together with tape after all of the updates to it.

@dskatter It had an interesting hook of having you go through playable versions of actual episodes. It was utter pants though.

@dskatter There's uhhhhh... The Grand Tour Game?

@Jammer Platform action? Oh, you must mean a jumping simulator!

I'd have greatly preferred MCC.

@PuppetMaster To add to your numbers, we have:

SH2R: 2.5 million
SHf: 1 million

Add those to the figures you gave, the total is 7.37 million units, meaning 2.6 million sales between Homecoming, Downpour, Shattered Memories, Book of Memories and the HD Collection. Average of around 526k sales between them, although I think we can all agree Book of Memories did not get anywhere near that so you could split most of it's numbers among the rest. HD Collection is a trainwreck but it probably sold well because of the reputation of the games it remastered, unfortunately it was the most accessible way to play Silent Hill 2 for a while.

Financially speaking, that era of the franchise wasn't in the worst position compared to the declining sales of the first 5 games. Critically speaking is a different matter though.

At least now we have both good sales and (mostly) good reviews so far.

@twitchtvpat @RudeAnimat0r I also enjoyed Downpour. It might be my favourite post Team Silent, pre SH2 Remake game.

I get the one thing at a time argument for new games. But ports/remasters of their older games should only need about a year. They wouldn't require Sucker Punch themselves to deliver them either. Plenty of studios whose speciality is converting older games to newer platforms.

For Sly Cooper, you could get XDEV to find a talented indie team that's made some good platformers and have a few people from Sucker Punch overseeing the project. You don't need to go AAA for Sly, that fanbase would be pleased with another PS2 style game.

Should probably remove that Elder Scrolls Legends listing

@Uromastryx The concept of Dynasty Warriors remakes generally are funny to me. They're so iterative, they could get away with changing a few things around and selling this as DW10 (or 11?).

It's like asking for a remake of Gran Turismo 3.

@KundaliniRising333 Why remake a disappointing game? The answer is within your question.

@Ricky-Spanish Tourists. You know, people who visit somewhere on a tour.

@AinsleyE the saving grace of Aspyr remasters is you can usually disable the "enhanced" graphics.

Aspyr threatens to dump all over another classic game with a horrible remaster that should have been handled by a team that cares like Night Dive.

@windxtravelerx I don't think they're being selective. I'm sure those games will come eventually, it's better to space them out. Square Enix tried releasing a bunch of games in quick succession a few years ago and they all struggled to sell.

@ShadowRJ It's way more about Nintendo than Xbox frankly

Couldn't even get one PS1 game for the 30th anniversary month of the western launch?

Some of the default PSN avatars are Beat Hazard themed. I found it funny considering the game was not available on current Playstation systems for the last decade. Now it's rectified!

Of course it was fixed by the time I see this article.

It's not a locked 60fps but honestly I don't mind the performance here. I think a 40fps option would do the trick for me though.

Seems like this will be a key part of Sony's strategy for Japan. They won't dethrone Nintendo, but they can certainly claw back some of the ground they lost in the last decade.

@Lowdefal Yeah even other handhelds like Steam Deck are dockable.

I'd prefer new titles, but if they aim to make Delta versions of later games in the timeline they should be a little more daring. All MGS3 needed to feel modern was a few tweaks, but I can't see a remake of MGS1 that plays it as safe as the MGS3 remake going down well for $70/80. They would need more of an RE2 remake approach. The MSX games would also need to basically be brand new games, if they intend on touching those. Portable Ops could work with a rejig (with a new name since it won't be quite as portable).

@Questionable_Duck I'm sure we will get 2. It's not exactly like Symphonia's sequel in terms of reception.

No Xillia 2 is a bit of a shame, but I'm sure it's next on the list of remasters. I'll take it, Xillia 1 was my first Tales game and I've honestly not spent much time with the other games in the series (mainly just Xillia 2, the Vita game and Symphonia Chronicles, the rest I either didn't play or I didn't get far), this might be a great way to get fully into the series.

They should drop the 2 and just call it Lords of the Fallen again, just like the last two games. Keep it going as a recurring thing for every entry in the franchise to have the same title.

That sucks. It's not a deal breaker, I was going to buy it before we knew they were including multiplayer, but it's a shame. The Metal Gear community is split between PS and PC (with a few Xbox people), even if there won't be a large playerbase a year from now there will still be a small but dedicated playerbase so it would be nice to have crossplay.

Just to let everybody know and to illustrate the point, you can still get matches going in MGSV's MGO as well as Survive (yes, really) and those are pretty old now.

@TrollOfWar They did have Konami ID back in the day for MGS4. I don't know how intensive it would be on their resources to get that going again though.