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@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.

@RoomWithaMoose True, most people aren't watching The Game Awards because they care about the awards. If they actually do that's a bit silly, because it's basically the video game equivalent of the MTV Movie Awards, as opposed something more prestigious that I'm sure Geoff would love to think his show compares to. There's better options if you want something like that.

I even think calling it The Game Awards is a bit full of it, as if it's the only ceremony that matters - it's as if the Oscars was called The Film Awards.

People are primarily tuning in to see trailers for games that aren't out yet.

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.