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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.

@Simulated-Soul These are 2025 releases. Trophies are not mandatory for the PS Plus Classics.

When are they going to add a native resolution integer upscale option for the classic games? PS1 games in particular do not look pretty when rendered in high resolutions. Give me 240/480p!

@Simulated-Soul There are plenty of PS1/2 classics on the new program that didn't have trophies. Most got them added later but some still remain, with RE1 and Dino Crisis being two examples like Rocky said.

@Neither_scene Also have a day 1 PS5, I've been using it much more regularly than you however, still not noticed any overheating issue. This comment section is the first I'm hearing of it. Maybe I'm just lucky.

Hiroki Titoki Literature Club

I'm sure remasters of the other games and a new console game will come eventually, but 1 and 2 did only just come out to be fair.

@J4yRizzle83 @sanderson72 I think Peacock stuff falls under Paramount Plus in the UK. Paramount Plus being available either as it's own app or as a subscription on Prime Video.

@Bingoboyop They discontinued PS4 Pro while making way for PS5, I expect the same to happen especially if the PS6 will be more powerful and substantially cheaper.

@PuppetMaster But that's also spread across 6 games and 3 re-releases vs 2 games. GoW 1 and 2 each sold approximately 5 million each, 3 sold 9 across both versions, Ascension and Chains at 3 million, Ghost at 1. Ragnarok sold over 15 million and 2018 over 23.

@Olmaz "how is it against "LGBTQ..." by limiting access to porn???"

The problem is this is limiting access to more than just porn, it's any content that is "inappropriate" for children.

@PuppetMaster To be fair, just by looking at sales figures it's clear most of the God of War fanbase now have only played the Norse games, so not much will be changing there sadly.

@UltimateOtaku91 You've nailed it, Final Fantasy's golden age had zero serious competition in the western markets (mostly just Pokemon). Nowadays you're positively spoiled for choice with not just Japanese, but Asian RPGs in general.

@Oram77 Agreed. They could probably provide some ideas on how to reduce budget while still keeping AAA quality presentation though, which would be helpful for Square considering how their sales are apparently never enough to meet their expectations.

@ZeroSum The Lilithascends social media accounts were made around the time of the contest launching and promptly shut down once the accusations came about, so the only artwork we have to go off are the three pieces they submitted which are all AI generated (two of which are directly plagiarising the work of three artists).

There is literally no way for anyone to know the level of talent they might have. All we do know is they broke the rules of the contest by using generative AI and blatantly plagiarised other people in the process. Based on all the information we have at hand, it is entirely fair to say this person is a fraud. Your charitable interpretation that they may not have realised one of the rules was not to use AI is naive, surely you should read the rules of a contest you're participating in, so I see no excuse for this.

At best, you are correct that we don't know 100% for certain how talented they might be as an artist when not being a thief, but the implication isn't charitable and their character definitely shows in the choices made.

Google Doc showing the submissions and the art pieces that were plagiarised: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vRuYXWbOATa7jxlopgSXwR41pEHKB14zA0oJYjCnPWYwjuzBSRpBOgAEFyLtGZoNdZqMJHDO6KOiWs3/pub?pli=1

@Pacific Same as that Kadokawa situation, it was purely about the anime and manga business but all of the reporting was about the gaming implications with fearmongering about Sony making From Soft exclusive. I'd imagine the same thing will happen again.

Master Chief Collection, add Halo 5 to it. Then Infinite later. It should be so easy.

I take it James Gunn will be too busy to contribute to this expanded Lollipop Chainsaw universe then? I reckon he could squeeze it in between Supergirl and Batman.

@DennisReynolds If we're lucky PS6 back-compat might fix the performance haha. Slapping UE5 on top of the Creation Engine worked about as well as you would've expected it to. Could've been a song if they did as you suggested and went with a more modest Skyrim Special Edition style upgrade.

Next we'll probably have the 'pleasure' of seeing Fallout 3/New Vegas get the same treatment.

@Balaam_ You're glad that they've gotten rid of something that actually rewarded people with a little saving on purchases here and there because of some silly trinkets that were entirely ignorable? They only ever appeared on the app.

Wasn't expecting Live action Axel. They are going all out.

Hope we don't get that remake. FF9 is a perfect game.

@trev666 That first comment is also blatant sarcasm.

@Ernie I'm obviously joking. Ports don't just materialise out of thin air, this has been in the works for months. The layoffs happened this week.

Nobody is going to switch from PS5 to Xbox because they ported Helldivers. Even if you'll be able to play the PS-PC ports on the next Xbox via Steam, the amount of people who will switch are slim.

Sony giving Xbox fans a bone after the layoffs and cancellations.

I spoke to that guy briefly after the panel, chill dude!

@Alps_Stranger I don't know it's worked out fine for Resident Evil, half of the games went through that dev cycle. RE2 and 4 being the famous examples.

What exactly is there to ponder when they've never stopped making turn based games?

@HammerKirby3 Add in vanilla P5 and it's a 10 million plus seller. Absolutely crazy.

"Infinite Wealth looks a bit disappointing at just 1.66 million units sold."

I can't quite agree. Yakuza 7 has been available for purchase for several more years, and most people are going to play it first before it's direct sequel. These aren't the old days when games would only sell for as long as stores could hold the shelf space for them, digital stores allow any game to have a long tail of revenue.

Looking at the spreadsheet showing these games sales over time, IW is doing about as well launch aligned (Y7 wasn't a simultaneous global launch so it's Japanese and International launches are split between two fiscal years).

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sega-sammy-fiscal-report-mishap-reveals-sales-numbers-for-a-dozen-titles-lad-iw-1-66m-p3r-2-07m-sonic-frontiers-4-57m-p5r-7-25m-and-more.1224501/

@Milt I think Sega's problem was they were comparing it to Frontiers selling 3 million in a few months. Obviously comparing a side scroller to an open worlder is a fools errand. It should be compared to Mania, which took a year to break a million at a third of the average price point. Superstars selling approximately 2.5 million in a year and a half while being more expensive and not as good as it's predecessor can only be considered a financial success.

@Jey887 Just Square Enix really.

This feels like it was rushed to not clash with GTAVI, and then they just kept the release date after GTA was delayed a year.

I only found out about this game a few weeks ago, and now it's getting localised. Funny coincidence, that.

@DreadfulDragon Heck, I own everything but an Xbox and I still don't care if the games are multiplatform. 1st party, 3rd party, just show some cool looking games and I'm good.

PS has never been like Nintendo where the 1st party is the key factor. Think of the many iconic PS2 games and how many weren't by Sony.

Yeah that was a banger, probably my favourite one yet.

It opened with a new Lumines and Suda51 game (so happy I immediately could tell it was his game), you can't hate it.

Juri's aesthetic kinda fits aespa I guess.

God of War Betrayal remake

Yeah I'd probably watch that. Get Junji Ito involved for a manga too. He's friends with Kojima and one of the NPCs in the first game so he might be open to that.

Battle Engine Aquila is a RANDOM choice

Fallout 3 is up next, per the FTC leaks. New Vegas would likely follow that since they can reuse so much from Fallout 3's remaster. I'd guess Morrowind would come sometime after that, it kind of needs the most brushing up of the lot.

I kind of don't expect they'll do a Skyrim remaster for a very long time actually (if at all), despite the reputation for always finding new ways to re-release it. I think that game is set in stone, with the Creations marketplace they can keep selling mods for years and updating the game with what's already available. A Switch 2 port with that mod marketplace is probably the only new version I can see coming in the near future. Skyrim is still modern enough for most people I think.

Let me know when they add Sterling Archer.

I'm surprised that the no interest in GTA6 selection is as high as it is. Granted, I'm in that camp as well.

@Keyblade-Dan I think Ninja Gaiden 4 might end up being a last hurrah for Platinum.

@OldGamer999 It's not just tariffs causing price increases though.

Being a Titanfall fan sounds like an absolutely horrendous experience.

Not a fan of the anti-JRPG messaging I've seen from some of Expedition 33's fans, considering how much the game owes to the ones that group of people are dogging on.

@GirlVersusGame The only adaptations that seem to have escaped that bias are TLOU, Fallout, and Arcane. I wonder if the television format has anything to do with it? TV executives and critics aren't as jealous of the games industry?

It's a little funny that this is the second Sydney Sweeney video game adaptation announcement this week.

@Bagwag82 She was in White Lotus and Euphoria, as well as some other recent projects. Played one of the Manson cult members in Once Upon a Time In Hollywood.

I think RT is a way better metric than Metacritic for films. 63% is pretty standard fare for shlocky horror flicks too, which is exactly what Until Dawn is - but playable. Your mileage may vary for how much you'd enjoy that without the gameplay.

It's finally time for Ultra Stardust 4K to celebrate their roots.