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Revenge of the Sith and LEGO Complete Saga and Clone Wars when

Perfectly reasonable behaviour of course, nothing unhinged going on here.

On another note, this article says it was published 'Tomorrow 00:15' I just thought that was amusing. Quit the time travelling Sammy.

Gonna blast the papa tree song

Another bastion of physical magazines has gone... it's not over though. Shout out to RPM, looking forward to issue 4.

@Oram77 He's still being credited for the work he did on the original, just not as "A Hideo Kojima Game" because he's not involved with the remake. It would be a bit dishonest to call it one when it has a different person directing it.

@Savage_Joe Technically yes, but it has yet to be enabled. There's not been a lot of movement on the adoption of 8K TVs, and thus 8K content yet. If they ever do enable it for the original console, it'll probably only be for video content atp.

This would be the modern equivalent to GT4 having a 1080i mode on PS2.

@BellEvil @LiamCroft Actually great move. Wasn't expecting it.

I'm guessing that won't be applicable to the people who got the game through the Covid offer lol

They literally have DMC type combat in this one.

@SuperSilverback If it wasn't for Itsuno's departure, I would have said Reuben's social media activities wouldn't have an effect on his role as Dante, since they're apparently friends, and he's been well known as a consipracy kook for a very long time. With this being made by an outside team in a different timeline there's a creative excuse to recast. Situation is quite different now though, I wouldn't expect to see him back if DMC6 has Dante in it.

I wouldn't consider load screens between plazas a con personally. A good bit of the game is designed around the areas being seperated, events can initiate or not depending on if you're loaded in at particular times, and imagine the convicts being able to shoot at you while you're in Paradise Plaza.

@get2sammyb the "industry plant" allegations, which feel a little silly.

I think Horizon is a bit like the Avatar movies. People online love to dunk on them, but there's a very large, quiet audience for the series.

Publishers should do this more often with IP they aren't using, lend them out to third parties and indies. Sega's done it a bit, Square too iirc.

@B_Lindz He didn't say that.

@UltimateOtaku91 Sega Wipeout sounds incredible. F-Zero GX all over again.

Very interesting that Bandai are handling the publishing for this version, licenced from Sony. Can't complain though, game companies licensing their inactive IP to others is a great idea imo.

@ZeD The 30th anniversary technically starts in December, still some time.

Mister Mosquito and Sky Gunner are great picks for PS2 this month. Not to be slept on and certainly not bottom of the barrel. Hidden gems.

Plucky Squire looks like it'll be great as well.

@Macpac33 Would be nice. Depending on the dynamic res ceiling it should look alright even without one. Performance mode dropped as low as 720p for battles iirc.

@GamingFan4Lyf A lot of people, mainly console players can underestimate how demanding native 4K rendering can be for current games. You're just not going to get native 4K 60 at high settings for a lot of titles even on a top end rig as you say. A lack of first hand experience with DLSS type upscaling doesn't help either, you think of upscaling and the first thought isn't of virtually pristine image quality.

£700 is a TOUGH SELL, especially given I and many others only paid half that for our launch PS5s, but PSSR should be a quite solid value add - enough for the cost? Unlikely, but it's not to be overlooked I reckon.

@OldGamer999 Well for that it depends entirely on the game and what the devs want to do with the hardware budget. No different to any other console. All PS5 games could be native 4K 60fps if devs chose to.

@Xbox_Dashboard it'll quickly get bigger. I think support is mandated for titles being certified going forward.

$699 / £699

Oh come on man...

The Splatoon series is a good example of a live service that people don't think is one. Regular updates that add new content, Splatfests and Big Runs are time limited events, and 3 even has a battle pass system with the catalogues. It's a much better example than Astro's Playroom, though of course this is a Playstation site so I get it. People have a misconception that live service must mean microtransactions, etc. live service isn't defined by a particular type of monetisation, but by the evolving nature of the online platform of the game, it just so happens that most live services have to rely on mtx to sustain the model - Nintendo doesn't, they make enough money from everyone buying the game at full price.

Of course they will. Not like they can replace it with anything else at this point either.

@Splat They cancelled Factions, Twisted Metal and the London Studio game.

@Max_the_German GT7 and MLB The Show count I think.

Not going to hold my breath, but it's not impossible that Beenox could be working on THPS 3+4 remakes alongside the CoD support. They have around 300 employees. Maybe they rejected Vicarious Visions' pitch because they already decided that studio was merging with Blizzard, not because they didn't want to produce the project. So it fell to another team that worked on the 1+2 remake.

Unlikely, but not impossible.

It would be nice if we got remasters of those other older Lego games from the PS3 era. Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Star Wars TCS/Clone Wars, Batman Trilogy, Indy, etc.

Based on player counts, that's better than I thought.

@Korgon Yeah I'm sure DMC will continue. I very much doubt Reuben Langdon will return as Dante now though. The guy has some controversial views and I can see Capcom not wanting to keep him around, but him and Itsuno were friends which would likely have secured him the gig for DMC6.

@Arisen DMC5's combat designer left Capcom and ended up working on FF. The joke here is obvious.

@nessisonett In the 2000s especially... dodgy would be putting it lightly I fear.

They made the right call. An open world Tokyo game would be cool, like Sleeping Dogs did for Hong Kong, but not as GTA. Like they said, the satirical aspect wouldn't translate.

@WhiteRabbit Baldur's Gate 3 is another one.

The Shadow portion of this package is looking stacked. From what's been shown so far, we have:

1. Radical Highway (SA2)
2. Space Colony Ark (SA2)
3. Bullet Station (Heroes)
4. Final Fortress (Heroes)
5. Kingdom Valley (06)
6. Sunset Heights (Forces)
7. Chaos Island (Frontiers)

And there'll probably be a zone or two from the 2005 Shadow game, putting the level count on par with the original Generations - then there's this DLC level coming later on. Add on to that an open world hub, multiple boss fights, etc. They're really just making a whole other game and throwing in Sonic Generations as a bonus, and even that has some new content. Not bad for $50/£45, especially if they deliver with the new stuff.

So Concord has it's own dedicated episode separate from the other PS Studios properties? Those are 15 bullet points for the 15 episodes. Sony are really trying to push this game, bless them for trying, I suppose.

Before bothering with a remake, we at least need the original versions in remastered form on PS4/5 and Switch.

@__jamiie I was going to say that, it's hard to imagine Bungie have generated $3.6 billion in profit in a matter of two years. That's a monumental task, and they wouldn't need to lay people off if they were that successful.

@NoHope It's true though. PS5 is the best performer currently in Europe.

"All three platforms saw a slight decline, with PS5 still comfortably the market leader (selling more than the other two platforms combined). Nintendo Switch slips to No.3 this month, narrowly overtaken by Xbox Series S and X, with both platforms broadly neck-and-neck year-to-date."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/elden-ring-sales-jump-467-on-shadow-of-the-erdtree-release-i-uk-monthly-charts

"All three platforms are down, although PS5 is proving the most resilient with a year-on-year sales drop of 10% in June.
For the first six months of the year, the games console hardware market is down 24% with 2.2 million units sold. PS5 is down 16%, Switch down 32% and Xbox Series S and X down 37%. The console market is struggling when put against strong 2023 numbers, a weaker software line-up and the ageing Nintendo Switch platform."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/european-game-sales-down-just-16-during-the-first-half-of-2024-european-monthly-charts

Genuinely disappointing news. The contrast between the serious and silly stuff is a huge part of RGG games.

This current trend of TV shows only having 6-8 episodes per season is very lame in my opinion, no time for any filler, downtime to explore the characters in non plot important events, everything feels like an extended film and not television.

Letting Bungie operate independently at the start was a huge mistake. Their crap leadership laid off some of the longest serving employees. Not even the composer was safe. This is a good move on Sony's part, shame it wasn't sooner.

Is It-Z shy or not?

The culture war has ruined some of your brains. I won't say any more than this.

Size Matters is definitely a clanker... or a clunker....

James Cage White's favourite video game

Very cool very swag I like it!

@ear_wig I'd love for IX to continue being first person. We've had a probably unintended trend of the RE numbered games coming in sets of three. 1-3 the classic fixed camera angle games, 4-6 the over the shoulder games, 7-9 could be the first-person trilogy.

You should probably have included the second half of his quote where Okamura acknowledges people have moved on and such.

Besides that, I should do a quick rundown on the Kojima/Konami situation, 9 years on. Konami's executives who pushed Kojima out are not in the company anymore, pachinko hasn't been a focus for several years, with the video game division earning the most revenue, and much of the key MGS staff who worked with Kojima on those games do still remain there and are working on Delta.

(nobody is going to care about what I just put and the same old memes will continue).

It's very cheap on Steam, often on sale, and it's old enough that it should run on most PC hardware, even if you're not using a dedicated gaming rig. A port would be ideal, but it's very accessible.

@Perturbator The name fits. The Embracer sounds like a horror villain.