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@Cashews

Game was a revolution for arcade shooters.

Black Ops 2 was the perfection of the formula. Ever since then it’s been on a downhill spiral. Average at best. Terrible at worst.

@Czar_Khastik

That glorious 21 FPS at 640p!!!

Glad I played the Xbox 360 version. Granted it did kill my last 360.

@hypnotoad

Let’s be honest, all of their effort is going into GTA Online 2.

We are only getting GTAVI because they needed a new city for GTA Online 2.

Wow that’s lazy. And that price is outrageous.

@Pompey71

Trust me most of us Americans can’t afford to buy stuff like this Willy Nilly.

As a people we are in an eye watering amount of private debt. Most Americans have a shocking debt to income ratio that no one else in the world has.

Because we are Americans and we like shiny things, even if we can’t really afford it.

Well considering how the current Series X and PS5 versions run…

This will be entertaining at least.

@tatsumi

That’s the point of the beep. To show that you are a free man and do what you want. You’re a rebel without a cause.

I still believe this game was hobbled out the gate by not releasing it on PC day and date with the PS4 version. And a PS5 native version should have been available within a few months of the PS5’s release.

Sounds like they are making good moves.

I greatly prefer the detailed vertical city maps of the old Assassin’s Creeds versus the huge horizontal game worlds of the more modern open world games.

In terms of art design, I’m a big Terra fan.

But in terms of characterization it’s all about Cloud Strife. He was one of gaming’s first unreliable narrators. That puts him high in my book.

I really miss playing as nameless soldiers in a shooter game.

It allowed one to pretend that each respawn was a new replacement soldier.

While I would love another Resistance, they’ve said numerous times that they were finished with the story they wanted to tell.

And I agree with them. Resistance 3 ended on a good satisfying way. It came full circle.

@KaijuKaiser

Is everything our fault or something?

@meistergeister

Hey there Redd Foxx made heart attacks funny on Sanford and Son.

@ColdHandGee

I’m jealous. I never had the hair quality to do anything special. I couldn’t even make a Fade look good. And I wanted a Jheri Curl for the longest time but my hair just never grew out long enough for it to get use out of the product I needed.

So I went for the “slicked head look” because that’s the only thing I could do. Granted I do get compliments on it. I have the perfect head shape for a shaved head. Plus I have a really good beard that’s long to go with it.

So I look like one of those villains from a TV series that’s played by a light skin black guy lol.

@BowTiesAreCool

Honestly I really liked Miles’ fade.

With that said, I ultimately want to see a character with a Jheri Curl. Mainly because I never had the hair to do it (my hair style as a half black man consist of bald because my hair is awful so I just shave it completely; I’ve been told I look like a light skin Rick Ross because I keep my full beard which does look good combined with a slick head) but I always wanted a Jheri Curl back when I was a teenager.

I still wish they could have included the Punisher as a “wild card” character in the game.

The Punisher made his debut in Spider-Man back in 1974 I think. It would have been fitting to have included him in this game as a character that plays the wild card role that both Peter/Miles and Kraven both fear for different reasons.

Peter fears him for his unpredictability and his willingness to kill, but does appreciate his assistance. Especially when he gets the symbiote suit and begins to really understand why Frank feels the way he does. Kraven fears him because he knows Frank Castle’s past and what he will do to him if he isn’t careful. Kraven could then try to play Peter against Frank. With Miles caught in the middle.

@Jireland92

Why?

Plenty of people have been Venom in the comics. Even Kraven was Venom in the comics for a small amount of time.

@Sekijo

As much as I love Eddie Brock and I consider him the definitive Venom, I’m glad Insomniac is taking a different route. They would have needed to have set up Peter and Brock’s rivalry in the first game. Since they didn’t do that, it wouldn’t make any sense to have Brock as Venom in the second game.

I’m very interested to see how they go with Harry Osborne as Venom.

@RudeAnimat0r

God I hope not. Absolutely worst part of the first game.

@theSpectre

Yeah that’s true. I did notice the combat loop was much tighter in Origins and Odyssey than it was in AC3 (which was the last AC game I played before those two, although I never finished Odyssey).

Also Venom’s model is absolutely amazing.

@Arnna

I always felt like it seemed to take inspiration from the Arkham games more than Assassin’s creed.

AC has always had sloppy combat. Spider-Man felt pretty tight. Not as tight as Arkham but it did give me an Arkham impression.

I still don’t see the point of this.

Games are still going to be compromised by bad development practices.

@Shepherd_Tallon

My PS1 did have disc drive failure like way back in 2005 (last time I really used it). But I got it for Christmas of 1996 so I think it did well.

My PS2 (2003 unit) still works fine though. As does my OG Xbox.

My launch GameCube has disc drive laser problems. It struggles to read games now. I need to replace the laser assembly.

@Shepherd_Tallon

I had four Xbox 360s fail on me. And I had to warranty to my Switch one day after I bought it because the USB C port’s video out pins (for the dock) were jacked and I couldn’t get an image through the dock. Thankfully my second Switch has been a trooper since then.

My PS5 has been stupidly reliable. And it’s a launch day unit. I’ve always had good luck with Sony systems.

There’s a part of me hoping they throw Carnage into the story towards the end game as a surprise final villain. And it requires Venom to work with Miles and Peter to defeat him.

I won’t be playing it till it’s on a deep sale.

The source code leak is what really screwed him.

Had he just leaked a few images it’s likely Take 2’s lawyers would have offered him a pretty good plea deal.

But when the source code is leaked the company’s law department tends to push for maximums.

@NomNom

They won’t get the benefit of the doubt they had this time.

And they really sacrificed a ton of to get this deal through. I doubt they want to go through that again so soon.

@STOBO

I think this the end of their publisher spree.

They’ll keep buying smaller studios. Sony does the same. Neither will stop that. Chances are they will only speed up.

I don’t think Microsoft expected this much pushback from regulators over this purchase. I suspect they’re probably done with buying big publishers for now at least.

Well looks like it’s finally coming to an end.

Been a crazy ride, I’ll tell ya.

@Flaming_Kaiser

Trust me I’m not a fan of our companies monopolistic behavior.

@PlasmaticSnake

To be fair, Doritos pair good with anything.

@Flaming_Kaiser

Trust me I want them to fight against stuff like this.

But I do expect competency. They botched the case from the get go.

The case was weak. And their lawyers were embarrassing.

When it’s my tax dollars I expect competence. If you are going to go with such a weak case with incompetent lawyers then don’t waste my money.

@GamingFan4Lyf

Same here. It’s sickening how incompetent the FTC was in this case.

I mean for the next few years nothing crazy will change.

The momentum for PS5 is just too high now. It will dominate the generation as the PS4 did before it.

What’s more interesting is what will happen with the PS6 and Next Xbox. That’s when this thing will really start to hit Sony.

@StrawberryTurtle

For real.

And TLOU2 wasn’t a bad game. It was actually really good. It just had some pacing problems and it had to live up to the legacy of the first game. Which was impossible to meet.

But at its core it’s a fantastic game. Just has poor pacing and I do think they could have handled “that moment” better.

@ear_wig

The story of Xenogears is so good. It really pushed the concept of video game stories forward in my opinion.

It touched on so many things in an adult and realistic way. Especially religion.

@Andy22385

I really loved Remake’s battle system. It felt like the perfect marriage of FFXIII (which has a really underrated battle system in my opinion; it’s that otherwise average Final Fantasy game’s crowning achievement) combined with FFXV’s real time actions and even reworked the classic ATB system into its design. It’s brilliant and every single fight is super entertaining (especially the boss fights; the Hellhouse fight was one of the best boss fights in any game in years and the Sephiroth fight was just magic).

It also has hands down the best English Dub Square has ever done.

@CastelloGG

It really does hold up. I replayed two years ago on my PS3 and the game feels super fresh from both an artistic and gameplay standpoint.

The only thing they need to touch up are the 3D polygon battle spaces. Those have aged a bit. But thanks to just how strong its art design was it’s perfectly tolerable unlike a bunch of other PS1 Square games.

Doesn’t hurt that it has one of the best final boss fights in RPG history. The Egg is so iconic as a final boss. It’s truly challenging (unlike Final Fantasy’s final bosses), has fantastic music (both Misgestalt and Todensegel), makes you use every skill and strategy you’ve learned over the course of the game, and even has a natural difficulty modifier.

I still have yet to beat the Egg with all Anima Lords left alive. But just the fact that they allow you to try that (I’ve tried on a few occasions) is super cool. Not many games allow you to naturally set the difficulty of the final boss. But even if you clear out four lords it’s still a really challenging fight.

@Krysus

Triangle Strategy was absolutely amazing. One of Square’s best games in years.

@CastelloGG

Yay another Saga Frontier II fan!!! I thought I was the only one!

That game was the underrated gem of Square’s golden PS1 era. A brilliant story, fascinating characters, a really good battle system (still has some of that Saga jank in it, but it’s way more understandable than earlier games in the franchise), and the best soundtrack Square ever produced.

My ringtone is still Todfiend. I love that battle track.

@ear_wig

I would love to see them get the original team back together and actually finish Xenogears.

It’s an amazing game but it’s incomplete. They had to rush the last third of the game to meet their deadline and you can definitely tell.

I would love for them to remaster it and at the same time finish the game as was originally intended.

Well this is dumb. But the game still looks fantastic. It’s on the list for a next year playthrough.

I mean it makes sense.

I haven’t bought the game yet but I did play through the demo. It’s fantastic, at least what I played. But it feels like it was made for someone like me to a certain extent, a westerner with a love of political intrigue and a time period and world clearly based on Europe and the Arab world circa the First Crusade.

@awaltzforvenus

Yeah that’s it.

I only played the first one way back in the day on iPhone 3GS.

By the way, why does the Brian guy look like the kind of dude who would rob the Catalytic Converters off of your car?