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@VeganH They are increasing the minimum PC requirements though. You need a slightly larger toaster to run it. https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/m/en/news/detail/158502

@Gbarsotini This was my imagination of the events too.
Nintendo: Sign this contract stating you won't release on PS and we will give you money.
Squenix: signs What about XBox?
Nintendo: Who?

I am going to put my target price into Dekudeals and wait either way. If Deku sends me an alert and I go to the site and it's more than the price Deku told me, I will just wait some more. Nothing different than normal.

@BAMozzy When Windows launches, and you click on Steam, and you tell Steam to launch God of War, there is nothing stopping GoW.exe from using Windows APIs to ask Windows what the very specific name of the CPU is and doing whatever it wants with that information.

@ElectricWizard The cynic in me just assumes the worst case scenario unless they specifically come out and say otherwise. This is Microsoft after all.

@BAMozzy I would assume the Helix will be running a custom CPU that shouldn't be hard to identify by the software, if Sony wanted to do something that silly.

@wildcat_kickz Hahah, this is my belief is well. She said you could play your PC games on the Helix. She didn't say you could play your PC games, purchased outside of the Microsoft store, on Helix. I imagine this thing shipping with one of their weird neutered tablet editions of Windows or whatever.

@get2sammyb To #38, I am mostly curious what "running XBOX games" means exactly. Like is there a Windows app that does a full emulation of an XBOX UI so you can download all of your back catalog natively, or is it like a dual-boot mode, or is it all streaming, or...? I don't even care about XBOX games, I am just curious what the technical solution is.

Personally, keeping me on any system in the past had much less to do with how many exclusives they had, and much more to do with whoever was doing a better job of courting third parties onto the system. I have played very few of Sony's first party games the last two generations, and if all the third party RPGs and indies start just sticking to places like Steam because Sony is too busy focusing on their own BS, I will VERY BEGRUDGINGLY go back to PC.

@Fizza It should still give you the option to download the PS4 version by hitting "View Product" and "View Versions" assuming it doesn't just ask you which one to download up front. That's what previous upgrades have done.

It's stupid but I hope this "stabilizes" the new animated backgrounds. The old ones work perfectly fine, but if I do the fireplace or animated seasonals, whether from hard off or standby mode, half the time the animations doesn't kick off until I move away from the page and back or sometimes even have to scroll down into the page and fiddle with something before it will start animating. This is on a Pro as well, so don't know if that's specific to that or not. It doesn't even really matter, just first world problems.

I just picked up my preorder on my lunch break. I'm doing my part! insert Starship Troopers meme

I'm going to start it installing tonight and then I have to leave town for four days, but next week...

@Runex2121 Interesting take. I am glad to hear that it's not as terrible on newcomers as I have built up in my mind (after playing everything over 2.5 years).

I kind of like them, but they also mostly remind me of the rear end of a diesel truck.

So for Metaphor in particular, I am still waiting around to see if they make a "Royal" version of it. They poisoned that well pretty hard. Why would I buy one of their mainline games in the first three years?

I am completely caught up and ready finally. Even played through the TitS1 Remake. Let's do this thing.

@Gremio108 I dunno, it's pretty warm if I stand next to my PS5 Pro while it's running.

@Topov81 Because technically it is still Autumn until the Solstice on the 21st.

I remember renting this as a kid and thinking it was garbage then.

If it wasn't for the animal iconography I would say it's related to the new Darksiders. The faces look like the collectible souls, there's a bunch of skeletons in armor, and I would absolutely be using the throwing glaive to stab that giant eyeball thing to open the door.

I rated the library as great, but not for anything Sony has specifically done. It's been a really good run for 3rd party RPGs these last few years. The console itself has been really good, but I will never forgive how big and ugly it is.

The answers are all always a bit nuanced. I won't play mobile games. That's just a me preference. I don't care if they make mobile games. To answer the actual headline question, I don't think they will be successful, because mobile or not, they are just pushing their GAAS agenda on a different platform. Who knows though, maybe they will get lucky. Being a giant publisher with all the money in the world still guarantees nothing.

I finally completed my Legend of Heroes journey by finishing Daybreak 2 this last week. I am now completely caught up with the series. So what do I do to celebrate, I start Trails in the Sky FC Remake. Honestly, the battle system is kind of a breath of fresh air. You get the free move system Daybreak added, but with no weird SCM positioning constraints, no Boosts required for S-Breaks, everything is simple and open, at least in the early going.

I already bought a little mini-pc running bazzite for the older lower resource PC games in my backlog. I don't need a second one.

@REALAIS People play a lot of games that I personally find very boring. shrug

I just realized that I have 1000xRESIST and Hundred Line Defense Academy confused. I don't know that I necessarily care about either, but oops anyway.

This has me thinking now. I get that the high-stakes action style spy novel wouldn't work as an open-world game, but what if it were lower stakes, cold war maybe. Just wandering around, setting up listening posts, sneaking in as a plumber to drop some audio bugs, spend a while doing some stealth surveillance with a camera through a window, maybe leave some dead drops. Do all the boring spy ground work that James Bond never seems to actually do because he's a super hero and pretty bad at actually being a spy. Would it actually be fun, I dunno?

I don't really care what they do with multiplayer, just let me backup PS5 saves locally and easily for goodness sake!

I don't really like "horror" games, I have too much anxiety as is. But I do like action games with horror elements like Control.

I started the first one and got side tracked like so many other games. I plan to go back to it eventually, and I will pick this up eventually assuming I enjoy the first one.

This is one of those surveys where the question could have been worded a little better. Is TikTok in competition with games, at least for time and attention? Sure of course. Is it in competition for my time? Not at all. But I have accidentally lost hours to Youtube instead. That's because I have an Android phone, logged in with Google, and Youtube is automagically installed, so I open it for a very specific purpose and then the algorithm happens. Games are, for me specifically, more in competition for my time with streaming services with longer form content though. That's where I purposely spend the time I am not gaming. That hasn't really changed over time though.

I will play it some day on a deep discount as a nostalgia fest, but I am not buying it day one. I never even owned an XBOX, but enough good times were had in the multiplayer playing at my friend's house that it still gives me a little bit of the feels.

I am definitely on the higher end of games purchased. I drop a lot of stuff in my wish list and then buy it when it's on sale, even if I don't really have time to play it. I play a lot less games than I actually buy though which is definitely a me problem. Clair Obscur was such a breath of fresh air, only being in the 30-40 hour range, considering I still have Trails Through Daybreak 2, FF Rebirth, Baldurs Gate 3, and Metaphor Refantasio, all 100+ hour games, to get to at some point, and that's ignoring the rest of the backlog.

Yeah, and no. I think the selection is good, but I just finally picked up Cocoon on a sale last month.

I think this is kind of a cute idea, but calling it a "rewards" program is a complete misnomer. This is an elite merch club.

Looks nice. I need to play the last dozen "search adventure" games I bought. I really like that term.

The look is there. Time will tell if the writing is.

@ShogunRok Walking all over Liberl like you do in the first game definitely gives the world a sense of space that you start to lose in the later games.

@ShogunRok Response to #33, I still haven't finished DB2. The time hopping is part of it, but the actual dungeons and combat almost feel like they've been forgotten about. You run around a new town, talk to everybody, story beats for an hour or two, even the side missions are just running around and talking to people, and then finally it remembers to give you 30 minutes of a non-descript sewer or warehouse dungeon. If you want more combat, go run the Marchen Garten... again. I like the story bits sure, but you have to balance it out.

EDIT: Also, does Zin feel sufficiently big? I feel like between his original Trails sprite and his DB 3D model, he lost too much bulk.

I was in my PCMR phase at the time so I wasn't especially interested until FFVII came out, but after that it was one of the best RPG boxes of all time. Admittedly though, I missed a lot of those games until later.

I mean sure, I already watch all the terrible non-video-game war movies, what's another one on the pile?

Good, now I don't feel bad for buying the original version. shrug

I am still in Daybreak 2 because it's been a very long couple of months with very little gaming. I am skipping the Sky remake. I don't need to play it again, however pretty it may be.

I watched some of the promo videos because somebody's name attached to it was notable for some reason (I can't remember now) and they all looked generically 3rd person hack and slash. In a universe where everything is trying be a "maybe it's a Soulslike" that's not enough. And then I read the reviews and they basically all said the same kind of thing, "decent game, lots of caveats" and that was enough to make me decide I had better things to play.

The plot is hilarious but the look of the game is kind of "we have ZZZ at home."

I think I have been on "Essential" since the very beginning. It used to be easy to buy multiple years through incredibly cheap, discounted keys, and then that went away. I have gotten a billion free games. I think I have played maybe three. I don't really play multiplayer games. At this point, I think I stay subscribed since they have locked PS5 saves into this weird limbo where there isn't a good way to archive them any other way than paid cloud saves and I am paranoid about losing them all through a catastrophic failure of some sort.

@16BitHero She's wearing those boxing gloves just to confuse her opponent.

Oh thank goodness! I am still trying to finish Daybreak 2. I have stalled a bit.

After watching Bungie flail around trying to figure out what to do with the Destiny games for years now. Why would I be excited to see what they do next?

I imagine it's easier to remaster the newer games onto the current consoles, but I discovered Tales during the PS3/XB360 days. I want to play the ones that came out before then.

@Kienda Oh no!

@Kienda I think if I had watched it as a teenager, I might've made it through ok. Instead, I accidentally waited until after I had a kid. That movie destroyed me for a week.