PegasusActual93

PegasusActual93

Born too early to explore space.

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Re: System Shock 2 PS5, PS4 Remaster Is an Essential Summer Playthrough

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@Athrum
Nightdives whole thing is taking old classic/cult classic games and trying to update them to make them much more accessible both technological and control wise. Typically that means better resolution, improved controls, sometimes extra content if available, runs well on modern hardware when prior to this it would have been a nightmare to run on modern PC's, etc. How much more do you need?

Re: Yakuza Creator's Next Game Will Be Sent to Die As NetEase Implodes

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@get2sammyb
Thing that baffles me about acquisitions like this is that the companies who do it seem to lack any foresight whatsoever. They go "We're rich lets buy up all these companies, oh s--t we can't afford to keep them open now". Do they not have accountants who map out how much they can afford to spend well in advance? I know projects go overbudget and unforeseen things happen and all that but you can always account for this.

Re: HBO's The Last of Us: Season 2 Debuts in April

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@XanderTigerclaw
European shows have done the 6-8 episode thing for as long as TV has existed. So this isn't even anything close to new. And the only real reason you got 20+ episode season shows to begin with was because the landscape was much different. Shows were made at a major financial loss and only recouped their costs via syndication. Syndication obviously isn't much of a thing anymore so instead production companies have elected to do less episodes but with more money pumped into each episode and a generally higher quality per episode. Plus episodes of shows now are generally longer than they used to be. I would personally rather take 7 high quality 60 minute episodes a season of Last of Us over 30, 20 minute episodes a season of a mediocre ass sitcom and 45 minute episodes of another formuliac ass drama like what used to plague every TV network.

Re: HBO's The Last of Us: Season 2 Debuts in April

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@breakneck
The smart thing I would do to adapt the second game is to tell the story in chronological order and not like in the game, that way we get plenty of time with Joel and Ellies relationship and would therefore make you know what happening several episodes in instead of episode 1. That would work that much better. I hope that's the route they went with.

Re: Helldivers 2's Creative Director's Latest Comments Have Landed Him in Hot Water

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@8bit4Life
How is diversity political though. What is political about being black in a story? Or gay? Or a woman? Is being a white character in a story political too then? How is somebody who just exists political? Also just about every story since the beginning of time including in video games has had some kind of message behind it. Most just don't complain because they were either too young to remember, too stupid to get the obvious, or it was politics they agreed with so they didn't complain because of double standards.

Re: EA Shot Down Creators' Dead Space 4 Pitch in 2024

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@PuppetMaster
Callisto only flopped because it cost an obscene amount of money to make. 161 million roughly. With marketing costs on top of that I think they estimated it had to have sold close to 5 million copies just to break-even which is insanity for a new IP.

Re: Square Enix Insists Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Hasn't Been the PS5 Sales Disaster It's Been Painted As

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@KawakiisaFraud
"The Final Fantasy brand isn't nearly as popular as the internet would like to believe".
I mean FF XV sold over 10 million copies, FF XVI sold over 3 million copies in just it's first week and FF7 Remake sold 3 million copies in as many days at the height of Covid lockdowns. Sure that's not quite Call of Duty numbers but that is still pretty damn popular.

Re: Industry Analyst Argues Either Sony or Microsoft Will Need to Exit the Console Market

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@Korgon
History has shown that Nintendo has been able to reinvent themselves and have major success time and time again. The WIIU was by no means their only low point at least in terms of popularity. The N64 was incredibly niche compared to the PS1 and the Gamecube compared to PS2 even more so until the WII made them dominate hardware sales again. Even if the Switch 2 doesn't enjoy the level of popularity as the Switch I think they will still find some way to put their tried and true (use cheap and established hardware in unique ways) design philosophy to good use.

Re: Devil-Filled Baldur's Gate 3 Has Fans in Vatican City

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@TruestoryYep
@nessisonett
Religious institutions are by far the most prolific perpetrators of covering up child sex abuse especially in my country. Catholic Church definitely has the most money to cover it up but Protestant sects are almost as prolific and don't even get me started on many Muslim or Hindu sects forcing the marrying off of underaged girls. Archbishop was only resigned because the public exposure was too great and I guarantee you there will be no legal repercussions as usual. Not even taking into account all the lower ranking clergy members who have not faced any legal punishments for touching kids both in the Vatican and in countless Catholic churches around the world. Not even getting into the thousands of dead bodies of Indigenous and orphaned children from abuse that have been exhumed in the grounds near various Catholic churches in recent years either. Religious institutions and child abuse go hand in hand and need major changes sorry not sorry. Just calling out evil and hypocrisy where I see it.

Re: Just Three Decisions from Dragon Age: Inquisition Will Carry Over to The Veilguard

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"Every single movie is completely disconnected and doesn´t share anything but maybe the basic setting".
As a lifelong Star Wars fan you just described exactly what I want more of in that franchise. More stand alone stories, no Skywalkers, no Jedi, you have a universe with literally infinite stories to tell, use that opportunity. That's why Andor was such a breath of fresh air.