PegasusActual93

PegasusActual93

Born too early to explore space.

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Re: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake Back at Concept Stage After Total Reboot

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@Kang81
Everything you just mentioned is correct plus in general games especially of the AAA ilk are so much more difficult and expensive to develop these days. The more technical the games get the more things can vastly go wrong in the code, including a lot of things not even the developers could have anticipated. Back in the 90s a group of just 20 developers making a hyped up epic was the norm (nowadays most AAA developers are at least pushing 1000) and code was so much easier to vet for issues because the scale of games back in the day was much more contained (don't believe me look up games from your childhood and aside from RPGs they will all be much shorter than you remember) as a result games were so much easier and cheaper. Not to mention now you got entitled idiots online expecting literally every single game regardless of size or budget to be some sort of industry pusher and it makes me feel bad to be a developer in this day in age. My point is there is no single answer to the inconsistent state of things and the typical twitter assessment of "hurr durr game developers lazy hurr durr" is stupid as there is so much more to it than that.

Re: SEGA Could Join Sony in Raising Its Game Prices to $70

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@KaijuKaiser
People seem to forget that gaming is still the cheapest it has ever been. I saw a post that made a splash on Reddit of some store catalog from 1996 that listed new games for 50 dollars and the comments were full of idiots going "oh games were so much cheaper" and they didn't understand no matter how much I tried to explain inflation to them.

Re: Can You Put a Price on a Quality RPG? Yes, and It's Rising All the Time

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The cost issue is applicable to most mediums now. Movies and TV are encountering the same issue where costs are ballooning too much to be continuously feasible. Either audiences need to welcome more cheaper projects with open arms or the future of most entertainment will be very uncertain. There's a reason why sequels and remakes are so prevalent. Because they are almost always guaranteed to be at least somewhat profitable.

Re: Random: Monster Energy Thinks You Might Confuse Its Drinks with Monster Hunter

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@RobN
These are what are known as SLAPP lawsuits (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). The goal of this lawsuit isn't to win (it will eventually get thrown out and they damn well know it), it's the fact Monster has vastly more money than the defendants and will drain their defendants finances strategically via legal fees by dragging this out as long as possible which is their true goal. It's BS and should be illegal, John Oliver had a great segment on this with his tv show as he was a victim of this disgusting practice himself.

Re: Almost Every Mainline Final Fantasy Game Will Soon Be Playable on Current PlayStation Consoles

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@Bentleyma
XIII wasn't even a bad game by any classification, people just didn't like it was linear (even though 10 was often just as linear but that somehow gets a free pass) and maybe the story wasn't amazing but most of the series doesn't have a particularly good story either don't @ me. It's graphics have also held up surprisingly well for an almost 15 year old game.

Re: Konami's Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake Reportedly Out Next Year

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@rawzeku
I am still unable to figure out why Konami just doesn't release a collection of the first four games. It shouldn't be very expensive to do and it would likely sell well, I would buy a copy. MGS4 alone has been stuck on the PS3 for 15 years and good luck playing MGS1 these days without either emulation or a PS3 either.

Re: Clouds Are One Reason Why Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores Is PS5 Only

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I think they could have worded this whole thing a lot better. Depicting flying in open world games (especially an open world this detailed) can be extremely taxing on hardware. If you noticed in the base game you were restricted fairly low when flying due to accommodating PS4 hardware. Whereas when you are in the skies it could be a nightmare for draw distances. So I get what they were trying to say but most did not.

Re: No, the PS5 Slim Didn't Leak Earlier Today

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I am so sick of this "PS5 Pro" chatter. They were going on about this since the PS5 was barely even out as if theres a guarantee something like that will even exist. Considering the PS4 Pro didn't even sell all that well compared to the base model to begin with?

Re: Clouds Are One Reason Why Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores Is PS5 Only

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@Mince
The PS4 is now ten years old, its time to move on. This isn't even the first notable instance of next gen only DLC. Wolfenstein The New Order which was on PS3 and 4 had an expansion The Old Blood, which was PS4/Xbox One only. And yet nobody complained back then because it wasn't essential to the base experience. Sony had no obligation to put Forbidden West or God of War Ragnarok on PS4 to begin with but they did it anyway so thats actually more pro consumer than anything else.

Re: Microsoft Thinks It Hasn't 'Pulled Any Games' from PS5, PS4

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@Phantasystar77
The difference is that Sony has never been deceptive or straight up lied about what exclusives there are. FF7 Remake was a year long timed exclusive and that was told to us from day 1, they are not holding that game from being released on Xbox if Square so chooses. Street Fighter was also never told as anything but a PS4 console exclusive. Meanwhile Microsoft not only lies about Redfall and Starfield having been at one point in development on PS5 but try to push the whole "we aren't withholding any games, we want to get as many games out to as many people as possible" which is total BS. I have no issue with Xbox having exclusives or any platform for that matter as exclusives encourage competition and higher overall standards, it's the lies and the fake ass image I take issue with as do many here.