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@Propaperpusher Ok 🤷‍♂️

@DennisReynolds I don't get people like him who's ignoring games that aren't remaster, remake, or soulslikes. We got tons of non remaster, remake, and soulslikes on PS5.

Kinda off topic but Amy Hennig Marvel 1943 also got delayed from 2026 to delayed to TBA
https://www.gematsu.com/2025/11/marvel-1943-rise-of-hydra-delayed-to-unannounced-date

@IntrepidWombat Amy Hennig current project: from targeting 2026 to delayed to unannounced date
https://www.gematsu.com/2025/11/marvel-1943-rise-of-hydra-delayed-to-unannounced-date

Amy left ND for almost a decade and since then she only did two thing: written Battlefield Hardline story, Forspoken story concept, and in limbo with Marvel 1943.

Meanwhile ND released Uncharted 4, Uncharted Lost Legacy, TloU Part 2, TloU Part 1 remake, and soon Intergalactic without her.

I have respect to Amy but some people overestimate her importance since ND is doing just fine without her.

I never played this game but the female character design reminds me of Angela from Spawn.

@Actionhank89 Dan already left R* back in 2020. His last game with R* was RDR 2 which was a great game. Since then, R* didn't release any new game. I personally don't expect GTA 6 will be a good game when they can't even release one game in the last 7 year.

@Pepsiman_100 Hero project is for indie devs from a country who didn't have enough experiences to make a video game. So i don't think Japan need a Hero project.

Somehow this reminds me of Guacamelee. It looks interesting though.

I guess they're busy downgrading the game for Series S and Switch 2. Should just delayed it to 2027 and make it as PS6 launch 😁

@The_Nintendo_Pedant Yeah Nintendo put a gun to my head to finished both games.

@AtlasLivesAgain Nope. I would try it but somehow Majora's Mask 3DS copy is quite expensive in here.

I just got home from watching Predator: Badlands and the movie has plenty of beautiful landscape which was shoot in New Zealand. I personally reccomended the movie. This is the 3rd homerun from Dan Trachtenberg after Prey and Killer of Killers.

I'm also quite curious for this Zelda movie. I'm not a fan of the series but i enjoyed and finished Ocarina of Time and A Link Between Worlds.

@Steeleye25 dang, i thought it would be $30-40. I think i'll wait until the price got down but i'm a bit worried they didn't print a lot of copy.

Thanks for the info btw 🙇‍♂️🤝

Take your time. But any info about the price?

@Megabeenz Yeah hopefully this isn't the end of NG series. Yakumo and Kenji & Kumori from Ragebound feels like a worthy addition for NG universe.

@Oram77 Maybe it lacks marketing? I didn't see many ads or well known influencers beside Max playing the game before released.

"In this instance, the user says, for them, the game is showing a price of $19.99. However, on their partner's account, the game is currently listed for $14.99"

Maybe the partner account sub to PS+ and the person doesn't know that PS+ gave more discounts?

Or regional pricing could be different too. Many games on Asia store are more cheaper than US / EU store.

Happy 40th anniversary for ND. Here's for another 40. Cheers 🍻

Sad to see NG 4 isn't doing well in US, EU, and Japan. Is this it for NG series? Another decade in the coffin until someone try to revive the series again? 😔

Nice to see Yotei doing well though and GT 7 still has long legs.

Lmao. This is sounds like Barret preaching about Shinra harvesting Mako energy will kill the planet and Cloud just like "meh" 🤷‍♂️😂

Sorry to say but buying digital games will not save this earth either.

Heck. Three digital games was removed from my download list:

• Chaos Rings I
• Disgaea (PS2 Classic)
• P.T

And i can't redownload some digital comics that i bought from PSP store because the store already closed down.

So nah, i'll buy physical games as long as i can.

Anyone who's searching for classic shmup / bullet hell, can grab Psikyo games like Gunbird, Tengai, Samurai Aces, Strikers 1945, Sol Divide, Zero Gunner, Dragon Blaze for less than $2 each.

Also, Capcom Kunitsu Gami on sale too.

@Areus a Punisher game by Insomniac, ND, or Santa Monica would be cool. I love the arcade game by Capcom and the underrated PS2 game by Volition.

Also, it's sad how no one make The Hulk game anymore. I enjoyed the Sega Genesis where we can change from Hulk > Bruce Banner > Hulk again. And i heard the PS2 game was good but i never get the chance to played it...

Since Yotei gonna win, this time i'll give my vote to NG 4. Finally NG series got a new main title after 13 years.

I prefer remaster over remake.

Not saying i'm against remake because some remake was great. But when comes to remake, usually the artstyle and gameplay ended up so different compare to the original game. While remaster usually the artstyle and gameplay are still intact.

Take MGS Delta for example. The artstyle has different vibe like a lot more cleaner / modern compare to the original game who had yellow'ish filter to give that 1960's / Cold War era vibe. And then Delta gameplay became less challenging because Konami added modern control like aim-assist, over the shoulder aiming, full strafing, crouch walking, and CQC counter but foolishly they didn't update enemies A.I to adapt with the new control / mechanic.

I don't care if Switch gonna pass PS2 numbers or not. But it's just weird how i feel the console doesn't has groundbreaking games as many as PS2.

I've seen people talk a lot about Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom. But it wasn't in the same level compare to how people talked about when they played GTA 3 / San Andreas, MGS 2 / 3, FF X, GT 3, SH 2, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, Guitar Hero, Fatal Frame, DMC 1 / 3, or God of War for the first time.

Heck, i think EyeToy was quite groundbreaking with the camera-based gesture control system which "inspired" MS to create Kinect.

But i guess all current consoles looks pale compare to PS2 era when comes to creativity...

Sadly Sony didn't see this opportunity to revive The Getaway. I personally enjoyed the 1st one and i'm sure a good chunk of people wants to play the series again or at least they would try a GTA-like game with UK, Russia, or Brazil setting. Mafia already locked down Italy setting though.

Probably asking if Decima has a new update or not. Kojima already used the engine for years and fully understand how to get the best of it. So i doubt he'll drop it.

Beside, Decima > UE5.

Atlus golden cow. It's cool the game is selling really well but how long Atlus gonna milk this cow?

I'm not yet played any of contenders but i would either pick DS 2 or Yotei.

@Nem Yep MGS V was open world and it has 3 locations too; Afghanistan, Afrika, and Camp Omega. It could be 4 locations if it included Mother Base which also can be freely explore and important to gameplay & story.

I don't put too much stock on what critics said.

Critics like IGN said Alien Isolation and God Hand are bad games deserves a 5 and 3 out of 10 score. If i followed what they said, i would missed out solid and fun games that actually deserves good score.

Critics also said Genshin Impact is a great game deserves 9/10 score. I played it for 3-4 hours and i don't think it deserves a 9/10.

For me, critics can be wrong especially when these days many of them are lacking the knowledge to judge games fairly 🤷‍♂️

As for Essentials offering, one of the reason why i didn't renew my sub because the offering became less and less interesting.

I only played a bit of Just Cause 3 and i think it was an okay game. But i played & finished Max Mad and i really like it. Sadly i don't think i will see a new Mad Max game...

My sympathy for Avalanche Studios. I hope they can recover and make a new game.

@RiotShieldsHurt Sorry to say this but i think you're not ready to handle different opinions and facts.

FYI. FEXL was launched full price at $60 and the less contents edition at $40. But it was more barebone than SF V at launch. Since then, Arika didn't do much to add more contents for the game. Eiher you like it or not, they deserves all the critics.

"What I do, instead, is enjoy the final result of a studio's work, whether perfect or not, instead of shi**ing all over it and comparing it to a different game."

Did i say you can't enjoy the game? No.

But i'm NOT you. I have my own standard as well every right to praise or sh*tting on games that i've bought.

I didn't even "sh*tting all over" the game. I said FEXL gameplay was fun and the netcode is solid. But unfortunate the game is barebone AF which is the truth.

Both Skullgirls and FEXL are fighting games with the same situation: small budget and developed by small devs. But one has more effort while the other didn't. It's a fair comparison.

If i compare FEXL with SF 6, that would be unfair because SF 6 makes FEXL looks like a elementary school project lol.

"I get it - you prefer Skullgirls"

It's clear that you didn't get it.

I love fighting games and i want devs to offer a good amount of contents as well solid basic features that can attract more people to play fighting games. It's that simple.

Skullgirls was one of good example. If Skullgirls as barebone as FEXL then i will say what i said about FEXL. The same can be say if FEXL has the same as contents as Skullgirls.

"You're trophy for doing so is in transit"

How unfortunate that you missed my points. But i guess i shouldn't expect much from a person who's not ready to handle different opinions and facts 🤷‍♂️

Again. Have a nice day 👋

Why Astro looks fit with Lumines style? 😆

@RiotShieldsHurt I didn't ask if you gonna enjoy this game or not nor i care if you can tolerate a fighting game with very barebone contents. That's irrelevant to this topic.

But if you don't want to speculate about what happened then you shouldn't replied to me and made excuses for Arika as if they're too poor to make better characters ending in arcade mode.

Again. If a studio like Lab Zero who's smaller and has less budget than Arika can developed a fighting game with good story mode and even a robust training & tutorial mode then there's no excuses for Arika. Period.

Have a nice day.

@TensuraFan7 Not just arrogance but it feels like this current R* lacks the creativity.

@REALAIS "So you say that even bigger dev count could lead to more projects? Makes sense no?"

What makes no sense is R* has 2000 devs and they're only making ONE game in the last 6 years. Where's the old R* who made multiple non-open world games like The Warriors, Max Payne 3, Midnight Club, Manhunt, etc???

"Yes, R* has plenty of devs, but that is like one big team"

Last time i check R* has multiple studios like:

• R* Toronto: The Warrior devs
• R* San Diego: Red Dead and The Midnight Club devs
• R* North: Manhunt devs
• R* New England: Bully devs

I guess i missed the news when all of them got closed down or combine as one big GTA team. Oh well 🤷‍♂️

@REALAIS "Rockstar is too big to have "small" projects"

FYI. Capcom has 3700 devs, a lot more than R* with 2000 devs and they still did multiple "small" projects in the last 10 years like Mega Man 11, Kunitsu Gami, Ghosts 'n Goblin Ressurection, and the collections and remaster of their old / niche games.

So "too big to do small games" is not a good excuse.

@Max_the_German They always have marketing like this. And a couple of months ago they just showed Saros, Wolverine, Marvel Tokon, and the recent Loulan: The Cursed Sand.

I remember R* used to make not open world games like Manhunt 1 & 2, Max Payne 3, Midnight Club, Red Dead Revolver, and The Warrior. I guess that R* is long gone...

@IamJT That would be a great idea!

@Fizza Most reviewers are casual players who doesn't know much about fighting games stuff. That's why they didn't check the input lag, matchmaking, online lobby etc.

@ElectricWizard Are you saying i always agreed with PushSquare reviews? If you scroll down the comment section, you'll find my comment that this collection doesn't deserves a 9/10.

@Oram77 People who claim the majority of FGC are happy with this collection are probably not part of the FGC. And i watched Max played the collection and man he looks really pissed with how bad the collection is.

• Bad input lag both offline and online
• Bad rollback netcode
• Bad matchmaking
• Plenty of audio and visual issues
• No lobby
• No private match
• No invite player
• No ranked match
• No crossplay
• No combo strings

Somehow Digital Eclipse made worst collection than what they did with SF 30th Anniversary Collection 🤣

@RiotShieldsHurt If budget is the excuse then that's not a good excuse. An indie fighting game like Skullgirls not just has Arcade mode but it also has a dedicated Story mode that showed plenty of artworks & dialogues.

Not to mention Skullgirls also has a very robust Tutorial & Training mode which Fighting EX Layer lacks.

Beside, Arika can used crowdfunding / kickstarter if they don't have enough budget which sadly they didn't used it for whatever reason.

@Gaia093 I'm with you. I played and loves a lot of popular games but i never feel "i must play this game" every time i see Fortnite gameplay and artstyle.

@TheArt "could've ignored the entire article"

Yes we could but here's the thing:

The headline of this article is "If you never played Fortnite, this is the season to try", followed with question "Are you hyped to explore Springfield in Battle Royale format? Drop at the Jebediah Sprinfield statue in the comments section below."

Sammy also used The Simpsons thumbnail which means the purpose of this article is to called out people who never played Fornite and The Simpsons fans to click and comment on the article.

So you should point your fingers on Sammy since he's the one who who wanted Simpsons fans and people who never played Fortnite to click and comment on this article.

I'm not sure why Sammy sounds annoyed with people who doesn't want to played Fortnite though. But i guess i will ignore more articles in PushSquare, not just about Fortnite.

@shonenjump86 I'm the opposite. I thought her SF6 looks more fun than this one. This ver is missing the Serenity Stream stance that makes Chun more unique, technical, and fun. I guess SNK aims for a more simple-straight forward Chun.

Sadly this game is a ghost town for years.

I bought it from PS store sale back in 2020 after Arika patched the game with rollback netcode.

The netcode itself was pretty solid although no crossplay and gameplay was quite fun. But holy smeagol the game was barebone as F*!

I can't believe the arcade mode ending only showed a short paragraph of monologue with the character portrait 🤣

@get2sammyb For me it's not about popularity but Fortnite is not just my cup of tea. Nothing from the game looks fun, beautiful, or worth to try.

Not gonna play Fortnite but i wish Konami or someone port The Simpsons arcade.

@DennisReynolds I believe with innocent until proven guilty and every human who's commited crime but already repent to their sin deserves a second chance. That's all.