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Honestly, this company has always made trash games, I never liked the Postal series anyways.

@KillerIsD34D Username and profile pic check out

@Pat_trick I didn't know fortune tellers frequented this site!

@get2sammyb Not the person you were talking to, but in my opinion, some of the Xbox One-era limited edition controllers have some really good designs, which are a step above many of the recent DualSense controllers.

Some good examples of this are the Sea of Thieves Xbox controller and the Forza Horizon 5 Xbox controller, as well as the limited edition Xbox Elite controller for Gears of War 4. Those look downright fantastic.

Sea of Thieves: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71BJ1Vd5+NL.SL1065.jpg

Forza Horizon 5: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ORzDT-e6L.AC_SL1500.jpg

Gears of War 4: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5182BACWbVS.AC_SL1000.jpg

A shame Microsoft doesn't really make controllers like this anymore.

@themightyant Reviews for the game on Steam are still mixed, so I didn't know about that. I guess not all of the bugs have been patched, though, since there are some people claiming that it is broken and unplayable.

Highly acclaimed? Wasn't this game torn to shreds when it launched last year?

Interesting thing to note is that it appears the next Stellar Blade game won't be a PS5 exclusive. On the Shift Up website it says that Stellar Blade 2 will be a "multi-platform action game that will launch on various platforms including consoles and PCs." Now, that doesn't mean it will be on Xbox and Switch 2 , but it does suggest that it will at least release on PC day-one, unlike the first game. I assume Shift Up will publish the game themselves.

https://x.com/Genki_JPN/status/1991891947116798013

@ButterySmooth30FPS I know you're probably just joking, but I meant users who are negative about Xbox and want it to fail, not just Sony.

I will say, though, that both Pure Xbox and Push Square have a relatively similar amount of PlayStation and Xbox haters/fanboys, on both sites. I personally haven't seen such a drastically different vibe between the sites, but I do agree that Nintendo Life seems to have the least fanboys/haters of any platform in general.

@ButterySmooth30FPS Tbh you could make a similar statement about Pure Xbox as well. Most of the comments there are understandably negative, there aren't that many fanboys there.

@dodgykebaab Did Jez actually say that? Lol if true.

But still, most of the rumors he writes about on Windows Central end up being true, considering he was also the first to leak the existence of the ROG Xbox Ally. IMO if Jez says something on the Xbox Two podcast or on Twitter, you should ignore it entirely. But if he makes a claim on Windows Central, as he did with the Partner Preview thing, then it's most likely true.

People want to discredit his claims entirely, but the fact is, that his Windows Central reports have a near-spotless track record.

@DennisReynolds I disagree about the staff part. Just because you got banned for a few days doesn't mean the staff at Pure Xbox are Xbox fanboys. They probably thought you were trolling or something. It's not like they only ban people who criticize Xbox; I think I was banned there once as well for getting into an argument.

@dodgykebaab Jez was the first person to mention that a Partner Preview would be held this month lol

@DennisReynolds Are you saying that the people working at Pure Xbox are fanboys, or that the people commenting there are fanboys? Because rest assured, Push Square has its fair share of fanboy commenters as well. I see people using the word "Xbot" here occasionally, and saying they want Xbox to die or something.

@Oram77 This is a third-party showcase, though, I can't think of a single game at one of these Partner Previews that has gotten cancelled. You don't need to be interested in Microsoft's games to enjoy this.

I get that this is a third-party event which will obviously have games from multiplatform publishers, but it's kinda weird for Push Square to be covering this, since I almost never see Nintendo or Xbox sites cover rumored announcements of State of Plays centered on third-party games. They will often do articles on "what games were announced at the State of Play," but rarely anything about third-party State of Plays (like the Borderlands 4 one) being announced.

@CutchuSlow Xbox's showcases have usually been better than PlayStation's, though.

Yeah... I don't buy this. Sony just hired a multiplatform manager to bring games to Xbox, Nintendo, and PC a few months ago. They even announced a new Horizon game for mobile and PC, but not PlayStation. If anything, Sony is gonna double down on PC and maybe even go fully day-and-date at one point, like Microsoft has.

As much as people here may not want to believe it, PC ports haven't harmed PlayStation console sales in the slightest and, as Shuhei Yoshida said, they're printing money for Sony. Sony needs to expand their business; they can't take the Nintendo route and avoid putting their singleplayer games on PC entirely. In my opinion, the PS4 generation proved that having permanent exclusives will not improve PlayStation console sales by a noticeable margin.

Most PC gamers who buy a PlayStation solely for exclusives are not going to be spending money on microtransactions or third-party titles in the PlayStation ecosystem. They'll be buying stuff on Steam instead, so long as it's available there. As such, there's little point in Sony trying to convince them to get a PS5, especially if they live in a region where PlayStation isn't popular.

@AdamNovice I'm very curious as to when Insomniac and Sony will stop making Marvel games. Like you said, they're surely not gonna be working on them forever. Spider-Man, Wolverine, X-Men, etc. It's gotta stop at some point, right?

When Insomniac does stop working on Marvel games and PlayStation loses the exclusive license to Spider-Man and X-Men games, I wonder who else will take the mantle for the two franchises?

People say that this showcase was for Japanese people, not Westerners, and yet it had barely anything new for Japanese people to care about. This was literally filled with stuff that we had already seen before, barely anything to get excited over.

This was easily one of the worst State of Plays in recent memory imo, the SoP before this one was pretty bad as well. The June State of Play was actually good.

@LogicStrikesAgain It seems Sony signs one-year timed exclusivity deals for every Enhance game, much like with Giant Squid. Their games tend to come to Xbox and Switch a year later.

@Oram77 They could have opened a new studio to maintain Factions 2, so that they could work on singleplayer games as well in the meantime. Easier said than done, yes, but it would be better than spending 4 years on a live service game, only to realize all of a sudden that you have to support it post-launch.

@Ainu20 What @themightyant is not really wrong, though. In order for some games to be playable in any way, shape, or form offline, the developers may have to put some additional effort into patching it and modifying its gameplay systems. There are a bunch of titles, after all, in which progression of any kind is intrinsically tied into their online functionality.

So, yes, even the bare minimum will require a decent amount of effort in some cases. Which developers may not be able to or willing to accommodate for.

@Max_the_German No because most PS5 owners don't even touch Astro's Playroom (some aren't even aware of its existence), while almost everyone who bought a Wii played Wii Sports in some capacity.

Also, as others have pointed out, Wii Sports was sold separately in places like Japan. Astro's Playroom is a free-to-play tech demo.

@LazyDaisy Tbh GTA 6 is the only game that could overshadow a mainline Mario or Zelda title. Like, if Nintendo released Super Mario Odyssey 2 during the same week that GTA 6 comes out, the game's sales would almost certainly be harmed somewhat, despite the drastically different audiences for the two games. People would choose to play GTA 6 over a new Mario game. Nintendo wouldn't want that, so I imagine they will avoid releasing games close to GTA 6, as well.

@TrollOfWar A lot of PC gamers bought PS5s for Final Fantasy, but now that the game will launch day-one on PC, there will be no good reason for them to get it on PlayStation, when they can play it at a presumably better frame rate on their preferred platform

@Max_the_German Considering GTA 5 never came to Switch, I find it unlikely that GTA 6 will ever come to Switch 2

@andrewsqual You think Series S is to blame for GTA 6's delays?

I don't know why you'd emulate the defunct PS2 version of FF11, when you can just play it on PC instead. So its absence is not really a problem

@PuppetMaster No, they said that their accounts were both in the same region, and that neither of them were subbed to PS Plus

Sony needs to bring cloud streaming to more regions around the world because, right now, this feature isn't accessible in many major countries. They could sell a lot more PS Portals and make it a viable alternative to the PS5 in low-income territories if they actually put in the effort to expand cloud gaming's reach.

@SodaPop6548 Tbh I don't see how Microsoft had anything to do with Avalanche being "ruined." Avalanche pitched Contraband to Microsoft, worked on it for several years, and made nothing of substance. Worst of all, the game wasn't even good in the first place, it was just gonna be a co-op live service heist game like Payday or something. Chances are it would've flopped.

Just Cause, meanwhile, is owned by Square Enix, if I remember correctly. So Avalanche would probably have to ask them to make a new Just Cause game.

@Pandalulz Now if only Hundred Line could come to PS5 and Xbox, along with 1000xResist

@cainhurst94 Since PS5 is an Xbox, "it happens on PS5" also means "it happens on Xbox." Therefore, this is a secret Xbox marketing campaign! /s

@Northern_munkey Push Square is still better than a lot of other places/forums because it's an isolated community and it's moderated well, for the most part. Sometimes my comments get deleted by the mods, and while I disagree with that sometimes, I understand that they're just trying to prevent the comments on this site from devolving into toxic arguments.

@CWill97 RGG recasted Pierre Taki shortly after Judgment's release in Japan, and it only took them a short amount of time to do so. They could recast Kagawa without delaying Kiwami 3 if they really wanted to, but it's clear they don't.

@Rich33 I think Kagawa and the rest just settled the ordeal out of court. His victims never tried to press charges on him, even though one of them said that they got PTSD from the incident.

I could be wrong, but I believe the person that Kagawa didn't apologize to is also the same person shown in the photos where Kagawa is grabbing her hair. So I don't think Kagawa's refusal to apologize to her stems from a lack of evidence.

@Rich33 It seems that Kagawa only apologized to one of his victims, and he has refused to apologize to the other. According to one report, he even compared his crimes to that of his cousin, Ichikawa Ennosuke IV (who not only sexually harassed several women and bullied his coworkers, but also unalived his parents and tried to unalive himself as part of some assisted s**cide plan), and said that they weren't that bad. So he doesn't really regret his actions. He was apparently drunk during both incidents, which occurred on the same day I think.

@Oram77 I would argue that the main reason why Kagawa's misdeeds got more attention than the rest is because people were upset about RGG recasting Hamazaki and Rikiya, so they looked up the new VAs online and happened to stumble upon reports about his past actions.

It's possible that the backlash towards Kagawa wouldn't have been as strong, had RGG not modeled Hamazaki's face after Kagawa's and just reused his old character design. Same with Rikiya and Nakahara.

While Kagawa is an a-hole and I hate how RGG's dumb decision to cast him has ruined all discussions surrounding Kiwami 3, I can't help but feel that the only reason why people care about this so much is because this boycott was popularized on social media, and not solely because of morals.

Kiwami 3 is certainly not the only Yakuza game in which RGG has cast questionable people for their roles. The original voice actor for Hamazaki also did some shady stuff, and the Japanese voice actor for Bryce Papenbrook in Infinite Wealth did some disgusting things that were arguably even worse than what Kagawa did. And yet, no one in the Yakuza fandom cared or bothered to bring up the reprehensible things they did online.

It seems to me that the backlash towards Kagawa, while justified, is almost performative. Like, if people weren't posting #REMOVEKAGAWA everywhere, half of the individuals who are boycotting the game wouldn't be boycotting it in the first place and simply wouldn't care enough to avoid buying the game. You could argue that people didn't know about the pasts of those actors, but even if they did, would they still be boycotting the game if the backlash towards them wasn't publicized online?

It's sort of like a peer pressure thing. If a lot of other people decide that something is deserving of a boycott, then you should boycott too.

@SeaDaVie The difference is Pierre Taki was actually arrested for doing cocaine, while Kagawa was never arrested. That's why RGG fired the former, but not the latter. They won't really care about what their actors did in the past unless they actually got in trouble legally for it.

@darkswabber I could be wrong, but I don't think they fired anyone for smoking weed. Hiroki Narimiya, the original voice actor for Tanimura, was falsely accused of doing cocaine, and he retired as a result. RGG recast him later on, maybe because they couldn't get the rights to use his likeness again. Keep in mind, the original Tanimura's face was modeled after Hiroki's.

@UltimateOtaku91 Appreciate the info lol. I had heard of a A Certain Scientific Railgun before, but I never got around to watching it

A shame they seemingly used AI to recreate the cover art for the remastered collection, doesn't look nearly as good as the original

@CielloArc Thanks for the clarification

@naruball That might be it, thanks

I wonder if these games would be remade if Xbox never went multiplatform? Would we be getting Halo 7 by now, or would Microsoft still try to sell remakes of Halo 1-3 to the existing Xbox user base?

What anime is the girl in this image from? I've seen this used twice on this site

@Shinnok789 The Last of Us are more like action-adventure games with horror elements than straight-up horror games. The narrative focuses too much on drama for it to be classified as horror IMO. Which isn't a bad thing, by the way.

@Dalamar Seriously, DDLC is one of the few horror games that actually freaked me out lol. I get scared and tense when playing the average horror game, of course, but they're usually not legitimately disturbing. DDLC was, however.

It's been almost a decade since I played the game, but I still remember the scenes involving two of the main characters' you-know-whats because they felt unnervingly realistic.

Still really like the game, though.

@Mythologue True, but it is the sixth numbered game

@Lowdefal What, you think Plumbers Don't Wear Ties isn't a masterpiece?