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@Rich33 I think it would make zero sense for a game to get a terrible review score solely because of bad performance.

If Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ran like crap, and every major outlet gave it a 6/10 or lower score because of that, then the reviews for the game would be misleading, since they'd give the impression that it sucks. When, in fact, it does not.

Yes, you should dock some points from a game if it suffers from performance issues, but you shouldn't give it an awful rating solely due to that. If a game is amazing, it still deserves to get a good score, even if it runs poorly.

@dskatter Even if they released them, it would be literally impossible for either of the modern Flight Sim games to be playable offline from a physical disc. The games rely entirely on using the internet to stream data from online world maps.

@PuppetMaster The Kurohyo/Black Panther games are definitely most deserving of a Kiwami remake, since they're very different from the rest of the series gameplay-wise. They're basically Fight Night games, but with a Yakuza coat of paint.

Black Panther 1 and 2 are both very similar, so I think it would be best to bundle them together and give them fully rendered 3D cutscenes instead of manga-style slideshows like in the originals.

@Yozora146_ They don't outright state that it's releasing simultaneously on Xbox and Switch 2, but it's very heavily implied in one of the other statements they made on the official Square Enix website.

Here's a snippet from a recent Square Enix article on the news:

"Another common question about the game is whether the entire FINAL FANTASY VII remake trilogy is coming to Switch 2 and Xbox. We can confirm that yes they are - we’ll have more information about FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH and the in-development third game in the future."

https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_US/news/final-fantasy-vii-remake-intergrade-switch2-xbox-series-x-s

@PuppetMaster I see, my bad. I thought you were against re-releases of old games in general.

@Fighting_Game_Loser Yeah, it's really weird, I'm not sure why Nintendo didn't include it in the English one.

@masofdas Not really, in 2016-2018, the install base on Xbox One was roughly the same as the current install base on Xbox Series X/S, as well as the remaining Xbox One players.

@PuppetMaster Maybe it didn't need a remake, sure, but it at least needs to be brought to modern platforms. I don't know about you, but not everyone has been playing video games for 20+ years. There's a lot of people who are new to video games and there are some, like me, who only got really invested in the hobby during the late Xbox 360/PS3 generation. I missed out on a lot of the games from the PS1/2 era and prior, so I'm happy that we're getting these old games on modern platforms.

@Fighting_Game_Loser It was in the Japanese Nintendo Direct, but not the English one, for some reason.

@UltimateOtaku91 It doesn't matter that it was only 9%, though. It still sold more than a million copies on Xbox One alone in just two years, which is seemingly more than what it sold on PC (granted, the PC port came out a year later). Square would be crazy not to get the Final Fantasy fanbase back to that level on Xbox again.

@SeaDaVie People in Japan just prefer buying stuff on Nintendo consoles for some reason.

@SeaDaVie Most people in Japan, even those who own a PS5, will likely prefer buying FF7 Remake Part 3 on Switch 2 instead.

@djlard It's basically saying "this game is everything that game isn't, and that's what makes it so fun"

The titles are pretty easy to understand if you know the names of the games that they're referring to. If not, then they may sound really weird.

@SoulsBourne128 The pricing differences between Lost Soul Aside and other China Hero Project games is probably due to the fact that Loat Soul Aside was published by Sony, while the other games were either self-published or published by other developers.

The FMV cutscenes alone make this worth buying lol. It's basically an AVGN episode lodged inside a game, so I might as well play it.

Also, what timeline do we live in where the company that's supposedly making a God of War Metroidvania is also working on an AVGN game?

@SeaDaVie Yeah, co-op games definitely do best on PC these days. Just look at all the co-op indie titles that have come out in recent years, like Content Warning, Peak, Phasmophobia, Lethal Company, etc.

I don't know if Helldivers 2 actually sold 2x better on PC than on PS5, as Alinea Analytics suggests, but there's a very good chance that it sold best on PC.

@MrPeanutbutterz Nothing about the part where I said you would have never believed Helldivers 2 would come to Xbox a few months ago, or that Sony putting Helldivers 2 on Xbox is proof that they don't think the Xbox platform is dead?

And dude, you are arguing with such thinly veiled fanboy rhetoric that it's pretty obvious you do care. The only reason why you would do a "big shrug" if God of War or The Last of Us came to Xbox is because it would make your snarky, condescending comments on the matter look foolish.

@MrPeanutbutterz "It means that Sony recognises that a suprise breakout hit that lives or dies by the size of its active playerbase can use the influx of (checks notes) new players."

Funny, something tells you wouldn't have said this back in May. I would be willing to bet money that if I told you Helldivers 2 was coming to Xbox a few months ago, you would have laughed in my face and told me in a condescending manner that Sony would have no incentive whatsoever to bring any of their games - not even a live service one - to the Xbox platform.

Also, your logic here is a tad contradictory. If Xbox is dead, then why exactly is Sony bringing live service games to the platform? If anything, Sony's willingness to port Helldivers 2 to Xbox is a "tacit admission," in your words, that they believe the Xbox platform is viable and worth bringing games to.

It doesn't matter how poorly the Series X/S is selling, or how many games Microsoft is bringing over to PlayStation. The mere fact that they brought Helldivers 2 over in the first place shows that Sony views the Xbox platform in a more favorable light than you do.

By the way, you're still seemingly under the belief that Sony is only going to port live service games to Xbox. But again, I believe it's only a matter of time until we see a platform-defining singleplayer PlayStation game make the jump to Xbox and Nintendo consoles. If that does happen, that will pretty much throw a wrench into your entire argument, and you will probably pretend to claim you don't care about the whole ordeal, even though you evidently do.

@UltimateOtaku91 It definitely does matter. @RagnarLothbrok was comparing the launch sales of a tentpole installment in a major franchise (FF16) to the sales of a port for a multiplayer game that came out one year after its initial release (Helldivers 2).

When it comes to Helldivers 2, most people who are interested in the game have already played it within the last year or so. Helldivers 2's Xbox port is specifically targeting people who didn't play it because they don't own a PS5 or a PC.

So, of course the sales of a delayed port are going to be lower than the launch sales of a game on a more popular platform.

@SeaDaVie The game is so cheap that you wouldn't even be saving any money by playing and finishing this game on Game Pass.

@BAMozzy Clearly Microsoft wasn't expecting anyone to buy the game on Xbox, which is why they didn't even bother making a physical release of the game for Xbox players.

Somehow an obscure game like Scar-Lead Salvation gets a physical Xbox release but not Gears of War: Reloaded.

@Ultimapunch It just means the game had a million players across Xbox, PC, and PS5. This includes those who bought the game, those who played it on Game Pass, and those who got a free copy on Xbox.

@MrPeanutbutterz If Gears coming to PlayStation is a tacit admission by Microsoft that Xbox is dead, then what does Helldivers 2 coming to Xbox say about PlayStation?

I'm curious to see what the spin will be if, or should I say when, a tentpole singleplayer Sony game like The Last of Us, Horizon, or Spider-Man comes to Xbox. Something tells me I won't be seeing many people on Push Square saying "this game coming to Xbox is a tacit admission by Sony that PlayStation is dead."

@ApostateMage "I can't trust critics again after they gave DA: Veilguard 9's and 10's."

I always find comments like this funny because 8 times out of 10, the general sentiment that critics have for a game is the same sentiment that players have, as well. The video game industry is not like the movie industry, where opinions between critics and consumers vary wildly. Here, they're often the same.

People have short-term memory. They just dogpile on the latest game that's trendy to hate, and ignore the fact that the critic consensus usually aligns with player sentiment more often than not. Dragon Age: Veilguard is an exception to the rule, not the rule.

@Gr8VngnzN4esAngr Surprised this comment hasn't been removed yet.

Looking at this comment and the comment you made on the Stellar Blade article, it's pretty clear what type of person you are.

@SeaDaVie The reason they delayed it is because of Silksong, but instead of pushing it back by a few weeks, they decided to take this opportunity to add some features in, as well.

@SeaDaVie Not just because of Silksong, it's explained in the article that the devs are going to take this delay opportunity to add some minigames and features that they initially intended to add post-launch.

@TrollOfWar What would a K-Pop Demon Hunters game look like? A Hi-Fi Rush style rhythm-action game with Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA-esque singing segments?

@LogicStrikesAgain You made a great point there. The thing that a lot of hardcore gamers don't understand is that they do not represent the majority.

Most gamers these days play almost nothing but free-to-play live service games, like Fortnite, CoD Warzone, etc. They don't care about stuff like Expedition 33 or pretty much 99% of singleplayer games. That's why Sony is trying so hard to gain a foothold in this market.

@Old-Red Jason Schreier reported on the cancellation of Bluepoint's next project a few months ago. It was a live service God of War game.

@get2sammyb Yep. The live service stuff, the multimedia focus, the multiplatform push, etc. won't go away unless Hiroki Totoki and the other Sony execs are replaced.

@SeaDaVie Not really at all what BAMmozzy's comment is about lol. He's actually just talking about how, if the pre-orders for CoD are behind Battlefield 6, it makes sense, given that Activision has shared very little information regarding Black Ops 7's multiplayer modes. All they've shown so far is the campaign, which is the part of the game that people spend the least amount of time on.

No offense to the devs or the artist behind the game - I think it looks pretty good - but it could use a better cover art IMO. Maybe it's just me, but for some reason, every time I see the cover art for this game, I always think it's for an AI-generated game.

It's not that the art itself looks bad, but there's something about the color palette and logo that reminds me of the AI shovelware that's so rampant on storefronts these days.

If there's one thing I appreciate about Sony, it's that they actively try to seek out indie games from regions all over the world, not just Japan, Europe, the U.S., etc.

Microsoft and Nintendo, in comparison, don't do remotely as much to expand to other markets. Nintendo's games all sell like hotcakes, sure, but they don't even localize or properly sell them outside of the major European, East Asian, and North American markets. Which is wild, considering Pokemon and Mario are two of the biggest media properties in existence.

Microsoft at least does a better job than Nintendo when it comes to making their games available for sale in most markets, but their advertising efforts and attempts to court developers from non-English-speaking countries are... not that great, to say the least.

Aside from that incident on Steam where Sony temporarily removed their games from sale in 100+ countries, they generally seem to take non-major markets more seriously compared to their competitors.

@PuppetMaster They don't really have any internal devs anymore, that's kind of the problem. Pretty much all of their recent releases have been outsourced to other companies.

Neobards is making Silent Hill f, Virtuous is making MGS Delta, Digital Eclipse made the TMNT: Cowabunga Collection, Bloober Team made the Silent Hill 2 remake, etc. Even the MGS Master Collection was developed primarily by Rocket Studio and M2.

So, considering Konami doesn't have the manpower to develop a AAA game all by their own at the moment, I think it's okay to give them at least some credit for investing in new games, like Silent Hill f.

Do I want more stuff outside of remasters and remakes? Of course. But until Konami fully rebuilds their internal development teams, I'm more than happy to get their old games on modern platforms, especially since most of them are/were stuck on legacy hardware.

If this game was on UE5, it would also be running terribly on PS5 Pro, like MGS Delta.

@PuppetMaster Aren't they making Silent Hill f and Silent Hill Townfall? Or did people forget about that already?

And, say what you will about Konami themselves, but at least they are publishing a bunch of new IPs from indie teams, like Darwin's Paradox, Deliver At All Costs, Cygni: All Guns Blazing, etc.

@SeaDaVie Nah, I doubt it. Falcom tends to make dumb decisions like this.

@nessisonett When it comes to their business practices, Falcom and NIS are really scummy companies

I know this is a PlayStation website, so this may not be the right place to say this, but man, it sucks that Falcom refuses to put their games on Xbox to this day. Trails in the Sky remake would have been the perfect game to introduce Xbox players to the franchise with, but alas, it's still skipping the platform.

At this point, it honestly feels like there's a higher chance of Xbox getting Horizon: Zero Dawn or Days Gone than there is of it ever getting a Trails game.

This price increase isn't as bad as the Xbox price hikes earlier this year, but it's still bad. On the one hand, the PS5 is still $50 cheaper than the Xbox Series X/S, but on the other hand, the $380 Series S is a somewhat more attractive deal now compared to the $500 PS5 Digital Edition.

While it sucks that Bandai Namco will make us pay $80 to play both Tales of Xillia 1+2 (assuming 2 actually gets remastered), I'm just glad that this game is finally being freed from its PS3 prison.

The more PS3 exclusives on modern platforms, the better.

@Lysterao The Dead or Alive game that a Spartan appeared in (DoA4) was an Xbox exclusive, so it never came to PlayStation.

I mean, it makes sense. They already made the decision to port Helldivers 2 to Xbox, it would be weird if they actively tried to hide this fact on their website. That would be like intentionally not trying to sell your own product

I just noticed Push Square used a very similar subheading for both their Mafia 3 and Mafia: The Old Country reviews.

Mafia 3: "An offer you might want to refuse"

Mafia: The Old Country: "An offer you maybe can refuse"

@wildcat_kickz Yeah, maybe Geoff hyped it up a bit too much, but at the same time, if you're a big Okami fan, that was indeed a massive announcement.

Like, I know Mirror's Edge is a niche series, but if they announced Mirror's Edge 3, for example, I would jump out of my seat from excitement lol.

I'm surprised no one mentioned the 2.5D God of War Metroidvania. I'm thinking that will be announced at Gamescom next week, since it's supposedly going to come out this year. It won't need a long marketing cycle.

Most companies, aside from the ones that Microsoft owns, do not brainstorm a project, thinking "okay, this is gonna be a Game Pass game." They tend to decide on Game Pass after the fact.

Even when it comes to Microsoft's own games, the majority of people now playing them are on PlayStation/Nintendo - so it would make no sense to design them specifically with Game Pass in mind.

Make no mistake, Microsoft wants to make most of their money from sales/microtransactions, and they're not gonna bring Game Pass to PS5 or Switch 2 anytime soon.

Zelda coming to PS5 confirmed?????

@PuppetMaster I like historical fantasy as much as the next guy, but it is a bit weird that all these games have the same Wu names and all (barring the Wu-Tang game ofc) look the same.