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I think it could have been done but on a smaller scale. Like having the game split into multiple acts, with each act being in different areas.

The game is a copy cat game that borrows a few elements from Horizon to make similar but different game. Sony is likely going after this because they don't have many better ideas for new games. Sony has tons of classic franchises which they have no interest in making new games for but would rather focus on a few new titles.

It seems Sony desperately wants ps4 users to upgrade to the ps5, even though the ps5 is a few years away. Sony is offering $135 in store credit if you upgrade to the ps5 by November 19.

The prices for the current generation consoles are too high and offer only minor improvements over the last generation.

My opinion is that Crunchyroll was always far superior to Funimation and to me the best shows on Crunchyroll was the Dragonball and Gundam shows. Nobody is going to spend money on useless merchandise but that is Crunchyroll's new focus. Sony bought tons of anime because they somehow saw potential but only a fraction are top performers and the rest are titles few people watch.

This looks like a rare sequel that improves on the original game greatly. The original is very much a souls like game but the new title adds a whole new dimension to the game.

The big established live service games suck up most of the gamers which means it hard for new titles to get a foothold. And most of the live service games are whale hunting and the casual gamers are of minor importance.

I personally believe they went overboard on making the hard mode too difficult so they added the streamlined mode to balance this out. The actual enemies are less of a problem then the no mana regeneration and no items which spikes the difficulty.

My guess is Cosco knows information that is not publicly available. If MS was planning to release a new Xbox console at around the price of the Xbox Series X then retailers would mark down their stock of Xbox consoles so they don't lose money. My prediction is that the base model of the Xbox Series 2 will be all digital and only the Xbox Series 2 elite edition will support physical games/movies. With MS moving towards almost entirely digital it will be hard to move physical Xbox games. I also predict MS will release the Xbox series 2 in early 2026.

I am surprised that it took Sony this long. MS has some deal with Duracell which they included two Duracell batteries but they have always been replaceable with a battery pack which can be recharged. Also all Xbox one controllers can be used on the Series Xbox and via versa.

On the ps4 the Hard mode is very different to finish due to no items and no mana recovery.

Well my opinion is that they are going to continue to turn Call of Duty into Fornite, but it's just going to be slower.

I am not a developer but it sounds like similar problems as Skyrim. I believe there was a rare bug that if you left too many items laying around it could cause glitches. My guess is that the AI has to keep track of too many variables which can strain system resources. I personally feel that this is due to rushed development and no bug testing or optimization.

Why do people want to pay $80+ for games that are pixel remasters that look worse than the originals? Why not try to aim for the ps2 level of graphics instead. I would play the remastered DQ 1-3 but they are hard on the eyes. Lunar the Complete Collection is one of the few that looks decent in my opinion.

Physical games are great but they rarely go on sale and most of the time you are paying full launch price. I find that most physical games will continue to sell for full price as long as they are available in
a retail store and very rarely get any discount anymore.

It works for the Dragon Quest games since they tend to not take themselves seriously. My guess is that it simplifies the design work, just like how they make Goku's hair blonde when he when super saigan to cut down on the time to draw the anime.

My opinion is that Sony is too focused on TLOU and what ever Neil comes up with at the expense of other games that they could focus on.

Any subscription service will always have positives and negatives. It great to check out games to either finish them in one day or find the game isn't worth playing. But it's not really worth it to keep a subscription just to play a handful of games, you're better off waiting for a sale and purchasing the game outright. Sony offers various classic titles, all except original ps3 versions are available for purchase.

@dskatter I didn't even know this game existed and only read the article. From Metacritic it seems to be gamers either love it or hate it. And much of the people who don't like it is because of technical issues.

I believe the mistake was to have a single platform release when they would have been better releasing on both the PlayStation and Xbox.

This is why developers should always be looking towards multi platform releases and should consider lowering prices rather than expecting console prices to drop. I haven't played the recent game but I remember playing Monster Hunter Icebourn and it was an always online game which wasn't something I wanted to play, since you will need a reasonable fast internet connection just to make the game playable. Most live service games are unnecessary and are a hassle to play even the single player part.

Developers could easily make an enhanced ps5 version of an existing ps4 game which is likely to make the money back quickly. The rising price of games is slowing the demand. New games sell for $90 on the Playstation and Xbox and the Switch 2 has games selling for $115. There is now more indie titles available which means that they are tons of cheaper gaming options. And Sony and Microsoft are guaranteed to release a new console in the near future.

Most live service/multiplayer games need a large audience to be remotely successful. And given it very hard to know where you will find the audience it's better to lean towards multiple platforms to guarantee success. Godfall was a failure on the PlayStation but found success on the Xbox. Babylon Fall and Concord could have found success on the Xbox as well. MS is likely keeping bring more Gears of Wars games to the Playstation and possibly Halo, since the main aspect is multiplayer.

@DaveTheRave I am personally surprised that Sony is keeping the ps3 and vita stores available when the games never go on sale and most of the vita games are seriously overpriced.

My guess is that Sony is only willing to pay up to a fixed amount to get a game on essential which means that only a handful of developers will actually consider the offer.

My opinion is to grab what digital titles you want from the ps3 when you can still since it's looking likely that the ps3 store is likely to close before 2026.

My guesses would be Spider Man and Horizon. Sony might also decide to port classic titles over to the Xbox. There is the Jax, Ratchet and Clank, Dark Cloud series all which could see a Xbox port.

Essential is ok, but most of the games that end up on essential are games that frequently go on sale. Essential is always hit and miss with most of the games being a miss for me.

I think 5 was the best in the series but various content might need to be nerfed in my opinion.

Sure they are going to have TLOU part 1 and 2 available for the launch of the ps6, and of course the ps7. Sony has been very successful with the ps4 and ps5 but the live blood of most consoles are the exclusive titles available on the consoles.

The issue is Sony doesn't want to invest the time and money to make decent anime games. Sony is just investing in businesses that already are successful hoping to profit from them but has little incentive to spend money creating new games. The Playstation has become so successful that Sony refuses to make any games that will make less then a billion dollars.

My opinion of Wuchang Fallen Feathers is that it's like Tencent decided to make Elden Ring but with bits of Shadow Hearts thrown in. Very much a dark fantasy game like Final Fantasy XVI.

It seems the biggest issue for most games nowadays is to simply get noticed and convince people that it's actually worth the launch price to get the game. The number of games being released has exploded and will continue to increase since it's easier than ever to release games. Lots of vintage games like Pitfall and Pitfall 2 were written by just one person and it took perhaps a month or two. It's hard to justify paying $90+ at launch for a title that is just ok. Games need to be promoted where it's creating a demo version, offering a limited trial version or to launch on game pass, without attention lots of games don't get noticed. BG3 didn't get on game pass but all the buzz about the sexual content helped sell the game.

In Canada Switch 2 games sell for between $100 - $115 and new PlayStation and Xbox games are $90 - $100. The other issue with the inflated launch prices is that the game will only drop in prices very slowly over time and often the best discounts that most games you might find is 50-60% off of the full launch price. And lots of games simply never drop the launch price at all. And there is always a small handful of games that never go on sale, ever.

Ubisoft made a handful of decent games but the micro transactions for minor cosmetic items are the worse parts. It use to be you could unlock extra content by playing the game now it pay extra for content that doesn't add anything to the game. The infamous horse armour was criticized but it added actual value, now you are paying just to change the colour of your armour.

It would be nice if developers couldn't revoke access to games that you have paid for which does happen on rare occasions. It would be nice if all trophies and achievements could be completed when the online part is shut down or they simply auto pop.

No Hello Kitty but the mobile version has a 3v3 Gundam version.

@CrispyMango92 I am Angel looks not bad, really hoping it get a ps4 release.

The voice over actor sounds like he was chosen since he was a perfect fit for the character he voiced.

Very likely the most popular tales of games will be remastered first. The games I would like to play is Tales of the Abyss, Tales of Destiny 1/2 ,Tales of Xilla 1/2 and Tales of Heart. The Tales of games that were previously available on the ps3/vita psn store have been removed so all the titles that were previously available are candidates to be remastered.

The Bond game looks slightly interesting, nothing else I find particularly interesting.

My opinion is that Sony is killing off the stars rewards program just to make it worse. I am sure numerous people remember when the digital PSN gift cards were suddenly unavailable? Likely this is what Sony wanted to actually do, but people complained too much so Sony was forced to bring back the PSN gift cards. Now Sony is ending the whole program but for some reason they are letting people keep their digital collectables, why? I suspect Sony plans to introduce the all new stars program with only digital collectables and no PSN digital gift cards.

What I see is the $80 price tag were I am and think that its probably not worth it. If it launched at a $50 price tag it might be worth it.

I can't understand why it's so challenging for Sony to port there classic titles over to modern consoles. It seems that there is only 1 developer in the entire company handling all the classics ports and Sony can't seem to bother to get more than that single person.

My opinion is that game-key discs are the worst option available and have no advantage for the gamer. If you purchase a digital title it's added to your game library and can be redownloaded at anytime. For a game-key you still need to download the title but you don't "own" the title but every time you want to play the game you need to insert the disc. I'd much rather have a digital library of games that I kind of own rather than a game-key which doesn't really give you anything.

What I see is that there are more games released that ever before but more titles are released by indie developers and the established publishers tend to release few games that before. And game prices are constantly increasing so it's hard to justify buying games day 1. Sure it's always going to be better to just buy games but some games are just not worth it. I find Sony really pushes you to subscribe to ps+, if you go to buy a game that has a tiny ps+ discount it try to sell you a ps+ subscription. The same is true when you try to buy a classic ps2 title like Dark Cloud 1 or 2 on the ps4, it again tries to get you to subscribe to ps+ premium just to get temporary access rather than pay $7.50 on sale to permanently own the game.

I just wonder what is actually going to be available on ps+ by the end of the year. They get titles but most titles only stay for 6 - 12 months and then they are permanently gone. Sony doesn't even want to keep there titles on ps+ it hard to see the value in ps+.

@DTfearTheBEARD The issue is likely what version you originally bought. The version you likely wanted was the deluxe version which has both the ps4 and ps5 version. For some reason they sell the ps4 version, ps5 version and the deluxe version with both the ps4 and ps5 versions.

The problem is simply that the prices that Nintendo is charging is around what the ps5 and series X cost but the performance is likely between the ps4 and series S. And the game prices are above the Xbox and Playstation game prices.

@Daleaf I played the original game on the ps3 and didn't even bother with a second play through to get most of the trophies. I generally don't bother playing games that I don't find interesting. I don't like the From Software Dark Souls games and other From Software Dark Souls like games even though they are very popular.