Splash_Woman

After over a decade of being subscribed to PS Plus I finally let it lapse last year. I haven't even missed it, and I can't imagine I'm alone.

As a fan if the Ace Attorney series, I absolutely loved this game when it came out. I've thought about going back for another playthrough over the years, but every time I do I always choose to preserve my rosy memories of it, rather than unearth the fact that most of it probably hasn't aged particularly well.

Sony is such a weird company for me. I have a Sony TV in one room, a child who's a KPop Demon Hunters fan (made by Sony Pictures Animation), grew up with a Sony portable CD player, and have had every variation of PlayStation possible...and in my mind none of those items are linked together in any way. I have to manually pause at the end of a Breaking Bad episode and think "Sony pictures...like...like the PlayStation people?" Each sector of their business is fragmented off in my mind in a way no other company is. It's not bad, necessarily, just...weird!

Considering a Bank of America acquisition from many years ago led to someone in my family getting laid off and heading down a bad road because of it, I'd just have to say "Why are you even weighing in on the price of GTA 6, you ravenous subhuman ghouls?"

"Don't call it a comeback."

Don't worry, I won't.

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I want one incredibly badly.

I actually, genuinely enjoyed Final Destination Bloodlines. It might be my favorite of that entire series. Not once during it's run time did I think "Wow, these guys should be directing an MGS movie!"

As I get older I find myself either replaying older games or catching up on older games I never really sunk my teeth into, with only the occasional newer game catching my interest. Even then it's usually something like a new Resident Evil or the FF7 remake trilogy...you know, things that tie into older games. If they actually do it, if consoles from now on hit $1K+? Sad to say, but after all these decades of being on the cutting edge of gaming, I think that's it for me. I'll become the weird lady clinging onto the games from PS4 on down, and I think I'm fine with that!

Now there's a man who knows how to impregnate his cousin!

It should have been based on "Fly", the bottle episode where they're locked in the super lab trying to kill a fly for hours on end. Actually, the longer I think on it...that really would make a pretty sweet VR game!

@MrPeanutbutterz My wife absolutely loves horror movies and always sits and watches me play the entirety of every Resident Evil game, but she tried to play Resident Evil 7 and couldn't even make it to the dinner table with the Bakers before putting the controller down and asking me to take over again. Even though neither is real, there's a massive cognitive difference between watching something scary happen to a character and being in control of that character when something scary happens to them. I can handle both, but some people can't, and even I can tell it's a whole different level of adrenaline that hits me when playing a game versus watching a movie.

I was playing Requiem at work on my Switch 2. One of my coworkers asked: "Whoa, what exactly are you playing?"

"The new Resident Evil."

"...what's Resident Evil?"

I could feel my bones turning to dust right in that moment...

I haven't had an up to date computer in YEARS, and I've thought for awhile now of finding some avenue for playing Steam games.

...this is not it.

Ahhhhh I told myself I wasn't going to get it, that there are more important things to spend my money on right now, that they could iron out the bugs and add the inevitable DLC first, that I could be a good girl and wait for a sale, that, uh, whoops, I just bought it on the way home...

On the one hand, most people nowadays expect a certain level of polish and nuanced storytelling that the original trilogy just doesn't have. If they're doing it, they should go all in on making it feel modern.

On the other hand, if I can't blindly spam square->square->triangle until a qte prompts me to rip something's head off, repeated ad nauseam until the credits roll, then what are we even doing here!?!?

"Congrats on your wedding, here's a PSVR2 game which requires both a PS5 and the VR headset itself (which comes with said PSVR2 game you're getting for free.)"

Honestly, I'd be elated to get such a personal response from Playstation, but like...come on, Sony. At least try to act like a regular person and throw in a $25 gift card to some restaurant I've never heard of!

@dskatter I also was about to say "Uh, what are you talking about with these characters? I remember Ash and Brock Samson being involved!" Never did play this one, actually!

The expression is "cooking", right? As in "let Rockstar cook"?

I, too, start kitchen fires every time I try to cook something!

(But seriously, I hope everyone's okay!)

"However, Atlus has now confirmed that said broadcast will feature 'merchandise and event news' specifically."

Did we really expect anything else at this point!?

I imagine any time it's activated trophies and potentially in game unlockables will be disabled, not to mention it's almost certainly for single-player titles only, so I can't see a feature like this 100% removing challenge. Growing up my mom would constantly hand me the controller when she played games with a frustrated, "Do this part for me," and now my daughter is the type to give up altogether the second she gets stuck. Personally, depending on its implementation, this seems like a better use of AI than most things, and it might help a wider audience see games through to the credits.

Mathematical!

I'm sure it will be great. As will ES6 Special Edition. As will the PS7 version of ES6 Special edition with a $20 upgrade path. As will ES6 Anniversary Edition. As will ES6 Special Edition for the Switch 3. As will the Switch 4 and PS8 versions of ES6 Anniversary Edition (no upgrade path).

So...it's a reimagining of The Oregon Trail, then. Could be fun! Likely will be exactly the opposite!

I'd like to imagine that someone came up with the concept for how the boss fight would work and they all loved it, but then designs for the Robot Master itself came back more and more and MORE risqué until finally someone said "F$%# it, let's just have the fans design it."

Oh no, this is going to be the franchise's second "___ Woman", isn't it...?

It does look good, and I of course will be buying it without much question, but I am unreasonably upset that it's not called Mega Man 12.

I absolutely love the Dead Space series. Nothing would make me happier than EA no longer owning it. I usually hate to see it when devs are shuttered and IPs change hands (I'm currently in the middle of loathing everything going on between Netflix and WB), but in this case...fingers crossed!

I would personally push back against the thought that we have to "get used to AI" when it's used in a context like this. I feel like at this point if you're not bothered by AI use, I'm not going to change your mind. But if you ARE, then don't let something as small as these background posters slip past you. I'm a fan of the movie "Late Night with the Devil", which infamously used AI to a similar degree as this in some of its art. Though I was skeptical I still accepted it, as it seemed the production was barely scraping together the means to make the film at all, let alone do the transition card art properly. (Whether that's true or not, that's at least the justification my mind ran with.) But now here we are, and as mentioned in the article: if Fortnite of all things can't be bothered to pay a human to do this, then where does that leave the future? So for me, yes, there is a line. THIS is the line. Between this and the Banana Fish dub, it's been a rough week for the creative endeavors of the human race. If you still care at all about letting your voice be heard, then please...let it be heard while it still can be. Yeah, generative AI is going to win. Yeah, this is the future. But we don't need to be polite about being escorted there. This is pathetic and shameful.

My very first platinum came from the PS3 rerelease of God of War, all the way back in December of 2009. I just now realized while typing this that that's only two months after I started dating my eventual spouse, and 81 platinums later we're still going strong!

I think that's my favorite thing about trophies. It's not about collecting the valueless NFTs, or about the satisfying chimes whenever you takedown 50 enemies with a boomerang or whatever. The best thing for me is scrolling down the list, looking at the dates of my various digital accomplishments and letting my memories of the game take me back to the memories of my life that surrounded my playtime. It's like journaling, but with less details and more fun!

I've tried to do my best to keep my daughter away from anything containing even trace amounts of microtransactions. Nintendo games, Astro Bot, Kingdom Hearts, reading actual books, playing with sticks, throwing rocks at trains. But she's still been hinting over the past few weeks that "a LOT of my friends are playing Roblox..." I don't think I'll ever cave to something like Roblox, but I've made declarations like that before about other things. Not to mention someday she'll be old enough to make her own decisions, and I really fear those decisions will inevitably lead to battle pass roddled slop. It makes me sick, but this is where we're headed. I'll just enjoy her F2P free life while I still can.

I can't wait for the episode that's just an hour long deep dive into explaining how it was actually the migratory patterns of Egyptian birds in the late 1920's that caused all of the BTs power levels to go over 9,000!

Oh wow, I am so...uh... (checks script) surprised this happened.

I predict one of two things:

1. They'll want that sweet holiday season money and will release on time. It'll be full of bugs and we'll have another Cyberpunk 2077 situation on our hands for a few months until it's patched.

2. They'll be smart and it'll come out in March 2027.

Honestly, it's a coin toss at this point.

There's still plenty of milk left to squeeze out of the current cows before P6 rolls around:

Persona 4 Revival
Persona 3 FeReload
Persona 4 Golden Revival
Persona 5 Arena
Persona 5 Arena Ultimax
Persona 5 Strikers Royal
Persona 5 Tactica Royal
Persona 5 Royally Dancing in Starlight
Persona 3 Dancing in Reloaded Moonlight
Persona Q2 New Social Media Arcade
Persona 5 Tax Software
Persona 4 in Gacha World
Persona 1+2 Re (Whoops, that one's cancelled)
Persona 5 Leblanc Simulator
Persona 4 Leisure Suit Teddy
Persona 5 Morgana Did a Stinky in the Litter Box
Persona 3 Arena ExtremaxFES
Persona 5 20th Anniversary Edition

So it'll be awhile.

I...that is, well, um...uh...hmm...

Yeah, I don't know to react to this one.

"Yeah. Yeah, but your developers were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should...and thankfully they couldn't, so, you know...saved us a lot of headaches in the end."

Between the novelty of playing it on PS5 and the immense levels of nostalgia I have for Halo 1's campaign, yep I'll be picking it up for sure!

Like...EVERYONE everyone!?

"Conflabbit, these vidya game things are ruining the minds of the kids, I tell ya. They should ALL be banned, every last one of 'em! Except for that last part of the Final Fantasy 7 trilogy, I loved that one!"

This news has quite unironically made my day, week, heck the entire year better!

I wouldn't say the article is correct, but I also see how they probably feel that way, and it's a matter of perspective combined with their personal preferences. It's no secret that Playstation Studios' output has been thinner in recent years than in the past, understandably due to the increased cost and complexity of creating games compared to years past. That doesn't mean the total number of games coming out in general has slowed, and humans don't exactly have the alleged memories of elephants over here. So when a game about revenge comes out, you think about TLoU 2, which makes you think about sad dads, which makes you think about GoW, and "ugh, is Sony doing this AGAIN!? Stop it already!" And it's been a bit since the last time you played a PS Studios game, and...gosh, you played SO many games since then, what was it again? "I don't know, all I know is I'm tired of all these vengeful sad dads!"

So I don't agree, but I understand how the opinion could be formed.

At this stage in development, this really looks like one of those "I made (insert pop culture of choice) in Unreal Engine" videos. Which is understandable, considering it's still a year out, but why show it now!?

My daughter just watched me play the Insomniac Spider-Man games a few weeks back and was excited to watch me play this.

.......this isn't getting turned on until after she goes to bed.

I really do unironically love the idea of unlocking something physical for getting a platinum trophy. It sounds neat. I would even be willing to front the shipping cost out of my pocket, like the My Nintendo Rewards program. I'd pay $6 to have a shirt and pin sent to me, sure.

......but $55? Plus shipping, so over $60? Practically no one is going to go for this, so it will be shut down within a year and a half. Which honestly makes me sad, because again: it's a neat idea! Just...really, really, REALLY poorly thought out.

I was more of a Nintendo kid at the time (emphasis on kid) so I didn't get one at launch. I actually don't remember when or why I got one exactly; back then it was usually a specific exclusive game that I wanted which pushed my parents into buying a console (Super Mario World, Super Mario 64, and Sonic & Knuckles being the big ones that come to mind), but I don't ever remember longing for a PS1 game before I had the console itself. In any case, I'm old!

I always get frustrated when horror/horror-adjacent games get released ON Halloween. Like, I get it, but I'm not going to sit and binge a game on Halloween of all days, which means I'm half a month out of "spooky season" and making my Christmas shopping list while still playing a game about graveyards and skeletons. There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but I'd much rather play a game like this in the lead up to Halloween than the aftermath.

Anyways, I've had my eye on this for ages. Whatever the release date, I'm still super excited!

Well, heck, do they have a third-person camera for those who...prefer a third-person camera?

Random Criminal: "Bane, who is it? Who's on his way!?"
Bane: "BAT!!"

The game will be out on time, just not THAT time, and it will exceed expectations, just not OUR expectations

My guess is September-ish 2026, with at least one headline reading, "GTA VI seems to be off to a strong start with X units sold, but falls short of company expectations by a considerable margin", followed by "Rockstar lays off X employees in latest industry purge".

Not that I think the game will be bad by any means, but realistically, with the state of the world (economically, politically, the "age verification" of it all) and the ginormous success of GTA V, there's no way they can match whatever goals their accounting department has cooked up over the years.

I'm personally waiting for re:Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] Final Mix DX°17: Overture + Heaven x Death - Nightfall Era <Crown/Royal> Special Pikachu Edition

69 cousins, you say?

"I'm Sam!"
"Hey, my name's Sam, too!"

I've heard of Majima Everywhere, but this is ridiculous!