I knew the licensed soundtrack was gone but does Wayne Static still Voce the punk dude in the junkyard or did they have to dub it? That's all from a hazy 10 year memory.
Oh yeah, what about that infamous seashell outfit. Wonder if that's in there or has been taken out? The censorship brigade is probably already up in arms if it was.
@lostlaserdroid Man your profile pic just bought me some serious nostalgia, I wish we could get one of the ISS games (playstation 1 versions) on PSN in some way, even the very barebones one I had that I played to death years ago.
As for this game, never been much of a fan due to the constant time limit, which suits the game and theme but not me. On the topic of "censorship" which I see has appeared again relating yet again to something to do with pervy images of women, I see a non-issue. We've had censored games for years over here. I mean DOOM and of course Wolfenstein was censored in Germany 30 years to "appease" the government to allow it to be released, Resident Evil Code Veronica has no decaps, even in Japan itself games are censored and even censor their own dirty films.
Like someone else said, it's not real censorship as in the removal of important information from the public eye or changing the course of events through propaganda or the deletion of another's words that go against the rhetoric. It's always the alteration of either violence or sexual content, the latter which has no bearing on the game at all and I see no reason personally to be upset about not being able to see up skirts etc.
@Rich33 True, gaming is way bigger now than when I was a little kid in the early 90's. Back then games were developed with tiny teams, small budgets and released at £40-50. Now they cost multiple millions, teams are generally 100 and above and yet the price of them has barely changed. Look at Astro, it's £59.99 which is literally £10 more than it cost me to buy Sonic 3 in 1994 and £10 less than Turok on the N64.
That's a damn shame if it's true it isn't selling well as I played it all last weekend with the wife and is the most unadulterated pure fun I have had a with a game in a long time and for me it's easily on par with Mario, let's hope we can get more like it but it's doubtful.
While I personally don't mind as I'm well aware I'm a money sink (sorry customer) rather than a "fan" to Sony, they are a business after all it would be nice at this point to at least say their teams are working on SOMETHING. GoT came out in may/June 2020 what exactly are Guerilla, Santa Monica, Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch up to for instance? Oh yeah remastering 3-4 year old games that nobody asked for. Hey maybe Ghost will have a remaster announcement next 🤣 to think of the stuff they used to make and publish and now it's 1 game every 5 years that follows the exact same open world cinematic blueprint they have been grinding to dust for the past decade...
Those little sprites are sooo cute. Also I agree with everyone, green ranger was awesome. I remember as a kid in the early 90's waiting for the White Ranger. I didn't have Sky/cable so it was 5 minutes in the morning before school on GMTV haha. Man kids today with all their fancy stuff 🤣
@Rob_230 Same here although I never did have Portrait but I had the other 2. Sold them for 35 a piece but no idea what they may be worth now. I'm just happy with my sealed Ocarina of Time that ingot for £5 years back.
Anyway, these are brilliant games and thanks to Push Square I'm buying this instantly. Loved the last collection, they are just so much fun to play and I was hoping for this ever since the GBA collection came out over 4 years ago.
I never did care much for playing these, like watching them though weirdly. However I didn't like the trailer from a while back...have me popcorn marvel film vibes rather than dark fantasy, eurgh 🤣
Should have asked who's playing it on PS5 because from what I read yesterday it's barely playable in anything or than performance mode and even then it can't keep 60 frames.
Also I don't get what the hype is with this game? Is just more look at the shiny shiny again? Can I have something more than just visuals approaching photo realism and lighting in my games. I get tired of seeing ray tracing all the time, it adds nothing of substance to the games mechanics at all, I'd prefer low graphical fidelity and more involved physics Inc the way both your player character and enemies interact with it, maybe some better AI as that seems to have been stuck on the same dial circa 2000.
@Yagami I understand tha probably quite a few players do miss the (more tedious imo) gathering aspect of the game. Going out on a limb and assuming they are the hard core played for years guys n gals. However it's busy work and games and real life are totally different and separate things. I do like going around and getting my ore and herbs and bugs but I also get why and awful lot of people wouldn't want to bother with the medium. Going to a bush and getting an RNG item might be fun for some for example but I'd rather know what I'm picking up. I see it as a quality of life change and more respect for a player's time, which lets face it is the most important commodity in anyone's life.
@Platinum-Bucket Strange because a lot of the armour in world/Iceborne and Rise/Sunbreak for females had greaves or bottoms of some kind. Even then most had a long skirt and a lot of them looked like total ass in comparison to the male sets.
The issue is most gamers are casual players, so games like FIFA (or what was FIFA) mario kart and popular franchises like Mortal Kombat and the Harry Potter IP will always win out. Look on the Playstation Stores top games In your country, it's just FC24 CoD Minecraft Honkai/Genshin etc etc exactly the same. I'd love to see the charts from when I was a little kid in the early 90's though. I'd think it would be a different beast.
I have the Xbox 360 sonic generations collectors edition still and it was actually pretty good for the price of £80 back then and also NOT LTD RUN. They have a monopoly on this stuff and need some competition coming in because their prices are ludicrous on some things.
If we are never going to get folders can I at least lock more than 5 games to my home bar? With how they designed it I understand why it would be silly to be able lock all of them (you would want your newly installed game to appear at the far end) but why can't I choose to lock what I want?
I have a few games locked I jump in and out or need to finish, elden ring, resi 4 and then a couple ill play after finishing up what I'm currently doing. The rest end up floating out and I genuinely forget what games I have lol. Don't get me wrong I'm not super rich but a couple of games on sale for cheap push out some others and then my newly 40 year old brain forgets 🤣
None for me but I will never understand why people seem to sub for the games? I've always subscribed for online and the decent discounts you get, never for the bonus games. Still each to their own. Also while I also understand the cost issue I look at it that's it less than 1 meal at Mc Donalds a month. In fact it's only slightly more than magazines began to cost in the mid 2000's. Hell official Dreamcast magazine used to cost 6 quid in 2001 ðŸ˜
Personally I'm not to interested in emulated old games, especially ones that were quite common. Now if this was used to bring back rarer titles, or things that went under the radar for me I'd have a gander. However I do think digital foundry is ass, does anyone my age care as much about all of this (I'm the big 4-0) I of course want the game to work but it seems to feed into the visual side nitpicking everything. Guess it's why visual/artistic style seems to have all but disappeared to be replaced with as hyper realistic characters and environs as we can get while people whine about how a game like rebirth looks like its from a PS3 apparently. Sorry off topic a tad and I am old now lol
Couldn't get into this all them years ago. I hate with a passion time restricted anything in games (outside racing) and the whole premise is time restricted 🤣 obviously fits the narrative and theme but not for me. I'm still waiting on a Dino Crisis remake goddamit!! It keeps appearing on polls and we only got 2 good games. I dunno...maybe in the future ðŸ˜
While things like this are indeed predatory and scummy we really should be bemoaning a large portion of the consumer base for this and other games, if nobody bought it, well it wouldn't exist. Thing is people will and do. Have you guys seen the cash that Honkai Star Rail pulls in a month? It's ridiculous. They make the budget of a AAA game in 8 weeks just from people pulling for characters. It blows my mind that this kind of thing exists at all but humans gonna human.
Seems these guys are getting a hold of quite a decent amount of old properties. I've heard pretty bad things about the length of time it takes to get an actual physical copy, sometimes over a year 🤣
@PuppetMaster Isn't viewtiful Joe on a 2d plane though? I could be misremembering as it's been a hot decade or 2 since I played it.
As for these, had the sequel on the DC and while I enjoyed it enough to complete I'd hardly consider it worthy or bringing back and the first didn't seem like it was great either.
I also second the poster who says that side/belt scrollers don't work well in 3d. Yakuza is ok to a point but the combat was the weakest part of the game for me with some of the cheesiest bosses I've ever beaten. Judgement improved on it quite a bit, especially the sequel and the snake stance.
Also I can only assume this will be overpriced at about £25 like the recently released Rocket Knight collection. I forgave them with Jurassic Park (just bought it on sale) as I assumed licence fees had to be paid but these collections are to much and.im.not normally like this regarding games. If treasure can release Guardian Heroes (a while back I know) and even Konami can put out a Castlevania collection with New Generation/Bloodlines on it for 15 quid then so can these as both of those games to buy in the used market set you back £100 or more.
@Beerheadgamer82 It's better when you upgrade the speed of your boat and I did like it (I bought it on sale just before it went on plus and wanted another fish fix after 80 hours with Dave. Whilst it's enjoyable it isn't as good as it could be or even as it's made out to be. The "fishing" isn't very interactive and the economy after a few hours is almost pointless because it's so easy to make money. Only trophy I have left is getting all abberated fish now and it's just a chore as I didn't realise a certain power up guarantees one. Not a bad game just not as good as Dave imo.
How is it false advertising? The logos merely state that the PS5 is capable of outputting at 8k, HDR and whatever else. To my knowledge Sony does not state that the games and media WILL be in 8k. If people generally thought the PS5 was going to be able to output 4k at 60 or even 8k it's on them because I knew from the off of we get a native 4k game the only way it will be running at 60 or above would be for pixel based or very confined games like a walking simulator. For anyone with an avid interest in games or it being their main hobby I would hope they wouldnt be expecting a game like Horizon to be blasting along at native 8k 120 🤣
Also it's no different to TVs stating they are HDR. Cheaper television sets can in fact display it so again they are lying or falsely advertising but they generally don't get bright enough to have any impact. Internet gonna moan and another article coming from the depths of Reddit....
I just recently played and beat the first on my switch, just a little over 100 odd hours. I loved it but the 2nd game really improved a lot, the beast taming was massively improved for instance, along with party interaction and job diversity. It has a cool night and day mechanic relating to your characters over world skills. Going back from the sequel would be odd so Im glad I didn't get round to 2 until now.
I third the to many games no time, Trying to play rebirth, hifi rush, octo 2 and prince of Persia while still trying to get around to GranBlue. Monster Hunter Stories is out next week and I STILL haven't played Horizon Forbidden West yet 😞
So all I read is how visually stunning it is and it's stunning visuals and the impressive visuals fidelity that puts you into stun land....annnnd with simple puzzles and some combat.
I'm so sick of games just being graphics now with little to no innovation or use of physics and better ai. Anyone remember Vigilante 8 on PS1 or Red Faction on PS2? I always wanted to see destructible environments like that where you could freely take apart buildings etc. They would have their own "skeletons" like a real structure so you could manipulate them. Well we will never get it because with more power comes more shiny rather than dial back the graphics a gen or 2 but give us something awesome to play with. Games like this are like walking through a still life oil painting, look lovely but nothing bloody moves and interaction is barely possible.
Anyone else wish you could pin more than 5 bloody games to the line? I'm old now and forget I have something installed if it's moved off the conveyor at the top 🤣
@DennisReynolds I agree with this and in the case of AAA I barely play them anymore. Most of my gaming comes from the awesome indie titles available or AA games.
A lot of it depends on your genre likes and such as well. I'm still gutted that no big studio makes platformers anymore outside Nintendo. No car combat games, no arcade sports titles like the brilliant NBA street and not even a choice in regular sports anymore. I remember when you could buy FIFA or ISS or total football or Sega Worldwide Soccer, Actua Soccer. Very limited now. Sorry went off topic there.
But yeah to get back on point it's incredibly disingenuous to suggest this year so far has been bad. If you don't like the general or the game fine but for actual games worth buying in a general sense there has been loads. I'll add in HiFi Rush and the new dark souls cute crab game is meant to be pretty good as well. Good games from the indie sector and mainstream Devs so far.
@Northern_munkey Seems a strange place with some odd double standards, well at least it looks like it on the surface. All the big booby skimpy anime girls that don't look a day past 10 years old having copious upskirt shots in media is cool beans, but actual sexual material meant for adults gets the private areas pixelated. Then as you say, the down right weird and a lot of times incredibly violent films and then censor that gore in that adult videogame. Quite odd.
I used to be all for exclusives when I was younger even though it was a real pain the arse to miss out on loads and back then it was loads of games. Nowadays I see little point. 1st party I can still get the idea but 3rd party exclusives should just stop now. Do many people even care as much nowadays? Like in the late 90's and mid 2000's quite a few of us, me included would buy multiple consoles and as I've aged and gaming has stagnated so much I reckon most stick to the one and it would have to be something truly special for a consumer to purchase another machine to play 1 title.
Dave the Diver for sure. I just stick to extra now as premium is still awful for it's variety. Soooo soooo many ps1 games missing. Then again so many of those studios have long since passed and acquiring the rights to certain games is probably to much for them to bother with. I'd love Dino crisis, vigilante 8, destruction derby 2 and Loaded to go up.
Tomb Raider Remastered for me. I have Rebirth, GranBlue and Hi-Fi Rush to play but I've had loads of fun with Tomb Raider. Not sure if that says more about me, the state of the industry or how good Tomb Raider holds up 🫤
Am I a weird outlier that can tell the difference between 30 and 60 straight away? Smoother camera pans, overall better movement and more responsive but If I go back to 30 my eyes and brain adjust after about 60 seconds and no longer see the "judder" until I switch back or play another game at 60? Maybe my brain just has to much processing power lol 😆
@jedinite Can't believe people are still replying to this. As for woke, I am not. All I'm trying to get across is a general sense of why some, not all, feel that way from hearing these things from, well, women.
It's an old article and no point debating anything on the internet, least not with someone who uses the word "woke"
I haven't played this yet but I am intrigued as to why people rave about Elden Rings open world? From what I have played so far it's barely any different fromm any other although I have admittedly only played 20 odd hrs so far.
Why do the players look so robotic in their facial animation and considering the leap in 10 years the face models are not great. Animation on court looks nice however.
My favourite was the original Top Spin and Segas Virtua Tennis but the game I had a blast playing was Rockstars table tennis, now that was fun.
Let's not kid ourselves, there is no way on earth this thing is looking anything like that on a PS5. Would struggle to even run. It does look photorealistic though and is impressive to the point you would believe it to be a documentary at a glance.
@GreatAuk Your examples are bs mate. Yeah people criticise things all them time, everyone's a critic and all that but at the end of the day your criticism means jack if you have no idea or very little experience in what your critiquing to begin with. Look at all the people who do it with sport and yet most of them have no idea whatsoever what it's like to be a professional. So yeah your free to do so and have an opinion of course, whether it's valid or means something is very different.
Of course some women look for financial success or life accomplishments in a man. Not denying it. But how many women do you know that SOLELY look at a male purely for his body. I'm talking real life, not your red pill alpha male crying bs from the internet. Bet you won't find much. Now try it with blokes. The point I was making is most female characters exist just for this, not depth of character, not personality, not ability. Just an image for men to stare at hence why this character has had special attention paid to it's arse which is pretty pathetic in and of itself, but hey, sells the game and gets it out there right?
And don't bring male character design into this because you know full well they are power fantasies but generally they are still developed as people. Marcus Fenix wasn't shat on because he was a grizzled "ugly" character, no he's a bad ass. Aloy comes out and the little men get offended.
Take it as you will, at the end of the day we're just people on the net.
How slim is news in general when all online sites seem to post is literal Reddit comments and crap from twitter/x? It's all I see in my feeds, little bit of actual gaming news and then 10 features on what some rando moaned about in an online "community"
@TrickyDicky99 Nope because the scope and detail of a Rockstar game is another level, same as Red Dead 2. Visually Dragons Dogma 2 doesn't look so amazing to me it's mind blowing and making me think "wow this can barely hit a solid 30 fps" It looks no better than Horizon and Rebirth gives a pretty solid 30 and that has a pretty decent sized map. Could be limitations in the engine perhaps but it's odd there isn't a performance mode. I wonder what will happen with the new Monster Hunter? World was a very good looking game and the new one is open world, with this struggling to keep 30fps that will be slide show city.
Just bad optimisation I would think. Red Dead 2 (even though I personally don't like the game) looks phenomenal even today running at a seemingly steady 30fps on a PS4 and that's 5 years old.
Also remember when is old people (near on 40 here) didn't give a toss about this kind of stuff? (I still don't) and played games with crap pal versions running at 12fps with jank galore. All this micro picking of everything on every game is ridiculous now. Look at this, watch this drop 4fps when in this scene and look at this low res texture and this and that. These are useful if the game is fundamentally broken but generally pretty pointless.
Will they stop putting remasters/re-releases/retro collections in premium?! It's a joke. The whole premium thing was getting classic games so we all hopes for stuff like legacy or Kain, the resi games, silent hill, twisted metal, maybe vigilante 8, Dino Crisis, wipeout (although the soundtrack would probably halt that) even something like Pandemonium or Destruction Derby. What about some PsP titles or some new PS2 games. Sorry, drives me a teeny bit nutty.
Why not at least tell people what the studio's are actually doing? GoT came out near on 4 years ago which if there is a sequel (I hope so) and nothing is due out this year then it's been in development for what? 6 years? Best be a damn good game and not Ghost of Live Service.
Got to wonder if blokes had all women look at them just for a "body" and literally nothing else and when that body wanes they get ditched or shat on opinions would probably be different. Also wondering if these same men as present in this comment section are peak male attractiveness to be calling out women like Aloy as "ugly" doubt it. Game looks hack n slash selling of T/A bit judging by what I read through these comments it seems to be working.
Nope, games get shown way way to much and then on top you have leaks and then when the game releases douchebags deliberately spoiling even more. I really liked the first part so was set on playing the next installment anyway, I want to see the way the world works, enemy updates etc when I play it form the first time rather than already know 50% of it as Square don't seem to be able to control their hype train.
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Re: Mini Review: Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP (PS5) - A Sweet Return with a Bittersweet Bite
I knew the licensed soundtrack was gone but does Wayne Static still Voce the punk dude in the junkyard or did they have to dub it? That's all from a hazy 10 year memory.
Oh yeah, what about that infamous seashell outfit. Wonder if that's in there or has been taken out? The censorship brigade is probably already up in arms if it was.
Re: Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster (PS5) - Capcom Classic Still Shines 18 Years Later
@lostlaserdroid Man your profile pic just bought me some serious nostalgia, I wish we could get one of the ISS games (playstation 1 versions) on PSN in some way, even the very barebones one I had that I played to death years ago.
As for this game, never been much of a fan due to the constant time limit, which suits the game and theme but not me. On the topic of "censorship" which I see has appeared again relating yet again to something to do with pervy images of women, I see a non-issue. We've had censored games for years over here. I mean DOOM and of course Wolfenstein was censored in Germany 30 years to "appease" the government to allow it to be released, Resident Evil Code Veronica has no decaps, even in Japan itself games are censored and even censor their own dirty films.
Like someone else said, it's not real censorship as in the removal of important information from the public eye or changing the course of events through propaganda or the deletion of another's words that go against the rhetoric. It's always the alteration of either violence or sexual content, the latter which has no bearing on the game at all and I see no reason personally to be upset about not being able to see up skirts etc.
May be just me though...
Re: Don't Sleep on PS2 Secret Gem Sky Gunner, Coming to PS5, PS4 Next Week
@get2sammyb After I read this I saw a Kotaku article stating it's a Jank mess lol. Guess that's why then 🤣
Re: State of Play Rumoured for This Month As Sony Looks Set to Skip PS Showcase in 2024
@Rich33 True, gaming is way bigger now than when I was a little kid in the early 90's. Back then games were developed with tiny teams, small budgets and released at £40-50. Now they cost multiple millions, teams are generally 100 and above and yet the price of them has barely changed. Look at Astro, it's £59.99 which is literally £10 more than it cost me to buy Sonic 3 in 1994 and £10 less than Turok on the N64.
That's a damn shame if it's true it isn't selling well as I played it all last weekend with the wife and is the most unadulterated pure fun I have had a with a game in a long time and for me it's easily on par with Mario, let's hope we can get more like it but it's doubtful.
Re: State of Play Rumoured for This Month As Sony Looks Set to Skip PS Showcase in 2024
While I personally don't mind as I'm well aware I'm a money sink (sorry customer) rather than a "fan" to Sony, they are a business after all it would be nice at this point to at least say their teams are working on SOMETHING. GoT came out in may/June 2020 what exactly are Guerilla, Santa Monica, Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch up to for instance? Oh yeah remastering 3-4 year old games that nobody asked for. Hey maybe Ghost will have a remaster announcement next 🤣 to think of the stuff they used to make and publish and now it's 1 game every 5 years that follows the exact same open world cinematic blueprint they have been grinding to dust for the past decade...
Re: Gallery: Astro Bot Has the Best PS5 Controller Design Yet
I wonder how many they manufactured because you can't buy it anywhere. Did see them being sold on the bay of e's.....what a surprise 🫤
Re: Green Ranger Tommy Oliver Joins the Roster of Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind on PS5, PS4
Those little sprites are sooo cute. Also I agree with everyone, green ranger was awesome. I remember as a kid in the early 90's waiting for the White Ranger. I didn't have Sky/cable so it was 5 minutes in the morning before school on GMTV haha. Man kids today with all their fancy stuff 🤣
Re: Castlevania Dominus Collection Gathers Dawn of Sorrow and Its DS Brethren on PS5, and It's Out Now
@Rob_230 Same here although I never did have Portrait but I had the other 2. Sold them for 35 a piece but no idea what they may be worth now. I'm just happy with my sealed Ocarina of Time that ingot for £5 years back.
Anyway, these are brilliant games and thanks to Push Square I'm buying this instantly. Loved the last collection, they are just so much fun to play and I was hoping for this ever since the GBA collection came out over 4 years ago.
Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Drops Loads of PS5 Gameplay, Action Combat Details
I never did care much for playing these, like watching them though weirdly. However I didn't like the trailer from a while back...have me popcorn marvel film vibes rather than dark fantasy, eurgh 🤣
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Black Myth: Wukong?
Should have asked who's playing it on PS5 because from what I read yesterday it's barely playable in anything or than performance mode and even then it can't keep 60 frames.
Also I don't get what the hype is with this game? Is just more look at the shiny shiny again? Can I have something more than just visuals approaching photo realism and lighting in my games. I get tired of seeing ray tracing all the time, it adds nothing of substance to the games mechanics at all, I'd prefer low graphical fidelity and more involved physics Inc the way both your player character and enemies interact with it, maybe some better AI as that seems to have been stuck on the same dial circa 2000.
Re: Joy as Capcom Ditches Gendered Armour in Monster Hunter Wilds, a Series First
@Yagami I understand tha probably quite a few players do miss the (more tedious imo) gathering aspect of the game. Going out on a limb and assuming they are the hard core played for years guys n gals. However it's busy work and games and real life are totally different and separate things. I do like going around and getting my ore and herbs and bugs but I also get why and awful lot of people wouldn't want to bother with the medium. Going to a bush and getting an RNG item might be fun for some for example but I'd rather know what I'm picking up. I see it as a quality of life change and more respect for a player's time, which lets face it is the most important commodity in anyone's life.
Re: Joy as Capcom Ditches Gendered Armour in Monster Hunter Wilds, a Series First
@Platinum-Bucket Strange because a lot of the armour in world/Iceborne and Rise/Sunbreak for females had greaves or bottoms of some kind. Even then most had a long skirt and a lot of them looked like total ass in comparison to the male sets.
Re: UK Sales Charts: EA Sports FC 24 the Best Selling PS5, PS4 Game in Stagnant Top 10
The issue is most gamers are casual players, so games like FIFA (or what was FIFA) mario kart and popular franchises like Mortal Kombat and the Harry Potter IP will always win out. Look on the Playstation Stores top games In your country, it's just FC24 CoD Minecraft Honkai/Genshin etc etc exactly the same. I'd love to see the charts from when I was a little kid in the early 90's though. I'd think it would be a different beast.
Re: Sonic X Shadow Generations Goes Nostalgia Overload with Dreamcast-Heavy Collector's Edition
I have the Xbox 360 sonic generations collectors edition still and it was actually pretty good for the price of £80 back then and also NOT LTD RUN. They have a monopoly on this stuff and need some competition coming in because their prices are ludicrous on some things.
Re: SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos (PS4) – A Barebones Port of an Arcade Curiosity
I had this back on the old fat Xbox. Got it on PS5 the other day and Mr Karate on CPU lvl 4 was a beast 🤣
Re: New PS5 Firmware Beta Begins This Week, with 'Adaptive' Controller Charging, Custom 3D Audio, More
If we are never going to get folders can I at least lock more than 5 games to my home bar? With how they designed it I understand why it would be silly to be able lock all of them (you would want your newly installed game to appear at the far end) but why can't I choose to lock what I want?
I have a few games locked I jump in and out or need to finish, elden ring, resi 4 and then a couple ill play after finishing up what I'm currently doing. The rest end up floating out and I genuinely forget what games I have lol. Don't get me wrong I'm not super rich but a couple of games on sale for cheap push out some others and then my newly 40 year old brain forgets 🤣
Re: Horror Hit The Mortuary Assistant Creeping onto PS5, PS4 in August
@TheAmbienWalrus I watched a lets play of this when it was first released on PC and it's really good, quite the creepy game.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for July 2024?
None for me but I will never understand why people seem to sub for the games? I've always subscribed for online and the decent discounts you get, never for the bonus games. Still each to their own. Also while I also understand the cost issue I look at it that's it less than 1 meal at Mc Donalds a month. In fact it's only slightly more than magazines began to cost in the mid 2000's. Hell official Dreamcast magazine used to cost 6 quid in 2001 ðŸ˜
Re: PS5, PS4's New PS2 Emulator Fails to Pass Tech Test
Personally I'm not to interested in emulated old games, especially ones that were quite common. Now if this was used to bring back rarer titles, or things that went under the radar for me I'd have a gander. However I do think digital foundry is ass, does anyone my age care as much about all of this (I'm the big 4-0) I of course want the game to work but it seems to feed into the visual side nitpicking everything. Guess it's why visual/artistic style seems to have all but disappeared to be replaced with as hyper realistic characters and environs as we can get while people whine about how a game like rebirth looks like its from a PS3 apparently. Sorry off topic a tad and I am old now lol
Re: Dead Rising's PS5 Remaster Headlines Capcom Next Livestream
Couldn't get into this all them years ago. I hate with a passion time restricted anything in games (outside racing) and the whole premise is time restricted 🤣 obviously fits the narrative and theme but not for me. I'm still waiting on a Dino Crisis remake goddamit!! It keeps appearing on polls and we only got 2 good games. I dunno...maybe in the future ðŸ˜
Re: GTA 6 Fans Nervous As GTA Online Locks Crucial Quality of Life Feature Behind GTA+ Sub on PS5, PS4
While things like this are indeed predatory and scummy we really should be bemoaning a large portion of the consumer base for this and other games, if nobody bought it, well it wouldn't exist. Thing is people will and do. Have you guys seen the cash that Honkai Star Rail pulls in a month? It's ridiculous. They make the budget of a AAA game in 8 weeks just from people pulling for characters. It blows my mind that this kind of thing exists at all but humans gonna human.
Re: The Countdown Is on for Iconic 90s Horror Clock Tower's Western Release
Seems these guys are getting a hold of quite a decent amount of old properties. I've heard pretty bad things about the length of time it takes to get an actual physical copy, sometimes over a year 🤣
Re: GEX Trilogy Revives a Long Lost 90s Mascot on PS5, PS4
I really liked the second game and loved Leslie Phillips voicing him even though at the time I didn't realise.
Re: Square Enix's Forgotten PS1 Fighting Force Franchise Beats the Count on PS5, PS4
@PuppetMaster Isn't viewtiful Joe on a 2d plane though? I could be misremembering as it's been a hot decade or 2 since I played it.
As for these, had the sequel on the DC and while I enjoyed it enough to complete I'd hardly consider it worthy or bringing back and the first didn't seem like it was great either.
I also second the poster who says that side/belt scrollers don't work well in 3d. Yakuza is ok to a point but the combat was the weakest part of the game for me with some of the cheesiest bosses I've ever beaten. Judgement improved on it quite a bit, especially the sequel and the snake stance.
Also I can only assume this will be overpriced at about £25 like the recently released Rocket Knight collection. I forgave them with Jurassic Park (just bought it on sale) as I assumed licence fees had to be paid but these collections are to much and.im.not normally like this regarding games. If treasure can release Guardian Heroes (a while back I know) and even Konami can put out a Castlevania collection with New Generation/Bloodlines on it for 15 quid then so can these as both of those games to buy in the used market set you back £100 or more.
Re: Mini Review: Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin (PS4) - A Monster of a Sequel and a Superb RPG
@Ralizah True, in fact don't forget the 2d poke clones. Nexomon is really good and I have another on my switch but can't recall it's name. I find it amusing that the best part of the newer poke games are the Pokémon models themselves and apparently they aren't made by game freak but out sourced and it shows. Like you I loved Arceus and was hoping the follow up games had the same catch in the wild mechanics without having to battle. It didn't ðŸ˜
Re: Hands On: They're Rough Around the Edges, But It's Awesome to Have PS2 Games Back on PS5, PS4
Well if they release these at the same rate as the PS1 games we'll have about 20 by the end of days 🤣
Re: Brilliant PS5, PS4 Angling Outing Dredge Adding More Monstrosities on 15th August
@Beerheadgamer82 It's better when you upgrade the speed of your boat and I did like it (I bought it on sale just before it went on plus and wanted another fish fix after 80 hours with Dave. Whilst it's enjoyable it isn't as good as it could be or even as it's made out to be. The "fishing" isn't very interactive and the economy after a few hours is almost pointless because it's so easy to make money. Only trophy I have left is getting all abberated fish now and it's just a chore as I didn't realise a certain power up guarantees one. Not a bad game just not as good as Dave imo.
Re: PS5 Packaging No Longer Mentions 8K, Some Fans Accuse Sony of False Advertising
How is it false advertising? The logos merely state that the PS5 is capable of outputting at 8k, HDR and whatever else. To my knowledge Sony does not state that the games and media WILL be in 8k. If people generally thought the PS5 was going to be able to output 4k at 60 or even 8k it's on them because I knew from the off of we get a native 4k game the only way it will be running at 60 or above would be for pixel based or very confined games like a walking simulator. For anyone with an avid interest in games or it being their main hobby I would hope they wouldnt be expecting a game like Horizon to be blasting along at native 8k 120 🤣
Also it's no different to TVs stating they are HDR. Cheaper television sets can in fact display it so again they are lying or falsely advertising but they generally don't get bright enough to have any impact. Internet gonna moan and another article coming from the depths of Reddit....
Re: Octopath Traveler 1 Receives PS5, PS4 Age Ratings Ahead of SGF Show
I just recently played and beat the first on my switch, just a little over 100 odd hours. I loved it but the 2nd game really improved a lot, the beast taming was massively improved for instance, along with party interaction and job diversity. It has a cool night and day mechanic relating to your characters over world skills. Going back from the sequel would be odd so Im glad I didn't get round to 2 until now.
I third the to many games no time, Trying to play rebirth, hifi rush, octo 2 and prince of Persia while still trying to get around to GranBlue. Monster Hunter Stories is out next week and I STILL haven't played Horizon Forbidden West yet 😞
Re: Soapbox: Once a PS4 Console Exclusive, PS5 Players Are Missing a Visual Stunner in Hellblade 2
So all I read is how visually stunning it is and it's stunning visuals and the impressive visuals fidelity that puts you into stun land....annnnd with simple puzzles and some combat.
I'm so sick of games just being graphics now with little to no innovation or use of physics and better ai. Anyone remember Vigilante 8 on PS1 or Red Faction on PS2? I always wanted to see destructible environments like that where you could freely take apart buildings etc. They would have their own "skeletons" like a real structure so you could manipulate them. Well we will never get it because with more power comes more shiny rather than dial back the graphics a gen or 2 but give us something awesome to play with. Games like this are like walking through a still life oil painting, look lovely but nothing bloody moves and interaction is barely possible.
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Adds Community Game Help Feature, Here Are All the Patch Notes
Anyone else wish you could pin more than 5 bloody games to the line? I'm old now and forget I have something installed if it's moved off the conveyor at the top 🤣
Re: Video: Does Fallout 4 Look Better on PS5?
@DennisReynolds I agree with this and in the case of AAA I barely play them anymore. Most of my gaming comes from the awesome indie titles available or AA games.
A lot of it depends on your genre likes and such as well. I'm still gutted that no big studio makes platformers anymore outside Nintendo. No car combat games, no arcade sports titles like the brilliant NBA street and not even a choice in regular sports anymore. I remember when you could buy FIFA or ISS or total football or Sega Worldwide Soccer, Actua Soccer. Very limited now. Sorry went off topic there.
But yeah to get back on point it's incredibly disingenuous to suggest this year so far has been bad. If you don't like the general or the game fine but for actual games worth buying in a general sense there has been loads. I'll add in HiFi Rush and the new dark souls cute crab game is meant to be pretty good as well. Good games from the indie sector and mainstream Devs so far.
Re: EA Japan Exec Criticises Rating Board for Apparent Stellar Blade Special Treatment
@Northern_munkey Seems a strange place with some odd double standards, well at least it looks like it on the surface. All the big booby skimpy anime girls that don't look a day past 10 years old having copious upskirt shots in media is cool beans, but actual sexual material meant for adults gets the private areas pixelated. Then as you say, the down right weird and a lot of times incredibly violent films and then censor that gore in that adult videogame. Quite odd.
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Has Sold Around 2 Million Copies, PS5 Player Data Suggests
I used to be all for exclusives when I was younger even though it was a real pain the arse to miss out on loads and back then it was loads of games. Nowadays I see little point. 1st party I can still get the idea but 3rd party exclusives should just stop now. Do many people even care as much nowadays? Like in the late 90's and mid 2000's quite a few of us, me included would buy multiple consoles and as I've aged and gaming has stagnated so much I reckon most stick to the one and it would have to be something truly special for a consumer to purchase another machine to play 1 title.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for April 2024?
Dave the Diver for sure. I just stick to extra now as premium is still awful for it's variety. Soooo soooo many ps1 games missing. Then again so many of those studios have long since passed and acquiring the rights to certain games is probably to much for them to bother with. I'd love Dino crisis, vigilante 8, destruction derby 2 and Loaded to go up.
Re: Video: Our Favourite PS5 Games of 2024 So Far
Tomb Raider Remastered for me. I have Rebirth, GranBlue and Hi-Fi Rush to play but I've had loads of fun with Tomb Raider. Not sure if that says more about me, the state of the industry or how good Tomb Raider holds up 🫤
Re: Poll: How Much Do You Care About 60fps on PS5?
Am I a weird outlier that can tell the difference between 30 and 60 straight away? Smoother camera pans, overall better movement and more responsive but If I go back to 30 my eyes and brain adjust after about 60 seconds and no longer see the "judder" until I switch back or play another game at 60? Maybe my brain just has to much processing power lol 😆
Re: Stellar Blade's Protagonist's Body Is Based on This Real-World Korean Model
@jedinite Can't believe people are still replying to this. As for woke, I am not. All I'm trying to get across is a general sense of why some, not all, feel that way from hearing these things from, well, women.
It's an old article and no point debating anything on the internet, least not with someone who uses the word "woke"
Re: Not Everyone Is in Love with Dragon's Dogma 2 on PS5
I haven't played this yet but I am intrigued as to why people rave about Elden Rings open world? From what I have played so far it's barely any different fromm any other although I have admittedly only played 20 odd hrs so far.
Re: TopSpin 2K25 Looks Like a Real Winner in PS5, PS4 Gameplay Showcase
Why do the players look so robotic in their facial animation and considering the leap in 10 years the face models are not great. Animation on court looks nice however.
My favourite was the original Top Spin and Segas Virtua Tennis but the game I had a blast playing was Rockstars table tennis, now that was fun.
Re: Empire of the Ants May Be the Most Photorealistic Game on PS5
Let's not kid ourselves, there is no way on earth this thing is looking anything like that on a PS5. Would struggle to even run. It does look photorealistic though and is impressive to the point you would believe it to be a documentary at a glance.
Re: Stellar Blade's Protagonist's Body Is Based on This Real-World Korean Model
@GreatAuk Your examples are bs mate. Yeah people criticise things all them time, everyone's a critic and all that but at the end of the day your criticism means jack if you have no idea or very little experience in what your critiquing to begin with. Look at all the people who do it with sport and yet most of them have no idea whatsoever what it's like to be a professional. So yeah your free to do so and have an opinion of course, whether it's valid or means something is very different.
Of course some women look for financial success or life accomplishments in a man. Not denying it. But how many women do you know that SOLELY look at a male purely for his body. I'm talking real life, not your red pill alpha male crying bs from the internet. Bet you won't find much. Now try it with blokes. The point I was making is most female characters exist just for this, not depth of character, not personality, not ability. Just an image for men to stare at hence why this character has had special attention paid to it's arse which is pretty pathetic in and of itself, but hey, sells the game and gets it out there right?
And don't bring male character design into this because you know full well they are power fantasies but generally they are still developed as people. Marcus Fenix wasn't shat on because he was a grizzled "ugly" character, no he's a bad ass. Aloy comes out and the little men get offended.
Take it as you will, at the end of the day we're just people on the net.
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's 'Creepy' Moogles Are Giving Players the Ick
How slim is news in general when all online sites seem to post is literal Reddit comments and crap from twitter/x? It's all I see in my feeds, little bit of actual gaming news and then 10 features on what some rando moaned about in an online "community"
I MIss the old days of a monthly magazine 🤣
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Uncapped Frame Rate Put to the Test on PS5, Preview Build Averages 31fps
@TrickyDicky99 Nope because the scope and detail of a Rockstar game is another level, same as Red Dead 2. Visually Dragons Dogma 2 doesn't look so amazing to me it's mind blowing and making me think "wow this can barely hit a solid 30 fps" It looks no better than Horizon and Rebirth gives a pretty solid 30 and that has a pretty decent sized map. Could be limitations in the engine perhaps but it's odd there isn't a performance mode. I wonder what will happen with the new Monster Hunter? World was a very good looking game and the new one is open world, with this struggling to keep 30fps that will be slide show city.
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Graphical Problems Are Clear in Digital Foundry Report
Just bad optimisation I would think. Red Dead 2 (even though I personally don't like the game) looks phenomenal even today running at a seemingly steady 30fps on a PS4 and that's 5 years old.
Also remember when is old people (near on 40 here) didn't give a toss about this kind of stuff? (I still don't) and played games with crap pal versions running at 12fps with jank galore. All this micro picking of everything on every game is ridiculous now. Look at this, watch this drop 4fps when in this scene and look at this low res texture and this and that. These are useful if the game is fundamentally broken but generally pretty pointless.
Old man ramble done!!
Re: New Spider-Man 2 Suits for Huge 7th March Update Revealed, Will Cost $5 at First
The only suit worth it in the base game is Miles with the cat in the back pack, even comes out during certain finishers.
Re: 13 More Games Coming to PS Plus Extra, Premium This Month
Will they stop putting remasters/re-releases/retro collections in premium?! It's a joke. The whole premium thing was getting classic games so we all hopes for stuff like legacy or Kain, the resi games, silent hill, twisted metal, maybe vigilante 8, Dino Crisis, wipeout (although the soundtrack would probably halt that) even something like Pandemonium or Destruction Derby. What about some PsP titles or some new PS2 games. Sorry, drives me a teeny bit nutty.
Re: Sony Predicts Slide in PS5 Sales with No Major Existing IPs Planned Before March 2025
Why not at least tell people what the studio's are actually doing? GoT came out near on 4 years ago which if there is a sequel (I hope so) and nothing is due out this year then it's been in development for what? 6 years? Best be a damn good game and not Ghost of Live Service.
Re: Stellar Blade's Protagonist's Body Is Based on This Real-World Korean Model
Got to wonder if blokes had all women look at them just for a "body" and literally nothing else and when that body wanes they get ditched or shat on opinions would probably be different. Also wondering if these same men as present in this comment section are peak male attractiveness to be calling out women like Aloy as "ugly" doubt it. Game looks hack n slash selling of T/A bit judging by what I read through these comments it seems to be working.
Re: Poll: Will You Be Watching the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth State of Play?
Nope, games get shown way way to much and then on top you have leaks and then when the game releases douchebags deliberately spoiling even more. I really liked the first part so was set on playing the next installment anyway, I want to see the way the world works, enemy updates etc when I play it form the first time rather than already know 50% of it as Square don't seem to be able to control their hype train.