@get2sammyb I like the anime art direction. Colorful doesn't = ugly...smdh. It does look dated, but there's no way to create a 24 player online 3-D arena royale game with modern graphics as no one would be able to run the game even with 5G internet lol. π
@Littlemidge1986 Please, the engine is relatively new and TBH nobody has even remotely mastered using the engine yet, it'd be like saying the PS4 was tapped out by 2016 and that we should have just moved on. The engine has loads of untapped potential plus It'd also be unfair for PS4 owners if they started switching focus on a separate PS5 version as there aren't all that many completed full games on the engine yet. There's a fine line between drawing in new players and alienating existing players, PR requires a very delicate balance between the two or your company's reputation turns to mudd.
@Americansamurai1 Right now the PS5 is bottlenecked in its potential growth because of the chip shortages. The PS4 will still have more active players than PS5 for at least another 3-5 years as a result so while I agree that a PS5 port should come eventually, it is not really necessary for the foreseeable future.
Godfall is perfect! Not a game I'd buy, but a game I know I'll get enjoyment out of nonetheless. Lego DC Heroes is a Lego game I actually don't already have so yay! Overall great month if true! π
@ChrisDeku Hard disagree. It sounds more like you're burnt out with the JRPG genre which is fine, but the genre is fine as-is, last thing fans of the genre want is even more games trying to change JRPG's into a completely new and unrelated genre...
@ShogunRok This article is an exception to the no review scores rule right? We don't have to worry if we actually comment what score we'd give the game?
@Residentsteven Yeah, that's what happens when there's literally no stock available for next-gen hardware. People aren't just going to quit gaming because they can't find a PS5. π
@PixelRunner The fact that everything is online IS A HUGE ISSUE. The fact that a hacker can completely shutdown all forms of technology to the point that we could instantly be thrust back to a pre-industrial Revolution level of technology because we think it's a great idea to have it all stored on servers is dumb AF. With climate change, lost old-school technologies, and the fact that 90% plus of the population don't have any skills or knowledge to function without the aid of technology from the past 400 years, it'll be absolute doomsday if this frankly highly probable scenario plays out. π«
@ShogunRok Does this game bring back the traditional equipment system or does it still use the same dreadful RNG tiered equipment system that Xillia introduced. I HATE that system as the RNG gods have forsaken me and I've actually been softlocked with no hope of progression due to horrible RNG draws. π
All I see is Sony pulling a Wii and distancing themselves from traditional games once PSVR 2 launches, which is terrible for those of us who're visually impaired and can't use VR for more than 15 minutes without vomiting our lungs out. π·π€π΅
@Jimmer-jammer See my post above. PSN Profile's website grabs trophy information of all PSN accounts whether they are members of the site or not. Sony would literally have to ban every PSN account to rectify this which would be business sepuku and possible lawsuits and prison time for the Sony execs.
@Snake_V5 On second thought maybe not since PSN Profile's API grabs trophy information of all PSN accounts whether they are members or not. Sony would have to ban every PSN account in that case and I can't imagine the company could survive the backlash they'd get for doing so.
@get2sammyb What's next? Will Sony ban me for having an account on PSN Profiles' website? π€¦
Imagine if they do this to accounts linked to any third party website? They'd ban half of all PlayStation owners and lock them out of all of their digital purchases. That would be...nevermind the words I want to say are ban-worthy lol. π
I'm guessing Discord integration will replace the messages and party apps on PS4 and is likely why Sony dropped messaging support for PS3 and Vita and limited party's on Vita to only allow communication between fellow Vita players.
The update I'm looking forward to is likely the 10.00 update that will add Discord feature integration to PS4. That will basically give us back a feature similar to communities, plus loads more interesting features like emote support for messages on console, etc.
@Onion_Knight My problem with FF XVI is that there are no party members. At this point it sounds more like an open-world adventure game than an actual JRPG...
@Orpheus79V Uh...healthy restocks WHERE?! Seriously even if you try to buy a console online as soon as a restock is announced, it's already sold out within literal seconds...Also there aren't many people who can afford sitting in front of their computer for weeks waiting for a restock for an instant add to cart before it sells out 15 seconds later. π«
@Abeedo Uh...every FF through XII had a fantasy setting, but that is NOT the issue with the newer FF games, the garbo story and or gameplay are the offenders...
FF VII Remake is the only exception and Squeenix buggered that up by screwing PS4 owners by only releasing the first part on PS4 and expecting people to miraculously find a mythical PS5 to play the future parts. Btw most of us aren't rich enough to pay $1,000+ for a scalped PS5, which Squeenix apparently didn't get that memo...
@ShogunRok Ugh...it's time for Squeenix to ruin their other flagship JRPG series just like they did with Final Fantasy and no VII Remake doesn't count as its source material is from a game released before they ruined the series.
@Quintumply Any word on if there will be any differences between the PS4 & PS5 versions of the game such as less CPU AI racers, downgraded physics, etc?
@Quintumply This is why I watch what's coming over to platforms I don't have, because very rarely is a truly amazing indie game ever permanently limited exclusively to said platform. Timed exclusive yes, but usually only for 3-6 months.
@MidnightDragonDX Wow. By your definition PushSquare is trash because they are influencers and happen to have a YouTube channel. Think before you post. π
P.S. I think Push Square is awesome, I'm just pointing out the fallacy of the previous post.
@NEStalgia @Weebleman I understand the sentiment, but as far as Horizon Forbidden West goes, it's been confirmed as a cross-gen title since the day it was officially announced.
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Re: My Hero Academia Is a Free-to-Play PS4 Battle Royale Now
@get2sammyb I like the anime art direction. Colorful doesn't = ugly...smdh. It does look dated, but there's no way to create a 24 player online 3-D arena royale game with modern graphics as no one would be able to run the game even with 5G internet lol. π
Re: The Latest Trails Game, Kuro no Kiseki, Is Already Getting a Sequel in Japan Next Year
We won't get Kuro before Reverie lol.
Re: Publisher Take-Two Forces It Takes Two Dev Hazelight to Abandon Title Trademark
@Fight_Teza_Fight That's a steaming Hot-π© take on this situation. Yes Take-Two has that right, but you're acting like they should sue instantly without giving them a chance to cease-and-desist. Companies that do that should be shutdown as companies like that will sue everyone. Remember Blackberries? We have to call the berry Black Raspberry now because a mobile phone company forced us to rename a freaking fruit that was discovered and named thousands of years earlier because of "copyrights"...
Re: Major Dreams Update Makes Creation Easier with Templates, Adds New Media Molecule Game
@Littlemidge1986 Please, the engine is relatively new and TBH nobody has even remotely mastered using the engine yet, it'd be like saying the PS4 was tapped out by 2016 and that we should have just moved on. The engine has loads of untapped potential plus It'd also be unfair for PS4 owners if they started switching focus on a separate PS5 version as there aren't all that many completed full games on the engine yet. There's a fine line between drawing in new players and alienating existing players, PR requires a very delicate balance between the two or your company's reputation turns to mudd.
Re: Major Dreams Update Makes Creation Easier with Templates, Adds New Media Molecule Game
@Quintumply Hopefully an RPG template will be added in the future.
Re: Major Dreams Update Makes Creation Easier with Templates, Adds New Media Molecule Game
@Americansamurai1 Right now the PS5 is bottlenecked in its potential growth because of the chip shortages. The PS4 will still have more active players than PS5 for at least another 3-5 years as a result so while I agree that a PS5 port should come eventually, it is not really necessary for the foreseeable future.
Re: Major Dreams Update Makes Creation Easier with Templates, Adds New Media Molecule Game
@Quintumply Is it possible to use the templates with created or imported assets? If not that suddenly makes the feature pretty useless.
Re: PS Vita Exclusives Freedom Wars, Soul Sacrifice to Have Servers Shuttered
@MidnightDragonDX Yeah, why choose Christmas of all times? Sony is Grinch confirmed. π‘π ππΏπΉπΊπ
Re: Rumour: PS Plus December 2021 PS5, PS4 Games Leaked Early
Godfall is perfect! Not a game I'd buy, but a game I know I'll get enjoyment out of nonetheless. Lego DC Heroes is a Lego game I actually don't already have so yay! Overall great month if true! π
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Tales of Arise?
@ChrisDeku Hard disagree. It sounds more like you're burnt out with the JRPG genre which is fine, but the genre is fine as-is, last thing fans of the genre want is even more games trying to change JRPG's into a completely new and unrelated genre...
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Tales of Arise?
@ShogunRok This article is an exception to the no review scores rule right? We don't have to worry if we actually comment what score we'd give the game?
Re: Poll: Do You Want Even More PS5 Marvel Games from Sony?
@LiamCroft I've got a letter, hyphen, and a word for you...X-Men!
Re: PS4 Users Report Issues After Downloading Firmware Update 9.00
...welp my PS4 just initialized a factory reset upon booting it up. π½
Re: PS4 Users Report Issues After Downloading Firmware Update 9.00
@Residentsteven Yeah, that's what happens when there's literally no stock available for next-gen hardware. People aren't just going to quit gaming because they can't find a PS5. π
Re: Gran Turismo 7's PS5, PS4 Campaign Requires an Online Connection
@PixelRunner The fact that everything is online IS A HUGE ISSUE. The fact that a hacker can completely shutdown all forms of technology to the point that we could instantly be thrust back to a pre-industrial Revolution level of technology because we think it's a great idea to have it all stored on servers is dumb AF. With climate change, lost old-school technologies, and the fact that 90% plus of the population don't have any skills or knowledge to function without the aid of technology from the past 400 years, it'll be absolute doomsday if this frankly highly probable scenario plays out. π«
Re: Tales of Arise (PS5) - A Fantastic JRPG, and the Strongest Tales Game in a Long Time
@ShogunRok Does this game bring back the traditional equipment system or does it still use the same dreadful RNG tiered equipment system that Xillia introduced. I HATE that system as the RNG gods have forsaken me and I've actually been softlocked with no hope of progression due to horrible RNG draws. π
Re: Firesprite Will Produce PlayStation Exclusive Games Outside Sony's 'Core Offerings'
All I see is Sony pulling a Wii and distancing themselves from traditional games once PSVR 2 launches, which is terrible for those of us who're visually impaired and can't use VR for more than 15 minutes without vomiting our lungs out. π·π€π΅
Re: NBA 2K22's Career Mode Is Now Essentially an Open World RPG on PS5
@get2sammyb Is this PS5 exclusive?
Re: Sony Will Make You Pay Extra to Upgrade Horizon Forbidden West from PS4 to PS5
Shady business is shady, regardless of the company. π
Re: PSN Hit with Account, Social, and PlayStation Store Issues
I was having problems redownloading some Vita games on my PSTV this morning, but everything else seems to be working just fine for me.
Re: PS5, PS4 Playtime Website Encounters Turbulence As Sony Bans Accounts
@Jimmer-jammer See my post above. PSN Profile's website grabs trophy information of all PSN accounts whether they are members of the site or not. Sony would literally have to ban every PSN account to rectify this which would be business sepuku and possible lawsuits and prison time for the Sony execs.
Re: PS5, PS4 Playtime Website Encounters Turbulence As Sony Bans Accounts
@Snake_V5 On second thought maybe not since PSN Profile's API grabs trophy information of all PSN accounts whether they are members or not. Sony would have to ban every PSN account in that case and I can't imagine the company could survive the backlash they'd get for doing so.
Re: PS5, PS4 Playtime Website Encounters Turbulence As Sony Bans Accounts
@get2sammyb What's next? Will Sony ban me for having an account on PSN Profiles' website? π€¦
Imagine if they do this to accounts linked to any third party website? They'd ban half of all PlayStation owners and lock them out of all of their digital purchases. That would be...nevermind the words I want to say are ban-worthy lol. π
Re: Skyrim Anniversary Edition Coming This November for PS5, PS4
We'll be playing this with our minds in 100 years on the PS20 and XBoX2. π
Re: Goodbye Volcano High Delayed to 2022, Narrative Rebooted
@LiamCroft Is the game info above correct? Is this also releasing on PS4?
Re: Sony Completes Acquisition of Anime Giant Crunchyroll
@wiiware Uh...you know Crunchyroll is a legal service right?
Re: PS4 Firmware 9.00 Entering Beta Phase, Will Allow You to View PS5 Trophies
I'm guessing Discord integration will replace the messages and party apps on PS4 and is likely why Sony dropped messaging support for PS3 and Vita and limited party's on Vita to only allow communication between fellow Vita players.
Re: PS4 Firmware 9.00 Entering Beta Phase, Will Allow You to View PS5 Trophies
The update I'm looking forward to is likely the 10.00 update that will add Discord feature integration to PS4. That will basically give us back a feature similar to communities, plus loads more interesting features like emote support for messages on console, etc.
Re: Horizon Forbidden West Delay Rumours are Doing the Rounds, But It's All Speculation
@MFTWrecks Uh...Cyberpunk isn't even a first OR second party Sony release...π
Re: PSN Currently Offline, Down for Many Users
@Voltan Will the Judgement game releasing soon at least be released?
Re: Dragon Quest 12 Will Shape the Future of the Series, Says Square Enix Boss
@Onion_Knight Yeah it was confirmed in an interview awhile back. And that's not something I'm looking forward to.
Re: Dragon Quest 12 Will Shape the Future of the Series, Says Square Enix Boss
@Onion_Knight My problem with FF XVI is that there are no party members. At this point it sounds more like an open-world adventure game than an actual JRPG...
Re: Dragon Quest 12 Will Shape the Future of the Series, Says Square Enix Boss
@Orpheus79V Uh...healthy restocks WHERE?! Seriously even if you try to buy a console online as soon as a restock is announced, it's already sold out within literal seconds...Also there aren't many people who can afford sitting in front of their computer for weeks waiting for a restock for an instant add to cart before it sells out 15 seconds later. π«
Re: Dragon Quest 12 Will Shape the Future of the Series, Says Square Enix Boss
@Abeedo Uh...every FF through XII had a fantasy setting, but that is NOT the issue with the newer FF games, the garbo story and or gameplay are the offenders...
FF VII Remake is the only exception and Squeenix buggered that up by screwing PS4 owners by only releasing the first part on PS4 and expecting people to miraculously find a mythical PS5 to play the future parts. Btw most of us aren't rich enough to pay $1,000+ for a scalped PS5, which Squeenix apparently didn't get that memo...
Re: Dragon Quest 12 Will Shape the Future of the Series, Says Square Enix Boss
@ShogunRok Ugh...it's time for Squeenix to ruin their other flagship JRPG series just like they did with Final Fantasy and no VII Remake doesn't count as its source material is from a game released before they ruined the series.
Re: PS5 Console Exclusive Ghostwire: Tokyo Delayed to Early 2022
@Nepp67 I remember Push Square reporting a PS4 version was in the works sometime last year, but meh.
Re: PS5 Console Exclusive Ghostwire: Tokyo Delayed to Early 2022
Uh...this is a PS exclusive NOT a PS5 exclusive as it's also releasing on PS4. π
Re: PlayStation Website Hints at Gran Turismo 7 PS5 Beta Test
@Quintumply Any word on if there will be any differences between the PS4 & PS5 versions of the game such as less CPU AI racers, downgraded physics, etc?
Re: Judgment Series Future Unclear as Lead Actor's Agency Reportedly Disrupts SEGA's Plans
@nessisonett There are male idols in Japan as well, though their popularity is nowhere near the level of the female idols.
Re: Challenging 3D Platformer Blue Fire Lights Up PS4 on 23rd July
@RBRTMNZ Well PS4 is FAR more powerful than the Switch so I doubt the loading screens will be longer than 4-5 seconds in the PS4 port.
Re: Challenging 3D Platformer Blue Fire Lights Up PS4 on 23rd July
@Quintumply This is why I watch what's coming over to platforms I don't have, because very rarely is a truly amazing indie game ever permanently limited exclusively to said platform. Timed exclusive yes, but usually only for 3-6 months.
Re: Among Us Sneaks to Physical Retail on PS5, PS4 with Three Special Editions
@Quintumply Is this going to be $5 digitally like on the other dedicated game consoles or is it going to have a HUGE Sony tax slapped on it?
Re: Random: Ratchet & Clank Recreation in Dreams Is Yet More Proof of Its Power
So many trolls in the comments section. Smdh...
Re: Action RPG The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails Journeys West on PS4 in 2023
@strawhatcrew Actually the game isn't canon and is standalone so no need to play the other games if you don't want to. π
Re: Deal: Returnal, Demon's Souls, Spider-Man in PS5 Weekend Sale
@get2sammyb The PS4 versions are also on-sale. You know the version that matters to the 95 million PS4 owners who still can't find a PS5? π
Re: Trails of Cold Steel Dev Falcom Has 'Special Announcements' Planned for 40th Anniversary Concert Next Week
Well considering NISA is also promoting this event, we'll be getting localization news.
Re: E3 2021 Timetable: Dates and Times for All Events, Press Conferences, and Live Streams
@MidnightDragonDX Wow. By your definition PushSquare is trash because they are influencers and happen to have a YouTube channel. Think before you post. π
P.S. I think Push Square is awesome, I'm just pointing out the fallacy of the previous post.
Re: Chaos! Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin's Exclusive PS5 Demo Is Broken
Why the fronk was @Get2Sammyb banned?! π
Re: Much of Horizon Forbidden West Development, Playtesting Done on PS4
@BoldAndBrash Have you not watched the cartoons or movies?! Floaty physics are the norm for the Spider-Man series.
Re: Much of Horizon Forbidden West Development, Playtesting Done on PS4
@NEStalgia @Weebleman I understand the sentiment, but as far as Horizon Forbidden West goes, it's been confirmed as a cross-gen title since the day it was officially announced.