@LifeGirl If that was the case about the phone, catching criminals would be easy. Not everyone uses their personal emails or names for every site anyway.
Regardless, the government can't be trusted so why should people trust big corporations either?
Always hated the "A Hideo Kojima game" thing as if he and he alone solely develops a game.
I think Konami getting rid off him was the right thing to do too considering Death Stranding and his obsession with Hollywood celebrities. Meanwhile, even with all those famous faces, it only ships 5 million which in the end is less than Days Gone which was apparently considered a flop by Sony lol.
@UltimateOtaku91 Doesn't look anything like a Soulslike to me. It's not got slow combat and the enemies seem far too intelligent for it to be a Soulslike lol.
@Jackthelad93 The 6? I think Lezie Banzies (or whatever his name is) is the only guy left playing who enjoys this game. I'm sure he'll enjoy this mission too.
@twitchtvpat From what I understand reading the reviews, it's mid at best and does very little to bring anything new to the oversaturated Soulslike genre.
Positive user reviews only seem to say "peak gooner game 10/10, her butt jiggles, game journalists big mad" so that already convinces me the game isn't very good.
@Northern_munkey Agreed. Bethesda has been a bad developer for a long time. The only good "Bethesda" games are games they didn't even develop and only published. That's not their talent.
I wish two were a new Tenchu and Way of the Samurai but the descriptions suggest neither. Shadowcar's description and project title sounds like something in a modern setting which still has peaked my interest if it's a stealth game.
Project Umbra I guess could be a samurai game about hunting yokai so again, I'm still interested but one day I hope they do a new Tenchu or Way of the Samurai.
Stray on Xbox, Death Stranding on Xbox, Final Fantasy 7 Remake on Xbox, 16 on Xbox and now Helldivers 2 on Xbox.
Won't be long before we see God of War and The Last of Us on Xbox too. All these games are already on PC.
I said it before, Nintendo is the last true platform left for actual exclusive games. Sony only fans are beginning to look silly in thinking Playstation was different from Xbox.
@PuppetMaster You don't have to work in the industry for 30+ years to know he's talking bull. Especially when games on a lesser budget have achieved the results he says are impossible. See Yakuza, Judgment and Sleeping Dogs.
Most people have genuine criticism of Rockstar games. For all the technical artistry of their games, they're not exactly the best on a gameplay level or in mission design. Gunplay is pretty much lacking in every game as is melee combat or interesting mission design.
Red Dead Redemption 2 was impressive on a technical level but that's kinda it. I'll take a new Sleeping Dogs any day over the week over GTA6 or RDR3 because I prefer gameplay over irrelevant realism details and tiring realism mechanics. Gameplay is always king.
Just another reason that it's good that Konami fired Kojima.
After changing Snake's appearance in 5, it's clear Kojima would have done so again (if he was still at Konami and making a MGS game) based on whatever new Hollywood celebrity he was suddenly attracted to and this guy certainly doesn't look like Snake, not even a close resemblance.
I'm not particularly a big fan of having celebrities be the face models or voices of characters in games either. We already see enough of them in movies.
Where is Kojima getting his money from to hire all these celebrities anyway? Sony?
@ButterySmooth30FPS I think sticking to console is gross since there's no real benefit. There's been very few exclusives this gen. Only Nintendo has really been doing that. All the third party games that have been carrying PS5 are on PC and run better rather than being stuck at 60 FPS on mid settings.
@MrPeanutbutterz Rise of the Ronin isn't published by Sony on PC. Neither is Nioh.
I get why you and @crackeastwood are so upset though. Playstation doesn't really release many games anymore and the few it does either come a year later to PC (Rise of the Ronin) or release at the same time on PC (Nioh 3).
Meanwhile Xbox has multiple titles that release a year and PlayStation only players, being starved for games, really want to play them instantly as Xbox and PC players are able to do instead of waiting a few months.
After all, just looking at this year, what has PS5 had? Remasters as usual and still no support with PS3 or PS2 games.
5 years and only 7 actual new exclusive titles (Astro Bot, Playroom, Destruction All Stars, Forspoken, Spiderman 2, Infinity Nikki, Returnal and Ratchet & Clank) is pretty bad. Especially bad when you consider half of these titles are flops that nobody brought a PS5 for. Those flops being Infinity Nikki, Returnal, Destruction All Stars and Forspoken.
The other "exclusives" are remakes or needless remasters nobody asked for. Oh and then you have timed exclusives like Black Myth Wukong and Silent Hill 2 Remake which I enjoyed playing on PC day 1, so again, not even really exclusives, just games Sony paid to keep off of Xbox for 1 year.
So for me the only problem in this industry is Sony becoming stagnant. You can't blame Microsoft for Sony's terrible output this generation. Sony was the one who decided to demand all their studios design live service games for the past several years before cancelling them all. Despite this, as we heard from the latest news, Sony seems dead set to continue with this endeavour despite the cancellations and flop of Concord.
Nintendo's output for Switch 2 in one year will surpass Sony's for PS5 and we all already know that.
So in the end £700 for a console isn't worth it when that console doesn't offer many exclusive games. If you can afford that, you can save a little more for a PC, then you two wouldn't be so upset as you get all the games apart from Nintendo ones.
@Vyse_the_Legend
I think you're placing too much faith in Sony when they're as anti consumer as Nintendo and Microsoft. Online would be charged for regardless. If Sony was such a good company though, it wouldn't have done so.
@dskatter Um it's not. You're looking at today's concurrent player count rather than all time peak.
PUBG is #1 at over 3 million. Black Myth Wukong at #2 with over 2 million. Palworld at #3 with over 2 million. Counter Strike 2 at #4 with 1.8 million. Monster Hunter Wilds at #5 with 1.3 million.
Stellar Blade hasn't even topped Starfail which reached 330,723 players concurrently.
This game seems to have done marginally less better than The First Descendant. Anyone thinking it was going to be as big as Elden Ring, Monster Hunter and Black Myth Wukong on PC were just lying to themselves. Sex sells but not that much apparently lol.
@DennisReynolds I want Yara Shahidi as Zelda and Miles Brown as Link but we can't always get what we want.
I don't see why they need to look like the characters either. Link himself should be a customisable character, since he's such a blank slate in most games, who you can change the hair and skin colour of. Nintendo needs more black characters. Instead we're going to get the usual white cast, so I don't see what you're upset about. Tom Holland probably as Link 😴
@dskatter Not sure how that dispels the notion that most of the modders and players of this game are virgins though and I will never stop clowning on them. Lol
@arsmolinarc Yeah, I think Konami did the right thing getting rid of him. He's definitely overrated. It seems all he's capable of is coming up with some interesting ideas but they're always poorly executed and disjointed, leading to very inconsistent plots.
His ego is over the top too and some people act like he alone created everything about Metal Gear, as if there weren't other people working on level design or gameplay.
@PlatinumMikey How is PC gaming hidious? For the majority of games, they look way better on PC, making console gaming look hidious in comparison.
If people can afford a PS5 Pro, they can save more for a PC at this point to not only enjoy PC only releases but also Xbox and PlayStation games. I went to PC and haven't looked back.
@Scottyy There's a optional mode just for Stellar Blade fans where the game is third person and every time the character takes a step, her ass cheeks jiggle and clap together.
@LifeGirl Is it even a good game? Every comment here and elsewhere is just "sex sells" which tells me the game doesn't have anything else going for it.
I think if it weren't for the protagonist, people would be saying it's a 5/10 game.
MLB The Show? Which one? It's a established franchise with a yearly release going all the way back to 2002, Gran Turismo 7 is also a single player game and 13th entry in a long established racing game franchise and Destiny 2 was built off of the first game's reputation as well as Bungie's when Activision was the publisher. Bungie built its reputation making Halo for Xbox.
So Sony's only real success with an actual strictly multiplayer live service game AND one that is a new IP is Helldivers 2.
So after 5 years, they only have one successful game. That's pretty bad.
@ShadowofSparta People forget Rockstar worked on RDR2 after GTAV.
GTAV in 2012, RDR2 6 years later in 2018 and GTAVI 8 years later in 2026. It means maybe 10 years till their next game if you want to go by pattern and technically, RDR is kinda GTA anyway just in an period setting.
Meanwhile Shenmue fans had to wait 17 years for a third game and will probably have to wait 30 for Shenmue 4.
Half Life fans meanwhile have been waiting over 20 years for the third game in that franchise.
People having to wait for GTA 6 is kinda nothing in comparison as they've had RDR2 too. I'm surprised the wait time is even a meme but I imagine most of it comes from kids who have never had to wait long before for a sequel to a game. Most kids nowadays have only played Fortnite, Minecraft and GTAV.
@ATaco In my experience, people who automatically refer to religious people as "religious nuts" are normally the real nuts.
Christians, Jews and Muslims haven't said anything about any video game tackling religion (most of them handle this subject poorly in the first place, i.e Assassin's Creed).
Meanwhile the secular left were acting exactly like incel chuds themselves over Hogwarts Legacy and sending death threats proving they're no different to the right wingers upset about The Last of Us.
Left? Right? Most of us are sick of all your cultural war nonsense and today, every single video game "controversy" is always purely driven by secular ideologies not religious ones. You're clearly from ResetEra which is just as reactionary as KotakuinAction. Why can't any of you just learn to enjoy video games and avoid ones you don't like? It really is that simple.
@TheArt Not a lie, he's speaking the truth. The RDR games, like GTA, are linear in their missions. Unless you're from an alternative universe where those games having branching paths and multiple solutions?
@spazuluwarrior Imagine if Rockstar made GTA like an open world Deus Ex with branching paths, multiple solutions and outcomes or having emergent gameplay during missions. That's kinda what I would have expected by now. Instead we will likely still have the same scripted linear missions where any deviation from the objective results in a mission failure state.
@LifeGirl Agreed. It's the same with how Red Dead Redemption 2 was just the first game still but with new graphics and attention to detail.
Ultimately however, every Rockstar game uses the same formula. All the mission structures are the same and even many mission types are still used (the boring missions where you ride/drive while listening to someone talk, trailing missions, escort missions etc). Any minor deviation from the mission objective ends in "mission failed." Red Dead Redemption 2 was exactly the same.
I can't imagine GTA6 being like an open world Deus Ex with branching paths, multiple solutions and outcomes or having emergent gameplay during missions.
Last GTA I played was San Andreas and after RDR2, I'm not falling for the hype again. GTA6 would be like RDR2 for me I imagine, it'll be fun for the first few hours but would get old fast.
@Judal27 Is it? Even if Concord had cool looking characters + fan service, weren't the rest of the problems to do with the gameplay too? Like the old saying goes: you can't polish a turd. Concord would still have died in 11 days.
That twitter post is from someone who isn't really thinking. 1 million sales isn't enough for a big developer like Square Enix. Even indie games achieve that. It would have to outsell the latest Final Fantasy for his point to even stand.
If it doesn't reach the 7 million sales of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, then this guy just ends up embarrassed.
@Wiceheid The new ones aren't about chem trails and black helicopters though. Yeah the conspiracy stuff is there but they're also heavily about artificial intelligence, terrorism and societal effects of augmentation. This stuff has been relevant since the release of Mankind Divided in 2016. It was the perfect time for a Deus Ex game then and still is now.
In fact, some of the themes being explored actually being relevant to real world current society makes the last Deus Ex games all the better. Art and media is allowed to explore real world issues.
@Gr8VngnzN4esAngr Prey sold 1.5 million copies and both Dishonoured games have sold 8 million. Deus Ex on the other hand with the last two entries have sold 12 million. Deus Ex is the bigger franchise.
However, if you look, publishers expect bigger numbers than these. Dishonoured 2 was considered a flop that didn't meet sales expectations either. Earlier this year in January, former Arkane Lyon designer Julien Eveillé confirmed this. Raphaël Colantonio, the former co-founder of Arkane, isn't even confident there will ever be a Dishonored 3 given that Bethesda was disappointed in the sales of the second game.
This is the problem publishers see with the immersive sim genre. They do sell well as far as we all regard but not to publishers who want these games to reach 10 million copies sold.
And really? Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come 2? They haven't inspired anything yet and I'm not sure what influence BG3 would have since it's hardly done anything new for the CRPG genre. Even Kingdom Come 2, outside of its combat systems has hardly done anything new for open world RPGs. There doesn't seem to be many games influenced by the first KC game so I think that says it all.
And where's Ninja Gaiden, Metroid, Devil May Cry or Resident Evil? Not a single Castlevania? You can't add Dark Souls but ignore the very games that clearly influenced it (NG, Castlevania, Metroid).
No one can tell me that they don't see the Castlevania and Metroid influence especially with the first game having a interconnected world like a Metroidvania game and speaking of that, these two games created that genre just as Soulslike is named because of Demon's Souls inventing that.
Skyrim, what's that doing there? It wasn't innovative in any possible way and did nothing new apart from dumb down the genre. And if we can choose multiple games from a franchise, then I'd say the first Zelda game should be there for being one of the first games to popularise the open world formula.
No Deus Ex or System Shock either... honestly we need a bigger list than just 21 games.
@ButterySmooth30FPS Nintendo fans don't beg for remasters as much as Snoybabies though and when they do ask for remasters, it's of genuinely old games from generations ago that many of us missed out on.
But who missed out on Days Gone, The Last of Us, Bloodborne, Ghost of Tsushima etc? They are also backwards compatible. The Last of Us 2 remastered and Days Gone remastered don't even look any different unless you squint your eyes.
And it's 2025 and the PS5 is still lacking big exclusives. The funny truth is, the Nintendo Switch 2 will probably have more first party exclusives on its system next year than the PS5 from its whole lifetime, most of which are already on PC now.
That means PS5 is left with Dark Farts Bollywood Smell edition, a remake of Demon's Souls, two Astro Bot games, a couple of VR games, some random mobile type shovelware and future PC releases (Ghost of Yotai and Death Stranding 2). That's after 5 years...
@Max_the_German I wouldn't have even known this weird game existed if not for this article and I suspect many are in the same boat as me.
So I doubt people who don't play games would think of or mention some random niche sexual Japanese game upon hearing someone say "yeah I play video games." They'd probably think of Call of Duty, Fortnite and FIFA.
And if they thought of or mention some weird sexual games in response to someone saying they play games, that says more about them or the company they keep. They're practically just outing themselves. It's like telling someone you're a big movie fan and their response is "oh, like porn?" I'd be the one looking at them weirdly and making judgement on them lol.
At the same time, Nintendo and other Japanese companies like Sega also put in LGBT characters where they are literal caricatures there to be laughed at. Take Vilia, the crossdresser character in Zelda Breath of the Wild: Link is required to talk to Vilia to acquire the outfit to disguise himself as a woman to enter Gerudo town, the whole interaction with this character plays out as a joke at their expense with Link also being able to say in dialogue "You're a man!" and the cutscene also playing it for laughs by having the wind blow Villia's face mask off after he makes a comment about being a woman, with him quickly hiding his face and Link shaking his head upon seeing this in third hand embarrassment.
If we consider the character as actually transgender, then that means Link is even able to purposely mock their identity by saying they're still a man just for player laughs.
Bolson meanwhile is portrayed as potentially gay for laughs, being a literal stereotypical flamboyant gay caricature that would be considered offensive or old fashioned if portrayed in any Western media.
SEGA has also featured such characters in the Yakuza series. Some portrayed relatively normally and without mockery like in that one sub story in Yakuza 3 but the rest are there for the butt of jokes. Yakuza 1 & 0 especially featured a few who Kiryu will happily fight against despite them identifying as transgender women. Most of these characters are played for laughs or even portrayed as sexual assaulters like the one in the The Truth about Beauty sub story in the first game.
Western developers wouldn't do any of these things. Japanese developers do because as you said, relatively few people in Japan really care enough to make it an issue.
@Ilyn This game has also been rebooted in development like three times right? That's obviously never a good sign. Meanwhile The Chinese Room has never done a game before that has any gameplay beyond walking. Of course they could suprise everyone here but they still seem like a strange developer to pick for a game with combat in it.
Haven't played the first so the least I would expect out of it is a decent narrative driven action RPG. However I don't have high hopes. I'll be surprised if it's good.
I doubt anything will be announced for the anniversary. I hope after this, those constantly asking for a remake or remaster finally stop. Because it'll be clear nobody is listening.
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Re: GTA 6 Might Require Age Verification, as GTA Online Checks Leak
@LifeGirl If that was the case about the phone, catching criminals would be easy. Not everyone uses their personal emails or names for every site anyway.
Regardless, the government can't be trusted so why should people trust big corporations either?
Re: Sun's Out, Guns Out Is the Mantra of Street Fighter 6's New PS5, PS4 Outfits
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Re: 'No, I Won't': Kojima Rejects Playing Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake
Always hated the "A Hideo Kojima game" thing as if he and he alone solely develops a game.
I think Konami getting rid off him was the right thing to do too considering Death Stranding and his obsession with Hollywood celebrities. Meanwhile, even with all those famous faces, it only ships 5 million which in the end is less than Days Gone which was apparently considered a flop by Sony lol.
Re: Monster Hunter Wilds' Struggling Sales Drag Capcom Stock Price Through the Mud
Not surprising considering the negative reception towards the game. It initially sold on the brand name alone but that doesn't help for the long run.
That's two big failures from Capcom now. First Dragon's Dogma 2 and now Monster Hunter Wilds. Capcom is Crapcom again.
Re: Phantom Blade Zero Looks Utterly Outstanding in Over 20 Minutes of PS5 Gameplay
@UltimateOtaku91 Doesn't look anything like a Soulslike to me. It's not got slow combat and the enemies seem far too intelligent for it to be a Soulslike lol.
Re: Borderlands 4 Ready for PS5 Launch as Promising FPS Goes Gold
Cringelands 4? Not interested.
Re: Massive PS5 Failure MindsEye Delays Promised Hitman Level
@Jackthelad93 The 6? I think Lezie Banzies (or whatever his name is) is the only guy left playing who enjoys this game. I'm sure he'll enjoy this mission too.
Re: Street Fighter 6 Community Rocked by AI Art Controversy
Lilithascends? More like LilithDescends...or LilithDeletesHisAccount.
Re: Wuchang Tech Issues Acknowledged, First Patch Coming Soon
@twitchtvpat From what I understand reading the reviews, it's mid at best and does very little to bring anything new to the oversaturated Soulslike genre.
Positive user reviews only seem to say "peak gooner game 10/10, her butt jiggles, game journalists big mad" so that already convinces me the game isn't very good.
Re: Best Bethesda Games on PS5
@Northern_munkey Agreed. Bethesda has been a bad developer for a long time. The only good "Bethesda" games are games they didn't even develop and only published. That's not their talent.
Re: Octopath Traveler Maker to Reveal Trio of New Titles at Tokyo Game Show
I wish two were a new Tenchu and Way of the Samurai but the descriptions suggest neither. Shadowcar's description and project title sounds like something in a modern setting which still has peaked my interest if it's a stealth game.
Project Umbra I guess could be a samurai game about hunting yokai so again, I'm still interested but one day I hope they do a new Tenchu or Way of the Samurai.
Re: 'I Much Prefer PS Plus' Lifecycle Management Strategy': Devs Weigh in on Crippling Xbox Game Pass Impact
@cusman That doesn't explain why Playstation is also porting and selling their games on Xbox and PC too.
Re: Reaction: Helldivers 2 on Xbox Signals Another Unexpected But Not Overly Surprising Shift in Strategy from Sony
Stray on Xbox, Death Stranding on Xbox, Final Fantasy 7 Remake on Xbox, 16 on Xbox and now Helldivers 2 on Xbox.
Won't be long before we see God of War and The Last of Us on Xbox too. All these games are already on PC.
I said it before, Nintendo is the last true platform left for actual exclusive games. Sony only fans are beginning to look silly in thinking Playstation was different from Xbox.
Re: Asian Skin Is Too Beautiful to Accurately Portray in Games, Kojima Implies
@PuppetMaster You don't have to work in the industry for 30+ years to know he's talking bull. Especially when games on a lesser budget have achieved the results he says are impossible. See Yakuza, Judgment and Sleeping Dogs.
Re: You Can Now Launch First-Party PlayStation Games Through the Xbox PC App
I think being able to launch Steam games on the next Xbox would be the natural next step forward for the brand but I guess time will tell.
Re: 'This Isn't What I Expected': MindsEye Actor Weighs in on PS5 Flop's Shoddy Launch
@Questionable_Duck @wildcat_kickz
Most people have genuine criticism of Rockstar games. For all the technical artistry of their games, they're not exactly the best on a gameplay level or in mission design. Gunplay is pretty much lacking in every game as is melee combat or interesting mission design.
Red Dead Redemption 2 was impressive on a technical level but that's kinda it. I'll take a new Sleeping Dogs any day over the week over GTA6 or RDR3 because I prefer gameplay over irrelevant realism details and tiring realism mechanics. Gameplay is always king.
Re: 'This Isn't What I Expected': MindsEye Actor Weighs in on PS5 Flop's Shoddy Launch
@LifeGirl I would say Sleeping Dogs surpassed every GTA game. Likeable protagonist and good gameplay too.
Re: Even Death Stranding 2's Luca Marinelli Was Fooled by His Solid Snake Appearance
Just another reason that it's good that Konami fired Kojima.
After changing Snake's appearance in 5, it's clear Kojima would have done so again (if he was still at Konami and making a MGS game) based on whatever new Hollywood celebrity he was suddenly attracted to and this guy certainly doesn't look like Snake, not even a close resemblance.
I'm not particularly a big fan of having celebrities be the face models or voices of characters in games either. We already see enough of them in movies.
Where is Kojima getting his money from to hire all these celebrities anyway? Sony?
Re: The Next Xbox Is a PC, So What Does That Mean for PS6?
@ButterySmooth30FPS I think sticking to console is gross since there's no real benefit. There's been very few exclusives this gen. Only Nintendo has really been doing that. All the third party games that have been carrying PS5 are on PC and run better rather than being stuck at 60 FPS on mid settings.
Re: 'Competition Pushes Us to Innovate': Sony Weighs in on Xbox's Potential Exit from Console Business
@MrPeanutbutterz Rise of the Ronin isn't published by Sony on PC. Neither is Nioh.
I get why you and @crackeastwood are so upset though. Playstation doesn't really release many games anymore and the few it does either come a year later to PC (Rise of the Ronin) or release at the same time on PC (Nioh 3).
Meanwhile Xbox has multiple titles that release a year and PlayStation only players, being starved for games, really want to play them instantly as Xbox and PC players are able to do instead of waiting a few months.
After all, just looking at this year, what has PS5 had? Remasters as usual and still no support with PS3 or PS2 games.
5 years and only 7 actual new exclusive titles (Astro Bot, Playroom, Destruction All Stars, Forspoken, Spiderman 2, Infinity Nikki, Returnal and Ratchet & Clank) is pretty bad. Especially bad when you consider half of these titles are flops that nobody brought a PS5 for. Those flops being Infinity Nikki, Returnal, Destruction All Stars and Forspoken.
The other "exclusives" are remakes or needless remasters nobody asked for. Oh and then you have timed exclusives like Black Myth Wukong and Silent Hill 2 Remake which I enjoyed playing on PC day 1, so again, not even really exclusives, just games Sony paid to keep off of Xbox for 1 year.
So for me the only problem in this industry is Sony becoming stagnant. You can't blame Microsoft for Sony's terrible output this generation. Sony was the one who decided to demand all their studios design live service games for the past several years before cancelling them all. Despite this, as we heard from the latest news, Sony seems dead set to continue with this endeavour despite the cancellations and flop of Concord.
Nintendo's output for Switch 2 in one year will surpass Sony's for PS5 and we all already know that.
So in the end £700 for a console isn't worth it when that console doesn't offer many exclusive games. If you can afford that, you can save a little more for a PC, then you two wouldn't be so upset as you get all the games apart from Nintendo ones.
@Vyse_the_Legend
I think you're placing too much faith in Sony when they're as anti consumer as Nintendo and Microsoft. Online would be charged for regardless. If Sony was such a good company though, it wouldn't have done so.
Re: Stellar Blade's PC Mods Do More Than Remove Eve's Nanosuit
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Re: Stellar Blade Goes Nuclear on PC, Obliterates All Sony Single Player Records on Steam
@dskatter Um it's not. You're looking at today's concurrent player count rather than all time peak.
PUBG is #1 at over 3 million.
Black Myth Wukong at #2 with over 2 million.
Palworld at #3 with over 2 million.
Counter Strike 2 at #4 with 1.8 million.
Monster Hunter Wilds at #5 with 1.3 million.
Stellar Blade hasn't even topped Starfail which reached 330,723 players concurrently.
This game seems to have done marginally less better than The First Descendant. Anyone thinking it was going to be as big as Elden Ring, Monster Hunter and Black Myth Wukong on PC were just lying to themselves. Sex sells but not that much apparently lol.
Re: Sony's Legend of Zelda Movie Releasing a Little Later to Make It 'As Good As It Can Be'
@DennisReynolds I want Yara Shahidi as Zelda and Miles Brown as Link but we can't always get what we want.
I don't see why they need to look like the characters either. Link himself should be a customisable character, since he's such a blank slate in most games, who you can change the hair and skin colour of. Nintendo needs more black characters. Instead we're going to get the usual white cast, so I don't see what you're upset about. Tom Holland probably as Link 😴
Re: PC Modders Are Already Making Skimpy New Stellar Blade Outfits, And Eve's Body Double Wants to Model Them
@dskatter Not sure how that dispels the notion that most of the modders and players of this game are virgins though and I will never stop clowning on them. Lol
Re: Stellar Blade Dev Massively Upgrades 3D Scanning Tech Ahead of Sequel
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Re: Japanese VTuber Usada Pekora Is in Death Stranding 2, and We Don't Know Why
@arsmolinarc Yeah, I think Konami did the right thing getting rid of him. He's definitely overrated. It seems all he's capable of is coming up with some interesting ideas but they're always poorly executed and disjointed, leading to very inconsistent plots.
His ego is over the top too and some people act like he alone created everything about Metal Gear, as if there weren't other people working on level design or gameplay.
Re: Sony Temporarily Cuts the Price of PS5 in China as It Seeks to Build Market Share
@PlatinumMikey How is PC gaming hidious? For the majority of games, they look way better on PC, making console gaming look hidious in comparison.
If people can afford a PS5 Pro, they can save more for a PC at this point to not only enjoy PC only releases but also Xbox and PlayStation games. I went to PC and haven't looked back.
Re: Sony's PS5 Indie Program Might Have Found Another Winner
@Scottyy There's a optional mode just for Stellar Blade fans where the game is third person and every time the character takes a step, her ass cheeks jiggle and clap together.
Re: Stellar Blade PC Appears Poised to Be a Humongous Hit
@LifeGirl Is it even a good game? Every comment here and elsewhere is just "sex sells" which tells me the game doesn't have anything else going for it.
I think if it weren't for the protagonist, people would be saying it's a 5/10 game.
Re: Fairgames, One of Sony's Last Live-Service PS5 Games, Loses Studio Founder Amid Internal Worries
@themightyant
MLB The Show? Which one? It's a established franchise with a yearly release going all the way back to 2002, Gran Turismo 7 is also a single player game and 13th entry in a long established racing game franchise and Destiny 2 was built off of the first game's reputation as well as Bungie's when Activision was the publisher. Bungie built its reputation making Halo for Xbox.
So Sony's only real success with an actual strictly multiplayer live service game AND one that is a new IP is Helldivers 2.
So after 5 years, they only have one successful game. That's pretty bad.
Re: GTA 6 May Not Have Been in Dev As Long As You Think
@ShadowofSparta People forget Rockstar worked on RDR2 after GTAV.
GTAV in 2012, RDR2 6 years later in 2018 and GTAVI 8 years later in 2026. It means maybe 10 years till their next game if you want to go by pattern and technically, RDR is kinda GTA anyway just in an period setting.
Meanwhile Shenmue fans had to wait 17 years for a third game and will probably have to wait 30 for Shenmue 4.
Half Life fans meanwhile have been waiting over 20 years for the third game in that franchise.
People having to wait for GTA 6 is kinda nothing in comparison as they've had RDR2 too. I'm surprised the wait time is even a meme but I imagine most of it comes from kids who have never had to wait long before for a sequel to a game. Most kids nowadays have only played Fortnite, Minecraft and GTAV.
Re: Intergalactic PS5 Star 'Bootcamp-ing' with Neil Druckmann to Ignore the Haters
@ATaco In my experience, people who automatically refer to religious people as "religious nuts" are normally the real nuts.
Christians, Jews and Muslims haven't said anything about any video game tackling religion (most of them handle this subject poorly in the first place, i.e Assassin's Creed).
Meanwhile the secular left were acting exactly like incel chuds themselves over Hogwarts Legacy and sending death threats proving they're no different to the right wingers upset about The Last of Us.
Left? Right? Most of us are sick of all your cultural war nonsense and today, every single video game "controversy" is always purely driven by secular ideologies not religious ones. You're clearly from ResetEra which is just as reactionary as KotakuinAction. Why can't any of you just learn to enjoy video games and avoid ones you don't like? It really is that simple.
Re: Mafia: The Old Country Looks Glorious in Gameplay Trailer, PS5 Release Date Confirmed
@TheArt Not a lie, he's speaking the truth. The RDR games, like GTA, are linear in their missions. Unless you're from an alternative universe where those games having branching paths and multiple solutions?
Re: Meet the Cast of GTA 6, PS5's Craziest Group of Criminal Misfits Yet
@spazuluwarrior Imagine if Rockstar made GTA like an open world Deus Ex with branching paths, multiple solutions and outcomes or having emergent gameplay during missions. That's kinda what I would have expected by now. Instead we will likely still have the same scripted linear missions where any deviation from the objective results in a mission failure state.
Re: Meet the Cast of GTA 6, PS5's Craziest Group of Criminal Misfits Yet
@LifeGirl Agreed. It's the same with how Red Dead Redemption 2 was just the first game still but with new graphics and attention to detail.
Ultimately however, every Rockstar game uses the same formula. All the mission structures are the same and even many mission types are still used (the boring missions where you ride/drive while listening to someone talk, trailing missions, escort missions etc). Any minor deviation from the mission objective ends in "mission failed." Red Dead Redemption 2 was exactly the same.
I can't imagine GTA6 being like an open world Deus Ex with branching paths, multiple solutions and outcomes or having emergent gameplay during missions.
Last GTA I played was San Andreas and after RDR2, I'm not falling for the hype again. GTA6 would be like RDR2 for me I imagine, it'll be fun for the first few hours but would get old fast.
Re: This Is One Way for PS5 Sensation Marvel Rivals to Print Money
@AhmadSumadi Yeah, it's hypocrisy and imo, micro transactions of any type suck
Re: This Is One Way for PS5 Sensation Marvel Rivals to Print Money
@Judal27 Is it? Even if Concord had cool looking characters + fan service, weren't the rest of the problems to do with the gameplay too? Like the old saying goes: you can't polish a turd. Concord would still have died in 11 days.
Re: Sony's Long Anticipated Lost Soul Aside Has Been Delayed Again on PS5, PC
This is a developer who clearly cares about having a polished final product, I imagine the optimisation should be good too on both console and PC.
Re: Expedition 33's Sublime Success Sparks Chatter About Final Fantasy's Future
That twitter post is from someone who isn't really thinking. 1 million sales isn't enough for a big developer like Square Enix. Even indie games achieve that. It would have to outsell the latest Final Fantasy for his point to even stand.
If it doesn't reach the 7 million sales of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, then this guy just ends up embarrassed.
Re: Rumour: New Deus Ex Game Pitched, But Publishers Aren't Biting
@Wiceheid The new ones aren't about chem trails and black helicopters though. Yeah the conspiracy stuff is there but they're also heavily about artificial intelligence, terrorism and societal effects of augmentation. This stuff has been relevant since the release of Mankind Divided in 2016. It was the perfect time for a Deus Ex game then and still is now.
In fact, some of the themes being explored actually being relevant to real world current society makes the last Deus Ex games all the better. Art and media is allowed to explore real world issues.
Re: Rumour: New Deus Ex Game Pitched, But Publishers Aren't Biting
@Gr8VngnzN4esAngr Prey sold 1.5 million copies and both Dishonoured games have sold 8 million. Deus Ex on the other hand with the last two entries have sold 12 million. Deus Ex is the bigger franchise.
However, if you look, publishers expect bigger numbers than these. Dishonoured 2 was considered a flop that didn't meet sales expectations either. Earlier this year in January, former Arkane Lyon designer Julien Eveillé confirmed this. Raphaël Colantonio, the former co-founder of Arkane, isn't even confident there will ever be a Dishonored 3 given that Bethesda was disappointed in the sales of the second game.
This is the problem publishers see with the immersive sim genre. They do sell well as far as we all regard but not to publishers who want these games to reach 10 million copies sold.
Re: Dodgy List of Most Influential Games Ever Puts 2-Month-Old RPG in the Top 10
Some games on the list make sense.
And really? Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come 2? They haven't inspired anything yet and I'm not sure what influence BG3 would have since it's hardly done anything new for the CRPG genre. Even Kingdom Come 2, outside of its combat systems has hardly done anything new for open world RPGs. There doesn't seem to be many games influenced by the first KC game so I think that says it all.
And where's Ninja Gaiden, Metroid, Devil May Cry or Resident Evil? Not a single Castlevania? You can't add Dark Souls but ignore the very games that clearly influenced it (NG, Castlevania, Metroid).
No one can tell me that they don't see the Castlevania and Metroid influence especially with the first game having a interconnected world like a Metroidvania game and speaking of that, these two games created that genre just as Soulslike is named because of Demon's Souls inventing that.
Skyrim, what's that doing there? It wasn't innovative in any possible way and did nothing new apart from dumb down the genre. And if we can choose multiple games from a franchise, then I'd say the first Zelda game should be there for being one of the first games to popularise the open world formula.
No Deus Ex or System Shock either... honestly we need a bigger list than just 21 games.
Re: Talking Point: What Are Your Thoughts on Potential $80 PS5 Games?
@Nem You could always sail the high seas if you're on PC...
Re: Reaction: Switch 2 Looks Solid But the Many PS5, PS4 Ports Won't Spook Sony Yet
@ButterySmooth30FPS Nintendo fans don't beg for remasters as much as Snoybabies though and when they do ask for remasters, it's of genuinely old games from generations ago that many of us missed out on.
But who missed out on Days Gone, The Last of Us, Bloodborne, Ghost of Tsushima etc? They are also backwards compatible. The Last of Us 2 remastered and Days Gone remastered don't even look any different unless you squint your eyes.
And it's 2025 and the PS5 is still lacking big exclusives. The funny truth is, the Nintendo Switch 2 will probably have more first party exclusives on its system next year than the PS5 from its whole lifetime, most of which are already on PC now.
That means PS5 is left with Dark Farts Bollywood Smell edition, a remake of Demon's Souls, two Astro Bot games, a couple of VR games, some random mobile type shovelware and future PC releases (Ghost of Yotai and Death Stranding 2). That's after 5 years...
Re: Stylish Archery the Focus of New Elden Ring Nightreign Character
Bloodborne spiritual successor just got announced exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2 lol.
Re: One of the Strangest Games Ever Made Is Officially Coming to PS5, PS4
@Max_the_German I wouldn't have even known this weird game existed if not for this article and I suspect many are in the same boat as me.
So I doubt people who don't play games would think of or mention some random niche sexual Japanese game upon hearing someone say "yeah I play video games." They'd probably think of Call of Duty, Fortnite and FIFA.
And if they thought of or mention some weird sexual games in response to someone saying they play games, that says more about them or the company they keep. They're practically just outing themselves. It's like telling someone you're a big movie fan and their response is "oh, like porn?" I'd be the one looking at them weirdly and making judgement on them lol.
Re: Japan's Game Industry on Impressive Rise as Western AAA Development Struggles
@RoomWithaMoose
At the same time, Nintendo and other Japanese companies like Sega also put in LGBT characters where they are literal caricatures there to be laughed at. Take Vilia, the crossdresser character in Zelda Breath of the Wild: Link is required to talk to Vilia to acquire the outfit to disguise himself as a woman to enter Gerudo town, the whole interaction with this character plays out as a joke at their expense with Link also being able to say in dialogue "You're a man!" and the cutscene also playing it for laughs by having the wind blow Villia's face mask off after he makes a comment about being a woman, with him quickly hiding his face and Link shaking his head upon seeing this in third hand embarrassment.
If we consider the character as actually transgender, then that means Link is even able to purposely mock their identity by saying they're still a man just for player laughs.
Bolson meanwhile is portrayed as potentially gay for laughs, being a literal stereotypical flamboyant gay caricature that would be considered offensive or old fashioned if portrayed in any Western media.
SEGA has also featured such characters in the Yakuza series. Some portrayed relatively normally and without mockery like in that one sub story in Yakuza 3 but the rest are there for the butt of jokes. Yakuza 1 & 0 especially featured a few who Kiryu will happily fight against despite them identifying as transgender women. Most of these characters are played for laughs or even portrayed as sexual assaulters like the one in the The Truth about Beauty sub story in the first game.
Western developers wouldn't do any of these things. Japanese developers do because as you said, relatively few people in Japan really care enough to make it an issue.
Re: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Bites an ESRB Rating
@Ilyn This game has also been rebooted in development like three times right? That's obviously never a good sign. Meanwhile The Chinese Room has never done a game before that has any gameplay beyond walking. Of course they could suprise everyone here but they still seem like a strange developer to pick for a game with combat in it.
Haven't played the first so the least I would expect out of it is a decent narrative driven action RPG. However I don't have high hopes. I'll be surprised if it's good.
Re: A Song About PlayStation Is Topping the Charts in Japan
The only good song about Playstation is the "ONE GAME I DON'T KNOW WHY" song.
Re: Bloodborne Fans Wait with Bated Breath as Iconic PS4 Exclusive Turns 10 Today
I doubt anything will be announced for the anniversary. I hope after this, those constantly asking for a remake or remaster finally stop. Because it'll be clear nobody is listening.