Ultimapunch

I’m a Nintendo boy. But ain’t nobody can argue against the PS1 being one of the Goats.

Hey. I’ll be really happy if this is true. Long live physical media!

If you like big budget games subscriptions should be your biggest enemy.

Glad I got one post election and pre inauguration.

The gameplay mechanics are the best in the series. And the story is the worst. So it’s kind of a mixed bag overall.

What does that even mean? Does that mean it sold over a million copies?

So third person really is like the easy mode.

First person is for horror fans. Third person is like if there were an easy mode in Dark Souls.

Is anyone still in denial about why these prices are going up?

@PuppetMaster Capcom really is the gold standard of making their games available on newer platforms. Literally all mainline RE games from the original to 4 Remake are playable on the PS5. Gonna do a run through of all of them before Requiem comes.

I’m just glad I don’t need to boot up the old PS3 to play these anymore.

Everything he said is right. And the only reason Playstation is making record profits now is because after 5 years the PS5 finally has enough games to warrant purchasing. If Sony had known what they were doing back in 2019 and 2020 it would have taken half the time to get there.

Does it have a disc drive? Might skip it if it doesn’t.

And yet people on this website are going to keep complaining that Sony spends too much time on the franchise.

“Some of you will lose your jobs. But that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”
-Lord Microsoft

Come now people. Making money off of things like this is the lowest hanging fruit for a company. It's merch and related things like this that help keep video games from costing over $100. It's like complaining that Disney makes toys based on their most beloved movies. It's the business. And it really doesn't actually harm anyone that this exists. Don't want it? Don't buy it. Think it's overpriced? Wait for a sale. Think it's the coolest thing ever? Buy it at full price. It really is that simple folks.

I feel bad for anyone who doesn’t have enough self respect to not spend their hard earned money on games developed with AI. If companies are going to charge $70 for a game they should at least have earned that higher price.

The all digital nightmare creeps ever closer.

Putting big budget first party games immediately on a subscription at release is a totally unsustainable model. Either big budget games stop being made or the price of the subscription goes up big time. There’s a reason Apple tv puts their big budget movies in theaters before they put it on their streaming service.

In an alternate universe Sonic Mania 2 sold 20m.

Even on PushIncel only 12% didn’t like it. Yet I can guarantee people are still going to keep pretending that the vocal minority is actually the majority on this.

If they don't have an option for physical games I won't be buying one. If I want to play on a PC I'll just buy a PC.

I miss when they didn’t charge for online.

That's interesting. The most amazing experience I've had on the PS5 was Astro Bot. A game that really could have been a PS3 game. Sony needs to remember that they won the PS1 and PS2 generations not by having the strongest hardware but by having the best games.

A guy ran on raising prices for everything. Everyone voted for him. And now prices are raised. Welcome to democracy folks. Vote smarter next time.

And if you're not American you should definitely rely on America less because you get higher prices when we're the ones making the mistakes.

@UltimateOtaku91 Not only that but subscriptions make big budget games not worth the investment. Nintendo can spend 6 years making a Zelda game because they know that the investment will be worth it when the game comes out and sells millions of copies. If it can't be sold individually and goes straight to a subscription service, it makes it extremely risky to spend so much time and money on just one project that might not bump subscription numbers that significantly.

It is now completely proven that subscription models disincentivize making big budget projects. We even had Netflix executives admit that releasing Glass Onion on Netflix without a theatrical release left money on the table. If people like games that take years to make like Breath of the Wild or God of War then they should be 100% against subscription models becoming the norm.

I never thought I’d see the day where both Resident Evil and Silent Hill are simultaneously healthy again.

Sucked until RE9. Then was 10/10.

The Resident Evil devs are some of the very few AAA devs I still fully trust.

No Resident Evil 9

3/10

@BAMozzy Most games do not require downloads. Most games do have day one patches but you are not required to download them to start the game for most disc games. Also Ultra HD blu rays can hold 100GB of data. So storage isn't the reason only 85MB are on the disc. It's just sad to me how much the industry seemingly now holds physical media in contempt.

I'm seriously considering skipping this one completely because of the whole 85MB on the disc thing.

Nice to see a real video game do well.

This is how I'm handling these physical releases that don't have the game data on them going forward:

I could just suck it up and buy them. This is bad because it incentivizes companies to continue to release physical versions with no game data. I could just buy the game digitally instead. This is even worse. Game companies want physical media to die. They want there to be no second hand market to compete with for prices. They want you to pay exorbitant fees for games you don't get to own. Buying the game digitally is exactly what game companies want. So I won't do that either. Now the only benefit these faux physical versions have over full digital is that they can be resold. So. I'll buy them from the second hand market. I'll wait a few days after release and buy them for a few bucks below full price from a second hand gaming store. This is the best available option. I still get to support a brick and mortar store. I get to play the new Doom close to release. And I don't directly support scummy companies and their scummy ways. It certainly would be better if they actually just released a full physical version. But this is the best option that is available to me in these circumstances.

I will say though that if companies ever go full subscription model where you don't even get to own the digital copies of games. I will drop the hobby full stop and just play my old games I already have.

I might make it my personal policy to only pay full price for new games that have a real physical release. I want to play Doom. But if they're going to release a fake physical version like this without transparency. I'll happily wait until the digital version goes on sale. Now something like Donkey Kong Bananza? I'll gladly pay $70 to play a game like that day one on a real physical release.

Anyone willing to pay $80 for a Borderlands game deserves to be charged $80.

New Vegas because Obsidian >>>>>>>> Bethesda

People pretending that this isn't review bombing from angry gamers are wrong. People who watch films, prestige TV, or read books for pleasure have way higher levels of narrative understanding than comparatively low narrative IQ gamers. Killing off main characters is literally not at all uncommon in stories. It just isn't. Anyone who's ever read a few decent books from cover to cover, watched a few decent films, or watched a few decent TV shows can tell you that. The issue is that gamers are still viscerally upset that a buff woman killed their favorite video game character and are review bombing the show to try and make themselves feel better.

The only games that should be open world are Zelda. And even those take way too long to beat now.

Literally you could just release the SNES rom on modern storefronts and that would be good enough for me. I would honestly even take the iPhone/Steam version. Literally just make the game available.

Charging $150 for dlc with an impending recession right around the corner (if we're not already in it) is the most Blizzard thing ever.

Rayman Legends 2?

Honestly they should do every single scummy anti consumer thing that they can get away with. People still playing CoD in 2025 deserve it. They haven't made a real video game worth buying in that franchise in over 15 years.

I bought mine before January 20th. So glad I did.

Sorry. The original director of this game talked smack about my boy Astro Bot. I will never play this game as a result.

Y'all loving the all digital future yet?

And it made Days Gone director mad. Astro Bot making the right people happy and the right people upset.