WhoderMan

What is the price?

Nevermind. $15 US.

@Axelay71 Off-topic... but I always wanted to get a copy of axelay for the SNES. Looked awesome!

On-topic... I have been looking forward to Neon Inferno and think it looks great.

Really looking forward to a new Legacy of Kain or Soul Reaver game. Hopfully, that is happening.

@symmetrian Yes, that's true. We live in an age where there are more high quality games and other entertainment than ever before. And many of them take up a tremendous amount of time. You've got to pick and choose how you want to spend your limited allotment of time and money.

If this game works for you and others then that's great. As I mentioned, when I first saw it, I thought it looked cool. It was only after finding out that it is free to play that I lost almost all interest. Free to play with live service kills it for me, personally.

@get2sammyb well, when I first saw trailers for it, it kinda looked like Chinese Witcher and I was intrigued. As it turns out, I have no interest in a free to play, live service game. Those tend towards trying to become the only game you play.

The only one I've played like that was Destiny and I bounced hard from it after a while. So yeah, I guess that I just wish it was a different game.

I'm just curious how others look at this. To me, if I could buy the game on disc for $60 with 0 microtransactions and everything was unlockable in-game, then I would have ben more interested.

But free with what I beieve is a psychological trap/manipulation means I have no interest at all.

To be fair, I aready have a ton of stuff on my backlog, so it starts to get easier to say no to something.

I was hoping to see Adventures of Elliot: Millennium Tales information or a demo announced for ps5.

There are elements to QA work that the AI will not provide. Difficulty assessments and general feedback on fun, etc. Plus, it likely won't design its own test plan. This may be a useful thing for AI to do, but only in service to real, human testers and QA.

I'm an old guy and the AI is what it is. It would be cool if they patched in some optional changes, but providing the games in their original state is what was promised. Making the AI easier could be simple or it could be a ton of work. Not sure, but it could be as simple as adding a delay to when it reads player input.

But what really seems egregious, is that as far as I know, you can't invite a friend to play online. That is literally the only thing I wanted to do with online play.

I honestly like both and would prefer the original remaster be packaged along with a new Remake.

But are they going to release the dlc promised such as horde mode, seasonal content and hitman content?

For all I know,Horde mode is out and they are gonna count Arcadia as seasonal content.

They're going to re-release the whole trilogy on PS6.

And because I'm a dumdum, if it comes in a cool slipcase at a reasonable price, I'd likely get it.

I sincerely hope that they take the time that they need to make combat great.

@hisownsidekick

Thanks for the info! I have RE Origins Collection (1&0 Remake/remaster doublepack for PS4). I also have the remakes of 2 and 3 for PS5.

Haven't played it yet, but if the story is complete, then just move onto the next game. Maybe a more ninja-y game or something totally different for PS6.

@hisownsidekick since you seem to e educated on this... I have remakes/remasters of 0, 1, 2 and 3. When in those 4 games should I play 0, please?

May have to buy it on a deep sale to see how bad it really is!

What about the promised dlc?

I'll be trying it for myself. If it is short enough and interesting enough, it could be the kind of thing you replay every other year or so around Halloween.

The art is great, but 4 hours long and $25 isn't gonna do it for a lot of customers.

Still hoping for a Dragon's Crown 2... and 3.

Depends what constitutes a new game. I buy a lot of old games that are still sealed and "new."

I don't know if Remedy wants to be bought, but I think that they would make a great addition to Sony's first party studios.

Don't forget about this!

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/03/kojima-cameo-mission-coming-to-control-ultimate-edition-on-ps5

Are they adding cheats to Rebirth (part 2) as well?

At the end of the day, I don't mind if there are cheats. I wouldn't want them to affect trophies, but that's it.

@JustMyOpinion You too, boss. Enjoy your week!

@JustMyOpinion I understand everything that you're saying and appreciate the fact that this isn't the best venue for the discussion. I also appreciate civil discourse whether we agree or disagree!

I think that this buyout is above and beyond government ties, though. It will start with little to no change but within 20-30 years we will see the bigger picture.

It is selective outrage and there are PLENTY of things in the world to be upset about. But this will be more than mere governmental influence. Kushner and the Saudis aren't buying this cause they love EA. If I remember correctly, they were also looking to buy Ubisoft. They just want a large foothold in Videogame Entertainment, for profit and to push their agendas to a young audience.

@JustMyOpinion as far as I know, the Saudi monarchy is their government and is going to be in control of EA, at least partially.

You may not like other governments and their actions. But generally, the government is not in control of a videogame company, at least in the west. I am honestly not sure how much, if any, that the Chinese government controls its game development. Or how much, if at all, Russia controls its game development.

A government that controls media influences how its citizens think.

@ilyn It must have sold terribly or something for Squeenix to not have announced it by now. It reviewed great.

40/40 in Weekly Famitsu which was a really big deal back in those days.

I wonder how the Saudis feel about videogame reviewers/journalists giving their games bad reviews.

Sure would be nice to put them out of business!

They have failed to deliver on all of their best IPs. I don't think that they even have a FIFA license (but I don't follow that) so someone else can take up the mantle of best Football/Soccer game.

If the NFL can do multiple licenses then maybe we could get some competition again like in the NFL2K days.

They should have just done both rewards programs.

Don't forget that there's also a multiplayer mode coming for those who like that!

Incredibly low effort for a premium priced controller. This is a 10 dollar upcharge for a red stripe.

Pretty sure that's supposed to be 5th of February 2026.

The english sounds bad. It is weird, but hearing English with a Japanese accent would sound better to me. Maybe, I'll try Japanese with English subtitles.

Now let's get Vagrant Story Remade!!!

I really feel like ambitions have tapered off since the PS3/360 era to a large degree. Some things in the PS4/Switch era were def ambitious, but not as many. And I don't know of anything off the top of my head that was super ambitious in the PS5 era compared to what we got in PS3 and PS4. Kinda expect more of the same with PS6.

Things like Arkham Asylum, God of War 3, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Darksiders, Okami (PS2), Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, Zelda BotW and TotK, Mortal Kombat 9, Street Fighter 4, god of War 2018, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk, GTa5, etc. Many of those are clearly based on other things but they stand out to me for some reason.

Probably I am just stuck in nostalgia or old and feel like I've seen it all before, but I don't see a lot of really new and ambitious stuff. GTA6, Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 will all be huge and ambitious, but how new will they feel?

Donkey Kong Bananza looks pretty new.

Maybe y'all can remind me of new stuff that feels more original.

This sounds like how difficulty should be done, to me. Not higher health and more damage output, but better or even new behaviors.

I remember Perfect Dark on the N64 had different things for different difficulties. I think one mission supposedly had you protecting someone doing something important by covering them with a sniper rifle or so. But on a harder dificulty, YOU were the one doing the thing and maybe without sniper cover!

What about the guy who played Roy Kent in Ted Lasso? I think he was also gonna be Hercules in the MCU. Great actor and I can really see him as Greek and ANGRY. Lol

He may not be as huge as others, but I don't think that is the most important thing.

An HD2D remake of Metal Gear 1 and 2 would be neat. They may need to be expanded a bit or bundled with more stuff. I'm not sure that just those 2 games is enough content.

A Metal Gear Solid 1 remake is the most important to me. It is the most iconic game in the series (in my opinion). All of the other games hold their own in the sense that their graphics are stylized enough (i.e. 2D pixel art) or modern enough to be playable (i.e. PS2 gen and later).

MGS1 is rough by moden standards. I have heard that it is shorter than I remember, so bundling it with HD2D remakes of MG1 and 2 would be ideal.

Plus I'm tired of playing Big Boss in prequels. Let's get back to the actual hero, Solid Snake!!

I really hope that ingame they have a few paragraphs of description of all of their heroes. A lot of us old timers are new to some of these characters. I read a description of Phyla-Vell a month or so ago and have no idea what it said, lol.

I love the look of the monsters and the world. But the main chracters aren't doing much for me. I honestly felt the same way about Wind Waker.

Honestly, I'm a little confused by what this is. Is it a remake of DQVII with some story or elements of the game cut out?

Cause to an ousider, that sounds kinda lame. The art style is unique and Dragon Quest-y. I guess I just need to learn more about this before I invest too much care into it.

DQ3HD2D and DQ1&2HD2D are plenty DQ for me for a while.

If you are a full time artist on a game then you are a developer of the game.

@emj2010

I don't know. It really all depends on what their position was.

Marketing people have nothing to do with development. Real development is done by programmers, artists, designers, writers and audio people. Producers mostly just organize. QA tests and may impact development but is rarely what I would call a developer.

By the way, that wasn't directed at you, danzoEX!

I was using the general "you" for people in general.

I had to look up what happened.

If you boycott a game cause 1 person says something you don't like then you will be boycotting every single thing that involves multiple people. Which is like nearly every business.

The CEOs and owners of many if not most businesses have probably said or supported things that you don't like or agree with.

My friend got it at launch and had Battle Arena Toshinden. I'm not sure what else he had.

I went for a vastly reduced in price 3DO. I remember doing that primarily because it could daisy chain so many controllers, had a ton of cheap games available by then and because of the M2 upgrade they announced but never delivered.

I got a PSOne when the writing was on the wall for the M2 and got the Iron & Blood D&D fighting game that was supposed to be an M2 exclusive. Also got Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

Eventually, so many classics on PSOne. Soul Reaver, Tomb Raider, FFVII, Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Final Fantasy Tactics, etc.

@SMJ

There is a bigger audience for videogames now than there has ever been. I feel pretty confident about that especially when you include pcs and mobile devices. The PS2 absolutely dominated its generation and squashed the competition. But it didn't have any hits that stand out the way Call of Duty has in later generations.

I don't know much about Call of Duty, but as far as PS2 games on that list, I see Guitar Hero 3 (which was also PS3 as far as I know), GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas.

The rest seems to be PS3 and PS4 mostly. Some of these titles are cross-gen games. GTAV has been on the PS3, PS4 and PS5.

@Cavefish

How dare thee good sir!?!? The gauntlet has been tossed.

Prepare thineself for the Cantloupe - Watermelon War.

You shall choke on our seeds!