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@Matroska Shouldn't the part where Cloud slaps Aerith be in Rebirth?

Anyway, those are not considered censorship, it is what it is from an ethical point, even though Yuffie's change does not really make much sense.

The point is in the FF7 Remake and Rebirth the main cast looks like they should and act like you thought they would. In Silent Hill 2 Maria acts like you thought but she does not look like you thought. This is some sort of modern censorship that I don't like.

@LikelySatan I was not talking about censoring games, although I think it is not as much of an issue as the fans may make it seem. I don't think Rebirth or Yumia were censored.

My point was redesigning the character to feel more modern while losing what make the character unique or interesting in the first place. A recent example was Maria from the remake of Silent Hill 2. I loved the game but it seems that they did not get the point of the character when they redesigned Maria.

I preordered from Greenmangaming, they offer a 10% discount. Hope the game will end up in being Steam Deck verified.

As for Level 5 seems that what I really want, the Layton series, remain exclusive in Nintendo's outdated hardware.

@ChrisDeku Thank God Square Enix is a Japanese company. If it was American I am afraid to even think how would Kuja be re imagined.

More on topic, at this point they have stopped teasing us, they are simply trolling us! Come on, after the game was not announced at the Switch 2 reveal I had the impression that the game might have been cancelled...

I preordered the Steam version. I hope the game delivers!

The thing is the Doom The Dark Ages has some steep hardware requirements. It requires an RTX combatible graphics card with 8GB of video RAM. It is the first game that requires this. So, you cannot even start the game in a GTX card. Also the game playes horribly in Steam Deck. I have a mobile GPU, the 3050 RTX with 4GB video RAM and a Steam Deck. I simply cannot play the game in PC. I guess I may not be the only one. I would have bought the game in Steam if I could play it. By the way both Greenmangaming and Fanatical have a launch discount in the game.

Personally, I could get the game in PS5 but after I got the Platinum in Rebirth I, more or less, stopped using the console.

@ChrisDeku It was not that easy. Even with a VPN you still had to change the location you are within Steam account settings. And, I think, you can do this only twice a year.

@Neverwild You couldn't buy Helldivers 2 in countries with no psn support even if you used a psn account from another country, not even while using a VPN.

I guess it is finally time to buy the game! I see the Definitive Edition to go as low as 40€. Still, having so many characters that have nothing to do with Mortal Kombat and are not that mainstream as guests was not such a great idea. Still, I don't get why there is no Sonya, etc. Finally, I was not fan of the "art direction". Some characters, especially the female ones, were a bit off.

@YeoSprings I don't get you point. If I buy a used game disk and play a game this is irrelevant to the publisher, they gain no money even if eventually the game may reach some more people.

As for the topic the last physical games I have bought are the Final Fantasy games on PS5. I will most probably not buy any other retail game except FF and most new games I buy on the Steam Deck anyway.

That said I never understood the blank disk thing. I mean they can't even put a version there even though it may require a patch?

In the end of the day retail games either do not exist or are missing content. Digital is way better for game preservation in the long run since you can store all game files, including possible patches and DLC, that you won't be able to download if you use a disk if the servers close.

The Steam version had some issues but I didn't mind them that much since I mostly played single player but parts of the fanbase actually thought REVO as a downgrade from the vanilla PS4 version!

Very cool. I will surely get the Steam version but maybe not at launch. It depends on the price to be honest. I only played the demo in PS5 but I liked it.

@themightyant The think is that info in doesitplay.org is sometimes misleading. For example it lists Final Fantasy 15 as playable from disk but this is clearly not true. The game has some bugs and later updates added a ton of content that are not even included in the final retail print if the game. My point is you can play a highly compolromised version of Final Fantasy 15 from the disk but you really shouldn't.

@PuppetMaster That was not my point. My point was that the title says "PS5's New Virtua Fighter". While this is 99.99% sure it has not been announced yet. I am not that fan of "news" being based on probabilities.

Is it just me or is it a bit baffling that you say "PS5's Virtua Fighter"? I don't doubt it but were the platforms announced in the previous teaser trailer? The game might be a Switch 2 timed exclusive or launch initially only in Steam, like the recent port for all we know.

As far as Sony is concerned I have given up. I ripped all my games from PS1, 2, PSP the Vita ones that do not have PS4 or Steam versions. I simply play them in my Steam Deck. However, I still buy them if they end up getting released. In fact the last game I bought some time ago for my PS4 and 5 was the Dino Crisis classic.

Except MGS4 a lot of PS3 games that people may want to play have PS4 or Steam versions, so I ended up not ripping those. I miss my SEGA classics in PS3 like Outrun though.

To be honest I feel a bit of Trails fatigue. The world building seems to go nowhere, they constantly try to redeem the villains, top nation leaders act way worse than real life governments and Crossbell is occupied by bizarre forces every other Thursday. I got Daydream 2 in the latest discount and I hope it makes me change my mind.

Ah and in a couple of years we went from bows and arrows to colossal tanks and after that to AI weapons! OK, I take it back I still love the series!

Silent Hill 2 is still more expensive than how much I paid for the Steam version in launch day lol.

Anyway, I highly recommend it. It captures most of the aspects of the original game.

Also, I am a bit of a fanboy so I have Battle for the Grid and all its DLC. Still, it is a good fighting game with interesting mechanics. If you are a fan of Power Rangers I highly recommend it if you haven't checked it yet.

Apparently they now said ot was a mistranslation from the interpreter...

It doesn't help that this generation feels a bit of underwhelming for me (even though it really isn't for most people) with most games not being exclusives, having PS4 and PC ports. The only "true" PS5 games I have are Final Fantasy 16 and Rebirth. The only other games I got recently were retro re releases. Since I got the Steam Deck the way I approach gaming changed. I feel that I don't need to have the next best thing. Also, in Steam you can find deals easier, I got Silent Hill 2 for 50€ at launch while in PS5 it costed 80€. My PS5 became a dust collector and I mostly play on the Steam Deck and in my laptop that I also use for work. The death of physical media doesn't help either with games being shipped incomplete in disks. I also travel a lot for work and having to carry the launch PS5 is a nightmare. Also, I have no interest in the Switch 2, I don't play Nintendo games.

I, personally, bought and actually beat Post Trauma and have no intention to buy Oblivion any time soon. Post Trauma has issues though, especially the PC version.

In EU the update didn't show automatically but I could update manually from the settings.

Fans: We want a portable PS5, a true PS Vita successor
Sony: We announce a handheld that can natively play PS4 and PS5 games at lower graphics settings
Fans: What? Why would you make a console that holds back the generation like the Series S? Where are the PS5 exclusive games??? Those graphics suck.

Yikes, the digital model retailed for 399€ when the PS5 launched while it was 375€ in the previous discount promotion. And the worst thing is that, if I wasn't a Final Fantasy fan, I wouldn't even buy the console.

That's good for people that want to play the game and kive in regions where PSN is not supported.

Wait what there is a queue when streaming? I never heard about this again. To be honest I never had Plus Premium...

I backed up my PS1 CDs ages ago and I really suggest you do the same. You then are not confined in what they decide to re-release but can still buy whatever retro game is up in modern digital stores. And, of course, your games are digitally preserved. I am not sure that PS1 era CDs are that durable.

Wow, in the new Switch I can play games that I have already played in my Steam Deck of even my PS4...

On a more serious note, if you are not into Nintendo franchises (I am most certainly not) everything Nintendo does now is irrelevant. When the Switch initially released, I got one to play some of my favourite indies on the go but now we have the much more powerful PC handhelds. Moreover, third party exclusives are a relic of the past now.

The OG Switch seemed outdated the day I bought it with slow load times and uncomfortable grips.

The majority of Sony games are Steam Deck verified. The ones I tried indeed play very well.

After Mortal Kombat having irrelevant characters other games are following. Still, if I casually came around those news I would be sure that it was an April Fools joke that leaked... But it seems to be legit.

@themightyant I rarely play more than two games but this weekend I decided to revisit the fonal boss on all Final Fantasy games using my old saves. I tried Final Fantasy 1, it had an update, I moved to play 2 another update, in the end all had updates except 10 and 12, even the 7 Remake / Rebirth. I ended up playing nothing... If updates worked as they should I would have been ready to go regardless of what I wanted to play. And not updating the games is bad from the preservation point of view. I sometimes take my consoles in work trips and play offline

@Zeke68 Yeah, but the limit is not clearly stated anywhere. It sure is a bizarre way to punish loyal customers that buy and play a lot of games. I did something better than deleting the saves: I cancelled PS plus and backed up the saves in two different USB sticks and two different consoles. I cannot do this in PS5 but the only games I have are the FF16 and 7 Rebirth and I can live without having those back ups. I also backed up the saves of PS3 and Vita with similar methods.

@Zeke68 Yeah, it only updates the games in the home screen. Save upload doesn't work either. It always says I am out of space in the cloud, although that is not the case. I have automatic updates enabled. Apparently there is a hidden limit in the actual number of PS4 savefiles you can upload!!!!!

@themightyant I get that, even though it is very bad for game presentation and AI and cloud backups of not useful data consume much more enery of a few MB of download. It is frustrating to always have to manually update all the Final Fantasy games. In Xbox you can check for all updates with the press of a button, you don't have to check one by one. In Steam it slowly updates all games in the background automatically.

@sanderson72 PS4 doesn't update anything for me for some reason. Still, it is true that PS4 updates the games faster.

OK this is getting beyond ridiculous with updates that add nothing. I was in my hometown for a couple of days and whatever I tried to play had some sort of update. The console had an update, all Final Fantasy games had updates, Resident Evil 4 had update, the whole console had updates. After all those years STILL PS5 DOES NOT UPDATE GAMES AUTOMATICALLY for some reason. And to check every update by hand is a pain with the clunky OS. The same happened when I opened the PS4. It also updates nothing automatically.

Can they even block yhem though? It would be like blocking a game in Steam Deck. Even they blocked them it would be trivial to unblock them if the console runs Windows. But why would they block them? Almost all Sony games are Steam Deck verified which means that they sell their games in owners of the Deck. I have certainly bought a lot of them during discounts. I imagine something similar will happen with Xbox

Believe or not I am a huge fan of the Atelier series since I casually bought Atelier Rorona, the original version, for cheap from a local store. Since then I have bought all the games, some of them multiple times, I have beaten all of them and I have the platinum trophy in most of them. Since I started moving to Steam I have already preordered Yumia and hopefully the game will run dine in my Sream Deck

Oh man, I really look forward to the revivals of the old IPs. I already preordered shinobi! I would love if they also reintroduced their classic games that they delisted while remembering that arcade, master system and dreamcast also exist. Even though what I would reallllly like is the return of Outrun and Skies of Arcadia.

I love my Steam Deck. I have preordered the cheapest version when preorders opened and since then I have upgraded the ssd and also bought the Dock. Steam Deck and the Vita are the only consoles I have ever preordered. Since I got one it made all other consoles I have a bit irrelevant. For example in PS5 I got only the Final Fantasy games.

@1UP-HUSKY Unfortunately, this in not true where I live, if we talk about recently released AAA games. Most places offer free shipping only in the 100€ range or not at all. It is true that you can find smaller or older games cheaper though.

@Foxhound I don't know what happens in Netherlands but in my region, for newly released games, if you add shipping costs to physical games the pricing is almost evenly matched. So, for Silent Hill 2 both digital and physical versions cost about 80€ so I simply bought the steam version for about 50€ from green man gaming or cd keys, I don't remember exactly.

It may just be me but, even though I played the Trails games since the first one in PSP, it seems that the excellent world building has not been realised to its fool potential with repeated storylines, trying to redeem previous villains and a main (?) plot that seems to go nowhere. In any case I am still a fan and I will try the new game but, to be fair, I am more interested in the next game.

I am surprised that Code Veronica is so highly regarded. I somehow managed to softlock me out of continuing the game the first time I played it. In any case in today's culture a remake of Code Veronica or RE5 is highly unlikely expect if the script is changed.

Man, I would love if they dropped exclusivity for Professor Layton. I really don't want to play it in the underpowered Switch, that I don't even remember where I stored it.

I think the PC port situation somewhat devalues the PS5. If you exclude retro re releases the only game I bought on PS5 last year was Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. I chose to play Silent Hill 2 in Steam at a better price than what Sony asked for. Same for the Remake of Horizon and for Spider-Man 2. If I wasn't a huge Final Fantasy fan I would have waited for the PC port of Rebirth. By the way you now can earn trophies in Sony PC games.

I guess it is only a matter of time before someone changes the models of Peter and MJ to the PS4 ones. The new are so comic inaccurate it hearts.

There and back again to how things should have been. The issue was the games were not available worldwide. There is no coincidence that they reversed this before the release of Spider Man 2. They know this game will be popular worldwide.

I played the early access version. The game is cool. But it clearly an early access game. The controls and the steam deck integration are not 100% implemented.

A fantastic reveal. We had no specs, no games, no price, no release date. Seems that they planned to do the reveal later when all of the above were finalized and the leakers forced their hand.

I personally have no interest in the Switch 2. It will probably be an overpriced and underpowered piece of uncomfortable to use hardware, like the Switch and the 3DS. Also, even though I love the Game Boy / DS line I mostly played 3rd party games (that are now a thing of the past) and I have no personal connection with any Nintendo franchise.

I am mostly curious on the Steam Deck performance. They say that they try to make the game "Verified".
Still, I am looking forward to once again torture myself by being Zantetsuken-ed to oblivion in Chadley trials.

I personally enjoyed the game. I liked the campus setting. It is true that the game had some technical issues.