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Would be ironic if we got former Intellivision Amico games Cloudy Mountain and Night Stalker (developed by Digital Eclipse) published by Atari...

New King's Field — please!!!!

@OmegaStriver Ah, I read you now. Well said.

@OmegaStriver $60 is long gone. It sucks, but inflation happens.

Hoping it all goes to crap and they get back to focusing on what made Sony great in the video game marketplace — single player narrative-driven games with strong gameplay mechanics.

We got Ryaned.

@Nem I'll praise the non-fictional Lord instead but not for something like Jim Ryan leaving.

@Tielo Sorry, but I just don't see it. There are almost no first party exclusives on PS5, PS Plus is just a rehashing of PS Now, and games as a service is now the dominant focus. On top of this, Ryan has alienated his competition while making Sony look weak and whiny. I feel like literally anyone could have run the company better. Ryan stood on the shoulders of Layden while pulling the rug out from under true PS fans.

The company has felt aimless under Ryan's leadership, and his lack of respect for the hardcore fanbase will be his legacy.

The right choice!

@MattBoothDev Yes, you are entirely correct. This is the exact point I have been trying to make from the start. I apologize if this was not clear.

@MattBoothDev i understand your points; you and I seem to be talking about different things when we talk about speed in this discussion. To explain it yet again, I have a friend who thinks the game characters literally move twice as fast across the screen at 60 fps as compared to 30. This is what some people here also seem to think. I was trying to correct that false perception.

As it relates to your example, let's say Spider-Man swinging from one end of the city to the other at 30 fps takes 5 minutes of gameplay time; at 60 fps, it also takes 5 minutes of gamelay time to do so — not 2.5 minutes.

If I'm mistaken about you and you DO believe the above is true, please go time it yourself before replying again, and you will see I am correct.

@MattBoothDev I don't want to keep arguing this point, so this will be my last post on this. Try playing Spidey or something at 30 FPS, time how long it takes you to di anything, and then switch it to 60 FPS and time it. It will be the exact same. Modern frame rate, in which physics is not tied to FPS, will not change the speed of the game. Input lag will be improved and things will look smoother, but nothing about the actual speed of gameplay is any different.

@MattBoothDev FPS is not speed. If you play a game at 30 fps and have a character run across a field, taking let's say 10 seconds, it will take you the same 10 seconds to run across the field at 60 fps. Higher frame rate simply captures more frames of that movement to smooth that motion. The only exception is in cases where the physics of the game is tied to the frame rate, which is suboptimal at best.

@Ainu20 Having never really played it, I'd prefer a 60 fps treatment, given today's expectations. I find 30 fps pretty painful nowadays.

@Ainu20 Fair points, yes. I'd like to think they could put in the effort to make them run at 60 fps, but maybe it's too much to ask for.

@c_monster That's a fair point. But I would think they could put some time into it and fix it, as many other remasters have done? (Some above were confusing FPS with speed of gameplay.)

People need to stop confusing frame rate with speed; the game would be no slower at 30 FPS, just much less smooth in motion. That said, I'm not happy with this news and may just not bother.

Probably only 4 games I want, tbh.

@StrickenBiged I think a fall from high enough up does make sense. If Spidey can take damage from enemies and bullets and other things, you have to include fall damage. Hopefully it's not damage from like two stories up or something silly, though!

Elden Ring: 340
Octopath Traveler II: 203
Super Mega Baseball 4: 166 (mostly simulating a few short seasons in real time).

I platted the first two.

Octopath II seems exaggerated, but I likely paused a fair bit in-game or left it on the menu screen, etc.

@rusty82 It was 14 not 16; would be impossible to have played 16 that many hours since release. lol

For me it was poor. Spidey two is the only thing that grabbed me, and I already knew about it obviously.

Ocarina of Time --- never beat it back in the day. Recently beat Metroid Prime for the first time and earlier this year beat Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3 for the first time.

@djlard Oh! Thanks for clarifying! And I agree.

Finally! Pretty amped about this.

@Shakybeeves Well said and well-written post.

@djlard You're right about From not caring much about story, but it's highly unfair to say they don't care about how long or good the game is. They are one of the best developers in the field and have earned and deserve that praise and recognition.

@Tr3mm0r I love From but also am very intrigued by Tren.

@SAMTYLER1974 We may have to learn to be happy with such releases for a while, as Sony throws its weight behind Live Service games.

Yong has a very pleasing and rich voice, but I don't think his take on the character quite works. Hopefully with additional direction/guidance, he'll find it. Not that I have ever played these games or ever will.

@Toot1st Good for Sony, after watching Microsoft try to buy the world.

@ear_wig Fair point! lol

@twinspectre90 Awesome! Was thinking of a replay. Been over 27 years...

EDIT: Oh you mean the Japanese one! Epic!

@twinspectre90 Darn right! KF was incredible at the time and still in many ways holds up (other than taking 10 seconds to turn around lol). I would be more amped for a KF remake or new KF than any other game someone could come up with. My fave is probably KF2, but I love them all (I still have to beat the original Japanese KF, which never released here).

@ear_wig I have, and it does look way better than prior ones to me; however, I still have concerns. I do think I'll take a shot at it on heavy discount. Part of the problem for me is that I'm not huge on sci fi or mechs to begin with, and I find the environments to be rather bleak.

@Darude84 Was it supposed to justify the new consoles? Seems like this game is exactly what it should be and what you would like it to be — a palate cleanser. I'm sure the developers know that.

@poetwarlord Yeah, I'm huge on KF/DeSo/DS/BB/Sekiro/ER, but I never found AC appealing at all. Maybe that can change with AC6, but I'm doubtful.

@NeonDint Thanks for posting this. I already was not happy about the damage numbers popping up all over the place in the bits of overly busy combat I saw; if foul language abounds, I don't need to waste my time with this (which is great, as my backlog is pretty nuts, despite getting through a chunk of it over the past few years).

@Max_the_German I'm sure he was wearing sneakers with that suit, as well.

I loved SF2 and its variants in the early to mid 90s but can't get into the sequels for some reason. Also, similar to racing games, I've generally lost interest in fighting games, perhaps because there are simply so many releases in other genres nowadays that I seem to prefer. Maybe I'll get SF6 on a heavy sale in the future, just for kicks.

@OrtadragoonX Understood! Congrats on your son!

@OrtadragoonX That is a very good question! I watched and hated it for both the language and the gratuitous violence.

Really glad I can get a demo to see how much swearing there is. If the cursing level is high, I'm out. Don't need that garbage.

Other: Super Mega Baseball 4

Cancel them all.

I'm actually really happy they are going this route, because when all these live service games bomb, they will realize just how much they need to stick with quality single-player gaming as their focus.

Pretty sad that this was the best reveal of the show, other than (maybe) Spidey and MGS — and it's not even an exclusive.

I'm honestly more excited about the Amico games coming to Switch.

Great news. Let's get back to a single player focus.

From has been making gems since King's Field 1, and they are probably my favorite developer. I'm quite surprised that ER has garnered so much mainstream success, but I am very glad to see it!

@Judal27 From has multiple teams now, so they haven't really changed genres off of Souls, they are actually working in additional titles. For example, you had Deracine on PSVR and now you have Armored Core 6. And apparently they are now expanding even more.