joeyflannel

joeyflannel

The guy who sings the Halo theme

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Re: PlayStation, Hideo Kojima's Next-Gen Physint Game 'Five or Six' Years Away

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Kinda crazy how we're getting a Kojima game and an MGS game within a couple of months of each other, and there's a very strong chance Konami could have another remake ready in time to launch the same year as PHYSINT.

I'm not claiming either side is petty enough to do this on purpose, but I'm also not ruling it out, hahaha

Either way, I'll play all of em!

Re: TV Show Review: The Last Of Us (HBO) Season 2 Episode 6 - Robbing the Story of Its Genius

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The best episode of each season was directed by Neil Druckmann. It's almost like he knows this story, world, and characters. Who knew?

But seriously, season two has been significantly dumbed down for television compared to the game. All the subtlety, nuance, and well-paced world building has been forgotten, in place of just playing the hits from the game. I don't know how you stretch out the remainder of the game into even one more season, let alone two

Re: Marathon Maker's Morale in Tatters as Art Director Forced to Admit Asset Theft in Ill-Conceived Livestream

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This might be an unpopular opinion, but Sony has to step in more actively with Bungie. The company has been in a freefall since the acquisition, and it ain't getting better. The way I see it, Sony has two options;

1. Cut bait. Sell it to some other sucker, take the L and move on.
2. Gut the management, take full control, and make it a full-blown PlayStation studio.

The hands-off approach was a nice idea, but it ain't working. Also, apparently Bungie's "expertise" led to the cancelation of Factions, so screw em lmao

Re: PS Plus Premium Members Stunned at Dramatic Decline in Quality

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The classic game I actually want to play are so few and far between, I'm debating canceling my sub to premium, going back to essential, and just buying the classics I want ala carte. Would it realistically cost me more to do it that way? Well, in the long run, probably, but PS Plus Premium is the only subscription I have that I can actually go a full month without using multiple times a year

Re: God of War Fans Are Still Demanding Remasters of Kratos' Earlier Games

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PlayStation needs to get their act together when it comes to making their OWN GAMES playable of modern consoles. The drip-feed strategy of PS Plus premium is fine, but we have gone some months without any classic games. We have PS2 and PSP games on the service already, why not the God of War series? And PS3 is a whole other issue entirely. Just feels so lazy

Re: Square Enix Demands Bigger Games, Faster Development as Sales Continue to Slump

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@Flaming_Kaiser Sales = Money, even if it's nominal. Selling even just 100,000 units on Xbox would more than make up whatever it would cost them the port the game. This isn't the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. Porting games between PS5 and Series S|X is trivial. Also, why wouldn't they want to put games that any many years old on GamePass? It doesn't "devalue" them. That's an outdated argument. Third parties wouldn't still be doing it if that were true.

Re: Square Enix Demands Bigger Games, Faster Development as Sales Continue to Slump

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They've been talking about doing multiplatform releases for like two years now, and yet we're only just now getting FFVIIRI on Switch 2. Where's XVI, and Rebirth? Where's Xbox ports? Why is Bravely Default STILL a Nintendo exclusive? WHY YOU CAPPING, SQUARE?

And it's obvious to me that the biggest friggin issue they have is their expectations are too high. Maybe don't spend so much money on development. I loved Rebirth, but you easily could've cut 10% of story content and 40% of side content and not a single, solitary soul on the planet would've been bothered by it.