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For me it goes beyond just inspiration. It’s blatant and the fact it was pitched to Sony as a Horizon game says it all. I’m not looking forward to every game getting 5 different AI slop versions.

This guy was nuts but it’s sad to see him go so young. The industry needs big personalities.

It really needs it. Especially with the legends coming and going, we need a good custom roster. I’m still on MVP 2004 for classic teams.

@Jammer I’ve read this like 5 times and I still have absolutely no idea what you mean.

This sounds insane and I need it immediately.

I usually stick to first person in something like this. Mass Effect’s camera always did my head in.

He’s speaking a bunch of crap personally. How would you avoid competing with GTA while also making a traditional Saints Row game, a carbon copy of GTA? And of course he makes sure to get Meta and VR in the conversation, just in case you were unaware of his current paymasters. It’s classic ‘say what the people want’ literal years after the fact. He’s also severely underestimating the sheer amount of resources it takes to make a sandbox game these days, there is no way in hell he can self-finance a game with even close to the fidelity and size of the map of the Saints Row reboot. Yes it wasn’t a great game, but it was better than Mindseye.

Definitely up for V Rising. Played Tekken 3 not long ago for RetroAchievements so the plat should be a doddle.

Disaster of a generation. The next two years need to be 2016-2018 Sony to have any chance of redeeming it.

This is not a good sign. Bear in mind he’s seen the series through the Unity debacle and yet this is what makes him leave. Not particularly enthused about Tencent’s grubby mitts being on the franchise.

I do enjoy Lumines, banger of a soundtrack too across the series. Still haven’t ever gone the whole way in the original, it’s just painful losing with only a couple levels left.

Leslie Benzies looks like Simon Cowell now, we know where the development funds went.

It’s a massive gamble releasing a live service on PS Plus or Game Pass. If it takes off, big profits and a massive player base. If it doesn’t, you don’t even have the base game sales to offset the loss. I’m just not sure it’s worth it these days.

Private servers are a great thing, played some old PS2 games using them which was cool. Dreamcast too!

It’s difficult because I do love these games but it’s practically impossible to keep up, if you buy the one game full price you know that it’ll be outdated very quickly not unlike a sports game. At least the free version is a good step forward if you’ve supported them in the past. Can’t wait for the brakes to fail on my local route and to smash directly into the Morrisons.

@The_Jobbo The original was slow enough already and that had smaller maps and I played on x4 speed most of the time. I’m not sure what this new script is like but I will say that the Sky games are like an endearingly outdated anime whereas when you get to Cold Steel it’s basically just become one of those weird animes full of high schoolers that would get you put on a watchlist.

All that will happen is that there’ll be instantly a million complaints about people getting destroyed in lobbies by people massively out of their skill range. This is an insane decision, SBMM does need to be good, but the alternative is being completely outmatched half the time and steamrolling one in ten games. It only benefits those that are no-lifers or those that hack.

@The_Jobbo The funny thing is that I look back on bits like the school play fondly because it ties into a slow burn plot that’s only really resolved in Cold Steel 4. I know it would be unrealistic but FC and SC would have been better as a double pack game with the fat trimmed. They work as a duology more than any other games in the series because FC has to introduce so, so many ideas as the first game in the franchise.

@Reyzore It says that in the article.

“Final Fantasy VII Remake is being ported to Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 in January 2026”

And then it says “Rebirth is confirmed to be making the jump across too”.

The article is correct.

Love that Tony Curran is the baddie, he was in Modern Warfare 3 as well so clearly gruff Weegie works for military men. Big Celtic man too, might just side with the baddies instead.

The way this generation’s gone, a PS6 is just going to be a PS5 Pro Pro. An awful lot of the more casual gamers have noticed how small the jump’s been this gen and trying to sell a new console in this economy without a massive gimmick is hard. The Switch 2 has a point of difference in terms of PCs with the Nintendo library and it being portable but the PS5 and Xbox are basically just a PC without the ability to run anything else other than games. They can’t even compete on price anymore, the PS5 is more expensive and a worse product than it was on launch, so how expensive is a PS6 going to be?

@Dogbreath Regardless of all other reasons the South had for breaking away, the South wanted to maintain slavery. That alone negates any possible reason to defend the Confederacy. Its entire foundations are built on racism. The whole point of history is that you judge things for how they were and at no point did I say that all breakaway states were bad, just that you cannot claim to be a patriot while supporting a state that actively broke away from your country.

@IamJT That’s the thing that really confuses me as a Brit. Why do they fly Confederate flags while claiming to be patriots? It was a breakaway state, they were literally traitors!

@RoomWithaMoose Funnily enough, I did play the History Channel’s Civil War FPS for the PS2 a few months back. It’s not very good (guns are predictably crap and the FOV is irritating) and also perpetuates the same ‘both sides had heroes’ story without any analysis attached, specifically the point that being a hero of a racist cause makes you somebody that probably should not be admired in a civilised society. I genuinely think the Assassin’s Creed team is the best team out there to tackle a subject as dense and controversial as the Civil War, they didn’t shy away from just how genuinely unequal Victorian London was in Syndicate and they managed to admirably tell a story from all sides of the French Revolution in Unity. A Discovery Tour set in the South during those years would be a remarkably useful tool in schools but as we know, the PragerU stuff being peddled these days with the current administration would not allow anything close to real history.

Honestly a lot of this nonsense can be traced back to Shelby Foote, the whole Lost Cause of the South crap and all that. Mental, the Confederacy was a deeply embarrassing failed state and anybody celebrating them these days is a racist. We have 80 years worth of media showing Nazis for what they were, we should get the same amount showing these racists for what they were.

On average one a year. And that’s only because of my birthday/Christmas. Disposable income just isn’t there.

If this is their grand plan to make the money back then Skate is dead already. Isaac was in Skate 3 as a hidden character and it was cool. He wasn’t £30.

@CallMeDuraSouka It’s a joke. The colour is identical to the Rangers kit.

@Nexozi Sometimes I forget that people south of the border don’t realise that even something as simple as a very blue controller is a borderline hate crime.

Yeah probably best they’re not selling that in the UK. Might as well stick a massive poppy on it, LEST WE FORGET GOD BLESS ARE TROOPS all over.

@Kairuuu I miss XDefiant. It was genuinely decent with old-school matchmaking and practically zero emphasis on actually winning, just having fun. There just wasn’t any road to profit, there’s a reason games aren’t free to play without some of predatory monetisation.

@hisownsidekick No idea why there’s not an article about it considering it’s all public record and there’s zero speculation about what the guy has done. It’s blowing up too, RGG have their head in the sand.

#REMOVEKAGAWA

It’s very very odd. I haven’t played this yet so it’ll end up being part of my playthrough but it’s becoming more common this sort of thing. Might as well just call it gameswashing, it’s no different from sportswashing.

Can we start calling leakers ‘guessers’?

Sums up subscription based content in general. Look at the millions pumped into content for Disney+ and Netflix too, they burned down traditional means of generating income by getting the customer base used to lots of quality for one monthly price and now they’re scrabbling to make it sustainable. You know what’s sustainable? The same bloody business model they’ve used since the industry sprung up.

Damn, some really great music additions alone. I really like the gameplay of this one and the map’s pretty well designed. Having other skaters around in multiplayer is a game changer too, it’s been so much fun hitting a spot with randoms taking turns. We seriously need the Hall of Meat back though, bails are so much less fun than Skate 3.

£75 for a red splodge. Pay$tation right enough.

I sort of get where they’re coming from but don’t necessarily agree fully. It’s more a symptom of Western devs in general; everything’s inspired by Hollywood but written with the ability of mid 00s CW writers.

Crap, I want to pick it up since I have a guitar but the DLC would be insanely expensive and now with a time limit it’s worse.

@hisownsidekick Yes! You’re one of the few to get it lmao, it’s a pun from Nintendo magazine like 17 years ago.

Genuinely worried about the direction of the industry but that’s more a symptom of the overall world. Between the Chinese state, Saudi Investment Fund, Thiel, Musk and Kushner, pretty much every company is involved with grubby money somewhere.

If they’re allowed to remain then I fully expect gay romance to be removed from the next Mass Effect. With investors including Kushner and the Saudis, I’m not hopeful about the future of The Sims either.

Game Pass is dead. PS Plus Premium is absolutely insanely woeful so I’m not sure you can claim superiority there but PS Plus Extra is decent.

I just don’t know if the actual spookiness can match the original, something about the crunchy graphics and sound design makes it far scarier than even its own sequels. The school is genuinely one of the scariest places in any game I’ve played.

I really really fancy this but any new game is a tall ask financially. I really just rely on second hand prices or deep sales.

Who’s gonna pay money to watch this?

I wish I thought this looked good because it does at least represent a new IP. But I think it looks absolutely rubbish.

Anyone who genuinely thinks EA were the epitome of evil were stuck in 2012. We’re about to see exactly how evil EA can be.