The game's optimization issues themselves are a "seeing is believing" matter, considering the multitude of other games I have found refusing to corroborate similar fanbloid claims. But even if Capcom holding a seminar on the topic begets any skepticism, the most that skepticism is entitled to generate is snickers and eyerolls; if anything, naysayers could have possibly harvested said seminar for memes of "giant enemy crab" tier. Instead, they found no better pastime than to indulge in honest criminal activity in hopes of being shielded by online anonymity (or, let's be real, by what's left of it - people who can remain competently anonymous these days usually have bigger fish to fry than video game tantrums). If these folks also indulge in Halloween, I have a fitting classic outfit to suggest for them - tar and feathers.
Well, two of these are on PS4 and not on Switch (albeit with all the odds of hitting NS2 at some point), so pretty neat. Diablo 4 is especially interesting although I'm still chugging through the first two games.
@Truegamer79 just a few years ago nobody was hoping for Horizon, Patapon and Everybody's Golf on Switch. And talking about Sony handling a Zelda movie would probably get you dogpiled.
"Look, we’ll hold our hands up" - which you might as well; the fanbloid sphere's penchant for sensationalism is what makes it prohibitive for people like Wiethoff to get publicly excited about anything.
Personally, though, I could live without RDR2 even on NS2 for now, with plenty yet to do in the first game. I remain more interested in GTA5 finally hitting either or both hybrids without launchers and anticheats that busted my previous portable playthrough. My body is ready to photograph wildlife and save up for the coveted Rune Cheburek all over again.😆
"We know, of course, there are a significant number of players still on Sony’s last-gen console"
Tell that to the PS+ lineup management.😜
@Porco it has nothing on Vita and PSP but technically follows them in my PlayStation ranks as pretty much a PS4 (itself the first Sony home console to focus on being a video game machine instead of a media center) with blackjack and SSDs. Although the latter alongside the also enhanced (but similarly underutilized) controller tech still seem to exhaust what a new PlayStation can pragmatically offer over its predecessor. PS6 will really have its work cut out for it.
Huh, photorealistic visuals like these do explain the devs lacking confidence for the sequel's Switch ver- oh wait, that was a Yandex Music ad right now.
...and now I'm admittedly struggling to scan the actual trailer for anything I didn't see in PW1 on Switch. Or is it about the water splashes being more splashy now, with a higher RAM consumption price for the privilege?🤔
@Ralizah yeah, if anything, the presence of games like Agony on Switch is magnitudes more eloquent on the topic of content limitations than all these audaciously titled jigsaws and whatnot.
@PlaystationPortalFan amen, but seeing will be believing with this one.
@StrickenBiged it would be no more of an early Switch than PSP before it, but the feature would have definitely be handier and, in hindsight, cheaper than the "PlayStation TV" from several years later.😅
Not sure if someone is being specific about home consoles (as the article's context would indeed excuse) or bitterly dramatic about his NS2 order status.😏 But all in all, what we can already surmice is Microsoft being no more thrilled about their midgen upgrade experience with XBOX (at least the abbreviation was amusing) than Nintendo evidently was about theirs with New Nintendo 3DS. Looks like PS6 will be the only one late to the party this generation - but seeing as even PS5's juice hasn't been meaningfully squeezed to date, it's hard to say if many people are even pining for it yet. Or is Sony gearing up to sell 16k TVs already?😆
I don't expect the story to be anything not getting its job done (the likes of Bayonetta are often allleged to have no plot either), but what about a simple datalog? JRPGs from Symphonia and Graces to FFXIII and XV have sported comprehensive ones despite having no shortage of story cutscenes; even Xenoblade Chronicles X has its own despite the comparatively lesser focus on the main story than the flagship trilogy. And then there's System Shock's school of collectible archives that even the devs' very own prior Nikke tapped into. For all I know, perhaps either or both approaches are already being baked into the sequel as we speak.
My living room TV (an older Sony Bravia at that) is a legitimately big screen yet offers a civilized 1080p even for the Gen 9 Switch to "achieve a great experience" on. Not exactly Nintendo's problem that someone needs newer and fancier television models to sell first and foremost, with their gaming hardware biz molded accordingly.
Oh well, they do say that always holding a hammer can make everything look like a nail. PlayStation still has some noteworthy first party offerings even after defanging half the creative resources in its possessor, and the recent Switch ports do put their attention to the hybrid format in a positive context for everyone who no longer spends enough time around a big screen to benefit from "a great experience" and would mostly find themselves in the market for Sony-published games on the condition of being enabled to experience them at all. Whether this attention may translate into yet more Switch/NS2 ports or a proper Vita successor, the tenth console generation is here and the ball is in Sony's court now. Not that they can't afford to play it at the pace they choose.
Last time I checked, even the first game's Switch port recurrently goes for $25 with the DLC pass included. It's the basic sale tracking literacy that goes down horribly with players of all kinds these days, abundant online tools be damned. And then these people go and flush two-digit sums down the MTX drain.
I mean, Switch 2 will have Mario Kart World and Garfield Kart 2.☝🤓
@DonkeyFantasy or better yet, PlayStation All-Karts. With the right characters, the usual suspects wouldn't even be able to accuse it of "cloning" antigrav mechanics (not that it would deter them). Not to mention that Sony already has ModNation Racers in its IP closet.
Doing a SoP a day before the next generation begins, with countless gamers' minds on the new console preorder hullabaloo, is... a choice. Then again, after a borderline hat trick of Lego Horizon, Patapon and Everybody's Golf announcements for Switch itself, such proximity can honestly have one's expectation organs acting unwise.😜
Fans are definitely not something to take for granted. They're something to weather, to survive, to continue in spite of and to ideally outlast. And definitely not something to apologize towards (especially for a response to the question whose genuine or simulated cluelessness I have already commented on elsewhere), but if Pitchford had nothing more important to share on social media at the time (or yielded to some fidgety posterior at Gearbox or Take-Two)... well, I'm not his PR manager either.
Destiny 2 not motivating me to dip toes in an experience of its kind on a home console (where I've already tried the likes of Warframe, Onigiri and Skyforge and wouldn't resonate with them much until the eventual Switch ports), I don't tend to have much use for its expansions either. The full games are mostly another array filtered out by their Switch presence or PS4 absence, but that does still leave Bomb Rush Cyberfunk to home in on.
Like Nintendo's gold points, it was good while it lasted if no dealbreaker to get by without. As for a replacement, there's no speculation getting us further than the company's blatant statement about currently working on a new reward system design does. For all we know, perhaps they just grew salty over all the free points we got by merely launching a game or two for all 30 seconds and may be considering an alternative along the lines of Xbox Live with the trophies being the primary source of such payouts. Time will tell. Me, I've already got a few wallet boosters from Stars and a few games consequently - which, considering the relatively small number of PS4 games I generally invest in (read: whatever I can't get more portably elsewhere), made for quite the ratio.
At least I just got enough to redeem for $10 towards The Witch and The Hundred Knight 2. A bummer, but they're being pretty upfront about planning an alternative (which even Nintendo's gold point cashback has yet to receive any mention of), so time will tell what they may have in store (no pun intended).
@ATaco there was a meatier notification mail shared on Reddit earlier, and it states that all the redeemed digital collectibles are here to stay.
It's certainly a bummer to lose the first party PS3 titles for which, stream-crutched or not, it seems to equal blatant delisting on the platforms streaming them; GTA V is of much less concern as it appears to just work in shifts with RDR2 by now😆 (me, I just reinstalled the copy I had grabbed on sale way back in late 2016). But calling the new lineup "one of the worst" sounds deranged even if you have the medically documented RPG/strategy allergic reactions to excuse it.
Sand Land, Soul Hackers 2, GF Versus Rising, Humankind... a fair bunch of currently non-hybrid titles to possibly sample! And Aquila's gameplay description gives off select Strike series vibes. A pretty neat Catalogue month as far as I'm concerned.
Even with the spec bumps largely wasted on the aesthetic placebos over actual content/experience enhancement, PS5 still does enough to be the PS4 on steroids most people expected from a non-hybrid Gen 9 console. Then again, the SSD and DualSense do a lot of the heavylifting which may not be as much of a wowser once Sony eventually joins the new generation dawning in a few weeks, so PS6 will probably have its work cut out for it unless it puts emphasis on something besides the rapidly diminishing frixel/VFX returns. Even the oh so touted ray tracing is predictably proving to have all the sensory longevity of bubble gum, although it may yet survive on reportedly simplifying the lighting process on the dev side in general - in the Crunch Age, that could maintain a feature's topicality on its own.
@Oram77 and Mario is THE Nintendo mascot, so everything Kirby must go. Seriously, what's the point of spending several decades in a creative industry if you feel pressed to filter the flaunting of your achievements? PlayStation just celebrated its 30th anniversary, and the journey to that milestone was so much more eventful than the company seems to bother showcasing these days.
So lemme guess, the added screenshot juxtaposition is supposed to convey that one of these reasonably expectable classics in their respective genres is inferior in artstyle, content or fun factor? Being juvenile in one's online first world rants seems obligatory as usual.
@Darkri74345 this is a fansite. Fans, being addicts, can't just "move on" - which is the very reason they're revolting against both a new financial barrier (default price) and a time barrier (waiting until MKW or other subjects of this passionate discussion start losing a third of said price every few months) gating them off from a new dose of this hedonistic crack. Which also explains why such a lot of them ultimately cough up the price in question despite all the prior "boycott" cries. Heck, this very comparison above could elicit a sane suggestion like "well, uh, just buy and enjoy the cheaper and an equally engaging Ghost of Yotei, the-" - "WHAT? HAVE I NOT WAITED FOR A NEW MARIO KART FOR YEARS?!! AM I NOT ENTITLED TO IT AFTER WHAT IS AN ANTI-CONSUMER RELEASE GAP IN ITSELF?!! YOU NINTENDO BOOTLICKERS REALLY DON'T GET IT, DO YOU?!!"... or something along the lines but you get the idea.😆
@Juanalf my Gran Turismo PSP, Most Wanted 2012, Grid Autosport, Wreckfest, Lego 2K Drive and Burnout Paradise playthroughs (as well as Deck-facilitated Payback) beg to differ. Heck, even Porche Unleashed on GBA was legit fun. There's nary a genre that doesn't benefit from portability, and in the hybrid family's case, you could opt to make some racing progress on a big screen anyway... the progress you wouldn't have to leave behind for another week or four afterwards.
@Nexozi right? I ask myself the same thing every time a Switch release gets a later PS4 or PS5 port.😜 As for screens... Xenoblade series boasts some of the most stunning worlds in the video game history, and the first of those was a jaw weight even on 3DS. But then again, I suppose that if ophthalmology factors in...
Imagine resorting to publicly evident cheating in pursuit of items whose arguable primary value lies in the public bragging rights. Forget shame, such folks don't even seem acquainted with the sense of irony.
I'd certainly toast to Robocop which went MIA on Switch, but it has apparently whooshed right over PS4 as well. With Cyber Sleuth properly in the hybrid queen's court, I suppose that leaves TCM and its reported handful of single player missions to look forward to.
I still can't get past the first boss on the bridge and only learned the other month that this dodo has been OPTIONAL all along. Might get back to the game with this in mind because the lore and setting is easily among the most interesting in the subgenre, even though the likes of Code Vein, Nioh, Ender Lilies and The Surge (and even what I've played of Star Wars Survivor if that counts) still captivate me more in general. Hope and dreams for Bloodborne itself? Either a Switch port (wishful thinking is a free action) or at least, indeed, a PC one to run on Deck.
Between this and a similar earlier report about Square Enix, cheers. The concrete-melting mixture of fanship and online disinhibition effect could certainly use a FAFO counterweight or two.
@Zeldorf there are market segments that would be most welcome to go wipe themselves with the money they contribute to these sales. Despite what such folks threaten, a reprise of "Great video game crash" (the titular embellishment of the very latter phenomenon notwithstanding) is unimaginable today but a "great video game fandom crash" can seem rather overdue.
@Blauwe_Chimay the golden rule of Fiction/audience relationship - I have the right to dislike what a fiction work does as long as the work has the right to do what I dislike. Most pseudocritique cases compelling the countermeasures like the one above boil down to the vehement and vocal denial of said right. Fans, an inherently addicted bunch, just struggle with the very idea of simply saying "meh" and moving on. We end up living for regular doses of what hooked us in the first place.
@Psofo no matter how asinine in itself, I don't imagine a piece of mind like "ugh, this sucks" making up much of a lawsuit. On the other hand, a more fan-flavoured tirade like "these degenerates wouldn't know good game quality if it clobbered them on their dumb heads and need to suffer alongside their families for every day we have to live with the reminder of their crap's existence" (and yes, believe it or not, I toned this example way down from what I've come across) certainly sounds like something you might be officially dared to repeat out loud in court if you're so passionate about it.
@LifeGirl if you state your own opinion, the use of "people" may be a treacherous path. I, for one, do very much remember Cindy for her skills and Lulu for her personality, and Tifa is among my FF faves with many other ladies like Rydia, Terra, Freya and Vanille none of whose respective physiques are remotely as memetic among the fandom's more hormonally volatile representatives.
@Skeletor85 yet another word that ridiculed the mentality it was associated with and then got adopted by the very mentality in the umpteenth demonstration of deficient sense of irony and self-awareness.
@Perturbator FFXIII says hi. One of the most memorable and most fire-forged casts in the series, and that's coming from someone who has binged the borderline entirety of it by now. Heck, it's a rare entry to have updated my own roster of Final Fantasy top faves with a male character (namely Sazh).
Even what I've already played of SR22 and Agents of Mayhem only ever felt "inferior" to SR3/SE4 in its lack of motion aiming that the latter games' Switch ports spoiled me with, but that's pretty much the story of PS4's life. These are but two of the countless games that prove to exceed their fanbloid cred tenfold in practice. As for the business, it certainly needs to mature and stop bloating budgets, but not many market-conditioned studios and consumers would readily acknowledge the elephant in the room that these budgets get wasted on with the progressively elusive returns.
@wiiware SJS was an awesome Japanese dev who still got demolished, whereafter it took the remaining glorified skeleton crew several years to produce another work of the bygone tier.
This isn't even funny anymore. What eyesight or variably related medical conditions should one even have to benefit from stuff like this or even maintain awareness thereof without relying on Figital Doundry's spec porn? If there's an answer, then it could at least be filed under something useful like accessibility options (commercial accessibility notwithstanding). Otherwise, this is the very drain down which all the modern budget bloat goes with no practical OR aesthetic contributions.
A legal retro handheld. The legitimacy may be in the eye of the beholder when having to stream games many other dedicated handhelds can run a massive library of quite natively. But for those already making use of Portal RP anyway, this may have well been an annoying omission, so cheers where due.
@JustMyOpinion neither would I, or I'd forfeit playing Smash Bros.😄 My comment above is fairly tongue-in-cheek but I'm still standing by the inherent irony of the subject at hand, whether it's deliberate (which I wouldn't put past this franchise) or not.
Well, if accounts like that of @ErrantRob are any indication, the thing does sound like it can stomach a proper hotspot Remote Play session on the go, with Sony perhaps taking a page out of GeForce Now's trick book (in contrast to Switch "cloud versions" that seem to push the default resolution regardless of whether your portable connection can handle it). This certainly elevates it further above the autopilot Wii U comparisons from way back when and makes it that much more of a Vita successor in the very aspect that the otherwise best PlayStation console (don't @ me) sadly wouldn't always provide adequate control schemes for. This still doesn't bump the $700+ combo high enough among my hobby spending priorities, but it sure lowers my eyebrow in regards to the device's general value and actual sales.
Veilguard would be definitely something to dip my toes into, even ahead of playing the earlier stuff (a likely distant prospect in itself since I've been focusing on Mass Effect among Bioware titles), buuuuuut... And the other two items are on Switch, so it looks like another month where I'll just download the smallest size offering to redeem the points. Then again, if the previous such months didn't deter me from dumping a Franklin into 12 more months, there's evidently only so much salt in my bellyaching here. Objectively, it's a lucrative lineup through and through.
Frankly, unless a P4 remake gets a female protagonist where Reload lost one, it might become every bit of a varying mileage value investment for a Switch or PS4/5 user. If anything, revisiting the earlier games again two (heck, soon-to-be three) generations later might turn more heads, especially since Eternal Punishment's only western outing still dates even further back to PS1.
So that's how T-1000 defeats another fighter. And how does another fighter defeat T-1000? He's an admittedly peculiar choice for a generally melee-oriented fighting game since back in the movie there were only so many ways to even just slow the guy down. Outside elemental users like Sub-Zero, you'd think one would need fatalities spammed to defeat an opponent like this.🤔
Lemme guess, live action? Two decades of benching 2D feature animation in CGI's favour only for the latter to be repeatedly deemed commercially deficient in adaptations of something long produced on its basis in the first place? Learn marketing from corporate entertainment biz, they said...
My sub renewals have been all over the calendar since miscalculating the funds for the annual one last summer (Switch eShop sure can spoil you into forgetting about the extra costs that come with retail gift cards), so I didn't have an active one last weekend anyway. That puts the compensation beyond my interest zone as well but it still sounds pretty neat in regards to those affected.
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Re: Capcom Nixes Tone Deaf Conference on Monster Hunter Wilds Optimisation
The game's optimization issues themselves are a "seeing is believing" matter, considering the multitude of other games I have found refusing to corroborate similar fanbloid claims. But even if Capcom holding a seminar on the topic begets any skepticism, the most that skepticism is entitled to generate is snickers and eyerolls; if anything, naysayers could have possibly harvested said seminar for memes of "giant enemy crab" tier. Instead, they found no better pastime than to indulge in honest criminal activity in hopes of being shielded by online anonymity (or, let's be real, by what's left of it - people who can remain competently anonymous these days usually have bigger fish to fry than video game tantrums). If these folks also indulge in Halloween, I have a fitting classic outfit to suggest for them - tar and feathers.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for July 2025 Announced
Well, two of these are on PS4 and not on Switch (albeit with all the odds of hitting NS2 at some point), so pretty neat. Diablo 4 is especially interesting although I'm still chugging through the first two games.
Re: Nintendo Kinda Had a Hand in the Development of PS5 Exclusive Death Stranding 2
@Truegamer79 just a few years ago nobody was hoping for Horizon, Patapon and Everybody's Golf on Switch. And talking about Sony handling a Zelda movie would probably get you dogpiled.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 PS5 Version Tease Turns Out to Be a Cast Reunion
"Look, we’ll hold our hands up" - which you might as well; the fanbloid sphere's penchant for sensationalism is what makes it prohibitive for people like Wiethoff to get publicly excited about anything.
Personally, though, I could live without RDR2 even on NS2 for now, with plenty yet to do in the first game. I remain more interested in GTA5 finally hitting either or both hybrids without launchers and anticheats that busted my previous portable playthrough. My body is ready to photograph wildlife and save up for the coveted Rune Cheburek all over again.😆
Re: Two-Week Holiday, Bonus, Switch 2 for All Lies of P Devs After Game Sells 3 Million Units
Next headline: "Lies of P in development for Switch 2"
Re: Fans Can't Believe PS5 Has Made More Profit Than All Previous PlayStations Combined
"We know, of course, there are a significant number of players still on Sony’s last-gen console"
Tell that to the PS+ lineup management.😜
@Porco it has nothing on Vita and PSP but technically follows them in my PlayStation ranks as pretty much a PS4 (itself the first Sony home console to focus on being a video game machine instead of a media center) with blackjack and SSDs. Although the latter alongside the also enhanced (but similarly underutilized) controller tech still seem to exhaust what a new PlayStation can pragmatically offer over its predecessor. PS6 will really have its work cut out for it.
Re: PowerWash Simulator 2 Gameplay Is Looking Spotless in New Trailer
Huh, photorealistic visuals like these do explain the devs lacking confidence for the sequel's Switch ver- oh wait, that was a Yandex Music ad right now.
...and now I'm admittedly struggling to scan the actual trailer for anything I didn't see in PW1 on Switch. Or is it about the water splashes being more splashy now, with a higher RAM consumption price for the privilege?🤔
Re: Stellar Blade Dev Says 'Nothing Confirmed' Regarding Switch 2 Port Rumours
@Ralizah yeah, if anything, the presence of games like Agony on Switch is magnitudes more eloquent on the topic of content limitations than all these audaciously titled jigsaws and whatnot.
Re: Switch 2 Can't Achieve a Great Experience on Big Screens, PS5 Boss Implies
@PlaystationPortalFan amen, but seeing will be believing with this one.
@StrickenBiged it would be no more of an early Switch than PSP before it, but the feature would have definitely be handier and, in hindsight, cheaper than the "PlayStation TV" from several years later.😅
Re: The Next Xbox Is a PC, So What Does That Mean for PS6?
"With next-gen hardware still several years away"
Not sure if someone is being specific about home consoles (as the article's context would indeed excuse) or bitterly dramatic about his NS2 order status.😏 But all in all, what we can already surmice is Microsoft being no more thrilled about their midgen upgrade experience with XBOX (at least the abbreviation was amusing) than Nintendo evidently was about theirs with New Nintendo 3DS. Looks like PS6 will be the only one late to the party this generation - but seeing as even PS5's juice hasn't been meaningfully squeezed to date, it's hard to say if many people are even pining for it yet. Or is Sony gearing up to sell 16k TVs already?😆
Re: 'The Story Is Weak': Stellar Blade Dev Acknowledges PS5, PC Fave's Biggest Flaw
I don't expect the story to be anything not getting its job done (the likes of Bayonetta are often allleged to have no plot either), but what about a simple datalog? JRPGs from Symphonia and Graces to FFXIII and XV have sported comprehensive ones despite having no shortage of story cutscenes; even Xenoblade Chronicles X has its own despite the comparatively lesser focus on the main story than the flagship trilogy. And then there's System Shock's school of collectible archives that even the devs' very own prior Nikke tapped into. For all I know, perhaps either or both approaches are already being baked into the sequel as we speak.
Re: Switch 2 Can't Achieve a Great Experience on Big Screens, PS5 Boss Implies
My living room TV (an older Sony Bravia at that) is a legitimately big screen yet offers a civilized 1080p even for the Gen 9 Switch to "achieve a great experience" on. Not exactly Nintendo's problem that someone needs newer and fancier television models to sell first and foremost, with their gaming hardware biz molded accordingly.
Oh well, they do say that always holding a hammer can make everything look like a nail. PlayStation still has some noteworthy first party offerings even after defanging half the creative resources in its possessor, and the recent Switch ports do put their attention to the hybrid format in a positive context for everyone who no longer spends enough time around a big screen to benefit from "a great experience" and would mostly find themselves in the market for Sony-published games on the condition of being enabled to experience them at all. Whether this attention may translate into yet more Switch/NS2 ports or a proper Vita successor, the tenth console generation is here and the ball is in Sony's court now. Not that they can't afford to play it at the pace they choose.
Re: 'Good Luck with That' - The Outer Worlds 2 $80 Price Has Gone Down Horribly with PS5 Players
Last time I checked, even the first game's Switch port recurrently goes for $25 with the DLC pass included. It's the basic sale tracking literacy that goes down horribly with players of all kinds these days, abundant online tools be damned. And then these people go and flush two-digit sums down the MTX drain.
Re: Switch 2 Has Mario Kart World, But You'll Soon Have All You Can Drift with Garfield Kart 2 on PS5
I mean, Switch 2 will have Mario Kart World and Garfield Kart 2.☝🤓
@DonkeyFantasy or better yet, PlayStation All-Karts. With the right characters, the usual suspects wouldn't even be able to accuse it of "cloning" antigrav mechanics (not that it would deter them). Not to mention that Sony already has ModNation Racers in its IP closet.
Re: State of Play Confirmed for 4th June, 40+ Minutes of PS5 Games
Doing a SoP a day before the next generation begins, with countless gamers' minds on the new console preorder hullabaloo, is... a choice. Then again, after a borderline hat trick of Lego Horizon, Patapon and Everybody's Golf announcements for Switch itself, such proximity can honestly have one's expectation organs acting unwise.😜
Re: Borderlands 4 Boss Writes Grovelling Apology for Implying 'Real Fans' Will Pay $80 for PS5 Game
Fans are definitely not something to take for granted. They're something to weather, to survive, to continue in spite of and to ideally outlast. And definitely not something to apologize towards (especially for a response to the question whose genuine or simulated cluelessness I have already commented on elsewhere), but if Pitchford had nothing more important to share on social media at the time (or yielded to some fidgety posterior at Gearbox or Take-Two)... well, I'm not his PR manager either.
Re: Retro Handheld Manufacturer Anbernic Pays Tribute to One of Sony's Best Form Factors
PSP Go, the console we owe much of Vita's backward compatibility to.😶7
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for June 2025 Announced
Destiny 2 not motivating me to dip toes in an experience of its kind on a home console (where I've already tried the likes of Warframe, Onigiri and Skyforge and wouldn't resonate with them much until the eventual Switch ports), I don't tend to have much use for its expansions either. The full games are mostly another array filtered out by their Switch presence or PS4 absence, but that does still leave Bomb Rush Cyberfunk to home in on.
Re: Poll: Do You Care About the Death of PS Stars?
Like Nintendo's gold points, it was good while it lasted if no dealbreaker to get by without. As for a replacement, there's no speculation getting us further than the company's blatant statement about currently working on a new reward system design does. For all we know, perhaps they just grew salty over all the free points we got by merely launching a game or two for all 30 seconds and may be considering an alternative along the lines of Xbox Live with the trophies being the primary source of such payouts. Time will tell. Me, I've already got a few wallet boosters from Stars and a few games consequently - which, considering the relatively small number of PS4 games I generally invest in (read: whatever I can't get more portably elsewhere), made for quite the ratio.
Re: PlayStation Stars Rewards Program Shutting Down, Sony Confirms
At least I just got enough to redeem for $10 towards The Witch and The Hundred Knight 2. A bummer, but they're being pretty upfront about planning an alternative (which even Nintendo's gold point cashback has yet to receive any mention of), so time will tell what they may have in store (no pun intended).
@ATaco there was a meatier notification mail shared on Reddit earlier, and it states that all the redeemed digital collectibles are here to stay.
Re: Reminder: 22 PS Plus Games Expire on Tuesday, Replaced with One of Service's Worst Updates
It's certainly a bummer to lose the first party PS3 titles for which, stream-crutched or not, it seems to equal blatant delisting on the platforms streaming them; GTA V is of much less concern as it appears to just work in shifts with RDR2 by now😆 (me, I just reinstalled the copy I had grabbed on sale way back in late 2016). But calling the new lineup "one of the worst" sounds deranged even if you have the medically documented RPG/strategy allergic reactions to excuse it.
Re: 10 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2025 Announced
Sand Land, Soul Hackers 2, GF Versus Rising, Humankind... a fair bunch of currently non-hybrid titles to possibly sample! And Aquila's gameplay description gives off select Strike series vibes. A pretty neat Catalogue month as far as I'm concerned.
Re: PS5 Takes Another Giant Stride Towards 100 Million Units Milestone
Even with the spec bumps largely wasted on the aesthetic placebos over actual content/experience enhancement, PS5 still does enough to be the PS4 on steroids most people expected from a non-hybrid Gen 9 console. Then again, the SSD and DualSense do a lot of the heavylifting which may not be as much of a wowser once Sony eventually joins the new generation dawning in a few weeks, so PS6 will probably have its work cut out for it unless it puts emphasis on something besides the rapidly diminishing frixel/VFX returns. Even the oh so touted ray tracing is predictably proving to have all the sensory longevity of bubble gum, although it may yet survive on reportedly simplifying the lighting process on the dev side in general - in the Crunch Age, that could maintain a feature's topicality on its own.
Re: Anime GTA-Style PS5 Gacha Neverness to Everness Hints at Announcement
This could be right up my alley... as long as it's one either of the Switches or at least on Steam without Linux-allergic launchers.
Re: LittleBigPlanet Erasure Continues as Sackboy Removed from PlayStation Productions Logo
@Oram77 and Mario is THE Nintendo mascot, so everything Kirby must go. Seriously, what's the point of spending several decades in a creative industry if you feel pressed to filter the flaunting of your achievements? PlayStation just celebrated its 30th anniversary, and the journey to that milestone was so much more eventful than the company seems to bother showcasing these days.
Re: Ghost of Yotei's PS5 Price Provokes Fresh Switch 2 Fury
So lemme guess, the added screenshot juxtaposition is supposed to convey that one of these reasonably expectable classics in their respective genres is inferior in artstyle, content or fun factor? Being juvenile in one's online first world rants seems obligatory as usual.
@Darkri74345 this is a fansite. Fans, being addicts, can't just "move on" - which is the very reason they're revolting against both a new financial barrier (default price) and a time barrier (waiting until MKW or other subjects of this passionate discussion start losing a third of said price every few months) gating them off from a new dose of this hedonistic crack. Which also explains why such a lot of them ultimately cough up the price in question despite all the prior "boycott" cries. Heck, this very comparison above could elicit a sane suggestion like "well, uh, just buy and enjoy the cheaper and an equally engaging Ghost of Yotei, the-" - "WHAT? HAVE I NOT WAITED FOR A NEW MARIO KART FOR YEARS?!! AM I NOT ENTITLED TO IT AFTER WHAT IS AN ANTI-CONSUMER RELEASE GAP IN ITSELF?!! YOU NINTENDO BOOTLICKERS REALLY DON'T GET IT, DO YOU?!!"... or something along the lines but you get the idea.😆
Re: Stylish PS5, PS4 Fighter Two Strikes Hit with a Delay into Next Month
Talk about a franchise foundation formula.😄 Will we see the fandom rant about Thirteen Strikes and clamouring for a Seven Strikes remake years later?
@Jrs1 so basically Them's Fightin' Herds?
@bleeflooflah well, duh, it promises twice the amount of combat!
On a serious note, it found a fair share of playtime with me as well. A deceptively simple but engaging work.
Re: Stellar Blade's Eve Will Seemingly Be Playable in Spicy Smartphone Game
Would I beli-Eve a game's protagonist getting a cameo in a mobile freemium from that very same game's developers? Nah, it sounds ridiculous.🙃
Re: PS5 Pro Offers the Best Forza Horizon 5 Experience on Consoles
@Juanalf my Gran Turismo PSP, Most Wanted 2012, Grid Autosport, Wreckfest, Lego 2K Drive and Burnout Paradise playthroughs (as well as Deck-facilitated Payback) beg to differ. Heck, even Porche Unleashed on GBA was legit fun. There's nary a genre that doesn't benefit from portability, and in the hybrid family's case, you could opt to make some racing progress on a big screen anyway... the progress you wouldn't have to leave behind for another week or four afterwards.
@Nexozi right? I ask myself the same thing every time a Switch release gets a later PS4 or PS5 port.😜 As for screens... Xenoblade series boasts some of the most stunning worlds in the video game history, and the first of those was a jaw weight even on 3DS. But then again, I suppose that if ophthalmology factors in...
Re: PS5 Pro Offers the Best Forza Horizon 5 Experience on Consoles
Until a Switch or Switch 2 port, that is.
Re: Monster Hunter Wilds Overhauls Challenge Quests After Cheaters Broke the System
Imagine resorting to publicly evident cheating in pursuit of items whose arguable primary value lies in the public bragging rights. Forget shame, such folks don't even seem acquainted with the sense of irony.
Re: PS5 vs Switch 2: Full Tech Specs Comparison
"Full Tech Spec Comparison"
"Rumoured"
"Rumoured"
"Rumoured"
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows a Big Sales Hit in US, Beaten Only By Monster Hunter Wilds
@Wiceheid as if the coming of Jesus would be an argument for such merry folks at all. If anything, he's pretty "woke" by their standards.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for April 2025 Announced
I'd certainly toast to Robocop which went MIA on Switch, but it has apparently whooshed right over PS4 as well. With Cyber Sleuth properly in the hybrid queen's court, I suppose that leaves TCM and its reported handful of single player missions to look forward to.
Re: Poll: What Are Your Thoughts on Bloodborne, 10 Years Later?
I still can't get past the first boss on the bridge and only learned the other month that this dodo has been OPTIONAL all along. Might get back to the game with this in mind because the lore and setting is easily among the most interesting in the subgenre, even though the likes of Code Vein, Nioh, Ender Lilies and The Surge (and even what I've played of Star Wars Survivor if that counts) still captivate me more in general. Hope and dreams for Bloodborne itself? Either a Switch port (wishful thinking is a free action) or at least, indeed, a PC one to run on Deck.
Re: Silent Hill F So Scary Australia Has Already Banned It, Sight Unseen
Australian government saves the day again! Thank goodness modern consoles don't support multiple regions and other insidious stuff like that.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Romance Misinformation Hits New Low on Social Media
"What do you make of all this madness?"
Within the vocabulary range acceptable in this comment section? Not much.
Re: Ubisoft Will Reportedly Fight for Assassin's Creed Shadows, Anti-Harassment Plan in Place
Between this and a similar earlier report about Square Enix, cheers. The concrete-melting mixture of fanship and online disinhibition effect could certainly use a FAFO counterweight or two.
@Zeldorf there are market segments that would be most welcome to go wipe themselves with the money they contribute to these sales. Despite what such folks threaten, a reprise of "Great video game crash" (the titular embellishment of the very latter phenomenon notwithstanding) is unimaginable today but a "great video game fandom crash" can seem rather overdue.
@Blauwe_Chimay the golden rule of Fiction/audience relationship - I have the right to dislike what a fiction work does as long as the work has the right to do what I dislike. Most pseudocritique cases compelling the countermeasures like the one above boil down to the vehement and vocal denial of said right. Fans, an inherently addicted bunch, just struggle with the very idea of simply saying "meh" and moving on. We end up living for regular doses of what hooked us in the first place.
@Psofo no matter how asinine in itself, I don't imagine a piece of mind like "ugh, this sucks" making up much of a lawsuit. On the other hand, a more fan-flavoured tirade like "these degenerates wouldn't know good game quality if it clobbered them on their dumb heads and need to suffer alongside their families for every day we have to live with the reminder of their crap's existence" (and yes, believe it or not, I toned this example way down from what I've come across) certainly sounds like something you might be officially dared to repeat out loud in court if you're so passionate about it.
Re: Tifa's Eternal Appeal Down to More than Just Appearance, Says Tetsuya Nomura
@LifeGirl if you state your own opinion, the use of "people" may be a treacherous path. I, for one, do very much remember Cindy for her skills and Lulu for her personality, and Tifa is among my FF faves with many other ladies like Rydia, Terra, Freya and Vanille none of whose respective physiques are remotely as memetic among the fandom's more hormonally volatile representatives.
@Skeletor85 yet another word that ridiculed the mentality it was associated with and then got adopted by the very mentality in the umpteenth demonstration of deficient sense of irony and self-awareness.
@Perturbator FFXIII says hi. One of the most memorable and most fire-forged casts in the series, and that's coming from someone who has binged the borderline entirety of it by now. Heck, it's a rare entry to have updated my own roster of Final Fantasy top faves with a male character (namely Sazh).
Re: Saints Row Team Thrown Under the Bus: 'They Didn't Know What They Were Building'
Even what I've already played of SR22 and Agents of Mayhem only ever felt "inferior" to SR3/SE4 in its lack of motion aiming that the latter games' Switch ports spoiled me with, but that's pretty much the story of PS4's life. These are but two of the countless games that prove to exceed their fanbloid cred tenfold in practice. As for the business, it certainly needs to mature and stop bloating budgets, but not many market-conditioned studios and consumers would readily acknowledge the elephant in the room that these budgets get wasted on with the progressively elusive returns.
@wiiware SJS was an awesome Japanese dev who still got demolished, whereafter it took the remaining glorified skeleton crew several years to produce another work of the bygone tier.
Re: Stellar Blade Reveals Massive PC Frame Rate Improvements with Cutting-Edge Nvidia Tech
"in full 4K from around 120fps to up to 350fps"
This isn't even funny anymore. What eyesight or variably related medical conditions should one even have to benefit from stuff like this or even maintain awareness thereof without relying on Figital Doundry's spec porn? If there's an answer, then it could at least be filed under something useful like accessibility options (commercial accessibility notwithstanding). Otherwise, this is the very drain down which all the modern budget bloat goes with no practical OR aesthetic contributions.
Re: PS Plus Members Can Now Use Their PS Portal Like a Legit Retro Handheld
A legal retro handheld. The legitimacy may be in the eye of the beholder when having to stream games many other dedicated handhelds can run a massive library of quite natively. But for those already making use of Portal RP anyway, this may have well been an annoying omission, so cheers where due.
Re: Random: Dark Souls 2 Fans Unwilling to Relinquish Established Acronym to Death Stranding 2
Imagine telling Kojima of all people not to "dare do something".
Re: Terminator 2's T-1000 Keeps on Trucking in Gory Mortal Kombat 1 PS5 Gameplay
@JustMyOpinion neither would I, or I'd forfeit playing Smash Bros.😄 My comment above is fairly tongue-in-cheek but I'm still standing by the inherent irony of the subject at hand, whether it's deliberate (which I wouldn't put past this franchise) or not.
Re: PS Portal Keeps on Defying Odds, UK Makes It a Best-Seller
Well, if accounts like that of @ErrantRob are any indication, the thing does sound like it can stomach a proper hotspot Remote Play session on the go, with Sony perhaps taking a page out of GeForce Now's trick book (in contrast to Switch "cloud versions" that seem to push the default resolution regardless of whether your portable connection can handle it). This certainly elevates it further above the autopilot Wii U comparisons from way back when and makes it that much more of a Vita successor in the very aspect that the otherwise best PlayStation console (don't @ me) sadly wouldn't always provide adequate control schemes for. This still doesn't bump the $700+ combo high enough among my hobby spending priorities, but it sure lowers my eyebrow in regards to the device's general value and actual sales.
Re: PS Plus Essential PS5, PS4 Games for March 2025 Announced
Veilguard would be definitely something to dip my toes into, even ahead of playing the earlier stuff (a likely distant prospect in itself since I've been focusing on Mass Effect among Bioware titles), buuuuuut... And the other two items are on Switch, so it looks like another month where I'll just download the smallest size offering to redeem the points. Then again, if the previous such months didn't deter me from dumping a Franklin into 12 more months, there's evidently only so much salt in my bellyaching here. Objectively, it's a lucrative lineup through and through.
Re: Evidence Mounts for Seemingly Inevitable Persona 4 Remake on PS5
Frankly, unless a P4 remake gets a female protagonist where Reload lost one, it might become every bit of a varying mileage value investment for a Switch or PS4/5 user. If anything, revisiting the earlier games again two (heck, soon-to-be three) generations later might turn more heads, especially since Eternal Punishment's only western outing still dates even further back to PS1.
Re: Terminator 2's T-1000 Keeps on Trucking in Gory Mortal Kombat 1 PS5 Gameplay
So that's how T-1000 defeats another fighter. And how does another fighter defeat T-1000? He's an admittedly peculiar choice for a generally melee-oriented fighting game since back in the movie there were only so many ways to even just slow the guy down. Outside elemental users like Sub-Zero, you'd think one would need fatalities spammed to defeat an opponent like this.🤔
Re: It Takes Two Film Flailing, Even Josef Fares Is in the Dark
Lemme guess, live action? Two decades of benching 2D feature animation in CGI's favour only for the latter to be repeatedly deemed commercially deficient in adaptations of something long produced on its basis in the first place? Learn marketing from corporate entertainment biz, they said...
@breakneck
Re: Poll: Did the PSN Outage Ruin Your Gaming Plans Over the Weekend?
My sub renewals have been all over the calendar since miscalculating the funds for the annual one last summer (Switch eShop sure can spoil you into forgetting about the extra costs that come with retail gift cards), so I didn't have an active one last weekend anyway. That puts the compensation beyond my interest zone as well but it still sounds pretty neat in regards to those affected.