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.
There are dozens of us! Do- okay, more like one dozen so far, but still! Seriously, though, one of my fondest Vita memories even despite neglecting the console's gyro functionality and the reason I'm in the market for more of the series these days to begin with.
It's more surprising to see no Switch version in sight, but then again, the generally hybrid-prolific publisher has yet to get around to porting a few of their other titles like Dark Rose Valkyrie or Omega Quintet as well. Worst case scenario, this will be one for the Deck, but hope springs eternal.
A shift more understandable (if still unpleasant) in case of PS3 and Vita, but with a fully backward compatible pastgen? Forget PS+, PS4 games still arguably remain a key incentive of PlayStation 5 itself. Which might need all the incentives it can afford once you're able to get a whole Gen 10 hybrid for its price.
Then again, the shakeup is still almost a year away, and there should still be a fair share of crossgens to fill the lineups with. I also dare assume the first-party Premium segment will remain because it would be kind of disingenuous to "retire" Gen 8 classics from the same subservice you're offering Gens 5-7 on. Time will tell.
@Koverby if I had a dollar for every thing you first world consumers are tired of, I could probably splurge out on a PS5 just for the whim of it, the everpresent dust-collecting risks of a home console in my household be damned.
Funny how the article elaborates on Payday 3 and Pac-Man World but skips High On Life, a rare metroidvania experience still not on Switch. Chances are this is what I'll be downloading first and foremost once I resub next month.
We're at the point where a video game unable to run on anything below a hypothetical "PS6" had better boast NerveGear tier VR worlds or do taxes and make waffles. There are only so many extra pixels and frames to hunger for playing all the already achievable video game experiences at.
@Lup one of, to be exact - the genre has only bloomed stronger yet over the last couple generations. But it also qualifies as a grand return to form for the series rooted among the arguable progenitors and pioneers of metroidvanias as such.
I have yet to get down to anything GoW, but perhaps I'll give Ragnarok a stream or two just to hear the music. Beating Xenoblade 3 OST at its respective award category does tempt to dare expect something of a similar caliber, after all.😃
Unless Horizon series is part of the school curriculum and exams now, any allegation of it being "forced" upon anyone is but a routine example of addiction-imposed consumerist stupidity. Not the first and sadly not the last.
I don't have enough popcorn for all the pseudocritical comments triggered into barking at Infinite again. And that's before they hear that B2 remains damn worthwhile across the board, too.
@Balaam_ art direction is already how game visuals hold up and stand out. And while only Infinite came out close to the approximate time of 3DCG graphics reaching their evolution peak, the first two games are a far cry from the submedium's Gen 5 infancy and look great in their own right. The only compromises stem from budget/time shortage (like Tennenbaum's limited onscreen appearances in B1 which just used a female splicer model), but YMMV if these instances alone warrant a full remake where the potential of more useful features like gyro aiming didn't.
Knowing only one anatomical destination to redirect fandom rants to, I could have well given Suicide Squad a roll if not for the apparent Gen 9 exclusivity. The other two are on Switch and I even have HP10 long beaten there, although it's still neat to see more Need for Speed in the IGC lineup overall (too bad that Unbound inclusion would be of no use to me either😅). Still a worthwhile selection for a PS5 owner whose backlogs aren't steered by complete strangers' tastes.
A Nintendo fan here, and I'm anything but. Besides, Steam Deck has already shown the approximate capabilities of newer mobile chips (never mind Switch's own abundant PS4/PS5 ports from various devs for whom "optimization" doesn't mean something edible), and it's an AMD-based Linux PC with all the consequent fine print thereof.
I poked around JC4 here once again (after first trying it as an IGC item on main account way back when), but I knew this wouldn't last. Still bummed I missed the EGS giveaway before 2022; I wishlisted the game instead but that obviously became useless as with all other Squeenix releases on PC. Chances are it'll end up my only black flag vessel in the series once there's room enough on Deck for it - although Switch and/or its successor might yet alter that probability.
"NIKKE: Goddess of Victory is, in essence, a visual novel, with short cover-based shooter segments interspersed throughout"
A cover-based shooter is already more descriptive of the game in itself since the visual novel format is how pretty much anything mobile delivers the story content. Exceptions like Guardian Tales (available on Switch but originally mobile as well) are quite rare.
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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.
Re: PSVR2 Misses Out on Civilization 7 VR
"or lean all the way in to appreciate the finer details of your scouts, cities, arm-" tumbles over
Re: PlayStation Fans Could've Had Another Resistance Game, But Sony Said No
"Resistance: Burning Skies (PS Vita) - 2%"
There are dozens of us! Do- okay, more like one dozen so far, but still! Seriously, though, one of my fondest Vita memories even despite neglecting the console's gyro functionality and the reason I'm in the market for more of the series these days to begin with.
Re: Returnal Inspired Anime Shooter Scar-Lead Salvation Skipping PS5, PS4 in the West
It's more surprising to see no Switch version in sight, but then again, the generally hybrid-prolific publisher has yet to get around to porting a few of their other titles like Dark Rose Valkyrie or Omega Quintet as well. Worst case scenario, this will be one for the Deck, but hope springs eternal.
Re: Sony to Mostly Drop PS4 Games from PS Plus Starting January 2026
A shift more understandable (if still unpleasant) in case of PS3 and Vita, but with a fully backward compatible pastgen? Forget PS+, PS4 games still arguably remain a key incentive of PlayStation 5 itself. Which might need all the incentives it can afford once you're able to get a whole Gen 10 hybrid for its price.
Then again, the shakeup is still almost a year away, and there should still be a fair share of crossgens to fill the lineups with. I also dare assume the first-party Premium segment will remain because it would be kind of disingenuous to "retire" Gen 8 classics from the same subservice you're offering Gens 5-7 on. Time will tell.
@Koverby if I had a dollar for every thing you first world consumers are tired of, I could probably splurge out on a PS5 just for the whim of it, the everpresent dust-collecting risks of a home console in my household be damned.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for February 2025 Announced
Funny how the article elaborates on Payday 3 and Pac-Man World but skips High On Life, a rare metroidvania experience still not on Switch. Chances are this is what I'll be downloading first and foremost once I resub next month.
Re: You May Not Need to Upgrade to PS6 for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3, Says Producer
We're at the point where a video game unable to run on anything below a hypothetical "PS6" had better boast NerveGear tier VR worlds or do taxes and make waffles. There are only so many extra pixels and frames to hunger for playing all the already achievable video game experiences at.
Re: Ubisoft Marks One Year of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Despite Killing the Studio
@Lup one of, to be exact - the genre has only bloomed stronger yet over the last couple generations. But it also qualifies as a grand return to form for the series rooted among the arguable progenitors and pioneers of metroidvanias as such.
Re: 11 New Games Are Coming to PS Plus Extra, Premium Next Week
I have yet to get down to anything GoW, but perhaps I'll give Ragnarok a stream or two just to hear the music. Beating Xenoblade 3 OST at its respective award category does tempt to dare expect something of a similar caliber, after all.😃
Re: Horizon Hatred Simmers Once More As Sony Announces Movie Adaptation
Unless Horizon series is part of the school curriculum and exams now, any allegation of it being "forced" upon anyone is but a routine example of addiction-imposed consumerist stupidity. Not the first and sadly not the last.
Re: Ken Levine Spills the Beans on Irrational Games' Closure Post BioShock Infinite
I don't have enough popcorn for all the pseudocritical comments triggered into barking at Infinite again. And that's before they hear that B2 remains damn worthwhile across the board, too.
@Balaam_ art direction is already how game visuals hold up and stand out. And while only Infinite came out close to the approximate time of 3DCG graphics reaching their evolution peak, the first two games are a far cry from the submedium's Gen 5 infancy and look great in their own right. The only compromises stem from budget/time shortage (like Tennenbaum's limited onscreen appearances in B1 which just used a female splicer model), but YMMV if these instances alone warrant a full remake where the potential of more useful features like gyro aiming didn't.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for January 2025 Announced
Knowing only one anatomical destination to redirect fandom rants to, I could have well given Suicide Squad a roll if not for the apparent Gen 9 exclusivity. The other two are on Switch and I even have HP10 long beaten there, although it's still neat to see more Need for Speed in the IGC lineup overall (too bad that Unbound inclusion would be of no use to me either😅). Still a worthwhile selection for a PS5 owner whose backlogs aren't steered by complete strangers' tastes.
Re: Nintendo Fans Are Desperate to Know How Close Switch 2 Will Get to PS4's Power
A Nintendo fan here, and I'm anything but. Besides, Steam Deck has already shown the approximate capabilities of newer mobile chips (never mind Switch's own abundant PS4/PS5 ports from various devs for whom "optimization" doesn't mean something edible), and it's an AMD-based Linux PC with all the consequent fine print thereof.
Re: Sony Says The Last of Us 2 Can Be Considered a Holiday Season Classic
@Thatguyoverthere Penguin Land, Steep and I Am Setsuna: 😎
Re: We're Getting Closer and Closer to That Genshin Impact Anime
Until the Switch release, my Genshin activity and acquaintance remains very limited, but we're talking Ufotable here.
Re: It's Choo-Choo-True! Thomas the Tank Engine Is Coming to Train Sim World 5 on PS5, PS4
The header phrasing briefly sent my mind towards Choo Choo Charles instead.😅
Re: 11 Games Are Leaving PS Plus Extra, Premium Next Month
I poked around JC4 here once again (after first trying it as an IGC item on main account way back when), but I knew this wouldn't last. Still bummed I missed the EGS giveaway before 2022; I wishlisted the game instead but that obviously became useless as with all other Squeenix releases on PC. Chances are it'll end up my only black flag vessel in the series once there's room enough on Deck for it - although Switch and/or its successor might yet alter that probability.
Re: Stellar Blade's Eve Is Officially Infiltrating Saucy Mobile Gacha NIKKE: Goddess of Victory
"NIKKE: Goddess of Victory is, in essence, a visual novel, with short cover-based shooter segments interspersed throughout"
A cover-based shooter is already more descriptive of the game in itself since the visual novel format is how pretty much anything mobile delivers the story content. Exceptions like Guardian Tales (available on Switch but originally mobile as well) are quite rare.