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From "so-called" fans? Please. This is what we do. Fanship is aggressive, obsessive and possessive by nature - variations only happen based on the amount of control a given fan's human host can exert at a given time. Lose the grip, and this is one of the many ugly consequences. Online disinhibition syndrome only serves to add fuel.

I have yet to see or experience anything that would change my own lukewarm perception of the technology itself. At the end of the day, VR is what you see in fiction like .hack, SAO and BoFuri, not anything this side of the screen yet. Headmounted camera controllers with mini screens perched on your nose can ultimately struggle to live up to the lofty promise of sensory immersion in an interactive fictionverse, and mental/emotional immersion is routinely achieved without paying through the nose for such peripherals.

@Americansamurai1 "universally hated" is yet another fan myth about one of the franchise's biggest-selling flagships that earned itself two whole sequels and whose cast were licensed for commercials even years later. Meanwhile, the "universally loved" VIIR faces its own share of fan barks for things like daring to twist and literally "remake" the original's plot.

@UltimateOtaku91 at least a PC port should be playable on one properly handheld device with proper buttons these days. Being "PlayStation exclusive" in Gen 9 largely means requiring free time to spend in the living room like it's Gen 6 all over again.

@Tharsman Iron Galaxy has also brought Skyrim, Diablo 3, Overwatch and recently Metroid Prime over to Switch, a machine supposedly more constrained in specs. SNAFUs happen.

Nintendo fans:

@Jaz007 then such things will forever be toolsets rather than "competitors".

I already have Tails of Iron on Switch and Meet Your Maker sounds exclusively or at least predominantly multiplayer, but I sure welcome more LBP even if most of my acquaintance with it has been the Vita runner and what I've played of the lovable LBP3 before more or less losing access to it (a past IGC item itself, it's tied to my now epicly overpriced Russian PS+ sub, and doubles as one of those like Onrush and Transformers Devastation that I can no longer even purchase on the US account these days). Good to see the April lineup includes the PS4 version.

When we have actual artificial intelligence with the equivalent of self-awareness, imagination and will to create, then we can talk AI art. Until then, going by that name is the analogue of "incorrect quotes generator" and other toolsets whose ultimate purpose and entertainment value remains in the ease and speed of spontaneous or guided mashups. Which is also what Wada-san appears to be discussing here.

Looking forward to playing it one day. Agents of Mayhem was also barked at and has proven to be pretty damn fun.

@Americansamurai1 yeah, like fans said Squeenix "should have just remade FFVII" instead of FFXIII.🙄😏

If anything, the first game would be arguably more topical as a remake candidate, considering that the original never got anywhere past XB360.

Yes, I'm playing Resident Evil 4 since last week, except not the remake.😆 At least the second poll has room for me since I naturally can't claim to have ever finished the original yet.

Unless the PS5 version has exclusive content, is "gutted" the proper word here? Why do we even clamour for backward compatibility if a cross-gen title's newer version becomes such an absolute preference regardless?

This better not turn out to be AI's internship period.😏

"Ported to the PS2 shortly after its initial six month run on the PSP, GTA: Liberty City Stories lost a lot of its handheld novelty on Sony’s ageing home console. The return to Rockstar’s fictional New York City was appreciated, but by 2006 the PS3 was right around the corner, and the multiplayer modes from the portable version were inexplicably stripped from this port"

And yet it not only gets a separate place on the list but ranks ABOVE its handheld original. Same with VCS.🤔🤔🤔

IMHO this makes for an odd list overall, to be honest. Multiple nigh identical versions of the same entries like GTA 5 x3, but still two items short of a round 20 which only accentuates the lack of GTA Advance and - if we go by the list's own logic - the original Chinatown Wars on NDS which barely gets a passing mention despite its own unique gameplay bits that were inevitably lost on PSP.

To be fair, if it's a fantasy world, I wouldn't rule out zombies here and there anyway.😄

@Robinsad well, they can always go Bethesda and bundle a "creator club" pack into some anniversary edition for Disney Infinity 4.0... oh wait, wrong universe.😥

Ghostwire Tokyo being limited to PS5 is a bummer but Rage 2 is a neat option among the ones we didn't know yet (I've been playing the first one on the laptop but it's certainly not guaranteed to handle the sequel), and despite having an active playthrough on PSP, I might even check out Type-0 HD. The rest is mostly on Switch.

Given PS5's specs and price, you'd think they have the main model "proofed" for longer. Besides, didn't PS4 Pro illustrate that a beefier unit is of limited use as long as you still develop games with base specs in mind or forfeit the userbase those have already grown? It's exactly why some devs have voiced skepticism about the "Switch Pro" rumours, too.

Then again, with PS5 sales only picking up steam by now, perhaps Sony doesn't view the OG model's userbase as big enough to have devs worried.😅

@Shad361 possibly the most first world comment I'll read this week.😏

The elephant in modern Remote Play room is the need to strap a controller on the only handheld devices it now supports, but if the app in question alleviates the issue by running on a gaming Android PC like this, it may certainly alleviate the concern, at least for those who already have the hardware (otherwise, talk about the "pricier" spendings indeed😅). But what resolution options are available in general? Vita's 360/544p ones have helped ensure relatively stable phone hotspot performance on my side over the years [before the local internet quality became a progressively bigger joke]; connecting is almost always a chore, but the established stream manages to hold up even on 3G (as you'd expect it to, since Vita was designed to run on 3G networks in the first place). But as Switch is my witness, 720p is too generally much for my hotspot so far.

Don't most plats tend to be? I still get flashbacks about my FFX one.😅

One benefit of currently affording a relative bit of time for living room sessions and keeping my PS4 at home for the time being is that I don't need to tug at my friend's sleeve for such updates.😏 For the last few years, the console has tended to effectively disable Remote Play (and, contextually, my entire access) before installing them.😅

I'm a five star sociopath and my brain still took three seconds to bring up the idea of maybe directing all this stock into charity giveaways instead. Don't tell me that none at Funko ever did.🤔🙄

~95% of my 1200+ item Switch library is third party, so I sure have some biased opinions on what they would need to do for that.😛

The best place to play any game is wherever you have some gaming time on your hands. As such, the living room qualifies less and less the older you become. Few debate the nigh supreme advantage of portability in regards to music and movies, so it's time to acknowledge that it's one of the best things to have ever happened to gaming as well.

Even after trying some Tekken 7 last weekend, I can't help associating Jin and Heihachi with Namco x Capcom/Project X Zone first and foremost. Is that how some people feel about Fire Emblem?😅

Code Vein!😂 Guess I had to be initiated into the "buy a game only to see it hit IGC not long afterwards" club one day, but this being the first PS4 game I've bought in almost five years is priceless. But overall, this "lukewarmly reviewed" game quickly joined the roster of soulslikes I rank high above Dark Souls itself (as seems to be par for the course with the team behind the monster hunting games I rank high above Monster Hunter😄), so it's an objective highlight of the month and, I daresay year anyway.

Granted, that leaves me little to look forward to in these announcements overall - the rest is either on Switch like Minecraft Dungeons and Immortals or multiplayer-focused like Rainbow Six Extraction and seemingly Battlefield 2042 or exclusive to PS5 users like Ghostwire Tokyo. But at least there's Tchia for now.

At this point, it does start to remind me of an old Russian joke whose protagonist sought to borrow badly worn clothes for visits to the local taxation office.😅

@TheDudeElDuderino not to engage in console war flexing, but maybe save some of that snark for when XBSX controller gets a gyroscope?😅

Imagine making PlayStation themed postage stamps only to exclude Tearaway.

Sounds like quite a few delicious eventual followups to the stuff I've been gradually binging like on Switch (Borderlands and Resident Evil, the latter also partly on the laptop since I've come to be a big wuss for the ink ribbons in the Vita-supported originals😏) or PS4 itself (like Horizon which was once my last retail purchase on the platform for years before last month's investment in Code Vein). Assuming they'll last that long, of course - Metro Exodus, for instance, is leaving the catalogue next week and I've barely started the first game.😆 There's also other stuff like Scarlet Nexus and Ace Combat 7 I'm curious to try in the near future although the Extra sub has already filled up most of my hard drive (and PS4's mood swings about the remaining capacity don't help), so time will tell.

@EquiinoxGII and even outside your mind, the original continuity/timeline is on multiple platforms including this the current and last generations alongside VIIR. Fanheads really have no leg to stand on with potential "ruined childhood" jabs, not that they ever really did.

@KilloWertz this generation should be over 120 mln units off the ground on the Nintendo front alone.🤔😅 We may well be a a couple years away from Gen 10 by now, not that it will stop PS5 from selling until Sony curtails its appeal with PS6.

@Ralizah I mean, clearly not everyone shares my binge psychology but it may well be there - even on sales, I have yet to grab Disgaea 4 and 5 (let alone 6) because after the first one it would still make more sense for me to try 2 and 3, especially since those already do exist in portable form on PSP and Vita. Otherwise, performance hiccups or not, Switch is still the best modern environment for indulging in Disgaea's kind of crazy tactical grindfest - and NIS seems to know it.

I've already beaten the original Mafia while Olli Olli World and Evil Dead are on Switch, so not much I see myself actually downloading except maybe the Destiny 2 piece which seems standalone and hopefully single player. But kicking off a new spare account's Extra sub has left my PS4 packed with more overdue stuff to play anyway, and the lineup itself is still pretty diverse.

Well, that was the biggest and longest offering in IGC history as it is.😄

I saw the Stars task for Destiny 2, too. Social media "sources" can shove their "ever reliable stuff", but this here is what I call a legit leak. And with most legit leaks, the source is a simple mundane SNAFU.😅

@Cycologist perhaps it's just a clash in announcement and Stars update schedules which Sony might not bother looking into since it's all technically on the same date. Time and future precedents (or lack thereof) will tell.

@DigimonMonster ..."these days"?🤔😅

@Jayslow on eShop, a preorder is set to charge the actual money with thr designated payment method a week before release date, which usually aligns with preload availability. If it's the same here, said release date getting pushed forward sure sounds like a cancellation cause lest things get more awkward otherwise. Although the article specifically uses the "refund" term... is that a synonym here, or does PSS really charge the full sum out the gate?

EDIT: ah, looks like we've got the answer, thanks to @PikaFyi above for the info.

TL; DR we're living in a world where people unironically treat "leaking" entertainment announcements as a career to have and retire from.

Kitase? Something big? Unrelated to VIIR? Sounds like I have yet another excuse to hope for XIII trilogy on Switch this year. As I've unapologetically done for years.😄

Welp, everything added smoothly. Axiom Verge 2 even started downloading right away for some reason, although I don't quite plan to try it here since it's long on eShop (where I still need to get and play the first one to boot). Might try Fallout 76 this weekend, but I'll be certainly taking Star Wars Jedi for a spin first.

Sounds like a solid lineup unless EA and/or Bethesda decide to pull a lasting E-8210604A on the Russian PSS and leave me with the only offering I'd have no reason to get on PS4.😜😆 But hey, as a still rather peripheral SW fan, facing this policy now would at least feel like a comparatively lesser oof than if I had actually managed to renew back in September for NFS Heat only to have the DW Read experience with it instead. Time will tell soon enough.

EDIT: being me, I managed to forget that Mass Effect is also EA, and that one eventually got added fine. So my wariness may be unwarranted here.😅

E-82106O4A on all three items but I recall getting similar birdflips from one of the June titles which got added properly on a later attempt, so... December's still young, I suppose. At least no page glitches like with Lego Harry Potter which I failed to grab even earlier today, the game simply not having an "add to library" button through the whole month and suggesting to "upgrade the tier" instead.😆

I mean, getting three Mass Effect games at once would be pretty damn neat on its own. Here's to it all controlling well. Even Biomutant might work to tide me over until the long announced Switch port on the same conditions.

@SleepyNick and "old trilogy" is a contradiction here? Gamers sure enjoy assuming that if they have played a game before, then everyone who's anyone has. And outside explicitly multiplayer-focused titles that need all the attendance they can get, how many publishers are even motivated to allow a sufficiently new game on a service where at least a third of the userbase will get it for the fraction of the launch price?

I was cautiously optimistic about getting Mass Effect even before the article proceeded to clarify it's all THREE games in one package. Fingers crossed for decent Vita controls as usual. Biomutant might be nice to at least glimpse into since the Switch version is still MIA, and Divine Knockout... I'm not sure about its claim as "the world's only 3D platform fighter" (Dissidia has entered the chat), but looks neat.

Paradise was an absolute blast on Switch and I'm gradually working my way through the first game on Gamecube but would naturally prefer something along the lines of Paradise. And portable, of course.

Huh, the PS debut overall? Only now? Even NDS had a port of the second game. Well, better late than never.

@Flaming_Kaiser these are all from Kotick's more administrative (if not downright criminal) "portfolio" that most people regardless of their own corruption and fallibility would prefer to avoid by default, if mostly in the face of the respective inhibitors since not everyone has Kotick's lawyer money. But my point referred to the general business practices under his and other CEOs' helm - the stuff that earns them their big money AND normally doesn't clash with the concerned legislation(s). How many of us would resist THAT? Yup.

Am I... missing something in the post's headline here?🤔😅

I'd be a hypocrite to decry snarkily repelling dramatic fanheads (and if anyone should have the money to afford losing a few sales for the sake of leaving the portion of this addict swarm behind, it's EA), but there are smarter and more civil ways to do that, especially at the head of a designated PR account, than juvenile jabs like "milkshake brain". This is pretty much MLPFiM's "Fake It Till You Make It" IRL indeed, even if I concur with the manager's other points.😅

@Flaming_Kaiser there is only so much class about business and commerce in general, and vehemently demanding the opposite in a domain whose output people use as pure entertainment and aesthetic drugs can come across as entitlement indeed (and no, the Maslow pyramid doesn't excuse that). Militant "stick it to the corporate Man" fans repeatedly remind the alleged sheeple in the audience that "corporations aren't our friends", but their words and actions don't often seem like they truly understand or account for this notion themselves. Just like they ignore the fact that in the shoes of Wilson, Kotick & Co they all would act the very absolute bloody same.

Finally bit the bullet yesterday (yes, for the eye-watering 230 BYN that could have swept a delicious lot off the current eShop Cyber Deals, but like I said, at least this means I won't have to divert a similar or potentially bigger sum from a spree next month. Which, come to think of it, wouldn't have been the case if I had successfully resubbed in September, so while I'm still a bit bummed about missing NFS Heat and Granblue Fantasy VS (possibly the only PSE offerings from my recent lapse that really feel missed😅)... all's well that ends well? Or gets off the to-do list for the next three months or so, at least.

For now, there's another trick - I've successfully added Nioh 2 and Heavenly Bodies, but Lego HP Collection page on the console store only shows "add to cart" and "upgrade the tier" (is it the Extra availability that causes the interference?🤔). Not sure how to circumvent this hiccup, but worst case scenario, it wouldn't be much of a loss as the Switch multiplat it is. I was mostly compelled to act this month by Nioh 2 (what with the first one hooking me a fair bit AND proving mostly manageable on Vita), and Nioh 2 I have received.😎

Yeah, at this point it's not that different from those packaged digital codes.😅

@thefourfoldroot1 tell that to the people who sell their used consoles together with the accounts (at proportional prices, of course). Obviously risky and not something the platform owners will condone, but a thing that happens nonetheless.

@mrmartinrohr "No trial with no trial period and no gameplay screenshots or video on the store"

Which is certainly awkward as far as digital game stores go, but not quite a disaster in the age of YouTube. As I often say, we should grab a time machine and go tell the gamers of 1982 how hard we have it here with pre-purchase research.😏

Lego HP is on Switch but Nioh 2 (whose predecessor proved pretty damn fun back when I got to properly play it during a blue moon home week with my PS4) and Heavenly Bodies sound like a possible catalyst to attempt a PS+ splurge again (the September one fell through after the sub card's actual price dragged in yet another third party payment system fee, noticeably exceeding what I had saved up and what I could add on a short notice). Granted, it'll also be the time of black fridays and cyber mondays on Switch, so the battle for the wallet remains. Although like I said before, the alleged save cloud maintenance deadlines would compel me to resubscribe around winter holidays at latest, even despite similarly abundant eShop sales traditionally happening at the time.😏