After voting no on the bowtie I tried to be as positive as I could and vote yes as many times as possible but sometimes you just can't, ya know?
One of the questions should have been:
When Clare Obscur wins an award Charlie Cox will come on stage and say "I don't even know what I'm doing up here, I only read a few lines one afternoon, this has nothing to do with me." 😂
If Netflix is planning on selling off the gaming division, maybe in a bidding war between Tencent and PIF, loudly proclaiming that the division has no value is a bold strategy for driving up the price.🤑
I hit a pop up for the app then the app told me the site was down. I was assuming that was b/c all I play are free fames but I just remembered I did play Cat Quest 3. I'll go try again later. Unless I finally played GoW:R this year in the spring? If that's the case it's probably:
Infinity Nikki
Fortnite
Disney Speedstorm
God of War Ragnarok
Cat Quest 3
Also possibly pLucky Squire and FF7 Crisis Core on PS+ Extra, though that was probably last year.
Edit: OK so it's back up and running now, and I was oh so close on my guesses. I got 1-4 correct but forgot about Visions of Mana.
Infinity Nikki 337
Fortnite 128
Disney Speedstorm 105
God of War Ragnarok 100 even
Visions of Mana 59
Totals:
17 games
764 hours
101 trophies
Level 269 - 272 whatever that means 🤷♂️
Reading "political tensions" and not having it be about the US is triggering the 'Merican in me, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Relieved maybe? 🤣
@GamingFan4Lyf Primitive now? When I was a kid people would have thought we must be space aliens or time travelers from the future talking about this stuff. 🤣
I remember switching to Radeon after Voodoo kind of disappeared after 3. I was late to the party on GeForce, above my pay grade. I started buying cheap old cards for my kids to game on but thankfully I'm just a console gamer these days. Inthiseconomy.gif
@GamingFan4Lyf I had a Voodoo 2 or 3, it's in a plastic bag laying around here somewhere. I've kept most of my old hardware, have likev5 or 6 towers in the corner, but finally threw out all the boxes b/c thry were just taking up tok much space. 😂
@nessisonett I don't think I got very far in.Unreal, have never liked first person games, but I had to try it. I might own Unreal Tournament on a Dreamcast disc, also never played it. Probably got those on clearance at Comp USA or Computer City when they were going out of business. My first, well 2nd really, home PC only had a floppy drive, no disc, I can't even recall which tower I had to play that on. So. Long. Ago. (I'm typing this sitting in a room surrounded by probably 100 games and I'm not even sure where my Dreamcast collection is, though it's only like a dozen discs. I can see my Dreamcast.😁)
@nessisonett I was thinking Serious Sam as well, but it somehow looks slower in the screenshots, (can screenshots look slow?) than that fast paced game, so more like "Unreal" or even "Turok Dinosaur Hunter" or whatever it was called. Do people know Unreal was a game before it was an engine? I still have the disc in the box. It was a cool box.
@get2sammyb But it's so bad at it. And it keeps making free to play games that are $40 to start that also required paid subscriptions to play online, so they are doing it all wrong.🤑
@Silenos Not crashing is good. 😀 Thanks. I'll look into it if and when I find the time. I'm kinda hoping Fortnite goes full first person view which would force me to quit playing.
@get2sammyb It's a great time to be a free to play gamer. In the past week both Fortnite and Infinity Nikki updated to new seasons. Nikki is like a whole new game and Fortnite is Fortnite again after the condensed map Simpsons seasons.
With Hoyoverse and the others seemingly non-stop on these it really makes it look like Sony messed up forcing, or maybe just encouraging, so many of it's studios to try to make these types of games rather than story driven single player games that Playstation is known for.
@Silenos Are you playing WWM on PS or PC? I've read OS5 has tech issues compared to PC. I looked at it before it came out then got distracted by Palia which I also haven't started and now I have 4-5 hours of gaming in Dreams to go play. I may never pay for games again. Well after FF7R part 3, that's day 1.
Thanks @Quintumply I haven't played Dreams in forever, not sure I ever installed it in my PS5, but I'm going to give both this and Trip's Voyage a go. I can't believe InDreams is still working and I had TV already in my playlist. Probably from the last time you wrote about it. mM should be paying you.👍
I've seen these around for a bit, I thought it was 1 of those projectors to display your other device on your wall or garage door. Always made me think of the Ouya in design so that's not good. 😝
I've been playing online multi-player for free online every day on my PS5 for years - Fortnite, Disney Speedstorm, Infinity Nikki. The fact that they're free doesn't help the cause of "You have to pay to play online" which we also don't do on PC or mobile. It's just greed.
Sony putting out a $30 pack for need to pay for the game need to pay to play online Gran Turismo 7 should be all you need to show it's greed. Yes I know the 3.0 update is free, but GT7 should probably jyst be included in PS Essentials at this point. Gaming is getting crazy.
Announcing "gone gold" and "delay" makes me think they really don't understand what "gone gold" means.
Not that anyone in the industry does anymore, more like "gone bronze", then patch it after release to get to silver, celebrate the 1 year anniversary by finally going gold.
They're making a live action "One Punch Man" tv show? Well I suppose they made a live action "One piece" so why not. Seems weird though.
I suppose Avatar and Fullmetal Alchemist as well. And Cowboy Bebop. Gonna go check if there's a live action Akira.
Nothings new anymore.
Edit: No live action Akira despite 35 yesrs of trying. Probably for the best. Bought myself the UHD discs for Christmas, will probably watch it 3x, original Japanese, original Kuh-ney-da English, then second Can-nuh-da English dub.
I'm going to hope an actual artist did the 4 toe thing on purpose to look like AI to troll people. If he was a really good troll he would have done 6 and 7 toes. 😂
@get2sammyb 382MB update this morning. I'm expecting 1 of them at least once a day for a week or 2. Maybe longer w/ the birthday and anniversary updates coming in quick succession.
Thoughts on the Lin Manuel inspired new Idina Menzel sung theme song? I miss the blatant rip-off of "Jump Up Superstar" but this does feel kind of big and epic now like a proper sequel should. It takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom so that makes up for losing the Nintendo theme song.😂
I somehow missed the original article on Monday but I've been looking forward to this "update" a lot. I put update in quotes b/c it feels as much a sequel as any other long running continuing game series like God of War, Horizon, Spiderman or Uncharted.
I logged on last night but didn't get a chance to even go to "It's a Land" (Mario voice) b/c of reading everything new then doing the first round in the arena, but it's certainly like a new game w/ all the new who stars and fast travel spires to find. Looking forward to it this afternoon after getting back from my wife's birthday brunch at our favorite little coffee spot. We're hosting 20 people for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, and her family tonight for her birthday dinner, so we're just going to spend the afternoon today just chilling w/ Niki and Momo. 😁
@Art_Vandelay Day and date is a no-no for Sony games, but I think a couple of years later is fine. First week sales of big PS5 games are the big ones b/c people are waiting 3-5 years to play it day 1, not wait another year or 2 to play it on PC.
Console sales will end some day. They did for Sega, they did for Nintendo - Switch & Switch 2 are handhelds w/ tv out, Microsoft will stop making Xboxen in a gen or 2. And so will Sony after that.
So selling old games now gets them started on PC for when there are no lore consoles.
I game from my iPad to my TV wireless you, it's easy. If this hardware xan do that now, 10 years from now why do I need a console, or a PC, when I have a phone and a grip like controller?
Cox earlier said he feels weird when people congratulate him on the game b/c he did like a few hours in the afternoon, he said it wasn't even really "work", probably compared to all the actual work he has to do on Daredevil.
Seems like a very modest guy.
Malle voice actress (Jennifer English?) deserves the award though. 😁
How much did it cost them to port some already existing PS5 games to PC vs how much does it cost them to make that $7B per quarter?
$1.2B may not sound like a lot to the handful of people running the world, but if it only costs them a few million to port them, then why not? I doubt there are that many people not buying a PS5 b/c of the late ports.
If I'm wrong and it's costing them $1B to port them then don't, probably not worth the look for a $200 million profit.
@somnambulance Well the only colorful game these days is Fortnite, and we know how everyone here feels about that one, so color be damned I guess. 😂
Jennifer English needs to do about 80 more games before she becomes the next Troy Baker, BTW I think Ben Starr might already be the next Troy Baker, but I get what you mean about the dark fantasy vibe.
An update on Dragon Quest 12 would be nice. Maybe they have to finish remaking 1-11 first. Only about 5 or 6 more to go I guess.
@somnambulance First, I want to apologize for all of the typos in my previous post, that was awful, and I'm sorry you had to decipher that. I usually fix them all before posting, guess I forgot.😩
So. Many. Zombies. Games, movies, TV. Sucks for me b/c I'm not a fan. 😝 Even the movie "Sinners", which was a decent remake of "From Dusk til Dawn", basically turned it's vampires into zombies. That's from both my wife and kid as soon as we finished watching it.
Elden Ring was great. I mean I wish it had an easier mode so I could have fought the bosses myself rather than just summoning in other people and watching them do it, but the 100 hours I spent grinding to get to the point where I could start playing the game were great. The best horse travel there ever was or ever will be. But not every game needs to look like it. I don't do souls likes.
I think it's partly Chinese games, partly Unreal Engine 5, and partly the zeitgeist. It will pass. Or at least diminish enough that 40 minute State of Plays don't look like 1 long game. We need more color. PS2 had it all, seemingly constantly. Now we wait for an Astrobot or Dragon Quest once every few years.
PS5 is now officially over 5 years old. Price drop is nice, should pick up a few more sales for Sony, but if you've waited this long to purchase a PS5 you might as well wait for a PS6. At least to find out if there is going to be a proper handheld variant. If it's just going to be another home console then maybe pick up a PS5 during a sale.
@get2sammyb Speaking of Petit Planet are you familiar with Palia? Free to play game w/ lots of vids on YT, was thinking of giving it a go if Nikki 2.0 doesn't feel right.
Really looking forward to Nikki going all Aloy next week though.👍
This seems years off, I've already forgotten the name while I was typing this so...
@somnambulance There are a whole lit if games that kind of looks the same to me these days. I think fir me it started w/ Elden Ring, but not exactly, but Lies of P and the Elden Ring dlc where both shown together w/ this and a couple of others that all could have come from the same GA. Even Clair Obscur has the look, if not the gameplay. Everything is so dark and black. 🤷♂️
Looks good. I'm putting it on the calendar. Saturday of Thanksgiving day weekend is a crummy time to do it though, lot of kids who play this will probably be traveling, pestering their parents no end. They could have easily kept the Simpsons going for another week - it's a really short season - and done this on Dec 6th.
Unless Epic isn't a US company and doesn't care about T-day? Gonna have to go look that up. I'll be there, wife permitting. Simpsons lead in was mostly a 12 minute non -interactive cutscene but it was a fun watch. This one looks to be playable.
Edit: Epic is in North Carolina, who knew, would have guessed California or Washington. They really should have waited. Probably means their employees have to put in more time over that weekend as well. Guess Epic selling Band camp 5 months after it unionized was a coincidence.😝
My favorite widget is the controller battery life but hours played is nice too. Now if the PS5 would stop asking me to sync up my controller with a wire to the PS5. As long as it's working fine I'm not going to go find a cable to do that. Maybe this update is the reason?
My wife and I didn't like season 2 as much as season 1, Death and the bug lady were both kinda lame, but we've never played the games so maybe that's why.
We would have been OK if it ended after season 2 but we'll watch season 3. We like Stu and the new girl. And as weird as it got w/ Stu in space and coming back home like Goku arriving on Namek I'm expecting they go all in on the zany in season 3. Which will be an improvement over the sister story line. Not a fan of fridging.
Also looking forward to meeting the Clowns dad, some potential there.
@Quintumply Maybe an oversight or maybe b/c it hasn't come out yet but you listed 3 games in the show - 007 First Light, Tides of Annihilation, and Reanimal - and you listed - Jennifer English, best known as Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart and Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, will narrate the show. - but you didn't mention that Jennifer English plays the lead role of Gwendolyn in "Tides of Annilation". I didn't know it either, my wife pointed it out to me, but I did just go look it up to confirm.
Not sure it's worth editing the article for but it could be why she is the narrator. Cheers.
I'll watch for Jennifer English. Is she a witch in Tides of Annilation? My wife says we heard her in something recently from 1 of the many Sony games that all look alike. 🤷♂️
I feel like all Xbox games are 3rd party, or will become 3rd party, at this point so getting kind of redundant.😂
Was going to download it but needed to make room so deleted GoW:R and Spiderman 2. I think that should be the game's big claim to fame, deleting those 2 games. 😂
Went to the PS store and while looking for this came across "Palia" and decided I liked the look of that better, so will pass on this for now.🤷♂️
My wife and I watched a video on YT a few nights ago, think it was from the SoP. There was so much going on we had no idea what even type of game it was. Farming, fighting, role playing. It seemed to be a bit all over the place.
I would download it but Infinity Nikki finally updates to 2.0 next week and I think that is going to be taking up a whole lot of our time. If Nikki goes off the rail I'll try this out. Maybe another week or two of patches will get this sorted out.
For someone who has been gaming on consoles and PCs since basically the beginning if you want to count Pong, and why wouldn't you, I think I'm interested in this but honestly I'm still not sure what it is.
Price is first and foremost. I'd dive in if it's cheap, but I doubt it will be b/c nothing is anymore.🤑
How is Valve even funding this? PS doesn't have mandatory paid online and Steam doesn't have a Gamepass option like Netflix last I checked. Though with how many PC games there are in the world I don't know why iy doesn't. Even Apple has Arcade for like $10/m and it only haslikev52 games.
Do I have to use that awful controller or can I use 1 of my 5 PS5 controllers?
Is it plug and play like a console or do I still need to fiddle w/ settings for every game?
Will it run currently way too expensive Gamepass games should I get a trial fora month?
Does it plug into a socket like a console or PC or one of those specific bricjsor dongles?
If it works like a console, but a PC on my TV for all Steam games, for $499, I might pick it up. After a year or so to see if they're still supporting it. I'm not paying for an Ouya doorstop.
@RZ-Atom I read everything you wrote twice and I'm not convinced you like action comedies more than dramas. 😂
Did you watch Man in High Castle? My wife and I watched it b/c of all the great reviews but we found it pretty slow and boring for the most part. I do like Silo better than that. But I'll always take action comedy over straight drama. Real life is dramatic enough.😩
Hopefully season 2 of Fallout doesn't let me down like Rwisted Metal did. It was OK, but lacked tye coherent consistency of the 1st season.
We like Silo, all 17 seasons of it that we feel like we've watched w/ those 2 waiting for something to happen, but "almost every way"? Action? Comedy? Music? Color? It's a better character focused story driven drama, but that's about the only way I think Silo is better than Fallout. 1 way.
Just say you like dramas better than action comedies, you're allowed.🤷♂️
@johncalmc Wait until the weekend of February 7th, done. 😎 And then you only need to pay for 1 month of Prime. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon knows people sign up for a month of Prime to holiday shop BF then cancel at Christmas so this would force people to pay for another 2 months.
Not sure how we'll do it yet. Last time we paid for Prime I actually only signed up for video to save a few bucks. My actually free shipping, not paid in advance shipping, comes in a few days. We are looking forward to it, maybe even get my college kids to watch season 1 as an excuse to re-watch it. But we'll see.
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Re: Feature: Predict The Game Awards 2025 with Our 20 Question Quiz
After voting no on the bowtie I tried to be as positive as I could and vote yes as many times as possible but sometimes you just can't, ya know?
One of the questions should have been:
When Clare Obscur wins an award Charlie Cox will come on stage and say "I don't even know what I'm doing up here, I only read a few lines one afternoon, this has nothing to do with me." 😂
Re: Your Tongue Is the Ultimate Tool in Frog 3D Platformer Big Hops on PS5
There's a demo on Steam. No price though. Looks like a $4.99 game to me so maybe $19.99? No harm in it existing I guess.🤷♂️
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/Big_Hops/
Re: Sony's India Hero Project Brings a Cosy Adventure Game to PS5 in April 2026
Not really my type of game but I do like the name "Fishbowl" for it.
If they called it "Ramona Flowers Moves to Toronto" and have the game end w/ her meeting Scott it probably could have had a lot more sales. 😂
Re: Netflix Says Warner Bros Games Doesn't Hold 'Any Value' in $82 Billion Acquisition
If Netflix is planning on selling off the gaming division, maybe in a bidding war between Tencent and PIF, loudly proclaiming that the division has no value is a bold strategy for driving up the price.🤑
Re: PlayStation Wrap-Up 2025 Live Now, Get Your Gaming Stats for the Year
I hit a pop up for the app then the app told me the site was down. I was assuming that was b/c all I play are free fames but I just remembered I did play Cat Quest 3. I'll go try again later. Unless I finally played GoW:R this year in the spring? If that's the case it's probably:
Infinity Nikki
Fortnite
Disney Speedstorm
God of War Ragnarok
Cat Quest 3
Also possibly pLucky Squire and FF7 Crisis Core on PS+ Extra, though that was probably last year.
Edit: OK so it's back up and running now, and I was oh so close on my guesses. I got 1-4 correct but forgot about Visions of Mana.
Infinity Nikki 337
Fortnite 128
Disney Speedstorm 105
God of War Ragnarok 100 even
Visions of Mana 59
Totals:
17 games
764 hours
101 trophies
Level 269 - 272 whatever that means 🤷♂️
Re: PlayStation Teases 2026 PS5 Games in New Trailer
Wolverine. I've been waiting how many years now?
Don't believe it's coming out in 2026 though, they'll probably decide to hold it back for a dual release alongside the PS6 launch just b/c.😝
Re: Honkai: Star Rail's Milestone PS5 Update Allegedly Postponed Due to Political Tensions
Reading "political tensions" and not having it be about the US is triggering the 'Merican in me, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Relieved maybe? 🤣
Re: Promising PS5 Console Exclusive Phantom Blade Zero Will Get a Release Date at The Game Awards
@get2sammyb "It's insane out there..."
Me to my wife as we were watching about 30 minutes of game trailers on YT after playing Infinity Nikki for like 3 hours -
"Poor Sammy. He does not have enough time to play all of these games."
She just laughed. 😂
Re: Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War Turns Helldivers 2 into a Retro, PS2-Era FPS
@GamingFan4Lyf Primitive now? When I was a kid people would have thought we must be space aliens or time travelers from the future talking about this stuff. 🤣
I remember switching to Radeon after Voodoo kind of disappeared after 3. I was late to the party on GeForce, above my pay grade. I started buying cheap old cards for my kids to game on but thankfully I'm just a console gamer these days. Inthiseconomy.gif
Re: Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War Turns Helldivers 2 into a Retro, PS2-Era FPS
@GamingFan4Lyf I had a Voodoo 2 or 3, it's in a plastic bag laying around here somewhere. I've kept most of my old hardware, have likev5 or 6 towers in the corner, but finally threw out all the boxes b/c thry were just taking up tok much space. 😂
Re: Wuthering Waves Gameplay Trailer Gives Us Our First Taste of Massive Upcoming PS5 Update
@get2sammyb Don't worry, I got all the arguing covered.🤣
Re: Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War Turns Helldivers 2 into a Retro, PS2-Era FPS
@nessisonett I don't think I got very far in.Unreal, have never liked first person games, but I had to try it. I might own Unreal Tournament on a Dreamcast disc, also never played it. Probably got those on clearance at Comp USA or Computer City when they were going out of business. My first, well 2nd really, home PC only had a floppy drive, no disc, I can't even recall which tower I had to play that on. So. Long. Ago. (I'm typing this sitting in a room surrounded by probably 100 games and I'm not even sure where my Dreamcast collection is, though it's only like a dozen discs. I can see my Dreamcast.😁)
Re: Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War Turns Helldivers 2 into a Retro, PS2-Era FPS
@nessisonett I was thinking Serious Sam as well, but it somehow looks slower in the screenshots, (can screenshots look slow?) than that fast paced game, so more like "Unreal" or even "Turok Dinosaur Hunter" or whatever it was called. Do people know Unreal was a game before it was an engine? I still have the disc in the box. It was a cool box.
Re: The Battle Bus Is Returning to Fortnite, and a Nostalgic Nicktoon Is Along for the Ride
@Quintumply Wait, if Chapter 7 doesn't start until December 11th what have I been playing all week after chapter 6 ended on Saturday?
I honestly thought 7 had started but just a few modes besides battle Royale were starting on the 11th?
And I was bummed to have the bus come back today I was enjoying the surfing.
Re: Wuthering Waves Gameplay Trailer Gives Us Our First Taste of Massive Upcoming PS5 Update
@get2sammyb But it's so bad at it. And it keeps making free to play games that are $40 to start that also required paid subscriptions to play online, so they are doing it all wrong.🤑
Re: Wuthering Waves Gameplay Trailer Gives Us Our First Taste of Massive Upcoming PS5 Update
@Silenos Not crashing is good. 😀 Thanks. I'll look into it if and when I find the time. I'm kinda hoping Fortnite goes full first person view which would force me to quit playing.
Re: Wuthering Waves Gameplay Trailer Gives Us Our First Taste of Massive Upcoming PS5 Update
@get2sammyb It's a great time to be a free to play gamer. In the past week both Fortnite and Infinity Nikki updated to new seasons. Nikki is like a whole new game and Fortnite is Fortnite again after the condensed map Simpsons seasons.
With Hoyoverse and the others seemingly non-stop on these it really makes it look like Sony messed up forcing, or maybe just encouraging, so many of it's studios to try to make these types of games rather than story driven single player games that Playstation is known for.
@Silenos Are you playing WWM on PS or PC? I've read OS5 has tech issues compared to PC. I looked at it before it came out then got distracted by Palia which I also haven't started and now I have 4-5 hours of gaming in Dreams to go play. I may never pay for games again. Well after FF7R part 3, that's day 1.
Re: Someone Made Banjo-Kazooie in Dreams on PS5, PS4, and You've Got to See It
Thanks @Quintumply I haven't played Dreams in forever, not sure I ever installed it in my PS5, but I'm going to give both this and Trip's Voyage a go. I can't believe InDreams is still working and I had TV already in my playlist. Probably from the last time you wrote about it. mM should be paying you.👍
Re: PS5 Outsold by an Unexpected Rival in the Run Up to Black Friday
Can it run Crysis? 😂
I've seen these around for a bit, I thought it was 1 of those projectors to display your other device on your wall or garage door. Always made me think of the Ouya in design so that's not good. 😝
Re: Fast & Furious Director on Deck for Helldivers Movie Penned by It, Annabelle Scribe
@T-Bone09 Live action Cowboy Bebop was 4 years ago on Netflix. It was OK.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267295/
Re: PS Plus Won't Be Required for PS5, PS4 Online Multiplayer This Weekend
I've been playing online multi-player for free online every day on my PS5 for years - Fortnite, Disney Speedstorm, Infinity Nikki. The fact that they're free doesn't help the cause of "You have to pay to play online" which we also don't do on PC or mobile. It's just greed.
Sony putting out a $30 pack for need to pay for the game need to pay to play online Gran Turismo 7 should be all you need to show it's greed. Yes I know the 3.0 update is free, but GT7 should probably jyst be included in PS Essentials at this point. Gaming is getting crazy.
Re: PS5 Exclusive Dino Shooter Code Violet Has Gone Gold, Delayed to January 2026
Announcing "gone gold" and "delay" makes me think they really don't understand what "gone gold" means.
Not that anyone in the industry does anymore, more like "gone bronze", then patch it after release to get to silver, celebrate the 1 year anniversary by finally going gold.
We're all paying to be beta testers these days.😩
Re: Fast & Furious Director on Deck for Helldivers Movie Penned by It, Annabelle Scribe
They're making a live action "One Punch Man" tv show? Well I suppose they made a live action "One piece" so why not. Seems weird though.
I suppose Avatar and Fullmetal Alchemist as well. And Cowboy Bebop. Gonna go check if there's a live action Akira.
Nothings new anymore.
Edit: No live action Akira despite 35 yesrs of trying. Probably for the best. Bought myself the UHD discs for Christmas, will probably watch it 3x, original Japanese, original Kuh-ney-da English, then second Can-nuh-da English dub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(live_action_film)
Re: PS5's Biggest Game Fortnite Accused of Using AI Art
I'm going to hope an actual artist did the 4 toe thing on purpose to look like AI to troll people. If he was a really good troll he would have done 6 and 7 toes. 😂
Re: Open World Dress-Up Game Infinity Nikki's Biggest Ever PS5 Update Is Out Now
@get2sammyb Thanks. 👍
Re: Open World Dress-Up Game Infinity Nikki's Biggest Ever PS5 Update Is Out Now
@get2sammyb 382MB update this morning. I'm expecting 1 of them at least once a day for a week or 2. Maybe longer w/ the birthday and anniversary updates coming in quick succession.
Thoughts on the Lin Manuel inspired new Idina Menzel sung theme song? I miss the blatant rip-off of "Jump Up Superstar" but this does feel kind of big and epic now like a proper sequel should. It takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom so that makes up for losing the Nintendo theme song.😂
I somehow missed the original article on Monday but I've been looking forward to this "update" a lot. I put update in quotes b/c it feels as much a sequel as any other long running continuing game series like God of War, Horizon, Spiderman or Uncharted.
I logged on last night but didn't get a chance to even go to "It's a Land" (Mario voice) b/c of reading everything new then doing the first round in the arena, but it's certainly like a new game w/ all the new who stars and fast travel spires to find. Looking forward to it this afternoon after getting back from my wife's birthday brunch at our favorite little coffee spot. We're hosting 20 people for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, and her family tonight for her birthday dinner, so we're just going to spend the afternoon today just chilling w/ Niki and Momo. 😁
Re: Sony Estimated to Have Made $1.5 Billion from Steam, But the Novelty Is Wearing Off
@Art_Vandelay Day and date is a no-no for Sony games, but I think a couple of years later is fine. First week sales of big PS5 games are the big ones b/c people are waiting 3-5 years to play it day 1, not wait another year or 2 to play it on PC.
Console sales will end some day. They did for Sega, they did for Nintendo - Switch & Switch 2 are handhelds w/ tv out, Microsoft will stop making Xboxen in a gen or 2. And so will Sony after that.
So selling old games now gets them started on PC for when there are no lore consoles.
I game from my iPad to my TV wireless you, it's easy. If this hardware xan do that now, 10 years from now why do I need a console, or a PC, when I have a phone and a grip like controller?
Re: Persona, Metaphor Director Says JRPGs Are on the Brink of a New Era
I'm just waiting for DQ 12. 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, if it works if works. Currently playing 3 player "Sea of Stars". Old school JRPG w/ a new school twist.
Re: Expedition 33's Charlie Cox Credits Lesser-Known Actor for Game Awards Nomination
Cox earlier said he feels weird when people congratulate him on the game b/c he did like a few hours in the afternoon, he said it wasn't even really "work", probably compared to all the actual work he has to do on Daredevil.
Seems like a very modest guy.
Malle voice actress (Jennifer English?) deserves the award though. 😁
Re: Sony Estimated to Have Made $1.5 Billion from Steam, But the Novelty Is Wearing Off
How much did it cost them to port some already existing PS5 games to PC vs how much does it cost them to make that $7B per quarter?
$1.2B may not sound like a lot to the handful of people running the world, but if it only costs them a few million to port them, then why not? I doubt there are that many people not buying a PS5 b/c of the late ports.
If I'm wrong and it's costing them $1B to port them then don't, probably not worth the look for a $200 million profit.
Re: Arthurian Action Game Tides of Annihilation Stuns in Staggering PS5 Boss Fight Trailer
@somnambulance Well the only colorful game these days is Fortnite, and we know how everyone here feels about that one, so color be damned I guess. 😂
Jennifer English needs to do about 80 more games before she becomes the next Troy Baker, BTW I think Ben Starr might already be the next Troy Baker, but I get what you mean about the dark fantasy vibe.
An update on Dragon Quest 12 would be nice. Maybe they have to finish remaking 1-11 first. Only about 5 or 6 more to go I guess.
Re: Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail Maker Reveals Next-Gen Open World Powered by Unreal Engine 5
@get2sammyb Thanks. If I ever do play Palia I'll let you know how it goes.
Re: Arthurian Action Game Tides of Annihilation Stuns in Staggering PS5 Boss Fight Trailer
@somnambulance First, I want to apologize for all of the typos in my previous post, that was awful, and I'm sorry you had to decipher that. I usually fix them all before posting, guess I forgot.😩
So. Many. Zombies. Games, movies, TV. Sucks for me b/c I'm not a fan. 😝 Even the movie "Sinners", which was a decent remake of "From Dusk til Dawn", basically turned it's vampires into zombies. That's from both my wife and kid as soon as we finished watching it.
Elden Ring was great. I mean I wish it had an easier mode so I could have fought the bosses myself rather than just summoning in other people and watching them do it, but the 100 hours I spent grinding to get to the point where I could start playing the game were great. The best horse travel there ever was or ever will be. But not every game needs to look like it. I don't do souls likes.
I think it's partly Chinese games, partly Unreal Engine 5, and partly the zeitgeist. It will pass. Or at least diminish enough that 40 minute State of Plays don't look like 1 long game. We need more color. PS2 had it all, seemingly constantly. Now we wait for an Astrobot or Dragon Quest once every few years.
Re: PS5 Sales Collapse in Japan as Sony Readies Overdue Rescue Plan
PS5 is now officially over 5 years old. Price drop is nice, should pick up a few more sales for Sony, but if you've waited this long to purchase a PS5 you might as well wait for a PS6. At least to find out if there is going to be a proper handheld variant. If it's just going to be another home console then maybe pick up a PS5 during a sale.
Re: Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail Maker Reveals Next-Gen Open World Powered by Unreal Engine 5
@get2sammyb Speaking of Petit Planet are you familiar with Palia? Free to play game w/ lots of vids on YT, was thinking of giving it a go if Nikki 2.0 doesn't feel right.
Really looking forward to Nikki going all Aloy next week though.👍
This seems years off, I've already forgotten the name while I was typing this so...
Re: Huge PS Store Black Friday Sale Live Now with 1,900+ PS5, PS4 Offers
Will probably get Astrobot for $40 on disc at Target when their BF sale starts. I th7nk Sunday but who knows these days.
Re: Arthurian Action Game Tides of Annihilation Stuns in Staggering PS5 Boss Fight Trailer
@somnambulance There are a whole lit if games that kind of looks the same to me these days. I think fir me it started w/ Elden Ring, but not exactly, but Lies of P and the Elden Ring dlc where both shown together w/ this and a couple of others that all could have come from the same GA. Even Clair Obscur has the look, if not the gameplay. Everything is so dark and black. 🤷♂️
Re: Fortnite Is Going Full Ready Player One in Chapter 6 Finale Event Next Week
Looks good. I'm putting it on the calendar. Saturday of Thanksgiving day weekend is a crummy time to do it though, lot of kids who play this will probably be traveling, pestering their parents no end. They could have easily kept the Simpsons going for another week - it's a really short season - and done this on Dec 6th.
Unless Epic isn't a US company and doesn't care about T-day? Gonna have to go look that up. I'll be there, wife permitting. Simpsons lead in was mostly a 12 minute non -interactive cutscene but it was a fun watch. This one looks to be playable.
Edit: Epic is in North Carolina, who knew, would have guessed California or Washington. They really should have waited. Probably means their employees have to put in more time over that weekend as well. Guess Epic selling Band camp 5 months after it unionized was a coincidence.😝
Re: PS5 Welcome Hub Update Adds New Stat Tracking, Backgrounds
My favorite widget is the controller battery life but hours played is nice too. Now if the PS5 would stop asking me to sync up my controller with a wire to the PS5. As long as it's working fine I'm not going to go find a cable to do that. Maybe this update is the reason?
Re: Twisted Metal Renewed for Season 3 and Gets New Showrunner
My wife and I didn't like season 2 as much as season 1, Death and the bug lady were both kinda lame, but we've never played the games so maybe that's why.
We would have been OK if it ended after season 2 but we'll watch season 3. We like Stu and the new girl. And as weird as it got w/ Stu in space and coming back home like Goku arriving on Namek I'm expecting they go all in on the zany in season 3. Which will be an improvement over the sister story line. Not a fan of fridging.
Also looking forward to meeting the Clowns dad, some potential there.
Re: Xbox Partner Preview Officially Confirmed for 20th November, Includes 'Brand New Reveals'
@Quintumply Maybe an oversight or maybe b/c it hasn't come out yet but you listed 3 games in the show - 007 First Light, Tides of Annihilation, and Reanimal - and you listed - Jennifer English, best known as Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart and Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, will narrate the show. - but you didn't mention that Jennifer English plays the lead role of Gwendolyn in "Tides of Annilation". I didn't know it either, my wife pointed it out to me, but I did just go look it up to confirm.
Not sure it's worth editing the article for but it could be why she is the narrator. Cheers.
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Jennifer-English/
Re: Xbox Partner Preview Officially Confirmed for 20th November, Includes 'Brand New Reveals'
I'll watch for Jennifer English. Is she a witch in Tides of Annilation? My wife says we heard her in something recently from 1 of the many Sony games that all look alike. 🤷♂️
I feel like all Xbox games are 3rd party, or will become 3rd party, at this point so getting kind of redundant.😂
Re: PS5 RPG Where Winds Meet Makes a Strong Start with Two Million Players
Was going to download it but needed to make room so deleted GoW:R and Spiderman 2. I think that should be the game's big claim to fame, deleting those 2 games. 😂
Went to the PS store and while looking for this came across "Palia" and decided I liked the look of that better, so will pass on this for now.🤷♂️
Re: PS5 RPG Where Winds Meet Makes a Strong Start with Two Million Players
My wife and I watched a video on YT a few nights ago, think it was from the SoP. There was so much going on we had no idea what even type of game it was. Farming, fighting, role playing. It seemed to be a bit all over the place.
I would download it but Infinity Nikki finally updates to 2.0 next week and I think that is going to be taking up a whole lot of our time. If Nikki goes off the rail I'll try this out. Maybe another week or two of patches will get this sorted out.
Re: Embarrassing AI Art Plagues Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Launch
Game over man, game over. 😝
Re: Steel Yourselves: The Game Awards Nominees Are Being Announced Imminently
@StitchJones "haven't heard that name in many decades"
Hope I can say the same about GK some say.😂
Re: Poll: Does the Steam Machine Pose a Threat to PS5?
For someone who has been gaming on consoles and PCs since basically the beginning if you want to count Pong, and why wouldn't you, I think I'm interested in this but honestly I'm still not sure what it is.
Price is first and foremost. I'd dive in if it's cheap, but I doubt it will be b/c nothing is anymore.🤑
How is Valve even funding this? PS doesn't have mandatory paid online and Steam doesn't have a Gamepass option like Netflix last I checked. Though with how many PC games there are in the world I don't know why iy doesn't. Even Apple has Arcade for like $10/m and it only haslikev52 games.
Do I have to use that awful controller or can I use 1 of my 5 PS5 controllers?
Is it plug and play like a console or do I still need to fiddle w/ settings for every game?
Will it run currently way too expensive Gamepass games should I get a trial fora month?
Does it plug into a socket like a console or PC or one of those specific bricjsor dongles?
If it works like a console, but a PC on my TV for all Steam games, for $499, I might pick it up. After a year or so to see if they're still supporting it. I'm not paying for an Ouya doorstop.
Re: Steel Yourselves: The Game Awards Nominees Are Being Announced Imminently
Does Keighly tell his photographers "Make he look like Max Headroom come to life."🤷♂️
Congratulations in advance to Clair Obscur for all it's wins, well deserved.👍
Re: Fallout Season 2 Heads to New Vegas in New Trailer, Debuts 17th December
@RZ-Atom I read everything you wrote twice and I'm not convinced you like action comedies more than dramas. 😂
Did you watch Man in High Castle? My wife and I watched it b/c of all the great reviews but we found it pretty slow and boring for the most part. I do like Silo better than that. But I'll always take action comedy over straight drama. Real life is dramatic enough.😩
Hopefully season 2 of Fallout doesn't let me down like Rwisted Metal did. It was OK, but lacked tye coherent consistency of the 1st season.
Re: Fallout Season 2 Heads to New Vegas in New Trailer, Debuts 17th December
@RZ-Atom "but Silo is better in almost every way"
We like Silo, all 17 seasons of it that we feel like we've watched w/ those 2 waiting for something to happen, but "almost every way"? Action? Comedy? Music? Color? It's a better character focused story driven drama, but that's about the only way I think Silo is better than Fallout. 1 way.
Just say you like dramas better than action comedies, you're allowed.🤷♂️
@johncalmc Wait until the weekend of February 7th, done. 😎 And then you only need to pay for 1 month of Prime. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon knows people sign up for a month of Prime to holiday shop BF then cancel at Christmas so this would force people to pay for another 2 months.
Not sure how we'll do it yet. Last time we paid for Prime I actually only signed up for video to save a few bucks. My actually free shipping, not paid in advance shipping, comes in a few days. We are looking forward to it, maybe even get my college kids to watch season 1 as an excuse to re-watch it. But we'll see.