@SweetSummerShunv The FF7 Retrilogy will end with Cloud in the shower and Tifa waking up in bed saying "Cloud, I just had the weirdest dream." And then Advent Children will be fine. 😂
So this is the graphical design they decided to go with for their dark mature game? 🤣
I like a dark mature story, occasionally, and I like these graphics, but not together. Since they were rebuilding it from the ground up they probably should have gone with something a little less cartoon kid friendly if they wanted to convey dark and mature.
I'm all for gimmicks over graphics, I just replayed Mario Galaxy (Wii version on my Wii U) and I forgot how much use Nintendo got out of the motion and the pointing with that game, AND it still looks great on myn75" 4k TV. But the Wii was only $250 new, the PS5 is closer to $500. For that much more money I need the graphics as well as the gimmicks. If they just want to make gimmick Astrobot games sell me a $300 system.
Wouldn't surprise me if it's 1 of those short in-between seasons, this 1 has been really long. They've kept it going w/ Scooby Doo and Fortnitemares but w/ another 10 days left I'm ready to move on. And a short season before the Christmas season would be welcome.
@get2sammyb If you'd like to edit your article with some useful content (unless you're saving it for another article 😉) the new dlc From the Ashes - releases Dec 5th, same day as the new movie, for $24.99, or you can buy the complete game and dlc for $39.99 on that date as well. I can't tell if this includes the original 2 dlc though. 🤷♂️
@cainhurst94 That's certainly a part of it. Can't be easy making PS5 games look like the ugliest of PS3 games, Vaseline on gray, but it's more than that. I've posted dozens of Elden Ring pics on Twitter, I wouldn't have taken these, much less post them anywhere. There's nothing of interest to see. 🤷♂️
Oh well. Maybe I'll play it some weekend to see for myself if I can come across it cheap, no need to own it.
There are 7 pictures of the game in this article and I can't tell what is in any of them. Mostly too dark, 1 too bright, and the others just whatever. Like, it's hard to tell if this is even a 3D or 2D game. I'm not blaming PS, I'm sure it's just what the game looks like, but how can there not be 1 decent picture of the game?
People should make the games they want to make, are capable of making, and can afford to make. Company heads at Sony shouldn't be making these decisions. Look at Concorde and several other of their not doing so well live service games.
It took those guys 7 years to make A - AA game Silksong, maybe they should try making AAA games in 5 years instead?
I liked the Gilgamesh storyline and the character, but hated their tower defense game to do it, it was the absolute worst. It was horrible in the original game in 1997 as well but it's the 2020s, let's make it good now.
Queens Blood was great. Don't think it needs an entire new storyline though, just keep in the game matches, that plot has concluded.
Sneaking around the bushes to get the chocobo was so lame and time consuming. Can we just feed them some gyshal greens and be done with it please?
That vacuuming minigame was always garbage, shouldn't have been in there to begin with.
So yeah, they don't need nearly as much side content as 2 had, and some stuff should go. But it's a JRPG, people expect some side stuff, would be weird without it.
Personally I want the game soon and functioning, so probably the less the better. But don't take it all out, just make it very optional.
I thought the new faeture was the date the sale ended. I really like that, gives me time to think about it. Lowest price last 30 days seems like a law ready-made for a work around, just don't put things on sale within 30 days, wait for day 31 to put it on sale again. Typical government pretending to be doing stuff that's doing nothing at all.
There are 365 days in a year, and computers track everything these days. Listing the lowest price over the past 365 days might actually be useful. 🤷♂️
The hobby of video game playing is becoming very wrestling like, it's almost more about the stories and the back stories and the company narratives than watching the matches or playing games.
@Northern_munkey Thanks. Congrats to you as well. You missed out on the big "We HAVE to get married in 2020" craze by just 9 months. 😉 We didn't do it on purpose. My wife was 29 and 11 months old when we got married, she didn't want to still be single at 30. 😂. Does make it easy to remember our anniversary though, 10/15/20. It's like that School House Rock song. And whatever year it is, that's what anniversary it is. 😁
@EVIL-C And if anyone on the internet had bothered to check, the Galaxy games were $20 USD each back in 2011 & 2016 respectively when Nintendo released them in their own "Nintendo Selects" line so that was a total of $40 for the 2 games new from Nintendo. 🤷♂️
Infinity Nikki, which I play every day, added a new multi-player area a few updates back and a new home area recently, any I barely touch either, they just aren't for me.
I haven't played Genshin Impact for more than an hour, the sidekicks voice was a tad too much cringe, but if I ever did this sounds interesting.
Though I also lay Fortnite and rarely do any of the creator levels, just battle Royale, so maybe not.
@darkswabber I don't keep track of those large scale Fortnite numbers but I have been playing regularly for a few years now, almost exclusively battle Royale, and that player count over almost all of that time has been around 250k, but recently it has been only around 90k. It was up to 190k yesterday, probably for Fortnitemares, but I don't see it coming back.
To be fair some of that is probably split up within Fortnite between Lego, Ranked, no build, reload, etc, but those have been around for awhile now, the drop from 250k to 90k is recent.
So yeah Simpsons probably isn't bringing anyone back. The game may be closer to the end than the beginning. But what isn't these days? 🤷♂️
$60 is a nice price for 2 fairly recent games all on disc in 1 box. Nintendo is currently charging $70 for 2 Wii games (which I'm playing the originals now just because).
If these don't sell out and drop to $30 next year I may even pick it up to play before part 3.
I've been playing Fortnite regularly for years and I thought Fortnimares was the horde mode. I guess K-pop Demon Hunters has that covered this year. Gotta remember to stay out of haunted houses.
Curious if this will bring players back. For the past few years battle Royale has has a daily player count of around 200k during the week, higher on weekends, but it's been hovering around 90know. I've gone from winning 1 out of every 6 or 7 matches to winning 1 out of 3. I suppose everyone is splintered playing ranked, reload, Lego etc but I suppose at 90k just in BR mode they're still making money.
I feel like the survey is meant to convey full price, or close to it, and within say 30 days of release. Any game you buy digital is going to be "new" even if it's 5 years old on sale for $1US (or local equivalent). Does it include gifts? I buy games as gifts for my kids and nephew. Does it include $4.98 games at Target on the clearance end cap?
Survey should probably be at least 3 questions:
How many AAA games do you buy near release? How many indie games do you buy at release? How many games do you buy a year in total?
"New" isn't really helping.
I rarely buy anything AAA day 1 full price unless it's something 1st party from Nintendo b/c they don't do sales, and they seem to have dropped their "Selects" line, so why wait. There hasn't really been much I want to play though I thought was worth the cost. Wolverine may be say 1.
I play a lot of free to play, borrow stuff from my library, hit up some sales after games go "platinum" b/c gold is basically jyst a beta these days.
No 3rd person camera in the campaign, only zombies and multi-player, means I'll probably skip it. Also out of town for my 25ty wedding anniversary for most of those days. 25yrs, sheesh.
I'm still baffled that MS doesn't offer an annual plan for GPU. Most services that look expensive month to month tend to offer some savings buying in bulk. $30 GPU sold for $240 a year would get people back to $20 a month and MS would be paid up front.
I have to think people are going to more readily quit now and maybe sign up for a month or 2 when some really big game comes out they want to play. But then some of those people will be like "Wait, I can play it only for a month for $30 or own it for all time for $70, maybe I should just buy it".
Who knows, maybe that's MS real intention, make GPU so expensive that people start BUYING games again. MS still gets paid for the cheaper $10 a month so people can play online. Kinda makes sense.🤑
I always enjoy Halloween horde rush mode for a few matches until I'm finally with a group that beats the boss so I'm looking forward to this collaboration. It will be my first exposure to KPDH so curious about that. Will probably get NF this winter for Witcher so I can finally watch it then.
MS basically parroting the PS+ naming is kind of hysterical, I don't think we're talking about that enough.🤣
The monthly PS+ and XBGP prices do kind of line up but I feel like most people buy PS+ for a year, preferably during a sale. The monthly prices basically only exist to nudge us to the yearly sub b/c "savings". If MS is really putting these prices out there w/ no yearly sub option what are they even doing? Fire everyone who thinks monthly option only is the way to go. All that does is get people to sign up for a month when they want a game then cancel. You need to lock them in with yearly subs, even if it means a stiff discount. That's just common sense.
I don't subscribe to any online services despite playing a lot of games online, including Fortnite, but it's all free, so this doesn't affect me any. My kid did just play a bunch of games on PC Gamepass w/ a 3month pass I bought for them for like $15 a year ago, but they'll just stick with Steam now.
The only people who win from this are Netflix, gaming is getting too expensive.🤑
@ShogunRok The deal isn't expected to close until early 2027, so nearly 1 1/2 years away, so people should have plenty of time to job hunt. The deal will almost certainly go through as MS's purchase did but this isn't Sony shutting down a studio today. People just need to use their time wisely.
@Runex2121 Had never heard of Silver Lake. Search brought up their recent inclusion in the TikTok buyout but not much else I'd worry about. Not that I'm worried about EA, they mean nothing to me.
It's all just fake money in the hands of the ultra rich now anyway though. Class war is over, we lost. 🤑
@Runex2121 I like your PE comparison, I don't think we talk enough about TRU and KB Toys, but those deals were made by rich guys just looking to get richer. PIF already has so much money they're basically looking to launder it at this point. So while I'm sure they'll fire people RI don't think they're buying EA to run it into the ground, they're buying it to have something to do with all their money. Not that I would mind them killing EA, but I think they need a healthy investment more than they need to strip it clean like the mob.
Kinda surprised the comments are still open. Let's see for how much longer as the USA wakes up late on a Saturday.🤷♂️
It's like they looked at Amazon's Prime marketing - Get Free Shipping for $139 a Year - and thought, what can we make that's worse than that?
I'm kinda used to this already from when Nintendo said "Let's make a Club Nintendo replacement but so much worse." but this is even much worse than that. Like a lot worse.
@LiamCroft Thanks Liam. Hopefully by the time I play this - after the GOTY Ed w/ all the dlc is done - I'll still be able to handle Easy and won't need to drop to Casual. At which point I'll just Netflix and chill.😝
Great review @LiamCroft 👍 I usually just skim over these things and read the box at the bottom but I read every word of this, nicely done.🖖 If you ever answer @PuppetMaster about the difficulty settings can you tag me in please, I'm at the "easy" or "story mode" point in my gaming life. Pretty sure I played GoT on easy, was just about right for me doing those boss duels.
They should go old school and get Dolph Lundgren. Kratos is pretty old in that 2018 game and Dolph already has an accent. How hard can it be to say "boy" multiple times? 😂
They're probably just raising the prices $20 on Oct 3rd so they can lower them $100 or so during "Black Friday Week to 10 Days" and advertise 25% off. 🤑
If you're buying a 4yo console in the US between Oct 3rd and mid-November right after a price increase you are most assuredly doing it wrong. 😁
@Quintumply Thanks. Thought this place had some rule about not giving out final scores without playing the online part of online games but I could have misremembered.🤷♂️
@ShogunRok Thanks. Not a multi-player guy so they can do what whenever on that end, but an expansion is worth waiting for. Along w/ everything else. Maybe I should finally play GTA V while I wait.😂
Will read reviews for this one after reading all the comments about it being overly long and bloated. I think about 50 hours is my limit these days for a game like this, don't want to start 100.
@ShogunRok Any talk of dlc yet? I bought Ghost after the Island got added, maybe a year after that in a Director Cut? Glad I waited, island was fun, and I never go back to games once I'm done.
Not that I'd get it day 1 anyway, gotta wait for the quality of life improvements like bigger font and better inventory management. I was just curious if it has a "roadmap".
@Quintumply Is this an online racer? You didn't mention anything about online like matchmaking or stable connections or waiting.🤷♂️
Have you played Disney Speedstorm? It's a lot of fun w/ what I feel like are better graphics and controls than what I got out of the online test for this. (Be happy you don't have to look at this on Switch, it's terrible.) I currently can't recommend it b/c it's free to start with an insane amount of monetization. INSANE. But if you want to race, online or off, for fun for an hour or so a day, I still like it better than this, and MKW on our Switch 2. It's just too bad about the monetization. Oh and the online matchmaking sucks, very pay-to-win. 😢
@MrHabushi I've owned my home for 24 years. I've purchased numerous home appliances with big yellow energy stickers on them. I have never purchased a gaming console with an Energy Star compliance sticker on it and I doubt I ever will. I don't think this is a government regulation move. 🤷♂️
@Dubplant So many people are saying it's for a handheld device that I just assume that's not it.😂
It's weird that it's just for 3 games and not system wide. PS has done articles about not using your PS5 to stream b/c of the energy consumption, if this addressed that it would make sense w/ Sony owning Crunchy roll. But game special? 🤷♂️
@Dubplant Found you. 😁 I asked on the article earlier today if this was a way to save 1080p TV owners money. Why push 4k when 1080p will suffice? I think they would just call it 1080p mode if that were the case but who knows? 🤷♂️
Curious if someone like DF can actually check the power draw difference, are we walking 2-3% or 30-40%? Saying "power saving" isn't really saying much.
What are the metrics? Concole? PC? Mobile? Units sold? $? Day 1, week 1, month 1? 🤷♂️
I have no doubt it will be the biggest money maker, they'll probably sell an "early access" version to start a week early for $1,000 just b/c they know someone, maybe lots of YouTube wannabe someones, will pay it.🤑
Are there still people out there gaming on 1080p TVs? You shouldn't need to burn up your PS5 pushing 4k if your TV can't make use of it anyway. Though I suppose calling it "1080p Mode" would make more sense. Just a thought. A lot of indie games probably don't need PS5 power either. Some of them look like PS1 games. 🤷♂️
Does the update limit the 1GB SSDs to 825GB to give "system parity" with the new models? 😝
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Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Was to Get DLC at One Point, Scrapped for the Third Game
@SweetSummerShunv The FF7 Retrilogy will end with Cloud in the shower and Tifa waking up in bed saying "Cloud, I just had the weirdest dream." And then Advent Children will be fine. 😂
Re: 'Players Are More Accustomed to Darker Stories': Dragon Quest 7 Dev Says the PS5 Remake Will Hit Harder
So this is the graphical design they decided to go with for their dark mature game? 🤣
I like a dark mature story, occasionally, and I like these graphics, but not together. Since they were rebuilding it from the ground up they probably should have gone with something a little less cartoon kid friendly if they wanted to convey dark and mature.
Re: PS5 Has Been 'Special' Thanks to SSD, DualSense Features Rather Than Visuals
I'm all for gimmicks over graphics, I just replayed Mario Galaxy (Wii version on my Wii U) and I forgot how much use Nintendo got out of the motion and the pointing with that game, AND it still looks great on myn75" 4k TV. But the Wii was only $250 new, the PS5 is closer to $500. For that much more money I need the graphics as well as the gimmicks. If they just want to make gimmick Astrobot games sell me a $300 system.
Re: The Simpsons' Long Rumoured Mini-Season Includes Springfield Takeover, According to Leaks
Wouldn't surprise me if it's 1 of those short in-between seasons, this 1 has been really long. They've kept it going w/ Scooby Doo and Fortnitemares but w/ another 10 days left I'm ready to move on. And a short season before the Christmas season would be welcome.
Re: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora's Third-Person Update Practically Makes It a New PS5 Game
@get2sammyb If you'd like to edit your article with some useful content (unless you're saving it for another article 😉) the new dlc From the Ashes - releases Dec 5th, same day as the new movie, for $24.99, or you can buy the complete game and dlc for $39.99 on that date as well. I can't tell if this includes the original 2 dlc though. 🤷♂️
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-from-the-ashes-edition-playstation-5/J3ZY37H9YQ/sku/6646001
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Was to Get DLC at One Point, Scrapped for the Third Game
There's already an FF7 Part 4, it's called FF7: Advent Children.
Re: Ninja Gaiden 4 (PS5) - A Bloodthirsty Action Game Ripped Straight from the PS3 Era
@cainhurst94 That's certainly a part of it. Can't be easy making PS5 games look like the ugliest of PS3 games, Vaseline on gray, but it's more than that. I've posted dozens of Elden Ring pics on Twitter, I wouldn't have taken these, much less post them anywhere. There's nothing of interest to see. 🤷♂️
Oh well. Maybe I'll play it some weekend to see for myself if I can come across it cheap, no need to own it.
Re: Ninja Gaiden 4 (PS5) - A Bloodthirsty Action Game Ripped Straight from the PS3 Era
There are 7 pictures of the game in this article and I can't tell what is in any of them. Mostly too dark, 1 too bright, and the others just whatever. Like, it's hard to tell if this is even a 3D or 2D game. I'm not blaming PS, I'm sure it's just what the game looks like, but how can there not be 1 decent picture of the game?
Re: Former God of War Dev Says Major Studios Should Make Smaller Games to Complement the Big Ones
People should make the games they want to make, are capable of making, and can afford to make. Company heads at Sony shouldn't be making these decisions. Look at Concorde and several other of their not doing so well live service games.
It took those guys 7 years to make A - AA game Silksong, maybe they should try making AAA games in 5 years instead?
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Will Be 'A Bit More Concise' Following Feedback on Rebirth's Filler
I liked the Gilgamesh storyline and the character, but hated their tower defense game to do it, it was the absolute worst. It was horrible in the original game in 1997 as well but it's the 2020s, let's make it good now.
Queens Blood was great. Don't think it needs an entire new storyline though, just keep in the game matches, that plot has concluded.
Sneaking around the bushes to get the chocobo was so lame and time consuming. Can we just feed them some gyshal greens and be done with it please?
That vacuuming minigame was always garbage, shouldn't have been in there to begin with.
So yeah, they don't need nearly as much side content as 2 had, and some stuff should go. But it's a JRPG, people expect some side stuff, would be weird without it.
Personally I want the game soon and functioning, so probably the less the better. But don't take it all out, just make it very optional.
Re: PS Store Quietly Adds Crucial New Feature for PS5, PS4 Deals
I thought the new faeture was the date the sale ended. I really like that, gives me time to think about it. Lowest price last 30 days seems like a law ready-made for a work around, just don't put things on sale within 30 days, wait for day 31 to put it on sale again. Typical government pretending to be doing stuff that's doing nothing at all.
There are 365 days in a year, and computers track everything these days. Listing the lowest price over the past 365 days might actually be useful. 🤷♂️
Re: Stay Tuned for the Announcement of a New Dragon Ball Game in January
"Announcements of announcements? Are we still doing those?
Apparently so, as the official X (or Twitter)"
Are we still doing X/Twitter? 😝
Re: Sony Travelled to China to Discuss Mobile Adaptation of The Last of Us with Tencent
The hobby of video game playing is becoming very wrestling like, it's almost more about the stories and the back stories and the company narratives than watching the matches or playing games.
Maybe I should just get off the internet.😝
Re: Black Ops 6 Trial Will Let You Play the Full Single Player Story for Free on PS5, PS4
@Northern_munkey Thanks. Congrats to you as well. You missed out on the big "We HAVE to get married in 2020" craze by just 9 months. 😉 We didn't do it on purpose. My wife was 29 and 11 months old when we got married, she didn't want to still be single at 30. 😂. Does make it easy to remember our anniversary though, 10/15/20. It's like that School House Rock song. And whatever year it is, that's what anniversary it is. 😁
https://youtu.be/4POZmGWQoqY?si=tzFrL7ZIRpqzqA3W
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Rebirth Get a Physical PS5 Double Pack on 3 Discs
@EVIL-C And if anyone on the internet had bothered to check, the Galaxy games were $20 USD each back in 2011 & 2016 respectively when Nintendo released them in their own "Nintendo Selects" line so that was a total of $40 for the 2 games new from Nintendo. 🤷♂️
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/02/nintendo_of_america_confirms_new_wii_u_3ds_and_wii_nintendo_selects_titles_for_11th_march
Re: Genshin Impact Wants to Be the Only Game You Ever Play on PS5
Infinity Nikki, which I play every day, added a new multi-player area a few updates back and a new home area recently, any I barely touch either, they just aren't for me.
I haven't played Genshin Impact for more than an hour, the sidekicks voice was a tad too much cringe, but if I ever did this sounds interesting.
Though I also lay Fortnite and rarely do any of the creator levels, just battle Royale, so maybe not.
Re: Fortnite's Long Anticipated The Simpsons Mini-Season Could Be One of Its Best
@darkswabber I don't keep track of those large scale Fortnite numbers but I have been playing regularly for a few years now, almost exclusively battle Royale, and that player count over almost all of that time has been around 250k, but recently it has been only around 90k. It was up to 190k yesterday, probably for Fortnitemares, but I don't see it coming back.
To be fair some of that is probably split up within Fortnite between Lego, Ranked, no build, reload, etc, but those have been around for awhile now, the drop from 250k to 90k is recent.
So yeah Simpsons probably isn't bringing anyone back. The game may be closer to the end than the beginning. But what isn't these days? 🤷♂️
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Rebirth Get a Physical PS5 Double Pack on 3 Discs
$60 is a nice price for 2 fairly recent games all on disc in 1 box. Nintendo is currently charging $70 for 2 Wii games (which I'm playing the originals now just because).
If these don't sell out and drop to $30 next year I may even pick it up to play before part 3.
Re: This Year's Fortnitemares Has an All-Star Lineup on PS5, PS4
I've been playing Fortnite regularly for years and I thought Fortnimares was the horde mode. I guess K-pop Demon Hunters has that covered this year. Gotta remember to stay out of haunted houses.
Curious if this will bring players back. For the past few years battle Royale has has a daily player count of around 200k during the week, higher on weekends, but it's been hovering around 90know. I've gone from winning 1 out of every 6 or 7 matches to winning 1 out of 3. I suppose everyone is splintered playing ranked, reload, Lego etc but I suppose at 90k just in BR mode they're still making money.
Re: People Don't Buy Anywhere Near As Many Games As You Think
My reply from NL, modified slightly for context.
I feel like the survey is meant to convey full price, or close to it, and within say 30 days of release. Any game you buy digital is going to be "new" even if it's 5 years old on sale for $1US (or local equivalent). Does it include gifts? I buy games as gifts for my kids and nephew. Does it include $4.98 games at Target on the clearance end cap?
Survey should probably be at least 3 questions:
How many AAA games do you buy near release?
How many indie games do you buy at release?
How many games do you buy a year in total?
"New" isn't really helping.
I rarely buy anything AAA day 1 full price unless it's something 1st party from Nintendo b/c they don't do sales, and they seem to have dropped their "Selects" line, so why wait. There hasn't really been much I want to play though I thought was worth the cost. Wolverine may be say 1.
I play a lot of free to play, borrow stuff from my library, hit up some sales after games go "platinum" b/c gold is basically jyst a beta these days.
Re: Black Ops 6 Trial Will Let You Play the Full Single Player Story for Free on PS5, PS4
No 3rd person camera in the campaign, only zombies and multi-player, means I'll probably skip it. Also out of town for my 25ty wedding anniversary for most of those days. 25yrs, sheesh.
Re: Remember the Indie Game Furi? Well, It's Getting a Live Action Series, and It Looks Bad
Ah I missed it. We just watched Borderlands Saturday night and I wanted to see how it compares. 😂
Re: Xbox Squandered Over $300 Million Putting Call of Duty in Game Pass
I'm still baffled that MS doesn't offer an annual plan for GPU. Most services that look expensive month to month tend to offer some savings buying in bulk. $30 GPU sold for $240 a year would get people back to $20 a month and MS would be paid up front.
I have to think people are going to more readily quit now and maybe sign up for a month or 2 when some really big game comes out they want to play. But then some of those people will be like "Wait, I can play it only for a month for $30 or own it for all time for $70, maybe I should just buy it".
Who knows, maybe that's MS real intention, make GPU so expensive that people start BUYING games again. MS still gets paid for the cheaper $10 a month so people can play online. Kinda makes sense.🤑
Re: Sounds Like Sony May Finally Be Starting to Wind Down PS4 Support
I still have my PS4 hooked up in my bedroom to remote play fames in there when someone else is using the TV.
I also have my PS3 Super Slim hooked up in the living room as my Blu ray and DVD player so I don't have to use my PS5 for that.
Re: KPop Demon Hunters Show Fortnite How It's Done with Special Mode, Outfits, More
I always enjoy Halloween horde rush mode for a few matches until I'm finally with a group that beats the boss so I'm looking forward to this collaboration. It will be my first exposure to KPDH so curious about that. Will probably get NF this winter for Witcher so I can finally watch it then.
Re: PS Plus Looks Better Than Ever After New Xbox Game Pass Price Rises
MS basically parroting the PS+ naming is kind of hysterical, I don't think we're talking about that enough.🤣
The monthly PS+ and XBGP prices do kind of line up but I feel like most people buy PS+ for a year, preferably during a sale. The monthly prices basically only exist to nudge us to the yearly sub b/c "savings". If MS is really putting these prices out there w/ no yearly sub option what are they even doing? Fire everyone who thinks monthly option only is the way to go. All that does is get people to sign up for a month when they want a game then cancel. You need to lock them in with yearly subs, even if it means a stiff discount. That's just common sense.
I don't subscribe to any online services despite playing a lot of games online, including Fortnite, but it's all free, so this doesn't affect me any. My kid did just play a bunch of games on PC Gamepass w/ a 3month pass I bought for them for like $15 a year ago, but they'll just stick with Steam now.
The only people who win from this are Netflix, gaming is getting too expensive.🤑
Re: PlayStation Puts Its Entire Slate of PC Ports in a Steam Sale
Was going to comment that's not a great Steam sale but decided the list of games overrides the prices. Not bad Sony, not half bad.
Re: Don't Be Like This GTA 6 'Fan' Who Flew to Scotland Just to Harass Rockstar Staff
The next Geoff Keighly right there.😝
Re: Rumour: Mass Effect, Dragon Age Studio BioWare Braced for Layoffs After EA's Buyout Agreement
@ShogunRok The deal isn't expected to close until early 2027, so nearly 1 1/2 years away, so people should have plenty of time to job hunt. The deal will almost certainly go through as MS's purchase did but this isn't Sony shutting down a studio today. People just need to use their time wisely.
https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900
Re: Mega Publisher EA Agrees to $55 Billion Buyout by Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake, Affinity Partners
In the future PIF will just own everything.
Re: Publisher EA Poised to Go Private as 'Advanced Talks' of $50 Billion Buyout Emerge
@Runex2121 Had never heard of Silver Lake. Search brought up their recent inclusion in the TikTok buyout but not much else I'd worry about. Not that I'm worried about EA, they mean nothing to me.
It's all just fake money in the hands of the ultra rich now anyway though. Class war is over, we lost. 🤑
Re: Publisher EA Poised to Go Private as 'Advanced Talks' of $50 Billion Buyout Emerge
@Runex2121 I like your PE comparison, I don't think we talk enough about TRU and KB Toys, but those deals were made by rich guys just looking to get richer. PIF already has so much money they're basically looking to launder it at this point. So while I'm sure they'll fire people RI don't think they're buying EA to run it into the ground, they're buying it to have something to do with all their money. Not that I would mind them killing EA, but I think they need a healthy investment more than they need to strip it clean like the mob.
Kinda surprised the comments are still open. Let's see for how much longer as the USA wakes up late on a Saturday.🤷♂️
Re: PlayStation's New 'Rewards' Program Goes Down Like a Lead Balloon
It's like they looked at Amazon's Prime marketing - Get Free Shipping for $139 a Year - and thought, what can we make that's worse than that?
I'm kinda used to this already from when Nintendo said "Let's make a Club Nintendo replacement but so much worse." but this is even much worse than that. Like a lot worse.
On the bright side I can just ignore it now.
Re: Ghost of Yotei (PS5) - The Greatest Sucker Punch Game Ever
@LiamCroft Thanks Liam. Hopefully by the time I play this - after the GOTY Ed w/ all the dlc is done - I'll still be able to handle Easy and won't need to drop to Casual. At which point I'll just Netflix and chill.😝
Re: Ghost of Yotei (PS5) - The Greatest Sucker Punch Game Ever
Great review @LiamCroft 👍 I usually just skim over these things and read the box at the bottom but I read every word of this, nicely done.🖖 If you ever answer @PuppetMaster about the difficulty settings can you tag me in please, I'm at the "easy" or "story mode" point in my gaming life. Pretty sure I played GoT on easy, was just about right for me doing those boss duels.
Re: State of Play Confirmed for 24th September, 35 Minutes of PS5 News and Reveals
I'll watch, 30 minutes at 5PM works for me. Don't care about Saros, not getting my hopes up for Wolverine, just planning on watching.
1 thing I do know for sure, a whole lot less junk than the Nintendo Direct had, plastic, cardboard, a flower and amiibo, oh my. 😂
Re: Christopher Judge Hopeful the Actor Playing Kratos in God of War Show 'Loves the Big Guy' as Much as the Fans
They should go old school and get Dolph Lundgren. Kratos is pretty old in that 2018 game and Dolph already has an accent. How hard can it be to say "boy" multiple times? 😂
Re: Even More Xbox Price Increases Make PS5 Look Like a Good Deal
They're probably just raising the prices $20 on Oct 3rd so they can lower them $100 or so during "Black Friday Week to 10 Days" and advertise 25% off. 🤑
If you're buying a 4yo console in the US between Oct 3rd and mid-November right after a price increase you are most assuredly doing it wrong. 😁
Re: Mega Man, NiGHTS to Join the Roster of Sonic Racing CrossWorlds on PS5, PS4
$60-to-start. Or is this $70-to-sfart? 🤑
Do people still make fun of free to play games b/c they want to be able to just pay 1 price for the whole game and not get nickled & dimed to death? 🙄
Re: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (PS5) - PS5's Best Kart Racer Is Robust, Chaotic Fun
@Quintumply Thanks. Thought this place had some rule about not giving out final scores without playing the online part of online games but I could have misremembered.🤷♂️
Re: PS5 Exclusive Ghost of Yotei Is Just Two Weeks Away, So Here's a Gorgeous Cinematic Trailer
@ShogunRok Thanks. Not a multi-player guy so they can do what whenever on that end, but an expansion is worth waiting for. Along w/ everything else. Maybe I should finally play GTA V while I wait.😂
Re: Dragon Quest 7 Remake Graphics Comparison Shows Just How Far This Classic RPG Has Come
Will read reviews for this one after reading all the comments about it being overly long and bloated. I think about 50 hours is my limit these days for a game like this, don't want to start 100.
Re: PS5 Exclusive Ghost of Yotei Is Just Two Weeks Away, So Here's a Gorgeous Cinematic Trailer
@ShogunRok Any talk of dlc yet? I bought Ghost after the Island got added, maybe a year after that in a Director Cut? Glad I waited, island was fun, and I never go back to games once I'm done.
Not that I'd get it day 1 anyway, gotta wait for the quality of life improvements like bigger font and better inventory management. I was just curious if it has a "roadmap".
Re: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (PS5) - PS5's Best Kart Racer Is Robust, Chaotic Fun
@Quintumply Is this an online racer? You didn't mention anything about online like matchmaking or stable connections or waiting.🤷♂️
Have you played Disney Speedstorm? It's a lot of fun w/ what I feel like are better graphics and controls than what I got out of the online test for this. (Be happy you don't have to look at this on Switch, it's terrible.) I currently can't recommend it b/c it's free to start with an insane amount of monetization. INSANE. But if you want to race, online or off, for fun for an hour or so a day, I still like it better than this, and MKW on our Switch 2. It's just too bad about the monetization. Oh and the online matchmaking sucks, very pay-to-win. 😢
Re: PS5's New Power Saver Feature Confirms Its First Supported Games
@MrHabushi I've owned my home for 24 years. I've purchased numerous home appliances with big yellow energy stickers on them. I have never purchased a gaming console with an Energy Star compliance sticker on it and I doubt I ever will. I don't think this is a government regulation move. 🤷♂️
Re: PS5's New Power Saver Feature Confirms Its First Supported Games
@Dubplant So many people are saying it's for a handheld device that I just assume that's not it.😂
It's weird that it's just for 3 games and not system wide. PS has done articles about not using your PS5 to stream b/c of the energy consumption, if this addressed that it would make sense w/ Sony owning Crunchy roll. But game special? 🤷♂️
Re: Kratos Actor Christopher Judge Clueless About Rumours He'll Reprise His Role in TV Show
John Cena for Kratos, Peter Dinklage for Atreus. GoW: The Road Trip 😂
Re: PS5's New Power Saver Feature Confirms Its First Supported Games
@Dubplant Found you. 😁 I asked on the article earlier today if this was a way to save 1080p TV owners money. Why push 4k when 1080p will suffice? I think they would just call it 1080p mode if that were the case but who knows? 🤷♂️
Curious if someone like DF can actually check the power draw difference, are we walking 2-3% or 30-40%? Saying "power saving" isn't really saying much.
Re: 'The Largest Game Launch in History': Rockstar Hypes GTA 6, and Who's Going to Argue?
What are the metrics? Concole? PC? Mobile? Units sold? $? Day 1, week 1, month 1? 🤷♂️
I have no doubt it will be the biggest money maker, they'll probably sell an "early access" version to start a week early for $1,000 just b/c they know someone, maybe lots of YouTube wannabe someones, will pay it.🤑
Re: PS5 Firmware Update Out Tomorrow, Brings Power Saver Mode, DualSense Controller Pairing
Are there still people out there gaming on 1080p TVs? You shouldn't need to burn up your PS5 pushing 4k if your TV can't make use of it anyway. Though I suppose calling it "1080p Mode" would make more sense. Just a thought. A lot of indie games probably don't need PS5 power either. Some of them look like PS1 games. 🤷♂️
Does the update limit the 1GB SSDs to 825GB to give "system parity" with the new models? 😝