@RicebinBernacky "but there's very much a glut of games like this with stylised graphics and for once it'd be nice for something on the other end." "that's just unrealistic" no that's pretty much exactly what you said; I wasn't saying ALL GAMES SHOULD BE PRETTY (feat: literally "no, not every game"), I said for once (key words!) it would be nice if something was. You told me that was unrealistic.
@RicebinBernacky No, not every game; but there's very much a glut of games like this with stylised graphics and for once it'd be nice for something on the other end. What I'm getting fed up with is the constant barrage of games that don't push the system.
@nessisonett sure. I said looks like, not will. The art style makes it look like a game you'd get on the Gamecube, because they had to design them that way to mask "oh the hardware isn't powerful enough yet" with "but it looks pretty for the time". That's what's annoying me, that we have so much more power than a glut of stylised, cel-shaded Dreamcast-Gamecube-era looking games which just happen to run at 1080p.
@naruball omg yes. You have all this power, all this 3D hardware, we've had all this progress in the last 30-40 years....and we're still making NES-style 2D platformers? I mean keep doing that, but the Switch and mobile phones are thataway....
jeez, am I the only one who is sick and tired of all these "stylised" games which look like they could be run on a Gamecube? They were cute, twenty years ago...but that's what I've still got my Gamecube for, I own a PS5 because I want something that will actually test the hardware and test it HARD.
@Relygon "and most ray tracing was cut from the console versions." it....what? that was pretty much one of its selling points. alright, I'll skip. Especially when at max raytrace settings my PC runs the Bright Memory Infinite raytrace benchmark at ~102FPS consistent.
I mean, cake isn't physically good for you either...doesn't stop me. The mental benefits (of gaming AND cake) in my life far outweigh any perceived research.
@UltimateOtaku91 "lack of fast travel is starting to make the game so tedious" thank your lucky stars you're not playing it on the Xbox 360 xD not only no fast travel, but changing planets meant constant disc swapping (rip Xbox 360 games being on DVDs, at least the PS3 rerelease was on bluray and didn't have that problem).
@BlaBlaBla I'm surprised no one jumped on you for that. Not saying I don't agree, though. The Last of Us just didn't grab me at all, I tried playing it all the way back in the PS3 days and it bored me silly - generic zombie game to me.
@Irae Agreed, for slightly different reasons; I can remember a period where they used the same, not-very-good, game engine to churn out a glut of crappy RPGs in the 2010s which were cookie cutter versions of each other, and then loaded them with microtransactions and - in at least one of the games' cases - necessary, PAID, DLC. I'm looking directly at the first Hyperdimension Neptunia which I bought on release day - I got to the final boss at the maximum level the game let you get to, and it absolutely slaughtered me for me being underleveled. Soooo...I had to buy DLC that raised the level cap (TWO of them - there were two level cap increase paid DLCs to get you to the appropriate level) to even beat a game I had paid for once already. Screw that. I walked away from all NIS and Compile Heart games that day and haven't been back.
@Kienda I enjoyed what I played of Til' The End of Time, but that wasn't very much...in the first planet you get to there's a monster (I don't even think it was a boss) that hands your butt to you in the first few hours of the game. I haven't been back........... ......... .....too scared, monster will eat me but it's a shame because I've heard so many things about the high quality of TTEOT.
Others on here might know exactly what I think of The Divine Force; it's going to make or break the series for me. I liked The Last Hope, I liked the original on SNES, I love the concepts and the stories...but the last entry was so bad I lost a lot of faith in Tri-ace. Especially after the absolutely amazing decade they had 2000-2010 and not just with Star Ocean. So.....please don't be crap. (Traditional fantasy tale? Nah. I'll play Raymond first then...)
@Uncharted2007 yep, almost exactly the same. Started losing interest with GTA IV, not to say I didn't like IV - I bought it twice (X360 and the complete edition on Steam later) but I feel like its transition to being more of a life sim (shut up Roman, I DON'T WANT TO GO BOWLING STOP CALLING) when I wanted to play GTA to escape endless social obligations and not take on someone else's was a limiting factor. In my opinion the glory days were Vice City/San Andreas, I loved modding Vice City on the PC (long live my appropriately-powerful FLCL Vespa 180SS) and going around SA with a friend on his PS2 and turning on the stupid cheats was so fun. If 6 is a recapturing of those glory days I'm in; if I have to keep answering calls saying GO BOWLING or switch between three protagonists when I just want to blow stuff up, steal cars and enact utter chaos with no real world consequences, I'll pass.
@NEStalgia Ha, let's sum this up in one sentence: Ugly Sonic should be buried with the ET Atari 2600 cartridges. XD (I preordered Sonic Frontiers because I had/still have the Mega Drive, Mega CD, Saturn and Dreamcast under my TV and I was very much a Sega kid in the 90s. I'm aware 3D Sonic games have been a dumpster fire, but Generations was good...and I'm hoping hoping hoping that Frontiers is an uptick from Generations and not another trip-up. Time will tell. Loyalty to Sega (as much as it hurts when keep screwing up/they ignore IPs people /want/ them to revisit...such a waste) kinda forced my hand. Not in the rabid "Nintendo can DO NO WRONG" way Mario fans seem to perpetuate, more of a "...maybe it won't suck this time Sega?" way.
@Korgon dangit. About the most hardcore social-sim-RPG I could stomach (and not get annoyed with in an "I just want to level up and beat something up, I don't care about creating relationships!" way) was the bond system the Tales games used around Tales of Symphonia/Vesperia. Skies of Arcadia kiiiiiinda had it with the Swashbuckler system but that had the end goal of people in shops worshipping you when you walked in which was rad. Maybe I'll read some SH2 reviews when it comes out....
@Titntin Ha well, I was always a Sega kid in the 1990s, I started out on Sonic games and had pretty much all of them (except Sonic 3, I had Sonic and Knuckles kinda late too but didn't actually own a copy of Sonic 3 until much later, 2013 when I went around collecting all the games I couldn't afford as a kid). I've always leaned towards sci-fi not just in my game preference but movies too; think: Star Wars but never Lord of the Rings. Then in the late 90s-early 2000s you got some early sci-fi masterpieces like Half Life, Deus Ex and my favourite PS2 rpgs the Xenosaga trilogy. Being in the UK I didn't play my ultimate favourite game of all time, Chrono Trigger, until 2003 - and from then I knew exactly where my tastes lay. My favourite three games of ALL TIME, over 30 years of gaming, are (in this order) Chrono Trigger, Skies of Arcadia and Resonance of Fate (yep I agree with playstation1995 every time they mention that as their most wanted PS+ game but I own every version released so eh) - so when I see YET ANOTHER fantasy magic and swords game set in the dark/middle ages/medieval period I cringe. Another comment I made elsewhere, I'll repeat here: if Namco turn around and say "we're fully remaking the Xenosaga trilogy on PS5 only" well then I might have to empty my bank account. Those games tested the heck out of the PS2 when they released, Namco and Monolith Soft know how to get the most out of a piece of hardware. That will kill two birds with one stone; I get one of my favourite RPG series' remade, AND I get a game that actually finally tests PS5. Being interested in graphics as a hobby, I love to see people push hardware....
@Korgon Sell me on Soul Hackers 2. I haven't played the first one; not difficult as it was never released here, I love turn-based JRPGs to a fault, but I am still waiting for a pure-PS5 experience, got a bit bored of generic anime game graphics....I liked the idea of the Persona games, then tried one, and the companionship/dating sim gameplay combined with heavy repetitive dungeon crawling turned me right off, should I try Soul Hackers 2 or avoid...?
@zupertramp someone who gets me XD so I preordered four games the other day, 2 for 2022, one in 2023 and one got moved into 2023 after I preordered. They are: Sonic Frontiers (hoping against hope it doesn't suck), Star Ocean (SE have a -lot- of goodwill rebuilding to do after I&F and if they balls this one up too....), Resident Evil 4 (one of my favourite survival horror games of all time, still have my Gamecube version and was HYPE when they announced it) and Forspoken. Of the four, Star Ocean is my most anticipated..........with a healthy helping of "don't eff it up Tri-Ace..." ...something I never thought I'd say after the glory of their 2000-2010 period.
Now, if Namco revived Xenosaga and remade it (not remastered) for PS5 exclusively, THAT would be something worth me getting excited for. That should give you some idea the games I play and want to see.
@Titntin I think it's probably because I'm a very rare breed of gamer, one who is not remotely interested in fantasy (to the point of feeling a bit starved that so many developers do fantasy games and there's almost no sci-fi/future fantasy), so that eliminates a large chunk of this list - the Batman games didn't interest me, I got enough MW2 the first time around, The Last Of Us bored me, and the only one remotely interesting to me on this list, Stray, is less anticipated and more a curiosity. As for The Callisto Project, I dunno, I LOVED Dead Space but I'm not convinced yet.
@get2sammyb I THINK I voted on this poll, and I think I must have voted something that not many other people voted for at all, it didn't show up on this list. ._.
@Oriion for real. One of my biggest turn-offs for a game at the moment is when I see "coming to PS5/PS4" and bonus anti-points if they've snuck in a "and Switch" too. Where are all the GOOD PS5-only games? It's been out two years already!
Yep, another hint from my PS5 that my TV is out of date. XD I am running on a....2017??? 4k Sony Android TV, and have been wanting to go OLED for a good long while now (not just to make my PS5 sing, but also to make my retro stuff look incredible through my OSSC) - this is just another reminder that literally the only shiny my TV has is 4K and HDR. (But, my TV is not going to go to waste when I go OLED; my parents want it, seeing as they have a 2014 1080p 30in Sony that is in sore need of an upgrade. One of those "room is too big for the TV" deals.
I must be really picky because there's nothing there I'd buy that I don't have already. Word of advice: if you don't have it, don't sleep on PS5 Metro Exodus at like £6.whatever, that's a stunning price. Word of advice part 2: if you're thinking about The Medium, do NOT buy the standard edition, the Deluxe edition is £13 cheaper on this sale (the standard edition has no discounts at all).
Oh sod. I only preordered that last week. Oh well, if it makes it a more finished game..........and I don't have to shell out for two games in one pay month XD (I preordered it and one other game out in that month....)
hmm, I hate to say but I can't get excited over this. I got a good halfway through the original on PS4, but then just.....disconnected from the main character, could not relate at all. I like walking sims as a general rule (been playing them since Dear Esther, which I thoroughly liked...nice and creepy) but when I can't relate to the character I just don't enjoy it. But good news for those who enjoyed it
@rjejr for me I loved how it was an origin story for everything Star Ocean is...and Reimi was cute and had a nice...asset. >.> The character development was a liiiiittle cliche and at times overbearing (screw the whole Emo Edge arc...but I get how that made him stronger, just couldn't they have done it another way that didn't make him utterly insufferable?) but as a whole it was a good Star Ocean so I'm glad I'm amongst people who agree there. I&F was absolutely effin' pants, I would have forgiven the atrocious difficulty curve if the story/world was compelling, but it wasn't, and I didn't care enough about the characters to persevere past the boss that cheeses you relentlessly and, for me, impassably. Not Tri-ace's finest storywriting or -telling, at all.
Squeenix have to do a -lot- of goodwill building after the dumpster fire that was Star Ocean I&F. Like, I'm someone who liked The Last Hope (an opinion that is frowned upon in the Star Ocean community as far as I can tell) so when I say I'm forgiving, but not forgiving enough to like I&F, that should give you some idea.
@Blofse that, or if you can find a copy of Sonic Jam on the Saturn. Doesn't go for stupid prices afaik, but you have to be one of the lucky few who still own a working Saturn.
The scope of this, if I remember correctly, is: Carnival Night Zone, Ice Cap Zone, Launch Base Zone, the Sonic 3 credits music (might not be relevant if we can't play Sonic 3 without Lock On S+K). To be honest if Jun Senoue is on the case I won't miss these tracks terribly, he has been a stalwart of Sonic soundtracks since S3+K anyway so it's in good hands.
@Marios-love-child for real. like, the PS5 is nearly 2 years old at this point...I get it, they want to maximise their install base, but it's time we started seeing native PS5 and XSX/XSS games be prioritised. (The only thing I hate more than seeing "PS4/PS5" is "Switch/PS4/PS5", you KNOW that game is going to be held back hard.)
I want it to be good...I really do. Hopefully we'll see some kind of Sonic renaissance with this release and going forward, because it looks like they have some good ideas....let's just hope they're not hindered by ambition overreaching itself. Also I kind of hope the music they're playing on the early builds is final, I love the heartbreaking NieR:Automata-y melancholy tones of it, it doesn't suit a fast-paced Sonic game but might just suit a hedgehog-lost-in-time feel.
@Gbarsotini I watched the anime first as it was out before the game here in the UK, but I inhaled the whole series in two days I was hooked from episode 1. I did then preorder the El Psy Congroo edition of the PS3 game from Rice Digital the second it went live so I got the numbers 1.130209, to symbolise: "no matter what people say that you can't do it alone, one person CAN change the future" (my Divergence Meter is over 1%). It was my 30th birthday present from my cool mum
So my impressions of this: looks VERY Quantic Dream, but I don't think that's a bad thing, what I do think is a bad thing is that the environments look stunning - filmic quality even - but the characters have that Unreal 4 look to them and they don't gel with the scenes as much as I'd like. Is it just me?
nothing here for me, but I look forward to the new tiers in June so I can actually get some value out of my sub, I am quite enamoured with the potential for PS1 and PS2 glory...!
@Golem25 "(any further than SEGA has ruined itself)" truth. Sega screwed themselves up. On the one hand I'd like Sony to acquire Sega, Sony would properly turn them around (and we might get actual remakes of some of their unloved IPs, I'm looking at Skies of Arcadia). On the other hand, I'd like Sega to re-enter the hardware business one day...helping Microsoft create the Xbox proved they totally still had it despite the missteps they took (32X, Saturn and Dreamcast; I love all three of them but some serious infighting between SOA and SOJ did some horrendous damage to their market plan/market share on those consoles).
But if Sega re-enter the hardware market, they'd need to do a lot of goodwill generating with developers (and specifically EA) to succeed. One developer was so mad at Sega's handling of the Dreamcast that their last game to be published on it (one of the last games on the DC during its life too if I recall) literally has a TXT file on the GD that can be read on a computer and has instructions on how to pirate DC discs.
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Re: Rollerdrome (PS5) - Just As Good As Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
@RicebinBernacky "but there's very much a glut of games like this with stylised graphics and for once it'd be nice for something on the other end." "that's just unrealistic" no that's pretty much exactly what you said; I wasn't saying ALL GAMES SHOULD BE PRETTY (feat: literally "no, not every game"), I said for once (key words!) it would be nice if something was. You told me that was unrealistic.
Re: Rollerdrome (PS5) - Just As Good As Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
@RicebinBernacky ...what, unrealistic to have even one game a year look like it's actually using the hardware? That's just sad.
Re: Rollerdrome (PS5) - Just As Good As Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
@RicebinBernacky No, not every game; but there's very much a glut of games like this with stylised graphics and for once it'd be nice for something on the other end. What I'm getting fed up with is the constant barrage of games that don't push the system.
Re: Rollerdrome (PS5) - Just As Good As Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
@nessisonett sure. I said looks like, not will. The art style makes it look like a game you'd get on the Gamecube, because they had to design them that way to mask "oh the hardware isn't powerful enough yet" with "but it looks pretty for the time". That's what's annoying me, that we have so much more power than a glut of stylised, cel-shaded Dreamcast-Gamecube-era looking games which just happen to run at 1080p.
Re: Rollerdrome (PS5) - Just As Good As Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
@naruball omg yes. You have all this power, all this 3D hardware, we've had all this progress in the last 30-40 years....and we're still making NES-style 2D platformers? I mean keep doing that, but the Switch and mobile phones are thataway....
Re: Rollerdrome (PS5) - Just As Good As Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
jeez, am I the only one who is sick and tired of all these "stylised" games which look like they could be run on a Gamecube? They were cute, twenty years ago...but that's what I've still got my Gamecube for, I own a PS5 because I want something that will actually test the hardware and test it HARD.
Re: Mini Review: Bright Memory: Infinite (PS5) - A Memory in a Flash
@Relygon "and most ray tracing was cut from the console versions."
it....what? that was pretty much one of its selling points. alright, I'll skip. Especially when at max raytrace settings my PC runs the Bright Memory Infinite raytrace benchmark at ~102FPS consistent.
Re: Sony Discontinuing PS5 Accolades As No One Used Them
The what now feature? Nope, had my PS5 for over a year and never once used it...or even knew it existed. Rip in peace, I hardly knew ye. Literally.
Re: Our Survey Says! Sorry, Gaming Isn't Good for You After All
@NEStalgia nooooo I won't assume the party escort submission position!
Re: Our Survey Says! Sorry, Gaming Isn't Good for You After All
I mean, cake isn't physically good for you either...doesn't stop me. The mental benefits (of gaming AND cake) in my life far outweigh any perceived research.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 436
@UltimateOtaku91 "lack of fast travel is starting to make the game so tedious" thank your lucky stars you're not playing it on the Xbox 360 xD not only no fast travel, but changing planets meant constant disc swapping (rip Xbox 360 games being on DVDs, at least the PS3 rerelease was on bluray and didn't have that problem).
Re: Reaction: WTF Is Going on with The Last of Us PS5?
@BlaBlaBla I'm surprised no one jumped on you for that. Not saying I don't agree, though. The Last of Us just didn't grab me at all, I tried playing it all the way back in the PS3 days and it bored me silly - generic zombie game to me.
Re: Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana's PS5 Port Releases in November
@Irae Agreed, for slightly different reasons; I can remember a period where they used the same, not-very-good, game engine to churn out a glut of crappy RPGs in the 2010s which were cookie cutter versions of each other, and then loaded them with microtransactions and - in at least one of the games' cases - necessary, PAID, DLC. I'm looking directly at the first Hyperdimension Neptunia which I bought on release day - I got to the final boss at the maximum level the game let you get to, and it absolutely slaughtered me for me being underleveled. Soooo...I had to buy DLC that raised the level cap (TWO of them - there were two level cap increase paid DLCs to get you to the appropriate level) to even beat a game I had paid for once already. Screw that. I walked away from all NIS and Compile Heart games that day and haven't been back.
Re: Star Ocean: The Divine Force's Dual Protagonists Get Dual Character Trailers
@Kienda I enjoyed what I played of Til' The End of Time, but that wasn't very much...in the first planet you get to there's a monster (I don't even think it was a boss) that hands your butt to you in the first few hours of the game. I haven't been back...........
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.....too scared, monster will eat me
but it's a shame because I've heard so many things about the high quality of TTEOT.
Re: Star Ocean: The Divine Force's Dual Protagonists Get Dual Character Trailers
Others on here might know exactly what I think of The Divine Force; it's going to make or break the series for me. I liked The Last Hope, I liked the original on SNES, I love the concepts and the stories...but the last entry was so bad I lost a lot of faith in Tri-ace. Especially after the absolutely amazing decade they had 2000-2010 and not just with Star Ocean. So.....please don't be crap. (Traditional fantasy tale? Nah. I'll play Raymond first then...)
Re: Resident Evil Village's Lady Dimitrescu Gets a Statue Worthy of Her Stature, Costs Over £1200
I like my 1/4 scales...I have a Miku and a Nagato....but £1200 is loooottts and it's nearly 3ft tall...my cabinet would not be ready. XD
Re: GTA 6 Needs to Exceed Players' Expectations, Rockstar Admits
@Uncharted2007 yep, almost exactly the same. Started losing interest with GTA IV, not to say I didn't like IV - I bought it twice (X360 and the complete edition on Steam later) but I feel like its transition to being more of a life sim (shut up Roman, I DON'T WANT TO GO BOWLING STOP CALLING) when I wanted to play GTA to escape endless social obligations and not take on someone else's was a limiting factor. In my opinion the glory days were Vice City/San Andreas, I loved modding Vice City on the PC (long live my appropriately-powerful FLCL Vespa 180SS) and going around SA with a friend on his PS2 and turning on the stupid cheats was so fun. If 6 is a recapturing of those glory days I'm in; if I have to keep answering calls saying GO BOWLING or switch between three protagonists when I just want to blow stuff up, steal cars and enact utter chaos with no real world consequences, I'll pass.
Re: Feature: Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022
@NEStalgia Ha, let's sum this up in one sentence: Ugly Sonic should be buried with the ET Atari 2600 cartridges. XD (I preordered Sonic Frontiers because I had/still have the Mega Drive, Mega CD, Saturn and Dreamcast under my TV and I was very much a Sega kid in the 90s. I'm aware 3D Sonic games have been a dumpster fire, but Generations was good...and I'm hoping hoping hoping that Frontiers is an uptick from Generations and not another trip-up. Time will tell. Loyalty to Sega (as much as it hurts when keep screwing up/they ignore IPs people /want/ them to revisit...such a waste) kinda forced my hand. Not in the rabid "Nintendo can DO NO WRONG" way Mario fans seem to perpetuate, more of a "...maybe it won't suck this time Sega?" way.
Re: Feature: Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022
@Korgon dangit. About the most hardcore social-sim-RPG I could stomach (and not get annoyed with in an "I just want to level up and beat something up, I don't care about creating relationships!" way) was the bond system the Tales games used around Tales of Symphonia/Vesperia. Skies of Arcadia kiiiiiinda had it with the Swashbuckler system but that had the end goal of people in shops worshipping you when you walked in which was rad. Maybe I'll read some SH2 reviews when it comes out....
Re: Feature: Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022
@dark_knightmare2 rip me. XD
Re: Feature: Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022
@Titntin Ha well, I was always a Sega kid in the 1990s, I started out on Sonic games and had pretty much all of them (except Sonic 3, I had Sonic and Knuckles kinda late too but didn't actually own a copy of Sonic 3 until much later, 2013 when I went around collecting all the games I couldn't afford as a kid). I've always leaned towards sci-fi not just in my game preference but movies too; think: Star Wars but never Lord of the Rings. Then in the late 90s-early 2000s you got some early sci-fi masterpieces like Half Life, Deus Ex and my favourite PS2 rpgs the Xenosaga trilogy. Being in the UK I didn't play my ultimate favourite game of all time, Chrono Trigger, until 2003 - and from then I knew exactly where my tastes lay. My favourite three games of ALL TIME, over 30 years of gaming, are (in this order) Chrono Trigger, Skies of Arcadia and Resonance of Fate (yep I agree with playstation1995 every time they mention that as their most wanted PS+ game but I own every version released so eh) - so when I see YET ANOTHER fantasy magic and swords game set in the dark/middle ages/medieval period I cringe. Another comment I made elsewhere, I'll repeat here: if Namco turn around and say "we're fully remaking the Xenosaga trilogy on PS5 only" well then I might have to empty my bank account. Those games tested the heck out of the PS2 when they released, Namco and Monolith Soft know how to get the most out of a piece of hardware. That will kill two birds with one stone; I get one of my favourite RPG series' remade, AND I get a game that actually finally tests PS5. Being interested in graphics as a hobby, I love to see people push hardware....
Re: Feature: Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022
@Korgon Sell me on Soul Hackers 2. I haven't played the first one; not difficult as it was never released here, I love turn-based JRPGs to a fault, but I am still waiting for a pure-PS5 experience, got a bit bored of generic anime game graphics....I liked the idea of the Persona games, then tried one, and the companionship/dating sim gameplay combined with heavy repetitive dungeon crawling turned me right off, should I try Soul Hackers 2 or avoid...?
Re: Feature: Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022
@zupertramp someone who gets me XD so I preordered four games the other day, 2 for 2022, one in 2023 and one got moved into 2023 after I preordered. They are: Sonic Frontiers (hoping against hope it doesn't suck), Star Ocean (SE have a -lot- of goodwill rebuilding to do after I&F and if they balls this one up too....), Resident Evil 4 (one of my favourite survival horror games of all time, still have my Gamecube version and was HYPE when they announced it) and Forspoken. Of the four, Star Ocean is my most anticipated..........with a healthy helping of "don't eff it up Tri-Ace..." ...something I never thought I'd say after the glory of their 2000-2010 period.
Now, if Namco revived Xenosaga and remade it (not remastered) for PS5 exclusively, THAT would be something worth me getting excited for. That should give you some idea the games I play and want to see.
Re: Feature: Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022
@Titntin I think it's probably because I'm a very rare breed of gamer, one who is not remotely interested in fantasy (to the point of feeling a bit starved that so many developers do fantasy games and there's almost no sci-fi/future fantasy), so that eliminates a large chunk of this list - the Batman games didn't interest me, I got enough MW2 the first time around, The Last Of Us bored me, and the only one remotely interesting to me on this list, Stray, is less anticipated and more a curiosity. As for The Callisto Project, I dunno, I LOVED Dead Space but I'm not convinced yet.
Re: Feature: Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022
@get2sammyb I THINK I voted on this poll, and I think I must have voted something that not many other people voted for at all, it didn't show up on this list. ._.
Re: Feature: Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022
@naruball eheheh at least one person put a positive spin on it XD
Re: Feature: Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022
...I am not anticipating even one of these games. Am I strange?
Re: Skull & Bones Finally Sets Sail for PS5 in November, a Day Before God of War Ragnarok
@Oriion for real. One of my biggest turn-offs for a game at the moment is when I see "coming to PS5/PS4" and bonus anti-points if they've snuck in a "and Switch" too. Where are all the GOOD PS5-only games? It's been out two years already!
Re: The Latest PS5 Firmware Update Is Available to Download Now
Yep, another hint from my PS5 that my TV is out of date. XD I am running on a....2017??? 4k Sony Android TV, and have been wanting to go OLED for a good long while now (not just to make my PS5 sing, but also to make my retro stuff look incredible through my OSSC) - this is just another reminder that literally the only shiny my TV has is 4K and HDR. (But, my TV is not going to go to waste when I go OLED; my parents want it, seeing as they have a 2014 1080p 30in Sony that is in sore need of an upgrade. One of those "room is too big for the TV" deals.
Re: New PS Store Sale Has 1,000+ Big PS5, PS4 Game Discounts, Live Now
I must be really picky because there's nothing there I'd buy that I don't have already. Word of advice: if you don't have it, don't sleep on PS5 Metro Exodus at like £6.whatever, that's a stunning price. Word of advice part 2: if you're thinking about The Medium, do NOT buy the standard edition, the Deluxe edition is £13 cheaper on this sale (the standard edition has no discounts at all).
Re: PS5's Forspoken Release Date Delayed Until 24th January, 2023
Oh sod. I only preordered that last week. Oh well, if it makes it a more finished game..........and I don't have to shell out for two games in one pay month XD (I preordered it and one other game out in that month....)
Re: What Remains of Edith Finch PS5 Version Supposedly in the Works
hmm, I hate to say but I can't get excited over this. I got a good halfway through the original on PS4, but then just.....disconnected from the main character, could not relate at all. I like walking sims as a general rule (been playing them since Dear Esther, which I thoroughly liked...nice and creepy) but when I can't relate to the character I just don't enjoy it. But good news for those who enjoyed it
Re: Feature: What Are Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022?
Mine were:
Digimon Survive
Forspoken
Star Ocean
Sonic Frontiers
Overwatch 2.
Re: Star Ocean: The Divine Force Locks October Release Date on PS5, PS4
@rjejr for me I loved how it was an origin story for everything Star Ocean is...and Reimi was cute and had a nice...asset. >.> The character development was a liiiiittle cliche and at times overbearing (screw the whole Emo Edge arc...but I get how that made him stronger, just couldn't they have done it another way that didn't make him utterly insufferable?) but as a whole it was a good Star Ocean so I'm glad I'm amongst people who agree there. I&F was absolutely effin' pants, I would have forgiven the atrocious difficulty curve if the story/world was compelling, but it wasn't, and I didn't care enough about the characters to persevere past the boss that cheeses you relentlessly and, for me, impassably. Not Tri-ace's finest storywriting or -telling, at all.
Re: Star Ocean: The Divine Force Locks October Release Date on PS5, PS4
Squeenix have to do a -lot- of goodwill building after the dumpster fire that was Star Ocean I&F. Like, I'm someone who liked The Last Hope (an opinion that is frowned upon in the Star Ocean community as far as I can tell) so when I say I'm forgiving, but not forgiving enough to like I&F, that should give you some idea.
Re: PS Plus Extra, Premium Now Live in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand
@Shepherd_Tallon huhuhuhu not working's cool. (yes you heard that in Butthead's voice)
Re: Reminder: Final Fantasy 7 and Dragon's Dogma Events Are Happening at the Same Time Today
@Milktastrophe you won't be missing much, it was pants when it released and it's still pants now.
Re: Sonic 3 & Knuckles' Music Partially Reworked in Origins to Fill in Missing Tracks
@Blofse that, or if you can find a copy of Sonic Jam on the Saturn. Doesn't go for stupid prices afaik, but you have to be one of the lucky few who still own a working Saturn.
Re: Sonic 3 & Knuckles' Music Partially Reworked in Origins to Fill in Missing Tracks
The scope of this, if I remember correctly, is: Carnival Night Zone, Ice Cap Zone, Launch Base Zone, the Sonic 3 credits music (might not be relevant if we can't play Sonic 3 without Lock On S+K). To be honest if Jun Senoue is on the case I won't miss these tracks terribly, he has been a stalwart of Sonic soundtracks since S3+K anyway so it's in good hands.
Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Forces PS4 Players to Buy Cross-Gen Bundle
@Marios-love-child for real. like, the PS5 is nearly 2 years old at this point...I get it, they want to maximise their install base, but it's time we started seeing native PS5 and XSX/XSS games be prioritised. (The only thing I hate more than seeing "PS4/PS5" is "Switch/PS4/PS5", you KNOW that game is going to be held back hard.)
Re: First Hands-On Impressions of Sonic Frontiers Are Mostly Positive
I want it to be good...I really do. Hopefully we'll see some kind of Sonic renaissance with this release and going forward, because it looks like they have some good ideas....let's just hope they're not hindered by ambition overreaching itself. Also I kind of hope the music they're playing on the early builds is final, I love the heartbreaking NieR:Automata-y melancholy tones of it, it doesn't suit a fast-paced Sonic game but might just suit a hedgehog-lost-in-time feel.
Re: When Is Summer Game Fest 2022?
@mrbone just ignore him, he'll go away soon enough.
Re: Project M Is a Ridiculously Good Looking Unreal Engine 5 Game Coming to Consoles
@Carl-G the magic of pre-rendering. Gaming companies have been doing it for years, even (maybe most egregiously) Sony.
Re: Project M Is a Ridiculously Good Looking Unreal Engine 5 Game Coming to Consoles
@Gbarsotini I watched the anime first as it was out before the game here in the UK, but I inhaled the whole series in two days I was hooked from episode 1. I did then preorder the El Psy Congroo edition of the PS3 game from Rice Digital the second it went live so I got the numbers 1.130209, to symbolise: "no matter what people say that you can't do it alone, one person CAN change the future" (my Divergence Meter is over 1%). It was my 30th birthday present from my cool mum
Re: Project M Is a Ridiculously Good Looking Unreal Engine 5 Game Coming to Consoles
@Gbarsotini Your Steins;Gate pfp pleases me (as someone who got a divergence meter tattooed on my right arm).
Re: Project M Is a Ridiculously Good Looking Unreal Engine 5 Game Coming to Consoles
@Orpheus79V props for the possibly obscure reference. Smash Bros is LIFE.
Re: Project M Is a Ridiculously Good Looking Unreal Engine 5 Game Coming to Consoles
So my impressions of this: looks VERY Quantic Dream, but I don't think that's a bad thing, what I do think is a bad thing is that the environments look stunning - filmic quality even - but the characters have that Unreal 4 look to them and they don't gel with the scenes as much as I'd like. Is it just me?
Re: Rumour: PS Plus Games for June 2022 Might Have Leaked
nothing here for me, but I look forward to the new tiers in June so I can actually get some value out of my sub, I am quite enamoured with the potential for PS1 and PS2 glory...!
Re: Sony 'Not at All Finished' Growing PlayStation Studios via Acquisitions
@Gbarsotini No you're right, my bad.
Re: Sony 'Not at All Finished' Growing PlayStation Studios via Acquisitions
@Golem25 "(any further than SEGA has ruined itself)"
truth. Sega screwed themselves up. On the one hand I'd like Sony to acquire Sega, Sony would properly turn them around (and we might get actual remakes of some of their unloved IPs, I'm looking at Skies of Arcadia). On the other hand, I'd like Sega to re-enter the hardware business one day...helping Microsoft create the Xbox proved they totally still had it despite the missteps they took (32X, Saturn and Dreamcast; I love all three of them but some serious infighting between SOA and SOJ did some horrendous damage to their market plan/market share on those consoles).
But if Sega re-enter the hardware market, they'd need to do a lot of goodwill generating with developers (and specifically EA) to succeed. One developer was so mad at Sega's handling of the Dreamcast that their last game to be published on it (one of the last games on the DC during its life too if I recall) literally has a TXT file on the GD that can be read on a computer and has instructions on how to pirate DC discs.