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Re: Sony Sued for 'Abusing Its Dominant Position in the Console Market'

tameshiyaku

Also, those who come out all defensive for their brand tribe bs, anti regulation fools and all-digital enablers should just hide in the pit they're digging for themselves and others unfortunately. The always sunny guy just for example, who says he "only cares for important matters", but still finds the time to ridicule and belittle those that don't share his views.

Re: Sony Sued for 'Abusing Its Dominant Position in the Console Market'

tameshiyaku

It requires proper regulations instead of a lawsuit like this. The Consumer rights and complaints Commission of the EU would be the right place to start, because if Sony would loose the right to sell in the EU, it would make them rethink some of their anti consumer policies. Just see what they achieved with apple and the usb c Standard, or mandatory 6 year hard and software support (starting on e production has ended) including replacement part supply. Great stuff!

Re: Square Enix 'Aware' of Clair Obscur's Success, Ponders Turn-Based RPG Revival

tameshiyaku

Ugh, that ridiculous narrative that Claire Obscure saved turn based RPGs again. Turn based was on a roll for years: sea of stars, like a dragon, metaphor, just to name a few, and then the countless great ones square enix keeps on releasing but people just ignore because it's not FF. The translated text just stated the awareness that exp33 is successful, the internet however is reading whatever hot take they want into it.
Turn based or "jrpgs" never needed saving from exp33. However, the industry needs saving from all these half baked preassumptions and hot takes that float around and find traction to the point where hearsay failure becomes real failure unfortunately.

Don't get me wrong, I adore exp33, but the gamer landscape tend to get ecstatic on glorifying the darling of the year like Sandfall and Lorian, but each of them are just a failure away from being demonized with extreme prejudice (cp2077 launch f.e.). Guess it's just the times we live in.

Re: Death Stranding 2 (PS5) - A Masterpiece in Every Sense

tameshiyaku

@LiamCroft question, did you enjoy the story of the first game and is the sequel an improvement?

Personally loved the gameplay and mood of the original, but unfortunately felt cold towards the story as it oftentimes felt pretentious and silly imo. Even while enjoying the game that unfortunately soured the entire experience, but I really hope it's better this time around.

Re: You Really Will Be Waiting a While to Play Persona 4 Revival

tameshiyaku

I was super psyched by the first trailer of stranger than heaven, but the follow up trailer was a huge letdown. It first looked like rgg were working off of a new or updated engine with improved shaders and animation, even if the trailer was prerendered. The actual game looks like it's using the same tech as the last 4 games (not including ishin as it was ue4).
If they push this game in the oven until 2027 to make it reflect that original trailer I'd be fine with it.

Re: Silent Hill 2 Movie Adaptation, Return to Silent Hill, Dated for January 2026

tameshiyaku

@Jammer yeah, when excluding recent TV animations the list is very slim, though I do think there are lot's of video game guilty pleasures like 90s mortal Kombat, street fighter and live action mario bros. As of recent movies the animated mario movie, gran turismo and parts of the sonic movies were fun.
I don't see any as masterpieces, but I wouldn't go all critical hate train on it all either.

Re: Fans Can't Believe PS5 Has Made More Profit Than All Previous PlayStations Combined

tameshiyaku

@get2sammyb Don't paint this as a victory lap. The profit is made on the customers back, turn it as you will. The only playstation console that is sold at a profit. That and many other little screws they turned to exploit their customers.

On the other hand, it's also the consumers fault, by giving up their consumer rights for the slight convenience of digital games.

I still want Sony too succeed, but only to finance more innovation and creativity rather than shareholders pockets.

Re: Poll: How Do You Feel About The Last of Us Part 2, 5 Years Later?

tameshiyaku

Cleverly toyed with the players sympathy/antipathy through perspectives, which ultimately sheds light on how quick we form judgment on what we perceive as our truth...
That is of course if you got a brain that goes beyond "oooh no, the unattractive big armed girl killed ma boy Joel, yadayadayadda".

Despite thinking tlou 1&2 are great, I don't want any more of it, just too drab and serious. Looking forward to intergalactic and keeping my fingers crossed for many more Uncharted games (doesn't have to be Nathan Drake however).

Re: Final Fantasy 16 May Have Underperformed on PS5, But It's Doing Terribly on Xbox

tameshiyaku

@SeaDaVie it's the character constellations that cry GoT. The ***** prince who is frowned upon by the queen (Jon snow), the frail son who has hidden powers (Bran Stark), the benevolent father who is betrayed and killed early on (Ned stark), the scheming queen (Cersei Lannister), blond powerhungry Nation in general, fire and ice romance, direwolves,... those are just on the top of my head. Of course it's not verbatim, but the themes and archetypes do align. Not sure, but didn't the director even admit the influence GoT had?

Though I must admit, the splitting the ocean part was visually really stunning.

Re: Final Fantasy 16 May Have Underperformed on PS5, But It's Doing Terribly on Xbox

tameshiyaku

It's not the franchise as a whole that's problematic, it's specifically this entry that was as stinker. It's basically a walking simulator with the illusion of interactivity, in the vein of something like hellblade and asuras wrath, though those had compelling stories. Ff16 however was a dull copy of game of thrones.
All the mechanics were shallow and the argument "you have to play it on hard" doesn't fly.

People caught on to that probably which slowed down sales quickly. When it comes to Xbox, I own a Xbox, but I never buy a game, I only play on game pass as do most other people on Xbox these days.

Lastly, I'm tired of the picture of failure gaming media, influencers and their comment section echo chambers are trying to paint of Final Fantasy and SquareEnix as a whole. FF16 was a misstep, but I love the franchise as a whole, I love the creative courage of the publisher to shake up things with the FF7 remakes, despite salty purist fanatics. Square usually produce magic when they don't try to please western audiences (FF16, for spoken, foamstars).
Dragon quest, star ocean, Valkyrie, Dio field, triangle strategy, fantasian, voice of cards, all great games of the last few years that haters love to ignore, just to say "they're milking final fantasy".

Re: This New PSPgo Inspired Retro Handheld Looks Brilliant

tameshiyaku

@ZeroSum I've been there, hacking a vita is really only good to play psp and vita, not much else, at least not better or more convenient then elsewhere. I think wulffs den made a video once describing the process and outcome pretty well.
I'm just moving to the phone option because I'm soon reaching year 7 with my phone and it's showing signs of aging. But yeah, generally against refreshing tech unless it's necessary.

Re: Site News: Where's Our MindsEye PS5 Review?

tameshiyaku

@dskatter nobody asks you to shell out your hard earned money before or after the jury is out, so why bother? Don't like it, don't buy it, but why slam on people's work and feed the social media cesspool with more toxic waste? Is it your mission to warn others of a possible flop?