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I also would be thrilled to finally MAKE MONEY

@SeaDaVie yeah but for us who earn YEN, Tokyo is super expensive, because wages in Japan have been stagnant for 20-30 years.

Right now with the weak yen and overall inflation, things have been quite rough for Japan, so seeing the PS5 for that price is a huge relief in a time where everything just becomes unbearably expensive due to the weak yen.

Microsoft are the masters of bad business decisions

Somehow nothing Xbox can excite me anymore, unless maybe a gears 6 announcement.

As usual I will get it day one, since I enjoy having the best quality for Sony games anyways.

I’m actually looking forward to PS5/6 cross gen games. The PS5 still has a lot of life in it, the PS6 will probably just feel like a PS5 Pro Pro. Our games right now are good, we just need more of the good stuff running on the already incredible engines from Sony. Reduce budget, increase efficiency and release smaller games quicker that utilize those engines.

Path tracing coming with PS6 is just the icing on the cake. It will most likely need to wait until PS7 for AI to find its way properly into actual gameplay elements instead of graphics, when we will see an actual revolutionary jump.

I just hope the PS6 hardware sales won’t be so abysmal that Sony feels the hardware market is done and dusted.

@AccessibleDaydream
The game is very pretty with colors so it would be almost a waste to play black and white. What I suggest is playing black and white if you are a huge kurosawa fan or use it for NG+, in which the game feels very different the second playthrough

Sony is stupid for forcing a CERO rating for ps store releases.
Just do it like Steam. Dead Space for instance could release on Steam in Japan with no rating indicated.

This is purely on Sony Japan and CERO.

Give me 60fps and crisp 4K on my PS5 and I’m happy man. It can’t be that hard.

With the current trend I feel my PC will not be upgraded for the next maybe 5-10 years, instead jump on services like GeforceNow if I need more power.

And then going for PS6 and the eventual PS6 pro instead for actual local play going forward.

Once the AI trend is slowing down after 5-10 years, I think the pricing for gaming will normalize again.

Already found my favorite mod, playing as Goromi

https://www.nexusmods.com/stellarblade/mods/8

I might re-buy the game on PC just to play as Goromi again through the entire game.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner some games I get day one anyways, might as well just get the order through already. It’s just like a checkbox ticked

@JustMyOpinion
“ And I thought only my opinion was valid, no one else's............”

oh no, that puts your username into an entirely new light!

Jokes aside, I think one thing to keep in mind is it’s not “westerners feudal Japan fantasy”. The game represents “Kurosawas feudal Japan fantasy” very well, which made it also very beloved here in Japan. To me it didn’t feel at all like “westerners” fantasy, but as a Kurosawa fan, it felt like a love letter to Kurosawa.

@DennisReynolds I don’t have a problem with him in the game. Also you are not from Japan, so you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about in terms of Yasuke popularity here.

I am not criticizing Yasuke’s existence in the game, but how UbiSoft tried to spin his popularity with that particular video of that “expert”.
Most Japanese have no clue who the dude is.
It’s like putting words into peoples mouths in Japan.

But that was just a one time thing that’s over now, so what annoys me most right now is how different many character names are in Japanese vs English. One if which is a very important character.

@DennisReynolds um… I never had an issue with their depiction. I am playing the game and enjoying it. I just don’t get the inconsistency between both languages. And I dislike how they had some “expert” saying Yasuke is very popular in Japan, when in reality no Japanese gives a damn about him. There are things that feel disrespectful towards the Japanese culture. I can’t know how it is with other AC games since I don’t know enough about those cultures. But I have lived in Japan for 10 years and obviously am surrounded by a lot of Japanese I talk to.
I don’t mind Yasuke being a playable character in the game. The story they try to build around him seems interesting enough.

Other than that I can feel that the majority of devs who worked on the game really respects the culture with how much energy they poured into some details. But some potentially upper management decisions are very questionable.

@ShogunRok
Did you notice that the character names of a bunch of characters in English and Japanese differ?
For example Sorin (E) <> Sogen (JP) or Nagata Fujibayashi (E) <> Masayasu Fujibayashi (JP) or Nagetore (E) <> Yuhei (JP).

Especially the names in the English version that are “changed” don’t really sound very Japanese to me. Do you think we can have an explanation from Ubisoft? It really takes some immersion out for me sometimes.

https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B5%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3_%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89_%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%89%E3%82%A6%E3%82%BA

You can have a look at the Japanese wiki for Masayasu.

So far I really enjoy the game, but this, sometimes the choice of the music they got and some weird misinformation they spread over the popularity of Yasuke, makes it all seem like they don’t really respect the Japanese culture and somehow try to westernize it too much.

@HRdepartment you and me, baby, ain’t nothing but mammals

Yeah I first got it on PC but then refunded and got it on PS5 Pro instead. I live in Japan so I want to play it 14 hours earlier than the PC version.

Also I have some FOMO because there are already some PS5+Japan exclusive collabs coming.

I originally bought the PS5 pro as quick as possible just for MHWilds and I’m happy I did. So far i couldn’t really enjoy any NEW games that are PS5 Pro enhanced and had to just re-play some games I already finished on the base PS5. MHWilds will be the first brand new game for me to play where the difference to PS5 Pro will be felt.

@Wilforce monster hunter has review plot armor!

Glad for the success, but I tried playing the first game on PC the past 2 weeks and bugs just ruined my experience. Couldn’t get this torchlight bug fixed where I constantly get caught by guards even to I am holding a lit torchlight. Luckily I only paid $5 for it.

But I definitely do not see myself spending $60 and a risk to have my experience ruined by bugs again.

@carlos82
Something must be wrong. Are you using DLSS?

I also got a 5800x3d + 4080 super. I use DLSS4 in the benchmark and with DLSS performance I get 75fps on average at 4K. It only drops below 60fps on scene changes, but not when the scene is loaded already.

I only buy Nintendo switch games physically. I don’t even know why exactly. It just feels right. There is something great about it. But I lost that sensation for physical PS games since PS3, and for PC since steam. I haven’t bought a physical game for those platforms since the digital stores existed.

But there is something nice about putting in a cartridge with the Nintendo switch. It reminds me of gameboy days. And the Nintendo eshop experience is horrible anyway.

I really try to get warm with the games but they are so incredibly boring for my own taste. Just speed running through.

I am happy at least I love the movies, hope they deliver with the next one as well.

So far I loved what I saw, definitely excited.
I don’t get the problem with the female. It’s good to have some protagonists that look kind of different and not typical.

The product placement I found actually hilarious, it made me chuckle. I see it with humor.

Good, then I can jump back into the new story dlc with the 40fps mode and a hopefully higher resolution.

Nothing going on for me except Aliens Rogue Incursion. Maybe dark tide for some brainless shooter fun?

Otherwise just going through some backlog until Monster Hunter Wilds. Maybe some dragon quest 3 if I run out of backlog.

@tangyzesty sorry, which games are trying to ape persona? Only atlus is making that type of game.

Prince of Persia on the other hand - while a great game - is a metroidvania, which is a genre that is absolutely packed with games, similar to souls likes.

I actually don’t even have a problem with souls likes in terms of the mechanics (the Jedi games are soulslikes to a degree, paired with some metroidvania). I am just tired of all these dark grotesque looking games, as if it’s Halloween season all year around. Give me more colorful and fun games like Astrobot. Luckily I got a Nintendo switch that is full of such colorful games.

I fully get why guerilla went for something colorful like Horizon, but there we somehow now got too many third person adventure/RPG games from Sony.

At this rate, who even cares about TGA anymore.
Isn’t there a better game award show out there?

Yeah, looking at the awards it received, I can’t exactly disagree. It definitely is a top contender in those categories with a chance of winning.

The only recent “Xbox first party” game I liked was hifi rush and they butchered the studio.

Their other games so far just didn’t seem to be good. Even if they release on PS5, I most likely won’t buy them unless they are of robust quality.
I’m very skeptical of Indiana Jones because of that.

Grindy, no thanks. Demo was fun though.

Will listen to the BOY song all day!

@PloverNutter so far it looks like monster hunter will have bad performance on PS5. PS5 Pro might be the only enjoyable experience unless they optimize it properly. At least that’s what is rumored, and based on the PC specs it really doesn’t look good

Finished the game and gave it an 8. It’s a really good game, but is lacking all the polish to make it to a 9, and it is lacking something special in terms of characters and story for a 10.

But as a Star Wars fan, this is the best game to get immersed into a Star Wars universe.

Loved the last dark pictures game. The first ones not so much. But I also loved the quarry and until dawn.

I’m sure I’ll get the sci-fi horror one!

One of the best new IPs and MS is giving it away. Classic MS. They are good at making bad decisions.

Even though I finished P5, those games are just too long just to beat the story.
I would be interested if it was 20-30h for the story only and not 100h

And this is why games take 6-7 years to make, while nobody wants it to take that long.

I wish they would just take night city as is right now, improve it more and get us a new story. And release it after 3-4 years.

Instead it feels like they start from scratch again.

Yeah, that’s why I stay away from soulslikes unless they clearly state they have difficulty settings that let me see the actual end of the game.

And I am getting tired of soulslikes being announced left and right.

So, is Funcom a sarcastic name for the studio?
Doesn’t sound very fun to me.

Good thing is I can still use it for PC. But I do worry about the PS5 part

@Frmknst
To me it’s about revisiting franchises I love, just with the humorous Lego twist. I liked Jurassic world and Star Wars, it was a lot of fun playing those.
Since I like LotR, I might give Lego the hobbit a try as well.

Almost bought Kayak VR, happy to see I can try it out first.

And monster hunter rise, damn. I guess I might have to give it a try after all then. But I’m sure I won’t like it as much as MHW.

I’m mostly playing the story of Destiny, no chance for me to get into raids (simply no time and friends).

And I really appreciate what Bungie did with this expansion. story and Narrative-wise it is probably the most complete expansion they have done so far. A lot of cutscenes, a lot of explanations around things, a lot of time used to get closer to the NPCs and the world.

I’m happy with the purchase and looking forward to how this continues over those 3 acts.

I’m definitely happy now that I stuck around through all the horrible past expansions (with some exceptions), so I could enjoy this finale.

Meanwhile Nintendo raking in the most profit making simply fun games on extremely outdated hardware.

I really hope we will see more games like astro bot.

Love Harry Potter stuff. Excited to give this a try!

@__jamiie
But I don’t want to play 1080/30 when I can play 4k/60.

Granted they could have gone with dynamic resolution scaling and 60fps patch. But I think this is also them preparing their engine for current gen/next gen games, so they need to put that kind of work in anyway for their next project.

So why not then use the enhancements also on a previous game and monetize it to fund the next game?

Already selling my XSX since it seems there is no need anymore. It was collecting dust anyway and I have a PC as well once Gears of War releases (who knows if it might even come to PS5 day one).

Honestly this was at least for me one of the smoothest day one plays. Normally day one dlcs are practically unplayable the whole day. But this time I was actually able to enjoy it within the first day of a new expansion.

Btw my timezone is Japan.

I just bought a PSVR2, so I’m pretty happy to get all the PSVR2 titles in June!

And I will give SpongeBob a try