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I remember playing the lot out off a PSmagazine demodisc...to my 14year-old self it was like a FFIX-from-Temu experience, but I loved it nevertheless.

DOOM Eternal & Painkiller look promissing

I can totally see, why it's not a prio for the devs - it's far from worth it since there's only like a handful of games that didn't get some sort of an HD remake/remaster up to this day, so why even bother, right?

So I'm paying for all those OS translations I will never use? Is that the point here? Oh what if, just WHAT IF it ran on Android with AI translations happening on a per-request basis?

how many screens fit into a 1,3Gig file ?

Looks like a very-alpha tech demo for the PS3. Back in the day I checked out the Reckless Driving (PS4) when recommended by MetalJeasus on YT and I dare say that looked way more mature than this set of screenshots.

Back in my days, Crash would be called an ambassador of the Playstation brand...hard to believe, he's technically an M$ character now, who knew?

But what about the BadWordsList? oh wait...different website, sorry

I was googling "upcoming movie flops" and it got me here of all places, how odd is that?
Would've make much more sense to cast Jack Black as Chun-Li ... he would've nailed the role, no doubt there

Graphically, it's one of the better games out there. A small trick for modern TVs there...eventhough you select the Quality mode (4k30fps), you can trick your eyes to 4k30+ when you switch from Game settings to "User" settings on your TVs Image settings page...hopefully it's a widely applicable workaround, not just a feature of my 50" SHARP qled

Gameplay-wise...well...that linearity really pulls the potential of the game downwards...you hardly even get a chance to spend those in-game coins for all those perks/weapons/skins in the Shop. Looking for those "secret" collectibles gets just so frustrating when your exploration is awarded with the annoying "Get back to the mission area in 14..13..12.." message. Don't know if it's just me, but I think the missions in Mafia 1 & 2 were far more mafia-like...here, it's just the same pattern of a scene where you hide behind obstacles and wait for the auto-aim to kick in.

Story-wise...well, SPOILER ALERT, but come on...what was the point of building up that romantic relationship idea when the ending turned out to be like it did? I mean, finishing a game should give you some sort of accomplishment feels, right? The script could at least produce a tie-in with the Mafia 1 story where for ex. Isabella's son would grow up to become Tommy Angelo or something in that sort. In this way, this sad drama simply failed to deliver ... like at all.

This game better get a hefty DLC in due time, otherwise it's hardly recommendable to anyone...even to Mafia fanboys.

The last semi-1080p samurai with physical games that actually played off the disc. Hope it lives for a few years more before the fully digital gaming age hits us hard.

It’s kinda funny to observe how Sony pretends it cares by releasing these silly updates, yet they have been gradually stripping functionalities from their consoles over time…Ps1 lost the AV cinch, PS2 lost firewire, Ps3 lost the dual boot, ps2 back compatibility & card slots, Ps4 lost rear side USBs, Ps5 lost the optical drive…HOWEVER, many other past gen features are still valid today (PsOne LCD addon, PS2 game streaming over SMB, Ps3 video DVD upscaler, Ps4 - PsVita/PsTV remote play). Some shine more on modded systems, others get rediscovered either by accident or during nostalgia rush on a rainy evening.

@PerpetualBoredom Initial D (2005)

Impulsively viewed, this is undoubtedly weird, yet if we look back on the PS2-ish era, what do we do with modded consoles and "legaly" owned games? ... Exactly, they get dumped & installed on some sort of storage (internal/external) and played that way...yet for current gen games, people brag about the inevitability of all-digital future? Some highly educated comments are expected, however, to my primitive neural system, this trend is "somewhat" contradictory...

In 10 years, going for the complete set of coaster-games (useless physical releases) will probably be a thing... you know...the likes of Concord, Doom etc.

I wonder, how strong a fans-initiated backlash would it take to make them re-release a proper physical version...that would set a massive precedence...

Preservation should not even be a topic here…practices like this should be forgotten by history completely. On the other hand, I don’t see how not releasing a physical version is a showstopper for preservation…Many games or prototypes have been preserved from digital sources (store rips, devkit HDDs, kiosks etc.)

If they "fixed" someting that was previously "hot" and it isn't the case anymore, is it still called a "hot fix"?

GTA V being labeled as a "PS4 era title" really made my day

Well, at least they don't just update the swear words list like Nintendoes

...in an alternative reality, the DriveClub servers went back online

oh damn, now my YT history and "recommendations" are all messed up

Nice little Mario odyssey touch with the 2D stone wall there

I was hoping for an HD texture treatment like the Tomb Raider trilogies ... oh well ... gonna spend my 19,99 in a different way then.

Christmas comes early for all those pervy no-life pc modders

I'm kinda lucky to have plenty of gaming distortions at hand, should anything like that happen at any time...you know...family, real life & stuff...

Hmm if you just think of it...with ps1, they put a music CD player in every kids room...PS2 brought movie DVD playback, PS3-PS4 bluray movies playback, PS5 came with a 4k BD drive (no DolbyVision but whatever, right?). As much as I'd love to see any type of physical media outlive me in my humbleness, there doesn't seem to be any next step in this multimedia legacy for SONY...eventhough they themselves started with such approach. We can only wait and see...

for 79,99? Who wouldn't ?

To put it short:

• digital games relevance ?
  YES: families with kids / 24-7 gaming addicts / day-one
  Twitchers / indie dev supporters
  NO: collectors & die hard fans / B-day or Xmas gifts

Technically, gamers brought this upon themselves...remember those modded fat PS2s with HDDs full of games? Why loading a game off an optical disc, when consumers still want it "installed" internally? ... if that's not karma by SONY...

Just imagine a world where online multiplayer & save states cloudsync are free...you don't even need unicorns...just imagine

Whoa...and I thought, only Chuck Norris could "brick" a digital game ... who knew?

How can you have button inputs that don't always register? That is THE major flaw...especially in a brawler game. Other than that, that's gonna sit very well next to the TNMT on the shelf

with gigabit tariffs these days, re-downloading stuff is hardly a thing in most cases

I remember some homebrew games from PS Magazines made on the Yarooze console allowed for AudioCD swap to have your own music playing in the background...then the PS2 came with DVD movie playback later to be superseeded by PS3's BD playback which got butchered two gens later by a 4K drive tied to online activation not even supporting DolbyVision. Home entertainment legacy killed just like that Who knew?

@tameshiyaku either that or Meisa Kuroki in One Missed Call 3

"dear users...thank you for your loyalty despite..." PSN outages, personal data leaks, crappy PS+ games line up, subscription price increases, consoles overheating due to faulty design, internal studio closures, digital games delistings, hardly-any-launch-titles-for-PS5,...the list goes on But yeah, still much better than the M$ offer...

It's like a dozen or two of actual games...the rest is just shovelware...like in each "sale"

What's missing is Max Payne / Painkiller / Soldier of Fortune and Gex and my whole childhood will be completely remastered in HD

@cuttlefishjones I switched from the OG PS5 to a Slim model and swapped the nvme. The Slim then rebuilt the database and all games were there. No need to re-download.

So the OG PS5 box had "8K" written on the side...the PS5 Slim box had "4K120" written on the side...yet we had to wait for a "PRO" revision to have a "new era of gaming" announced and to be actually "playing with power"? SONY now actually charges double for what they were supposed to deliver with the OG PS5? ... How come anyone still supports this business?

I bought the og-ps5 with the disc drive on release for two reasons...to play enhanced PS4 disc games I already owned and to watch 4k blurays. To my disappointment, I've later learned that the 4k Blurays can be viewed in "Dolby Vision" which Google told me, was superior to HDR, and it also told me, the PS5 did NOT support Dolby vision, which was very likely not to change in the future. As the purpose of physical media began to fade out during the PS3 era where many games would prompt you to install game data to HDD, what purpose is there for the industry to maintain physical media? What would be the target consumer group? Appart from the so-called collectors, whose houses and garages are big enough to store massive Ikea shelvings full of nostalgia, I don't really see any future for this. Is a digital store game likely to get delisted over time? Yes, sure, yet on the other hand, physical games without dev support and/or servers support / god-forbid left in an unpatched state, are not that different when it comes to ruining user experience, right? No possibility to re-sell physical games ? How is it better to buy a 49e game and sell it for 19e after 5 years compared to buying a digital version during a store sale for 19e even if it gets delisted in 10years and cannot be re-downloaded? Exactly. Not hating anything, I myself have a fair collection, just trying to get a realistic picture here...

will there be a remake of this demo for the PS5pro?

I'll wait for an offer on used-ones...as soon as those housewifes find out how much did their hubbies invest in a brand-new "aircon", those thrift stores will stock up like crazy

Updating a firmware update with an update? Sounds so Microsoft-ish Omg Playstation used to be fun ....... oh wait, that was back in highschool with Spyro 3 and stuff...what an era :-/

So if you create 4 different accounts on your console with 4 different emails and take turns with each account idling any game for a week, you can then place 4 pre-orders like there's no tomorrow? ... asking for a friend

This will sit very nicely next to the physical release of the Tomb raider trilogy.

One sad thing about the inevitable closure of the PS3 store is there will be no farewell-sales like on the 3DS / X360 eshops.

25GB for a Shmup game What an era! Can't wait

Pretty weak for a 20th anniv. if you ask me. There've been games with much better editions and those were no anniversaries Since they went with the lets-overprice-the-thing-via-LRG route, I'd expect at least a steelbook and/or a physical CD soundtrack (heck, vinyl even).

It was once remastered in HD already...why not use that version? Cant believe a machine capable of raytracing and marketed as 8k-capable wouldn't handle that