Fake! You don’t get the shotgun until two levels later!

Hope the original vibe of Bubblegum Crisis can make a comeback someday. 80s-90s OVA art style is too peak to be left in its grave, and its a shame it has taken this long for interest for it to come back.

Give players a copy of the server so they can host their own, or patch the game to allow direct connections like games used to have in the 90s and 00s?

Quickly, kill the servers before the EU passes laws that mean people will be able to continue to play our online games after we shut them down!

~Electronic Arts, probably

For the sake of people that want PlayStation to be actually affordable, I certainly hope not.

Halo hasn’t been bread and butter since Bungie developed Reach.

343 has not done Halo any favors, and 343 With A Mustache “Halo Studios” is going to be exactly the same.

Sometimes, but most of the time duplicates let you level up a character beyond their basic level (Limit Break, most commonly called), or give you materials to pick a new character (sometimes called Pity System, but that is a little different), or materials to forge new weapons.

I have played many gacha games, and I have only ever spent money on NieR Reincarnation because I wanted Square Enix to see that I like Yoko Taros games and want more of them. I am not a whale, dolphin, or a minnow. I am a “barnacle” F2P player, and I have never had a problem with the games I play. They’re not really designed to be constantly played all the time like a “regular” game would be, instead being level or session style games. I don’t compare my game progress with other players, and I play to have fun and pass time. I get exactly what I want from them for whenever I play them.

I would just like to mention that it is called “gacha” not “gotcha.”

“Gacha” is short for the Japanese term gachapon, which means “capsule toy.” You remember gumball machines? You put a quarter in and twist the handle and a gumball comes out. Gachapon is like that, but with a small plastic ball with a random toy inside. Those are less common than the gumball machines, but there were also some that had sticker/temporary tattoo sheets and those hard candies that looks like fruits(mostly bananas).

Gachapon is a bit different from gambling. Gambling comes with the inherent understanding that you have a chance to lose. With gachapon, you always get exactly what you are paying for: a random capsule toy. You just don’t get to pick which one you get. With gachapon, you always “win,” there is no chance that your money is spent and you get nothing in return. This is why games with gacha mechanics makes duplicates of characters or items useful. Whatever you get is still useful to you, even if you don’t get what you wanted.

I think you already understand the negative aspects of gachapon, but I just wanted to add that little bit of information.

I think the issue is likely that they are using Speech to Text to first create a transcript, and maybe ChatGPT to edit. I dont think ChatGPT is really at fault here, its the Speech to Text not understanding names because they are from another language.

It already supports single player.

It supports 1 or 3 players, which is why not supporting just 2 players was stupid and they are fixing it.

Is that the NetEase one? I thought they renegotiated with NetEase?

Honestly? Its kinda good Perfect Dark was cancelled.

When MS first showed Perfect Dark, there was nothing of substance really to base any expectations on. Except previous games, which were only ever “okay.” But the second time they showed it, with their idea of gameplay, it looked bad. It didn’t look like what one would expect from Perfect Dark, it looked like some weird hybrid between Battlefield/Call of Duty, Mirror’s Edge, and a high tech cyberpunk game.

Perfect Dark was really only ever “that game Rare made because they weren’t allowed to make GoldenEye 2.” It wasn’t really revolutionary or prolific or anything, unlike GoldenEye.

Its better that it stays the way it was than be ruined by whatever it was going to be cobbled into. I am kinda shocked it took MS this long to cancel it.

Waiting on Build 42 to get multiplayer so I can play it with my brother…

I’m going to be waiting a long time again, aren’t I?

You would have to weigh disk rot vs hard disk mechanical component failure.

Tariffs would likely have very tiny influence on this statistic since most video game spending nowadays is digital, and digital products are protected from tariffs since tariffs are only attached to physical goods.

because piracy means stealing

No. No it does not. Piracy is legally copyright infringement, not theft. Stealing requires that the thief deprive the original owner access to the stolen thing. Piracy is not stealing because there is no deprivation of access.

If I made a copy of your car, but you still had access to your car and could drive it like normal, I didn’t steal your car.

VOID originally split from the original publisher of the game because they “didn’t want to compromise their vision of the game.”

Well, apparently that has changed now that console money is on the table. They’re completely disregarding what they stood for before and are trudging ahead with compromising their vision of the game.

Look, I am still using a GTX 1080 Ti (GOATED GPU btw, best dollar per performance value probably ever) because GPUs are too expensive. $700 USD for a low-mid tier card, or $1000+ for a card that should (and usually does) give good lasting value. I don’t see where anyone is buying a PC for less than $500 and it has better performance than a PS5, but I suppose it is possible this is a result of Price Discrimination, since I am in California.

NVidia is showing what PlayStation will look like when it feels there is actually zero competition. Xbox, so long as its hardware exists, is a constant threat to PlayStation keeping a lot of things in check. Once Xbox completely disappears, PlayStation will have no competition. Then Sony can set the prices however they want and nobody can do anything about it except pay up, or don’t.

Well, everyone say hello to the $1000+ PlayStation 6.

What’re you going to do, buy an Xbox? Build a PC with a GPU alone that costs almost the same?

No Xbox means Sony gains a monopoly on the console market. Unless Nintendo decides to actually compete with regular hardware again, which they won’t.

Guys, give small indie company Nintendo a break, they only just moved on from fax to dial up.