Some info on the latest site updates.
CRank
As many of you have noticed all Contributors now have a CRank. The CRank or Contributor Rank determines how many news post you can make each day. With a CRank 5 you can post a maximum of 5 stories within a 24 hour time frame. Members who reach a CRank of 20 will be able to apply for an N4G Editor role. Your CRank will increase if you edit your news post according to the N4G Guidelines. On the other hand members who keep ignoring the N4G posting guidelines and just copy and paste text from other websites without doing the proper editing will get their CRank lowered. See the N4G News posting guidelines and News Posting Tips for more info about proper editing of news posts.
Rating of News posts
You can now give each other feedback by rating news posts. Keep in mind that this is not for rating the content of the articles at the source. This is only a technical rating for the quality of the news posts on N4G.
Duplicate Story Tool
You can now easier check for duplicate stories.
Speech Bubbles
We have made some adjustment to the speech bubbles system. It is now harder for people to abuse the system.
Contributor Test
We have made the Contributor test a bit easier, so those of you who failed the test might want to try again now.
N4G Podcast
We now have a Podcast for the site. The show is produced by ZeroTolerance and his team. ZT is editor in chief over at N4G’s sister site ZTGameDomain.com, one of the longest running game sites on the net. We are still working on finding a good formula for the show so if you want to take part in this process please visit the forums and give us some feedback.
If you have ideas for new site features or things you would like us to improve please let us know through the feedback form or you can just post your ideas in the comment section below.
Tune in for a special episode featuring announcements and updates on games from Japan and across Asia.
My Christmas wish is for a Legend of Dragoon remake and a Bloodborne remake please!!
Not in this lifetime, my friend. LoD remake is too ambitious and expensive a project to risk dropping money on. They already hate Bloodborne for some reason.
That’s silly. I don’t think they hate bloodborne. They love demons souls. They will give us a bloodborne patch or more likely a remake.
I remember seeing a video some time ago with an interview with someone from Fromsoft who said that the idea of a Bloodborne remake would be something to look out for at the release of the PlayStation6.
Nah, I disagree.
Legend of Dragoon might be niche to a modern gamer, but it's still a new experience for the modern gamer. Bringing back PSOne classics is a bit of a challenge too, especially the RPGs because I think they want to consider how to modernize them for today's gamer. Sadly, we don't have Japan Studio anymore, and I'm finding that any JS games remade by studios like Bluepoint are good and overall faithful remakes, but are missing... Something. Could be "soul" or atmosphere, I really don't know. But playing them makes me very grateful I played the originals first.
Bloodborne is trickier. A patch probably won't happen since it's too half hearted (and cannot be monetized without a lynch mob coming for them). A remake is definitely possible, but, once again, there is no Japan Studio anymore and FromSoft is likely busy with other projects. I think Bloodborne will come again, though.
Rumor has it that they’re gonna announce a region-locked digital-only PS5 for a discounted price (50,000¥) which would put it more in line with the Switch 2.
Can’t say I’m a big fan of this news/rumor, cause I hate the idea of going backwards to region-locked consoles and games. We’ll find out tomorrow. Hopefully they’ll have some cool stuff to announce as well.
Might have something to do with tariffs and perhaps the new PM of Japan?
Many gamers (and devs) in Japan simply feel the PS5 is much too expensive for a home-console, especially with the Switch 2 now out. They've been pressuring Sony in dropping the price in order to create a bigger market.
The Japanese Yen is also very low/weak right now, which means it's been a fantastic time to visit Japan for many tourists, but it also means tourists can (and will) take advantage of the weak yen to buy all their stuff there, as it's cheaper to simply book a holiday to Japan for a week orso and then buy the stuff you want/need, and it ends up cheaper than buying it all at home. For example, I'm in Hong Kong rught now, I can book a 5-day trip & hotel in Japan for 500 bucks orso, but then buy new shoes, clothes, glasses, games, camera, art-books, whatever over there, and I'd save so much money that the trip itself is basically 'free'. This is why they're looking at region-locking games/hardware, because they'd prefer me to buy that stuff in my own territory, where it would be (much) more expensive.
Nintendo's E3 Direct presentation is now over and while we got some amazing announcements, we still have some questions after it ended.
Many of the reveals at Square Enix's E3 presentation were expected, but others threw audiences for a loop. Here are the five most surprising announcements.
I'm really impressed with the continued improval and dedication to this site. Keep up the great work.
i bet some people are glad to hear about the bubbles part
*i'm glad they're listening to our feedback up there*
indeed. I have 9 crank already! hehe
update
Duplicate Story Tool
You can now easier check for duplicate stories.
How exactly can we do that?
EDIT: o nvm i got it...wow that's a nice feature!