Indeed, I remember your avatar from way back. What a time that was
I've been visiting this site since the early days of the 7th generation, scavenging for the next news drop that would convince me the PS3 is worth the money, soon followed by the agonising period of checking in for status updates on Gran Turismo 5, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and Agent.
I must have been a lurker for several years before actually creating an account in 2012, and I even recall having a brief jaunt in the N4G forums.
I'll remember the wholesome toxicity ...
Did you used to have a FF9 avatar? Anyway, godspeed
I've been visiting this site since the early days of the 7th gen, scavenging for the next news drop that would convince me that the PS3 would be worth the money. Then the agonising period of checking in for status updates on Gran Turismo 5, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and Agent.
I'll remember the wholesome toxicity of the comment section during the 7th generation, it was like a COD4/MW2 lobby in text form - users like Power Of Green, Rage s90, cookiegaki, and many others in t...
Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether
Factor 5 staff have on multiple occasions talked publicly about how they’d like to re-release these games. I don’t think they would be the bottleneck, it might be more so lucasarts
“You make it sound like remakes and remasters are a bad thing”
They are
“when the industries full of them Sony themselves have remade The Last of Us just this generation”
That’s bad
If true, good on FromSoft taking a stand for artistic integrity. Remake slop is the most annoying part of modern gaming.
Ridiculous. That would be like the Foo Fighters trusting a cover band to create their next album, or like George RR Martin trusting the game of thrones show producers to finish writing the ASOIAF story beyond what the books had covered.
I’m relieved Bluepoint will never touch Bloodborne. Have a look into what Bluepoint changed from an artistic perspective in the Demon’s Souls remake. Those changes are an affront to god and should be damn near illegal. Bloodborne would’ve better served with a framerate and resolution patch.
You are spot on in regard to the issue of art. I used to like the idea of remakes but have since soured on them. Historical games, if recognised as art, are best appreciated for what they achieved at the time of release with the technology available at that time (e.g. Super Mario 64).
Remakes that are just graphical updates while leaving the same old gameplay do have a jarring feel about them (e.g. Demon's Souls, MGS Delta).
The most anoying remakes are the ones that mes...
They scored sword/shield even higher from memory. This is a franchise for which people have very strong childhood memories from back when the games were good.
Ultimately though this is just a continuation of what has been understood for many many years now, which is that numerical scores are arbitrary and not useful in gauging whether a game is worthwhile
Yeah I don’t get the bloat argument - just stick to the main quest and don’t play the bloat!
Not just that, but this new version of Galaxy1 is supposedly better than the 3D All-Stars version.
Ultimately though it’s a very Nintendo thing to do and it shouldn’t have come as a surprise.
i liked 2018 but haven't bothered with Ragnarok yet, mainly because I got burnt out on cinematic games
Rumour is that they actually are removing the modern day parts, which would be a great move
Resting implies laziness. They still make some banger new games. Their laziness shows more so when it comes to preservation of their old stuff
VII was a cultural touchstone, VIII was not
Yeah, a few red flags at the moment - UE5, performance mode not hitting 60fps, resolution as low as 720p, AUD$130, no material gameplay changes. I can wait until it’s fixed and cheaper
Ah the Sony hack - I remember Kaz and the others bowing in apology, I'd never seen anything like it.
I never fully wrapped my head around what gamergate was truly about and tbh I'm kinda glad I still don't know.
All the best with your steelbook collecting, and manifesting a FF8 remake.