I never said that it was available for most of the world, it’s just that you said that it “as of now only includes NA (if we ignore closed/preview betas)“ and I’m telling you that, for all practical purposes, closed beta seems to mean nothing in this case.

How am I arguing with myself?

Spoiler alert - iOS/Android devices also have touchscreens, and the iOS/Android version was a port of the DS version anyway, so either way the version that has ended up on Steam is a port of a version designed for touchscreens. I was assuming that, as they went to the trouble of remapping the iOS/Android controls to…

I just got an Oculus Rift so I’ll be playing anything that’s cool in VR including, but not limited to, any free experiences that the Oculus Store thinks I should try, Elite: Dangerous (if I can figure out the controls), Redout (if it’s not vomit-inducing) and Payday 2, since they were nice enough to give the VR…

Well then I guess the beta isn’t that closed because I’ve never heard of anyone not be able to access it. I told a friend about it last month and he got a trial and played The Last of Us on PC - no invite required, no prior participation - he created a PSN account just to play it. Nor did I have an invite when I used…

Yeah, but they didn’t pay for a digital license of the SNES version, or the DS version - they paid for a digital license of this shitty port, so that’s all they’ve got the rights to play. It’s a shitty situation, but the first reviews should have put everyone else off buying it (they did me) and anyone disappointed…

Okay, so re-read the post you replied to and replace ‘SNES’ with ‘DS’ and the point still stands - it would be a better ‘port’ if it was simply a ROM running via an emulator (which Sega have managed to do with Mega Drive games on Steam quite well and successfully), so basically any effort that Square Enix have put…

Wow, are data caps still a thing in some places?

If you’re developing a game for multiple platforms, you’re essentially making one game as far as possible and only doing extra work on the parts that need to be different for each platform. It would be completely redundant to have one person working on modelling a horse and writing some code for the PS4 version and…

Well officially the requirement is 5mbps, so if you can watch Netflix you should be able to use Playstation Now - but yeah, I’ve seen complaints from people with 5-10 times that speed.

it’s a complete separate game being worked on in conjunction of the console version

I live in the UK and wasn’t aware that it was in closed beta when I played a couple of games using a free trial a year ago. For all intents and purposes, it was fully functional - certainly nothing that stopped me from playing, completing - even Platinuming - a couple of games.

Internal or external? Pretty sure they’re all formatted for and encrypted to your individual PS4 so I doubt a PC would be much help. You should be able to use your PS4 to transfer it to your new hard drive, though.

Is it?

Just a reminder to anyone who would like to play Red Dead Redemption smoothly (and officially) on their PC that you can do so using Playstation Now, which is a subscription streaming service.

Only the first episode, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, unless you count the Tracey Ullman shorts. It certainly isn’t an icon of the ‘80s.

I remain hopeful that it will be, but it could be better than the book and still be terrible.

No, the book went to great lengths to tell us how the Oasis guy was obsessed with the ‘80s but was still filled with references from things from the ‘90s onwards. Apparently The Simpsons, among other things, was a big thing in the ‘80s...

No, read the book, but read it along with the podcast 372 Pages You’ll Never Get Back - because not only will you have a good laugh reading a terrible book, you’ll also be able to explain why it’s terrible at great length the next time someone accuses you of disliking it for no reason, or in an attempt to look cool.

It’s more a case of hating the fact that a movie based on a book that is about as objectively terrible as it’s possible to be is getting so much attention.