Yeah, I think a lot of the decisions Sony’s made about the DualSense is accepting that some traditions are not worth maintaining. I think the PS4 controller already did a decent job of updating the ergonomics (the original PS1-PS3 design is iconic, but it is not comfortable by modern standards) but DualSense looks…

This feels like such an unusual time to make this change. On one hand, the DualSense has already kind of killed off Playstation’s iconic controller design, so maybe this is just a case of ripping the bandaid off and going for something completely new. But we’re also on the verge of controls basically being fully remap-…

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It’s a strong contender, not going to lie.  Especially for Chief.  I think it would be a bit of a waste of potential for Doom Guy, but it wouldn’t be the first time.

Ooh, yeah, long hair Gon would be a cool animation. I get your point on Jojo, but it’s not the same without the ATATATATAs and the explosions. You do also see some parts of it with One Punch, and anime punches can be a bit derivative in general, but I still would prefer the classic.

Sad thing is, I can totally see this happening. In fact, I practically expect it.

Kind of surprised Fist of the North Star wasn’t included, but I doubt these will be the last we see.  Death Note, One Punch, and FullMetal were definitely my favorites.  Could see an Akira or Fate/Whatever also making it in.

I look at Snake as the main barometer for that, and they managed to make his stuff relatively cartoony (just explosions, pretty on par with everything else.) Even Bayo and Joker have guns to some degree, so I think they could make characters like Chief or Doomy work if they wanted to. I think Doom benefits from having…

Ha, same! I remember it actually gave my school laptop a lot of trouble! I think I had to run it in a browser.

So, you got mad at a video game....

I... kind of agree here? Definitely think Conker is waaaay too niche. Master Chief could maybe work, but I’m not sure how appealing it would be. If I had to go for any armor clad fps character, I would probably go for Doom Slayer over Chief, and I’m a huge Halo fan. I’d love it to just see the Doom/Isabella memes…

Yeah, there’s a lot of really adult looking 17 year olds there, lol.  But high school casting is always a crapshoot, and the movie is goofy enough to roll with it.

So I looked this up, because it was bothering me, but according to the internet (which cannot be wrong) Parker is 23 in this game. Still seems kinda off to me. I think the original character does look older than that, I would’ve said mid to upper 20s, but then again, 8 years as Spider-Man catches up to you, you see…

I was just thinking about this. Tobey is probably the ideal for this age of Spiderman (hard to believe they cast him as a hich school student, albeit a senior.) But this is probably closer to the Garfield spiderman, which... I didn’t hate his casting but it’s not the best.

Absolutely. His face feels a lot more defined. Older. Not quite wrinkled, but the very first early signs of aging. New Peter literally looks like a teenager with no acne (lucky bastard.)

On one hand, I can’t stop laughing at this. Every time I see the photo, I hear the Squeaky Voice Teen from the Simpsons. I imagine the camera dollying out and showing Peter there, harms barely halfway down the lab coat sleeves, like a foot and a half shorter than everyone else. I can’t help it.

With sword-opinion gaming twitter coming out the last few days, I should’ve known this discussion was coming.

A lot of people seem to be advocating this, buy a fast USB 3.0 external SSD, and you should be able to swap games between them fairly rapidly.  They won’t be fast enough to play the games, but they’ll probably install faster than your system will download them over your internet, unless you have a fiber internet or…

The timing of the Samsung announcement is interesting, I’m curious as to whether it will be PS5 compatible or not. However, this really highlights the lack of information we have about PS5's SSD, apart from the speed. Another question is, how does one install a new SSD? Is it swaping the old SSD out, or is there a…

Also, if nothing else, I really love the new Japanese content for Flight Simulator. It’s been a region I was planning on hitting soon, it’ll be great to go with updated models and photogrammetry. Please fix up some American cities and model some of the National Parks next Asobo!