I’d hope there’s a beefy FFXVI trailer with at least a 30sec FF7R2 teaser at the end. I’d imagine they don’t want Remake to absorb all the hype for the next mainline entry, but it’d also be great to get a little taste since it’s already been two years since the first part came out.

I’d be a lot more excited about PS Plus Premium if the PS5 wasn’t currently handling PS1 emulation worse than my phone.

Some people here are saying that Studio Ghibli should be ashamed of being involved with this project, but so far as I can tell / assume, they’re not. Ghibli was involved in the first Ni No Kuni, but weren’t even involved in the second main game - A character designer who formerly worked at Ghibli was in charge of…

The cheap-looking 3d versions of flat-shaded 2d characters reminds me quite a bit of Simpsons Road Rage & Hit and Run, two car-focused games that a) are both far better than they should be; and b) surprisingly never led to the easier success of a Simpsons kart racer that I’m aware of.

Something I’ve been wishing for the past few years, as my game libraries on Switch, Steam, and Game Pass grow to infinity, is an easy way to sort games by estimated completion time (through HLTB or otherwise). I sorted most of my Steam library that way a couple years ago, which was a massive pain but feels worthwhile…

Unrelated news, but it’s interesting to hear that a mysterious new superhero is defeating villains in his area with a single punch.

I’m a huge fan of Amano’s Final Fantasy art (check out the Sky artbooks collection), and also just the sheer bravado of an artist who found his style and has really stuck with it for like four decades.

If there’s ever a Jason Schrier deep dive into Sony’s transition into this overcomplicated PS Plus system, I fully expect the answer to “why’d the massive and incredibly important PS Classics selection go away?” to be: 

I know Shattered Memories is technically a remake / reimagining of the first Silent Hill, but I’d much rather have a remake of the original than 2. Ps2 games (especially the greats like SH2) have aged infinitely better than many PS1 games, so there’d be much more benefit. Plus, aside from the PS Classics on PS3 and…

Uh...has there been an actual trailer for Starfield that I missed? That game was allegedly coming out in six months and, unless I’m mistaken, we’d seen incredibly little of it. And it’s Bethesda, a dev with very long development cycles in the best of times. I certainly never expected that date to stick.

Better yet, in their Buy section under Old Consoles (rude), there’s a single GBA game - World Poker Tour.

I would typically agree with the reasoning that 18 months into the generation, it’s time to move on, but in this case I’m not so sure. For one, it’s still very difficult to get a PS5 or Series X as far as I’m aware (or at the very least it’s not widely and easily available like most products, ie you can’t walk into…

Could definitely be a combination of that and moving that monumental game release away from their long list of 2022 games. Don’t need Zelda cannibalizing their other successes. 

Interesting. I think I own that game, I should probably play it at some point.

Twinsies! I was also feeling self-conscious. I’m typically walking around with a staff in my left and katana in my right, but can swap the left to either a shield or another katana when I run out of FP or need to handle business more physically. I like the versatility of being able to cast, tank, or dual wield just by…

Man, give me the Batman: Year Zero game where a young vigilante is figuring things out and working out the kinks. Let him focus on a small but dense neighborhood of the city that’s full of life and people (similar to the Yakuza strategy), and accentuate the parts of Batman that are underutilized in games and film -…

Fair point! I’m rusty on my Red Hood lore.

Might help their business model to also check on their pricing algorithm...we sold our 2016 Scion iA to them a few months ago and got over $16k, which was like $3-4k higher than similar listings and even a little higher than we paid for it brand new. It was baffling and seemed like it was too good to be true…

Totally agree - the Switch has been my primary console since I got mine at release because the portable factor just fits my life so well (and doubly so now that I’m a parent). It makes me really wish the PS4 Remote Play worked better, as I’ve tried to get it to work a few times on my phone, Vita, and PC, but it runs…

Oof. Yeah, that looks really awkward. The old Arkham games had that same issue, but I think it looked even weirder there since that Batman was built like a linebacker yet had the agility of a ninja (I’ll never understand or like that character design). And it’s not like Spiderman, where it makes sense that he’s…