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pixelburp

Not like the old name was exactly memorable either but yeesh, that new one threads the needle between utterly generic and the mangled English beloved of Japanese.

Varik

Name seems more like someone went searching in a thesaurus (as I just did)

forspoken - past tense of forspeak which is among other things another word for bewitch and going by the trailer that's probably the meaning they wanted.

Potential-Monke

Going by the extra bit in the trailer, they should have just called it "Mother fukin dragon?!"

Sieghardt

Looks as designed by committee as Avengers

Kiith

dreamers75 wrote: »

On steam now for pre order €34

Doom in the WH40K universe? Sign me up

Grumpypants

Respawn's short documentary, Colette, in last year's Medal of Honor VR game got an Oscar nomination.

Mr Crispy

Leaked footage from the Rainbow 6 Parasite technical test. Hard to take anything from it really, as we have no idea how far along it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbq6a4DqlPA

Retr0gamer

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne HD is coming to PC as well now. Great place for it. It's the best PS2 RPG (Unarguably so don't bother) and will really suit the platform. Also.... maybe we can get Persona 5 on PC so I can buy it for the fourth time?

sniper_samurai

This is not a good move, especially on Vita considering how reliant it was on digital.

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1373996180653375490?s=19

J. Marston

I would've assumed the PSP was dead long ago anyway.

The Raging Bile Duct

Presumably once you've bought the games, you'll still be able to download them from your download list?

sniper_samurai

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

Presumably once you've bought the games, you'll still be able to download them from your download list?

Should be, will be difficult on the PS3 without access to the store though as the library functions are abysmal.

Doodah7

While a hacked Vita was probably classed as 'nice to have' up to now, it will be essential going forward if this rumour is true.

Xenji

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne HD is coming to PC as well now. Great place for it. It's the best PS2 RPG (Unarguably so don't bother) and will really suit the platform. Also.... maybe we can get Persona 5 on PC so I can buy it for the fourth time?

I hope they keep with the improvements as the Japanese port release was a technical mess before patching.

Mr Crispy

Bloomberg are reporting that MS are in talks to buy Discord for $10BN.

CatInABox

Mr Crispy wrote: »

Bloomberg are reporting that MS are in talks to buy Discord for $10BN.

Wouldn't be the worst company that could potentially buy it.

nullObjects

Good move for Microsoft (/Xbox) I would have thought and Discord would probably make more from the acquisition than they'd make by monetization.
Wonder if they'd try to turn it into a Twitch competitor

Vicxas

Watch them drive it into the ground like Skype

EoinMcLovin

Amazon would make sense too, since they own Twitch.

Gamer Bhoy 89

sniper_samurai wrote: »

This is not a good move, especially on Vita considering how reliant it was on digital.

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1373996180653375490?s=19

And considering how tone deaf Jim Ryan is when it comes to game preservation, there's no way we're gonna see any of those storefronts show up on the newer systems (talking about PS3 specifically). I love PlayStation but as a self-proclaimed retro junkie this just písses me off. I still play on older hardware and it's getting more and more difficult to find games without forking out ridiculous amounts of money to play them. There are an absolute ton of PS1/PS2 games I wanted to have on my PS3 system and now it's looking like I won't get to buy them at all.

I wouldn't mind if Sony would just, for the love of christ, FIND A WAY to get those PS3 games onto a PS4/5 without having to burn your bandwidth to play them.

I've said it once and I'll say it again, taking a handful of games out of the equation; Xbox are absolutely killing it with what they're doing for legacy software, and it is so frustrating seeing Sony do almost the complete opposite.

I'll never forget this ridiculous quote

Jim Ryan From Sony wrote:

I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 games, and the PS1 and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this?

Retr0gamer

I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 games, and the PS1 and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this?

I feel personally attacked.

That kind of think really annoys me. They might looks ancient but the library for the PS1 and 2 is way for diverse and just plain better than the PS4's library (discounting indie games which you can play on PC anyway).

Markitron

In general I can't stand playing modern 2D games or mostly anything released before Mario 64, but even I have a problem with that. It is important to preserve games.

Retr0gamer

I prefer playing old 2D games over modern 3D games because at least they target 60 FPS and play much better. There's some ropey stuff on the PS1 ad especially N64 but make up for it in sheer inventiveness and when you get to PS2/Gamecube/XBox they mostly run 60 FPS or a stable 30 FPS which seems to have gone out the window since then.

one armed dwarf

SMT Nocturne is really good but personally got zero interest in going back. SMT needs a major overhaul, their formula has gotten really stale imo.

Retr0gamer

one armed dwarf wrote: »

SMT Nocturne is really good but personally got zero interest in going back. SMT needs a major overhaul, their formula has gotten really stale imo.

Really? I've not played Persona 5 but SMT 4 and Apocalypse are incredible and the demon fusion in those games is the best yet. No more random skill inheritance.

Dillonb3

Apologies if already posted but looks like April 10th will have more Age of Empires IV reveal. Not overly fond of the unit graphics

Vicxas

Vicxas wrote: »

Watch them drive it into the ground like Skype

Skype is Teams. Its had something ridiculous along the lines of 1000% increase in usage. Use it everyday myself rock solid software.

gizmo

On the subject of the importance of game preservation earlier...

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1374635773325144064

****.

sniper_samurai

gizmo wrote: »

On the subject of the importance of game preservation earlier...

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1374635773325144064

****.

Indeed, especially with 2. Sigma 2 has some nice rebalances, but adds a lot of nonsense and makes it significantly harder to dismember enemies.