If I didn’t want a new PC (for not gaming) I would be considering it.
I might eventually, because I skipped the PS4 entirely and the PS+ offerings include a hearty handful of games I’d liked to have played. But considering the (let’s be honest) entirely artificial scarcity at release and the fact that I’m pretty tired of anti-consumer practices in general, I probably won’t end up snagging one even though I occasionally fantasize about having the PS4 hits at my fingertips.
yes if they sell me one
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I’ll buy one after the first price drop or system revision, just like I do with every console I want
Though FFXVI might get me to bit earlier if that takes too long
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I’m not, but I have a friend who might. That’s how I managed to play through Bloodborne, since even now I don’t own a PS4.
If the price drops to around $300 I’d probably be more on the fence (I know it won’t, but that’s probably my price point).
Pretty sure I’m never buying a console again… just in time to have children to buy consoles for. Cool life
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You’re in luck, children are only interested in tablet and smartphone games
Recent evidence points to no
At least my 8 year old is into Total War now, so I can look forward to buying him a $1200 gaming PC instead
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Time for your family to get an Atari VCS launching this month.
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Can you all imagine what the remastered Maiden Astraea theme is going to be like?
Did you ever give your child a fake mouse and keyboard to make them think they were playing Total War while you were playing it?
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He’s 8, not 2 and brain damaged
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I read you can actually hear the new Maiden Astraea theme in this promotional video and it sounds exactly like how you expect it to.
I don’t know how you do her theme in the Remake with how the rest of the soundtrack sounds. It’s contrast with the rest of the boss themes was always what I found memorable about it; it’s dramatic compared to the dire and ponderous themes used for the other bosses. But now every song in the Remake is dramatic. Maybe you’d have to invert the relationship and make her theme more low key instead?
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So now you can pause the game?
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when playing offline, it sounds like.
Moore said that photo mode will pause the game, something you couldn’t really do in the original Demon’s Souls, to let photographers nail their shots. But if you’re playing the game online, and you’re invaded by another player, the game will warn you and kick you out of photo mode.
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It’s not even that really. It’s that the relationship of the entire game becomes a microcosm in the Maiden Astraea encounter. I love the score of Demon’s Souls, but the two pieces that really stuck with me, even today, are the Maiden in Black’s theme and Maiden Astraea’s theme. They are kinda the core of the game’s message, a slow fading combined with the actual decay of a world descending into madness.
That subtlety and specificity seems to have been lost entirely on the creators of whatever it is they’re now making. The awkward sequel is boisterous and bombastic, where the original was ponderous and plodding. It’s visually extreme and constructed, where the original was minimalist and concise.
It may have the mechanical underpinnings of a Souls game, but it’s just another generic action RPG now.
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Tone, delicate enough that it is only known in fragments across the studio creating the thing, cannot survive a transition to an unrelated studio when the data pipe is just code, assets, and disc.
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This remake is really becoming a ship of Theseus case study.
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Finally, the freedom to let me not be an monstrous halloween mask if I want to. Thank you bluepoint.
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feeling for whatever team was stuck working on that when half the audience is just going to make shrek
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The whole business where you don’t end up looking anything like your character (helmet, body is dessicated) has always been some kind of bit. Going Shrek is the way to assert agency by clowning the game instead of it clowning on you
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