I apologise for misremembering the details. Video game drama is hard to keep track of, even in the indie scene, that I just mentally filed the game under “weird shit”. The writer’s behaviour was clearly bad enough to warrant rewriting the entire game, and judging by the reception to the final version’s story, it was the right call.
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i didnt know anything about this so i googled “goodbye volcano high writer” and all the relevant results were like. resetera and twitter, and even the top result is this
which even mentions that the article she wrote was dumb, so i cant really blame someone for taking it at face value i guess…? it does suck that 4chan is going after this game but also its not necessarily right wing to think kotaku posting rule34 of teenaged characters is gross. this drama also dates back to 2019 so i don’t think its appropriate to dismiss it out of hand either. however i feel like people should probably be more mad at the editor who let the article get posted with the images instead of the writer, because this is literally the kind of thing an editor is supposed to stop you from doing.
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https://ps-timetracker.com/ has been down of late due to Sony banning their tracking accounts (the site maintains a few PSN accounts, you add one of them as a friend and then you can enable tracking). they’ve recently gotten back up and running, and now that they’ve turned off messaging maybe Sony will not ban them (not clear what they got banned for, but one theory it was a bot sweep due to all the automated messages showing what you’d played each session)
i really enjoy being able to actually tell how long i played stuff. the PS5 itself supposedly keeps track, but these figures a) are known to be inaccurate since all the way back in 2020, and sony has never bothered to fix it b) contradict both sony’s “what you played this year” end of year missives and the stats they give you if you request your data thru some kind of gdpr mechanism. and of course this rando site just tracks how long it says you’ve been playing each game from being your friend and gets it perfectly correct lol
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Daytona USA2 being ported to modern systems on November 8th, MSRP $49.99
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Guess I will get that game.
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Can new console announcements ever be exciting again?
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Whatever they do I just hope they make it backward compatible with the existing softwares.
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a new console would need a library of such novel and exclusive content so uhh possible but wildly unlikely
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finally, the switch’s fucking price might drop
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If it’s backwards compatible and doesn’t require third party peripherals to avoid joystick drift I might feel inclined to trade in my Switch Lite
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The PS2 did not have that many games at launch that were must play killer apps but you could at least play all your PS1 games on it. I wish we could go back to that. I guess we kind of did with the current gen but I haven’t jumped in yet because playing my PS4 games without the load times sounds great but not quite $500 great lol.
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i feel like a lot of people really slept on Ridge Racer V. probably the best PS2 launch title
am perennially bummed that From Software went all-in on the PS2 launch with 3 titles to drop on day 1, and all of them (AC2, Eternal Ring, Evergrace) are weirdly middling after their PS1 oeuvre was so impeccable
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‘What are you in for?’
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This news came out on June 16 when we were discussing the aroma of Tacoma so maybe that’s how we missed it (or anyway I’ve missed finding it having been posted here):
(also PC)
Metaphor: ReFantazio
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answer for your crimes, rudie
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one dev team member was quoted saying “we really wanted to start fresh with a clear departure from our well know franchises Persona, the games where you play as sassy anime teenagers who battle it out in turn based battles that feature loud and stylized large type-driven menus, and Shin Megami Tensei, where the player character battles against demons and freaks,” they noted, pointing to nearby screens displaying images of their newly revealed game, before continuing, “to focus on a brand new experience for our userbase where they can battle demons and freaks with a team of sassy anime characters in a dynamic and stylized type-centric battle system interface”
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Remember when From kept insisting Dark Souls is not a sequel to Demon’s Souls
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I saw a neat looking puzzle game that came out today where certain elements grow when you gain health, and shrink when you take damage. This is naturally the type of “let’s build a game around one decent idea” notion that always catches my attention, hopefully it is not terrible.
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