News Thread XII: Xbox Humiliation Ritual - Part 12 the 12th

Good test. So if your PS console is offline, digital games you haven’t run in a while won’t run and will say they need to confirm the license.

That’s crummy. Wonder if Sony’ll reverse that when everyone complains.

I’d lord this up and say I’m more glad than ever that I’ve dropped Sony and gone all PC but then Steam will do it too to spite me.

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Well, I was dead wrong about what they were planning on publishing.

Would never have guessed that their opening salvo would be prestige indie cute-horror games.

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the fact that they’re going with mid-budget games and original properties here makes it feel like this initiative is being spearheaded by somebody with actual taste and a healthy understanding of the economics of the industry

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i cannot believe this game never came up in the compelling trash action thread :pensive_face:

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i’m sure i saw a quote regarding toei games about how videogames are a creative medium equal to film with potential they seek to explore or something like that.
i wrote it off as corporate self-aggrandising, but what if it wasn’t?

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Hasn’t Steam always done this unless you turn on offline mode before you go offline?

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Oh hm yeah probably. ; D

Like, don’t get me wrong, I am not happy about Sony doing it now, because I liked that consoles didn’t do that, but here we are.

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Can’t find the post now, but it’s been suggested that this change was made to close a loophole with Playstation’s refund system. You can refund games up to 14 days after purchase on Playstation, and allegedly after 15 days the 30 day online checkup DRM is replaced with a lifetime offline DRM.

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the thing is, even ‘lifetime’ licenses can still be revoked whenever they want. whatever happens this time, the digital distribution model is built to work this way intentionally.

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Silent Hill plushie.

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Lmao that this has over 20k wishlists. An instant demoralizing blow to any struggling indie dev trying to make anything with a normal premise

I would much rather play a game entirely based on that part in neuromancer where case is watching through molly’s eyes

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Sexyroid is so bad and lame I almost respect it. But not really. Not really…

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the screenshots on the page tastefully conceal the fact that when you look down you get to see the characters huge tits that would put Jurassic Park Trespasser to shame lmao

When I got to the part about it being a tsf game where your bro is a girl now and are you going to be comrades or lovers I started laughing so fucking hard

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Housemarque’s spiritual sequel to Returnal comes out tomorrow:

Sci-fi rogue-lite tightly tuned arcade shooter with a bunch of random King in Yellow references in it. I’m jazzed, Returnal was great.

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Sexelvania

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Isn’t this one of those ones that’s stuck on ps5 now cause they are refusing to port stuff to PC

hey now

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No surprises sadly

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Yup! Finally, the PS5 has another game.

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