[blueweltall]

Somehow I missed the part that they are also making Part I later for the PC.

[Hypebeast69]

But is multiplayer included?

[blueweltall]

Has this been the lowest it has gone? 

 

Resonance of Fate 4K/HD Edition $20.99

https://store.playst...NDOFETERNITY000

[Revanex]

Has this been the lowest it has gone? 

 

Resonance of Fate 4K/HD Edition $20.99

https://store.playst...NDOFETERNITY000

psprices has the lowest price at $19.24 if you had PS+ at the end of last year

 

https://psprices.com...e-4k-hd-edition

[blueweltall]

Thanks, I'll book mark that site.

[Shiftygism]

Everyone remember, one of the greatest wrasslin' games ever... SATURDAY NIGHT SLAM MASTERS ...drops tomorrow via Capcom Arcade Stadium 2 for only FOUR DOLLARS!!

 

 

[SIX min WHISTLE]

But is multiplayer included?

Why would you expect multiplayer for the bargain price of $70?

[Hypebeast69]

Why would you expect multiplayer for the bargain price of $70?

The original came with multiplayer and was one of the best I’ve played. If it’s not included then they’re just trying to get people hyped for their standalone MP they’re working on

[Kain]

I really wanna say mean things about it Stray, but lots of people are enjoying it so it's probably just not for me.

I tuned out pretty hard when I saw that its platforming is "on rails." Ended up quitting maybe 30 minutes in. Very boring to me.

I would literally rather play Mario 64.

I have yet to play Stray, but I am looking forward to it.  I am a cat person and graphically it looks quite beautiful, and to be honest, the fact that it is on rails is and not an overly long game is a positive for me.  I like both open world games like the Assassin's Creeds, GTAs and all that, but there is always room for more narrative-driven games that take you from set-piece to set-piece in a linear style, like the Uncharted series does.  If that's Stray's style, I embrace it.
 
Open worlds are great when done right, but can be a slog when done poorly.  For example, I am currently playing through the PS5 version of Immortals: Fenyx Rising.  Graphics are beautiful, story is decent, and humor is admittedly hit-or-miss (though mostly hit), and the world is pretty much completely open.  Only two parts of the game world are locked off until near end-game conditions, but otherwise, if you've got the stamina, you can climb and access any part of the map.  It's negative is that the gameplay can be downright tedious.  When you're not doing a storyline quest, then you're exploring the map hunting down chests that usually require some kind of boring puzzle solving to open.  And then there are countless tedious dungeons that are basically just puzzle areas where you're pushing, pulling or carrying giant blocks or balls to the right spots to light up a crystal to move onto the next boring puzzle.  The open world was great, but because they didn't fill it with anything interesting, I think I would have rather played an on-rails game instead.
 

Isn't Mario 64 generally recognized as an all-time great game?

It is, but let's face it, it's not because it's genuinely a great game, but because people look at it through rose-tinted glasses and it was an incredibly ground-breaking title for its time.  Kinda like Star Wars; boring freakin' series, but revolutionary for 1977 audiences who've never seen such a thing in their life before and we're had to suffer with the hype surrounding it for decades afterwards because of that.
 
Mario 64 took a beloved mascot whom even non-gamers have grown to recognize over the previous decade and done something relatively new; put him in a fully 3D environment, which most people hadn't seen utilized in such a way before.  It had controls that were worlds ahead of other 3D games at the time -- but are downright clunky by today's standards.  It had a camera system that was intuitive for it's time, but is incredibly unintuitive today.  It had bright, detailed cartoony graphics that were pleasing at the time, but appear boxy and full of low-resolution textures (when textures even appeared) today.  It's gameplay was open and encouraged exploration, but let's be honest, it was slow and by today's standards, tedious.
 
I criticize Mario with all due levels of love, though.  I was a Nintendo fanboy from the NES all the way to the N64 and even still have this little guy dangling from my car's rearview mirror even today. But I've taken off my rose-tinted glasses when it comes to Mario 64.  Not Super Mario All-Stars, however, those glasses will never come off.

[ryanwm1]

Have you ever almost put somebody on your ignore list, but mostly because you think they’re likely an idiot and not a troll? However, then you read that one thing that you know isn’t trolling and is in fact the final confirmation that they are actually an idiot? No, just me? Carry on.

[FriskyTanuki]

 

Better link to grab the new free costumes and anything else you missed:

 

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP9000-PPSA01289_00-SACKBOYADVENTURE

[beenaround]

Have you ever almost put somebody on your ignore list, but mostly because you think they’re likely an idiot and not a troll? However, then you read that one thing that you know isn’t trolling and is in fact the final confirmation that they are actually an idiot? No, just me? Carry on.

Unfortunately that person is both an idiot and a troll.

[FriskyTanuki]

The Bonus stuff for Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium:

 

There’s also a ton of bonus content for players to enjoy! All players start out with SONSON, the 2D side-scrolling platformer first released in 1984, for free. Players can also download the “Special Display Frames Set” for free between July 22 and Aug. 5, 2022. Players who pre-order or purchase Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium before Aug. 5, 2022 will receive the “Display Frames Set 1,” which gives access to 32 title-specific display frames that open new customization options for the digital arcade cabinets.
 
Additionally, players who pre-order or purchase Capcom Fighting Collection before Sept. 30, 2022 will receive Three Wonders, which packs three arcade games into one, as a bonus game for Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium.
 
Lastly, original Capcom Arcade Stadium players receive bonus content, including Instruction Card Backgrounds (for players who purchased at least one Capcom Arcade Stadium title) and the ability to change the lights and music in the title select screen to that of the original Capcom Arcade Stadium (for players who have save data from Capcom Arcade Stadium).

 

https://store.playst...AS2000000000001

[SpraykwoN]

Unfortunately that person is both an idiot and a troll.

Am I thinking of who you are referring to? Long posts? Bullshit walls of text?

[Kain]

Seeing as how I was the last person to post a wall of text before that comment, would that implication be aimed towards me?

[n64ra]

Everyone remember, one of the greatest wrasslin' games ever... SATURDAY NIGHT SLAM MASTERS ...drops tomorrow via Capcom Arcade Stadium 2 for only FOUR DOLLARS!!

 

 

Hell yea. Still confused why not put more into Capcom Arcade Stadium 1 over making a second hub for retro Capcom games.

[SpraykwoN]

Seeing as how I was the last person to post a wall of text before that comment, would that implication be aimed towards me?

To my knowledge no

There’s another individual unless you are him with two diff accounts lol

[Kain]

To my knowledge no

There’s another individual unless you are him with two diff accounts lol

Good, whew.   Nope, just the one account here.

[camoor]

OG Star Wars is boring and Mario 64 is not a legitimately great game? This is clearly wrong. It is fine if you personally dislike them but you are out of step with the general consensus.

[entexman]

The Sony thread can be a bit harsh sometimes.   

 

I just installed a 2TB SSD in my new PS5 so I can finally install more than a few games!

[nitrosmob]

I mean it's a testament you can move around quite well in Mario 64 all these years later and still play it. Has anyone tried stuff like Glover, Blasto, Croc, other generic 3D platformers of the time and loved that experience still? Plus of course junk like Bubsy 3D is just garbage. I still think the early Spyro games were fine though.

[Kain]

OG Star Wars is boring and Mario 64 is not a legitimately great game? This is clearly wrong. It is fine if you personally dislike them but you are out of step with the general consensus.

Not wrong; just opinion. Perhaps I am out of step, but that is because I travel to the beat of my own drum instead of blindly following "General Consensus."  You see, "General Consensus" is also just an opinion and not fact, no matter what percentage of people may agree. This should help you understand the difference in the future.

[The Questyen]

Not really sure why people keep saying Stray is "on rails" when it is most certainly not. Just because a game doesn't let you jump continuously and only to certain ledges doesn't make it "on rails".

The only part that even remotely is like that is the first 15 minutes tutorial area. Otherwise you spend the majority of your time in a city where you can explore wherever you want.

[beenaround]

Yeah the on rails criticism is odd. There are a ton of other things to dislike about the game but that wouldn't be one of mine.

[BobbyTastic]

I think the original criticism was that the platforming was on rails (which it is afaik) and people were just saying "on rails" for shorthand because they were under the impression it was going to have platforming elements.

[The Questyen]

I think the original criticism was that the platforming was on rails (which it is afaik) and people were just saying "on rails" for shorthand because they were under the impression it was going to have platforming elements.

The platforming isn't on rails either though. Not allowing you to jump to your death doesn't make it "on rails".

[Das_Regal]

Yeah the on rails criticism is odd. There are a ton of other things to dislike about the game but that wouldn't be one of mine.

It may be "on rails" is a weird way of wording it. It's just that jumping is basically scripted as far as I saw? You can only jump when they let you press X and they only let you press X in some circumstances as opposed to it being a thing where you press X and the cat tries to jump. You're only allowed to do it when they let you and it always succeeds; there's no analysis required. The prompt is more meaningful than your read of the situation. It really changes the mechanical complexity and freedom of the experience, which is why "on rails" is how I would describe it.

 

Either way, I don't really like Stray. It's a pretty simple game and I like mechanical meat in the experiences I enjoy, but I'm not saying it's a bad game. I just don't personally think it's good. I like skillful games with a lot of mechanics and systems, Stray is not that.

[FriskyTanuki]

I'm going to stream some Stray to see what's really going in with this game.

 

Edit: Here's the archive. Having played about 90 minutes, this is an adventure game through and through. I don't know where the platformer talk is coming from, as it's trying to have a more realistic controlling cat instead of something very ridiculous that jumps like a typical platformer character. The animations are done like a cat really jumps with a more considerate style rather than what Mario does, so the world is built like that where you're jumping up onto shelves, AC units, and such that is more like a climb than any sort of jump.

 

The game itself is an adventure game with some moments of running from these headcrab-like creatures that want to eat you between areas, but once you get to the robot city, you're collecting stuff to show to robots and figuring out who to give them to in order to progress in the main or side quests. There's nothing complicated about it. It's a very cute cyberpunk cat adventure game, which is what I was expecting from the first reveal.

[Josh1billion]

ur all on rails

[shadowysea07]

we're getting a little off track here people.