General Game Chat

[Dragon Lord]

Yeah, Legend of Mana was a PS1 title. I played it a bit on PS3 years ago, but didn't get too far, so I'm actually pretty excited for this Remaster. Now I'll have no excuse not to play through the entirety of it.

I just hope that it isn't exclusive to the Switch, and that Nintendo just got to reveal it. Not having this on PS4 would be a real shame. Just saw the video on SE's YouTube and it has PS4 and Steam listed as well. We safe.

[Mr EliteL]

Forgot about mentioning the demo and Legend of Mana, I'll definitely try out the demo and am interested in the latter.

[Dragon Lord]

So this is an interesting watch. Scalpers are now crying that the negative press around them using bots to buy all the PS5 stock and then re-sell them for 2-3 times the original price is unfair and that they are doing us consumers a huge favor by being the "middle man."

These people have ascended to a very special level of stupid.

[Moonface]

But... if they didn't take them all then what would the difference be for a consumer except for a lower price? If they want to think that buying them all guarantees everyone gets exactly one because they can better keep track of where their stock is going then why charge so high? Well I expect they'll just claim it's their reward for their service or some bollocks.

[Dragon Lord]

My favorite part was the dude that runs that scalping organization saying that he's donated so much money to charity, then when asked for the name of the charity so they could fact-check it, he wouldn't answer.

Sorry dude, just saying you donate to charity without any concrete proof doesn't excuse you from being absolute scum.

[Moonface]

Even then, the cynic in me is just thinking did he donate to charity to just look good and also try and get a tax break or something. Like how much did you make versus donate? He could have made enough to benefit himself financially and then have enough to also benefit himself morally and favorably by donating and not looking like he's purely in it for himself (even though he really is by having to try and use a donation for brownie points). It's like people who film themselves doing good deeds; it's tarnished by the fact that you feel the need to get recognition for it by anyone other than the recipient.

[ShiraNoMai]

Scalpers are just as bad as art thieves. "I was doing YOU a favor!"

The only game resellers you should believe are people that sell old games at a decent price. I've never had a bad experience with an old game reseller.

[Moonface]

Sony have announced there will be a new State of Play tomorrow:

Anyone got anything they hope to see at the event? I'm not going in expecting much except for more footage of Ratchet & Clank, and a likely delay on God of War.

[Dragon Lord]

So Bioware has announced today that it's stopping development work on Anthem NEXT, which was supposed to be a restructured version of the major flop that was Anthem.

The legacy of Anthem being one of the biggest flops continues with the improved version of it not even making it out of the development door before they gave up on it. Big oof for all of the unfortunate suckers who not only wasted their money on Anthem, but actually held out hope for this restructured version of the game saving their money.

Bioware: "We were going to restructure the game and actually try and put out something good, but then we realized we already have your money, so why waste our time?"

[Moonface]

I'm not surprised. I didn't expect EA to want the project to continue, since it means pouring money into a product that has already made such a loss for them and EA isn't going to like the thought of updating a game for free like how No Man's Sky did it. Plus, if they have the choice of pouring more money into Anthem, or saving it/giving it to the next Mass Effect or Dragon Age game, then they're absolutely going to put the money towards something that has a higher chance of success. It isn't helped that they've spent two years so far just talking about what they'll do, with no actual progress. I don't know of any other game that had a rocky launch spend two years on making more promises and delivering nothing at all.

I still think that if the future Bioware projects aren't big hit successes like their older stuff was, that EA will shut that studio down. Since Mass Effect 3, they've cancelled 3 games entirely, and released three other games of which one was very well received (Dragon Age: Inquisition), one that was not that great (Mass Effect: Andromeda), and one that was so bad it just got shot in the back of the head. To have 6 games in development since 2012 of which only one was unquestionably good doesn't bode well for any studio, but especially not for one under EA.

[Maniakkid25]

And so Bioware will just be another studio Unicronic Arts has eaten, chewed up, and spit out. What a surprise, how did we let it happen again? *dull surprise*

[Moonface]

And so Bioware will just be another studio Unicronic Arts has eaten, chewed up, and spit out. What a surprise, how did we let it happen again? *dull surprise*

I don't expect it'll be very long before Codemasters gets negatively affected in some capacity by EA now that they've been acquired by them. In an ideal world they'd get to carry on as normal and maybe get their hands on Need For Speed or Burnout.

[Moonface]

@Dragon Lord: So as to not derail the FF7R thread, I saw you say Remnant was a good game for PS+. I actually have no clue what that game is and was surprised you (or anyone here) knew and cared for it, and now I'm curious about it. XD

[Dragon Lord]

It's basically Dark Souls with guns, but with about 10 more layers of brutally screwing you in the rear. It has co-op though, which is pretty neat for a game like it.

My friend will be happy that I can get it, since she picked it up a while ago and has been trying to convince me to buy it. I've been interested in the game for a long while, but just have had too many other games to play.

[Moonface]

Hmm, maybe I'll take a deeper look into it with some footage on YouTube and stuff, or I'll just grab it when it goes on PS+ and try it blind. Not like I can lose anything by doing so since it'll be free.