The car chase in Yakuza Kiwami has been the most irritating from a gameplay perspective part of the game so far. While I admit it was pretty cool thematically, it was so difficult, especially without checkpoints. I managed to get through it after it offered to lower the difficulty, which I felt bad about at first, but luckily it only seemed to lower the difficulty of that specific segment & not the game as a whole.
Currently Playing:
Switch - Blade Strangers
PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)
@Anti-Matter Trust me or not, it's not about Sony... it's about new systems !
I'm always pretty curious about new systems because they bring new perspectives, new possibilities...
To be honest, I really hope to see something fresh and technically great.
We'll see...
@Ralizah I'm not fan of Sony's consoles and games... I'm fan of video games in general.
There is no Sony's console in my top 5 favorites systems of all time... (the 6th place is for the PSX though) ^^
Number 1 : PC Engine DUO-R
Number 2 : Super Famicom
Number 3 : MegaDrive
Number 4 : Dreamcast
Number 5 : Neo Geo
Number 6 : PSX
Number 7 : Wii U
Number 8 : Saturn
Number 9 : PS2
Number 10 : GameCube
My TOP 5 Computers
Number 1 : Amiga 500
Number 2 : Atari ST/STE
Number 3 : Amstrad CPC 464/664/6128
Number 4 : Commodore 64
Number 5 : ZX Spectrum
Something is telling me that Sony is liquidating the PS4's stocks because PS5 is coming in 2019...
179€ the PS4 and 279€ the PS4 Pro...
They've had deals like this on and off for about 3 years now. This tells us nothing. If you look at how many consoles they're still selling AND how many exclusive games we're still waiting for, I seriously doubt they'll ditch the console in 2019. It'll be a holiday 2020 release, I'm almost positive.
@EvilLucario It was free for PS+ members a little while ago....
@Cobalt If only that "liquidation" would arrive in the US.... I still need to replace my beeping Pro.
If they were releasing in 2019 they'd be at E3. No reason not to be there while promoting a new console launch and reveal. And revealing after E3 isn't enough time before the Holiday rush. Though with only a few games this year, it's definitely going to be a lame duck year for Playstation. They're staying quiet until at least late Summer or Fall for some reason. They may do the announce in Fall to steal the thunder from X1/Switch going into the Holidays, but they'd do a Feb or Mar release. I'm not sure they want to do another Holiday release, honestly. Too much missed opportunity having the busiest season married to limited stocks and first batch growing pains. Cutting Japan out last time because of it wasn't ideal. No E3 was effectively confirmation, no 2019 PS5.
@Ralizah Trolling the sale for things I can only get on PS (multiplat is all 1X for me now.) I think I have a big collection of all the must have exclusives (either first party or "only available on") but hoping to find some things, including older stuff that I missed and/or didn't realize existed. I have the big ones. Uncharted, GoW, Horizon, SotC, etc. Even Yakuza and KH collection. But i'm hoping to find the more off the radar stuff I may be missing.
@Ralizah To be fair, most of us predicted the Switch would be the Switch long before even the NX was announced, and were eagerly awaiting it since WiiU was revealed It was the logical confluence of Nintendo trajectory. We just weren't sure they'd do it in a way that wasn't a disaster
PS5, we also know will be a really powerful PS2, but even more powerful than a PS3 and still more powerful than a PS4! And it will probably also have recycled milk bottle plastic, a poor cooling solution, and iffy contact switches in a questionably shaped box. It just wouldn't be a Playstation, otherwise
@Cobalt I'm surprised at your top 10 list. Not at all like I expected. Your posting normally comes across as a PS superfan I definitely didn't expect all those retro consoles at the top of the list!
Since we're doing top 10's:
#1 Switch (I do wish it were more powerful but otherwise it's my dream in the 80s become reality. If I could add an external HDD for when it's docked it would be perfect, even with current power. )
#2 3DS (I loved the 3D and what it did for small screens, and I have so many great memories of so many great games on it. It was a lot more played than my PS4 and WiiU and Vita. Combined. )
#3 SNES (I never thought it could be topped, ever. But 3DS and Switch managed to do just that.)
#4 X1X (I laughed and pointed at XBone for years. Then suddenly it became really cool and I found myself rebuying games I had on PS4 for it and moving my library over. It won me over and finally lives up to it's Sega lineage.)
#5 WiiU (Poor WiiU. I loved it, so many good times and so much fun with the games it had. if it didn't have Splatoon, my opinion of it may have differed. It still got more use than PS4 during it's lifetime....)
#6 PS4 (It may have been surpassed, but it's still an amazing console with amazing exclusives, affordable(?) VR, and a fair collection of the classics from prior PS eras. It's not as "my whole library in one place" as X1 is these days, but what it has is still a dream compared to 7th gen.)
#7 NES (It has not aged well. At all. But it's role and importance in my gaming history can't be understated. It belongs to it's time, and that can't be changed, but it was a revolution and an unforgettable decade that shaped everything after.)
#8 Genesis/Mega Drive (I spent too much time with that unloved box. Sonic. It was the last console Sonic was good. This deserves a special place. )
#9 Vita (I loved that machine in many ways...so sad it had so little.)
#10 That's a hard one. Not PS3, PS3 was a dog. Other than R&C and Sly, and even uncharted I can't even name a good thing that happened on that box. I never had a PS1 or PS2 in their heyday, I was all Nintendo/Sega at the time. I caught up on them later on, and while have extremely fond gaming memories of those games, it occurred to me that I'm more a Square-Enix fan than a PS1/2 fan. Everything I associate with those machines is really S-E. Not sure X360 fits either. It was great for what it was, great memories, it was better than PS3 for anything not exclusive. But it wasn't amazing. GB was great in its day but hard to be a top pick. Might be a toss up between Wii (largely because of GCN back compat) and PSP......
1) Nintendo 3DS (Has my favorite collection of first-party Nintendo titles, extremely robust support from Atlus, numerous hidden gems, the amazing stereoscopic 3D effect, and enough processing power to give handheld games the needed 'oomph!' to be truly impressive experiences. I probably bought three of these things since 2011, and my family has owned pretty much every hardware variation at one time or another.)
2) Playstation (The best single system JRPG library ever. Also filled with innumerable classics and hidden gems. And the DualShock compatible games were a true revelation when they first released, especially Ape Escape!)
3) Playstation 2 (A tad overrated, but still a great system with possibly the best line-up of survival horror games on any one system. Also great support from Atlus and NIS. Most of the JRPG support for this system is pretty good as well, although I feel like Final Fantasy X is when the series really started to lose its mojo. It experienced a slight up-turn with the very fun Final Fantasy XII before crashing into the shadowy depths next-gen with the execrable Final Fantasy XIII. Well, anyway, it was a pretty great system, and the backwards compatibility with the PS1 made it even better)
4) Nintendo Switch (The coolest gaming hardware ever, in my opinion. Playing the ambitious Breath of the Wild on the tablet when I first got the system was one of the neatest gaming experiences I've ever had, and I continue to be impressed by the flexibility of the hardware, and the quality of many of its launch year games. It's still early in the system's life, so this might go up or down for me depending on how well Nintendo supports it.)
5) Playstation Vita (Vita means life, and this system was the ultimate survivor. After having been cast over a cliff by its cruel mother, Sony, for having failed to live up to sky-high family expectations, it did the impossible and kept on trying to climb back up that cliff, one breast-expansion JRPG and visual novel at a time. I kid, but it ended up having a seriously weird library. Yet it also introduced me to several of my all-time favorite franchises. The hardware was amazing for the time, with games like Gravity Rush blowing 3DS games out of the water technically. And the little thing has just held up really well. I've owned it for, like, five years now, and it's doing just fine. Most robust little handheld I've owned since the original gray brick from Nintendo.)
6) Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES (I might seem pretty tired of most of this system's games, and I kind of am, but that's only after playing them for two and a half decades. The library is massive. So many great franchises started here. While I'm not fond of the original VCR-like design and boxy controller, I've always loved the late-life top-loading revision and its super-comfy "dog-bone" controller. It's also the system that saved the home console market. All-in-all, just a legendary piece of hardware, and one I still own, like 50+ games for if you combine my actual cartridges and VC downloads)
7) Super Nintendo Entertainment System (While I'm not as in love with many of the big games on this system as a lot of other people are, it's an undeniably high-quality system that hosted dozens of fantastic games over the years. I actually didn't get to play on one of these until the mid 2010's, so my experience with its games has more often been on other systems, but I can't deny how great a lot of these games are. It also has an extremely comfortable controller, which inspired the amazing controller re-design for the NES)
8) Sega Genesis (Sega's best console, by far, and one that arguably has a larger library of high-quality experiences than the SNES, although I do prefer the SNES' big games, and I was never a huge fan of Sega's controller design. Countless fun games that went under the radar, though. Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday? Road Rash 2? World of Illusion? Splatterhouse 3? Zero Tolerance? I could go on and on.)
9) Game Boy Advance (Probably the second best portable library from Nintendo after the 3DS, which is amazing considering how briefly it was fully-supported on the market before the Nintendo DS stormed out and stole its thunder. Every model has inferior hardware, though. Original model isn't backlit. The SP redesign doesn't have a headphone jack, and many of them have dimmer backlights. The Micro is... well... tiny. Its games are best played on the superior Nintendo DS hardware)
10) Game Boy/Game Boy Color (Tons of great games on these systems... but I prefer playing them on pretty much anything else. The hard truth is that these things have always been hard to play anywhere other than in direct sunlight. Remember those insane add-ons you could get with the magnifying class and the light to make it playable inside? They were OK enough when we didn't know any better, but I find them almost impossible to use these days, so spoiled am I by Switches and Vitas and 3DSes.)
I love all my consoles to some degree, though. The Wii U is fun enough and hosted some great games (not to mention full backwards compatibility with the original Wii). The PS4 has a lot of great games on it, and the best version of the DualShock controller. The GameCube has a comfy controller and a handful of amazing games. The N64 has Star Fox 64 and Majora's Mask. Even the Xbox 360 was pretty cool, and has some great Japanese support.
@NEStalgia You say that, but Nintendo has a habit of throwing curveballs when everyone expects a fastball. The Switch being what everyone expected it to be, even before the patent leaks, is anomalous.
With that said, I'm glad they decided to stop chasing butterflies for once and actually iterated on the failed Wii U concept in an interesting and innovative way that proved commercially desirable.
@Ralizah If Vita were a character, it would be Jin Kazama.....
Also, yeah, they're robust. Mine fell off a table (thanks to Sony's poorly designed cradle dock that flips over if the cord is as much as tapped......) hit another table, and then on the floor. There's a tiny chip out of the acrylic screen material at the bezel....and nothing worse than that. Switch and 3DS are also robust however.
NES: You go wash your mouth out right now! The VCR toaster is iconic. The brick controllers are iconic. Screw the top loader Famicom wannabe and curvy "space age" controls. Nobody remembers they existed because they shouldn't have. gently strokes yellowed toaster slot NES....."it's ok, they can't hurt you..."
SNES would lose a lot of appeal if you didn't play it until the WiiU era. The game design back then still doesn't always age well. Even ALttP, my favorite Zelda for ages lost something re-playing it years later on WiiU. I'm proud to say ALBW has replaced it as my favorite Zelda. All the good parts but with modernizing the bad parts.
GB: ohhh boy I had the magnifier, the light add-on. It all seemed like I was some super spy or something setting that stuff up every time I wanted to play Pipe Dream.
Sadly the biggest thing that hurts the PS4 is the PS3. That dreadful box broke backward compatibility, while the 4 doesn't offer anything the way Switch does to make it exceptional. I think X1 really pulls ahead with it's library finally coming together all on one machine while Sony's stuck on PS4 with the awkward "it only plays PS1 and PS2 games, if you subscribe to Now, or re-buy select games as classics, but you can only play PS3 games streamed on Now for a monthly fee" versus "just play the majority of your games." PS3 killed PS3, and harms PS4 (not in sales, obviously ). I think they can finally move beyond that with PS5 but I'm not confident they'll utilize that, instead locking the PS3 games behind subscriptions and repurchases still since they now know that's lucrative. If it was full BC with PS1, 2, and 3, I wouldn't own an XBox and PS4 would be in like #3 slot behind Switch and 3DS. Even PS5 I doubt will offer that. And now that X did it, I'm locked into their ecosystem for my 250 game library.
Nintendo may throw curveballs, but after 30 years of their systems, NX was impossible to curve. It was both inevitable and necessary. Normally you don't know what way they'll go, but in this case, there was nothing else it really could have been. They had to fix the split market they've had since 1989, and there was only one way to do it. And it didn't hurt that the prior system itself was a huge hint.
I'm still convinced WiiU was more or less launched knowing it was going to fail as a stopgap and beta for Switch. They didn't support it from day 1, and nobody but Iwata seemed to care about WiiU. Not even Miyamoto who's usually all-in on the gimmicks.
1) 3DS. This thing seriously rocks. Virtual Console up to GBC, DS backwards compatibility, and a slew of 3DS games that are among my favorites ever? Yeah, this system kicked ass.
2) SNES. Also holds a lot of my favorite games like Super Metroid and Super Mario World.
3) PC. Ubiquitous in its library, it technically should be #1 since it can emulate everything, but it has all the best vereions third-party games at 60/144fps, an extreme degree of customization, and just the feeling of being superior to everyone else. :^]
4) Wii. I actually really loved the Wii. There were a ton of hidden gems like Sin & Punishment: Star Successor, it has my favorite Mario game of all time, Galaxy, it and it was overall a really fun console.
5) GBA. This was the first system that REALLY kickstarted me into gaming. Pokemon, Metroid, Mario 3, Aria of Sorrow, and so many other games that I simply adore.
6) PS1. Lots of great games, but I only really recently went to this console. Still, I love Symphony of the Night and Xenogears (although Xenogears has aged really poorly so just watch the cutscenes).
That's all I can think of, on mobile atm so typing sucks ass lol. But yeah, those are all the systems I really enjoyed on top of my head.
Switch and PS4 for me are way too early to judge so I'll hold off on them until they die. But PS4 ain't that great for me since it's pretty much just a Bloodborne box atm, while Switch might potentially be at #2 by the end. Or even #1? Who knows.
@NEStalgia 3DS is... I mean, it's OK in terms of toughness. Mine have weathered some nasty drops well enough. The shoulder buttons were prone to jamming on the original model, though. At least they sorted out the issue with the hinges on DS Lite, though. That thing's hinges would break just by looking at it the wrong way.
The Switch tablet is certainly tough. I'm not going to test those joycon rails, though...
Yeah, the original NES console and controller design are iconic. They also suck. I ditched my VCR long ago in favor of the top loader. Although I had a heck of a time finding one for a decent price, as they're a bit harder to find these days.
SNES is a great console, but yeah, I'm sure I would have had a lot more love for it had I grown up with it. As it stands, I love a lot of its games, but I played almost all of them on different consoles (GBA, 3DS, Wii U, etc.) The games have mostly aged extremely well. Although I'll never understand the love for Mario World. It has few power-ups, weird music, and introduced ghost mansions, which have always annoyed me. Still better than Mario 64, though, as it's at least not physically painful to look at like that unfortunate game.
I never owned a PS3, so the lack of backwards compatibility with PS4 doesn't bother me too much. PS4 is a great console. I'm just not hugely in love with its mostly Western crop of exclusive games.
I actually have a platform that allows me to plays games I've bought going back generations. It's called the PC. I've run into compatibility issues with a few games, but nothing too drastic, and nothing that doesn't have fairly simple workarounds. Although I suppose a Windows-powered PC technically counts as a Microsoft platform?
Nintendo didn't count on Wii U failing. It didn't launch with a ton of support out of the gate because Nintendo was still riding the high of the Wii era and thought something with the Wii name would sell itself. These companies get greedy, lazy, and stupid when they reap massive success. Which makes me wonder about how Sony is going to handle the launch of the PS5.
Mine would be something like:
1) Switch
2) Xbox 360
3) Xbox One
4) 3DS
5) Wii U
6) GCN
7) GBA
8) DS
9) Wii
10) GBC
Xbox One is a weird one, used to be a complete garbage heap but has grown into quite the impressive platform. Shame its 1st party output is so limited such that "big announcements" nowadays means "we bought some studios" or "here's new games for Xbox Game Pass" though.
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