Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

Look, the indie game that created by Indonesia developer from Bandung now has Japanese version on PS4, published by FuRyu.

https://www.play-asia.com/ghost-parade/13/70dn71

I'm so proud as Indonesian people to see games from Indonesia got localized on Japan. 😃 🇮🇩
Also, the ghosts from that game was actually adapted from Indonesia's supernatural creatures such as Kuntilanak (Banshee), Tuyul, Pocong (Hopping Deadbody), Genderuwa, etc.

Oh, wait..
WHAAAAA....??!! 😲😲😲

https://www.play-asia.com/my-universe-fashion-boutique/13/70d...

YAAAY...!!! 😃😃😃
Games like Imagine series is back on consoles (PS4 and Switch) despite being created by different developers. 😁
I knew it, My Universe will be Next Imagine series / Let's Play series from NDS era.

@jump In fairness, I do think that the MCU's moment of glory is over. The infinity arc has finished, and I don't think the current crop of heroes they're planning to focus on will draw people into the cinema the same way that Captain America and RDJ's Iron Man did (assuming there actually ever is a 'back to the cinema' for us; 2020 feels like it has become my entire life, ugh).

They're Disney movies, so they'll still do well, but I don't expect the new decade to be filled with the same Marvel Mania that defined the cinemas in the 2010s.

Yep, I've never heard of any of them, except She-hulk just being a female version of hulk.

But I refuse to ever watch or read anything based on gender swapped characters on sheer principle, as it's the dumbest idea in the world, and just an admission that you lack any ability to create new original characters.

It would be equally stupid if they did it for male characters too. They just don't seem to ever do that. No-one's seriously suggested we need Billy the Vampire Slayer, thank god.

@Dezzy Yeah, name aside She-Hulk isn't actually a genderswapped Hulk. She's his cousin with semi-similar powers. She's far more of a legacy character than a genderswap, having inherited her powers from a lifesaving blood transfusion between them. Very different personality, adventures (she's permanently green and muscled up, but retains her intelligence. She's also a lawyer, and long time member of the Fantastic Four). Don't judge her by the terrible name choice. And it's not like there aren't male legacy characters who are popular too.

But in principle, I definitely agree with you.

@Ralizah I disagree, Black Panther and Captain Marvel were MASSIVE and they still have the X-Men to introduce yet. X-Men has traditionally been the biggest selling comic there is and Marvel Studios have turned far lesser properties into blockbusters. As popular as the X-Men movies were there was more poor films than good ones and didn’t make use of the characters they had.

People said the same thing when Avengers came out and said it couldn’t be topped but then Infinity War and Endgame came out. The Avengers themselves are being kept as event movies and will whip up huge buzz on release.

@Dezzy She-Hulk isn’t a gender swapped Hulk, she a character in her own right. The same way Robin is different to Batman. One of my favourites storylines is about her career as a lawyer which is a story Hulk couldn’t do as their history are different.

@jump

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I still consider that a gender swap. Same name and same powers, right? That's all I mean. I didn't necessarily mean they have to be the identical character.

Nah, similar but different. It’s like the difference between Super Mario Odyssey and Luigis Mansion where it all looks the same to be people who don’t know Mario.

I’d actually like to see people refuse to play Luigi on the same principles, it’s all an admission of lack of ideas etc.

@Ralizah What's a cinema? Is it that place they tried to turn into a restaurant so annoying people eat stinky food while you try to watch a movie, that's now irrlevant because both Comcast/Universal and Disney (and you KNOW Sony/Columbia is right behind) have decided to skip the theatrical screening period forever and go direct to streaming and digital?

Maybe they can make those spaces more nail salons, cell phone stores, and luxury high rise apartments like every other square foot of places people used to actually go!

@NEStalgia I rather like dine-in cinemas, personally, Mr. Grump.

I'm curious to see how their Mulan release strategy works out for them. I think, if that really succeeds, we could see a big VoD push from them going forward.

By the way, I just ordered Persona 5 Royal, and I bet I still get to it before you do.

@Ralizah That would be a shame, because I enjoy films a lot more on a big screen.

@Ralizah First the DS4. Now dine-in cinemas. I didn't realize you were one of those. I don't like your kind. Popcorn belongs in theaters, not food smells. I haven't gone to a theater since they converted them all to restaurants. How American. Why do dinner and a movie when you can do both at the same time - entertainment efficiency! Bite me. Why do I want to try to watch a movie in the middle of a restaurant? I might as well go to Applebees and watch Hulu on my Surface. It's basically the same experience.

But yeah, the theater is dead. At least the mainstream theater. The little niche indie arthouse theaters will live. Now that VoD is the norm, ticket sales will tank. AMC is blacklisting Comcast. And they already said they might not survive the year anyway. Of course, "American Movie Cinema", the biggest (dine in) theater chain in the US is really Wanda Group, 100% CCP owned.... so part of me is giddy while partly sad. When you're left rooting between China on one side and Disney/Comcast on the other side, everybody loses. It's like two sides of the same Yuan.

Haha, well, I beat you in PURCHASING P5R by a month or two! But yeah, I planned to start playing in November, but at my current rate I'll not even be half done DQXI by then. I haven't even picked which version of that to play, even though I'm done the demo on Switch. And then there's TCS3.

I did cave and buy FF7R and the DLC for KH3 (that I wish I had on XB but bought the whole KH collection on PS4 2 years ago) on the sale. I was going to get Nioh2 and round out the exclusives, as well, but ended up finding Yakuza remaster collection on sale and got that instead. Again a series I'd rather play on the XB controller, but who knows if the whole thing goes over there, but I already have most of the series on PS so I might as well just keep it there. OTOH Like a Dragon debuts on XB, so there's that.

Tsushima is still on my must-must-must have list, but I keep resisting "FOMO" and holding off. It seems dumb to pay full price for a Sony exclusive I'm not playing today. I know it'll be half price by November. At least 25% off by October.

@Ralizah glad im not the only one! Dine in theaters are terrific! Don't think I could go back to just a normal one (assuming we ever will be able to anyway lol )

We have an unfinished storage area in our basement that I've wanted to turn into a theater for years. Depending on how long this goes on I may be able to convince the boss lady to let me finally haha!

I'm not keen on eating a meal whilst at the cinema simply because me and my missus go to a pub or restaurant afterwards to talk about the film as we eat.

I am a fan cinemas where you can drink in though. There is/was one in London called Prince Charles Cinema that does all night movie marathons, the atmosphere was great, just full of fans laughing, drinking and having fun for 8 hours straight.

@redd214 It's fun, although, honestly, the big reason we go to the dine-in theater AMC theater near us is because they also have these very comfy recline-able seats. I hate normal theater seats now. And, of course, it's fun eating pretzels with cheese sauce during the movie.

@NEStalgia Popcorn is food. And theaters still routinely sell nachos, candy, and other high-calorie processed crap. It's a weird take to say: "This class of junk food is fine in theaters... but flatbread pizzas, pretzel bites, and other actual food that wasn't churned out of some processing plant in China? It ruins the experience."

I don't think chain theaters will die. Not right away, anyhow. It's too established an industry, and too much money is wrapped up in the traditional theater-going experience. We may or may not see a transition away from that model depending on how well VoD does for releases like Mulan.

Yeah, I waited until I could snag the Steelbook version at a discounted price, so I'm happy to lose the purchasing speed contest. The listing says brand new steelbook edition, which should mean it'll come with the PS4 theme as well, but we'll see. One less theme on my PS4 won't kill me.

And yeah, I've also been burned early in the gen for buying a Playstation 4 game early, so I've learned my lesson there. Sony-published games don't retain their value at all, so in a year GoT will be $20 or less in a sale. I snagged GoW and the complete edition of HZD for $10 a pop, too.

People can say what they want about Nintendo not dropping prices, but at least I don't feel like a sucker for buying in early, y'know? Of course, I'm happy to wait and buy Sony's big games for the price of a cheap indie.

@Ralizah I like it. I don't mind paying full price for a good game I know I'll enjoy. And when they lower the price, more people get a chance to play it as well. It also works the other way around, I can easily find cheap copies of games I passed up on when they first came out, but for a lower price I don't mind taking the risk.

@Octane True. In general, though, I buy the Switch games I'm excited about at launch anyway. If I'm passing on a Switch game, it's likely because I don't REALLY care about it, y'know?

I wait on Sony-published games and then, half the time, forget to buy them down the road anyway because I'm invested in some other new release.

I don't mind paying full retail if I know I didn't just pay a sucker's tax. A lot of niche publishers get even more hardcore with the incentives provided by their limited print runs: buy now for full price, or buy it down the road for 5x full price because there's so few copies floating around in the wild.

@Ralizah yeah we have an AMC about 5 mins away when we're taking the kids to a movie. When it's just my wife and I we usually go to Alamo Draft house. Food is fantastic and it's a great experience, well worth paying a bit more for!

Speaking of AMC, $0.15 tickets next week, you think it's worth the risk haha!

@redd214 -_- My 71 year old mother wants to go. Apparently they're taking measures to make the theater-going experience safe, but, as far as I'm concerned, the only safe option is not go out as much as possible.

@jump Yeah exactly. It always used to be eating out, before the movie, making an event of it...then go to the film. (Or vice versa as you do.) Consolidating all your fun into one combined event is a mess. And of course all the nearby eateries closed up after the theaters became eat-ins so it wasn't really even possible anymore. And people are rude...people with food and drink are food. Snaking and a paper cup are one thing. Dining in with trays and utensils like a coach flight to Peru....all for the low, low price of $30+...no thanks!

@Ralizah Snack foods are one thing. Popcorn grease all over everything was bad enough. All kinds of OTHER grease all over everything plus the lingering smells is another.

And you think those pizzas and pretzel bites weren't also cranked out of a factory in China? In a Chinese-owned theater? Want to be cut in on this bridge deal I've got going on in Brooklyn? It's a virtual steal, yes, yes.

I used to collect steel books but I've really gone all in on digital, and I was just reminded why as a pile of about 40 games fell atop me earlier today, and that's just a fraction of the library. Half of those were unopened PS4 titles that I already re-bought digitally....I should sell them and get $3. Anyone one Detroit in a sealed box willing to undercut Gamestops' horrid trade in prices?.

Yeah, I mean I wish Nintendo discounted, it feels wrong to pay more for 3 year old games than this past Christmas's blockbusters. But OTOH I don't know why Sony insists their megabudget games are worth less than the latest Shantae. I'm glad, but it's weird. I keep getting tempted to buy GoT just because I've wanted it so long.....which is ridiculous, it's so far down the backlog it's not even funny.

MM will be great for it's real price of $15 by June.

But it is odd how gaming is opting for "whale pricing" which I suspect is behind the PS5 era price push to $70. Sell it for $70, 80, 90 to the day one suckers, then cut it back to 50 within 3 months.