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Persona 5: Sparks of Hope?

I think that vague directions for quest is actually what makes old jrpg what they are. There's nothing wrong with that, unless you rely on quality of life changes we got over the years. Personally I find that it made it so easy, exploring isn't even encouraged any more. People has been spoiled by new generation games, like auto battle =].

@raradford Your'e so lucky... I was in the waiting room until the moment it took me to a gray button....

@raradford Wow, I haven't even sleep cuz they wouldn't let us know the time frame. This is ridiculous.

GG.... I saw the item in the cart before now I open another page on their home page and it doesn't say the 1 on the cart no more... what is this madness?!

I've been in the wait room for almost 2 hours now... and still looking at the same message...

@Bretlfcampbell same with me lol... I don't think they've learned their lesson from last time... They really gotta find a way to stop bots tbh

@SnackPop same here... very disappointing... now it shows whoops page

@NullPointerExcep You consider a slot machine simulator a AAA game?

Hey maybe they're just buying advertisement with court fees

@SwitchForce what do you mean up for debate?... I'm not even talking about joycons..

@nintendork64 of course it drifts. How else did it drift out of the court room and into the toilet for a good flush?

I think in one of the Pokedex in the previous games, it says it's tail often breaks off without harm and regenerates it afterwards.

I like how in every news article when it's about sexy girls, all these people just comes out to try and justify the double standards. I like how girls with big boob is consider a big problem, it "sexualise" girls and everything. No girls with big boobs doesn't have to be compare girls with their want flapping around because that is not what people find hot. If you guys have to compare I think guys in tight tank top with muscles blowing out of the shirt or top naked massively muscular men is comparable. Can't believe this isn't even brought up with all these talks about women bring sex objects in games. We fantasis about sexy girls just as much as girls fantasis their skinny nerd boyfriend can one day become let say ... Jin from tekken who's like almost always half naked. People always argue that women in games does not reflect what women is like in real life but I think I can say the same for guys. I don't see your average men going down the screen half naked and massively muscular, beating down bad guys and destroying cars. Everything in games are suppose to be like art works, every piece reflects on what the artist is like. It's unreal and it's a fantasy of the developers, if you can't even express your desires and dreams via unrealistic games then I have no idea what has this world have become.

I don't understand some of these arguments... I mean I think by design this game was suppose to be for Japanese player base. Can you guys just appreciate and enjoy games made for and by another country instead of criticising their culture? Pretty much targets people that likes jump mangas, their motto is clearly "friendship, effort, and victory". Majority of the characters are pretty sexy including male characters. I don't think I've ever seen a hard fight that goku had that he wasn't half naked.I don't see you guys complaining about Zeke always showing his packs or Rex showing his butt all the time. So much double standard floating around. Also with the comment on how pyras outfit does not match, her character name is Fire literally. She is passionate and gentle like gentle flames from candles, but also represented by the color red. Red associates with passion, love, desire, sex and power. I think the outfit reflects what she means quite well, just because she's gentle and passionate doesn't mean she can't represent a burning flame(gentle) flame.

@Pod I don't really recall this type of fan service being a disservice to "fans" to everyone. Same goes to "Mature Content" as you quoted may seem immature to you but it's also only what you think of it. I'm just trying to say everyone has different opinion to these things, I for one won't deny that I love these kind of eye candy. It's really nothing to be ashamed of to like sexual content, it's just features that attracts attentions to some people out there regardless of genders. Just the matter of how you see things in life. I'm sure a lot of girls also enjoy manly looking characters (doesn't have to be a muscular guy) in games, we just look for different features and judge everything differently.

Like how I usually think that the way political games are being played out by many politicians are very immature and selfish, but some people would think these are mature actions that was thoroughly thought out.

Master Chief in Smash 5?

It's expected really, just wait for Monster Hunter World G or Monster Hunter World Ultimate as always. Adapted to the hardware is kind of bs nowadays as the Xbox and PS4 are running on PC architectures and it's known to be easy to port things from PC to the Switch. This is just Crapcom at its finest waiting for the right moment to milk another version of monster hunter.

@In_Ex_Fan yea but then now I have to share it with my wife. GG4life

@SanderEvers I think that is by far the smartest thing MS has done lately. Why compete with the king of the turf when you can reap benefits from them at a much lower cost. Sony tried to be the Jack of all trade with the Vita but they realise that they will have become the Master of none like what happened to Xbox one when they introduced their exclusive games available on both Windows and Xbox. Screw them over big time as general public will have a PC already and is less likely to invest into their platform unless necessary. So I suppose they now learned their lesson and just reap the benefits from Nintendo as they would've needed to invest billions before they could have potentially release a handheld of their own. At that point they are still over 50/50 on the successful of their product. The risk and gain is not balanced enough to make it worth.

@duffmmann @tanookisuit I think he probably does? I mean he can get on this site and post comments after all...

@Sean161 Didn't want to burst your bubble but if you were not aware. Unlike in North America where you simply walk into a GameStop or ebgames in Japan you need to line up for hours just to get a console pre ordered. Even then you were not guaranteed to get your hands on one if you line up for pre ordering. If you follow some of the Reddit post during that time, people over there was saying the queue in line for pre ordering is 15+ hours.

@S20TEW I haven't had any problem with connection, but it's been at two bar instead of three. I haven't look when I'm next to my router but ive heard ppl complaining about that.

I think if I was to develop a game, I would rather develop my game on a lower spec system comparing to the retail version. It makes more sense so I would know my game will guarantee to run as expected.

@PlywoodStick totally understand what you mean. I felt the same way when I had to pay for my xbox live gold and ps plus =[. I grew up playing the famicom so I guess i am going to be a little bia, I feel like it's ok to contribute something back to Nintendo after they gave me such an awesome childhood. Plus the subscription is like less than half of psplus so I don't really mind. Personally I would rather contribute in a different way, as I am actually a developer just not for games. So I would like to one day create some awesome games for the Nintendo community to show my support. I like Sony also but it's just not the same. While I don't dislike Microsoft I am just not a big fan of shooter, motion sickness

@PlywoodStick you might think it's a good comparison with technology from then to now. The amount of information passed along through the internet is just not comparable from the past till now, and you are talking about resident evil outbreak where there will only be 4 player in a room max at any given time, so was monster hunter as I was playing those online during that time. Basically any of these titles has their own servers running at the back with individual user account for each one of those. Thus the server and bandwidth required on the server is limited as each server can only hold I think few hundred player at once. Hence it can keep the cost lower, comparing to everything nowadays related to internet service cost more then ever which also factors into the cost of online services.

At the time when ps2 had some online games it was actually quite a hassle to get online especially when router and Ethernet cable during that time was not a common house hold product. You needed to buy a network adaptor and a harddrive that was compatible with the ps2, which cost a lot. When you are a game company you will think twice before charging for the online play as the population wasn't huge for their individual game to begin with. The increasing cost of maintaining old servers and the amount of work required also with the low amount of player on those server was the reason why it had to be shut down later on. In today's world a lot of ppl in the world is connected to the I internet thus higher traffic and games today uses a lot more bandwidth. When you need to host a server you need money for internet connection... Back up internet connection.... A lot of New hardware... Spare parts for maintenance.... Support team... Electricity... Backup electricity... Network security team... And the population online has since then skyrocketed. Also everything else in the world nowadays gets more and more expensive due to inflation, especially the manpower required for development and maintenance work. Back then there wasn't as much servers, not much worry with network security at that point... And not to mention it didn't require a whole team of people maintain just the security portion. Hardware and software was no where as sophisticated and complex as today's, sometimes one small section of the whole infrastructure requires a whole team of people to operate.

With the increasing cost of online server for gaming, this is why companies started doing more p2p with dedicated servers playing the role of a hub. Another reason for that is because of how much more advance internet has became comparing to back when outbreak came out when cable internet was just introduced. Fun Fact: Some ps2 games allowed dial up.

I can see why Nintendo online gaming experience was not great as it was free. But when the world is moving towards always being connected it is increasingly hard to stay out of touch with internet technology, which is the reason why they partnered with DeNa for mobile games and online services. With that partnership they still need to invest into better hardwares, connections, and workers to provide better service. This is why I would think they would need subscription fee to earned what was Invested back. Though I would note that all company is out for profit which even when they break even they will not stop asking for a fee. Probably they will like now still be very reasonable with their fee.

@Yorumi Normally I just read the comments, but reading all your uneducated comments got me to made an account to respond to your comments.

You keep mentioning p2p is used in so and so AAA title so why should we pay for online service and etc. Then you mention about how accounts are in a database just like the website like amazon and other retailer. You might not realize this but everything on the web is hosted on way or another, Amazon's website and your so call database is on their server farms for example. These all cost money for upkeep, and if you use some common sense you then realize that amazon gets their customer to pay for their servers also. It might not look like a but they actually charge a premium for their servers such as costing $0.99 + %fee on top per item sold or maybe you should look at Amazon prime for sec. With that said everything on the web requires a host from either a server or your own computer.

As for the AAA titles that has p2p, I don't think you know what you are talking about. Games with dedicated servers sure cost more than p2p, but what p2p is actually a method to cut cost comparing to using full dedicated servers. I say this because you won't have match making or friend list or even voice chat if you don't have a dedicated server behind supporting these so call p2p connections on big titles. I work in the I.T. field and I can tell you it cost thousands for companies to keep their data center up and running.

As for the comment about the online store, it works just like any other retailer as they do get money for their servers. You might not notice the fee but they most likely get a cut from the profit from the other publisher just for per sale.

I realize you have your own opinion but I just can't stand people ranting about something they are not even fimilar with.