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With PS5/XSX Gen - the main difference that came was choice. Almost all games had a choice - you either play at 30 fps with full eye candy (still lesser than high end PCs) or 60 fps smooth gameplay with less graphics (some games even giving 120 fps with even lesser graphics) This was the only major change in this gen. RTX alone is not worth a new gen and graphics change from PS4 to PS5 gen is not drastic. Remove the 60 fps option and suddenly this gen seems not that worth it! So people are giving a lot of importance to 60 fps mode

Wonder when we'll get to see Godzilla Minus One! That movie has huge ratings (8.3 IMDB/98% RT), but neither did it release in theaters nor is it in OTT or anywhere else! I was really excited for it!

For Bioware, their support of Trans and LGBT rights is not new and it has been their view long before the Pride Movement even started. Even way back as Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age Inquisition they supported Trans and LGBT rights from what I remember. For them, I think this is not a checklist but their genuine opinion.

Not that surprised. It came to PS5 after such a long gap - they would have worked on and improved it. I'm sure these improvements will be patched into XSX and PC versions soon too! For this to happen - MS should actively manage and bring out the best in their studios. They are not able to do that!

That is exactly the point I was making! They were Premium before MS acquisition, had serious talent and were competing with Larian for best RPG Developer Category. If MS used them efficiently - they would have some of the best RPGs in the market exclusive to their platform, capable of 909 Meta with proper management and funding. There would have been no need to acquire Bethesda for Elder Scrolls too. But now - even Bethesda is doing poorly under MS (BGS was doing poorly even before, but now even Arkane etc. have joined that pile)!

For some reason - MS isn't able to get their studios to give their best. Something which Nintendo and Sony are able to do really well. MS has some really premium devs under their belt - and didn't even need Bethesda and Activision to give Sony a run for their money. Obsidian is such a premium developer. They were competing with Larian - when they were developing via Kickstarter. They made gems like Pillars of Eternity and Outer Worlds. When MS took over - they were stuck making a Video Game Version of "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" and no CRPGs at all - which was their forte. No idea what the rest of the 2018 acquired companies are even doing. For the new "Big" acquisitions - Arkane went from Dishonored to Redfall under MS's watch. No new Wolf or Doom games announced. Nothing from Activision on Gamepass too (Ideally COD and WoW should be on GP Day 1) Even their In-house studios used to be Halo/Forza/Gears/Fable. Then it became Halo/Forza/Gears. Then Halo/Forza. Now only Forza remains as no new Halo after Infinite. Only their Age of Empires Games on PC is doing really well and receiving proper support.

If this is the case - then I think they'll schedule the BB Remake for PS6 launch, just like they did DeS Remake for PS5 launch. After all, they'll need at least 1 game that's Next Gen only once it launches!

What will just stores coming to XSX/XSS do? The same games available on those stores are already available on Xbox (Minus the legions of Steam RPGMaker and other extremely small indies no one ever hears of but keep coming)! These PC stores coming on Xbox (Will mostly be on next Xbox, not Series Consoles) means they're going open source, 3rd party and abandoning their game selling store front (Not GamePass) GamePass will live and come to other platforms too I think! After so many acquisitions and spending, no way will shareholders allow GamePass to go away. Even Satya Nadella won't be able to make that happen I think! It'll come to Nintendo (Most games via Nintendo Cloud/Streaming) and Sony too (Mostly it'll not come directly, but I think they'll make a deal where they put their games on PS+ in exchange for fees/commission I think). I think, after all this, the day GamePass dies is the day MS gets out of the Video Game Industry altogether - which will not happen.

They've not been able to give news of next DA yet properly! Why jump to next ME so soon?

I'm playing mage. Will change/upgrade to Sorcerer soon (It's not a spoiler - 2 vocations are locked until you reach the very first city and do 1 quest - Sorcerer for Mages and Warrior for Fighters)! Mage is a DPS/Support class combo - can dish decent damage, but needs time to incant spells, can heal yourself and your pawns and can buff yourself and your pawns. But looking at Sorcerer - it's just crazy. There's very less support options but the spells they can do and damage seems to be epic!! Look at the vocation spotlight trailers Capcom released on YT once if you want to! Highlights the abilities of each class in a really nice way!!

No, FF games are not related unless they are specifically mentioned as part 2 of a game. For example, FF8 or FF16 is not related to FF7 at all, but you have FF7 - Part 2 (FF7 Rebirth) which is related and a pure sequel to FF7 Remake. Same way - FF11 is not related to FF10, but FF10-2 is a sequel to FF10 etc. You can easily play FF16 after this game. Story will not be related at all. There are only some small things (Easter Eggs) that are there across all FFs - but even they are not related. For example - there will always be a character called Cid in every FF game. But the Cid of every FF games are completely different people unrelated to each other, there will be chocobos etc.

The PS+ Extra version is FF7 Remake: Intergrade (Check that you're downloading the PS5 version only. They also have the normal PS4 version on there! The Intergrade PS5 version has performance improvements, resolution improvements etc.). But I'm not sure if the Intermission Story DLC is included in that. You'll have to download and check. Anyways that DLC is to be played only after the base game is done. So if it's not included and you like the game, you can buy just the DLC after you finish the game I guess.

You'll miss out on the story though - if you play Rebirth before Remake. The story is a huge part of all FF series. Playing the OG FF7 is not good enough for you to dive directly into Rebirth too. And the Remake summary sequence they added in Rebirth is poor. It does a very bad job of telling the story and captures none of the emotions of Remake's story at all. It's decent as a memory refresher if you've already played Remake some years ago, just to brush up on the story. It's not good at all for a new player to directly skip Remake and jump into Rebirth. Not to mention - it tells nothing of Intermission's story which is very important too.

It can't even be called a proper remake. It's a very innovative concept actually. If you've played the old FF7 you'll notice something is wrong through-out the game, until you find out more about it (Won't say more for spoilers). But suffice to say - FF7 Remake is a full-length game. It will take you as much time to complete as a full game (Including the story), so SE is not actually cheating players or anything. Also, Part 2 (Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth) is not the end of the FF7 saga. There will be a Part 3 some time in the future as well (Already announced - Some time in 2026 or 2027 release is my guess). Don't try to binge these games btw. They're full length AAA JRPGs and you'll get burnt out. If you're starting Part 1 - I would say play it, then wait for a bit (Some other games in interim) and then go for Part 2. Part 1 (FF7: Remake, especially the Intergrade version with Intermission DLC) is an amazing game and deserves to be played. It deserves it's 89 meta. But whatever you do - don't play Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth before you've played Final Fantasy 7: Remake Intergrade and it's Intermission DLC.

Movie is almost 3 hours long! 2nd viewing will not have as huge an impact as the first! I would say wait and watch on IMAX. 2nd viewing can be on normal/OTT/Blu-Ray depending on how much you liked the movie. As a bonus - waiting for a couple of days might also reduce the price of tickets!!

Just looking at 80 and 80+ meta exclusives from January to April 2024, we have - 1) Granblue Fantasy: Relink 2) Helldivers 2 3) Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth 4) Rise of Ronin 5) Stellar Blade That's 5 exclusives that are 80 and above (Or will get 80 and above) in just the first 4 months of 2024. Then there are the multiplats which are also very good and MS hand-outs! There will be more announcements and releases during E3 time (June) and during the rest of the year too! Why will anyone say that there is nothing to play on PS5 in 2024 based on some internal memo leak tweet? There's too much in fact!!

No not really! It's a very good console, but if you're looking at the absolute best in history - that influenced almost all gaming to this day - then you're looking at the SNES or the PS2. Almost every genre started in these 2 consoles and are continuing to this day.

New Nintendo Direct confirmed for Feb 21, 2024 6 am PT (Appx. 7:30 pm IST I think). This will be 25 minutes long and will focus on games releasing on 1st half of 2024. It's a partner showcase so it'll mostly focus on 3rd party games coming to the Switch. There will also be a Pokemon Showcase on 27th Feb, 2024 at 6 am PT (appx. 7:30 pm IST I think) on Pokemon Day (The day Gen 1 Pokemon Games first released back in 1996) So 2 directs this week! Hopefully it'll have good announcements!

It might - but 8-10 years is a long time with a lot of variables to predict I feel. By being a pioneer - MS has also elected to be a beta tester for Cloud. The other Beta Testers (Google, Amazon and Nvidia) are not doing too well - and Google is looking to exit (or has exited already). New tech might also come which cannot be replicated by Cloud. It's far too early to say anything I think about 2 gens down the line future!!

For this to happen - Cloud Tech will have to improve by leaps and bounds first. Sony cannot go Cloud any time soon because they have no infrastructure. Sony has major sales in Rest of World Countries (Outside US and mainline Western EU Countries like UK) They will have to give up all those markets because they have no Cloud Infrastructure over there (Why we in India and so many countries get PS+ Deluxe instead of PS+ Premium which can support Cloud based PS3 games). MS can though - they are one of the pioneers and have huge investments in Azure. Their XBox sales are also not that high in ROW Countries. So full Cloud Future for Sony is still a long time away. This is just my opinion though! I could be completely wrong!

If any of this is true - then I think it's in line with what I expected. As far as I'm aware - investors were sold on the idea of GamePass and MS allowed the backdoor cheap entry unofficially based on the pitch of "GamePass will be the Netflix of Games". This was possible with Satya Nadella's push for cloud. The only way to become a "Netflix" of anything - is to be on as many platforms as possible. So they coasted this gen with cheap GP and 3rd party deals while they built up their portfolio with 1st party acquisitions. After ABK it's become clear that MS will not be able to buy anything for a while. So now they'll slowly move away from pure Xbox I guess. They might go OEM way. They might even make deals with Sony and Nintendo to allow GP on their system comprising of 1st party games. I'm sure Sony and Nintendo will be happy -since MS first party now includes Bethesda and even Activision (Switch getting only low HW requiring games for now). Once their cloud tech is complete - you might even see full games on mobile. That's the only way I see any of this making sense.

Konami released a game (Tech Demo) like P.T. for free yesterday after SOP - only on PS5 (No release on last gen like PS4). It's an almost 2.5 hour game. I would suggest downloading and keeping it in case Konami repeats the P.T. experience and removes the game with no option to re-download it back.

No - they didn't show DD2 as an exclusive. In Company specific shows - the tag at the end only shows that specific company. For example - Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth and Persona 3 Reload only had Xbox, Gamepass and PC Tags in the Xbox showcase - despite being multi-platform from Day 1. This is because it's their show and they operate only on those platforms. Nintendo Directs are also the same as are Sony State of Plays. It's an industry standard at this point. You will only know a game is multi-platform after the show from 3rd party interviews. Sony generally tends to write - "Only on Playstation" if it's exclusive- something they didn't for DD2 Anyway it was a very good show. We have a lot of games announced from today to April. Rise of Ronin looks too good. Surprise drop of a Silent Hill Tech demo game. DS2 looks awesome! Overall a very good show!!

Never heard of that store - but 300-500 Rs less and delivery after almost 15 -20 days! Seems a little suspicious and maybe or maybe not worth it

While locking NG+ behind DLC and not giving regional prices on digital version is bad (Seriously digital version is 4400 Rs while the freaking MRP on the physical version is 4000 Rs and you can even get it for like 3800 Rs too) - the amount of content this game offers is just mind blowing! Seriously they have a full scale Animal Crossing type game, a modern re-imagining of Crazy Taxi, A Pokemon Parody game in addition to all the usual mini-games from other Yakuza titles and an almost 50 hours of just the main story (excluding sub-stories, side quests etc. as per game rant)! It's a strange paradox - game puts normal thing behind paywall, and which would lead any other developer to be accused of nickel and diming - but here the base game itself has too much content!