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On 7/5/2018 at 11:05 AM, SFLUFAN said:
Not yet, but he messages me EVERY. SINGLE. DAY on Steam.
You're the new Nintendo hotline.
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Always be careful about refurbished TVs. While some are in perfect condition, others may have cosmetic damage, dead pixels, burn-in, etc.
I have purchased a number of refurbished small appliances, but I wouldn't touch a refurbished TV.
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1 hour ago, crispy4000 said:
PS4 has had a stellar year so far. God of War, Detroit, Yakuza 6 and Shadow of the Colossus was a strong line-up of exclusives for the first half. A few 'console exclusives' as well, for whatever that's worth.
Consistently good cross-platform games don't hurt either.
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13 hours ago, GameDadGrant said:
Agreed. Though, Pokémon is a really big franchise. And Smash is pretty big, too. Guess we’ll see.
I’m a little surprised PS4 is still doing as well as it is. I don’t know what keeps driving it, but Sony better not let off the gas.
Good games coming out all the time?
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8 minutes ago, AndrewDean84 said:
I honestly think Japan will explode with Pokemon and Smash. And the rest of the world will follow.
I understand. It will be interesting to see if that is enough to shrink the sales gap in Europe between Switch and PS4.
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1 minute ago, AndrewDean84 said:
Maybe the PS4 has sold 18 more units a month consistently. I can see why the NPD would put the Switch on top and not any of the exclusive software. Smash won't have enough time, and Pokemon is technically two games.
I think worldwide, it's a given the Switch will sell more hardware.
18 units more would be inconsistent with the commentary they have given.
Why do you think it is a given that Switch will sell more worldwide?
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1 hour ago, crispy4000 said:
What's your source on this? I miss the time when NPD gave actual hardware numbers.As well, according to NPD, PS4 has been the top selling console every month since February.
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8 minutes ago, GameDadGrant said:
He’s just saying it will outsell it in 2018 alone. Not all years combined.
Yes. Given that Switch is behind PS4 YTD in 2018 already, and that he isn't predicting any Switch games to make the top 10. I thought it was a strange prediction.
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7 hours ago, crispy4000 said:
Kind of ballsy to predict that Smash or Pokemon won't make Top 10. There were 3 Switch games in the top 10 last year, even with Nintendo's digital sales excluded.
I thought it was more ballsy to predict that Switch would outsell PS4 in 2018.
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1 minute ago, Bjomesphat said:
It's definitely an adjustment going back. I will say, the Wii controls made it feel more modern as it didn't tie aiming to movement. So if you have a decent PC you might want to consider playing that version in Dolphin. Of course movement is still a tank.
I'd love to say that I will go back and give it a fair shake. However, given my Steam backlog, I probably will never get to it...
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Just now, skillzdadirecta said:
RE4 definitely revolutionized third person shooting in games. Gears of War drew directly from that game. we owe the over the shoulder camera view to RE4, although I'm sure some other game may have done that first.
Fortunately, most other games didn't adopt RE4's controls... They ruined the game for me.
I wish it was a game I could have loved.
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10 minutes ago, AndrewDean84 said:
I'm still waiting on a sale for the season pass before starting WD2. I snagged up the vanilla game on super cheap, maybe 6 months ago.
I didn't get the season pass on this one -- just the vanilla game. It has a little bit of a weak start, but I expect it to get better as I start to unlock the skill tree....
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10 minutes ago, Bjomesphat said:
But your argument is that as a whole, games get better with each gen?No. I don't think I have said anything about "games as a whole". I'm not sure I've thought about it enough to even have a point of view.
My point of view is that progressing technology is an enabler that has allowed devs to make even better games. As well, the "game-making craft" [for lack of a better term] has progressed, partially because developers have taken the learnings from other games and continue to improve upon them. The "best games" continue to get better. I continue to be "surprised and delighted" by the new experiences that the best game developers make.
However, bad games continue to be made. Bad decisions continue to be made by some developers. Shovelware continues to be made.
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Just now, Bjomesphat said:
So games aren't inherently getting better with each gen?
Not each and every one.
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3 minutes ago, Bjomesphat said:
So as a God of War fan, at the time, was GoWIII on PS3 better than GoWII on PS2?
No.
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Playing God of War (mopping up side quests) -- trying to decide when I should start tackling Valkyries (I tried one while I was a low level 5, and coultdn't get her more than 75% down after 3-4 goes...)
Finished the campaign for CoD: Infinite Warfare over the weekend.
Started up Watch_Dogs 2...
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32 minutes ago, crispy4000 said:
There's no doubt in my mind that this gen will end up being one of the greats. There's a good chance I'll put it over last-gen too, on the whole. Even with my issues with the microtransactions and how open-world focused certain publishers like Ubisoft have become.
But the way mikechorney framed this, it isn't just about this gen vs the last. It's if the PS4/XB1's output has resulted in the the best "video games in almost every genre. " In other words: What genres have the PS4/XB1 crowned a new king in? A lot of them, or only a few?He's also excluded the Switch in that, btw.
I excluded "Switch" because it has so few "great games" that I want to play and such a small library. I don't really like Platforming games, so it is hard for me to justify buying a console just to play Zelda.
In my opinion, in most genres, PS4/XB1 has the majority of the "best" games of all time. I am too lazy to write a long diatribe on what they are and why I think each of them are the best. I have also been pretty clear in my follow up posts on what "genre" meant in my original post (with a link to the Wikipedia page on video game genres).
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1 hour ago, Nokt said:
1 million as of 2016 there has been no news about sales numbers since then except for 100,000 digital downloads between PS4/Vita in Japan.
92/100 on metacritic on both versions.
There are probably other ways of determining success, but yeah.
So $10M in sales?
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1 minute ago, Biggie said:
I love the PS4 too. But I guess being a younger age the PS1 just has soooooooo many memories that makes it more special.
I have a theory that everyone has a soft spot in their heart for the games they played between the ages of 10-16 --- for me that was primarily the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga....
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27 minutes ago, crispy4000 said:Just now, Nokt said:
Do you think Undertales success would have been halted if it was $60?
Sure. Those, and more popular ones today like FPSs, survival horror, RPGs, platformers, metroidvanias, etc.
It's wide open for debate. Games have gotten graphically prettier this gen and bigger in scope, but that's not always going to be enough to better the previous few gens' highlights.
Correct. My original point was clearly that all potential detailed genres were best on PS4, -- I clearly meant that the best trackball-controlled marble game was on PS4/XB1.
Games have gotten better in many ways -- UI is getting better as designers learn from other designers, scripts have gotten better as better writters have been hired, voice acting has gotten better as better voice actors have been hired, AI has gotten better as programmers have learned what others have done, etc.
Just now, Nokt said:Do you think Undertales success would have been halted if it was $60?
How successful was it?
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5 minutes ago, crispy4000 said:
Chrono Trigger wouldn't look the same if released today for $60, so the point is moot. Regardless, it wouldn't need to in order to get attention. See Undertale.
And if backwards compatibility or remasters don't count, there's a whole lot more genres that could be contented: survival horror, FPS, arcade sports, etc.
Text adventures, LCD handheld games, platformers that feature a blue hedgehog, sides-scrolling beat-'em ups, isometric shooters, arcade hockey games, paddle controlled tennis games, etc.
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1 minute ago, Nokt said:
Considering how well a game like Undertale did in the gaming scene, I'd say yes, it would.
Undertale is $10.
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2 hours ago, crispy4000 said:
Again, are you counting backwards compatible games?
I wouldn't say 2d platformers, arcade racers, etc are super-specific or dead subgenres.
As for Chrono Trigger, it is one of the best RPGs of all time. That game is a timeless classic, and it'd be silly to hold that against it because of when it came out. The game still holds up wonderfully, as many 16-bit games do.
I'd say similar things about Radiant Historia actually. And that game still looked outdated as a DS game on release. I think you're putting too much emphasis on modern technology, but that's just me.
No -- should I be?
I won't get in a debate with you over the benefits of the last 20 years of technology and game design. And what that has allowed development teams to do.
I am also not going to get in a debate with you on what makes a genre.
"Holding-Up" is a subjective thing -- I am certainly not being critical of Chrono Trigger -- and it was one of the greatest games of its time. But, to illustrate my original point. If it was released today on PS4 for the first time -- exactly as it was released on SNES in '95 - fpr $60. Do you thing it would be widely recognized as one of the best RPGs of all time? Would it be in the conversation for GOTY in 2018?
NPD predictions: PS4/XB1 will exceed PS2/Xbox sales time-aligned by 6 percent, Switch will be best-selling US console
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God of War has a 94 Metacritic
Monster Hunter: World has a 90 Metacritic
Far Cry 5 has an 81 Metacritic (and is the best selling game in 2018)
Every single game that was on Matt's list for a top ten game is available on PS4. All of the top 8 best selling games of 2018 are available on PS4. 9 of the top 10 best selling games over the last 12 months are available on PS4. They may not be to your taste, but people are buying them.