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XMassAllYearRound said:
I've emulated Heavy rain and the motion segments worked fine with a cheap controller, I honestly have no idea what the hell copyright protection you're talking about here. Gyros aren't some mythical piece of lost tech they're just motion sensors that can be emulated a thousand different ways (Hell, I once emulated a Wii controller for Mario Kart using my phone and one of those stupid looking gamepads where you're supposed to place your controller in the middle).

The lack of official drivers is also irrelevant, Steam already provides good ones from my experience and there is an open source alternative that has been developed for over four years and even offer sensibility options.

Plus whatever else I'm pretty sure whatever issue comes from porting there's some autist that can figure it out, that's the beauty of the PC, there's always a solution.
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Gyros are not some mythical piece of technology, but they're not standardized.

If they're going for Playstation branding on the PC they're going to want you to purchase the controllers for it. Which means everything is provided by the company itself. Again relying on what exists on steam won't really sync up with the stuff they're trying to push with Dual Sense with the haptic feedback because Steam isn't part of their development process. So Sony would need it's own drivers for the controllers for them to work on PC so the platform would be able to take advantage of the hardware they're selling.

It's no different than what Razer does with it's gaming devices. The company has exclusive features they want to push so they put out drivers for their own hardware. Everything from Razer works right out of the box, you plug the device in it installs the company software. The Dualshock controllers need to be able to do that.
 
ZMOT said:
bluepoint, who did GR also mangled sotc and DeS, so it's still a pretty shit ratio. NISA is also still gets paid to fuck up games with their shit-midas touch.
and even if ports are in a somewhat working state, it's usually only the bare minimum which is hardly better than the average console version just with "antialiasing on/off" added. or they go all out and make it the best version it can be with options out of the wazoo, almost bipolar how it's either one or the other.
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Oh right my bad. I somehow completely forgot about NISA haha.
Still, I'm glad Dank Souls, EDF, Yakuza, Granblue Fantasy Versus, Ace Combat 7 and Utawarerumono came out on PC.
 
Alter Ego said:
Yes, Dia Lacina is a tranny. That stylized photo for a Twitter avatar is the only picture of him that I'm aware of, and it might not even actually be him to begin with. From what I can tell, his original claim to fame was blogging about how Horizon Zero Dawn is racist via "cultural appropriation" of native Americans, which launched him into a career in video game journalism when it caught the attention of the fervent Marxist Austin Walker, who at the time had recently left Giant Bomb to become the editor-in-chief of VICE's new gaming vertical Waypoint. If you've listened to the Giant Bomb podcast in the past, you have Dia to thank for that weird aside during their Game of the Year show that year (2017) in which they regurgitated that same message to call Horizon Zero Dawn racist. Since then, Dia has mingled in the furthest Left circle of game journalism, writing primarily for VICE as well as Paste Magazine as a supposed expert on anything native American or "colonialism". While game journalists are already an unpleasant lot, he's one of the most vile from my observation of both his articles as well as his demeanor on social media. This article he wrote ostensibly about God of War is enlightening to how he got to be the way he is, apparently raised by a single overwhelmed mother with no father figure in his life.

Anyway, it's unclear from the first post, but from what I can tell, here's the sequence of dramatic events concerning Dia that transpired over the past couple of days:

First, Dia wrote a review of the new PS5 game Returnal for Paste Magazine, a dour, cynical take for what has otherwise been a well-received game, also throwing in a couple of hard-Lefty political quips out of nowhere for good measure.
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Colin Moriarty, a game journalist/media personality who's long been rendered a pariah by his peers due to uniquely being marginally conservative (with Sophia Narwitz as an associate), remarked on the absurdity of this review.
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This put Dia into a rage which ending with him hiding his Twitter account and supposedly quitting game journalism.
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So a bunch of game journalists such as Jeff Grub are now playing defense force for Dia and, as usual, speaking of Colin as of he's the Devil sicking his demon horde of 150k Twitter followers on hapless victims. Colin remarked on one such journalist with contributions to Gamespot and Polygon.
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That guy then hid his Twitter account and has journalists circling their wagons around him as well.
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Seeing that the journalists are attacking his fans as much as him, Colin wrote a letter to his fans apologizing for getting them caught in this war.
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In a truly shocking turn of events, the game journo who claimed to be quitting the profession, citing "AAA shitshows" as a reason, did not actually quit.

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Twitter account still hidden.
 
BananaSplit said:
Oh right my bad. I somehow completely forgot about NISA haha.
Still, I'm glad Dank Souls, EDF, Yakuza, Granblue Fantasy Versus, Ace Combat 7 and Utawarerumono came out on PC.
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Granblue Fantasy versus is dead, the whole RPG mode for the game isn't used at all since nobody plays it so the co-op is pointless and all that's ever active is ranked matches between the same lifers.

The game is still getting support but it doesn't have a growing playerbase.

They probably should have opted for the single player RPG instead of scrapping it. In comparison you have games like monster hunter still getting tens of thousands of players every day.

The next utawererumono also isn't even coming out for steam, it's still listed as a PS4/PS5 game. It's really not looking like they're going to be catering towards the PC crowd. 5 games in and it's not getting a simultaneous release due to the tepid response.
 
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Why are you such a seething sonygger

What compels someone to be mad at people who get to enjoy games on different systems
 
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Goddamn you guys got me all excited for another legit utawarerumo game that I didn't know about but it's just a godawful musou game. I'd say it's a stretch for those Zan games to be considered an indicator of anything except the license holder looking to make an extra buck with the IP.

Also, considering the two Uta: Mask games got delisted from the PS store a while back I'd be more concerned with the IP not making it's way west altogether more than I would be about the titles getting released on PC.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Heavying scalping doesn't translate into lack of public interest because the systems sell on ebay. If heavy scalping wasn't translating into profits the scalpers would have stopped at this point because nobody would be making money. This is the longest time scalping has gone on for a console. Every single console sold is well above MSRP.
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I doubt that. Scalping doesn't work as a general rule. Remember last year when all those scalpers hording toilet paper and hand sanitiser were complaining because they either got robbed or ended up with crates of toilet paper and soap they couldn't move one supply returned.

We've seen headlines in the past about only a small percentage of PS5s being activated. When you say "Every single console sold is well above MSRP.", you might as well say "The few people who bought a PS5 were idiots who payed too much.". ie. Other scalpers and the dozen or so Sony fanboys who need their fix.

ZMOT said:
even if ports are in a somewhat working state, it's usually only the bare minimum which is hardly better than the average console version just with "antialiasing on/off" added. or they go all out and make it the best version it can be with options out of the wazoo, almost bipolar how it's either one or the other.
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As long as it has 1080p, decent framerate, and controller support. I don't mind. Let's be honest, all but the cheapest and oldest of PCs is going to be able to handle some PS4 game. I know PC tards will flip out if a game doesn't allow TrackIR and 57198x242 Ultra Wide at 322hz or whatever, but I doubt there's many people who use those kinds of options.
 
Judge Dredd said:
As long as it has 1080p, decent framerate, and controller support. I don't mind. Let's be honest, all but the cheapest and oldest of PCs is going to be able to handle some PS4 game. I know PC tards will flip out if a game doesn't allow TrackIR and 57198x242 Ultra Wide at 322hz or whatever, but I doubt there's many people who use those kinds of options.
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don't get me wrong, ports are nice and all, but if you do it at least put some effort in it and most of all don't shit up the localization (go fuck yourself NISA).
that being said, 1080p might be fine now... 5 years down the line? 10? you already have ports that run at 900p or even lower (with according textures) simply because they ported it 1:1 and the decade old console hardware can't handle anything else. framerate also depends on your rig and the options offered in the game, I shouldn't require a 800 bucks flagship card for decent frames because there is no way to change some of their settings. in the same vein, if I got the hardware I should be able to use it, there is zero reason these days to have a fixed resolution UI that doesn't scale properly unless you're lazy. and sometimes they can't even do controller support right which is just baffling.

all that is considering that those ports hardly ever get remastered (which can be it's own shitshow, see DS) or fixed, meaning you are stuck with that one release some nip suits deemed acceptable at one point in time.
 
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The character isn't even black in Guilty Gear either.

Dark skin isn't something exclusive to Africans since Dravidians are also a group who exist in Asia.
 
I've never heard black VAs complaining about being cast for white roles. The industry is generally colorblind with plenty of opportunities for minorities as long as you don't have an obvious accent.
 
KokoroKoroki said:
Ask him about Hong Kong and he'll fold like paper.
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I also love how he basically pulls BLM as an excuse to postpone the stream, because that shit relates so much.
at this point I think we should really out-woke the woketards. "why did you shove me?!??!" - BLM, please understand.
 
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