Dezzy

I wish the actual hardware looked a bit nicer. Otherwise it's pretty interesting!

More interested in the RE8 DLC to be honest.

Might not be that bad, but my hopes aren't high.

I'd have hoped we'd get some footage at this point, if it's coming out this year. Still nothing?

Well if they're gonna do that, they should do it for all regions/continents. Why should Latin America get special treatment?

If the DLC is entirely about Tall Woman, the total sales will end up being the highest in the series.

Cool idea, but you can just buy a mini monitor for a lot cheaper than that.

@Tharsman

I'd thought they'd done more than that. But you might be right, it was just the pre-existing settings. In which case, they're not changing the internal resolution from the outside.

Didn't the Fallout 4 60fps patch mess with the resolution as well though?
How did they do it in that case but can't in this case?

Great stuff. Just bought the digital version.

Bit disappointing it's just the one game though.

@XxEvilAshxX

All of the 360 games will hit 30fps across the board on Series S/X consoles, even if they didn't originally.

Either Halo Infinite launch date or more 60fps patches will do.

I was about to replay Dark Souls 3 on PS4 and deliberately held back for this exact reason. Please include Sekiro too, as I'm on the Series S and didn't get One X boost.

Does anyone remember if these tend to drop on a particular day? Or is it just a random time?

If they incorporate the verticality as well as they did in Sekiro, this could be really fun.

2 trailers with in-engine footage but no gameplay is always a big warning sign in my mind. I appropriately had zero hype for this!

They did put a lot of effort into appealing to Japan on the X360. I don't think it worked very well. I don't think it's as simple as just needing a few more japanese devs.

Does that really need a full remake? I thought it still looked quite good.

Not especially confident they'll succeed, but I guess it's worth trying.

Yeah but stability just means it's not randomly crashing or freezing anymore. Doesn't mean it's up to a good performance level.

Ha, that is pretty funny. Shouldn't he have known about that though?

Forza Horizon 3
Red Dead Redemption 2
Spyro Trilogy
Crash Trilogy
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Assassin's Creed Black Flag
Gears of War Ultimate Edition
Dark Souls 3
Sekiro

I'd also love if they went back and did some 360 games:

Red Dead Redemption
Witcher 2
Fable 1,2,3
Lost Odyssey
FF13 trilogy.

@LtSarge

They should remaster that game with better graphics and 60fps. I'd buy that in a second.

@Turnip_Knight

Not so far. They did make it sound like it might be possible though.

I dunno if there's an official standard for what counts as AAA or not, but this seems fairly close. Certainly the most advanced game this developer has made.

I basically gave them the benefit of the doubt and just trusted that they'd fix it over time.
Kinda hoped they'd do it a bit quicker than this though.

The Greedfall retail version says its releasing on June 30th on several different online stores, even though they haven't said anything about it.

@NEStalgia

Yeah but Fromsoft games sell a hell of a lot more than Metroid and Castlevania do, which was the point I was making earlier. So they've done a lot better with difficulty being the main selling point, and have less need to change that.

I don't agree that the difficulty is that simple, although it does change massively between their different games, so it's a bit hard to generalize about all of them. Dark Souls 1 though, is probably the clearest example difficulty infusing the level design. You have metal boulders rolling down stairs to crush you, swinging guillotines to knock you off thin walkways, greatbow archers shooting arrows that knock you off the edge of a cathedral, gaps that you have to jump across the reach new area. The list is almost endless. If they were going to make an easy mode for that game, it would be so much more complicated than just a simple damage multiplier.

My worry is that if they did add an easy mode, it would influence their future game design, so they'd deliberately stop including those kinds of environmental difficulties, and everything would just become HP counts and damage amounts, which would be a big loss for the series.

@Dezzy70

Well at least you're definitely not me, despite nicking my name! I went straight for Halo.

I like the fact that I didn't know if Halo or Forza would win.

@agito1987

Yeah I meant on top of that.

Looks great, but why no more campaign footage? And why no release date yet?

@NEStalgia

Yeah it's definitely not 10 million hardcore fans. It's more like 6 million hardcore fans (the number of copies they usually sell in the first year or so), and then another 4 million normies.

My objections to adding easier difficulty though are
1) I don't know if it would make any more people play it, for the reasons I've mentioned.
2) It's not that easy to do with these games because difficulty is so interwoven with the game design. Something like a simple damage multiplier really wouldn't suit these games very well (which is what most easy modes are)
3) I worry that the series would lose it's dedicated hard-core fanbase if it became more mainstream. We would lose something that's quite unique in the games industry. Something like Vaati Vidya having 2 million subscribers is way more impressive than you see for something like Zelda, for example. Zelda which has sold more than Fromsoft in recent history, yet has a tiny fraction of the devoted audience. I think there's a reason for that. The love of shared difficulty is part of it.

@Arcnail

Yes but I'm suggesting the comparative sales numbers is a good way to test that, and it doesn't support that conclusion.
I think what's actually happened is that they have a much bigger audience than they otherwise would specifically BECAUSE they did such a good job of having this unique selling point of being brutally hard (but fair), and so they attracted a lot of people who weren't necessarily ARPG fans at all, but just loved a challenge (e.g maybe Megaman fans).
Now it may be true that they could add an easy mode at this point without actually losing any of those fans they already have, but it's definitely possible that once they start trying to go more mainstream, it will start affecting how they design the whole game, and will bleed into so many other aspects of it, that they actually would alienate those original fans, and end up selling less because of it. I can easily imagine that happening, because the difficulty in Dark Souls is so interwoven with how the games are set up.

@NEStalgia

The sales figures for each of their games are very very similar. Usually around 10 million over the course of 3 years. That suggests to me that it is mostly a consistent fanbase who've played all of them.
Also see how big some of the Soulsborne youtube channels are. Vaati has nearly 2 million subscribers, for a channel JUST about Souls stuff. I think that suggests it is mostly just a large community of people who buy all their games.

@Arcnail

Very few action RPG series actually sell more than Fromsoft games do, so that's not necessarily true at all.
Dark Souls 1 sold over 10 million copies. How many action RPGs sell more than that? It's almost none.

Given how much Squenix love exclusivity deals, I wouldn't be surprised if the PC version is Epic only.

Some of the youtube vids on this suggest it has improved performance a fair amount.

I think the billions of dollars that Microsoft let him spend probably had something to do with it.

I would appreciate if they made a smaller version for the Series S, on account of lower texture resolutions?

@Octorok_Prime

I'm not really into racing games either, but Forza Horizon is one of those series that is kinda beyond genres.

How do they manage to make these games so damn quickly?

Looks great, but why did we get LESS on the single player campaign than we did last year? And why no actual release date, when other holiday games like Forza got a date?

I did laugh out loud at this.

Avatar is such a weird IP. The movie made an insane amount of money, and yet almost no-one ever talks about it. It made like no cultural impact at all.

Well at least the Avatar thing looks kinda interesting. The rest was just typical stuff from the automated Ubisoft game factory.

Also what happened to Beyond Good and Evil 2?

Looks like generic Ubisoft stuff. So many of their games kinda look the same.

We are excited to release the 4 games that have been approved by the ministry of culture. We are very confident the other 4000 will be approved soon.

Well there goes my enthusiasm.

Please say they're not using Trevor Noah again?

This happens to literally everyone on the internet who does or says anything controversial. It's annoying, sure, but it's hardly a news story at this point in time.
I got a random death threat just this week from some weirdo. I just muted them and that was that. That's just what the internet is. It's no use complaining about it unless you have an actual solution.