Is there any word if this is coming to PlayStation? I would be a little surprised if it was an XBox exclusive, but Atlus rarely makes reasonable decisions when it comes to the consoles it outputs games on...
I'm going to really miss RiF. The UI was so clean and information dense that it is hard to beat.
I heard the developer is working on an app for Tildes, but I would be thrilled if they announced an app for Lemmy as well.
After I beat Persona 5 Royale I tried to scratch that itch with Persona 4 Golden, which I had heard was even better than P5R. While the story may be better, I can't confirm that myself, since I couldn't get used to playing without an the QoL additions introduced in P5R.
All this to say that I would be very interested in playing a definitive Persona 3 (in the form of the remake), but I sincerely hope they keep the QoL changes from P5R
I'm genuinely very excited for the new Spider-Man game. I literally bought my first PlayStation console to play the first one, so I was getting pretty excited to see what the collector's edition has. Believe me when I say I am very disappointed with what the CE has to offer.
I know I'm in the minority for preferring to always buy physical games, but paying that much money to rent (with extra steps) games never sat right with me; so it goes without saying that I was disappointed to see the CE was digital only.
Then my disappointment changed to confusion when I saw the CE included a steelbook case?! What is the use of that with no game to store in it?
The price point also seemed a little extreme for just a statue and a steelbook. I think I would have been more receptive if they had included an art book, or something similar; but the lack of physical game is a nonstarter anyways.
While the game is still almost certainly a day-one purchase for me, I am baffled by some of Sony's decisions here.
Because the Lemmy community is still pretty small (at least compared to some larger aggregator/forums), it's hard to know which communities are really active (this goes doubly so when you factor in duplicates across different servers).
I find that browsing /all and sorting by "new" can be a good way to discover the communities Lemmy has to offer (though it requires a decent bit of scrolling to find things you care about).
Hopefully someday, I'll have found with communities that my subscription page will cover all my interests; but that will definitely take some time.
I joined Lemmy very recently and the concept of the different federated servers was easily my biggest stumbling block in signing up.
At a glance, it's really hard to tell what choosing a server represents. Even now, I'm pretty fuzzy on it and could barely explain it to my partner.
Even after getting a rough idea of how the federated server concept works, it's not easy to know which server has the right vibe/ content for you.
This, to me, is the biggest cause of congregating on the larger servers. Without a resource that can easily explain the differences between each server (and why it matters), it requires more effort than the average person is willing to expend to choose a non-"default" server.
The crazy thing is they did that for a while with the Wii virtual console, and I think they also had a Wii U Virtual Console and a 3DS one as well. The problem is the titles never transferred over, so you had to keep buying them over and over (though this is still preferable to the current NES/SNES/GBC Virtual Consoles in the NSO subscription). One of the things I think Microsoft actually does well is their Backwards Compatibility. If you buy an old game on from an old console, it'll still carry over (though my understanding is this is only possible due to having a PC-like architecture across all their consoles, so it's easier to achieve)
Video games are a very interesting medium to me, when it comes to preservation. With movies, TV, Books, and Music, it is very easy and convenient to experience older content. CDs, DVDs, Bluerays, etc are very easy to play on almost any hardware (if you've invested heavily in Laser Disk, I have some bad news for you, though). Meanwhile any game ever made is largely trapped on the console it was designed for. If I want to show someone Casablanca, I can easily show them; but if I want to show them Ocarina of Time, I would need to have a 30 year old console if you believe Nintendo. This, to me, is absurd since A) Nintendo doesn't make any money even if I do buy the N64 cart, and B) I would need to buy and maintain every console that has a game with any cultural relevance for the foreseeable future.
Emulation is a very useful tool for game preservation. I've heard Nintendo is actually very good internally at game preservation and has original source code from every game they've ever made; but that doesn't do a lot of good when older generation games are left in the Nintendo vault. I wouldn't have a problem with Nintendo being so staunchly anti-emulation if they actually made their older games available, but if you ever want to play games like Chibi-Robo you either need to be OK shelling out ~180 USD for the game and ~80USD for the GameCube, or emulate it
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