Phelpssan

The review chart is hilarious.

Doubt Sony or the developer expected this would happen.

Edit [May/04, 14h UTC]: Updated chart. More than 70k negative reviews already.

So if it were clearly written on the Steam page, I don’t really get the complains.

It was optional for several months and the info on the PSN page contradicted that, so there was a lot of room for confusion.

Not surprisingly that PSN page was edited earlier today, but there's a million screenshots floating around already, plus you can check the previous version in the Wayback Machine.

And even if it was clearly written on all places, it's still a "too bad you didn't read the fine print, now you're past the limit time for a refund, so either let Sony track you or lose access to the game" situation which is very shitty. There's also the fact that they sold the game to people in countries where is PSN is not available, which should not have happened if that requirement was going to be enforced in the future.

Not hard to see why people would get pissed and lose trust in the developer. I also think that players have been annoyed for a while with this type of requirement (not specifically in this game), and they are now getting a good outlet with a lot of publicity around to vent about it.

There's also the problem that they're clearly rushing this without much thought, they don't even have an answer to the obvious question of "what happens to people in regions not supported by PSN".

The developer is involved. Though it's pretty obvious that the push for this is from Sony, they are the publisher for the game.

Looks like the original source is this: https://www.gov.br/mme/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/alexandre-silveira-celebra-recorde-de-carga-das-fontes-renovaveis-no-sistema-interligado-nacional

O Sistema Interligado Nacional registrou consumo recorde de energia nesta quinta-feira (7/2). Às 14h15, a carga total foi de 101.860 megawatt (MW), com 92,4% de fornecimento por fontes renováveis, especialmente usinas hidrelétricas, usinas eólicas, usinas solares e micro e minigeração distribuída, segundo dados do Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico (ONS).

Rough translation:

The Sistema Interligado Nacional ("Interconnected National System") registered record energy consumption this wednesday (7/2). At 14h15, the total load was of 101.860 megawatt (MW), with 92,4% provided by renewable sources, in particular hydroeletric plants, wind plants, solar plants plus micro and mini distributed generation, according to data from the Operator Nacional do Sistema Elétrico ("National Electric System Operator") (ONS).

So if I'm understanding correcty this was peak generation.

Probably Metroid Prime. Both the Title Theme and the Menu Theme are fantastic.

Xenoblade games also have brilliant title themes. Here's the one for the first game.

Now, for some spice, let's branch into a type of game I think most people here won't have played - Visual Novels often have great title themes.

• Muv-Luv Alternative's "Crash" is pure hype
• Both Steins;Gate's "Gate of Steiner" and Steins;Gate 0's "Messenger" are great themes too.
• I also love VA-11 HALL-A's "Hopes and Dreams".

The only question I have is what’s gonna happen as game discs are just becoming an access token to download the game and its updates.

That's a big concern. There's communities trying to document which games are complete on the media and can be played from start to end without updates (so no major game-breaking bugs or huge performance issues) like this one:

https://www.doesitplay.org/

I'm also part of a FB group that collects cartridge information for Switch games, to document if there's revisions with all updates included.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CEABCBrPv1tWf89hSZqUunK0JW-sQo8XpxuvZhdtHQs/edit#gid=0

If you have access to a PS4 or Nintendo Switch: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

A crazy and interesting sci-fi game, mixes point-and-click adventure with tower defense action stages. Story is amazing and I absolutely love Vanillaware's 2D art.

For me too, but noticeably slower than normal.

I haven’t heard of any disc game not being able to be played.

There's a number of games that don't come with the whole thing on disk/cart, usually including only the early stages and the rest needs to be downloaded.

Hogwarts Legacy and Jedi Survivor are two fairly recent examples.

The DS thing of pretty much being able to pause and walk away from the game at any time is awesome.

One of the main reasons the Switch ends up with most of my gaming time.

According to the DF review vídeo the account is required on PS/Xbox unless you're offline, but entirely optional on the Switch.

It's discussed around 15min into the video.

Either saving on media costs (25GB disc instead of 100GB disc, maybe 1 disc instead of 2 if the game is too big), or even having more time to work on the game.

Developer makes sure the early stages are properly tested, send the disc for manufacturing including only those, use the manufacturing time to tweak/bugfix/optimize more stuff the rest of the game.

Same problem here.

I agree 100%. - the Magic Arena economy is crap. And grinding is almost unavoidable, because even if you are willing to spend real money on the game to speed up the card aquisition process the value you get from most store purchases is also crap.

This would not be so bad if the grinding itself was fun, but it's designed to require you to not only play but also win games, which brings a lot of bad incentives - most people will just stick to the same meta decks, favor decks that kill quickly so you can get more games in a short amount of time, concede on the first sign of disadvantage, and so on.

Damn, that was the problem here too! I didn't even notice it was username instead of e-mail because Bitwarden was auto-filling the fields.

I'd argue it's the opposite, EO games have so many interesting builds to try that they're among the most replayable dungeon crawler games.

That one was so good.

Haven't played this game in decades but instantly started hearing the song in my head when I saw your post.

Neither option seems to be working for me. :/ Going to run a few more tests.