and thats just a fraction i am finding interesting enough to have a thread 
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Holy moly, thank you for bringing this to my attention this game looks stellar.Not to be outdone by the original, the knock off released footage too, and continues to look great
Also, how is the PC version of Saga Frontier?
Shadow Man Remastered looks really interesting, I think I only played the N64 version if I recall when I was really little and it was just okay, but I think that was more of it being on N64 than anything. At the time I do not think I realized it was on PC or even PlayStation.
Based on my own observation, early Steam reviews seem positive. Looking at the screenshots posted on Steam Community, it seems like the AI upscaling has done a good job for the most part, although some odd scenes it still doesn't look sharp enough. I couldn't find any screenshots of the System screen yet, but resolution settings seems to be locked to 1080p.
From the sound of it, the PC-related features are rather bare-bones as expected. No words yet about the localisation quality, or whether they've fixed the issues from the original PSX release. And finally, we already know about the mobile-esque UI, so not much we can do about that. Anyway, I'm kind of curious about the game myself, so I've picked it up from GMG.
Microsoft doesn't make sense since they have so many timed deals with Sony already in place. MS would have to wait a while for FF16, FF7r.
Tho it would give huge boost to gamepass catalogue but I don't know if its worth it.
So yea its gotta be Sony. They realized no point in constantly flushing money down the toilet for deals when you can just outright buy them.
That is good to note, I am thinking about picking it up from GMG too. Probably would have grabbed it directly from Steam just for the option to refund if there was a discount justttt in case.
Wait...what!?!? I did not think SE would have any interest in being acquired. I assume if it is multiple companies considering offers, at least Microsoft and Sony would be in the running. There are other possibilities, but...
On the one hand, this sucks and the way the industry is consolidating sucks.
On the other hand, the chance of them being acquired by someone even more inept than they are seems abysmally low...
Please stop this acquisitions hell.
SE being acquired by anyone won't end well. But if it's the only way to bring back Deus Ex...
Microsoft tries to buy everything that moves, and I'm certain they've tried in the past to buy SE. Hell, they tried to buy fucking Nintendo.
I probably should start my own gaming company, so that it'll be bought by either MS or Embracer.
Please no, we don't need more 3rd party company getting acquired
I dislike these acquisitions in general, they do bad things to creative output and resulting in the homogenisation of their future games. Especially these days when large publishers keep raising the price of single-player games and leaning heavily towards service games. I don't need this kind of world line.
I will also disagree with anyone who tries to frame these acquisitions as a good thing for people who like Squeenix's games. This is not a good thing at all.
I will also disagree with anyone who tries to frame these acquisitions as a good thing for people who like Squeenix's games. This is not a good thing at all.
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It's just prodding. Happens all the time.
Not to say that someone won't buy them, but lets not get ahead ourselves.
I'll root for Amazon. Go Luna go go.
I'm here for the drama and chaos one way or another.
Not to say that someone won't buy them, but lets not get ahead ourselves.
I'll root for Amazon. Go Luna go go.
I'm here for the drama and chaos one way or another.
My baseless guess is they bet big on the shitty avengers game that tanked and lost all their big boy dollars and haven't really had any big successes lately
Next game to be released by SquareSoft Enix: Bailout Wonderland
Yea them making deals with EGS is kind of a sign too. Its becoming a pattern. Gearbox, Obsidian, 4A. All of them getting acquired soon after lol.
These devs/pubs are desperate for $$$. Game dev is becoming so expensive even giant pubs want that giant comfort blanket from big corporations. Its hard to say no when companies are throwing around 10+ billion with ease.
Now that I think about it a bit more I can see Microsoft buying Square and continue letting them support the Switch in Japan/West. Meanwhile their PC/Xbox support will be strongest ever so basically they'll only be saying goodbye to Sony which wouldn't be a big deal to them if the Microsoft check is fat enough. It could work and it would be fucking crazy
They don't just make games and I am not sure how their other non game division are going but if you look at companies like SEGA and Konami, sure diversifying is good but when something happens all of a sudden that has them operation on losses (???) You have to either close those divisions are outright sell them.
Let me guess is one of those companies tencent?
Also I have not read the article but is it to outright buy them?
I have doubts that it's Sony since Sony has dropped the ball with it's on Japanese IPs and is just focusing on it's really popular Western AAA titles to the point that some of the Japan Studios people have left over the last year to do other stuff.
It's possible that the biggest issue there was creating a new IP that would be very popular and those existing SIE Japanese properties were niche to begin with and what really brought people in to playstation were the third party "exclusives" that people heavily associated to the PlayStation name. And if that were the cases then buying SE would make sense and they would use SE to make Japanese titles (they would likely give up on the western titles though or at least make those multi platform, so stuff like Life is Strange would be multiplatform if they kept doing those)
but then you would have the issue of what happens to the nongaming divisions? Sony has multiple divisions itself but the PlayStation one is the one that kept it from going out of business. Would they just sell those off? Or for the manga stuff would they just add that to Aniplex or something?
And how much would buying SE cost? Like $6 billion USD or something? I'm sure that SE is very big and stuff but I doubt that even with all of their popular IPs and stuff that they are worth say more than $10 billion USD.
To be honest, if it has to happen then yeah I hope it's Microsoft. That way, at least for the foreseeable future we're guaranteed continued (improved?) PC support with Steam releases. And as a nice little bonus, Sony gets fucked over for their years of bullshit timed exclusivity deals.
My best to worst scenario:
1. Stay independent: I honestly don't think SQEX need direct buyout. They have made so many exclusive deals with different parties. Those money should be able to tide them over the loss from Avenger.
2. Microsoft: Games still come to PC and they can continue making those big RPGs on platforms with good hardware. Microsoft seem to be pretty hands-off towards their subsidiaries so far.
3. Nintendo: Everything will be stuck on Switch. SQEX won't be able to continue making big RPGs, but they may cooperate with other Nintendo divisions (ie. Monolith Soft) to make games (GIMME XENOGEAR REMAKE). However, this would also mean Nintendo owning the majority of the JRPG market, which is definitely not a good thing.
4. Sony: Everything will be stuck on PS5 for a few years to come. Sony does not care about legacy content so remasters like SaGa Frontier Remastered will disappear.
1. Stay independent: I honestly don't think SQEX need direct buyout. They have made so many exclusive deals with different parties. Those money should be able to tide them over the loss from Avenger.
2. Microsoft: Games still come to PC and they can continue making those big RPGs on platforms with good hardware. Microsoft seem to be pretty hands-off towards their subsidiaries so far.
3. Nintendo: Everything will be stuck on Switch. SQEX won't be able to continue making big RPGs, but they may cooperate with other Nintendo divisions (ie. Monolith Soft) to make games (GIMME XENOGEAR REMAKE). However, this would also mean Nintendo owning the majority of the JRPG market, which is definitely not a good thing.
4. Sony: Everything will be stuck on PS5 for a few years to come. Sony does not care about legacy content so remasters like SaGa Frontier Remastered will disappear.
Agreed. With exclusivity deals with Sony and EGS and profits from their succesful games they should have help them regain the loss.
Great consolidations are always followed by great collapses and great renewals.,
Embracer Group proudly presents: Final Fantasy 16
5. Sqeenix sells off Eidos and the rest of their western/euro holdings, but the Japanese studios stay independent
Man I didn't want to end my day with such a cursed post
Considering how awful SE's leadership has been since... pretty much ever, I don't think we'd notice much of a difference if they were bought by whomever.
Random exclusives, games stuck in Japan, terribad spin offs, shitty mobile games axed after a year, broken ass ports all over the place?
Can't be any worse.
But now that some people are actually giving a shit about doing decent ports of their old games, that would suck. Especially if it was Sony, they'd actively erase any mention of any JRPG ever released on PS1.
Random exclusives, games stuck in Japan, terribad spin offs, shitty mobile games axed after a year, broken ass ports all over the place?
Can't be any worse.
But now that some people are actually giving a shit about doing decent ports of their old games, that would suck. Especially if it was Sony, they'd actively erase any mention of any JRPG ever released on PS1.
In one hand consolidation sucks, in other hand MS buying SE is chance for Arkane to make Deus Ex game.
Would be interesting to see Sony take over a company the size of Square Enix. Whereas a Microsoft has the cash reserves to easily handle a buyout that costs billions, I'm not sure Sony is in the same position. And just to put into context: Zenimax was 7.5 billion, Square Enix would almost certainly be above 10, probably far more if you consider the IPs involved, and how they are still releasing AAA games very regularly.
Ok, here's my opinion about this.
First of all, fuck you Avengers, you are a fucking problem as a product because of bad management from Square Enix (Crystal Dynamics are good developers and this game clearly has problems due to unrealistic SE ambitions)
That being said, my take of this acquisition is that everybody looses but companies and some par of the fandom (buyers, not SE) and this is why.
Sony - Absolutely wants to eliminate legacy content which is at this moment the best thing SE offers with IPs such as SaGa or Mana, console exclusivity as I don't see how they would come to PC at the very least which after seeing the PS3, Vita PSP stores you might know already why PC is important and of course I just can see a focus on the big IPs such as FF.
MS - similar problems to Sony but legacy and PC aren't a problem at first glimpse, however, I don't see how MS could manage SE, either way, I have a feeling that they would probably focus on the western side of the company instead of the japanese, however, MS could benefit from small IPs for their Gamepass service line-up so, who knows.
Anyway, I don't like acquisitions.
First of all, fuck you Avengers, you are a fucking problem as a product because of bad management from Square Enix (Crystal Dynamics are good developers and this game clearly has problems due to unrealistic SE ambitions)
That being said, my take of this acquisition is that everybody looses but companies and some par of the fandom (buyers, not SE) and this is why.
Sony - Absolutely wants to eliminate legacy content which is at this moment the best thing SE offers with IPs such as SaGa or Mana, console exclusivity as I don't see how they would come to PC at the very least which after seeing the PS3, Vita PSP stores you might know already why PC is important and of course I just can see a focus on the big IPs such as FF.
MS - similar problems to Sony but legacy and PC aren't a problem at first glimpse, however, I don't see how MS could manage SE, either way, I have a feeling that they would probably focus on the western side of the company instead of the japanese, however, MS could benefit from small IPs for their Gamepass service line-up so, who knows.
Anyway, I don't like acquisitions.
Funny when PS1 and PS2 were the JRPG machine back then.
Square Enix being acquired by anyone would make me puke, but it's not going to happen.
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Doesn't see any news site picking up this news, so I translated this bit from the following SaGa livestream summary article from Famitsu
www.famitsu.com
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A bit more info about Saga Frontier Remastered. First impression: this port is kind of scuffed.
The game is using Unity engine. As I gathered, the maximum resolution settings is 1080p. Apart from resolution and screen mode (windowed/borderless/fullscreen), the only other PC features available is the key/controller remap.
The game ignores Unity command-line flags --screen-width and --screen-height, but luckily with SpecialK, we can force the game to scale the window resolution to our native resolution. This is not to be confused with the internal rendering resolution, however.
Lastly, the game seems to ignore G-sync with borderless window mode. Although this may be an issue with Unity engine since I had similar trouble with Battletech (which also runs on Unity) in the past.
The game is using Unity engine. As I gathered, the maximum resolution settings is 1080p. Apart from resolution and screen mode (windowed/borderless/fullscreen), the only other PC features available is the key/controller remap.
The game ignores Unity command-line flags --screen-width and --screen-height, but luckily with SpecialK, we can force the game to scale the window resolution to our native resolution. This is not to be confused with the internal rendering resolution, however.
Lastly, the game seems to ignore G-sync with borderless window mode. Although this may be an issue with Unity engine since I had similar trouble with Battletech (which also runs on Unity) in the past.
New historical lows for on Steam Store (at least):
In what order should I play these 4 games with my remaining EA Play time? They are all 70-80 range on critic reviews, so none really truly stand out above others in that sense.
Fe
Unravel
Unravel 2
Sea of Solitude
I have about a week left and I know they are all short games, so in the end I might end up playing through them all. But if I happen to be busy and only have time for couple of them, I'd like some opinions. Thanks!
Fe
Unravel
Unravel 2
Sea of Solitude
I have about a week left and I know they are all short games, so in the end I might end up playing through them all. But if I happen to be busy and only have time for couple of them, I'd like some opinions. Thanks!
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