The only good thing about Infinite was its return to the classic art style. After whatever the art team was doing in 4 and 5, I am glad at least the art team finally got a clue.

maybe they’re trying to gauge reactions to possible avenues for spinning-off the series to other genres with its own “rules” and design.

They already did this with Silent Hill The Arcade, the Japan exclusive visual novels, the Japan exclusive mobile phone dungeon crawler, and Silent Hill Book of Memories.

EDIT: It was so bad that I forgot it even existed, but add Silent Hill The Short Message to the pile of “incredibly bad departures from the expected design of a Silent Hill experience.”

As a SH fan myself, Silent Hill will always be best when the peak optimal way to play the game is to never engage in combat, except when a boss battle forces you to engage in combat.

In the original SH2, even the tutorial fight was optional. You could get the plank and then just leave without fighting. Technically speaking, even boss battles don’t need to be fought. The bosses will defeat themselves after a certain amount of time. Thematically speaking, this is way better than turning every random person that wanders into Silent Hill into a super soldier mass killer by the end of each game.

It also keeps the tension high. Combat every 2 seconds becomes tiresome and does not allow tension to build in the player. Silent Hill could build tension without enemies even being spawned in, but a good day to ruin this is to litter the game with combat encounters.

The Remake still has too much combat in it. Way too much. The game showers enemies at you compared to the original. Which is very against how the original game was, not only from an enemy count standpoint, but from a mood and theme standpoint.

The article author has never played a good RPG before, clearly.

Also keep in mind all the cost of the disc (or for some Nintendo products, cost of the cartridge), printing the manual, box art, and all other physical products required to deliver the game, all that cost used to cut into the game cost. Nowadays publishers mostly sell digital for the exact same price, meaning all of that cost is converted into pure profit.

Publishers really are stupid. They don’t get it Gamers want to give you our money. We want to open our wallet and shower publishers with money. But we want to do that for gaming experiences that at a minimum equal and surpass gaming experiences we used to get 15 years ago.

Games nowadays do not feel even equivalent to games we used to play. So we aren’t giving you our money. Honestly, if there was a game that was $80, but it was so groundbreaking it was like Halo CE, or Halo 2, or Super Mario 64, or anything like that, then people would pay it.

No games now have the same impact. Therefore, they are not worth such a high cost.

Beat me to it. You a real one.

This is as much of a valid complaint now as it was back then.

There is absolutely no excuse for games now to be over 100GB in storage space. Unless you have the longest game ever that span across like 1 and a half “normal” game lengths. The biggest games now should be 60GB or less. So many developers refuse to compress things that could be compressed with zero noticeable loss in quality except for maybe a camera being really close to an object with an 8k display resolution.

At the absolute worst, do what games used to do for like 6 months before not caring: make the game for 1080p players, compression and all, then offer a free DLC with all the uncompressed stuff. At least make the storage feast optional.

Did anyone really expect anything less from the average brainless Pokemon Drone?

Pokemon “fans” are the reason a few emulator developers have halted development on their projects. And honestly, its a totally reasonable crash out.

This is fake. No women’s clothing has pockets that deep.

I got a PS5 so I could play Demons Souls Remaster, when that game launched.

I haven’t touched the console since I beat the game. It has been sitting collecting dust for years, just like my Nintendo Switch did before I sold it.

My GPU is definitely not thermal throttling, it only gets to ~51°C under load at the hotspot. The thermal limit is 84°C.

AMD 7800X3D, 32GB RAM, multiple 2TB SSDs two of which are NVMe, GTX1080Ti.

I know someone going to try to blame my performance on my 1080Ti, but Wilds is the only game that runs poorly. I play at 1080p only, and disable RayTracing because my GPU doesn’t do RTX well and I don’t need RTX on. Also I cannot afford to upgrade. Even still, Helldivers 2 gets more than 90fps at Ultra settings native 21:9 1080p, Starfield gets 70fps at High settings native (framegen off), Cyberpunk gets more than 90fps on High native. Even Black Myth Wukong and Star Citizen gets at least 60fps with High native settings.

Its literally only Monster Hunter Wilds that gets 27fps at 720p windowed and everything set to low or disabled.

Of note: my 1080Ti is overclocked, watercooled, and has its own dedicated 360mm radiator. Other 1080Tis may have more or less performance values.

Monster Hunter Wilds? Really? With negative reception due to awful performance and even with Capcom admitting its sales were weak?

My PC couldnt even run Wilds at a playable framerate. It still can’t. I dont exactly have a weak rig either. But the game has to run at settings so low that it looks like a Wii port, and with framegen disabled it gets 27 fps in windowed 720p.

I don’t buy any game over $60 USD.

Unless its made by Yoko Taro. That is my only exception. That man is a gem and has never let me down with his art.

*Infogrames

Atari hasn’t been Atari since the 70s. Infogrames bought the name and now skinwalks as Atari.

Honestly, the mecha genre is so niche I’ll take what I can get at this point.

Unbelievable that the black stream is still up.

I said all of them, so yes.