VICE: Do you know how many games come out every year? I'm not even talking about the ones that make the App Store every single day – well over 400, since you asked. I mean titles for home consoles and computers, sometimes heavily marketed affairs that you might see an advert for on late-night TV, or perhaps even an Underground poster in support of; and indie releases that tend to come out through strictly digital distribution means. Bloody loads, is the answer. Too many. Wikipedia reckons there are already over 700 games available to play on the PlayStation 4 alone. That's a console that launched in November 2013. Get your head around that. Nobody can play all of those games.
Not even professionals.
And professionals are guilty – if guilty is quite the right word – of missing out on what the wider industry, players and programmers and publishers alike, considers to be "the classics".
Final Fantasy 7 has come back under the spotlight thanks to the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is it worth replaying the original?
Got to Zacks part in 7 Rebirth. Said f it. Finishing my game in 7 og. Just got to part 2 yesterday. I also got Crisis Core... So it'll be a while before I'm back to Rebirth. I just keep thinking about it too smh, want to get back to playing it. Not till I know Zacks story though. I beat 7 og sooooooo long ago, it's crazy going through it again and remembering things.
Got to Zacks part in Rebirth?
You mean you started the game and turned it off?
The game starts with Zack...
... Really 🤓 lol. His second part, I've played for 80hrs lmao. <---- PS5 Run time, probably not all game time. You guys know how it goes.
Did you not ever play the OG FF7? After you recruit Vincent, later in the game, disc 3, return to that basement and look at the pod, there's a whole Zack story that'll trigger as a memory.... it's well hidden in the game and a lot of things regarding Zack are cleared up. FF7 Crisis Core is basically an extend feature of that hidden flashback... It took me years to discover it back then lol
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80 hours in Rebirth by doing everything, and you should've reached Zacks story about 5 times 🤣
Ye I kno that's y I said not all gameplay time. But also I am very anal when it comes to exploring.
Not to mention fighting Titan at his full strength. Hours spent trying still haven't succeeded. Found all 3 ruins but I'ma masochist when it comes to games.
Very much so. Graphically it's dated but the story and the gameplay haven't aged a day. It's still one of my all time favourite RPGs and for me is better than Remake in some ways.
It always takes me back to Christmas 1997, I got it as a gift and I was blown away when I played it. I couldn't believe games could look that good. The combination of pre rendered backgrounds and FMV really made it stand out. It definitely still has a certain charm that modern games can't replicate.
I can't imagine people will still be talking about Remake and Rebirth in 27 years.
Fully agreed. To me the atmosphere, pacing, gameplay and music are all better than in the remake.
Remake is so amazing, pure FFVII Love, play it on PS5 please! aww the graphics the battles, the music... a dream come true.
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Sales ranking announced by Famitsu. This time, we bring you a summary of estimated weekly game software and hardware sales from March 25th to March 31st, 2024.
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch OLED Model – 42,957 (6,958,780)
PlayStation 5 – 18,272 (4,713,002)
Switch Lite – 8,302 (5,793,705)
Switch – 6,274 (19,755,912)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,574 (746,561)
Xbox Series X – 938 (252,674)
PlayStation 4 – 679 (7,925,339)
Xbox Series S – 438 (306,446)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) -6 (1,192,906)
Rise of the ronin sold twice as much as Dragons Dogma 2 this week...but no articles about that. It's only news if a PS exclusive is being outsold.
OK I get that people cant play every classic game for a variety of reasons, but some of these reasons are so moronic I can't believe they were written by people who write about GAMES for a living.
"I've rarely encountered a fanbase that so regularly and delightedly informs you that Dark Souls will ruin other games for you; that once you've played it you'll immediately think less of anything else that isn't Dark Souls. I quite like other games, as it happens, and the idea of playing something that will cause me to drastically reconfigure my opinions of my personal favourites puts me off."
REALLY? You don't want to play Dark Souls because you don't like the fanbase? And you're scared that you will like the game so much that it will ruin other games for you forever? What sort of bullshit reason is that!
"And when you've got a kid in the house who enjoys watching you play games – or, preferably, playing alongside you – then a dark, violent fantasy action-RPG renowned for making its players invent fantastic new compound swear words isn't exactly the most feasible leisure time option."
If you don't want your kid watching you play an adult game, then don't play it in front of them! Wait till they go to bed FFS.
"So today, Super Mario 64 is a game that I can love more in the act of not playing than in the act of playing."
WTF does this even mean?? You love the game because you.....haven't played it? And you think playing the game will ruin that love? I don't even...
"Unlike the majority of the gaming industry, I don't wish to return to childhood, nor do I believe that the perspective of a child, or any appropriation of childlike innocence or naiveté, can provide valuable insight into adult lives or emotions."
Wow patronizing, much? Sorry for liking games from my childhood! Sorry for enjoying nostalgia! I guess I'm not as "mature" as this author who just spent an entire paragraph claiming Nintendo must be patronizing and fake for making games for children.
"What can I say? I am a sucker for the pretty shit, the shiny and new high-definition things, and Valve's supposedly seminal first-person shooter is just so... square. Time is incredibly unkind to video game visuals, unless they're Tetris, and I fear that if I started Half-Life right now I'd only wind up writing an article about the minor flaws it inevitably has"
This one is ridiculous too. You OWN Half-Life and you want to play it....yet you won't even give it a try because it's graphics aren't pretty? I understand playing a game THEN being put off by the graphics. But this person is already judging it and predicting they will write a negative article about it, while they haven't even taken it out of the box.
I class myself as a casual and played all but one.
Sorry but they shouldn't be in that position. It proves once more game reviews as of recent are shite.
There is no excuse whatsoever for a pro to on miss those . And it's not even surprising . You can often catch them reference stuff they clearly didnt play , to criticize or praise games