GoG has tried for years to untangle the mess of IP rightsholders in order to just re-release the old games. It's nice to hear some optimism but can it really be true that they found all the rightsholders and got permission from them all to make a remaster? I hope so but I will keep my expectations low because we have heard this before only to be later disappointed.

Dam what's the roaming charge fees like on that? lol

Just a tip regarding Bloodborne running under shadPS4. There is no sound FX in the game. This is because shadPS4 doesn't support the sound format of the sfx used in bloodborne. There use to be a mod on nexus that already did the conversion, but it was pulled (probably due to copyright). But you can do it yourself by using this tool:
https://github.com/Furegato/BloodborneSoundRepack
It will extract and repack the files automatically for you. When it finishes the conversion you can overwrite the original files and the game will work fine. It takes a long time to do, on my rig it took over 35 minutes running 32 threads.

I was expecting Ciri to be the main character of the next game in the Witcher verse given the events in Witcher 3. My only issue is I have read that they say Ciri went through the trial to become a witcher and fights like a witcher, but according to lore, every female that has ever tried has died in the trial because it is incompatible with females. Ciri was powerful enough in Witcher 3 so I can see her as being a monster hunter but IMHO she should NOT be a witcher or fight in the same way with potions etc. simply because if she had done the trial she would have died. Making her a Witcher via the trial will basically make a deus ex machina to the lore that she is an exception to the rule and honestly I hate that kind of sh*t because it sounds like lazy writing. The game shouldn't really even be called Witcher 4 it should be it's own thing, but I get it they don't want to do that because a new IP would probably sell worse, but calling this Witcher 4 might backfire on them. It would be better if they called this something like "Tales of the Witcher: Ciri" and then have Geralt be a narrator who is telling the tale of Ciri's adventure trying to be a Witcher like monster hunter.

The biggest problem is having to jailbreak your PS4 to dump the game. I got the disc right here wish I could just dump it or play it directly from my PC drive. *sigh*

Jivaro wrote on Nov 29, 2024, 00:48:
I don't see how any other game but NMS wins "Labor of Love" on Steams awards. Sure, lots of games get community patches long after release. This is the developer providing content, features, and bug fixing. Literally just last month added new features and content. For free. 30 something "named" updates? Add to that 5 or 6 real content patches I think. The game was released in 2016. 8 years is a lifetime in this industry. I don't recall seeing any other developer do anything like this. Regardless, if Hello Games makes anything else in the future that I am interested in, I definitely won't hesitate at buying another "Day One Edition" from them.

For me it's a toss up between NMS and Hotdogs, Horseshoes, and Handgrenades. And generally I tend to vote for H3 because not only are they continuously updating the game, but it's in a niche VR only game market so their sales numbers are probably lower. That doesn't mean I feel that NMS doesn't also deserve it but they have been doing updates just a few months longer than NMS.

Don't even see why they want input on the subject. ISPs are essentially a utility company, are electric companies liable for what a user does with the electricity they provide? If ISPs are liable for piracy the user committed then so is the electric company without whom the user could not have committed the alleged piracy. In fact I would argue that electric companies are more liable as they are the key resource of all the equipment needed for piracy to happen.

This isn't surprising. They make more money selling ad space than they do from users paying them a fee to not have ads appear. Even if the users who pay can give an equivalent amount, why would google ever not make it more expensive for ad free to discourage users from getting it? An ad-lite tier is exactly what google wants, you pay and the ads pay at the same time. Not only that but the ads that will be shown on the ad-lite package will also be more expensive and more profitable to google. There is no way to win this except to completely boycott YouTube itself which I doubt people would be willing to do. So welcome to the future. Outrage will die off easily over a short period of time and even the die hard who would boycott youtube aren't going to be a significant enough number to matter.

El Pit wrote on Nov 1, 2024, 12:51:
Maybe on GOG one day - where they cannot force you to use their launcher!

There is no Launcher, it requires you to login to PSN and link the PSN Account with your Steam one which is also against GoG's policies as that is a form of DRM. So you can pretty much give up the idea it's ever coming to GoG. Sony wants everyone to use a PSN account, there is no other way for them to one day lock multiplayer behind a PS+ for PC. I am sure it is coming down the line sometime, the first step is to make an innocuous requirement like linking a PSN account with a steam account for every game, then adding a few user requested features like trophy sharing and game save sharing to prove how "beneficial" their new DRM sorry account linking is. I would bet Sony will delist the GoG versions of all their games whenever their contract is up.

I am of two minds of this whole situation. On the one hand it's definitely a scam by a law firm and really it's like one of the things I hate about them, but at the same time, there is no other way to have gotten that arbitration clause to disappear from the ToS. I have to say the arbitration clause on ALL EULA and ToS to me should be unconstitutional. I do agree that if you were to do that on a regular contract where both parties have representation then a binding arbitration clause is fine to put into a contract as signatures of both parties would be required for the contract to be enforceable, but for a click through license where most people don't read it or if they do read it they don't understand the actual consequences of agreeing, that should be unenforceable. IMO you should not be able to give away any of your constitutionally guaranteed rights without an actual signature from both parties in the presence of an actual judge.

Am I the only one that think this is the stupidest ruling I have ever heard? I mean what happened to innocent till proven guilty. I find it insane that a court would say yeah disconnect a person only accused and not even brought to a court yet on any charges.

Probably requires that social club nonsense too I reckon.

The biggest problem isn't that 20-30% of the reviews site that PSN but those 20-30% probably didn't refund their game because of it. People balked with Rockstar Social Club also when it was introduced, but like always only a few of us outright boycotted all future rockstar games. I still have GTA IV that I never played because IIRC I tried to install it and it kept bitching to make a rockstar social club account to play it so I uninstalled it and never went back. All Rockstar games for me don't exist anymore. And I will apply the same to any Sony game that requires a PSN login to play (and I have a PSN account and PS+ Premium sub). I just refuse to want to give Sony the permission to make PSN a requirement for PC games, I'd rather they go back and stay on the console and leave the PC market for good. I also say the same thing about Rockstar, EA, Blizzard and Ubisoft. Leave steam and don't come back till you remove your client software, if it's on steam it should only use steam the steam client period with no other extra clients attached. They (EA and Ubi) tried it and they lost a fuck ton of sales. Valve had them by the balls, but Valve was too much of a pussy to pass terms of not allowing third party clients on Steam. We could have nipped this problem from the start if they only disallowed this shit and we all as a community would have benefited, but since Valved caved, we are stuck in this horrid landscape of unnecessary crap getting constantly pushed onto us for no reason other than to spy on you and how you play the games you bought. And that also doesn't cover the fact they can disable and take away your games if they ban your account for some reason even though it still will appear as playable on your steam list.

Looks like they are doing it for the PS5 Pro so most likely they are just going to throw in some "Ray Tracing" and bump up the texture resolutions and charge some fee to anyone that wants the improvements. PC users of course probably won't get it as they probably want to use this to upsell the PS5 Pro.

This doesn't at all concern me since I don't run GoG galaxy at all to play my games. No Cloud saves for me, only local storage and stand alone installers. Still I am surprised people keep such massive amount of saves. I at best use 3-4 manual slots and whatever the auto save does and possibly a quick save slot or two. All my CDPR games are all under the 200MB limit except one game that uses about 800MB.

You have to kind of wonder if they don't want to spend the resources on it because the Windows version runs perfectly in proton. Still I think it's kind of a dick move since it was part of the kickstarter promise and even if you say only working, tested, and support for a particular linux distro version, I don't see why they won't just compile a version for those OSes.

That just simply means they will kill off the servers soon but don't want to stop selling it. I still have to give them some credit for adding the single player, it's better than what Ubisoft did with "The Crew".

Just finished binge watching it even went so far as to pay for ad free just to get dolby vision (f**king amazon pay walling the dam best HDR for my TV) and I loved it. My only complaint was where are the giant scorpions? As far as the female lead I have to say it was great IMHO because I made a female character in Fallout 4 and she kinda looked like her.

Prez wrote on Mar 22, 2024, 10:44:
If by 'the same stuff Ubi does' you mean 'idiotic but easy to ignore', then I am still in. Capcom put really stupid microtransactions in Devil May Cry 5 yet I didn't feel remotely compelled to use them. I saw them, cursed under my breath and never thought about them again. It helped that the game was so damn good.

On the subject of Dragon's Dogma 2, I have to say that I love the idea of no fast travel. Nothing kills immersion more than that feature in my opinion. I know it's a very different game, but I never once used fast travel in Cyberpunk 2077. I felt compelled to travel every meter myself. Everyone is different though so that's a pretty bold decision and I applaud them for it.

Yeah you can buy with real money stuff you have to grind for in game. It's stupid and a big issue not because it's there and you can ignore it, but it's there and therefore capcom will mod protect the game so they can keep that revenue stream in place. Cause why would you let someone use a cheat or QOL mods in a single player game when you can demand they pay for it?

There is fast travel in the game, but like the first game you will have to find out how it works and most likely won't be usable till the late game. And there is a "slow" travel ox cart you can get on that is available in the day time.

WotC probably doesn't want to let them make any DLC or BG4 either. BG3 basically killed their online game thing that they were making.