I have a suspicion Sony knew this scalper thing would be an issue, with the ongoing chip shortage. Apparently there’s a brief splash (welcome) screen with audio that plays only on initial boot up of PS5, which could help protect consumers from people attempting to resell them as “New”.
Never seen one. Not even seen one. Not in a store, not anyone I know personally has got one. And while I eventually want one and a Series X, I want the PS5 1st of the two. Figure 3 years to mid console launch?
Now THAT'S a hot take. Zelda II was awful as far as I can recall; so very disparate from its predecessor. I remember as kid a playing it and thinking "why?" I don't believe I ever finished it; it was so "not Zelda" that I couldn't be arsed. Taking a rudimentary open world and making it a side-scrolling platformer in the next iteration was a massive misstep, IMO. I obviously haven't played it in over 30 years, so maybe it has some redemptive qualities I missed, but all I can recall is "WTF?"
Even though it's starting to look like there might be PS1-3 backwards compatibility coming to the PS5(maybe, possibly), I'm still not spending $1000 to get one. And those PS5 exclusives are gonna keep suffering until more people can get them.
I don't think Zelda 2 is horrible and I've actually beaten it, but it's got a lot of issues that overshadow the interesting things it tried to do. I will say that I've gotten more PTSD flashbacks from Zelda 2 then I've ever had with any FROM game. Maybe because I was younger but also because it felt it was far easier to get trapped or just royally fucked with no real recourse. More to the point, it doesn't really fit much with the rest of the Zelda series(like there's a fuck ton of crosses implying Christianity is not only a thing but also the official religion of Hyrule, a stark contrast to the Trinitary Goddess religion of every game that came after it). And then there's the wierd ocean/sea dividing hyrule in this game and only this game which doesn't really jive with any other game in the series(unless you want to try to link it to Wind Waker/Spirit Tracks somehow by squinting at it real hard).
Even by today's standards, II is considered to be a hard game. But it is more an RPG than the 1st. In the 1st, you discovered better and better stuff. In II, you also could grind and "level up". The 1st was more original. Not too many games like it, while there were a number of side scrollers for the NES. Faxanadu and Battle for Olympus come to mind. They kind of prove the point though: they felt bargain basement, while II felt like a AAA experience, even back then.
You could whack a suit of armor to get free stuff. Once in a while, you'd do that but instead of free stuff, what I called a Ninja Chicken would jump out at you. Good jump scare back in the day.
The Evil Chicken thing actually fits well with Links eternal rivalry with Cuckoos(?).
I actually love all of the above, but I do see highly where you are coming from. At least some characteristics and personalities from MGS2 come full circle in Rising. So there is that.
PC port (Steam). I’m assuming it’s the latest version that fixed earlier issues.
I agree, though many purists probably wouldn't. The CGI sprites actually work for the monsters, since they're supposed to be inhuman and freakish to begin with, and I like the music a lot more than the wannabe-metal MIDIs of the originals. (The PlayStation port of Doom had similar music to Doom 64, and it's sometimes a bit hard for me to tell them apart.) Plus "Dark Citadel" is one of the creepiest old-school maps in gaming.
But if it's pinned, wouldn't that make it the Official Screenshot Thread?
Bah! The purists like drinking kool aid mixed with their own urine. I never paid them any mind, even back in the old days. Elitists assholes they are all.
@Chimpzy, you know what you must now do.
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I think it's important to remember when and why that discussion happened. Graphics had gotten to a point where just showing a still image wasn't capable of being a "wow factor" anymore yet it seemed that the industry was still hung up on improving the graphics of games despite the diminishing returns. Add in all the monetization practices and overblown budgets and it becomes more clear that people weren't arguing against making games look better but the desire for other aspects of games to be improved and a more reasonable use of the budgets.
People who complain about other people ranting about the story, usually don't like thinking or are trying to deflect criticism to begin with. I hate that. Some things are always going to have weird ass stories, but if you call attention to it, within your own story and characters, that just makes things worse.
