Great review, fair and simple, with enough information on a very good game, it reminded me of the time when pc magazines ruled the earth, yet not a single comment about this, wow, yet we see the same hyped bad games full of blind followers asking for more of the same instead of supporting people that try to make new and different good things.
Great review Edmond, and great game Harebrained Schemes, congrats.
From gamefaqs forums, though I did do it several times while playing the game back in the day trying to get a chocobo while making the least amount of noise because house was full:
The entire game as a whole (minus the CGI cut scenes) is actually on all three discs.
However, the cut scenes take up a majority of each disc, and they are what require the game to be spread apart on different discs. The only non-CGI element that is not on all three discs is one of the final boss's main attacks. The animation for that attack and the final CGI sequence take up the entire final disc.
Fun Fact: If you remove the disc from the system during a time where the game is not loading anything (i.e. standing in a field), and replace it with another disc from the game, you can continue playing. When you approach a scene where a CGI cut scene is supposed to be, a completely different scene will take its place, sometimes making for some intense comedy.
I believe they were more afraid when they launched Super Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars, back in ps3 era, i remember servers being empty, they even changed the music theme that played while you had the icon of the game selected, I loved that "version" of the game, good times for sure.
@greaseman1985: but the thing is that they already do that on pc, third party devs could leave those settings for single player at least, why enforce something a user can do without affecting others?
@Mirimon78: I think sodapoppimpski means that they used the $399 tag as PR bait. As it is not the "complete" price for the "full" experience.
You need at least a ps camera + $399 PSVR, (sure there are people who have it), but if you don´t, the better deal is the $499 bundle.
Now (and this is the real interesting part), if "so many users" have the ps camera/move controllers, why do you offer a bundle $100 more expensive than the one "so many users" are expecting? You are capitalizing on the users that are on the fence, the ones that have friends that are more into VR that are waiting for the "second sku" that should have been the "first sku".
@YoungDavid77: oh no!, ruuuun!!!.....lol, seriously though, look at my games and trophy dates if you think im lying, psn id Lord Metzen, btw I finished gta 4 and fallout 4 completely before trophies were implemented
Major flop is my prediction, my Vita, My Backwards Compatible PS3 (Motorstorm Bundle) that got YLOD, Move, Playstation Eye and Playstation TV are telling me that Sony doesn´t like to stand up for these new technologies, they will *(try to) sell it like its the second coming and then toss it under the carpet like it never existed.
@DuoMaxwell007: Well, a new device/platform releasing a few months from today is obviously going to need better hardware than a console released a couple of years ago, remember GTA V - 2013 on ps3/xbox360? then re released to xbox one/ps4 more than a year later, compare that to the witcher 3 at 60fps on pc, metal gear solid V on pc at 60fps.
That´s without taking into account major Sony flops like "Playstation Eye", "Playstation Move", (I bought those btw and still have them in a box down in the basement).
@suicidesn0wman: it still doesn´t work directly with the xb1 wireless dongle, you still have to use a laptop/pc together as a workaround but the guys at cronusmax are working to enable a way for it to work as the xbox 360 receiver, other than that its great, I motsly use the ds4 on simpler games where you can relax (like diablo 3/witcher), and my xbox 360 controller on FPS's (cod aw on ps4/halo on xb1).
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