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It's serviceable for the big popular game's as they've been improved with numerous hack jobs over the years. There's huge problems with many lesser known games.

Skerries

gizmo wrote: »

Still? Not actually tried it since Bleem! but I would have assumed things have progressed since then?

god! I remember trying to play games on the PC with Bleem!
don't know why I bothered as the PS1 was attached to the telly beside it

Retr0gamer

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Castlevania Requiem (Symphony of The Night and Rondo of Blood bundle) rated for PS4 in Korea.

http://www.siliconera.com/2018/09/19/castlevania-requiem-symphony-of-the-night-rondo-of-blood-gets-rated-for-ps4-in-korea/

Lists both Japanese and English versions so possible will see it over these parts.

Someone on eurogamer saying this is a first wave of vania bundles. There's supposedly a DS and gba game bundle coming to switch at least.

Gunmonkey

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Someone on eurogamer saying this is a first wave of vania bundles. There's supposedly a DS and gba game bundle coming to switch at least.

Hope so, never got the chance to play any of the GBA/DS ones.

abbir

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Except PC PS1 emulation is pretty terrible.

Mednafen performs very well for me. Much more accurate and better compatiblity than epsxe

I've not really bothered with my raspberry pi in a while how well do those handle PS One stuff?

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I've not really bothered with my raspberry pi in a while how well do those handle PS One stuff?

Don't take it as gospel but from what I remember the pi 3 is well able. Anything below is dodgy territory though

gazzamc

Retr0gamer wrote: »

gizmo wrote: »

Still? Not actually tried it since Bleem! but I would have assumed things have progressed since then?

It's a complete mess of plugins for specific games and once you move out of the popular games into the less popular ones it's a total disaster of glitches, timing issues and incompatibility.

I doubt these ps1 mini will cater to the people who want to play the less popular games either.

Sephiroth_dude

https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/09/19/legendary-composer-nobuo-uematsu-ceases-work-due-to-health-issues

Hope he'll be ok.

Skerries

RDR2 not coming to PC

Mickeroo

Where you see that? Is it official?

Techniques07

Nothing about it on any of the gaming sites I've checked. I really don't want to drop 500 on a One X for this

gazzamc

Skerries wrote: »

RDR2 not coming to PC

That's probably just to get people to cave for the console versions.. They'll do what they did with GTAV.. Delay it until they can squeeze every penny from the console market. They want people to double dip again.

Penn

Skerries wrote: »

RDR2 not coming to PC

Seems to be a possible translation error
https://twitter.com/RedDeadNet/status/1042865021355732993

They never said it will never be coming to PC, just that the game is for PS4 and Xbox One (likely just talking about initial release and no announced plans for PC version yet).

earthwormjack

Unless Rockstar suddenly hates money RDR2 will almost certainly see a PC release.

Robert ninja

Delayed PC release for double dippers I suspect.

Shiminay

I double dipped on GTA V (it was the first time in 2 years I'd used my 360 and it's been gathering dust since). I have a nice shiny PS4 Pro now, but I'm currently thinking I'll simply wait a year for a PC release because there is simply no comparison between the Console and PC versions of GTA V (I've spent many hours on my friend's PS4 playing GTA V too). Rockstar would be absolutely mad not to bring RDR2 to the PC after all the money they've made from PC on GTA V and we've seen that Take 2 are just as keen as any other publisher to swallow up *ALL* the money. I was really turned off the game when I saw all the pre-oder nonsense rolling out, sick of this shite from AAA games and publishers.

EoinHef

Every time they DONT announce a PC version its free publicity for the game.

gizmo

Pretty sure this has been discussed before and while it'll never really be confirmed, one of the main reasons RDR never came to the PC was due to the state of the engine (and code base in general) at the time. The San Diego studio led production of the game with North (and others) as support and the former team had considerable issues along the way, the infamous Rockstar spouse letter being the most public manifestation of this. Following release, a lot of time was put into the PC side of things for the Max Payne 3 release which is one of the reasons (scale of the game being another) it saw a simultaneous release.

With the engine in a considerably better state now and with the wider Rockstar Studios now working as a more cohesive unit, the chances of RDR2 not coming to the PC are fairly minute. The idea that it's being deliberately held back for anything other than time/resources reasoning doesn't really hold much water basically.

Robert ninja

gizmo wrote: »

The idea that it's being deliberately held back for anything other than time/resources reasoning doesn't really hold much water basically.

How about greed? That a realistic reason? Consoles are a priority to them and double dipping bait is a reality. Even if it's just a month wait there's consumers with high end PCs and consoles that will buy it on console just to play it early, stream, hang with friends earlier, then pick up the PC version later for graphics/performance mods and different sets of friends (etc). If I know this then TT do as well and as a publicly traded company they don't really have any excuses to give to investors for not making the most money as possible.

ERG89

Robert ninja wrote:

How about greed? That a realistic reason? Consoles are a priority to them and double dipping bait is a reality. Even if it's just a month wait there's consumers with high end PCs and consoles that will buy it on console just to play it early, stream, hang with friends earlier, then pick up the PC version later for graphics/performance mods and different sets of friends (etc). If I know this then TT do as well and as a publicly traded company they don't really have any excuses to give to investors for not making the most money as possible.

LOL

gizmo

Robert ninja wrote: »

How about greed? That a realistic reason? Consoles are a priority to them and double dipping bait is a reality. Even if it's just a month wait there's consumers with high end PCs and consoles that will buy it on console just to play it early, stream, hang with friends earlier, then pick up the PC version later for graphics/performance mods and different sets of friends (etc). If I know this then TT do as well and as a publicly traded company they don't really have any excuses to give to investors for not making the most money as possible.

I mean it's a reason, it just happens to be fairly poor one which ignores the history behind the development of the engine powering the games, the studios involved in making them, the technical complexity of the titles in question and the release schedules of nearly every other title released by the same publisher in the last generation or two.

L.A Noire was the last title from Take-Two to see such a staggered release between platforms and, coincidentally, it too saw a chaotic development cycle with significant issues thanks to the use of their own engine.

Robert ninja

A fair point but I would not say greed is an unlikely reason. Need only look at micro-transactions, lootboxes, DRM and feature regression to see the absolute state of the industry in regards to this.

gizmo

Robert ninja wrote: »

A fair point but I would not say greed is an unlikely reason. Need only look at micro-transactions, lootboxes, DRM and feature regression to see the absolute state of the industry in regards to this.

Oh aye, don't get me wrong, it's a fairly evident reason for a number of releases from different publishers these days. In this context, one need only look at Take-Two and their utter mishandling of Evolve for instance. But it's also not a one-size-fits-all reason for such things, especially when there's both technical reasons and prior form in the case of the GTA series and the RAGE engine.

Or if you want to stick with RDR, let's just see how they balance the in-game pricing of content for Red Dead Online and watch as they most likely follow in the footsteps of GTA Online.

Jerichoholic

Calling a business greedy for trying to make money is a bit silly.

Robert ninja

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Calling a business greedy for trying to make money is a bit silly.

There's a balance. No qualms about them wanting to make money but as soon as the product starts to regress because of it, that's when I can safely say it's greedy. Launch DLC, on-disc DLC, no dedicated servers for a multi million dollar company. Things like that.

gazzamc

Robert ninja wrote: »

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Calling a business greedy for trying to make money is a bit silly.

There's a balance. No qualms about them wanting to make money but as soon as the product starts to regress because of it, that's when I can safely say it's greedy. Launch DLC, on-disc DLC, no dedicated servers for a multi million dollar company. Things like that.

Scrapping SP DLC and focusing on microtransactions in GTAV.. My faith in Rockstar has gone. They'll milk RDR2 the same way.

Get your wallet ready for them snake cards, as they jack up the mp economy to sell more currency.

Mr.Nice Guy

Well this is depressing.

https://twitter.com/JeffGrubb/status/1043223915596734464

https://twitter.com/LawofTD/status/1043223826941669376

I was very excited for the Wolf Among Us sequel.

Kiith

Ah that's awful news. There was some amazing games in there, but they took on too many projects i think, and the quality of their most recent titles suffered.

The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead were fantastic, and i enjoyed Batman and Game of Thrones.

Zero-Cool

Fuuuck. So many people looking forward to the wolf among us 2. I wonder if the walking dead final season will suffer in quality now, surely morale will be in the **** and they'll either want to just get it over with or do some brilliant work as their last hurrah. Really crappy news but glad I didn't buy the season pass for TWD now.