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[Leynos]

Anyone think the GS PS5 bundles are worth it, or dumb? Basically paying almost $800 for a PS5 and a game, controller, and gift card. eBay scalpers you're paying roughly $700 for just the system. I think I just hate the idea of waiting what could be another year or two for a fair price, more than I love the idea of having one right now. Almost plunked the money down, backed out at the last second.

You don't know what controller they give you. Could be the ones with drift or not. Total gamble.

[Moirai]

Have you played Gate of Thunder today?

[Hairlesswookiee]

Anyone think the GS PS5 bundles are worth it, or dumb? Basically paying almost $800 for a PS5 and a game, controller, and gift card. eBay scalpers you're paying roughly $700 for just the system. I think I just hate the idea of waiting what could be another year or two for a fair price, more than I love the idea of having one right now. Almost plunked the money down, backed out at the last second.

That's tough to say. It depends on how bad you want/need a PS5. Personally, no it's not worth it to me but you might be tired of having to search for one. I haven't checked GS bundles in a long time so I don't know what game they're including--might not be worth playing and is ultimately shovelware they're trying to offload. If you can hold out a little bit longer the holiday shopping season is coming in a few months and I scored my PS5 console during one of the random Amazon Prime drops after Black Friday.

[WarmSignal]

That's tough to say. It depends on how bad you want/need a PS5. Personally, no it's not worth it to me but you might be tired of having to search for one. I haven't checked GS bundles in a long time so I don't know what game they're including--might not be worth playing and is ultimately shovelware they're trying to offload. If you can hold out a little bit longer the holiday shopping season is coming in a few months and I scored my PS5 console during one of the random Amazon Prime drops after Black Friday.

It’s actually Elden Ring that comes with it. Gift card is $75 which I do tend to buy my modern games from them, so yeah I’ll spend that probably pretty easily. I don’t really need the extra controller. Then there’s just an extra scalping tax of like $60 thrown on top because they’re a-holes and can’t just be fair about it.

I dunno the fact that I’m considering it means that it’s probably not something I’d regret, but still know the smart thing to do is wait for standard retail price. I could stretch that additional $300 a lot further than one game and accessory over time.

[Leynos]

Working Designs sucked monkey shit. Xseed is 1000000000000000X the company Working Designs ever was.



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Warm. Fair warning. There is still a bunch of controllers being given out in those bundles and being sold that break easy. They are only rated for 400 hours then drift is not a chance but guaranteed. The only way to know for sure a controller won't, is the new Galaxy colors. Purple or Light Blue. On the back of the controller is a serial number and if it ends with A you're good but the Galaxy colors only ones we know for sure end with A. Some white ones bundled in new consoles are with the A but the red or black controllers end with 1 and those are the bad ones. There is a chance you end up with the bad controller and then have to shell out another $70 for one. The easiest way is to sign up on Sony and sign up for the email. My second attempt a month apart is how I got my PS5.

[profholt82]

And here I thought everyone loved Working Designs. Most of their stuff is just localized Japanese rpgs that aren't my thing, so I never got into them. They've always seemed to have a very fervent fanbase though. But it's hard for me to get behind a company that doesn't actually produce anything. Taking another company's work, and doing a questionable language translation isn't really the most respectable thing to me. I guess it's more about the games that they chose to localize than any actual technical prowess as a developer. Although I'm sure the guys in the know can tell me about all of the improvements they made to games before they released. But as far as I know, WD didn't actually make any games. They just took existing games, and slapped a little polish on them and profited.

[WarmSignal]

I kinda thought Xseed had fallen off. I mean, during the 7th gen they were putting out a lot of variety that piqued my interest, and as of the past decade, I've not even noticed what they've been putting out at all. I like the Shantae games, but Senran Kagura is like their flagship series now and it's definitely not for me. I feel like Pqube is sort of today's equivalent of what Xseed was, as far as variety of imports and retail conversions of indies.

[Leynos]

Xseed also just did No More Heroes 3, Rune Factory 5. Working Designs translations were cringe and they made the games more difficult for some reason.

[WarmSignal]

Xseed also just did No More Heroes 3, Rune Factory 5. Working Designs translations were cringe and they made the games more difficult for some reason.

That’s true. I can’t recall if Grasshoper is a part of their fold now, or what, kinda thinking they have been.

Speaking of Pqube, I did happen to notice that Dusk Diver 2 physical is being published by Idea Factory which gives me pause. Especially since I did notice that the art direction of that game seems decidedly more fan service-y than the previous game. You’ve got mega beachball boob lady as one of the main protagonists this time around. Coincidence?

[Leynos]

She was in the first game with the same-sized tits in a tank top sweater so I dunno. The first games main character also was in a bikini in dungeons. I think that's just how the games are. I with PQube would tell me what happened to Uppers on PS4.

[Moirai]

Space Megaforce is þe worſt 16-bit Compile ſhooter.  It bores me to tears.

[Leynos]

[Moirai]

I wonder how difficult it would be to build a device þat allows one to plug NEO-GEO joyſticks into a PC Engine ?

[The Jackal]

Fans reverse engineered Driver 2 and ported it to PC, Linux and even back to PS1, including bug fixes. It's pretty amazing to play the game without extreme slowdown. Link here: https://github.com/OpenDriver2/REDRIVER2 (you need a copy of the original game CD to run it tho).

[Leynos]

I wish Saturn/DC Shmups were as cheap as the RPGs. I know why don't need to know English to play a Shmup so more demand.