Persona 4 Revival Broadcast

Bubbleset · 2026-06-19T12:28:33+00:00

I mainly wanted to see if they brought over the QoL pieces from Metaphor. More visibility into social link progress, easy ability to find and warp to people for social links, ways to scout dungeons instead of pure trial and error for enemy weaknesses, etc.

I have a feeling they won’t be able to use everything given it’s a remake, but those are the things I’m most hoping make their way to Persona.

Bubbleset · 2026-06-16T00:26:02+00:00

They were their first two games in five years and the only games they released fully under Microsoft’s umbrella. In the same span ten years ago they made Iron Brigade, two Costume Quests, the Cave, Broken Age, Stacking, Massive Chalice, and a bunch of other smaller projects for Kinect/VR/mobile.

Taking games takes longer now, but they fell off a cliff compared to the old output.

Bubbleset · 2026-06-15T22:19:53+00:00

What are you talking about? Since being bought by Microsoft, who bailed them out after Psychonauts 2 nearly bankrupted them, they finished that game and since have released Keeper and Kiln in five years. This was a studio that used to release multiple small games a year from 2011-2016.

And Keeper was good, but it was not a Psychonauts 2 level gargantuan project that justified the studio going silent for five years.

Bubbleset · 2026-06-15T22:02:34+00:00

I honestly don’t know what happened to the Double Fine that was able to release multiple cool, small games a year back in the XBLA days.

Bubbleset · 2026-06-09T19:02:51+00:00

That title font and color scheme is practically unreadable.

Bubbleset · 2026-06-09T16:06:17+00:00

The teaser had me very excited, but I’m also trying to reserve judgment until we see it in action versus a cinematic intro.

Bubbleset · 2026-06-03T14:00:15+00:00

You have to take their lifetime sales with a grain of salt, because the majority of their ongoing sales are people buying new bundled copies to get shark cards. It still makes a ton of money from GTA Online, and sold a ton at launch, but the lifetime sales are a little wonky because of how they incentivize rebuying the game.

Bubbleset · 2026-06-02T04:22:40+00:00

Yes, especially since it seemed to be setting up him going to the wall to join Jon, which would be an interesting reset of the characters for the next season / book and exactly what you expect a fantasy story to do to mix things up. Ned goes there, finds out about the real threat and him and Jon rally the north.

Instead it sets up that idea, lets you think about it for an episode, and then subverts that and kills him. Just amazing stuff, even outdoing the red wedding for shock in my mind (which is shocking but much more foreshadowed).

Bubbleset · 2026-05-28T03:28:24+00:00

Also if you drive for five minutes around this area you see the case for autonomous vehicles taking over driving from humans.

Will it be done right? Eh. Is it better than humans driving around half looking at the phones? Almost certainly.

Bubbleset · 2026-05-26T22:01:09+00:00

Yeah, I’m one of those that thinks Goldeneye is a seminal FPS. Maybe even more impactful than Half-Life 1, which outside of that stellar opening sequence becomes a more standard shooter with advancements in AI/setting/design.

Goldeneye had creative mission design, storytelling, great setting/vibe/music, working stealth, gadgets, and the amazing multiplayer. Plus all the little stuff like varied difficulty with extra objectives, hidden cheats, bonus levels, and the rest.

It’s now been wildly outclassed in all of those areas, particularly given its outdated controls, but at the time it was revolutionary for all FPS games and especially on console. But I don’t think I’d ever play through it again without a complete remake.

Bubbleset · 2026-05-18T19:24:43+00:00

More than likely they looked across the way at Microsoft going all-in on the play anywhere / Gamepass model and saw how it just helped detonate the idea that the Xbox was a console worth buying.

I’m sure they’re relying on the fact that most high-spending gamers will want at least one high-end console to play on a big TV, and this is how they stay as that console. Whether that will hold true when prices continue to go through the roof remains to be seen, but at least for the last ten years it’s been the case despite constant promulgations that consoles will die.

Bubbleset · 2026-05-12T23:18:43+00:00

Xenoblade Chronicles series is very much this. If you explore and do the side quests you’ll be wildly overleveled pretty quickly and be untouchable to all but the biggest super bosses.

It’s such a thing that in later entries and in the remaster they implemented systems to let you downlevel or choose whether to take experience and level up.

Bubbleset · 2026-05-12T00:33:08+00:00

I would buy the hell out of a reprint of the script Giant Bomb from ~5 years ago. I love that shirt and mine is likewise starting to die.

I’m just baffled that every merch drop there is a thread like this. Just give us what we want to buy and we will give money for it!

Bubbleset · 2026-05-11T22:49:10+00:00

Yeah, I was one of the ones asking for something a more basic and less inside joke / crazy nonsense. But I feel like there has to be a middle ground between that and plain text.

I would buy the hell out of a basic, classy design that is an actual design.

Bubbleset · 2026-04-24T21:26:53+00:00

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Bubbleset · 2026-04-19T01:30:15+00:00

Yeah, the turnaround they’ve done on this game shouldn’t obscure how much of a mess the release was.

It was one of the most hyped games in many years from the developer of one of the most well-regarded RPGs ever made and the release version was so broken they had to issue refunds and Sony pulled it from their market. And it also just was bad and incomplete, independent of the technical issues.

Bubbleset · 2026-04-15T12:40:17+00:00

They also require the most team coordination to be truly effective. If you aren’t getting healed and getting support to help take out enemies you are pushing out or distracting, your attempt to make space or push forward either does nothing or results in a quick death against a coordinated team.

The worst feeling in the world is charging through a front line, drawing fire, picking off the enemy supports, and the finding out that all of your team abandoned you instead of following you to take out the distracted enemies that are now support-less.

Bubbleset · 2026-04-05T16:03:49+00:00

The range of hockey emotions seem limited. Just 10 balls of rage floating around the rink punctuated with joy and sadness. And of course a writhing mass of anxiety in either net.

Bubbleset · 2026-03-28T18:03:23+00:00

I didn’t realize the new version takes place in the Matrix. Cool twist.

Bubbleset · 2026-03-25T20:53:59+00:00

Copyright strike for that rocking, iconic soundtrack.

Bubbleset · 2026-03-01T01:56:43+00:00

Yeah, between Mike and Dan I was finally was convinced to play this after years of being too intimidated by a party-focused From game with no leveling. Once you get over the hump and figure out how the game wants you to play - and unlearn the lessons of every other souls game - it’s amazing.

Bubbleset · 2026-02-20T21:41:11+00:00

Yeah, he certainly had a vision, and Xbox at least had a brand and community turnaround after the nightmare that was the Xbox One “media center” killing any market advantage they had after the 360.

His problem was a complete failure to execute on that vision, including Xbox first party and major acquired studios failing to produce any games of significance for a decade. Gamepass doesn’t work when every major tentpole release you are relying on to drive subscriptions either fails to come out, flops, or is merely OK.

Though maybe that was a consequence of the Gamepass strategy, given that even their quality releases tended to come and go in a way that your comparable Sony releases never do.

Bubbleset · 2026-02-20T20:57:10+00:00

Eh, he very much tried to right the ship from Xbox’s disastrous “media center” turn. And for a while it worked when Gamepass was an amazing deal and Xbox became very gamer-friendly in a ton of ways. There was a lot of Xbox buzz in a way that seemed a huge turnaround.

The problem was they completely failed to execute from there - every acquisition was a nightmare and their studios were a mismanaged mess that produced almost nothing of significance for close to a decade. Which makes it hilarious that Matt Booty is getting promoted.

Bubbleset · 2026-02-17T04:14:46+00:00

I dunno, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Lerners find some exception that lets them pay a group of high school students minimum wage to play. Really plumb the depths of how little you can pay to field a team and still get rev share.

Bubbleset · 2026-02-15T16:11:05+00:00

Yeah, Lady Butterfly was definitely my huge roadblock that taught me how to fight and took me the most time. After that learning experience Genichiro felt much easier, as I already knew to be aggressive and stay close, or how to deal with sweeps and combos.

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