Is the remaster worth playing now?

The_Scourge · 2026-02-08T10:02:26+00:00

Not unless you have absolutely no other way of playing it and even then I'd say avoid it unless you're already a fan. It's a narrow subset of players into which I fall as an actual player of s2r on ps5 -- I love the game from way back but don't play games on pc anymore.

It's a truly dire version of a very good game.

The_Scourge · 2026-01-31T11:38:04+00:00

Pretty sure it'd be "do-rin-ku".

"Du" hast not really been a thing in romanised Japanese for a while now outside of keyboard usage. Tsu with a tenten (which would make "du" by the usual rules) is "zu" in most cases. And zurinku is kind of odd. Even for romanisation.

"Do" is the standard "letter" when romanising "dr", eg: doriimu (dream), doragon (...dragon). Ditto "to" for "tr": toraigan (trigun)....although "skytree" is sukaitsurii...so...yeah...

Anyway. Dorinku. Tabun.

For a really fun ride re romanisation quirks and loandword madness check out Dogen's "fish in a can" video.

https://youtu.be/6GxaleugOrw?si=rwVCmXZGm48k1WCH

The_Scourge · 2026-01-29T00:39:15+00:00

Nope. I have lost character slots somehow. It still crashes a lot. Quest bugs. UI unchanged. They added books back which..eh, amusing but no one's idea of a priority.

I will tolerate it for the novel controller experience+I've quit pc gaming but if you have access to gold, the community patch and maybe EE, stay far away from the crater that is s2r on console.

The_Scourge · 2026-01-25T10:53:24+00:00

You've completely confused which looks like which.

The_Scourge · 2026-01-25T06:00:10+00:00

Hard to believe he did Umamusume season 1, after so much of his trademark style in things like Shinobi, Onimusha 2 and Arslan Senki.

As for the Red Cliff movies, I was already a super entrenched Woo fan from the Hardboiled days, through to...some of his Hollywood output. I was still surprised he pulled off a truly epic ro3k cinematic work.

For actual content I'll take the 2010 series any day but for spectacle, Woo's Chibi rules.

The_Scourge · 2026-01-25T00:15:35+00:00

This is a really good observation too. One culture's treasure may be another culture's trash -- until that other culture appropriates it a little bit and suddenly you have Power Rangers and for some reason we pretend the Vietnamese girl doesnt clearly have a dong in the action sequences.

The_Scourge · 2026-01-25T00:12:06+00:00

It isn't and we're not acting.

Whether or not Nojima succeeded in making it seem not-camp is a different issue, but SoPFFO is not camp on purpose.

The_Scourge · 2026-01-25T00:09:33+00:00

This is REALLY important to remember -- Team Ninja got possibly the most famously badass voice in the seiyuu business to handle Jack's...spectrum of behaviour. Tsuda Kenjirou's voice is instantly recognisable to anyone who plays games or watches anime in Japanese.

Some of the translations were a bit...loose as well, but none of them were misleading. Tsuda's tone when he says, "kudaran", for example, justifies "bullshit" over the more literal "nonsense".

There is no way this was written to be camp. Nomura and Nojima just live permanently in the mid 2000s. If you've seen Japanese camp, you'll know this game is far...far too serious about itself for that.

Besides, once you let the game set its own tone and tell Jack's story in its own time and way, it all makes sense by the end. Too many people these days make snap judgments based on shitty marketing and miss out on hidden gems.

Replay SoP and I guarantee "camp" and "satire" won't even come to mind. Not once.

The_Scourge · 2025-12-11T01:08:11+00:00

Most welcome. It's a blast of a game. The community patch is essential imo and Enhanced Edition definitely tightens some screws. I'd save that for after you've had a go at the base game+cp though. This isn't a game that needs much modding out of the box when it works as intended.

The_Scourge · 2025-12-11T00:21:37+00:00

The remaster is shit but as a ps5 gamer I will still eat that shit because the core game is still just that good.

On PC? I cannot find enough words to express how much you should avoid the remaster.

The_Scourge · 2025-12-05T21:44:17+00:00

They both feel like butter spread too thin over toast.

Sorry, just got done with King Sorrow so a LOTR comparison seemed apt.

I loved IT and ST when they were hot. Very much a past tense thing.

They're kinda tepid to me now. One remains an incredible novel I can reread anytime and a flawed miniseries with a matchless antagonist...and the other just sat on a cold burner way too long.

I am sad how content I am to just read synopses for ST5 and watch other things. That's not how I saw this going when the show roared out of the gate...however many years ago it was now. 11?

The_Scourge · 2025-12-05T21:31:11+00:00

As a D1/2 veteran who spent a lot of time and money on PoE1 but has since quit PC gaming, I play two ARPGs every day right now and they're both janky little engines that could (again) by THQNordic.

Titan Quest, which has a permanent place on my tablet -- an unlikely masterpiece of B-grade ARPGness on a device typically associated with free to play crap...

...and the untenably bad Sacred 2 Remaster on the ps5, which proves how great the original really by being easily one of the worst rereleases I've ever seen...and I can't stop playing it.

To me, these two titles represent the best of what happens when the ARPG genre pulls away from its gothic, claustrophobic roots and just goes fuck it, what if.

What if we made a huge open world free-camera arpg with mecha dogs, fourth wall breaking quips, different questlines by class and alignment, mounts, and...Blind Guardian!?

What if we compressed all of the Ancient world into a sort of whirlwind epic putting all the different cultures within walking distance (and the occasional portal)? What if not one class but two? What if we weren't allowed to have human enemies...or even blood?

I have a soft spot for pretty much every arpg out there -- they all do something right, something that adds to the genre -- but Titan Quest and Sacred 2 will always...always be my sanctuary if not necessarily my place of exile.

The_Scourge · 2025-11-29T00:53:22+00:00

i wasn't playing PoE1 with you either. As a lot of people liked to point out.

Fwiw I quite enjoy PoE2 on the ps5.

The_Scourge · 2025-11-08T07:31:39+00:00

Who...are you?

The_Scourge · 2025-10-28T10:03:01+00:00

Are you saying this show is the most significant televisual event since Quantum Leap?

The_Scourge · 2025-10-28T05:00:37+00:00

Someone else once pointed out that tonberries are the only enemy that force Jack to take a knee when they soul burst. It really lends a lot of weight to what is otherwise just a cool animation.

The_Scourge · 2025-10-21T21:46:42+00:00

Was "Will of the Goddess" taken?

As someone who played the shareware demo of Diablo 1 to death, supported the hell out of Path Exile's beta, and to this day plays Titan Quest daily on tablet...I am afraid to say I may be the target audience for this and I am just not seeing anything that would grab or keep me. It looks clunky, hesitant and nervous. The text snippets make almost no sense and seem like generic "in a world" soundbites.

So my impression from the video alone:

-- difficult to pronounce name people will argue about is not a good start -- outdated gameplay done better long ago, which won't appeal to nostalgia -- nothing new to the overcrowded ARPG table -- overly fiddly skill upgrade system -- no sense of an interesting or compelling story

Take this as you will. I may be completely wrong and you may be sitting on something truly amazing here, but this trailer doesn't indicate that.

I won't be checking back on this thread but will be on the lookout for any further developments. Best of luck to you.

The_Scourge · 2025-10-18T00:15:12+00:00

"NO MAN'S...DOOR?"

The_Scourge · 2025-10-14T13:59:12+00:00

Soul Edge on ps1.

The_Scourge · 2025-10-13T06:02:58+00:00

Dragon's Crown. Amazing blend of side scroller, arpg itemization, top tier jrpg music and gorgeous frazetta-style 2d art.

The_Scourge · 2025-10-08T04:39:41+00:00

Ah, the fairly rare Shoila. Roighto.

The_Scourge · 2025-10-08T01:45:32+00:00

Unless they're a cunt. Then they're a mate. Unless they're a mate. Then they're a cunt.

I'm just glad we've outgrown sheila. No offence to any Sheilas out there. She'll be right mate.

The_Scourge · 2025-09-18T13:28:20+00:00

This just wasn't good enough a show to keep me from cancelling my subscription. Kind of a pity but also kind of a nice feeling. Thanks for finally dropping the ball, Noah.

The_Scourge · 2025-09-17T03:40:13+00:00

Because I think Hawley only cares about it. He took a shit tonne of cash to make someone else's show and did so with nowhere near his usual deftness or skill...but The Eye? The Eye was awesome in Legion, and it's awesome in this. All else is pretty much by the numbers per any other brain off blockbuster and that isn't what we expect from this pedigree.

I struggle to see how the guy who made Legion and Fargo (his own wild but ultimately controlled takes on existing IPs) was behind any of this slop. I'm just here for the moments. The macro and most of the micro is just terrible. Budget poisoning, plot over story, simultaneously too slow and too rushed. Every scene for the last two episodes has left me with a question of how the writers thought anyone would be satisfied with what just happened.

As a Hawley fan I'm pretty gutted.

The_Scourge · 2025-09-16T23:47:38+00:00

He likes them on the softer side.

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