@DMCMaster Yeah I feel like I'm unlikely to get an invite to be honest. :P It would be a trip for me to see that garage studio in person after watching so many podcasts and streams from there though, so I'd be down.

Hey Allies!

Weird timing since @Axel just made a very similar post about Tokyo (which is way cooler) but I'm rolling with it anyway!

I'm from the UK originally, currently in the US for a couple of months and I'll be heading to LA on Monday. Just wondering if there's anywhere I should go, or anything you recommend I do while I'm there? I know it's where the EZA team are based and I hear them talk about awesome game stores occasionally, so it'd be cool to find those.

All suggestions welcome. :P

L&R.

@El-Shmiablo I think I remember Huber talking about that way back, it seems to have slipped under the radar for most people, myself included.

On a similar note though, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World was a pleasant surprise for me. Awesome beat 'em up with one of the best chiptune soundtracks of all time in my opinion! It's a shame music licensing issues are the reason you can't really get ahold of it anymore - _ - but if you have a way to play it and like the genre, I 100% recommend it, especially with a co-op buddy!

@-Jak- To be honest I didn't notice the technical issues so much with the older games, it was the framepacing in Bloodborne that got me because it started to give me headaches (I love that game so much though I've still played it a bunch of times, and will continue to do so). Honestly I think what triggered it is getting a PC and becoming more accustomed to higher framerates. I'm not one of the PC master race types, I play my consoles just as much as my PC stuff, but it's definitely made me more sensitive to inconsistencies.

It's like, 30FPS is fine for me, but any judder etc. hurts my brain after a little while these days. I actually had a similar issue on PC with The Witcher 3 which has a bunch of microstutter on certain CPUs. But yeah, Demons' Souls and Dark Souls didn't have any framepacing problems even when the FPS was low, so that's likely why even if the performance wasn't great, it worked well enough for me. It's just the BB/DS3 engine that seems to have had that problem on sonsoles for whatever reason, which is why I recommend DS3 on PC over the others if possible.

@Chocobop Sounds pretty promising. I'm interested to see how it turns out, totally getting it on the Switch at any rate. :P

@Stormcrownn The article I linked has been updated with this info.

[Update: Bandai Namco's marketing team has made a post over on Sony's blog that confirms a few details about the upcoming remaster. For starters, HDR is definitely not going to be a part of this, though 4K is in. The multiplayer component will also use dedicated servers and allow for up to six people to participate at once.

There isn't any mention of updated assets, but that could also be construed as there not being any at all. As we get closer to release, we're sure to see some graphical comparison, so we'll just have to stay tuned for now.]

So it looks like there will be some form of Pro/X support and multiplayer should be more functional, beyond that it's looking likely nothing's changing but hey, we can hope. :P

@-Jak- I support all of the things you've listed here, as confusing and convoluted as KH's story is, I love those games. :P If you're sensitive to things like framedrops/stutter, I definitely recommend getting Dark Souls 3 on PC when you decide you want to play it, it's the only version without frame pacing issues (something to do with the engine unfortunately, bloodborne has the same problem) so even if you don't care for 60fps it's going to be more consistent. ^ . ^

@warweeny I have an issue lately where with DsFix installed, Steam won't allow the game to launch so that's put a spanner in the works for this particular plan, at least for me. If you have a fix for that, it'd be useful info.

Given the Crash and SotC remakes, and just how much money the Crash one made already, I don't think anyone's delusional for thinking one of the most influential games of all time would get the same treatment. It would be a more effective cash grab that way.

@FutureCorpse I watched ACG's review of that actually. I get the impression Pihrana Bytes are a "greater than the sum of its parts" kind of developer, where there's some jank here and there but if you can put up with the problems there's a solid experience for people willing to give them the time and accept the quirks. Good pick, man.

@DIPSET All that I can agree on :P it's one of the greatest for sure. If this version's more refined then I'll be happy to go through it again a bunch more times, especially in co-op with new players!