Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Indivisible Rundown (Part 2)

Hello, everyone, I'm back with another rundown and this time, it's for part 2 of the Indivisible Rundown. Now, if you remember almost 4 years ago, the Indivisible Indiegogo Campaign has went live and the funding has been successful. That means the game will happen. As the development goes on, Indivisible has becoming better with the elements. Here are the details on how the game is going.

The Battle System:


If you remember the battle system, the hit sounds from Skullgirls have been changed to its own sounds and the number of hits and damage dealt shown. The UI is changed and the action gauge is simple to understand. All of their moves are well polished and the battle system is more fun than before. As usual, Ajna can have up to 3 Incarnations on her team.


Incarnations:


Of course, there is also another thing in Indivisible is the Incarnations, the companions of Ajna who are from the other world. As development rises, most of the Incarnations' voice changed. For example, if you take Razmi, her voice is changed to what has displeased fans. It was a shock that a lot of people would prefer the old one. The new one is just terrible. Voice aside, there is one of them that has a name and model change. If you remeber the Incarnation who has a model and name change, Vasco is one of them. He was formerly named "Vasco" and has a former design. And now, after the development flow, his design changed and Vasco is now renamed Latigo as an example since everything was subject to change. Not to mention that there is a new Incarnation that has been added.


Development Flow:


Almost 4 years since Indivisible has funded, 505 Games and Lab Zero were diligently developing the game. Basically, the game was supposed to release on that year, but apparently, with a couple of technical hurdles that have been hit, they have confirmed that Indivisible will release this year. They used to do streams of their development, including producing elements, adding animations, special effects and producing a full voice cast.


The Conclusion:


Indivisible is rated T for Fantasy Violence, Blood and Suggestive Themes and is set to release October 8 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, but a Switch version is released at a later date. PC pre-orders are live while console pre-orders will be live in a later date.

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Joe's Rant: Sony's Selfishness

Okay, I have a rant about Sony's selfishness. Want to know why? I'll tell you right now. Sony is just selfish because they don't want cross-platform on PS4 because they think it's a sore issue in the past. I don't care if it's a sore issue. They need to support cross-platform on PS4. This is just bullcrap that they are less cooperative in the past when it comes to cross play. Last year, Hi-Rez has announced that they are gonna bring cross-play and cross-progression to SMITE, Paladins and Realm Royale and I was hyped for it, but PC, Xbox and Nintendo Switch currently support it while PS4 doesn't yet. What the heck, Sony? That makes me very upset with them, but fortunately, Stew Chisam, the president of Hi-Rez Studios has submitted cross-platform licenses for their three games to Sony and told them to stop playing favorites and tear down the cross-play and cross-progression wall for everyone, including me and has added that SMITE, Paladins and Realm Royale are ready to go for cross-platform on PS4. Now we just wait for Sony to make things dangerous. By make things dangerous, I mean wait for Sony to green light all three games simultaneously or one game at a time, I don't care as long as they do it because cross-play helps improve things like getting higher quality matches quicker and a significant decrease of ELO and bad matches.

I'm sorry, but from a gaming standpoint, if Sony doesn't support cross-play, they are selfish. I would be freaking ticked! That's the worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Sony, if you're reading this, everyone is very upset with you because your system doesn't support cross-platform just because you said that it's a sore issue in the past. I don't care if it is, but you need to enable cross-platform on your system no matter if it's a sore issue of not. I've even sent my long email about how mad I was about you not supporting cross-play on your system. Microsoft and Nintendo have supported cross-platform, but you on the other hand, doesn't. Cross-play improves things. There's no excuse to not allow this amazing feature. You get greatly improved matchmaking, you get greatly improved quality, you get a significant rate increase. There's no purpose to this. It's the number one reason why you should play nice with others.

You don't deserve to freaking earn an award because you're just freaking less cooperative when it comes to cross-play. What happened to you, Sony? Once, you were a selfless and cooperative manufacturer, but now, you care about money and exclusives more than us players. Then all of a sudden, BAM, you have enabled cross-play on Fortnite and Rocket League on PS4 for your PlayStation Cross-Play Program in Beta that you're gonna add more games to in the future, so I'll give you credit for that, even though they are not my cup of tea. But still, you should've enabled it in the first place because back in that year's E3, Microsoft and Nintendo have announced that they're gonna do cross-play with each other and that's something you should've done, Sony.

That's the number one reason why your system isn't included in Hi-Rez's cross-play and cross-progression FAQ yet, so a while back, the president has submitted SMITE, Paladins and Realm Royale cross-platform licenses to you to green light. All three games or one at a time, I don't care as long as you do it. There's no excuse.

Well, that's all I have to say for now. Signing out.

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Cross-Platform Hype

Hello, gamers. Back again with another blog post. What I want to mention to you now, though, is a bit of a shout-out to Hi-Rez Studios. They are getting a cross-platform system and I know you guys are hyped for it. I know I am. But PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch are getting it and they haven't included PS4 yet. That's just not right, but there is one explanation.

Sony has a PlayStation Cross-Platform program and they have Fortnite and Rocket League in their program. That is the reason why they haven't included PS4 yet, but Titan Forge and Evil Mojo have did some database work in taking the servers down for up to 24 hours to merge players across all platforms. As they said, cross-platform will go live in the 6.1 update for SMITE and the 2.2 update for Paladins. If both of these updates go live, PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch players will see the cross-play setting and can play with each other while we PS4 players won't see the cross-play setting because we have to wait until Sony adds them to their program to make it 100% epicness (25% on each platform), so it's not full cross-play fun yet. While the PlayStation Cross-Play program is in a Beta stage, they'll add more games including SMITE and Paladins to their program, so I made a wish list of games that I want to be added to their program, including fighting games, both western and Japanese.

Well, that's all I had to say in this blog post. Remember, Paladins is upgrading to 2.1 tomorrow and Realm Royale is upgrading tomorrow also. Well, for PC and Xbox One. PS4 will get it in a later date. Signing out.

Reasons Why I Buy a PS4 Over the Xbox One

Hello there, you lovely RPG fans. I know you guys are worried about that I have a hiatus from playing RPGs with profanity, but the good news is, there will be future RPGs without profanity. Anyway, I have a post to share.

Alright, so you know how PS4 is great and it's a better system than the Xbox One? Well, I have some reasons on why I had to buy the PS4 instead of an Xbox One. Here are the reasons below.

Games:

The PS4 has more games than the Xbox One. It's not just because there are exclusives. No, it's because that Japanese companies are still supporting Sony. At first, I thought Microsoft is gonna have JRPGs and fighting games for the Xbox One, but apparently, they won't be because little did I know that if Japanese companies support Microsoft, they will lose money, which I didn't know at first and I was happy to oblige. So let's face it, the Xbox One has less games than the PS4.

PS Plus Not Required to Play Free to Play Games:

When the PS4 comes out, PS Plus is required to play games online to make it a rule similar to Microsoft's pay to play online rule for their Xbox Live Gold, but the only difference is that they don't need a PS Plus membership to play free to play games, like Paladins, Fortnite and others. But on the Xbox One, Gold is required to play free to play games on it.

Skullgirls 2nd Encore:

Since the original Skullgirls, Reverge Labs has been laid off and Lab Zero has to take their stead because of Reverge Labs' liquidation. When Robo-Fortune comes out, Lab Zero launches Skullgirls 2nd Encore for PS4. Remember me telling you about it? Well, 2nd Encore has interesting features like a fully-voiced story mode inspired by anime fighting games like BlazBlue, cross-play between the PlayStation family and more. Just feel the experience. Now that's a unique thing that gets the RGR Seal of Approval. The reason why I'm telling you this is because I played Skullgirls a lot while listening to BlazBlue music for fun. Seems like I haven't played it for so long. And then, with Indivisible on the horizon, it's no script. Maybe when it comes out, they should make a bright future for Skullgirls with a general story mode with fully animated cutscenes similar to the ones in Central Fiction. And yes, movie theaters remind you of Skullgirls at night, obviously.

Fortnite:

There has been some shenanigans and we appear to be in a dire predicament that Fortnite doesn't work on the Xbox One. There was this one Oh Shiitake Mushrooms video that has a part that explains on how Fortnite not working on the Xbox One and then one kid had to destroy the Xbox One over Fortnite not working on it. Ridiculous as this sounds, but it's true. I've seen it in action that it freezes on the lobby then crashes. Fortunately, that is a skit that has stunts that can't be performed in real life like destroying electronics, burning things, etc.

Japanese Companies:

When the Xbox 360 first came out, they give it a shot, but they lost money and will never support Microsoft again until they keep their act together, so that's why they have to stay with Sony to be safe and it does not apply to Fortnite crashing on the Xbox One. Since fighting games and RPGs are big in Japan, Sony is safe for Japanese companies to support while Microsoft isn't. I mean, JRPGs and fighting games are nighttime-evident to Sony. By the way, Microsoft has a couple JRPGs and it seems like that was anti-climactic. Weird. Japanese companies lose money when they support Microsoft.

Street Fighter V:

Capcom and Dimps have presented this fighting game. Street Fighter V is a great fighting game, despite the footsies game. It's too bad that the Xbox One not getting it, that is because of Sony funding it. But a PC version can be the case. Call me crazy, but I wish SFV is on the Xbox One, but it isn't because it's money. Honestly, I do like SFV, but the footsies are annoying. Now tell me on why the footsies game has to be implemented. I'll explain right now. The fanbase thinks this fighting game is trash. Although Capcom is throwing out DLC throughout the years. I haven't bought all of the Season 3 DLC characters yet, so it's 2 out of 6.

Fighting Games:

Both systems have a few fighting games, but the PS4 has more fighting games than the Xbox One because of Japanese companies, but Bandai Namco is an exception because they can support Sony and Microsoft for Tekken and Soul Calibur and their anime-based fighting games. In fact, there was a fighting game for the Xbox 360 not by Bandai Namco that has not been released and has been cancelled due to the fact that Japanese companies have to stay with Sony. It's true because I saw it and has been removed from the database. For example, if you know about SNK, then you should know that a while back, they announced KOFXIV for the PS4 and PC, but no Xbox One release because SNK is no longer supporting Microsoft since the previous KOF. They have intended to support Sony and Nintendo to announce SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. PS4 version is digital only while the Nintendo Switch version is both physical and digital. Now that's a nighttime-evident fighting game that I would rather play.

RPG Games:

At first, I thought the Xbox One is gonna get JRPGs, but I was wrong and yet, I see a couple of them in the works for it. Little did I know that Japanese companies support well with Sony and I am an RPG fan. However, I can now play profanity-safe RPGs only. Don't worry, I'm sure that there will more profanity-safe JRPGs in the future, especially nighttime-evident ones. Nighttime-evident is the reason why I'm into JRPGs more than WRPGs.

YouTube Craze:

My favorite YouTube channels have people who have an Xbox One and all the shenanigans about destroying the gaming systems. A have a few channels on my list who have an Xbox One. There's was all that craze that they went psycho when the internet is turned off while playing online or taking it out their teammate who makes their team lose. I do have a couple of my favorite channels who have a PS4. But the majority of them is having an Xbox One. That is because of moments with it.

Remakes of PS1 Games:

Have you guys played the PS1 before? Sony has released the HD remakes for Crash and Spyro. They released Crash Bandicoot's N-Sane Trilogy and Spyro's Reignited Trilogy. Both of them have 3 games that are originally released for the PS1 and both of them are not PS4 exclusives because Xbox One and Nintendo Switch also got it. And now, they got a new remake for them. It's for MediEvil, 3D platformer for the PS1 classic. I actually played MediEvil a little bit and Resident Evil 2. It's not a new game, but it's a remake of the PS1 original. Activision is behind presenting the Spyro and Crash HD collection remakes that I can really play a lot and I have 100%ed one of Spyro's games easily, but I haven't 100% one of Crash's games yet, so... What's this? Guys, I need to get straight to the subject. Thank you.

I just want to shout-out to Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled, okay? Are you familiar with Crash Team Racing? I am. My brother, especially. Maybe we should start streaming it. Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled is releasing in June. Its got remastered graphics and online features. Would you guys be interested in watching us stream some CTR? I know not everyone enjoys the original, but I enjoy it. Just hit the Follow button on my Twitch channel, alright?

What about this blog post? I have a few reasons above on why I had to buy a PS4 over the Xbox One. It's not scripted and for once, I have not scripted a single blog post when I'm just talking to you. On top of that, I need to work on getting a 1 TB PS4 while managing things with some mumbo jumbo gypsy magic on my own. Let me know what you think about my reasons above. Well, that about does it for this blog post. Signing out.