Z3M0G said:

PS2 dick BC... that allows remote play support.

Because I want to be able to play my favorite PS2 games without needing to constantly hunt down a working PS2, just for it to die shortly afterwards. And I want remote play so I can play them on my Vita.

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Z3M0G said:

PS2 dick BC

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Z3M0G said:

PS2 dick BC

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Creaking said:

Nah uh. Dragon's Dogma 2 has gotta be Dragon's Dogma 2. I've seen enough of Deep Down to know that it isn't Dragon's Dogma anything. Game didn't even have jumping from what I could tell. Tell me, how are you supposed to climb wild beasts if you can't even jump onto them?

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Z3M0G said:

PS2 dick BC...

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Slay said:

We're just five days before the event, and we still don't know if there will be a keynote like last year? and if so can we have the scheduled time please?

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Of course, this is only the beginning of the games you’ll be playing in San Francisco this year — we’ll have more info to share soon. We’ll also have panel details (!), gift bag contents (!!), and on-site activities (!!!) such as the big keynote presentation on Saturday morning. You won’t want to miss that!

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• Crash Bandicoot - I spend part of my free time running a Crash Bandicoot twitter dedicated to watching the rumors and news of a comeback. I'm well informed on what's happening with this series. I look at numbers, I look at trademarks, domains, for years I had multiple industry contacts inside Sierra, Vivendi, Radical, and I have several of the game's developers in my contact lists. I'd like to think I know a lot about Crash Bandicoot. All signs point to movement. At this point my opinion is "When, Where, What and How" -- not "IF" or "why".**
• Kingdom Hearts 3 in some form - That Disney event trailer from Japan that still hasn't shown up would be a start. I get chills any time I see this game. I love Kingdom Hearts.
• Sly movie information or tie-in game - We saw that first initial look at the movie a while back, but haven't seen anything since. I think it's just about time to see it again, and I think there will be a game accompanying the movie.
• New Ratchet Reboot information - I'd love to see more of this game, it's already pretty much selling me on a PS4, and with Uncharted, KH, and other favorites coming down the pipeline, it's about time. As soon as I can afford it, I'm going to be getting one, and I'm willing and ready to get hyped about these games.

• Jak and Daxter - People like to harp on "Crash" as unlikely, but if anything is unlikely to me in this day and age, it's Jak. I love Jak games, even the sequels and yes, even the LAST game on PSP/PS2. I would like to see it come full circle and see the attempts at a continuation actually come to fruition. At this point, I think I'd even be okay with the gritty reboot. As long as it stays a platformer/shooter.
• Ape Escape 4 (VR?) - the amount of Sony tech that has come and gone without an Ape Escape to showcase it is just a wasted opportunity. That was the whole point of Ape Escape -- to showcase the dualshock controller back on PS1. They made a game for the Move controller with cool anime cutscenes and shit, but it was a rail-shooter. Ape Escape isn't and should never be a rail-shooter.

jacks81x said:

We've known there will be a keynote for a while now.

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Memento said:

I am thinking more along the lines of using its engine, character models, monster models, etc.

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krae_man said:

I'm betting Watch Dogs 2 will be there and will have exclusive DLC again.

Hopefully there are enough next gen systems out there now for Ubi to forgo the last gen versions.

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Corpsepyre said:

Santa Monica Studio ‏@SonySantaMonica Nov 29
@Kovuviw high fives (to celebrate our new game announcement)!

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krae_man said:

I'm betting Watch Dogs 2 will be there and will have exclusive DLC again.

Hopefully there are enough next gen systems out there now for Ubi to forgo the last gen versions.

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• The houselights come on and the audience screams as Kevin Butler enters the stage. “Thank you PlayStation Fans! It’s great to be back, and my God do I need to pee!”
  The audience chuckles, but quickly snaps into revered silence as the words ‘Sony Computer Entertainment Presents’ emerge on the big screen.
• A young boy is running through a dilapidated urban jungle looking frantically over his shoulder. His pursuers fire shots at him and shout insults. The boy rounds a corner and finds himself in a dead end. Two angry men enter the alley and move in on him. “Where is it?” one asks menacingly, “if you tell us where it is I’ll make this qui-.” The man’s neck is pierced by an arrow and he drops to his knees. His accomplice spins around just in time to catch a bolt through the eye, killing him instantly. The camera follows the footsteps of an unseen character who approaches the first man, still spluttering blood from his neck. Their hand reaches down, yanks the bolt out, reloads the bow and fires again at his head. Sudden clicking sounds cause her to turn around and face the camera.
  It’s a mid-twenties Ellie. Last of Us 2 confirmed.
• The room is filled with screams; the difference between excitement and terror indistinguishable at this pitch. But the audience doesn’t have time to process anything. The Houser brothers take the stage. Trailers for Agent and Red Dead Resurrection—both PS4 exclusives—are shown.
• Redmond Washington briefly overtakes China as the world’s largest producer of salt.
• The audience begins to boo loudly. Gamers watching the stream at home are confused, wondering if maybe Crystal Dynamics is taking the stage? They soon realise the audience isn’t booing, they’re chanting ‘Booya Booya Booya’.
  Adam Boyes is in the muthafckin house.
• Boyes carries a baseball bat on his shoulder and walks with purpose to the centre of the stage where a mystery item is covered in a black sheet. He takes some warmup swings, each one raising the nervous excitement in the room. He turns to the audience and with a confident grin shouts “We bought Konami!”
• Boyes throws the black sheet off to reveal a pachinko machine and proceeds to smash it to smithereens. The crowd is in hysterics. Metal Gear, Castlevania, Suikoden, Contra, Zone of the Enders, Policenauts and Snatcher games are all in development, and all PS4 exclusive.
• The level of happening in the room causes the stage to shake and become uneven. The conference is annoyingly paused while Sony technicians perform a stability update.
• With stability restored, John Hurt joins Boyes on stage wearing his jumpsuit from the Nostromo. “Oh cool” the audience murmurs, “an Alien Isolation sequel!” John Hurt begins to grab at his chest. The audience laps up the references to that scene from Alien. The cheers start to fade however when it becomes apparent to all present that this is no act. Something is going horribly wrong. Suddenly John Hurt falls to the ground and tears open his shirt to reveal a huge mass pressing against his skin. In a violent explosion of blood, three beings burst out of his chest. It’s Kojima, De Torro and Norman Reedus!
  Silent Hills confirmed. PS4 exclusive, available for download RIGHT NOW.
• A man in the front row is so overcome with hype and happiness that a small galaxy is formed within his neo cortex. The galaxy is populated with beings of pure joy who love, live and learn for thousands of years of their time, all contained within a mere millisecond of ours. The radio waves of the PSX 2015 broadcast finally reach this galaxy, and its joyous denizens—overcome with more joy than they can handle— are driven to madness. In a manic overreaction their chief scientists decide to create a singularity to engulf the universe as they know it. Back at PSX the man’s head instantly disappears into an unseen pin-hole. Those around him don’t have time to dwell on this bizarre development; Boyes is back on stage.
• “We at PlayStation are as mystified as the rest of you as to why Ubisoft won’t release a ninja-themed Assassin’s creed game. Well enough is enough!” The blood of every audience member suddenly rushes to their genitals. When the Tenchu logo appears on screen a lady in the audience stands up to cheer but faints instantly due to a lack of blood in her brain and legs.
• Mike Morhaime is welcomed on stage by Boyes to announce Heroes of the Storm as a console exclusive to PS4. Kratos, Drake, Kat, Monokuma, Gallahad, Aloy, Snake, Ratchet, Crash, Wander, Gabe Logan and more are announced as free PS4 exclusive characters. The cheers are short-lived and replaced by furious jeers; Darrell Gallagher from Crystal Dynamics is taking the stage.
• Amid a hail of insults and rotten tomatoes he raises his hands and pleas with the audience—now more of an angry mob—to hear him out. “I know we have wronged you” he says, wiping tomato pulp from his face, “but we have seen the error of our ways”. He reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls forth a legal document. “The exclusivity agreement is no more” he says, setting the pages on fire. “Rise of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition is now available for download and retail purchase exclusively on PS4!” The audience continues its barrage of fruit, clearly unswayed. “The game runs at 1080p, 60fps, with countless visual improvements.” The grumbles soften slightly, but many still remain furious. “Furthermore, we are making Rise of the Tomb Raider retroactively exclusive to PS4. All copies of this game sold on disc or download to Xbox gamers will now self-destruct.” The audience, while amused, is still furious. Nothing can win them back. “The game will also come with a retro-Lara costume featuring the traditional hotpants and tank-top.”
• All is forgiven.
• The crowd substitutes tomatoes for roses, showering Darrell in gratitude. Before leaving the stage he announces new Legacy of Kain and Pandemonium games for PS4 and Vita respectively. “These games are launching exclusively on PlayStation, but that exclusivity has a duration………and that duration is ETERNITY!” The hype in the room is reaching critical mass, but things are only getting started.
• An adorable yet incredibly tired voice begins to address the audience over the P.A. It’s translator-chan! She hasn’t slept since TGS. “Would aaahh, you please welcome aaaahhh to the aaaahhhh stage, Shuhei ahhhh Yoshida.”
• Shu sprints into view wearing a life-vest and boating apparel. If he announces Wind Waker HD for PS4 people will literally eat their own eyeballs. “These clothes will make sense soon enough” he says, before showing footage of new Crash Bandicoot, Syphon Filter, Wip3out, Colony Wars, God of War 4 and Dark Cloud. The audience is crying uncontrollably.
• A familiar system boot-sound is heard, and the PlayStation 2 logo appears on screen. Full backwards compatibility with PS2 games is announced, not only for downloading, but also for free use with existing PS2 discs. The audience screams, but Shu isn’t done. An orchestra begins to play a familiar pre-concert tuning. It’s the PS3 boot screen. Shu announces full backwards compatibility with PS3 games as well as PS2. The audiences’ screams reach such a high pitch that only San Francisco’s dog population are capable of comprehending the joy emanating from the theatre. With tongue firmly in cheek Shu also announces backwards emulation for all Xbox One games, with the PS4 using its left over processing power to upscale the emulated Xbox One games to 1080p.
• Amid the howls of laughter Shu welcomes Yamauchi onto the stage, also wearing a life-vest. He announces a new round of GT academy. Footage begins to play of real-world car races involving GT academy participants. Hang on. Hold the phone. Is that? …..that’s in-game Gran Turismo Sport! 4k resolution, 120fps, photo-realistic graphics. Yamauchi explains how much detail they’ve gone into, from the carbon fibres of the seats to accurately displaying the actual exhaust emissions of Volkswagon cars. The visual fidelity of the footage causes the audience in the first 5 rows to void their bowels.
• A portal opens above the stage and a winged angel descends, basking the theatre in pure holy light. As the light slowly fades, through tear-filled eyes the audience gazes upon the face of this divine being. It’s Cerny. Knack 2: The Knackering is in development.
• Shu tries to calm the audience, who have now been crying for the better part of 20 minutes straight. “Just before we leave, I have one more announcement. This is a matter close to my heart” he begins, amid a frenzy of screams. “I met a PlayStation gamer recently who had the PSN name ‘V@ginalBloodFart69’ and he looked me in the eyes and asked me ‘Shuhei, when can we change our PSN names? Well, to that little boy and to all PlayStation gamers around the world, the answer to that question is RIGHT NOW!”
• Shu, Cerny and Yamauchi jump in a row-boat which is floating on a literal sea of happy tears. As they row merrily towards the theatre exit Kevin Butler wades out on stage. The audience is neck-deep in their own tears, and those watching at home have caused global sea levels to rise 40 centimetres. The island nation of Naru is no more; the noble sacrifice of its inhabitants an acceptable loss in exchange for the announcements of this day.
• “I want to thank each and every PlayStation gamer here and around the world for being with us today. But before we leave you tonight, we have one last announcement.”
• Kevin Butler tears the skin off of his face. It’s Gaben. PS4 exclusive Half Life 4 confirmed.

Drac84 said:

this thing

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Drac84 said:

I'm not expecting much to be honest. My predictions for the conference are as follows:

It has been 12 months since the first PSX plunged life as we know it into chaos. Society has regained some semblance of normality, and the world holds its collective breath and prays that a repeat of the incident in 2015 doesn’t occur.

The lights dim and the screen cuts to footage from a top-floor boardroom. A tall, majestic figure looks out the window across his kingdom and turns to face the audience. The sight of Kaz’s face causes the ovaries of everyone watching to swell. Especially the men.

“It’s time” he says, reaching into his shirt to pull out a necklace with a key attached before handing it to a previously unseen subordinate. It’s Shawn Layden. “Are you sure Sir?” he asks. “Yes” replies Kaz authoritatively, “release the Kracken.” Shawn nervously accepts the key with a deferential bow. The camera follows him as he hurriedly marches down a long, heavily secure hallway. When he reaches the end he is met with an intimidating vault door. Reaching into his pocket he pulls out his own access key, and along with Kaz’s inserts them into the door and turns them simultaneously.

Alarms sound and lights flash as a rush of depressurised gas releases. The vault door rolls away to reveal a cryogenic chamber. Shawn undertakes a retinal scan and then presses the defrost switch. The ice rapidly melts revealing a man in a suit. After what seems like a lifetime, the now defrosted man opens his eyes and furrows his brow. “What year is this?” he asks, confused. “2015” replies Shawn, “do you remember who you are?”
The man pauses momentarily, his eyes searching internally for the answer. A subtle grin appears in the corner of his mouth as it all comes flooding back. “I’m Kevin fucking Butler”
The two men walk with purpose back down the secure hallway.
“I take it a lot has changed since I was last activated. Where’s Jack?” asks Kevin, his eyes both literally and metaphorically fixed on the path ahead.
“Jack accomplished his objective” replied Shawn, unable to hide his admiration.
“Excellent. So the PS4 launch?”
“8GB DDR5, game lending, share functionality, no online-DRM”
“Outstanding! And the Xbox?”
“Tried always online, mandatory Kinect, ESRAM, and currently trail by 15m units worldwide”
“Idiots!” laughed Kevin shaking his head in disbelief “so what’s my first mission? Am I to rendezvous with agent Harrison?”
“No, Phil’s also completed his tour of duty” replied Shawn, his tiny legs struggling to match Kevin’s purposeful strides.
“Do you need me to revive The Last Guardian, speak to Square about remaking FF7, or arrange for Shenmu 3?”
“No, those are all underway” replied Shawn, beaming.
“Then what do you need me to do?” enquired Kevin, his head spinning.
“I need you to open PSX for us”

• The houselights come on and the audience screams as Kevin Butler enters the stage. “Thank you PlayStation Fans! It’s great to be back, and my God do I need to pee!”
  The audience chuckles, but quickly snaps into revered silence as the words ‘Sony Computer Entertainment Presents’ emerge on the big screen.
• A young boy is running through a dilapidated urban jungle looking frantically over his shoulder. His pursuers fire shots at him and shout insults. The boy rounds a corner and finds himself in a dead end. Two angry men enter the alley and move in on him. “Where is it?” one asks menacingly, “if you tell us where it is I’ll make this qui-.” The man’s neck is pierced by an arrow and he drops to his knees. His accomplice spins around just in time to catch a bolt through the eye, killing him instantly. The camera follows the footsteps of an unseen character who approaches the first man, still spluttering blood from his neck. Their hand reaches down, yanks the bolt out, reloads the bow and fires again at his head. Sudden clicking sounds cause her to turn around and face the camera.
  It’s a mid-twenties Ellie. Last of Us 2 confirmed.
• The room is filled with screams; the difference between excitement and terror indistinguishable at this pitch. But the audience doesn’t have time to process anything. The Houser brothers take the stage. Trailers for Agent and Red Dead Resurrection—both PS4 exclusives—are shown.
• Redmond Washington briefly overtakes China as the world’s largest producer of salt.
• The audience begins to boo loudly. Gamers watching the stream at home are confused, wondering if maybe Crystal Dynamics is taking the stage? They soon realise the audience isn’t booing, they’re chanting ‘Booya Booya Booya’.
  Adam Boyes is in the muthafckin house.
• Boyes carries a baseball bat on his shoulder and walks with purpose to the centre of the stage where a mystery item is covered in a black sheet. He takes some warmup swings, each one raising the nervous excitement in the room. He turns to the audience and with a confident grin shouts “We bought Konami!”
• Boyes throws the black sheet off to reveal a pachinko machine and proceeds to smash it to smithereens. The crowd is in hysterics. Metal Gear, Castlevania, Suikoden, Contra, Zone of the Enders, Policenauts and Snatcher games are all in development, and all PS4 exclusive.
• The level of happening in the room causes the stage to shake and become uneven. The conference is annoyingly paused while Sony technicians perform a stability update.
• With stability restored, John Hurt joins Boyes on stage wearing his jumpsuit from the Nostromo. “Oh cool” the audience murmurs, “an Alien Isolation sequel!” John Hurt begins to grab at his chest. The audience laps up the references to that scene from Alien. The cheers start to fade however when it becomes apparent to all present that this is no act. Something is going horribly wrong. Suddenly John Hurt falls to the ground and tears open his shirt to reveal a huge mass pressing against his skin. In a violent explosion of blood, three beings burst out of his chest. It’s Kojima, De Torro and Norman Reedus!
  Silent Hills confirmed. PS4 exclusive, available for download RIGHT NOW.
• A man in the front row is so overcome with hype and happiness that a small galaxy is formed within his neo cortex. The galaxy is populated with beings of pure joy who love, live and learn for thousands of years of their time, all contained within a mere millisecond of ours. The radio waves of the PSX 2015 broadcast finally reach this galaxy, and its joyous denizens—overcome with more joy than they can handle— are driven to madness. In a manic overreaction their chief scientists decide to create a singularity to engulf the universe as they know it. Back at PSX the man’s head instantly disappears into an unseen pin-hole. Those around him don’t have time to dwell on this bizarre development; Boyes is back on stage.
• “We at PlayStation are as mystified as the rest of you as to why Ubisoft won’t release a ninja-themed Assassin’s creed game. Well enough is enough!” The blood of every audience member suddenly rushes to their genitals. When the Tenchu logo appears on screen a lady in the audience stands up to cheer but faints instantly due to a lack of blood in her brain and legs.
• Mike Morhaime is welcomed on stage by Boyes to announce Heroes of the Storm as a console exclusive to PS4. Kratos, Drake, Kat, Monokuma, Gallahad, Aloy, Snake, Ratchet, Crash, Wander, Gabe Logan and more are announced as free PS4 exclusive characters. The cheers are short-lived and replaced by furious jeers; Darrell Gallagher from Crystal Dynamics is taking the stage.
• Amid a hail of insults and rotten tomatoes he raises his hands and pleas with the audience—now more of an angry mob—to hear him out. “I know we have wronged you” he says, wiping tomato pulp from his face, “but we have seen the error of our ways”. He reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls forth a legal document. “The exclusivity agreement is no more” he says, setting the pages on fire. “Rise of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition is now available for download and retail purchase exclusively on PS4!” The audience continues its barrage of fruit, clearly unswayed. “The game runs at 1080p, 60fps, with countless visual improvements.” The grumbles soften slightly, but many still remain furious. “Furthermore, we are making Rise of the Tomb Raider retroactively exclusive to PS4. All copies of this game sold on disc or download to Xbox gamers will now self-destruct.” The audience, while amused, is still furious. Nothing can win them back. “The game will also come with a retro-Lara costume featuring the traditional hotpants and tank-top.”
• All is forgiven.
• The crowd substitutes tomatoes for roses, showering Darrell in gratitude. Before leaving the stage he announces new Legacy of Kain and Pandemonium games for PS4 and Vita respectively. “These games are launching exclusively on PlayStation, but that exclusivity has a duration………and that duration is ETERNITY!” The hype in the room is reaching critical mass, but things are only getting started.
• An adorable yet incredibly tired voice begins to address the audience over the P.A. It’s translator-chan! She hasn’t slept since TGS. “Would aaahh, you please welcome aaaahhh to the aaaahhhh stage, Shuhei ahhhh Yoshida.”
• Shu sprints into view wearing a life-vest and boating apparel. If he announces Wind Waker HD for PS4 people will literally eat their own eyeballs. “These clothes will make sense soon enough” he says, before showing footage of new Crash Bandicoot, Syphon Filter, Wip3out, Colony Wars, God of War 4 and Dark Cloud. The audience is crying uncontrollably.
• A familiar system boot-sound is heard, and the PlayStation 2 logo appears on screen. Full backwards compatibility with PS2 games is announced, not only for downloading, but also for free use with existing PS2 discs. The audience screams, but Shu isn’t done. An orchestra begins to play a familiar pre-concert tuning. It’s the PS3 boot screen. Shu announces full backwards compatibility with PS3 games as well as PS2. The audiences’ screams reach such a high pitch that only San Francisco’s dog population are capable of comprehending the joy emanating from the theatre. With tongue firmly in cheek Shu also announces backwards emulation for all Xbox One games, with the PS4 using its left over processing power to upscale the emulated Xbox One games to 1080p.
• Amid the howls of laughter Shu welcomes Yamauchi onto the stage, also wearing a life-vest. He announces a new round of GT academy. Footage begins to play of real-world car races involving GT academy participants. Hang on. Hold the phone. Is that? …..that’s in-game Gran Turismo Sport! 4k resolution, 120fps, photo-realistic graphics. Yamauchi explains how much detail they’ve gone into, from the carbon fibres of the seats to accurately displaying the actual exhaust emissions of Volkswagon cars. The visual fidelity of the footage causes the audience in the first 5 rows to void their bowels.
• A portal opens above the stage and a winged angel descends, basking the theatre in pure holy light. As the light slowly fades, through tear-filled eyes the audience gazes upon the face of this divine being. It’s Cerny. Knack 2: The Knackering is in development.
• Shu tries to calm the audience, who have now been crying for the better part of 20 minutes straight. “Just before we leave, I have one more announcement. This is a matter close to my heart” he begins, amid a frenzy of screams. “I met a PlayStation gamer recently who had the PSN name ‘V@ginalBloodFart69’ and he looked me in the eyes and asked me ‘Shuhei, when can we change our PSN names? Well, to that little boy and to all PlayStation gamers around the world, the answer to that question is RIGHT NOW!”
• Shu, Cerny and Yamauchi jump in a row-boat which is floating on a literal sea of happy tears. As they row merrily towards the theatre exit Kevin Butler wades out on stage. The audience is neck-deep in their own tears, and those watching at home have caused global sea levels to rise 40 centimetres. The island nation of Naru is no more; the noble sacrifice of its inhabitants an acceptable loss in exchange for the announcements of this day.
• “I want to thank each and every PlayStation gamer here and around the world for being with us today. But before we leave you tonight, we have one last announcement.”
• Kevin Butler tears the skin off of his face. It’s Gaben. PS4 exclusive Half Life 4 confirmed.

Days later when GAF servers are brought back online, the first post complains about no Knack on PS+.

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Demon Lizardman said:

So wait, we're not allowed to have hype trains anymore?

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Demon Lizardman said:

So wait, we're not allowed to have hype trains anymore?

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Drac84 said:

Best NeoGAF post ever

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