VincentVendetta

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@colourful_hippie: Yes. Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

From the PlayStation Blog post:

• Haptic controls: From the satisfying feeling of firing your boltcaster, to the gentle nudge of a building part slotting into place in a space habitat or the firm click of the trigger in your interstellar ship – haptic controls allow players to feel immersed in an alien world as never before.
• Fuller worlds: Next generation hardware allows No Man’s Sky’s procedural generation to create lusher, richer and more densely populated universes than ever before. Planet surfaces are even more detailed, with thousands more rocks, alien grasses, and exotic flora on screen at any time.
• 32 player multiplayer: For the first time on console, up to 32 players can join forces to build, survive, fight and explore the galaxy together.
• Advanced audio: Immersion has always been a pillar of No Man’s Sky. Thanks to PlayStation 5’s Tempest 3D AudioTech, players will be able to soak in the ambience of an alien planet, or feel a ship fly overhead like never before (You can find out more about PS5’s 3D Audio here.)
• 4K* at 60FPS: On PlayStation 5 players can experience the universe in pin-sharp detail at higher framerates.
• Ultra visuals: Explore alien vistas with improved shadows, greater draw distances, thousands more objects on screen and improved lighting and volumetric effects.
• Vast base building: Players can now work together to build huge off-world colonies, with the ability to construct and render far more vast and complex bases on screen.
• Warp-speed load times: Explore the universe instantly with 5-10x reduction in loading times. On PS5, you can warp from solar system to solar system in an instant.
• Crossplay: PS5 explorers will be able to join together with other adventurers on all other platforms, including previous generations.
• Upgrading from PS4 to PS5: Not only will previous owners of No Man’s Sky on PlayStation 4 be able to upgrade their game to PlayStation 5 at no extra cost when PS5 launches in their territory, but their progress can be carried across to their new console.
• PlayStation VR: No Man’s Sky is fully playable in PS VR on PlayStation 5 by virtue of its backwards compatibility functionality.
• An evolving game: Just another step on the evolution of the best-selling title, No Man’s Sky Next Generation will come preloaded with the previous four years of huge upgrades from day one. Join in the journey at our most important moment yet.

I know it's a bit weird to be excited about a next-gen update to a 4-year-old game... but I'm pretty excited. Anyone thinking about coming back to No Man's Sky?

So we're getting a new Mario Party Party, right?

@petesix0: I'm sure it's a stand-in; someone in a suit who can act opposite the actors, and that they can then improve later in post-prod (and if they can keep the actor's voice instead of dubbing it afterwards, good for them), instead of having just a tennis ball floating in mid-air. Like, you know there was a guy inside R2-D2, right? They didn't actually build an autonomous, fully-functioning robot for Star Wars.

Besides, I just read the director's interview with Polygon, and every design had to be approved by Capcom, so I'm sure they'll be fine. (I particularly like how, after the success of Monster Hunter: World, that so many Hollywood companies tried to get their hands on the licence, only to find it had been locked up for several years!)

I rewatched The Dark Knight and Inception this summer; those were the only Nolan movies I liked. And then I realized I didn't like Inception anymore and hated The Dark Knight. Tenet is okay, but that's because it's the first movie of his I can call a "dumb action flick".

I'd still probably take a Nolan movie over the homogenous soup of Marvel, or any wannabe-Nolan (Looking at you, Denis Villeneuve! Fuck you!), but the amount of reverence people have for Nolan is insufferable.

Here's the (better) international trailer, with much more footage of Tony Jaa and proper Monster Hunter stuff.

Much less dead serious than a Christopher Nolan movie at least. And more playful.

But boy, did he watch some Mad Max: Fury Road!

Hello. I want to do an experiment here. I still buy my games on disc whenever I get the chance, and I still have some respect for this aspect of video games (maybe because I still like good movie posters). I am wondering, now that the next generation is coming near, what would be considered the best video game box art from the 8th generation of consoles would be, according to the Giant Bomb community.

A few guidelines:

• Only boxed games released between November 15, 2013, and November 10, 2020, may count. This includes any release on Nintendo consoles, or any portable game.
• Any release from small niche publishers like Limited Run Games may count.
• Game re-releases may count, but only if the box art is drastically different from the original. Same goes for special editions; please specify in that case.
• Box art from different, specific regions (like Japan or PAL regions) may count; please specify in that case.
• Only final box art may count. (Sorry Destiny)
• Please remember that the quality of the game has no bearing on the quality of the box art.

Would anybody be up to it?