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[psychopomp-namine]

thinking about namine and yozora as psychopomps in sora's "descent to the underworld" arcs. castle oblivion and quadratum as his metaphorical underworlds. sora in his second katabasis...............................

[psychopomp-namine]

liu xiao in forensics is eye opening actually. art curation makes sense already, but forensics............. wow. intriguing. I guess with the whole vein resurrection + hearing heartbeats thing, you can draw that line of thought

I also think it's interesting that he's wearing all white (as a contrast to his usual all black attire)

[ivythesnivy]

:) potential AU go brrrr

Ventus: Bitch you even try touch him I will end you old man! :D Roxas: Bitch if you try to touch him I will slash every single one of you to pieces. Xion: …die.

[jewishsora]

Sora's hair is flatter in KH4 not just because of Quadratum's art style but because the spikes are Ventus's not his. as a baby before welcoming Ventus into his heart the top of his hair was flat like it is now. now that Ventus is no longer in his heart his hair goes back to its original style.

this isn't just nonsense I made up because Nomura once made a comment about Sora's hair color being lighter in KH2 because of Roxas which means my theory is totally canon. hearts do influence the way you look.

[jewishsora]

cannot stop thinking about how Sora is purely himself for the first time in 12 years. he had so many people in his heart and now it's just himself. it's already shown in his appearance - his hair change is clearly modeled after his baby self, before Ven came into the picture. it's just Sora now. and he is entirely alone.

[podcastwizard]

literally drinking a beer by the lake and still opened tumblr. some of us are beyond saving

[contrivedchaos]

I don’t think people truly understand the scope of the damage Sony is about to do to physical media. They literally invented the compact disc. They are the reason why Blu-ray as a format won the HD wars over HD-DVD. They have gargantuan influence over manufacturing disc-based media. If Sony as a company stops making physical media for their next gen gaming consoles, this is going to affect movies and music as well. If you buy CDs, DVDs, or Blu-rays, those are next on the chopping block.

[khml]

Four swords manga redraw with the heart hotel i've been wanting to do for ages ft. strelitzia who doesn't know any of the lore

[psychopomp-namine]

I also don't like that people are now saying, "oh game key cards is actually a good thing considering what playstation and xbox are doing" because no they still suck on principle. they just suck less than the alternative (or... lack of alternatives)

[psychopomp-namine]

okay wait last one but do they not realize that they're also sacrificing that extra discoverability you get from physical stores. like sometimes you only discover games you usually would never notice that way, whereas you tend to filter in digital marketplaces

also game stores will only have, what, nintendo games? xbox is a lost cause now and if there will also be no physical playstation games to show on the shelves anymore... you're basically giving up on marketing yourself at all in physical spaces. zero exposure to other people who might have been interested if they passed by and saw a playstation game while window shopping. just no effort anymore to appeal to non-gamers or preserve any kind of presence irl. parents who don't know games and want to buy their kids a game will only know nintendo. which is fine bc nintendo has more of the family-friendly games but omg sony really is shooting themselves in the foot four times SONYYYYY WHY ARE YOU SO DUMB

[psychopomp-namine]

anyway I'm sorry if anyone follows me who actually loves gta and rockstar games and has to see me be a hater for it. follow what sparks joy for you, it just does not spark joy for me

[sheaymin]

sony cutting off physical discs while also implementing a system that doesnt allow you to actually own ur digital games due to that 30 day verification whatever not to mention outside of gaming for the past few years sony has stopped producing on physical formats which is insane because THEY developed nearly every format every company uses( dvd, bluray, cd, etc ) so they have the biggest hand on production leaving a vacuum now that theyve stopped plus being absolutely shady with their digital marketplaces most recent example w/ pulling studio canal conent & the funimation / crunchyroll merger still has missing anime never added back to the app the shut down of multiple studios + the end of destiny 2 despite wanting to focus on live service which is just code for focusing on gta6's online mode & nothing else like adding the years upon years upon years of extra added shady sony horsepiss not just playstation but sony as a whole the fuck am i expected to spend a SINGLE dime with them again

[sheaymin]

adding to the "you dont hate sony enough" they also announced today they are shutting down the ps3 & psvita digital marketplaces so fuck preservation of games for older consoles ig !!

[strawberry-scented-stardust]

Every single person saying they are going to buy GTA 6 are actively ruining gaming. $80 is a ridiculous price for ANY game, $100 for a game you don't even get a physical disk for is outright greedy. Other gaming companies are going to see everyone willingly (stupidly) paying $80-$100 and will raise prices for EVERYTHING.

If people buy this shit, it'll basically make gaming more unaffordable than it already is. Its bad enough most companies are charging $60 for standard and $80 for deluxe; I already cant afford that in this economy, please dont make it worse. There's also a big chance that they'll stop making actual physical copies all together because of this shit. You guys are letting hype cloud your judgment and you're ruining it for everyone else.

[demilypyro]

they keep making games bigger and worse optimized and call it improvement. they say, no, the price is totally justified, because our game has More Space and your PC can't run it, which means it's Future. meanwhile the space is too big to cross. the games are too long and too poorly paced to even finish. and it doesn't look materially better than anything that came out on the 360. as if anything has ever done as much or gone as hard in 100 hours as Portal did in three.

[videomaggot]

ngl I am impressed sometimes by graphical fidelity but no game has ever been better for looking pretty whilst having shitty gameplay or writing. I'd take a billion undertales over gta 6. we need more strong art direction and interesting stylistic choices, not games that chug and break because someone at the company thinks you need every pore on someone's nose visible to be considered good

[psychopomp-namine]

no this really bums me out like I'm really sad about this. yeah yeah there are bigger problems out there, I know, but this is my favorite hobby ever so I'm just really upset at the state of things right now

[psychopomp-namine]

this is like how netflix killed dvd rental stores. "just play on pc" yeah but I still want a physical game and there's no reason to just take away that option other than because they want to monopolize and be able to adjust prices however they want now that they don't have physicals and retailers to set the bar. also I still want physicals even for pc. "just pirate/emulate" buddy how did you think I got into gaming. I used to do that all the time. I can still do it! but again I still want physical games to be an option. "well games are getting too big for disks now" then give me two disks. give me three. we used to have disk 1 disk 2 in early games, we can do it again. "physicals are outdated" they still make vinyls and physical albums for music even if it's for a niche audience. it is NOT expensive to just put your game on a disk. multiple disks if you want. "why do you want physical games when digital is just as good" because they will jack up prices and kill physical game stores and digital is never true ownership and if everything is digital that means devs can afford to be sloppy because they don't need to optimize as much and just let games be big and bloaty and take up more space because they don't need to worry about fitting everything in a disk. piracy is always valid and the only true way to preserve games these days, but regardless I JUST WANT PHYSICALS. I WANT PRETTY BOX ART AND A GAME I CAN HOLD IN MY HANDS AND COLLECT IN A SHELF AND BROWSE IN A STORE LIKE I'M IN A LIBRARY AND LEND TO A FRIEND IF I WANT TO. like man I'm not even anti-digital, I just don't want physical to stop being an option completely

[psychopomp-namine]

no this really bums me out like I'm really sad about this. yeah yeah there are bigger problems out there, I know, but this is my favorite hobby ever so I'm just really upset at the state of things right now

[ralfmaximus]

Sony is killing all physical PlayStation game discs

New games released after January 2028 will be digital-only.

Sony has announced that from January 2028 it will entirely stop the production of physical discs for new PlayStation games. From that point onwards, new releases will only be available in digital versions from the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Games released before January 2028 will still be available on disc.

They cite "consumer preference" as the reason, but we all know what's going on. If there's no physical media, you don't really own your game. You're only renting it.

From the way this is worded I think future Playstation consoles will continue to have optical drives, at least as an option.