RepentantSky

@Wedgy The reason you haven't seen me in so long is because I was banned off the site for reasons I'm not aware of for two years and some change, which makes me think that I was supposed to be banned for a much shorter period but someone forgot to unban me until one random day, they did. But that aside, I'm good.

Now, I could make this big long thread about all that's been going on this year, going into every detail that I know, that you probably also know, but the main thing I want to talk about, is how the heck are all of you during this wild year? I know this isn't normally a topic that anyone would talk about here, but I can imagine the thing that's been keeping me from posting here since I've been back, has also had an effect on you in some regard. I just want to know, what's this year been like for you, and how are you doing with all that's happened? If this topic isn't okay here, please delete it, but I can't help but feel some of us need a place to de-stress, and I'm hoping I can give that to you here. So...the floor belongs to whoever wishes to speak.

Lol, I don't keep them on a floor, I have a bunch of bookshelves I keep them on, I was just cleaning out said bookshelves where these were stored and thought I might as well take a picture while their laid out like that.

Anyone on here a game collector besides me? Admittedly, most of my collection is just random, but I do quite enjoy it. Today as I'm cleaning some of my game library, I thought about game collections and wondered what everyone else had. Here's my PlayStation Games collection. What do you all collect, feel free to post some pictures.

The PS5 Future of Gaming Event is back on set for Thursday. A total of a week delay. Seems worth it to me.

It's not cancelled, just delayed. I'm sure a new date will be announced soon, though I imagine it might take longer than other delayed gaming events considering how serious Sony has been about helping with the cause of Black Lives Matter.

Welcome to AF!

The PS5 Event has been delayed due to the protests going on throughout the United States, and Sony not wanting to divert attention away from them.

What I find interesting about the PS5, is that compared to the Xbox, the I/O Throughput is doubled. While that won't mean much for multiplats, It will mean a lot for exclusives, so that could be a big system seller. More to the point of your post though, depending on the price range of the PS5, it might for a time, make mid range, the lower end of high range PC's seems too expensive in comparison. That may only last a year or so, but the fact that it could potentially do that, is really interesting to me. Consoles usually come out as cheaper version of the equivalent mid range PC, but both Xbox and PS5 have made a bigger leap this gen than any previous, and the SSD capabilities of either system might actually make them more powerful than that range they normally go for.

I won't lie, while I've been gone, my motivation to watch anime has been pretty low. I used to like watching shows, and then coming here and talking about them with everyone. Since I couldn't do that, I really haven't watched a lot, and I kind of feel behind anime as a whole. So, what anime would you all suggest, specifically over the last two years more than anything else, but of course all suggestions are welcome. I used to prefer Fantasy and Slice of Life anime over anything else, but any good horror anime would also likely fall into my wheelhouse. Please and thank you.

An event as big as the PS5 needs a list to accompany it, so I hope those of you who remember my writing from back in the day, as well as those who have joined in my absence will enjoy the one that I made.

That's right, for those waiting for the news of the PS5's rumored June event, the wait is over and the rumors are done. Sony has posted a PS5 even is coming Thursday June 4th. I'll be sure to post the biggest points of news after it's over, but in the meantime, let's use this announcement to talk about what our hopes for the PS5 are going to be, along with anything else next gen.

Welcome to AF, and congrats on opening up a shop! A lot of us would probably love to be able to do that. I hope it goes well, and the forums are good experience for you.

Welcome to AF! (do people do that intro anymore? Been gone so long I don't even know). Regardless, I hope you enjoy your time here.

Hello one and all, I'm RepentantSky and I've been gone for something like a year or more for reasons I'm not even sure of. I'm sure there's a lot of you who have come to join the forums since I've been away, and that a lot's changed, but hopefully, there are some people who remember me, and are willing to rekindle old friendships, though you'll have to excuse me, with memory as bad as mine if I don't remember you by name. Either way, I'm back, and it's good to be here again. So hi to all who know me, and welcome to everyone who's joined during my absence.

I highly recommend horror games like A Town of Light and Close to the Sun from the studio Wired Productions, A Town of Light isn't even that scary, but it tells a dark story and the little bit of horror that it has is a lot of fun. Close to the Sun is a lot more horror based, I'd even compare it to Bioshock without the ability to fight, run and gun everything down, but that's what makes it so good.

Imma a huge Ska and Punk fan, so it's really hard to pick just one. I can tell you my favorite bands are Sum 41 for Punk Mustard Plug for Ska.

FMA (2203) 11 Times Eureka Seven 12 times Ruroni Kenshin 6 Times Cowboy Bebop 7 Times Hanasaku Iroha 2 times

I recently picked up The Last Remnant Remastered and it's quite a lot more fun than I remembered. The voice acting is a little wonky, though that does add some charm in a weird way.

Generally my family comes to my house and we just open gifts and hang out for the day. Christmas is a fun time, but I never do anything too massive for it because i see it as a time to stay home and relax instead of getting caught up in everything that takes away from the main point of a holiday like this, which is just to enjoy the company of the people you care for most.

Depends. I watched the original FMA series once a year for 6 years, Eureka Seven for oddly, seven years once a year, and have gone to watch Cowboy Bebop and Ruroni Kenshin back a few times over the years. However, ever since Hanasaku Iroha, which I watched just as the movie was coming out on online streaming services, I haven't really done that. I did watch Hanasaku Iroha, then the movie, then the series again, but I haven't even gone back to watch it again since then. I guess the answer for me is, with older anime, there are a few I've watched a number of times, and with newer ones, not so much. Guess that makes sense as I tend to prefer older anime anyways.

I'm not sure why you'd boycott Sony. They were the ones keeping the industry afloat outside of baseless phone games while the Wii U was trying and failing to get off the ground and Xbox was having all of it's issues with launch date controversies. True, they have their issues, like porting bad free to play games on the PS4, or the whole name change thing, but since they've allowed people to use their Fortnite accounts on other systems, are starting on cross-play, and are slowly working towards name changes, they are mostly on the rise. Meanwhile Xbox seems to have given up on this generation as everything they are doing seems to be setting up for the next one since they failed so badly this around. Meanwhile, even though the Switch is a good console, Nintendo still managed to muck up the online service instead of just allowing everyone to buy the old games they want via virtual console, they still have a weak amount of storage space, and are overcharging of their personally branded USD cards, Nintendo Labo is a joke to all fans of games, they still have a Cartridge tax of sorts, and their hyper-focusing of one game at a time makes everything else they do seem unimportant and uninteresting to them, making it hard to get excited about anything that isn't that getting that focus. Sadly, PC gaming is running into problems to as many developers are starting to follow suit for EA, and are only selling certain games on their downgraded versions of steam which never work nearly as well. Bethesda did it with Fallout 76, and made it unclear whether every PC port or version of games they release will even be on steam. Speaking of Bethesda, they, EA and Quantic Dream are the only companies I have boycotted, though the latter does have a chance to save face if all the complaints and the case they lost end or turn out to be a one time thing. Bethesda though, they are a bad company. The rumors they intentionally ignored about them stealing the rights for Prey, only to bully another indie developer into changing their game's name to Praey for the Gods, the fact that they called out EA last year at E3 with the save single player games ad while developing Fallout 76, donating to the ESA's scholarship program, all to avoid people talking about their Creation Club, which was nothing but lies and an attempt to scam people out of money for mods, calling out Sony for their lack of cross-play affecting Fallout 76, only to say later they never had plans for it, releasing Skyrim as a buggy mess and accepting the game of the year reward before fixing it, which likely led to 2014, where a bunch of games came out unfinished, with the intent to fix them later. The fact that they were once asked about their outdated engine and if they were going to update it,, only to say they were too busy making games to fix it, which was a very direct way of saying they were too busy making money to address any concerns of fans, Bethesda is garbage, but because they bought out and changed Elder Scrolls and Fallout, no one seems to care. As far as I'm concerned, they stand a small step above EA in the area moral high ground. Quantic Dream has been accused of harassing, overworking, and allowing pictures of all kinds of unsettling images and NSFW sorts of things being shown around the office. The guy who first reported it was blacklisted by Sony, which does have me worried, especially since we never found who at Sony did it, but the fact that Quantic Dream already lost a case against a former employee says that something is going on. EA is bad, a lot of companies are bad, I'd even say 2K probably forced the controversy about RDR2 having it's devs overworked just because they are Rockstar's parent company, has some ground to stand on, which is one of the reasons why I didn't buy the game, because my philosophy is back away until we know, and then go back if it everything turns out fine. There's a lot of corruption out there, but I don't think Sony is the worst of it, at least not on their game front. Can't be sure how many former Sony Pictures and Sony Music employees, actors and artists might eventually come out with their own MeToo stories, but that's just speculation.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures because I don't believe in the idea of feeling bad for enjoying yourself. That said, I guess the closest I can get is liking the Star Ocean series despite knowing it's utter garbage in almost every way an RPG series can be.

I play pretty much everything. Have ever since I was a kid really. However, I do tend to avoid games where the development or the developers are involved in some anti-consumer practices, like mobile games that basically force microtransactions down your throat or anything made by David Cage and Quantic Dream considering they lost a lawsuit against a former employee for bad practices and all that came from that. As long as issues do get cleared up later though, I'm open to giving any games a chance. My thing is stay away until someone is cleared, if they are, then I can enjoy their stuff again, but I don't want to support a company who might be doing something wrong. Generally, I play RPG's since they are my favorite genre, but as long as a game is good, and there's isn't some moral ambiguity issues involved, I'm willing to try pretty much everything. As for the whole EA thing, it's a lot more complicated than that. They tried to push mobile game practices on a full priced game, and were willing to break the law in certain countries just to keep their microtransactions in FIFA 19. They also bully the hell out of other companies and are a games as a service type of developer. The hate against them is all pretty much justified.

I'm less than 24 hours from getting Spyro, so I guess I can count that right?