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Yes; the game would be eligible for both a remake or a remaster, but high definition remasters are usually reserved for games that sold relatively well and Revolver was in the Playstation 2 era where it was hard to break out because there was a vast library of titles. I don't know what other games Rockstar does besides GTA and Red Dead, so it could very well be next on their list. Companies these days aren't really going with an HD remaster for lesser known very old titles like this one, though, so with the outrageous and unpredictable success of its successor -- I can see them making a sequel to Red Dead Redemption and throwing out an easy remake of the original game.

The first Zuma had one of the hardest achievements to get in the world back around the 2011 era. I have personally never beaten it.

Yeah it's likely to set Perfect Dark back for sure, but IF it actually gets released, I'm guessing it will be late 2024, 2025 or even later.

I just beat Blackgate the other day, and it is legit 2.5D because you side scroll but twist the camera around in every which direction jumping into the backround and foreground, often with camera rotations and stuff. It feels very much like an authentic Arkham game (more or less like Asylum), minus the boss fights which are kind of shoddy. It is actually very well made and you could see the 2.5D on display at the beginning of the game during a high profile chase scene with another villain.

We've heard very little about either of the two because they've only been recently announced. Splinter Cell re-make will probably come out rather quick (late 23, sometime in 24 or 25 at the latest). Perfect Dark coming out at all is still kind of a tossup; it could theoretically get cancelled, but a likely scenario is 2025 or 2026 launch.

Agreed because the director of the new Perfect Dark recently left the company, which means it could be set back: Perfect Dark Director Dan Neuburger Seems to Have Left The Initiative (bosslevelgamer.com) Splinter Cell seemingly has no major issues like that, and a director leaving mid-development is rare anyway. Hideo Kojima was fired at like the end of Metal Gear Solid 5's production and that was extremely rare.

1) SIGH. Kane, I am seriously trying to be respectful, but Blackgate is a core Batman Arkham game. It is the DIRECT SEQUEL to console-based Batman Arkham Origins, which as I've pointed out earlier is not considered part of the main story but is still an official Arkham game in every sense of the word. I guess that you could call Origins a "spin off", and by extension Blackgate. However... As I've already pointed out: There are plenty of video gaming franchises that have proper licensed entries under whatever franchise tag we're talking about, albeit made by a different developer. The example I gave in an above post was a reference to the Donkey Kong Country series. The original SNES trilogy did it's own thing, and are legitimate DKC licensed titles, and so are the two new ones (Returns and Tropical Freeze). Obviously the latter games are not a direct sequel to the SNES trilogy. If you want to label Origins a "spin off", then yes, by extension you could label Blackgate a "spin off". But if Origins is not a spinoff then neither is Blackgate, as I will say once again it is a CANONOLOGICAL AND DIRECT SEQUEL to Origins in every proper sense of the process. I think there are some final fantasy games made by other developers, and they are still final fantasy games regardless, although FF kind of does it's own thing with basically having its own story for each of its specified games. For the record I thought Arkham Origins was downright spectacular, and I thought it was like the 2nd best Arkham game behind the original. City was too big and Knight had so much potential that it didn't seem to utilize. 2) You're not missing much with Perfect Dark Zero. I beat it an it's mediocre at best. If you didn't like the original, which most people thought was fantastic, don't even play the follow up if it's given out for free, as it will waste your time. The new Perfect Dark, however, has potential to garner a wide acceptance among a broad audience because it's likely going to include a ton of modern day FPS qualities that attract users in all of the other big titles like COD, Tom Clancy games, Halo, etc. 3) In terms of "crunch"; I've never heard of development staff NOT being paid -- THAT is human slavery, of which still exists today, so I'd have to see very specific examples. I've mostly just seen news articles of development staff whining that they had to work extra hours because their boss made them, and in the instances I've seen they were paid. I'm a sun up/sun down type of guy and would be glad to work for those development teams and give them everything I have, and then become executive later. 4) Games can come out quicker with both pristine quality and minus your alleged claims about company staff being abused -- which I'm sure exist -- but I think it's kind of exaggerated. 5) I don't know who stole what from who regarding Minecraft, but the title is still the best selling in World history and made by one guy.

That would be pretty awesome, I genuinely appreciate the consideration.

That has nothing whatsoever to do with my original point. All I said was that some of the games I mentioned were exclusive to Sony at some point. You were factually incorrect about some Metal Gear stuff, so I pointed some of that out as well; such as the fact that only the MSX versions of the Metal Gear titles are considered canon. Exclusivity certainly means alot less these days, unless you are Nintendo because people buy the consoles for the Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Pokemon and Metroid stuff, etc.

Dude, your topic stated that "they really should make more games where you're an animal like Stray", and I agreed with you basically citing exact video games that have animal leads such as Earthworm Jim (worm) and Banjo-Kazooie (Bear/Bird). That is what it has to do with the topic, dude.

The fact that the "unhealthiest of people" cannot compete in e-sports at the highest levels is an un-debatable fact, unless like I said in the earlier example they do it while very young. You seem to be just arguing to prove a point, and you've never even competed at a high level. Go look up science on whether or not an extremely sedentary lifestyle can lead to brain anomalies, depression, weight gain, mental disorders, and you name it. This is science, not my opinion. I'm not going to do your own homework for you. Try looking up if having physical health problems (with the body) can lead to issues with the brain. This is all very easy stuff dude, it's not worth the argument. The deal is that you lack experience in the professional e-sports field, so you just do not understand how fast some of those guys are (and I'm pretty fast as well). Dealing with the highest levels of speed, precision and expertise literally on earth gives you experience, but it can also give you a perspective on the objective science as well.

Nah; Mortal Kombat 11 is an easy fighting game. Apex Legends is difficult and based on grinding I think. Fortnite is difficult to get into at a pro level and I think you'd need to do it on PC. COD is good to try; not exactly rocket science on that game. I'd personally recommend Gears 5; very hard competition and tricky to learn but if you learn it then it's much easier. It comes down to whether or not you will be able to grasp how you play at a good level.

1) Very strange: You are one of the first people (on the internet) to claim that you "really enjoyed" Conviction, along with me. That's perhaps because we actually paid attention to the story and didn't have a mental breakdown at the games new changes. I rated Conviction as one of the highest rated video games on my website and it came just shy of being the highest rated Splinter Cell of all time. The games system was actually spectacular and smooth if you knew how to work all of the nuances in the gameplay, but the issue with the game was that in Fisher's campaign (main story); they mixed things up so much that you didn't even get to use all of the new features in some areas, or you were pressured into playing a different way. The co-op campaign offered people the ability to use all of the new features and play the game it was meant to be played with a ton of levels and content; so that's where some of the best gameplay was. Campaign story was one of the best in series, though. 2) I've never heard of anybody that liked Perfect Dark Zero; nor did I. First game was basically an upgraded version of Goldeneye 64 with many of the same multiplayer maps, etc. 3) So, since you haven't played Blackgate, I will say that the main Arkham Origins is NOT considered part of the main Arkham "trilogy" -- as Rocksteady calls it -- because Origins was not developed by Rocksteady. However: Origins has the identical system to the three other Rocksteady titles from the ground up and really just happens to address the Batman story from an entirely different point in Bruce Wayne's crime fighting spree. I personally do not consider Arkham Origins to be a "spin off", although it could technically be argued that it is. It is factually a Batman Arkham game that uses the Arkham system in identical fashion to the others, so there's also that. So with Arkham Origins Blackgate Deluxe, it basically uses the identical system the other Arkham games use, but I think it was originally released for the Nintendo 3DS then ported to the Xbox 360. You cannot get it on the Xbox One, but it's still on the Xbox 360 marketplace, and I just got it the other day for $20 dollars (worth it). Game is excellent and it's no more of a spin off than Origins. It is the canon sequel to Origins and directly follows that title. In reality it would technically be called a 2.5D game because you are all over the plays and don't just side scroll the whole time. You are jumping around all over the place into the backrounds and turning the camera in every which direction. It's the 5th Arkham game in every sense and if you play through it you'd see why as it is excellent and well done. Has all the great voice acting, fighting, upgrades, soundtrack, etc. Arkham Knights will be the 6th Arkham game, with two of them being non-Rocksteady entries. This has happened with plenty of other titles like Donkey Kong Country or Metroid. There is the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy made by RARE for the SNES, and then there is the two new ones (Returns and Tropical Freeze). Everyone pretty much sees there are being 5 DKC games, albeit they last two did not follow the first three as direct sequels necessarily. Origins was ingenius in the sense that it did not try to fool around with Rocksteady's product and story arc in any way and just made the game in an entirely separate time period which was shortly after Bruce Wayne decided to become Batman and fight crime. 4) As far as pressure from development teams to create, what you and the media has referred to as "crunch"; I would agree to an extent, but if those dudes are getting overtime with pay and a half, where is the complaint if you're working with a good boss? Those guys probably make like 30 bucks an hour minimum, and then with time and a half, they are getting a ton of money for overtime or excessive crunch hours. I don't have a problem with a hard work ethic. Sun down/sun up/get it done. But for the record: The most sold video game of all time was created by a single person (Minecraft), so then there's that.

It's all good, bro; I'm not entirely attuned with legal matters either (which is why I'm trying to study them). But once again, what you were referencing earlier was more like a character defamation case, and how much "public view" something had is undeniably factored into a lawsuit in that regard.

An "opinion" can be both an opinion and a fact at the same time; such as if I hold the opinion that the Earth is round prior to it being accepted as universal scientific fact by the world and scientific regime. The fact I've stated above in regards to you having A WRONG OPINION that is patently false by every measurable standard is the way it stands, and no walls of text are going to get me to respond to your incorrect opinion; as it most likely comes from a lack of experience. Not everybody can play e-sports at the highest levels, and no you cannot live the, quote, "unhealthiest" of lifestyles and still be able to play at the highest levels. Your opinion is wrong and I explained why.

People are saying a few years, so probably about 2025 or 2026 and people will lose interest by then. They really need to start making games faster somehow. I'm guessing the new Splinter Cell will release in 2024 or late 2023.

1) No I was just joking about Perfect Dark taking until 2035 to release based on the idea of it only having two games in something like 2 decades, and one of the big leaders that was making the game quit or something. At this point, Perfect Dark is official, but still kind of at an "if they will even finish it" type of thing. 2) Gotham Knights is correct. All Arkham games have been excellent and alot of people don't know that there's a fifth Arkham game that they can get on the Xbox 360 called Batman Arkham Origins: Blackgate, which is a sequel to Arkham Origins. 3) Splinter Cell is more guaranteed than Perfect Dark at this point, and it is in fact claimed to be a "reboot" of the series, which I don't think was necessary, because Splinter Cell 6 I felt was the best in the entire series. There have been no signs of the new Splinter Cell game being taken off its track so far.

Sure let's roll with it. The plan should be for World Titles on Gears of War 5 and prep for 6 when it comes out.

I don't know much about League of Legends but I think the dudes in tournaments at the highest levels basically grinded their characters to a certain level, so based on that tip off I got, you would need to do some grinding. All of the areas are hard, but I think third person shooters are easy (at least for me). Fighting games are both easy and hard, and it depends on which fighting game is currently "in power". The big fighting games now are Mortal Kombat 11 and Street Fighter V. MK11 is peanuts and Street Fighter V is going to depend on a few characteristics and preferences. MK11 is so easy that you could probably win one of the yearly circuit titles with like a month of training. Street Fighter V you can't really play at a professional or competent level with the PS4 controller and certainly no Xbox controller because you will get something called "input registration errors" -- where you try to do something and it comes it comes out wrong. A good example is the old school standard issued Xbox 360 controller. You can't use the joystick to play SV5 at a high level on that thing, and remember how the directional pad had little pieces of grey circular plastic filling in the spots between up and down, and so forth? Well that is what gives you the input registration errors and why the separation of the D-Pad on the PS3 and PS4 controllers was entirely superior to the xbox 360 controller for playing Mortal Kombat and/or NRS games at the time (Mortal Kombat/Injustice). NRS games (Mortal Kombat/Injustice) have what they call "dial up" juggle combos and you can tap the inputs different than you would in a Street Fighter game, or a game similar to SF. Street Fighter uses all of those weird looking inputs and the best thing to do those on is a fight stick, which are anywhere from 60 to 200 dollars, and they are basically like ripping the oldschool arcade joystick area out of the slot in the arcade machine and putting the controller in your lap, with all of those big circular buttons and all. There are virtually no professionals in Street Fighter V who do not use a fight stick. So it'd be PS4 controller for MK11 or a fight stick for SV5; with a tough learning curve for operating the stick but some people can do it fast.

Doing the type of analysis that I know how to do with sports would never be thrown out there on a major website free of charge, and wouldn't want to charge anything for it so I wouldn't do it. I mostly do it just for personal fun. But yes it can be hard to predict sports, that's why I only go with theoretical chances. I don't think anyone is going to rule sports competitions in favor of 1 opponent having a 100% chance or more of winning, meaning that's why there is sports betting odds and stuff like that. I personally don't even understand the sports betting odds and how they factor that stuff because I have my own system which ended up being pretty accurate. I recently got a pretty good prediction rate on Hockey games last time I did it for fun.

So again the proper context here is that you're alluding to the idea of someone being extremely unhealthy and being successful in e-sports AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS, which is just not the case. I study physical sports as well, and NFL guys aren't exactly super human. Do you understand how much some of these guys are pampered with political cover, top scientific analysts, nutritionists, wellness coaches, therapists, excellent doctors, cardiologists. You name it. Alot of the people in sports are just large babies; not to say that I don't respect physical sports. Have you ever noticed how Hollywood actors get into a specific role very quickly and "become" a different character? Well in some cases a Hollywood actor is required to get in really spectacular shape, and you may not be aware of how fast that they do this so I'll give you a number. It's like 6 months in some cases, provided that the person is still a relatively young age like 65 and under. I don't lift as much currently but went in to the gym just the other day to try some lifting and was able to put up the entire stack of weights on the leg machine which was like 4 plus feet long of weights and 400 plus pounds without working my legs out in like 2 years, and I did so without it being "max" and it was honestly pretty easy. My point is not bragging, but that you could take a person like me who isn't even in spectacular shape and I could get into literal professional wrestling shape in like 6 to 8 months. I'd be more than happy to take someone up on that challenge, by the way. All of those guys have so many elite coaches in sports that a regular person with a great work ethic (latter of which is required) can get into pro level shape like its nothing. When you're getting into specific timings like how a defender will watch a quarterbacks eyes and cut back from a certain position on the football and get an interception, that's basically the same thing that e-sports players do (fast cognition) minus the athleticism (which we've established can only be something like a 6 month separation). When you get into different levels of a sport or e-sports, minus the cognition levels of people at high levels and then the 6 months it takes to get into pro wrestler shape, all that is left is GAME SPECIFIC SKILL AND TECHNIQUES, such as knowing how to play the position of Defensive Tackle, Safety, Quarterback, Center, etcetera. I just think you're over estimating how good the people in "sports" are because they're representatives (kind of like a lobbyist or attorney) IS PAID TO ADVERTISE THEM and hype them up like gods. People jump into the UFC at an elite level out of literally no where with some pretty limited training. You don't need over a decade of training to be at the highest levels. What's the difference between the UFC and the NFL in the above regard? The difference is the fact that the NFL is more established than the UFC, and the latter has only but recently got alot of its legal stuff worked out to have fights in certain areas and states under UFC president Dana White. So Dana's people will just let fights get thrown together sometimes and see what happens (which is his right). But the NFL has closed tryouts that are often by invitation only, if they invite anyone at all. They obviously have the "draft" each year which recruits people from the exact same location every single year, which is college football. They don't accept youtube videos as a tryout or people from a foreign nation like the UFC does. So it's a pretty small pool of people already, and just think about to yourself how many of those people selected via the draft even turn out to be good. Alot of the guys in the NFL turn out to actually be pretty mediocre, but are just over paid to do it.

@Kane99, that's alot of text (and it's in isolated chunks) so I might have to respond to all of it later. As far as your opinion at the beginning of one of your previous comments being "factually incorrect" -- I already explained where you were wrong in context of my comment, and I gave specific examples. I'm not going to repeat it over and over. Your claim was that the "unhealthiest" type of person can just linger around basically living the most unhealthy lifestyle and 'train for thousands of hours' at e-sports, and I'm guessing that you were alluding to said e-sports player having the potential to be successful afterwards. That's not true, I've already explained why. To reiterate: It's very simple and has to do with brain function. Yes, experience counts because if you haven't dealt with people who operate at the highest levels in the World, then you don't have an understanding of the timing difference between them and a casual or mid tier guy. Generally speaking you can't play e-sports at a world class level without solid cognitive function, and the health and fitness of a person can have a direct say on how well they operate cognitively. Actually pretty simple to be honest; you're just incorrect on that one it's nothing personal at all.

Final Fantasy was exclusive to Sony from Final Fantasy 7 onward; that's correct. The NES version of Metal Gear is very different from the MSX versions of Metal Gear, that are the proper and canon versions of the game officially recognized by the developers and creator Hideo Kojima. The NES version of Metal Gear is like an innacurate carbon copy of the authentic title, so it counts but kinda sorta not really in context of other stuff. The authentic version of Metal Gear 2, called "Solid Snake", was an MSX exclusive, but Nintendo had an entirely different game called "Snakes Revenge". So the NES version of Metal Gear is similar to the real one, but Snakes Revenge is very different from the Solid Snake making the argument that both of them can be tossed out with the fake Metal Gear Solid game called "Ghost Babel". Ghost Babel was not an authentic/canon Metal Gear Solid game, so it would go into the bunch with NES Metal Gear, NES Metal Gear 2: Snakes Revenge, and both of the Metal Gear Ac!d games released exclusively to the PSP. That said: Metal Gear Solid games from the authentic/original/canonical title on forward to Metal Gear Solid 4 have been exclusively released on Sony consoles. 1, 2, 3 and 4 were (originally) exclusives, and 1 through 4 spanned a very long timeframe. Something like 1998 to 2008. Portable Ops, which was originally a massive game in the series, along with Peace Walker (even bigger), were both originally released as Sony exclusives. Later on alot of these games were ported to other consoles in packages and stuff, with the exception of MGS4 -- which has remained a PS3 exclusive for 14 plus years. MGS5 was really the first numerical title to get a release on several consoles. As far as when Final Fantasy went from being Sony exclusive (starting with 7, I know about 1 through 6), I think they started being multi-platform once again with Final Fantasy XIII at the initial release because that's what I got my copy on. Final Fantasy XII MIGHT have been, but I do know they retroactively went back and released an updated version of FFXII for Xbox One.

Well in certain areas it is simply not legal and have been too lazy to look up what's going on with it in my area. I've never even made a gentlemens bet, so I just analyze the stuff for fun. Sports betting in my opinion is not simple, though. I personally take a relatively complex look at things, but just use my knowledge to make predictions or fun. Pro-Football for example: I haven't looked at any of the other teams in the NFL and know virtually nothing about them, but I would give the Tampa Bay Buccaneers over a 30% chance of winning the entire season via Championship/Super Bowl Title and then Tom Brady probably retiring, but that 30% chance is based on what I currently know about the team. After the first 2 to 5 games; to keep it simple let's say first three -- I could make a better prediction because Tampa Bay literally has a new head coach this season because the other dude quit/retired. Current coach is the former Defensive Coordinator called Todd Bowles, and he is allegedly (or at least is just for the pre-season) calling all of the defensive plays (meaning he is doing double the workload). Things I look at is his social media accounts or any proximities to him that may indicate he is tired, as well as his face. Does his face look tired? Has he had a recent divorce? Many successful athletes have wives and a strong family unit, like Tom Brady does. If he starts getting tired pulling double duty then they may have to hire a defensive coordinator mid season -- which could throw off the entire season and quite frankly throw it out, but this is based on extensively knowledge. Hiring a mid-season defensive coordinator is Super Bowl or Bust. Meaning he would be fantastic or a complete failure. Predicting outcomes is not an all or nothing type of system, whoever predicts things like that I would say doesn't know how to do it properly. It's better based on percentages or similar factors. I personally play fighting games, and the way people rate a character on a tier list in a fighting game involves both science and opinion -- although the "opinion" usually constitutes the opinion of a professional and the professional having the character in his hands while executing the characters potential in an optimal situation (getting as much out of a combo as possible, etc.). Another thing the pros do is take the characters at an alleged optimal setting and then run a "first to 10". Let's say we have Mortal Kombat 11 with Sub Zero and Scorpion in the "first to 10", with each character optimized in the hands of a professional. If Scorpion won 7 of the matches and Sub Zero wins 3, then you would call the MK11 Sub Zero/Scorpion (what we call a "matchup") to be a 7/3, obviously in favor of Scorpion. Patches, also known as title updates, can obviously affect a 7/3 matchup situation, and title updates can be -- and are often -- affected by people. Sometimes you just have flatout teenagers whining about how "broken" and "too good" a character is, then they will lobby a development team. The team can potentially then change properties of a character making him or her worse, and lower said character on the tier list. I do football matches and certain scenarios in football with a similar system to fighting games. Tampa would be a top 5 favorite to win the Super Bowl this season, but their first matchup (which I haven't even looked at yet) would be a 50/50 in my view against Dallas Cowboys at home, or a 5/5 in fighting game terms, but I use the 5/5 setting as a total tossup situation meaning it's a 50% chance for each team to win the game. I could look at the game closer and get a better opinion, but you also have to view the opinion of sports broadcasters and view their arguments as almost like lobbyists or attorneys arguing a case. Some of these "lobbyists" claimed that they "wouldn't be surprised to see Los Angeles" win the Super Bowl like the next day after Tampa did it, and I had a feeling he was correct. Strong prediction, but Tampa was the first team in NFL history to ever win the Super Bowl in their own stadium (stadiums of which are randomly assigned), and then Los Angeles basically did the same thing the next year with a back to back situation. Smells like fraud to me so I may be too lazy to even draw up predictions this year.

@Kane99, I may respond to the rest of your post later, but I read just the beginning slice of it and it was already factually incorrect (no offense). I'm good at video games competitively and actually did BOTH competitive gaming while training very aggressively in physical athleticism; so despite the fact that I've never breached the "World Class" levels of physical athleticism (despite the fact that I've traded with a couple people at said level), I know both sides of the spectrum pretty well. I even study both e-sports and physical sports at a pretty solid level trying to establish common ground between the two fields, and there is indeed alot. Your comment about the "unhealthiest" type of person being able to train in e-sports for thousands of hours... Well: They can train INCORRECTLY for thousands of hours, or they can WASTE THEIR TIME with all of that alleged "training" and then compete in a tournament to not even break the tournaments top 100. Fact of the matter is that your brain has to be healthy for e-sports, and you can have younger guys that (to be polite) are not in the best of physical shape, but since they are young their brain will still function at an optimal level even with them physically being out of shape. But you may be surprised to see that alot of e-sports players are pretty skinny or in good shape. Like I said you could "train" as much as you want, but I was really keeping things in context of playing at the highest levels or at least being able to hold your own against them. It is very difficult to compete at high levels in e-sports with all sorts of medical issues that could come with being the "unhealthiest" type of person. To be blunt: E-sports is not going to work out for people that are the "unhealthiest" type because your brain has to be able to operate at high levels and if you're unhealthy, alot of healthier people are going to operate at different levels. I personally tried to start a unit based on other top players methods, which was to train e-sports players like a UFC fighter in a way that they train like one so they are in peak physical fitness. I don't believe in getting involved in e-sports at the highest levels with an unhealthy body, but I never really said that a Call of Duty professional could jump right into pro-football at the highest levels, for the exact same reasons Lebron James cannot jump straight into the fighting game community at the highest levels and win something like EVO (world's biggest fighting game tournament) or Capcom Cup. That said: There is virtually a zero percent chance that the great King James himself could enter the Street Fighter V competitive scene at the highest levels and claim an instant world title in something like the World's Capcom Cup. If he tried, he would likely come away from the tournament with a flabbergasted very surprised look on his face not expecting how fast those people operate.