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@stvevan I agree that there are a lot of remakes currently announced and many are unjustified but a remake of the first Witcher game makes a lot of sense. It is very dated and most people got into the series with the third game, so going back to the original as a new fan is a real pain, especially if you don't like playing on PC.

Yes! The first Witcher game is great but very dated. I remember when they announced the PS3 port; The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf - before it was cancelled. I wonder if they want to make it open-world for fans of the third game or keep the open maps like the original and 2. If this is a success, which it probably will be, I need a remake of 2. I love that game.

@Eldritch You know what, you are right. My post came off more aggressive than I would have liked. My complaint about the original article was that it was written in a way that felt like there was evidence pointing towards the assumption that Sony scrapped the dates on purpose, which from the information at the time I would say wasn't sufficient enough to make such a statement. My dislike of that article shouldn't justify my passive aggression and apologies to Liam for that.

@LiamCroft Hang on, there is a difference between writing about what happened and writing an article that specifically says in the title that Sony scrapped it. Reporting that the expiration date is gone is one thing but most of that article was you assuming Sony did it on purpose and only a small line at the end that suggests it could have been a glitch.

If only specific sites that report news contacted Sony for a statement about the missing expiry dates before writing an article assuming stuff, but that's too much work.

I'd love a remake of Code Veronica and a part of me wants them to remake 5 and 6. I want to see if they can make those action games fit into the horror style but if they can't then they shouldn't touch them, and really think they can't.

It seems like most people think it's excellent, I'm in the smaller camp that thinks it's okay. I don't have anything really bad to say about it but I figured out where the story was going after two episodes and the amount of time the anime covers is a bit too much for my liking. The story and characters are great, but the time with them wasn't enough to hit me emotionally compared to other people.

The visuals and the music are definitely the highlights and at the end of the day it's given me the itch to revisit 2077, and from the look of the Steam charts, it's succeeded in bringing people back to the Cyberpunk world which is great because I love it. If CDPR sticks to the quality shown in Edgerunners, then in a few years' time the issues with 2077 will be a distant memory.

So I do recommend people to watch Edgerunners. My biggest issue is I would have liked it to be given time to breathe but as I said, I'm in the minority which makes it okay. I really think that won't affect a lot of people's opinions. It's a great entry for newcomers.

They should just split the franchise into two. Keep one called Saints Row with all the wackness from the later games and spin-off another series called 3rd Street Saints or something to satisfy the older fans. When you've taken a series in multiple directions, you will attract fans that want different things from the IP.

I'm not a big fan of the dubs for LAD games, I still prefer the original voices with subs. Everyone talking with an American accent is really off-putting to me. It's a shame for people who struggle with subtitles however but at least it's just going to be this game from the sounds of it.

I don't mind this. Still odd that they named Like a Dragon 7; Yakuza: Like a Dragon then name the next one Like a Dragon 8. After Yakuza 6 they should have just named the seventh Like a Dragon 7. Like a Dragon... a lot of Like a Dragon in my post. At least we can call it LAD... LAD is about lads doing laddy things

Kiryu is a big BTS fan

@nessisonett where did you put the controller down? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

That's what the DualSense was designed for

Probably for the best. I have a few things that I didn't like about the game but now that most of the game-breaking bugs are fixed, it's a pretty good action game. They are heavily invested in the Cyberpunk IP and the world is great but with all the bad press surrounding 2077, it's better to move on and start work on a new game in this world. Learn from the mistakes of the past and show people with one big expansion that they can create something great.

I'm a fan of the Destroy All Humans series, warts and all. I remember preferring 2 over the original when I was younger but revisiting them a couple of years ago I enjoyed it less than the first. This review doesn't surprise me, I will get this when it's discounted but I'm more interested in what's next. Remakes of the next two games or just move on to an original title in the series? I'd be happy with either but I'm going to guess they will do the latter.

Ah, these lawsuits. You hear about them once or twice and then they go nowhere because why would they? I look forward to another article telling me it's gone nowhere next year.

The Stick of Truth was initially meant to be published by THQ, and now years later THQ Nordic is finally publishing a South Park game. I hope it's similar to the last two.

Like others, I dislike cats so that doesn't play into my views of the game. Overall, I think it's good. It's a pretty linear game for the most part with simple objectives and it's a short experience.

And I think that's why it's good. The length allows the game's bare mechanics to last for as long as they are needed, and when they start waning on you, it's over. The world is interesting enough that makes me want to know more about the lore and finish the story, even though the ending leaves a lot of questions left unanswered.

People who say this is a GotY candidate I personally disagree with, but for a good time that you can finish in a day or two, I think it's worth playing. If you don't have access to it for free I think it's a good game to pick up on sale for 50% off.

When they first announced it I didn't get my hopes up because I thought it would be always online. Now they've announced it's F2P, something that EA has never gotten right from their big franchises... I look forward to it becoming the next FIFA World and Need for Speed: World.

FarCry was a series that I used to love but I've fallen off hard since the last few instalments. I'm not going to pay full price for them, so being on PS+ would be good for me if I want a competent open world to keep me busy between other games.

It's pretty obvious that games like Dino Crisis are coming with all the leaks, and I'm getting the idea that they were planning to launch them this month but the emulation needs more work. Also explains why there are only two classics for this month. Hopefully the further we get from the ps plus relaunch, the more classic games we get per month.

I really want to see the gameplay for this. I hope it's more like Origins than Inquisition, but the story with Solas and the
Tevinter Imperium might keep my interest if it's not.

@Broosh May, not April.

We shall see. If this is true though, why didn't they announce that this week? They could have just said that emulation is only possible with the PS5 hardware and whilst we are figuring it out, the option of streaming will be available at the launch of the rebranding. I still want to know if they are keeping all of the backwards compatibility behind the higher tiers or not.

No Tony Hawk games? Give me THUG 1/2 and THAW! Plus I need the PS1 Rayman games.

I like the general idea but I need to know more. Not being able to download PS3 games, which I understand when it comes to PS4 but the PS5 is powerful enough to emulate them in my opinion. The second is I want to know if they are keeping the PS1, PS2 and PSP games behind the subscription so you can't buy any game separately. Also, I hope that a game in the subscription will offer both the PS5 and PS4 versions because that's something that Now does horrendously by only offering the PS4 versions.

This isn't because they want to, it's more likely because they have to.

From the sound of things, this isn't something for PlayStation exclusivity. It sounds more like it's something that will bring money in from all platforms and I imagine Sony will be allowed to make movies, shows etc. from Bungie IP. So summary, Bungie will be Bungie on all platforms and Sony will take a cut of the money.

Yeah, this makes me want an Xbox even less. Last gen Xbox had nothing, so what do they do? Instead of investing in new studios, just buy the rights to the biggest franchises in the world so you are forced to buy their console if you don't want to play on PC. Acquisitions of this size are f-ing disgusting in all forms of business. It doesn't matter if it's Microsoft or Sony, it makes me sick. If this carries on I can see myself just stop playing games altogether. What a joke.

If it does happen eventually, it better not be tied in with any subscription. I want to insert my copy of the greatest horror game of all time, Rugrats: Search for Reptar. Thorg is nightmare fuel in that Toy Store!

@Milt The majority of people buying CoD are people that aren't into gaming. Most people don't know about the Activision Blizzard stuff. I haven't seen it being talked about on the TV and the only time it's reported by the main news outlets is via online articles. Hell, a lot of gaming news sites don't report on it. I haven't seen an article here about it for a while. You're lucky to get a paragraph about it right at the end of a post. But even if people do know, the majority don't care. It's sad but true.

The gritty reboot of Croc.

@Shepherd_Tallon I get that. I thought the game handled its original characters well, but the ME2 characters' stories left a lot to be desired for me personally (apart from Mordin obviously!). And I was pretty invested in the Reaper plot since the beginning, the writing in ME1 is so damn good, it's hard not to care. So when ME3 came along and they suddenly discover plans for The Crucible, it felt like a cheap throughline for the main story to follow. Still, if someone said 3 was their favourite in the trilogy I wouldn't argue with them, there are a lot of great moments. For me, it's a toss between 1 and 2. I like the writing and soundtrack more in 1 but the characters more in 2.

@Shepherd_Tallon I remember not liking ME3 the first time around because Bioware overhyped the choices from the previous games and how they tie into the endings you get. Now I'm not a teenager, I realise how ridiculous it would be to pull that stuff off. I think they should have dampened people's expectations but playing through ME3 now, knowing what I'm actually getting, I still think it's the weakest in the trilogy but it's a good conclusion to one of the best trilogies out there.

I hope this means a Dragon Age Legendary Edition is on the cards to fill in the gap before the release of Dragon Age 4. I also hope that the success of the release makes them realise not every game needs to have massive open worlds filled with fetch quests, cough Inquistuion/Andromeda cough. Give me a DA:O or ME2 style hub areas and I'll be happy!

I'm happy people like the turn-based combat but I found it to be the weakest part of 7 by far. It's so boring, and after spending over a decade improving the action gameplay, it seems bizarre that we might only get that once every other year if they cycle between Yakuza and Judgment. I hope they at least change it up a bit when 8 is released. Moving the character so they don't run into the wall every time would be nice...

I absolutely disagree with this on so many levels. The problem I have with the GaaS model is that it feels like an excuse to release an unfinished game, then add features and content that was meant to be in it, later, with future updates, and people will praise them for continuing to support the game.

The list of games you think are GaaS is laughable. The Witcher 3 was not a GaaS. Just because it had a steady stream of mini free dlcs for a few months doesn't make it a GaaS. It was a complete game. By your definition, a game could have 2 paid for expansion packs and they are now a GaaS, even though a GaaS is something that relies on it being updated.

The one purposes for a GaaS is recurring consumer spending whilst keeping costs down by drip-feeding content and making a big update every 3-4 months. Sell skins and emotes which will take a 3D artist or animator a couple of days at most to make.

When a game developer/publisher says it's a "live" game, it means we need to rush a game out, we'll fix it later and then not worry about releasing a new game for a few years, not because we are constantly updating our current game, more because we can milk people with boosters and cosmetics.

You need to be careful, if you stretch any more than you already are, you'll throw your back out.

@IonMagus Oh well. This might be the first Yakuza I don't pick up on release. The change to turn-based combat and the character of Ichban as already made me less interested, and now it's being released in November when Cyberpunk is out. I'm more interested in the next game in the series, hopefully, a Judgment 2.

Is this a timed next-gen exclusive though? If you check their twitter banner, it says the next-gen release for both XSX and PS5 will be soon while this gen is November. Since November is the likely month of the next-gen releases, it sounds more like the same thing CD Projekt is doing with Cyberpunk, where the port is still being worked on and will release next year.

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsft pays for a timed port but I also wouldn't be surprised if it's just bad phrasing from Sega.