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Save and Shut down — as handy as Rest Mode is, I don't trust it fully enough to lose progress for the sake of the minute or so it takes to launch a PS5 game from scratch

Shonen Jump is £3 a month, which is pretty decent considering the amount of series that are on there.

Before it was released, I was hoping that the PS5 would be revealed to be fully back-compat with everything. I would totally buy a PS6 on day one if it was — the PS5 Pro has proved that there are people willing to go the extra few pennies.

I imagine if videogames had been invented today, being able to purchase them individually wouldn't even be an option. Companies seem to be pushing subscriptions to be the default way to acquire everything now, and buying a standalone videogame/movie/album feels like it's becoming a relic of a bygone era.

The charade can only have gone on for so long. Now that they're apparently making proper Spider-Man films again, they can comfortably prolong their stranglehold of those movie rights a bit longer...

@BloodyBlact Looks like it could be mint.

@Enigk I was just thinking this exact thing when I was sifting through my Spotify

Such a cool idea — whenever I buy RPGs like this my entire first evening playing them is just four hours of faffing about with the character creator, so it'll be nice to hit the ground running when I finally pull the trigger on the game!

@PuppetMaster Yep, Dreams was getting some heavy radio play during 1994, the year the PS1 launched, so a pretty perfect accompanying song.

Excellent deep cut

For me FFVIII was the misunderstood middle child between VII and IX — for my money, IX is my favourite of the three, but VIII definitely has a charm, despite its jank and unbalancedness

@Oram77 yeah, same — I got FFVII (which I finished the week before FFVIII released) with the demo/trailer disc, and seeing that opening movie, with the more realistic characters designs, blew my mind at the time. Liberi Fatali still slaps hard.

However, LEGO didn't approve of the violence and sexual innuendo common in Bond films being put in a game for kids.

Yeah, tonally I imagine that would have been an absolute nightmare of a tightrope to walk, for the writers/animators.

Evidently we can have nice things!

@UnlimitedSevens It's ace isn't it? The guitar just sounds so more organic and less fragmented than Parappa's Rapping

Btw, I just yesterday nabbed one of those 8BitDo Wireless Receivers — highly recommend them to anyone that feels like firing up the PS1/PS2 — my DualShock controllers have seen better days (the ones that are still working anyway), and this thing is an absolute godsend.

Big Lemmings fan — always enjoy a good puzzle/platfomer. I also got kinda Flicky vibes from the little train of astronauts that follow you around

@Almost_Ghostly Yeah, that would have been nice.

@__Seraph Yes it should be — you'll need to go to the storefront and "purchase" it, but it won't cost you anything. Funny, it's been there for me since they introduced the game to the tier.

Hurrah! Dino tomfoolery for all!

@Sarcasmatwork graci

@UnlimitedSevens I'll see your Parappa the Rapper and raise you an Um Jammer Lammy

@DonJorginho if your petabyte, then treat-a your pet nicer.

Yeah, same. With the sheer amount of re-releases and updates of the TLoU games, I sincerely wonder just how many times they expect people to replay them.

Heh, wanted to say exactly this — beat me to it

I'd rather see a game like FFVI redone in the style of FFIX, or the DS III/IV remakes — I really think the cartoony stylised look is the perfect middle ground between pixel art (I was never really a huge fan of HD-2D) and the hyper-realistic FFVIIR games.

I tend to only really buy digital games that are mostly indies or ones that aren't available physically, and there's almost always a rotating sale in some form or another!

@CielloArc Dad jokes aside? I didn't agree to this.

When Mark Cerny first revealed the Pro he stated that it aimed to “eradicate the need to choose, or at least narrow the gap” between Performance and Fidelity modes. Our biggest surprise when testing out games was how inconsistent its Pro options were.

After watching the reveal video, this may have been the single thing that piqued my interest. I'm really not a fan of being presented with an "either/or" choice in how well a game performs; typically I'd just go with the default choice (or a "balanced" option, if it's available), and I was really hoping that a new console would alleviate that, but apparently it's pretty much up to the individual developers whether or not that's the case, as we've seen with Spider-Man 2. And I can only forsee that the goalposts are pushed apart further when the PS6 eventually rolls around.

When running on a PS5 Pro, the PS5 game unlocks access to two more graphical modes: Fidelity Pro and Performance Pro. The former targets 30 frames-per-second and includes three new ray tracing methods: RT Ambient Occlusion, RT Reflections and Interiors, and RT Key Light Shadows. You can toggle intensity settings to dictate how effective the three features are

Hang on, I thought the whole point of PS5 Pro was to eliminate the whole "this or that" choice, and have a balanced, optimised overall performance that incorporate the best of both worlds? And now they're introducing three more sub-choices as well as the main two?

Maybe one day I'll give this a whirl, but there's so much I already need to play — Forbidden West being one of them!

Anyone "furious" that their insanely high-end AAA lavish, several-years-in-production New York City superhero simulator doesn't have more content cranked out for it in under a year really needs to acknowledge the definition of a First World Problem.

Yeah, ditto.

I've never quite understood the trophy deal-breaker, but not making it available for individual purchase is absurd. Don't they want my money?

Ah, no way! PLAY was the first PS mag I ever read (before that I was a Mean Machines kid) — I had no idea about the whole cancellation/revival/replacement with OPM; by that point I'd pretty much stopped reading mags on the reg altogether

They must be having a mass cull over at Future Publishing; Total Film just announced that their current issue will be the last

Yeah, TLR was a great return to form from the first game — Chronicles I remember not minding at the time, but even then it did feel a bit like a cheap cash in.

AoD I'm extremely curious to see how they're going to handle this remaster. I believe the first three games were built using the original code, so they're really going to have to do something special to tweak it just enough to make it bearable. I never even finished the original because of a progression-halting bug whilst playing as Dudebro McSoulpatch.

Spiders are cool, they keep the house bug ecosystem in check.

@colonelkilgore The "S" stands for Shinobi

Yeah as loose as the Shinobi lore is, it's pretty much an open canvas for any kind of movie plot, but I think what would definitely get me to go on day one would be if they roped in Yuzo Koshiro to do the soundtrack.

While this does look decent, I've been put off almost every other Persona-style game by all the various DLC/GOTY update versions and remasters for previous games (most of which are spread across different versions, so there's never a single definitive version) that I can't in good conscience invest 100 hours into something only for them to announce some extra episode later on that requires re-buying/re-playing the whole thing again.

I wish Aloy was more verbose. I never had a clue what to do or what I'd just done or what I was currently doing in those games.

Yeah, CEX have it for £22 right now

@SolarSailor I love Ashly Burch's work (especially in Life is Strange), but I found her performance as Aloy a bit overly earnest

Indeed — there needs to be a more granular breakdown of games that actually have both physical and digital versions — I'd bet at least 75% of the PS4/5's library was digital only.

I'd be interested to know how much, of the 25% physical purchases, are second hand (if indeed they're being counted at all)? I pick up physical when I can, but I almost never buy them on launch, or first hand. Or are they getting their data on the amount of people running games from a disc rather than a digital install?

I understand and appreciate the onboarding for new devs process — but I think charging full price for a game that's less than a decade old, and runs on the same hardware, is a bit silly. Logic would dictate that people would vote with their wallets, so I guess it's really on them at the end of the day; I'm sure people aren't "hate buying" a £60 game

@johncalmc I have a question. How do you get past the goat?

Just kidding — super looking forward to playing this again! And really hope they remaster the rest of them.

While I've no inherent problem with the idea of a HZD remakester, it's simply not a game I really have much interest in revisiting, having sunk 50+ hours and 100%ed all the side quests, there are so many more games still on my list I'd rather devote my time to

I literally just restarted DAI last night (after stalling for the best part of a decade after barely touching it) — figured I'd try and get back up to speed before the fourth one comes out. So far it's pretty decent!

@get2sammyb you could just play Fortnite — they have a tie-in for seemingly every IP under the sun

It wouldn't surprise me if the original concept designs were along these lines. Before months of committee-led tweaking whittled them down to the barest bone, weak-lemon drink iterations that eventually got used.

O my cup runneth over...

Not on your nelly!

If they'd chucked in the disc drive, and made it fully back-compat with the entire legacy of PS consoles, I might have been interested...

I'd be interested to know how much storage space all of these games combined would take up. I'd imagine it can't be much more than streaming a couple of hours or so of video from a single game would be, in terms of sensible use of bandwidth.