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@ColdHandGee I can't believe you Ryused my word!

@Eldritch yeah I know, they're so tenuous they're often beyond many peoples' Ken

"Does the Juri have a verdict?"

I dunno, I'm drawing a Blanka.

I don't understand the cache in having trophies that were obtained from shovelware. If I won a gold-plated medallion from the egg and spoon race in primary school, I wouldn't go parading it around.

Man, there are just too many middling/negative reviews of Sonic Frontiers, and so many other games that I've not even begun yet, to warrant checking it out.

Nah, outside of Rush and Mania, I've never really taken to Sonic beyond Sonic 3 on the Mega Drive. Dabbled in a couple of the 3D ones, but I've never felt that the character or his whole aesthetic fundamentally works in anything other than a 2D stylised cartoon setting.

I'm seeing some positive reviews for Frontiers, but far too many times I've seen reviewers state "oh no, THIS time they've nailed it", only to realise/admit six months later that "nah, that was rubbish".

@BrotherFilmriss it's £7.19 on Switch (bargain), so expect around that!

@get2sammyb Yep, reasons to keep the PS3 hooked up has just decreased by one more...

@vanmunt ^ ditto

While it wasn't exactly the height of comedy, I didn't mind the tone in Borderlands 1; the jokes were relatively few and far between some solid shooting and looting, but from 2 onwards, where the jokes became the focus of the games, it became unbearable.

@LiamCroft That's what I suspected - ta!

@LiamCroft Is it worth playing through the first game to get up to speed with the plot and characters?

@Flaming_Kaiser oh yeah I still have my PS3 hooked up! There were 20 or so exclusive games that are held captive on that platform that I'm still clinging onto, but it's getting slowly chipped away at as time goes by...

@Flaming_Kaiser TBF it was my first experience with the series, so it was like a breath of fresh air (I tried Rory McIllroy's PGA tour and it just didn't do an awful lot for me — it felt like they'd basically started from scratch and hadn't fully baked in the full game yet)

It'll only be "definitive" until the next generation rolls around, where it'll be re-released again, this time featuring even shinier puddles.

@Flaming_Kaiser Same here — I'm not bothered about the officially-licensed tournaments that they're touting — as long as I can play a solid game of golf, with a deep and customisable career mode, which Everybody's Golf had in spades (well, sand wedges)

@Octane specifically the grass clumps and cave entrance — they look like they're ripped almost pixel for pixel from Zelda. I'm all for reverence, but when there are so many of these kinds of games available at the mo, it gets a little numbing.

@mariomaster96 "They should just officially rename the PS5 to "PS4 Pro Pro" because that's what it is"

Yeah, was gonna say exactly this; I'm all for backward compatibility, but PS5 is starting to feel a bit like PS4 Pro+

Wow, they are just flat out using assets from LttP, there.

Hmm, even if it was a relatively cheap upgrade (like £5-10) I don't think I'd bother. I all-but-100%ed the original and the Frozen Wilds DLC, so I don't see any logical reason I'd ever revisit it. I've yet to play Forbidden West, and there have got to be tens, if not hundreds of games that I've yet to experience, and only a finite time to play them.

It'll be forever remembered for being "That Stadia game", but it did look decent, and I'd definitely like to give it a whirl

One of a handful of gems that was lost to the PS3 generation, can't wait to play it again! Now if they can get Trash Panic, After Burner Climax, and Outrun 2: Coast to Coast back on the Store, I'll be a happy bunny.

It looks ace — Can I jump into this having not played the game at all? That was the case with Arcane, and that show was fantastic.

@twenty90seven How Iron-ic. Must be very offPutt-ing

My god... Refresh rate filter!

@BAMozzy "That's partly why I don't follow any 'youtuber' that 'claims' insider knowledge or use Reddit, Twitter etc. I rely on the 'trusted' sites and still take a lot of information as at best 'speculation' at best until I get 'confirmation' directly from the source - the dev, the Publisher, the Band/Artist, the Director etc."

^ Yup, I was going to say pretty much exactly this, but you already did for me

*So fresh and so clean, clean.

That's a shame, I assumed that music/rhythm mini games would form a vital component of the actual gameplay — and don't get me wrong, I love a good visual novel, but this sounds like there's very little player agency; feels like a missed opportunity — you wonder why the devs didn't simply turn it into an animated show, especially given the aesthetic.

I've had the same thing happen with Amazon parcels, where the whole parcel seal has attached itself to the books I'd ordered — took a good hour to carefully unstick it so as not to damage the cover

@Khayl Looking forward to mowing down waves of enemies in a combine harvester!

@Avishayafriat I purchased SF1 and it was there waiting for me in my library, and it's purchasable on the store, so hopefully SF2 will be too

I picked up TLOUR on the cheap, purely so I could play Left Behind and segue neatly into TLOU2. I have no real desire to play the original again any time soon, but if I were to I'd likely play that version.

@SmoothlyRough 2K21 didn't grab me as much as I'd hoped, but I might give this one a whirl — since the '04-06 heydey (imho anyway) of Tiger Woods, the only golf game I've really taken to has been Everybody's Golf.

It's coming to PS5 AND PS5?? I'm in.

It's been a while since I played PGA/Tiger Woods, and I dabbled briefly with 2K21, but does anyone know if your save/progress carried over across newer games? I was a massive fan of '04-06, and that was the only thing missing from it which would have made it absolutely perfect

Yeah it's certainly aged, but after a few minutes of getting used to the tankish controls, I was having a hoot.

"it’s incredibly easy to overlook a single switch or computer terminal, which is blended into the background and required to proceed."

Omg this! Even back in the day I remember running up and down the subway looking for a teeny tiny elevator switch that was completely cloaked in darkness

@Fenbops If she brings that Nu Metal gonk from Angel of Darkness I'm going to be very disappointed — what a travesty of a misfire that was, one that's dated like fine milk.

@BritneyfR_ee I actually thought it would have been a no-brainer to have done a proper remake of the original games, but with the engine of the new one — Anniversary was close, but no cigar

"To be honest, the writing in recent entries has been absolutely atrocious"

While I thought the three Tomb Raider reboot trilogy games were great to play, I couldn't with good conscience tell you a single plot point about any of them.

Oh nice! I bought WROEF years ago but never actually got around to playing it a few months ago on Switch — be nice to see how the PS5 version shapes up.

£70? What will prevent them from making more versions next generation and asking for fifty billion? One hundred billion?

I'm not on PS+, but I might snag it for a month so I can play Stray

I've tried numerous times to get into the Soulsborne games - when Elden Ring was released to seemingly unanimous praise, I fired up Dark Souls Remastered one more time to see if I'd overlooked anything. They're just not for me — ended up dumping 1, 2 and Bloodborne on eBay the following week — better that they go to a home that'll appreciate them better than I!

I'm still a bit disappointed it's not a straight-up remake; they seem to be doing a sort of meta-commentary on the notion of remakes, using the original game's plot as a baseline; I can't imagine anyone coming to the series fresh would get anything from that aspect of it.

@AFCC or an NFT of Tifa's gloves

If there was a PS5 upgrade for like, a tenner or so, I might be tempted to go in on it.

@nessisonett Nice

@WallyWest Yeah, but this is one of the reasons I'm not a PC gamer — Pro models aside, consoles should give you a consistent performance standard that means you don't need to balance a load of spec plates in order to comfortably run the game, without worrying that you're sacrificing one aspect of the experience for another.

"You could instead opt to almost double that frame rate, but then the visuals aren't so hot. It's frustrating not knowing which one's best overall, creating circumstances where you know certain aspects would be better on the other side of the coin."

This has been one of my biggest bugbears this past generation — when a game gives you the choice for only one or the other, surely it should be up to the devs to find a balance that accommodates both framerate and fidelity? That'd be like making a pizza for someone and saying "yeah you can have cheese, OR tomato — you can't have both".

To be fair the 50hz version is only £8,332.50.