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Re: Survival Horror Game Tormented Souls Out This Month, Demo Available Now

Barryburton97

@Ilovecoffee this is a fixed camera angle game, not like RE Revelations which is over the shoulder. It plays like Code Veronica (fixed angle, sometimes moving camera), with a setting like the original Resident Evil.

Played the demo and it's a nice piece of nostalgia, but the intentionally stiff controls and frankly rubbish old school resi-style shooting are an acquired taste.

Re: Sony Fans Bicker Over Ghost of Tsushima PS5 Paywall

Barryburton97

@Bleachedsmiles agreed, Microsoft can afford to buy market share because they're making $100s of billions from the boom in cloud computing (Azure) and homeworking (Teams, Office 365).
All that said, Sony are raking it in still. Plenty of space in the market for both competitors.

Re: Some PS3 Games Supposedly No Longer Downloading Patches

Barryburton97

This is probably a glitch but let's face it, there will eventually be hundreds of disc based games from the PS3 generation onwards that will be incomplete or even unplayable from disc before too long. (Unless you have the discipline to maintain your own offline archives, as the PS3 hard drive won't last forever either). Pirates to save the day in future?

While I don't have similar for PS3 to share, this is a useful thread that identifies complete, updated PS4 games on disc
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=316998

Re: Soapbox: Why Do You Replay Games?

Barryburton97

I don't often replay games and when I do it's short ones like Resident Evil titles.

There's plenty I'd like to experience again but I try to stay disciplined to trying new ones and working through the backlog.

Funny that Liam mentioned Fallout 3. I enjoyed FO3 a lot (years ago) and I started FO4 a few months ago. It felt like I was replaying FO3, so similar the early game is. So I actually abandoned it, just felt like repeating the same experience. No doubt I missed out on some good stuff later in FO4, so will try again one day.

Re: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Sells Over 300,000 Copies, Deserves a Lot More

Barryburton97

I'm certainly intrigued as I enjoyed what I played of the beautiful Odin Sphere, and this looks interesting and similarly stunning. I think the problem I and millions of other keen Western gamers have is that it is an extremely niche type of game, so we're hesitant to spend RRP-type money on it, not least when most of our backlogs are absolutely ridiculous as it's the end of the generation.

Re: PS Plus January 2021 PS5, PS4 Games Announced

Barryburton97

@Mysterio Shadow of the Tomb Raider has much less combat and much more exploration and puzzling than the other two in the recent trilogy. It feels much more like an old school TR game in that sense. Other than the forgettable story, it's really good.

Re: Poll: Is Cyberpunk 2077's Poor PS4 Performance Acceptable?

Barryburton97

@DrClayman true about Skyrim. But if anything, games should be at their best at the end of the gen, given the huge amount of accumulated experience. And with 7+ years of development this game really should be getting the basics right at launch.
Anyway, I suspect it'll be largely fixed and eventually go down as an all time classic.
Time will tell.