Drawfull

Erm, it's £17? Surely it lasted more than a couple of hours?

FFX remaster, from tomorrow after 4. Close to the plat now, but still got Kimahri to max stats-wise and Penance to do amongst other non-consequential stuff.

Does EA Access actually work then? I have a good connection, 300mb to the house.

@VanillaLake With you. Metal Slugs are a nice addition though. Still not resubscribing til they put back FFXIII.

@banacheck Is there a source for that or are you making a prediction based on your username

@ZeD Ah, cheers

The store says 24/06; I don't know if it used to say 21/06.

It's got an old school mode with finite lives!!

Just plumped for this, need more HOH-style fun.

@WebHead Yeah, but, XII was brilliant (I like 13 and 13-2 too). What does it have to adapt to?

Its current demo iteration is far from brilliant, I agree, but what are you suggesting that would make it better?

@LieutenantFatman

Lazy devs:
Hey, PC guy, how's DH looking? All good amigo.

XB1, how we doing? 10 for 10 hombre.

PS$, what's happening? Waiting for LVG to be sacked, but er, yeah.

It's a disgrace that anything releases in this state of greatness on any platform, never mind PS4.

(How ironic that the $ is 4)

_{@Drawfull: Watch the language please -Tasuki-}

@Neolit The problem with PS Now is that even with a blisteringly-fast connection, it can be unreliable so for a lot of users it wouldn't be a good thing.

I missed Diablo III on sale, so I wouldn't turn my nose up to that for PS4, but don't want to pay £60.

Caved with the PSN sale and picked up inFamous SS (never played any of the series) and Divinity for a total saving of £60 apparently. So, I'll probably ignore them and get back to UC on crushing. Or TLOUr on which I have made no further progress.

In an ideal world though, it would be Hyper Sports, as my old cab finally arrived a couple of weeks ago, but it's stuck in the garage and we're struggling to get it up and into the house

@playstation1995 Did you play the demo?

@Mega-Gazz Exactly, but you've got it backwards in my opinion. The combat was a means to an end. You could make the game artificially difficult, but the combat just got you from A to B. If I have to concentrate on button combos, I'd prefer to be playing something else. I'd rather be grinding levels, finding and modding equipment, unlocking new spells that I can pick by highlighting the spell itself than frantically whipping the camera around to see if I can 'warp' to somewhere to give me an advantage.
Final Fantasy has always (even 13, 13-2) been about using tactics to defeat the enemies efficiently. real time combat is a completely different kettle made out of fish. They are going to alienate many fans.

@finalstan If they give the option to switch everything during combat it would be a good thing. Zodiark white mask on, white mask off style for Holyja. But I bet they won't.

@shosbu the problem is that they're too bothered what the action looks like. I don't think they've dropped the ball on the stories (what should be FF stories, I'm not expecting TLOU of UC game detail here), they've lost the plot with control. Because we play this series for the story, for the RNG mechanics, for the customisation, exploration and wonder. The game should just work. It doesn't need 'modern' combat, it doesn't need 'real time' action - we can all get that elsewhere.

It's like they said (with a little reference to FFXIII Lightning Returns), "We're selling all these games, but imagine how many players will buy it if it's real time combat", without thinking about how many fans they'll rile up by getting rid of the one constant in the series.

It looks absolutely shocking. I just commented on the other thread re environments and mentioned the combat as I remembered it from the demos. This looks very very bad. Shame.

@rjejr I hate the combat as it is from the demos. But it does look good. I hope they sort the frame rate out too, it was jerky as hell in the main demo.

I love FF, I have them all, multiple times on every format (bar NES) pretty much but I'm just not feeling it with this. It's still on pre-order, obv, along with 7R, but I dunno. Just a bit meh.

Literally in the last month have paid full whack for Witcher and GTAV

Haven't a clue.

Finished UC4, though still much to do collectable/trophy-wise but don't care for MP. I'll probably go back to TLOU, but I'm stuck (just before David) because I generally suck at games

@fybyfyby I think it's more fluid too, tho there's one later in the game that I really struggled with which SPOILER SPOILER uses a slightly different system.

Chapter 20 is amazing, stand out for me. I only finished it on normal and it's significantly easier than TLOU on the same difficulty IMO (as a hopeless gamer).

Gonna give it a few days and play through the next hardest and concentrate more on collectibles. I missed a lot cos whenever I needed to press L3 it broke the game's camera more often than not, requiring a restart of the checkpoint - has no-one else had this?

I kept dying at the stupid fence, so I don't know if I can get out of the washing up.

@carlos82 same here.

@FantasyMeister 49? You have 7 on me if that's the case. I'm dubious with XV tbh. Found my fat PS3 earlier in the garage, had XII in it, I now have at least 4 copies. I think it's 6. Sqeenix should be giving me money.

@stupidget Cheers

How good is that! How big is the download!? Done 12gb, and got 31 out of 48 on the second bit done.

Can you upload some of the 8bit one? Or a screenshot?

Worth pointing out that the US blog says that you can buy points - I assume that means relics - and use them in game. So you're still at the mercy of the RNG.

@sinalefa The only reason I didn't get DD is 'cos after all these years you can still elbow your way through. Music's good though.

TLoU, since I've never finished it; am just before Bill's Town I think. A bit of R-Type (Dimensions) via PS Now, with the ever-so-slightly laggy controls not a problem at all on stage 6 and probably a bit of FFX.

@Rook909

@Rook909 Ah, thanks. The shipping the states will ruin it for me: I have prime on my Spanish and UK Amazon and they both tend to ship from the same distribution hubs so I order from whichever is the cheapest.

Never know though, hopefully I'll wake up to a nice dispatched email!

@Rook909 Amazon .com .co.uk or .de or other? My .es one from above still hasn't changed tho I have had the confirm after the 30 minute window where you can change things.

I've just chanced a pre-order from amazon.es to see if it ships immediately/early; it's saying the 9th but you never know. Already got it pre-ordered from the PSN in any case.

Picked this up on vita on Boxing Day and ps3 when I got home on the 27th from visiting family. The vita version of x looks good, and because of the smaller screen arguably better than the ps3. It's a shame that there are still quite a lot of low res textures on the ps3 version of x (check the al bhed that tidus meets in the ruins near the start of the game).

Other than that, it does look much better overall and is refreshing to play in full HD. Not played x-2 yet other than making sure it installed ok on the vita.

And not sure whether this is surprising, but so far, mechanically, it's identical to the original.