FantasyMeister

Amazon were doing £10 back on orders over £50 last Fryday so I plaiced an order (along with Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and 2.5 Remix). Wallet got battered but f-eels good.

I'm pretty evenly split over 4 of those titles, but my Final Fantasy bias finally convinced me to stop hovering and select one.

Now I want to click on Nier, RDR2 and Mass Effect.

As the owner of 2.5 cats (one is someone else's but he spends his days here) and a PS4 Pro (spends all the time here), I approve of this message.

My tentative shopping list looks like this:
February - Horizon: Zero Dawn, Torment: Tides of Numenera
March - Nier: Automata, Mass Effect: Andromeda
Q1 - Southpark: The Fractured But Whole, Red Dead Redemption: Remastered
Q3 - Red Dead Redemption: 2

That's 7 titles before 2017 even arrives, going by previous years multiply by 10 to work out how many titles I'll end up buying during the year.

I always ask for cash so I can redistribute it on PSN subs, good causes and games I really want. So that's what I got and that's what I'm going to do!

Elder Scrolls Online for me, I love me my MMORPGs
I now have Amplitude as well for maintenance breaks.

Thanks to Black Friday and recent insane deals (January sales, already?) I also have a pile, physical and digital, of around 40 titles to work through before I buy any more. Just enough to get me through to NEXT Black Friday methinks, so could be in for a cheap year if I keep my impulses in check.

Firewatch £7.99
Amplitude £6.39
Both very tempting...

Loved the demo. Bit of church organ music in an arrangement gets me every time and the ending just leaves you wanting more. Now on the 'to get' list.

If they do a I-IX Collection on the PS4, replete with Trophies for each one, I'll never need another console. That would be the way to see out my gaming life in its entirety. Until FFXVI of course, that'd be worth a life extension if I can get one.

I played a bit of the beta, great looking game right up there with The Division in terms of graphical quality but the gameplay just didn't gel with me so it wasn't on my list anyway. I'm not sure Online Connection Required is a make or break issue for me personally being a big Elder Scrolls Online player, but obviously the less hurdles there are to actually getting a game running the better it is for gamers.

@Toe-knee I now have a PS4 Pro hooked up to it so can say assuredly that it makes a HUGE difference for gaming where games support it (The Last of Us: Remastered, Final Fantasy XV, The Elder Scrolls Online etc.).

Mostly it's the 4K resolution that stands out, VERY smooth visuals. Switching on HDR is a bit hit and miss, Final Fantasy and ESO can look a little blurry/dark but I'm still twiddling around with colour temperatures/contrast and all the other settings to see if I can get something more aesthetically pleasing to my eye. Last of Us on the other hand looks absolutely fantastic now that it's patched with HDR support and doesn't need any settings changes to look any better.

I can't really advise on films/movies, I stream mine from Netflix or use regular blu-rays rather than HD blu-rays, again it's the TVs resolution that really makes the difference though.

Dirt Rally (PS4) for £15.99 managed to powerslide itself into my download queue with impressive speed.

I don't think I can take any more of the Assassin's Creed franchise, played so much of it in the past. Basically every AC game Ubi has pumped out since AC2 has been AC2 under a different guise.

After reading the updated Neogaf thread linked to in the article? No thanks.

Sinking my gaming teeth back into The Elder Scrolls Online (in glorious 4K on a PS4 Pro). As there are so many great offers on at the moment (5500 Crowns only £14.79 and the game itself a ridiculous £7.99 on PSN store) I'm seeing a lot of new faces in the starter areas and enjoying all the new DLCs.

And l love one-hit-kill stabbing lots of NPCs in the back with my newly acquired Brotherhood Assassination skills

The Last of Us: Remastered is out now has HDR support if you want to show off your HDR-enabled display a bit earlier (it really does look gorgeous)! Looking forward to getting to grips with FFXV at the end of this month though

Awesome to see that this generation even the commercials are being remastered.

I voted Witcher but I know that CD Projekt are busy with Gwent and Cyberpunk 2077. Anyway, who needs a patch? Just shove it in either the PS4 or the PS4 Pro but definitely upgrade to a 4K TV which will give all your games a facelift regardless compared to HDTV.

Unless you already have a 4K TV and a Pro, in which case you're already having too much fun to care about patches, surely?

I'm throwing everything I can into my PS4 Pro, so lots of games this weekend. But also keeping an eye on the PlayStation Support Forums to help out those hitting issues with interfacing their 4K TVs to their PS4 Pros. The same community helped me out with my issues, so figure I can at least pay it forward a little.

I got my 4K TV couple of weeks ago (LG 49UH620V - 4K UHD, HDR10 Compatible, £479 Currys).
Hooked up the PS4 Pro yesterday (had to boot it in safe mode and set HDCP to 1.4 just to get a video output displayed instead of just sound from the PS4 Pro, got there in the end).

The Last of Us Remastered is a great game to try first because it'll tell you straight away if your TV is set up right with HDR (TLOU detects it and will then offer some nice options like 4K or Framerate Cap Off).

To me it looks and plays ABSOLUTELY AMAZINGLY. I guess the caveat here is that two weeks ago I just had a standard HDTV outputting in 1080p and this new 4K TV, whilst still being at the low end of the price range, makes everything look ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Even the Naughty Dog logo or a 21st Century Fox logo at the start of a standard Blu-Ray look ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. No, I'm not paid by Sony, just delighted with my recent overdraft-enabled purchases.

One happy hardcore gamer here.

I'm very much looking forward to jumping into Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor which has been patched to support the PS4 Pro.

Coolio, Skyrim SE is in my backlog so haven't suffered anything yet, looking forward to jumping back in even more now. Until they patch it again.

£332.49 at Tesco, picking mine up after 3pm tomorrow after ordering online today. I had £17 worth of Clubcard Vouchers in the system so put them to great use

I was lucky, Argos in the UK did a price error back in July so I managed to snag the Legacy Edition (IW and MW Remastered) for a grand total of £39.99. Considering the bang I got for my buck, no complaints here. Loved the campaign.

Still have to complete Veteran difficulty though, my thumbs are still recovering from doing that a few years back with MW2 on the 360, which was the last COD I owned.

I was on a tight budget so went for an LG 49UH620V, currently only £479 at Currys. It's 4k UHD AND HDR10 compatible (LG call it HDR Pro for their own nefarious reasons) and most importantly for me has a headphone jack.

It rocks just with a regular PS4 and I upgraded my Netflix to include 4k offerings to really get the most out of it, so all set now for the PS4 Pro, which I should be able to afford around Christmas. 2017.

Bought it a couple of months ago but still pretty sure that it's still the lowest price for which you can get 4K AND HDR10 in one package.

I loved Skyrim on the 360, now I have the remaster on the PS4 but haven't really dived into it again. Yet. But it's there. I fell equally in love with The Elder Scrolls Online too - same as Skyrim in feel, just a lot more of it. A LOT more.

World of Final Fantasy did it for me, and is still currently doing so, although I'm just waiting for COD: Modern Warfare Remastered to finish downloading

They want me to pay inflated prices for games as well so of course I'm delighted to say I'll continue to make use of their services as often as I currently do.

Well, with the stealth landing of Red Dead Revolver on the PSN store last week, and now this, I could tentatively put 2+2 together and still be guessing

Dragon Quest Builders (which arrived yesterday), loving it to bits!

Also Mafia Rivals on Android, which I've put more hours into than Mafia III.

I was meant to be playing Mafia III which arrived on Friday morning but the disc backing was scratched in transit so my PS4 had too much trouble reading it to install properly. Luckily Amazon are great and have already sent out a replacement which should be here Monday.

So meantime I'm delving into my PS4 Library to see which of the 110 titles therein haven't been played in a while, currently hooked on Alienation (just hit level 2, yay), have already given up on a couple of indies that were so exciting I can't remember what they were called and also getting slightly hooked on 2K's Mafia Rivals on Android. Which ticks all the boxes for a free Android game but doesn't really go above and beyond that.

I'm still loving the demo so I have the full game on pre-order.

Whilst I love TESO I'm so busy playing other games that my characters have had their feet up for a silly amount of time now. They've probably all put on 40lbs since my last login.

But like Arnie says: "I'll be back." Not in a 'drive a car into the front desk of a police station' sort of way. More of a gentle 'type in a password and press X' manoeuvre.

I'm addicted to flattening the world in the Dragon Quest Builders demo, so probably lots of that. And a bit of The Crew which I'm still into as The Summit ends this weekend and I'm still working towards some crazy meta-Trophies.

I guess to balance things out you should get it all set up, start playing and get someone to film you to show where all the wires ended up. Starting to think it'll look a bit like an explosion in a spaghetti factory otherwise.

I gave your unboxing YouTube a like, I never ever watch them because, like, who really cares? But I watched yours. Muchos Kudos

I'm loving the demo. Aside from the humour (which makes you think of a writer just throwing their hands up in despair because gamers will be gamers) and the structured RPG guidance there's still room for lots of exploration and discovery.
I've discovered different Building layouts that aren't revealed by NPCs, tapped a dragon to death with a blunt stick (it took around 3 ingame days and nights), seen lots of new materials that make me yearn to be able to get through the portal so I can grab new tools to harvest them (I preordered so I'll just have to wait), got my City to level 4 (no idea how high I can actually go in the demo), climbed high structures just to see what's up there and been rewarded for it and so on.

As far as I can see DQ Builders has all the creative gameplay of Minecraft with all the fan-service of the Dragon Quest franchise thrown in, and for good measure the production values, in the demo at least, are very impressive.
Probably my 'I wasn't going to get but was amazed with the demo so snapped it up' award of 2016. Or the decade for that matter.

I got back into The Crew a few weeks ago and nothing else is getting a look in at present. Currently levelling up a few cars to enter the end of the month Summit Meeting and balking at the work required for some of the meta achievements. I might leave those for a rainy day (/month/year).

Like a few others in the comments section here I look ahead at what's to come, take another look at my backlog stretching back to the Dreamcast days, then keep my fingers crossed Sony will offer me a couple of TeraBytes of online storage instead of free games.

I guess it's good that the Iceland FA consider their brand worth more, bad that they lost out on $15k; that's a lot of footballs, rebound nets, cones, pitch hires, youth development funding and kit that they'll have to find elsewhere now.

Hopefully they'll reach an agreement for FIFA 18.

I already snapped up Skyrim Special Edition at £32.69 in an earlier promo from a different company (they've now gone back up to a regular £38 so the Amazon price is still great). I ordered Mafia III from Amazon earlier today and already had a price promise guarantee from them on my FFXV pre-order, so happy happy happy

Having said all that you just know you'll be able to pick most of these up for around £29.99 a few weeks after they launch. But... I guess we're gamers

They could do an Activision and only make the remaster available when buying RDR2 for £69.99, but I'm not sure 2K are that nasty.

Time will tell, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that both are in development as the rumours/map images and so on have been in circulation for so many months.

All fine for me in West Wales but I've been logged into PSN for a few hours.

I think at this stage I'd be happy with just backwards compatibility with the PS4.

I'm rubbish at Dark Souls gameplay and Lords of the Fallen is equally unforgiving with my sloth-like reflexes, so I'd HIGHLY recommend it to Dark Souls fans, it has very high production values (up to the first boss at least, I became unstuck at that point and went back to my turn-based RPGs).

Journey I've been meaning to get and would have succumbed if I wasn't inundated with goodness already (so many games, so little time). So I'm pleased!

I'll look forward to whatever it is they'll be showing of FFXII. Would also be nice to see a bit more of Nier: Automata, some Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization and Ni No Kuni II.

Some surprises would be nice too, like Level-5 announcing a Wrath of the White Witch PS4 remaster and SEGA popping up out of nowhere with a new Phantasy Star MMO for consoles (available to download as soon as the show ends). I can dream, can't I?

43:44. Includes fishing! My life is over, fishing is the greatest time-sink in every RPG that ever included it.

15th-21st August is GDC/Gamescom in Cologne, I think that's the last major opportunity for a headline announcement other than, as you surmise, doing a one-off Sony special presser.

Personally I can wait. New hardware helps drive the industry so it's a good thing in my book, but until I know what it does I can't really say whether I'm in the market for it.

@get2sammyb In the UK the BBC starts live coverage at 20:45 for the 21:00 kick off. The full schedule of matches can be found in the link below, all times are Rio local which is 4 hours behind the UK.
http://www.fifa.com/womensolympic/matches/index.html

One of my 'things' when I'm not gaming is watching and promoting women's soccer, so I'll be glued to the TV from around 4pm UK onwards watching the 6 upcoming group games at Rio. The USA vs FRA match should be a corker, FRA played some exquisite tiki-taka style football 3 days ago so it'll be interesting to see how the USA get around it. If they do, their strikers are lethal to say the least.

Other than that, still with Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness. One reviewer didn't think I'd get 300 hours out of it, 170 hours and counting now and that's just 2 out of 4 playthroughs. So naa na, na naa na.

Seems like a missed opportunity for:
Season Pass
Season Passa
Season Passaga
If the first one actually does exist this'll be the first Final Fantasy title that I'll Gamer Pass and pick it up in a sale later. Colour me miffed.

The number of times I've ploughed 100s of hours into games said to have 30-hour campaigns leads me to worry not about how long it takes others to finish a title.