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That's a shame. I quite like the light bar.

I'm used to the soft glow (on minimum) in general, and I like when it manages to be functional or decorative.

Best use I think was the Tomb Raider fire thing, that was nice.

Valentines day again...

First the Sonic movie and now a new SFV bundle! Sewing matrimonial discord!

Sweet!

@b1ackjack first time I've heard that! That would be cool.

I have 10k views on a 1:13 YouTube vid.. just saying... Big stuff going on, BIG stuff... hahaha!

@ShogunRok
That's the best case for it I think. It's the sort of thing that they should be pushing without putting the pricey controller/bundle to the forefront as trying to convince people that latency won't be a problem.

They should establish the service first. Impress people then add accessories and 'wow' folk with how low the latency for fighting and rhythm games can (maybe) be.

@get2sammyb

Seems like so much obfuscation (I'm being generous there I know) to make Stadia look appealing.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I really quite enjoyed the stories of MK9 and X. and the Injustice stuff.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
MK players are the countiest frame-counters there are! I know many of them! Samurai Showdown potentially may draw a more casual crowd - but I think MK and Thumper will be the telling ones for sure.

@nessisonett
As with streaming on PSNow,. third person action/adventure stuff will probably fare quite well from the off. They're games that are generally a lot more forgiving of any latency issues.

Launching with Thumper and Samurai Showdown is pretty bold!

@hotukdeals
Stadia will not work on cellular networks at launch - so not quite 'on the go'. I can't see many available hotspots offering enough bandwidth to support it well.

Also, depending on nat type, networks like EE probably won't support it at all.

PS4 launched with new/cross gen entries in popular franchises and, importantly, new exclusives.

Hahahahahaha

I can't wait for the gamut of Thumper and Samurai Showdown reviews for Stadia.

@doctommaso
Bit of info on Pacer, a YouTube chanel I watch (Team VVV) that covers racing games have had some hands on. Said (rather unenthusiastically) that it doesn't feel like WipEout.
I didn't realise that it's what's become of Formula Fusion, which I'd forgotten about entirely!

Wait - so it's not MGS 12 but with a different story and Norman Reedus and those baby things? UNACCEPTABLE!!!

@doctommaso They'd gone by Fusion I think (which is second only to WipEout 64 in the 'meh' stakes).

2048 and it's bits in Omega are a little easier - the tracks are generally wider than normal - but the rest of Omega is mostly what was in HD/Fury - which was mostly taken from Pure and Pulse anyway, which did get involving very quickly.

With Antigraviator, and a lot of pretenders - it seems that speed is something that they're keen to emphasise. Pacer also looks pretty quick, but it doesn't look like it handles all that well.

@quintumply Bit of a silly decision that.

@doctommaso I hadn't heard of Pacer. Just had a look. It does look nice, but unfortunately just looks like another 'not as good as WipEout' WipEout clone. With Omega Collection being essentially perfect it's difficult to see why they bother other than for the PC players.

With so many dev's seeming to have a taste for futuristic racers these days, it's a shame noone has picked up the Xtreme-G IP. The first two games were crap, but XGIII and XGRA especially were fantastic.
Having bikes alone sets it apart from WipEout enough without having to come up with non-WipEout like mechanics to differentiate from the king.

And just because I feel like I haven't said it enough - WipEout!

Ouch. While I'm usually the first to dump on another WipEout pretender, I was quite interested seeing it pop up on the store. Shame it's a dud.

@quintumply is the high speed there from the off, or does it build up as you progress?

@SegaBlueSky @Gmork___
Let's start an Alpha 4 petition! 🤘🏽

@FullbringIchigo I don't blame you 😂

I'm looking forward to more gameplay. If the game can eventually evoke the future war scenes from T/T2 and even the start of Genysis - then it could be worth a punt when the price inevitably tanks.

@FullbringIchigo
Maybe. Its obviously relatively basic and will absolutely struggle at full retail price (which it appears to be), but that said - the gameplay I saw seemed largely based around avoiding more dangerous Terminators, like T-800s - which quite rightly kill you rather quickly - until you've gathered resources and better weaponry.

There are plenty of fps games out there that start you off under-equipped. My point more verges on the fact that people really, really want to see balls-to-wall future wars pink lasers.

This does look surprisingly OK.

@carlos82
Have a look on YouTube. There are a few gameplays up to 30 minutes long. Plenty of T-800s about.

Looks like showing the early parts of the game is putting people off.

This continues to be downright jaw-dropping!

It's not a game that's interested me of I'm honest. I'm not a huge fan of Kojima's anyway outside of Z.O.E.

He's big fan of unnecessarily bloated storytelling that seems largely full of tropes wrapping clunky looking gameplay.

@Hengist Ah. I do have the benefit of only having played one NFS game this gen I suppose.

@Hengist
Not a fan?

Granted, I think Rivals is the only one of Ghost's NFS games I played, but it was enjoyable.

@Quintumply
Looks pretty good.

I'm rather tempted by this!

From the gameplay stuff I've seen, the REP is accrued with a climbing multiplier the longer you stay out at night doing events. You can head home and bank it whenever you want, but if you get busted you lose some of your total score.

Cool, never played either.

@LN78 Glad it's not just me!

'Klytus... I'm bored...'

@playstation1995 'Genesis' is the consolation prize name. Mega Drive for live!

'...terrible version of Monkey Target...' is all I needed to know.

Went off to look at some gameplay footage of this. Must admit, looks pretty good.
Got a Rivals feel to it 🤔

@Rick_Deckard "... And your origami kit is in the post!"

@KingPev @Rick_Deckard

@Rick_Deckard Enhance 224 to 176

@jdv95 Oh I know, what criticism was leveled at the likes of Hot Pursuit and Rivals was the lack of all the neon junk etc. This really is what a lot of NFS fans want.

I just don't care about any of that really.

@Quintumply Online cops & robbers in Koenigseggs with mates is still one of my favourite gaming memories.
The companion app was actually pretty good too.

Hmmmm....

I'd quite another NFS game to mess about with. This strikes as more of the 'Underground' flavour NFS though - I really liked the Hot Pursuit remake and Rivals.

Looks nice enough.

@Flaming_Kaiser Not at all. And we're seeing a handful of responsible developers and publishers do just that with some pretty important titles.

@Cutmastavictory

Sony should just refund anyone who asks for one.

If you think about it - when was the last time you installed a new game from on PS4 that didn't immediately start downloading a patch?

@RogerRoger That's a good point.

We're all aware of the practice of games that aren't ready being certified for release digitally and even at retail - on the promise that there will be a 'day 1 patch' to iron out bugs that weren't sorted before the game went 'gold'. All about money and timing between publishers and platforms.

I'm happy to assume that the same is the case with WWE 2K20 - but there obviously appears to be no actual patch.

Release working games. Quite simple really.

They have to bear some responsibility for allowing the game to be sold on their platform.

@JoeBlogs There's probably an amount of unreliability, the selected review summations don't seem massively fawning, rather critical actually.
The mechanics of the game based on the MP are incredibly solid.

We'll see what MTX shenanigans Activision gets up to once the review period is over...

No surprises there.

I played the mp open beta briefly. It felt brilliantly tight and rapid. Nice to see the single player is well regarded.

I probably won't buy it, but it felt like the quality was there.

😂😂 That is pretty good!

Who in their right mind would give more money over for this game?

Probably in the minority here, but this is fine news by me. Still haven't actually broken the seal on my copy of TLOU!

@Johnnycide It's had it's moments. Capaldi and Michelle Gomez were great on screen together, though Capaldi really suffered from some really boring stories and an uneven direction for his Doctor.

Surprisingly, Jodie Whittaker's first series actually wasn't terrible - and they actually managed to go a whole series without any of the companions being annoying or, more importantly - cosmically significant!

Kotaku's take is somewhat less positive.
https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2019/10/22/nba-2k20-combines-the-worst-parts-of-buying-trainers-and-playing-video-games

This actually looks pretty good.

Haha Stadia! In the words of Lando - "this deal is getting worse all the time!"

@Bartig
The Doctor Who Lego Dimensions stuff was great (in the simplistic context of Lego games), tons of pretty cool fan service.

Other than that, I'm pretty confident in saying no.

Saw Ian from EG do a video preview play of it.
Looks pretty meh.

Doctor Who needs proper expansive RPG treatment to work as a game. CDPR would be able to make something good out of it.