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One of the few people who has managed to miss this game! I can't wait for the 24th, I've got this preordered. Great review Liam

Feels very early, there are only 3/4 games that you can genuinely say that use the full power of the PS5. HFW, GT7, GoWR are all playable on a PS4.

I am so fed up hearing about this news, the only thing about the ABK deal that would make me smile would be Bobby Kotick getting a p45 without a golden parachute. No danger of that happening tho....

I've been playing like a dragon: ishin and loving the super serious historical story mixed with crazy substories. Also some hitman:world of assassination, I never played hitman 3 so am going to play that over the next few weeks and hopefully check out the new rogue lite mode when I'm finished. Have a good one folks!

Poor trailer for a game that seems all about that gameplay loop of jumping between control of different things. hopefully it's a solid get for extra

My copy of like a dragon:ishin has arrived early so I'm looking forward to digging into that. Have a good one folks

Hope the folks who are getting one really enjoy, no argument they have went for it specs wise. Look forward to the article telling people how to access...Web videos...ahem.

Have we reached peak live service? Rumbleverse and knockout city were not bad games but didn't make it. This looks destined to be shut down. Everyone wants to make a Destiny or Fortnite but perhaps there is only so much market space for those. Interesting to see how it affects Sony strategy, which is to release a good few of these over the next few years.

Loved this, cheers Sammy!

I got to a retro arcade with my daughter today. We checked out duck hunt, crazy taxi, super mario galaxy 2, pac-man, snes mario kart and mario kart 64. Watching my daughter trying to comprehend a nintendo 64 controller was hilarious! Have a great weekend folks

Peak gaming weekend, some more god of war ragnarok, which I'm about 20 hrs into now and hi-fi rush. I swear hi-fi rush has made me better at god of war, my timings were just spot on today. Hopefully some calcutta cup later as well. Have a good one folks

Elden ring at 14?!

Demo didn't hit for me but clearly some folks are really digging it. Square Enix are going to get embraced at this rate, with lots of weird, mid games and selling off good studios for a crypto war chest. They better pray FF16 hits

@playstation1995 shadow of mordor is a cracking game, I remember the beast lord dlc from the goty edition being real cool!

Hopefully some more god of war Ragnarok! Have a good one folks

It looks so good, I need to temper my expectations. This isn't a AAA release and I kinda worry this team are going to be buried by the weight of nostalgia for bloodborne and desire for a sequel.

All the reviews for sparks of hope were pretty positive, surprised it performed poorly. AC games should completely be my jam, love historical settings and action 3rd person rpgs. They are so soulless though and broken. After 20 hrs of odyssey, I had completely had my fill yet 100s of hours of witcher 3 and elden ring I couldn't get enough. I hope mirage is different, tightly written with immersive stealth in a historical setting but I can't see it. Next to be embraced at this stage, their output would fit with the rest of that B game portfolio.

Nice! Up for trying out DMCV and jett the far shore.

Interested to see how making gaming critique content translates to publishing a game. I love me some dunkey but not sure those skills crossover.

Very early in god of war ragnarok but really enjoying what I've played so far. I liked the first game but I feel like I'm a bit more into this one already. Also playing some more echoes of the expansion for outer wilds. I loved the base game so much but while I'm enjoying the dlc, I feel like some of the puzzles are way more obtuse than the base game and I can see me having to check out some guides. Have a good one folks

Haven't played ragnarok yet, I got it for Christmas though so can't wait to try it out if it really is that good. Elden ring didn't just feel like game of the year after my 110 hrs in the lands between, it felt like the best game in years!

Massive improvements to human combat and is a technical marvel in how it looks. Alloys running inner monologue is annoying, the writing is so flat with every character being pretty 1 dimensional, the grind for loot gets tedious and importantly the main quest narrative was nowhere near as engaging as the first game. Glad people liked it. After I beat the last boss, i uninstalled it and had posted it off for a trade in never to be thought of again. Here's to horizon 3 coming out, so I can play whatever genre defining open world game launches in the same window!

When I see dev teams of the year, I expect it to be for titles made and released in 2022. Not for someone publishing a remaster and patches!

Forbidden west has amazing graphical fidelity and the environments are amazingly detailed. However, in those detailed environments, it can be quite tricky to parse points you need to interact with. I spent a fair chunk of time with R3 clicked in or looking for yellow climb me paint on walls.

One of the best indie games in ages, the look the soundtrack, the exploration, the secrets, all incredible. The combat, gets a bit in the way sometimes, it can be pretty tricky and the game asks a lot of the player, more than I could give it. I mean there's a whole language to decode!! Amazing achievement for such a small team (really one guy for a lot of it). Shout out to the manual pages, they look truly amazing.

@UltimateOtaku91 yeah, you can switch it off and on as you want, doesn't even affect achievements.

@nessisonett that's the one! Love how you think you can see the whole level layed out at the start with the castle looking like lord of the rings towering over everything, then you uncover how vertical it is. Cracking game, would totally check out the next installment.

@JudgeDredd I had never played one before and was blown away by how smart the level design was and how much freedom in approach it gave you to tackle problems. I played on gamepass but have been looking at the wolf mountain expansion. Did you play it?

@nessisonett enjoy the spy hunter level on sniper elite 5, one of my favourite levels from any game this year.

Merry Christmas everyone!! Hope everyone has a great time 😀! Probably nowt today but very hopeful for a copy of God of War Ragnarok tomorrow. Also picking my way through echoes of the eye and have to get wrapped up by 31st before outer wilds is removed from gamepass.

@paulbuck1996 I don't, I sold it a while ago but plus has got me covered! I finished it and really enjoyed it but it was a bit glitchy.

I played SW when it came out but I would quite like to boot up the ps5 version and axiom verge 2 sounds pretty neat.

@KaijuKaiser sorry that looked like I was directly replying to you, can't comment on ps5 performance, I played on switch. Having said that, if it runs on a tablet from 2014, they are bound to be able to fix it.

Yeah Neon white is awesome. Also works better if you have friends playing as you get put on a shared scoreboard. Wish this game was on extra or premium, would make an incredible game club game!

I've got the worst hangover but trying to ease some of it with some games and crimbo movies with the family. Tried some high on life earlier and while some of the humour hasn't hit, some has. It looks pretty incredible though, I'm surprised at the quality of the graphic. Hoping to play a bit more stray later too and though the world is interesting and the cat is cute, it has never really grabbed me. I've traded in a few games and have 50 quid in CEX vouchers and am trying to decide between sekiro (love souls games but have always been unsure as this game seems harder than any other souls game) and xenoblade chronicles 3 (last jrpg I played was nier automata) as I've heard nothing but good things about the story.

Calling it now, this dies on its ass unless it launches day and date on ps4, ps5 and PC whilst being free to play with cross play.

For me across all platforms,
5 Stanley parable ultra deluxe
4 Neon White
3 Tunic
2 Immortality
1 Elden Ring

For playstation
5 sniper elite 5
4 horizon Forbidden west
3 Stanley Parable ultra deluxe
2 Tunic
1 Elden Ring

My gaming time is split between 3 consoles but I'm posting some rooky numbers! Full time employment and family are my arrow to the knee.

238 hrs played, 116 of those in elden ring! Some distance ahead of forbidden west in second at 46 hrs.

Never played one, interested to try. Mad that they developed a game in parallel with elden ring, given how huge and hand crafted elden ring is. Peeps at fromsoft really don't leave the office huh. Hope they are getting paid right.

I didn't vibe with the combat much, it felt like I just spammed through a lot of the enemies with the red magic. I did the 5 objectives and the hard enemy at the end, which lacked any threat and involved me mashing r2 with the odd circle dash. Hard to judge any of the dialogue out of context but expecting this to be a bit of a clunker and overshadowed by the dead space remake. Kudos to square for putting out a demo though

I'm half way through stray l, maybe it has an amazing second half but as it stands, to put it ahead of immortality, tunic or neon white is madness. Thought these awards were voted for by games media outlets.

@Grumblevolcano I'm sure it would but you see this and the phrasing and you think new CODs, not remasters

Have you played a switch game recently? No way this is some 100 gb, full fat native port to nintendo systems. COD mobile maybe. I'm not a regulator but if you let Disney buy FOX and glaxco buy pfizer, your not going to block this deal because COD is on a subscription on one storefront but available to buy on multiple others

@jrt87 have to agree a lot with that whilst simultaneously agreeing with a fair chunk of @themightyant at the same time. I think that's because whilst the sequel has mechanically improved, the narrative structure and design of the sequel is poorer. It feels like they have tried to mash mass effect 2 structure into a far cry open world with some of the most earnest yet dull dialogue in any game. I frequently found myself not caring about the politics and dynamics of the post apocalyptic forbidden west society but loving the combat loop and the mechanics of the game. The main story just didn't grab me the same way as the first game and it feels like Sony are expecting this franchise to do more heavy lifting than it can handle with it being part of the PSVR2 launch and a rumoured live service game. I think they should focus on finishing the trilogy on a high and moving on to pastures new to be honest.

I've been playing some pentiment and some stray. I've been enjoying both and think I'm close to wrapping both up but not sure what I'm going to dip into next. I've downloaded FF7 intergrade, ghost of tsushima directors cut to check out the dlc and need for speed unbound to check out the 10 hr trial on EA. Don't know what I'll check out next though. Have a good weekend folks

Proper addictive!! I'm not hugely keen on the visual novel bit but the levels and platforming are increadible! Playing this on a big screen at 4k 60 fps with instant load times would be amazing!

They could always try improving plus! I signed up for extra with the black Friday deal for 20 quid extra top up as I wanted to play stray, resogun and FF7R intergrade. Accessing the library and the user interface ain't great compared with gamepass. Stray doesn't even come up on the list! Day one indies means I would keep gamepass ahead of extra.

One of my favourite games of all time! Wish I could go back and hearts of stone for the first time, best dlc ever!

Playing some more of forbidden west and while the story hasn't grabbed me as much as the first, I'm still loving the gameplay loop. Played the Stanley parable ultra deluxe last night, might be funniest game I've ever played, going to dig into the new content today. I'm also trying very hard not to be jealous of the folks with God of War and wait for Christmas. Have a good one folks

@UltimateOtaku91 I genuinely think that the only way you could tell the story it does is through an interactive game experience. I get fmv isn't for everyone but to effectively make 3 movies in 3 styles with a compelling meta narrative with a small indie team, hell yeah it deserves its place on this list.