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I dunno, I've just been downloading Driveclub PS Plus Edition and it's 30GB or so of updates and application data and it's a hell of a lot slower than a download on anything else connected to my wifi.

@get2sammyb
Don't mean to derail the comments, but I don't know of any other way to ask:
Anything you can tell us about Transformers Devastation? Have review copies been sent? Embargo?

I really like Jim Sterling's review.
UC2 was great, but once you got to the monastery it really did just become a couple hours of fairly straightforward but very difficult gunfights, and Naughty Dog is above that kind of design.

UC3, while it might have inconsistencies and feel rushed in the story, does exactly what ND wanted to do with Uncharted all along - make a game that could be the dictionary definition of an AAA game.

UC3 having extras has made me go from uninterested to very slightly interested.

I've never found a platform to play Meat Boy on that had a satisfactory controller, so I'll happily play it on Vita for the first time properly.

Also I don't really mind 'paltry' selections on PS Plus, but I do miss the days of Sony giving us Bioshock Infinite like two months after release.

And oh dear, this comment section looks like it has gone places...

Demo out tomorrow too.

Also @get2sammyb I'll have you know you gave All 4 One an 8/10.
Defend your scores to the death!

Ratchet and Clank 1 is in my top 5 games of all time, and about this one I'm skeptical.
The whole reason I still like the first over the others is that, while the first is pretty clunky in hindsight, the clunkiness gave the game the pace of a platformer rather than a shooter.
I'm imagining Into the Nexus' game feel applied to the first game and it makes me think some of the charm will be lost. The writing, at the very least, is guaranteed to feel more like a Future game than the PS2 games, which is why I'm not that interested in the movie. Ratchet was never a boy scout - in fact he was the opposite in the first game - but it looks like that's what they've made him for the movie.

Should be pretty though, and I'm sure I'll still enjoy it.

@get2sammyb Yeah, but the DS was an outlier that only the PS2 has come close to matching.
It's like saying the PS3 was a failure because it didn't sell as many units as the Wii. The 3DS and PS3 are marketed as relatively hardcore systems whereas the DS and Wii were gaming's first and only successes at being all things to all people. A good 50% of all Wii owners only ever bought Wii Sports, and a sizeable chunk of DS owners only ever bought Brain Training and Professor Layton.

If ever there was a time to take a year off, it would have been after Unity.

The worst thing Konami has done so far is cheapen The Boss like that.
Is what I would say if I took this series more seriously than Kojima intends us to, like 90% of the fanbase.

It speaks volumes about the values of this series that this trailer is 99% cutscene footage, which has always been pre-rendered.

PUHUHUHUHU!

@ShogunRok Speaking of subjective opinion - I'm a huge fan of MGS, usually hate fantasy RPGs, and think that Witcher 3 is better than MGSV. And I adored both.

So in a year where that opinion is possible despite all my biases, I think the best course is to stop comparing games and instead appreciate just how awesome 2015 has been and continues to be.

RATCHET AND CLAAANK!

It really does sound like Ubisoft: The Open World Game, in that it (and all of them) focus on giving 'content' without giving any thought to making that content actually interesting.

That said, I felt the same way about Shadow of Mordor, and I fully acknowledge that if you're going to be derivative, that's how you do it, because it was enjoyable, just over-familiar.

SUCH A LUST FOR REVIEWS?
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@get2sammyb It sounds like it has all the problems Just Cause 2 did - that is, if you do what the game points you towards doing, it's often pretty 'Open-World-101,' as you put it. If you just screw around and see what you can do with the systems it gives you, you'll get much more out of it. JC3 is my most anticipated game of the rest of 2015.
That said, Mad Max looks like it has far less systems to screw around with than Just Cause because of the setting, so, with no driving force (pun COMPLETELY intended) other than the main objectives, it'll seem much blander.

So in that regard it seems like it'll be more comparable to GTAV in that Avalanche seems to have completely nailed the setting, if nothing else.

If we're going stuff that's coming out from Tearaway Unfolded and beyond:
Tearaway
AC Syndicate
Uncharted Collection
Transformers Devastation
CoD Blops 3
Star Wars Battlefront
Just Cause 3

Did... did that trailer just spoil something absolutely massive? I think Kojima's a little salty.

While I enjoyed the Danganronpa games, something about them just wasn't as compelling as I would have liked (that is, as compelling as Ace Attorney, Ghost Trick, 999 or the Kyle Hyde games).
The exception being Monokuma, who would actually have to be one of my favorite villains of all time. I feel like shooting a bunch of him all the time would only cheapen him.

@get2sammyb hahaha nice closing statement there, Sammy. Kotaku might have some things to say too

What little there is of UC1 is looking like it's had a decent upgrade. The fact that it was barely in there suggests that the upgrade might not all be up to that standard, though.

Not convinced - this looks like it has all the same problems as the first game.

@get2sammyb Ratchet > Jak > Sly

Of all the ACs this one looks the most like the last since Brotherhood.

@DerMeister Nah, it's not just you.

@ShogunRok It's had some soft bloom added, but having literally replayed UC2 within the last week, that's all that stands out to me.

They probably didn't need to pay one of those voice actors a ridiculous sum of money since he just sounds like Nolan North anyway.

Is it possible that there was another subject of Les Enfant Terrible called V, who was botched and never meant to see life, but has 'come to'?

It'd be just like Kojima to call a character V just because there's a V in the title of the game.

Where Korra was a tie-in, there's no comparable reason for Platinum/Activision to make a G1 Transformers right now.
So from that, we can at least hope it's a passion project from Platinum and will actually be good.

Holy lord this is looking fantastic.
I never, ever preorder anything, but this might be the one.

I think it's pushing it to say that ND will never make another mascot platformer.
I mean, Jak 4 was being discussed and conceptualized around the time of TLoU's inception.

Fall is even better, especially for fanservice.
But Joey might want to have a look at PushSquare's review for Dark Spark, done by Ben.
It's pretty much on par with War and got a 3/10. The critical panning of that game is pretty much the only time I've ever gotten annoyed by the general consensus.
Movie tie-in games aren't going to get better if critics don't recognize the good ones, because then what's the point in putting the effort in?

My main problem with 'the From Software game' (for there is only one) is that checkpoints (or whatever you want to call them) are so few and far between. If I've proven I can beat enemies x, y and z, I shouldn't need to fight them again get to get another chance at big boss x. That's punishing, not difficult. The difficulty factor in that equation is only in the fact that the boss is clearly hard because it couldn't be beaten the first time.

Recently it's been Metal Gear Rising, but for all time It's probably been Ratchet and Clank 1.

@get2sammyb There's five remasters. 1, 2, the PSP games slapped onto the PS3, and now this.
So literally only Ascension hasn't had a re-release, despite making far more sense than 3.

Is that V on the cover supposed to be a V crossed with an alert exclamation mark? Because it looks silly.

House of Cards for me too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFlJmBNxJPI

These all sound like the 'you'll get these in one playthrough because it's an adventure game' trophies you see in TWD and The Wolf Among Us.

@ShogunRok But none of the Uncharted games were longer than 8 hours, and they're universally praised (the first and third were only 7). The Order seems to be going for the same kind of interactive movie experience, so I expect it won't be any longer than that.

@BLPs True, but I think GLAAD are vastly over-exaggerating how much Ellie's sexuality is going to play into her becoming more popular with a possible sequel.
I mean, they'll never manage to please everybody because there's so many varying opinions on the subject, but Naughty Dog will definitely try their utmost to treat the subject with care.

If it ends up riling some people up, we can at least take comfort knowing that, unlike some developers who just pander to whichever group is easiest to defend, Naughty Dog only have the best intentions, even if they aren't executed to everyone's ideals simultaneously.

@BLPs While I do agree with you to an extent, I do think you should play TLoU to truly make a judgement.

That said, I agree with you that, while it was probably done with the best intentions of being inclusive of gay gamers by Naughty Dog, it came off as a bit OH LOOK AT US WE'RE SO PORGERSIVE.

There's myriad opinions and even some gay people (these GLAAD people, obviously) may have preferred the more blatant approach ND took (I mean, a straight couple kissing wouldn't raise any eyebrows, so a lesbian couple shouldn't etc), but the way the scene was played out seemed a far-cry from the "Oh look she's gay whatever" approach BLPs is after (which is more Bill's thing).
It was set up in a way that makes it a spoiler to talk about it - it was inarguably the biggest shock moment of that DLC. ND had already made their statement on gay people with Bill, so it came across as 'oh we don't have any big story moment in this DLC, what do we do?'
Would it be a spoiler to say that Joel is straight? No? Then there shouldn't be a big palaver about Ellie being gay.

The fact that I've contradicted myself shows that there are too many opinions on the matter to encompass them all and just be accepting of everyone without having to add some apologetic postscript at the end.

sigh I should probably stop haha

@BLPs Right. Okay.
But there's another gay character in TLoU who you literally don't know is gay until he's left the game's cast for good. He is basically what you're looking for - he's gay, but no attention is drawn to it whatsoever and he acts like a normal human being.

@BLPs To be fair, TLoU probably did gay characters the most... respectfully, out of all the games I played in the PS3 gen.

@get2sammyb Also, Killed by Science can be purchased from UPlay for a pittance of 10 points, so if someone is buying this for the missions you could potentially only get one you don't already have (if you pre-ordered or got a pre-order run copy).

@ShogunRok The problem with the combat for me was that you could just cheese smoke bombs.
Yes, you could stealth, but it was almost always faster to just cheese smoke bombs to either fight everyone without taking damage or escape really easily.
I mean, obviously it's not quite what Ubi intended, but it's bad game design, not bad player discipline that I never stealthed. It's all about balance, and the smart player will always take the unintended path of least resistance over the intended path of greater resistance if a developer makes an oversight in the balance.

Come, get some!

@get2sammyb I'd be more hard-pressed to give it a rating, but I'd say:
"Know what you're getting into. You're getting what amounts to about another sixth of Unity's running time, with little differentiation. If that sounds like something you'd find enjoyment in given the [$x] price tag, go ahead, but if you didn't like Unity's base gameplay, there's absolutely nothing here for you."

Were I paying for it I'd expect it to be another hour longer, though. I suspect when they decided it would be free they just said "screw it, finish what's 90% done and scrap the rest, get it out the door in a month or we won't be paying you with that money we aren't making"