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Hmm I managed to get Days Gone for £15 from Game but maybe the prices have changed.

@Shigurui Wow nice, I have nowhere near the skills you do but it looks like the trick is defo to keep clear close and duck from the head. I suck at beast fights and tend to do far better at Hunter fights since I favour a skill build. Thanks for the advice!!

Finishing off Lara Croft GO on Vita, doing a collectible run now for the plat and then I will return to the Defiled Chalice dungeons and try to beat the Big Doggie thing as I painfully try and get a platinum trophy on Bloodborne. I give it 1-2 nights before I rage quit again.

Oh wow - I actually kinda want this now.

The demo was great at EGX last year and really looking forward to the game. Will get at launch I think.

Odyssey was good but too large. I found that I would go to a new area and aside from the grindy stuff, do a couple of missions and move on. I'd only ever get familiar with the hub areas, like Athens.

To me I want a full open world rather than an empty one. HZD was perfect size for me, each area felt unique, had unique enemies in a lot of cases and came with a different flavour of story missions.

Only coz I did a trailer reaction video obvs.

For me it is Deracine on PSVR if I get a chance, maybe some more Metro First Light and I have some Lara Croft go on the Vita!

Shame apart from the online only element I was looking forward to this. I wonder though if this was a victim of the post ghost recon breakwind debacle and their reorg afterwards.

I do want quicker load times. AC Odyssey when i played on XB1 was an example - the time it takes me to boot up the console, select the game and open my load was upwards of 5-7 minutes in some cases but sometimes, I only get a short window of 30-40 minutes and it means I have to plan ahead or waste some precious precious time.

I mean all media is pretty knackered from autumn onwards since no new games, films, music, tv shows can really be produced unless they are in pre-production and roll when lockdown ends or they are in post production and can be worked on from home but even then it will be difficult. Makes you wonder what the normally light first year next gen game rollout will be.

I think we need some kind of technological breakthrough or must have tech, like the DVD player element to meet PS2 sales in the future but yes, the PS4 has done gangbusters and I really wouldnt have predicted that at the start of the generation.

Console gaming is clearly in good shape and I think that if backwards compat exists for PS4 digital and physical libraries, there will be a significant people that will see this as an upgrade rather than switch boats.

Bits of me tingled that I didn't know I had...

Pity I was going to get this as I just like the game and doesn't run well without a CRT on my N64.

I had to vote Bloodborne but all are looking good.

As for me, i want a sequel to The Inpatient. I dub it, the Out Patient where a loony doctor gets rid of ingrowing toenails painfully.

@Westernwolf4 No problem and enjoy!

@Westernwolf4 Hey, no worries! As a big fan of the franchise, I quite like the game. It is an old school AA budget game so not huge and old fashioned in a lot of ways. There are 3 difficulties and on normal you need normal resource management but haven’t found it too challenging and so would imagine easy would be a breeze. I got it in the sale for £15 and that seems like a good price for an 8 hour ish game.

Should finish off Terminator Resistance and get the Plat this weekend and then may move to Deracine on PSVR. Also going to play Burly Men At Sea on Vita and maybe more Ratchet and Clank 1 on Vita too.

Loved the Horizon Zero Dawn and God of War gameplay trailers, a good mix with an idea of how it plays.

Smaller is better - Odyssey was great but too large for me. It was just too spread out even though the world was amazing

The question is, will these be remakes or quick remasters with very little gameplay changes? I'd be up for a proper remaster as never played the original trilogy but going back to a slightly sexier graphic original doesnt appeal.

Oooh I got the tingles. Admittedly, that could be because of a rash from an unrelated health issue but still..

This is going to be brutal.

I cannot wait for this bad boy. Even though I had it spoilt that Joel’s beard isn’t real.

I agree that the tone and reveals make a difference and personally, neither have blown me away. In a lot of ways, my favourite console reveal was the Nintendo Switch, it sold the concept and the USP of the device well and then gave an indication of when you would hear more. Second major reveal had a release date

Odyssey was a very well made game but my only issue was the grind. It felt excessive and the cynic in me can only think it was to make the XP and progression boost micro transactions more attractive. For those of us who a game like Odyssey will take months to get through due to time limitations, I felt like this was a deliberate design choice.

Well going to be going for the platinum of Ghost Giant on PSVR and then either finishing off Metro Last light or start Terminator Resistance

Farming Simulator is a weird choice because it is a very niche title with a fanbase that would either buy it or not. Having two sims is so weird. Amazing how quickly people forgot Uncharted Remasters and Journey though!

@LN78 Very good example actually. People hated on the film because they didn't like the politics of the main actress. The market decides 2 things - how well something does and how it is remembered. It may make a butt ton of money but the quality will out and it won't be remembered as a good game. Captain Marvel turned out to be alright and that is how people remember it.

I'm one of those people that really didn't like The Last Jedi. No silly political reasons, just didn't like it as a movie or as a star wars movie. So when Rise of Skywalker came out, i just didn't go and see it. No fuss. No internet hate campaign. Not for me, won't support it.

Wow the world just keeps getting madder and madder?

Apart from corporate espionage, why on earth do people care that much. I very much care about workers rights and I think the reported crunch culture is an industry issue that ought to be addressed.

However, people getting angry with a game, or its creators for not catering to their personal political views, even to the point of defamation and outright lying is utter madness.

The game comes out soon. If you are interested, play it. If not, don't. If this whole anti woke thing is as widespread as its proponents suggest, no one will buy it and the game will bomb, this changing future games. Or it will do well and prove that is a vocal minority sentiment.

Only played a few AC games but in Odyssey, it was my least favourite portion and always seemed to come in the most interesting part of the historical narrative.

@Haruki_NLI Absolutely and I think they may well be kept into the summer at the very least.

@Haruki_NLI Yeah but hopefully it means there will be somewhere for a lie down as it can be quite exhausting do all that walking...

Real shame though to be honest, July was rather ambitious but then again, who knew that back in March? I'm in doubt for EGX in Sept to be honest. I suspect that too will be cancelled which will be the first time I haven't attended in nearly 4 years.

@M1359 Dude... FEAR THE OLD BLOOD! Don't take part on the blood letting ritual. You'll end up like Father Gazza!

This has me worried. I feel that the worlds food supply chain is now so bad given the pandemic that authorities are making Farm Simulator a free game to teach us how to feed ourselves.

@glassmusic Loved that game. Bought it on Switch and have the soundtrack too!

Bleargh.

Dont confuse a leak with crunch culture. How does this help crunch culture?

Also, for goodness sakes, don't judge a game without playing it. It is such a worthless endeavour. If I read the synopsis for the first 10 minutes of TLOU (pt1) I would have thought it very cliched and boring. Playing it was very different though. I even think God of War would not make sense without context.

The game might suck, the story might suck, or it might be really good. Wait and play. Or don't. That is also your right.

Plus, PushSquare is a very fair site and will give its own opinion regardless of whether it is Sony or popular.

@gollumb82 @R1spam I remember playing Gun and then Read Dead Revolver and Gun was so much better. It had aged but as a narrative story it works well and really feels like a western.

@Arugula Not that I am aware of - there was a 360 release though little more than a PS2 port but no PS3 re-release and not backward compatible.

Oh boy for me it is going to be kicking into Resi 4 on PS4 and some more Gun on the 360.

Same if not less. Working 8 hours a day then looking after kids at the weekend. Exhausted. Mainly doing my backlog though!

@Arugula Ha yeah, same here - headphones are the way to go with family around!

@Arugula Was that post patch because I think they patched in the actual dialogue or did you go with zero dialogue?

@LieutenantFatman Ahead of its time. Eventually, every game will have no spoken dialogue or subtitles explaining what is happening and the likes of Nolan North and Troy Baker are out of a job.

YES Been waiting for the Quiet Man to come down in price. Overlooked gem from what I understand.

I always get annoyed in these resort games at just how the people seem so wealthy and happy. However, agreed that more games would be good so there is variety out there.

Well I wanted to like this, played it at EGX in 2018 and was nearly physically ill. Not the fault of the game because I don't think I could work out the comfort settings in time but it has put me off since!

I wholeheartedly agree - there are some amazing open world games but the my overall favourite games tend to be intricately designed non open world. The Last of Us, Bloodborne, God Of War, Dark Souls. These worlds feel so well designed and clever that you don't notice a lot of the time that they are not 'open'.

I wanted improved load speeds to give even more intricate design as opposed to maps millions of times bigger than the previous.

@Eldritch Oh wow - I love the rapture soundtrack and remember being ill while abroad for work and just listening to it on repeat to relax. So Let Us Melt is great too.

@Eldritch She is married to their lead founder and co-founded it but yeah she stepped back from being a producer on their games but is still scoring their projects.

Also does a rather wonderful show on BBC Radio 3 called the Sound of Gaming!!!