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I loved International Superstar Soccer Pro, real basic stuff but great fun. Played it so much I used to beat the AI about 30-40 nil on the hardest difficulty. Love to play it again.

@stu123 If you subscribe to ps plus only for the randomly selected monthly games you're doing it wrong.

@Blauwe_Chimay Someone already mentioned 2 but Rayman legends kind of has a coop element to it as well. Little Big Planet perhaps?

The switch just appeals to such a wide demographic which helps it enormously. I have one and enjoyed my time using it but some games just look like ass in handheld. Tried playing Xenoblade this year for the first time since i pre ordered it for release near a year before. My god I may as well have smeared vaseline in my eyes.

Sony are no saints but I don't understand why Ninty doesn't get the flack it should. No mainline Mario in 7 years which is ironically longer than the hiatus Sonic went on after the Mega drive. Their release games still command top whack, they remove and make ltd runs of games and more remasters than Sony and Microsoft combined, Pokémon is a mess and still shifts millions. I love some of their IPs and have fond memories of the N64 and GC but they slack big time.

The best time for gaming was the 90's up until the early mid 00's for me. So many genres are dead, Devs and publishing houses killed off and the entire industry is crumbling while it's anchors itself on AAA liber service and gacha games. Glad I was able and lucky enough as a kid to experience the MD, SNES, PSX SATURN, N64 and the DC.

I'm much to lazy to try and remember all the games and then go to each individual entry but a Shout Out to Tomb Raider 1, Resident Evil 2, Vigilante 8, DOOM, Super Puzzle Fighter, Croc, Dino Crisis 2, Exhumed/Power Slave, FFVII, Destruction Derby 2, International Superstar Soccer Pro, FIFA France 98 and the tech demon with the T-Rex 🦖 🤣

Silent hill hasn't had a patch since the 25/10 it isn't patched at all for the pro which apparently means it isn't using PSSR. I read it's in boost mode so it's showing issues with the extra oomph that weren't so noticeable prior. People on PC have the shimmer as well. That said it's runs better FPS wise though, just the reflections are messed up, especially in performance mode.

@Cerny Nope, sorry man but you don't speak for everyone I'm afraid. I play games at 120,60 and 30 where applicable on a TV that supports all the pros features. Difference between 120 and 60 is no where near as defined as the jump from 30 to 60 but after less than five minutes my brain has adjusted to the 30 and the same going back up.

Never seen a hint of stuttering on my OLED while playing a game at 30fps. During the summer I played through Horizon Forbidden West and prior FF Rebirth but in fidelity mode and neither had it.or even a frame drop. Silent Hill 2 drops frames in fidelity mode and it's blatantly obvious when it does but no stuttering due to the TVs processing.

@Cerny Pretty sure people do, in fact I can play a game in 30fps with no issues at all which means I'm the one person ruining you statement 🤣

In 4 years there may be a ps6 but if it's anything like this gen all the games will be PS5 for the next 4 years afterwards if the numbers end up at the 100 mil mark. Still getting PS4 versions of some games even now.

@carlos82 I played through it in fidelity mode as I can play games at 30fps 😱 but the pop in or more the drawing in of certain assets was there if memory serves. That along with some good awful textures and in lots of instances textures that just never loaded at all. It's an issue with the engine and developers AGAIN. after Rebirth I played Forbidden West, a base PS4 game and although I'm not the highest fan of its gameplay the visuals were amazing. FF Remakes don't look great outside main character models and certain towns so there isn't much of an excuse, he'll the sections in the Midgar seem to use the old blurry plate jpeg 🤣

@Weebleman SEGA are gonna stealth release the best console of all time, just watch (in my dreams) 😭

@NoHope 390 watts if my memory serves, from Eurogamer.

Sony port games to PC to grab some extra cash from another market. We've played the game on our Playstation and the PC players who didn't or those who prefer the Mega Ultra Version wait and play it there. I doubt it takes a severe amount of man power to do so and gets Sony money from another market. However typical Sony damage this by literally making it so thousands of people can't buy the damn thing even if they wanted.

Also maybe PC players aren't enamored with the open world cinematic collect-a-thons. Years ago I used to see on forums a lot PC gamers complaining they didn't have access to a wealth of different games that were only on console or if they were ported, done pretty badly. They have those now along with thousands of other titles across multiple genre's. If it wasn't for the Indie Devs console gaming would be dying a death for me personally that along with all the studios that have gone and the myriad of genres and IP's we've lost. Sorry, went off track there.

@Americansamurai1 well you can, you buy every studio in the world and shut them all leaving just you. I mean you would need an INSANE amount of wealth for this lol

Not that this has anything do to with this article but Capcom for the first part of this financial year have sold more games on PC than all 3 consoles combined. Gah, if Sony don't do something I'll be one of them at some point because at the moment I'm just here due to my investment in the eco system rather than the product they produce. Like NES said, they are coasting on people like me. It's a shame MS aren't more competition anymore tbh.

I'm just playing my games while waiting for the inevitable crash that destroys the whole market. It seems more a question of when now rather than if. Damn shame for the Devs though, kinda like the opposite of football. Team plays *****, sack the manager, game is a failure due to suits, well better sack the overworked Devs instead...

30fps isn't viable for this type of game eh? Hmmm I must be special because I can play a reaction based game like this fine with 30, no issues whatsoever in all my 30 odd years of gaming. Now 60 and above is definitely smoother and more responsive no doubt but all of this talk in the past decade especially, that a game at 30 is like running through treacle is bs.

@themightyant It's good to see someone with critical thinking on the internet, seems a lost cause these days so have a lovely cookie 🍪 ❤️

I still had the options the other day, checked just now and it's gone. Still I find it funny that it cost more stars points to buy dredge for example from the "rewards" rather than converting the points to cash and then buying it from the store. Maybe they are just to impet to work stuff like that out so get rid instead.

Love how people only recently realised they were buying a license when you get a digital game or cd or movie and not actually "owning" it. Thing is it's the same with a physical game, even used to say so in the manuals in them good olde days. Benefits to physical are resale and the fact if the servers shut off you have your game. Problem is, and it's one i rarely see debates is the fact that near on most games are imperfect at release.

I have my physical copy of Witcher 3 for example. Servers are down and anyone who has a digital copy or HAD a digital copy now can't play it, but I can. Great, until you realise you can't get the plethora of patches that fixed the damn thing. On release there were bugs galore, broken quest lines, dodgy animation, sound glitches, the rain was messed up, no storage chests and the list goes on. Yes you have you little cd or blu ray in your hand but good luck if you haven't got is stored on a HDD as the vast majority of games without patches are almost worthless.

@NEStalgia I agree, as in both games he to me is THE best character by a country mile, far more interesting and enigmatic than Aloy and co and without his voice it just won't be the same.

@Fishnpeas While that's a perfectly logical way to do the fact this is stuttering and dropping frames on a PS5 even the base model is terrible. As the review says it's a 13 year old 360/PS3 game and I don't recall much in the way of drops when I played it all those years ago. Sega seem pretty inept in this respect tbh.

7/10 enjoyed swinging around the city and loved the way fast travel worked, zooming into the map already on the move was great. Graphically it looked near on identical, to me at least to the PS4 game, combat was ok but still not enough impact for a dude who can lift more than 2 tons. I don't care much for Miles and they did very little with Venom, very little with Kraven and very little with the goblin. I can barely remember the story and why oh why did we need evil white man invading on black culture? Was it really necessary to include our current politics and social situations in a Spiderman game that has no relation to our world outside the city it's based in?

Just like someone else mentioned. This, Forbidden West and Ragnarok are great looking and fun games to play but so by the numbers and derivative of the previous game they barely need to exist.

@RubyCarbuncle I'm 40 and I believe it's less about remakes and remasters because outside of some rather pointless ones like Until Dawn and maybe this (although it's not like you need to buy the whole thing again) I've really enjoyed them. I personally believe it's more related to how big gaming became. When I was a kid and through the ps1 and Saturn up to the DC and MAYBE the 360 there was so much genre variety. The bigger the industry the more it starts to cater to the majority and of course the younger generation because that's where the cash is. Is old fossils wanting car combat games or side scrollers etc are old news. Big old photo realistic story driven games seem to sell and that's what we keep getting. Same with open world, it was fun at first but now it's tired and only a handful can captivate.

I find most of my gaming time is actually on Indie titles, remasters of old games and classic collections. In terms of cash grabs we've had those for decades though.

@Loamy Your to close to the TV my man. There are normally recommend viewing distances for each size of screen. Yours is 1.7 metres so your a little to near the screen me thinks.

After playing 2 and 3 on the first collection properly (only played a bit of 2 and a demo of 3 on the ps1) using Stella's Guides to numb the irritation of them. Seriously half the levels in 3 make no logistical sense, I still stand by 1 being the best game. It just oozes atmosphere and isolation which is something I have never had from any of the other games and potentially not these either. I had one of these on the Dreamcast but just couldn't get into it so maybe I can try again.

I'm not a fan of Soul Reaver and from what I remember of the games after the first 2 they were pretty terrible Jank as well. I'm waiting impatiently for Dino Crisis and Blood Omen, always wanted to play that.

But what have SEGA done themselves? They have more IP than you can shake a stick at and this year we get a remaster of a good 3D sonic game (the only one except unleashed I genuinely like) and Yakuza almost a year apart. I'm not a fan of Persona after playing 5, to much of a text dump fest and half the time I wondered why it isn't just a visual novel but these and Unicorn are other Studios games that has the SEGA name attached. I'm really hoping those games they are developing are actually good because this is the company that made in one way or another Streets of Rage, Comic Zone, Shinobi, Ristar, Crazy Taxi, Sega Rally, Virtual Fighter, Fighting Vipers, The House of the Dead, Daytona, Sonic, Golden Axe, ECCO and way more. Man I miss old Sega 😭

Here's how you stop it. You of course can't stop people purchasing and trying to profit. However you can NOT BUY FROM A SCALPER and thus they have wasted their money and maybe might think twice in the future. Of course this won't happen because for every scalper there are 3 people willing to pay through the ass for it so it will always happen with anything ltd, always.

I saw this list on the store last night and face palmed that Until Dawn, a remake of a near decade old PS4 game has a PS5 pro tag and it isn't even out yet 🤣

The base PS5 should have been the Pro's specs so they could deliver on what people expected a new console to actually achieve. The PS5 is like a PS4 pro+ and then this mid gen upgrade for the £700 could have been nearing a really good PC spec. Not extremely close considering the price of the graphics cards of course but something beefier.

Part of the PS4 pro being a useful upgrade for those that wanted it was the price alongside dropping the cost of the base model, the bigger internal storage and the QUIETNESS because my god did the poor old PS4 pop off on certain games.

Anyone wish they would use the extra horsepower of today's tech to push something different with actual gameplay and the way we interact and the enemies interact with the world using more advanced physics for one? More destructible terrain, physics applied to objects that are on the characters body maybe? I mean people keep going on about ray tracing but it adds very little to the game, if anything. I see it's worth in the design field from which it came, how light reacts and enters buildings and domiciles is important architecturally but in the videogame world it's just another pretty things for graphics pandering. We still have clipping going on.

I would love the ability to damage an environment in real time or in say Monster Hunter use the world as a weapon or for defence or the ability for these giant creatures body parts to not pass through "solid" objects but instead to interact with them, bounce off, break etc.

That's just one tiny example but it will never happen if everything is going into pure visuals. It may be my age but the last time I really cared about graphics was the release of the 360 and Project Gotham. Since then and things edging to photo realism, it just doesn't do it for me. Maybe I'm alone in this though or at least with the fellow 40 and above crowd 🤣

This generation of consoles is a running joke so far. Barely any exclusives 4 years in and an updated machine that is being used to cover up inept optimisation slapped with a price sticker of 800 quid if you need a disc drive so I can play 1-2 year old games how they should have played from the start. Luckily for me I don't mind fidelity modes as long as it's a locked and smooth 30fps so for instance ReBirth was fine, although it's blatantly the engine along with bad op as even at 30 textures didn't load in, low res textures and assets all over the place. Square aren't an indie dev so why can Demons Souls look like it does IN performance mode and Forbidden West at least now in fidelity looks so much better than FF. Rebirths Visuals outside the towns aren't even very good in comparison and the animations outside canned battle skills and cutscenes aren't great either. I'm glad I can pay some extra cash to fix it though 🤣

Still not worth it to me. I read a lot of people preferred the story in the first but as I only played it once on release I can't even remember it and I just recently got around to finally playing Forbidden West. Gorgeous game but same old open world bloat. Neither game is amazing with the best thing about both being Sylens (sp) great character.

I knew the licensed soundtrack was gone but does Wayne Static still Voce the punk dude in the junkyard or did they have to dub it? That's all from a hazy 10 year memory.

Oh yeah, what about that infamous seashell outfit. Wonder if that's in there or has been taken out? The censorship brigade is probably already up in arms if it was.

@lostlaserdroid Man your profile pic just bought me some serious nostalgia, I wish we could get one of the ISS games (playstation 1 versions) on PSN in some way, even the very barebones one I had that I played to death years ago.

As for this game, never been much of a fan due to the constant time limit, which suits the game and theme but not me. On the topic of "censorship" which I see has appeared again relating yet again to something to do with pervy images of women, I see a non-issue. We've had censored games for years over here. I mean DOOM and of course Wolfenstein was censored in Germany 30 years to "appease" the government to allow it to be released, Resident Evil Code Veronica has no decaps, even in Japan itself games are censored and even censor their own dirty films.

Like someone else said, it's not real censorship as in the removal of important information from the public eye or changing the course of events through propaganda or the deletion of another's words that go against the rhetoric. It's always the alteration of either violence or sexual content, the latter which has no bearing on the game at all and I see no reason personally to be upset about not being able to see up skirts etc.

May be just me though...

@get2sammyb After I read this I saw a Kotaku article stating it's a Jank mess lol. Guess that's why then 🤣

@Rich33 True, gaming is way bigger now than when I was a little kid in the early 90's. Back then games were developed with tiny teams, small budgets and released at £40-50. Now they cost multiple millions, teams are generally 100 and above and yet the price of them has barely changed. Look at Astro, it's £59.99 which is literally £10 more than it cost me to buy Sonic 3 in 1994 and £10 less than Turok on the N64.

That's a damn shame if it's true it isn't selling well as I played it all last weekend with the wife and is the most unadulterated pure fun I have had a with a game in a long time and for me it's easily on par with Mario, let's hope we can get more like it but it's doubtful.

While I personally don't mind as I'm well aware I'm a money sink (sorry customer) rather than a "fan" to Sony, they are a business after all it would be nice at this point to at least say their teams are working on SOMETHING. GoT came out in may/June 2020 what exactly are Guerilla, Santa Monica, Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch up to for instance? Oh yeah remastering 3-4 year old games that nobody asked for. Hey maybe Ghost will have a remaster announcement next 🤣 to think of the stuff they used to make and publish and now it's 1 game every 5 years that follows the exact same open world cinematic blueprint they have been grinding to dust for the past decade...

I wonder how many they manufactured because you can't buy it anywhere. Did see them being sold on the bay of e's.....what a surprise 🫤

Those little sprites are sooo cute. Also I agree with everyone, green ranger was awesome. I remember as a kid in the early 90's waiting for the White Ranger. I didn't have Sky/cable so it was 5 minutes in the morning before school on GMTV haha. Man kids today with all their fancy stuff 🤣

@Rob_230 Same here although I never did have Portrait but I had the other 2. Sold them for 35 a piece but no idea what they may be worth now. I'm just happy with my sealed Ocarina of Time that ingot for £5 years back.

Anyway, these are brilliant games and thanks to Push Square I'm buying this instantly. Loved the last collection, they are just so much fun to play and I was hoping for this ever since the GBA collection came out over 4 years ago.

I never did care much for playing these, like watching them though weirdly. However I didn't like the trailer from a while back...have me popcorn marvel film vibes rather than dark fantasy, eurgh 🤣

Should have asked who's playing it on PS5 because from what I read yesterday it's barely playable in anything or than performance mode and even then it can't keep 60 frames.

Also I don't get what the hype is with this game? Is just more look at the shiny shiny again? Can I have something more than just visuals approaching photo realism and lighting in my games. I get tired of seeing ray tracing all the time, it adds nothing of substance to the games mechanics at all, I'd prefer low graphical fidelity and more involved physics Inc the way both your player character and enemies interact with it, maybe some better AI as that seems to have been stuck on the same dial circa 2000.

@Yagami I understand tha probably quite a few players do miss the (more tedious imo) gathering aspect of the game. Going out on a limb and assuming they are the hard core played for years guys n gals. However it's busy work and games and real life are totally different and separate things. I do like going around and getting my ore and herbs and bugs but I also get why and awful lot of people wouldn't want to bother with the medium. Going to a bush and getting an RNG item might be fun for some for example but I'd rather know what I'm picking up. I see it as a quality of life change and more respect for a player's time, which lets face it is the most important commodity in anyone's life.

@Platinum-Bucket Strange because a lot of the armour in world/Iceborne and Rise/Sunbreak for females had greaves or bottoms of some kind. Even then most had a long skirt and a lot of them looked like total ass in comparison to the male sets.

The issue is most gamers are casual players, so games like FIFA (or what was FIFA) mario kart and popular franchises like Mortal Kombat and the Harry Potter IP will always win out. Look on the Playstation Stores top games In your country, it's just FC24 CoD Minecraft Honkai/Genshin etc etc exactly the same. I'd love to see the charts from when I was a little kid in the early 90's though. I'd think it would be a different beast.

I have the Xbox 360 sonic generations collectors edition still and it was actually pretty good for the price of £80 back then and also NOT LTD RUN. They have a monopoly on this stuff and need some competition coming in because their prices are ludicrous on some things.

I had this back on the old fat Xbox. Got it on PS5 the other day and Mr Karate on CPU lvl 4 was a beast 🤣

If we are never going to get folders can I at least lock more than 5 games to my home bar? With how they designed it I understand why it would be silly to be able lock all of them (you would want your newly installed game to appear at the far end) but why can't I choose to lock what I want?

I have a few games locked I jump in and out or need to finish, elden ring, resi 4 and then a couple ill play after finishing up what I'm currently doing. The rest end up floating out and I genuinely forget what games I have lol. Don't get me wrong I'm not super rich but a couple of games on sale for cheap push out some others and then my newly 40 year old brain forgets 🤣

@TheAmbienWalrus I watched a lets play of this when it was first released on PC and it's really good, quite the creepy game.