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@greatauk - a lot of people out there freezing their ballacks off in favour of playing GOW I guess

‘Difficult to keep up with [their] plans for 2077.’

Is that when they’re releasing the ps5 version of Witcher 3? I missed the announcement …

How can the fact someone hasn’t played much of the game be a reason for giving it a particular score?! Lolz!

Firstly - I’m really never sure why the fact that people own some/a lot/all of the games is relevant to whether it’s a good update or not.

Secondly - is anyone else a bit sick of hearing about how terrible people think premium is? What is it? £20 a year or something extra? I gotta be honest - we might be living in hard times n’all but that barely buys you a round of drinks in your local pub. Debate whether it’s what you want(ed) etc but HONESTLY - it matters little what financial bracket one falls into when it comes the sum of money we are dealing with here. Ok - I get it - you think premium is bs - cool - don’t subscribe/unsubscribe - go spend your £20 on a joint of beef - roast is next Sunday - go the extra mile and have some Tesco finest mustard to go with it - fall asleep a happy person in the late afternoon - done - end of. Cos that’s literally the context of the expenditure which is causing people to bang on and on, using language like ‘scam’ and the rest!

Personally I find most of the puzzle elements a bit of a ball ache and I’d rather get them done with sooner rather than messing around with them. Can obviously understand why many see it the other way round.

Considering it looks like it’s being developed for the Game Boy Colour … I’m not sure why it’s taken so long

Despite the customary rage at the top tier getting very little, there are some good games here!

I wanted to try the latest Kingdom Hearts and What Remains… but i would almost certainly never buy either. Ultimately, a few games id like to try - I think that’s pretty good going.

It’s not that it doesn’t sound like a welcome mode. It’s just … Forza Horizon does this SO well, it’s hard to imagine anything competing.

I love playground games for making that series and I really wish it was multi platform!

I’m interested in the Eurogamer review, which takes issue with it trying to cram in huge numbers or characters and force the plot through a near constant stream of narrative arcs so each one can feel fleshed out.

Listen - I don’t know - I haven’t played it. I will do. Possibly not immediately. I liked and appreciated the last one but it’s not something I go insane for.

Just across the spectrum it feels like there are a few more critics taking issue with some of GOW’s design choices than there were ER.

(I don’t get a personal opinion on the matter cos I have to admit I haven’t got round to playing that either…)

Actually surprised to get as high as 9. Hadn’t played one albeit very briefly before the 2018 game

That’s such a nuisance. I played the first one last month and kinda wanted the other two there for when I want to go back to them. There are hundreds of games the service could lose without me being at all interested. They pick two of the ones I’ve never played and had on my back burner…

@gaia093 - are you sure wagyu isn’t already the breed?

It wasn’t so much the tedium of the traversal based gameplay which killed DS so quick for me. I wasn’t a great fan of it but at the same time I loved how the dual sense was used and I LOVED it the first time I got out into the open, the camera panned back and that incredibly well chosen soundtrack kicked in.

What I actually hated was the ‘I’m Kojima - this is my vision - you WILL bare witness as I eek it out painfully slowly and oh so dramatically while you marvel at how transcendentally artistic I am’ business.

Cmon - it’s a video game. I’m all for artistry and production value and new concepts and merging the intellectual with playability. But this wasn’t really any of those things tbh. It was the work of someone who is too close to the output of his own vision, and who therefore cannot take nearly enough perspective to consider the experience other people are getting of that output. Basic philosophy of all artistic creation isn’t it? You don’t own the experience of the audience; you need to put that first. He didn’t.

The Last of Us: the Tv Show: The Game

Yknow - I finally completed this game on about my FOURTH play through. I just fell off the first 3 time. Not because I didn’t like it. More because it sucked me in so hard I burned myself out with it. I finally managed it during the first lockdown!

I then didn’t progress onto the dlc cos I was burnt out with it (again). I might actually go back to this to play the DLC on ps5 and that will do me for seeing it upgraded to next gen. I DEFINITELY couldn’t even contemplate playing the whole game again! I loved it but Jesus - enough for one lifetime!

Probably an unpopular opinion but I was a huge fan of Dragon Age 2 and found Inquisition to be pretty vacuous.

It was the characters and narrative of DA2 which simply weren’t there in the sequel.

I was actually also a solid fan of the condensed, non/semi open world design. (Not sure which one it counts as). I imagine, the trend being that everything must be OW, that that’s what people didn’t like about 2. Worked for me; carried the characters and their inter-woven journeys really well.

Other things going for it involved the protagonist’s lines being sometimes hilarious, and I also got a sex scene with the hot, sulky elf. Most of the party members (Varric aside) in Inquisition were very tedious and frankly none of them deserved to sleep with my main man!

I hope they can re-find some of that and not create an over-inflated game full of relatively directionless tedium, which would be my lasting view of DAI. Seem to remember I still completed the bloody thing though …

Overwatch 2 not being that popular is probably because they seem to have removed all charm from the original game, turned it into a game which is totally dps dominated so it lacks the inclusivity and tactics of the original … AND made practically zero effort to hide the fact it’s a blatant cash grab to squeeze as much profit out of the IP as they possibly can for a few more years.

Might well not have worked cos it does really feel like they’ve alienated a very considerable proportion of the original game’s loyal player base. I’m definitely mourning the loss of my go-to online game…

I want to try The Medium so that’ll do

I kinda fell off the first one. Only came to it as a ps plus drop - like so many. I really want to like it. Just can’t see myself being willing to go anywhere near full price. Don’t even really know what it was about the first one that failed to hook me tbh.

I’m lucky I hardly watched any of these videos. Not a huge fan of superhero games but I may play this as I’m looking for new releases to play atm after my go-to of Overwatch kinda died. I feel like if I’d watched all these constant video trailers etc I’d be intensely sick of the sight of this by now!

It looking stunning could be a bit of a deal breaker. I used to LOVE the tiger woods pga games. Especially in their slightly more bonkers phase. Been looking at the one out next week. Checked out the videos on the pre-order page on my ps5 earlier. Got to say I thought it looked pretty horrible graphically!

I miss bonkers arcadey racing and karting games. Back in the day there were loads and they were so playable. Unlockables right left and centre. A game having a visual identity like this is at least a step in the right direction. Sometimes feels like all track games have to be SO serious now. Bring back the wacky arcadey stuff. Oh and the cool vehicular combat games. Always remember a Star Wars one which probably for critically panned but I loved it.

@tallythwack - kinda what I’m saying though isn’t it? Of course they rely on that pre-existing fan base to get off the ground. But to rely on fans of the game to make it a success? Seems very doubtful numbers wise. The aim surely is to dramatically widen the number of people (audience) who henceforth acknowledge that brand/title as a thing. Reality is a lot of them wouldn’t have done otherwise.

Controversially, I’m not actually convinced tv adaptations are designed to target people who played the games and therefore want to see the game performed by actors.

That contingent are important for creating a marketing hype and drawing a wider audience in but I actually think that’s a narrow part of the whole target audience, the hope being that more people who aren’t avid gamers are drawn into the ecosystem surrounding the game. Correct me if I’m wrong - I just think these things aren’t made primarily as a fan service to fans of the games.

Yeh … and you’d been thinking the arguments about micro transactions and what kids are being exposed to weren’t serious.

Good article (I think it was actually the review) on Eurogamer which likened FUT to a casino, only a casino in which you can never, ever cash out.

Sadly FIFA (which I used to love for its career mode) is now a very grim example of what gaming can become if allowed to.

I’m in mourning. I’m a long term Overwatch addict. Mostly an off tank player. Not only does OW2 basically negate the nuanced tactics which made the original game so different, it has also essentially rendered off tanks unplayable. Sadly … I see this as the death of a game I probably won’t know what to do without…

I found DS agonisingly pretentious, which is no great surprise really given this kind of insufferable attention seeking. Is it only me who finds this to be a bit like a teenager writing poetry with a newfound fixation on existentialism?

I can’t play it anyway because it won’t accept my phone number for this new anti-Smurf verify with your phone thing. Anyone else been basically walled out by that?

Nothing really for me but I do think people
Who haven’t played Hotwheels should be all in with giving it a shot. It’s like a throwback to the olden days of arcade racers with lots of unlockables. It’s also surprisingly tough!

In gaming I don’t think there’s any Star Wars fatigue at all tbh. Historically Star Wars games have been dog.

I’m an old fashioned Star Wars fan and as a kid I dreamt of great Star Wars games and basically never really got them.

Until such a time as there is an actually an established trend of genuinely good Star Wars games, I’m still very much hungry.

Having said that I also miss arcadey games with loads of unlockables, governed by simplicity and hunger for Star Wars games a bit like the old vehicle combat arena one I can remember. I also remember loving masters of Teras Kasai as a kid even though it got panned. I didn’t care- it was a Star Wars beat em up which let you unlock a new character every time you beat it. The days of games like that seem long gone and I often bemoan the new era of gamers who are DISGUSTED by having to actually play tk unlock characters and stuff. To me - that was what I wanted to play for.

I digress a bit. But either way, I’m very hungry for a range of new Star Wars games and kinda want them like right now! Both big new AAA adventure games and smaller arcade based games. I don’t even especially want them to be original. In a way I want the nostalgia of my youth rendered with modern graphics and games engines. I’m even slighy turned off when I hear that it won’t REALLY be Star Wars cos it’ll just be some bugger inventing a whole load of non-canon characters and claiming it’s Star Wars.

The conclusion of the (intolerably excessive) rant might actually just be that I’m kinda old now. I’ll get my coat.

I’ll be playing Overwatch. On the basis that I’ve been a long time player but specialise in Roadhog and everything points towards off-tanks being totally defunct once OW2 hits in very early October.

Hate to say it but it sounds like they’re being very careful to avoid falsely claiming there are branching narratives. The character saying a slightly different thing in reaction to the exact same cut scene you saw last time is what seems to be inferred. I’m not bothered tbh - I struggle with Marvel/DC games anyway. I’ll try it if people rave about it but would be highly unlikely to end up replaying it to see this ‘subtly altered’ perspective on the story lolz

It’s an interesting idea. I’m just not entirely sure why it’s so hell bent on looking like a game boy colour game … is that necessary?

I just don’t see how you can claim a title is an next gen ‘reboot’ and turn out what is supposed to be a AAA title which looks like it’s from a previous generation.

It’s as though no clear decision was made one way or the other. People (ie me) would happily accept a game which isn’t graphics driven on the basis it’s a bonkers and non-pc as previous entries; they were hugely enjoyable. I might also have given it a go if it wanted to take a more serious tone and be a more serious game … if it looked and felt like it. A game which is basically neither of these things and caught in an uncomfortable no-mans-land in the middle? Not so much…

@Boucho11 - lolz. (That’s it. That’s the post).

The first one was really quite bad. The fact we are now on number 3 suggests a solid numbers of people are actually buying them …

I fell off it because the excessive bloat made it feel like everything I was doing was directionless and soulless. I did try to get back into it a few times but it just didn’t happen. I’ll be pleased to hear an end to it I’m afraid to say.

Why just the PS4 version of watch dogs? They have done that with Mortal Kombat too - I don’t get it

9 is really good for me! I think I scored 1 once…

I’m sure many have said this before - but so much about this echoes of being very out of date, no? Graphically it is quite a long way from impressive and the way she very sporadically spams bad cut and paste voice notes… I feel like I want to be into this but find it really hard to see how it isn’t going to get panned …

I personally think a HUGE amount of noise is being made over what is really quite a negligible price difference. At the most expensive price point (paying monthly) it’s about £2 more than extra isn’t it? What does that buy you exactly!?

A week before TLOU releases they’ll do an entire showcase dedicated to that.

@johnny30 - I miss unlockable content in games so much in general