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Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Tekken 8?

carlos82

A 10 from me, it looks amazing and plays brilliantly and not only possibly the most in depth fighter but also one of the easiest to get into. The Arcade Quest is basically a tutorial in all but name, which introduces the various mechanics and teaches you moves along the way. Then with the story mode, the character stories, Tekken Ball and the excellent jukebox system, if you have any interest in fighting games, this is an easy recommendation

Re: Until Dawn PS5, PC Will Boast Fresh Locations and an All-New Camera

carlos82

I'm not sure how I feel about the move away from the fixed camera angles, in the original it made you feel like you were playing through a teen horror film, something that could easily be lost with a free camera. I doubt the story will be changed much, its not like they've gone back and hired these actors again, so unless they had unused footage. I'll be curious to see what has changed and how it impacts the experience, for better or worse

Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered?

carlos82

Judging it on its own merits I give it a 10 as its a fantastic game, that plays great and looks amazing

Judging it purely as a remaster and how much of an upgrade it is, then it's probably a 3 as it's basically the same. If you're a newcomer then it's a great game and no reason not to buy the PS5 version, if you already have the PS4 game just be aware this looks and plays identically to that version on the PS5 but with some extra content outside rhe main game

Re: Soapbox: This Is Why Physical Games Are Still Important to Me

carlos82

@themightyant if you look at it year on year the physical percentage has actually increased recently and as you pointed out, many major releases tend to sell far more physically than digital. With digital only really catching up years down the line with sales etc, Xbox is an outlier in all of this but understandable given their console lineup and business focus

Re: Soapbox: This Is Why Physical Games Are Still Important to Me

carlos82

Great article @get2sammyb, I've always been a huge fan of physical games, more so physical games of the past where we had manuals and things like that for a complete package. For some time now I've bought mainly digital and play a lot on PC but even on Playstation my library is almost entirely digital.

Though recently and for no real reason I've started buying physical games again with the likes of Tekken 8, GT7, Horizon Forbidden West and even FFVII remake despite already owning it digitally but I at least did get the dlc.

Back to my first point and the lack of manuals etc, I did pickup the Red Dead Redemption PS4 remaster amd was disappointed it had none, so went to CEX to buy the PS3 version and now my PS4 game has a manual and the map 😅

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Re: Poll: Are You Playing Tekken 8?

carlos82

It's just installing, so had a quick go with King whilst I'm waiting in its ready to play mode and can already tell I'm gonna love this. I played a lot of Tekken 2 and 3 on the PS1 but not so much since but I do like 3d fighters the most. King was my go to back in those days and I remember reading the manual whilst my friends button mashed and they were surprised when I pulled out all the wrestling moves. I'm going to test ot with my arcade stick when it's fully installed and hopefully my Mayflash adapter will let it work with the PS5 (thanks Sony 🙄)

With this and me playing GT7 and FFVII Rebirth and Tomb Raider coming up, my PS5 is starting to feel like playing the PS1 again in the best way possible

Re: Rec Room Dev 'Can't Justify' a PSVR2 Port

carlos82

Sadly I'm not surprised, I've seen a few PSVR2 games are having to pivot to play outside of VR and games such as I Expect You to Die are completely absent. It seems PSVR2 only sol around 10,000 units across the holiday season on Amazon US.

When Sony themselves haven't supported it outside of launch it really isn't a good look for consumers or developers. I've really enjoyed playing GT7 in VR but I'm seriously considering selling it and getting the Quest 3 as there seems little future in the platform at the moment

Re: More Cars, Events for Gran Turismo 7 in 1.42 Update on PS5, PS4

carlos82

I can't say any of these are high up on my list to buy, I've got a couple of the vision cars and whilst they are rather nice, they aren't amongst my favourite cars in the game. I'll just save my credits for when the classic race cars come back into stock. Still it's nice not to have to buy a car pass to be able to access new cars as in certain other racing games

Re: Tekken 8 (PS5) - Next-Gen Tekken Is a Modern Fighting Game Masterclass

carlos82

@ShogunRok as someone who's not played one of these much since Tekken 3, how easy do you think it will be to get back into? Street Fighter 6 did an amazing job for newcomers and lapsed players in getting them up and running.

Overall I do prefer fully 3D fighters and am a big Virtua Fighter fan but want to get back into this series

Re: Poll: Are You Playing The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered?

carlos82

I've literally just booted it up and yeah it looks the same as when I played the PS4 game on PS5. Though I will say the fidelity mode is much sharper and on my monitor the unlocked framerate is interesting, it should be good for PS5 Pro.

Weirdly all my trophies auto popped except for beating the game, despite it being a ng+ save, oh well I'm gonna play through it anyway as it was my favourite Sony exclusive last gen

Re: Video: The Last Of Us 2 PS5 vs PS4 Graphics Comparison

carlos82

@DennisReynolds yeah its weird seeing so many trying to claim there's much difference when DF have already shown it to be basically identical. The only differences are a subtle depth of field change, the odd shadow looks a tad better and that's about it, sure 4K will look a bit sharper but surely most will be playing the 60fps mode anyway

Re: You Should Get 'Comfortable' with Not Owning Your Games, Suggests Ubisoft Exec

carlos82

@themcnoisy yeah for newcomers it's a great way for people to jump in, just thinking about the games I played last year and I believe only Starfield was actually on one of them and the upcoming games I want to play aren't on them either.

Every time I look at the articles of games added to plus, the games I'd play such as RE2, I've owned since launch anyway and last year I ended up playing through more games than I have for years just by limiting myself to a few games rather than bouncing between lots of them