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Metacritic scores are a useful consideration, but it's not the Holy Grail like some people regard it as. I'll take the scores into account, along with other factors such as gameplay trailers.

PCs have the big advantage of being able to do more than just gaming. Even if I wasn't a gamer, I'd still want a PC of some kind.

I've found myself playing on PC more these days as I'm still on PS4. Though, my PC is starting to get a little old as well. At some point, I'll want to upgrade something. The price point of the PS5 Pro along with concerns that the PS6 might follow suit is making me think a PC upgrade would be the better investment.

I'll be continuing with Persona Q, Yakuza 4, and Super Mario 64, and was also planning on giving Lollipop Chainsaw RePop a try.

I've been enjoying Volume 1 of the collection, and would certainly be up for a Volume 2. MGS4 is the obvious choice to put in it, but I'd also like to see some of the lesser known games like the Acid games.

That's way too expensive for me. If someone has the disposable income and wants to get this, then good for them, but there's no way I could spend that much on a console.

I don't really know how reasonable or unreasonable that offer is, but his response just seems so unprofessional.

It is not live service, at least not with any standard definition of live service. There's arguments to be made for the benefits of live service. However, this article is such a silly and weird take.

The first game was great. There's certainly ways they could further improve things in the sequel, but there's a solid foundation here.

Can't say I've got much hope for it. It's initial trailer was even more cringey than Concord's. Plus, Fairgame$'s name is just so eye-rolling.

That's wild. Obviously the game wasn't doing well, but I certainly didn't expect them to pull the plug this quick.

It's a sensible decision. The golden snitch works well as a plot point in the books, but it doesn't translate so well into actual gameplay.

I'm currently enjoying the Master Collection Volume 1, so I'd certainly like to see MGS4 get ported or remaked at some point.

Hogwarts Legacy was wonderful, though I did also rather enjoy Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban back in the PS2 days.

Like A Dragon games are great, though I've still got a fair number of them to catch up on. It can be hard to keep up with this series.

@Lup That might be true. It's been a few years since I've played Persona 5, so I don't remember too well. But even so, getting the player to move around in a linear section of the map and having a battle was a good way to show off the gameplay from the get-go.

Hagrid's looking as charming as always.

That's an odd design choice here, since Persona 5 handled this issue brilliantly. Persona 5 puts the player straight into the action, before going back and detailing the story up to that point.

It's a real shame. I sure would love to see more Crash and Spyro single player games.

Hopefully it'll be great with the extra wait for this game. I do like the other Dark Pictures games, but I certainly was concerned about the series getting stale.

Indy and Mafia at the end saved it from being a terrible show, but overall that presentation was not good.

I do generally enjoy Quantic Dream games, but it sounds like this one is in trouble. Until more info comes out, I don't have any positive expectations for this.

I'm not very hyped. Geoff is always so smug, and he usually over-hypes his shows. Still, there may very well be some interesting announcements in this show.

It's a disappointment. I've played P3P before with the male protagonist, so I was wanting to go with the female protagonist next time I revisit the world of P3. If they had made this remake be the definitive edition with the advantages of both P3P and FES, then I would have jumped on it by now.

The original Broken Sword 1 is brilliant. I'm slightly cautious on this remake since the previous Director's Cut had some changes that I disliked. But if it gets a positive reception, then I'll be eager to see it with the revamped visuals.

@rusty82 I'm certainly enjoying the story in The Devil in Me once it got going, though I'm a bit more iffy on the extra focus on traversal this time around (i.e. all the press X to climb/jump/push sections).

I'll be finishing off The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me, as well as continuing with Forza Horizon 4 and getting started with Persona Q.

I'm playing through The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The 3D Zelda games are mostly great, and this one is no exception.

I also picked up Forza Horizon 4 in a recent sale. That's being delisted near the end of this year due to licensing issues, so now seemed like as good a time as any for me to finally get it. Plus, I was in the mood for some racing anyway.

I played this back on PS2 back in the day, and remember being a little bit disappointed by it. It's still fun, but it's not as great as the original trilogy.

Dark Souls 1. I've died a lot, but I'm finally getting close to the end. And I'm also continuing with Last Window: The Secret of Cape West on Nintendo DS. That's a point and click game and a sequel to Hotel Dusk, with a new mystery to solve.

And looking at backlog, I'm thinking about finally getting round to playing Half-Life: Blue Shift and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Can't say I'm familiar with him (or any MMA fighters), but I'm always up for a new target.

I like how this target doesn't appear to be the cliche diabolical type of person who deserves an assassination. Instead, it's this mission is all just to stop the other guy from losing the fight.

It depends. As long as it feels as if I'm gradually improving or making progress, then difficult games can be great fun. Of course, hitting a brick wall and getting stuck is less fun.

It was a fairly believable story. The selection of video games in my nearest store is lousy these days, since figurines and other merch take up much of the limited space.

I think difficulty settings are a good thing to have in most cases, but developers should also do what they think is best for their games. I've not tried Elden Ring yet, but Dark Souls probably wouldn't have felt as impactful to me if I could just lower the difficulty at the first spot of trouble.

I've been playing some Dark Souls 1, along with some Hitman: Blood Money and Last Window: The Secret of Cape West.

Great news. I've played through the fan-translated version of Investigations 2 before, but I'd certainly like to own a more official version of the game.

This looks promising. I never had a chance to play the original release, so I'm excited for this remake.

I'm not too excited for this one. I'll probably just have it on in the background whilst playing something else.

It's a dumb requirement. It's annoying when other gaming companies also mandate account logins for single player games, and the same is true here with Sony.

I've been playing some Dark Souls 1. I'm dying quite a lot in it, but making progress. Also, I'm wanting to make a start on Hitman: Blood Money, and perhaps also find something more lighthearted to play as well.

I'm still on PS4. The majority of the big PS5 games that excited me have also came to PS4 or PC. That's starting to change now. Fewer games are coming to PS4 these days, and my ageing PC will struggle to run the latest big games.

But at this point, I'm tempted to hold off, and see what the PS6 brings to the table. Graphics are generally a fairly low priority for me, instead it's the exclusives that affect whether I buy a console.

I had a blast with G-Police on PC many years ago. It's got a kind of Blade Runner vibe to it, and involves being a fighter pilot in these sci-fi space dome cities.

I've no idea how the game holds up today, or whether the PC and PS1 versions had any notable differences.

I did have my eyes set on this back when it released on Switch, but narrowly decided to hold off on it. This'll be a good excuse for me to pick it up.

Nice to see them returning. I'm not sure I fully buy the inadvertent excuse, but it's good that they're fixing this.

I always take Yoko Taro comments with a huge pinch of salt, but it's a promising sign if he thinks Stella Blade will be great.

Nice to see trophy fixes in the patch notes. I was holding off on starting the Unfinished Business expansion until they'd been sorted.

That poll is wild. Whilst Lara Croft is iconic, I don't see her being as iconic as the likes of Mario or Pikachu. And I do love myself some Hitman, but there's no way Agent 47 is the third most iconic video game character ever.

I'm mostly playing The Great Ace Attorney 2 and some Yakuza 3.

I thought it being split up into distinct maps always worked well for the Monster Hunter formula, so I'm a little apprehensive about these rumours.

The Sims could make for a decent horror movie. There could be one scene where a sim is swimming, only to find out that the ladder to climb out has disappeared.

That explanation doesn't sound too convincing. Atlus makes great games, but they have shoddy DLC practices. I'm actually interested in playing The Answer, but I don't want to buy Persona 3 Reload unless it gets heavily discounted.