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I've been playing Fabledom, which released on consoles last Thursday, but I can't find a single review of it! But to me at least it seems pretty good, with only a slightly twitchy UI.

I imagine this will suffer from the same problem as the games; it's fundamentally boring to watch other people use computers.

Nothing for me here, though I've taken a chance and bought Fabledom with its prerelease PS+ discount. Hope it's good; would help if anyone had reviewed the console version prior to release!

I think this was the service my brothers were recommending to me, with Amiga games to play; but I wasn't aware of the whole streaming/subscription angle. I'd be up for it if you could buy a few games for £2 each or something.

@Rob3008 I'd recommend Civ 6 at that price, as long as it's on PS5, not PS4. The waiting time between turns is fairly tolerable on PS5, and the UI very nice on PS generally.

The favourite change in Civ 7 I've heard about is the ability to create settlements designed to stay as fishing villages/mining outposts (i.e. built soley to exploit a resource, rather than have to place a whole (inevitably struggling to grow) city there. Though I won't buy this for years. I was happy with Civ 6 (inc. all the leaders) for £20, ages after release.

It does look good, especially the robots; but it does also remind me of 'We Happy Few' from a few years back which also had promise, but turned out to be a damp squib packed with cheesy English stereotypes. Here's hoping this game will be much better than that.

I thought the first game surprisingly good, though not quite good enough to keep me to the end. I seem to remember the first game not having any NPCs, which hindered it in my mind. Maybe the sequel will fix this.

If this game is similar to the first - a relentless exercise in PS product placement - a huge marketing campaign seems like gilding the lily.

So it's a game about an Incel who resorts to using prostitutes? I'll wait for a sale.

I loved the first game but did feel that, after putting in several hours on a playthrough, I'd find my squad to be too weak/traumatised to proceed, and I would have to quit. So a quicker version might be preferable.

I may try this, but I've tried to get into Minecraft many times, to no avail. What's with the villager NPCs? Some sort of congenital defect? I'm think I'm just way too old for the game..

This trailer reminds me most of 'We Happy Few' from some years ago, though presumably with less Austin Powers style nostalgia.

The fuss over the change of actor is just the usual, cretinous internet outrage. If they happen to make the script/storyline as funny and gripping as Season 1, it won't matter who wears that ratty grey wig.

Is the game setting a virtual world governed by an AI creator/god gone rogue? That could be really good. Then again, I despise the hallucination/dream/VR sections in games such as Far Cry, GTA and Cyberpunk; so it may be way too much of that sort of thing..

@Pranwell I'm not especially keen on smothering games with a wet blanket of morality, just that if standard games tend to be pretty amoral at best, there's room in the market for some do-gooding, too.

This vaguely reminds me of 'Exile', a great game on the BBC Micro computer back in the Eighties, where you similarly had to work out the mechanics for yourself. I'll buy this when it's a tenner or less.

The game may be 'preachy' in how it enforces sustainability as a goal (haven't played it).

But by omitting any mention of sustainability, other games are insidiously endorsing the reckless exploitation of natural resources (i.e. the status quo, so no preaching required).

I'll probably give the new season a look, but haven't especially liked the series since the first season. With that, the strange time-line really helped add mystery, and the feeling of a story played out over decades. Since then, they dumbed things down chronologically, and turned the bard into a swash-buckler, and it's lost much of its charm

Spending £200 on that will certainly mark you out as hopelessly gullible; just like a vault-dweller!

I've just started a game for the first time in about 5 years, and it does look nice - but compared to Cyberpunk, the people's faces are strikingly poor. I can live with that though; the slight crapness is quite charming.

I think I'll be happy enough if the frame-rate's fixed in the city areas, as it did creak towards a halt at times. And I suppose a higher cap on settlement building would be nice.

I think the PS5 version's there too! At least, I hope that's what I'm downloading..

I did love some Psygnosis back in the day. When the 'futuristic sports title' was mentioned above, I immediately thought of Speedball/Speedball 2 (though the internet tells me they weren't Psygnosis games after all), but I suppose those games have been superseded several times over in the past 35 years..

The trouble is, as with drinking games, I'd be playing to lose - I want to see the climate catastrophes!

Looks intriguing, though might feel like landing a claustrophobic job working for 'Small Pharma'.

@HeeHo I wondered the same since I own the disc (plus DLC). I just bought the digital version too, out of paranoia, as it's only £4.

Fallout 4 was what drove me to buy a PS4 all those years ago. It wasn't the step up from New Vegas I'd hoped for, but it still pretty entertaining in its own right. Am looking forward to trying it again with quicker loading times and so on.

I have been checking for news of this for months, so it's good to have a date, finally. I never liked the voiced character, though the female voice was preferable. But the sense of discovery was great, and the fact you could jump while running - a feature still missing from Skyrim after its many iterations, irritatingly.

Yet another extremely hyped game that I know I won't like. I'm beginning to question my Britishness, with the sheer number of games which aren't my cup of tea..

Supercars and Supercars 2 (had to look those up to verify my memory..) were great on the Amiga back in the Nineties. This game might be somewhat fun, too.

I expect that it'll be another way-too-on-the-nose allegory for people being ruled by their brain-washed consumerist desires, and feature a Sim breaking into real-life to live an 'authentic' life.

So I'd better do some overtime so I can buy those cinema tickets!

Not the greatest acting, other than the ghoul's Jack Nicholson-style sneer. But I reckon with Fallout's humour, the TV version can get away with being a bit of a pantomime.

As long as the Fallout 4 PS5 upgrade comes out in April too so I can 'play along at home', I'll be happy.

I admit I was quite glad that Starfield wasn't a revolutionary all-time classic, just out of 'sour grapes'; but I'd definitely play it were it to come to PS. Doubtful though I think.

I probably won't even try Foamstars (no desire to be shot by random teenagers, regardless of the setting). But the other two are great for me - games I wouldn't quite buy, but am intrigued by. Rollerdrome especially; it looks fabulously stylish, but is probably way outside my competence zone.

It looks okay to me - the original Prince of Persia used the best graphics possible at the time, so it's nice that this new one isn't going down the nostalgic 'pixel art' route, which to me often comes across as a lazy cop-out.

I've been checking for updates on this rather obsessively, so it's nice to just know it's still in the pipeline. So I can stop obsessing, at least until 1st January.

It seems like a missed opportunity that they ditched the 80s retro approach, which added so much charm to the original Vice City. This just looks like a swampier, sweatier GTA5 (though I'm sure it'll still be great).

I'm hoping for a positive Steamworld Build review before the small PS Plus discount expires on it's release date (1st Dec). I reckon it may be really good.

More Cyberpunk until something else can lure me away, such as: a Fallout 4 PS5 upgrade, the Biotech DLC for console Rimworld - or possibly Steamworld Build (the Steamworld Dig games I actually completed, which is a rarity).

'Engage in diplomacy', eh? Better get evolving, sharpish. But this looks okay; I'd prefer a 'Grounded' clone though, as I envy that on Xbox.

I thought Sims was already a 'hustle', with the sheer amount of over-priced DLC.

As long as the 'surprise' isn't that they're delaying the update/DLC until next year to avoid another sh*t-storm, I'm happy..

Just killing time awaiting the Cyberpunk update/DLC. That Saints Row 'freebie' was surprisingly crap I thought, somehow managing to strip away the charm of its predecessors without notably improving the graphics/gameplay. Whereas Generation Zero at least feels vaguely original. And Swedish!

I'm looking forward to 'Toss', apparently releasing on the 7th. Can't be hard for that to surpass my expectations..

I'll give Saints Row a go, until the Cyberpunk update comes out. And I'll probably try Gen Zero, on the basis that maybe it's not crap, just tragically misunderstood..

I downloaded this last night - a nice surprise to get for free (having got the game plus all DLC for about £20 a while ago).

I don't understand people holding a grudge against the developers - the first reviews made clear the game was a mess, and first-day buyers could get refunds in the end, I seem to remember? It was good earlier this year on PS5; should be great after the update. Refusing to play it now sounds like 'cutting off your nose to spite your face'.

I liked the Amiga RoboCop game! Though it was too hard to get that far in I think.

As for this one, if they stick to an FPS Robocop 'tribute' game, close to the films, I may buy it on sale. But really, the updated Cyberpunk is going eat this game's lunch (a jar of baby food, naturally).

@KaijuKaiser I bought it long enough after launch that I wasn't really thinking about 'broken promises' from the Devs - if you just take it for what it is, I found it to be a great-looking (quite superficial) city, great acting/characters, and plentiful, gory, satisfying combat. The police are immersion-breaking in their crapness, but this should improve via this update.

@Thumper - well, with any luck the bugs will be in the DLC, and I won't get to that for a while..