johncalmc

Shatter is radical.

This is entirely correct.

Bring back Warhawk on PS3? Bring back Warhawk on PS1 I say.

I'll do the review for this one if we get a code.

The only Persona announcement you can consistently rely on is the announcement that there won't be any announcements.

Well that's him off the Christmas card list.

I really liked the concept of this but then I saw the list of bands on the soundtrack and then I saw the price of it and now I'm pretty much out.

Kiryu can't retire. He's like Ric Flair. Lad'll still be smashing people up with a bike when he's 75 and he's got a physique that looks like melted ice cream.

As excited as I am for a Like A Dragon 2, I'm also hoping for either a remake or a remaster or a port. I'd like the Dead Souls one or the Samurai ones, mainly because my partner desperately wants them and she'll be over the moon.

I also really want them to do a Yakuza 0-2.

I like this because in games I generally pick clothes that look cool over stats and just tough it out. I prefer the option to have stats and cool though.

I love Cyberpunk 2077 so much and all I wanted was more Cyberpunk 2077 so I'm happy about this.

Wow this is an ace guide. I'm going to play the whole game following this walkthrough so I can get the Platinum in one go like a heathen.

Sounds like pretty much what I thought it would be. It's a shame they didn't recreate combat encounters to modernise the whole thing. I'll probably skip this one for now.

@Texaschainsaw83 It's got quite a few bugs and the frame rate has a tendency to collapse when there's a lot of mayhem on screen but I think that's more down to development than the game pushing boundaries. So it probably could run on PS4 fine if they'd done a better job, but I'm not an expert.

@stvevan That's actually how most review sites work. Almost all sites have one person review a game and reviews are never impartial or objective - it's that single reviewer's opinion. Someone else here might review this game and give it a 7 and someone else a 5 and so on. I see reviews on this very site all the time that I would have scored differently because we're different people who like different things.

Basically, the upshot of it all is that none of it really matters. It's just someone's opinion on a game and if you don't jive with what that reviewer thinks then you'll know going forward if you see their name attached to consider that.

@MKD88 Just to clarify - a 4 here means 'poor' or just below average. If it wasn't for the bugs I'd probably have gone 5 and if you have nostalgia for the game or find the humour amusing then I would think you'll enjoy it (minus the bugs of course).

I really like Sleeping Dogs. I played it when it first released and then I played it again on PS4 and got the Platinum. I always wanted a sequel but it was probably another "didn't meet expectations" so we'll just get another live service game or whatever instead. Shame.

@Bazooka That's nuts. I'm surprised because I got through the whole game without any glitches or bugs except for one time my followers stopped chopping wood. But when I reloaded it they started again. That was the only issue I had.

@Bazooka @Akila_24 This is interesting. I never encountered anything like this on my playthrough, so I must just never have tried to go into a dungeon at a point where they were blocked off like that. I don't remember ever not being allowed in.

Is it the first dungeon? If it's not, presumably you've tried going back to an older one?

@Bazooka There is no multiplayer.

You can get bones by just going into a dungeon and smashing up the skeletons of enemies you kill.

@Bazooka what resource did you get stuck on? You can get most if not all of them in multiple ways so you probably have a way out.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yes, there's four. Medium by default, then an easy, and two harder ones. Personally I found Medium to pretty well balanced but as you get further through the game the enemy health bars go up and I found it quite challenging. Died plenty of times.

I tried Easy out and it's much much easier. It almost feels like it should be called Very Easy and there should be another mode between it and Medium. The jump is huge.

I briefly tested out Hard and found it very frustrating.

Obviously if you're amazing at games then take that into account but for me the default Medium was best.

@ErnisDy There's not really anything complicated in regards to the scoring. It's just that based on our review scale a 7 means good and an 8 means great and I would say that the game is good not great. Scores are pretty arbitrary.

I would say that while there's nothing the game does badly, per se, it doesn't do anything special either. Like, if you watched a movie and it was all fine and didn't do anything bad but it was never exciting you wouldn't be like, "that's a 9 because it didn't do anything bad." Same here.

This game, I think, doesn't ever become more than a pretty laid back management sim. Other games in the genre can become quite nail biting, or really tough, or whatever. Just something a bit more. This is pretty easy going all the way through. I three starred every level except three on my first go with little trouble. And I'm not some kind of genius.

So it's just a good management game. And that's a 7.

@Thrillho I think it is, yes. I three starred every level on the game barring three - I think - on my first go.

@Beerheadgamer82 You thought I was going to say Twix?

@get2sammyb Now it's an 11!

This game is a ten all day.

Anyway, does it have a platinum now?

This is one of the best months in a long, long time in terms of the quality of the games, but I've already got them all so it makes no difference to me.

Tune in next week for the articles "How to cook the Untitled Goose for Christmas dinner" and "Should we just weigh in Clank for scrap money?"

Final Fantasy X is like the best of the bad ones, I think.

Totally forgot this existed. I wonder if I'll ever play the first five or six hours of this and then forget about it again, like I have done with every other Saints Row game.

The only way I could be possibly more on board with this is if Nicolas Cage was in it.

I am almost certainly never watching this show.

Valhalla was my favourite Assassin's Creed but I have basically zero interest in a Baghdad game and I honestly forgot about Basim until this article reminded me so I'm okay for this I think

I think it's pretty dreadful, honestly. I mean, the launch line-up of "classics" wasn't very good to start with, and a slow drip like this isn't helping at all. They really needed to launch with a bang and then have three or four really solid months of big classic games getting added.

Still, I enjoyed playing Kurushi. Not sure I'd pay over a tenner a month for it like.

All I want to know is when the next PS1 games are coming and what they are. Another twelve Assassin's Creed games ain't getting me to sign up to this thing.

@Sakisa I didn't jive with the story at all but I'm an old man with no nostalgia for the series. I think if you loved these games at release you'll still love them now and they're worth picking up. Just for newcomers maybe not so much.

@GravyThief Just because it's two games. Mass Effect Legendary really showed how to do this with four different trophy lists - one per game and one that spanned the series. For trophy hunters it's just a bit annoying to have two games but just one trophy list between them.

@Ralizah It's pretty much the same throughout. It's like a third talking, a third solving puzzles, a third shooty bits. I don't think the ratio really changes all that much that. But I did think that compared to most visual novels the talking was relatively brief. The whole thing only took me like fifteen hours or so.

This was one of the most spectacularly misjudged brand Tweets I've ever seen.

@Ryany If it's any consolation I gave House of Ashes an 8.

I think.

@gbanas92 Well, easy come easy go.

@gbanas92 okay lemme tell you about a little game called Alan Wake

You should let me post an article every time I try a game and don't like it.

No way, I didn't even know this existed and now I've read about it and I wish I never found out.

Damn, I really hated the sea when I was writing this.

@Amusei Puzzles are mainly down to navigation - corridors get blocked, rooms locked, etc. due to events in the game and getting to where you need to be is never as simple as just going up a flight of stairs, there's keys to find, codes to work out, and a few more elaborate ones - these are similar to stuff like the classic paintings puzzle from Resident Evil or something. You're not going to be doing any physics or anything. Top level: I never got stuck because of anything other than navigation for more than two or three minutes and I'm bad at puzzles.

Voice acting is obviously low budget. Like, it's not offensive at all. But you hear it and you know this ain't AAA. Story is unobtrusive which is a nice way of saying there's not many cutscenes and it kinda takes a back seat. It's one of those that doesn't beat you over the head but there's some interesting ideas. It's probably not about what you think it's about.

But in terms of cut-scenes etc. this very much has the BioShock thing of we need to go to this place and see this person but oh no they're not there now, call them up on the radio instead, presumably as a budget thing.

@Ryany Because I'm nice like that.

I'm gonna have a look at this and I'll probably download Kurushi, but other than that I don't think I'll bother with it until there's a bigger, better classics selection.

No Sonic Spinball, no sale.