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I’m on Reverie so I might actually finally catch up at some point. Except there’s still the remake of Sky coming out too (hopes are rock bottom for that given Falcom’s truly abysmal writing post-Crossbell) and Kai will be coming West at some point too.

Bizarre not to be in the SoP last night. Guess they had to include all those incredibly similar third person action games.

@Throb Oh yeah you sold it to me, shame I didn’t really love it either!

….why would they not show this off in the trailer? This is a major selling point, just having Sonic characters in the trailer actively put me off.

Nintendo own 2025. That was not good.

Anyone who understands online gaming knows that a ‘kiddie’ MOBA is a gigantic disaster waiting to happen. Either it’s completely uncoordinated teamwork due to chats being disabled or they leave chats enabled and it automatically becomes not a ‘kiddie’ game and rife with nonces and bigots.

Sounds like a great night, watch us get pumped by Bayern Munich then a State of Play. Fun times.

@Shinnok789 The article says both protagonists get their own questlines.

This is the future, AI generated ‘games’ delivered at such a rate that it causes a massive fatberg that stinks up online storefronts so badly that we’ll be begging for the closed shop of the old Wii Shop Channel.

Certified Lover Boy Certified Pedantic

The best game of last year. Without a single shred of doubt. LocalThunk deserves the world.

Booted out of FC25 after the most outrageous Zidane 50 yard free kick i‘ve ever scored. It’s cursed.

This looks super cool, my favourite part of VR and the bit that didn’t make me want to hurl at speeds previously unknown to man was the sort of diorama ones you could lean down and look at. Part of what made Dolphin VR so cool was playing Pikmin like that.

Realised just how many games are genuinely unplayable or at least gimped in significant ways by this outage. Paints a damning picture of modern gaming. Booted up Like a Dragon Ishin which at least is completely offline. Played a bit of Far Cry 5 as well, since I don’t bother with the online modes. But yeah, screw my FC25 daily game rewards, the servers went kaput after 1 out of 3 games.

@Blofse Civ’s always been like this, it’s actually more convenient now than it was, with you having to get the expansion packs (with relevant patches and bug fixes) on discs before. The smaller DLC packs are definitely a bit of a rip off though.

@Thrillho Technically 7 years, Elizabeth was added in 2023!

God the console mentality is absolutely baffling at times. Literally who would stump up for a branded Playstation mouse when there are countless options out there already?

Probably the least surprising of the lot. The game was vapourware from the moment it was announced, same as that Quantic Dream Star Wars.

It’s an awful situation and the lack of communication is irritating. Ah well, 24 was given free with Epic and I’m over 10 years into my save with 14th tier Woking and Maybury. League One now, just got dumped out the Europa League round of 16 by Roma after the world’s easiest run to the FA Cup as a League Two side.

I played it last night and it’s not bad at all. Made a truly horrible looking golfer too. Bit of a shame you only get the back 9 of Scottsdale, meant it was a one and done rather than at least having the 18 to play.

@wildcat_kickz If by that you mean having the cause completely taken over by other people, who then pursue personal profit, then sure.

They desperately need new graphics and physics engines. It’s so so dated now, especially compared to Pro Spirits, which is several magnitudes more impressive. Give Konami the MLB license!!!

It saddens me to see such a genuinely revolutionary piece of media be utterly consumed by capitalist pigs. But then as Joyce says in the game, “Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.” Insidious but true.

More great games! Probably not a good sign that I’m more excited by the MS games coming to PS5 then the actual first-party lineup though 😂

There’s absolutely no way he’d get off so leniently if he was just a kid with a drone, and not a rich arsehole.

Not bad at all. This week I expect Spider-Man 2 to be even lower considering both Sims Legacy Collections were released, they seem to have sold rather a lot.

Burnout I preferred when I was a kid but I’ve been playing through the PS2 NFS games and they’re class. Had Underground 2 as a kid but Most Wanted was absolutely incredible and I’m enjoying Carbon too.

@wildcat_kickz Yeah but the situation has very much changed. It feels lazy to just go back to having generic Arab setting given all that’s happened in the world. At least 2042 goes for a weird Cold War 2 vibe.

The use of Gibraltar and Arabic potentially pointing to a North African/Middle East setting is a PR catastrophe waiting to happen. It’s 2025, not 2003.

@DonkeyFantasy It’s not a lack of respect, you simply can’t launch a game in a messy state and expect glowing praise. There are great games out there that were held back by shoddy PC ports, Arkham Knight being a prime example that launched in a shocking state but is now perfectly playable thanks to the general outcry. Voicing your frustration is one of the few powers consumers have and the most effective way to demand change.

In-game buffs for shagging NPCs is the sort of mechanic that would have been derided 20 years ago as a bit childish.

Baffling that they have an entire support studio on this and it still launches in this state, they also have all the documentation generated by the maintenance team for the PS5 version to work from too. PC is in theory a no-brainer given every single third-party goes for it now but Sony are in a strange situation where there’s a million billion other games to play on PC and Sony games don’t get the leeway they receive from PlayStation owners. At this stage it feels like all they’re doing is devaluing the exclusives as a concept while also exposing their current crop of titles as nothing special when removed from the PlayStation ecosystem as they can’t guarantee a stable experience with all the features PS5 offers.

@Nakatomi_Uk Part of it is that there was essentially no way to get Sims 1 and 2 legally before. Now there is and they can make a big deal about it and charge £35 instead of the £5 it would have cost if it was just a GOG release.

100% the racist backlash was a factor. Which evaporated when positive impressions came out but the damage was done.

This is baffling to me. It’s a patch meaning there’s absolutely no way to do anything with it without a copy of the game files. He doesn’t provide any of that. This is Sony trying to kill something that makes them look inferior rather than any indication of a remake.

I don’t really buy games anymore with the £70 jump and general cost of living. Indiana Jones will probably be my one purchase this year. I like Forza Horizon and would definitely play it on PS5 but that’s dependent on some sort of very cheap deal or a friend giving me their copy.

@MeatyVeg This game’s completely different due to you picking a different Civ for each era a bit like Humankind. Technically England are already in the game as an Exploration Era Civ, but are under the Norman banner. Great Britain will be a separate Modern Era Civ added post launch. So it’s not that they’re omitting ‘instrumental’ Civs, it’s more that the entire basis of the game has shifted and now they need more Civs from across different time periods and they already have medieval England so having two base game slots taken up by similar Civs would possibly be worse.

Nice to see a more modern take on Great Britain rather than just attributing leaders as ‘English’ monarchs when they were more than that. And I should be chuffed Ada Lovelace will be in there given my degree but it does strike me as a little odd that she’s a leader. I get people like Harriet Tubman as she was a leader of people and a cause but Ada Lovelace was a uniquely fascinating person that I’d never describe as much of a leader of hearts and minds. Smart as hell, ahead of her time, fantastically scandalous in her own right as well as her father’s for sure but a leader strikes me as odd especially given Babbage was the one that got the credit in his time.

I’m an idiot, she’s the mother of computer science and this is a game literally made by programmers. That’s why she’s in the game. Fair enough, leaders have completely shifted this game anyway and they have Machiavelli as one when the entire point was that he wasn’t a leader but had his view on power itself.

@Hoshiko That’s exactly what it is. And in some respects it’s true, with Sony’s brand of cinematic experiences across the PS3 and PS4 days often being a mishmash of various tropes lifted from Hollywood. Gamers like to attack Roger Ebert’s view that video games aren’t art but he also died a long time ago now and it was more that the medium truly wasn’t mature enough to stand on its own yet. These movie adaptations sort of prove it.

Oh man this is cool. Shame it’s not 4 too, I absolutely love that game’s take on the UK and wish they’d kept it alive.

The decal thing over the screen with the PS2 thing was annoying but I love the ambience. Although as much as everyone complains about the PS5 menu lacking sauce I remember the night I got it just sitting with headphones on basking in the 3D audio glory.

@Athrum ….no? Elliot Page’s production company is behind this adaptation, that’s it. Do you genuinely think that with everything he’s gone through, he’d play a female part?

@Zman0069 Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Incredibly surprised that Elliot would want to work with David Cage again considering him making nude models without consent. And him ‘not making games for f*gs’.

Christ that’s not exactly setting the world on fire!

Honestly I’d like to hope that the Switch version is severely gimped, because this series has not advanced at all since the new generation. Please for the love of god just make basic improvements.

My childhood in one package!!!

It being 10 years old sort of just reaffirms how little games have changed in the last 10 years.

I’m ok with it being more of the same, yes please good content!