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The first one is an all time favourite of mine but I’d probably be more up for this on a handheld rather than on the telly!

The absolute worst use of AI. It has its uses within development but using it to create ‘ideas’ is fundamentally creatively bankrupt as it cannot come up with anything original, only regurgitating what has been.

It looks really good. And surprise surprise, for those whining about a black protagonist, the entire plot revolves around Western powers trying to gain a foothold in Japan, meaning Yasuke will be fighting against his enslavers to protect his new home.

Ok this is something to get excited for!

FIFA’s ‘underperforming’ because the launch gameplay was so insanely sh*t that the community weren’t even spending money on Ultimate Team. The latest patch made it play brilliantly and it looks like they’ve rolled it back partially because there were cricket scores in the nonsense eSports thing nobody cares about.

Basically the only OG guy of his type not to go off the deep end to be fair.

I’m so f**king ready. Yes I’m not that enamoured by the changes in this one and the Day 1 game is rarely perfect compared to a couple expansions down the line. But it’s more Civ. And my jammy little brother apparently pulled some Team Fortress hat or something worth 200 quid so we’re essentially getting the most expensive edition for nothing. Can’t say gambling doesn’t pay off nicely (I have no idea how this boy is surviving living alone at uni)

@rick1987 I’m Catholic. Metaphors are allowed.

On the day that Nintendo Switch 2 was officially announced too, a console that will inevitably sell gangbusters. They’ve scored so many own goals that it’s more impressive that Xbox aren’t taking ground off them.

That GOW title sounds absolute pants. Bluepoint are great at remasters, just stick to your strengths!

Would not be surprised if the negativity has been deliberately stoked in an attempt to wrest control from the Guillemots. We’ve seen how certain PR firms hired by Depp and Baldoni operate, it’s not a stretch.

Brilliant month! Finally can play Ragnarok and Like a Dragon Gaiden, I definitely need to finish Ishin soon then.

Really like playing as Sue but she usually gets insta-locked. Pro tip, get your Strange to make a death portal at a 90 degree angle to the opponents’ spawn and then throw them into it with your push ability.

At this rate I’ll be running Doom, completely unaware.

Probably my least favourite AC. They’d have to do a lot of work to make it more enjoyable for me personally.

Nice to see The Old Course. My younger brother’s up there for uni and says there’s roughly a million guys in cowboy hats a week playing that course.

@saffeqwe Hook, line and stinky

Accessibility is the only feasible use case I can think of. Which is a noble cause after all. AI is a buzzword that fills many people with dread but it’s generative AI that’s the killer, not this sort of thing.

Good game. F**k landlords.

I wouldn’t be that worried about a different director taking the reins with Devil May Cry, V already felt like a different series for better and worse so any follow up would likely be similar to that game rather than the original trilogy anyway.

I still have to play both. Honestly looking forward to playing them when I take the plunge but I have to save for Indy when it comes to PS5.

I’ve gotten fairly decent at telling what will bomb and what will take off by now (minus Helldivers 2, thought it would be a mild success and not the hit it was). This sounds like it’ll bomb because MOBA and kiddie aesthetic is a moronic combination. Fall Guys works as it uses like three buttons, is slapstick and is fun even if you lose. Having a kiddie aesthetic in possibly the most toxic genre of video game imaginable is a mental idea, Pokémon Unite works because it’s Pokémon, not because it’s got a less hardcore aesthetic. MOBAs also aren’t tactile at all, Smash has force feedback and instant results of the buttons you press, making the knockback have impact, smash attacks are incredibly well designed in that you feel the snap of the stick as you charge them which accentuates the feeling of power behind them. Knockback in a game like this just wouldn’t have the same feel to it. This would maybe work ok as a mobile game at most.

People are mad. They’ll just pirate the games instead but it’s still a step from Squeenix to at least try and protect their workers.

@LikelySatan Is it your first time playing FFXII? It took me a little while to get into it (only played the remaster) but it’s bloody gorgeous and the combat totally hooked me once I made liberal use of the fast forward. Scratches that MMO itch for me while being a single player game with one hell of a twisty turny narrative. Can’t believe they pulled it off on PS2.

Really up my alley. This and Sniper Elite in the first 3 months of the year, Rebellion are on fire!

Success of Chocolate Digestives proves that all food manufacturers must now make biscuits, regardless of expertise. Looking forward to Peperami Biscuits.

@Balaam_ Yes. They do.

I almost have enough currency for one skin just from playing so waiting for one that’s from the comics. Personally would love a Fraction/Aja Hawkeye skin.

@DonJorginho The game’s been delayed several times now, that just isn’t a good look.

It just gets worse. This really needs to be a hit, and it does look great. If the rumours are true about Desmond being in the Animus Hub thing then they could possibly strike gold again.

@PorkChopExpress Growing up is realising that geeks are the absolute worst people on the planet and jocks are largely normal. Try going to uni with a bunch of the weirdest incels imaginable, and then realising that’s the next generation of tech workers. It’s not a coincidence that tech gurus are all sociopaths who’ve made the world a worse place.

This is absolutely horrible. This company also isn’t owned by Ubisoft and using it to score points against them to suit your own bigoted agenda is stupid. The article literally says they’ve also worked on The Last of Us: Part I and Age of Empires 4. They’re a support studio. This is rife in these sorts of companies because they rely on contract work and the stress and time constraints bring out the worst in people, especially management.

I’m convinced that 90% of the people who say Advent Children is excellent haven’t seen it recently. I thought it was great when I was 12 years old, in the same way that I thought Findus Crispy Pancakes were great.

@Vega37 If you take the immersive sim out of an immersive sim, what you get is a bog-standard FPS that has aged like milk. One with the political nuance of a half-eaten Toblerone. Seriously, people are stuck in 2013. The game is a mess, you can tell exactly which underbaked segments clearly were cut to ribbons. The final boss is a wave of enemies that you’d see three quarters of the way through any other shooter, then it sort of just ends. It’s rose-tinted glasses because of the twist at the end that everyone remembers.

Infinite is truly dire. The end result of auteur mentality.

You’re just smelling Hulst.

@Ralizah Literally what I was saying in the other article that apparently is ‘simmering hate’. Horizon somehow has sold a bunch of copies while making absolutely zero cultural impact. I struggle to think of anything that has sold that many millions of copies while leaving zero impression at all. How often do you see Horizon fan art or covers of the soundtrack, or even bloody ships between characters? It’s a plastic void of a fandom which is baffling considering how hard Sony push it. There’s more fan presence for games with 0.1% of the budget and sales. The most I’ve heard anybody outside of PlayStation sites discuss the series is included in a group of games when people are asking what exclusives to play. It’s an afterthought.

@LavenderShroud The funny thing is that there’s never been an article written specifically to refute points raised by users here that bordered on racist, or homophobic, or transphobic on comment sections discussing DEI or ‘woke’ games or whatever, which happens pretty regularly. So those are fine but mild criticism of Horizon is just unacceptable. That’s where the line is.

The issue was making a sequel to a game with wildly different endings, making it impossible to accommodate both endings in an effective way. Word of mouth among lesbians basically killed sales after the first wave of players.

Nintendo Life has a letters page where users’ views are shared by the team to encourage community spirit. Push Square writes a snide article directed at its own users because of opinions about literally one series in the entire Sony lineup.

This isn’t even labelled ‘opinion’, this is an article from the editor targeted at users here essentially saying ‘YOU’RE WRONG’

Is it not absolutely insane to be adapting games that were already purposefully pastiches of existing movies?

@PeaceSalad The guy is genuinely abusive on several articles. Feel free to look through his comments.

But Call Of Duty having clear links to the US military industrial complex is ok!

Are you really at the stage where you’re using AI generated images in your articles now?

@Flaming_Kaiser Fair enough but this dude just whines constantly about trophies to the point that the language being levelled towards devs is fairly horrible. It seems like an obsession more than a hobby.

@Balaam_ Have you tried just not getting platinum trophies?

@breakneck The Last of Us is an HBO show. That’s 99% of the reason why anybody unfamiliar with the game tuned in and that logo means far more than whatever brand recognition the original game had. The other 1% is Pedro Pascal. I’d honestly argue that outside of hardcore gaming circles, the original Last of Us had a negligible cultural impact, and the sequel is generally more known for the discourse than the actual game. However, a movie requires more of a hook to draw people to the cinema and unless they cast Sabrina Carpenter as Aloy, I struggle to see how they can get the general public interested. Lara Croft is unfathomably enormous culturally despite her recent trilogy not exactly being a system seller, Horizon might outsell Tomb Raider these days but it will never in a million years hit the same recognisability. No matter how hard Sony try to make it a thing.

@breakneck It’s not a cultural hit though. Nothing about the games has made a cultural impact or is recognisable by people off the street. People know Pikachu, Mario, Sonic, Pac-Man, GTA and the like. No matter how many copies are sold, nobody will care about Aloy. There won’t be references to Varl on sitcoms.