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From really do like to challenge us, even by hiding simple functions in the menu system. Handy knowing this.

@MarkMarky @BlaizeV Hopefully we won’t see a repeat of that sort of shenanigans again but it does feel like it’s tainted the sport somewhat. Being a fan of F1 in general I just want to see some good racing and a fair outcome 🤞

Ah shame it’s based on the 2022 season as that means you won’t be able to use cheat mode by getting a direct line to Michael Masi 😂

Go Returnal! Although there's plenty of other great games named there as well. Having most recently played Death's Door I'd love to see that take at least one of the two that it's nominated for.

Watched the video review and it looks amazing. I'm not that into sims and prefer an arcade racer but this just sounds too good to pass up.

I think this would be different if one of them wasn't a PS exclusive. Some people are determined to bash anything Sony for one reason or another but ultimately they will use whatever ammo they can. In this case they have picked ER to be that ammo even though it's a different game and a lot of those people won't likely even play it because of the difficulty.

I've been playing HFW for over 50 hours so far and while it's not perfect it is still brilliant and has moved things on from Zero Dawn. I'm expecting I'll find the same with ER with it having moved things on from the other souls games and be brilliant in its own way.

Easily achieves a 9/10 for me. The improvements between Zero Dawn and this are big enough to feel the difference. Some things still aren’t perfect but no game ever is and I’d rather take this as it is than have someone tinker too much and break the things that do work. The plot is also pulling me along so far and, as was mentioned in the review, it’s just told so much better.

@zhoont Not sure about the elk but I do agree about the distance thing and having a block of some kind. There’s some machines like the Fireclaws which are brutal and even with some distance they can be on you in a second and there’s virtually no defence against that. It does feel slightly unfair at times.

I was not going to bother with this but tried the trial just before HFW released and was pleasantly surprised. So much so that I bought it and will return to it after I’m done with Horizon. It’s good that they got this game most of the way to being where it should have been a year ago and means that all that hard work the developers put in right before and after launch won’t go to waste.

I’m going to see this with my wife tomorrow. Really looking forward to some cheesy uncharted action. I never did get the free cinema ticket even though I bought the upgrade. Our local cinema isn’t Cineworld anyway and it’s a good trek to get some so it’s just a shame they didn’t do an agreement that would have worked for all cinemas big or small.

This weekend is going to be very Horizon heavy. Loving it so far 😀

Oh yeah, and I'll be playing it soon that's for sure.

Probably a good thing that all human knowledge was deleted as at least the selfie stick can be forgotten.

Interesting timing of this announcement. Perhaps trying to get some coverage off the back of the Cyberpunk current gen release yesterday. From what they've said it seems that this new studio is trying to correct the problems with CDProjekt and be more for the employees. Hopefully that turns out to be the case.

I don't mind the odd auto pops in case I don't want to sink the same amount of time into replaying a game just to say play some DLC or something.

I'm assuming to make it happen the developer has to do some work, probably by parsing the save file to determine if the condition was met followed by calling out to the PS SDK to unlock the trophy. How hard that is might depend on how that code is written as if it's distributed across the games source code then it might not be that easy.

@huyi Sometimes you need to look harder to find the fun. How far have you got? From what I’ve heard most people are getting out of level 1 but struggling with 2. That will likely be me as well as I’m pretty average.

That's like 18 pages, front and back. They have been busy.

@kyleforrester87 That's because it's in performance mode, if you look closely you can see the additional 30 frames a second. The outfits are deluxe edition only though I'm afraid.

This game sounds really fun. I'd have jumped on it if HFW wasn't out this week but looking forward to getting hold of it further down the road. It's great that they continue to make improvements to it if there are things that need addressing.

@theheadofabroom @shadow2k I've had that thought before but just can't bring myself to do it having watched the Lego movie. I don't want to be "that guy" 😄

If I didn't think this would get assimilated into my son's lego collection I'd go for it. All of the amazing Mario and Marvel / DC sets that he's had for birthdays and christmases are now just one indistinguishable pile of pieces.

I've been using performance mode wherever it's been available because it just feels so much smoother. Will have a go with both modes but probably end up going with performance anyway.

Knew it would be great 😃

In a holding pattern waiting for Horizon Forbidden West to drop so I started playing Death’s Door. It’s good fun so far and some interesting boss battles.

@BritneyfR_ee I had 5 save files for UC4 which popped various trophies as I imported them. I was missing 19 still though which were things like 20 headshots from a rope etc which I must have used chapter select for. If you've used chapter select that doesn't save back to the original save file as it gives you the option to create a new one which I guess I didn't do.

Guess you are right about your crushing play through though as you would have had a save file for that. At least you've got one now in case they do another remaster down the line 😆

In fact we were talking about this earlier and how it had been a massive success for Sony and that they are putting a lot behind the marketing of FW for good reason.

@BritneyfR_ee Good job on UC4 crushing. I'm glad I had my save file for that to import into Legacy of Thieves as I wasn't looking forward to doing that all over again

I haven't pre-ordered yet but I'm torn on whether to get this digitally or go for the physical edition. I'll try and decide before the weekend is out.

This looks really good and I’m up for the challenge. I didn’t buy it purely because I haven’t got enough time between it’s release and HFW but will definitely be getting it down the line.

I'm sure when I get around to playing this I will not be anywhere near that good, but that's ok dying adds to the experience so they are just missing out

I would have probably scored more if I’d have closed my eyes. Ouch.

Going to be finishing Lost Legacy and then I think I might start ME2 as there should be enough time before HFW releases.

I'm a little bit interested this time round even though I think VR is still going to be pretty niche for a while yet.

@Titntin I think I'm with you on this in that Sony will be making this move to grow the customer base rather than just converting it's existing customers.

There's a lot of people just on PlayStation that don't play the single player games and they will know from running PSN how much money these live service games make. Why not get in on that and take some of that money that people might otherwise spend on Genshin or Fortnite. It's a lot of money to leave on the table.

There's definitely those worries that others have pointed out about there being a load of these games already or them coming at the expense of traditional games but what if gamers start to move away from single player stuff, Sony need to mitigate the risk of that happening.

Personally I want the single player stuff and I'm just not into anything live servicey but I can see from a business point of view it makes sense.

If you buy the PS4 version on PSN then I don't think you'll be able to preload the PS5 version as usually the upgrade option only shows up after release. I think this will likely be the same with HFW, so that's probably the only advantage you would get from ordering the PS5 version.

I played a tiny bit of Destiny but wouldn't be enough to actually say that I'd got into the game.

I personally don't like the idea of live service games but I'm sure that there are plenty of people out there that do, and possibly for Sony this was a good move if they want to get more into that arena.

As long as they don't abandon their traditional stable of great single player games then that's ok.

1) I don't get baseball, 2) I don't get sports games - for that reason I'm out!

@Voltan I always enjoy a SoP more when they've jammed a few extra announcements onto the end. Seems that's what SoP started off as but as it's gone on they use it more for focusing on just one game.

It’s always lottery with these sort of subscription services, sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down. This month it’s a down month but other months have been better and overall as long as this isn’t the norm then I’m ok with that.

I was playing every now and then earlier last year but then got into a big game and just didn't go back. I realised once I'd played Wreckfest for a while that that was way more fun than DessiAllstars so if this update has put some more fun into it then I might have a look.

Exciting times ahead. Think I'll be putting in an order for this very soon.

Perhaps this is why there was no leak this month 😂

I'm really torn between wanting to play these again to not wanting to play these again. Ah I don't know but for £10 I might as well get the upgrade.

@riceNpea @theMEGAniggle As long as you've been paying for Apple Care all that time should be fine! 😂

@MightyDemon82 Beat me to it 😂

@velio84 Cheers, watched it and it was well worth it 😀

It's looking like there's some great improvements in there especially on the climbing and melee side of things but generally everything has moved on from HZD, which hopefully is a good thing.

@velio84 Does it look like there's any spoilers in there?

@Kidfunkadelic83 Was that with your weeks wages from working in t'mine?

I can already feel the pain!!

I played this just this month and really enjoyed it, and that's from not having played a ResEvil game since probably Umbrella Chronicles on the Wii. I thought it created a great atmosphere, the characters were insane and it delivered some genuine scares. I can only imagine what it must be like to play in VR.

I've got Village to play at some point so might try and get onto that next.