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Theoretically I’m disappointed to see HFW leave as I always wanted to get around to playing it. Realistically, I haven’t found the time since it’s been on and have played many newer games, so…

@get2sammyb
Ah well, maybe they’ll be patched in later. Will give them a miss for now. Still a good month of Premium for me just with Vacation Simulator though!

Nice. Vacation simulator and cult of the lamb are the standouts for me. Timesplitters games too, but don’t know if they have additional (trophy) challenges yet or if they are just the original content. Would take it from a nostalgia trip only to a viable full playthrough if they do.

Anything PSVR2 related please. There’s lots of stuff getting released, just nothing being shown in mainstream media or gaming channels.

Loved skies of Arcadia legends back on the GameCube. I’ll keep an eye on this, but the trailer is not that promising.

Horizontal inversion? Why was that ever a thing? Pulling back to look up and tilting forward to look down I get, and it’s the way I’ve always played, but not this. Never this!

@Intr1n5ic
So you’re saying a company will determine they can charge £60 for something to get the best return on investment (with a higher or lower price being less profitable) but will instead decide to price it lower to better align with material costs? Sorry, don’t buy it. That must be an extreme rarity.

5/10 with no correct guesses. Also upped my speed to under a minute because of a leader board I’ll never top (well, I’m top out of 2 at the minute lol).

Pricing is never a matter of what something is worth, but rather a matter of what people will pay. Sony has the experience to do this calculation better than some armchair CFOs.

Monster train and kingdom come deliverance this weekend.

@twitchtvpat
There’s always PSVR2 stuff, it just isn’t unusually put on mainstream sites like this unfortunately.

Fantastic. Had too much to play to get around to the sequel (not helped by all the PSVR2 games coming to Plus these days) so it’s good I can play this first.

Edit: Are we sure we can just get the original for £3.99 and then pay for the upgrade? You don’t need to buy the Deluxe PS4 edition for £19.99 which has the DLC, to qualify for the upgrade?

Is this the one with that bloody goat?

@itsfoz
I’m playing it right now too, and I don’t really get the whole difficulty thing with lock picking; you just rotate the left stick smoothly, then it’s just about adjusting the right stick so the orb stays in the yellow area. It’s easier after you get the skill to widen the area, obviously, but that comes very early on.

Maybe it would annoy me more if I had ever played the PC version.

For me the most annoying thing is the lack of manoeuvrability in combat, with it being so easy to get surrounded and thus die. Hopefully that’s improved for the sequel.

Phenomenal game though.

Actually looks quite good. Hard to get excited with all the games in my list to play though. Its not top tier.

Is this live yet? If so the only result for me is that loads of games on my wishlist have come off of their sales.

Great month. Already played Witcher 3, but Wild Hearts and Cult of the Lamb I’ll play (is wild hearts single player?), then Vacation Simulator. Will try out Timesplitters 2 (especially) for the nostalgia, and hang around if it has additional trophy challenges.

@__jamiie
Absolutely no witty irony intended or pretended. Where did you get that from?

I googled to see if the game was, shall we be nice and say “re-imagined for a modern audience”, and that’s the first thing that came up. So, no, I don’t want to support THAT KIND of regression alongside the dismissal of the scoring points for taking such pictures…it’s just a type of pointless and insulting content cut that I don’t support. I thought It was quite clear as long as the reader has no confirmation bias.

Of course there will always be people who find it funny to deliberately misunderstand and make the whole discussion about the immediate subject rather than the overall topic, but there’s not much I can do about those type of people.

My only experience of this game is watching my wife play it for a couple of months, so my opinions are pretty uniformed, but, in a general sense, I don’t see that nerfing weapons should ever be necessary in a PvE game. Especially a live service. If the devs think a certain gun takes away all challenge, then add enemies that aren’t as susceptible to that gun. Then later add guns more suited to those new challenges. This keeps a virtuous cycle going of interest/challenge/ fun.

Of course that’s more work, but live service games need this content to keep going anyway. I know the wife stopped playing as she said it was just too repetitive, and I could see that for myself.

@__jamiie
Number 2. Funny how people ignore the quite clear line “[…]just don’t want to support this type of regression and I’ve got loads of other stuff to play.”

@BecauseBecause
No, lol. I clearly said why, you just thought it would be more triggering to deliberately ignore that. Internet peeps are always amusing.

@Thatguyoverthere
Do we know yet whether the photos are still possible, and just no points, or removed completely/redesigned female attire?

Edit: oh, I see they have definitely redesigned women’s clothes to remove cleavage. I think I’ll give this a miss, just don’t want to support this type of regression and I’ve got loads of other stuff to play.

It’s quite simple. Get it. Get the resi games, saints and sinners games, moss games, red matter games, Hubris, Pistol Whip, beat sabre, cyube, and well, loads of others dictated by prefered genre after that. Oh yeah, and Gran Turismo.
You won’t ever regret it. Especially if you are getting a bit weary of the same old types of games.

@Mattock1987
If a person lives in a single room bedsit with no family or friends, and never goes out anywhere, then indeed it wouldn’t have a point. Unless that person wants to watch TV and play a game at the same time I guess.

What’s got me playing more than usual is not Sony AAA games. I generally don’t like them (ratchet and Astro excepted). Rather, it’s my little Portal. Makes it so much easier not to feel like I’m ignoring the wife or hogging the TV, plus lets my lazy arse play in bed.

Other than that it’s PSVR2, which, obviously, is pretty much all third party.

@code45709
I had the same concern (mine was a gift, otherwise my experiences with the (phone) app would have made me hesitate to get one).
As it turns out, the app on the portal is infinitely more stable than on my phone, with no disconnects and rarely any noticeable lag.

Despite what others say, do not use the general experience with the remote play app to inform your decision about the Portal.

I presume my phone (and maybe your laptop) is doing other stuff in the background.

@Mattock1987
Of course not. PlayStation 5 doesn’t let you do that, and this just uses the ps5 and mirrors the screen.

You can just use your smart TV app for a streaming service though. I doubt many people would have a ps5, portal, streaming service, but still rock a non-smart TV.

As an aside, you also can’t watch a streaming app and then stream it to the portal to watch elsewhere. Guessing the likes of Netflix wouldn’t like that kind of public broadcasting.

@LifeGirl
Well yes, but the higher the price the lower the frequency of sales. It’s quite likely that, if the price were lower, Sony would sell more. The reason they don’t do so is likely down to stock issues. Sony aren’t really looking to make money on the hardware remember, it’s all the additional games and Microtransactions they can get by increasing people’s play time by dozens of hours a week.

Love mine. Tend not to play the big cinematic games on it of course. But for a couple of hours of Monster Train or Football Manager in bed - perfect.

Don’t play these type of games. All I know is my wife stopped playing because it became more frustrating than fun. I really don’t understand how the devs can’t get that being able to kill stuff in a timely manner is more fun, and will keep more people engaged long term, than will nerfing weapons to eek a few more minutes out of each encounter.

Skins? Why?
I wonder how long it will be until they push the courts to be able to sell directly and Sony lose billions.
Can’t see this being good for gaming in any way.

I suspect you won’t even be able to take those pictures, not just that you won’t get points for them. It’ll also impact some quests. And is just insulting and stupid. Also, it’s not necassary to have “a peepee” to like girls. But, you know, not worth having those conversations online, because people like insulting others.
If I wanted to play the game I’d not get the remaster and just get the full game instead. Graphics are not that important to me.

Kingdom come deliverance for me.

Seems a bit off that Sony decides who gets to review a game. I’m sure they’ll have criteria like “within the top 5% of hours played on the game” or something similar, to ensure they get mainly great reviews.

@Chaostrophy
You are correct I misread. That makes it even more important people jump on this!

@get2sammyb
Oh that’s clear, and Sony should definitely have some rule about not being able to release thumbnails too similar to any other game, just on the basis of consumer confusion.

@get2sammyb
It’s not a logo as such, it’s the kanji for exit. And a yellow background. Maybe if they were a big company they could try to trademark with the font or something, but…

I presumed it was, and then tried searching again in case there was a whole 1-7 I had to play first. A quick Google search thereafter got me this information though.

Everyone should play lost judgment. Not as good as it’s sequel, but still a great “Yakuza” game.

@BeerIsAwesome
Indeed. I envy you having yours just come, so many great experiences still to have.
This isn’t one of them even if it hits PSVR2, but I’d get it just to walk around and read the Japanese signs, lol. I’m trying to learn the language at the moment. Plus it’s only a few quid.

@BeerIsAwesome
These games are made for VR. To the point I don’t know if I’d consider them outside save now (although that goes for racers and platformers too - I’ve been spoilt ☹️ )

Edit: so it’s quest only for now? I’ll wait or miss it then.

Bloody hate that head already lol.

Dont regret buying the game, put a good number of hours in (helped by the convenience of the Portal) but feel I’m done with it long before I’ve got the platinum. It’s just a bit too RNG for me. Maybe these new modes will reignite my interest.

The price is fine, there just aren’t enough must have next gen exclusives for many people to get excited about. We need AI to speed up development, and maybe even come up with out of the box ideas or aesthetics that current artists don’t seem to be trying for.

With all the talk of the Pro is it any wonder? Then again, I guess the hardcore who know and care about such things already have a PS5 so where unlikely to have been in the running to get another one.
Saying that, the wife’s helldivere and elden ring obsession did lead us to get another ps5 last week. We figure with the sale and the option to play more multiplayer games together it was an ok investment.

@NEStalgia
We’ll just have to agree to disagree. Sony not wanting to have to increase the cost of an already expensive console is completely understandable to me. Then releasing controllers with the extra rumble feature when the price came down later also perfectly reasonable.
It’s not like the rumble gave people extra functionality. In my opinion their recent release of an “elite” style controller with paddles for the pay to win crowd, putting day one users at a disadvantage, was actually sleazy. What you are talking about not at all.

@NEStalgia
Well, I bought a launch ps3, got exactly what I thought I was paying for and so didn’t feel “had”. You seem to imply that consumers didn’t have knowledge of “what might have been” and this is why they were “had”, but I don’t sign up to that idea. For instance, I’m sure budget analysis was done and it was decided to remove pancake lenses from the PSVR2 and instead use the money on FR Tech, but I knew exactly what I was buying when I paid so don’t feel fleeced in the slightest. Would I have preferred “what could have been” at a higher cost, sure, but then we would have ended up even more with a “get a second job” VR headset than we did. Same with PS3. Which was already considered overpriced (but was in fact just over spec d for the general population in my opinion).

I’ve always been happy to commit hundreds of hours to truly great RPGs. Doing so with Kingdom Come Deliverance at the moment. Working my way through everything and considering multiple playthroughs for the plat. Also commonly put in 100hrs into the Yakuza games. And certainly did so as a kid on the FF games up to 10, and games like Skies of Arcadia and Morrowind…I’m ready as long as the game is good. Hopefully the increased cost doesn’t require additional monetisation.

@NEStalgia
I know but the choice not to settle was budget related, obviously. Unless you think they did it on principle.

@NEStalgia
I’m not sure of your logic or your facts, but I can see you feel strongly about this lol.
The sixaxis had tech far beyond its time (even beyond this time) and it was instrumental in developing the move controllers and their VR controller tech. They went for gyroscopes and accelerometers, if they hadn’t they may have budgeted for rumble initially, who knows.
I like that Sonybhave had a vision and taken risks on their controllers, and don’t begrudge any business decisions that have led to that.