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@CapGod I agree that subscriptions will come home to roost. Ive Already noticed a degradation, AAA is arguably better than ever but those mid tier games are slowly being replaced by garbage, let's be honest.

However I had a great time when I decided to give ps now a whirl and have played a ridiculous amount of games on Gamepass. So in the short term I'm all good and if the rubbish keeps building. We have the prior 40 years of games to enjoy.

@djhegzy I reckon part 3 will be called;

Final Fantasy 7; REcover the hair gel

@UltimateOtaku91 'Honestly don't get the hate whilst skyrim has released on the last three console generations and with 16 versions with worse upgrades and at full price yet no one bat's an eyelid.'

This has got to be a trolling. Even Bethesda themselves joked about it at E3 a few years back prior to the Microsoft buyout.

The reality is none of us were asking for TLOU part one remake. But they made it anyway. I will probably play it a few years from now for the nostalgia but for me, Sony have always been the bastions of moving on and away from franchises, trying something new. I don't want them to become Nintendo esque with the same regurgitated franchises regardless of how much I love the first game.

@4kgk2 each character takes a year?

That's some wild over estimation. I wouldn't trust the developers on this either, since Capcom have been ripping people off since the million versions of street fighter 2.

I love this selection!

I now have GoW three times and Never watched Nickelodeon as in my day we had 4 channels and were forced to watch Blue Peter because my older sisters sick in the head. Only good part was the totaliser.

Anyway I digress and can't wait to have these in my collection!

@lolwhatno yes and no. When GT7 released playing through the menu book you earn 70 cars or so and imo was fine.

However once that was dusted earning big credits wasnt worth the hassle. Without paying money the better cars were out of reach it's a lot better now with the additional circuit experience dosh an god improved money for the longer cafe cups.

Gran Turismo 7 is weird.

Amazing tracks like Monza and Interlagos have 1 main race. Were as loads of the Japanese tracks have 6/7. Daytonas oval is woefully underused as well with truck racing and some other low level pp rubbish? It's the Daytona oval, one of the big 3 world races. I don't understand why the real world tracks are underutilized.

FIFA is a charity believe it or not.

@AFCC @Jswift56 @Ashkorsair @lolwhatno @Futureshark @UltimateOtaku91 @ceedj @Korgon @RawnDawn @get2sammyb @Th3solution

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rEENTvhHJjA&t=60s

Dreams is pretty powerful!

I have 4 kids

3 are clever
1 is stupid

The stupid one plays live service. Well done on your D for English who dud u GT dat from? Me r ya ma?

Sony are consistently anti consumer. Outside on GT7 and maybe some update from Dreams there is no point playing on the PS5.

I wrote this over on pure Xbox but it's like the roles from last gen, with Microsoft being scummy have been reversed.

@AFCC I counted the Gamepass games and there's over 300 games not including gold. I was surprised myself.

@Eldritch that's 7.5million life time sales. It was closer to 1.5 million at the time. As the biggest game on the platform.

Anyhow the point Im making is a lot of people attempt to defend idiotic pricing strategies or overly inflated prices today. Sega could easily sell this compilation for £25 and make a tidy profit. It's irrelevant what we paid before, as gaming is now a bigger industry. PCs used to cost £5000, that's not going to stop a savvy customer querying why a new laptop is £700 or look for a better deal. To summarise I personally don't like the 'we used to pay' argument as it has so many variables and reduces quite a complicated gaming supply and demand history of physical games against an easily accessible digital storefront. Easier to work out how much this is costing them today (maybe half a million tops) and how much they will make. £40 is way over the top.

@Eldritch I see this argument every time pricing gets brought up

Gaming in the 90s was niche with expensive cartridges and a less integrated global market. Comparable games on the Amiga or Atari ST were approximately £15-£20 on disk.

The original Lemmings only sold 70,000 as an example.

Played this recently on Xbox.

It ticks all the boxes for a game I would enjoy.

Shooting
Alien monsters
Cyberpunk
Old school
Indie Team

After 2 hours uninstalled as it was so boring.

@Resurrected-X460 great idea man you should @ the Pushsquare team.

8 / 10

POSITIVES
Great gameplay
Cool progression
Loads of modes
Great looking cars
Amazing customisation
Wet racing
Tracks are brilliant
Scrapes are ultra realistic

NEGATIVES
Foliage doesn't move
Some rubbish off track graphics
Always online
Nerfed monetary rewards
Upgrades locked behind a lottery
Needs another dirt track (only 2 ATM)

Bit silly all of this. When FIFA is basically a baby lottery machine and every fighting game asks for additional money for fighters.

GT7 is innocent. Im Not happy that it asks you to boost your in game money and I don't think it should be in a £70 game at all. But it's honestly not worth getting fired up about. The games fun and enjoyable. Ive Got 80+ cars in my garage and have played for maybe 30 hours.

Harry Potter is a huge franchise. This will sell 20 million upwards.

I don't even like Harry Potter but if WB keep up with the positive news and no micros. Im in.

@Kairu yes mate. Im still playing. Diamond 2 in doubles. Use a different car these days! Send me an invite tomorrow night (Thursday) after 10pm if you want?

@DualWielding weirdly I noticed something with Gamepass. I was looking to start Skyrim and the version on Gamepass isn't the most recent one.

Also a lot of the first party games encourage additional purchases.

I love Gamepass. But it's not like every brilliant game comes to it and the ones that do need you to pony up for the full experience. After playing miles Morales and ghost of Tsushima everything on Gamepass is worse. So I don't mind paying for best in class experiences.

Fingers crossed when the big single player games come round Xbox can properly compete with Sony. Forza 5 and Ori are great though.

@Martsmall is it? I never knew that. I will still buy it on the PS though. Love pacman and Championship edition was an absolute beast of an arcade game.

@Bagwag82 third person stuff. So bored of it.

I thought planet coaster and tiny Tina was great personally. But what do I know?

@WallyWest love the way you quoted me, and I never said it. That's illegal probably ROFL. But yeah probably. Botw is just one of many attempts at open world since Elite in 1984, Maybe it came at a bad time for me after playing a bunch of openworld games around the same time (including HZD). And it is the kind of genre I can only play a few times a year. My favourite openworld games are actually Yakuza zero, Frontier Elite 2, Burnout Paradise, HZD and MGS 5. They all have their failings as a genre it tries to be good at all things and rarely masters anythings. With those 5 they all master something - 80s aesthetic, Space trading, Street racing, Hunting and smoking cigars to pass time.

@BoldandBrash GoT is subjectively great, graphics great, music great, story great, characters great, usability options great. It's brilliant. Maybe it's because Im playing on hard but it doesn't seem like a breeze to me. The game does have some weak points, the various side quests mostly amount to - go here - beat everyone up - collect some flags - the end. Totally agree that does grind. Not much for the old grey matter to work out. I wouldn't say it on rails - but it is a checklist of things to do. And Im cool with that when it's wrapped around a story this good.

However if you are saying that you weren't taking in the world, then that's on you. It's gorgeous. Im constantly taking in views in bewilderment on how it looks so good. As the PS5 has the screen capture ability it's a game in its own right. Finding the best shot.

With all that said I would still rate Botw as recommended, I was disappointed playing it post hype period - but offered enough new stuff and was massively playable and I can understand why other people would like it. GoT being snubbed by Eurogamer is ridiculous imo, especially when it offers so many fantastic story beats with graphics this realistic.

@AdamNovice must be shills. HZD was fantastic. Zelda was massively overrated and so too odyssey for that matter. Give me HZD and Sonic Mania any day.

Ghost of Tsushima is boss, no idea what the guys at Eurogamer were smoking, not giving it a recommendation is a crime. One of the most immersive games ever with world building only rivalled in the likes of God of War and Zelda. Anyone who hasn't picked it up and hasn't played an oprenworlder for a bit, you have to play it.

Everyone loves GTA. Soon there will be more copies of GTA than people.

Hopefully they fixed the soft lock. Will give it another whirl and hopefully get passed day 4.

I enjoy live services games, there's a place for good multiplayer games. The minute I am asked for Battle Passes or microtransaction money I will do what content I can for free and gradually move away to something else. Usually a single player game or 5.

I think the missing point is my favourite service games are all single player / multiplayer hybrids. Like the older Call of Dutys, Burnout paradise, Street Fighter 4, Forza Horizon, Tetris Effect etc.

The problems happen when you the get Street Fighter 5 with no real single player. I need the SP to git gud. And then can have the odd game of multiplayer as a side to the main course.

I feel many younger gamers just want the multiplayer.

Hey @get2sammyb was this your first Pushsquare article? Pretty mad went into the archive section to find out what games you were talking about way back when (due to all the acquisitions) and how things have changed. Pretty cool.

Sony need to be careful, or they will become the next Sega.

Stick to what you know son, big exclusive games. By the way things are going we will all just be dipping in and out of subscriptions and having a rubbish time. A bit like subscribing to Disney plus.

And has anyone seen those GAAS prices lately?

Hey Sony I made a FPS on Dreams. I can be purchased for £250,000 if you want?

@Keyblade-Dan I agree, love my single player games. The reality is all the popular games are online bar a few holdouts. Which is disappointing but it is what it is.

I like it. But if you play with a couple of friends making it 3 people it's too easy. In coop it's pretty good but you play for the xp rather than the story. I dislike PvP as Im too slow, so this PvE in a similar arena works for me.

@Jay429 Miles Morales is better than Forza or Halo and Im currently 2 weeks into Forza and on the fifth mission of halo (I think been running the open world stuff mostly and rescuing marines). Miles Morales blew my mind, the story, animations and skyline are ridiculously good quality. Forza is great but the human animations are poor and it becomes very samey after a while, best open world racer? I would say so, the amount of cars is frightening, it's looks fabulous and the gameplay wicked but it not miles Morales which is a top top game. I would give Forza a 9 and MM a 9.5.

Halo infinite is overrated, as a fan of the original Xbox and 360 series up to Reach Halo I have no idea why the internet is buzzing off it. The gameplay is tight and the grapple is boss. But where as you had an overarching war in the passed games and a story progression you could believe in. Now you have 1 marine guarding a fob whilst groups of banished wander around which could easily overpower him but never do. It's a solid game but the story, open world and characters are contrived. Compared to MM and his story, open world and relationships. It's not a fair comparison as Halo Loses on all 3 counts and easily. Halo sits at a 6.5 so far but Im open minded and have a long way to go, hopefully the biomes start opening up as fed up of looking at the same backdrops tbh.

Microsoft noticed I had picked up the series X

Phil Spencer 'f75k me Noisys back, buy Activision now the world's gone mad'

@Gremio108 comment of the year. I have a PS5 so yeah I agree

Man 2022 is gonna be a big one. Anyone not on PS5 will feel like a caveman.

Vote with your wallet. And if it Christmas vote with your parents.

My wife bought me an Xbox series X for my birthday.

The start up is slow
The menus are slow
The controller is cheap
Adverts absolutely everywhere
Gamepass seems cool

Right now PS5 seems like comparing a Yaris GR rally car to a 1 litre Yaris with free door mats. It wins hands down. Yes gamepass is great but it's being massively hyped and I'm unsure if it has the lasting appeal especially if it's at £15-£20 a month. I've just come off platting Miles Morales and it was quick at everything and an absolute blast. I doubt Xbox can compete right now. Here's hoping it improves when I finally get to play Flight simulator or Forza Horizon 5 later on after the million hour download.

Spiderman MM is amazing and underrated. What a great looking game.

So from now on you literally can't use a feature (choosing what you look like) in any games in psplus?

New armour used to be a reward for completing stuff in game. Like Miles Morales for example. Just imagine if that needs an extra £15 to swap suits.

@UnlimitedSevens If you die less the game is easier. I got to B3 on my second Life in a new save. But it's kind of counterintuitive to not look around for me, I take games really slow and it's just too much for my 41 year old eyes to react to.

Great work either way buddy.

What's this article about? I stopped reading as it doesn't have a trophy attached.

Great list @ShogunRok. I must get hold of strive for sure. Have a great new year bro.

Anyone not picking Mass Effect is a bit of a joker. Ede they have their Tali in a spin or its Mordin than can handle. Its great, it wrex other trilogies and shepherds the player through the best story in gaming. Normandy I would have a less biased view but if you haven't already jacked it up I'm gonna mako you play it. Now Garrus a beer and sit down to the space opera in the sky. Okaiden?

I got the same score as Kentucky Route zero. But out of 25

I really enjoyed Disco until I was soft locked

To preface, this is unarguably my most researched game since Streets of Rage 4. I read a copious amount of reviews. Binged watched YouTube videos (all spoiler free) and couldn't wait to jump in.

The opening 15 hours blew me away. I wanted to play the game as a morally correct recovering alcoholic. The writing is phenomenal, like if @get2sammyb drank 6 red bulls and decided to make a game. As I wanted to read as much as possible my skills mostly sat on the top two lines. I dismissed authority early doors as I wanted to have a kind of self reflecting beta cop in comparison to the narcissistic drunk you inherit.

Needless to say I got soft locked as my authority was at -2 due to my thought cabinet and there's a point you can't get passed if you fail the roll. I was devastated. And still am.

@Integrity your alluding to his relatively slow pace of writing. I'm saying he's 73.

Well done @Hospanicguy joining our winners from previous years.

I do feel shirtless police officer was seen off though.