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@ShiningStar I have terrible motion sickness - so bad I actually got it in Dreams a few nights ago when using the UI to find one of my mates on a normal TV!

But there are games which you can play and Astronomy RM makes me slightly queezy but was worth the payback. Don't go anywhere near ace combat I blew chunks.

@Quintumply I would play it with you if you allow me to run a PushSquare Dreams jam for a theme tune!

And you haven't got back to me about that either!

That was awesome! Unlucky Masher and Ven but Sauceless had you! Also GirlfromCroydons shooters are starting to approach release level - everyone needs to give them a go!

The snow gardens is my favourite game, love everything about it. Thanks for showing the show PushSquare and @Quintumply you really should give me the go ahead for a PushSquare jam. You would love it!

Ariana was playing the night of the Manchester bombing. She then came back and played a tribute concert.

All you haters get a life. Her concert was targeted by an ISIS cell. And she's still pumping out tunes. And playing sackboy.

I would love a PS5 but the PS4 is fricking awesome for my needs as is.

@KippDynamite nobody will remember then. Microtransactions - notably loot boxes and rubbish like dlc songs and on release day dlc characters. But hey ho. It is what it is.

Funnily since being more accepting of that nonesense Ive had fun with Rocket League season passes. Which are good fun tbh. But yeah the cost to produce versus retail price plus micros is ridiculous.

With all this new tech I'm worried that only the top creators take advantage of it. A lot of the AA publishers graphics are way worse usually, looking at my PS4 library.

The gap between older games was insignificant really. Last gen there was a big difference between Sony's output compared to every other developer - the gap is only going to get bigger this gen.

@get2sammyb tbf your writing is as good as well it gets in games media. That's an honest appraisal and I've yet to read anyone as eloquent and as masterful with sentences and word play. Your taste in games is questionable though!

On the second squash a body is still there. Put the lottery on pal it's your lucky day!

I know there's not much change but I don't care.

I'm gonna play the best trilogy from 2 gens ago again. For the fourth time. Yeeeees!

@get2sammyb Have you tried this mode yet? With a team you can try to run plays. It's pretty good. Without a team it's absolutely chaotic.

@Boxmonkey it's more than that, everyone who dipped in has now realised how corrupt the system is. So corrupt we end up with crappy companies

I kind of knew about squeezing and facilitating market conditions, but nothing like what's happened the last few days. It's grim and markets are just a front to keep rich people rich.

@Boxmonkey everyone made money, it's weird I've used Reddit for a while and lost some money on the top tips out of that thread. So decided to stick with stuff I know like games publishers and phone / internet networks. Built a decent portfolio and made a few grand.

The GME stuff was different. The hedge funds short failing businesses to make short term profit which has a known side effect of damaging business resulting in closure. A big example is toys r us which was forced to shut due to continuos shorting. Not gonna happen this time and we made money. I made £300 off one share. Gutted I never bought more but I've been stung before.

@ztpayne7 you can get to know them. I just made a tune with Venwave (in the bottom category) called Wizards worth checking out. I chat with Vince Kully and Girl from Croydon (lives in Devon) and was hoping to run a tune with sauceless but alas have less than no time.

@Jayslow I played Oregon trail whilst working my way through 1001 games to play before you die. It is a lot more fun than many of the games in the first 70-80 in the book (it's in chronological order), possibly because it's historical and more realistic than many of the games back then.

@Party_Cannon yeah I agree. I bought it straight after the original review and I'm not a fan either. I did enjoy some of the set pieces and the use of text to frame a scene but it's just too weird for me.

Sackboys Big Adventure has been had off. What a game that is!

Between Fallguys and Rocket League is something called sleep.

The time limited stuff makes you come back for it. Else there's no urgency.

It's like in sales you need to create urgency or customers will walk. That's it and it's not good.

@naruball Hi Naru. Off the top of my head Octane and Pollen. Haven't been on for a while but if you log in there are about 50 good games ready to go. Have a look at GirlFromCroydons shooters or OOODorien who makes a lot of good stuff too. Then music wise listen to Back2Man his tune 2 souls is amazing. There is also1hr 30minute Bee film which is pretty good for an amateur project.

It's my personal GoTY and it's getting better and better and better. I don't think it will get a sequel though

@Col_McCafferty loved the old Bioware but the newer stuff is awful. I haven't played TLOU2 yet. Waiting to see what Santa has in store!

@Col_McCafferty I've got really low standards. In fact I will take that back. It was the second worst game I have ever played after Mass Effect Andromeda.

I know people will be agitated with this result. But then again Dragons Age Inquisition won 6 years ago and that was the worst game I have ever played.

@TG16_IS_BAE what does that even mean? You were free to enter.

We may not be the screenshot equivalent of Steve McCurry or Sebastiou Salgado but every year the pics are better than the companies own marketing grabs.

@Mostik They are losing value every day. People who enjoyed Shinobi as an example are 40 now, responsibility, mortgages, slaving away at work.

I don't understand Sega's attitude it makes no sense.

Whilst other publishers literally rinse every penny from mediocre franchises. Sega with Crazy Taxi, jet set radio, shining force, panzer Dragoon, virtua fighter, Daytona, columns, outrun and after burner, - sits on its hands.

@GamingVeteran what's hilarious about this comment is you have not only insulted the PushSquare community you have insulted everyone who entered. It's a bit of fun and tbh these pics all look amazing blown up at 1080p.

The problem isn't you can spend your money how you want - of course you can.

But as we have all witnessed when the games become so drawn out you start reaching for your wallet - the games been designed to make you do that. That's bad for everyone. What about the time poor and cash strapped? Screw them right?

As for people willing to spend a tenner because of bad game design. You are just rewarding nefarious behaviour from the publishers.

Remember cheats back in the day? Brilliant idea.
No we now have to pay extra for an xp boost. Who's to say the next patch along won't nerf xp gain further making the boost essential? Honestly the whole gaming monetisation rubbish has ruined gaming for me. They are making more money than ever and games by third party publishers are just cash cows designed to get kids to buy vouchers with their pocket money and it's just rubbish.

I love the PS4 Ecosystem of consoles. PS5 is going to have a tough job upping the ante.

The new levels are great!

Although I absolutely suck at them.

@Dr-M cool M. If you like a bit of retro gaming Dizzy is still pretty cool. If you like football LMA Manager was good too.

From 2010 codemasters clearly changed tact internally and other than Overlord I can't think of any other genre they have developed other than Driving games.

@Dr-M

1986 Super Robin Hood Platform Amiga, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, C64, Atari ST, Amiga, NES [1]
1986 BMX Simulator Racing Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, C64, MSX, ZX Spectrum [2]
1987 Ghost Hunters Action, platformer Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum [3]
1987 Grand Prix Simulator Racing Amstrad CPC, C64, ZX Spectrum [4]
1987 Dizzy – The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure Adventure C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum [5]
1987 Professional Ski Simulator Sports Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, C64 Atari ST, Amiga [6]
1987 3D Starfighter Action / Shooter Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum [7]
1987 ATV Simulator Sports simulation ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC [8]
1988 Jet Bike Simulator Sports simulation ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga [9]
1988 Fruit Machine Simulator Gambling simulation ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga [10]
1988 The Race Against Time ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC [11]
1988 Pro BMX Simulator Sports simulation ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC [12]
1988 Advanced Pinball Simulator Pinball Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, C64 [13]
1988 Treasure Island Dizzy Adventure Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, C64, Enterprise 64/128, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, NES, CD32 [14]
1989 Championship Jet Ski Simulator Sports simulation Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, C64, Atari ST, Amiga [9]
1989 4 Soccer Simulators Sports Amstrad CPC, C64, ZX Spectrum [15]
1989 BMX Simulator 2 Sports simulation ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC [16]
1989 Fast Food Maze Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, C64, Enterprise 64/128, Atari ST, Amiga, MS-DOS [17]
1989 Grand Prix Simulator II Racing Amstrad CPC, C64, ZX Spectrum [18]
1989 Operation Gunship Action Amstrad CPC, C64, ZX Spectrum [19]
1989 MiG-29: Soviet Fighter Action, Shoot 'em up Amstrad CPC, C64, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, NES
1989 Fantasy World Dizzy Adventure Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, C64, Enterprise 64/128, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS [20]
1989 750cc Grand Prix Racing ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC

Straight from Wikipedia and that's just the 1980s

1) Dreams
2) Fallguys
3) Streets of Rage 4
4) My Universe Cooking Star Restaurant
5) FF7 HD Remake (haven't played it yet but by the chat in comments I can't wait to get it)

Seriously though, Dreams deserves better.

@TeapotBuddha so if you have previously used music production software and would rather not fork out for a DAW licence then Dreams is great. As well as the music suite you can play around with logic - that's when the fun really starts!

@LieutenantFatman I will send you a list of the best games in a day or two. Want to get the definitive list and send it over for everyone. Will ask the big curators and then everyone can have a go. In the meantime search for the_tenia and he has a score wars contest, those games are usually decent.

If you can LF listen to my tune Rocket Fuel. It's a song so you can't search on the Dreamiverse but look up my name mc_noisy and it's one of the last songs I've made. It's the best song I've ever made!

@iKickBullies @TeapotBuddha if you love music production you will love Dreams. I haven't updated my YouTube videos properly and my latest stuff is better but have a listen to this;

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RPKVudqkaEU

In fact some things in Dreams are better than a typical PC DAW. Once you work out all the nuances you can include animations to automate wave forms which is like way advanced. Here's another example;

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HztnOaWf0RU&t=2s

Again these are from a few months ago and I've got well better by joining up with the Dreams Sounds Monday crew and my abilities have levelled up.

@get2sammyb all the good games are now being released. There's a game Octane (not by the community @Octane ) and it's great! There is also a ton more collaboration by people who are better in particular field. So visual artists mixing with logic experts and musicians. Get on it Sammy you can build your own decoration for the Christmas tree!

@TheRedComet I think you are right. Bethesda will be Xbox platforms only. Elder Scrolls is a big system seller, so is Fallout. Then Doom is a big game arguably a system seller for 40 odd year olds. There's no way they will cross platform those 3.

I know everyone looks at Minecraft but Minecraft was already on loads of platforms before Microsoft bought it. Where's Forza, Halo, Gears and Fable?

Hearing about people purposefully sending flashing videos to epileptics is terrible. Absolutely horrendous. In a world where sickos torture people and post online anything goes these days

@Quintumply One of the best articles! I totally agree.

I'm getting FF7 remake hopefully for Christmas and some of the best games in Dreams are just being released, yet everyone has moved on. Ho hum.

I'm not a fan of Souls games but see the allure. Arduous with big kicks to the nuts when you die and have to trek miles to pick up your old gear. The euphoria of beating a boss doesn't mitigate the frustration of getting killed and losing all your stuff. A few games have gone down this path, Hollow Knight in particular is a good example. It's brilliant until you lose 800 in game credits trying to get back to your body.

They review well which is understandable. And for many the win after a struggle is massive. But for me the payoff isn't worth the time investment. The good thing is that these games have an audience and a developer keen to make them. I think that's a win for everyone.

Ibras been around so long he was in Sensible world of Soccer. To be fair his name was spelt funny and he was rubbish but still.

@Steve30000 or Poundland!

I'm happy to wait. A bit jealous for sure but the storage is a big issue - hopefully a solution comes around and it's not an additional £200+ for the proprietary SSD. Combined with £70 games and yeah I can wait. See what the scene is like in March/April.

£50 X 20,000,000 = £1,000,000,000

A billion squid.

Now why are we having to pay £70 a flipping game?

Get in. The first one was a breath of fresh air with awesome game mechanics. Press X and collect trophies. It doesn't get any better than that.

As long as you only do this type of game once a year it's all gravy.

What MM achieved with Dreams is staggering. The music creation suite is a full price game in its own right. Praise the lord Dreams is coming to PS5.

@gbanas92 only just seen the review. How does the game score you? In rhythm action you usually hit a button at the right time. If you are free-forming mixes it would surely need another method of scoring?

Or is the point of the game a toolkit for musicians?

@TG16_IS_BAE fair enough if you live in Country not in recession. I mentioned it was £140 for 2 games that clearly indicates I'm in the UK or a few satellite countries within our political orbit like Gibraltar or the Falklands.

It is the worst recession since the second world war. I'm unsure how safe in your job you personally are but things have got spikey here and taxes will inevitably rise to pay for the various schemes and expenditure incurred throughout the crisis. We have the highest unemployment since 2016 and it's being propped up by furlough schemes, without them it would be back to the 80s.

You equally compared a CEO to a stockholder. They are different. As a silent partner or public investor they do significantly less work than a worker. As they don't do a dot other than a financial transaction. I know I am one and it's spare cash other less fortunate people don't have.

Also game prices have changed. I keep hearing chuff of how games were £60 back in the day. This was an extreme price in the 90s. Most cartridges were under £40 usually less, until the heavy meg carts were introduced and Nintendo were taken to task for price fixing and rightfully fined. Disc based games were always cheaper - highlighted when the PS1 released and games were £30 for the latest games. Activision have less employees and less aftercare (shutting the Irish help centre as an example) than 5 years ago. Demon Souls is a remake - so the source material is already there, no need for researchers, writers, mechanic developers and character designers - just money for usually cheaper artists and graphical designers. Bluepoint has around 90 staff, if they all averaged £40,000 (way over the average UK employee) a year it would equate to 7.2million over 2 years. To make the money back they need to sell 120,000 copies at £60 a pop. That's it. If it goes on to sell a 3 million copies its grossly in profit to the sum of £172,800,000 at £60 a game.

Now you tell me why I need to pay £70 a game?