Topic: Push Square Game Club Spooktacular: Resident Evil 4

I’m probably going to take a month off… er, well technically not “off” from participating because I need a week or two to mop up both Rime and RE3. 😅 I’m just really slow and also busy. I’ll probably drop late impressions on these 2 from last month if I can ever get playtime.
I’m at the Jill hospital section in RE3 and I think I’m close to finishing out Ch 2 in Rime. Enjoying both but have too much other real world stuff going on.

So as such - if I had to vote then I’d go with Shadow of the Colossus because I won’t play along but I’d enjoy following and contribute to discussion on that one. It’s one of my favorite games of all time.
Control is also way up my favorite list so I’d happily follow along there too, so that would be my second choice. But only take my preferences into account if you want to.

@Th3solution It’s perfectly ok to drop your thoughts about the previous games in this thread! You’ll at least have until next weekend before we move on to the next game (probably SoTC at this rate) but absolutely take your time.

I'm doing my best to fend off the rampant villagers with pitchforks and flaming torches!

I've wanted to play both shadow of the colossus and control for ages and just never got round to them. I'd be happy with either!

@nessisonett my vote is for Control. I have the time for it and I'd love to play it!

Bioshock 2 would be my second choice but the first was quite difficult for me to get through so I'm not sure I could find the motivation for it in the next month or so

@Keith_Zissou I just hope you like Bees!

I’ll vote for Control

I'd be up for some Bioshock 2.

Shadow of the Colossus is wonderful, though I don't feel like replaying it right now.

This would be my first time participating if it ended up being Control. I've already played it twice, but never the PS5 Ultimate Edition, so I'd definitely be up for that.

I'm one of the few people that hated Shadow of the Colossus. I barely made it an hour in the game before I shut it off and moved on. It just wasn't for me for whatever reason I guess, and I have no plans to ever give it a second chance.

@RogerRoger Control was part of Plus at the beginning of the year. It was the PS5 Ultimate edition if you claimed it.

@RogerRoger Control is always on sale.

I only played it recently and thought it was great. Playing on PS5 was a smooth, bug free experience too.

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By my count, we have 5 votes for Control, 4 votes for Shadow of the Colossus and 2 for Bioshock 2. So looks like Control is our next game and because it was so tight, SotC will be our one after that. It was free on PS Plus a while back so just make sure to download by the weekend and we can get started!

Got the Platinum for Control last month. 😝

It's a really good game, played it in Performance mode on PS5. I know it has ray tracing effects but I appreciated it a lot more with the enhanced framerate over the resolution bump. That's just me though.

@Col_McCafferty Part of me’s tempted to play it again with the PS5 version even though I have the platinum for the PS4 version. Maybe this time it won’t give me a headache and delete my save 😂

@nessisonett Cool. When do you expect you'll be transitioning from Control to SotC, roughly speaking?

BTW, is the framerate in the PS4 version of Control as bad as I've been led to believe?

@Ralizah These things are usually roughly a month but it all depends how quickly people beat the game. Control isn’t really all that long! And yes, the framerate made it genuinely painful to play for me, although I’m more sensitive to that sorta thing than most. It didn’t stutter, it just permanently ran at a slightly choppy framerate that combined with the colours made me ill.

@nessisonett Some of the footage I've seen online is atrocious.

Sometimes these things get quietly patched over intervening months, though, so I should look into that.

OK, so probably between the beginning of December to mid-December. Gotcha.

@nessisonett sounds good, I'll get it set up for this weekend! Did you ever try the dlc? Think this version comes with that and there's an Alan Wake one that might be of interest (if you liked Alan Wake)?

@R1spam I didn’t have the DLC as I played it through PS Now when it was on. Is it included with the PS5 version?

The Ultimate Edition includes both DLC, I enjoyed them both.

Played the Wake one about halfway through the main story and Foundation once I had completed the main game.