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@ShogunRok Apologies if you've already answered this above but would you recommend this game to a Final Fantasy virgin?! Witcher 3 was my first fully fledged fantasy RPG despite gaming since the 80's. This game seems too good to pass up but I'm concerned I won't have any previous context for the lore/characters etc. Thanks in advance!

I strongly feel this should have been a mini series instead of a film. HBO or Apple TV could have pulled it off quality wise. This story doesn't suit the feature length format whatsoever. It obviously won't be for everyone but could pull a lot of people into the world much like The Last of a Us did with non gamers. I've only played MGSV and DS when it comes to Kojima but the latter was an incredible experience only truly possible in video gaming. I hope the sequel is necessary.

There is so much talent in the gaming industry compared to ten or twenty years ago, it'll be interesting to see if Dan Houser and his team can actually stand out in anyway.

@nessisonett I'm hoping 2K are taking the mechanics seriously in a way that they're testing the water for a potential EA Football/new FIFA/eFootball competitor.

Unrelated but are the GT7 servers down? Always online games need to stop

Solid 7.5 for me or pushing 9 in co op. The Guardian review nailed it with it's junk food analogy.

I don't know why other reviewers in the industry aren't adopting the Famitsu methodology. Having several viewpoints and a consensus score makes a lot of sense although I guess we can go to Metacritic for that too.

I definitely got my money's worth with 2 years of Gamepass ultimate bundled with the Series X but recently cancelled while waiting for some better games to appear (Starfield). I've kept PS plus as my occasional online gaming takes place in PlayStation. I'm not against the sub model as it stands. Third party exclusivity periods are what really needs to end.

Trek to Yomi looks incredible but I tired of it after a few hours on Gamepass. Jurassic World is fantastic if you have an interest in park management and dinosaurs, it's got the original music from all the films too which is a nice touch. I'll give NBA a go but SSD space is tight and I have NBA Jam TE.

The hours I spent painting these suckers back in the 90's.... I'll miss the chemical aromas but looking forward to this nonetheless.

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PVP, F2P or paid FPS. The market is saturated at this point. Servers are being shut down for games less than two years old. Let's have some originality people, not just a fleeting payday!

@Tharsman I came to Days Gone late but with the silky smooth 60fps on PS5 and no bugs to speak of, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's in my top zombie genre games ever with Last of Us 1+2, certain Resident Evil games, Dead Rising and Dying Light 1. The hordes are still incredible to see in action.

PVP, FPS, F2P or paid. The market is saturated at this point. Servers are being shut down for games less than two years old. Let's have some originality people, not just a fleeting payday!

@UltimateOtaku91 Agreed. Patience is a virtue, this generation is going to be stacked. Soon everyone will be complaining there are too many games and not enough time/money to play them all. That'll be me anyway.

@Shad361 My backlog is honestly mostly current gen. I probably have more game time than most adults but still can't keep up with the outlay of games. Compared to the 90's we're positively spoiled for choice. I'm as excited as the next person about the upcoming PS exclusives.

Jeez does no one else have a backlog?! Who has time for so many games anyway, I'm hoping the AAA/exclusives are spaced out so I don't have to skip any. This showcase had some really promising games, looking forward to The Talos Principle 2 and Alan Wake in particular. I'm fairly certain the impatient and seemingly entitled gaming community are all <30 years old.

Night in the Woods was one of my favourite indie titles of recent years. Great art/animation style and an infectious soundtrack. Looking forward to this.

I still get screen flickering which doesn't occur in the base game or any other game for that matter. (I'm playing in performance mode). Anyone else having this issue?

I'm no fan of FIFA as an organization but I'm hoping they maybe partner with Konami to offer viable competition to EA Sports FC. The basics are there in eFootball but it's still bare bones and has the same awful interface. Going a little old school here but I'd love a modern reimagining of Sunset Riders with full local and online co op. Or just a good port that includes both Megadrive and Snes versions.

I personally found Gamepass to be the better overall service since the launch of both consoles - great third party games, amazing indie titles, and ahem, one or two exclusives.... until now. I'll be keeping my PS plus subscription going, mainly for my backlog and online gaming but sadly end my Gamepass subscription (after finishing Grounded) until Starfield and other new titles I'm interested in appear. Gamepass has an incredible library for something that's cheaper than Netflix but I've exhausted all I want to play. I'd say both services are excellent value.

I thoroughly enjoyed both Horizon games despite the slightly tired open world formula. I guess there is more story to tell in this series but I'd love to see a new IP from Guerrilla.

My PS1 played second fiddle to my N64, the PS2 to my Xbox, I skipped the PS3 for the Xbox 360. Sony really came into it's own with the PS4 imo. I completely ignored the Xbox One and never looked back. The greatest PS3 exclusives I missed out on were all remastered for PS4. This gen I have both Series X and PS5 but the bulk of third party releases get played on PS5 largely for the dual sense features unless they're on Gamepass which has been fantastic value nonetheless. Xbox is having another very quiet generation however so I'm curious to see what happens after this one.

I'm really hoping this is good, I'll wait for the review consensus though.

If developers even read Metacritic community reviews, I doubt they pay attention to anything below a 6 or a 7, as unless they know their game is average to poor, 5 and below usually denotes a knee jerk emotive reaction or straight up trolling.

Dying Light is still in my top 5 zombie genre games of all time. It's easily the best zombie open world game imo. I came to it late but it nails almost everything I wanted from the b movie score to actual fear/panic felt in the darkness at night. It wasn't perfect but it came close for me. I uninstalled Dying Light 2 after less than 8 hours. Bland characters and writing, not challenging or creepy and very repetitive on a larger scale than the first game. Maybe it's open world fatigue but I thought this was a significant step down. I hope they get better writers for the third game and perhaps go back to a smaller map.

I had to return PSVR2 despite it being amazing tech. I just couldn't get past the motion sickness and this game sounds pretty terrible for that 😂

I started playing yesterday (with Spiders Thread update). Zero issues thankfully and it looks and plays beautifully on Series X (only 5 hours in). I'm playing with the HFR performance mode utilizing my TVs VRR capability. I'm yet to experience screen tearing, noticeable frame drops or crashes. I tweaked the controls as recommended in multiple articles before starting. I wasn't sure it would be for me but I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far.

@ItsBritneyB_tch Make it the Assembly Cut!

@Deityjester I can respect that point of view (I loved it but felt it was overly long). I just can't understand how you could get 'drowsy' when my heart was beating out of my chest most of the time! 😂

Gaming since the 80's but still never played a FF game. This will be the first! Two thoughts came to mind during this Livestream. One - if From Software games had accessibility settings like this they would sell twice as much. (You can still play on hard git gud crew!). Two - I'd love contemporary games to implement a dynamic HUD that you only see briefly when you press and hold say, up on the d pad. Or you hold it once to view the HUD and again to dismiss it. I love to play games with no HUD and tried it in Hogwarts Legacy but briefly need to remind myself of ability assignments or see enemy damage. Thoughts?

I'm in the weird position of having a native 120hz TV but with HDMI 2.0 so I reduce the resolution to 1440p or lower for 120fps. I rarely do it as 60fps is fine for most games but I'll try it here.

Purists won't agree but I think if 20/20 format Cricket had been around a century ago then it might be up there with Baseball from a commercial point of view. It's certainly the more entertaining and tactically interesting of the two sports in my opinion. I also think Rugby is far more entertaining and multi skilled than American Football but as it isn't close in terms of commerical popularity we're consistently stuck with sub par video games.

@AldusRavencorn Ah that makes sense. Thank you for explaining!

Apologies if this is a silly question. How do you get the new cars - are they free in the used car showroom or do they just appear in your garage?

Beyond Two Souls and Heavy Rain were both top 20 for me that generation. Not perfect games but nothing quite like them.

@Nightcrawler71 Same. The first game is one of my top three zombie games of all time but I stopped playing the second game after opening up the second part of the city. The characters and writing aren't as good and it's not really scary, even at night, which is kind of important in this genre.

If you're an adult and you want to play games on every console then you own every console. You make financial compromises in life to do/possess what you enjoy and short of a decent PC rig, gaming is very affordable, especially with the subscription models or if you're patient enough to wait for games to go on sale. It's also naive to think either of these companies are looking out for gamers. At all. Profit is the name of the game, end of story.

Looks good, I hope they can add voice acting like Disco Elysium. I'm too lazy to read (a game) for 25 hours.

Please let a decent Rugby game be released in my lifetime!

I agree with some other comments on here, give it a go. I'm not a Potter fan, haven't read the books, only watched the films once at home because my grandma wanted to see them. I also have 'open world fatigue', never even bothered with the Assassin's Creed series despite my love of history though I loved Witcher 3 and the Horizon games. I'm in my early forties and absolutely love Hogwarts Legacy. Nostalgic for the magic (pun intended) of youth? Try it!

I'm enjoying the show a lot but it was never going to be as good as the game. Different mediums, different ways of telling a story and very different time frames to tell that story. The show has done an incredible job of recreating the look and feel of the game and the performances have been mostly worthy of a HBO prestige drama. Both game and tv show are great in their own right.

They are certainly condensing the story but I have zero issue with that. As a huge fan of both games, I'm completely satisfied with this excellent show. Ramsey might not look like Ellie from the game but she has completely embodied the character for me and her performances have been stellar.

My initial instinct was to return the PSVR2 as I found Kayak to be significantly blurry with Horizon also not meeting my expectations but some comments on this thread are very helpful and even reassuring. It's the weekend so I'm going to put in some serious hours of calibration and play time before making a final decision. GT7 is definitely fun and I'm yet to try RE Village. Also downloaded some demos to get a broader picture.

EDIT: GT7 and RE Village are incredible in VR alas my wife and I get serious motion sickness even with teleportation settings enabled so I'm returning PSVR2 at this time. Very envious of everyone who doesn't have this issue! Pretty wonderful technology nonetheless.

Rocksteady, one of the best single player game developers in recent years decides it wants money over it's reputation. The thing is, they'd still make money if they stuck to what they're good at and what gamers with an attention span actually want.

I own some of the good ones here already but looking forward to the Quarry as I loved Until Dawn enough to play through twice.

As a recommendation to everyone who hasn't had the pleasure - The Forgotten City might be the best game I played last year and it's relatively short.

@tselliot Same, you'd think this site would realize by now many of their readers are UK based.

@Mikey856 I got the dispatch email here in the US on Friday so I'm sure you'll get yours soon. Tracking says it hasn't actually moved anywhere yet mind.

The consensus seems to be 'brilliant hardware but no games'. It has a larger launch lineup than almost any hardware in recent memory and what percentage of people exactly are buying 4,5,6 or more games at release after spending $549? The games will come and I for one am patient and excited. It's not like we don't all have backlogs on console already anyway. Gaming is both a blessing and a curse in the 21st century!

@get2sammyb Informative review, cheers! This will be my first foray into VR after a two week trial with PSVR which didn't convince me at the time. I've got this pre ordered with Gran Turismo and Resident Evil Village ready to go. Definitely interested in Horizon and Kayak Mirage too. Your review actually made me consider games like Tekken and Streets of Rage 4 among others being played in cinematic mode - anything that doesn't necessarily have or require 4K would be fun on the virtual 100 inch screen.

@Wheatly Yep and the Gamepass app, although exclusively on Samsung TVs at the moment, will undoubtedly be on most smart TVs in the near future as internet connectivity improves for more people and loss making hardware inevitably gets dropped altogether - by Microsoft at least.