Acquiescence

I played this game all the time around the time of its release. I loved it back then and I still love it to this day. The controls need a lot of getting used to, as you'd expect of a first-person platformer made years before the traditional dual analogue control scheme we're all accustomed to today. But once you acclimatise, there's a lot of joy to be found in Jumping Flash!. It is bizarre and jolly in equal measure. The sequel is just as good if not better.

Rollcage and its sequel are two of the finest futuristic racers you can hope to play.

Fax.

I'm pretty thrilled by how it looks personally.

Just to make a correction, Home Sweet Home is a Thai game and not a Taiwanese game like Detention is.

Chuffed to absolute bits by this news.

Shame the game isn't any good, cos that lady in pink has great knockers.

If there is a Bully 2, I hope the protagonist doesn't look like a miniature Phil Mitchell this time around.

My PSN username has been Acquiescence since 2009. I wouldn't change it if you paid me.

Okay, if you paid me £100, I'd change it.

Good for them. Crunch culture shouldn't be tolerated in the game industry.

The fact that Astro isn't hideously ugly like Knack certainly helps in the mascot stakes.

Personally though, I've got to give it to Kat. I think she might be the best character attached to the PS brand this gen.

Three excellent games right there. Fifa can go do one.

PSVR officially has its killer app.

Those faces will haunt me every time I sleep at night.

I for one am shocked that Tidux peddled out another bogus rumour. He's usually so dependable!

Bold claim. I hope you end up being right.

Toro Inoue <3

Wish we got a new Doko Demo game this gen.

What a triumph it is to see VC make a comeback in such a big way. I'm glad to hear it's lived up to expectations.

Patrick Klepek is a weasel.

You won't need to mash X to sprint in Red Dead Redemption 2.

You'll have to shake the controller up and down instead.

Do what's right Sammy and give it a perfect score in your review.

I'm playing the Shenmue collection. Thank for The Game Collection for delivering my copy four days early!

Well, the original was already a top-tier Yakuza game to begin with. What happens when you remake the original? Potentially something even better!

I enjoyed Stick it to the Man! a lot when it first came out. This looks like more of the same, so I'll pick it up at some point I imagine.

Having Knack 2 in your top 20 is a bit embarrassing and not a good look for the PS4. You really couldn't have had something else in its place? Like Gravity Rush Remastered or Rigs or Fighting EX Layer or The Persistence or Yakuza 6 or, well, just about any other exclusive that isn't the first Knack!

"A new generation will finally get to experience the Shenmue series – and will almost certainly come away baffled by the bad voice acting and cumbersome controls."

Put some respect on Shenmue's name. Not only are the controls being remapped for the remaster, but for the first time ever Western audiences will now be able to play the first game with Japanese audio turned on, so we won't have to endure the awful dub anymore.

Folks, the Shenmue games are wonderful. Don't let the PS staff deter you from playing them.

Sega are killing it in August. Shenmue Collection and Yakuza Kiwami 2 are must buys for me.

I remember in the original Yakuza 2, the romantic sub-plot was extremely well executed.

And then they curb-stomped it at the very beginning of 3.

I made a thread on ResetEra, hope y'all don't mind.

Congrats to Nathan Drake. He's a pretty fantastic character all in all, so he's a deserved victor.

Kat or Trico would've been better for the top spot though.

Hopefully they've taken the feedback on board and transformed the game into a dating sim where you as the player have to try your darndest to woo the giant sexy snake babe.

Would explain why the game has been so quiet for so long.

It took a long time, but I finally get to see Aloy lose. That's revenge for Trico, Ratchet, Sully, Cloud and Kat, you freckle-faced wench!

I won't lie, I'm super salty that there was only a 12 vote difference between Kat and Aloy in the end.

She was so close.

Looks like Kat is out of this, due to bots.

This happened before when it was Kat v Kratos. There was a vote being added every minute in favour of Kratos and it was blatantly the work of a bot. What threw a spanner in the works is that the person responsible didn't realise voting ended prematurely, so it was all for nothing.

Honestly, if the mods here can't detect votes made by bot accounts, then yeah, this whole poll has been rendered irrelevant.

@BladeRider 90% of the reason I voted Kat is simply because I believe she is the superior character through and through. I enjoyed Horizon, but personality-wise I found Aloy to be very limp.

10% of the reason is because Aloy knocked out Trico, Victor and Cloud, all of whom I love. Ratchet is pretty cool too.

How does a fanbase coming together to vote for one character constitute as rigging when literally any other fanbase is as capable of doing the same?

If there's one person who's making bot accounts and voting again and again, then sure, the vote is "rigged." But is that what's happening? Hopefully the admin/mods here are able to detect such activity.

Oh boy, here we go again.

Another drama-filled round no doubt.

Two of the greatest games ever made.

What a quiet month. So many games coming out from September onwards could've really benefited from coming out in July, like say Dragon Quest XI.

@YeYa New users joining the site in order to vote is not "rigging." Literally any fanbase can do the same thing. Isn't the main purpose of this tournament to bring increased traffic to the site anyway? Perhaps it's a good thing that so many Gravity Rush fans are discovering Push Square.

What is a big concern is when individuals start create bot accounts in order to turn the tables, like what was happening at the end of the Kat v Kratos round, when a vote for the latter was being added per minute. I don't know if there's anything the admin here can do about that though.

It's no fun if I can't vote for Kat.

On an individual level, I couldn't care less about crossplay. The only reason I want Sony to change its stance on the matter is so I can finally stop hearing about this so called 'controversy'.

Sorry, I don't know how to post images properly on here, but this is what I was referring to in terms of the Twitter counterattack...

https://imgur.com/a/ZbJ6umN

The truth is, GoW fans orchestrated a counterattack on Twitter as an attempt to even the odds (the proof of which can be seen in the comments of the last round), but it didn't really pan out. I think it only added 20 or so votes in favour of Kratos. So for all this complaining about GR fans assembling on Twitter, the very same was done on the opposite side. It just wasn't as effective. Who's fault is that?

As for Kratos getting a huge resurgence of votes in the last day or so, there was definite foul play involved there. I was refreshing the page per minute at one point, and every time I did the poll increased by one vote in favour of Kratos. It definitely had the feeling of one person creating new accounts over and over again to vote for the same person.

In terms of design and personality, Kat absolutely deserves to have made it this far. She's a wonderful character in all aspects.

This week I voted Nathan Drake. Ellie's cool and everything, but Nate is far easier to like. He's incredibly charismatic, funny and an occasional goofball. These are all great traits for a protagonist to have. I hope the final round is between him and Kat.

There are votes being added every time I refresh the page. Seems a bit suspect this late into the poll.

As an expert in the Japanese language, I can reveal to the more unenlightened among you that 良い translates as 'good'.

You're welcome.

Can I vote for Microsoft please?

That's one hell of an uphill battle for Kat.

All we can rely on now is for the Gravity Rush Twitter Brigade to try and save the day.

We getting super cereal now.

Cloud Strife all the way baby. The protagonist of my all time favourite game.