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So... No chance of a Desert Strike/Road Rash compilation any time soon then?

@darylb24 more like Artificial UN-intelligence amirite? There I said it

Exactly this. When they're notorious for doing it, it just makes me less eager to buy their games — especially considering how long they take to finish. And by the time the re-release version comes out, I've probably already moved on.

If they made it a more seamless process to upgrade to the new version for existing owners (not at least making the save game transfer is unforgiveable), I would be far more interested in going in on them; Persona 5 Royal was one of the best games I've played this year.

@Rich33 Curious... very curious. Presumably a wizard did it.

@4fold at least it's more accurate than on Switch

User: "how long have I been playing for?"
Switch: [looks up from phone] "oh uh.. I'unno, a little while...?"

@nomither6 you'll miss this when the PS6 comes out...

Like so many around the world...

If so many around the world jumped off a bridge, would you?

Don't drag an arbitrary segment of the population down with you just because you got called out for it.

@Kierant202 ah cool, that might be enough for me then — I was just a bit worried it'd be a lot of clicking through dialogue with the occasional "choice" of "yes/YES!"

It does look like a lot of fun, but I'm just a bit wary about how much (or little) agency the player has in the story — especially after playing such games as Until Dawn and Life is Strange. Is it mostly quite linear?

@TrollOfWar it's a sad state of affairs when people in power learn all the wrong lessons from allegorical satire written decades prior.

Oh I'm sure this'll go down well.

It's been five years and I still don't understand the bizarre reasoning behind the PS5's horizontal/stand design. It's the most precarious, unsafe-feeling positioning ever.

Is input lag just an inherent, unavoidable aspect of pre-HD games being emulated on modern displays? I don't think I've ever played one where there wasn't at least some noticeable lag — presumably the only way around it would be a ground up port running natively on PS5 hardware (which is what the Sonic Origins games are, are they not?)

Motor Mash (1997): An isometric arcade racing game similar to Micro Machines.

Was it a racecourse smash? Did cars go by in a flash?

This looks lovely — be interested to see the how the characters/narrative play out

Kiki’s Delivery Service in Paris

Kiki did already have a very European vibe to it, I believe it was inspired by 1950s Belgium and Sweden

This is really cool, but I'm pretty surprised it wasn't a feature right out of the gate.

@Realist Vampire Survivors does have a speed-up setting — I wonder if they might implement one here too

Yeah that does seem odd — Is there a rights issue with Rival Schools? I know Sakura from Street Fighter made an appearance in it, but isn't it all owned by Capcom anyway?

@Acquiescence by that point all the hard-sell tech bros will have made their money and flitted off into the sunset/burning horizon of the server farm (whichever is closest)

Nah — i gave the remastered version a fair go on the 360 when I was dabbling with Xbox, but it didn't do an awful lot for me.

The AI boom has arrived, and it’s infiltrating the video game industry at large.

Like that prat who brings their acoustic guitar to a house party

@MrPeanutbutterz I love Lonely Rolling Star (check out the 8-Bit Big Band's rendition, it's wonderful) and Crimson Gin and Tonic

Oh absolutely I'll be rolling this up on day one.

@MrPeanutbutterz they're brilliant aren't they? Easily some of my most-listened to videogame soundtracks

I love how in the trailer, between 0:10 and 0:15 the two characters are just having a mundane conversation while the fish is floppin' around on the floor for dear life.

@Quintumply I'm rather surprised they kept the numbering after a 13 year gap, but I imagine I don't need to have played the previous three entries in order to pick up and enjoy the story do I?

@Dragoon1994 I wanna see Joe facing off with the F-14 Tomcat jet airplane from Afterburner

I'm really keen to see where they go with the final part, but I'm also glad to see it wrap up — the sheer length of Rebirth really did a number on my enthusiasm to fire it up.

@J2theEzzo Yeah I think a lot of people are sick of the idea of multiverses

Genuinely curious to see how they're going to sell this one — remember how they said that the PS5 Pro was going to do away with toggles for Performance and Fidelity? How's that working out?

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Your doom in this comment section is more or less sealed

@Jammer Yeah, same — I thought it was solidly made and had a (mostly) engaging cast, but I can appreciate that the monumental shift in tone and gameplay must have been pretty whiplash-inducing (I'd only just finished Inquisition a few weeks before) for mainstay fans.

Okay Death Adder I get, but Eggman? What a one-sided showdown that'll be

@IntrepidWombat ah, so they're already on the case then — that's good to know, thanks

Yeah that was my first thought as well. If there was any lingering doubt that Dragon Age as a series was completely dead in the water, I imagine this news utterly clinches it.

Would it be too naive to float the notion that the former talent from Bioware might be able to regroup as a new, independent dev studio that could create spiritual successors to ME and DA that are just different enough so as not to incur the wrath of EA's legal department?

Stock prices in brown trousers just skyrocketed

@Jammer Yeah, the game's levels simply weren't designed to be played with those kinds of modern controls, so while I appreciate that they went to the effort to include them, I would never suggest anyone try to play it with them turned on.

I'd be very curious to know, but do we know what "Megabit" size the game would have been had it been released on a cart? Apparently the Mega Drive as a console had far more power than I think people were aware of, as many games of the era were ultimately hobbled by the limited amount of available memory on the cartridges that they were willing to shell out for.

Yeah I'd love to see them do a proper HD remaster of the Legend/Anniversary/Underworld trilogy — hell they already did it for PS3; just port that.

This and Resident Evil 9 are gonna be my first main big pickups of 2026, having never played the original I'm super intrigued by it.

Looking forward to the PEGI 18 version, Dragon Quest: Smash/Pass

I should hope so; they're still releasing games for it.

@ShogunRok cool, thanks — it's a series I'm completely new to, and tbh I don't think I'd ever heard of it (or I was at least conflating it with the "Tales of" series in my mind) but I've downloaded the demo and I'm gonna jump right on it once I'm done with FFVI 🙃

I'm gonna go out on a limb and theorise that Randy slept in on the day Gearbox had their Customer Relations seminar

Yeah I've heard the dialogue is a little more transliterated than the original which, while more authentic, can sometimes dilute the personality a little bit (i've seen it in a couple of anime redubs)

I'm starting to become really allergic to dialogue-heavy games, particularly in non-RPG genres where it's entirely unwarranted, but is the dialogue in Trails at least decent and compelling/likeable?

@Dogbreath I'm somewhere in the middle, in that I've got an external HDD where I store all my games and move them over to the SSD if I'm currently playing them. Beats sitting around waiting to download hundreds of gigs of data

I didn't need cheats so much as multiple food rations and stamina-replenishing medication to get me through the final few dozen hours of Rebirth

I'm a little behind on Borderlands — I finally picked up 3 for £4 the other week, and it's unlikely I'll be rushing to play 4 any time soon

Heh, was thinking the exact same thing — I set up my OG PS5 and now I'm afraid to go past it too quickly in case I blow it off its precarious round turntable grill thingie.

Does it still have the loading delay when going from screen to screen, and when the background FMVs loop? Or have those been trimmed/streamlined?

@wildcat_kickz The right way is the best way.

My thoughts exactly — one of the things I enjoyed most about CU:E33 was that it was an original, standalone experience — when you start ladling extra narrative and lore onto something you run the risk of crushing it under its own weight. I really hope they don't oversaturate it, and it becomes something like Assassins Creed where they churn a new one out every year.