Andee

Not from their single-player, story-driven RPGs they don't, mate. Now kindly p!ss off back to your ivory tower.

@Runex2121 I'm a little in two minds about DLC when it comes to expansive RPGs such as this. On the one hand it's nice to be able to return to the world again (if it's something as big as Awakening or Trespasser - although with both of those examples I played the main game after the DLC had already released), but on the other hand it's nice to have closure and be able to put a game to rest.

@ThomasHL Oh absolutely — I learned my lesson from DAI and its infamous Hinterlands — right now I'm just enjoying being absorbed in Thedas again and meeting all these new characters (I have 4/7 — just had to make a pretty big decision last night and now I'm paying for it... 😔 )

I only started Veilguard last week, so I guess the timing is pretty good, but I'm a little wary of the very defeatist vibe that I'm getting from a lot of the discourse surrounding the game's reception (both critically and sales-wise).

@mariomaster96 Yeah — remember when we got FF 7/8/9, three numbered FF entries, across one console generation? Now we'd have the reverse — one numbered entry across three generations.

@Rich33 Yeah, I only got around to playing DAI last year (once I knew Veilguard was coming I finally pulled the trigger on it!), and yeah i'm loving just how streamlined and efficient the devs have made to QoL things, mainly like gear/item upgrades and management — and yeah they've completely overhauled the combat, for the better in my opinion — it's a lot less automated than in 1-3 (so horses for courses I guess!) — playing a Shadow Dragon / Rogue

Only minor nitpick is that you only get two party companions, so group banter is a little limited compared to previous games.

Dang, this is disappointing — big big fan of Celeste, and the trailer looked luscious.

I finally started Veilguard last week, and so far I'm loving it — really liking how its evolved over the series, and would love to see the series continue.

Set phases to "Stable"

Ooo I never played this — would be quite keen to check it out now. So these were issues with the emulation, not the game itself?

I think you need a sixth option for "sheer undiluted frothing-at-the-mouth indifference"

@ReddMcKnight I hope so — I got pretty far into AoD but I encountered a bug while playing as Kurtis where I went through a door and the level environment just straight up didn't load. But my save file was already up to that point and with no way to revert it outside of starting over, I ended up shelving it. I'm pretty keen to revisit and finally finish it.

Sweet bulbous pulsating Christ no.

"Christ no" was too short, so have a few modifiers.

@PuppetMaster Yeah, same — I was genuinely curious at one point so I gave it go, but it just felt like a very mid-tier third person action game, and considering the amount of hours it apparently takes to play, I realised I had far more better games I could be devoting my time to.

This is awesome — I was quietly optimistic that they would at least acknowledge and repair some of the bugginess inherent in AoD, but the fact that they've gone out of their way to restore the content is music to my ears!

@GlasgowGuy Aw, giraffe to remind us?

I honestly didn't mind RE6 when I first played it. My only real nitpicks were the fact that you had to re-play entire sections of the game when switching characters, which felt a bit redundant, and that it's just straight-up overshadowed by better entries in the series, but as a standlone game I had a decent time with it.

Problem with that is, if you throw enough **** at the wall eventually you just end up smelling of **** all the time.

@Totheteeth oh yeah, same! Have you tried Everybody's Golf? I find it just arcadey enough without losing the core integrity (something I've read the new Mario Golf suffers from), and it has a really great character/career mode.

Ditto — plus I've already got a pretty sizeable backlog; I don't need MS/Sony to ladle a new glut of games on my plate every few months, 95% of which I'll honestly never get around to playing, let alone finishing, anyway.

@Andy22385 yeah, I really liked those RPG style elements from the mid '00s-era TW games; building up your golfer over time with stat-boosting gear and equipment was so satisfying.

Also I wonder if they're going to implement some sort of save migration for owners of the previous game? The one thing I felt the old Tiger Woods games lacked was a way to continue your progress between games; starting from scratch every time was a bit deflating.

Save and Shut down — as handy as Rest Mode is, I don't trust it fully enough to lose progress for the sake of the minute or so it takes to launch a PS5 game from scratch

Shonen Jump is £3 a month, which is pretty decent considering the amount of series that are on there.

Before it was released, I was hoping that the PS5 would be revealed to be fully back-compat with everything. I would totally buy a PS6 on day one if it was — the PS5 Pro has proved that there are people willing to go the extra few pennies.

I imagine if videogames had been invented today, being able to purchase them individually wouldn't even be an option. Companies seem to be pushing subscriptions to be the default way to acquire everything now, and buying a standalone videogame/movie/album feels like it's becoming a relic of a bygone era.

The charade can only have gone on for so long. Now that they're apparently making proper Spider-Man films again, they can comfortably prolong their stranglehold of those movie rights a bit longer...

@BloodyBlact Looks like it could be mint.

@Enigk I was just thinking this exact thing when I was sifting through my Spotify

Such a cool idea — whenever I buy RPGs like this my entire first evening playing them is just four hours of faffing about with the character creator, so it'll be nice to hit the ground running when I finally pull the trigger on the game!

@PuppetMaster Yep, Dreams was getting some heavy radio play during 1994, the year the PS1 launched, so a pretty perfect accompanying song.

Excellent deep cut

For me FFVIII was the misunderstood middle child between VII and IX — for my money, IX is my favourite of the three, but VIII definitely has a charm, despite its jank and unbalancedness

@Oram77 yeah, same — I got FFVII (which I finished the week before FFVIII released) with the demo/trailer disc, and seeing that opening movie, with the more realistic characters designs, blew my mind at the time. Liberi Fatali still slaps hard.

However, LEGO didn't approve of the violence and sexual innuendo common in Bond films being put in a game for kids.

Yeah, tonally I imagine that would have been an absolute nightmare of a tightrope to walk, for the writers/animators.

Evidently we can have nice things!

@UnlimitedSevens It's ace isn't it? The guitar just sounds so more organic and less fragmented than Parappa's Rapping

Btw, I just yesterday nabbed one of those 8BitDo Wireless Receivers — highly recommend them to anyone that feels like firing up the PS1/PS2 — my DualShock controllers have seen better days (the ones that are still working anyway), and this thing is an absolute godsend.

Big Lemmings fan — always enjoy a good puzzle/platfomer. I also got kinda Flicky vibes from the little train of astronauts that follow you around

@Almost_Ghostly Yeah, that would have been nice.

@__Seraph Yes it should be — you'll need to go to the storefront and "purchase" it, but it won't cost you anything. Funny, it's been there for me since they introduced the game to the tier.

Hurrah! Dino tomfoolery for all!

@Sarcasmatwork graci

@UnlimitedSevens I'll see your Parappa the Rapper and raise you an Um Jammer Lammy

@DonJorginho if your petabyte, then treat-a your pet nicer.

Yeah, same. With the sheer amount of re-releases and updates of the TLoU games, I sincerely wonder just how many times they expect people to replay them.

Heh, wanted to say exactly this — beat me to it

I'd rather see a game like FFVI redone in the style of FFIX, or the DS III/IV remakes — I really think the cartoony stylised look is the perfect middle ground between pixel art (I was never really a huge fan of HD-2D) and the hyper-realistic FFVIIR games.

I tend to only really buy digital games that are mostly indies or ones that aren't available physically, and there's almost always a rotating sale in some form or another!

@CielloArc Dad jokes aside? I didn't agree to this.

When Mark Cerny first revealed the Pro he stated that it aimed to “eradicate the need to choose, or at least narrow the gap” between Performance and Fidelity modes. Our biggest surprise when testing out games was how inconsistent its Pro options were.

After watching the reveal video, this may have been the single thing that piqued my interest. I'm really not a fan of being presented with an "either/or" choice in how well a game performs; typically I'd just go with the default choice (or a "balanced" option, if it's available), and I was really hoping that a new console would alleviate that, but apparently it's pretty much up to the individual developers whether or not that's the case, as we've seen with Spider-Man 2. And I can only forsee that the goalposts are pushed apart further when the PS6 eventually rolls around.

When running on a PS5 Pro, the PS5 game unlocks access to two more graphical modes: Fidelity Pro and Performance Pro. The former targets 30 frames-per-second and includes three new ray tracing methods: RT Ambient Occlusion, RT Reflections and Interiors, and RT Key Light Shadows. You can toggle intensity settings to dictate how effective the three features are

Hang on, I thought the whole point of PS5 Pro was to eliminate the whole "this or that" choice, and have a balanced, optimised overall performance that incorporate the best of both worlds? And now they're introducing three more sub-choices as well as the main two?

Maybe one day I'll give this a whirl, but there's so much I already need to play — Forbidden West being one of them!

Anyone "furious" that their insanely high-end AAA lavish, several-years-in-production New York City superhero simulator doesn't have more content cranked out for it in under a year really needs to acknowledge the definition of a First World Problem.