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@Kidfunkadelic83 Yeah, very cosy/charming/low stakes JRPG/crafting tomfoolery.

On the one hand I'd like to see a full, ground-up, 1:1 remake in the vein of Spyro/Crash, but I just worry that they would turn it into some needlessly overwrought and bloated as the FFVII Remake series.

It's definitely a con when a simple platformer/puzzle/rhythm game makes you sit through reams of mediocre dialogue — I've encountered that quite a bit in certain games lately; for the most part I've just found it overindulgent, unnecessary, and utterly kills the pace. If you're going to have a narrative-heavy game, the writing had better be A-class quality.

I'll choose secret fourth and fifth anwers: I'm interested in playing it, but only after playing Part 1

Loved Resis 7/8, super keen to see where they take the series next.

It's a series I've definitely dropped off from, having been a big fan of the PlayStation 1/2 era - I think the triple whammy of the underwhelming XIII trilogy, the MMO XIV (a format I'm really not interested in), and the fact that the release of XV was drawn out and drip-fed with piecemeal, mid-story DLC just killed my enthusiasm for a series that used to be held in such high regard.

Is the text skippable at all? Also does dialogue autoplay, or does every line need to be advanced manually?

@themightyant Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs that actually having the full game on the disc/cartridge is now considered a bonus to be grateful for.

Naaaa na na na na na na na Katamari on the swing

Super looking forward to this — RE has been one of the most consistently entertaining series since the PS1 original

Give it a few months, it'll likely be under half that price in second hand shops, and will almost certainly have appeared in some sort of sale on PSN

Yep, same — marvellous little invention isn't it?

@Dragoon1994 They Shinobetter than that.

@Dragoon1994 in a way that's kind of a relief because it takes away the temptation — also I've seen games appear quite comfortably on Amazon UK that are ostensibly rare/out of print in the US, so picking up a standard edition is never that much of a headache.

@PuppetMaster Yeah! I've got most of those in some capacity — although I have been meaning to nab a second-hand disc of Ninja Scroll on Blu Ray while I can (I believe it's out of print)

@CutchuSlow basically, yeah — it doesn't matter if a game has a really vocal fanbase, if it's not making money, I imagine it's just cheaper to shut the servers down.

@PuppetMaster Looove Patlabor! And I revisited Ghost in the Shell (my first 4K Blu Ray!) for the first time in years last week — dang, that film holds up.

Yeah, it's not too far removed from "I'm sorry that you're offended, but..." — keep digging, Randy.

@wiiware Yeah, Type 4 was peak Ridge

@Futureshark Oh dang! I should have read the runes...

@Stale-Bread yeah, there's a whole host of classic EOA games from the 16 Bit era that are just ripe for a compilation: Road Rash, the Strike series, The Immortal, F22/LHX, hell even some of the older EA Sports titles like Hockey and PGA would be worth a revisit

Switch owners: "First time?"

Very nice - I was holding out for a potential physical release of Thank Goodness You're Here - although I think sixty notes is a little rich for my palette, but I'll certain keep an eye out to see what other releases they bring.

@dellyrascal or Youth Hostel Simulator with Chris Eubank.

@PuppetMaster heh, I'll survive

@get2sammyb thanks — I did a bit of hunting and couldn't seem to get a straight answer if it was or not

@get2sammyb Is the physical release for this in the US only?

Yeah, with Switch cartridges, which are expensive, I can understand why you'd want to use Game Keys beyond a certain file size, but when Blu Rays can apparently hold up to 100GB, there's really no excuse. Was the person in charge of burning the Doom discs late for dinner that day?

@twitchtvpat Yeah it would be nice if they could get that to work — although with the PS3 there was very little I used the home screen for (and that's actually true of PS5) outside of launching the game.

@nomither6 Yeah, I had a final sliver of hope that that's what the PS5 Pro might have been — for £700, that might just have clinched it for me, given I'd be trading in like three consoles to get credit to pay for it

Going back to the analogue dpad/buttons, I found the DS3 a lot spongier and less satisfying to use than the DualSense.

@nomither6 Yeah, people had become accustomed to it because PS2 did it. But with PS2 b/c kinda went under the radar because there were so many new and original games being made for it, PS3 was the generation where we started seeing HD remasters, and PS5 seemingly has no intention of stopping that any time soon...

The real dream would be the next PlayStation console being fully back compat with all previous generations, but that's really looking increasingly less likely.

I've still got my PS2/PS3 hooked up for a select few handfuls of games (primarily the former) — that number is slowly being whittled down, but I'd really love just a single unit with the ability to play everything natively, without emulation.

GTA's never been a series that particularly did anything for me, but they seem to have put a lot into this one, so I might give it a crack (or at the very least, get around to playing V in the meantime)

How high in the sky can you fly?

@Medic_alert Yeah, seeing the Codemasters logo on Amstrad games was as high a mark of quality as seeing the Electronic Arts logo on a Mega Drive game, which is doubly tragic given the circumstances of this article.

While I appreciate what Little Big Planet was, it's one of those crafting games that just felt that way too daunting to create something of actual semi-decent quality — and I feel that Sackboy himself got retroactively done dirty by his design looking a little too much like Funko Pops

I actually really enjoyed BL1 — something about the hazy, derelict vibe of it I found really quite chill and appealing. With 2, while the gameplay was arguably better, they really started to lean into the... humour of it all, and by the end of that game's DLC I was pretty much done with the series; BL3 looked pretty insufferable.

I'm good with my base level PS5 — played maybe a handful of games on it that actually warranted the upgrade from PS4, so a PS5 Pro is far from my priority list

Ridge Racer and PlayStation are obviously intrinsically linked, as the original game was ported to the PS1 early on and instantly became a showcase for the power of Sony’s new console. While this is the arcade version, we’d like to see it on PS5 eventually.

Hundred percent — I'm surprised that the PS1 port still hasn't seen the light of day on PSN/PS Classics — is there some rights issue surrounding it? I can't imagine that enough people wouldn't be interesting in paying for it.

@ShogunRok Yeah I've been watching a few, and while every time a new game in Fallder Scroults comes out I always get a big rush of interest, but every time time I've played them I just zone out really early on — I think "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle" sounds unduly harsh, but that's generally how I find them.

@ShogunRok I must confess, I've never really been sold on Bethesda games — tried many of them, some multiple times, but they've always failed to keep me after a few hours. As much as I did like how the Oblivion remake looked, is it unlikely to change my mind?

It is nice to have a complete game with a definitive ending and not feel the need to dust it off and slap DLC (especially when it's supposed to occur during the main campaign) on it every couple of years.

@AK4tywill Yeah, agree — while I appreciate that, pound for pound, you are getting access to more games with PS+, I'd much rather make my own gaming purchases than pay a yearly subscription to be given temporary access to a curated pool of them.

I must confess I've never really vibed with any of the main big Bethesda series, but this does look really nice, and it's good that they've finally liberated it from PS360 jail

@SuntannedDuck2 Cheers for the super-thorough answer — I think basically what I'm after is a racing/driving game that's fun, but you essentially win XP/currency in races with which you can spend on souping up your vehicles or buying new ones, basically like in the original Gran Turismo or, if you wanna go a bit older school, Road Rash

I may wait until the inevitable crossover, Ghouls and Ghosts of Yotei.

you're also earning XP for your own player level, gaining skill points to unlock perks on a per-car basis

As caRPGs go, is Forza a decent choice? I've never played any of them, and keep umming and ahhing about going in on GT7.

I'm guessing that not all the ghosts of Tsushima were caught, and a few must have got away? I've not played it, but I have to assume that's how this sequel came to be.

2 hours on a good day. And even then it's usually 1h 45m of people shouting over each other and 15 mins of actual news.