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I'd be interested to know how much storage space all of these games combined would take up. I'd imagine it can't be much more than streaming a couple of hours or so of video from a single game would be, in terms of sensible use of bandwidth.

Yeah I'll definitely play it — don't think I really wanna drop sixty notes on it, but I'll definitely get round to it once my 3-6 month backlog makes room for it

I'm a bit iffy about putting a number on things, but I will say that I went from absolutely enamoured to mildly indifferent once I'd maxed out my main character's stats.

@Henchdog Two hundred dollarydoos?

It being unplayable won't matter; I imagine the kind of collectors who'd pay a lot of money for this don't unseal their games anyway.

@Quintumply Came here to ask exactly this — thanks

@DonJorginho when I saw the article that's what I thought this was. Oh well...

Concord was never for me to begin with, but it is equal parts fascinating and saddening to observe the unmitigated failure from afar. For as much as people online mitch and bone about big AAA games like GTA and TLoU, they still sell like absolute gangbusters — here, seems everyone voted with their wallet.

This is why I never buy games on launch, it makes sense to wait for the lion's share of bugs to be ironed out first. That "getting in early" creates even more issues is actually pretty sad.

there is a general fatigue surrounding live service shooters

That's certainly the vibe I get; as soon as the trailer switched to gameplay in the trailer it just became white noise to me.

Aptly, from the moment Rain appeared onscreen I couldn't shake the uncanny resemblance she had to Ellie.

@get2sammyb yeah, good one Sammy. Been keen to read an actual review of Concord and it's more or less what I expected. And while online, competitive MP GaaS games are wholly not my cup of tea, hopefully it'll go down well with the people it's designed for.

Nope, not for me I'm afraid. I'm not into playing online, multiplayer, or competitively. Live service infrastructure is always a bit off-putting as well.

Considering how alarmingly broken Quidditch is in the source material, I'd be intrigued to see how well it holds up in an actual videogame.

Eek! That is wallet-worringly 'spenny. But yeah, to echo a lot of sentiment here, I just realised/reminded myself the other week that I can store PS5 games on my 4TB external Hard drive if I need to make space. So no need to even delete/redownload the bigger games (which would indeed be a faff), plus I rarely play more than one or two big/AAA PS5 games at a time anyway!

I finally got around to playing the utterly sublime Sayonara Wild Hearts the other week — this looks like it might have a similar vibe, gameplay-wise

@__jamiie Yeah, what is it with developers starting with the second game with their modern remakes and HD remasters? Metal Gear HD collection, Resident Evil 2-4, and now Silent Hill 2...

Wading through crowds of overdressed influencers at London’s Leicester Square

That sounds like absolute misery.

I'll probably end up seeing this as I have a cinema pass, but really my interest in the Borderlands franchise petered out by the end of the second game.

What about my uncle? Did you give him a chance? DID YOU?

It took a while to click, but I had an absolute blast playing QB — made it all the way to the final opponent but never really took the time to try and beat them, as I was already close to the end of the main game, and well into the triple-digits, hours-wise — just wanted to see the end of it, by that point

Looks sumptuous

Let's have a look at what you could've won

@pushL7 to also quote Mr Burns, "No, I'd still prefer not."

@ShogunRok Thanks, I was curious about this as well — the 32-bit era still had a fair amount of sprites on 3D backgrounds, which did look fine on a 14-inch CRT, but blown up you can REALLY see the pixels, especially when they're sharing screen real estate with super high-res (albeit low-poly) 3D models.

Really looking forward to playing these — I missed the first one on DS and it was going for silly money second hand, so kudos for Capcom for making the whole core series available to play in one place.

Absolutely — I'm just about to wrap up Sea of Stars, just barely hitting the 30 hour mark, and while I did notice that it was too was very linear (minor spoiler: you only get proper fast travel right near the end), I greatly enjoyed the directness and brevity, especially having just come off a 124-hour playthrough of FFVII Rebirth — A game that, while I did enjoy it for the most part, I will happily never revisit ever again.

FFXIII, which I wasn't overly bothered by the linear way the game was designed, what mainly put me off was the story and characters - to my they just weren't up to par with previous FF games I was accustomed to playing.

I don't wanna be a negative Nelly, but I really did try multiple Fromsoft games (both versions of Demons Souls, DS2 and Bloodborne) and they just didn't do anything for me — progress always felt glacial and combat felt repetitive and lacked a satisfying impact; it's like I was cutting through jelly.

@HotGoomba It's kinda like Spacenautica, if you've ever played those

@Czar_Khastik No need for optional manky hair physics on the PS7!

Preposterous — Nintendo would never Share Link

Just seen a few gameplay videos of this — looks a lot of fun. Reminds me of an ancient Amstrad game called Quack a Jack

I do love how the recent Resi games frequently plummet in price during sales — they're well worth a punt

Finally started it the other week after waiting for the physical version (and finishing Rebirth!) — think I'm about a third of the way into it, given the estimate play time. Aside from a few minuscule niggles, it's pretty much everything I hoped it would be and I'm having a blast — hopefully there'll be something a bit more solid on the DLC front by the time I'm done!

@Worlock_ed Isn't it? I'm pretty sick to death of the whole '80s nostalgia circle jerk by now, but in 2012 it was still relatively unique and original to hear such a heartfelt homage to the era, and with such variety too

@PuppetMaster The Street Fighter 6 Story Mode felt like a 3D Final Fight RPG

We've seen a few run-ups at this before — I think Double Dragon Neon was arguably the most successful - although that felt more like a celebration of the whole franchise than an attempt to reboot or reinvent the original — plus the soundtrack by Jake Kaufman is one of the best things I've ever heard, and not just in videogames.

Interested to see where they go with this, though — DD is a series that consistently seems to pop up and surprise us.

with the last mainline entry being the middling Double Dragon 4.

That game felt more like a direct sequel to the NES iterations of the series, and only really served to highlight how glaringly pared down it was compared to that of the arcade.

Ace article, really inspirational (and there are amoeba on Saturn that can boil a better egg than me) — I love when people make things like this.

This game came out?

Goonies Online

@johncalmc @NEStalgia Cheers for clarifying, folks! Yeah I think I'll just get as much as I can out of the free trial — and it's not that I don't necessarily want to/can't afford to pay for a sub, it just feels a bit like I'd only be playing because I'd feel obliged to get my money's worth - kind of like a gym membership, and I've already got dozens of games on my backlog as it is!

@johncalmc Thanks for the very thorough guide — I did dabble with the free version briefly, and I just finished Rebirth, so I would like a bit of a palette cleanser. One question I do have, that I wasn't 100% clear on...

So does that mean I can purchase the Starter Pack (or any of the expansions) for a one-off fee to get the content, and then continue playing for free, or am I then obliged to start paying a sub thereafter?

To quote Magneto...

Shhhhiellllllld.

I wonder how they're gonna work the roman numeral "9" into the title?
Resident Evil IXnay on the Ombizay

@Dudeitsme From what I understand, Sega's Ferrari license is expired, which is why you get a slightly modified car sprite on the current available version on the Sega Ages line, and why OutRun 2 was removed from PSN/XBLA, so a physical version of the original probably won't see the light of day any time soon

@Mostik An all-digital gaming landscape wouldn't exactly keep me up at night, but as long as the option is there I will always go physical.

That's jolly decent of them. And yeah, it'd be nice to have the time between both games to play/absorb/appreciate/digest.

@Critonic @Art_Vandelay right, but whether the servers stay up for ten years, or ten months, it's the principle of being beholden to the fact that it's ultimately temporary — and I'm not completely naive - I will most likely give GT7 a go at some point - nor am I steadfastly against the idea of games as a service, there are plenty of people who enjoy that type of thing. I'm just not personally into online/multiplayer, and the fact that mandatory online seems to have crept into single player games, something I treasure as a private pastime, that I can enjoy without the threat of it being shut down some day, just saddens me a little.

@Art_Vandelay my worry is the idea of them shutting the servers down in years to come when I might actually want to play it

@GeeEssEff Yep, I'm by no means a racing/car aficionado, but I do really enjoy the "caRPG" elements of earlier GTs (i've only really played the very first two on PS1), and would like to check back in with the series after so long

@Kidfunkadelic83 Nice one — will do! One could argue that the new Resi games' MTs are a factor, but they barely even register for me!