Barryburton97

This is why I've sadly lost interest in AC Odyssey long before halfway. Shame, as it plays brilliantly. There's only so many grassy hills, cliffs and islands I need to visit and forts with dopey guards I need to clear. Give me dense, interesting and memorable any day.

@Ryall it's staying at £50 which is a bit unusual, but RDR2 was the same around launch.
Going back to the N64 days, £60 at launch was normal. God knows what that is in today's money.

RE1 and Zero combined remake please. It just makes sense!
Then Veronica would be nice.

What I really wanted was a huge combined RE2 and RE3 remake, with the stories and locations properly intermingling.
As it stands it's a shame they cut several parts from the original RE3, especially the clock tower building with the spiders

Yes I want this feature too.
The results in my Wrap Up summary were pretty inaccurate.

LRG do some nice stuff, just a shame they take an absolute age to deliver

This game is really good, such tension. And an online combat game that doesn't really favour reflexes, rather you need planning, tactics and stealth.

Whether it keeps me coming back long term remains to be seen, but it's been loads of fun for the opening hours.

No, keep them in plastic. Not least because game discs are many times more valuable than music CDs and need protection for the second hand market, and for collectors. I'm all for making the cases a bit thinner though.

Media cases are an irrelevance in environmental terms. When Coca Cola and ready meal manufacturers stop pumping out hundreds of tonnes of PET a day, we can start worrying about game cases- which really aren't a litter issue anyway.

@rjejr well, corporations are paying YouTube more for ads than consumers are paying Sony for games etc on PSN. Not an apples vs apples comparison really. Useful for scale I suppose.

The game has some really cool locations, nice graphics and lighting, and there is a lot of attention to detail in the weapons, crafting and bits of world building. Unfortunately it was just quite unrewarding to play. Combat felt like it had no impact, and the story really struggled to hold my interest, I gave up on the Taiga level.
Will eventually get back to it and complete it one day.

@PcTV not a Switch exclusive actually

Just goes to show how relatively small the leap between generations is these days. Can you imagine if all Dreamcast titles had to also run on a Saturn?! Or the same for PS2 vs PS1.

Red Dead 2 was 2018

Needs a Tomb Raider on there I reckon

Series X is a terrible name

As long as it plays PS4 discs and digital, I'll buy it early on. Otherwise not till 2022+.
Earlier compatibility would be a nice selling feature but in practice not a big % of people would actually use it.

I adored this on PS3, must have completed it 5 times at least.
The problem I had with the PS4 remaster was that it is always too dark, and I couldn't increase the brightness enough. Anyone else had that problem?

@KratosMD The original trilogy are seminal, brilliant pieces of video game history. You just need to take the time to get used to the tank controls. They work fine.

RE4 is a fantastic game, but to me the original trilogy and their remakes are the best games ever made.

Zero has so much interesting back story, but they sadly made it too fussy to play.

Where the heck is Code Veronica!!??!! Definitely a better RE game than Zero, 5 and 6. Jeez, what a massive omission.

And I appreciate the 1990s original and RE2 have been superceded by their remakes, but to me they're still worth a mention and a place on the list if only for the music and nostalgia.

Beware of a chunky duty charge (£15 Inc fees) if you're buying these in the UK.

Head: PS4
Heart: PlayStation

@REALROBLAW you can already do that- buy digital then download to an external hard drive. Then download to other drives and create as many backups as you see fit. Other than the titles that need always-online access to a server that will one day shut down, e.g Anthem, you should be able to play the games for as long as your console lives.

Not really a battle is it?

I love having a physical collection, but I'm coming to accept that from PS4 onwards they are mostly resellable license keys in nice boxes.

Other than remasters and GOTY-type reissues, more and more discs contain merely buggy and/or empty launch versions, which often barely even work without access to a server anyway. So many games won't work once the servers are taken down, so the physical version doesn't even preserve the game like we feel it should.
I'd begrudgingly accept an all digital future, as long as there was some form of competion between retailers, like with PC.

@JoeBlogs digital normally costs more because they have a monopoly. Physical stores have to cut their prices to compete with the convenience of digital, as well as Amazon and a dozen other retailers.

Xbox consoles had some very big discounts available, and Sea of Thieves was bundles with pretty much all of them, hence the high chart position.

But overall, for something that costs as little as £2.50 per month if you buy carefully, PS Plus causes a heck of a lot of drama amongst customers.

Underwhelming this month, was hoping for better Christmas offerings. But overall it's been a pretty decent year on Plus.

Personally I'd prefer they combined the monthly games from Plus into Now, so there's just one, less confusing, game rental service, then cut the price of online play and backup to something cheap like £2 a month, if not free.

Oh look, an Amazon advert. Pretty much all of those games have been, or are available cheaper at the likes of Base and The Game Collection.

@ApostateMage Shadow actually went further and let you change combat, exploration and puzzle difficulty separately. Or you could put it on Deadly Obsession and it maxed out everything and removed checkpoints.

@Dodoo it's a slow meandering game for most of the runtime to be honest. Interspersed by a few action packed missions.
It's the quiet moments in the wild, where the magic lies, as well as some of the lower key missions with the likes of Hosea and Charles. And the Epilogue part 2 is actually quite lovely (if taken in isolation!).

@Dodoo I was the same, gave up after 10 hours feeling disappointed at launch. But do give it at least one more try. Once I'd forgotten what I had expected it to be, a few months later, I was able to enjoy it for what it is. And after 131 hours of play I'd say it's an absolute masterpiece.

@jess3a3 strange comment. There's barely anything like RDR2 out there. Whereas Uncharted 4 is pretty much a typical action video game, done very well with an enormous budget and a charming and exciting story.

With such a backlog, I'm perfectly happy for nothing good at all to come out in 2020... except LOU Part II of course

I've been playing RDR2 for a year and after 125 hours I'm on the brink of 100% completion. One of the games of my life.
But that just shows I'll never make a dent in most of the titles in this list. Bring on retirement!

@Shatter they must include pre-orders. Most physical games are paid for at launch anyway, not upon order.

Otherwise you'd see big titles in the chart ahead of launch- I'd bet Last of Us 2 has seen enough preorders to break the top 10 in recent weeks.

@Star-Lord it plays fine on PS3. PC probably a bit better of course.

Cancelled my Medievil pre-order, which I had due to nostalgia. It looks very nice, but I realised I don't actually like the swishy combat from the original. . The demo didn't have the desired effect, sorry Sony.

That's like choosing your favourite child. But I've plumped for Last of Us as it had such a profound impact on me. I still think about bits of that game years later as I go about my day.

The incredible God of War and HZD tied for second place.

I wish I had the patience to get good enough at Bloodborne...

Uncharted games are a lot of fun and technical marvels. I've played all five home console games. But, find them a bit forgettable, like summer blockbuster action films. No. 4 got closest to nailing the emotional impact.

Anyway, I fully expect any back compatibility pre-PS4 to be streaming or at most digital download based. There is minimal money to be made from playing old discs.

I have a BC PS3 that plays PS1 and 2, and to be honest I've hardly used it for at least a year. PS4 gets all the attention in my house, there's just too many great new games to play.

Saying that, if the PS5 is able to properly upscale old games, that'd be very interesting. PS1 in particular doesn't play that nicely with many modern TVs.

BC with PS4 is essential though, in my view. The library is immense and the games are still coming thick and fast.

Seems good value, but the last thing I need is an even bigger backlog. Just don't need more games.

The digital future, folks. At least it's available in disc form.

My suggestion would be each month they should have a menu of games to choose from, say 6, and you can choose up to 2-3 to download and hold for the rest of your subscription. The cost to Sony would be similar and people would moan less.

It's the price per year of one new release game. For the right to play 24 extra games per year, most of which are worth playing, plus online play, save file backup and the odd discount. The longer you hold it, the more games you have access to for your money.
I just got 1 week of free Sky Sports, which I normally pay £11 for, considering I spent £35 for the year, that's a great deal.

PS Plus is really good value. The people moaning are just desperate to be upset about something. Sure, they could include different games but you can't please everyone.

P.s. I'm fine with PES 2019 too. I don't think I'll ever have the time to get into Borderlands and Sonic holds no appeal. Not everyone has the same tastes.