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Re: Mina the Hollower (PS5) - Masterpiece for Many, But Not for Me

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@WeirdAlUHF334 You just made the point as to why difficult games is a discussion these days, because most games are more accessible now. But most games were rock hard in the 90s because they were incredibly short and needed to be made hard to make the game last longer. Or if it's an arcade game - well, you know. I had a c64 and Amiga, I'm certainly no kid lol.

I beat Ghost of Tsushima, Deus Ex mankind divided and Ninja Gaiden on the OG xbox on hard. But present me with a dark souls game and I am usually absolutely awful at them except for Nioh for some reason.

Re: Gobliiins Collection Is Out Now, and It's One of the Most Robust Retro Packages on PS5

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This is cool, especially when Amiga games manage to find their way on to consoles.

But I never had any love for these games even as a point and click fan. I'm not sure I even played any of them, they're seemingly puzzles without the story and dialogue, and probably nobody plays point and click games for just the puzzles.

Kind of crazy that better adventure games haven't made it to consoles yet such as Curse of Monkey Island and Flight of the Amazon Queen.

Re: Nobody Is Doing PS5 Updates Like Crimson Desert Dev Pearl Abyss

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@TheArt I am in the position of not wanting to buy the game physically yet because I am someone who will play it once and sell it. So I am playing the long game of waiting for it to no longer have updates. I can't complain that they are adding things to it but I guess by the time they're done the game will be cheaper!

Re: Feature: 15 Years Ago Today, We All Pushed Square to Doubt

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I played it on launch, then played the PSVR version, and then partially played it again on PS4. I think it has held up better than a lot of other games from the PS3/360 generation. Need to go back to it, other games keep getting in the way lol. I even bought a ps3 copy for cheap as chips just to put the manual in the PS4 version, maybe that's sad but I don't care.

Re: How Rockstar Squeezed a Whole City into Your PS2

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I remember being blown away by it, I just stood there and watched the npcs going on about their business, then a shoot out occured and it didn't involve me!

Ah yes I think I knew about the loading technique from testing used PS2 consoles, i would drive really fast and if the laser was on its way out the city would struggle to load in assets. Also blue discs (that weren't DVDs?) wouldn't play.

Re: Resident Evil Requiem's New Mini Game Update Seemingly Imminent

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I have yet to buy this game because I don't know if it's a game I'd want to keep (physically) after finishing it, and if I did sell it before all this new stuff becomes available I'd be pretty annoyed. So I will probably play the waiting game until it's about £30 new.

I only have Resident Evil 4 after all.. (I was gonna keep Village until I realised I love the castle section and the rest goes downhill or is too scary for me lol, the baby bit, you know if you know.)

Re: 9 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for January 2026 Announced

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I haven't played anything other than Village and Ridge Racer (but on PS1 forever ago) so although they're not titles I was that fussed about, I'll take it as a win to give all these games a chance.

I played Yakuza: Like a Dragon at the worse point of my entire life along with Cyberpunk 2077, and I can't play either without being taken back to that time, so it put me off playing Infinite Money with it's association, but I'll see what happens when I fire it up..

Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for January 2026?

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I started playing Epic Mickey but was put off by the fact that you can't go back to levels to collect missed items, which is what I enjoy doing the most in a 3D platform game. You can start a new game plus to find them but screw that. It also had underwhelming "combat" that isn't fun at all. At least I didn't buy it for £18 last year, so there's that.

Re: PS Plus Essential Games for January 2026 Announced

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Blimey, I nearly bought Epic Mickey a few months ago and then decided to leave it for now, AND I nearly bought Core Keeper for £10 a month ago, so I wisely didn't pull the trigger twice!

Unbound I must have played on Extra but I'll give it another go as I don't think I got into it.