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I would absolutely love to see Shadow Hearts 1 get the treatment, although I seem to recall hearing nobody actually owns the ip now?? Shadow Hearts 2 would be nice too, 3 would need to omit the 50hz PAL mode as it crashes when you use the American Indian character in battles.

Planning on buying these games this month on release physically, it's an exciting month in gaming for me!

Soul Reaver 1+2
Robocop unfinished business
Broken Sword Reforged

@Jrs1 Good shout, I have Huntdown digitally and then bought it physically but Cex offered more than what I paid for it albeit in credit so I sold it lol. Good for local co-op

I know this is in good hands, but I wonder if it will be too hard, because as good as the dev's games Xeno Crisis and Battle Axe were, I couldn't beat them! Final Vendetta, their last game, had an easy mode and I was able to beat it, and perhaps even on medium difficulty, so hard to call it unless they confirm something about that.

@Jrs1 Seconded with the other comment about being rage inducing, although I did beat both games and I'm not exactly amazing at retro games!

@Atreus97 Heh yes, maybe around £35 mark, I can wait haha

It's one of my most wanted games released this year and I still haven't bought it because the longer I wait, the better the game gets lol

@get2sammyb Oh yeah February! I forgot it wouldn't be listed here, oops.

I'm so behind on releases that all 3 of the best games I've played this year all came out last year:

Steamworld Heist 2
Avowed
Star Wars Outlaws

However I think it's pretty likely I'll play Creed Shadows this year.

I have played some 2025 releases like Oblivion and Expedition 33 through GamePass, however, but they're not as good as the 3 titles above for me.

@Dalamar I'll see if my opinion changes when I play it on the PS5 but I couldn't get on with the pc version after playing it on ps2 but it was many years in-between, it might have just aged too much for me. I also prefer using a controller..

@LifeGirl I can at least play Human Revolution on my PC, it's Invisible War I'd really love to see ported to PS5, the PC version requires keyboard and mouse and no amount of joypad emulating makes it playable like that when I tried. Hmm I didn't think to try emulation with og xbox though, worth investigating!

I'll be downloading..

Deus Ex
Katamari
Hundred Heroes (give it a second chance)
Train sim world (try out conductor mode, not drive a train)
Endless dungeon (give it a try i guess)

I don't play online games, I don't care about freddy night games, and I won't play a game that glorifies hunting as a sport. (I will kill animals in assassin's creed and whatever, that's different)

@SilentS I had been playing gamepass and so didn't have any Plus sub on. So when the plus sale came on, it was what, £75 for the extra and £80 for premium or something like that? So I went for premium, seemed like a no-brainer.

I would have bought this game for PS5 Physically, but I had gamepass at the time and so naturally played it with that. Would be daft not to.

@JB_Whiting Just a guess, perhaps that's why the perspective change is in the pause menu, because the game also changes how the character moves around? Or it could just be all the other buttons are used for other things but that would be cool if I'm right.

@captainsandman I like the Katamari games but hadn't bought this one yet, I have the last one. Had one of them on ps2 back in the day, had a lovely instruction manual!

@MickOnYourFace The PS2 version is all I knew as a teen and I loved it. I actually like that the levels are smaller in scale as the pc version has big open spaces with not a lot in them.

I only paid £5 more in the sale for 12 months of premium so that £5 extra for the whole year alone is worth it for Deus Ex 😁 but only one classic game for the month is inexcusable.

@Majin_Deicide I was going to say the same thing, it's highly unlikely but a 16bit castlevania aesthetic but god of war themed would be awesome.

@Fallingshadow Maybe a day one edition and later down the line what you described, otherwise we will find ourselves with even fewer physical releases.

Pleased to see Push Square feature these, and although I am not a fan of those outer boxes - they don't look like games - I could potentially see myself buying one of these if it's a game I really like.

I like point and click adventure games but I don't own a Switch. I think it's an Adventure Game Studio made game so only one publisher seems to know ir want to port to PS5 and Xbox and they don't seem interested in doing that anymore due to localisation costs with the amount of dialogue involved and the sales of that genre doesn't perform well enough.

I noticed a drug dealing game that for a moment I thought it was the PC drug dealing game but it really isn't. Then I saw it again a week later in the new releases with a different title..

I could never get into it, and I tried twice.

Whoever scored it 1 or 2 out of 10 - did Witcher 3 sleep with your significant other or something, it's objectively not that bad whatsoever, that kind of score would be for something that is basically unplayable.

I really enjoyed playing as Kate Walker in this game, back on the old Xbox. I never forgot Kate Walker because everyone was sure to say Kate Walker's name to Kate Walker.

I suddenly feel like I know less than I thought I did about games because I've never heard of any of those!

PS - But I know of the "All your base" quote so whichever game that is, I have heard of it and just forgot the name. Is it Zero wing?

The main menu and in game UI feels poorly implemented. The main character's huge arms/hands made me laugh. The combat is okay, the voice acting isn't great. I don't care for Souls games so this isn't for me.

The cutscenes felt off like I was missing scenes. Especially at the beginning with these two characters thrown in like they're supposed to mean something to us?

@Dalamar I don't know much about PC specs these days but my PC is from 2021 and hasn't received any upgrades and Doom Dark Ages was easily a solid 60fps for me, so I don't know what people are on about unless they're expecting a ten year old computer to play a new game?

I am waiting for the physical release of that power rangers game, not a PR fan but me and the missus enjoy most of the recent side scrolling beat em up games. That's three games already out digitally I'm waiting for physically! Others being Soul Reaver and Broken Sword.

@Bagwag82 I don't know if it had native controller support but I would think the PC version would be also easy to port to PS5 hardware?

@Spedfrom Everafter Falls shows 110 hours played by Sony but the save file says about half that. There were a few times the game save corrupted and it reverts to the previous save (wtf) but that doesn't account for that, it would be an extra hour at the most. I don't leave games running in rest mode. It's baffling.

@MatthewJP was this some kind of sarcasm? You sound sincere!

@Steeleye50 I think you misunderstood, I am pretty sure it's been languishing in a vault for 20 years, not in production for 20 years.

Still, they could have improved the game, it's missed its deadline anyway..

@Falksi Call it overrated by all means, you're entitled to your opinion, but why does it enrage you so much that you have to resort to insulting anyone that loves the game? That's just pathetic.

@DennisReynolds yeah the 3rd person climbing just slows the pace down just so I can see the back of Indy for ten seconds.

7/10, although I only got as far as halfway through maybe the Vatican part of the game, but will return to it eventually. But I wasn't thrilled by the stealth or missions like "take some photos of old murials".

Curious to know why on my standard PS5 equivalent PC it recommended i play on low graphical settings which made me feel like i have a massively outdated PC now but medium settings feels like 50-60fps anyway so why on earth did it say low for! Ultra is painful though haha, just about playable but hurts the eyes.

I was going to play Expedition 33 on Gamepass until Oblivion shadow dropped and I do wish I could clone myself and play both but the excitement of an oblivion remastering meant that game comes first for me.

I agree that it was cruel to do that to the new ip.

It's worth noting I spotted a standalone physical PS5 version on Amazon the other day on pre-order.

@PloverNutter What you perhaps haven't realised is, even though it's in a new engine, the original code is still there, the old meshes for the characters are the same. The AI is showing its age. It feels like an old game but looks new. And of course the original voice acting is present. So they basically took the old game, gave it a facelift and made a lot of improvements. It's like a super remaster.

Played it on Gamepass, via my PC, for a few hours.

Will go back to it but didn't like the stealth in it, so lowered it to easy and played it like a punch em up. More fun then.

@Hylian-Likely I would say it's good, now, is all, as it's pretty old and it's showing in more than just it's graphics.

I was amused really that you were appalled by this news when you clearly enjoy the old game anyway so just play that one?

It's great for you if you still think Morrowind is great but I prefer combat where i don't start the game and have to hit and miss a crab for ten minutes before I could even think about hitting a humanoid opponent. That was laughable on the og xbox and it's laughable now.

@PlatinumMikey To my absolute shock, Sean Bean doesn't die in National Treasure.

@Hylian-Likely it was great, but it isn't great anymore 😛

@RBMango I appreciate it when a game with a re-recorded score has a setting that lets you choose the new music or the old one, so they could hopefully do this if they did recreate it.

I played some Indy on gamepass, will go back to it but wanted to play other games like Avowed. The 3rd person sections do make it feel like a slog, if they really need to do that, then do it for hiding behind cover like in the deus ex games.

I realised the game was more fun when I ditched stealth, put it on easy and treated it like a combat game. And this is coming from someone who plays deus ex and dishonored games, and Thief.

Still on Avowed, played for about 8 hours, still in the first map area! Really loving this game, and the dialogue and party take me back to Kotor and Jade Empire times.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare When it comes to not having plus, I read that whether I do or not because i want to know what is being included and whether I'll resubscribe so that's a bit different.

I don't see the issue with games being remade/remastered, if you don't want it, don't buy it!

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare If someone doesn't care, why would they read this article in the first place?

Why did you read it if you don't care?

@Kenshir0 That's valid, especially if you have a levelled up character I assume you can just travel to the Oblivion map and use that character there?

I feel sorry for the folks who spent YEARS putting Oblivion into the Skyrim as a mod and maybe were nearly done making it?

In any case, I tend to agree with a lot of people here

• keep voiceovers, it's part of it's charm
• don't have a level scaling enemies system
• improve the combat
• make it look nice

@GirlVersusGame Yes, and the DVD!