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Nothing there for me to want to subscribe again right now but I am fine with this, I'm playing Avowed on Gamepass.

The only thing that was good for me with Eyetoy was using it hooked up to a VCR and recording to tape a crappy music video with my song played through the audio. It ended up on PSM2 UK's DVD, which made me absolutely thrilled as you can imagine, seeing my name on the back of the DVD case and in the magazine.

I would have thought a safer bet would be to pitch a remake of the original game. That way you'd grab the cyberpunk lovers and the nostalgic for the old game lovers more so than another random Deus Ex game.

@Dudeitsme Certainly, I only keep maybe 5% of the games I buy, most games I don't tend to replay them, so I sell them on and get some of my money back or trade for credit at Cex.

@gjronin They didn't mean ALL retro Playstation games, they mean the actual games released that are emulated and included in PS Premium, not the streaming only titles. Those titles haven't been ported yet afaik.

I do very much get fed up of people online stating discs have no data on them and you're just using it as an unlock to download a game. Why are so many people thinking that's the truth?

I've seen it here, and I've seen it elsewhere a LOT like on Facebook.

Antstream Arcade should provide mouse support for its point and click adventure games included. The emulated mouse is too twitchy.

Happy for the Devs, even if I couldn't get into it. Ran around for 3 hours clueless and nothing interesting happening. Even with objectives turned on which didn't actually help all that much.

I'm pretty sure I didn't really like it on PS2 so I will probably like it even less now, lol.

Kya Dark lineage or something, that's a platformer from PS2 that needs a remaster.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I will put some things in there to check properly when it goes on sale and if i don't think I'll like it, then I remove it. But there are many titles that need to be a certain price before I buy them even if im confident I'll enjoy them. There's just so many games to play in general that I don't mind waiting.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Well yeah like someone said, going through the sales takes a long ass time, if i wishlist everything that looks interesting it's still going to take me a fraction of the time if im not spending 1 or 2 hours every fortnight looking through the entire sales. Even with under 99p titles filtered out it takes ages. I don't see how 100 titles of interest is worse than 1000+ titles to look through.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I thought your original comment about bad memory was a bit rude but at least you're willing to admit to a good reason for having a large wishlist. It's why I have around 30 games wishlisted. But im also not going to remember to look up a random indie title that looks interesting when it goes on sale.

Wow, my 5 year old game Detective Boiled-Hard on steam is on 863 wishlists, how cheap do they want it go exactly 😭

@amatmulisha I don't know what you meant by a remake of curse of monkey island, it's just the first 2 games that got remakes of sorts. My favourite is a tie between the first 3 to be honest, I love them all ha

@amatmulisha It's the weakest of all the monkey island games imo but still great to see someone mentioning monkey island heh

As much as I'd like to be playing Creed Shadows, money is a bit tight right now so I'll gonna buy a month of cough Gamepass. Not going to be able to play all of these that I want to play in one month lol:

Atomfall
Avowed
Sniper Elite Resistance
Ninja Gaiden black 2
Indiana Jones
Eternal strands
Flintlock
Goldeneye 64
Mythwrecked
Stalker 2
Still wakes the deep

I had this game, I couldn't get very far in it but was impressed by it's graphics for sure. It wasn't very experienced with jrpgs on ps1 and used to action replay my way through a lot of them so maybe I'd fare better now unless it was just a very hard game.

Yes, I cheated on Final Fantasy VII and VIII, but did IX without, although I'm told that game isn't as hard.

Me and my partner enjoy a lot of couch co-op games, like Stardew, Wargroove, Final Vendetta, A Way Out.. but the idea of using our phones as controllers is a big turn off..

@BAMozzy That's not what you said though is it, I've made my point anyway.

Indeed though, my Stardew Valley disc would contain a very old single player only game. I am aware of this.

@BAMozzy What are you on about! If that was true then all physical games would say requires an internet connection for installation like Star Wars Outlaws does but 99% of them do not.

As someone else mentioned there is a website and here's the link, look at how many games they tested offline that do work:

https://www.doesitplay.org/

Obviously some games will be buggier than others but you couldn't be more wrong about them all needing the internet.

@nessisonett 1 copy sold for £30 is more than Sony actually made 😁

That bad ending is.. brrr.

Far from my favourite point and click though, would love to see Simon the sorcerer ported! Or the original Beneath a steel sky.

@Flitzpiepe What country do you live in? In the UK to my knowledge there is no copy of spyro that states no download required on the sleeve. Except for the crash kart double pack.

Look at these on eBay, they all say download required on the front, people had to see discs inside for the year to know if it was all on the disc or not as some copies were complete but with new copies i wasn't going to be able to tell. It's all documented online.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=spyro+reignited+trilogy+ps4&_trksid=p4432023.m4084.l1311&_sacat=0

@Flitzpiepe Oh yeah, this is partly why I went to the trouble of finding the spyro trilogy that's completely on the disc!

@Deadlyblack is it definitely the game though and not the laser going on the console? That's another thing I don't think anyone has mentioned, and that is eventually all consoles will die anyway lol

@Titntin That does surprise me, I can't help but wonder what sort of places they were stored in, maybe just inside houses and not in the loft or garage, but there's just so many variables anyway that we could have the same album on CD but made in different factories/countries and so on.

@Flitzpiepe Peeled off! I've never seen that before! I have seen discs with rough edges before though, maybe that could happen to them. I'm surprised at it being Nirvana though, me and my partner have loads of 90s CDs from around that time with no issues. At least Nirvana's Nevermind has been reissued several times over the years. It'll be bad if albums that have been long deleted start going.

@Flitzpiepe I'm curious what CDs they are! As I said elsewhere I've only seen some bronzing and some with slight rot that were poorly stored in a warehouse somewhere that i got off eBay. But my 1987 Soup Dragons looks perfect and plays perfectly. It might depend on what factory it was made in and materials used etc i suppose. Funny thing i just noticed is there's the Warner Bros logo on it!

@MrGawain the Blu-ray release is fantastic, amazing the work they did on the tng trek blurays!

The only disc rot I've experienced so far is a "bronzing" effect on a handful of 80s CDs but they play fine. Oh wait that's not true, I've bought a couple of early 90s CDs off big ebay sellers that have been stored poorly and had scratches from misuse and they had final tracks that had distortion noises on playback. That just shows how important it is to treat your discs with care and away from cold and damp places!

@MrGawain Does it clean off if you use something appropriately wet? Just asking because my old deep space nine dvds in the slimline cases would get all cloudy and I'd have to clean them, and my brother's did the same. It's the cases affecting them oddly. I bought the newer boxset and all discs are fine now for years.

@themightyant Oh, thank you! I eventually renamed it! Would be nice to remake those crude graphics one day.

https://becausebecause.itch.io/heaven-hell-and-the-neitherworld

I just hope nobody takes my latest game name, which I'm almost afraid to mention it lol

Still bitter I was making a game I'd called Limbo as the title wasn't used and halfway through making it, the actual Limbo game was announced. Then I stubbornly renamed it "Limbo the Adventure Game", which I shouldn't have. I was just so attached to the name!

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/ags-games-in-production/limbo-the-adventure-game/

My patience of holding out will be rewarded!

Goodness knows why Broken Sword Reforged physical seems to have a new release date for July now, which multiple website stores now state. Sob.

@Northern_munkey as I said, amateur made! My pc only game Detective Boiled-Hard on steam is better, because it's intentionally funny. I have made vastly superior graphics since then but no finished game to show.

@Northern_munkey I have come across the developer of those lady in the pink leotard with a gun games and they post about their games with passion, it makes me think they're not actually a shovelware dev but just very amateur.

Which shows Sony would have to be careful when separating shovelware from amateur titles, like my own game Trails and Traces.

@SintasSays I still buy them because

A) I enjoying having a curated collection on my shelf

And

B) I'm frequently selling games I don't wish to keep on to cex but with digital I only buy much cheaper titles because I don't want to gamble on something I might not like and regret it.

That's funny cos my psn expired on Friday 😅

As someone who often buys the retro game collections.. I'll give this one a miss.

I played Broken Sword 2 first, and I don't know if that's why it's my favourite of the first two, but considering they had a successful Kickstarter for the first one it was only a matter of time, surely. Yay!

Oh yeah, I remember being winning my Broken Sword PS1 game from a magazine, official playstation magazine perhaps.

SS trial failed to engage me in its opening tutorial so I deleted it, but hey ho might as well give the full game a try I suppose.

NFS, I think I have played this remaster before with an EA Access sub, plus I played the original back in the day.

Stanley, I played the original version years ago, might as well see what's new about this version.

@Deljo I think you're confusing amateur production with a game purely made to make money with as little effort as possible. And that other person calling Ratalaika a shovelware company, they published Chasing Static and Guard Duty, two pretty good games. They do release a lot of cheapo indie titles but they're generally not the same level of crap as those actual shovelware companies.

I can imagine if I ever released another game on psn it will have very poor visibility due to all the supermarket simulators

Someone once called my own game Trails and Traces shovelware, like as if anyone would make a point and click adventure game as shovelware when it requires meticulous planning.

@TheTraditional I doubt I will even experience disc rot occurring to my discs in my lifetime, I have music CDs from the late 80s that are perfectly fine, but I have seen disc rot from discs bought second hand. I think they were just stored under poor conditions.

@Dragoon1994 Shadow of Rome yessss best roman game ever!

I think AI could actually be beneficial especially for indie devs, if it was used for smaller details such as generating textures, uv mapping, code, that kind of thing. As in indie dev myself I wouldn't want AI to make my game for me, I would derive no satisfaction from that.

But most likely ai will be largely only used by the big corporations to save money like others are saying.

I am eyeing up Tombi/Tomba, I think it is time to buy it!

@PuppetMaster oh there's a ton of them in the uk sale too, although if I tick price filter to not include games below £1 that removes a lot of them.

@TheStormGL I'm not even entirely sure which of the three you think is a AAA production game, but if you mean It Takes Two, I am pretty sure it's not a AAA production, and I have played it.

I don't believe any of them are AAA games, and certainly none of them had AAA price tags attached to them.

I've played all of these games bar infinite wealth and the Japanese only ones and never again, so 0/10 for me and I've played them since the very beginning on PS2. Not gonna feel bad for not remembering this useless information haha.

Also holding out for a physical copy, here's hoping!