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Ride 3 is the big one for me, coming out on November 30th. Grip is already out, and is great arcade racing fun; if you like futuristic racing games it's well worth picking up.

John Marston for me. Maybe I'll feel differently after 8 years, but Marsten has lived with me longer as a character (in my mind). They are both good characters though, in my opinion.

... because a first-person Adventure game is just so much similar to a 3rd-person action-RPG [sarcasm].

I like 'Attack of the Fanboy'-s review though, it makes me interested in playing the game.

Call of Cthulhu for me. It's rare to get a Lovecraft-based game that actually stays true to the style and atmosphere of the books, and is not some jump-scare, note-collecting and/or gore-fest thing (i.e. nothing in the slightest like Lovercraft).

Death Mark is very interesting as well. I watched a youtuber translate and play through the Japanese version. I had no idea it was coming to consoles in the West, but here it is. Japanese horror? 'yes' please.

Picked up The Lost Child and Shadows: Awakening from one of the current sales, and I've been enjoying what I've played of them. Also, continuing on with Cthulhu.

Well, the developers make Sherlock Holmes adventure games. I think it's very strange that so many people (in the gaming world) expected this to be like an Amnesia/Oulast/Layes of Fear/P.T. - experience. Somewhere along the line people need to think more, use their noggin.

Lovecraft's books are not gore and jump-scare material, but are 90% about the build-up; the slow discovery, with creepiness and eeriness. The game reflects this really well. The developers understood the material.

It would have been very different if Red Barrels (the Outlast devs) announced they would be making a Cthulhu-themed game. In that case I would not have expected an adventure game, but a contemporary horror game, ... with all the jump-scares and note collecting they bring.

L.A. Noire is still my favourite Rockstar game, RDR2 doesn't change that. Rockstar is great at characters, settings and storytelling, ... their strengths in my opinion. The "gamey" stuff, like shooting, have always been somewhat clunky ... however I would say the same about 90% of all 3rd-person games (assuming you play this in 3rd person).

A mobile game makes sense to me, since mobile gamers outnumber "stationary gamers". It's a way for Blizzard to expand into the huge and growing mobiles markets, as well as existing markets that were not so big for them before. Even if they loose a few of their older fans, they stand to gain considerably more (potentially).

For me this is a sign that Diablo IV will most-likely also be released on mobiles, not just the typical platforms. In other words, I think this is also a way of pre-marketing Diablo IV on mobiles, testing out the market and their mobiles game engine.

I agree though, that this is probably the wrong crowd to make this announcement for. One the other hand, each and everyone of these fans surely has a mobile phone. It's not as if the game will be expensive and difficult to get, unlike a PS4, XBox or Switch exclusive title.

I also don't like the stigma that is being placed on mobile gamers, it is obnoxious. It's the same vile and condescending talk the PC Master-race people use against console gamers.

Also, this is just one diablo game, it's not even Diablo IV.

Being multiplayer is enough to keep me away.

That said:
1) media folk always exaggerate things in my opinion
2) PushSquare is silly-picky when it comes to games ... again, in my opinion

I do agree that, visually, it looks like Fallout 4 but with multiplayer in it. We've been spoiled by the prettyness of several games since then. However, it is still in Beta, I'm sure they are focusing on the nuts and bolts before making it look nice.

@lacerz not to mention the puddles ...

Nice to see another story-driven game. This looks interesting.

Lots of good memories; the Alien Trilogy, Army Men, Castrol Honda Superbike, Colin McRae Rally, Colony Wars, Descent, Dino Crisis, Discworld, Driver, F1, King's Field , Nascar, V-rally etc.

The main ones though must be Gran Turismo.

Meh, a few interesting ones ... but I'd much rather just re-buy a PS1, and only buy the games I'd actually enjoy. I don't like the idea of paying for a default set of games I won't like.

@beemo Nascar 3 is a 5/5 for me, it delivers on everything I'd want from a Nascar game: the AI is great, the Career mode is quite complex and huge, it has a very good Management mode where you build and manage your own team, the physics can be arcade or more complex, it runs smoothly on a regular PS4, the level of immersion - into a Nascar experience - is nicely done. For me it's easily one of the best racing games to come out in modern times.

Dakar is a 4/5 for me. The AI is very dumb (don't seem to recognize your presence at all), but it's not a big problem since you are usually so far away from other AI drivers: as with the actual Dakar, it's a rather lonesome racing experience. It's not a perfect game in terms technical quality (graphics, sound etc.), but it's good enough and I rate it highly because it's such a unique form of racing, with a surprising amount of depth and scope in terms of gameplay.

V-Rally 4 is a 3/5 so far. The big problem is the AI: it is very inconsistent; I have to adjust it on a race-by-race basis more or less. With a difficulty setting of 50 I could easily win one race by a big margin only to become dead-last in the next one. Apart from that I do enjoy the game, it has the physics and graphics of WRC 7 but the gameplay modes of Dirt 1-3.

Some racing with V-Rally 4, Nascar Heat 3 and Dakar 18 on Saturday. Some Batman Arkham Asylum on Sunday, maybe continue with Owlboy as well.

I don't think teenage girls should be depicted in this way, so I 100% agree with censorship like this. Arguing in the name of consumer-choice is odd to me, as that discussion should be limited to micro-transactions and similar superficial stuff, not serious matters like this.

My thought has always been that games like this are fully aimed at Japanese gamers, most of which are teenage boys as far as I know. They are not aimed at adult Westerners at all. So I don't feel they promote pedophilia. The question for me is whether these games should be marketed outside of Japan in the first place, considering the majority of Western gamers are adults, it ends up in the wrong demographic by default. It's an irrelevant question perhaps, since I still think it should be censored, whether it's in Japan or elsewhere. Censoring stuff like this does not hurt anyone.

Sony is a distributor and platform-holder, it is fully within their ethical or moral right to decide what their platform is used for and what it wants, or doesn't want, to associate itself with.

"Fans" ?! I don't think so. I think the vast majority of fans, i.e. people who have played the first game and enjoyed it ... since you can't be a fan if you are new to a series, are really happy just to get a new and really good Red Dead game.

Once console gamers start focusing on [marginally improved] graphics as 'the' most important factor, they should probably switch to PC gaming. Not that you shouldn't care, but the degree to which people care can be very silly.

I will definitely buy it at some point, but my priority is on games closer to my liking, like Call of Cthulhu, Dragon Quest Xi, Ni no Kuni 2 and Ride 3.

Well I'm obviously excited for this news, and it's just in time for the Winter holidays it seems.

I agree that both sides can be absurd, but they are vastly different in how they react. From the left you mostly get moral or ethical condemnation, it's more about spreading and creating awareness, from the right however ... you get death threats, rape threats, hacking, harassment of every possible kind.

So 'yeah', while one party is absurd every now and then, the other is constantly dumb, violent and vile. You don't have to guess which one is which.

With so many right-wingers in the gaming world today, a GTA game poking fun at modern politics would launch a tonne of misery towards the company.

la la la ... 'Jackie has the ability to dismember herself', OK I'm convinced now! I like a good interesting story of-course, but I want something odd from Swery.

That is great news. It's nice to see it do well among so many modern-styled games, with their focus on über-photorealism. It's going to be my Winter Holiday game, really looking forwards to playing it.

We are already "bug-testing" and “fixing teething problems” with every game we buy, since a modern game is a work in progress, always updating and patching (including hits like God of War and Witcher 3). So there's nothing new about this in practicality,

Here we go again on the predictable Tomb Raider hate-train...

All prices go down eventually, how soon is irrelevant since you've already bought it at full price; a week, a month, a year ... you still paid full price. How quickly it drops doesn't change anything for you.

@KingdomHeartsFan Exactly, that would have been my point as well; they obviously thought it was worth the full price, or they are some rather spoilt kids. These days people use conspiracy theories to explained everything.

It is "selling" really well on PC as well (pardon my cynicism). It's not surprising that fighting games are doing well on console though, especially a Japanese game on a Japanese system; it goes hand-in-hand I'd say. It's also not the first time we see physical copies doing great in terms of sales, ... yet it still feels surprising somehow.

@b1ackjack_ps That would be very cool indeed. I didn't think of a tactical 'Aliens'-based game until you mentioned it.

If they would have made another 'Isolation', people would probably have complained about it: 'oh, it's just like the first one, boring ... bring me something new and totally unique'. That's how most people would react, especially the media.

A tactical FPS? We haven't had one of those since 'Rainbow Six Vegas 2' in my opinion. Although the Ghost Warrior games are very much tactical I'd argue. Still, we don't have that many of them lately. If they make it with enough depth, it could be fun to play one of these again. If it's a multiplayer game I'm out.

Batman, Batman and some more Batman (the Arkham series) on the PS4. I just wanted to replay some of my favourite games.

It's partially a matter of costs now, back in my early days of gaming (80's and early-mid 90's) you only had physical magazines as a source. Today you get the same info for free on the web.

I've also become much more eccentric in my taste of games than when I used to read gaming magazines; 90% of the games I play and enjoy today are seen as mediocre, boring or trash by the mainstream gaming press. My taste in games, or combo of games I enjoy, are not represented today by any gaming media, whether it's the online or physical kind.

I do miss the old days in most ways, there was much less BS, and the simple uncomplicated enjoyment of gaming magazines. Games journalism was also much better back then.

It looks stunning and could offer a very interesting experience.

I haven't played it for myself, but I have friends who did. They lost interest rather quickly though and went back to WoW, ... but that was a couple of years ago, maybe it has become more interesting since. It's very old-school dungeon-grind stuff if I remember it correctly.

Probably a good idea ! More publishers should do that. It should be common sense.

@JJ2 Obsidian has a much stronger history with PC gaming than with consoles. It has always been their focus you could argue, looking at their games; they look and play very much like the old pc games.

Didn't Bethesda recently brag about their single-player focus? That's what makes this Fallout MMO look odd to me, ... on the other hand they did make an Elder Scrolls MMO before this, so ...

I like Bethesda's games in general, but enjoy the games they publish more than those they make themselves.

Hm, I already own what I'd possibly want. Plenty of really good games in my opinion though: What Remains of Edith Finch, Observer, Darksiders, Soma, Evil Within 1 & 2, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Prey, Alien Isolation, the Last of Us. These would be my picks.

@Danny_C Not a big fan of playing horror games either, but I had to get Alien Isolation simply because I'm a big fan of the movies, especially the first one. The fidelity the game has to the first movie, and all the lore, was enough to make me buy the game. I was amazingly stressed playing the game, but it was so well-done.

@AFCC It depends. The Indie scene in general have a good number of decent/great ones, especially on PC. They are increasingly better and more complex/interesting. It also depends on what people consider 'horror'. To me any creepy game is a horror game, like Prey and Gone to Rapture, as well as the upcoming Call of Cthulhu and The Sinking City games.

@JJ2 Yeah I noticed, pushsquare was quick to post the update

It's not surprising though, the gaming press always condemns before the facts are known, ... and sometimes even when the facts are there [when they couldn't be bothered doing the research].

It did seem strange to me, because it almost sounded as if Rockstar was bragging about the 100 hours, which makes sense if you have staff who are dedicated and passionate enough to put that many hours into the game: 'look how passionate our people are'.

Not a nice thing to hear about, ... but I'm still gonna buy and enjoy the game, can't worry about everyone's life decisions.

Fast Striker looks fun, a 2D sidescroll shooter.

I was OK with the ports, mainly for nostalgia, but remakes would have been better. I'm not sure it would have been worth the investment though, by Sega, considering the muted response the ports received. I don't think they sold that well. Some of that has to do with the technical issues, but mostly I think it has to do with a lack of genuine interest in these older games. Some of us have no problem with dated graphics and gameplay, but most people do.

@Rob_230 Maybe it's the "masterrace" people, they like doing stuff like this.

I've had my settings on 'friend's only' from the start, which should be the default setting for any system, whether it's PS4, XBox, Steam, or other. I don't know why they set the most vulnerable options as the default.

@hi_drnick I still have hopes for a sequel to The Order, there's certainly enough depth for it in terms of lore and characters.

Just racing games: Dakar 18, MotoGP 18, Nascar Heat 3, V-Rally 4, and F1 2018. A nice variety of things; from deserts in Peru, rainy Le Mans, a Bristol dirt-track, hillclimbs in China, and a cool evening in Bahrain.

I did enjoy the campaigns in the previoius CoD games, for the epic spectacle they usually offered, especially Infinite Warfare and Ghost. While I am of the opinion that developers should either focus on multiplayer or single-player, it would have been cool if they had offered a stand-alone campaign for this game for €20-25 or so. Multiplayer is just not for me, so these ratings don't mean anything to me.

I still prefer the older games and the "typical" gameplay format; AC 2, Brotherhood, Unity, Syndicate ... but I also like these new ones a great deal. The locations are the main attraction for me though, with the latest two. The RPG and choice elements are nice to have, but I would have been fine without them. My #1 game shifts between Black Flag, AC2 or Brotherhood.

I more or less only watch walkthroughs of games I don't intend on playing for myself. Typically horror games. I love horror movies and horror tv-shows, but I rarely enjoy playing a horror game. Of-course, once in a while a horror game comes along that I actually want to play, like Alien Isolation, Soma or Observer. In these cases I don't watch a walkthrough until after I have played the game.

Back when I mainly played PC games, I relied quite heavily on walkthroughs for tips and guidance. Especially since I played lots of strategy games and old-school RPGs, like Sudden Strike, Europa Universalis, Might & Magic and Age of Wonders. The learning curve in these games was brutal, and I was bad at them.

Yes people, jump on the bandwagon and start hating this game, it's OK again. We all need games, franchises and developers to loath, what's a gamer's life without it? It always falls on specific franchises to be this pre-destined target: Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed, Dynasty Warriors, Need for Speed, Just Cause, and so on. It doesn't really matter how good their next game is, it's mandatory to continuously find new ways to complain about it, it's 'what we do'.