CountFunkula78

Great review, I've had my on the PC version for ages. I'd think about the ps4 version, but I can still feel the pain of the massive loading times of that PS2 version of commandos 2. I know it's a different game from a different Dev, on a different system, but that's how bad those loading times were (commandos 2 is a great game, by the way)

On the road for work so Vita all the way. Deep in Danganronpa, loving it so far.

Bishi Bashi Special.
As long as it's fantasy, I want Point Blank 1 and 2 with 2 recreated G-con 45s please. And if that's happening there's time crisis too...
Micro Machines.
OG GTA
Dino Crisis
Parasite Eve
Star Wars : Dark Forces

The hits just keep coming, huh? What a great console.

Ach, I'd love to get into it, but I'm a hoarder and that limited inventory kills it for me. Suppose I'll have to wait for Skywind!

@roe @ApostateMage
I thought that Ghost Recon :Wildlands was like a 3rd person Farcry (although a large part of that would have to be the homogeneous nature of ubisoft games in general, and I have to admit I really found it boring). Have either of you tried it?

@gmxs
I've not got a pro, and I've been playing Just Cause 3 on and off for over a year and no major problems. Definitely not a buggy, glitchy, laggy mess. Maybe I've been lucky.
I bought it for about £20 with the dlc and thought I got my money's worth

Wolfenstein is just ridiculous for that price, really good value

@solocapers
Ha! They tried to spin that crap at me when I bought my Ps4 - went in and asked for a 1tb ps4, spotty teenager told me I'd have to pick from the black Friday 'deals' on offer (it was the Monday after).
I said great, I'll take the one with star wars and until dawn. Kid goes in the back and neck beard 'manager' tells me I can't have it because they're not doing those deals ('those are black Friday deals, and its Monday today, sir')
Didn't even particularly care for the deal in the first place, and the condescension was really irritating. Anyway, I really wanted to take home a ps4 so I persevered. Asked what they could offer me. 500 GB ps4 with uncharted remastered pack in, and last of us remastered extra. Said I'd played all those games, didn't really want 500gb, but would go with it if they would let me change last of us for another game of same value, or failing that just a stand alone 1tb console (they let it slip that they still had the stock). Nope 'sony won't let us bla bla bla'
Sony wont let you sell consoles? Are you dumb? You're going to make me buy a console from a supermarket? You've actually got what I want, but won't sell it to me?
Laughed in his face, walked out ordered the exact bundle I wanted from shopto and about £200 extra on games and never gone back
Fools.

I hope the delay is to coincide with the new TV season.....
I really need the towelie dlc, so will probably break my no preordering rule.
I adored the first game, and I watch south park on almost constant rotation, but although the mechanics and tone were solid, did anyone else think the balance was off? Fights tended to be super easy with an occasional super hard one.

Wow, that escalated quickly, huh?

@LiamCroft
Thanks for the review, can't have been fun to push through a game you obviously didn't enjoy! Was going to nip out and get it this morning, but will wait now. Early impressions looked good, but LOTF was dreck and if the game doesn't hold its colour, I will wait.
You mentioned there are no heavy/light attacks, but I also read elsewhere that you can hold down buttons to charge heavy attacks, is that the case?

I will definitely get it fairly soon, as I've been wanting a sci fi souls for some time.
Don't reply to the detractors or feel you have to justify your opinion. Obviously none of us have actually played it, so can't really talk, although I do hope I end up with a different opinion!
Cheers

I've read that Micro Machines is out on June 23rd - looking like a great month for retro racers!

Luna from FF 15 is the only beard I'm aware of on ps4...😋

@Mikethemosher
There's a tradition of subheading puns in game journalism, especially in UK games journalism, that goes back to the early days of print media.
It's almost a competition to be as lame as possible.
Chris Scullion recently had a great retrospective of some of his best and worst on Tired Old Hack.
I suggest trying one of the more asinine US sites such as US gamer or Polygon (both great at what they do, but take themselves too seriously) if it bothers you that much, mate.
Some of us quite enjoy it, but unfortunately we Brits aren't really known for our sense of humour, are we?

Been waiting for something like this, but not going to get back to my ps4 before the sale ends. Hopefully will be on UK ps plus or similar deal again.

@get2sammyb
Cool, it does sound sharper/brighter in your video than what I remember... Either way I'm going to be singing along, although no need to worry about people on the bus thinking there's something wrong with me...😀

Has the soundtrack been remastered or is it original recording? Those cute lil' things singing gets me every time!

@get2sammyb
Space butt... like when Han Solo wears tight trousers? 😂

I know what you mean about price drops tho, I bought Deus ex at launch (admittedly only £35 or so on shopto), and it was a tenner within months, wish I'd waited!

@THRILLHOU
There's a cheat code you can put into GTA V to get it to work in VR and you get unlimited jetpack.

Of course they're bringing back the naval combat...
The trouble is that AC has become such a swill trough of gameplay mechanics, pointless fetching, convoluted story and what seems like design-by-committee that I'm not even sure that ubisoft really knows what works any more. Most of the things AC set out to do has been done better by other series by now.
I'm sure it will look very pretty and be very big, but I'm just as sure that there will be no dedicated 'sneak' button, the parkour will be shonky, and I'll spend ages planning the perfect assassination just to end up having to gank the guy and run away due to a pigeon farting at the wrong time.
It's not like I particularly dislike the series either, but they've had years to get on top of these issues...
Oh Ubisoft.....

@Quintumply
👍

I am Daniel Chang.
What's​ the story on local multiplayer?

Fear the Old Blood

Wipeout on Vita. Gonna give G-Police (yet) another go, maybe this time I'll get past the escort mission.

Got my fingers crossed for The Surge being amazing.... I've been fantasising about a sci-fi souls since bloodborne...

Call of what?
Never heard of it, mate...😋

Sounded like a fun idea in the article, but it looks like a mobile phone game in the trailer

My original cartridge was slightly broken, so that if you touched it at all, the game would crash. It will be nice to play it without worrying about someone knocking the console/cart!
Great to see this series getting some love, the previous game (WB in Monster Land) was the first game I truly lusted after. You never forget your first crush 😀

Too poor to afford P5, so I'm replaying P4G on vita

@Galvatron
Wow, reap the whirlwind huh?
The responses here are some of the reason it wins so much - people ADORE these games. They are also super accessible, and something of a flagship series for PS and Sony. When I binged through U4 in December, even my wife was interested (hates most games other than GTA or racing in general).
I've played them all except 3 (inc. Vita game), and think they are good.
At the risk of attracting my own slice of whirlwind, I agree with you that they are a bit linear - but that's what people like about them, besides if you'd like an open world version, the newer Tomb Raider games hit that spot for me.
The gameplay difficulty can be adjusted, particularly by turning off the hints/button prompts.
Lastly, there is clear development through the series - U4 on ps4 is vastly superior to U1 on ps3, some people have only played the earlier games years ago and think 'what's the fuss?', but U4 really holds its own. ND have almost carved out their own sub-genre of the third person action game.
If you compare U4 to a really poor example of the style - the order 1866 - you can really feel the difference.
Anyway, it's definitely worth £23, so give it a go.

The art is unique and well implemented.
The gameplay is ok. Bit of a Power Stone vibe, which could be fun in a trashy way.
The 'edgy' humour? If that frog in the tutorial was a real person, it'd get a slap if it talked like that round my ends.

Already got a PC, so thanks but no, I'd spend the money upgrading instead.
If my 360 dies, maybe, mostly for all my Rocksmith dlc.

I didn't even know Jamestown was on ps4! Had my eye on it a while so going to fall off the wagon and buy my first new game of this year (3 months...Fairly good!).
Also thinking about Rainbow Moon, I'm not really sure what it is, but I hear it referenced a lot

@Ralizah

EA doesn't care. EA will survive whatever happens. If Bioware becomes unprofitable, they'll close the studio and buy another one to run into a creative grave, meanwhile keeping the ip for remasters, f2p mobile games and a reboot in 10 years time

Please, please, let this be just a mega trolling, and tomorrow they release the real game and laugh at us all as revenge for making them change the ending of 3 (I mean the first change, after the ending leaked in development, not the second, post release change because of the internet babies)

@ShogunRok
Thanks for the reply, I thought your article was well balanced and seemed fair.

It was bad enough that you can't choose a race for your character (I was looking forward to playing as a Krogan or Drell), but most of them aren't even in it....
I didn't think Thane got enough screen time in ME 2 (same goes for the Geth character), no Drell or Krogan squad mate in me3, and now they drop most of the races altogether! I got the impression that Thane was really popular...Maybe it's just me.

I think they have totally focused on the wrong things, but I hope the game finds its audience. This might be it for me & Bioware now, too many bland games that demand too much time.

The more I think about this the more frustrating it seems. Why send the Salarians (with their notably short lifespan) to populate far off galaxies? You'd choose races with a higher chance of survival.
I know that they are a high tech 'scientist' race, if only there was some other race with an affinity for tech, but that perhaps needed to find a new homeworld because they were living in a flotilla after losing their planet.....Anything like that in the existing fiction?

@ShogunRok

I've heard that only the salarians, krogan, asari and turians made it...
So no Drell, Quarians, Hanar, Geth, Elcor, Volus, Rachni...I could go on...Is this so?

If it were just the animation I wouldn't be so bothered, but the dialogue I've heard sounds awful, quests look bland and I'm disappointed that we still have to play as a human...All those races, and I can't be any of them. I was hoping they'd add ship-to-ship combat too, doesn't seem likely at this point....
I think I'll give it a miss and replay Buck Rogers : Countdown to Doomsday instead. Still the best Sci-Fi RPG, and it was released in 1990.

I finished Doom on Tuesday night... £12 is well worth it.
Campaign is not padded, there is not a shred of fat on that game.
I found some bosses to be a bit frustrating (if only because load times are a little long), but that's just me.
Titanfall 2 has better (but very different) MP, but Doom is the best sp FPS on ps4 right now.

@JoeBlogs

I can't remember the last game that I was actually bothered about on plus for ps3. At this point I'm downloading them more because I'm an incurable hoarder rather than building my collection in a meaningful way!

Well it won't be completely dead to me until they switch the servers off.
The wife and I both have one, great for free multiplayer GTA V, Farcry 4, Dead Island, etc

Duck Tales?
Woo hoo!

@Folderoll

No, GTA isn't a separate issue. Both are ultimately pressing buttons to make flashy pictures and numbers change, this just boils it down to it's most basic level. Your brain is filling in the blanks and creating enjoyment for itself.
Anyway, as I said above, I don't like this line of thinking....

These things are absolute evil, and I'm only slightly joking.
Cookie Clicker almost made me question why I bother playing games at all, and if games are a waste of time so are films, books, music, art, everything... Nothing but a dark path to regret. Luckily I have very strong willpower!
Really useful as a psychological experiment to show how the brain handles reward and motivation, but almost criminal to use as a microtransaction generator.

What hard drives do people recommend based on size/price/quality?

@kyleforrester87

Thanks!

The only thing that excites me is more 65DOS.
Does anyone know if you can just buy the soundtrack?

This is the Mariah Carey of games. Amazing technical ability, but lacking in genuine heart and soul.

As time progresses, I lose more interest. There have always been better examples of NMS's original premise (Elite)... and I think it will be obsolete and superceded very soon, even on ps4.

I bought it at launch (not preorder), but traded next day for Overwatch. Thought I might rebuy at some point, but I'm not so sure any more.

'Abraham Van Helsing was first introduced to the world in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula'

No, it was out on PC before that 😋

@Fath

All games consoles traditionally sell at a loss. It's known in the industry as a 'loss leader'. It happens in other industries too