DiggleDog

Long live single player. Long love survival horror.

Betting it all on Dead Space

Reminds me of MediEvil and plain old medieval.

Guillemot would want to be careful. The French did invent the Guillotine after all.

Had to do out a list of games to buy over the next two years just to budget for them lol.

Those are absolutely insane expectations for a new IP. What were they thinking?

Gladly stopped buying Ubisoft games around the time of the abuse reports. Doesn’t hurt that their output has been boilerplated into oblivion.

@GreatAuk exactly my issue. Crash 4 was really good at keeping the focus on the platforming so I’m hoping a Toys For Bob helmed orignal Spyro would do the same.

Binged the Reignited Trilogy over Christmas and by the Year of the Dragon, I was begging it to end. This is coming from someone who loved Spyro way back when, but the over abundance of gimmicks and extras in that game was fatiguing. That being said, Toys For Bob are a phenomenal team.

Not a huge Last of Us fan but chuffed to see the show executed to a high standard. We’re in a golden age of adaptations. Castlevania, Cuphead, Arcane, Sonic, Mario and now the Last of Us.

I know Bloober is a pretty spotty when it comes to weaving sensitive subject matter in their horror titles but actively rooting for them to ***** up the remake is plain old cynical to me.

@The_Pixel_King you’re going to hit a wall with early boss Margit the Fell Omen but don’t be discouraged. That’s your cue to diverge from the story path, make your own adventures and level up as you please. Elden Ring is one of the rare open world game that doesn’t bombard you with objectives but allows the land to pique your curiosity. Don’t be afraid to summon other players co-op as well, that’s half the fun.

Took me 3 runs of Demons Souls to get the plat just now. Don’t mind it at all when the trophies nudge you towards experimenting and trying new things each go around.

@UltimateOtaku91 there’s a great amount of exploration to do if the combat isn’t your thing

Picked it up on my Switch. It’s a lovely wee fusion of Zelda and Dark Souls. A bit too short for the price though.

Cult of the Lamb consumed me for the twenty odd hours it took to platinum. Phenomenal game.

That initial artwork of Luke and Jamie they used for the State of Play was actually perfect. Very reminiscent of vanilla SFIV’s box art.

@Smiffy01 I’d love for you to elaborate on how asking to be considerate of other people is comparable to the Third Reich. Or are you just another one of those types who throws words like fascism around without first consulting the dictionary?

Previously it was the Sonic and Pokémon fans at war over which game was the ugliest

It makes a lot of sense to bring back Crisis Core if the VII remakes are aiming to unite a lot of the extended universe plot lines under one umbrella. Weird to see it go multiplat while the main VII games are still PS/PC only.

The air has been let out of my hype balloon. Skill Up’s review really just laid the game bare for me.

Black Friday has cleaned me out for games but I’ll definitely be checking this out, probably next Halloween sale.

Fantastic game but a bit weird to be using a Switch game to debut Monster Hunter on the PS5/Series.

At least it’s not Sega.

This game has shot up the list of my must plays seemingly from nowhere.

@Dezzy70 in fairness, we’re not factoring the amount of young children who play Pokémon for whom reviews and quality assurance don’t really come into it

Beautiful tribute.

@NateGoesLive all my friends have been raving about it so now is the time. Agh, haven’t even thought about GOW. One day…

Demon Souls, Integrade and Cult of the Lamb for me.

Keeping my eye on this one

@Korgon I’m surprised they never did give it another go. Platform fighters that slap various IP together are bigger than ever now. Nintendo managing to get Final Fantasy, Persona, Metal Gear, Tekken and Kingdom Hearts into their game just speaks to the size of the ball Sony dropped.

A decent mix of titles for sure. I can’t see anything but Elden Ring getting the crown but I’m glad to Xenoblade and Stray get the nod.

Not interested in supporting Harry Potter due to the reasons alluded to in the disclaimer but it does looks like the devs are pulling out all the stops for the fans. I’m sure 8 year old me would lose his mind if he saw this.

I’m really enjoying Horizon Forbidden West but Aloy outright telling me how to progress in certain parts has irritated me to a degree I didn’t expect. Now, I don’t mind it so much when there’s a few characters as it’s only realistic they’d try to puzzle it out together, but stuff like “I bet this specific item would work on this specific thing” is just annoying. There should be a feature to turn it off or at least a button prompt to hear the hint if you so wish.

It’s my incentive to pass my assignments next month

Saddos investing way too much of their personal self worth in a product they had absolutely no hand in creating. Disgusting carry on. Hope the reviewer isn’t too shook up and continues in their field.

Actually so chuffed for the blue boy and the fact so many are rooting for him.

A 2 point difference on Metacritic is hardly any metric to go by, especially when Elden Ring and Ragnorak have different priorities as games.

I’m not not going to skip the game because of the diversity issue, but that interview response was so bad. Really weird coming from a Square employee considering the company is releasing Forspoken soon, a fantasy game with a black lead.

Between this and VII Rebirth, it’s a good time to be a Final Fantasy Fan. Square really needs a win after their string of bad decisions.

@4kgk2 I prefer Phil to Jim honestly, or perhaps Don Mattrick really was just that toxic to the Xbox brand. The games on PlayStation have always been what attracts me but Phil’s put in the work to make Xbox enticing. Meanwhile, Jim seems to be a walking PR disaster.

Isn’t he a Joe Wicks type figure in Japan? So it’s a parody of one of his workouts for children?

Funnily enough, I feel like a classic LittleBigPlanet would be massive on PC. The community and creation aspects seem tailor made for the platform.

@Tharsman my assumption was that once upon a time gaming was drawn along tribal lines and Japanese consumers/devs were naturally inclined to support native businesses like Nintendo and Sony over Microsoft, leading to this image problem Xbox has with traditionally Japanese content.

It only makes sense that the Japanese market alone can’t sustain these ballooning development costs. The sad part is that more niche series are likely to fall by the wayside while companies go in on safe bet IPs that are sure to perform globally.

I’m curious as to what the factors are that would allow the PC gaming market to go mostly digital with little issue but not console?

Haven’t played 2 but 1 was an excellent experience. It wears the Soul inspiration very abundantly but I found the speed of combat made it exhilarating and empowering to play. Fighting Yokai as an Irish Geralt in feudal Japan is something that needs to be seen to be believed.

So much talk of Bloodborne, I may have to fire it up again

That’s good to hear. The Resi games (3 remake notwithstanding) tend to strike a good balance for me with length. Not too short that I feel ripped off but short enough that I immediately want to start a new save and try new things.

I’ve come to regard Uncharted as one of PlayStation’s least interesting properties now. The original trilogy works in the context of design trends of the era they were released in but I found 4 hard to replay because I found little compelling about it other than it being a showcase for the PS4’s graphical grunt.