Dogbreath

Never played Rave Racer.

I've done the obvious and watched videos on Youtube, and honestly I don't think it's that great.

I'd prefer Revolution and Rage Racer to be released on Premium.

As far as Arcade racing games go, I'd love games like Chase HQ, Power Drift, Super Monaco GP and Continental Circus etc rather than the early 3D games.

Outrun is great on my Switch.

@Divergent95 couldn't agree more. It was solid.

You'd think it was a Veilguard level catastrophe based on the narrative.

It's actually to the shame of the games media that they scored Veilguard higher than Starfield. If they had any credibility left, they'd have lost it all there.

But yeah it's not Skyrim or Fallout 4. Well actually it is, but it's not 2011 anymore. If those games released today they'd be on a par with Starfield.

It's a 9/10 if released 12 years ago!

Shadows is like Far Cry 6 in that recent releases were damn excellent (Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla, FC3, FC4, FC5) but Shadows and FC6 were a tiny step back.

There was some trash that detracted (scout system, base building, dual ammo system), where the focus was on systems that went in the wrong direction.

Still good games but getting a bit tired and those ideas to keep them fresh ended up backfiring.

Given that this will likely run horribly on a base PS5, I’d rather they did not enhance it for the Pro and just focused on running the PS5 graphic settings at a locked 30 FPS.

An absolutely baffling decision and pricing.

A fully enhanced PS5 version, with pro support, PS5 specific trophies, at about half the asking price, would likely have sold pretty darn well.

I really enjoyed Avowed, the combat, exploration and all the secrets to find were excellent.

I hope they make another, but I fear that they will make another Pillars game after seeing the success of BG3.

In reality, I think they should make another first person game in the universe, with the same combat system as Avowed, but with the darker art style that the early previews of that game had.

Pity about the Outer Worlds, but it was always missing something including the gunplay being very average. The universe was very much an acquired taste, and not on a par with Fallout if we are honest.

It is almost certainly a 7 out of 10, suffering from poor performance, balance and grind.

I wish that this game and lots of games turned out to be excellent, but my default assumption is that they are awful, based on past experience.

That way, I can only be surprised in a good way and won’t lose any money. No doubt many people have already pre-ordered. They never learn.

@Zeroo if it had been doing massive numbers, they'd be handing Druckmann a blank cheque and asking him to help write a season 4 and 5.

I'd love to play this, but fear I'd find it too stressful.

But that's all academic as I have zero tolerance for performance issues, especially for games that look like that.

Does it have Folding at Home running as a trojan in the background?!?!

I'm seeing comments expressing concern that a Portal purchase at this stage is too close to PS6 to be justified.

Just wanted to question that narrative - "question", not disagree per se.

Unless there is a significant controller revision with new buttons that are essential to play PS6 games, why would it not be capable of streaming PS6 games, any more than your TV would not be capable?

Indeed, with the PS5 to PS6 cross GEN period likely to be one of the longest ever experienced, even if the current portal couldn’t play PS6 games, you would still be streaming the PS5 version without issue, many years after the PS6 has launched.

Heck, many people are excited for this rumoured new handheld with onboard processing, which will only be slightly better than a PS4…

The screen is not enough. The compression of the stream tends to crush the blacks in my experience, causing a loss of detail in dark scenes that wasn't helped by the poor screen.

In addition to the OLED it needs a higher bitrate. If not possible with console to Portal streaming, at least the web streaming should be improved.

The Chinese Room are one of my favourite devs and they were utterly wasted on this.

Sums up the current generation in general, the industry taking fantastic developers and having them produce pure trash against their will and often cancelling it. End result we get nothing/slop.

Ironically best game I've played this gen is Still Wakes the Deep.

Anyhow, I too have heard that most of the problem is the false marketing that has fans of the original criticising it, but it's decent in its own right.

I might give it a go one day just because I like the dev, but I don't really have much interest in the subject matter.

I've previously expressed concerns about it's performance on console, balancing issues, grind etc.

However one of the biggest issues I have is when Eastern developers make Western RPG's or games set in Western-esque settings with Western looking characters.

Dragon's Dogma being one example, FFXVI, countless Korean MMO's or even Resident Evil.

Something always feels "off" and "weird" to me. Like it's familiar but not quite right, almost an uncanny valley feeling. Whatever it is, it prevents me suspending disbelief and buying into the world.

It would no doubt be the same in reverse if I tried to make a game in fictional setting that closely resembled Korea or Japan.

I bought it on my PS5 Pro a while ago and it looked pretty decent (edit: actually it looked damn good still).

It wasn't exactly screaming out for a higher frame rate as its a very slow game.

Don't think fans of 2 should be put off of trying the original if there isn't an update.

At the same time it does feel like now would be a good time to release one and exploit the interest that 2 has generated.

I'm more interested in this than GTA.

I am concerned though that if you take too long to develop a game, you run into problems where parts of it become outdated before the game is released, so then you have to delay to modernise the stuff you built first.

I can see that turning into a vicious circle.

Even to the point you have to move to an entirely new engine.

You start off making something of AAA quality at the time, and the next thing you know it looks like a budget indie title and about 10 years behind what a few kids can produce in their bedroom using UE5.

Agree with themightyant in that I do this as an individual.

I've been actively boycotting 95% of the mainstream websites since the mid-2010's as their coverage was openly hostile to consumers and the criteria on which they reviewed games had no relevance to what I personally care and don't care about.

I'm now mostly watching YouTube reviews but even there I subscribe to two or three reviewers (out of tens of thousands) who share my tastes.

There is no point in me reviewing them though, due to the highly subjective nature.

I don't know why people complain about reviewers. If their reviews don't match your experiences, why are you still reading them? There is a wide market of choice out there.

I guess the real evil are sites like metacritic and publishers who base developer bonuses on the scores of a shady selection of irrelevant sites who metacritic assign disproportionate weightings to. That can distort the market in a bad way.

Given that the market for this type of game is at saturation point, a good poll question would have been "which title that you usually play, are you not playing whilst you are playing Highguard?".

I hate these movements where it is fashionable to hate on a game no one has even played. Sometimes they turn out to be right, sometimes they turn out to be wrong and the game is decent.

The problem with the latter is that the game never recovers.

I don’t know if this game is good or bad, but I do know the reason for the hate campaign is the most stupid I’ve seen. It wouldn’t exist if the reveal had been in the middle of the show.

I actually lose a lot of goodwill for titles when the media are given exclusive access to play short sections like this.

Not with all games, but mainly with games like RE that have previously had demos.

I don't believe anything positive I read in such previews, as the industry is pretty notorious for not providing future access to any previewer who says something negative, so I understand why even my most trusted sites and Youtubers would choose their words carefully.

I feel they should have released a demo for everyone to try. That worked a treat with 7 and 8 and built far more hype than media exclusive previews.

It was actually the inventory management system that did it for me.

I'm sooooo done with games that have inventory weight limits. Nothing else in the game is remotely realistic, so why hamstring the gameplay with something so frustrating and irritating?

It doesn't have newtonian space combat physics for christ's sake, but I have to spend 80% of my time juggling inventory weight in the name of "realism".

Not that the inventory is realistic either, because my character visually doesn't have 6 rifles on them in the third person view.

Not just Starfield with that problem.

Makes perfect sense. My brother was friendly with the guy in our local games shop and used to get games ahead of launch all the time. I'm sure these days people are getting them further up the distribution network and far earlier.

Not sure why there would be tears either. This isn't a 12 hour campaign type game that you play and immediately sell. It's a game that makes sense digitally as it is something you keep long term.

Plus as I always say; we see publishers/developers spitting in the face of gamers with gambling boxes, pre-order DLC and other scummy practises, and they still crawl over broken glass to throw money at them.

So I don't seriously believe the hype monkeys who've been frothing at the mouth for this game for years, when they say they will sit there and twiddle their thumbs whilst we are all merrily playing it, as they wait for the physical copy.

They remind me of those Japanese soldiers who were hiding on little islands in the Pacific and refusing to surrender in the 1960's and 1970's!

The war is over boys. You've lost. Physical is dying. Ten years from now it will be extinct. Why deprive yourself? Come in from the cold.

Not good news.

A large number of new AAA releases run like garbage even on a PS5 Pro, and are seemingly designed for non-existent next gen hardware that hasn’t yet been invented.

Delaying the PS6 is only going to make matters worse. We are going to receive a lot of games that were designed ground up for next gen hardware whilst PS5 owners received pity-releases during the cross gen period that run like a bungling mess. Unfortunately, we will now all be PS5 owners given that the PS6 won’t be available.

Essentially, we have multiple PS4 Cyberpunks to look forward to, as far as many new games will be concerned.

I bought the original Rayman on PS1 when it released.

Not going to beat around the bush here; it was utter garbage and a massive disappointment. It could and should have been a lot more.

It looked like a mass market 2D platformer and was released long before the N64 was released here in the UK, and back when something like Jumping Flash was the benchmark for a 3D platformer. So on the face of it, the game was a potential Yoshi's Island/Mario World killer, but in reality was more like Cuphead for its inaccessibility to kids or average players.

But worse it was annoying as hell and unfair. Super Mario Wonder has some really hard levels, but those levels are fair rather than irritating and annoying, and the game itself is still fully playable and completable to a wide audience.

To me, a simple graphic upgrade re-release won't cut it. It needs a far more fundamental overhaul. A proper remake rather than a remaster.

Unity needs some love. Hugely under rated game.

The game got panned as it was designed around hardware that wouldn't exist for 7 years and ran like garbage as a result (granted that's the norm for most new games these days) and in my view does some things better than any of the modern games.

The resolution does need a boost, but top tip - it looks great on Portal with the smaller, lower resolution screen.

Microsoft are going out of their way to quietly kill the Xbox without doing it so obviously as to generate negative publicity and gain a Sega reputation.

Fanboys like me have abandoned Xbox after a quarter century of owning every console.

The audience on Xbox is rapidly dwindling and from the console perspective it will soon cease to exist.

With so many games running so badly lately, it makes sense for developers to limit the platforms that they are supporting and ensure those that do the big numbers, have the best ports.

This game is being compared to some pretty decent titles in the comments, games that are right up my street.

Having watched the video of this game though I do have my doubts. I shall have to wait and see, but I do suspect it may be a 6 out of 10.

The Portal is the future of handheld, not all these devices cropping up with onboard processing, huge batteries, heavy weight and heat dissipation issues.

Makes sense to have PS5 Pro performance for the 99% of the time you are in WiFi range, and accept you cannot use it the 1% of the time you don't have a WiFi.

Versus being lumbered with last gen PS4 performance 100% of the time, for the sake of still being able to play in that 1% scenario.

I'll just take a book or something thanks.

Given that you can pick up a Pro new for £630, and a base model PS1 (not a "Pro") with a memory card was ~£570 in today's money at launch, I don't think phrases like "despite the price" are really fair.

It's perpetuates this false narrative about how expensive gaming is in 2025.

It is still very cheap. SNES games like FZERO were £44.99 at launch. That's £98 in today's money. I'm sure I paid the same for Wipeout when I bought it with my PS1 in Dec 95.

Another one of those "please prove me wrong" games like Crimson Desert.

Want it to be good, but I have serious concerns.

I'm pretty tolerant and e.g. turned into a big fanboy of Avowed. But this one has more red flags for me than that ever had.

@Panic_Attache it is nothing wrong with your configuration or setup.

There are plenty of videos on Youtube, of the latest patch with frame rate graphs clear as day. It's irrefutable. There is no argument, there is no debate, there is no difference of opinion to be had. It is a fact.

It's just plain awful and V-Sync won't fix it.

V-Sync only works if the game can hit the same refresh (or divisible refresh) of your TV and maintain it 100% bullet proof. It's actually worse if the game can't, as you get massive v-sync stutter.

Where as no v-sync gives you less pronounced stutter but with screen tearing.

This game is really PC-only (think it's on GF Now too though), but isn't viable on console unless one is extremely tolerant of stutter-fests.

I'm used to playing these games on Gamepass with no direct outlay.

Having sold my XSX and rarely turn on my gaming PC these days (I'm not pumping money into something that MS are divesting themselves from), I certainly won't pay £70 for the PS5 version and DEFINITELY won't do it if it's not even coming on launch day.

@lazarus11 as you have already seen, other people are experiencing the exact same problems with the PlayStation version, and that’s just on here, let alone all the other threads and performance analysis you can find online.

As I recall from when I was researching it at the time, the game is very much designed from the ground up for PC and not fully designed oroptimised for a PlayStation.

Hence why it runs so badly and needs a massive ground up optimisation. I believe there was some talk of that happening, but I always take with a huge pinch of salt any such rumours I hear from the community or promises from developers.

I talk about this a lot, but there are many games and franchises that have a small but very vocal minority of people being hyped about them on forums, but in reality it's just a handful of dwindling boomers like me who played them since the SNES days.

In reality there is very little brand recognition amongst the bulk of active gamers today.

I say this about a different franchise every week, I think last week it was Speedball when I reminisced about the Amiga days. It will be something else next week.

They ain't gonna sell well. Don't be surprised by this cancellation.

Runs like absolute garbage, even on a Pro, and crashes regularly.

I really want it to be good.

But I smell a 7/10 with poor performance even on a Pro, and lots of balance issues and a totally unacceptable grind.

I sincerely hope they prove me wrong as I have money waiting.

I had some of their CRT TV's back in the day. They were excellent.

But that was up against brands like Phillips or Toshiba in those days.

In the past decade or so I've found their offerings disappointing and lacking key features especially for gaming. They were easily rejected in favour of LG or Samsung's.

I never fell for the promises/lies of some of the missing features being added later via firmware updates etc.

Despite the fond memories, I won't be shedding a tear. They simply weren't good enough. They became to TV's, what Kodak became to cameras.

"honour the legacy".

Pure pretentious marketing tosh.

They've been told from high above in Microsoft to extract extra cash out of the franchise, else they will be closed/sold off and end up driving ubers for a living.

That's it. They want money. They don't give a monkeys about legacy.

They've been disrespecting the legacy on Xbox for well over a decade, so don't believe for one minute they have such lofty and honourable concerns for the PS5 conversion.

Ridge Racer looks and runs great. I have the arcade version on Switch 2 but given how well it runs, my preference is for the PlayStation version due to the additional cars and the nostalgia factor.

My experience of Ridge Racer was exclusively on PS1, as I’d never seen, let alone played the arcade machine in the 90's.

I'm not a technical expert, and perhaps people like digital foundry could pick flaws in the emulation, but it has exceeded my expectations.

People need to stop wishing their lives away.

TES 6 won't be world or life changing.

There are plenty of things to do in the meantime, other games and real life stuff. Spend time with family members who won't be around forever.

Who sits there stressing because a game series hasn't had a release in decades?

Anyhow I agree with others that it is dated. After Avowed I just can't go back to the TES combat. Given Bethesda's history and glacial rate of innovation, it is not likely that the next title will catch up with more modern takes.

I love AC. Always buy them and love the new RPG style.

But they should be rebranded as something else and become an entirely separate non-AC RPG series.

I didn't start playing until Black Flag, so never understood and still don't understand all that Assassin and Templar backstory. It just gets in the way of the main RPG story for me.

Then actual AC should develop more in the direction of the Hitman games.

Anyhow, I don't blame the guy for being peed off if he finds himself side-lined and someone else taking control of his baby.

Although if he was responsible for the dual protagonist design of Shadows, as opposed to the main game being about Naoe and Yasuke being DLC (which anyone with common sense would have done), he probably deserves to have the reins taken away.

First game was ace.

Just like The Matrix, they should have just left it there.

It was lightning in a bottle. Move on and create something new.

Don't destroy its legacy by trying to milk every last dime out of it.

@DrVenture69 it worked fine on my CX.

To get the full support of 120hz, HDR, 4K etc you do need to limit yourself to about 3m in terms of cable length, as even expensive HDMI 2.1 cables can get unstable after that.

But I also recall, and this affects a lot of TV manufacturers and is absolutely brain dead, that the TV comes out of the factory with the enhanced HDMI bandwidth turn off.

You usually have to go into the TV settings menu and turn on the enhanced or expanded HDMI option. That's usually why HDR doesn't work, not sure if it also limits 120hz too. Sometimes it is not where you'd think in the picture settings, but under connection settings or connected device settings etc instead.

I can't remember if all the HDMI ports on my CX supported this bandwidth too. I think so, my Samsung S90d certainly does.

Massive premium over the Pulse Elite. Not sure anyone will hear £200 worth of difference.

My experience of headsets in that £300 bracket is that they are equally as prone to parts breaking off, or the lining of the ear cups peeling off as the £70 to £130 bracket.

I'd think the smart money buys a Pulse Elite with money in the bank to buy another pair if they break.

Edit: I've never experienced connection dropouts or quality issues with my Pulse Elites I have to say.

I'm surprised so many are being harsh about this game.

These releases are surely about nostalgia for those of us that bought this title at launch.

Reminds me of that time in my life, and the Arcade version simply didn't hit that nostalgia spot for me, because I'd never played it before and I wanted to experience the exact PS1 version I had in 1995.

I did miss that extra content missing from the arcade version that I bought on Switch 2.

I'd actually be interested in playing the home version on my PS5, especially if I can play the NTSC version instead of the bungling PAL version I got lumbered with back in the day.

But please, Revolution is a must. We need it.

Need details of what roles the redundant workers were in.

That said, even if it will impact the game, the fact is that games are too expensive and there simply isn't the disposable income in consumers pockets to fund them. Housing and energy are soaking up money that previously was spent on games.

We need cheaper games, and gamers need to accept that they previously received games with blockbuster budgets that were essentially subsidised by shareholders who took a haircut.

They received products that cost more to produce than they paid for them. That's great at the time, but gamers shouldn't have gotten used to it.

Having made it clear they don't want to pay more for games, gamers need to manage their expectations as they can't have the big budget AAAA quality releases they had the past, but for a lower real terms price.

I was a huge fan of the first game.

The problem with the sequel is that it only existed because Microsoft paid for a sequel, and not because there was any compelling reason for it in terms of untold narrative or gameplay ideas.

The combat was noticeably a step backwards, as was the narrative.

The much hyped graphics looked great out in open places, but extremely mediocre once you got into bush/forest type sections.

I was going to jokingly say that when all the reviews described Veilguard as a "return to form", they failed to mention that the "form" in question was Anthem, and not Inquisition.

But this thread has educated me, as I didn't realise by just how far Anthem outsold Veilguard.

Fair play to Anthem in that respect; I'm shocked it shipped that many and there was a time when those would be some pretty tidy sales figures.

Perhaps the sales figures were the lesser part of the damage. Anthem really hurt Bioware due to them haemorrhaging whatever good staff remained at that point, and the reputation damage which no doubt resulted in cautious buyers not rushing out to pre-order Veilguard.

Certainly good business for Microsoft. I don't think that was ever in doubt though.

Their vacating of the hardware business is also good business for Microsoft, but will have severe ramifications for us over time.

The UK CMA investigation was based on concerns of a monopoly position in what is a quite small and niche streaming market, and yet little did we know, that is exactly what happened in the home console market.

@TrollOfWar I think you are looking way too deeply into it.

I was making a general comment about how gamers will crawl naked over broken glass to throw £80 at a publisher for a game, and even throw that money at the developer six months before the darn game is even due to be released, and yet three months after launch would expect a large discount for the exact same product!

It’s psychological on the demand side, nothing to do with the manufacturing costs and margins of the vendor. Yes, we know they can duplicate 200 trillion billion copies at a marginal cost. You knew that when you threw £80 at them months before the game even came out.

Tomb Raider is multiple generations behind Uncharted 4. It has been dated and degraded by time. Avowed has not, it is superior to the game people were prepared to pay £60 for one year ago, and yet has a lower perceived value.

Loved the atmosphere of the first one.

Just found it unfairly hard alone compared to coop. I know it's technically completable solo or so I'm told, but I got frustrated at the unfairness versus the cake walk when I was with a friend.

Same issue with Destiny 1 and why I quit that. Would love to see it tweaked and a super easy story/solo mode added, as it was a super atmospheric game. They did a great job with the world design.