DonJorginho

Doom via Gamepass on my Series X and DS2 Digital Deluxe edition (yes I’m part of the problem, no I don’t wanna be spoilt for my most anticipated game ever) for me over the next two months!

Nintendo and Trump ruining gaming wasn’t on my bingo card for this year but here we are.

Luckily I can still afford to have gaming as an interest due to my income but this is just awful for the consumer, consoles are meant to be the entrance point for players, and now they’re continuing to price people out, don’t be surprised if the PS6 and Xbox 2027/28 console end up costing near £900.

At that point I may just cut the safety rope and fully integrate into PC gaming.

This looks MUCH better than BL3, love that they’re returning to a more grounded tone and no more awful “streamer villains” in this game.

Looks far better than Marathon in terms of its mechanics and how they’re implemented, but man I miss the original version of this game when it was revealed.

Amazing how this is made by a team of all ex Ubisoft devs, just shows that it ain’t the devs that are the problem but the ghoulish higher ups who demand another battle royale game.

Over 13 hours into Clair Obscur and despite hating the end of act 1 I’m still enjoying the world and combat enough to keep going, beautifully made game, showing up the big devs for sure!

Why remove your own published games? Just screams of FOMO practices and is down right scummy.

Is that a Unity side eject I see? 👀

BOOM

That’s how we do it! What a year for gaming we have in store, maybe a little inkling of when to expect GTA 6 too given all the shuffling around of other publishers 😉

This is gonna be great, I can’t wait.

Charlie Cox in a leading role for an RPG epic is all I needed to hear, will download on Gamepass to play while I recover from surgery

Thanks for the review team.

Man I miss when consoles went DOWN in price near the end of the generation.

Don’t want the game to fail or anything but lots of the design choices are awful.

Everything you earn bar paid for cosmetics are wiped every season? So where’s the point in grinding.

An extraction shooter where you barely face real players, (according to multiple previews) pass.

Activities within the map that are DESTINY PATROL ACTIVITES??? (Source: SkillUp), another pass.

No proximity chat in an EXTRACTION shooter? Another pass.

And finally only 3 maps at launch, when the game has been in development for 4 years is laughable.

Hard pass for me which is a shame as I adore the art, music and world building going on here (which also hasn’t even been written yet according to SkillUp, another great sign!)

No sympathy; you revealed the game years too early and released a major disappointment in Spider-Man 2. Do better.

SM2 left such a sour taste in my mouth I may even wait for reviews before I even put any effort into caring for this.

No buy till the OLED model comes out, no excuse to be using “LCD” panels in 2025.

@get2sammyb NEVER.

Most people I talk to who love the games even say they’re pretty bad, I totally get it inspired some great games like Yakuza, but that doesn’t mean it should even break the top 10!

All the power to those who love it though, we all have bad games we love

@NintendoBebop Indeed it is! So why is Shenmue #1?

@BlaizeV Exactly! I’m not saying there’s no fun value but when I played them personally it was more The Room levels of fun bad, it had some cool ideas but it should never even touch the top 10 here.

@DennisReynolds I’d say to be #1 you have to do more than just inspire far better games by being an awful game, imo anyway.

Shenmue at #1 is absolutely hilarious, awful games, never understand why some people have such nostalgia vision for such a lacking series.

The Switch 2 is the perfect console if you’ve only been on the Switch 1, because you’re getting access to so many third party big hitters on day one that you never had access to before.

But along with the awful pricing of first party games (£75/$80 for the standard edition of Mario Kart World physically) and the barren first party lineup on launch compared to past generations, it’s probably an easier generation than many to miss out on launch if you play on other platforms.

I’m sure by 2026/2027 the Switch 2 will become a must buy console for all gaming fans, but it all depends on what games come along by then.

The FromSoft game seemed like an amazing pickup until I found out it’s another MP extraction game, I’ll pass on that.

@tameshiyaku No PS5 games were ever £75/$80 at launch for the standard editions, don’t change history to suit your narrative.

Also the most I’ve ever seen a digital standard edition priced here in the UK on PSN is £70, Nintendo look to be going lower at £66.99 via press releases but that is the ploy to funnel gamers away from physical, just like Sony do with the digital console pricing and the “optional” disc drives.

Of course you will be able to get the Switch 2 games for cheaper via third party stores, but the principle they’re setting will now ripple through all the big publishers and the digital marketplace will become even more of a rip off than before.

And I’m not discarding the value of Nintendo games? Why assume that? I have multiple Nintendo games in my T25 games of ALL TIME and have owned every Nintendo generation day one, this will be the first I don’t buy day one because the pricing of games and accessories is awful atm and the launch library is a little lacking, I don’t want to pay £400 for a Mario Kart machine, I’ll get one when it’s also packed with all the other Nintendo games I love (including Mario Kart World which looks great!)

It’s a bit of a joke that they’re steaming ahead with the sequel while Astroneer is still an awful port on PS5.

Greedy Sony money hating everything! Jim Ryan is the worst!

Oh… wait, wrong company, don’t worry all is good!

@GoodGame £425ish with Mario Kart bundle, but switch 2 games are now 80 dollars physically.

Nintendo are charging £75 for physical switch 2 games and 80 dollars.

Worst company ever, if this was Sony it would be an uproar.

The trailer looked really bad tbh, looked like you took loads of assets and just threw it together without a coherent vision.

I’ll wait to see more before I even think about getting a Switch 2 as even though the price is good, the launch line up is a bit barren for my tastes.

Glad it’s done well! I’m loving it so far.

Hopefully Ubi see it as enough of a success to not risk good people losing their jobs.

@Jey887 It’s definitely case by case,

I used the Portal and Chiaki4Deck and neither felt good; then switched to the PXPlay app on Linux and it runs better than either, and also the SteamDeck is leagues above the Portal in terms of it’s OLED screen and ergonomics.

But some people who have steam decks found the portal better and vice verse, that’s the beauty /s of cloud devices and streaming.

Having owned a PS Portal, the Steam Deck also streams games on the PS5 better than the Portal too.

Of course you’re paying double the price of a Portal, but as using it for PC games that perform better than on console, old gems you can’t access on consoles and for a better remote play experience than the portal, it’s a no brainer.

Not an issue for me personally as own the collection on Steam and Xbox, but I can see Microsoft really milking the novelty of Halo on PS.

Don’t be surprised if it’s a Halo 1-3 collection for £70 and a ODST x Reach combo pack for £50.

In comparison, I got the entire collection with Halo 4 (the ugly duckling) too for £8.49.

So just be wary and as hard as it may be, wait for a sale, so you’re not getting robbed in broad daylight.

Still haven’t even played my copy but good to know I’ll be getting a polished experience

@RoomWithaMoose It won’t release in the holiday as then it’ll be going up against GTA 6 and it’s already been reported that no publisher wants that fate so it has to be early fall at the latest.

Summer 2025 just feels right, fingers crossed it doesn’t get delayed, so so excited for this.

@HRdepartment man me too lmaoo, one of my favourite games ever made, but I totally see why some bloody hate it 😭

@Frmknst

Oh have I got the game for you.

So far I’d say a solid 8.

The story is lacking but almost every other aspect of the game has been pretty damn great, it’s by far the most fun I’ve had with an AC game since Black Flag. I will say if you don’t like Ubisoft’s open world design you’ll still want to wait for a sale as the formula isn’t TOO different, it’s got some nice polish and touch ups, but side quests are still hit and miss.

Also lmao at the usual suspects giving it a 1/10 when they haven’t played nor will they ever play the game, sad sad people.

I wouldn’t mind a Lost Legacy 2, imagine the set pieces you could pull off with the SSD.

Another case of Warner Bros showing they hate making money.

DS2 and Ghost of Yotei 2025

Saros and Wolverine 2026

Intergalactic and new Cory Barlog game 2027

This is a sad move but was on the cards, no matter how Shadows performed; the Guilllemot family are evil little parasites who are so desperate to cling onto their play toy they’ll let it crumble before relinquishing power.

PS Store Sales

Always absolutely crazy that people can’t just respect their surroundings, morons in every way, hopefully whoever caused said damage is thrown in a cell and fined HEAVILY.

Insane that even with a whole 5% off, KCD is still £7 more expensive on PS than on Steam at full RRP, and this is before we even look at physical deals.

@Shinnok789 I still don’t think the PS6 comes anywhere before 2028, but if it really did come in 2027 that would just be an even bigger indicator to how much this gen has sucked.

I got to be honest, as much as I love my Pro, this has been without a doubt the worst generation for PS by a country mile.

No new ND games, no new games from Cory or Bend Studio, only one game from SSM and Guerilla which were both cross gen, a disappointing Spider-Man 2 that didn’t live up to the hype, and so many pants games like Destruction All Stars, Concord, and an array of timed exclusive flops like Babylon’s Fall, Godfall and Forspoken, all whilst prices are going up for everything and the company itself feels far more colder towards it’s players.

We need an absolute barn stormer of a last few years before the PS6 comes in 2028, that’s for damn sure.

This is definitely one I’m waiting on reviews for before I even consider adding it to my wishlist, but I hope the game comes out well.

Their last game was superb so that gives me some hope!

Keep getting excited by the trailers then I remember these guys made Black Desert Online 😭

Waiting for reviews, if they ever come this year.

Can safely say this game wasn’t for me, HOWEVER it’s quality was undeniable and I’m gassed for my mates who love this game to have more content coming their way!

@naruball just bought Forspoken and The Plucky Squire from GAME for £20 together! Am looking forward to giving Forspoken a fair chance, I’ve heard promising things in terms of its gameplay!

Respect to PushSquare for getting all they can out of this games news cycle, normally I’d be anti this kinda practise but it’s sweet to just have multiple places to boast in 🤣 now back to my replay of Transformers: War for Cybertron on the Steam Deck! Oh and of course some AC Shadows later this evening 😉

@Kierant202 don’t take that Kedi guy seriously, one look through his profile and all he does is argue with people over sales numbers, can’t imagine spending all my time caring about that stuff to such an insane degree.

Although seeing the contents of his now deleted reply in my emails this morning did make me chuckle, especially when he was factually wrong about multiple points.

It is crazy how all this passion is stemming from an Ubisoft title of all things; but I think that was bound to happen when you take beloved franchise and pit it against bad faith grifters, people will always defend against awful forms of hate, and the amount of racial slurs and hate I saw based off a VIDEO GAME was sickening, so it’s that little bit sweeter to see them scramble now another game they’ve went against has done well (just like Monster Hunter Wilds and KCD2 before it)