Every clip I see of this game is just driving in a straight line across a hill, or driving on a slightly curved road by yourself. I will have to look at some gameplay vids.
I got the Platinum on Minecraft so I will have a break from that and spend some more time with Veilguard. I think it’s pretty good, and apart from a few mis-steps, doesn’t deserve all the negativity it was getting.
Also started It’s Takes Two with my son, it’s great!
I don’t think SOCOM is well known enough to sell well no matter how good it might be, and quite a different style to Outriders and Gears. Killzone still has the pull of a well known series and is more that style, so I am betting on that.
I’ve been playing Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand. While not an AAA title, it is fun and good to pass the time. Some of the vistas in the world are incredible looking and really interesting.
Enjoyed the new levels. Some more challenging than others. But a great bonus to just go back to and have a final few polished levels to play and bots to collect.
Great game but the missions were too long with no reward if you failed. Never found myself with enough time to play it and I got frustrated with minimal progress.
Any new updates with shorter game modes and I’d be back on it!
Love it! My DM has already woven Shadowheart, Karlach and Gale into our 5+ years ongoing 5e game as cameo NPCs, so good to see them recognised as official canon. Testament to how well realised they are.
That is a real shame as the Shadow games were great and I fear this is the end for that series with no hope of any more. Generally speaking I don't think a Wonder Woman game was high up on anyone’s wish list though.
@ChrisDeku Marvel and comics are famous for having heroes with alliterative names - Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Steven Strange, Matt Murdock, Bruce Banner, Scott Summers, Curt Connors, Otto Octavius, Wade Wilson - the list is massive. It stems from Stan Lee wanting easy to remember names for the vastly increased roster of Marvel heroes they were creating in the 60s and carried on from there.
But I do prefer a crafted storyline. I think they’d do better leaving the actual choices to something ‘more’ RPG like BG3 and focus more on gameplay and a more directed storyline.
If it was really good and they believed in it, then I don’t understand why they couldn’t upscale to meet the demand for it, so as an excuse that doesn’t fly with me.
Thought I’d try High on Life, glad I did! I’ll be playing that this weekend. I didn’t think I would like it based on the type of humour, but it plays really well and is actually pretty funny for that type of style. Worth a go if you’re on the fence.
@BiosNova He spends the rest of his week studying and working and doing other clubs, to enable him to have his one free night off a week to play with his friends.
5 extra days is functionally useless. I stack my subs and have had it running for years, so it just means I’ll get an extra 5 days at the end of it, whenever that may be, years in the future.
It was down for a day for me, which realistically cost me 33p. A comp for 5 days is worth £1.65.
But again I’m not realistically ever seeing that comp come back as it’s just pushed to end of my contract, which is years down the line and so practically I’m not ever going to see it.
Was it a hardship for me to not play something online for a day? No. Was it a hardship to see my son upset because he couldn’t play Fortnite with his friends? Yes. Is a fundamentally useless comp worth seeing him upset? No.
Dedicated PS Mouse and PS Keyboard attachment with haptics in it. Doesn’t need to be a full keyboard with all the Function keys etc, just the basics. Allow it for certain games that benefit it like RTS etc. Port a load of popular PC Games.
Make a new Astro Bot title that utilises all the new functionality.
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Re: Hands On: Oblivion Remastered Is Still Oblivion in All Its Glory, Crap Frame Rate Aside
As seems the norm these days, I’ll wait until they patch it to run properly like it should have done in the first place.
Re: Mirror's Edge Fans Might Want to Take a Look at Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Game on PS5
Looks fantastic. Loved Mirrors Edge, got the plat for both, it just clicked with me.
Re: Forza Horizon 5 (PS5) - Xbox Had the Best Open World Racer All This Time
Every clip I see of this game is just driving in a straight line across a hill, or driving on a slightly curved road by yourself. I will have to look at some gameplay vids.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 577
I got the Platinum on Minecraft so I will have a break from that and spend some more time with Veilguard. I think it’s pretty good, and apart from a few mis-steps, doesn’t deserve all the negativity it was getting.
Also started It’s Takes Two with my son, it’s great!
Re: UK Sales Charts: Tekken 8 Comes Back Swinging While Astro Bot Holds Second Place
Isn’t Hogwarts coming onto Plus tomorrow? I assume we’ll see it drop down the charts a bit because of that.
Re: Bungie's New PS5 Shooter Marathon Grabs September Release Date
This art style makes it look like a cheap shovelware F2P shooter. Not impressed.
Re: Mini Review: Blue Prince (PS5) - A Deceptively Deep Puzzler That Delights and Confounds
Played a few hours. I think 7 is generous!
Re: Baldur's Gate 3's Massive Patch 8 Arrives Next Week on PS5, Adds Subclasses, Cross-Play, Photo Mode, More
Want to come back for a second Durge run, but just holding out for a Battlerager subclass!
Re: Reminder: PS Plus Extra, Premium Lose 8 Excellent PS5, PS4 Games in a Few Days
Kena was a nice little game. Enjoyed it!
Re: Comments from Ubisoft's Legal Team Are Not Going to Improve the Embattled Publisher's Image
While I agree the game should still work in single player mode offline well into the future, I have to ask…
Who is realistically still wanting to play The Crew these days? The numbers can’t be massive can they??
Re: Talking Point: What Do We Actually Want from the Oblivion Remake?
Even Skyrim is super-dated now, but probably too much to ask for complete revamp from the ground up.
Re: New Animated PS5 Wallpapers Are Dropping, But You May Have to Wait
I don’t ever get to really see it. Welcome page is full of widgets and every other icon has its own background. Kind of pointless.
Re: RUINER Dev Hands Its New PS5 Game Metal Eden a Demo, Out Now
When the frame rate is even stuttering in the trailer then that doesn’t bode well.
Re: Almost All PS5 Fans Are Against $80 Games
People saying they pirate games or buy them second hand, then complain about prices going up. Incredible.
Re: Just Two Clean Hits Will Kill You in Stylish PS5, PS4 Fighter Two Strikes
Reminds of Bushido Blade back on the PS1, one hit kills as well if you got the strike right. Made for some tense battles.
Re: Tony Hawk's Call to Remove Classic Tunes from Pro Skater 3 + 4 OST
Nostalgia is the main point of the games, it certainly isn’t the gameplay. Why change the music when that was such a big part of it?
Re: Kids Aren't Dreaming of Owning a PS6, Says Netflix Games Boss
They sure as hell aren’t dreaming of paying a monthly Netflix subscription either.
Re: Poll: What Are Your Thoughts on Bloodborne, 10 Years Later?
I got a few hours in but gave up, couldn’t take the jank.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 573
UFC 5 for me. I’ll punch some pixels and try to finally master submissions.
Re: Upcoming PS Plus Extra Game FBC: Firebreak Out for PS5 This Summer
Am I missing something with the post it notes??
Re: Amazon Bullish on God of War, Two Seasons Have Already Been Ordered
One way to make a good adaptation is to have someone running it who has never played the game. What are they thinking??
Re: PlayStation Employs Bulletstorm Dev to Make New PS5 Game Based on Sony IP
I don’t think SOCOM is well known enough to sell well no matter how good it might be, and quite a different style to Outriders and Gears. Killzone still has the pull of a well known series and is more that style, so I am betting on that.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 572
I’ve been playing Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand. While not an AAA title, it is fun and good to pass the time. Some of the vistas in the world are incredible looking and really interesting.
Re: Collect One Last Special Bot in Astro Bot's Final Free DLC Level, Available Now on PS5
Enjoyed the new levels. Some more challenging than others. But a great bonus to just go back to and have a final few polished levels to play and bots to collect.
Re: 12 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for March 2025 Announced
UFC and Prince of Persia, 2 more games on my wish list! Great month.
Re: WWE 2K25 (PS5) - Unbeatable Value from 2K’s Dominant Wrestling Series
Haven’t played the series for several years now. Not a single idea how the gameplay is from this review.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 571
Finishing off Jedi Survivor which I’ve really enjoyed. Put me in the mood to rewatch some of the films as well.
Re: The Brutally Brilliant Warhammer 40K: Darktide Delivers a Huge Update This Month
Great game but the missions were too long with no reward if you failed. Never found myself with enough time to play it and I got frustrated with minimal progress.
Any new updates with shorter game modes and I’d be back on it!
Re: PS4 Support for The First Descendant Ending in June, Will Be Delisted
Oh wow I got the Platinum on this and really liked it, but after I completely forgot it existed.
Re: Original Baldur's Gate 3 Bloodsucker Astarion Officially Joins D&D Canon
Love it! My DM has already woven Shadowheart, Karlach and Gale into our 5+ years ongoing 5e game as cameo NPCs, so good to see them recognised as official canon. Testament to how well realised they are.
Re: Islanders: New Shores Offers Serene PS5 City Building This Summer
The first one was excellent. I will be picking this up day one! Really interesting building mechanics.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 570
Having a lovely time with Jedi Survivor.
Otherwise spending a lot of time on Marvel Snap again - CL9000 now!
Re: Suicide Squad Bombed So Bad, It Basically Took Wonder Woman and Monolith Down with It
I did wonder how bad Suicide Squad could be. Tried it on Plus.
Can confirm, Suicide Squad was that bad.
Re: Find Your Next PS Plus Game with Innovative Discovery App
A good idea but not worth paying for. ChatGPT will do this for free.
Re: Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault Advertises New Wares on PS5
Huge fan of the first one. It’s a really great mix of gameplay styles.
Re: Warner Bros. Games Closes Multiple Studios, Wonder Woman Cancelled
That is a real shame as the Shadow games were great and I fear this is the end for that series with no hope of any more. Generally speaking I don't think a Wonder Woman game was high up on anyone’s wish list though.
Re: Two Point Museum (PS5) - Laugh Out Loud Tycoon Title Is Well Worth the Entry Fee
Can’t wait for this. Hospital was good, Campus was excellent. More of the same please!
Re: George R. R. Martin Teases Potential Elden Ring Movie, Probably Won't Be That Involved
“ongoing work on his aforementioned novels”
Yeah sure.
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 3 Speculation Intensifies After Star Offers Brief PS5 Threequel Tease
@ChrisDeku Marvel and comics are famous for having heroes with alliterative names - Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Steven Strange, Matt Murdock, Bruce Banner, Scott Summers, Curt Connors, Otto Octavius, Wade Wilson - the list is massive. It stems from Stan Lee wanting easy to remember names for the vastly increased roster of Marvel heroes they were creating in the 60s and carried on from there.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 569
Smashing things in Wreckfest which I just got the Plat for. Otherwise probably finish High on Life and finally start Death Stranding again.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows' 'Canon Mode' Makes Fans Ponder the Point of RPG Options
Stopped caring about AC Lore about 6 games ago!
But I do prefer a crafted storyline. I think they’d do better leaving the actual choices to something ‘more’ RPG like BG3 and focus more on gameplay and a more directed storyline.
Re: Yoshida: I Played The Last of Us Online And It Was Great
If it was really good and they believed in it, then I don’t understand why they couldn’t upscale to meet the demand for it, so as an excuse that doesn’t fly with me.
Re: Marvel Rivals Trailers Distract with Human Torch, The Thing Gameplay
Hulk and Iron Man reskin basically.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 568
Thought I’d try High on Life, glad I did! I’ll be playing that this weekend. I didn’t think I would like it based on the type of humour, but it plays really well and is actually pretty funny for that type of style. Worth a go if you’re on the fence.
Re: PS Plus Copies of Days Gone Won't Offer Cheap $10 Upgrade to New PS5 Version
I got it through the PS5 collection, so I’d definitely pay a tenner for an upgrade. But a hard no to a full price one.
Re: PlayStation Users Miffed with Sony's Lack of PSN Outage Transparency
I work in SaaS, you’d be surprised how often 1 expiring certificate in 1 place can cause a massive problem everywhere.
Re: Free PS Plus Extension for All Members Affected by PSN Outage
@BiosNova He spends the rest of his week studying and working and doing other clubs, to enable him to have his one free night off a week to play with his friends.
Re: Free PS Plus Extension for All Members Affected by PSN Outage
5 extra days is functionally useless. I stack my subs and have had it running for years, so it just means I’ll get an extra 5 days at the end of it, whenever that may be, years in the future.
It was down for a day for me, which realistically cost me 33p. A comp for 5 days is worth £1.65.
But again I’m not realistically ever seeing that comp come back as it’s just pushed to end of my contract, which is years down the line and so practically I’m not ever going to see it.
Was it a hardship for me to not play something online for a day? No.
Was it a hardship to see my son upset because he couldn’t play Fortnite with his friends? Yes.
Is a fundamentally useless comp worth seeing him upset? No.
Re: GTA 5 Sells an Utterly Ludicrous 210 Million Copies
I am a double dipper! I played it on release on PS3 and bought and played it again last year on PS5.
Re: Poll: Would You Buy a PS5 Mouse Accessory?
Dedicated PS Mouse and PS Keyboard attachment with haptics in it. Doesn’t need to be a full keyboard with all the Function keys etc, just the basics. Allow it for certain games that benefit it like RTS etc. Port a load of popular PC Games.
Make a new Astro Bot title that utilises all the new functionality.