JimmyRiddle

Bought and played this over the weekend. Huge nostalgia rush combined with huge frustration with controls - we don’t realise how easy we have it with modern games. Took a level or two to get used to it but now it’s like 1996 all over again.

Great game that I’d happily replay, but not at full price. Possibly the only game with a Welsh protagonist? I await the replies that prove me wrong!

Another example of why Push Square’s policy on using title case in headlines is confusing. Why were the devs cutting corners?

Going to come across snobby here but Clipper Organic or gtfo.

@rusty82 playing Assassin’s Creed too. It was very slow to start but I’m getting into it now. Hopefully complete the story today.

Then praying, though very unlikely the new Humans Fall Flat level makes it to the PS5 and can have some fun with friends.

And finally figuring out how to remove all remnants of ***** Modern Warfare 3 that seems to have installed itself and used most of any remaining disc space I once had.

@IronMike yes, it just doesn’t feel very fluid.

Yes and it feels a bit clunky as far as movement goes. Not really good enough for 2023.

Definitely a day 1 for me.

Absolute tripe.

I will never not still be amazed that GTA V sells so well to this day. Is this the best ROI on a video game ever?

@Member_the_game having paid for both, I’d actually be more excited by the fact it is 2K23 - it’s way more fun.

Just played a dozen levels… great game but requires some thinking at times.

@Ooccoo_Jr last game I bought was MW2 knowing it wouldn’t be on PS+ for years. Everything else I can hold out for.

Still holding out and saving my COD points for the Susan Boyle crossover. 🤞

Hear me out… could this be a trailer entirely written and generated by AI to test the water?

Is the trial two hours playtime or real world time?

The capitalisation of all the words in the article titles drives me bananas - I never know what game is being referred to.

(That's my only gripe with the website, keep up the great work!)

I played and completed a short game (Turing Test) over stream and thought it was great. Since then, nothing new has been added and I feel like I've been ripped off.

@Barryburton97 I literally had to read it out loud three times and still wasn't sure. Up-resolutioning?

Definitely not me getting excited thinking it was about the new PS5 VR headset...

Anyone know of any decent, realistic flight sims on PlayStation? The Coastline Flight Simulator caught my eye, but looking at it in more detail, it looks awful. "Huge open world of 80km X 80 km".

Nope. Twaddle.

Still broken for me 😭

Looks great but still not quite there with the car shadows on the track - it looks like the cars aren't quite making contact with the asphalt on the external camera shots.

I've got some many hours playing PGA Tour 2K21 with friends. And I don't even like golf.

With Far Cry 6 I only ended up reading the ones with a clue to solve the purple-gem-thingy challenges.

@NoCode23 5. Accept the fact that there are thousands of f****** w****** playing the game who you'll never be able to kill because they spend their life playing it. Definitely not from bitter experience.

Does Hitman 2 have multiplayer still?

I've read it did but also saw somewhere the servers had been switched off.

I just want to play Speed Game tbh.

Who hasn't already bought Grand Theft Auto V?

@bimboliquido yeah, and using sentence case in the article titles would make distinguishing the game title from the story title a little easier 🤔

@OrigamiCrane I got excited when I read Just Cause, and then lost all excitement when I read mobile.

GTA V still at it. Incredible.

I have never used the cards and now seem to get 'banner blindness' from them where I instinctively ingore them.

My biggest gripe by far of the new UI is not being able to put the PS5 to sleep without having to look at the screen. On the PS4 you could hold down the PS button and press X twice and it was off. One the PS5, the selected item on that bottom row of icons is always different so you can't intuitively / blindly go to the power settings. It's a small thing but pissed me off every time.

From memory, Hitman, Detroit Being Human and Resident Evil 1 are the only PS+ games I've got into and played to completion.

@Rash nah it's just a pretty crap game compared to 3.

@Elodin JC3 was just fun and quite tongue in cheek in its story and gameplay. 4 took itself a bit too seriously and the map was just a bit cold, dark and depressing - a bit like how GTA 4 felt in comparison to others. Also the missions we're really boring and repetitive. The only plus point I would give 4 is that the load times were much better and should be great on a PS5.

I paid a fortune for the full fat Super Gold Deluxe Just Cause 4 (or whatever it was called) because I enjoyed 3 so much. Never been so disappointed.

Happened to me last night playing GTA V online for a few hours. Thought it was the PlayStation checking the correct disc was still in the machine.

I can see why it would... back in the early 2000s we used to be able to get 6 Macs on a LAN to all run Medal of Honour by force ejecting the disc after it had loaded and sharing between housemates!

I've only played about 2 hours of it so far, but it feels a bit claustrophobic compared to WD2 - the tall buildings make everything feel very enclosed.

Combat is a bit annoying too - when you're in a scrap and you need to flee in a car, triangle throws an uppercut instead of opening the car door. I'll obviously give it more time but I don't have that "must continue playing it now" feeling I got with the second.

@SirAngry yeah the shot of the barn coming up on the left looked particularly poor imo.

@thefourfoldroot I would be very very surprised if the buttons on the remote were mappable - media companies pay an absolute fortune to have their name there.

Stupid question, but if I just bought the PS4 version with no intention of playing it on a PS4, would you be presumably getting the same game for the PS5 but for a bit cheaper?

@Ridwaano 100% agree

What are we saying.. about 400mm x 290mm? Not sure that will fit under the TV.

@Danloaded
I guess there are new people getting into gaming as they grow up every day and GTA V is such a classic with such longevity with regards to gameplay. They've been marketing it a lot recently too. That being said it's still incredible that it's a top 10 seller after all these years.

1/10. To answer the question in the article title: 'obviously not very well'

To be fair I actually think Far Cry does change it up a lot. The gameplay is kind of similar (which is a plus as far as I'm concerned) but the settings and locations are all over the place (again, in a good way). FC2 remains my favourite - something about the African drumming soundtrack that sticks with me.