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I am quite sure that Justin Lin has not been to space, either. But that did not prevent him from directing the film Star Trek Beyond.

@ozkrmz Starship Troopers is the only Heinlein I have read, so far. The book is much better than Verhoeven’s movie.

I have just discovered something odd.

Push Square review scores for:

The Last of Us (PS3) 10/10
The Last of Us Remastered (PS4) 10/10
The Last of Us Remastered (PS5) 8/10

The Last of Us Part II (PS4) 10/10
The Last of Us Part II Remastered (PS5) 9/10

This seems rather inconsistent. But I suppose there are good reasons for this.

PJ O’Reilly at Pure Xbox gave Avowed a 8/10 review.
Starfield got 9/10, from the very same reviewer.

If I had wanted Avowed, I would probably have bought the Xbox version.
The trouble is, do I need another Fantasy RPG? Or do I just replay Dragon Age?

The studio have now resorted to giving their game away for FREE.

And I still bet nobody plays it.

I was curious about this, when it was first announced. But now, I might just play it out of morbid curiosity.

There is only one game on this list that I have played, and that is Ragnarok.

Honestly, I did not enjoy it as much as the first God of War game.

For me, Hogwarts Legacy is a 10/10. Personal taste.

The irony is that the more stuff like this goes on, then the less interested I become.

The game will be ready whenever it is ready. Do I buy my copy straight away, or do I wait for it to re-release in ten years time, when it launches on the PS7?

I think that whether or not a game is new, or is a sequel, I think that is irrelevant.

What matters to me the most is “Am I enjoying what I am playing?” And “is this a good story?”

Mind you, I certainly looking forward to the inevitable sequel to Hogwarts Legacy. And sometimes, more of the same can be a good thing.

I installed this, and played it for a few days.

I thought it might like an interactive version of the movies “Crouching Tiger” or “House of Flying Daggers”.

A lot of the game does not seem to make sense to me, and I was finding it just impenetrable. Too complicated for its’ own good, with the plot moving at the pace of a tired snail.

Given up, and deleted it. I might have the patience for it one day. But it was beautiful to look at, though.

Played through Starfield three times on Series X.

It is an enjoyable experience, yet it is hardly revolutionary. It is definitely a fun time, whilst you are playing it, but I feel that it is nothing special.

I have also noticed that none of the decisions you make throughout seem to have actual consequences. And the game only seems to end one way.

@PocketHotDogs

He was a great actor, and it was a sad loss.
Perhaps they could try to get somebody as close to his likeness as possible. Tim Russ? I have no idea.

The difficult part will be replicating Reddick’s rather unique delivery, and his demeanour.

I just cannot see how this could possibly work as a blockbuster movie.

A live action “Horizon” movie will need tons of cgi and “bluescreen”. This film will be almost 100% computer generated, I feel.

And the development cycle seems far too short, considering it took Cameron three years to film Avatar (2009), and likely years of work before filming even took place.

I also believe the movie will not actually interest people who have not played the game. The dialogue will probably be totally impenetrable to those not already familiar with the story.

The Uncharted film actually was not that bad. To make Horizon into a proper cinematic experience, that will require something truly special.

The file size has now increased. From about 85GB, to 107.

But this update will give the incentive I need to dive back into it. Or perhaps I should just restart from the beginning.

I can remember playing Populous, on the Amiga back in 1989 or 1990? That was an incredible game.

For his sheer inventiveness and creativity, Peter Molyneux is quite rightly a legend.

I never did play Fable, though. But there is talk of a remake coming out soon, right?

Microsoft insist that “this is an Xbox”.

Microsoft wants you to believe that your tv is an Xbox, or your phone, or your desktop computer…or everything else.

Microsoft seems to believe that even your PS5 Pro is “an Xbox”.
Somehow?

Why would Microsoft bother making Xbox hardware, when they can get Sony to do it for them?

@sanderson72

Nice. You’ve got yourself a real bargain.

I paid just over £250 for a 2TB SSD, in January 2022. And it still sells for the same price now as it did then.

If I ever manage to upgrade my PS5, I will not forget the SSD. I do not want the hassle of having to reinstall everything.

This all seems to me as though Tencent have been caught red-handed.

They tried to develop an obvious rip-off of a well-known title. And are now trying to save their necks.

One could argue that Black Myth WuKong is a rip off of Enslaved:Odyssey to the West. They both use the same book as inspiration, after all. Wu Cheng’en wrote A Journey to the West, which is also known as “Monkey”.

The trouble is, where is this going to end?

You only need to look to modern cinema, and realise that a lot of creators and developers are intellectually lazy, and have no original ideas of their own.

So, yet another beloved franchise that Phoebe Waller-Bridge is going to completely ruin.

The very fact that she describes Lara Croft as “outrageous, and hilarious” just proves that she knows nothing of what she speaks.

The only Collectors edition game I had was the original Watch Dogs.

I have a 12inch tall Aiden Pearce statuette, that is still in the styrofoam box. Never been on display.

This seems to prove that some expensive collectors editions are good value, whereas others are simply a rip-off.

I shall let you all decide which category this one falls under.

Hardly original or innovative design work on show here.
It honestly reminds me of “Mirrors Edge”.

This looks very good.

This appears to be faithful to the first film, based upon the screenshot. I have only ever seen the films, and have never read any of the books.

I saw Jurassic World Rebirth, at the cinema recently. And was really disappointed.

And this game already looks much better than that movie.

So the headline implies that the game is perhaps TOO ambitious.

But I agree with the general sentiment here, that we all have enough to keep us occupied for the time being.

So let Pearl Abyss improve and perfect Crimson Desert. Besides, I would always prefer that development teams release their games when they are finished, and not beforehand.

After all, we are customers, and not playtesters. If software developers want us to all test their games for them, then they ought to pay us to do it.

If it truly is that good, it is going to be worth waiting for.

I am surprised that anyone has a PS3 anymore.

Because I replaced mine with my first PS4, when they came out. Which is eleven years ago. The PS3 was first introduced in 2007.

Sorry to be rude, but honestly it is time to move on. I feel that making consoles “backward-compatible” basically hamstrings them, preventing the technology from reaching its full potential.

And nostalgia is not what it used to be.
As other commentators have pointed out, it is time to let go.

As @Rich33 put it, nothing is too big to fail.

Pan Am
Blockbuster
Toys R Us
Kodak
BlackBerry
MySpace
Nokia
Polaroid
Compaq

And that’s just off the top of my head.
I’ve got more.

Ironically, the fact that a company is too big would usually be the very reason it fails.

If anybody believes that our governments are remotely interested in protecting children, then answer this question:

“Why do our governments no longer show any interest in the activities of Jeffrey Epstein, now that he is very conveniently dead?”

It is strange that this list is quite so detailed. They seem to have a very precise idea of what needed fixing.

It seems possible that some executive insisted upon releasing the game in it’s present state, and refused to give the team another week, in which to polish it.

I have been reading some of the comments, and although I understand the government’s point of view, in this regard I am very much libertarian.

I say, less government interference, and let consenting adults do as they please.

The kind of content that goes far beyond “erotica/pornography” is already illegal. For good reasons. But that does not stop people from accessing it if they desperately want to.

As other commenters have said, anybody with the slightest knowledge of computer networking could likely get around this ban by using a VPN.

The “British government” have their priorities all wrong.

The British government sends weapons and equipment thousands of miles so that a group of psychopathic racists can slaughter their neighbours in peace. Then attack and arrest anyone with enough compassion to stand up for the basic human rights of those people being slaughtered.

And at home, the British government refuses to arrest a large network of people abusing children, because to do so would appear racist.

Utter Hypocrisy.

I am not sure this comment will actually get posted, and I apologise for my rant. But I am naturally frustrated by the state of the world at the moment, as any right-thinking person should be.

I remember the review score for “Gollum” being really very low.
So I went back and checked.

Gollum received a review score of 2/10, compared with Minds(Black)Eye receiving a 3/10.

So there is at least ONE game that is objectively worse than MindsEye. Faint praise, I suppose.

But I still think the best thing is to simply give it a miss. And I had actually had high hopes for this one.

Absolutely love this game.

Not sure how it will play in third-person, but it will be interesting to find out.

Will it make the game easier, or not? Will third person mode just end up feeling like tomb raider? Or Uncharted?

It might prove useful, so hopefully you will get the option to toggle it on or off.

For me, not being able to see your created character was not a big deal, and I found the first person point of view to be really immersive.

I thought it was odd that your character is not actually an Avatar, though.

So UbiSoft’s message to their customers :

“Here is our brand new game.
It is £75.00, on the latest and most advanced hardware
We have purposefully made sure that is no fun at all.
If you would like the fun version, please pay us more money”.

Except, in french, I assume.

These people really need to work on their PR.

I never particularly liked the very first AC game. And did not play any more of them, until AC Origins. Which I love, due to the attention to detail, the historical accuracy of Ancient Egypt.

Not having the same interest in the later, new time-periods, I have actually skipped all of the other new games. So Origins remains the only AC game I have played, and I have done so several times.

Perhaps this is the reason that I really enjoy the movie, because I have little interest in the convoluted backstory of AC lore, and because game-wise, I only wanted to enjoy exploring Egypt at the time of the Pharaohs.

Actually, I think that one of the stuntmen on the movie might actually hold a world record, for the longest continual swan-dive. A free-fall of 125 feet, lasting four seconds.

This marketing is so misleading, that I was not even aware this game was an “action shooter”.

I was expecting a third-person adventure game, similar to Watch Dogs or Syndicate Wars.

We have all known for some time that game discs are basically a physical copy of the license to download the game.

Which is ironic. Or is that “moronic”?

But that said, I will add two things.

1. I will always prefer to have disc copies of games, over downloads, wherever possible.

2. I will flatly refuse to ever buy a console that does not possess some form of disc drive.

This might very well mean that the PS5 is the last PlayStation that I shall own.

I watched the first season of this show. Looking forward to more. I very much enjoyed it.

Perhaps it just appeals to my sense of humour?

Perhaps it actually helps that I have not played any of the Fallout games?

This looks incredible.

Sure, it is video….and not actual gameplay, but considering what Rockstar managed to accomplish last time, this will be awesome.

Especially as we now know that there is still a year to go. The attention-to-detail in RDR2 was just astonishing. But this looks vastly superior to even those high standards.

This is a shame.
Especially since Knights of the Old Republic were the only two games I was actually interested in.

I already own a PS5 (the original version).

I would like to replace it with a PS5 Pro at some point. I expect to have to pay at least £1000 pounds for it in total. For the console, spare DualSense, maybe some new software. And a disc drive.

I am in no rush.

I am not particularly interested in this Until Dawn movie. I just do not see the point in it. The interactive experience, the player’s decisions, are what actually matter.

Why bother making a mediocre movie, based upon a clever game? A game that was openly influenced by far better movies.

But I agree entirely, that not giving credit to the original creators of the work is awful. Is it a money issue? Royalties?

But this happens a lot in Hollywood, doesn’t it? How many films are remakes of previous work, and do not acknowledge the original writers?

For instance, did Martin Scorsese and William Monahan credit the writers of Infernal Affairs, when they wrote The Departed?

All that this suggests to me is that Bethesda has done a fairly basic port. I get the sense that very little attempt was made to actually “optimise” the PS5 version.

My internal SSD still has 520GB of free space. And I imagine that more people will invest in an SSD expansion as games get larger and more complicated.

But after all, if I was really interested in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, then I would have undoubtedly bought the XBox version by now.

@themightyant

Good call with Urban Chaos.
That game was great. I had almost totally forgotten about that one.

People who voted for the new Kingdom Come Deliverance II, clearly do not understand the meaning of the word “Influential”.

These lists prove to me that either people have short memories, or I am getting old. Maybe both.

For me influential games are things like -

GTA 3
Broken Sword
Monkey Island
Duke Nukem 3D
Eye of the Beholder
Elite

As in, actually having had some influence on subsequent releases.

The trouble is that I believe the only people who would be interested in seeing a Horizon film adaptation are those people who have enjoyed the games.

I also feel that condensing the lore and the story into a film that was at most three hours long - it would make it a complete muddle. Watering down the convoluted plot of a forty-hour science fiction archaeofuturist game into a movie length experience, seems like an impossible task.

And making that plot into a feature film that the general public (those without experience of the source material) want to see?

I fear that to me this all sounds like a waste of time.

A perfect parallel would be the recent Dune films. A monumental epic of a novel, made into a pair of films that are over six hours long. And they still took liberties with the plot. And if you have not read the book, then large portions of dialogue (specialist terminology) just sounds like gibberish.

Resistance Fall of Man was just fantastic. Would like to give those games another go. An updated edition of the whole trilogy sounds like an excellent idea.

Especially considering I missed out on the third one.

I would also love to see the Dragon Age games given an update, even if it is only the first two. But that won’t happen, will it?

The trouble is that the original Dragon Age games use a completely unique engine. Too bad there is no-one left at BioWare that knows how to use it.

How about some more Mirrors Edge? Or a rebuild of the PS3 original?

The description reminds me of Watch Dogs.

But I really like the idea of Story-focussed Single Player.

So no more Hogwarts Legacy content, then.

At least we got a few extras, and the Haunted Shop side quest too. Although I found that one frustrating, rather than actually fun.

Let Avalanche pour all of their magic into the sequel. I cannot wait to see what they come up with.

There was that side quest in the first Judgment game, about a guy that stole panties from washing lines. Gave him superpowers!

This weirdly seems to take that idea, and turn it into an entire game.

What is it about Japanese culture? Half of it is brilliant, creative, inventive, and the other half is just plain crazy?

I think that I will give this game a miss, thankyou very much.

I played through The Order, more than once. I thought it was a really good game.

Yes, it was short, but at least you actually got to see the end of the story.

The visuals and the artistic style were just gorgeous, at the time. For an early PS4 game.

If not a sequel, then how about a remake?

I would like Ninja Theory to remake Heavenly Sword, as well. That was another great-looking fun game.
Hopefully somebody will do a remake, with PS5 visuals.

@Boxmonkey

Well, they sold one, at least.

I bought a new copy of Until Dawn, but only because I lost the PS4 version when I moved house last year. I have not got around to replaying it yet.

I do not like the idea of “live service” games, in particular.

I cannot actually understand how Horizon could function as a “live service”. Perhaps they are trying to go down the route of “co-operative” play, like Monster Hunter? And have no story at all?

But “live service” will always make me think of Concord, and Anthem. Two huge disappointments.

Preordered my copy of this one, last week.

Have not played the demo just yet. I might give it a go,

I have played the Dragon Age games, and the Mass Effect series many times. I replay the games in order to see what consequences my choices have.

I do like to see as much of these games, as much of the story as possible.

I have also replayed Hogwarts Legacy several times, but was disappointed that there is only one ending.