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Tonnes of comments here already so mine will likely get lost in the ether but anyways...

I'm personally turned off by the art style. It's just not what I'm into but that's OK. Everyone has their tastes but if you like the look of it, then great!

My issue is that this game feels designed by committee / analytics driven rather than something driven by pure creative passion. 'what are the most popular games out there? OK we need to make our game look and feel like those' etc etc.

It's an odd choice because it feels like it is targeting the fortinite audience but are those player really going to leave that game in favour of this? I feel Hunters Gathering isn't really appealing to existing Horizon fans either so... who is this game for?

I look at the success of Arc Raiders and it's probably done so well because it's doing something a little different. Helldivers 2 did something a little different and that was a success as well.

I 100% agree that we should not pile on a game before its release but first impressions are important and my first impression is not good.

For the record I also felt the same about Concord but I wanted to give it a chance and so I played the beta and only after putting a few hours into it I decided it wasn't for me.

Ultimately I think this game needs to be F2P to stand a chance of being successful.

@AdamantiumPriest I did the same. The deluxe edition doesn't look great unfortunately.

@Oram77 Absolutely. That boss fight was a pain if you weren't ready or had the right items in your inventory.

It'll be interesting to see how this one is handled because there's definitely some stuff that they will change. For example:

@nessisonett Now there's something I was completely unaware of. I had no idea Shad Gaspard was scanned to be used as Kratos. RIP to the poor fella but at least his kid who he saved can always say his dad is the god of war!

@Lock_Dock122 Yes, this is what I am hoping for the most but I have a feeling it's not going to happen with this entry although I'm sure modders will eventually release a VR mod on PC.

I'm expecting multi-round championships but the way the grid branches off in different directions has me a bit confused about the structure of the championships. I guess we'll find out later today!

Looking forward to this but probably a little more expensive than I thought it would be. I'm interested to see how it all works. The layout of the Power Pack kinda reminds me of the sphere grid system in Final Fantasy X!

@GoatFace04 I'm hoping you can speed up time. I liked how Race Driver Grid handled it back in the day. The race lasted about 15 mins but it did a full day / night cycle in that time.

@Czar_Khastik I hear the narrative is OK but there's a lot of holes in the plot.

Litshauer recalled one meeting he had with a high-ranking executive, who pointed out his company turns over $3 billion a year. The paltry profits being touted for retro releases doesn’t even register on the radar of some larger firms

@11001100110zero Cheers for the suggestions but my Deck is running fine and I'm very comfortable tinkering and finding solutions to issues. I find it satisfying to when I finally figure something out. Probably explains why I work in IT!

The OS issues I'm talking about are just little niggly things. For example there was an issue a lot of people were experiencing early in the Deck's life where the device would not connect to WiFi. I also remember having issues with Dragon's Dogma Darkness Arisen and the only solution was to use GE Proton. I think that solution is fine for people who are comfortable making changes but I think the average console gamer who may not have gamed on a PC before will have trouble from time to time.

My latest conundrum is trying to get GOG Resident Evil 1 working with the the upscaled backgrounds and textures. I'm very close to having it sorted but there are some visual glitches that I think are being caused by dgVoodoo2 because the old versions are not available within Lutris anymore. I managed to download the last version that was Linux compatible despite the devs best efforts to wipe it from the internet so I'm going to try and use that but I need to look into manually installing dgVoodoo2 now

I love my Steam Deck so I'm very interested in this but anything over £500 / £600 would be a bit of a killer and I think it would struggle to get off the ground.

Also, as anyone who has a Steam Deck will know, it's not all straight forward. The OS is still a bit buggy and some games just do not work or have weird issues that you have to google to fix. For example, I decided to play Doom 3 on the Deck earlier this year but there was a very odd visual glitch any time a particular enemy would appear and after spending a long time looking into it, it turned out I needed to make a change to a parameter in a config file.

My point is, the average joe who thinks this might be an easy way into PC gaming may end up disappointed although if you have your expectations in check and don't mind a bit of tinkering from time to time you will have a great experience.

@PuppetMaster Oh nice! Thanks for that. I'll take a look!

This was the most interesting thing for me at the SoP. But I really hope that they aren't just one off race weekends and that there are multi-round championships included. This needs to be the kind of thing GT do in their games going forward. Starting from the back is outdated. I'd love to see them have a career mode where you create your own team, start at the Sunday Cup with your little banger, earn credits to buy new cars and enter other championships.

My dream racing game would be GT as the base for handling, presentation and graphics mixed with F1 / Grid team management mixed with Project Cars / Motor Racing event calendars, event entry fees etc.

@JayJ What's the performance like on the Deck? Might pick it up there myself if it's decent.

It's ridiculously expensive to pick up the PS2 version of this nowadays so it'll be good to get the remake. If only Capcom could do a remake of Haunting Ground next!

@Elfuggingjefe I haven't heard much about Rennsport but Project Motor Racing is out later this month. It's a spiritual successor to Project Cars 2 (let's just pretend PC3 never happened!).

I'm sure this guy is looking forward to Audio Trip

@lindos I compl3t3ly disagr33. What a w3ird thing to say! /s

It's great on the Steam Deck as well!

MindsEye player count on Steam peaked at 37 players over the last 3 months!

Really enjoyed Hot Wheels Unleashed so I have high hopes for this one.

It's a shame. Hopefully it gets sorted soon because I was going to buy the physical but I think I'll hold off for now.

@Jrs1 Just received my Crow Country physical edition. Looking forward to playing it!

No crossplay could be a killer but tbh I haven't bought the game yet because €80 is too much to ask for this in my mind. I wouldn't have hesitated if it was about €50 / €55.

@Medic_alert Yeah the verification system has been a bit of a mess for a long time now. ProtonDB is the the best place to find out if a game works well on Steam Deck or not. There's even a decky plugin for ProtonDB so you can see what rating each game has.

Interesting to see this is developed by Yukes. I would associate them more with the WWE games. Their run of WWE games on PS2 is stuff of legends!

I'm definitely going to check this out. Could be fun playing a few games with my kids.

I bought a first class ticket for the hype train when this originally released. Like most people I was disappointed. Since then, with all these big updates, I've tried to get back into it but it never seems to get the hooks into me. Last time I tried it was in VR and was having fun with it until BG3 came along and took my attention away. Maybe it's time to give it go again. 8th time's a charm eh?

Wish there were more helicopters and jets available in conquest modes. I rarely get an opportunity to use one. They get snapped up straight away.

It's a shame that trophies haven't been added. It wouldn't put me off buying the game though. I personally would have loved trophies for the OG Resident Evil games.

@Stevemalkpus 100%. I've played Fortnite a handful of times with my kids but I would definitely jump back in if there was a Springfield map.

@Czar_Khastik What a time to be alive eh?

I'm disappointed Sony never introduced the 'What's New' feed that they had on PS4. It was always good seeing what games your friends were playing, what trophies they earned and being able to post videos and screenshots was great craic.

With the right to repair directive in the EU, we probably will see controllers with removeable batteries in the next few years

@Boxmonkey absolutely. I think this is what Capcom realised after the likes of RE6. "I have a crazy idea guys, how about we make a game the fans would like to play and maybe we'll have better sales as a result?"

@carlos82 100% It's ridiculous that you need to be online to play single-player content in GT7. I know they patched Sport at the end to allow offline play but a version on disc would be amazing. "GT7 Gold" with offline play on disc when they decide to sunset the game would be amazing but very unlikely.

@Jacko11 Same here. Love his work. Retro Playstation Magazine by him is worth checking out if you haven't already.