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Agree with the one. Gonna get further stuck in over the break (which is to say, I'll probably get an hour in front of it).

@Oram77 It was on my "might buy over Christmas" list, but with that info it's a definite sale now

@Korgon Reading a bit about him on Wikipedia, EA moved development of Medal of Honour in-house, Activision took Infinity Ward on and got Zampella and Co. working on a game codenamed "MOH Killer". And that game turned into Call of Duty.

Mission accomplished, and then some.

@StitchJones I think you mean "the arcade years of Street Fighter 2".

@Korgon Titanfall 2 is the perfect distillation of everything great about videogames. Easily one of the best I've ever played, and I've been gaming regularly since 1992. Also the only game on my 16 year old PSN account to have more than 1,000 hours played (plus about 350 on Xbox).

RIP to the chap.

Nope, too chaotic. RNG BS AI isn't fun to play against.

@4st7lb Wooo, Boys For Pele.

Very tempted to pop into my local Smyths this evening on the way home. They have Sonic Crossworlds and Death Stranding 2 for €40 a pop.

I was thinking of picking up Forza Horizon 5, and you reminded me how utterly frustrating the AI is.

@DogPark Because some people want to play these things before/during Christmas at the discounted price?

I think it's BS that access is hated behind the Plus sub, but that doesn't mean that people won't take advantage of the offers right now.

@nomither6 I'm full convinced you're 14 years old because your use the dollar sign for an S almost every single time.

Aside from it sounding horrible in general, the various latencies with this (streaming gameplay, mobile to TV controller) would be borderline comical.

Price appears to be the biggest issue affecting all platform holders,

That and the fact that the US is a failed state not even trying to hide their descent into full-on Christo-fascism.

I don't think it's "indie", but it's clearly miles away from big budget. The areas of the game, while pretty to look at, are empty bar the usual collectibles and combat encounters.

Looks like a PS1 game with much shinier graphics.

@RadioHedgeFund I can still hear the music from Cervantes stage in my head!

@Balaam_ You're still not grasping that games aren't designed exclusively to cater to your OCD (said with respect as someone else with OCD, that just doesn't manifest like this).

No disappointment here. In fact, joy. Trophies are a pox on gaming.

What's actually improved in this version? Might pick it up at the current sale price (had it on disc but moved it on eventually) if its 60fps.

@SMJ That'd be an amazing entry point for sure. But good luck sticking an SSD in there, and slightly upgraded internals. Sure a Dualshock 4 would set you back half the price just to begin with.

Plus the redesign wouldn't drop from the sky. Small amount of R&D, plus a dedicated fab process

@RoomWithaMoose Sorry it took a while to reply, but that's a great answer and I appreciate you taking the time to go into the detail.

I'm actually going to go and watch his review next chance I get.

@SMJ Who would it sell to, exactly? The PS4 is effectively at the end of its lifespan, this device wouldn't appeal much to current owners. If you don't own one by this point, you either don't have interest in it, or can't afford it. And if you can't afford it, then a second-hand standard PS4 would be a much cheaper option.

PS5 owners sure as heck aren't coughing over the few hundred quid for one either.

@charbtronic WipEout fans, F-Zero fans, Star Wars fans?

I hear there's quite a few of the latter.

@AnthonySam What are we asking that they're not doing, exactly?

@PuppetMaster Right on the money, good sir/ma'am.

Nothing like dropping a few thousand Drive Tickets on challenger images to make me stick with a character online for a bit lol.

@Leetware1 Pound Sterling is UK money, not European.

They let you buy the various soundtracks and new stages with the Drive Tickets, so hopefully this is the same.

Funny how people bemoan that fighting games don't reward you with extra content these days for playing them, when this is precisely what Drive Tickets do.

Could be time for me to buy Season 3.

@4fold That's certainly a choice...

@RoomWithaMoose What's so "perfect" about that? What exactly makes the game stupid? And what makes videogames stupid?

A lot of people would opine that Rogers' opinions and style of writing is far more stupid.

Enjoyed what I played of Wo Long on Xbox, so that's a nice get.

AC Mirage is my least favourite game in the series. They stripped out the melee for a "back to basics" stealth game, but the stealth is both jank and not at all fun.

Soul Calibur is the highlight there. While it's a step back from SC2, it's still one of the best games in the series (and miles ahead of 4).

I had about 1,200 hours last year and that felt like a step back for me.

351 this year. Been long suspecting it, but gaming feels kinda dead for me personally.

Just a heads up that it runs so poorly on PS5 that John Linnemann from Digital Foundry is trying for a refund...

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@LifeGirl @DennisReynolds Tekken 1 was pretty ass? Funny, reading the magazines back in 1994/5 (yeah I'm old) said otherwise. See LifeGirl's comments. And my own subjective experience of it. I played the arse out of Tekken 1, and that was after I got Tekken 2.

Street Fighter 1 - now that was ass. Tekken 2 and 3 were perfect sequels, but the series arrived fully formed with Tekken 1.

@Oram77 Agree completely. The Heat system is straight up doggy doo doo.

@DennisReynolds I mean, Tekken 1 is obviously jank by virtue of being a 30+ year old game and the birth of the series, but it was a much better game and coherent experience back then vs. what T8 is offering today.

@ElectricWizard It's higher spec in some regards, but lower than others. But they're functionally the same thing.

Besides, the PS5 and Series X launched at the same price. Now one is €50 more, while the one that apparently has the "monopoly" on the market and is the cause of the high pricing is cheaper.

@BrownOwl Right? I think they've missed the meaning of the "mono" part.

Good, 8 is the worst game in the series.

@OldGamer999 My entire reply to you is about this comment...

There is only three of them if you included Xbox and it is almost a monopoly and that’s why prices are high.

... the last part of your sentence is what I'm dissecting. Care to explain it? Who has the monopoly? Because it's a two horse race with Sony and Nintendo. And if there is a monopoly driving the high prices, why do Microsoft (the guys in last place) have the most expensive console?

You chose to read some of it and shout fan boy, Sony I love you.

No, I'm asking you were you plucked your nonsense out of.

Sorry but they don’t love you and none of the big three love us. They want your money and maximum profit.

Yeah no *****. Do you think the rest of us only discovered capitalism this morning?

@OldGamer999 Way to miss the point.

Anyways, if Sony are taking advantage, care to explain why a Series X costs €50 more than the equivalent PS5 model? Or the significantly less powerful Switch 2 is within spitting distance of the PS5 in terms of price? And the SteamCube (or whatever it's called) is gonna be more expensive?

@OldGamer999

We need the competition more than ever now.
There is only three of them if you included Xbox and it is almost a monopoly and that’s why prices are high.

Is that why my favourite cheddar's price is high? Is that why my skin-on peanuts' price is high? Is that why the 85% cocoa dark chocolate price is high? Is that why my electricity is high? Is that why my new runners' price is high?

You either live in a cave, or are being deliberately disingenuous.

Netflix price increase in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

This has 6/10 with a "we're sorry fans are disappointed so we'll work on it" redemptive arc written all over it.

Yours for €15 six months after launch.

@BearsEatBeets The appealing part is indeed the retro graphics. If you remove them for something else or more "appealing", then they lose the appeal.

@BearsEatBeets The fundamental appeal of games is, well, gameplay. Don't care what it looks like, as long as it plays good.

You're also comparing to forms of filmmaking that probably everyone alive today (who watches films) have only encountered as curios, or not at all. A lot of gamers today grew up with games looking like this.

Very tempted by the paid DLC, but feeling sketchy that there's no price for it yet.

@ZeroSum I'm sorry, loot ducks? Okay, now I have to check Arc Raiders.

@TDHorizon What's worse about doing easy trophies is they become "if everyone has it, no one has it".

I have a buddy who prides himself on his Platinum collection, yet they're all fairly easy to achieve. He was absolutely not amused at me Platinuming WipEout Omega Collection (0.1% of players have it, a third of the trophies are that percentage, and most of them are under 5%).

@Dogbreath You're amazed that a barebones port of a game released 15 years ago on 20 year old hardware looks fine on a 2025 console?

@Ahoyman That's a fair criticism, but it's also not what the person that I'm replying to is criticising.

@Balaam_ Change the record already about multiplayer trophies. Or you know, get good.