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@Balaam_ So you want the gratification without any of the time investment?

That has to be the dullest collection of screenshots I've ever seen.

@Northern_munkey I hope there is for the same reason.

@romanista Your DK SMK gif/avatar has floored me with nostalgia.

Simpler times.

@Shepherd_Tallon Fibre is a big jump for sure!

I got it last year, and finally hardwired the console. I finished R&C Into The Nexus via streaming. Could feel the latency, but was still perfectly playable.

@Shepherd_Tallon The latency inherit to the Portal would make it a big no for me on that.

It's gonna sell gangbusters on PS5, if you limit to just that you'll still have no shortage of action.

@EfYI Or I have a *****-load of problems in my life and expect the bit of digital escapism I paid good money for to actually work properly...

@nessisonett Yep. I bought it for €7.50 many moons ago (2018 I think), and it always surprised me how I could find games on a whim over the years.

Got one early 1997. That was a lot of fish washing at home to enhance my pocket money.

Tekken 2 + official memory card were my first purchases. Then, Twisted Metal World tour and the original WipEout for my birthday the same year.

WipEout 2097 happens to be my favourite game ever made, so it holds that place in my heart too.

@Dalamar Remember kids: when stating something is overrated, you're expressing a personal opinion, so yes, when you don't like something it is in fact overrated.

Great art direction and music in the first game, and not a lot else.

Zero interest in this.

@Americansamurai1 Yeah Sony are so obsessed with live service that they've cancelled most of the LS games they had in development and pivoted back to single player.

Weird feeling to realise you've lived through the golden ages of gaming (circa 1993 to 2010), and it's long since in the rearview mirror.

Games that I hugely regret spending €80 on at launch, particularly digital as I can't resell... this.

@Leeg They are priced steeply. This is the first gen ever where after five years they're at least ten percent more expensive than after launch, not forty to fifty percent cheaper.

As a launch day PS5 owner, I'd have been interested in this game if it wasn't a technical mess, but hey ho it is.

That said, if my PS5 (my only console) went caput tomorrow, I wouldn't be bothered replacing it. Gaming has become too cynical, too messy, and (comparatively) too expensive. It's brought me back to playing music and reading lots more, so "thanks", I guess.

I play games for the mechanics, not the story, so this is the best one in the series for me

@J2theEzzo Oooohhh I must go back to Nine Sols! Think I'm on the third proper stage.

@J2theEzzo I found it to be massively overrated too. Great visuals and music, but that's about it.

@Questionable_Duck Not this again. Like I said, when they do port God of War or The Last of Us to Xbox I'll concede. Until such time, big shrug.

@Rich33 Agree there, it was definitely the ABK acquisition that pushed the higher ups to take action. What Xbox management seem to miss is a lot of the value of both Zenimax and ABK was the fact that their output is available everywhere. Buying the likes of TES, Diablo, Doom, CoD, etc. seems like a solid plan on paper, but the reality is cutting off the biggest portion of their playerbases wasn't. Microsoft's acquisition effectively diminished the value of those IPs.

I do wonder about next gen, and where are Sony going with it. I've usually bought my main console as close as possible to launch, but I see absolutely zero appeal in getting a PS6 early days. No doubt there'll be another protracted cross-gen period, the big games will take an eternity to materialize, and the smaller/interesting/indie titles don't push tech boundaries and will run on most things.

@Questionable_Duck It means that Sony recognises that a suprise breakout hit that lives or dies by the size of its active playerbase can use the influx of (checks notes) new players.

Vs. one of the games that defined Xbox's entire brand going to their number one rival's console. It's not even remotely comparable.

Besides, did you casually miss Microsoft's multiformat push? The Xbox Series line dying a death at retail and it effectively pulling out entirely of several markets?

But if you think the Xbox is doing tickety-boo then I'm more than happy to hear your rationale. I'll wait ☺️☺️☺️

@ItsAlwaysSunnyyy You absolutely do not need to have played Psychonauts 1 to enjoy 2.

If you absolutely must, read a two minute synopsis of the first game, then get to enjoying one of the most vivid and rich worlds in gaming.

@Bentleyma You're surprised the biggest multiformat publisher going took a wedge of cash to have their four year old game that's well past its sales peak as a Plus game?

Won't be playing it myself as I've fallen out of love with gaming in general, never really clicked with the franchise (the run kinda gave me motion sickness), and I'm of the opinion that the frenetic action of Vanquish is infinitely better, but I'd never thought I'd see the day (especially as I spent most of the 360/PS3 era working in gaming retail).

This is a hair's width away from "Sonic on Nintendo", and a real (re)defining moment for the industry.

@Lowdefal Gears was Microsoft's big push with the 360. It defined the glory years of that console (which in turn was Microsoft's glory years with console gaming).

I was working in GameStop while at university. Gears 2 launch during that period, and it was basically "bigger than Jesus". The only Xbox exclusive that had as much hype was Halo 3.

How they procured the Gears franchise vs. Halo is here nor there. Gears coming to PlayStation is a tacit admission by Microsoft that Xbox is dead.

@Northern_munkey The one in their heads.

@springer17 Transformed is one of the GoAT kart racers.

One of the few things I missed when I sold my Series X was playing that at locked 60FPS.

@nomither6 Mario Kart Wii is the worst in the series. Tracks a mile wide to accommodate the waggle steering.

@Stale-Bread I too was once 21 (somewhere in between the first two Halo games, sheesh!), but no longer am 🙈

@Bsb56 I said The Last of Us Remastered, which did have multiplayer. In fact, it had more maps than the base PS3 game.

The fact this is just a shade under 20 years old makes me feel ancient.

@Bsb56 Uncharted Collection, The Last of Us Remastered, if you want to make direct comparisons to Halo and Gears.

@Deadlyblack The same way we look back at any engine that isn't performant and/or poorly optimised for the target hardware?

This has been the case since the early days of gaming, it's not exactly a new phenomenon.

@Balaam_ Amazing how a "tRophY hUnTEr" like yourself pisses and moans incessantly about any sort of challenge.

@Lysterao The trophy "hunter" is effectively manipulating their trophy list by skipping these games.

It's akin to not popping a credit into a Pac-Man or Space Invaders cabinet back in the day because they can't get their initials to the top of the high score table. Absolutely wild mentality.

@OptimusPrime1 Using the same logic charging money to buy a console and a game in the first place is paywalling single player platinums.

@Balaam_ Pity you dont get a new hobby and spare us all from your incessant ranting about trophies.

Gaming clearly makes you miserable - we've understood that since your 1,000th post pissing and moaning about trophies.

And no, it's not "anti trophy hunter criteria, it's actually what the kids call a "skill issue".

@Thrillho I played it, nice art style, phenomenal soundtrack, ho-hum gameplay.

I also don't understand the hype for it.

@LifeGirl One of the best things I ever did in terms of enjoying games was turn off trophy/achievement notifications.

Glad that Nintendo have held firm and not introduced these things to their platform.

@DennisReynolds Sony's $299 at E3 1995 (was it called CES then?) was brutal.

@Playandhavefun Yeah I guess. I had fun with it, but was very bored by it by the time I quit.

Bought it physically at least, so was easy to resell.

@Playandhavefun It's an amazing world to explore, looks and runs fantastic too, but oh my word is the gameplay repetitive.

It's a cheeky little tactic, this — announcing a low cost for your game while AAA publishers toy with the idea of $80

Is it? There's plenty of AAA games I'd prefer at that price than this.

@KundaliniRising333 For-profit business seeks to protect said profits. More news at 11.

@twitchtvpat Everyone knows what's meant, why double down on the semantics?

Regardless of it being a small slice of the game, or the full game locked behind a five hour timer, both serve the same purpose - to demonstrate the game to potential buyers.

It's a demo, plain and simple.

Enough to see if the map screen makes my fan go nuclear.

Yeah I have the free upgrade from within the app. That said, you'd have to pay me to entertain this game ever again.

@GoatFace04 Yes, I ended up preordering the full game based on how much I enjoyed the beta lol.