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@delukze I agree the use of the speaker and touch pad are fine...I really like the speaker in the controller, it adds a lot to gameplay at times....the light bar is far more of a gimmick. Mine is covered by a Batman decal and it's staying that way.

@Bad-MuthaAdebis I play in the dark ,and while the light bar does add an ambient effect I find what it adds a lot more prominently is its reflection in my TV screen. It's not as noticeable since I got the option of dimming the bar it can still be an irritant.

Seems more like the kind of game I'd play on a phone or tablet rather than my console...game looks fine and all but if I'm on the PS4 ID tend to be on for a sizeable amount of time rather than quick dips into a pick up and play game like this....I don't have one but I imagine it would be perfect for the Vita.

@Bad-MuthaAdebis Ha

There is something of a distinction between an indie game and something that looks like a phone game you would unlock via a code on the packaging of a childs toy....what a cluck up....its fowl stench virtually emanates from the screen as i type....I assume as it's clearly cheaply produced it would cost chicken feed to buy, but even then I'd have to be hen pecked into a purchase

@LDXD I was so disappointed when I found out the next Elder Scrolls was online. I like my adventuring solo, my journey and my experience, not being part of someone else's. If they do something similar to Fallout I may well cry.

@LDXD I'm usually against ports from previous generation, I think the games had their time it's in the past and I enjoyed them during their natural life span.
In the case of Skyrim and Fallout it always felt like the playstation 3 just couldn't handle them properly....the console seemed to be constantly straining to keep up.
I love open world games...being able to wander a world and explore, and experience the game in my own way and at my own pace.

@Bad-MuthaAdebis I'd love to see Skyrim (and Fallout 3) on the PS4....the ambitions of such games seemed to outstrip the ability of the PS3 and lead to real performance issues.

I loved Skyrim on my PS3 and luckily apart from some broken missions I didn't experience the game breaking problems others did. I honestly hated Dragon Age and Dragon Age 2, but if it's taken cues from how Skyrim was presented then I'm interested in Inquisition...I need more open worlds to explore on the PS4.

@get2sammyb It is incredibly decent of them. I totally see the benefit of remastering the likes of The Last of Us, Uncharted and God of War, so those that missed out by not having a PS3 can experience them, I've just never seen the reason to repurchase titles I've already played.
Having said that...if they did a remaster of Skyrim or Fallout 3 I'd be willing to murder my way to the front of the line to get them first.

@LDXD Yeah I'd missed the cross buy bit of the review. I edited my comment when I saw it.

Edit: lol

@Bad-MuthaAdebis If bet a sizeable chunk of cash it's heading to PS+ at some point in the future.

I loved the Unfinished Swan...I loved Journey, flower, flow, Braid, limbo, Thomas was Alone...beautifully crafted little games. I've no reason to buy it again ( I guess I'm part of the very vocal minority that haven't bought into repurchasing re-released titles I already own ) as the PS3 version was just fine....if I got the free upgrade as I did with Flower and Flow Id possibly dip into the PS4 version...if nothing else than to play the opening ink/paint throwing section of the game which was always its highlight to me. If the PS4 version gets more gamers to give games like this a shot then it's a good thing....but I think they tend to have a marmite like effect of folk, they either love them or hate them.

• just saw the part of the review that says it is, indeed, free to get on the PS4. Jolly good.

@gr8apeb8 I run to a tight gaming budget myself and I feel the same about risking permanent damage to my PS4. Until I hear that the rest mode issue has definitively been resolved I've been playing my backlog of PS+ games on the PS3.

@Diddy_kong I was going to say that lol.

Dynasty Warriors has long been a guilty pleasure of mine....endlessly repetitive slashing and officer battering in game after game that are rather similar, but incredibly satisfying.
However despite also having a love of strategy games, I've never been able to get into the Empires offshoot of the series...tried and failed, I'm not sure why.

I've had limited zombie killing during my time on PS3 and PS4...I've been quite picky about what I'd play. I missed the walking dead series and I'm not sure the enemies in the Last of us count. I enjoyed Dead Nation...I tried Dead Rising 2 when it came on PS+ but I really didn't like it.
I've been quite interested in Dying Light, I hope it turns out solid enough to be worth giving a shot....as others have said, it's undeniably satisfying to smash zombies in the brain with blunt (and sharp) objects.

Anything that risks the well being of my PS4 and by extension my sanity is a big enough deal that sony should have acknowledged the fault existed and acted upon it faster...I've seen posts here and elsewhere of the issue doing permanent damage to consoles and that really isn't good enough.
The worst of it is that the thing that is causing the damage, the new rest mode, wasn't required. As far as I can see there was nothing wrong with the old standby mode that they 'improved'.

@ZeD I had to unplug aswell as when it happened to me holding the power button down did nothing. Unplugging is never a good thing but it was the only thing that worked on mine.

I always used to use standby mode...to keep the controller charged more than anything else. I'd been avoiding the new rest mode as I was aware of the issues but I selected it without thinking on Friday night....alas when I went to turn the console on it stayed dark and only sign of life was the PS4 beeping when I pressed the power button. Safe mode wouldn't work so I was left with unplugging the console from the mains and plugging back in...that worked but I still could have done without the 20min near heart attack it gave me.

I'd have expected more plus subscribers across the three platforms. I was on PS+ long before the PS4 came out because of the high quality of titles I was getting on the PS3. I've always been happy with the games given on the current gen console, never expected AAA to appear yet. However the quality of the PS3 offerings has dropped way off over the past few months...and it was the games I joined PS+ for not so I could gain access to multiplayer or anything else.

I was underwhelmed by Shadow falls single player...it was pretty but I never had the desire to replay it. Actually I got it packaged with my PS4 last Christmas tried it for an hour then left it until recently. I've never been into multiplayer so I never played that element of the game tho I know it's considered to be very good.
Honestly the only reason I ever played the game at all was that there wasn't a whole lot of variety to choose from on PS4 at the time.

I'm still pleased the game did well, for the greater good of the console.

I'm digging into my PS+ backlog so I'm playing Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance....it's still a terrible name but I'm an hour in and really liking the sword action and the ability chop everything in sight into little cubes.

It's all been pretty damned decent mostly. It was light on games I wanted to play for the first few months so I continued to play on the PS3 more.
The PSN issues never bothered me that much but it still hasn't been the reliable service it should be and I can understand folk getting miffed about it.
It's real issues have all befallen the system very recently....the connection issues continuing, the FUBAR of DriveClub and the issues the new firmware update has been causing. I, personally, could have done without the panic of my PS4 appearing to be dead at midnight and trying to get it sorted by torchlight as I tried to not wake my girlfriend up after Id put it into the new and dreaded rest mode.
The selection of PS+ games on the PS4 has been fine with me, however the selection of PS3 games has, in my opinion, been very poor over recent months compared to what used to be offered.

Overall I gave it a B+

After the lifeless and charmless experience of Destiny Id just be delighted to do some loot grabbing in an environment where the NPCs talk to me and interact...I'd grown a bit weary of Borderlands but honestly Destiny makes me want to give it another go.

@Scollurio Me too actually...I did everything in the 1st game then found by midway through the 2nd game I was really just waiting for it to end.

I totally missed the 1st costume quest...always heard good things but never got around to trying it. I think I'll try it before getting the 2nd one.

I honestly just didn't see the big deal about Resogun when I tried it on the PS4...the rabid love for it baffled me. However in aware I'm one in an immense ocean of universal adoration for the game so I'm sure I'm just missing something. I've not tried Resogun since the 1st few days of having my PS4 so I might give it another shot.

I still don't think much at all of how Destiny has been handled and I honestly think the price of the DLC is shockingly high for what it comes with. The explanation for the new locations already being there in the core game does make sense but I also still think elements of the game and its story were butchered and ripped out prior to release...a game that drip feeds you everything to increase its life span whilst also expecting the player to jump thru the same hoops over and over again isn't the kind of experience I enjoyed. I could see some amount of excitement to the expansion of it featured something new beyond some new loot pieces and following the same paths trodden before with a slight deviation to the new mission area.
At least one of the crucible locations is on a planet the campaign didn't take me to and I thought/hoped it was a tease that future expansions would open up more planets and the missions/strikes/raid that came with them....seems like anything truly new will be on hold until Destiny 2 and after Activision are done rolling around in a sea of money and cackling manically.
The only good thing I can say is at least the game doesn't feature micro transactions.

I really enjoyed the game...the grim moody setting of the city had a real dark noir vibe to it...the hacking may have ended up as just a button pressing gimmick but over all I liked it. I'd have to see where they go with a sequel before I'd decide if I bought it or not tho....I got assassins creed fatigue from it all being too samey over the course of AC2/Brotherhood/Revelations being all set in the same location/time zone and the characters stories being stretched out too far and thin. I'd hope to see Aiden Pierce visit new locations and gain an expanded and deep storyline with a worthwhile narrative following the events of the 1st game.

Love horror in all forms and Outlast really surprised me...the game taking away combat as a survival option serves to make it a far more intense and psychological affair than other horror titles....the DLC was very good as well as it bookended the main game.

@FullbringIchigo Oh Aiden is soooo a modern day assassin waiting to be unveiled... I'd actually not hate the contemporary sections of AC if they saved a real purpose beyond exposition and gave real combat/stealth missions and content....I'd welcome being out of the Animus being like watchdogs lol.

I hated the modern day out of the Animus sections of the games...they ripped you out of the narrative and Desmond was a dull whiny brat...it always seemed like they came up with the idea of Animus but never knew what to do with it. Having said that, I actually really liked the modern day sections of Black Flag. I'll wait to see how Unity turns out before I commit...Brotherhood, Revelations and AC3 left me ambivalent towards the franchise.

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It isn't great for Sony leading up to Christmas to have a f*ck up like Drive Club...gamers are fickle folk and every mistake Sony makes is getting pounced on. It will surely tip some undecided consumers towards Microsoft, especially with the price reduction of the Xbox.
There are also the ongoing and at times over blown online issues Playstation have been suffering.
It would be perhaps time to bite the bullet and shove a bigger title onto PS+ and try to appease the masses...Knack/Killzone/thief/injustice surely can't be still shifting that many units and while they aren't a racing game it would help someways.

I still have this in my pile up of games waiting to be played on the PS3. I tried it for 20mins or so when I 1st got it on PS+ and I liked it's style...quite trippy in a Twin Peaks/ Hotline Miami (questionable sanity of the hero, odd sound scape and simple pixelated style) and the quieter moments of early Silent Hill games that gave you time to ponder Wtf was going on and if you really did want to shove you hand into the very organic gory looking hole that seems to have opened in a wall....or pondering why someone would roast a dog and leave it served on a platter....I love games/books/films that question just how sane the protagonists actions are.

Long as they don't pull a Destiny and the game I've witnessed and gotten excited for turns into a different and lesser beast in time for release I'm super excited for The Order.

Nah...past is past and the games were good enough for me the 1st time around and in their own time. There are so many new things to see and do I rarely revisit games of old.

I'm mostly cynical in my opinion towards remastered PS3 games but ports of PS3 exclusives that some will have missed last gen makes sense and Uncharted is a really really good series that it would be a shame for those newer to sony to miss out on.

@hadlee73 that's a very cynical view of how Destiny has been presented and I'd have to agree with it...I think Bungie has had a lot of criticism levelled at them that should be aimed at Activisions money making ploys. One day when Activision isn't holding a legal bomb over people to keep them silent the real story of the game will come out.

@arnoldlayne83 that game we saw early details of is the game I was looking forward to. I don't believe the game we got was what Bungie intended to be released and I feel bad for the creatives who worked on Destiny having their vision changed as I do for us gamers who got the end result.
I think Destiny will be the greater thing it is meant to be eventually but it's sad that the plan for us to get there is to have to pass through pay walls and get things that were chosen for cold cynical cash making over artistry and a desire to deliver the best fan serving experience.

Some point and click strategy games would be nice to go with the mouse support....Dawn of War and its expansions and sequel would do nicely.

The worst thing about the DLC other than the fact it's over priced is, from what I read on the euro gamer article, the new missions still just retread the same ground as those found in the core game...the expansion takes us off to the Hellmouth...again.
The art design of Destiny was beautiful...the graphics gorgeous and the shooting immensely gratifying but the maddening levels of repetitiveness combined with the none story really just did so much to bring the experience down.
I honestly thought Destiny would get new free content as well as paid expansions much the way that Mass Effect 3 did it with its free multiplayer maps and expanded rosters of races to play as being balanced against the paid single player DLC.

Red Dead redemption is a great game and still stands as strong competition for the best open world experience. The undead DLC was like getting a whole new game...truly generous amounts of new content. RDR was one of the highlights of the PS3 generation.
I happen to love horror films/books/games...but worthwhile entries into the genre are hard to find these days if gratuitous gore and torture porn don't do it for you (they don't for me).

Destiny was a shockingly repetitive mess of missed opportunities and flaws that brought down what could of been a truly great game...terrible uninvolving story's and characters...the same environments reused way too much, missions that retread the same ground as each other.
The new expansions may add more story but it's not enough to interest me in going back to the game to just see the same locations yet again...and again...and again.
Many of the flaws pointed out in Push Squares recent review of Shadow Warrior are also present in Destiny but while they are used to put down the former they are mostly forgiven in the latter.

@arnoldlayne83 I feel Angry Joe really did nail everything that was wrong with the game while also taking time to talk about what it got right and all the missed opportunities Destiny had.

@danny2kd I don't buy smaller/indie titles when they come out either, as I expect them to come to plus in time anyway.

I'm ok with the games on offer, and i enjoy indie titles...I'm in particular looking forward to the Binding of Isaac. It does however seem like the quality of PS3 offerings has dropped right off in recent months. The days of getting titles like DMC, Bioshock infinite, Mass Effect 3 and Farcry 3 are long past. Oh well.

There would have to be a screw up of epic proportions for this game to not make huge amounts of money as it releases amidst the frenzy of a new Star Wars film....of course it selling well doesn't mean it will be good, but we can hope real care and attention will go into it.

@mitcHELLspawn Yeah I just looked them up on Amazon, they look comfy. I think I'll have to get some soon...I don't have moisture issues but extra comfort during long play times would be good....maybe for my PS3 as well as I'm contemplating diving back into Skyrim.

@mitcHELLspawn Squid grips? I'll have to look into them...as much for the name as for actually needing them lol.

I got the update early this morning and could have spent the day gaming as I'm lucky enough to work in education and get half terms and school holidays off....but I didn't. I waited to play tonight and now I can't lol....I'll catch up on the TV I guess and keep checking to see if the issue is resolved.