Perturbator

This one's been on my wishlist since I first saw it. Looks quite unique!

Just a remaster of the games with VR compatibility would go a long way.

Clash: Artifacts of Chaos

The latest game in the Zeno Clash series by Chilean game devs ACE Team. I knew going in it was supposed to be their first stab at a soulslike, but surprisingly it plays more like a mix of God of War (2018), Sekiro and of course Zeno Clash, itself. The mostly melee based combat can be very unforgiving and healing items very scant, so hit-and-run tactics are a necessity. Oh yeah - there's also a dice game used to initiate combat and give some modifiers...

It's decidedly weird and not for everyone, but if you liked any of ACEs other games I'd dare say this is one of their best!

Does it have crossplay with PC online? Been wanting to try this with some friends both on consoles and computers.

It's the same as with music and movies: mostly crap occupying the headlines - but quality stuff still happening on the sideline (if you take your time looking for it)

5/10 and honestly most of those 5 points were just luck

Do you guys remember the arcade racer Blur? Now that was a good MarioKart-like! Would love to see a sequel or remake of that at some point, although I fear it wasn't popular enough for that to ever happen.

I think it could be a wild success!

Just remake it into a Metroidvania with the original characters now turned into enemy bosses. Everyone hated them so they'd make the perfect antagonists.

Ahh LBP... there was so much to like about those games, but I always felt the floaty controls was what kept it back.

@Sequel It's not bad, but in my opinion Heavy Rain and Fahrenheit were more memorable.

There's so many games from PS3 era and earlier I'd love to see a remake of, but the sad reality is that it's mostly newer games in no need of this that keeps getting remade.

The skeleton crew of Suicide Squad is probably where WB put the devs they don't want on other projects at this point: "Just do whatever you want, guys!"

It's pretty good. And only about 2-3 hours long, which is a perfect for an appetizer/dessert between longer games.

At the end of the day, it was just a product that didn't appeal to enough customers.

Couldn't scalpers get around that by just making a bunch of accounts and leaving them idle in some F2P game for 30 hours?

@get2sammyb You could also risk getting an economy of players making multiple accounts with a few trophies to sell them on to scalpers for a few bucks. Like the goldminers back in the World of Warcraft era. It's difficult to circumvent these things as long a PS accounts are free, its like all the cheaters in F2P games; ban them and they will be back next day with new account.

My votes went to The Midnight Walk, Hell is Us and Monster Hunter Wilds.

Beat 'em ups was one of my favorite things as a kid, but one of the genres I kinda grew out of over time. Gotta say the art is lovely though.

Now where the hell is Tokyo Jungle 2 Electric Jungeloo that a drunk Herman Hulst promised me at the Knack 3 afterparty?

There's just too much competition right now. Interesting games released almost daily and many of them failing, unfortunately.

I guess the market will adjust eventually but with how big gaming was during the pandemic and how long games take to make its going to take a while.

SCORN (VR)

Played it with the UEVR mod and damn... those are just about the most impressive visuals I've seen in VR so far. Like walking around a Giger painting.

Wildermyth

I've quickly become addicted to this roguelike RPG where your team ages, fall in love, get maimed in battle etc. Could see myself playing this for a long time!

American Truck Simulator (VR)

This is just a totally chill experience playing in VR with wheel/pedals and some music playlist on in the background. Honestly I think I will just quit my graphic design career and go be a truck driver from now on.

I'd read a book about the goings-on behind the scenes at Sony if there was one... this is fascinating stuff!

Remember when Phil Spencer said that he viewed Google Stadia as the "real competition", not Sony? Yeah that aged well.

https://9to5google.com/2020/02/05/microsoft-google-stadia-competition-phil-spencer-interview/

It's a shame the way BF series has gone because they used to be such a staple of multiplayer shooters, especially in the years before shooters became CODified after Modern Warfare.

The biggest problem with 2042 (I only played it later after most bugs had been fixed) were the maps though, they were just so empty and boring to play on compared to former games in the series. I hope they can fix things but I have my doubts.

Well can you blame them? After Concord Sony needed something to please those nervous shareholders.

I'd love a return to the series. A Soul Sacrifice inspired by Monster World could have been a killer title!

@Zuljaras It's on sale for $15 regularly!

More Aeterna Noctis for me. This must be one of the most underrated Metroidvanias I've yet encountered. It plays like Castlevania in the art style of Hollow Knight with the platforming of Super Meat Boy. Some of the platforming bits are really tough though, so I can see why some wouldn't have the patience for it.

It's got some funny easter eggs too, like the remains of this poor adventurer I came across:

@Zuljaras Congrats on VR! Skyrim VR + Mad God's Overhaul when?

@PocketHotDogs Haha you're probably right

Damn, 205 comments already... what is the record for most comments a PushSquare article ever got?

Not releasing it on Steam was probably a bad decision.

Zenith: The Last City

Finally got around to this VR MMO and felt I had to play it now in case its eventually shut down completely from a lack of players. I'm having fun playing it solo, while saying hi to a few other players here and there, mostly Quest players I guess.

It's a standard MMO in most ways, but the VR interactions make it shine. I'm playing the Cyber Ninja class which has access to a bow that can be split into two halves and used as dual schythes/kamas, as well as a grappling hook and temporal invisibility and backstabs - its almost like my Skyrim VR build!

Aeterna Noctis

Another week, another Metroidvania... Just started so I don't have a firm opinion apart from that the graphics look wonderful and that it plays pretty well. It's supposed to be a very hard game so we'll see how it goes.

Well this reminds me of that time Roger Ebert stated that video games can never be art.

Going F2P in 3....2....

Damn... buying Bungie for $3.6 Billion might prove one of the biggest mispurchases in gaming history.

Sony must feel like that guy who funded Rapsittie Street Kids.

Sure, then I might be able to play it in VR eventually, if someone makes a mod.

I thought it was inspired by Alien 3 pregnancy and the human-alien hybrid newborn of Alien Resurrection...

Slasher's Keep

Roguelike Dungeoncrawler game. Enjoyable but a bit grindy, in that you're supposed to die again and again and get slightly stronger every time you restart.

It's got good weapon crafting, lots of unlockable skills and a pretty enjoyable loop if you're a fan of the genre.

Whatever the actual reason for its failure is, I'm guessing that Sony bigwigs only lesson from it all will be that PVE games like Helldivers 2 sell and PVP games like Concord don't.

Putting it on my wishlist, although I still have the first one in my backlog!

I went to Beijing during the PS3 era and in order to find consoles or games you had to go to these big markets where they sold imports and bootlegs and stuff.

I had to ask to see the PS3 games and the clerk would find a selection behind the shelf in some secret compartment. Felt like I was buying some black market nukes! But times have changed it seems.

I enjoyed Love, Death + Robots so I'm looking forward to it.

Hope they get the creative freedom they need from the license holders to make each episode as memorable as that show.

Set my Gamescom alarm for 23:00 CEST tonight and will fast forward most of it.

This looks pretty good. Looks like a total combat overhaul to a weighty Souls/MH style instead of the more MMO-style Black Desert combat.

@DrVenture69 Hope you enjoy it too!

Indivisible

Metroidvania platformer RPG with fighting game mechanics. Gorgeous visuals and great character designs (Indian JRPG style) but a somewhat lackluster story.

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Great little horror game with early Disney characters and some good Bioshock vibes. I'm playing it with the VR mod on PC which adds a lot to the already gloomy sepia-colored atmosphere.

I'm guessing you'll just be holding down X while moving the stick upwards to enable all these cool moves, in typical AC fashion?

Personally I prefer when the parkour requires some well-timed precision input from the player, like in Mirror's Edge, Titanfall 2, Pseudoregalia etc.

I finally got to try Forza Horizon 5 after hearing so much praise for the games, but was severely disappointed. It looks very nice but the car handling and racing feels similar to the NFS open world games that I don't like, and the vibe/announcers are just really annoying.

If the Forza 5 rumors are true, then Sony, in order to restore cosmic balance, should release Concord for XBOX as well.

@PuppetMaster I enjoyed it. Although it mostly recycled familiar Alien story beats, it had some great scenes and was overall pretty good. A 7/10 from me.

Game already looks fine. Give me a Parasite Eve 1+2 remake instead.