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Honestly though: is an online multiplayer version of a fictional sport with a deus ex machina built into it so that the main character can be the hero despite spending the entire match chasing a flying egg really going to be any fun?

The only way it would be any good is if there was a Sensible World of Quidditch.

The solutions are obvious: make it playable offline, give out better rewards for races and make the IAP less obvious.

@Stocksy And because you can use any car for any event you only ever use 2-3 anyway. I did the whole 4th game in a Mini Cooper. Every other car was wasted on me.

Whilst I can accuse Forza Horizon of having just as many F2P mechanics as GT7 at the very least I can put the disk in my Xbox and play without having any internet connection at all.

@SoulChimera I wish more games used the golden trail from Fable 2. That never even had a map! You could just tell it where to lead you and it didnt matter if you wandered off because you could always just follow the trail back.

Rather than an expensive live-action series Amazon could have made an adult animated version along the lines of Legend of Vox Machina. They could be as fantastical, sex-ridden, violent as they like and still keep the budget down.

This would also allow them to get TC Carson as the younger Kratos and Christopher Judge as the older.

I’d be amazed if Sony weren’t beavering away on a slim PS5.

It doesn’t have Feeder though

Whilst I am sure it is an excellent title my faith in review scores was shaken somewhat by the love for Outer Wilds, one of the worst videogames I have ever played.

More proof of it were needed that Web 2.0 was an unmitigated disaster and that asking the general populace to contribute to the internet in any way instigated the actual downfall of western society.

@Gigawatt-Kapow It was almost souls-like: spawn on death world with acid atmosphere eating your armour. Die. Repeat. Die. Get bearings. Die. Find Ship. Sit inside and make a plan. Etc etc.

A beautiful start to the game because the first time you take off through the atmosphere 😳 and you’re so glad to leave that horrible death world behind.

@Gloamin I quite like games like this. Metroid is an obvious banner example of the solitude genre but the majority of Zero Dawn has a similar feel.

I hope that Aloy isn’t joined by her friends too much in Forbidden West as solo exploring the ruins of the old ones is spine tingling. Having to babysit others whilst doing it, not so much.

The updates are great but part of me still misses the lonely astronaut, 1.0 version.

Then end of the trailer seems to imply that you can fly on the backs of the pterodactyl

As I said weeks ago, this was a protectionist move. By being responsible for key gaming franchises like Call of Duty it puts Microsoft in a position of caretaker.

More importantly it keeps them out of the hands of Google, Amazon or some Chinese or Saudi conglomerate wanting to buy in to the industry.

Microsoft want to maintain the status quo because it benefits them. I imagine if someone was insane enough to make an offer for a company like Nintendo Microsoft would outbid them just to scare them off.

A big city classic assassins creed instead of the open world nonsense?

Sign me up!

Fingers crossed for a rerelease of Aloy for Fortnite as well.

It’s always nice to see Nintendo doing well, regardless of whether you are a fan or not.

But who the heck is STILL buying GTAV?!?

@Kidfunkadelic83 Yes! This guy gets it!

I need 2 things:

1. Feeder from GT3

2. Lenny Ibizzare from GTSport. I was amazed to hear music I hadn’t seen head nor tail of for 20 years in that!

I’m not sure they did overpay.

Whilst Destiny 2 might be about to collapse under its own weight in barely understood menus and lore the gunplay is still the benchmark and the game plays incredibly well.

Bungee said they are still multiplatforn but that could just mean PS and PC.

The only one I’m bothered about it Sony snatching up Square Enix which I think would be a great protectionist move, especially with the Japanese laws against foreign takeovers.

With any luck they'll finally release FF7R on the Xbox for a start.

A remaster of Crisis Core would be nice. That has been locked away on the PSP for far too long (unless its part of the new streaming service....)

Ever Crisis looks cool. I am down with a decent mobile remake as its the only PS1 game that hasn't had a decent port. Even FFVIII, a game they lost most of the assets for had a decent mobile port.

It would be great if Sony tied games like this to the PS+ sub which would give you the 'battle pass' included in the price.

I am 40 hours in and only just climbed Ted Faro's tower. I am happy to potter around doing side quests, photograph the sunrise and generally just enjoy being in the world.

I do hope they've cut down the amount of forced fights in this one. I don't mind the robots being tough to take down out in the wild because you have all manner of options for taking them down but when you're trapped in an arena spamming arrows or melee attacks it really isn't fun. Knocking the difficulty down to 'story' during these events does make them a lot more bearable. If the game does still have bosses at least make them boss-level enemies with weak points and attack patterns rather than just fights against normal enemies.

Gran Turismo Sport was 100gb so theyve done something to make it smaller!

There’s no reason why we won’t see it all via streaming. It would be really good if existing licences carried over and you could buy individual titles as well as a sub.

No. Sony buys dev talent, not a basket of franchises it really has no need for. One of Sony’s strengths is its willingness to drop seemingly popular franchises for new ones.

During the PS4 era they could have had Guerrilla crank out another Killzone but they took a bet on HZD. They could have forced Sucker Punch to do another Infamous but instead we got Ghost of Tsushima. They could have got Kojima to do another stealth title but instead backed Death Stranding. They bankrolled Shenmue 3!

I fully expect the PS5 generation to be the same. Honestly I’d prefer a risky bet like Death Stranding to another bloody Halo or Call of Duty.

Sony tends to buy developers rather than publishers and knows the value of new franchises as well as established. They will happily dump something good (Motorstorm) for something new.

Any EA takeover would be subject to a huge antitrust case as they have an effective monopoly on many sports genres.

Microsoft have done this more to bolster the PC market than console. Bar Call of Duty is there really a huge Activision franchise? Crash and Spyro are pretty replaceable.

The lack of COD does leave a gaping hole in Sony’s FPS library though. Who knows? Maybe the Chimera will rear their heads again!

To put things into perspective $55bn would buy you Nintendo.

@SweetSummerShunv Surely Square is a shoe-in at this point? Sony own about 15% of the company from shares they brough back in the 1990's after FFVII was released.

I keep wondering who is going to buy Sega.

After the repeated showings and delays of FFXV they will be wanting to get this spot on before showing it off.

An article mention! Oh shucks guys 💕

With any luck Sony are offering backwards compatibility via streaming so you can buy individual titles as well as a sub. Crucially they need to make it so all your existing PS3, 2 and 1 digital licences carry over. Imagine being able to stream all your existing PS3 digital purchases!

It would help if they concentrated on quality.

Discount the WipEout licence and Rush isn’t actually a bad way to kill 5 minutes on the bus. (It got soft launched on Android in the U.K.) But it could easily have been more in depth and made better use of the licence by framing you as an AG team manager making split-second decisions during full 3-lap races.

What Sony could do is use mobile to revive some dormant franchises that would actually work for mobile. Loo rock is an obvious one. They could offer the first world for free and then the rest as IAP with maybe the different coloured blobs as cosmetics. Patapon would be a good fit too.

@Integrity Build it and they will come. Had Microsoft not canned most of its 1st party titles at the start of the Xbox One era out is doubtful we would even have Game Pass.

I think what attracts PlayStation gamers to a sub is access to classic titles. A much more robust selection of PS1-3 games together with trophy support would make it worth the money. This may even be how the tiers work: £3/m to play PS1, £5 for 1+2 and so on.

Sony and Nintendo prove that selling exclusives rather than perpetually renting them is not only better value for money but still very profitable.

I could never get over the originals brazen use of the Halo title font for its box art.

Whilst not a wholly owned subsiduary it is likely that whatever Hideo Kojima is working on next will be a PS5 exclusive. Whether this is a Silent Hill game (Sony were rumoured to have brought the licence from Konami) or something new is open to debate.

I am a little sad that there are no racing titles listed anywhere. Forza Horizon 5 garnered a lot of GOTY awards last month and whilst Gran Turismo 7 is a big deal, its not a new arcade racer.

A new WipEout has surely got to be in the offering as a launch title for the PSVR2 and a new Motorstorm wouldn't hurt either.

@K1LLEGAL But I really like third person action adventure titles!

@kingbreww Why? It was past games' attempts to appeal to teenage boys by piling high gore and boobs that was immature, never the creators of Mario in appealing to all ages.

I wonder how many of the players calling a game like Ratchet 'for kids' are aware all the grownups went back to Halo and its sophisticated multiplayer instead of the teenage attempts at war from the likes of Call of Duty?

I would call Ratchet and Clank game of the year on any console. In a year when the best Xbox exclusives were just more of the same and the only real standout from Nintendo was Metroid, Rift Apart was a technical showcase not just for graphics but also next-gen technology.

Unlike Microsoft Sony makes a big effort to have a broad first party software library. Despite 4 generations in the business Microsoft consoles are terrible family having devices (I should know as I've spent the last decade with one as my main device)

I don't think I'd ever but the Series X and yet from day one Sony had titles like Sackboy and Astrobot.

I'm still amazed they haven't done an update of P3FES or P4G for home consoles yet. I assume they have some sort of deal in place with Sony otherwise I would have thought the Switch would be in with a shout. How hard would they be too remaster for PS4?

A top 25 list and 75 comments and nobody even mentions LOCOROCO?! That should be number one on the list by a long mile.

Spiderman is also suitable for children despite the 15 rating in Europe. It has no blood of swearing in and only had that rating because of the punch ups.

If also mention a loaf of other PlayStation classics: Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Flower, Journey, Jak trilogy, Sly Cooper trilogy, WipEout, Gran Turismo Sport, Burnout Paradise etc etc

One reason I love the PS4 is for Playlink. Always reminds me of Buzz and it saves having to buy new controllers. There are hardly any decent family and party games on the Xbox.

I felt Daisy Ridley and James McAvoy were completely wasted given the characters all have American accents.

With any luck it will move the narrative on to King John and his formation of the proto-templars.

I for one have had enough of delving back into fantasy history. Its time to refocus the game back on the warring secret societies narrative and move the gameplay to somewhere we haven't been before.

Personally I'd love to see a game set in Conquistador South America. They could set it in El Mirador in modern-day Guatamala with a huge city set amongst the jungle.

Honestly XV. Now the dust has settled on the cross media push and all the DLC the story is immense. You’re looking at Episode Ardyn > A King’s Tale > Kingsglaive > XV interspersed with the other DLC and the anime series > Comrades > Dawn of the Future hardback for the full experience.

XV also has a clever inverted structure. In VII for example as the story ramps up, so does the world open. By the time you’re ready to take down Sephiroth you take a 2 month vacation whilst you hoover up side quests which is unrealistic and anticlimactic. XV inverts this by narrowing the game world as the story progresses so you do the side quests when the story is inconsequential but save the world when the time comes.

The stag do plot I thought was excellent. Keeping the party small allowed the bonds of friendship to really show. Did anyone really feel Cloud gave a toss about Vincent or Cid at any point in VII?

Looks like a take on Wipeout similar to Metal Gear Ac!d on the PSP.

You will watch the race play out and then play cards at certain parts of the race to affect the outcome such as using a weapon, absorbing for shield or initiating a barrel roll.

This is actually a pretty clever way of doing the game on mobile. I’ve played every wipeout clone out there on mobile and they are all crap. There is no way you could translate the twitch, breakneck gameplay of Wipeout to a touchscreen game. Thus we get this instead.