@PSbox Sounds interesting, I to don't like PC gaming. I have nothing against it or the people who enjoy it but on a psychological level I just really don't like computers, feel impersonal. I dunno it's a weird feeling but I have always been like it and probably doesn't help my job requires me to use one everyday 🤣
Outside of Wolverine and maybe the silly named vampire game there isn't all that much here for me weirdly. Maybe Onimusha, talking of that the trailer had the worst VA I have heard in literal decades in a AAA game lol. It was on par with the the OG resi 🤣
@PSbox Maybe, but I'm guessing a ton of people already have a PC and would just play It there. I have no issues with a company having exclusive games but the problem with MS is they destroyed console exclusivity when they released everything on PC at the same time.
In the 360 era it took about 12 months or so before porting their games and the OG fat box they stayed exclusive. Jet Set Radio Future, Grabbed by the Ghoulies and Blinx for example never went anywhere. Forza on PS5 sold multiple millions of copies last year despite being relatively old so you would think a capitalist corpo would want your money, guess not.
Sony is slightly different in the PC port redaction because as far as I'm aware they never really sold very well anyway.
@Matroska Well Conan is a barbarian and I guess he could have had more coverage but it would be mainly hide and fur, if the women were Amazon ladies or barbs like Conan there (she ra doesn't wear much) then it's a nothing burger. I think it'swjen armour I'd designed around full plate etc and the dudes are wearing this full body intricate set with Greaves and gauntlets etc and the lady comes out with a metal thong and glorified nipple tassels it starts to look a bit more deliberate 🤣
I enjoyed it and for the price point as well it's great, brilliant soundtrack as well so no problem with that winning awards. As for the game itself, hmmmm not really. Like someone at the top mentioned it's FFX's battle system (although not as good) with parrying and dodging. Cast of characters is small and Monkey Boi is literally just Kimarhi but I do like how each of them have their own personal ability.
Story was ok but all this emotional weight and the sadness of the tale in question isn't even as good as the game banishers which deals with the subject of loss alot better than this game.
Visually I won't rag on it to much and being from a small team for a relatively cheap price is what stops me because the environments have way way to much bloom, animation outside of battle is jank, especially the god awful jumping and cutscenes used to skip and judder with again some rather questionable Xbox 360 levels of motion. Art style was ok but a hell of a lot of the enemies made think dark souls or whacky french cartoon and I don't know if it was just me but the characters heads always looked slighy to big for their body which irked me.
Basically after that wall of text, a good well priced first game from a small studio with a brilliant soundtrack. Od give it 7 at most but if this released back in the PSX and PS2 days I reckon it would have been forgotten about within the year.
@Olmaz You are correct because even though I only played the demo racing around and the environment getting blown up with these cool set pieces and having to use your reflexes in that "split second" was a great idea. One thing I dislike as gaming has gone in is the death of so many sub genres some of my favourites being arcade/exaggerated racing and sports games. I loved NBA Street for instance and SSX, FIFA Street and that really good Motocross game Freekstyle. Nowadays we have barely anything
@Olmaz I never fully got around to playing that even though I still have my 360 copy. The same studio made a game called Pure and I loved Bizarre Creation's Blur. Shame both of those studios (black rock I think made split second) were shuttered because the companies thought it was safe to release 2 arcade racers in the same week as....DUN DUN DUN.....GRAND THEFT AUTO IV 🤦🏼
Lol at that std price and a bigger LOL at the disgusting 100 bucks on the other edition. I watched a play through of this a year or so ago and it's awful, not only that but if you know what you're doing, it's literally finished in 10 minutes. Man, I LOVE jaws but why on earth would they release this?
I'm more fed up with the open-world blueprint than the story. GoW has had grief in some form from its inception, with Kratos being tricked into killing his wife and child.
Last of Us 2 was a sequel to a game that genuinely contained one of the saddest scenes in a game and always revolved around Joel's memory of his daughter.
Ghost is in the vein of samurai cinema, and the plot centered around revenge sounds apt to me.
As for Clair Obscur, well, I have a very unpopular opinion about that one. I find it to be way overblown in how good it actually is due to the small team and relatively high production values. It has a fantastic soundtrack, but its central theme of grief and loss was done so much better in Banishers (which I played through using PS Plus during the summer), and yet I don't believe that game got even half the coverage. I won't go into anything else though, as it's off-topic regarding the article.
The best Borderlands game is Tales of the Borderlands. For some reason I found that game genuinely funny in parts whereas the actual FPS titles just don't hit the spot in the humour department and I actually HATE Scooter.
But is that the Switch 2 running docked? Handheld normally fares worse but pretty awesome if you can play Resi in handheld mode looking as good as that. Personally the resi engine hair looks kinda weird and shimmery in these games, unless you play on a good pc so I don't really care about that.
What I'm interested in is how this thing runs when it's ACTUALLY being played. I read there are more open areas and we know how good this engine is at dealing with large open maps don't we everyone? 😭🤣
I don't understand the point of this on a personal level. I was there back when they released and they were awesome due to the fatalities and blood but to me they pale in comparison to Street Fighter as fighting games, especially the first 2. MK1 is awful, MK2 is fun but pallette swap galore, MK3 is ok UMK3 at least has a huge roster going for it.
The worst part is these will be dead online unless there is crossplay. I wanted to play Caps fighting collection 2 online and as it has no crossplay it was dead within 8 weeks of release 😭
@AaronBayne So how are the scares and overall atmosphere? I had no idea this game existed until someone on here mentioned it in an article and it looks right up my street.
The reason I ask is you mention there are some cheap ones but Silent Hill 2 jumped me more than any game in my entire life lol. I'm never scared by these things but the sheer claustrophobic atmosphere in SH2 was fantastic, does this come near to that.
@TrollOfWar That's pretty awesome regarding the online play, feel an idiot for not bothering to look that up 🤦🏻
As for the info on why they didn't release the trilogy I had no idea they migrated it. It's really just a personal peeve because the gunplay was refined as they went on along with more enemy types and some pretty awesome locations, I'd love to play through them again one after another and while I think 40 is steep for one I would however pay a full 70 for all 3 especially as you'd get horde mode as well. Ill probably get this on a price drop because I was just flat out terrible at multiplayer. It will be interesting for new players though because of I'm remembering correctly you can kill your own teammates. The good old days of some nob on your side taking it down for the opposite team 🤣
Why did they not release the whole trilogy? I loved the first 3 games (never bothered to much with the multiplayer) but 40 quid for the first game is really pushing it and I don't normally complain about the price of games.
Also I couldn't see anywhere if you can coop online? Pretty big omission if not as the game is 10x the fun with another player but even single is a blast, then again I understand most people will not pay this much for 6 hours of linear gameplay. On another note I actually finished this game on insane in single player back in the olden days, pretty tough cookie.
@Scottyy Was about to say the same. Apart from MK2 waaaaaaay back on the Mega drive it's genuinely the only other game in the entire series I have genuinely liked and it's not a half bad attempt at a beat em up in a 3d space. I remember it being unintentionally amusing as well.
Obviously fans of the series will love this but the MK games are very jank to me compared to SF. Mk 1 and 2 are really basic and unless the online is packed you'll need at least on mate who likes to play, no fun was ever had going against the AI in these things lol
Please allow us to buy resi 2 and 3 which allows everyone to get them and those that bought them previously to get them "free"
Capcom/Sony locked both directors cut and Dino Crisis to premium only on release and it took a few weeks of everyone complaining and wondering what drugs they were on to allow everyone to purchase them.
I've never really liked Aloy to much as a character but Sylens was brilliant in both. In fact I end up liking the supporting cast more than the main character in these games. Can't quite put my finger on why though.
My favourite series for character depth and development is the Yakuza games. The characters to me are so well done and each distinctly unique from one another.
As for this thing, it looked like they put in "Aloy as anime kid" into and ai generator lol
Where are the Resi games? I was hoping they would be in here in July because now I have to hope for August as it was slated summer after all 😭 my issue is if Capcom do the dumb thing of making them only available on the premium tier and unavailable to buy until everyone shouts at them for a month.
While it runs fine on my Pro in performance mode the game looks awful across the board and is held up by the stellar monster designs. The environments don't seem any bigger than Worlds and as I read someone comment on another site, lack verticality. The ice Shard Cliffs and Wyveria Ruins are REALLY small maps and even the larger ones like the Wastes and Scarlet Forest aren't that big and shouldn't run as awful as they do. I'm one of the apparent few who can game at 30fps but not in this. It can't hold a steady 30 to save it's life and I even tested it with VRR in balanced uncapped. The frame read out was mental going from below 40 up to the hundreds constantly and this was in camp lol.
But like others have said, the textures. Om my god the textures are atrocious and I can't believe they were let out the gate. I haven't seen surfaces like this since the PS2 days with the most awful examples being the NPC's. Did they even want us to know what material the clothes were made of? Monsters fare slightly better but in quality mode the texture streaming issues are so prevalent it's off putting (another reason I switched to performance) with enemies turning to blobs and environments missing just about all there detail as maps flicker on and off.
I played Dragons Dogma 2 after the myriad of patches and its better than this game while rendering a massive map, no way near the level of Shadows, Horizon, Red Dead or Cyberpunk for example but still a hell of a sight nicer to look at.
Sorry rant over.
On the topic of this story though while having a conference on optimisation after releasing the next game in your biggest series and it being an non optimised mess (especially PC) is ironic, threatening people with crap like this is just the pinnacle of man baby tantrums. Seems gaming is riddled with these people which is a damn shame. Not only does it sully those of us who are not (most of us I hope) but further plays into the narrative that they are toys for people who just haven't matured and when things like this or the shizzle when Last of us 2 came out etc happens....well I can't blame anyone who has that opinion.
Can they ship this to Capcom so they can increase resolution and free up som.much needed resources for the absolutely god awful textures that plague 90% of that game 🤣 haven't seen anything like it since the days of PS2
Never liked the Adventure games even on release. Incredibly hanky and awful voices. Saving grace was yet again the soundtrack.
Sonic origins was disappointing as well due to the removal of Carnival Night, Ice Cap and Launch base music to be replaced with some of, if not THE most terrible music in a sonic game ever.
@Nye1779 Your mention of FIFA Street brought back memories of NBA Street, man I loved the 2nd one on my Gamecube.
As for this it looks tempting but Rocket League was jam packed with toxicity lol. Does this have the chat and the pre selected phrases like RL? You know like "what a save!" 🤣
I really like this game but I'm not sold on the parry and dodge, I can do it but I feel there are places where they nigh on force it with Clea being the pinnacle. I couldn't be bothered after 2 goes and I refuse to just make some cheap shot build to overcome a challenge when it should be more than doable without it. I've never been good with theory craft etc so I'm just going with what works for me which requires I use dodge and parry all the time, luckily I'm not to bad with it.
Going back to Racoon City way after the nuke is awesome. Now to hope and pray it runs better than Wilds and Dogma and has textures that don't look like they fell of the PS2 cart.
Silent Hill and the Marvel fighting game (can't recall it's name even though I literally just watched the trailer) look really good along with sword of the sea and pragmata.
On another note, does anyone want to fill me in on the internets potential conspiracy theories and hate for the 007 trailer? I imagine it has already began...
@AtlasLivesAgain Just to be "that guy" I would whole heartedly recommended it above the remake, as much as I love that version. The second scenario and the way A and B are done is so much better. It has better music (I play the remake using the PS1 soundtrack) and it's just a ton of fun, of course I am completely biased. It's the opposite for me regarding the 3rd game. If the remake of that was longer and had more content such as spending more time in the city, it would be superior. Even then I prefer it. I could just never gel with the original Resi 3 🤷🏻
I'd say pc players were thirsty dudes but at this point I'd be more inclined to say dehydrated lol
Also to the point above, women do in fact wear outfits like Eve, shock horror. However I believe the "outrage" comes not from the fact that some of the clothes are worn by women of their own choice but more the fact that a certain demographic of blokes just can't play anything without skimpy big tiddy on show and that's it's done to sexualise and objectify. So insert online vitriol for Aloy and insert Mr thirst for Eve 🤣
I liked it as a way to get something back on my digital purchases. The rewards are whack though, more expensive to redeem your points for the games than it is to redeem them for credit and then buy said game, even if it wasn't on sale.
Digital collectables were nice and all but it would have made a lot more sense for them to have integrated the whole thing into your main account you use on the ACTUAL console. Nobody could see the damn things making them almost completely worthless.
So is it not doing well because it's on game pass or because it's an expensive short single player game or because it's to different to the last 2 or because the disc based copy is a coaster?
So they try something new and it doesn't do as well, that's we we get copy paste, single player not selling? Hmmm maybe but that's we get bloated open world because so many seem to correlate cash spent with time investment= better value rather than the fun you can have, this is why I never got a Bulletstorm sequel 😭 game pass, credible reason because why buy it if you can get it for "free" and the disc based argument? This will detract some people but not a majority I wouldn't have thought. I mean i see why some still prefer it but games have so many patches your game on disc is nigh on worthless these days.
Shame really because I like it a lot more than Eternal. And for replay value? Do people not recall paying 50 bones for 2 hour games in the 90s or what? We used to play them again because they were fun, not because the game gave us a specific reason to.
The constant price argument with games is weird to me. They were never a standard entertainment product and have always been relatively expensive, even in terms of earnings at the time. Games in the early 90's were £40 and above, Sonic 3 was about 45 to 50 quid in 1994, it had six levels (remember SEGA sold the other half of the game later in the year for another £40) and took 25 minutes to finish it. If we increase games along with inflation they would be costing over a £100 today.
The other thing I find weird with gamers is this ridiculous price to play time = value. I mean....do any other people actually do this with their entertainment lol. It's ridiculous.
As for the disc argument, I agree the game should be on there for those that wish to purchase physical media and it's odd that it's allowed to happen the way it does. I don't think it dampens sales numbers by a lot though but if publishers want us to go digital can they lessen the costs a little? Must save a packet not having to distribute hard copies all over the world.
I won't lie, looks awful. He literally just looks like Ganon from Zelda. Saying that I wish this studio made their Yakuza game models look this good detail wise.
I've never bothered with digital foundry. If a game is jank and a visual mess to the point it's discernable to the average person it's generally mentioned in reviews. Digital Foundry stick it under the digital microscope and everyone cries. Also this "It's made worse on PS5 on purpose" schtick is playground stuff that I Don't expect from anyone above the age of 11.
Also this is what Push wrote in their review
"A rock-solid 60 frames-per-second is maintained on PS5 Pro"
Soooooo Push Square wrote the above, seemingly not noticing said drops throughout their own play through but DF says it does as they monitor every scene and the same outlet writes this article? Weird.
9/10 so far although I keep ballsing up the parry and I REFUSE to not use it because it looks so damn cool (and causes good break dmg)
The soundtrack so far is absolutely brilliant. If this thing doesn't win some awards for at least this then it's a travesty, so many styles and genres and I'm only in the cliffs after the village.
V/A is very good considering the budget I assume this game had, some vacant stares in atd scenes but the facial mocap is pretty impressive in the big cut scenes. Combat is great fun (despite my aforementioned failing) and although I'm never good at "builds" I can see there is a decent amount you can do for the people that are. Also I love the weight of the attacks, FF Rebirth and even games like DmC can feel like your getting hit and hitting with paper weapons but in this thing, a giant stone club coming down sounds and looks just like it should.
Only issues I have is getting turned around in a dungeon and there aren't to many landmarks so I end up running about aimlessly a little, I would have liked a mini map SOMETIMES but I can understand why it isn't there. Oh and Gustave is literally Robert Patterson lol
@DETfaninATL You mean the mode that was given for free using assets from the main game that released about 3 months after the main game?
I seriously doubt it took anything away from the development of the actual title or it's dlc and tbh I found it so much more fun than the actual game anyway. It made GoT my most played game at over 500 hrs lol. Not sure I should admit that 😅
I have bolt gun and there is something off. It may be the fact that the enemies have no collision (at least I read that's the case a long while back) so basically, you fight a horde and unlike nearly every FPS ever Inc DOOM and Wolfenstein from over 3 decades ago the enemies don't bump into one another or path around, the just charge through one another. Can be frustrating because you die pretty easily from memory.
Wanted to try Balatro for ages and was on the fence so that's great 😃
P.S. Just incase anyone is with me, I HATE the term boomer shooter. That is all.
Kinda hoping they are making an upgraded and expanded legends mode because I put waaaaaay more time into that than the game itself. Played it once to 100% and enjoyed it but I never go back to these types of games, after the busywork it's almost pointless. The legends mode fixed that for me and let me enjoy the fun combat without the replay....fingers crossed 🤞🏻
Wow, top 50 with 750 mil. Shows the wealth disparity with other nations. You wouldn't break the top 1000 in America with that......wish I had it lol 🤣😭
@Sevenifity Depends on the gacha, some you have to play like a job because otherwise you'll fall so far backwards that the power creep means you will be stuck when it comes to completing harder content.
I can't play these types of Gachas myself, they require to much of your time, especially at the start.
Also I may be unpopular here but I can't stand the "waifu" and "husbando" tags, especially not from grown adults, cringe beyond belief.
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Re: Immersive Sim Clockwork Revolution Joins Gears of War in Skipping PS5
@PSbox Sounds interesting, I to don't like PC gaming. I have nothing against it or the people who enjoy it but on a psychological level I just really don't like computers, feel impersonal. I dunno it's a weird feeling but I have always been like it and probably doesn't help my job requires me to use one everyday 🤣
Re: The PS5 Release Schedule for Fall 2026 Is Now Beyond a Joke
Outside of Wolverine and maybe the silly named vampire game there isn't all that much here for me weirdly. Maybe Onimusha, talking of that the trailer had the worst VA I have heard in literal decades in a AAA game lol. It was on par with the the OG resi 🤣
Re: Immersive Sim Clockwork Revolution Joins Gears of War in Skipping PS5
@PSbox Maybe, but I'm guessing a ton of people already have a PC and would just play It there. I have no issues with a company having exclusive games but the problem with MS is they destroyed console exclusivity when they released everything on PC at the same time.
In the 360 era it took about 12 months or so before porting their games and the OG fat box they stayed exclusive. Jet Set Radio Future, Grabbed by the Ghoulies and Blinx for example never went anywhere. Forza on PS5 sold multiple millions of copies last year despite being relatively old so you would think a capitalist corpo would want your money, guess not.
Sony is slightly different in the PC port redaction because as far as I'm aware they never really sold very well anyway.
Re: Hands On: Leon Must Die Forever Isn't Worth Going Back to RE Requiem For
@Dalamar Same, although I didn't dedicate massive amount of time to them they were an awesome way to reuse content in an engaging way.
Re: Lords of the Fallen 2's Idea of Female Armour Is Downright Embarrassing
@Matroska Well Conan is a barbarian and I guess he could have had more coverage but it would be mainly hide and fur, if the women were Amazon ladies or barbs like Conan there (she ra doesn't wear much) then it's a nothing burger. I think it'swjen armour I'd designed around full plate etc and the dudes are wearing this full body intricate set with Greaves and gauntlets etc and the lady comes out with a metal thong and glorified nipple tassels it starts to look a bit more deliberate 🤣
Re: Sony's $7.85M Settlement Could Mean PSN Payouts for Millions
I get digital credit from Shop to and frequently get games cheaper than physical.
Re: Poll: One Year Later, Did Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Deserve All the Praise?
I enjoyed it and for the price point as well it's great, brilliant soundtrack as well so no problem with that winning awards. As for the game itself, hmmmm not really. Like someone at the top mentioned it's FFX's battle system (although not as good) with parrying and dodging. Cast of characters is small and Monkey Boi is literally just Kimarhi but I do like how each of them have their own personal ability.
Story was ok but all this emotional weight and the sadness of the tale in question isn't even as good as the game banishers which deals with the subject of loss alot better than this game.
Visually I won't rag on it to much and being from a small team for a relatively cheap price is what stops me because the environments have way way to much bloom, animation outside of battle is jank, especially the god awful jumping and cutscenes used to skip and judder with again some rather questionable Xbox 360 levels of motion. Art style was ok but a hell of a lot of the enemies made think dark souls or whacky french cartoon and I don't know if it was just me but the characters heads always looked slighy to big for their body which irked me.
Basically after that wall of text, a good well priced first game from a small studio with a brilliant soundtrack. Od give it 7 at most but if this released back in the PSX and PS2 days I reckon it would have been forgotten about within the year.
Re: 8 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for April 2026 Announced
@Olmaz You are correct because even though I only played the demo racing around and the environment getting blown up with these cool set pieces and having to use your reflexes in that "split second" was a great idea. One thing I dislike as gaming has gone in is the death of so many sub genres some of my favourites being arcade/exaggerated racing and sports games. I loved NBA Street for instance and SSX, FIFA Street and that really good Motocross game Freekstyle. Nowadays we have barely anything
Re: Hades 2 Gets Game-Changing Free Update Following PS5 Launch, Available to Download Now
@Dalamar I would love another Bastion 🥳
Re: 8 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for April 2026 Announced
@Olmaz I never fully got around to playing that even though I still have my 360 copy. The same studio made a game called Pure and I loved Bizarre Creation's Blur. Shame both of those studios (black rock I think made split second) were shuttered because the companies thought it was safe to release 2 arcade racers in the same week as....DUN DUN DUN.....GRAND THEFT AUTO IV 🤦🏼
Re: Jaws' Infamous NES Adaptation Is Getting Ported to PS5, with All-New Features
Lol at that std price and a bigger LOL at the disgusting 100 bucks on the other edition. I watched a play through of this a year or so ago and it's awful, not only that but if you know what you're doing, it's literally finished in 10 minutes. Man, I LOVE jaws but why on earth would they release this?
Re: Sony's Allowing Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection Refunds Because the PS5, PS4 Compilation Is a 'Downright Nightmare' for Some
Does this have cross play? If not I don't know why anyone other than those with irl people to play with would even bother with it.
Re: Talking Point: Are You Getting Sick of Sony's Supposedly 'Samey' Approach to Story Telling?
I'm more fed up with the open-world blueprint than the story. GoW has had grief in some form from its inception, with Kratos being tricked into killing his wife and child.
Last of Us 2 was a sequel to a game that genuinely contained one of the saddest scenes in a game and always revolved around Joel's memory of his daughter.
Ghost is in the vein of samurai cinema, and the plot centered around revenge sounds apt to me.
As for Clair Obscur, well, I have a very unpopular opinion about that one. I find it to be way overblown in how good it actually is due to the small team and relatively high production values. It has a fantastic soundtrack, but its central theme of grief and loss was done so much better in Banishers (which I played through using PS Plus during the summer), and yet I don't believe that game got even half the coverage. I won't go into anything else though, as it's off-topic regarding the article.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Borderlands 4?
The best Borderlands game is Tales of the Borderlands. For some reason I found that game genuinely funny in parts whereas the actual FPS titles just don't hit the spot in the humour department and I actually HATE Scooter.
Re: Enjoy the New Resident Evil Requiem Trailer with Improved PS5 Graphics
But is that the Switch 2 running docked? Handheld normally fares worse but pretty awesome if you can play Resi in handheld mode looking as good as that. Personally the resi engine hair looks kinda weird and shimmery in these games, unless you play on a good pc so I don't really care about that.
What I'm interested in is how this thing runs when it's ACTUALLY being played. I read there are more open areas and we know how good this engine is at dealing with large open maps don't we everyone? 😭🤣
Re: 'Finish Him': Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection Launches 30th October on PS5, PS4
I don't understand the point of this on a personal level. I was there back when they released and they were awesome due to the fatalities and blood but to me they pale in comparison to Street Fighter as fighting games, especially the first 2. MK1 is awful, MK2 is fun but pallette swap galore, MK3 is ok UMK3 at least has a huge roster going for it.
The worst part is these will be dead online unless there is crossplay. I wanted to play Caps fighting collection 2 online and as it has no crossplay it was dead within 8 weeks of release 😭
Re: USA's Top 20 PlayStation Games of All Time May Surprise You
Sooo Americans love games with guns I see, colour me surprised lol
Re: These 14+ New PS5, PS4 Games Are Coming Out Next Week (8th-14th September)
Who on earth will buy Bubsy except the rampant trophy hunters of course, they buy any old guff.
Re: Cronos: The New Dawn (PS5) - Captivating, Twisted, and Wickedly Entertaining
@AaronBayne So how are the scares and overall atmosphere? I had no idea this game existed until someone on here mentioned it in an article and it looks right up my street.
The reason I ask is you mention there are some cheap ones but Silent Hill 2 jumped me more than any game in my entire life lol. I'm never scared by these things but the sheer claustrophobic atmosphere in SH2 was fantastic, does this come near to that.
Re: Gears of War: Reloaded (PS5) - Iconic Xbox Shooter Is the Perfect Intro for PlayStation Fans
@TrollOfWar That's pretty awesome regarding the online play, feel an idiot for not bothering to look that up 🤦🏻
As for the info on why they didn't release the trilogy I had no idea they migrated it. It's really just a personal peeve because the gunplay was refined as they went on along with more enemy types and some pretty awesome locations, I'd love to play through them again one after another and while I think 40 is steep for one I would however pay a full 70 for all 3 especially as you'd get horde mode as well. Ill probably get this on a price drop because I was just flat out terrible at multiplayer. It will be interesting for new players though because of I'm remembering correctly you can kill your own teammates. The good old days of some nob on your side taking it down for the opposite team 🤣
Re: Gears of War: Reloaded (PS5) - Iconic Xbox Shooter Is the Perfect Intro for PlayStation Fans
@MrPeanutbutterz Haha, tell me about it. I was 21 and now I'm not 🤣
Re: Gears of War: Reloaded (PS5) - Iconic Xbox Shooter Is the Perfect Intro for PlayStation Fans
Why did they not release the whole trilogy? I loved the first 3 games (never bothered to much with the multiplayer) but 40 quid for the first game is really pushing it and I don't normally complain about the price of games.
Also I couldn't see anywhere if you can coop online? Pretty big omission if not as the game is 10x the fun with another player but even single is a blast, then again I understand most people will not pay this much for 6 hours of linear gameplay. On another note I actually finished this game on insane in single player back in the olden days, pretty tough cookie.
Re: Devil May Cry, Dragon's Dogma, and Rival Schools Combine in Capcom Legend's New AAA Game
@mlm043 Same, it's reads as if it's a new VS game but then...well nothing really and definitely nothing containing any of the franchises mentioned 🤦🏻
Re: Praise, Raiden! Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection Adds Mythologies, Special Forces
@Scottyy Was about to say the same. Apart from MK2 waaaaaaay back on the Mega drive it's genuinely the only other game in the entire series I have genuinely liked and it's not a half bad attempt at a beat em up in a 3d space. I remember it being unintentionally amusing as well.
Obviously fans of the series will love this but the MK games are very jank to me compared to SF. Mk 1 and 2 are really basic and unless the online is packed you'll need at least on mate who likes to play, no fun was ever had going against the AI in these things lol
Re: 12 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for August 2025 Announced
Please allow us to buy resi 2 and 3 which allows everyone to get them and those that bought them previously to get them "free"
Capcom/Sony locked both directors cut and Dino Crisis to premium only on release and it took a few weeks of everyone complaining and wondering what drugs they were on to allow everyone to purchase them.
Re: Now It's Being Sued, Blatant Horizon Rip-Off Removes Copycat Artwork
I've never really liked Aloy to much as a character but Sylens was brilliant in both. In fact I end up liking the supporting cast more than the main character in these games. Can't quite put my finger on why though.
My favourite series for character depth and development is the Yakuza games. The characters to me are so well done and each distinctly unique from one another.
As for this thing, it looked like they put in "Aloy as anime kid" into and ai generator lol
Re: 10 New PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Announced for July 2025
Where are the Resi games? I was hoping they would be in here in July because now I have to hope for August as it was slated summer after all 😭 my issue is if Capcom do the dumb thing of making them only available on the premium tier and unavailable to buy until everyone shouts at them for a month.
Re: Capcom Nixes Tone Deaf Conference on Monster Hunter Wilds Optimisation
While it runs fine on my Pro in performance mode the game looks awful across the board and is held up by the stellar monster designs. The environments don't seem any bigger than Worlds and as I read someone comment on another site, lack verticality. The ice Shard Cliffs and Wyveria Ruins are REALLY small maps and even the larger ones like the Wastes and Scarlet Forest aren't that big and shouldn't run as awful as they do. I'm one of the apparent few who can game at 30fps but not in this. It can't hold a steady 30 to save it's life and I even tested it with VRR in balanced uncapped. The frame read out was mental going from below 40 up to the hundreds constantly and this was in camp lol.
But like others have said, the textures. Om my god the textures are atrocious and I can't believe they were let out the gate. I haven't seen surfaces like this since the PS2 days with the most awful examples being the NPC's. Did they even want us to know what material the clothes were made of? Monsters fare slightly better but in quality mode the texture streaming issues are so prevalent it's off putting (another reason I switched to performance) with enemies turning to blobs and environments missing just about all there detail as maps flicker on and off.
I played Dragons Dogma 2 after the myriad of patches and its better than this game while rendering a massive map, no way near the level of Shadows, Horizon, Red Dead or Cyberpunk for example but still a hell of a sight nicer to look at.
Sorry rant over.
On the topic of this story though while having a conference on optimisation after releasing the next game in your biggest series and it being an non optimised mess (especially PC) is ironic, threatening people with crap like this is just the pinnacle of man baby tantrums. Seems gaming is riddled with these people which is a damn shame. Not only does it sully those of us who are not (most of us I hope) but further plays into the narrative that they are toys for people who just haven't matured and when things like this or the shizzle when Last of us 2 came out etc happens....well I can't blame anyone who has that opinion.
Re: Sony Reiterates Big PS5 Pro Graphics Upgrade for 2026
Can they ship this to Capcom so they can increase resolution and free up som.much needed resources for the absolutely god awful textures that plague 90% of that game 🤣 haven't seen anything like it since the days of PS2
Re: 'Aw, Nah! This Ain't Happenin'!': SEGA on Potential PS5 Sonic Adventure Remasters
Never liked the Adventure games even on release. Incredibly hanky and awful voices. Saving grace was yet again the soundtrack.
Sonic origins was disappointing as well due to the removal of Carnival Night, Ice Cap and Launch base music to be replaced with some of, if not THE most terrible music in a sonic game ever.
Let's just say I have little faith lol
Re: Mini Review: Rematch (PS5) - Fun, Fresh Football Game Holds Huge Potential
@Nye1779 Your mention of FIFA Street brought back memories of NBA Street, man I loved the 2nd one on my Gamecube.
As for this it looks tempting but Rocket League was jam packed with toxicity lol. Does this have the chat and the pre selected phrases like RL? You know like "what a save!" 🤣
Re: This Outstanding New PS5, PS4 Shmup Will Make You Miss the SEGA Genesis Days
MEGA DRIVE!! Thought everyone writing on this site was from the UK so why use the American name for the console? Just me being Mr Pedantic 🤣
Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Patch 1.3.0 Makes Big Balance and Difficulty Adjustments
I really like this game but I'm not sold on the parry and dodge, I can do it but I feel there are places where they nigh on force it with Clea being the pinnacle. I couldn't be bothered after 2 goes and I refuse to just make some cheap shot build to overcome a challenge when it should be more than doable without it. I've never been good with theory craft etc so I'm just going with what works for me which requires I use dodge and parry all the time, luckily I'm not to bad with it.
Re: Resident Evil Requiem Revealed, Out on 27th February 2026
Going back to Racoon City way after the nuke is awesome. Now to hope and pray it runs better than Wilds and Dogma and has textures that don't look like they fell of the PS2 cart.
Re: Poll: What Were Your Favourite PS5 Games from State of Play? (June 2025)
Silent Hill and the Marvel fighting game (can't recall it's name even though I literally just watched the trailer) look really good along with sword of the sea and pragmata.
On another note, does anyone want to fill me in on the internets potential conspiracy theories and hate for the 007 trailer? I imagine it has already began...
Re: PS Plus Premium Games for June and July 2025 Confirmed, Resident Evil 2, 3 This Summer
@AtlasLivesAgain Just to be "that guy" I would whole heartedly recommended it above the remake, as much as I love that version. The second scenario and the way A and B are done is so much better. It has better music (I play the remake using the PS1 soundtrack) and it's just a ton of fun, of course I am completely biased. It's the opposite for me regarding the 3rd game. If the remake of that was longer and had more content such as spending more time in the city, it would be superior. Even then I prefer it. I could just never gel with the original Resi 3 🤷🏻
Re: PC Modders Are Already Making Skimpy New Stellar Blade Outfits, And Eve's Body Double Wants to Model Them
I'd say pc players were thirsty dudes but at this point I'd be more inclined to say dehydrated lol
Also to the point above, women do in fact wear outfits like Eve, shock horror. However I believe the "outrage" comes not from the fact that some of the clothes are worn by women of their own choice but more the fact that a certain demographic of blokes just can't play anything without skimpy big tiddy on show and that's it's done to sexualise and objectify. So insert online vitriol for Aloy and insert Mr thirst for Eve 🤣
Re: Arcade Archives 2 Receives a Big Price Hike with Ridge Racer on PS5
VRR in a 30 old game lol along with "time attack" never seen time attack modes before.....
I'd love for Road Rash 2 to be released again. Man that was fun but EA don't seem to like putting their old catalogue out there
Re: Poll: Do You Care About the Death of PS Stars?
I liked it as a way to get something back on my digital purchases. The rewards are whack though, more expensive to redeem your points for the games than it is to redeem them for credit and then buy said game, even if it wasn't on sale.
Digital collectables were nice and all but it would have made a lot more sense for them to have integrated the whole thing into your main account you use on the ACTUAL console. Nobody could see the damn things making them almost completely worthless.
Re: Analytics Firms Predict Pitiful Full-Price Sales for DOOM: The Dark Ages on PS5
So is it not doing well because it's on game pass or because it's an expensive short single player game or because it's to different to the last 2 or because the disc based copy is a coaster?
So they try something new and it doesn't do as well, that's we we get copy paste, single player not selling? Hmmm maybe but that's we get bloated open world because so many seem to correlate cash spent with time investment= better value rather than the fun you can have, this is why I never got a Bulletstorm sequel 😭 game pass, credible reason because why buy it if you can get it for "free" and the disc based argument? This will detract some people but not a majority I wouldn't have thought. I mean i see why some still prefer it but games have so many patches your game on disc is nigh on worthless these days.
Shame really because I like it a lot more than Eternal. And for replay value? Do people not recall paying 50 bones for 2 hour games in the 90s or what? We used to play them again because they were fun, not because the game gave us a specific reason to.
Re: Inquiry Already Underway Over Lacklustre DOOM: The Dark Ages Opening
The constant price argument with games is weird to me. They were never a standard entertainment product and have always been relatively expensive, even in terms of earnings at the time. Games in the early 90's were £40 and above, Sonic 3 was about 45 to 50 quid in 1994, it had six levels (remember SEGA sold the other half of the game later in the year for another £40) and took 25 minutes to finish it. If we increase games along with inflation they would be costing over a £100 today.
The other thing I find weird with gamers is this ridiculous price to play time = value. I mean....do any other people actually do this with their entertainment lol. It's ridiculous.
As for the disc argument, I agree the game should be on there for those that wish to purchase physical media and it's odd that it's allowed to happen the way it does. I don't think it dampens sales numbers by a lot though but if publishers want us to go digital can they lessen the costs a little? Must save a packet not having to distribute hard copies all over the world.
Re: Virtua Fighter's Wolf Hawkfield Looks Beastly in PS5 Makeover
I won't lie, looks awful. He literally just looks like Ganon from Zelda. Saying that I wish this studio made their Yakuza game models look this good detail wise.
Re: Poor Showing for DOOM: The Dark Ages on PS5 Pro
I've never bothered with digital foundry. If a game is jank and a visual mess to the point it's discernable to the average person it's generally mentioned in reviews. Digital Foundry stick it under the digital microscope and everyone cries. Also this "It's made worse on PS5 on purpose" schtick is playground stuff that I Don't expect from anyone above the age of 11.
Also this is what Push wrote in their review
"A rock-solid 60 frames-per-second is maintained on PS5 Pro"
Soooooo Push Square wrote the above, seemingly not noticing said drops throughout their own play through but DF says it does as they monitor every scene and the same outlet writes this article? Weird.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Clair Obscur: Expedition 33?
9/10 so far although I keep ballsing up the parry and I REFUSE to not use it because it looks so damn cool (and causes good break dmg)
The soundtrack so far is absolutely brilliant. If this thing doesn't win some awards for at least this then it's a travesty, so many styles and genres and I'm only in the cliffs after the village.
V/A is very good considering the budget I assume this game had, some vacant stares in atd scenes but the facial mocap is pretty impressive in the big cut scenes. Combat is great fun (despite my aforementioned failing) and although I'm never good at "builds" I can see there is a decent amount you can do for the people that are. Also I love the weight of the attacks, FF Rebirth and even games like DmC can feel like your getting hit and hitting with paper weapons but in this thing, a giant stone club coming down sounds and looks just like it should.
Only issues I have is getting turned around in a dungeon and there aren't to many landmarks so I end up running about aimlessly a little, I would have liked a mini map SOMETIMES but I can understand why it isn't there. Oh and Gustave is literally Robert Patterson lol
Re: Talking Point: What Should Ghost of Yotei's Biggest PS5 Improvements Be?
@DETfaninATL You mean the mode that was given for free using assets from the main game that released about 3 months after the main game?
I seriously doubt it took anything away from the development of the actual title or it's dlc and tbh I found it so much more fun than the actual game anyway. It made GoT my most played game at over 500 hrs lol. Not sure I should admit that 😅
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for May 2025 Announced
I have bolt gun and there is something off. It may be the fact that the enemies have no collision (at least I read that's the case a long while back) so basically, you fight a horde and unlike nearly every FPS ever Inc DOOM and Wolfenstein from over 3 decades ago the enemies don't bump into one another or path around, the just charge through one another. Can be frustrating because you die pretty easily from memory.
Wanted to try Balatro for ages and was on the fence so that's great 😃
P.S. Just incase anyone is with me, I HATE the term boomer shooter. That is all.
Re: Ghost of Yotei Gets PS5 Release Date, Trailer, Pre-Order Details
Kinda hoping they are making an upgraded and expanded legends mode because I put waaaaaay more time into that than the game itself. Played it once to 100% and enjoyed it but I never go back to these types of games, after the busywork it's almost pointless. The legends mode fixed that for me and let me enjoy the fun combat without the replay....fingers crossed 🤞🏻
Re: Stellar Blade Director Is Now One of the Richest People in Korea
Wow, top 50 with 750 mil. Shows the wealth disparity with other nations. You wouldn't break the top 1000 in America with that......wish I had it lol 🤣😭
Re: Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Cleaves Another Meaty Update on PS5
Great game, tons of fun but the servers are absolute ass.
Re: PS5's Pokémon Rival Brings Underdressed Waifus, Cute Creatures, and Farming
@Sevenifity Depends on the gacha, some you have to play like a job because otherwise you'll fall so far backwards that the power creep means you will be stuck when it comes to completing harder content.
I can't play these types of Gachas myself, they require to much of your time, especially at the start.
Also I may be unpopular here but I can't stand the "waifu" and "husbando" tags, especially not from grown adults, cringe beyond belief.