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I hadn't really looked at much to do with this so far, but some of those screenshots, particularly the night time parachuting down into the lagoon... Just wow. @Cleric20 does it look genuinely as good as that in motion?

Either way I really enjoyed what I played of JC2 (even if I never actually finished it), and this is definitely shaping up to be a "must have" for me! Day 1? Maybe...

@gbanas92: "maybe this series is one that sounded better in theory than in practice"... Did it? This always sounded like a terrible idea to me - taking a style of game where the primary focus is storytelling, and then attempting to apply that formula to a series with practically no story. Madness!

@SonyInfinity I'm more impressed that the XBO actually outsold something for once in terms of hardware sales! I know the general JP market has been terrible, but their figures over there have just been outrageously bad.

Sherlock Holmes for under a tenner? Done! Just that and Disgaea 4 for me this month, need to save some money back for my gaming christmas jumper (still can't decide which to get though - Blanka vs Bison, Guile vs Cammy, or the Fallout 4 one?!)

@Kidfried What a tune! Don't remember it being in the game though, was that in New Vegas? Still haven't gotten round to playing that...

@Neolit Can't bring myself to do it, I keep telling myself that one day I will go back for the Insanity playthrough of ME2 (the only thing I have left to plat the game). In reality though, it's probably never going to happen...

Agggghhhhh why do they have to keep making this game sound better and better? I can't get it yet, because if I do I will almost definitely fail the A Level I'm currently studying for haha!

@BertoFlyingFox I've not seen the most recent movie, but based on the first 2 I don't really see how that would work as a musou style game? Hunger Games has a small, set number of competitors, whereas the musou games seem to focus on the idea of one person pretty much decimating entire armies over and over again - the two concepts don't really seem like they would gel?

Got a little further into Metro 2033 Redux this morning - part of that was a chapter called "Ghosts", how's that for Halloween gaming?! Seriously though I'm not normally very jumpy but the bit when you're listening to the pipes got me. Think it's because I'm still not quite used to playing games on this big a screen...

Might play some more Broken Age on the vita, and outside of that I just picked up a kindle so I'll be doing some good old fashioned reading!

Yeah this is no bad thing really, spacing out the releases just lessens the summer drought

They could really take things to the next level if they include VR as a tool during the creation process as well as the play stage.

For example, instead of restricting users to designing character models etc using conventional input methods, what if they could allow users to fully sculpt them in VR mode? That would be incredible!

@xMEADx haha yeah it is rather amusing! Luckily I'm pretty unimaginative when it comes to user names, but at least they're never a potential embarassment!

Is this doable on any of the other major home consoles? I wonder if it's not just a problem on Sony's end, but also with the way your unique psn id is used to interface with 3rd party games (multiplayer, leaderboards etc etc). I guess the actual downstream impacts of changing your PSN ID after a few years use would be pretty far reaching.

@WARDIE I agree with most of what you've said completely, but I'm interested to hear why you feel Rockstar "owe" Sony an exclusive. Not disagreeing here at all, just interested to know if there's some history there I didn't know about, like Sony giving them a helping hand in the early days or something? As far as I know the series has always been multiplatform, with even the first games releasing on PC as well as PS1.

"Realistic" fire / electricity swords and chainsaw blade?! Want.

All I care about is that he tells the story in a sensible order. The approach he took with Beyond was all over the place and totally ruined the experience for me, to the point I never actually finished it (think I was about to start the homeless chapter). A shame, as I absolutely loved Heavy Rain!

I really wish they had patched in the option to play the story chronologically, as I think it really would have improved the game.

@tudsworth @Anchorsam_9 http://www.anorak.co.uk/288298/scare-stories/the-daily-mails-list-of-things-that-give-you-cancer-from-a-to-z.html/

Always makes me chuckle.

As long as it comes at a decent cost this seems like it could be a fun little time-waster

@maamets why "FU Sony"? Yes it's a shame it didn't happen, and it's a shame that the Vita hasn't received in general the first party support it deserves. But it is clear looking at the stuff coming through of Gravity Rush 2 that their vision for the game would never have been possible to fit on the Vita, it just couldn't be done.

I'd rather have the best possible version of the game than have the developers constrained by the system they're developing for, leading to a game that doesn't end up as good as it could be.

@DerMeister To be honest I'd be surprised if they announced a June release window without being absolutely confident in it. Hello Games have shown awareness already that they probably announced the game to soon and, although it was in no way their fault, the earlier delays due to their studio flooding and losing a lot of work on the game really didn't help.

At this point they know that people are eagerly awaiting the release, and I think they'll be well aware that announcing a release window and letting it slip again is going to be harmful to the game.

@Splat haha I'm terrible at DriveClub too but I still like playing it, just to look at the gorgeous graphics! Love chucking some music on Spotify and going for a bit of a drive, don't really care if I win or not

One of my favourite things about Fallout 3 was that you could plat it but still have insane amounts of stuff left to do. I have the plat but I'm pretty sure I still hadn't discovered a good 30-40% of what's out there, and that's before you even start including DLC!

Hopefully this will be similar. No matter what your feelings are towards Fallout, you can't say you don't get your money's worth

I just finished this the other day, having come late to the party and only started the series a couple of weeks ago, and must say I absolutely loved it. At the very least it is on par with TWD and TWAO, and at times definitely outshone the pair of them!

That finger gun fight alone was a real standout moment, and by far the most original (and hilarious) sequence I've played in any game in recent years

After seeing this and having a look at reviews of the rest of the franchise, I'm definitely thinking of picking up Continuum Shift Extend on the Vita!

@themcnoisy I read around 2000 hours, which should give me a good 3 years or so out of it. After that only £70 a bulb as well, which is pretty cheap compared to some I've heard of.

@animalovich honestly it had never really occurred to me either, my only experience of projectors was the rubbish ones we had back in school. A mate at work convinced me to give it a go, so after a bit of research to find the right one I went in for a demo in store and was totally blown away by it.

Picture is fantastic, and there is absolutely no noticeable input lag as far as I can tell anyway, so it's ideal for gaming. Now I've tried it, I'd struggle to go back, it's definitely the way forward!

The Witcher 3 is going to be impossible to finish now though - I can't do anything in it for more than a couple minutes without stopping to take in the scenery!

@themcnoisy picked up a BenQ W1070, it's incredible, and was under £500 as well! Got some pics of it up here: http://imgur.com/a/ydMAG (I uploaded a few on Friday, and added some more now after I tweaked a bit to make it a little bigger)

Managed to play a few different things this weekend as I've been putting my new projector through it's paces. Finished Tales from the Borderlands, and also played some of The Witcher 3, MGSV, Metro 2033 Redux and Driveclub, all in 98" 1080p glory

@sajoey that would be fantastic, I played Puppeteer for the first time earlier this year and was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed it, it was just so cleverly done!

I don't know how well it performed in terms of sales though, so not convinced we'll be seeing a sequel :/

While I'm pretty excited for this, given their track record I'll wait until at least a week or so after release to see if any glaring issues emerge.

@Wesker True, you don't have to do it all, but I'd rather the devs used their time putting meaningful content into a game, rather than chucking hundreds of treasure chests and uninspiring identikit side-missions in and calling the game deep / fleshed out.

Not a whole lot there that I recognise, but I am looking forward to seeing more of EarthNight and Salt and Sanctuary. Pretty sure all the games on that list are indies, so I'm interested to see what we see from the big devs mentioned!

Does the dialogue across the series improve fairly quickly? I tried to like episode 1, but every other line of dialogue was so cringe-worthily bad that I hardly got anywhere with it at all :/

Sounds about what I expected, someone at Ubisoft really needs to start thinking of quality over quantity - nobody cares you've got hundreds of collectibles and side-quests out the wazoo if none of them are actually remotely engaging. It was far better when you had the main missions, a handful of side quests that actually related to the main missions and helped you prepare for them, and some well thought out tomb set piece sequences. All the rest of the chaff just needs to be cut right out!

Having sidequests that are actually related to the plot would also really help with the story and overall cohesiveness of the games too. Unity's story being so lackluster and un-fleshed out was the other big turn off for me.

Oh well, bargain bin purchase it is then. Shame, as back in the Ezio days I would happily pre-order for release day, and could be confident that I would really enjoy the game!

@sub12 yeah I was getting nowhere fast with this, as I wanted to try and do everything as I went along. I've had a bit of a break, but think I'll probably dive back in now, but ignore most of the side content and leave it for post-game.

Is there any easy way to identify when I might miss out on quests permanently by progressing the storyline? This already happened to me once right at the start of the game, and was frustrating as there hadn't seemed to be any sort of clue that the quest was timed.

@get2sammyb is there a list or something that we can use to find out the user names of the people we want to follow? Or is it more a case of search by real name for the person you want and find the profile with the tick to verify it?

It would be good if they did implement a feature to just give you a list of all the verified people and who they work for, as there are almost definitely people I'd like to follow if it was suggested to me, but that I wouldn't think to look up on my own!

Being a bit of a nosy parker, I like the idea of being able to follow devs and see what they've been getting up to!

@BenderIsGreat Wow. Those are absolutely stunning!

Nice to see some different titles placing well for a change! Must admit, I am rather tempted by Zestiria. I'm not sure I should be buying any more console RPGs for the time being though, as I struggle to find time to finish them at the moment (still practically nowhere in The Witcher 3). I'm hoping to quit work and go to uni next year, so at least if I get in I'll have some extra long holidays where I can devote time to my RPG backlog!

@Hego cheers mate!

And @kyleforrester87 nope, found some non-alcoholic Amstel in the local super market. Not the best substitute but it'll do!

Won't be playing much this weekend as I'll be sunning it up in Salobrena! Got a little bit of Metal Slug in on the flight, and will make a start on Broken Age if we hit any bad weather, but outside of that I'll be out in the pool doing as little as possible

I'd not really spent any time looking into this before now, but now I want it. Bad.

Just look at those gorgeous screenshots, you can't even tell it's a video game at all (and that is definitely not a bad thing)!

Great value, but only if ALL the games are available to the subscription option. Otherwise it's just not worth it.

Probably should have waited to try this first, but instead I just bought the complete series. Heard so many good things about it, and it was only £7.99 in the sale so I couldn't resist!

@stupidget same here! Hardly have the time to play all the console games I want, let alone playing stuff on PC/laptop as well :S

But yeah, just checked and it's £6.99 (or $9.99 in the US) on Steam, and worth every penny!

@stupidget buy an old xbox dirt cheap and pick up Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Best Star Wars RPG you're ever likely to get, and still a great game today, even if it's not all pretty and current gen!

If you can't get an xbox, I imagine you should be able to find it on Steam pretty cheap. Either way it's well worth playing if you haven't already

Totally justified complaint! Heck, this is a terrible way of organising it for the people who legitimately ARE looking for the Rock Band content, let alone the rest of us.

Organising by song title is a terrible idea, surely it should get it's own little section of the store, which the game makers should have to take responsibility for, where the songs can sit away from the rest of the DLC, and where users who want to browse them can be given the option to sort by Artist, Album etc as well as song name.

Good little selection for the Vita, especially considering Bastion is going to be cross-buy when the Vita version releases later in the year!

For me it's Valkyria Chronicles II, VLR, LBP, and possibly Metal Slug 3 & Hotline Miami 2 on Vita. Tales from the Borderlands and Bastion on PS4 as well.

Toying with the idea of Oreshika and Child of Light as well. This sale is going to be hell on my backlog...

Shame the 1001 Spikes price is so high, will wait for a sale on that one.

In the meantime, been enjoying Super Meat Boy this morning, although god knows how anybody is ever going to platinum it. At first I thought the no death trophies meant you could complete the individual levels without dying, and just quit and restart that level if you needed to. But no, you must complete all 20 in each world back to back without dying (although can be done in any order). Die on the 20th level and you have to do the previous 19 all over again. Impossible.....

Definitely going to pick this up.

When I eventually finish the game.

Some time in 2017...

Definitely has the potential to be something really special.