StonyKL

My two cents:
Glad It Takes Two won as I'm really enjoying playing with my kid. Nothing too clever in there but just good fun.

Don't really know what Best Audio Design means but the sounds in FH make me struggle to play it. Just anything that is spoken in the game is incredibly irritating, although I assume this isn't part of that award.

Confused why Best Action Game and Best Action/Adventure Game categories exist.

Still a load of games for me to enjoy from that list once the RRP gets to a more attainable number.

Really want Death Stranding but think it'll come down more by Xmas. Deathloop I'll wait until Game Pass. Might bite with REVillage bit that'll end up on GP eventually won't it? Tough call..
Highly highly recommend Hades at that price too. Must have well over 100 hours on that game already and still going strong!

@Daleaf Breath of the Wild. An obvious recommendation but one of my favourite games of the last generation. The switch is one of my favourite consoles ever - just wish it was produced to a higher quality level. Screen easy to scratch when docking, controllers a bit unreliable and low power results in frame rate issues at times.

@Amusei I'm exactly in your boat. I'm desperate for a Silent Hill but these constant rumours are getting tiresome. I'd also think the constant noise will probably over hype the game if it did come out and inevitably lead to disappointment!
Certainly feel like that should it be Bloober Team doing it. They aren't terrible but to pass the game of as a success they will have to completely raise their game to what they have produced so far.

And I would hazard a guess it will sell a lot more copies once the price comes down to a reasonable amount for the majority. Me included. Cannot wait to play it other than waiting for said price drop

Hilarious! What a waste of time that was. Rise of the Tomb raider I've started twice and can't never get passed an hour or so due to boredom vs Half Life 2 a game that spawned a million copy cats and which I've played through several times over!
Oh well guess it just shows my age...

Spoiler alert
@jrt87 Guess you're not a game of thrones fan then. Pascal is used to being a protagonist with this outcome.....

@Bleachedsmiles get the general feeling that FH fans defend the lack of RT while the GT fans will bemoan it.
Does feel a little odd no RT as racing games are normally the easiest games to impress graphically due to how 'corridor' they are in design and small in scale.

@The_New_Butler I'm finding a very similar issue as well. To push that further, if there is a PS Sale on I will go through the full list looking for a bargain on a game I've been after, while when the Xbox has a sale I don't even bother looking because I just won't buy anything on the Xbox as I have game pass. Its almost like PS+ on steroids. I do sometimes question buying some games on PS in case they come to PS+ but its not even a question on the Xbox anymore.
In summary I think MS have to go completely all out on GP. It feels like it has to work or they'll be in a bit of trouble.
I do wonder though, if Xbox sales end up becoming negligible for non GP games, will the dev companies be forced to go the GP route allowing MS to pay very low sums for the privilege?
Is that a good outcome for gamers? Guess time will tell really.

Understand Spiderman is based in New York but would be disappointed if the while game took place there. Perhaps some sort of multiverse thing could go on that forces changes in location - dare I say a rift in space time to allow instance traversal through the dimensions......

@trev666 lol isn't this all open world games in general!

You come to these sites to get excited for games. I watched the showcase and saw tons of games that excite me only to come onto Push Square to be told its not exciting. Maybe its because its 2021 and today's gamer is someone who expects everything their way plus 1? This also isn't everything Sony has to offer as there are loads of things not included that we know are coming. People just need to have patience or they'll be forever miserable!

My expectations and predicted order:

GoW gameplay
GT7 gameplay with release date
New FromSoftware game trailer
MGS Remake
Spiderman 2 trailer
New Naughty Dog game trailer
Finish with Silent Hill reboot teaser

So predictable really!

Ratchet & clank to £60 😂😂😂😂😂
No Sony, no. I have a brain and patience....see you in a few months....

@Sanquine simply ask yourself, will you want to play any of GoW, HFW, GoT sequel, GT7, Spiderman sequel, last of us sequel or anything new naughty dog will do, next from software exclusive (rumoured) and any other PS exclusive coming for the future.
If answer is no then I recommend Series X. No matter how great an Xbox may end up being I couldn't do without the Sony games. They're just too good to miss out on.

Could the PS3 play the Rift apart game: NO
Could an amended version of the game play on the PS3: YES
Would they be the same game: NO
Every single game follows that logic. The new Flight Simulator game on Series X would play on a PS3 if you removed half the assets, changed the AI, framerate, resolution, etc. What does that really tell you other than you can reduce the quality of a game and claim it can play on inferior machines?

@Dezzy70 speaking of - i just noticed the LG CX have just been discontinued for the new C1 so have come down in price quite a bit. Getting really hard not to upgrade my 1080p Sony.

@Dezzy70 I guess you've never seen a PC before then. You'll have kittens if you knew what I did to build my custom PC 😂
It also used to be the one positive of my old Samsung phone - being able to take it apart and add a new battery and SD card. Now I'm on Pixel and that luxury is a forgotten one

Such an incredible game. The only disappointment is not being able to play it for the first time again. I've yet to see anything release since (on PS4 or ps5) that comes close to the quality of this game. Wish ND could release as quick as insomniac games though. They are machines!!

@AFCC does anyone know if they get paid as much though?
Basically no-one knows if GP is sustainable but the concern is whether business go bust because of GP when MS reveal it isn't sustainable.
I am also interested in whether this will have a similar affect to gaming as Spotify to music industry where no one buys physical anymore so the bands earn peanuts these days. Could it be that there will be less money for the devs as MS will end up taking the biggest slice of the pie? Will that in turn affect quality?
I say this as a GP and Spotify subscriber (paid £50 for a year so far) who won't buy a game on Xbox or an album of disc as I don't see the point. At least I go to a lot of gigs and can contribute more directly to the bands.

@Divergent95 seems a bit odd to give up the option to play the next load of Sony games that you enjoyed from PS4 gen (an assumption) over the fact Sucker Punch are charging $10 for an upgrade. If you are angry because you like the game then you're inhibiting your option to play the sequel. If you don't like the game then not sure why this would bother you?

Really looking forward to playing GOT but looks like I'll have to wait much longer until its at a price point I'm willing to pay - this gen I'll basically be playing PS games a few years behind most other people but will be playing Xbox games day 1 due to game pass. I think that will be quite telling as the generation plays out.

@Bleachedsmiles Are you taking the ****? His best role imo is in Narcos. That alone gets him the Last of Us gig for me but I also enjoyed his performance in Game of Thrones.
@BoldAndBrash if Pedro was only picked for this role for political correctness then thank god for political correctness!

Also he was genius in we can be heroes

Feel excited to have this still to come. Just waiting for the PS5 version...

@musicologist83 I actually prefer plus model so long as the games are high quality. I can take my time and play the games at my pace and not worry about losing them at short notice as has happened to me on occasion.

The advantage to GP is the quantity but Plus can compete with quality over quantity but that's probably too big an ask in reality.

@Snake_V5 this is the game I got a series X for. Bad mistake! Played an hour then haven't gone back to it. Was too distracted by other GPU games and it got lost in the myriad.

@nessisonett thats mainly because he doesn't stop talking, ever. I have a series X and am often on PureXbox but every day is an article about what Phil says. To me its a little odd. It maybe because there aren't really any games to talk about so its a way to get hits but I reckon once the games do actually start coming in we will probably hear less about his daily routines.

Even the latest stat feels far too many crashes than is acceptable. On the basis that the start was shockingly bad, to be at around a third of it this far on feels really bad and not something to be happy about. I really do wonder if I'll ever get round to playing this game. Maybe in a few more years...

So this game obviously more of a piss take than serious. A gun that fires CDs while playing them out loud but still doesn't attract attention from the enemy characters. Stupid but fun. I like it.

Wish it was like this 20 years ago and hopefully that % will get to the 50% sooner than later. My wife still asks me when I'm going to finally grow up and stop playing computer games (I manage a few hours a week at best!) to the point any talk of gaming is banned from the house (along with football obviously).

@PaperAlien And its this reason why most of my bought games are on disc. Would love to go all digital but expecting me to pay twice the price for digital instead is just crazy. Especially if I sell the game after I've finished with it and pretty much make the money back. Where is the incentive to go digital?

Sadly found that uninspiring but its didn't show anything of the game at all really. Will revisit in 2022 when we get to see more.

Great news!! I stopped half way through my 3rd play through waiting for this update so will be going back to it shortly. Just need to get through HZD first! Actually screw that HZD can wait..

@awp69 Well it got a 7 from PureXbox and a 9 from PushSquare so I'd go with PS5
I'll be choosing based on the controller I prefer seeing as though the performance is pretty much the same between the two by the sounds of things (or not noticeable unless you are a robot) so I'd recommend either that - or whichever you can get cheaper I guess!

@thefourfoldroot Agree that VR made 7 the scariest game I've ever played and I doubt 8 would get close without being in VR.

Read the PureXbox review first and felt deflated due to their disappointment , while reading PushSquare review afterwards has left me back to excited again! Good job

Gutted that I'll miss out on what looks like an amazing gaming experience. The price combined with the difficulty is enough to stop me buying. Had the same issue with Bloodborne which was very difficult until I 'figured it out' and turned out to be one of my favourite games.
Perhaps one for a future sale then?

@NEStalgia I'd argue Sony's style is to create niche games.
Thinking of PS4 games I played I can think of Last Guardian, Gravity Rush, Dreams, Until Dawn, all the PSVR stuff, Flower, Journey, Resogun, Little Big Planet, The Order: 1886, Tearaway, Death Stranding. Not too bad a list if excluding the big name 3rd person adventures. I wouldn't be too surprised if Sony used this money to expand even further on their variety.

But as I said above I do hope it means less money spent on timed exclusives.

@AlexSora89 Agree. Money on first party content directly benefits the gamers far more than 3rd party timed exclusives which are completely pointless to us consumers. Me owning a PS5 doesn't get any benefit from Sony paying to hold back a game from Xbox, while if all that money was spent towards first party games or even on improving quality / speeding up releases of first party games then we'd all gain from it.
Yes I understand the timed exclusives is for business reasons but us loyal PS gamers don't seem to benefit directly from that model.

@Link41x that's debatable. I'd argue Scalextric is more of a sport than Nascar.

@carlos82 Thats what I have now but isn't really a solution because it means I lose out on the functionality I would use 99% of the time. Was hoping there was perhaps a setting to disable this functionality using remote play.
I have kids, so finding the remote to change the channel is tougher than any game I put on, hence why PS5 controlling the TV is a perfect work around.
Seems a shame to lose out and an odd thing to do seeing as remote use of PS5 suggests you won't be using the TV connected to the PS5 so why switch it on. How are we going to save the planet with such an energy waste set up!!

Anyone else have the same issue that I do. I set my PS5 to control the TV so switching it on turns TV on. But if I'm on the PS4 upstairs and remote to the PS5 it also turns on the TV downstairs. Is there a way to stop that from happening to only allow control when directly using the PS5 on that TV?

Other than being annoying I sometimes go upstairs to play games that are not suitable for other members of the family which spectacularly failed before I realised this was happening.

Yes I would. Just like I upgraded the original Star Wars trilogy from VHS to DVD, then DVD to Bluray and inevitably when I get the 4K versions, I will similarly upgrade my favourite game. I'll just wait until its a more reasonable price.

I'd buy this no doubt. One of my favourite games ever. Would be even better if they upgraded to be more like Last of Us 2 in terms of gameplay - but perhaps I'm asking too much.

@ShogunRok thanks for sticking up for us testers 😉
This is a real shame because I really like the sound of this game, but like so many others here I’ll wait for the cheap version that runs better.

@LordSteev I will not be happy if they price hike GP. It’s borderline just right price for me. There’s tons of games on there but most are a pile of garbage from the 360 days you’ll never play, however there are a lot of games worth playing too. A slight concern is if they price hike and I don’t continue paying then I’ll have a series x with nothing to play on it. I’m thinking that’s the model they’re going for.
Would be a shame as GP is great for me right now and wouldn’t want it to change.

Just completed this on series x the other day. It’s a lot longer game than I thought it’d be. Got a bit tiresome to be honest but wouldnt mind trying this out in VR. Perhaps a demo would be enough for me?

@Loftimus The odd thing with Nintendo game versus PS5 is the pricing. They always seem to stay high for years while on PS5 within months they can be as low as £20 on sale. Its why I accepted buying Zelda at £50 when it came out versus knowing it makes no sense to buy a PS4/5 game full price.

Very good to see this stuff getting fixed. I can see myself picking this up in a year or so, when it's cheap, fixed and 100 times better than people experienced at day one.

Can also see me being wowed by it and having a good impression left on me regarding CDPR. Perhaps that's what makes this worth while for them? Yes people have been burnt and will inevitably refuse their next game (#deliberatly glances towards Bethesda#) but others like me, which are probably still the majority, can be saved and kept on board going forwards?

Last of us 2 was one of the best games I’ve ever played. The fact that it was beaten by Hades makes me really really want to play it.
Good to see LOU2 as the people’s champ as well.

Not played but will probably wait until its on plus just before the sequel releases. Great to know there are awesome games still to look forward to though.