I liked it a lot! It was a flawed masterpiece, the middle of the game was very samey, but the beginning and end were brilliant and the recycling and skill trees were fun. They put a lot of love and attention into designing the levels and it showed. The Bioshock, Dead Space and Dishonored influence was strong, but that's a good thing.
Mediocre-at-best shooter, with far too many cutscenes and not enough gameplay to justify full price, which is why it sold poorly and was quickly discounted. Some of the content is frankly disgusting and off-putting. (Personally, I don't like games where you shoot your dog and brutally murder your dad, but YMMV.)
But because of the heavy-handed politically-tinged marketing, virtue-signalling game journos and even non-gaming journos fell over themselves to shill for this title as if it was the second coming of Ocarina of Time. (Trump card, geddit? GEDDIT?!?!)
I'd wait for WOLFENSTEIN 3: BUY THIS GAME OR YOU ARE LITERALLY ADOLF J. HITLER. The Collector's Edition comes with a steelbook case and a 1/6th scale poseable Jeremy Corbyn action figure.
@McGuit It's not as good as Wolfenstein 2014 (which I liked, and which gave me high hopes for this game), is loooooong on cutscenes and short on actual gameplay - unforgivable in a single player fps sold at full price.
The fawning reviews this got - including from several non-gaming publications who went out of their way to shill for this alleged TEH BEST! GAEM EVAH, which makes you wonder what's going on in the background - are a bad joke, and frankly a lot of the content is pure cringe.
Cringe, or actively disgusting. Kill your own abusive racist Dad with an axe? Sorry, 2Edgy4Me, kids! I like games for lighthearted escapist fun, which the original Wolf, and RTCW, had in spades. Not off-putting torture-murder goonfic like this abortion of a project.
De gustibus non whatever aside, it's simply not worth the AAA price they were asking given the short duration and lack of replayability. I'm glad it failed in the marketplace, and hopefully Wolf will return under a more competent developer. And hopefully MachineGames gets stung by bees, or something, for the cheekiest price-to-gameplay cashgrab this side of NO MAN'S SKY. At least NMS wasn't an execrable attempt at selling you a bad Tarantino ripoff directed by #woke Tumblrinas.
BTW, COD: WW2 - which universally got worse reviews than EFF YOU DAD SIM 2017 - has tons more content and is a lot more fun. Worth checking out if you haven't already, and I give it four purrs out of five.
As a hard-working superhero cat who has been playing computer games since 1984, I'm not fan of The Chinese Room, and I'll tell you why:
Taste - humans do all sorts of strange things, such as stealing the poop from my litter box with a tiny shovel. But playing "games" with no "gameplay" in them is odd even by your standards. If that's what makes you purr, fine, but it makes me hiss!
The monies - look, we have many, many, many better uses for taxpayer's cash than giving it to people to make arthouse computer "games". The Chinese Room have been very successful in hoovering up grant money, and it's not their fault if we - the taxpayers - let them. But it still rankles, because we're a country that's deep in debt and have people dying for want of NHS operations. If The Chinese Room can't find funding in the normal way like any other business, why should I, a cat, be forced to subsidise them?
the virtue signalling - if the Chinese Roomies want to criticise other, far more successful and popular developers - beloved developers like Kojima and CD Projekt Red who don't live off the taxpayers - for giving their customers what they want, that is their right. But it's also my right to wee on their furniture and swish my tail from side to side in a disapproving manner at their asinine scolding fingerwaggery.
Is The Chinese Room supposed to be a games developer, or are they a jobs creation scheme for tedious out-of-work Guardian columnists? Maybe they should just pack in the games thing and concentrate on being outraged at stuff on Twitter.
NMS looks like it'd be a fun little indie game at £10 or £15. At least it has gameplay in it, unlike those painfully hipster walking simulators that everybody goes to the rapture over. At a reasonable price people would probably think fondly of it, like they did FTL, which was also procedurally generated and repetitive.
But for the AAA price they're still asking - no furring way! I don't spend £46 on anything but top quality games. That's the price of 100 packets of Sheba!
This sounds cool, Graham Bananas. BUT. BUT, I say!
The promise of VR is that I'll be able to fly an Apache helicopter or F22 or Sopwith Camel or Viper Mk III into battle as if I was really inside the craft, instead of sitting in my cat tree with silly looking goggles on.
I want VR experiences that let me feel the freedom and excitement of zooming around brave new worlds as if I was in them, not rails-based shooters or what-have-yous. I haven't seen anything like that from PS VR's launch titles.
Not sure why you used scare quotes around "classic" Sammy. Duke Nukem 3D is a classic from the Golden Age of FPS's (except we called them Doom clones in them days). It wasn't as good as DOOM but miles better than RISE OF THE TRIAD.
Mee-wow, I loved that game when it came out. It had jetpacks! Full 3D movement! Flushable toilets!
Yes, the humour was crude and silly but that's part of The King's charm. Nobody took gaming super serial in the 90's. Not like now, with all these painfully hipster indie houses churning out hand-crafted artisanal walking simulators with po-faced narratives tacked on. Blegh! I've coughed up furballs that were more interesting and dynamic than EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE PUB OR SUMMAT.
The Duke was all about the ludicrous weapons, bonkers gameplay, and cheesy one liners. Shake it, baby!
Am I going to spend the best part of 20 squid on a game I played to death in the 90's though? No hissing way! They're having a larf at that price point.
It's not a big deal, cos everybody knew a PS4 Slim would arrive at some point anyway. I'm liking the look of this new model, if it's cooler and quieter than the original PS4 I'll buy one for the kittens.
Everybody complained when the PS3 Slim and Super Slim were revealed that they looked ugly (rough looking industrial plastic on the former and cheapo corrugated toploader CD player look on the latter).
But everybody promptly forgot that when they realised they gave you the same Playstation goodness in a smaller, cheaper and quieter box.
Huh. This is how I felt about the previous game. Shame they couldn't improve on it.
The original Deus Ex was - Mee-WOW! - a dazzlingly ambitious and delightfully intelligent shooter / RPG mashup with an unforgettably bonkers storyline steeped in late 90's conspiracynoia goodness.
The console sequels are like the New Star Trek - a likeable enough homage, but ultimately just a shiny, dumbed down riff on something that used to be great.
Hmm. To me this looks interesting, but not worth the £40+ AAA price point they've launched at. It's a tarted-up indie game, not a must-buy blockbuster like Naughty Dog or Rockstar games.
The user reviews on Metacritic are pretty savage too. I'll wait till it comes down to about 20 squid.
I played this "game" on PC. It's another one of them horrible, permanently broken zombie cash-em-in's in the vein of the infamous Day Z. Awful graphics, sounds like a broken washing machine, and buggier than an anteater's lunch.
Re: future patches and other daydreams. It was released on Steam nearly THREE YEARS AGO, my humans! The fact that it's still fundamentally a nasty, buggy, poo-poo stinking mess means it will NEVER be fixed.
For them to be allowed to release it on Playstation is concerning. Y U NO QUALITY CONTROL, SONY? One for the litter tray.
If you like zombie action, DYING LIGHT is a much, much, much better game and available for cheaper than this rubbish.
This makes me a sad cat because it's a fun concept (RED DAWN the videogame) that could've been something special. An open world FPS where you're not a badass super soldier, just an ordinary civilian fighting off much better equipped enemies with whatever weapons come to hand.
In my dream world imaginary Homefront, it's all about raiding enemy supplies, sabotaging their operations, and setting up traps and ambushes with your rag-tag band of resistance fighters. While never fully knowing who to trust, always watching out for informants and collaborators.
Mee-wow! I can't believe Sony would do something as daft as split their user base so soon into this console generation.
Playstation VR is already a huge, expensive gamble for them. I hope it's a roaring success, but the high cost, lack of top tier developers working on launch titles (seriously, I don't want to drop the guts of £500 to play indie games), and potential for confusion over the peripherals (do devs target games at Dualshock, or 1 x Move stick, or 2 x sticks?) means it could fail harder than Move or Vita.
A PS4 Slim? That runs cooler and quieter? Shut up and take my money! A PS4 Slim with 4K? I can live with that. A PS4 Slim with 4K and a built-in GPU/memory upgrade that destroys the consistency of user experience you expect within a console's lifetime? That forces devs to either ignore the extra power or treat launch model PS4 owners like poor relations? No hissing way!
Cynical old me suspects this 4K tomfoolery is bad old Sony thinking, hoping to shore up their telly business. I bought a Playstation for the gaming lolz, not to watch Pet Rescue in super high definition.
@Cowboysfan-22 - did you ever play Fallout 4 or Skyrim and think "this is OK, but wouldn't it be better if they got rid of all the enemies, NPCs, weapons, quests, crafting, fantastical locations... and just left in the bits where you walk around reading people's diaries?"
Whaddayamean, "no?"
if you like pretentious indie art-project type "games" with arguably zero actual gameplay, and unarguably no replay value, you'll love Gone Home. It's brilliant at what it does, which is next to nothing.
Next up on PS4 : Watching Paint Dry Simulator 2016. Now with Satin Gloss Teal. Mee-wow!
I'd love to see Japanese devs get their mojo back. Pacman, Mario, Sonic, Link, and Samus were part of my childhood.
In the 90's and 00's the Japs gave us awesome industry-defining franchises like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Metal Gear Solid. As well as some wonderful, memorable off-kilter experiences like Parappa the Rapper, Katamari Damacy and Viewtiful Joe.
In the last few years Japan has lost influence on the global gaming market. They seem to have turned inward, focusing on mobile games with little appeal beyond their shores.
In a world of identikit runny-jumpy FPS games and insufferably twee indy pap, we need the mad genius of the Nipponese to MAKE GAMING GREAT AGAIN!
Kojima is Japanese for "Awesome Super Fun Gaming Time!".
Media Molecule - I feel like I'm a bad cat, hissing and scratching at an adorable child for criticising them, but... I didn't really like LBP.
It was fun for maybe an hour. Then boring. The tweeness of their work is similarly amusing for a short while, before becoming cloying and making you allergic to sacks and/or Stephen Fry. Just not my cup of Sheba. Fair play to them for making games for the kiddies/creatives/people who like buying Sackboy DLC though.
Guerilla Games too. I have bought every Killzone since the series started on PS2. And barely played any of them. Nice graphics, leaden controls and ultimately lacklustre games. C'mon... how hard can it be to make an awesome FPS featuring Space Nazis? Even the recent Wolfenstein reboot was miles better.
The only Playstation exclusive shooter that I really liked was Resistance 3. And they're apparently not making a Resistance 4.
@Midzark - speaking of Borderlands, there's not enough split screen co-op games these days. Sometimes you don't want to be noscoped by French teenagers, you just want to play a game with a friend in your own house.
"would you miss the UK chain if it snuffed it for good this time?"
Nah. Last time I was in GAME was to buy the PS Move.
Years ago, they used to have a great selection of PC games. It's since shrunk to a handful of obscure titles like "European Cement Mixer Simulator 2015" and they're mostly pushing overpriced console games, useless peripherals, and toys onto clueless parents. Their secondhand games are insultingly expensive, and given that Steam, Amazon, and Tesco give you better pricing there's no need to go to GAME any more.
The only good thing I can say about GAME is that - unlike Gamestation (remember them?) - the staff don't try to sell you 20 different things when you're at the checkout. That used to drive me mental.
Me: "I'll take this copy of Fallout 3 for the PS3, my good man."
Spotty Gamestation employee: "Do you want the tactics manual as well?"
Me: "No, just the game thanks."
Spotty Gamestation employee: "How about these PS3 thumbgrips? You can't be a serious gamer without them!"
Me: "Eh, no. Just the game you're holding. That's all. Thank you."
Spotty Gamestation employee: "What about this cool 3rd party charging station for your controllers? It's only £20."
Me: "No."
Spotty Gamestation employee: "I bet you'd love to buy a wicked cool Vault Tec lunch box!"
Me: "HISSSSSSS!"
Anyway. Like Blockbuster Video, dedicated high street vidyagames retailers have had their day.
Scorpio! He'll sting you with his dreams of power and wealth. Beware of Scorpio! His twisted twin obsessions are his plot to rule the world And his employees' health. He'll welcome you into his lair Like the nobleman welcomes his guest With free dental care and a stock plan that helps you invest! But beware of his generous pensions Plus three weeks paid vacation each year And on Fridays, the lunchroom serves hot dogs and burgers and beer! He loves German beer!
Eh, all the newspapers are fit only for my litter box these days, but the Mail is no worse than the rest of them.
The Guardian now peddles SJW clickbait. The Torygraph is mostly advertorials and sub-Buzzfeed timewasting. The Sun and the Mirror are chip wrappers. The Times is paywalled.
If you want vidyagames news, the dead tree media isn't the place to find it. (And neither, by the way, is Eurogamer, with its wow-just-wow trash stories about games like Far Cry 4 being "problematic").
I am the ultimate alpha cat, and I am tired of saving the world.
This is one of the reasons why The Last of Us felt so fresh, so honest, so mature.
The world's gone to zombie hell and you're on a road trip to save mankind. So far so standard. Except you don't save mankind. Joel and Ellie aren't those kinds of heroes and TLOU isn't that kind of story. Like other great modern stories, such aa Breaking Bad, it has too much integrity to slap on a cheap happy ending.
But you do save the girl. And just as importantly, she saves Joel, a man who had nothing to live for. It's a small accomplishment, in the grand scheme of things. But all the more personal and touching for it.
The Last of Us got its characters and storytelling spot on. The torture scene with Joel. The giraffes. The horrible realisation that David is a psychopath. That moment Joel's eyes harden and he makes a terrible choice when confronted by Marlene in the car park.
And that magnificent, downbeat, ambiguous, perfect ending.
A lot of the credit goes to the wonderful actors, but also to the brilliant writers.
Ultimately it's a third person action game that isn't about the action. It's about love, loss, survival and redemption. In the 90's we used to hear a lot about games becoming "interactive movies", which in practice meant grainy, cheesy FMV scenes like in Night Trap. TLOU was a sublime fusion of gameplay and storytelling. It was an interactive movie in the most excellent sense.
"It's interesting because, from the outside, Sony appeared to put a lot of weight behind the game, and also seemed extremely supportive of what is, in truth, a pretty out-there project."
Miaozactly. Her walking simulator received tons of support and positive press for what is, let's face it, barely a game. C'mon now: Sony believed in her. 9 out of 10 indie devs would eat kitty litter to get the sort of backing and free publicity Everybody's Gone To The Pub Or Summat got.
As for sexism and people taking credit, well, it's a cat-eat-cat world and nobody owes you free treats. If you aren't able or prepared to do the necessary work to make a name for yourself, you can't expect complete strangers to know who you are. At one point, nobody had heard of Hideo Kojima either. I don't think he cried about it and expected the industry to roll out a red carpet for him. He probably hid in a cardboard box though.
Sounds like she's a fragile person and being in the games business - which is, after all, a business, which means it's about results and products and profits, not emotional affirmation - isn't for her.
The games industry is generally a horrible place to work anyway. I love games as much as I love Sheba chicken and turkey with gravy. But even I know it wouldn't be fun to work in a cat food factory.
I hope her health improves and she finds satisfaction in her future projects.
Sammy, a video game is just a game played on an electronic device with a screen of some sort.
So "Everybody's Gone To Shropshire" isn't a video game, because there's no gameplay in it. And by that I mean there's no rules or win conditions or puzzles or enemies. It's just a story told via a walking simulator.
No harm in that if you like that sort of thing (I don't, but you pays your money and takes your choice), nevertheless words mean things and there's a difference between games and what we might call electronic experiences.
I think we'll see more experience-type products on Morpheus. VR lends itself well to that sort of thing.
I still won't buy "Everybody's Gone To Some Hipster Studio in Brighton" though, because I'm stubborn and like my electronic entertainment to be a challenge of some sort.
I quite liked Human Revolution, but compared with the original Deus Ex it was more of a Human Rehash.
The first game was truly groundbreaking at the time. HR was to DE what the rather good Dishonoured was to the original Thief: a welcome successor, but sadly dumbed down for the "press X to win" generation and also strangely constricted compared with its 90's source material.
I'll probably buy this after it's been out a while and the price drops.
I am a cat, so I don't drink Mountain Dew, but I do nibble on Doritos I find on the floor, and what's wrong with that?
The best CoD was Black Ops, and if anybody disagrees, I will scratch them. Unfortunately, because Activision doesn't care about supporting their games for more than 12 months after release, Black Ops MP has been unplayable for years now, due to all the l33t haxx0rs running around in invisible Godmode.
I liked the jumpy-jumpy action of Advanced Warfare, but it didn't quite recapture the glory days of BO. It was better than Ghosts though. A more methodically paced game sounds right up my scratching post.
I'll be honest with you: although I never use the microphone myself - you try putting on headphones when you're a cat - I do enjoy knifing people (or axeing them in Sticks and Stones) and then hearing their screams of rage.
"Hiss you, you hissing cat! I'm going to spay your mother!" and so forth.
People tears are so delicious. Better than Mountain Dew.
How great would a Kojima Silent Hill game be on Morpheus?
Answer: scarily great!
And think social: what if they brought back PS Home, got rid of the annoying loading waits, and let you meet your friends, play games, and watch films in full glorious 3D?
And open world games like GTA and Far Cry and Dying Light. Don't you want to zip-line, hanglide, car race, or smack zombies around with a cricket bat in immersive virtual reality?
Or flight sims? Nobody really plays them any more, but wouldn't it be cool to dogfight in your Sopwith Camel, or Spitfire, or Typhoon, as if you were actually in the cockpit?
I am purring for Project Morpheus. This could be the greatest thing in gaming since 3D graphics.
@Matroska - "Depending on where you live you might even be able to find some actual photorealistic turtles to jump onto and some actual pipes to climb through. Never waste money on another Mario again!"
I took your advice and did the Mario IRL.
I didn't find any turtles but the little girl who lives next door has a tortoise called Cornflake. Cornflake was out in the garden with his long wrinkly neck stuck out while eating some grass or whatever, so I hunkered down (that makes me invisible) and stalked him.
Cornflake must've seen the grass move, because he pulled his head and his legs into his shell. I thought, "might as well", so I jumped on his back to make him fall out of his shell.
But... nothing. I was just standing on a tortoise, much to my chagrin. It was embarrassing.
Later on I found a mushroom. I decided to eat it, to make myself grow to super size. But again, nothing happened, except that it tasted funny and I threw up in the conservatory.
Overall I'd rate my day 5/10 - disappointing, but still more gameplay than "Everybody's Gone To The Pub Or Summat"
"But to be clear, there's no shooting to be done here; no killing, or jumping, or running. You simply walk from building to building, from tree to tree, from empty desolate place to empty desolate place"
So... not really any gameplay as such?
I will pass on this one. I can walk outside for free, and the graphics are better. Plus, I get to do my mad cat parkour skills on garden fences. And there are random encounters.
CoD achieved ridiculous levels of addictive arcadey twitch-shootey greatness with Black Ops, but Ghosts was bland and Advanced Warfare was merely good.
Nothing CoD has done since Black Ops has quite recaptured the madness of Nuketown, the ballet of violence that was Summit, or the ingeniously balanced killzones of Firing Range. The fact that these classic maps were reskinned in later versions doesn't inspire faith in the long-term viability of the series.
I see diminishing returns for the franchise, and possibly the whole genre of modern/near-future warfare themed military FPS games. Sony getting timed exclusivity now might not have the impact it would have had 5 years ago.
Genre fatigue is a thing. Point and click adventure games used to be huge, and platformers and flight sims have also declined since their heyday. CoD 4 came out 8 years ago, and the game mechanics haven't changed much in nearly a decade. Are we going to keep buying what is basically the same game every year? It seems to work for the FIFA franchise, but maybe not for CoD.
I don't think we'll get bored of FPS's, but I'd like to see some fresh ideas, or even a fresh take on old ones. Back in the early days of the FPS, there was a glorious profusion of settings.
To name a few - Doom, Quake, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Heretic, Rise of the Triad, Marathon, Duke Nukem, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Descent, Half Life, Goldeneye 007, and one of my purrsonal faves: Outlaws.
I love headshots as much as the next cat, but I'd really like to play something a bit different from the now well-worn CoD template.
How about a Wild West shooter on Morpheus, with antique shotguns, blunderbusses, revolvers and gunfights at high noon? You could be standing there in your VR helmet, your trigger finger itching on the Move controller, your heart pounding as you wait to hear "draw!"
Or a pirate-themed fighting game, where you have to battle other players with cutlass and musket to capture their ships. They could call it Call of Booty.
I'm super excited for this, and have been since 1992 when a fresh faced youngster called Dominik Diamond emceed a VR battle royale based on the game "Dactyl Nightmare".
In those days, a VR helmet weighed about the same as a Vauxhall Nova, the games ran at about one FPS on an Amiga, and the resolution was lower than Mr Magoo's vision with vaseline smeared over his glasses.
Oh - and only the five richest kings of Europe could afford one.
But it was magical!
We're finally going to be able to go inside a game, people!
This is the greatest thing since Sheba started their "for sauce lovers" range.
"The GAME employee says it can't be their fault because it was sealed and they didn't tamper – it came from Sony,"
BZZZT! WRONG!
Listen kids, if something like this ever happens to you, DO NOT LET SOME SNOTTY NOSED CHECKOUT BOY FOB YOU OFF.
The Sale of Goods Act 1979 means that goods sold in shops MUST match their description. If the box says "Bloodborne" but the contents are "Cliff Richard's Christmas Panpipes", the retailer - GAME in this case - must give you either a replacement or a refund at your request. Or they are BREAKING THE LAW. It is completely IRRELEVANT that the goods were shrink wrapped - your contract for buying the game is with the shop, not with Sony.
Insist on your rights. Don't be brushed off. If the spotty teenager behind the till doesn't give you a refund or replacement, politely but firmly ask to speak to his manager.
If the manager isn't helpful, don't give in! Mention the Sale of Goods Act. Ask him if he knows what "Trading Standards" is. 9 times out of 10 even the most recalcitrant of retail representatives will give you what you want after 5 minutes of you politely but firmly insisting on your rights. Even if they are genuinely ignorant of the law, most of them don't have the time to argue with you, so they'll usually fold when you show that you're not going to just walk away.
Just don't be rude and don't take no for an answer!
SORRY for being SHOUTY, but retailers - through ignorance, laziness, or a bit of both - screwing over their customers really makes me HISS. You deserve BETTER, you wonderful PushSquarers.
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Re: PREY Was Originally a New IP, Name Suggested by Bethesda
I liked it a lot! It was a flawed masterpiece, the middle of the game was very samey, but the beginning and end were brilliant and the recycling and skill trees were fun. They put a lot of love and attention into designing the levels and it showed. The Bioshock, Dead Space and Dishonored influence was strong, but that's a good thing.
I'd love to see Prey get a sequel.
Re: Game of the Year 2017: #5 - Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Mediocre-at-best shooter, with far too many cutscenes and not enough gameplay to justify full price, which is why it sold poorly and was quickly discounted. Some of the content is frankly disgusting and off-putting. (Personally, I don't like games where you shoot your dog and brutally murder your dad, but YMMV.)
But because of the heavy-handed politically-tinged marketing, virtue-signalling game journos and even non-gaming journos fell over themselves to shill for this title as if it was the second coming of Ocarina of Time. (Trump card, geddit? GEDDIT?!?!)
I'd wait for WOLFENSTEIN 3: BUY THIS GAME OR YOU ARE LITERALLY ADOLF J. HITLER. The Collector's Edition comes with a steelbook case and a 1/6th scale poseable Jeremy Corbyn action figure.
Re: Fancy Shooting Some Stuff? You Can Try Wolfenstein II on PS4 for Free Right Now
@McGuit It's not as good as Wolfenstein 2014 (which I liked, and which gave me high hopes for this game), is loooooong on cutscenes and short on actual gameplay - unforgivable in a single player fps sold at full price.
The fawning reviews this got - including from several non-gaming publications who went out of their way to shill for this alleged TEH BEST! GAEM EVAH, which makes you wonder what's going on in the background - are a bad joke, and frankly a lot of the content is pure cringe.
Cringe, or actively disgusting. Kill your own abusive racist Dad with an axe? Sorry, 2Edgy4Me, kids! I like games for lighthearted escapist fun, which the original Wolf, and RTCW, had in spades. Not off-putting torture-murder goonfic like this abortion of a project.
De gustibus non whatever aside, it's simply not worth the AAA price they were asking given the short duration and lack of replayability. I'm glad it failed in the marketplace, and hopefully Wolf will return under a more competent developer. And hopefully MachineGames gets stung by bees, or something, for the cheekiest price-to-gameplay cashgrab this side of NO MAN'S SKY. At least NMS wasn't an execrable attempt at selling you a bad Tarantino ripoff directed by #woke Tumblrinas.
BTW, COD: WW2 - which universally got worse reviews than EFF YOU DAD SIM 2017 - has tons more content and is a lot more fun. Worth checking out if you haven't already, and I give it four purrs out of five.
Re: Fancy Shooting Some Stuff? You Can Try Wolfenstein II on PS4 for Free Right Now
Ha ha ha! No thanks. This game is garbage.
Re: Review: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (PS4)
"The complicity of large swathes of the population to Nazi rule just doesn’t seem so far-fetched these days"
Don't be daft.
Re: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture at UK Studio The Chinese Room
As a hard-working superhero cat who has been playing computer games since 1984, I'm not fan of The Chinese Room, and I'll tell you why:
Is The Chinese Room supposed to be a games developer, or are they a jobs creation scheme for tedious out-of-work Guardian columnists? Maybe they should just pack in the games thing and concentrate on being outraged at stuff on Twitter.
Yours in Purrs and Pixels,
SuperCat
Re: Guide: Which Race Should You Pick in Skyrim on PS4?
I am Khajiit in real life, so...
Re: Hello Games Tweets: 'No Man's Sky Was a Mistake'
NMS looks like it'd be a fun little indie game at £10 or £15. At least it has gameplay in it, unlike those painfully hipster walking simulators that everybody goes to the rapture over. At a reasonable price people would probably think fondly of it, like they did FTL, which was also procedurally generated and repetitive.
But for the AAA price they're still asking - no furring way! I don't spend £46 on anything but top quality games. That's the price of 100 packets of Sheba!
Re: Review: EVE: Gunjack (PS4)
This sounds cool, Graham Bananas. BUT. BUT, I say!
The promise of VR is that I'll be able to fly an Apache helicopter or F22 or Sopwith Camel or Viper Mk III into battle as if I was really inside the craft, instead of sitting in my cat tree with silly looking goggles on.
I want VR experiences that let me feel the freedom and excitement of zooming around brave new worlds as if I was in them, not rails-based shooters or what-have-yous. I haven't seen anything like that from PS VR's launch titles.
Please tell Sony.
Purrs in advance,
SuperCat, aka Kevin the kitty
Re: Yoshida Says He Understands No Man's Sky Criticism
@Diymhoshei - Yes. Can't believe this game is still about £46 in Sainsburys. It looks like a £19.99 product at best.
Re: Oh God! Duke Nukem Returns to PS4 on 11th October
Not sure why you used scare quotes around "classic" Sammy. Duke Nukem 3D is a classic from the Golden Age of FPS's (except we called them Doom clones in them days). It wasn't as good as DOOM but miles better than RISE OF THE TRIAD.
Mee-wow, I loved that game when it came out. It had jetpacks! Full 3D movement! Flushable toilets!
Yes, the humour was crude and silly but that's part of The King's charm. Nobody took gaming super serial in the 90's. Not like now, with all these painfully hipster indie houses churning out hand-crafted artisanal walking simulators with po-faced narratives tacked on. Blegh! I've coughed up furballs that were more interesting and dynamic than EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE PUB OR SUMMAT.
The Duke was all about the ludicrous weapons, bonkers gameplay, and cheesy one liners. Shake it, baby!
Am I going to spend the best part of 20 squid on a game I played to death in the 90's though? No hissing way! They're having a larf at that price point.
Re: So, Where Did Those Leaked PS4 Slims Actually Come From?
It's not a big deal, cos everybody knew a PS4 Slim would arrive at some point anyway. I'm liking the look of this new model, if it's cooler and quieter than the original PS4 I'll buy one for the kittens.
Re: The PS4 Slim Looks Much, Much Nicer Than You Think It Does
Everybody complained when the PS3 Slim and Super Slim were revealed that they looked ugly (rough looking industrial plastic on the former and cheapo corrugated toploader CD player look on the latter).
But everybody promptly forgot that when they realised they gave you the same Playstation goodness in a smaller, cheaper and quieter box.
Re: Review: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (PS4)
Huh. This is how I felt about the previous game. Shame they couldn't improve on it.
The original Deus Ex was - Mee-WOW! - a dazzlingly ambitious and delightfully intelligent shooter / RPG mashup with an unforgettably bonkers storyline steeped in late 90's conspiracynoia goodness.
The console sequels are like the New Star Trek - a likeable enough homage, but ultimately just a shiny, dumbed down riff on something that used to be great.
I'll probably pick it up on sale.
Re: Review: No Man's Sky (PS4)
Hmm. To me this looks interesting, but not worth the £40+ AAA price point they've launched at. It's a tarted-up indie game, not a must-buy blockbuster like Naughty Dog or Rockstar games.
The user reviews on Metacritic are pretty savage too. I'll wait till it comes down to about 20 squid.
Re: Review: 7 Days to Die (PS4)
This review is spot on.
I played this "game" on PC. It's another one of them horrible, permanently broken zombie cash-em-in's in the vein of the infamous Day Z. Awful graphics, sounds like a broken washing machine, and buggier than an anteater's lunch.
Re: future patches and other daydreams. It was released on Steam nearly THREE YEARS AGO, my humans! The fact that it's still fundamentally a nasty, buggy, poo-poo stinking mess means it will NEVER be fixed.
For them to be allowed to release it on Playstation is concerning. Y U NO QUALITY CONTROL, SONY? One for the litter tray.
If you like zombie action, DYING LIGHT is a much, much, much better game and available for cheaper than this rubbish.
Re: Round Up: Homefront: The Revolution PS4 Reviews Stage an Uprising
This makes me a sad cat because it's a fun concept (RED DAWN the videogame) that could've been something special. An open world FPS where you're not a badass super soldier, just an ordinary civilian fighting off much better equipped enemies with whatever weapons come to hand.
In my dream world imaginary Homefront, it's all about raiding enemy supplies, sabotaging their operations, and setting up traps and ambushes with your rag-tag band of resistance fighters. While never fully knowing who to trust, always watching out for informants and collaborators.
That would be something different.
Re: Naughty Dog's Ditching Doughnut Drake in Uncharted 4
@Boerewors Right.
And I LOVED The Last of Us. Loved it to bits.
But not every game needs to be a sombre super-serial reflection on love and loss in a world conquered by zombie mushrooms.
Games are about fun. Sounds like Naughty Dog are self-censoring in case the Offendotrons come after them, and that's just sad.
Re: Naughty Dog's Ditching Doughnut Drake in Uncharted 4
Sad. Fat Drake was funny.
I don't play games for "maturity". I play them for a laugh.
'"I didn't want to have a laugh at someone's expense," creative director Neil Druckmann said.'
Oh, so it's OK to literally ERASE fat people from your games now?
Wow, just wow. I am so triggered I can't even.
Re: Soapbox: Why I Don't Think PS4K Is Okay
Mee-wow! I can't believe Sony would do something as daft as split their user base so soon into this console generation.
Playstation VR is already a huge, expensive gamble for them. I hope it's a roaring success, but the high cost, lack of top tier developers working on launch titles (seriously, I don't want to drop the guts of £500 to play indie games), and potential for confusion over the peripherals (do devs target games at Dualshock, or 1 x Move stick, or 2 x sticks?) means it could fail harder than Move or Vita.
A PS4 Slim? That runs cooler and quieter? Shut up and take my money!
A PS4 Slim with 4K? I can live with that.
A PS4 Slim with 4K and a built-in GPU/memory upgrade that destroys the consistency of user experience you expect within a console's lifetime? That forces devs to either ignore the extra power or treat launch model PS4 owners like poor relations? No hissing way!
Cynical old me suspects this 4K tomfoolery is bad old Sony thinking, hoping to shore up their telly business. I bought a Playstation for the gaming lolz, not to watch Pet Rescue in super high definition.
Re: PS4 Will Get Its World War II Shooter After All
I miss WW2 themed shooters like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty (the first few) and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
I'm tired of runny-jumpy future war games, so this sounds like the sort of FPS I might enjoy.
However... £200k? Across 3 platforms? With dedicated servers and motion capture? From a developer you've never heard of before? On Kickstarter?
Not gonna happen.
Re: DOOM Blows Away PS4 in May
I still fondly remember playing the (awesome) PS1 version of Doom, with its amazingly creepy and atmospheric soundtrack.
DOOM IS GOING TO MAKE GAMING GREAT AGAIN!
Re: Gone Home Fumbles for the PS4 Front Door Key in Europe Next Week
@Cowboysfan-22 - did you ever play Fallout 4 or Skyrim and think "this is OK, but wouldn't it be better if they got rid of all the enemies, NPCs, weapons, quests, crafting, fantastical locations... and just left in the bits where you walk around reading people's diaries?"
Whaddayamean, "no?"
if you like pretentious indie art-project type "games" with arguably zero actual gameplay, and unarguably no replay value, you'll love Gone Home. It's brilliant at what it does, which is next to nothing.
Next up on PS4 : Watching Paint Dry Simulator 2016. Now with Satin Gloss Teal. Mee-wow!
Re: Talking Point: Is PlayStation Right to Switch Focus to the West?
I'd love to see Japanese devs get their mojo back. Pacman, Mario, Sonic, Link, and Samus were part of my childhood.
In the 90's and 00's the Japs gave us awesome industry-defining franchises like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Metal Gear Solid. As well as some wonderful, memorable off-kilter experiences like Parappa the Rapper, Katamari Damacy and Viewtiful Joe.
In the last few years Japan has lost influence on the global gaming market. They seem to have turned inward, focusing on mobile games with little appeal beyond their shores.
In a world of identikit runny-jumpy FPS games and insufferably twee indy pap, we need the mad genius of the Nipponese to MAKE GAMING GREAT AGAIN!
Re: Metal Gear Solid V Ships Over 6 Million Copies as Konami Profits
Awesome. I loved this game, the greatest MGS ever.
The story was daft, but the gameplay was wonderful. Quiet is one of the best female characters in videogaming history.
Re: Feature: What Did We Learn from Hideo Kojima's Sony Tech Tour?
Kojima is Japanese for "Awesome Super Fun Gaming Time!".
Media Molecule - I feel like I'm a bad cat, hissing and scratching at an adorable child for criticising them, but... I didn't really like LBP.
It was fun for maybe an hour. Then boring. The tweeness of their work is similarly amusing for a short while, before becoming cloying and making you allergic to sacks and/or Stephen Fry. Just not my cup of Sheba. Fair play to them for making games for the kiddies/creatives/people who like buying Sackboy DLC though.
Guerilla Games too. I have bought every Killzone since the series started on PS2. And barely played any of them. Nice graphics, leaden controls and ultimately lacklustre games. C'mon... how hard can it be to make an awesome FPS featuring Space Nazis? Even the recent Wolfenstein reboot was miles better.
The only Playstation exclusive shooter that I really liked was Resistance 3. And they're apparently not making a Resistance 4.
Hiss!
Re: Rely on Your Grey Cells in Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders on PS4
Looks like the old game Cruise For A Corpse.
Re: Ubisoft: The Division Is a Great Single Player Game, Period
@Midzark - speaking of Borderlands, there's not enough split screen co-op games these days. Sometimes you don't want to be noscoped by French teenagers, you just want to play a game with a friend in your own house.
Re: GAME's Share Prices Plunge as UK Retailer Is Struck by Pre-Christmas Slump
"would you miss the UK chain if it snuffed it for good this time?"
Nah. Last time I was in GAME was to buy the PS Move.
Years ago, they used to have a great selection of PC games. It's since shrunk to a handful of obscure titles like "European Cement Mixer Simulator 2015" and they're mostly pushing overpriced console games, useless peripherals, and toys onto clueless parents. Their secondhand games are insultingly expensive, and given that Steam, Amazon, and Tesco give you better pricing there's no need to go to GAME any more.
The only good thing I can say about GAME is that - unlike Gamestation (remember them?) - the staff don't try to sell you 20 different things when you're at the checkout. That used to drive me mental.
Me: "I'll take this copy of Fallout 3 for the PS3, my good man."
Spotty Gamestation employee: "Do you want the tactics manual as well?"
Me: "No, just the game thanks."
Spotty Gamestation employee: "How about these PS3 thumbgrips? You can't be a serious gamer without them!"
Me: "Eh, no. Just the game you're holding. That's all. Thank you."
Spotty Gamestation employee: "What about this cool 3rd party charging station for your controllers? It's only £20."
Me: "No."
Spotty Gamestation employee: "I bet you'd love to buy a wicked cool Vault Tec lunch box!"
Me: "HISSSSSSS!"
Anyway. Like Blockbuster Video, dedicated high street vidyagames retailers have had their day.
GAME over, man. GAME over.
Re: The Future of Psychonauts Is in Your Hands
$3.3 million? Loool.
Well, if Star Citizen taught guys like Tim Schafer anything, it's that P.T. Barnum was right.
Re: Review: Just Cause 3 (PS4)
Scorpio!
He'll sting you with his dreams of power and wealth.
Beware of Scorpio!
His twisted twin obsessions are his plot to rule the world
And his employees' health.
He'll welcome you into his lair
Like the nobleman welcomes his guest
With free dental care and a stock plan that helps you invest!
But beware of his generous pensions
Plus three weeks paid vacation each year
And on Fridays, the lunchroom serves hot dogs and burgers and beer!
He loves German beer!
Re: 'Violent Video Game Addict' Is to Blame for Recent Hacking Scandal, Says Consistently Crap Newspaper
Eh, all the newspapers are fit only for my litter box these days, but the Mail is no worse than the rest of them.
The Guardian now peddles SJW clickbait. The Torygraph is mostly advertorials and sub-Buzzfeed timewasting. The Sun and the Mirror are chip wrappers. The Times is paywalled.
If you want vidyagames news, the dead tree media isn't the place to find it. (And neither, by the way, is Eurogamer, with its wow-just-wow trash stories about games like Far Cry 4 being "problematic").
Re: Opinion: We're So Sick of Saving the Bloody World
I am the ultimate alpha cat, and I am tired of saving the world.
This is one of the reasons why The Last of Us felt so fresh, so honest, so mature.
The world's gone to zombie hell and you're on a road trip to save mankind. So far so standard. Except you don't save mankind. Joel and Ellie aren't those kinds of heroes and TLOU isn't that kind of story. Like other great modern stories, such aa Breaking Bad, it has too much integrity to slap on a cheap happy ending.
But you do save the girl. And just as importantly, she saves Joel, a man who had nothing to live for. It's a small accomplishment, in the grand scheme of things. But all the more personal and touching for it.
The Last of Us got its characters and storytelling spot on. The torture scene with Joel. The giraffes. The horrible realisation that David is a psychopath. That moment Joel's eyes harden and he makes a terrible choice when confronted by Marlene in the car park.
And that magnificent, downbeat, ambiguous, perfect ending.
A lot of the credit goes to the wonderful actors, but also to the brilliant writers.
Ultimately it's a third person action game that isn't about the action. It's about love, loss, survival and redemption. In the 90's we used to hear a lot about games becoming "interactive movies", which in practice meant grainy, cheesy FMV scenes like in Night Trap. TLOU was a sublime fusion of gameplay and storytelling. It was an interactive movie in the most excellent sense.
Re: Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Is a PS4 Game That's Not Safe for Work
@ComicBookGuy - I know, right?
"DEAD OR ALIVE" makes it sound like a gritty Wild West themed FPS with a raspy-voiced badass protagonist played by Troy Baker.
Re: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture Boss Departs Dev Due to Illness, Industry Issues
"It's interesting because, from the outside, Sony appeared to put a lot of weight behind the game, and also seemed extremely supportive of what is, in truth, a pretty out-there project."
Miaozactly. Her walking simulator received tons of support and positive press for what is, let's face it, barely a game. C'mon now: Sony believed in her. 9 out of 10 indie devs would eat kitty litter to get the sort of backing and free publicity Everybody's Gone To The Pub Or Summat got.
As for sexism and people taking credit, well, it's a cat-eat-cat world and nobody owes you free treats. If you aren't able or prepared to do the necessary work to make a name for yourself, you can't expect complete strangers to know who you are. At one point, nobody had heard of Hideo Kojima either. I don't think he cried about it and expected the industry to roll out a red carpet for him. He probably hid in a cardboard box though.
Sounds like she's a fragile person and being in the games business - which is, after all, a business, which means it's about results and products and profits, not emotional affirmation - isn't for her.
The games industry is generally a horrible place to work anyway. I love games as much as I love Sheba chicken and turkey with gravy. But even I know it wouldn't be fun to work in a cat food factory.
I hope her health improves and she finds satisfaction in her future projects.
Re: London Is Full of Evil Cockneys According to Assassin's Creed Syndicate's Story Trailer
@xX_RiscazZ_Xx - ASSASSINS CREED: ALBERT SQUARE
INT. THE QUEEN VIC
Ian Beale: Cor blimey! Who's that dodgy looking geezer in the corner, Lofty?
Lofty: I dunno Ian. He's been crouching there all afternoon, mumbling sumfink about a "codex". I think he thinks he's invisible.
Dirty Den: Oi! Hoodie! Buy a drink or get out of my gaff, you slaaag!
Ezio (for it is he): Eet is not-a your-a gaff-a any more. I am-a the new owner of the Queen Vic!
Ian Beale: Strike a light!
DRAMATIC DRUM SOLO. CREDITS.
Re: Rumour: There Are No Plans for Another Major Metal Gear Solid
So long Konami, and thanks for all the great games and great memories (and the Konami Code!)
Someone else will buy the IP to Silent Hill and MGS, cos it makes no business sense for Konami to sit on franchises they don't want to develop.
Hopefully Sony picks them up.
Re: There's a BBC Drama About Grand Theft Auto
Mee-WOW! Looking forward to the Hot Coffee mod with Mrs Norris.
Re: Talking Point: What Is a Video Game?
Sammy, a video game is just a game played on an electronic device with a screen of some sort.
So "Everybody's Gone To Shropshire" isn't a video game, because there's no gameplay in it. And by that I mean there's no rules or win conditions or puzzles or enemies. It's just a story told via a walking simulator.
No harm in that if you like that sort of thing (I don't, but you pays your money and takes your choice), nevertheless words mean things and there's a difference between games and what we might call electronic experiences.
I think we'll see more experience-type products on Morpheus. VR lends itself well to that sort of thing.
I still won't buy "Everybody's Gone To Some Hipster Studio in Brighton" though, because I'm stubborn and like my electronic entertainment to be a challenge of some sort.
Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided May Have the Worst Pre-Order Strategy Yet
Eh... no thanks.
I quite liked Human Revolution, but compared with the original Deus Ex it was more of a Human Rehash.
The first game was truly groundbreaking at the time. HR was to DE what the rather good Dishonoured was to the original Thief: a welcome successor, but sadly dumbed down for the "press X to win" generation and also strangely constricted compared with its 90's source material.
I'll probably buy this after it's been out a while and the price drops.
Re: Feature: Our Most Anticipated PlayStation Games of Holiday 2015
Jamie O'Neill is a cool cat: my glasses have an undeniable rose-coloured tint for anything that reminds me of cartoons on Timmy Mallet's Wacaday<
This is the game I was playing about 25 Christmases ago...
Re: First Impressions: Call of Duty: Black Ops III Embraces the Past As It Focuses on the Future
Hello Joey,
I am a cat, so I don't drink Mountain Dew, but I do nibble on Doritos I find on the floor, and what's wrong with that?
The best CoD was Black Ops, and if anybody disagrees, I will scratch them. Unfortunately, because Activision doesn't care about supporting their games for more than 12 months after release, Black Ops MP has been unplayable for years now, due to all the l33t haxx0rs running around in invisible Godmode.
I liked the jumpy-jumpy action of Advanced Warfare, but it didn't quite recapture the glory days of BO. It was better than Ghosts though. A more methodically paced game sounds right up my scratching post.
I'll be honest with you: although I never use the microphone myself - you try putting on headphones when you're a cat - I do enjoy knifing people (or axeing them in Sticks and Stones) and then hearing their screams of rage.
"Hiss you, you hissing cat! I'm going to spay your mother!" and so forth.
People tears are so delicious. Better than Mountain Dew.
Re: First Impressions: Eyes-On with PS4's Virtual Reality Headset Project Morpheus
How great would a Kojima Silent Hill game be on Morpheus?
Answer: scarily great!
And think social: what if they brought back PS Home, got rid of the annoying loading waits, and let you meet your friends, play games, and watch films in full glorious 3D?
And open world games like GTA and Far Cry and Dying Light. Don't you want to zip-line, hanglide, car race, or smack zombies around with a cricket bat in immersive virtual reality?
Or flight sims? Nobody really plays them any more, but wouldn't it be cool to dogfight in your Sopwith Camel, or Spitfire, or Typhoon, as if you were actually in the cockpit?
I am purring for Project Morpheus. This could be the greatest thing in gaming since 3D graphics.
Re: Oh Dear, British Industry Head Tries to Promote Games and Gets It Horribly Wrong
Brave words from the Tefal man's less handsome brother.
Re: Review: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4)
@Matroska - "Depending on where you live you might even be able to find some actual photorealistic turtles to jump onto and some actual pipes to climb through. Never waste money on another Mario again!"
I took your advice and did the Mario IRL.
I didn't find any turtles but the little girl who lives next door has a tortoise called Cornflake. Cornflake was out in the garden with his long wrinkly neck stuck out while eating some grass or whatever, so I hunkered down (that makes me invisible) and stalked him.
Cornflake must've seen the grass move, because he pulled his head and his legs into his shell. I thought, "might as well", so I jumped on his back to make him fall out of his shell.
But... nothing. I was just standing on a tortoise, much to my chagrin. It was embarrassing.
Later on I found a mushroom. I decided to eat it, to make myself grow to super size. But again, nothing happened, except that it tasted funny and I threw up in the conservatory.
Overall I'd rate my day 5/10 - disappointing, but still more gameplay than "Everybody's Gone To The Pub Or Summat"
Re: Review: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4)
"But to be clear, there's no shooting to be done here; no killing, or jumping, or running. You simply walk from building to building, from tree to tree, from empty desolate place to empty desolate place"
So... not really any gameplay as such?
I will pass on this one. I can walk outside for free, and the graphics are better. Plus, I get to do my mad cat parkour skills on garden fences. And there are random encounters.
Re: Sony 'Really Wanted' That Call of Duty: Black Ops III Deal with Activision
I'm a bit mrrrow? about this one to be honest.
CoD achieved ridiculous levels of addictive arcadey twitch-shootey greatness with Black Ops, but Ghosts was bland and Advanced Warfare was merely good.
Nothing CoD has done since Black Ops has quite recaptured the madness of Nuketown, the ballet of violence that was Summit, or the ingeniously balanced killzones of Firing Range. The fact that these classic maps were reskinned in later versions doesn't inspire faith in the long-term viability of the series.
I see diminishing returns for the franchise, and possibly the whole genre of modern/near-future warfare themed military FPS games. Sony getting timed exclusivity now might not have the impact it would have had 5 years ago.
Genre fatigue is a thing. Point and click adventure games used to be huge, and platformers and flight sims have also declined since their heyday. CoD 4 came out 8 years ago, and the game mechanics haven't changed much in nearly a decade. Are we going to keep buying what is basically the same game every year? It seems to work for the FIFA franchise, but maybe not for CoD.
I don't think we'll get bored of FPS's, but I'd like to see some fresh ideas, or even a fresh take on old ones. Back in the early days of the FPS, there was a glorious profusion of settings.
To name a few - Doom, Quake, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Heretic, Rise of the Triad, Marathon, Duke Nukem, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Descent, Half Life, Goldeneye 007, and one of my purrsonal faves: Outlaws.
I love headshots as much as the next cat, but I'd really like to play something a bit different from the now well-worn CoD template.
How about a Wild West shooter on Morpheus, with antique shotguns, blunderbusses, revolvers and gunfights at high noon? You could be standing there in your VR helmet, your trigger finger itching on the Move controller, your heart pounding as you wait to hear "draw!"
Or a pirate-themed fighting game, where you have to battle other players with cutlass and musket to capture their ships. They could call it Call of Booty.
Re: Rumour: Around Half of Sony's E3 Booth Will Be Devoted to PS4's VR Push
You guys are crazy!
I'm super excited for this, and have been since 1992 when a fresh faced youngster called Dominik Diamond emceed a VR battle royale based on the game "Dactyl Nightmare".
In those days, a VR helmet weighed about the same as a Vauxhall Nova, the games ran at about one FPS on an Amiga, and the resolution was lower than Mr Magoo's vision with vaseline smeared over his glasses.
Oh - and only the five richest kings of Europe could afford one.
But it was magical!
We're finally going to be able to go inside a game, people!
This is the greatest thing since Sheba started their "for sauce lovers" range.
Re: Weirdness: This Copy of Bloodborne Is Getting Panned
"The GAME employee says it can't be their fault because it was sealed and they didn't tamper – it came from Sony,"
BZZZT! WRONG!
Listen kids, if something like this ever happens to you, DO NOT LET SOME SNOTTY NOSED CHECKOUT BOY FOB YOU OFF.
The Sale of Goods Act 1979 means that goods sold in shops MUST match their description. If the box says "Bloodborne" but the contents are "Cliff Richard's Christmas Panpipes", the retailer - GAME in this case - must give you either a replacement or a refund at your request. Or they are BREAKING THE LAW. It is completely IRRELEVANT that the goods were shrink wrapped - your contract for buying the game is with the shop, not with Sony.
Insist on your rights. Don't be brushed off. If the spotty teenager behind the till doesn't give you a refund or replacement, politely but firmly ask to speak to his manager.
If the manager isn't helpful, don't give in! Mention the Sale of Goods Act. Ask him if he knows what "Trading Standards" is. 9 times out of 10 even the most recalcitrant of retail representatives will give you what you want after 5 minutes of you politely but firmly insisting on your rights. Even if they are genuinely ignorant of the law, most of them don't have the time to argue with you, so they'll usually fold when you show that you're not going to just walk away.
Just don't be rude and don't take no for an answer!
SORRY for being SHOUTY, but retailers - through ignorance, laziness, or a bit of both - screwing over their customers really makes me HISS. You deserve BETTER, you wonderful PushSquarers.
Tell em SuperCat sent you.
Re: Some UK Schools Are Cracking Down on Children Playing More Mature Games
Dear teachers,
We pay you so you can teach the little kittens how to read and write. Not so you can spy on what videogames they might be playing after school.
Stick to your jobs, or I will spray your furniture and hiss at you.
Yours purrfully,
SuperCat