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I might have to pick up Judgment at that price. I’m finally onto Yakuza 6 and already have Like a Dragon in the backlog but give me more!!

Disco Elysium is an utter steal at under £20 so everyone should go buy that. HARDCORE!

@GamingFan4Lyf I’m playing Ratchet and Clank and you can use cards to show you the location of collectibles. You can play a little video and there’s a text description too. It only shows the ones for the level you’re on and it works well.

@nessisonett It’s only really Astro and Ratchet I’ve used them for so far. Spider-Man had them but weren’t so useful and the Returnal ones only really showed your progress for glyphs etc but were wrong for ages.

I’m currently playing the game on PS5 and it already runs beautifully and has the option of 3D audio (which is also really good).

I’ll be interested to see quite what else they manage to eek out of the system to justify the cost but would be more than happy to pay for it. I’m more annoyed that I didn’t know this would be coming when I got the game!

@nessisonett Damn, I missed The Pedestrian off the list! Definitely one that more people should try.

Returnal and Disco Elysium for me. Both utterly incredible games and both benefit from being the only 2021 releases I’ve played so far too!

@Boucho11 Hollow Knight was one of my top 3 from the last gen. Wonderful game and one of those I wish I could play for the first time again.

I liked the first game too so it’s cool to see it’s coming back. My biggest gripe with the first game were that the maps were really fiddly and limited at times.

@Golem25 Tropico 5 and 6 are good games. They’re good fun without having to spend too much time with micromanagement but both still have their problems.

@Futureshark Ditto. These are the same settings that had and I thought Performance RT was great on my older HDTV.

Anyone thinking about Disco Elysium should get it. Fantastic game.

Observation is a neat game for a tenner as well. Clever idea having you play as the AI on a spaceship and a good Event Horizon style story.

It can’t just be me who has had to re-download the game on their PS5 so they can upload their save file and will then have to download the game again when this comes out?

It will be overlooked by many but The Pedestrian is a wonderful little puzzle game that is a steal at under £10.

@God_of_Nowt Thanks for that reply; very interesting!

Having just got the platinum for the PS4 reboot, I’m gutted the series passed me by on previous gens.

It also seems weird to see Dr Nefarious looking like that in the trailer after they changed his character model for the reboot.

@ShogunRok Ha, that certainly makes more sense! There is a forum thread for the game if you want to do more spoilery chat;

https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/ps4/disco_elysium

@Pro_V_Gone No problems for me with that and my guy has stayed up until 2am each day.

@Starkei I’m planning on similar; a thorough “thinker” style play through first time, then a physical build superstar addict, and finally a paranormal run.

@ShogunRok Looking at your character’s skill tree, I’m surprised he figured out how to open the door to his room at the beginning. He probably just walked straight through it.

@nessisonett 10XP for every conversation option!

@ShogunRok How dare you write a review of the game and not mention Kim!? I would do anything for that man and it pains me when my character upsets him.

That is one hell of a set of political thoughts in your cabinet you goddamn Commie-Nazi! I haven't even seen the "Les Adventures" thought on some guides I've browsed.

My build has been like @nessisonett with mostly logic but high on perception, composure too. I'm on day 7 now and my one criticism is that I've gained so much XP that I have a full thought cabinet and reasonable stats across the board that it doesn't feel like such a niche character any more.

Can't wait to get another session and crack on!

@Kidfried I agree some challenging ones are good but the “simple” ones like Spider-Man, Horizon etc have you do everything there is in the game so for a developer, I think that makes sense as you want to have people see everything on offer.

I will be forever disappointed that I couldn’t get the Hollow Knight platinum as the Pantheons were too much for me. I definitely should have got something for finishing the Path of Pain though!

I’ve still had nothing game breaking since release. BoringSorryCop shall prevail!

@2cents I’m totally INTER it.

Just make the UI nicer, have folders and/or more games on the Home Screen, and get rid of the rubbish horizontal listing of trophies!

I don’t ask for much, honest.

@LordSteev There are lots of bits which were cosmetic or guns. Shadow Broker is around 3-4 hours maybe? So at least 20hours of extra content altogether, probably closer to 30.

@LordSteev First time for the DLC? Does that mean you didn’t play Shadow Broker for ME2?? It came with the PS3 version and was a fairly meaty affair.

The Zaeed and Kasumi side stories (also included on PS3) were good and Arrivals linked ME2 and 3 together.

For ME3, From Ashes gave you Javik who was a great character and made for some interesting conversations, especially if you also had Liara on the party!

@Jaz007 To make up an example of conversation choices, you could walk into a trashed room and have options like;

“This is art, man. Total nihilism. I dig it.”
“Whoever did this must have been on some serious s**t. I need me some of this.”
“This is pretty rock and roll if you ask me.”
“Hmm.. I wonder if the owner did this or whether this was a break in”.
“This was definitely demons. The apocalypse is coming after all.”

It’s not necessarily “boring” per se but the game does push you to not play it too straight.

@Arugula Agreed, quite a weird decision to release it at this point without some “next” gen improvements.

I’m looking forward to it at some point, particularly for ME1, which I never played, and some of the ME3 DLC I never bought.. including the Citadel one!

@nessisonett I know it’s coming eventually

@OrigamiCrane If anything it’s the opposite of “being too far up it’s own butt” as it almost belittles you for making the boring choices in the game.

It’s a very clever game that has an amazing array of choices and one that I’ll certainly be replaying to see how differently it can be played.

No fart button? Being able to possess your own fart was integral to Exoddus!

No problems for me so far and I’m really enjoying the game.

Sorry to be so upbeat about it.

The arm moving shipping containers thing is pretty amazing for managing to be almost universally hated. I also hated the voice casting (seriously, what’s with all the random nngh noises??) and the dialogue does feel like a teenager trying to write something serious and grownup.

But the combat is just so good and it wasn’t really until my second run where it clicked. It’s quite easy to stick to one character you prefer on normal difficulty but you really have to mix it up on hard.

At least you didn’t have to try and make sense of that ending..

Oh well, at least it was only £15 when I bought it last week...

I do enjoy some of the slightly different pieces like @gbanas92 with his pieces on music in games and interviews along those lines.

I’m not a podcast person particularly but that could be good, particularly after big events.

This is your reminder that you can get the PS5 game for free if you have PS+ but don't have a PS5 yet.

Just go through the store online (rather than through your console) and add it to your library.

@get2sammyb It's worth pointing out that the Bigfoot and Pebberley Island DLC already comes with the console edition of the game.

KIRYU-CHAN!!

Great series and Zero really is a fantastic game.

It’s a fun game and almost permanently on sale now which must help sales somewhat!

@Gosberg Zero was about 90hrs for me. Enjoy the ride!

There are some really good guides online for Pocket Racer if you're struggling on a race in particular (CyricZ does great guides on gamefaqs).

No one has an excuse not to complete the Yakuza series this year then (myself included with just 5&6 to go).

@gbanas92 As I said to you on Twitter recently, your original review pushed me to get the game and I’m glad I did!

Beautiful artwork, an amazing soundtrack (in fact, the only gaming soundtrack I’ve actually listened to outside the game), and a truly magnificent story.

It absolutely isn’t for everyone as it almost feels like an antithesis to what a “video game” is but that’s why it’s so unique. It’s a great example of enjoying the journey as much as the destination.

Damn, I forgot Kentucky Route Zero was a 2020 release on PS4. Fantastic game.

The mental gymnastics in the replies to say they appreciate CDPR’s transparency is pretty astonishing.

@BowTiesAreCool The soundtrack by 65daysofstatic is fantastic and I recommend checking out their other stuff if you like it!
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One of the things I really enjoyed in the game that I rarely see mentioned elsewhere is the slow learning of the language of the different alien species. You start out knowing nothing but eventually piece some words together to understand what is being said.

I thought this was such a neat idea.

...but that’s Big Boss in the picture.

Kotaku used to features on games post-release talking about how their feelings have changed and also linking to articles about the game since it came out. Re-reviews of games I often find quite interesting.

I tend to pick games up later on now because of the sheer number of patches and updates that often come out but also to pick them up in one of the many sales. I finally picked up TLOU2 in the Black Friday sale.

I can’t quite understand if the levels from the bronze to gold trophies mean some are more valuable than others or whether it’s progress towards the overall trophy. I assume the former?

@Matroska The thing I wonder is how many people are still buying the game?

I picked it up for £5 or something silly a few years ago post Atlas and enjoyed it but nothing since has made me desperate to go back. So I wonder how many people are deciding now is finally the time to buy it.

But big respect to them for continuing with such big free updates this far down the line.

https://twitter.com/fallguysgame/status/1305860869973323778?s=21

@mikeym Ha, that is unlucky.

As is losing Royal Fumble after the clock hits zero...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02THnm1Qf1Q

What a generous discount that is on TLOU2.

Brilliant move by the devs to put it straight on PS+

And the game was number 1 & 2 in the Steam charts as well.

The game (especially outside of the actual gameplay) looks a lot smoother on my base PS4 now.