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I mean its not like it's anything special, remote play is just a streaming app and what's the point when you're never likely to have a good signal on a long car journey

At this point I don't think Sony can make a big difference in Japan, a handheld may help hardware sales a bit but it seems Playstation's big IP are catered more towards western audiences. Its great them doing games like Astro Bot but the market they've cultivated over the years aren't the ones who buy those kinds of games unfortunately

Oblivion best remaster????? Its one of the worst remasters I've played in terms of performance

Graphical Showcase Ghost of Yotei, over Death Stranding 2?

Consoles are simply too expensive these days and that coupled with Sony and Nintendo having relatively weak (in mass audience appeal) holiday lineups, this is not too surprising.

On Nintendo, Kirby and Metroid have never been their big hitters regardless of quality, whilst Sony only had Ghost of Yotei in what is a barren spell for them. Plus 3rd party stuff like COD being a bit rubbish this year and GTAVI disappearing from the horizon.

With increasing costs and gane development times, I think this might be the last console generation to sell in big numbers, as there'll be less incentive to jump to PS6 with PS5 being very capable and likely to be supported for a long time and Xbox is dead in the water

The gunplay looks fun and given it's Bungie it should be and this does seem to have some interesting ideas like the decaying bodies but my god, that art style is horrific and that is one of the worst menu screens I've ever seen.

Overall I couldn't play it because I really dislike how it's world and characters look

1. Resident Evil Requiem
2. Pragmata
3. Tomb Raider
4. GTA6
5. Control

Resident Evil is always likely to be top for me but it combining the horror of RE7 with the action of 4 and back to Raccoon City, this is easily top

Pragmata, this wasn't on my radar too much but playing the demo on PC, it was great fun and the hacking really adds a nice element to mix up the gameplay

Tomb Raider looks to be a classic return to form

GTA6, well it's GTA and it looks great

Control, loved the first one and curious about this

The original Tomb Raider games always felt very much like their own thing, where as the recent trilogy kind of blended in with the crowd as yet another 3rd person action game, albeit I rather enjoyed Rise despite the lack of actual Tomb Raiding.

So I'm delighted its returning to its roots and can't wait to raid some tombs with needlessly over the top acrobatics, a couple of pistols, some dinosaurs and erm a bonus costume

@Axelay71 @PuppetMaster exactly, these being short is a good thing as it encourages replayability, I'm still replaying many of this kind of game 30 years later, whilst some of these 2d games which are hours long, I may never touch again

"Very short first playthrough"

That's a pro for me, this kind of game can quickly outstay its welcome and for replaying I'd much rather it be 30 minutes or so in length. The Turtles game for example is far too long for a beat em up and I'll never replay it, whilst I'd boot up Streets of Rage or Turtles in Time any day.

I'm looking forward to blasting through this after work

Didn't watch the show but checking the reveals this morning, they were very good.

Tomb Raider is back and looking great
Resident Evil Leon gameplay was on point
A new "Yakuza"
New Mega Man
Lego Batman looks good

As for the "awards" bit, I couldn't care less

This is looking amazing and as mentioned above, a great blend of RE7 and RE4. I'm very excited for this

Now this looks like Tomb Raider, the remake in particular looks incredible

My most played games are

Death Stranding 2
The Last of Us Part 1
Resident Evil
Resident Evil 3
Resident Evil 7

Apparently I got 6 platinum trophies which is a lot for me, I do know 4 of them are TLOU, RE1, RE2 and RE3 so any guesses what my favourite kinds of games are 😂

I also quite like how my 300th trophy was shooting Zombie Brad and my most recent was hogtieing a woman and putting her on her train track

@Pat_trick that's fair and yeah Requiem almost seems like it'll be a homecoming of sorts for the series

@Oram77 yeah the latter parts of 7 aren't great, especially as the Baker house is so good, though its almost a common theme for the latter parts of a Resident Evil game to be its weakest

@Pat_trick eh?? It was arguably 4, 5 and 6 that took it away from horror and closer to just being an action game. 7 was a great return to horror, albeit different from earlier Resident Evil games

It's effectively what the original release should have been in the first place, not that its much different. The only real issue is the completely absurd price point

The Simpsons was the crossover that finally got me to bite (albeit I bought the Chun Li skin and never looked back) and I've had fun playing with my son and fair play, that event was spectacular. Seeing a giant Homer fighting alongside the Megazord, King Kong, Godzilla and a Star Destroyer amongst other things was a sight to behold, just a shame you can't replay it

I've had a couple of goes on the new map and it already seems way more engaging from a gameplay perspective due to the design of the terrain and the returning weapons. I'm going to explore some more later

Played this a lot back when it came out on PS Plus and got the Platinum too. Such a fun game and I don't remember having to go out of my way to get the trophies

Awesome, unfortunately I am rather busy watching paint dry for the foreseeable future, otherwise I'd be all over this

Are you tempted to pick Black Ops 7 up at £10

Nope, I wouldn't even pay that 😛

Speaking of TimeSplitters, if you're a fan and have a PC, Google TimeSplitters Rewind and thank me later

Cyberpunk has become my favourite open world game and aside from fixing it (well porting it to more powerful hardware), it has received plenty of amazing support which has transformed the game. I play it on a high end PC where it looks sensational and is the poster boy for Nvidia's RT capabilities but that would be nothing without the likes of Judy and co alongside a very well designed and dense city which has plenty to explore.

For a sequel I would like to see them address my only real criticism in making the city more interactive, such as pool tables and extra activities

FFVIII is my personal favourite and I can't say I was ever a big fan of X, it was a bit too linear and the battles lacked spectacle compared to previous entries. In the Playstation entries I'd put it above 12 which I just didn't enjoy and XVI which I wasn't keen on either, oh and XIII which has a fun battle system but my god it's a slog at times

AI out here ruining things for everyone whilst offering no benefits to overwhelming majority. This does not bode well for next gen consoles and it looks like I'll be sticking with my setup of PS5 Pro, PC with 5800X3D and 5070ti, alongside my Dreamcast for quite some time

At this point you've got to be out of your mind to buy an Xbox over a PlayStation

I quite like a shadow drop but make sure your game works before doing so

Just let us put these on the background all of the time. I dont know why modern UI designers insist on making them worse and less customisable than what we used to have

RPCS3 is great these days, I'm not sure how it holds up on lower end CPU's such as what's in the PS5 but next gen wouldn't be an issue for PS3 emulation

Thing is, I've not seen a single example of AI improving a game for the player, not one. All I've seen is some dreadful looking videos on Twitter pretending to be games, awful artwork in games or some wishy washy nonsense about theoretical chatty npc's, with no thought about how the player will even talk to them, or why they would want to.

AI seems to be pushed everywhere, despite having little or no real world use for the end user and on Twitter, that Grok is really stupid, it can't even identify languages properly and has to be constantly corrected.

Ubisoft has long been on a downward trajectory and they seemingly want to accelerate that process, which is a shame as they were great once

Shame the track is a bit rubbish

@Neonix exactly this, many are blindly ignoring the CPU but as a Pro owner, that is its main bottleneck.

This was always going to be more expensive as its not a closed wall storefront like a console to help subside it, nor will it be mass produced in anywhere near the same quantities to help bring the cost down

"Thank you for getting us to 100 million sales, so here's a bonus for all of those who haven't bothered to buy our game yet"

Thank God nobody paid $70 billion just to put this on a subscription service.

Cheap digs aside, COD was once a truly brilliant game that appealed to both single and multiplayer fans and I'd genuinely love it to have worthwhile campaigns again. So hopefully this can be a turning point for the series, as for far too long they've seemingly relied on the blind devotion of their players to buy every yearly entry

DK Bananza is the best new game I've played this year
I'd go with Death Stranding 2 for the other categories it's in
Virtua Fighter 5 for best fighting game
Sonic Crossworlds over MKW for best racing/sport
Resident Evil Requiem for most anticipayed
And as usual, I've no idea who the content creators are

These partner showcases are rarely worth bothering with and with Geoffs annual love in coming up soon, any big announcements will likely be saved for that

I love FPS games but COD has been garbage for a very long time. I get that single player campaign hasn't been their main focus since probably the PS3 days but at least make the thing bloody function properly

I get why they're "bundling" it with Fortnite even if you can just download it fro free anyway but those exclusive cosmetics are dreadful, surely they could have done something better

Rockstar doing anything but patching RDR2 to run at 60fps 😂

I played Still Wakes The Deep back when it came out and thoroughly enjoyed it. The Talos Principle II and Pacific Drive are certainly games I'm interested in giving a go, so overall a strong month for me

For me it was my second most played game on the PS4 behind Destiny. Sure the RPG aspect was dumbed down but I really enjoyed exploring the world, combat was the best its been in Fallout and I really got into the settlement building. I think its a great game and probably an 8 for me

I mean, isnt this data obvious? The only function of the portal is streaming, whilst on the actual console there is no reason not to just install the game you want to play and on PC you've got far better options for gaming.

I'm glad people are enjoying their Portal but its not a device for me with too much input latency, around 84ms in the best case scenario

"Whole team's combined focus to deliver new experiences"

Such as this 25 year old campaign

For the last few days I've just been playing the Resident Evil 1 remake. I've done a knife only run, a no save run and just finished Real Survival mode this morning. Now I need a break from it, so I might play Resident Evil Zero instead

@rjejr ooh actually I might have to go back to Orlando for that one day, I did go many years ago for Universal Studios back when Dueling Dragons was still in Islands of Adventure

@rjejr I've been to Disneyland Paris and it was great fun, I even had a birthday lunch with Mickey and Minnie who sang Happy Birthday to me. I loved every minute of it and I was 35 at the time 😆

This sounds like something I'd definitely play with my son, he's been enjoying playing The Simpsons map with me.

If anything its the standard Battle Royale with no themes that I wouldn't really play

@belmont I still buy modern ports of games from that era and the PS1/N64 etc. This week, the only game I've played on my PS5 has been the Resident Evil 1 remake as I did a knife only and a no save run.

I just wish more games were made accessible on modern platforms, especially those such as VF4 which would have no licencing issues

Its a phenomenal emulator these days and my go to way to play PS2 games. Some of the features such as deinterlacing really clean up games like Virtua Fighter 4, these 2 images are at the same resolution, the top one simply how it would be as standard