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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

I gave this a go yesterday and its pretty fun, I do love the Simpsons setting but can't say I'd continue playing once they abandon it, unless my son wants to continue playing.

I will say it was a pain in the backside to it playable on his profile (despite him playing Rocket League). On my PS5 it just said wishlist for him, so I tried on his PS5 and had the same message. So I searched the store and found the Lego version and it allowed him to install that, despite it being the same launcher. So eventually he was able to launch that version and play regular Fortnite which has since cleared the issue.

Yooka Replaylee is the only one I've played, so my vote has to go there

Back then I'd have much rather had dlc for GTAV, as I never really got on with the sluggish controls and some of the tedium of RDR2's open world.

That said, these days I don't really enjoy replaying GTAV either

I much prefer full remakes, such as the Resident Evil games where the experience is fundamentally different to the original. Remasters of games from last gen which are perfectly playable on modern hardware are pointless to me, though I'm not against them for older games to make them accessible on modern hardware (unless they're slapping in in Unreal engine)

Shared with who exactly? Nobody bought the bloody thing 😂😂😂

Not to mention that its issues ran far deeper than just its main campaign being rubbish

@REALAIS "You wouldn't expect from Naughty Dog to create open world game just to better suit for their narrative choice?"

That's exactly what I would expect them to do, or any developer for that matter, choose a type of game that best fits what they are trying to achieve. Whilst Rockstar have also made games which aren't open world like Manhunt and Max Payne 3

Surely they could have just not made it open world, this seems like a silly self imposed restriction if he didn't think it would work.

Also isn't this the same underlying issue with the premise of any open world game? There's always an immediate threat to the world or yourself but you can still go and basically mess about for days instead, whilst the big bad guy or whatever stands around waiting for you to show up

@Andee no it's completely avoidable, just look at the PC numbers in the article above or even the Xbox which wouldn't really be noticeable either

That would be a deal breaker for me and I currently have the physical version preordered but might cancel if it isn't fixed. I even hated playing the SNES version of MK back in the day due to its unresponsive controls particularly when crouching.

@get2sammyb So what happens after the month is over, does the map just disappear, never to be played again? That sounds kind of crap to me and it'd be nice if it was available even if offline just to explore.

Preservation issues aside, this does look like a lot of fun and Fortnite in general does. I'm not much of an online gamer these days due to a lack of time but this will be fun to play for a bit with my son

This game looked amazing back on the N64 and the cerebral bore was such a fun weapon. I think I own this version on Switch and Steam but might pickup that physical collection

The SNES version of this was fantastic and certainly rivalled Mario Kart and had some really fun multiplayer modes. On Saturn it was brilliant as well and had far better visuals than the PS1 version, though that was still fun to play. I've not played the MS Dos version but watching the trailer it seems to blend the visual elements from both the PS1 and Saturn

@Odium yeah I don't mind full remakes as much when they change the game design such as FFVII or Resident Evil have. Halo could have done with such an approach, as you said, levels like the library were dreadful even back then

I'd rather they just ported MCC and called it a day and made some new entries instead.

Overall it feels like remakes/remasters etc are getting a bit silly, Halo already had a makeover for MCC, Gears already before this other recent remaster, Oblivion, obviously Sony have remastered TLOU twice and stuff like Horizon and Days Gone got them, yet new entries in these will either never come or are still years away

I always make a point to play horror or spooky games around Halloween and Resident Evil is my favourite horror series overall. Tomorrow I'll be doing my Leon B scenario on RE2 on the Dreamcast

I certainly will be upgrading, Virtua Fighter has always been my favourite 3D fighting game

Come on now, this isnt even a discussion, even back in the 90's we had other things to do, whether it be TV, pub, actually going outside.

Not to mention that social media and video streaming aren't even new things anymore, both Facebook and YouTube are over 20 years old at this point.

Let's be honest, the only reason Xbox have abandoned being a console platform in favour of a 3rd party publisher is because they themselves have failed, not because of tiktok or any other such nonsense