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@PuppetMaster I can only assume they were given the rights to make all these games in one big lump some years ago. Theres certainly a huge mismatch between these and the reboots that Shinobi has kicked off

Panzer Dragoon Zwei is still the best on rails shooter ever made as far as I'm concerned and a graphical showcase for the Saturn hardware. But yeah, I've little faith that these guys can pull it off. Their HOTD Remakes are truly dreadful and whilst their Panzer Dragoon Remake wasn't anywhere near as bad, it never really captured the feel of the original game

@somnambulance I watched some extended gameplay of the the other day and it looks really good

As I said on the other article, I do really like the mixture of gameplay styles and the potential for replayability but my big concern at the moment was that performance and god awful motion blur. If that can be toned down and there is a good performance mode, then I'm on board

Though Resident Evil is currently the most exciting game for me next year at the moment

I watched the livestream and the game does look good fun but performance and that motion blur looked really rough. Strangely there is a very brief section at the end where it did look a smooth 60fps, so I'm hoping that is more representative of the game or perhaps a performance mode.

On the positive side, I did like the mix of gameplay elements, from classic Hitman stealth to all out action, taking weapons off enemies, throwing them and an abundance or red barrels, plus driving sections too.

"A fluctuating frame rate, which targets 60 but is often lower"

I'm sorry what???? How bad do you have to be at your job to make a golf game that looks like that, not hit 60fps comfortably on the hardware we have today?

In a world where we know the PS5 to be more profitable than all previous generations combined, nobody can tell me that price rises and lessening of storage is remotely necessary

I enjoyed it but there was nothing here that was as good as Transformed. The core gameplay is fun and the tracks look nice, though the trick system is too basic. The roster is also a bit underwhelming, the wider Sonic cast just isnt that interesting and the (paid) dlc choices outside of Pac-Man are poor.

The fact I have Mario Kart World also lessens my need for such a game, at least at full price but I'll still probably pick this up in a sale

@ShogunRok thank God for Pushsquare for keeping us abreast of the situation

I suppose if no other movies were ever made from this point onwards and all the movies I have access to now somehow vanished, then I might consider watching this, maybe

I really enjoyed the other AVGN games and have been playing the demo of this on Steam and it's a day one purchase for me. Crazy to think I've now been watching AVGN for nearly 20 years and the show (on YouTube) is older than those NES games were back at the beginning of it. He's actually one of the main reasons I ever watched YouTube for a very long time

Well obviously, its clearly a Ghosts 'N Goblins prequel

Ever since I saw it was based upon the Ultimate Edition I knew it wasn't for me. Sure the graphics are technically better but much of the atmosphere was lost in certain areas

Funny thing is that buying new console hardware has become like buying new PC hardware, with the main benefits not being new games but playing older games at good/great performance.

Developers will always push the boundaries or simply optimise poorly for whatever the current target hardware is.

But going forward, I don't see the PS5 not being supported for a very long time. There seems to be a push back towards handheld devices with Steamdeck, that new Asus thing and of course the Switch and with Sony having a rumoured PS6 handheld that'll be weaker than PS5, there'll no reason to drop support for PS5

I've got to be honest, I'm disappointed in the overall lack of Sega IP in this so far, even the majority of "Crossworld" tracks are from Sonic and even the dlc, outside of Pac-Man, is hugely disappointing.

Overall I'm still looking forward to giving it a go but it looks to be a bit of a missed opportunity for Sega to showcase itself, instead of some washed up Nickelodeon IP, that themselves have had several average kart racers recently

This looks incredible and the pixel art style is much prefer with big chunky characters and details. As an 80's kid, I'm basically in dreamland with games like this and the upcoming Terminator 2 and Bitmap Bureau are quickly becoming one of my favourite studios. I think this project is been lead by Audie Sorlie of DF Retro fame and that Zelda CDi spiritual successor Arzette, so this is in very good hands

Gonna play one of my all time favourites in the original Resident Evil 2, this time on PS5 and I'll see if I can beat my recent Dreamcast playthrough

Easily my most anticipated game for next year and I'll 100% be playing this in 1st person as both the previous 2 entries were great played that way

Somewhere between ok and good, certainly better than I expected but there are a few games between the main show and the pre-show that I'm interested in. Just kinda weird that the pre-show was far better paced and presented

Resident Evil was the one I was looking forward to but was pretty disappointing with what they showed of it.

Highlights were

He-Man
Lego Batman
Fallout Season 2

@Nakatomi_Uk not sure if you found it but just type in Nemesis and it pops up

@belmont @Shepherd_Tallon back I'm a bit confused then, I know I also had a US account back then which I also bought games on but I did have a Vita not too long ago and was able to download these on that using my main account

I didn't expect any trophies given their other releases and it won't make a blind bit of difference to how much fun I'm going to have replaying these games again

The bigger thing for me, is that unlike the 1st game, apparently me owning these on PS3 doesn't grant me access to this one but at least it is available to buy

EDIT: RE2 is now showing up for me but 3 isn't, that one may have been on a different account

Very much looking forward to this. Jurassic Park was a huge part of my childhood and now my son loves the original movie. So even if the game is a bit naff but I can explore that original park, I'll be happy. But hopefully it'll turn out to be a good game

@koffing I love that game, I've got the fan patched/cobbled together version on my PC

It's kinda crazy that we could end up woth a great RoboCop, Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park game over 30 years after those movies came out

Cruis’n Blast is incredible and even better on Switch 2 which fixes its mild performance issues and this game is it's sequel in all but name and basically has nothing to do with those movies. Its so good to have a real arcade racer come to consoles

I'm kind of inbetween games, I recently finished Donkey Kong Bananza which I loved and have just bounced between a few retro games since. I do have Death Stranding 2 to finish and I will return to that, just not in the mood for it right now.

I'll probably just play some more 16/32 Bit games for now, like Road Rash, Die Hard Trilogy and some Streets of Rage

The Last of Us
Uncharted
Spider-Man
God Of War
Horizon
Ghost of Tsushima
Days Gone
Helldivers
Ratchet and Clank

What do these have in common? None of them are exclusive to PlayStation

Even without the quote, it is very obvious that Sony are or already have moved away from a hardware focused business and in terms of their major franchises, only Gran Turismo is still exclusive

@naruball from my perspective it just wasn't engaging. I played Still Wakes The Deep just afterwards and it's setting and story were great to explore, so when I got to its rather minimal traversal or stealth sections I was thoroughly engaged and enjoying what was going on.

With this, I was largely walking around abandoned huts and small villages with nothing to really see or keep me interested. So its gameplay sections needed to pick up more of the slack, so when its puzzles were just stand in a spot to line up the lights and then its combat felt largely automated, I just switched off mentally and got bored

@Ricky-Spanish I play a lot of games across all platforms and I agree there will absolutely be far worse games released this generation, that Gollum game and Mindseye spring to mind as terrible looking games but I also didn't play them because they looked terrible. This looked like something I might enjoy but sadly I thought the combat wasn't engaging at all and felt scripted, whilst the puzzles were a joke if I'm being generous, the voice acting, sound design and visuals were superb, I just didn't enjoy playing it. If others did, then great and I stand by my opinion of this being the weakest game I've played this gen

Yep, a pretty game but rubbish to play. The most disappointing game I've played this generation

@M82RKY usually you can still redownload games you've bought even after a storefront has shut down

I did enjoy playing this back then but can't really say I'm bothered about playing it again

I'm glad it's not yet another turn based game in that engine, not that I'm against such games (some of my favourites are turn based jrpg's) but they are starting to blend into one another because of that art style, which offers little flexibility in presentation.

That out of the way, I was a big fan of the likes of Secret of Mana/Evermore on the SNES and this seems to sit between those and Zelda from the limited time I've put into the demo, so this is very much on my watch list

@DennisReynolds but that means it was on PS5 before Microsoft took over, so it would have been on PS5 with or without Xbox

"From Microsoft"

Minecraft - an existing game they bought
Doom - an existing game they bought
COD - an existing game they bought
Oblivion - see above and literally on PS3
Indiana Jones - was a multiplatform deal
before acquisition
Forza Horizon 5 - finally something they created

Let's be honest, for the most part, this is just Microsoft buying things to put their branding on

Well yeah, we already knew the patch did absolutely nothing on PC, so it was never going to magically change anything on PS5. Can we just stop putting old games in a UE5 frock and just remaster them properly in future

It wouldn't be Warner Bros if they didn't bury their heads in the sand and repeat their own mistakes time after time

Just finishing off Donkey Kong Bananza, I've done the main story and post game quest, so just mopping up the rest of the Banana's. This game is amazing and has one of, if not the best end sequence I've seen in a game which i won't spoil here.

Once I'm done with that, it'll be back to finishing Death Stranding 2

If they made a trackball controller for this, then I'd buy it but yeah, i cant play these games without one

It'd be awesome to see these on PS5, Second Son/First Light wouldn't need much work doing but the first 2 could certainly do with some care and attention. They don't have to go to the levels of The Last of Us remakes and give the job to someone like Bluepoint to keep Sucker Punch free for new games

RoboCop Rogue City was my favourite game of 2023, so I've been very much looking forward to this, though it'll have to wait as I'm still playing Death Stranding and Donkey Kong just came out as well.

@ShogunRok how's the performance of this? It could get pretty rough at times even on the Pro, though I'd imagine that the focus on being indoors should help. Oh and is ED 209 fun to play as?

@get2sammyb yeah I'd have much rather seen Sega simply focus on their own IP, rather than Spongebob and Turtles, both of which are decades beyond their own peak anyway. This still looks really good but certainly lacking in that area vs Transformed.

The customisation looks cool but somewhat wasted on me, who'll just pick something i like and never change it 😅

I can't say there's anything that's going to make me return, especially with RoboCop and Donkey Kong tomorrow. I really enjoyed the game but some car paints and a taxi service aren't that interesting and a shame we still don't have a Pro mode

@DennisReynolds yeah I came to say exactly this, there seems to be no noticeable difference on PC

Just got to Chapter 9 on Death Stranding 2 and really enjoying it. The game is certainly a lot of fun but if I do have a criticism it's that it feels too easy at times and traversal isn’t the challenge it was on the original. Still great though

Thankfully you pointed out the very obvious reason with Nintendo but its very clear that Xbox hardware is heading in only one direction, which in turn tells us why they're effectively just becoming a 3rd party publisher

The more I play this, the more I realise I much prefer the original game as all of the hardship of the journey has been removed. Case in point, I've just made my first delivery on that big snowy mountain and I remember on DS1 it being a tough journey up it's mountain and it feels rewarding when you get there but on this, it was basically a 5 minute bike ride, you can even just drive through where the BT's are, as they can't keep hold of you.

I can't even remember the last time I needed any tools such as ladders etc as you can quite easily drive everywhere.

Overall I'm still enjoying it and think it's a good game but to me it's lost what made it such a unique experience

@Muscleblackcop who's crying? I just don't care about mobile games

Sadly it's gone out with a whimper and a mediocre entry. It was once a great series and perhaps should have had one more shot but it's clear that Forza Horizon had long since superseded it on Xbox.

Xbox really is just a sticker these days, even on their own platform with Halo floundering, Forza Motorsport gone, Rare directionless and their only recent successes are just IP and publishers they bought and would have existed anyway

I was excited when I saw a new Resident Evil

Then I saw it was a mobile game and all my interest disappeared

This game and studio won't have any kind of redemption arc whilst peddling nonsense about saboteurs. Simple fact is they built a broken game and took people's money for it knowing full well it wasn't fit for purpose