deadfred77

I too have been playing little else but Satisfactory, and it's great, though my efforts pale in comparison to those screenshots above. I'm trying to cobble my way along with minimal help from Wikis and no experience (that's my excuse). I especially like the way you get all your resources back when you deconstruct stuff, and that nothing catastrophic happens if your machines stop - you can just play at your own pace.

It's a very impressive game in a lot of ways: often beautiful, sometimes scary, huge detailed map, decent base-building and you can jump while sprinting.

But it has enough flaws to keep me from playing the lovely PS5 version: Survival mode is essential for immersion yet too 'all-or-nothing' re: saves/likelihood of death, particularly the male character voice detracts from the role-playing aspect (so damned white-bread) and the orchestral/piano version of the music is corny as anything.

It is a good game, but requires a huge investment of time which its flaws are too grating to allow.

I'm very much looking forward to 'Satisfactory', and might get it at release since it's rumoured to be priced at around £40. Controllers can apparently be used on the PC version and are said to be, er, satisfactory - it'll be great to have a decent factory game on the PS5. I bought 'Oddsparks' the other week, which turned out to be a rather grating, twee bore.

Undeniably an impressive addition, but I doubt I'll get round to it. I found Control pretty tiresome, and prefer quirky indie/trash for my Essential games (and will buy the occasional proper AAA game).

The music in Rayman Legends is my favourite of any game by a margin. I think they got some East European orchestra to do it all. Any new game should make the same effort.

I adore the first game in a lot of ways - a perfect rendering of 'Honey I Shrunk the Kids' . Though I have found it plainly too hard to beat so far.

It's obviously fine and instructive to teach about WW2, Hitler and the Holocaust in schools, learn from history and so on. But it's quite another thing to include Hitler in something as likely frivolous as a computer game. And there may be extra complications if this is a Japanese game, given Japan's role in WW2.

The only way to make foraging realistic/interesting would be to have the precious-ingredient plants surrounded by worthless (and sometimes poisonous) plants which you could also pick. So you'd have to identify the right ones, with the exciting possibility of diarrhea/death if you choose.. poorly.

As the parent of a six-year-old, there are worse games out there; these are quite fun. I'd hope the third one's a step up though - that Cosmic Shake one felt shorter and less-varied than the first.

Maybe I have an unnatural tolerance for jank, but I had no real complaints about how Oblivion or Skyrim ran on the PS3. This new remaster looks gorgeous from the clips, so as long as the performance isn't somehow worse than the PS3, I'll buy it. When it goes on sale.

I think I've been playing the new content as part of the 'public testing phase' then. I assume nothing will change when this goes live?

I found it hard to pin down what was wrong with the first game; I just found it was amazingly unimmersive for some reason. This sequel looks similar to me unfortunately.

At least it looks like there some alien fauna in this one; the utter lack of creatures in Astroneer makes the otherwise lovely-looking solar system seem pretty dead (though it's probably much more jolly if you're into multiplayer).

It sounds like they tried to make something halfway between the vastness of NMS and the smaller, curated Outer Worlds, but failed to capture the charm of either. That said, I don't really enjoy either of the aforementioned games, so would try Starfield on the PS5 just in case I'm the freak who actually likes it!

These games are pleasant enough, but very much mobile/tablet games I'd say, and included with Netflix, too.

This sounds like a good game in theory, but I won't be indulging; I couldn't immerse myself in Henry's rather wooden antics the first time around.

I did find the dialogue in the first game pretty wooden; especially the protagonist. Whereas BG3 seems a vastly more polished game with better voice-acting. With any luck KCD2 will be better though.

I do like it, and have played many hours of it, but it does seem to me that the only way to beat the big blinds is to use those jokers which accumulate Mults or Chips over time. But maybe I'm just not good enough at it.

@Veritas7Ax - I think the idea is that you can only customise 'realistic' things in your apartment, like make-up, hair-style and hair colour, while you need a ripperdoc for actual plastic surgery.

Yes, this stuff is fine, and the photo frames sound cute - but hardly worth a press conference.

I'm surprised by the amount of hate these games got in the poll; maybe the 'crap selection' voters are just the keenest to be heard.

These are great for me; I've been pondering that Aliens game for ages, and a local co-op game is always welcome. The only downside will be signing up to PS+ for another year at full price it seems (couldn't see a discount).

I bought Palworld to see what the (months-old) hype was about - seems pretty good, but I'm conflicted over whether my six-year-old should watch it; 95% of it seems fine, with 5% bludgeoning violence.

I've been playing Fabledom, which released on consoles last Thursday, but I can't find a single review of it! But to me at least it seems pretty good, with only a slightly twitchy UI.

I imagine this will suffer from the same problem as the games; it's fundamentally boring to watch other people use computers.

Nothing for me here, though I've taken a chance and bought Fabledom with its prerelease PS+ discount. Hope it's good; would help if anyone had reviewed the console version prior to release!

I think this was the service my brothers were recommending to me, with Amiga games to play; but I wasn't aware of the whole streaming/subscription angle. I'd be up for it if you could buy a few games for £2 each or something.

@Rob3008 I'd recommend Civ 6 at that price, as long as it's on PS5, not PS4. The waiting time between turns is fairly tolerable on PS5, and the UI very nice on PS generally.

The favourite change in Civ 7 I've heard about is the ability to create settlements designed to stay as fishing villages/mining outposts (i.e. built soley to exploit a resource, rather than have to place a whole (inevitably struggling to grow) city there. Though I won't buy this for years. I was happy with Civ 6 (inc. all the leaders) for £20, ages after release.

It does look good, especially the robots; but it does also remind me of 'We Happy Few' from a few years back which also had promise, but turned out to be a damp squib packed with cheesy English stereotypes. Here's hoping this game will be much better than that.

I thought the first game surprisingly good, though not quite good enough to keep me to the end. I seem to remember the first game not having any NPCs, which hindered it in my mind. Maybe the sequel will fix this.

If this game is similar to the first - a relentless exercise in PS product placement - a huge marketing campaign seems like gilding the lily.

So it's a game about an Incel who resorts to using prostitutes? I'll wait for a sale.

I loved the first game but did feel that, after putting in several hours on a playthrough, I'd find my squad to be too weak/traumatised to proceed, and I would have to quit. So a quicker version might be preferable.

I may try this, but I've tried to get into Minecraft many times, to no avail. What's with the villager NPCs? Some sort of congenital defect? I'm think I'm just way too old for the game..

This trailer reminds me most of 'We Happy Few' from some years ago, though presumably with less Austin Powers style nostalgia.

The fuss over the change of actor is just the usual, cretinous internet outrage. If they happen to make the script/storyline as funny and gripping as Season 1, it won't matter who wears that ratty grey wig.

Is the game setting a virtual world governed by an AI creator/god gone rogue? That could be really good. Then again, I despise the hallucination/dream/VR sections in games such as Far Cry, GTA and Cyberpunk; so it may be way too much of that sort of thing..

@Pranwell I'm not especially keen on smothering games with a wet blanket of morality, just that if standard games tend to be pretty amoral at best, there's room in the market for some do-gooding, too.

This vaguely reminds me of 'Exile', a great game on the BBC Micro computer back in the Eighties, where you similarly had to work out the mechanics for yourself. I'll buy this when it's a tenner or less.

The game may be 'preachy' in how it enforces sustainability as a goal (haven't played it).

But by omitting any mention of sustainability, other games are insidiously endorsing the reckless exploitation of natural resources (i.e. the status quo, so no preaching required).

I'll probably give the new season a look, but haven't especially liked the series since the first season. With that, the strange time-line really helped add mystery, and the feeling of a story played out over decades. Since then, they dumbed things down chronologically, and turned the bard into a swash-buckler, and it's lost much of its charm

Spending £200 on that will certainly mark you out as hopelessly gullible; just like a vault-dweller!

I've just started a game for the first time in about 5 years, and it does look nice - but compared to Cyberpunk, the people's faces are strikingly poor. I can live with that though; the slight crapness is quite charming.

I think I'll be happy enough if the frame-rate's fixed in the city areas, as it did creak towards a halt at times. And I suppose a higher cap on settlement building would be nice.

I think the PS5 version's there too! At least, I hope that's what I'm downloading..

I did love some Psygnosis back in the day. When the 'futuristic sports title' was mentioned above, I immediately thought of Speedball/Speedball 2 (though the internet tells me they weren't Psygnosis games after all), but I suppose those games have been superseded several times over in the past 35 years..

The trouble is, as with drinking games, I'd be playing to lose - I want to see the climate catastrophes!

Looks intriguing, though might feel like landing a claustrophobic job working for 'Small Pharma'.

@HeeHo I wondered the same since I own the disc (plus DLC). I just bought the digital version too, out of paranoia, as it's only £4.

Fallout 4 was what drove me to buy a PS4 all those years ago. It wasn't the step up from New Vegas I'd hoped for, but it still pretty entertaining in its own right. Am looking forward to trying it again with quicker loading times and so on.