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I faltered twice in this game at Great Shinobi Owl even though I loved it. Gonna play it again after BG3. Tbf my 2nd playthrough was about half the time of the first as I'd got decent at parrying.

@BranJ0 games, Microsoft still doesn’t really have any. It’ll be years before the Bethesda buyout pays dividends for them, and even then it remains to be seen if it’s worthwhile because I suspect Bethesda are done as a developer (I do realise they have some great studios like arkane). Everyone who had a ps4 is going to get a ps5 by default I suspect due to BC so already they’ve got a bigger share due to the ps4 base. Then you have people who didn’t own a ps4 get access to a collection of absolute classic first party Sony games on ps5. If you get a series x you get pretty much nothing you can’t get on the PlayStation.

@LiamCroft awesome thanks! Bargain for a tenner. Immediate purchase.

What if you own 1 + 2 but not 3? Do you just have to buy the bundle? I've searched the PSN website and looks like Hitman 3 isn't on there anymore, only World of Assassination.

@Majk_SVK I've been playing since the ps1 days, and I think the RE2 remake is the best in the series. Snap it up at that price, you won't be disappointed. Just get make sure you have plenty of spare underwear.

I'm pretty sure my 5 year old will think this is the funniest thing he's ever seen so looks well worth £20

@shadow2k by this reasoning all traditional animation studios, stop motion animation, and Japanese anime studio should all switch to Pixar style CG animation. Moron comment.

@AgentMantis I installed it last night and played a couple of hours. Too early to give a full opinion but seems like a nice game so far, time will tell if the gacha stuff annoys me too much even though I won’t be doing any of it.

This game looks cool, is it possible to play it (casually) without pumping loads of money into it?

@Max_the_German without really wanting to defend the practice...they do it because 99% of people don't care, and marketing departments have to pay large amounts of money quite a while in advance to book advertising. Pushing a release date costs lots of money, so most publishers will think why not just do a day 1 patch if nobody really cares. I'd also like to point out that in the days before patching games went out with game breaking bugs on disc all the time, you just didn't hear much about it and when it happened to you, you just accepted it 'cuz games'.

@theheadofabroom Yeah even though it looks really cool it's a 'maybe' game for me, the subscriptions are perfect for those sorts of games, which is why I was hoping (not moaning) it would come to Extra.

@Eldritch I genuinely wasn’t moaning. Unhappy people see negatives where there are none.

@Eldritch wow chill. This isn’t a first party AAA game it’s port of an old indie. And we know that indies are coming to extra day 1. Just as they did to old ps plus in the past.

On Xbox this would be right onto gamepass...let's hope the same thing starts happening with PS Plus Extra.

Rykards voice was amazing, I kept repeating his lines in my head for a few days after fighting him

@Jaz007 yeah I think it does!

@Ward_ting I’m 36 and have also been playing since 4, it must be that extra year! Don’t worry only one more year to go till you reach my level.

@Ward_ting they date back to the mid-late 90's with games such as System Shock and Deus-Ex. It basically means an action adventure game (could be FPS/3rd person or anything), or maybe an RPG, that allows a lot of freedom in how you achieve the objectives. Dishonored, Prey, Deathloop are recent examples. There aren't many studios doing this these days apart from Arkane. I guess because they are expensive to make due to all the possibilities in the gameplay, but they are also not hugely popular so difficult to make money off. I think in the RPG genre Larian have done this type of game exceptionally well with the Divinity Original Sin games.

A game like this sorely needs a demo. I love the look and idea of it but I always hate rogue-like game loops. This could be the one that changes my mind on that but I ain't gonna drop so much money on it to find out.

This is absolutely stupid.

Without wanting to sound too hyperbolic, I'm currently having the greatest gaming experience of my life with this game. The only things that have ever come remotely close are other From games, or my first experiences of 3D games in the 90's.

@eagletrippin I wonder if he calls you a dirty pig when you beat him

Amazing, I've been holding off on this as I wanted to play the PS5 version but kept buying other things instead. No excuse now! I'm buying less and less games recently considering the huge backlog of freebies I've accrued in the last few years. I'm currently playing Persona 5, a game I would never have tried if it wasn't free but I absolutely love it.

@Gamer83 yeah the castle was great, classic Resident Evil location. Would have liked more of the puzzle stuff but even so very atmospheric.

@nessisonett I'm in the same position. Almost done with the factory so not far to go I think. I have to say I really like the factory section and I think it breaks the res curse of terrible last 2/3 hours. It's genuinely scared me, the industrial sci/fi aesthetic is really creepy.

I was really disappointed with this game. Bounced off it after 5 hours. I thought the character movement was really poor and the combat didn't feel fluid. Also the quests were very boring with just 'go here kill 10 things' etc. Beautiful world though, and interesting story. I don't think it helps that I had just replayed Sekiro before this and the movement and combat in that game is transcendent.

My first metro game and I'm loving it. Really unique experience. It's just the right amount of open, the UI and sign posting etc is really immersive and integrated into the world, and the shooting is difficult and slow but fits well in the setting. There aren't enough of these single player FPS games anymore, I'll be day 1 for any future releases.

@FatalBubbles nah not weird, they're just not for you. People bang on about the Uncharted games but i think they are total garbage. Different drinks, different needs.

@FatalBubbles I get what you're saying but personally, something doesn't have to be fun and smooth all the time for it to be a good time. The whole part of the fun of these games is the massive frustration, because when you overcome it it's unbelievably satisfying. Think about puzzles, any sort of puzzle, what you're saying is a puzzle should be easy otherwise people won't like it. On the contrary, the fact that a puzzle is very hard is the reason people like it because once they solve it they get a big rush. Imo the From games are like this. It's just a really different sort of experience, and when people complain about it I just think why don't you play literally any other game?

@FatalBubbles my thoughts on this, are that if there was an easy option then the majority of people would take it and have a worse experience, myself included. The whole game is built around the difficulty, it would be like a bullet hell shooter with hardly any bullets. I do get why people think there should be easy modes, but I am also glad Miyazaki thinks he just wants to make difficult games. Also another thing people rarely point out is that From games have summons which is essentially the easy mode. On Demon's Souls Remake I summoned on most of the bosses and it never took more than a few attempts.

I preferred the destruction bowls in Destruction Derby when the car used to fly 100ft in the air on impact. More realistic.

Looks awesome, would love to get stuck in but got a 1 month old baby in the house so got to the stick to the Switch for a while. Just got RType Final 2 in the post though so can deal with that!

They should keep doing LOU games as the technical pinnacle of each generation, I'm happy to wait 6 or 7 years until the PS5 is on it's way out.

@Darth_Stofi you should take a look at a decent upscaler. I bought an Open Source Scan Converter. It works great, upscales with zero lag. It's pricey (about £150) but it will work on all your consoles as long as you have VGA/RGBScart/Component cables for them. The Wii playing gamecube games looks really really good, as does dreamcast and PS1. Ps2 is the worst looking but it's still servicable.

Love the look of this, great that some AAA games are still as weird and offbeat as this. Also with it being Arkane I'm sure there'll be an off the scale level of systemic madness going on.

@Jackpaza0508 I'm sold, will be buying on Friday (pay day)

@Jackpaza0508 what's the control scheme like? I actually cancelled my PS5 launch day copy of this due to the review on here saying it was really fiddly to build custom tracks, and that would be my main reason for playing it. I spent hours and hours building vomit inducing death traps on Rollercoaster Tycoon back in the late 90's!

It's absolute horseshit that they force you to have a connection to actually play these games. I remember playing Sapienza on Hitman 2016 for a good hour, only to realise at the end that none of my progress was saved due to me having connection issues. It is ***** bollocks they haven't changed the game to work properly offline. I'm all for using servers to add extra stuff into the game, but there's absolutely no reason to not allow a user's progress to be uploaded asynchronously when they do eventually get a connection. Apparently the issue still persists in Hitman 2 even though most of the online stuff like elusive targets are no longer even active!

It sounds like they're going to drop the Hitman series for a while after this, and I really hope they patch out all this nonsense in the future.

@WaveWitch I'm pretty sure in the Dreamcast ports of 2 & 3 still showed the door screen but allowed you to skip it!

@Royalblues not crazy, bang on. RE 2 Remake is also the best out of all the modern RE games. I'm playing 3 remake atm and it's completely inferior.

Really happy Laura Bailey won an award, I think it's one of the all time great vocal performances in games. It was full of nuance, and Abby was the character that made the game for me, I found her a lot more likeable than Ellie. Which is absolutely mental considering she was the 'big bad' initially. That alone just shows the level of the writing in this tale, really great stuff. Can't wait for the PS5 patch to play it through again.

@theheadofabroom I forgot about lightgun games, you're right motion controllers are the only realistic way to play them these days and I've been moaning about the lack of them on the switch!

@theheadofabroom Yeah me too, be a shame if it didn't get fully utilized. I'm much more interested in this than I was in motion controls back in the day.

It's been many years since I played a racing game, but decided to pick this up for the PS5 due to the good use of haptics and the in depth career mode. Sounds fun. Will give me a break from being murdered by Demons. Roll on Thursday.

@Oz_Momotaro true, mine is coming on thursday, I really hope I have no issues with mine or I will sit down and cry hard.

@theheadofabroom I don't think that is a realistic comparison. This will be pretty easy to implement once the knowledge of how to do it is out there. You could easily provide developers with a library of pre-done sensations for ground types etc. It doesn't require any sort of rewrite like motion controls do, it's purely an additive feature.

Apparently Sony have built the API for the haptic feedback to work with sounds as well, so devs can build a sound clip that translates to the dual sense motors. I can imagine that making it really simple to do (I'm a developer so have an idea about this).

@Oz_Momotaro I would suggest that it probably is normal, but in years past there was no social media so there could have been a lot of consoles failing but nobody would know. Also, magazines probably wouldn't report on it as it would be a month later by the time it happened, and magazines didn't really discuss this type of thing back then unless it was a really major issue. It's very hard to realise the impact that social media has had on this sort of thing.

@ShaiHulud my exact thoughts, I've ordered both so Planet Coaster can be a nice palate cleanser when DS gets too much. I love From games but struggle to play for more than an hour or so as I find them very intense.

Looks amazing. Well worth the money from the looks of things. Pure zone-age.