johncalmc

It would make me sad if they went away because I do like their games. They do those rough-around-the-edges 6/10 or 7/10 games that have something about them. I love those types of games. Like, Vampyr is rough, and has rubbish combat, but it has a cool story and an interesting world and great vibes.

Unfortunately, the 7/10 secret banger is falling to the wayside as dev costs spiral out of control and selling a million isn't enough. That middle space is now being filled by much smaller indie titles which are also cool but I do miss the AA space which is getting smaller all the time.

Still, I love a Vampyr or a Murdered Soul Suspect or a Sinking City or a Banishers and will continue to buy them while they're available.

Gritty 3D Ace Attorney. That old bag lady gets brutally murdered, and hard drinking, chain smoking, down on his luck Phoenix Wright has to come out of retirement for one last job.

I don't know who either of the characters are so this one doesn't really make any difference to me. Looks like a lady with a sword.

MGS4 coming out of retirement for one last job to win this poll.

Great news. I love this mainly because it means we might get Ratchet 3 which is my favourite. I'll platinum this though for sure.

It's kinda annoying that we can't just have articles or videos or even conversations sometimes without it coming back to this.

But then it's Sony's fault. They did this. They forgot the people that made them #1. They've made repeated disastrous decisions and bonehead moves. They closed beloved studios. Ruined an entire generation chasing live service dollars. The Bungie fiasco. And now discs have tipped it over the edge.

They deserve this. And I'm glad people are giving it to them, as draining as it can be sometimes.

This could have been half as long and it would still have been twice as long as it needed to be.

Actually, this reminds me. When I played the original Maneater on PS5 one of the trophies glitched and robbed me of the platinum. Heartbreak.

See, this is what should close the show.

Once this is over we can all start begging for a Final Fantasy VII remake again for the next twenty years.

As a big Final Fantasy fan I'm not really into this. That's mainly because I'm not that into 2D HD. That doesn't mean I'm not gonna play it and like it. It just means I look at it and it makes me shrug a bit.

As a big Final Fantasy fan I will undoubtedly end up playing it and I'm sure it'll win me over.

Still, it's a shame we're finally getting another turn based Final Fantasy and it's this. When this sells 8 copies Square Enix will probably declare turn based dead and make Final Fantasy 17 a rouguelike or something.

Quite like the white one. Rare limited edition controller win for Sony.

I like this because it means we're drawing ever closer to getting Ratchet & Clank 3 on PS5 which is my favourite one.

Ending with Revelation would be a bummer since we've already seen two trailers for it. Do we need another? It's cartoonland Final Fantasy VII again. We get it. Even though I don't want it, I get it if it's the reveal. That's big news. A third look in just a few months is excessive.

Still, it's not all about the ending. It's about the journey. I personally never think these things are better than mildly interesting so I'd be surprised if this one differs. I'm imagining it will be a bunch of updates to things we already know about. Maybe one new PlayStation game, maybe not.

My reasonable hope is that we get to see Intergalactic gameplay. My nonsense hope is that SSX3 is getting a PS5 port with trophies.

I'm imagining that the parries will be pretty easy to pull off in this. 500 though? Seems excessive.

I'm so over this entire project now, but I gotta say this headline made me laugh. It sums Square Enix up, really.

The general rule of thumb for these remakes is that if it was in the original Final Fantasy VII, they've done an okay to brilliant job recreating it. If it wasn't in the original Final Fantasy VII and it isn't Queen's Blood then it sucks. Chadley sucks. Motorbike boy sucks. Purple haired fella sucks. All the story changes suck. It all sucks.

But Chadley sucks the most.

It's 2026 and I am not my own Gran why would I be watching live television

Honestly I just like mashing square and occasionally triangle to batter people in these games. The thought of complicating the combat does absolutely nothing for me. Press triangle to hit on head with bicycle. Yes please.

We've always been buying licenses. The only difference is that our licenses used to come in boxes with instruction manuals, and we used to be able to give our licenses to CEX for about 40p when we were finished with them.

Still, I'm not sure how clear that is to your average consumer. And Sony is definitely overselling how obvious this is because it suits them. Most people think that if they give a shopkeep money and then the shopkeep gives them a box, they own the thing. Nobody reads the T&Cs and we gotta stop pretending they do.

Publishers would have been thrilled when PlayStation announced it was going all digital. They nearly all want it - Sony just jumped on the grenade.

And Xbox being all in on physical? Xbox abandoned physical ages ago. They just didn't announce it. Even if they did reverse course and try to make a play as the physical company would that spook Sony? Doubt it.

There's not enough physical players for any of this to matter and nobody cares about Xbox.

Rumour doesn't appear to hold up to scrutiny.

The Cloud picture is so good. I love it. Look at the stupid face. If you faked these for a joke you couldn't make one that good.

"Okay, we fixed Silent Hill. How do we ruin it again?"

I'm really into the quote unquote boring bits. I loved Red Dead 2 for this. My partner would laugh at me because every morning in RDR2 I would get Arthur out of bed, have a wash, do his hair, pick out a new outfit for the day depending on what I was doing, and then go live my life. I'm into those things.

I want more nonsense in there so I'm really into what they showed of GTAVI. I like relationships that level up or whatever, having a house, decorating, choosing clothes, changing hairstyles etc.

Other than that, just generally, the game looks incredible. Unreasonable, really. I was already sold before this and now I'm just more sold I guess.

Well. It's weird. It looked basically exactly like I thought it would. Which I guess is slightly disappointing but then I can't be disappointed because it looked incredible.

Really like the main characters from what we've seen. All the quest givers seem like that right level of annoying like GTA quest givers so frequently are.

Astonishing graphically. It said PS5. Pro? Didn't say that. If that's base then God knows who sold their soul to get that working because it looks ridiculous.

Wow.

Oh. Rounders again.

Sweet. All I wanted was to be able to eat loads of burgers and get fat so this is a day one for me.

@ShadowRJ I suppose it's kinda a facetious comment - it's not really a chore. My games aren't on display, they're hidden away in a chest so it takes like one minute to do it. But there's truth in it too, in that I would rather my physical games were digital. I only have any physical games because I don't know what else to ask for at Christmas and birthdays.

I suppose also I'm blessed with great Internet. So if I decide to play something it's downloaded in minutes. There's literally no downside to digital for me.

So yes, given the option, I'd love to be able to make my physical games digital. It's easier all round.

Sony needs this. Mainly so I don't have to stand up and put discs I got for Christmas in my PS5.

I couldn't possibly be any more in on this.

This was one of the only games that really stood out. It looked like Yakuza crossed with Lollipop Chainsaw or something. I have no idea what the game is though. It was different at least.

I thought this looked cool until I found it was free to play gacha. I just can't. I already play Infinity Nikki and I don't have two of these in me.

If you'd told me fifteen years ago that hearing the FFVII theme at a conference and seeing a trailer for a remake would get nothing but an eye roll from me I wouldn't have believed you.

But I just can't feel anything for this. They've already irredeemably messed this up as far as I'm concerned. I'll probably play it at some point out of sheer morbid curiosity - and also to see if they can at least get the slap fight right without turning it into a circus - but I've got zero hype.

Incredible they're doing this for free. Is this a sorry for the whole Cyberpunk fiasco? Surely Phantom Liberty took care of that. Either way, fair play.

Dreadful until the Witcher. We gotta have a "this game is free to play trash" warning before trailers so we know not to get excited.

I'll just watch it on YouTube the next day. It's GTA. You're gonna drive around and shoot some people.

From now on if any C64 games are announced for PS5 I demand that the headline state whether any of the games are Treasure Island Dizzy because I gotta tell you, I opened this article with hope, and I'm leaving it sour.

They look like the same person if the picture on the right was an AI picture of the person on the left.

I've been playing Lost Judgment all day, honestly. I've nearly got the platinum too, which is good.

Sound Shapes is a fun platinum. And a good game. I think. I don't really remember it but I'm pretty sure I got the platinum and I'm pretty sure I liked it.

Good job I'm not writing this article.

Infinity Nikki and Pizza Hut together at last. That's my kinda crossover.

Honestly, I don't even nearly care about this. Played 30fps games for years. Can do it again.

@TheFakulty Yes, you can.

@Bomberman64 Yes, but it didn't work for me during the review period so I have absolutely nothing to say about it. The option is there though, so presumably it's supposed to work.

@TrollOfWar I wasn't sure about whether or not to mention this in the review since it's kind of a fun thing but then I see it's mentioned in multiple other reviews so I guess it doesn't matter: the "oh wait we're on PS3!" bit from MGS4 has been altered to say PS5. The iPod is still in it. I didn't actually look out for the PS3 so I can't say, but I'm assuming it's still there since they haven't removed anything as far as I can tell.

The load times are fast. SSD at work I guess. No installation screens (sad!) since there's no installation mid-game.

Just to be clear, Peace Walker was always like that as far as I can tell, and this release is just the same as the version released in the HD Collection. It's a direct port I think. Certainly seems like it. So if you were fine with Peace Walker in the HD Collection or on PSP, it's the same. The annoying bosses were annoying in the original, the non-boss levels were always easy - they're just the same here. If you didn't find them annoying then you're golden.

We still got Fairgames coming at least so the generation hasn't been a total waste.

Lad's got to go. PlayStation's success this generation is more down to Xbox's incompetence than anything else. They don't have any competition, and if they did, shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly would have been punished. They're lucky.

PlayStation first party has been a catastrophe this generation. Hulst has to go.

This is an astonishing mismanagement of resources. Taking forever on the sequel to one of their biggest new franchises to make a cartoonland live service game that my cat could have told you would be a failure. Hulst out.

This looks kinda radical.

The fact that they were working on this instead of Horizon 3 is a disgrace. Someone should go to prison for that decision.

Nice to see we're using the From Software Comma™ in some of the boss names.