lindos

Each to their own but Day 1 was imho a massive downturn for the 'franchise'. No one associated with it would fill me with confidence for future ventures.
But that's the beauty of art, one frogs pond is another frogs puddle.

@iDestinedOne if you think this is weird wait until you get to your teenage years - there's a whole world of weird out there

To be clear both FSR and DLSS increase frame rate by simply running the game at a lower resolution. It’s as simple as that and that’s what PC gamers have been doing for 30 years, it’s called the Settings menu.
Their secret sauce is then to use antialiasing to mask the quality of the lower resolution image.
Their marketing machines would like you to think it’s so much more.

20% reduction is hardly attractive. The intro led me to believe I would scroll down and see a 50% price cut. The Quest 3 is £289 and is far superior, objectively, in pretty much every measure. Why on earth would someone buy a PSVR2 when they could get a Q3?

Yes it would be great to see a remake, but the game remains remarkable and beautiful. It also remains dirt cheap and playable on both PS4 and PS5. So if you will forgive me, what the heck are they whinging for? Go and play it. Its a great experience as is. Twas my one and only platinum, and forever will be

@Bentleyma Afaik there’s only been about 4 asymmetric mp online games and they just don’t seem to take off do they.

Still always heartwarming to see gamers being happy gamers.

Just wait till he plays his second video game. There's a whole world of opportunity out there.

@MrPeanutbutterz Exactly. If sex, relationships or god forbid soft-porn ever becomes prominent in this world thats it, I've had it and I'll just go wokie. I'll be off to the monastery in a heartbeat. After all the church is the one place there will never be sexual desire....oh wait.

tbh it is a little like the cannabis dealer asking the cocaine dealer to ease off a bit. Sorry but its obviously intended to be sexually attractive in the first place, just as some other games are. I'm not saying being sexually attractive is a bad thing; the world (despite what some wokies think) would literally die if people weren't sexually attracted to each other - but lets not kid ourselves.

@RedRiot193 Hopefully you can customise the character so she doesn't look like Riddick on a bad day.

@DadJKP Thx, one to keep on the banned list then

With respect, and I speak as probably the oldest on the forum, its a little like going on to AVFORUMS and asking folks what are their memories of the switchover from B&W broadcasting to Colour. Its ancient history, even to an old fart like me . But given you ask...... my memory is Wipeout, thats it. All the cool kids got to have pretty girlfriends, play Wipeout at nightclubs, and have sex with those girlfriends afterwards. Us uncool nerds did not have any of those 3.

tbh I dont think PC is the place for a lego game and thus not a worrying statistic.
These are sit on the sofa and co-op with the kids games - not huddle over your mouse and WASD controls.

Some games are great on both imho (From games as am example) - but the Lego series was never in my view to be judged as a PC experience.

Jeez, surely DS1 or DS2 are much more appealing options. DS3 already looks the biz and plays with modern approaches to controls.

This is like doing a RE6 remaster rather than a RE2 remake. Nonsense.

@B0udoir yup, I think you are.

@dark_knightmare2 Exactly, and tbh I would suspect the PC original could already be running natively at 4K, at 60FPS and with all the bells and whistles the OG playstation version didnt have as the PS4 couldn't hack it.
If it were a remake fair enough, but just a remaster doesn't make sense on PC.

It would be interesting to know what % of regular readers at PS are PS5 owners already. I always suspected about 80%+ and thus the best time was for them months or years ago. About 4 years ago for me.
Assuming that the super long console cycles continue and its another 8 year stint, then yes, if you are not already on board I'd say by all means its a great time to get one. I dont see the PS6 for at least another 3 years and the Xbox is literally dead. So unless you want to play 1990s games on Donttendo go for the PS5.

tbh I thought it was exclusive to PC/PS5 anyway.

Its a shame really. All those folks celebrating the demise of the Xbox will be moaning no doubt when Sony has no competition and titles start going for £80 a pop or more.

tbh for £10 its worth a sniff. I never stayed around to the end of it first time thru and would like to see it out.

No hate here; always thought it a good old romp - doesnt take itself seriously and isnt preaching. These days that worth £10

Its a shame really. It was the OG Xbox back in 2001 that got me back in to gaming - I was in New York that Christmas and would play it to my then girlfriend's grimace as we enjoyed our Christmas getaway - to a U.S. games store.

The 360 was ace too, but they really messed it up with the One, the whole connected all time debacle, the mixed platform of the One, the S, the X. Whereas PS kept it beautifully simple with the 1/2/3/4.

Then the Series X and Series S. Again just the worst names. Bob dad walks in to a game shop and doesn't know what Xbox to buy - go for the Playstation and you just buy the highest number! I know its a lot more nuanced than that; but it just goes to show how they got even the very basics of a name wrong.

PS. If you dont recognise the importance of a name then speak to Nintendo. The otherwise brilliant Wii U absolutely tanked for no other reason than that stupid name - hence 90% of its great games being ported to the Switch and being received very favourably as if it was their first outing in the wild.

I expect 50% of the sales are from misinformed parents that dont realise its just a screen for remote-play (nor understand what remote play is).
I'll wager so many giving it to their kids and feeling right numpties when a 10 year old tells them what it really is (versus a PSP/Vita/Playstation handheld).

@get2sammyb Understood - but it is quite short per run through isnt it? I know some argue they'd pay $200 for a 2 hour game if brilliant but I tend to think £5ph is the max I would pay.

Apols if mentioned above but imho worth noting that this is a really short game. I played it back in the day like most and remember it as a 4-6 hour affair at best - which for £20 wasnt so bad.
Nice little game, a break from the norm but certainly a once and done £20 blast and not a £40+ proposition.

If you want to see the future see the Amazon Firestick home screen. Without exaggeration over 90% of the screen real estate is ads with only 6 tiny icons user definable and crammed in as an afterthought.
Now thats a disgrace but if thats the place PS is going......

@species and your problem is?

She's still a little chubby tbh.

tbh much of society has feely been giving their underwear drawer to google, Meta and Microsoft for the last 20 years. The horse has bolted. If people dont think goods and services are subsidised by the sale of your data by now then it's them that need to wake up not the providers.

Great to see success from simple old school fun.

For those on the fence, and with at least a potato PC, the 2016 remake can be had for about £3 (yup really) - just go to your fave digital keys site - all above board.

@ATaco You may misunderstand the word bigot. Providing valuable feedback is not a trait one would normally associate with a bigot.

@Gost each to their own but I think you can easily build an equivalent PC. The GPU is not even a 3060Ti ($300) and the CPU nothing more than $100. Add to that a $60 SSD, case, power supply and ram, it is close - but I'd much rather have a $700 machine that does games at least as well and everything else a PC can do.
Its just too close to a PC price thats the issue. Folks dont spend $700 on a games console. Ridiculous and I love my consoles but no thanks.

@TomasVrboda i hope it’s only 256 colour graphics at 320p. Sod all this future rubbish.

@IntrepidWombat because every update they do gets coverage like this, and coverage is free marketing, and marketing brings sales. Simple.
The press love them for a constant drip of stories and in turn the press give them sales. Everyone is a winner.

Tbf the quote literally says this is after the development. So it’s done and thus you don’t need the full team unless you’ve been commissioned for another game. Sad news for those impacted but I also expect it’s an industry norm that teams scale back when development is done esp if it’s a remake which had no DLC to move on to.

@EfYI lol. Who are you, the second coming?

I hate to be a prude, I am far from the pc woke brigade, but I don’t think addicted is a word we should use in any context as a positive state.
There’s many other words to infer delight, joy and satisfaction without using the one associated with umpteen negative elements of this world.
Prude out.

Never heard of it.

Would never pay more than £40. Sales are only ever a month or two away and tbh most of my AAA collection was <£25.

Fair play to those that throw £70 at a vid game but not for me. plenty to play and plenty of time.

@Cry_Zero
i also hear colour TVs are on the horizon but I'm not sure it will catch on.

@nessisonett
Always one.

Reads like it’s finally ready for the masses. Always be tempted but never had the time to overcome the perceived chore elements. Looking forward to it regardless of the armour shape I can wear Wasn’t really one of the inhibitors for me but respect, our hobby is wonderful in its breadth.

its a 4 hour walking simulator fgs. I expected £25

I seriously cant believe its almost 20 years old. Wow.
Reads as a must-buy though and I do like its simplicity - I just dont have the time to learn a truck-load of different systems - give me movement on one stick, look on the other and a button to attack.

Does she wear those silly ears for the entire movie? If so then thats enough to give it a 01/10 for me.

Hang on, it was 2 years between Elden Ring and its DLC. Unless I am mistaken the only Soulslike in the meantime was Lies of P.
So 2 in 2 years is not OTT.

Surely its just a clearance sale to empty the stock they haven't been able to shift these last year.
I doubt very much its the new price to secure its long term future.

SO many issues but wtf though a £550 games peripheral would fly?

@thefourfoldroot1 tbh I think the term "Update 7 + patch xx.xx" may have been more accurate. Its like when GT7 releases new tracks and cars (freely) we call it an update. So yes, valid point, better to clarify some of this is an update and some of it is a patch.

Such bad decision making since the end of the 360 era where they had beaten the PS3 on price and performance. A series, pardon the pun, of bad decisions followed. The woeful One launch, the joke that was Kinect, the u turn on online only, the series naming nonsense, the GamePass moneypit shambles, the closing of in house devs and finally the crazy spend on studios to still not have any AAA titles to show for it 3 years later.
And the folks making these decisions are paid not too far of £1m pa I expect.
Shambolic, the Xbox leadership of the last 10 years should be ashamed of themselves.

@PerpetualBoredom Yup, works so well in Cuba, Russia and China. Peace, happiness and prosperity everywhere you look.

@3Above I'm the same mate. I once had a relationship at 14, didn't work out, decided never to talk to anyone ever again. Couldn't be happier. Makes perfect sense.

1, just the title alone.