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Its tosh like this that makes me think about cancelling PS+. This is really poor imho.

Steaming pile. This is getting as bad as Games With Gold and that is bad!

@naruball You are being sarcastic? Sorry worth a if you are as its hard to spot in text. If not then fair enough, each to their own, enjoy your allotment and Sunday Telegraph

Good news. Was a really fun thrill-a-minute film in the mould of Indiana Jones / Jewel of the Nile / pretty much most Dwayne J movies.

Great fun, great for the kids and all round great entertainment.

No it wasn't Schlinder's List, but guess what critics, its wasn't meant to be.

Nope. No support for left handed players. Would like to, but no.

@PS you have for years championed the representation and inclusion of all in gaming.
As one example we have support for the 8% or so of the population that have some form of colour blindness in this and many other games.
Yet still in 2022 we dont have support for the 8% of so that are born left handed.
This game and many like it, is completely unusable by the vast majority of left handed people that have not chosen to learn to be right handed in some cases.

Yes there are system wide options, but they impact the whole game and all games.
Typically a left handed person would want left handed controls for first person view (a lot of this game) but not for driving (a lot of this game) - thus system wide options do not work.

This game is completely unplayable for 8% of the population because of a simple choice by the developer. A needless choice.

Could we not begin to call out support for this just as we have for colour blindness and other areas bringing inclusivity and diversity ever more to our beloved hobby.

And yes I expect a torrent of abuse from people saying 'live with it', 'learn to be right', 'play something else' - being quiet does not get things fixed. Stand up, call it out.

Would be great to have a lefty controls option.

I know you can go in to the system wide accessibility menus, but honestly, first-world problem, thats more keystrokes than a game of tetris to get there and back.

@colonelkilgore yup. Would be good to see an "Is it now worth it" article. Before the price jumps back up

I watched this today at the pix with my family.

Easily an 8/10 for me; and I am one heck of a fussy bugger; I won't touch anything with less than 7/10 on imdb and typically look for 7.5+. [yes, its not the one website ranking to rule them all; my point is this was great for me].

This had everything a good old fashioned 80s romp movie had; of course its very like Indiana Jones for the new generation. I suggest lets not be nostalgia snobs and imho is was almost as good as Indy 1, better than Indy 2 and on a par with the others.

A good, pacey, fun and filling Saturday morning action flick. Done well, played well (both leads were fine, Sully better than Nate tbh but both well enough).

Don't be put off by the "its not in black and white at the art-house , it must be pants" crowd - its a great blast.

Shame. The time they invested in this they could have put in to the engine, the physics, the online, the controller/wheel - anything but the one thing many will turn off the second the opening video completes - the music.

fgs what a waste of resources (imho).

I'd suggest a little caution to any newcomer; don't just follow a guide.
I put perhaps 50 hours in a year or so ago, and yep I got to be a billionaire !! Wow, great. Thing is I'd spent 50 hours just getting to be a billionaire; I'd completely fatigued my passion for the game and yet I'd only seen perhaps 0.1% of what it had to offer.

So wish I'd just done my own thing, spent 50 hours doing hundreds of different things on hundreds of different worlds. So be warned - enjoy it your way

Less the GTS then. That is surprising given I expect the assets are so much higher detail and the content is so much more plentiful.

Really surprised they got it smaller than GTS !

Makes you wonder if MS had seen that same list before they made that deal. Jeez, not worth my son's pocket money most of that.

Silly title. Apart from COD who cares. And tbh the COD crowd, well they will play COD elsewhere and I don't think the PS world will be worse off without it.
I see it as more of a giggle that MS paid so much money for it.

Move on; nothing to see here.

Lets not forget that in most areas PS Now has more than rivalled XBGP for the last 2 years. And with more games and lower prices.

The only real difference, and its the big one Phil details, is that XBGP has first party games on day 1. Thats not been a problem for MS as they have perhaps 2 a year. Sony is quite different, it has many more first party games and thus would be sucking up a lot more 'didn't buy it as on the sub' lost revenue.

I'd love to see a more expensive PS+ sub with day 1 first party games, but I do see how its harder for Sony to make it work.

U2.
I cant remember 3 which isn't a good sign and U4 I only played last year on the PS5. I felt I kept waiting for it to start, for the great cinematic spoilers I'd been avoding for 3 years to kick in. Never did imho.

I couldn't play lost legacy. The idea of playing the person who tried to kill you in the previous game just doesn't work for me. I know many games use that mechanic but I'm old school and dont want to play the baddie

Depends of course. If you mean a single player campaign that's almost designed to be once and done, e.g. Control, a Tomb Raider, a COD etc, then 20ish. Less than that I'd feel short changed.

More thoughtful 'life' games, like Souls games, then 50+ at least.

Sims (driving, flying) 100s if not 1000s

And if you have a little fashionable beard then "I'm happy with 2 hours, its the experience that matters, not the length".

Ever felt ripped off by duration? Yep - the first Gears of War; couldn't believe a £40 game could be less than 10 hours.

@soimun agreed. Save yourself a few hundred quid and 9 months and play it on quest 2. Simple.

Of course it will be

• too much invested in those PSVR1 games with a limited audiance to date to recoup that investment. Re-release them of course
• it would have been denied already
• if they can run PS4 on PS5 they can run PS4 VR on PS5 VR (so its just the controller issue).
• The PS5 VR contollers have positional tracking just as the PS4 did (but not needing to use a external camera)

Why would Sony leave all that money on the table? What would they not make an easy dollar from all those re-releases? Why would they not bring back all those PSVR1 owners to PSVR2 with such a great incentive?

No brainer. Of course its back compat.

@lolwhatno Hi mate. What do you mean? Are you saying you dont support the idea of remakes at all or that its too soon to remake TLOU as its was only a PS3 title (and quite a decent looking one anyway)?
I dont buy in to remasters, but I fully support remakes; thats how I got to enjoy RE2 and RE3; I simply would not have played their orginal too-ugly-didn't-age-well-imho outings.

Yup, still have my gen 1 PSVR hooked up to my PS5. Some great games (Astrobot the best imho).
Slowly working my way through Moss and can't wait for PSVR2. I just hope its backwards compatible asI have more of a pile of shame on PSVR than PS4/5.

@mariomaster96 Agreed. If the console were black the internet would go bananas for a white cover.
Didn't MS try this with the X360 without much success?

I'm not going to read this as you've already sullied the game for good with that title. Telling someone that a piece of contant (film, story, game) has a twist in it is about as big a spolier as you can give. Even if all you say is it has the twist.
I will never play this game as I'd be constantly waiting for the twist.
fgs did you really have to. Couldn't you just have said "Some of the story telling is bizarre". Still a nice headline grabber for you but you manage not to spoil the game for every reader.

LOL - which ones of those are the 5 'Elden Ring scale announcements'.

I'd heard that Keith was full of it but this is the first time I've fact checked him. What a idiot.

I'm not being hairist, but that is a wig in that picture isn't it. I dont even know if thats the self promoting Keith himself, but it is a terrible wig.

Quite a fundamental correction... XBGP does not combine Xbox Live Gold and GamePass, they are two distinct things.

What you mean is XBGP Ultimate, the top tier.
So in Xbox land you have
1. XBLive - online gaming
2. Game Pass - (you have to buy XBlive separately)
3. XBGP Ultimate - which combines the two

At present PS+ competes with XBL, and PS Now competes with XBGP.

The combined PS+ and PSNow would compete with XBGP Ultimate. Currently XBGPU is £11 a month and if Sony could match that including access to AAA first party games on day 1 of release it would have a winner especially given XB 1st party titles are so few and far between compared to Sony's.

@mrmartinrohr 'better' resolution is of no use if the assets were created for the lower resolution, you'll simply have the same pixel multiple times, that's not higher resolution, that's just scaling and if you played the original on a 4k TV then your TV would have scaled it to that 4k panel anyway. Remaster = big con if its just a scaling of existing assets.

So would be good to know if they've put some effort in and either created new assets or released assets at a higher native resolution .

@SweetSummerShunv
I find Apple high cost but NOT high value, i.e. lacking justifcation for the price and not favourably comparable to the competition. This is quire the opposite.

A full direct drive base (the motor) is usally £1000+, the wheel/rim is then typically £200 and the pedals another £200; and that is low end.

So this comes in at less than half the price of a tpical low-end direct drive setup and is generally perceived as giving 100% of the direct drive (low-end) experience from the feedback/reviews of the DD and pedas which have been out a while, its only a new rim.
This is a fair chunk of cash but its also very keenly priced.

I thought Village was on the list?

Poor with good potential.
I've bought 1 PS5 game, DS, a remake of a 13 year old game I've played previously. Tells me all I need to know about PS5 year 1.

When you think of Netflix's quality over 12 months you look at the content its provided, and the same for PS5; I dont give a hoot about firmware or other nonsense; its all about thew games and until we see some new Souls game (ER), GT7, some new Tomb Raider, some Uncharted, some new Last of Us - then there's nothing to write home about.

@kyleforrester87 Really - 30 seconds? Lets see if I can best that.

@VatoLoco47 Agreed.
Remake = put some effort in ala Demon's Souls, a lot of effort.
Remaster = zero effort cash-grab
Imho of course.

Remasters should be viewed with the same scepticism as horse armour was back in the day. (again imho).

@TheArt LOL. GT doesn't compete with FH mate. Completely different game type. It competes with FM and quite rightly that also sticks, as a track racing sim, to simulated racing tracks.

@kingbreww Agree.
Its the second 'Christmas' of the new consoles and I am sat wondering what are the tent-pole releases that really make these consoles sing? I remember when Oct/Nov was the prime-time for console releases; not even sure what are the 2 or 3 AAA games we are lucky to see this holiday season.

I know they will come; but its become Feb/March for big releases and appears the publishers have completely forgotten that there is still the odd Chirstmas list to be filled.

@EmperorJake They are not mate. Only Sony published games are £70. Eveything else is as you were pretty much, i.e. £50.

Looks and appears to play like a very polished Souls which is what I would love. I just don't know about the horse stuff - it looks janky for 'you' and even worse for the enemies. I have no interest in missing out on that wonderful world by rushing past it on a horse at 20 mph. I hope it can be played without using the horse for 99%.

I know some must love it but isnt 'once you die you start from the very beginning' akin to the Co-Op games of the 80s. i.e. pac-man and space invaders. That was OK for the arcade owner who wanted your money pumped in relentlessly but for a home console single player game I just dont get it (and I know some do). If I play Doom 2016 I expect to die lots, and I expect to upgrade myself and my stuff a lot (all like Returnal) - but I would be very frustrated in I had to start the whole game again every time I died (even if I could keep my upgrades). Just seems bonkers. Why not give players the choice. Some games do e.g. doesn't The Last Of Us have a 'die once and restart' difficulty setting?

And for those that suggest the idea of restarting is that you can get even better upgrades, then that doesn't rule out having saves. Again you can do that in Doom 2016; you can replay a previous level just for extra secrets and upgrades and yet keep saving and moving forward.

I really dont see the downside of having a save system. Seriously, what is the downside?

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@Luigia Agree with you but IIRC its only Sony published games that are £70. Third party games, like Deathloop, have never been £70.

@reek It is, and I too have argued that PSN is far better value. The thing is that the master of marketing i.e. Sony, have just got it wrong on this one. They allow MS to take the spotlight.

PSN has twice as many games, and is half the cost when you discount all deals (£50 per year versus £132) and it had cloud gaming in addition to downloading games way ahead of Xbox - but they just lost out on the marketing.

Would make an interesting feature as to why tbh. Some would argue its day 1 first party games, but look at what MS have released under that banner, about 3 games in 3 years - you would have been better just buying them outright.

I think the truth of the matter is the £1 deal for XBGP. Given most peeps have an XBL sub anyway its a no-brainer to add just £1 to convert it to XBGP.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of members acutally pay £11.99 a month.

Surely worth one comment that The Ridden is the worst name for zombies ever. What’s the connection?

@TheArt If that were true it would be very disturbing. Anyone who buys a game at £40+ on just seeing a score gets all they deserve but media also has an obligation to 'protect' its users and putting a 7 on a turd would be very misleading.

@darkswabber Not at all. If you have another look at the closing comments the negatives are all things that are 'the game' and not the presentation layer the remaster may have glossed.

tbh thats as it was received all those years ago. Very middle of the road. A few pairs of rose tinted have been sold these last couple of weeks

TLDR; its pretty but [quoting] (a) "repetitive", (b) "finicky gameply" and (c) "overcomplicated UI".
And yet a 9.

Not much room to go there for other games which could be pretty, non repetitive, great gameplay and a great UI.

Just a thought, as if I would know, but it would be good if you concluded with a short list of "in the same vein and, in the reviewers humble opinion, even better than this" and "in the same vein and, in the reviewers humble opinion, this is even better than".

Helps to pin these middle ground ratings based on the readers eperience with other games.

Can we please have an option to turn off those 'cards' or whatever they are called that are always selected when I switch the machine on from standby. I would much prefer one click of X to get back in to the game and not to pull up some random stuff for a game I once brushed by 3 years ago.

Jeez, if thats the highlights it aint worth a click.

really good to see a date on GT7, which inevitably means we will see it Q4 2022. Also GOW was great.

Mst bizzarre imho was that exhaustively long sequence at the start with the woman fighting robots or something - very niche audience for that sort of thing (overly sexualised characters) I would have thought.

here's hoping its more than just allowing the playstation rather than the TV do the upscaling.

Remaster to me says "we didn't have the budget to do a remake so have this instead".

cynic