@RobN Yeah, I’ve played Horizon 4 before and loved it but I’ve been making my way through the Motorsport games. I know people love 3 and 4 but 2 has been the high point so far for me.
I’m not going near this unless it’s free on PS Plus down the line because I was burned by Returnal, which I already got cheaper from a user on here who also did not like Returnal 😂
@Aquariusjive Yeah, I kept my first DualSense around after it died solely for salvage to keep my second one alive longer. I’m now on my third after genuinely having that second one on life support. I’d say I’m probably just unlucky with controllers, had the same issue with two different DS4s over the last generation and my first pair of Joy-Cons.
@Aquariusjive I find the DualSense to be a bit more irritating than either the Joy-Cons or the old DS4 to open up. To get into the sticks you really need to take it all apart, it should be the first thing you can access given it’s often the first to break.
@Questionable_Duck The point is that you can only work with what’s in front of you. This article is about SNK and Saudi owned assets, hence the comments about supporting the Saudi regime. In articles about Chinese owned assets we see the same and have done for years on this site. Excessive whataboutism isn’t helpful, it’s diluting the conversation about Saudi Arabia and comes across more as running interference for a murderous regime rather than drawing attention to China.
I think the biggest takeaway from all this is that Amy Hennig has become a martyr and it’s not entirely justified. Her output since then sort of speaks for itself. I’m not a Druckmann fan but his and Straley’s Uncharted 4 is leagues ahead of whatever this was shaping up to be.
I’d say yeah, it’s even better than 2. Story wise it’s a bit hacky with the long-lost brother angle and such, but I absolutely adore the gameplay and how weighty Nathan feels. And 2 is a brilliant game but also suffers in terms of the villain never really doing much for me. 4 at least has the incredibly hateable Rafe.
Part of it is that people are done with Gen X nostalgia. Media has been stuffed with nostalgia bait for the 80s and 90s kids and this is sort of a step too far for some people, especially those of my age. I dunno, this game doesn’t exactly offend me but I am a bit over the pandering to that age group.
The thing is, none of those other applications are new. Machine learning has been a part of game development for years, as has sophisticated enemy AI. So anything that requires an entire presentation about is an application of new technologies. Which means generative AI. Things are already bad worldwide. If we abandon even human creativity then what’s the point of any of it? Only we understand the human experience and that’s what resonates with others. If you feel genuine emotion from something generated by a machine, which has never felt the range of emotions that humans have, then all I can do is pity you.
@Stocksy Lofty was Eastenders, and probably is below average height these days. It’s like footballers, guys who were known to be massive back in the 90s would look like a smout in a modern lineup.
Session’s finally pretty decent actually. But the devs made a mess of it over the years as they break it and unbreak it over and over, and so aren’t a team I’d really seek out their new work.
@RoomWithaMoose I’ve been playing a bunch of Wii games on PC now that they support RetroAchievements and using my Joy-Cons has been a bit of a mixed bag. You forget how actually reliable the Wii sensor bar was compared to the gyro sensors, I ended up having to map a button to re-centre the pointer to make it playable.
Inexplicable Biffy Clyro inclusion is sort of funny. Perhaps they’re big in Japan? They do seem to like the Scots, my uncle said it was brilliant touring over there supporting Melt-Banana.
I don’t think this is new at all. Tastes were shaped by the magazines before the internet and there are a wider variety of takes than there used to be because you can see everyone’s thoughts now, not just those who made it to print. I find the larger issue to be misinformation spread by ‘influencers’ rather than opinions about games.
I absolutely love these two. But 120FPS and 4K is a tad pointless for these games. I played Zero on the Vita and Ao with the old Geofront translation and it was perfectly fine.
Yet another reason why genAI in the hands of the public is just an atrocious idea. They’ll use it to further their agenda across all aspects of life and trying to start yet another culture war over a bloody game of all things is pathetic. All of this is insane, the game is written the way it is written. You can’t change that. Have people just made up a version of the story in their head that they think is better?
The ones who are making this political are the devs. They’re specifically stating their reasons for doing this are based on them being right-wing. I don’t know what’s hard to grasp about that.
It’s utterly insane. I love PES and yeah, it did have the penguin suits and stuff but they were extras within the game and weren’t yet another attempt to make money from MTX. eFootball has been a disaster for years but it’s apparently profitable so I don’t see any way back for PES. FC 26 being so genuinely sh*t that barely anyone even cares about TOTS or any incoming World Cup mode is a prime opportunity for competition too. The sad thing is that the golden age of PES modding is over, paid mods are taking over and it’s just a bit mad to be charging £15 for a mod of a 6 year old game. I know it’s a lot of work but come on, stick it behind an ad-funded link or something.
@SuperSilverback That’s basically all he’s been in. Even in the comics he’s been pretty much nowhere for a while now. It’s a shame, he’s an icon and he’s not been getting well-written material for ages.
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Re: PS5, PS4 Racer LEGO 2K Drive Is Getting Bricked: PS Store Removal and Online Server Shutdown
Never did play it. Would have loved it when I was a kid.
Re: Round Up: Forza Horizon 6 Pulls Incredible Launch Reviews, PS5 Version Still to Come
@RobN Yeah, I’ve played Horizon 4 before and loved it but I’ve been making my way through the Motorsport games. I know people love 3 and 4 but 2 has been the high point so far for me.
Re: Round Up: Forza Horizon 6 Pulls Incredible Launch Reviews, PS5 Version Still to Come
It looks great but I haven’t even played 5 yet. Started Forza Motorsport 4 though for the first time!
Re: Marvel Rivals Goes Wild with Ferocious New Character in Season 8 on PS5
@Deadlyblack They made an animated show for kids with Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur a couple years back, seems to have been pretty well received.
Re: Marvel Rivals Goes Wild with Ferocious New Character in Season 8 on PS5
First Blade being in chains and now Moon Girl’s in jail. Not the greatest look 😂
Re: 8 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2026 Announced
I’ll absolutely play Outlaws.
Re: Monster Hunter Wilds Sales Really Have Fallen Off a Cliff
My issue is that by the time the games are cheap enough for me to buy, the next one’s on the horizon and they’re too big a time investment.
Re: Directive 8020 (PS5) - Dull Sci-Fi Thriller Is a Supermassive Letdown
It has a randomly decent British and Irish cast if nothing else. But I loathe these games so no chance of playing it 😂
Re: Saros PS5 Sales Estimates at 300k, Selling Slower Than Returnal on a Bigger Install Base
I’m not going near this unless it’s free on PS Plus down the line because I was burned by Returnal, which I already got cheaper from a user on here who also did not like Returnal 😂
Re: PS5 Fighter Marvel Tokon Has a 10-Hour Single Player Story, But It's a Comic with No Gameplay
That is truly baffling. Screw Mixtape, this genuinely just straight up is not gameplay 😂
Re: This New PS5 Controller May Solve DualSense's Stick Drift Issues, But It Comes with a $220 Cost
@Aquariusjive Yeah, I kept my first DualSense around after it died solely for salvage to keep my second one alive longer. I’m now on my third after genuinely having that second one on life support. I’d say I’m probably just unlucky with controllers, had the same issue with two different DS4s over the last generation and my first pair of Joy-Cons.
Re: This New PS5 Controller May Solve DualSense's Stick Drift Issues, But It Comes with a $220 Cost
@Aquariusjive I find the DualSense to be a bit more irritating than either the Joy-Cons or the old DS4 to open up. To get into the sticks you really need to take it all apart, it should be the first thing you can access given it’s often the first to break.
Re: What a Twist! Ex-Tekken Boss Harada Opens New Studio Under Fatal Fury's SNK
@Questionable_Duck The point is that you can only work with what’s in front of you. This article is about SNK and Saudi owned assets, hence the comments about supporting the Saudi regime. In articles about Chinese owned assets we see the same and have done for years on this site. Excessive whataboutism isn’t helpful, it’s diluting the conversation about Saudi Arabia and comes across more as running interference for a murderous regime rather than drawing attention to China.
Re: What a Twist! Ex-Tekken Boss Harada Opens New Studio Under Fatal Fury's SNK
@Questionable_Duck And what about the actions of ICE? The USA also funded and armed the genocide in Gaza.
Re: What a Twist! Ex-Tekken Boss Harada Opens New Studio Under Fatal Fury's SNK
@Questionable_Duck Saudi Arabia dismembered a journalist. I don’t think whataboutism is helpful.
Re: Hype Is Building for the First-Ever Five-Day Tokyo Game Show, But What New PS5 Games Will Be There?
Time to get my hype up for KH4 and then it inevitably will be utter crushing disappointment just like KH3.
Re: Lies of P Dev Is Making Headlines, But Not for Reasons Anyone Wants to Hear
Lasted a few hours with the first one. Hugely derivative, which is fine in itself if not particularly interesting, but it didn’t grab me at all.
Re: See the Alternate Version of Uncharted 4 You Never Got to Play in Eye-Opening Video
I think the biggest takeaway from all this is that Amy Hennig has become a martyr and it’s not entirely justified. Her output since then sort of speaks for itself. I’m not a Druckmann fan but his and Straley’s Uncharted 4 is leagues ahead of whatever this was shaping up to be.
Re: Rumour: Rayman Legends Remake May Be Announced This Summer
Why? It plays great and looks great. Possibly the most pointless remake in history. Can’t they just make a new Rayman instead?
Re: Poll: Uncharted 4 Turns 10 Years Old, But Is It the Series' Peak?
I’d say yeah, it’s even better than 2. Story wise it’s a bit hacky with the long-lost brother angle and such, but I absolutely adore the gameplay and how weighty Nathan feels. And 2 is a brilliant game but also suffers in terms of the villain never really doing much for me. 4 at least has the incredibly hateable Rafe.
Re: Giant Enemy Crabs, $599, Ridge Racer: Sony's Wild E3 2006 Is Now 20-Years-Old
20 years is horrifying and then I realise that my parents were still married then so it really must have been a long time. A different life 😂
Re: Sony Wants to Turn Your PS5 Gameplay into Highlight Reels - Using AI
Because what we need is more companies feeding our data into an LLM.
Re: Why Is Everyone Acting So Weird About PS5 Game Mixtape?
Part of it is that people are done with Gen X nostalgia. Media has been stuffed with nostalgia bait for the 80s and 90s kids and this is sort of a step too far for some people, especially those of my age. I dunno, this game doesn’t exactly offend me but I am a bit over the pandering to that age group.
Re: PlayStation Urges PS4 Players to Upgrade to PS5 for GTA 6
@Sonofken Log off Hermen.
Re: PlayStation Urges PS4 Players to Upgrade to PS5 for GTA 6
Funny how they weren’t begging people to buy a PS5 before they hiked the price.
Re: PlayStation's AI Push Raises a Bigger Question: Where Do You Draw the Line?
The thing is, none of those other applications are new. Machine learning has been a part of game development for years, as has sophisticated enemy AI. So anything that requires an entire presentation about is an application of new technologies. Which means generative AI. Things are already bad worldwide. If we abandon even human creativity then what’s the point of any of it? Only we understand the human experience and that’s what resonates with others. If you feel genuine emotion from something generated by a machine, which has never felt the range of emotions that humans have, then all I can do is pity you.
Re: PlayStation's Lofty Preservation Efforts 'Not Stopping Anytime Soon'
@Stocksy Lofty was Eastenders, and probably is below average height these days. It’s like footballers, guys who were known to be massive back in the 90s would look like a smout in a modern lineup.
Re: PlayStation's Lofty Preservation Efforts 'Not Stopping Anytime Soon'
There’s been talk like this for years and all that happens is we get random Disney games from previous generations 😂
Re: Session: Skate Sim Dev Reveals Shapeshifting Werewolf PS5 Game
Session’s finally pretty decent actually. But the devs made a mess of it over the years as they break it and unbreak it over and over, and so aren’t a team I’d really seek out their new work.
Re: Stranger Than Heaven Is a Yakuza Series Origin Story, Out on PS5 This Winter
@Yor-sama What about this is Westernised? It’s set in Japan with a Japanese cast speaking Japanese.
Re: May 2026 PS Plus Premium Game Has Already Been Confirmed
@RoomWithaMoose I’ve been playing a bunch of Wii games on PC now that they support RetroAchievements and using my Joy-Cons has been a bit of a mixed bag. You forget how actually reliable the Wii sensor bar was compared to the gyro sensors, I ended up having to map a button to re-centre the pointer to make it playable.
Re: Forza Horizon 6's Soundtrack Leans into Japan with BABYMETAL, YOASOBI
Inexplicable Biffy Clyro inclusion is sort of funny. Perhaps they’re big in Japan? They do seem to like the Scots, my uncle said it was brilliant touring over there supporting Melt-Banana.
Re: Fallout Co-Creator Thinks Gamers Are Letting Influencers Tell Them What to Think
I don’t think this is new at all. Tastes were shaped by the magazines before the internet and there are a wider variety of takes than there used to be because you can see everyone’s thoughts now, not just those who made it to print. I find the larger issue to be misinformation spread by ‘influencers’ rather than opinions about games.
Re: Incredible RPGs Trails from Zero, Trails to Azure Announced for 4K, 120fps PS5 Release This Fall
@Drago201 I dunno, some modern games in 4K tend to just make everything tiny on the screen since it’s sharper.
Re: Random: Liverpool Footballer Virgil van Dijk Prefers PS Vita to Steam Deck, Switch 2
Think that should read ‘former Celtic player Virgil Van Dijk’ 😂
Re: Myst, Riven Remakes Officially Confirmed for PS5, with Full PSVR2 Support
Definitely something I would be into in VR. Bring back the weird vibe of 90s point and click games!
Re: Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced Promises 'More Demanding' Combat in New Gameplay Deep Dive
Getting rope darts much earlier is such a good change. Absolutely baffling unlocking them in sequence 11.
Re: Incredible RPGs Trails from Zero, Trails to Azure Announced for 4K, 120fps PS5 Release This Fall
I absolutely love these two. But 120FPS and 4K is a tad pointless for these games. I played Zero on the Vita and Ao with the old Geofront translation and it was perfectly fine.
Re: USA Bank Wants You to Pay $80 for GTA 6 So Other Devs Can Charge More Too
Guillotine please.
Re: Fake Saros PS5 Story Details Are Circulating Online - Here's What Actually Happens
Yet another reason why genAI in the hands of the public is just an atrocious idea. They’ll use it to further their agenda across all aspects of life and trying to start yet another culture war over a bloody game of all things is pathetic. All of this is insane, the game is written the way it is written. You can’t change that. Have people just made up a version of the story in their head that they think is better?
Re: PS5's NTE Makes Back One-Third of Its Budget in Just One Day
Does the budget include the pre-release coverage?
Re: Lords of the Fallen 2's Idea of Female Armour Is Downright Embarrassing
The ones who are making this political are the devs. They’re specifically stating their reasons for doing this are based on them being right-wing. I don’t know what’s hard to grasp about that.
Re: A Nail in PS4's Coffin, Call of Duty Will Finally Ditch Last-Gen Console
13 games in the one series is insane when you think about it. Actually do have fond memories of Blops 3 and MW2019 too.
Re: 'You Ruined One of My Favourite Games': eFootball's Bizarre Naruto Crossover Attracts a Strong Response
It’s utterly insane. I love PES and yeah, it did have the penguin suits and stuff but they were extras within the game and weren’t yet another attempt to make money from MTX. eFootball has been a disaster for years but it’s apparently profitable so I don’t see any way back for PES. FC 26 being so genuinely sh*t that barely anyone even cares about TOTS or any incoming World Cup mode is a prime opportunity for competition too. The sad thing is that the golden age of PES modding is over, paid mods are taking over and it’s just a bit mad to be charging £15 for a mod of a 6 year old game. I know it’s a lot of work but come on, stick it behind an ad-funded link or something.
Re: NTE: Neverness to Everness (PS5) - Ambitious Anime Open World Gets a Lot Right
Re: Rumour: Assassin's Creed Invictus Is So Bad That It Could Get Cancelled
@FxTANK Have you had a stroke?
Re: Marvel Tokon's Fighting Avengers Squad Adds Two More Characters to Sony's PS5, PC Brawler
@SuperSilverback Still think that Cap game is a cool concept but it’ll never release. The Cap movie game is genuinely quite good.
Re: Marvel Tokon's Fighting Avengers Squad Adds Two More Characters to Sony's PS5, PC Brawler
@SuperSilverback That’s basically all he’s been in. Even in the comics he’s been pretty much nowhere for a while now. It’s a shame, he’s an icon and he’s not been getting well-written material for ages.
Re: Marvel Tokon's Fighting Avengers Squad Adds Two More Characters to Sony's PS5, PC Brawler
Poor T’Challa. After Chadwick died he’s been pretty much exiled to the shadow realm. I don’t mind Shuri though.
Re: No Need to Brick It, LEGO Batman Primed for PS5 Release as It Goes Gold
Looks brilliant. We’ve had a good run of licensed titles recently.