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I’m all for taking inspiration from things but this was an incredibly blatant rip off. It’s about as obvious as you get.

Nope. Remove Kagawa.

I should probably finish Gaiden then. It’s not brilliant to be fair, a very odd inconsistent game.

RetroAchievements it is. PCSX2 is leaps and bounds ahead of Sony’s emulator anyway.

I’m not particularly great at fighting games and don’t play online so if there’s some actual single player modes I’ll probably still enjoy it.

Rewarded for waiting, I do prefer to play games when development’s finished.

£35 is juuuust about competitively priced enough for this to have a chance. But I don’t see it lasting more than a year still, just doesn’t smell of a hit.

@elvisfan1 The AI vibe coding situation will make it so, so much worse. The store will end up impossible to find anything unless Sony specifically push games. Especially since there are so many rip offs with these AI games.

His games are some of the best out there. They just need pushed more, instead of the PS Store being plastered with the same COD/FIFA/2K on the front page. Those games will sell regardless, niche games should be showcased on the front page or at least using an algorithm similar to Steam’s store.

@tameshiyaku Yeah, all you had was an opinion. The weirdos acting like this is some sort of cultural victory for Western civilization are very much putting me off.

@tameshiyaku Having been replaying the old games, I was a bit shocked at just how blatantly Lara will gun down tribespeople and endangered animals to get her hands on artefacts lol. That being said, the Survivor trilogy did feel like a symptom of strange Puritanism missing the point when it came to Lara Croft. By taking away her confidence and sexuality, it took away basically all her character. I think her design here looks great even if the false eyelashes and inevitable underboob sweat will make her trek through the jungle a million times harder. Lara should be a power fantasy for girls as much as she’s a sex symbol.

To be fair, the PS2 had FIFA 2001, where Roberto Mancini was still playing, and had up to FIFA 14, with one of the wonderkids being Marco Verratti. There are 28 years between those two men.

They really do churn out these bands. Louis Walsh would be put to shame with the way these girls are put through the wringer. Honestly, a North Korean girl group would probably be treated better.

So much better considering I didn’t watch it. With the good announcements not surrounded by 15 years worth of adverts, it’s suddenly a decent show compared to previous ones.

Can’t believe you’re using Star Slop to describe acclaimed actor Stellan Skarsgård. Should say Stellan Skarsgård of Mamma Mia.

Utterly odd. IO seem to have an obsession with celebrities with how many they snagged for Hitman 3 too. It’s not entirely out of character for the Bond series though, Grace Jones was in A View to a Kill after all.

Don Lee’s in everything now but that’s not a complaint at all. This looks brilliant and it’s become increasingly clear that Nagoshi was the one keeping Yakuza together, even if he does look insane.

@tameshiyaku Just tag me next time rather than being snide.

I like the remastered Tomb Raider graphics but they don’t suit Deus Ex at all, the atmosphere is completely destroyed. Still, would be a shame for this to be the end. I’d love a more gritty art style that captures the moody vibes of the original.

@CaptainWow They pressed it onto vinyl for the anniversary last year too if you have a record player, they’ve all got kids to support now after all!

Super sad, he had so many iconic roles. His voice made Qwark the standout in that original trilogy. Also Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome which I quote far too frequently.

I love The Witness. Blow is a giant arse. These things can coexist.

@CaptainWow I cannot be objective because it’s my uncle’s band. But they’re great 😂

It would probably be fun if the music was, uh, good. I swear there’s limitless youngish pop stars with capitalised one word names, they have to be AI generated at this point. Like the wave of indie bands from the 00s/10s with vaguely punny names that referenced celebrities like Ringo Deathstarr, Com Truise, Elvis Depressedly etc. And of course, internationally renowned and greatest of all bands, Dananananaykroyd.

An AVGN classic. Not particularly good but honestly pretty ambitious. But yes, not good. I don’t even think a ROM hack would be worth playing.

Wow I get to play Mirage without having to support the PIF. That’s a bonus I guess.

The Labour Party caring about striking workers? There must be some mistake there!

One of the strengths of the series used to be that the different settings kept it semi-fresh. Having several MW or Blops games in a row just makes them even more samey than they already seem. I’d say go back to WW2 but I’ve not heard great things about Vanguard.

My younger brother somehow played Ace Combat in VR so I guess this would be cool. But I would die.

@Brundleflies21 I don’t think it knew what it was. The roguelike structure didn’t add anything other than artificial difficulty and length. None of the upgrades you got throughout a run felt particularly exciting, especially compared to the abilities or weapons you pick up through a run of Gungeon, Isaac, Hades etc. But if you played it as a straight up third person shooter from beginning to end, it would only take a couple of hours. Making it a roguelike felt more like a way to cover up just how little content it had rather than it being baked into the game’s DNA. The final boss is incredibly anticlimactic too, felt easier than most of the others and just sort of ended. There are elements that are cool and the core gameplay is solid, it just should have had a lot more content especially for a £70 game.

@LogicStrikesAgain Not really. For something to be disappointing, it has to look good. Most of the crap this gen never looked good.

Ehhhh Returnal is one of the most disappointing games this generation so hopefully this is a step up. Either they fully commit to the roguelike formula and let you push the upgrades further in each run, or they just make the third person Metroid game that Other M could have been. Imagine how good Returnal would have been as an interconnected planet like Metroid.

One of my least favourite AC games other than the plot, which I genuinely think is brilliant and there’s a bunch of great actors on top form throughout. That one mission tailing the boat through the swamp is the worst mission in anything I’ve ever played. That being said, this remake being real gives them a huge opportunity to canonise any future remakes by having new modern day sections requiring characters to reassess Edward’s memories. It’s the ideal way to explain some events changing or being added, you’re just accessing his memories with a newer version of the Animus. AC has the greatest mesh of story and gameplay concepts in all of gaming but they don’t fully utilise it.

The game looked promising even if they didn’t exactly show raw gameplay. Boggles the mind how badly MS have screwed up every single Rare property they bought.

@kcarnes9051 I’ve finally managed to get it somewhat useable by literally disassembling it and blasting compressed air all over it. Still drifting a bit but I can at least use it slightly.

@Gaia093 It’s a bit much to immediately blame ordinary Chinese people for having issues with Japan. Japan’s new prime minster is a blatant war crime apologist, glorifying those who carried out mass rape, indiscriminate killings and so forth throughout China in WW2. These things don’t exist within a vacuum, there’s complicated political tensions regarding Taiwan but the ordinary Chinese gamer is bound to be a bit wary of celebrating Japanese culture at the moment when they’re becoming increasingly militarised and the last time they moved in that direction, they waged truly horrific atrocities on Chinese soil. It’s deep rooted mistrust amongst both sides that’s being brought to the forefront by current tensions rather than some sort of petty grievance.

Are space shooters the new Sad Dad?

@elvisfan1 I have an almost 25 year old GameCube controller with less stick drift than modern controllers, and that has literally no rubber on the stick from where I chewed it off as a toddler. PS2 controllers too which are in perfect condition. They were built tougher back then.

Oh the irony of ‘Moore’s Law Is Dead’ waxing lyrical about fairly small improvements to a £700 mid-gen refresh. I’d much rather Sony improved the DualSense, that’s another one just fully died on me with the drift getting too awful to ignore. £50-odd quid for a new one means I’ll just not be able to play the PS5 at all for the foreseeable. Thought the joy-cons were bad but the second pair have lasted a lot longer than my two DualSenses have.

This is my most proud platinum by a long long way. That final challenge I finally did at about 4AM after a million tries. Nothing has pushed me that far in terms of puzzle solving and I’d love to play it again.

Glad to see collective outcry have an impact.

@rjejr Yeah, I was thinking of Unreal Tournament too, I had the demo for one of them on my first XP computer. Never actually played the game Unreal, only the Tournament spin-offs.

Makes me think of Serious Sam more than anything. That sort of late 90s/early 00s PC shooter.

@BacklogBrad Netflix are crap but as far as I’m aware, they haven’t chopped a man up with a bone saw while he was alive and screaming.

I’m looking forward to the 7/10 review that basically says it’s sort of brilliant and also sort of absolutely atrocious, like all of his games. It’s completely necessary in this gaming landscape though, so many games morph into one so it’s nice to have something truly unique.

@ShogunRok They managed to get Football Manager working even if it’s not exactly intuitive. And Crusader Kings 3 is honestly ok control wise considering how it’s pretty much exclusively mouse-based on PC.

Good news but I cannot imagine playing these on a controller!

The art style is cool, makes me think of Jamie Hewlett’s stuff. There just is very little space to make these games take off.

It’s surely going to be better than Back 4 Blood. That being said, it’s bound to be yet another live service! They just have to include it with PS Plus, I don’t see any other way to make this sort of game blow up.

These AI peddlers are genuinely going to destroy the world and for what? Is it really worth the environmental impact, the RAM shortages and the erosion of public trust in any form of media? This bubble will make a handful of people exceptionally rich and leave the rest of us worse off in a million ways but hey, we can chat to a bot instead of our own families!