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So, so many disastrous decisions. Honestly, probably would be massively priced out of the PS6 anyway, never mind after RAMageddon, so PS5 will likely be my last console even if I had faith in Sony.

Honestly think this will get challenged especially in the EU. If there’s digital only games, that means the PS Store is the only way to buy them and there’s a lack of competitive pricing. I don’t think that will be allowed to stand.

Really bad news. Loved Deathloop, would play anything Arkane put out.

@get2sammyb The crash is coming, if I were Sony I’d be pivoting hard away from AI. Investors are starting to realise that there aren’t actually revenue streams for AI and all the money tied up is just from them scamming investors, inflating user metrics and investing in each other’s companies to blow up the share price. Think Oracle dropped something like 19 points this week.

I just want another Uncharted. 4 is so, so good and TLL is fun but not meaty enough for the series to finish on.

There’s feature creep and then there’s gacha bloat. I genuinely would not be shocked if these games just had Claude doing 99% of the work, it’s a genre where the amount of content matters more than the actual substance.

Doesn’t come with Ben Shephard though does it.

Sounds to me like it’s either WipEout or Burnout.

Tekken 1 is sort of horrible. I quite like 2 and 3 is a classic but the first game really is hard to play:

That’s an awful lot of single player content locked behind a paywall. Shops too, genuinely outrageous stuff. They don’t need to do this, it’ll sell more than anything else ever has.

@Hylian-Likely More in the sense that casting Tupac’s ghost in a role is solely to have it be Tupac the man and not the character, whereas reincarnating Rod Steiger or something would be at least more to do with having a specific vision for a character. Like Tupac the celebrity is more the draw here than bringing to life Tupac’s acting range from beyond the grave.

I think Tupac not being an actor makes the use of his likeness much weirder. They’ve reincarnated actors before and while I’m not that big on the practice, at least they’re doing what they did when they were alive. What are they going to do here, create AI Tupac raps?

@Juanalf They really do demand almost perfection. And I love rhythm games too, just found that way more difficult!

Ahh Guildford. Was incredibly close to securing my year’s placement down there but Covid sunk that and we all got moved onto a different course. How differently life may have gone!

Speaking of Space Channel 5, I finally actually played it after 15 million Ulala crossover appearances and I’ve never wanted to like a game more despite being genuinely painful to play. I assume it’s just because I wasn’t playing on a CRT but the timing required is brutal. The music is indeed incredible though.

Absolutely no chance I could afford a PS6 even if it launched at the price the PS5 did. Basically sold anything of worth that I have just to get by. Hopefully things improve but I don’t see any way it does, us all struggling is part of the billionaires’ plan to keep themselves on top. Capitalism has reached its natural conclusion, individuals with more capital than entire nations are inserting themselves into politics because they will literally never be fulfilled.

I have a PC so this was never really for me but wow, RAMageddon has completely killed this. That price is absurd.

@AgentMantis @RBMango Modding will always be a thing, Sony cannot stamp it out. It’s resulted in some brilliant things too, a couple months back I played Ocarina of Time, A Link to the Past and Super Metroid randomised where you could find items across each of the three games. You can do that for loads of different games too, you can find Ratchet and Clank guns inside Dark Souls III for example because modders over the years have created a system (Archipelago) to connect games from all different generations together. We should be celebrating their creativity instead of just the same tired nonsense about lawyers getting involved.

They have to be good though. Like that’s the general reason why people liked the Sony single-player exclusives, they were good.

Neither did Marathon and that cost an awful lot more.

All the edges have been sanded down, I don’t understand why they’re making JRPGs that practically play themselves. The challenge just gets sucked out more and more with these remakes.

It looked pretty cool and it’s become increasingly clear that Yakuza will never return to the levels it was when Nagoshi was in charge, so it’s a shame we won’t have a serious competitor.

Honestly, weirdly quite cool? Genuinely decent games and including the campaign, multiplayer and zombies of both games is a lot of content. Just don’t let Iron Galaxy develop any new content, I haven’t forgiven them for THPS4!

It’s a shame the game wasn’t better. I really did want to like it. One of the big issues was the lack of suit powers, it really gave me a reason in the first game to use each suit, but they’re just cosmetics in SM2.

The glorious thing about Vampire Survivors is that every single tiny bit of content added is a stupid joke written by a human. You could very easily make unlimited slop with the formula but you’d get bored incredibly quickly.

@solocapers The BBC itself has said that Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal etc are almost certainly not part of this ban due to being messaging apps and therefore not social media.

@darylb24 Roblox isn’t part of the ban. Neither are Telegram or Signal. In fact, by banning other platforms, it’s basically going to be easier than ever to be a nonce, they’ve funnelled kids that would have been on other, safer platforms onto sketchier ones.

@breather Not banning Bluesky is hysterical. We’ll have a generation voting Lib Dem and sneaking craft beers into the school disco.

Good thing I already got the RoR2 platinum!

If teens get off their phones then they can get back to good old fashioned British hobbies, like sniffing glue, petty theft and panning in windows of derelict houses. Thatcher’s back baby!

It is one of the most boneheaded pieces of legislation I have ever seen. Make no mistake, this is not about ‘protecting kids’, it’s about increasing the powers of the Online Safety Act by rolling out OS-level surveillance on everybody. Not a conspiracy, it’s in the actual bill. Ignore the social media ban for now, look at the ‘nudity ban’ they’re pushing through that requires all photos, files etc stored on your phone locally to be scanned to ensure you’re not looking at anything you shouldn’t be. Which obviously means that they are surveilling anything you look at on your phone. And if you want to prove you’re an adult then hand over data to companies that quite frankly will bend over for the first sign of ransomware. Combine this with Palantir getting into bed with the government and it’s not at all hard to see what the end goal is. Besides, it’s just laughable to say you’re giving 16 year olds the vote and then stripping any way to engage with politics that isn’t filtered through editorialised media before the age of 16. Not to mention the kids that live in largely abusive households, or are being bullied, that see the Internet as an escape, or trans or gay teens that similarly are suffering in real life but can feel far more free online.

Anyone acting as if this will magically give kids things to do that isn’t on their phones - there is nothing to do. Youth clubs, sports, etc, it was all destroyed during austerity or is so underfunded that it could not handle an influx of new kids. The cinema is more expensive than it ever has been, playparks are either few and far between or more for younger kids, and old farts will call the police if they see you hanging around for more than 5 minutes. Like with essentially everything Starmer pushes through, it’s a nonsense shortcut instead of actually addressing the root issues here, that kids end up scrolling instead of being active and engaged because there is a severe lack of funding for any extracurricular activities. Providing other outlets for kids should be the priority more than anything.

I’m really glad you’re targeting the rise of soulless AI ‘articles’ and putting more humanity into your coverage. That’s what we come here for.

One of the few announcements that felt like a proper surprise. Loved Stuntman Ignition on the PS2.

Played the first two batches of levels and realised that Generations isn’t actually very fun. And this is coming from someone who quite likes the 3DS version. Boost gameplay just doesn’t work for me, the level design is completely botched in favour of spectacle. City Escape shows it clearest, the bits of platforming where you slow down are either removed or turned into a side scroller which means you have very little challenge navigating 3D space. The 2D levels are not Sonic 4 tier but they also aren’t exactly masterpieces when they aren’t wholesale lifting huge chunks of the original design. Sonic moving like a truck is probably deliberate given they let you strafe like DOOM with the shoulder buttons too. I probably shouldn’t have revisited this one so many years later, sometimes it’s best to leave games alone that you used to like.

There is genuinely no greater demoralising experience than attempting to buy a couple weeks worth of food in this current economic climate. Forget the price of games consoles, I’m a fairly decent cook yet the cost of fresh food from a supermarket to make dinners alone is extortionate, even planning around multiple nights with reuse of ingredients and so forth. You’re railroaded into buying cheap processed crap. Things are truly dreadful and I just don’t see any end in sight, short of me winning the lottery despite not having the money to waste playing it. There comes a point where you question whether you’re enough of a drain on those that you love that they’d have a better quality of life without you.

This was ground zero for modern Sony. A lot of the issues with Concord can be attributed to lessons that were not learned from this game.

Hmm. Not really my kinda month.

@Anke Lego Worlds is genuinely one of the most disappointing games I ever bought. The concept sounded great but it wasn’t ever satisfying.

I need this. I need money 😂

@Haruki_NLI No it won’t. Racing games get delisted because of car licenses.

@Werehog I replayed Nightfire again a couple months back for a RetroAchievements event and I both loved returning to it and also remembered that as much as I think lots of it is good, the best memories were with the multiplayer. I like the campaign plenty but the underwater car level alone is just a complete nightmare!

Builders is brilliant so a new one would be great. I also adore IX so I’d love to see that be given a modern release with intact multiplayer. And of course XII would be nice to see.

@Werehog This feels like a game you must have played! Tempted to give it a go now.

Genuinely rank idea. Was only 20 or so years ago when adverts were seen as scummy as they are, and selling out was a mortal sin. Now you get idiot ‘influencers’ selling their souls to protein powders and gambling sites for a payday and they aren’t shamed half as much as they should be.

Genuinely do not have many problems at all using RPCS3 compared to just a year or two ago. Those devs are wizards.

Unreal Engine 5 has been a bit of a mess. I don’t have much hopes for the next generation of games if they’re still beholden to Epic.

@LiamOliver I was really pleasantly surprised playing it for the first time last year, along with Shift 2. I think the first one is more fun but the sequel makes you feel like an actual driver with the helmet cam being probably the most terrifying and disconcerting thing I’ve tried outside of VR.

This is child’s play compared to Conception!

@PeteW Crazy there’s no Caterham cars at all in 7, I’ve not got the game yet but I do love those silly little cars. The R500 is super fun to drive in Need for Speed Shift (or maybe it’s sequel), which is itself a ludicrously underrated game.

@get2sammyb 13,600 hours is slightly horrifyingly close to your total given that you literally do this for a living! Interesting that my first trophies were apparently as recently as 2015 though, I must have made my own account when I got Kingdom Hearts 2.5 and had been just using my dad’s old account before then. Same year as my Steam account then as I have 11 years of service there, although that pales in comparison to my uncle having a 22 years of service badge. Which is the furthest back one I’ve seen.