£70 for a game with middling at best reviews is just a ridiculous ask in today’s climate. Best to wait.

Great, adverts. Isn’t this sort of thing what people were slamming Xbox for last decade?

@Bluemoon2008 How would you review any multiplayer game then? A sandbox? A simulator? A strategy game?

Good news, they’re excellent games but very buggy and choppy at times.

If we’re talking puzzle recommendations, The Pedestrian was one of the first games I played on PS5 and absolutely loved it.

Sony don’t communicate enough to even lie like this.

I don’t even care about who the games would have you play as, I just miss the gameplay and structure of these games. Especially with Assassin’s Creed destroying the parkour, I love the climbing sections in Uncharted.

@PneumaPilot Automatically jumping to female pronouns for a non-existent useless employee is very telling.

@Olskeezy Saw Quest for Booty running in 4K at 60FPS on the PS5. Puts Sony to shame with their lack of action on PS3 backwards compatibility.

Incredibly stupid. Glad I’m sticking to the PS4 versions, just have BBS left to go in 1.5 + 2.5.

I’m pretty convinced by that screenshot it’s running at a higher resolution. I just platinumed ReCoM and II and there’s some fairly fuzzy pixels at times.

@Madnurz Glasgow!

@Nei For now. Sony don’t repair PS2s anymore.

@NorrinRadd You can put a PS2 disc inside a PC and run it. You cannot put a PS2 disc inside a PS5 and run it. It’s not even debatable that PCs are the best way to preserve games.

If they really only get games like this out when the PS6 launches then all it does is cement the PS5 as the worst PS console of all time. Well, I love my Vita but tbf, that still probably takes bottom.

Man, having that kind of money to spend on something like a wheel must be nice.

Sounds good to me. It’s doing exactly what the series expects and we’re a long way gone from the 90s by now.

I’m assuming QSSR is their strategy to combat jailbreaking. Roll it out via a system update so that those wanting to jailbreak have a decision to make.

@FxTANK Well yeah, the digital ID nonsense should theoretically make it much easier to only sell adult content to adults. But that assumes that the system was setup for an altruistic purpose. There’s definitely a gap in the market when it comes to video games that use X rated content in any sort of artistic way though, it all just seems to be goonbait with worrying young looking female characters. Where’s Pink Flamingos: The Video Game?

I’m not sure you can remake 5 to not be the most racist game to ever exist without fully making a different game. I’d heard the reputation but my jaw was still on the floor when the grass-skirted spear throwing zombies made an appearance.

@DartLOD Really? I was shocked that the big bit in Vietnam was so late on given that it was a large part of the marketing. If anything, I feel like the game takes a good few hours to properly get going rather than running out of steam.

Oh dear. That’s grim.

I’ve been playing 3 off and on for a couple years and it’s an absolute stone cold classic that holds up. Really need to get this at some point.

Nice, I’m on Chapter 9 so should have some more content by the time I’m done, it’s been great taking my time and playing around within the maps. I would like a proper XP system within the levels though, there’s not much incentive to do challenges. And TacSim is the perfect way to do levels based on the old movies, you could do some really creative things with that framework.

For all the talk of Kojima, Druckmann hasn’t delivered a single project this generation. Relying on remasters of barely a decade old games.

Sad considering Sony have always been ‘quality’ in my eyes when it comes to consumer electronics.

The jokes write themselves at this point.

Spider-Man’s Spider-Man. Everybody loves Spider-Man. That’s the main reason.

@Nyne11Tyme Are you absolutely mad? How can you ignore climate change when it’s blatantly clear to anyone with a brain that the weather patterns are dramatically different from even a decade ago? We’re getting 40 bloody degrees in the UK!!!

Toggles would be a good idea in that case. There’s always the PS4 version but I never like to see games dramatically changed via update without some sort of preservation of what the game used to be. Plus would be cool to see things directly compared to previous graphical settings.

This is the most obvious controlled narrative I have ever seen. Sony desperately trying to save face.

@get2sammyb I don’t think you’re giving the ordinary person enough credit. The first game my mum played on a modern console was Red Dead 2 and that has far far less handholding than a lot of similar AAA games. If anything, it got slated by gamers for being too complicated control wise. If she can learn how to play that game, while also familiarising herself with third person controls, camera controls etc, the things we take for granted, then casual gamers can absolutely make do without signposting at every single opportunity. If anything, I’d say that being treated like a moron with the attention span of a small dog just makes your brain switch off because it’s not being stimulated in any significant way. Excessive handholding reduces the amount of attention and energy you need to pour into a game until you’re left with something that has such a tiny footprint on your conscious brain that you’re thinking about what’s for dinner while playing it.

I wish I enjoyed Rogue PoP more than I did. I love Dead Cells but it never really grabbed me, especially not as much as the Metroidvania PoP did.

That’s rough. If Xbox really want to be making their ecosystem more of a thing on PC then they need to be making PC-centric games. There’s entire genres that these sorts of devs have far more experience in than any of the new blood.

Oh wow, an entire 10% off Black Flag. I know it’s fairly new but that’s not a sale 😂

Alternating them with new entries feels like the logical thing, no? Similar to Resi.

Sad news. Never nice to see people out of work, especially in this climate.

Real shame about the job losses. A few of the studio restructuring moves do make sense to me though, Playground and Turn 10 have been working as a unit for a while now and Obsidian and Bethesda have a lot of crossover. Fingers crossed for Arkane, I love their output.

Poor Bayo. What a chopped design.

Good games for sure. Was a pleasant surprise playing them as part of a RetroAchievements event.

You can honestly point to the first Last of Us as ground zero for a lot of the issues with modern AAA gaming.

@Bot_Bot_69 Windows 11 combined with having an AMD card is like a true view into the future. Things just don’t work for stupid reasons while bloatware threatens to install every 5 seconds.

Not all that shocked. Japan’s abysmal work conditions will lead to devs taking any shortcuts they can.

No chance in hell.

Leslie got a new face out of it at least!

I love SC. I’ll get to this eventually.

No trophies for Mega Man X. RetroAchievements it is!

A surprise Destiny 3 announcement would probably rally back the Bungie fans. 2 died a slow death but a new numbered entry is a fresh start.

Sort of. Parts of it are very good. But I see its flaws more clearly as time goes on.

Patreons are getting rather irritatingly common with mods. I’d directly correlate that with the rise of vibe coding personally, and I’ve noticed a few PES modders outright stealing models from other members of the community only to sell them as part of their mod packs. The decomp scene is just a AI-riddled disaster right now too. Capitalism in action, turn work done for the benefit of the community, and for the value of doing it itself, into a money making exercise. I very much love the modding scene, emulation and so forth, but I see the writing on the wall.