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Genuinely didn’t mind Gotham Knights at all. Clearly not as good as Arkham and a very by the numbers game but structurally it was fun.

It’s dead. Insane price for a library that underwhelming.

It’s just not what anybody really wanted. It’s a shame because the gameplay is good and the multiplayer works really well… just that everything else isn’t great. If they released Skate 2 and 3 again but let you run around with 100 people in multiplayer then it would sell by the boatload.

@Cry_Zero Batgirl is black because Gordon is based on Jeffrey Wright from The Batman. Would be impressive if she was based on Alicia Silverstone if her dad was black.

@Gaia093 There are two reasons I don’t drink anymore. Or gamble. Or do drugs. Or anything that could result in a harmful pattern of addictive behaviour. One is that my brain is incredibly susceptible to addiction because of my medical history. The other is that I grew up in an area where I watched deprived people lose everything because of those very vices. Creating something purposefully addictive that is also designed to extract money from addicts is Biblically evil stuff. The sooner regulation is brought in, the better.

Round the corner from my place is a bookies, pub and 4 different takeaway places. I would rather spend every penny I have between those, dying prematurely of an alcohol and chips n curry sauce fuelled heart explosion and leaving behind extensive gambling debts, than ever getting into the gacha life. It’s like the world’s most embarrassing addiction, imagine explaining to a support group that you lost everything chasing an anime girl with fully 3D modelled toes, and it doesn’t even have any monetary value. At least if you win on the puggy you can get a round in.

Without a physical copy of the game included is absolutely batsh*t insane. Paying for the privilege of tat. I somehow was unaware that this was a practice and it’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of. That’s like ordering a sandwich and having a bit of cheese, some ham and a dollop of mayonnaise dumped on your lap, with a voucher for a loaf of bread in Tesco included.

@The-punishr Guns sort of make the gameplay a bit harder to nail. Syndicate works because the guns are all a bit crap and the hidden blade is still viable but as soon as silencers are invented then you’d think the Assassins would just start packing heat. Although now I think about it, AC does Splinter Cell in Vietnam sounds kinda cool. The larger issue would be that Kissinger is the most obvious Templar of all time but he’s a bit recently deceased to slander 😂

It was announced way too early. It’s an interesting premise but I would prefer more city based games, I miss that sort of virtual tourism that takes a back seat in the newer titles.

Oh wow now that’s a proper collection. Compare the love shown to collections like this to the barebones Pokémon roms.

It’s not a bad month to be honest. I’ll absolutely play PGA Tour and Rise is nice to own forever. Confused by the ESO inclusion given that it’s been essentially pennies for years.

Nacon games are always a bit sh*t but the industry would be worse off without them. AA games have a place in the industry and they’re one of the biggest names in that space for a reason.

Sonic is definitely in the ‘throw sh*t at the wall and see what sticks’ doldrums at the moment. Frontiers is a downright strange game that tries 50 million ideas, there’s bizarrely Spongebob in the racing game, that weird murder mystery game etc… I’m not sure what they’re doing.

I got this impression too. All PlayStation fans should be aghast if this comes to pass, we know what happens with a lack of competition even just in the gaming industry with FIFA, COD etc instantly getting worse when the competition died out. And of course the WWE after WCW died. Competition is a good thing.

A week after my birthday so come on deadbeat dad, come through with the Amazon voucher.

Well that’s a relief, Div 2 seem to be the actually talented devs.

That artstyle really is honking. If a tote bag was a game, this would be it.

That sounds brilliant. Playing Forza Motorsport 3 just now and the progression is such a massive step down from the first two, I don’t like being chucked into fast cars almost instantly.

Yes please! Been playing PGA Tour 2004 again, still one of the all-time great games, never mind just sports games.

Couldn’t get into Far Cry 6 at all. They should go back to it being a weirdly detailed simulator again, Far Cry 2 is mental.

Big chance here that Phil didn’t want to go down the AI route and Nadella overruled him. That’s the direction of Xbox now.

It’s annoying, I quite like the gameplay but the actual map and progression is awful. Just skating around with randoms is really fun as well. By the way, Session got a huge update to the core mechanics recently and it’ll be the game to play if you want an actual skating sim.

It’s crazy. While Bluepoint never exactly made ‘original’ games, they were a hell of a talented port studio and Demon’s Souls was the big early PS5 title. Hulst remaining in a job is an outrage, his vision for SIE is deeply flawed and good devs are being gutted in service of trends that are outdated by the time Sony get around to actually jumping on them. This generation is a complete farce from a first party perspective and the continual humiliation ritual is just making it more likely that PlayStation follow Xbox into disaster.

I want this so badly.

What the f**k are Sony doing.

There has to be a catch. All I can think is that it will have massive breadth but zero depth. So narratively weak with barely any world building. That’s the only downside I could really think that could sink this whole project.

I spent the better part of a decade reading port begging articles on NLife. Never thought I’d see them on here!

At £25 I just cannot justify that. I love a Metroidvania but there are all-time genre greats that are quite a bit cheaper than that.

Nah, the blades never felt as good in the new games as they do in the originals. I’d like to see things like gameplay features from 2 and 3 backported to 1 and that’s about it.

BECAUSE WE’RE ALL SKINT SAMMY!

@RoomWithaMoose The most reasonable explanation is that Jaffe is an edgy sexist, any attempt to come up with a reason for Kratos to act like that is sort of trying to retroactively fit a story to it. Besides, he’s a Spartan, where are the twinks?

They’re super dated but that’s probably why they should be kept in. When Kratos does come face to face with his demons, I do think that the way he treats women especially as completely disposable should be addressed however, there’s some decent story in there about his wife and the way nobody really replaces her that wasn’t fully explored in the original trilogy.

Jaffe is an absolute moron to be fair. You just have to look at the AI art on his thumbnail to see that he can’t exactly judge the art style of this game, which I’m personally not very fond of either as it looks like a Java mobile game. It’s absolutely overpriced too given the competition. He’s not wrong on some fronts but he’s such a repulsive man that I don’t really want to agree with him and he doesn’t voice his opinions like an adult.

Just have content. Returnal was over before the mechanics were fully pushed.

About a 7.5, maybe dropping to a 7 after seeing that God of War game is a whole £25.

It really is pathetic. Helldivers is a Starship Troopers pastiche, that’s what it is. Making a movie of it is insane, we already have Starahip Troopers. This is the real issue with this wave of adaptations, so many games take inspiration from Hollywood that then adapting them just means you end up with a worse version of the project they were clearly ripping off for the game.

It’ll do so poorly that Season 2 will be rebranded as Snickers.

@StitchJones That’s not a contradiction at all. Like I said, there are multiple factors involved here, one of which I believe is the initial trailer being an automatic disappointment as it was in a slot traditionally reserved for ‘big’ reveals. That can be true, and the game being uninspired and yet another hero shooter can also be true. Hence why I said Geoff was ‘semi-responsible’ and not the main reason why the game failed. Think about it, launching a game with a smaller release campaign, that doesn’t cost as many millions as a slot at the Game Awards does, would fund further development throughout the first few months and help them try to carve out an audience without unnecessary expectations or automatic negativity from the general public. The entire decision to book that slot at The Game Awards is the killer here, plenty GaaS have ups and downs but this game launched to negativity and won’t ever be able to claw that back.

@StitchJones It’s not that simple. Good games fail. Bad games succeed. Failing is not an indicator of quality. This game failed due to many factors, one of which absolutely is the backlash to being shown off in a prime spot at one of Geoff’s shows. Another factor is that it’s a live service shooter in a crowded market. Things aren’t completely black and white.

@StitchJones If that was true then Fortnite and Roblox wouldn’t be the most played games in the world and Shenmue and Planescape: Torment would have been commercial success stories. Sh*t sells every day, any notion that good games make money and bad ones don’t is complete nonsense.

Geoff is genuinely semi-responsible for these people losing their jobs. Highguard was never going to be a huge hit but the instant wave of vitriol generated by putting it there in that show instantly set it up for failure. Lessons to be learned, nothing wrong with early access periods and building hype slowly.

@MonkeyGibs If Mr Beast made a movie then his lapdogs would love it too. Streamers using their wealth to fund their own movie is the ultimate ego trip, it’s all very ‘Business Secrets of the Pharaohs’ to reference Peep Show, self-publication is inherently an egotistical thing to do as you’re skipping every person that would normally run through a manuscript. Of course, it does work out sometimes, but generally you’re left with millions of people out there who never see their ideas come to fruition and a group of celebrities with budding literary or screenwriting careers that are in no way talented but they have their foot in the door.

I know the game but had no idea some sh*te streamer made a movie of it.

It’s a weird one in that everyone keeps insisting it’s real but until it’s actually announced, it doesn’t exist. Schrödinger’s Metroidvania. If this is anything as good as PoP: The Lost Crown was then it’ll be totally worth playing. I’m not entirely convinced by the basic idea because I think Kratos’ moveset with his blades lends itself more to a 3D environment (the combat while climbing proves that point) but we’ll see how it pans out.

@PinderSchloss There’s no excuse. The finished game has art produced by generative AI. It’s a plagiarism machine, the models are trained on other people’s art with zero consent, any ‘creativity’ generated by these models is because they stole other people’s work. The counter to this is always people saying “they can just train it on work entirely drawn by the artists”… but then you‘ve just paid a concept artist to draw concepts, which are then fed into a machine to generate concepts. At which point you could have just worked with the concept artist you’ve already hired. Any genuine benefits in terms of time or money saved rely on those models plagiarising work. Otherwise it’s a complete waste of time and you’d be as well hiring real artists.

Never mind then. Bizarre premise was interesting but no chance I’m supporting Gen AI.

They sh*t the bed. Massively. I don’t see anyone liking these changes, and that’s not even taking into account those who’re done with the series after openly hiring a sex offender.

I have it physical which means that i’m hoping for scalper prices so that I can afford bills.