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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.

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.

Why? It plays great and looks great. Possibly the most pointless remake in history. Can’t they just make a new Rayman instead?

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.

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 😂

Because what we need is more companies feeding our data into an LLM.

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.

@Sonofken Log off Hermen.

Funny how they weren’t begging people to buy a PS5 before they hiked the price.

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.

There’s been talk like this for years and all that happens is we get random Disney games from previous generations 😂

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.

@Yor-sama What about this is Westernised? It’s set in Japan with a Japanese cast speaking Japanese.

@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.

@Drago201 I dunno, some modern games in 4K tend to just make everything tiny on the screen since it’s sharper.

Think that should read ‘former Celtic player Virgil Van Dijk’ 😂

Definitely something I would be into in VR. Bring back the weird vibe of 90s point and click games!

Getting rope darts much earlier is such a good change. Absolutely baffling unlocking them in sequence 11.

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.

Guillotine please.

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?

Does the budget include the pre-release coverage?

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.

13 games in the one series is insane when you think about it. Actually do have fond memories of Blops 3 and MW2019 too.

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.

@FxTANK Have you had a stroke?

@SuperSilverback Still think that Cap game is a cool concept but it’ll never release. The Cap movie game is genuinely quite good.

@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.

Poor T’Challa. After Chadwick died he’s been pretty much exiled to the shadow realm. I don’t mind Shuri though.

Looks brilliant. We’ve had a good run of licensed titles recently.

I can see you’ve had fun with this Sammy 😂

I’m beyond hyped for this but also probably won’t be able to buy it for a long time, still need to get round to Mafia and Indiana Jones but they’ve not dropped in price enough.

@bleeflooflah All you really have to do is Google them and most articles mention that they are a team led by NBA Street devs. Which was the beginning of that label.

I usually draw the line at OS mods like this, I’ve modded my PS3, 3DS, Vita, Wii, Wii U and Switch but I prefer homebrew and the like to exist within the boundaries of the console’s original OS.

It looks genuinely good, as to be expected with EA Big vets in the dev team. I just long for the days of meaty single player content in these games again. I know everyone sees yearly sports titles as disposable but it didn’t used to be that way at all, they used to have fun, deep modes built into them like the FIFA Street campaigns or Tiger Woods 04’s world tour mode.

@Balaam_ Japan already have the Konami one though which includes the Japanese teams. I’m not sure about everyone, but I’d be more likely to play a game if it included my local team over a game that didn’t. That being said, SDS being lead devs on this means it’ll probably turn out pretty playable for a mobile game so maybe they’ll cultivate a bit of an international audience.

FC26 started with promise and ended up the earliest I’ve ever dropped a game in the series. Utterly crap.

He’s dead on. It will sell bucketloads regardless of price but charging an amount that makes people happy to buy it means that they can draw an even wider audience, which then in turn draws more people towards the new GTA Online. It’s going to be the biggest media product of all time, I don’t see any way it won’t be.

I would absolutely love a sequel. But it would probably not happen. I guess that McNamara’s new studio has now been rebranded as Rockstar Australia but they’ll probably remain a support studio.

Honestly yes. I was very skeptical, I never really loved the original and it seemed too early to remake a game from the crossgen PS3/4 days. But it looks brilliant.

He’s a great actor. And he’s a movie/TV actor first. Part of why I’m looking forward to this is that they do have proper actors doing it, who could easily show up in a movie.

@StitchJones

We had Rugrats in Paris on PS1 too. Think it was one of the discs I ate. Do not let teething kids near your discs.

The earlier comments here have not aged well at all. The complete silence from Sony is rather staggering though.

Moving away from magic feels like a good idea. It’s sort of a massively stupid idea to make the women who were killed during these ‘trials’ to be actual witches doing magic because in reality they were ordinary women being persecuted because of mass hysteria/superstition/misogyny. Just making them do magic makes the trials justified which is ludicrous even for a series like AC which seems to have abandoned reality in recent games.

@CallMeDuraSouka You’re denying that the Hallyu is an ideological tool used to create a picture of the prosperous, forward-thinking South? They basically admit it themselves. Embracing hypercapitalism is the best way to maintain their status as America’s favourite in East Asia, and remain relatively stable in the face of the North developing nuclear missiles. It’s not like I’m particularly criticising them, it’s just an obvious thing.

I genuinely love 4. It’s my favourite in the series. But I struggle to see how you can make an Uncharted game ‘bad’ enough to have that kind of overhaul, it’s not exactly a difficult formula to follow.