009 must be a threat, 9 is like the biggest number there is.

It’s called Fairgame$ Sammy, get it right!

What a sad end for a game that’s lasted that long. For as much as Destiny had ups and downs, do we really think Marathon has the same legs?

It’s at the point now where everything going up across the board makes any sort of hobby prohibitively expensive. Job prospects are dire and even people working 40 hour weeks can’t afford to get on the property ladder. This is a small increase in the grand scheme of things but it’s indicative of the general squeeze.

They should randomly select those who didn’t sign up like jury duty.

I wish this was in every game. Sometimes there’s just too much on screen.

There are a million factors which have to align to make these games take off. Sure, if they do take off then you’re set, but that’s getting rarer than ever. I just think that they need to go back to how it used to be. Have a budget, have a sales target, release your game for a fixed price.

Something to get excited about will be nice.

The fact I was actually lowballing when I said this thing cost £700. Dear Lord.

@IamJT Anyone that spends £700 will be desperate to justify their purchase to themselves and others. I don’t think it’s possible to be objective.

Is it not XBOX now rather than Xbox 😉

The real question should be if it’s a £700 improvement on the base console. Which will never be true.

Ahh, annoyed about RDR1. My mum was going to play that but couldn’t find the time.

@Dog_Biscuits PS3 emulation’s pretty good by now but native versions of that trilogy would sell. Honestly all of the old trilogy packs from the PS3 days would sell, Ratchet, Sly Cooper, Killzone, Resistance etc. Just seems like an easy enough money-maker if they hadn’t been shutting down support devs who would be perfect for this sort of thing.

I think the games should come to PC down the line. There is no harm in Uncharted 1-3 coming to PC.

If PS Plus is free then there will be loads of hackers whereas this doesn’t happen since PS Plus is paid. Is that right?

@Slayer25c Anyone trying to act like there are no cheaters or hackers on PS5 are mad. Ximming alone is fairly widespread in shooters and sports games have been pretty bad for scripters, especially 2K. Then you have less malicious cheaters like for example in Dark Souls 2, I was invaded by somebody who walked up to me and dropped practically every single equipment piece fully upgraded on the ground for me to pick up. I honestly have seen more cheaters on PS5 than I saw in about a decade of playing Counter Strike. Also if you pay for PC security you are a paypig, I cannot fathom being stupid enough to get a virus in the year 2026 with all the inbuilt security modern Windows already has. To the point that it’s sometimes more intrusive to have security features on than off.

Sony are big enough to shoulder the cost of running online infrastructure, especially if they’re going to be releasing exclusive GAAS, where you have to pay both for the game and the privilege of playing it.

I’ll believe it when I see it. And just being exclusive and single player doesn’t mean it’s good, they still have to recapture the quality too.

I think it’s a good idea, the original’s pacing is super strange as it is. There’s plenty scope for more detail especially when it comes to Edward’s interactions with other pirates and the fate of Stede Bonnet etc.

@Mostik I’m absolutely bereft that I might need to sell my vinyl copy of the OST. I saw Sea Power a few years back too, they were fantastic live.

Can’t remember who I said on here to that PS Plus prices would rise before the end of the year. But there you go!

Cyclops is one of those weird ones that people hate him for y’know killing Professor X and becoming a Mega Terrorist but I always found that at least interesting even if they cop out by blaming it on the Phoenix Force. Better than him being the world’s worst husband/incredibly deadbeat dad.

Don’t care. It can be the best game in the world but it only exists because they want to make money off the back of other people’s work.

@MrPeanutbutterz No offence to the country of Australia but I fear only they could spawn a man as uniquely cringe as Johnny Galvatron.

The mark of a true indie studio, being able to pay for perpetual licensing via money sourced from the nepo baby of an ethnic-cleansing-funding shrivelled up husk of a man.

Absolutely fantastic game that’s also sort of mad and hilarious. We’ll probably never see anything like it again which is a sign of how narrow AAA gameplay systems have become.

Absolutely happy to play Outlaws finally. Premium continues to be guff.

I’d say there’s no sports titles as it’s basically end of the cycle for all of them apart from The Show and that’s a smaller market. In normal years, it’s TOTS in FIFA but I just think the bubble’s burst with those games for now. Nobody’s playing it. Everyone’s moved on. Mad really.

It’s the only way you could really do it, it has to stand alone therefore they cover what they haven’t before now. Because as much as I adore Casino Royale and probably think it’s the best Bond film out there (at least up there with GoldenEye), it’s a bit mad that Craig immediately went from ‘new recruit’ to ‘washed up has-been’ in the space of about 2 movies. Maybe this will let us see Bond earn his stripes at a better pace.

Never did play it. Would have loved it when I was a kid.

@RobN Yeah, I’ve played Horizon 4 before and loved it but I’ve been making my way through the Motorsport games. I know people love 3 and 4 but 2 has been the high point so far for me.

It looks great but I haven’t even played 5 yet. Started Forza Motorsport 4 though for the first time!

@Deadlyblack They made an animated show for kids with Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur a couple years back, seems to have been pretty well received.

First Blade being in chains and now Moon Girl’s in jail. Not the greatest look 😂

I’ll absolutely play Outlaws.

My issue is that by the time the games are cheap enough for me to buy, the next one’s on the horizon and they’re too big a time investment.

It has a randomly decent British and Irish cast if nothing else. But I loathe these games so no chance of playing it 😂

I’m not going near this unless it’s free on PS Plus down the line because I was burned by Returnal, which I already got cheaper from a user on here who also did not like Returnal 😂

That is truly baffling. Screw Mixtape, this genuinely just straight up is not gameplay 😂

@Aquariusjive Yeah, I kept my first DualSense around after it died solely for salvage to keep my second one alive longer. I’m now on my third after genuinely having that second one on life support. I’d say I’m probably just unlucky with controllers, had the same issue with two different DS4s over the last generation and my first pair of Joy-Cons.

@Aquariusjive I find the DualSense to be a bit more irritating than either the Joy-Cons or the old DS4 to open up. To get into the sticks you really need to take it all apart, it should be the first thing you can access given it’s often the first to break.

@Questionable_Duck The point is that you can only work with what’s in front of you. This article is about SNK and Saudi owned assets, hence the comments about supporting the Saudi regime. In articles about Chinese owned assets we see the same and have done for years on this site. Excessive whataboutism isn’t helpful, it’s diluting the conversation about Saudi Arabia and comes across more as running interference for a murderous regime rather than drawing attention to China.

@Questionable_Duck And what about the actions of ICE? The USA also funded and armed the genocide in Gaza.

@Questionable_Duck Saudi Arabia dismembered a journalist. I don’t think whataboutism is helpful.

Time to get my hype up for KH4 and then it inevitably will be utter crushing disappointment just like KH3.

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.