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Like the HZD remaster, this of course seems ridiculous and unnecessary.

But you can see the business behind it. These games are obviously costing a lot to develop initially and the cost and resources to remake/remaster/whatever to these games must be pretty small in comparison and the return of investment is clearly there. It gives the games a second chance at market, people will double dip if they enjoyed it etc.

Ok fine. I will remortgage my house then

PS4, PS4 Pro, PC, PS5 Patch upgrade, PS5 Remaster, PS5 Pro boost...

How many ways do they need to improve this game ffs 😂 even if it was just one person working on this it's a waste of resources imho

Stability update 5.00247284981 required urgently please

I think fortunately we're at a point now where (at least for PlayStation and Microsoft) where backwards compatibility has to be a given

I was really trying to avoid this year but then they went and added my 2nd home of Ashton Gate into the game 😫

I get it's gonna be big but I don't quite get the obsession with GTA 6. Especially when Rockstar have hardly said or shown much yet

You just have to wait and see what happens

People should be more concerned with how Rockstar titles like GTA IV and Max Payne 3 run on PS5...

Not to mention how RDR2 looks

Can't be long until they offer finance options through PlayStation direct I'd imagine

Kinda surprised they haven't gone down this route already tbh. I know xbox dabbled with this for the Series launches

We'll see how bothered Sony are about that in the coming weeks. It could be that they're fine with that niche and it's a whatever to them

Seems like a lot of money and resources would have gone into R&D for this though so you'd expect them to care

They simply have to show a lot more than a weird 9 minute presentation that showed virtually nothing but a shocking price tag

As long as they remain widely available, I don't have a problem with it being separate tbh

Not that I'm able to splash out on the Pro anyway but still 😂

*PS5 Pro PS VR2 Enhancement sold separately

Wasn't there a PowerStation magazine back in the day?

The Rugrats PS1 game still comes into my head sometimes

I may check this out if/when it drops to a lower price. I think it was always likely to be flawed given what they were aiming for

I see a cat, I'm in 😻

Add it to the wishlist

I feel this is another "free marketing" vs "royalty fees" argument similar to the recent public spat about GTA licensing music

As usual, the fans lose out most on this

@Ichiban 😂

Yeaaaah, I'm gonna say this is a swing and a miss article, Sammy

This story is as bonkers as it is incredible

@Blofse I knew it would be great but it feels like it surpasses even the greatest of expectations. This really is a game that you run out of superlatives for imo

The second question is a bit of an odd one tbh. It feels both inevitable and surprising at the same time if that makes any sense 😂

Yes to everything. This game looked perfect since we laid eyes on it and playing it we just as great as hoped

It's just pretty perfect for what it tries to do

Game of the year!

Let's goooooo Astro!

Just a disaster. Mad how everyone saw this coming except the most important people

Ugh. I really want to love these games. The formula should be perfect but almost every one of these releases is filled with terrible writing, poor acting and dull choices

I really am baffled by who green lights all this *****. Surely there must be someone at the top of Super massive with just an ounce of quality control about the projects they greenlight

You can barely even find the game on the store unless you directly search for it either

Not this nonsense again. Publishers are entitled to sell games for whatever price they choose, but they don't need to raise prices.

These companies aren't charities. They don't have to (and often won't) fund a game that they don't feel makes money. If its such an issue, game development budgets just need to be managed better and smaller

I don't think this is really a tease but I'm sure we'll get more Astro after this

This game will be huge

PS5 Adidas edition.

I'm 99.9% digital these days so personally am not bothered by lack of a disc drive. Only time I've ever used a disc in my PS5 is for Sekiro because I'm reluctant to pay £30 for it digitally

@rjejr contrary to a lot of other tank control games of its time, Croc actually works really well and still holds up in my opinion

I'm interested to see how the updated controls work

Sure

I'll be playing it on PS5 but more options for more people are good

We back baby!

My years of Bring Back Croc have finally paid off!

"You’re not going to find any of the characters from Concord on PornHub. And that, whether you like to admit it or not, is a genuine problem."

Didn't think I'd read that this morning 😂

All of the above please

I don't think there's much hindsight needed here, unfortunately

I thought we knew this a while ago

I really don't understand decisions like this or frankly the management of the Crash Bandicoot IP at all tbh.

They could've made a perfectly good, shorter Crash 4 on a much smaller budget and it would've sold just as well. Then by now they could've had a 5th game ready and probably done something new with Spyro as well

It's almost as if the top decision makers at these companies have no idea about the end product..

Oooh this will be good.

Lonely Mountains was such a chill but challenging, well executed game

First thoughts are definitely Cool, Cool, Mountain

This might now be my most anticipated game. Shame it's probably quite far out by the sounds of it

The trilogy have their problems but overall they're still really good games

Love how you've linked to the old 2013 Madden 25 game 😂

Aaaah I want this 😍

Ready my what now??

I keep getting advertised these Tune and Fairweather Souls books.

They all look phenomenal and if I had the money I'd invest in the lot of them

Worth remembering that they tweaked the base game quite a few times as well.

I'm not really a fan of them changing once released but don't think it's a huge issue.

Not FS, but Lies of P was also made easier after launch recently

These books are brilliant. I already have both the original and old hunters guides from them so probably won't get this but it's great they're doing a reprint considering the prices they go for

@lindos the downside would be that one of the game's core intentions is lost

Not to mention how development would likely be affected by having to spend time trying to scale progression etc for different difficulty modes. There's also the online aspect of From Soft games that would be affected too

Absolutely all depends on the game.

Generally throughout history, my favourite games are made the way the developers intend and don't actually have in-built difficulty options

Difficulty options in games are usually poor in my experience. Making enemies damage-spunges is not a good solution and likewise it doesn't help the other way if a game is too easy and the challenge is lost

But each game is different and should be treated differently

@Kanji-Tatsumi perhaps depends when you were reviewing it. The original Dark Souls DLC is a bigger improvement over the base game than the old hunters is for Bloodborne.

All From DLC has been superb though

If its anywhere near the quality of the SotC or Demons Souls remakes then I'm in.

Would be cool if they could make a new game somewhat inspired by their work there

@OldGamer999 pretty sure the champions league final was in "4K" on TNT sport?

Well the PS4 version looks like it runs at about 20 fps and with the poor cameras, it felt practically unplayable the last time I tried a year or so ago

Seems a bit of an odd one, but there's a decent game in there and maybe this can unleash it

Think this is as close to a nailed on 10/10 as you'll get for me