I played it because of all the glowing recommendations but wasn’t all that impressed. It’s fine, but not even the best boomer shooter I’ve played this year. It’s technically very impressive what they were able to do with the GZDoom engine, but the gameplay and level design doesn’t support it.

Yeah. It made the focus a lot more on lightsaber combat instead of force powers and showing off the physics engine of the technically “superior” versions of the game.

I replayed the 360 version of TFU recently and really can’t stand it. But I also played the Wii version ported to Switch recently too and it’s just as good as I remember. They’re very different games and the Wii version was always my favourite.

Coop is completely broken without this mod. A friend and I tried to play vanilla ER but 4/5 times the summon would fail, and 5/5 times I’d get invaded immediately.

Installed the mod and suddenly it all just worked.

The universe provides.

Did anyone else think the guy doing the voiceover sounded like Werner Herzog?

I really wish game and film companies would stop sharing trailers on xitter, and people should definitely find a different source before resharing it. We all need to quit driving traffic to Elon’s nazi bar.

I never get tired of seeing a tall ladder in Elden Ring with a note that says “snake, snake!” in front of it.

Budokai Tenkaichi 3 on Wii is my favourite DBZ game of all time, so I hope this lives up to it. That game had a massive roster, with the ability to transform and fuse characters mid-match, so I hope that’s still a feature.

I’m just worried that they’ll chop up the characters and release them piecemeal as DLC. Seeing Gogeta and Broly as pre-order bonuses makes me think this’ll be the case, but they’re just “early-unlock” so maybe they’re in the game anyway but the pre-order just gives you access to them from the start.

This is really surprising. I figured this game was lost to time because of licensing issues after Vivendi was absorbed into Activision.

It looks like more than just a remaster is going on here. I’ve been replaying it recently and there are some things shown in this trailer that aren’t in the original game, unless they just scripted some scenes to look cool for the trailer that aren’t actually going to be in the game.

I just hope they rebalance the boss fights. Some of them are ridiculously difficult in the original, to the point where they almost ruin the game.

I’d rather get a new Quake game, particularly one following the story from the first game. But if we get another Doom, I’d like something different at least. The formula from nu-Doom and Eternal doesn’t need another go.

I never figured out parrying in Dark Souls or Bloodborne, so I spent the first few hours of Sekiro cheesing enemies by sprinting around them and taking pot shots. This worked up until the Blazing Bull before I got stuck.

I restarted the game, making a point of trying to parry the easier enemies. When I actually tried, I found the timing to be a lot more forgiving than the other games and you can even spam it a bit because the animation is so fast. Once I figured that out, I finally started playing the game correctly and ended up defeating every boss and mini boss.

I never thought the music in nu-Doom was all that great anyway. Not compared to classic Doom at least. E1M1 is forever stuck in my head and if you hum a couple bars to anyone who has played it, they’ll immediately know the tune.

The music in nu-Doom is fine while you’re playing, but I can’t remember a single track.

By “meaningful growth driver,” they mean it’ll give Andrew Wilson a boner that makes him ugly cry.

Origins is better, in my opinion. It’s the black sheep but it’s my favourite in the series.

Arkham Knight is my least favourite but I still like it. If you really hate the tank sections, though, you might not like it no matter how long you play. That’s a pretty big part of the game, and it’s not great.

The story is also dumb.

ETA: I’m curious whether the downvotes are because I think Origins is better or because you don’t like my idea for how the story could have been improved.

The “random upset people” on the former side were perfectly happy to give their money to the “corp” on the latter side before the TOS change. This has nothing to do with how untrustworthy Sony has been in the past and everything to do with upset Gamers wanting to keep their outrage party going even after they got what they wanted.

Aw, the gamer is upset I forced some introspection into their life.

But no, I’m sorry. You’re totally a noble warrior who fought back the evil Sony and now must remain ever vigilant lest Kazuo Hirai leap from the shadows and scream “Riiiiidge Racer” at you and take away your toys while Gabe Newell gives you your money back and sheepishly shrugs like “I know, right? This guy, man.”

I talk like I have seen this exact same thing happen over and over and I’m sick of capital-G Gamers throwing tantrums over every inconvenience. You aren’t Union Men fighting for your rights. You’re gamers upset by a TOS change to your new toy even though Steam was going beyond their own policy to honor refunds.

Or, more rationally, you all invested so much of yourselves into your gamer outrage campaign and built yourselves up as the underdogs fighting the big, mean corporation. And when, to your own surprise, you actually won and got all of your demands met without compromise, you still can’t let it go because you managed to incorporate all that upset over a video game into your personal identities over just a few days time.

So now, instead of celebrating your win, you’ll limply cling to your hatred of Sony for a few more days or weeks until everyone finds something else to get upset about.

“Helldivers 2 players get exactly what they wanted, still unhappy.”

DF Retro is so good.

I never played Tricky but love SSX3 and On Tour. A lot of people fondly talk about Tricky, so is there anything about it that the later games lack?

Same here. I find it isn’t powerful enough for a lot of modern PC games unless you drop the settings, but it’s amazing for retro and emulation. I’m living in 2004 again.

I could never get into the Ratchet and Clank games, except for Deadlocked which I know is generally disliked by fans. I was really into arena shooters at the time.

I’ve tried a bunch of the others and they are definitely good, but not my kind of game.

Dreamcast was killed off so early and didn’t run alongside the others for most of the generation, so a lot of people consider it as more of an in-between system. Maybe not to someone who actually owned one, but given how poorly it sold the majority probably didn’t.

I still love the aesthetic a lot of PS2 games have, with smooth, bright textures instead of a lot of detail that gets stretched and blurry at low resolutions. The way metal surfaces look in MGS2 and Zone of the Enders is really nice.

But then there are games like Silent Hill 2 & 3 that use a lot of detail in the low resolution textures to create a grimy or rusted look. Those games really benefited from working within the limitations of the system, like the fog to reduce draw distance.

Is it a requirement for overpaid scumbag CEOs to have extremely punchable faces?

Kinda like when Warner Music Group tried to strong arm the world over “Happy Birthday” but when they were finally challenged on it in court it was ruled that they never actually owned the copyright.

Myst also has a pretty good series of novels that add a lot to the story.

The Outcast games (not to be confused with Outlast) have great world building, putting the kind of detail into the alien world that you’d expect from a really thorough high fantasy novel. The first game is a bit clunky even in its remake form, but the sequel “A New Beginning” is basically a modern action game.

You don’t really need to play the first to play the second. The main character starts with amnesia so everything gets explained to you again.

I said the same thing about the original. The remake definitely wasn’t needed to improve the game because it’s still good looking and plays just like a modern game. But I did enjoy the remake regardless, moreso as an excuse to replay the original than as a new or improved experience.

Also gotta remember there is a whole generation of teenagers and adults now that were too young to play or appreciate these games when they first came out and most people aren’t interested in retro games. A remake may be the only way they’d ever experience it.

Good thing I already didn’t want this game. The trailers make it seem like Kay Vess will be an insufferable character to play as. I forgot how much I hated her personality in the reveal trailer but was reminded by the story trailer.

I nearly said “20” but then realized I’m almost twice that old myself and the NES is a couple years older than me. Friggin’ millennials. We’re ruining the aging industry too.

Nintendo: “Why do they not simply charge a monthly subscription to access 40-year-old games people have already bought three times?”

This is exactly the kind of game I have wanted for most of my life. Lately I’ve been making due with Dino Trauma.

The screenshots on Steam indicate most of the trailer is pre-rendered. Only the first-person clips at the end are in-game. Still looks great to me though.

A team deathmatch game starring Marvel heroes could be good if the backstory was something like Quake 3 Arena. Marvel even has Battleworld which would be the perfect setup. But this is aesthetically way too similar to Overwatch which I have never liked the style of.

This was such a bad decision by Sony. Maybe there was a technical reason why it couldn’t be back-compat, but if there was any way they could have done it, they should have.

It doesn’t help that Sony is supporting it like it’s the Vita’s ugly cousin. If they made good games for it, people would buy it. Those who don’t get motion sick at least.

I mostly use mine for the PS1, PS2 and PSP games that were released for it. I actually don’t think I have a single original Vita game installed. I tried out the Killzone game but could never gel with anything that used the back touch panels. They never worked right for me.

I still love it, though. It’s my favourite way to play all those ports and remasters.