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Not a fan of the water, the new visuals somehow make the texture look even more obviously tiled



Bang the donkey 6? Didn’t know they continued after 3


I find the pc version awkward to play, but the mobile one is great with a controller, feels like a souped up og Xbox version.



If you can’t afford a ps5 it’ll be better to just get a small loan or finance at a place like Currys. Only way this rental service is better is if a contract can be very short like a month or two and you’re only planning on playing a game or two and have no friends you can or are willing to lend you their console for a short time.


That’s understandable, i wouldn’t knock anyone from boycotting for tencent reasons


PS1 3d is my favourite early 3d. I think it’s so charming. Some absolute bangers on the ps1 too


That’s hilarious haha, that has to be the best autocorrect from my swipe typing I’ve seen yet. I’ll have to figure out what was meant to actually go there now (I’ll stick it in an edit at the end though cause that is too funny to remove)


Alan wake 2 had massive critical acclaim what you on about and they’re now in a financial situation to publish they’re own games because of it.

And their store definitely runs better than steam and gog. Gog is the worst hanging most of the time with it often losing its penis place when going back to the previous page, and the latter is often the same on steam. Even big picture mode struggles with the steam store some times.

Correction: previous place, not penis place


We would have never gotten the likes of Alan wake 2 if not for epics money though, which also paved the way for remedy to become more independent for future releases. I’d rather have an exclusive then nothing at all.

It’s also arguable whether or not square would’ve ported kingdom hearts to pc if not for epic paying for it as well. Which in turn allowed them to put it on steam later because the game had already been made to work for pc.

Other than how they’ve handled rocket league and harmonix, epic have done nothing but good for the pc space in my opinion. Even if a launcher is shitty, a launcher is just a launcher and at least their store runs better than gog or steams.


What did they do to the gaming community? Make you not use just one platform, giving that platform a de-facto monopoly?



Looks awesome, any pve? I miss terrorist hunt on Vegas 2 and not found a replacement for it yet after all these years


Think you’ve hit it on the nail on the head. It feels less like a chore because of the way they all connect with one another.

Although even before fast travel I still did a lot of manual travelling to get everything done. At least until I realised that fast travel was very likely to get better later in the game, which it of course did.


It’s a massive improvement too. The changes they made to materia make it more fun too.


I loved the combat system, so I enjoyed every fight in game (except flying monsters in the first game if you didn’t have barret around). I think it’s my favourite hybrid combat system that allows both tactical and reactionary attacks and shines the most when you’re juggling between characters to get the ATB gauges up on everyone as quickly as possible so you have more toys to play with constantly.

The Yuffie DLC (Intermission) then expands upon the traversal mechanics and team based combat mechanics which were a whole lot of fun. A lot of this carried over to Rebirth as well but expanded upon again. Still ended up with Yuffie being one of the most fun to play though because she was originally designed to play mostly solo from her DLC, but having a character that is more fun to play isn’t a bad thing obviously.

Story wise, without spoiling too much, I love how, much like a lot of the mechanics, tries to expand upon old elements rather than outright replace them. And the story being some kind of pseudo-sequel where meta-textuality enhances the experience it ensures that these games are not replacements of the original. Which makes me laud it up in the highest regards. If they had just tried to replicate everything I think it would’ve felt even weirder it trying to be a wholesale replacement of the original like a lot of standard remakes try to be (think resi and silent hill). I don’t know how others can replicate what square is doing though since a lot of it is rooted in it’s story and doesn’t deviate far from the elements introduced in the original and the compilation games. Resi could not have replicated this intertextuality between versions of the game. You could argue silent hill could due to its story elements but they just focused on making it an enhanced version of the original.

I think I’m starting to ramble too much now so I’ll start to end it. I think the fact I can ramble about these games and gush about them so much shows how much I love them.

Other than astro bot rebirth was one of the most refreshing breaths in gaming for me, despite me more often than not despising both large open worlds and ubi style towers. Yet I felt compelled to almost 100% the game just due to the amount of fun I was having that I could just not get anywhere else.

And now I have two extra games (eventually three) I can regularly replay for my FFVII itch, alongside the original which has been a bi-yearly ritual to replay since before my age was in double digits. I couldn’t be happier. Though Rebirth will always be the highlight when replaying just due to the combat overhauls they made which in retrospect makes the first look like a tech demo.


Them releasing early and updating the rosters via a patch would be them self admitting they don’t need a new game every year though.


I like that they pointed out that even though their profits have gone down, the ceos pay has increased SIGNIFICANTLY


I want Vegas 2 style progression and terrorist hunt. That’s all i want from a rainbow six game.


Oh nice, welcome to the club! If you ever have any questions about any quirks, fire away.

I think your first port of call is you haven’t adjust is getting a better launcher. I find vertical scrolling ones work best for such a small screen. I got Niagara for mine, but there might be other alternatives out there.


I remember when i was super excited to play this but I was waiting for it to leave early access. Then when it did come back everyone said it had changed for the worst so I never bothered but still hoped they’d turn it around. Such a shame, they’ve got the IP for this to have been a smash level banger.


Depends what kinda playstyle they want. If they want cookie cutter wow-style theme park mmo in it’s best form, xiv. If you want something unique and unlike anything else you can play right now. For better and worse, xi. Some people don’t like the look of modern mmos but might feel at home with a classic one


It’s not dead, I started playing it just a few years ago and had a blast for a few months. There’s even a thriving private server at the moment that even integrates with retroachievements as well which is wild.

HorizonXI for anyone wanting to know the server


For final fantasy, quite literally just pick whichever one has a theme and/or gameplay style that looks interesting to you. As long as it’s not a sequel to a previous game you can pick any.

The only ones with sequels (some prequels) are VII, X, XII and XIII.

Although some could argue with XIII you can also start anywhere.


Kingdom Hearts, first game, go in release order.

It’s not confusing at all this way like everyone who’s only played 2 and 3 says so.

Only complicated thing is that there’s games in between the numbered entries and they’re crucial to plot and are not side games so it’s stupid they numbered only some of them. Even 2 wasn’t the second game so they didn’t need to call that one 2.


Damn, this means they’ll no longer be abandonware



I just don’t want a massive open world game all of the time. I’d already played ffvii rebirth and put 90 hours into it. After that I want something different for the rest of the year. No matter how much I enjoy star wars


I’m pretty certain it’s latter of my comment. Don’t know what FUD means though


Yeah i assumed this might’ve been the case, hence the last sentence in my comment


I’m sure on the game specs on the store it says steam will no longer support win 10 in jan 2025. Unless i misread and it’s it’ll only support win 10 and above.


I’m going to imagine Xbox would love to. But Microsoft is stopping them. They’d stop android and ios too if they still had windows phone.


Just chiming in to confirm you’re correct. I use big picture mode on windows and I’ve got to keep an air mouse with me for moments like that.




Usually one per system or genre at a time.

Like I’ll have a ps5 game on the go, something on the pc, and a few per emulated system on my handheld.

Or I’ll have a more arcadey game and an rpg on the go for when I’m in the mood for either kind of thing.


It’s more comfy in the pants despite the thickness.

Think about how much a thin but big phone sticks out when placed on a cylinder. This has less surface area that’s touching your leg so you barely feel it.

Doom scrolling can still happen on this phone like but it does make certain stuff just make me want to wait till I’m at a computer to do it instead, like shopping and whatnot. So I find that a plus, somewhat.


Unihertz Jelly Star. I wanted a modern phone smaller than my pixel 3. Seemed to be the only viable option at the time. It’s crazy how big phones are now, even the compact ones are bigger than what I class as a big phone


It’s more that my phone is quite literally tiny. 3" screen, 480x854