| @mrmonkey101 exactly, and as I get older, I just don’t get as much time to game as I’d like. The only thing that put me off was people putting it down like it’s an absolute wet fish, spec wise, but that couldn’t be further from the actual truth. |
| I’ve seen loads of comments around the internet saying why would any hardcore gamer get one of these. I’d consider myself pretty “hardcore”, 34 years old, gaming for 30 of them, had pretty much every console ever released, most of them on release, and I picked up a PS5 for earlier in the year but wanted to upgrade my base Xbox One to basically play Forza, Game Pass and Flight Sim on and on all access this was like £10 more a month than game pass on its own so I basically got the console for the amount I was already paying to own an Xbox One. I have a nice 4K TV but everything I’ve played on the Series S has looked great. Not to mention, at the time, I couldn’t get an X even if I had wanted one. I guess it’s shortcomings will become more pronounced later in the gen, but for now, this thing is a beast and compliments my PS5 and looks a fuck load better on the TV stand. |
| Disappointed this isn't an article about the Copenhagen BBQ and craft beer bar, Warpigs. |
| After some unrelated advice. I view this page regularly on an iPhone 11 Pro Max and the page doesn’t fit the screen. I have to either flip it round to landscape or scroll across side to side with my finger. Doesn’t happen on any other website but it’s been like a month and I’m losing my mind. |
| Can we have flight simulator on consoles yet? Driving me mad waiting for it |
| @LordDemigod might have to grab in on offer for the upgrade then. Cheers. |
| @LordDemigod Is Metro Exodus the game with the two remasters or is this the latest one? I've played the one that's a two pack and loved it but maybe not this one. This is why confusingly generic names for games don't work. |
| @Wayne I love my PS5, but I dunno why you've been negged, you're not wrong |
| @messenger318 Agreed with the Pitchfork thing. While I find Pitchfork to be both the worst and best music site going, simulataneously, I wake up every morning and check Pitchfork and Eurogamer first. I don't always agree with either but I understand how they work and can read between the lines when I need to. But I don't trust anywhere else as much as I do those two sites. Helps that Pitchfork is oddly heavy on Hip-Hop, which for me is great. And in that same way I can count of being told about niche games here and mentally bump most of the mainstream games up a grade in my head when treading their reviews here. |
| @shotgun44 ah negged in to hidden comment for some reason despite the second paragraph of the review starting with “ Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart is the latest and it's a treat; featherlight and welcoming, almost completely on rails” and everything I’ve seen has been the guy grinding rails and wall running for months. Sorry that I won’t just blindly pay £70 when I have minor reservations. |
| @Jonamok I have to agree with the £70 thing, it's why I've not yet picked up Returnal despite the fact that I'd love a proper exclusive to play on my PS5. I didn't like paying full price previous gen either, but generally if you shopped about, you'd easily find a new game with 10% off the rrp. Here the £70 seems pretty etched in stone. I am generally one for you get what you pay for and an it's only money mentality, but £70 is steep for something they may well give away for free in a few years time. |
| @fabio78 Oh no, I know, but this seemed to lean on them heavier from what I've seen (although I have been trying to see as little as possible) and they're the weakest parts in my opinion. I think maybe I'm putting too much emphasis on the opening paragraph that mentions on rails. It is a mighty pretty looking game though. |
| Sounds great. From the few videos I’ve seen, there seemed to be a lot of the on rails parts for my liking. Which this review seems to confirm to some extent. I have a £55 Amazon voucher so although I’m still not entirely sold on £70 game prices, that would make it a lot easier to swallow. |
| Loved the original but I got stuck on some pretty mental difficulty spikes. One minute I'd be bulldozing my opponents without any losses and then I'd wander up the road and the next battle would wipe out 607 of my skeletons in one attack. |
| @MenageZero I hadn't seen anything specific beyond that it was a little rough around the edges on PS5. I might have to pick it up soon. |
| @nee50n I managed to get a PS5 just after launch and I recently picked up a Series S on all access as a "Gamepass" machine as it meant I could get a new console for effectively an extra tenner a month than I was already paying. So I'm also having a bit of a renaissance with my love of gaming. Played through some of the Gears games that I'd missed, some old Dark Souls 3 DLC which I bought ages ago and never got round to and just having all these games run at decent frame rates and resolutions is so good, I almost don't need new games. |
| Was hoping for a discount on Disco Elysium. It's just a little too expensive at the moment because I just don't know if I'm going to like it. Sounds ridiculous, but get it to £25 and I'll bite. Anyone know how it runs on PS5? I heard whispers that the console port was a little jank. |
| Classic case of just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. I liked Portal but I don't want to watch a film of it and I don't know anyone outside of gaming that would have a clue what Portal even was. It doesn't have the crossover appeal of say Tomb Raider (which as far as I know didn't exactly set the world on fire critically or commercially as a movie) and I'd struggle to pluck up the enthusiasm to watch it even if it floated up on to Netflix's shores. |
| I really want to grab this as I've never played ME3 but loved ME1 and 2 at the time. However, in one package I just know I'll meticulously go through the first one, get half way through the second before I get a little burnt out or something else is released, and I'll never actually finish it. Maybe one to pick up knowing that I don't have to force myself to play three hefty RPGs in one go. |
| Finished the game on PS5 about half an hour ago and it runs pretty flawlessly performance wise. Had one bug with a boss that got stuck and that was the only noticeable hiccup the whole way through. From a gameplay perspective, the first hour is really fucking slow and the last hour is weird. The eleven hours that I played in the middle were huge amounts of fun. Sucks that there are issues with the PC performance though. |
| @mattcake this is the Internet, you can say fuck. Sorry, pet peeve. Appreciate the Quake 2 logo though. Had a Quake 2 cake for my birthday when I was 12. The only cake I remember from my childhood. |
| I’d say in about two thirds of the way through. First hour is slow as shit and won’t let you play it. The next eight hours are fantastic. I hear it goes downhill after that. Worth noting that I picked up at PS5 copy with a Tesco Clubcard for £40 at the weekend and it’s a great looking game on the console and well worth the admission price for the first 9 or so hours. |
| @dmjennings Fenyx is so good, one of the only games I've ever Platinumed and looks great on PS5. I'm itching for Returnal but £70 is just a lot of money for a game (I think Returnal is worth full price, if full price wasn't £70 eye-watering pounds for new games). |
| This game is a lot of fun once you get used to it. Been playing solo on the series S and I’m up to the Quarry. Bullet sponge enemies are a little tedious and your gear drops behind the difficultly curve quite quickly but the basic mechanics and gameplay loop is great stuff. Those snipers can get to fuck though. |
| @ChaosFox well, you sound like a well adjusted young man. Jeez. These things will be available if you just wait. It’s just a console. No need to be a dick about it. I lost my grandad to cancer recently so while I don’t care about comments like this, it’s certainly not punishment for stockpiling a bunch of PS5s that you shouldn’t be paying over the asking price if you can’t afford it anyway. |
| @Zerobob As someone that has previously been fairly on the fence about really clamping down on people reselling goods, I completely agree with you. Nabbing a PS5 to resell as a one off, I can live with, but bots/mass scalping groups these days make it impossible to buy what are usually already quite expensive products at a normal price. PS5 may be a case of waiting it out and you'll be ok, but with a lot of this stuff, it's a one-off run so you're stuck with a £500 price tag on a pair of £100 trainers and some guy has 300 pairs. The fact that it's happening on Happy Meal toys is mind-blowing. I'm all for being enterprising for a few extra quid, but it's really getting out of hand. |
| @riceNpea boring story but I’ll tell it anyway. My best friend owns a coffee shop and Zac Snyder was filming down the road and used to go in and get coffee. He liked the place so much he recreated it on set and Amy Adams is seen getting a coffee from it for about 4 seconds. Which is a) awesome and b) pretty indicative of why the film was so expensive to film. |
| @35antonio I do wonder what level the of traffic warden petty you have to be to downvote this. I don’t condone piracy but if that’s the only way of consuming something then where’s the harm? |
| @garethhall I played this for years and could not 100% it. I was missing one collectible and never could find it no matter how many times I played the level. Drove me mad, especially as it was pre-Google. |
| This could’ve done with a better art style or maybe a complete switch to realistic car battling. A proper destruction engine would have been awesome. Carmageddon 2 nailed car destruction 22 years ago and then we never saw anything like it again. Even Burnout only really pulled the destruction physics out when you properly crashed. I dread to think how many copies this would sell if not on PS Plus. I haven’t even bothered with it and it’s essentially free. |
| @MmmmmBaby massive difference between calling someone a silly prick and racial abuse. The first one I’d appeal for you and say you shouldn’t be banned, the second one you should be banned for life, no warning. It’s unacceptable. |
| @mecha-blargh Ah, dang, I already have it on disc then. Oh well. |
| Is this the one that was a remake of the original? I’ll download but I’m wondering if I’ve already played it. |
| I loved Kings Bounty but it got excruciatingly difficult in parts. Will be picking this up if it’s good. |
| @zekepliskin for sure. It wasn’t a comment on Xbox vs PS, it’s just my experience with it. Just so happens I have a base Xbox and now a PS5 and this is the two ways I’ve basically been able to play it for free. |
| I played this on a base Xbox when it came to Game pass last year and found it borderline unplayable. Playing on PS5 on performance mode and it’s buttery smooth and a really great experience. |
| I know it’s recommended here, but the general consensus on it across outlets is all over the fucking place so I’d dive in with caution cos I almost insta-bought it until I did a little more research. |
| @Duds2k no bugs except all the crashes and the mission you can’t finish? Gotcha. |
| @Mezzer I played a few moments of Maiden on my C9 right after finishing RE7 today and RE7 looks great but some of the textures are like Nokia 3210 bad. I didn’t think much of the Maiden demo on PS5 from the 5-10 mins I played so I was a little alarmed, but I know it’s early days and haven’t been outside etc to really comment. Useful comment of the day. |
| @formulaic I’ve had the game since launch. Playing on PS5 and the performance is smooth enough but I saw that police scene with the car go straight through the pillar last night and was like if this is ten minutes in and this wasn’t picked up, I really need to wait. |
| @DotComCTO I got my PS5 this week and have been spoilt by Miles Morales and Demon’s Souls so when I put Cyberpunk in and downloaded the patch I was absolutely assaulted by visual misery. I was willing to look past some ropiness but the game on PS5 looks like absolute shit still. |
| @Dark_Stephiroth yea, I did mean once I was completely done. And I tried switched from Demob Souls to Spider-Man earlier and forgetting the Spider-Man disk wasn’t in the drive so can confirm you would need disk in to play either version. |
| Vaguely related question. I was very lucky and managed to secure a Tesco pre order mid-November and picked up my console yesterday. While I was there I took a copy of Miles Morales to the counter to buy. When I got everything home, it’s the PS4 version that they gave me not the dedicated PS5 one. Not the end of the world because I get the PS5 version free upgrade. Can I sell the game when I’m done or is now PS4 or nothing? I hear it’s not massively long so I was ideally gonna recoup some costs on it. Will make a difference to whether I chuck it on eBay when I’m done or take it back to Tesco now and kick up a stink. The latter not being ideal. |
| @kingmustard nah, this is good news and I actually didn’t know there weren’t these tones already in it. Unlike the three people taking the word blind out of context the other day, this is all for the good. |
| @RunningWithScissors really? |
| @kangarootoo hyperbole or not, you don’t make a game like this in 40 hours a week. You just don’t. These aren’t Chinese sweatshops with people getting dragged in to looms. They get £40k bonuses when their hard work translates in to huge amounts of profit. I’m sure there’s contractors out there that don’t get in on that or people that don’t like the extra hours or don’t want or need the money but if that’s the case then they’re in a position where they have other options. I don’t see the issue except in a few extreme cases where it starts to affect people’s health. Maybe we just don’t make such ambitious games? I don’t need 80 hour epics where I can choose my pube colour but I’ll be picking it up next week either way because it looks decent and I believe that we should support their doubtless hard work. At least a sale here generally means they’ll directly benefit from their effort. |
| @Centrale1 I think CDPR pay relatively well, particularly for Poland, but you're probably right. I just don't buy that you've got hundreds of people working 100 hour weeks entirely against their will. Has anyone actually sat down and worked out how ridiculous a 100 hours a week is? I think it's a problem that can be mitigated but it's also a problem blown out of proportion by sensationalist games journalism. People working long hours at high pressure points in their jobs is not news anywhere else. |
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