BionicDodo

Many years ago I won two tickets to a De La Soul concert in London and only saw the email the day after the gig! It was back when email wasn't quite as central to our lives and I would go days without checking my personal email. Well, I didn't go days without checking it after that!

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Sadly, I suspect a lot of this was always the plan. Like when a brewery buys another brewery and then shortly afterwards shutters it and starts producing its most well known and profitable beer at another of their sites.

@Sam_TSM Sorry, I may have missed the point of your comment in my original reply, so I've deleted it. I get that you're saying it doesn't matter what they used to cost, 70 is a lot to pay for a single game. And I agree. Which is why I've never paid that for a game. My original post really was just supposed to be pointing out that the previous person's comment that games keep getting more and more expensive to buy isn't exactly true. I wasn't making a statement on value though.

Edit: I realise I've now commented twice in a row, which I hate! Sorry.

@NEStalgia As I said in my reply to @Wheatly, the point I was making was simply that games haven't constantly gone up in price. I didn't say a $70 game now justifies that price compared to one back in the 90s, just that buying new games used to be incredibly expensive, even if that cost was justified due to the expense of design and manufacture.

@Wheatly I started with Boxer and Snapper on the Acorn Electron. My first console was a Master System. I seem to remember games for that bring at least £29.99. We didn't get new games very often!

Yes, incomplete games due to not wanting to pay for another optical disc is infuriating. And don't get me started on 'Code in a box' releases (grumpily waves walking stick at the world).

@Wheatly I wasn't really making a comment on value or justification, just that as someone who has been gaming since the 1980s, games haven't been continually getting more expensive for me to buy.

Another point to add to yours is that a SNES cartridge was obviously more expensive to manufacture than a blu-ray disc or downloadable file.

@Chaudy To be fair, when it comes to game prices, cost hasn't kept going up. Games in the 90s cost far more than games do now, when you take inflation into account. In 1992 I believe Street Fighter II launched on the SNES at $74.99. Using an inflation calculator, that would be $162 in 2023 money!

This is a great idea. Thanks!

Can't wait for this. My most anticipated new release this side of Breath of the Wild 2. Will most likely get this one on Steam though.

@Odium I've been playing it on Steam Deck and you're right - it's perfect for a handheld.

@Decoy_Snake I'm not super bothered about game resolution, but frame rate does bother me and I worry that some recent titles have been 60FPS on X and 30FPS on S. I'm sure it is down to bad optimisation, but that doesn't help me. I also like to own my favourite games on disc and would want to play all my old 360 and One disc games too. Another UHD blu-ray player in the house would be useful too. I'd be getting the S solely for the cost saving over the X, rather than it meeting my requirements, and that approach usually ends in regret for me. I'm glad the thing exists though as it clearly provides a lot of bang for buck for a lot of people. At that price it is crazy good value.

Tempting, but I feel like I'd just end up constantly wishing I had a Series X instead. If only they were doing a Series X deal too, that I would go for. Putting the thing close to £100 cheaper than the PS5 a month before Christmas might rack up some serious sales, although I know they'd be making a loss on the hardware.

Get into PC gaming, then every time you upgrade your PC or graphics card you can get that feeling of playing the same games but shinier!

Probably a good shout for them to get on Game Pass. If it looks a bit outdated but plays really well they could setup a big fanbase for the series via people giving it a shot on Game Pass. Personally I can't wait, but I think I'll get it on Steam as I fancy playing it on the Steam Deck.

Of 39 PS5 reviews on Metacritic, 6 are below 7/10 and 33 are 7/10 or higher. So I'd say they're not that mixed, they're largely positive. There's always someone who goes off the deep end and Sonic is quite an easy target, but they are very much in the minority here. Push Square were quite snarky about the game early on, even having headlines like "Not another Sonic Frontiers trailer" and they ended up giving it 8/10, so I'm very much looking forward to playing it.

I'm going to guess that it'll get some 8s and some 6s, but mostly 7s, finishing with a Metascore somewhere in the mid to high 70s.

Was this a 'classic'? I remember eagerly anticipating its arrival on PC and then it getting pretty poor reviews so I never picked it up. I had the older FPS Aliens vs Predator games so wasn't that desperate to add a new one unless it was a top game. Has it become more favourably looked upon with time, or is this a case of 'everything old was a classic'?

I was about to ask why these custom jobs are always Series S, but I guess they see it as needing more promotion than the Series X. This one is quite cool, but the game title over his feet spoils it a bit.

Microsoft have been investing heavily in studios/IP and network/cloud infrastructure, and these will probably prove wise investments in the future when people start to question why they need to keep buying expensive new boxes to sit in the living room when they have a super fast/low latency network available. At that point the battle won't be about console manufacturers and exclusives. I don't mean right away of course, home consoles have life left in them yet, but there will surely come a time. We've already seen a rapid move towards games as a service and the freemium model, things which not so long ago didn't even exist in the console world.

One of the reasons I've been loving a lot of indie games over the last few years is for this very reason. They actually seem to have a sense of humour. Devolver Digital published games especially.

Played through Carrion on Steam Deck and absolutely loved it. Felt really unique due to the feel of movement and the way you interacted with the world, despite essentially being yet another metroidvania with progress gated by the need to acquire upgrades.

If Microsoft want the Series X to beat the PS5 then they surely just need 4K120 Sonic 06. Make it happen!

Fair play, that's the best backwards compatible games sale I've seen in quite a while.

Is this the guy that Sony fired because they said he was impossible to work with and has been spending his days insulting people on the internet ever since?

To be fair, there is usually a difference between refurbished and second hand. My current phone was a refurb and it had clearly never been used. Didn't even feel like the box had ever been opened. Probably just got returned for some reason (bought the wrong one), inspected and resold at a cut down price.

@Clankylad Yeah, I guess I meant that more in the sense of 'it's only a matter of time before it appears elsewhere', rather than it necessarily being a paid for exclusive.

This is surely only a timed exclusive. I find it difficult to believe it will stay off PS and Switch long term. I'll probably pick it up for PC so I can play it on Steam Deck, as I played the original to death on Vita so associate the series with handheld play.

The study clearly stated that the testing was done in 2019, so does not refer to PS5, Series X/S or any recent updates to Xbox One.

£10 for all three Metro games is a great deal.

@Tasuki 2K aren't exactly strangers to microtransactions themselves! Have you played one of their NBA 2K games? They're just as bad as EA.

When I was a kid there was a Mad House shop up the road from my house and Ubisoft remind me of them. Can something actually be classed as on sale if it is on sale more than it isn't?!

I am another member of the club who has only ever hit this button by mistake, so allowing for remapping is a great idea.

Blackpool. 100% guaranteed.

By the time I can afford an Xbox Series X, and a new OLED TV (with 120fps capability), I expect the Performance Mode will be patched into a much better state!

87 on Metacritic from 68 reviews... My prediction in the Metacritic predictions article was spot on!

I'm so tired of everything crossing over with everything for no reason other than money. Canon, continuity and atmosphere be damned... let's put Sonic the Hedgehog into Monster Hunter! Also pretty sure it's got to the point where the only thing left that hasn't crossed over with Fortnite is Fortnite. I'd happily go the next 10 years without seeing the letter X between two names.

What I would like is a (simple) way to buy Ridge Racer 6 in Europe. It doesn't appear to be available online and physical copies have shot up in price.

I always thought this port was being developed for Xbox One (wasn't it announced long before Series X was even a thing?). So it not being super shiny and spectacular on Series X when they haven't had the opportunity to work on one seems kinda fair enough. I had wondered whether everything being marketed as being for 'Xbox One & Series X|S' might hurt some smaller devs that haven't had a chance to enhance their games for the newer systems. If it's not running well on Xbone then people have a right to moan and expect some rapid updates though.

The game on PC is absolutely cracking and they have supported it for years with updates and new content, so it seems very harsh to jump straight on the 'lazy developers are lazy' bandwagon.

I'm going for 87.

Fair play, that's a strong lineup.

@Medic_Alert @Carck I feel exactly the same. I have always been very on it with technology and computers, but cryptocurrencies came along and kinda confused me and now NFT makes no sense to me whatsoever. Or, more importantly, I find I have no desire to know about it. I always thought I'd avoid being like my parents and getting left behind by tech and what 'the kids' are into, but I'm starting to see that becoming a reality. I also find every time I hear about NFTs, microtransactions and loot boxes that my desire to play a nice simple retro game on one of my old consoles increases greatly!

Grim Dawn is a cracking game. I've got it on PC and it's one of the best loot ARPGs around.

Ridge Racer! Always hoped for that one.

Please make Generations 60fps. It runs so much better on PC.

So £40 gets you Yakuza 0-6? Now that is a sweet deal!

@StonyKL Now that's a much better shout. A Series X shaped game storage unit with internal green lighting triggered by the door opening.

I enjoyed the driving in the recent games but found all of the NPCs and dialogue to be incredibly irritating. It all comes across like when you're young and your patents try and sound down with the kids by using all the words they think are cool and trendy.

The tensest I've ever been playing a game was Resident Evil 7 in VR, but the first time a game ever really scared me (or at least made me seriously jump) was the dogs coming through the windows in the original Resident Evil on PS1.

I own the 360 version of Chronicles of Riddick but no 360, so I'd appreciate them adding that!