Oh yeah I’m terms of the dev teams it’s totally seperate. I just thought that at last Sega has clearly recognised that what makes Sonic great and resonate is this classic/Mania style gameplay, so has that recognition had an effect on Forces development on some level or are we back to square one.

It’s certainly taking influence from Generations which is a good start (which in itself was a sign of Sega at least partially ‘getting it’) but there do look to be a lot of same old mistakes wrapped up in there as well.

I see what you're saying, my point being that this year the Sonic Forces devs won't have had any time to implement anything significant that wasn't in the pre-production documents for Forces - which would have been around long before Mania was known to have been a success.

Whatever Forces is meant to be will have been locked in before Mania was released, although it is possible that if Sonic Team was playing Mania in pre-production they may have cribbed some ideas from it I guess.

There's a demo available, of course. It's meant to be quite shite, unfortunately.

Batman: The Telltale Series - NS
Ben 10 - PC, NS, PS4, XBO
Demon Gaze II - PS4, PSVita
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope - PC
Ittle Dew 2+ - NS
L.A. Noire - NS, PS4, XBO
Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 - PC, NS, PS4, XBO
Rime - NS
Road Rage - PC, PS4, XBO
Rocket League - NS
Tannenberg - PC
MXGP3: The Official Motocross Videogame - NS
Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon - 3DS
School Girl/Zombie Hunter - PS4
Star Wars Battlefront II - PC, PS4, XBO
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - NS
The Sims 4 - PS4, XBO

Lots of temptations this week! LEGO and Battlefront especially, but The Sims and LA Noire are also tempting.

Pokémon is, obviously, already pre-ordered.

kintaris wrote: ↑November 12th, 2017, 1:14 pm Lots of temptations this week! LEGO and Battlefront especially, but The Sims and LA Noire are also tempting.

Pokémon is, obviously, already pre-ordered.

A replay of LA Noire with achievements this time (Had it on Playstation last gen) could well be a fun thing!

Skyrim on PSVR is out on Friday too. Luckily preordered mine a while back as it is showing as out of stock on Amazon.

Not strictly a video game, but you do need an Apple or android device to play it, Harmonix’s collaboration with Hasbro ‘DropMix’ is out in the Uk this week.

The tech in it fascinates me, it feels a bit like ‘magic’, but I doubt it has a lot of long term play value in it.

Tempted anyway, I do love fancy tech.

I'm over indulging in Pokemon and Skyrim!

I see Battlefront is doing EA PR all sorts of favours so far. Maybe I'll wait for the dust to settle on that one before I commit.

I've just noticed that de Blob has appeared in the latest releases on PSN (AU). Didn't even realise it was coming to PS4...

Rocket League on Switch is as brilliant as you might expect. Pretty flawless in handheld and a superb fit. Just had two cracking games on the bog. Nice shot!

Straight into the top ten Switch titles. Gutted I've got to go to work.

Stanshall wrote: ↑November 14th, 2017, 6:02 am ...two cracking games on the bog.

And here I was, trying to think of a good concept and title for a podcast. Thanks!

Was super excited about Rime on Switch but every review so far suggests it's borderline unplayable. What a shame, seemed a perfect fit for the system.

Pretty quiet for the rest of the money* so i've just lumped the remaining titles for November in 'ere with a sprinkling of what happens at the start of December. (*Month)

Rest of November

Lumo - NS
Gear.Club Unlimited - NS
Project Nimbus: Code Mirai - PS4
Superbeat: Xonic - NS
Earth Defense Force 4.1: Wing Diver The Shooter - PS4
Portal Knights - NS
Resident Evil Revelations - NS
Resident Evil Revelations 2 - NS
Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time - PS4
Syberia II - NS
The Game Paradise: CruisinMix - PC, PS4
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp - Mobile

First few days of December

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - NS
Seven: The Days Long Gone - PC
Dead Rising 4: Frank’s Big Package - PS4

dezm0nd wrote: ↑November 18th, 2017, 4:06 pm Pretty quiet for the rest of the money

For a typo, it's an oddly fitting one.

haha. Oh dear! I'm not changing it

Videogame-adjacent, but iam8bit's Rare vinyls have gone up for pre-order today at quite reasonable prices.

https://store.iam8bit.co.uk/collections/vinyl

I've bagged the Viva Piñata one. Sad that Grant Kirkhope only found out this existed last week via Twitter, though...

Oof, that's a bit of a weird one for him to find out like that. I love the look of them but I can't justify it right now. I'll just have to admire them from afar

I don't even have a vinyl player, so I really can't justify it! Oh well