Had it on 360, suspect I’d probably enjoy it a lot more now because I know more about the games it’s homaging than I did then.

Banger of a soundtrack too.

Fantastic work from Ryan as always.

Yeah it seems once the early hype and then the backlash died down the overall impression of it seems to be ‘meh’.

Seeing how your tastes shift over time is pretty interesting. A decade ago my list would’ve had a lot more jrpg’s on it than it does now, because as a genre I’ve gotten pretty tired of its lack of innovation to the extent it’s actually made me dislike games I used to love...

Actually, there’s a decent chance we’ll see Overwatch 2 this year, so that.

Right now... not much actually.

I’ve not been paying much attention to what might be coming out in the next few months.

Jan 10th - Spider-Man (PS4) Jan 26th - Children of Morta (XBO) Feb 10th - Indivisible (XBO) April 6th - Monument Valley 2 (iOS) April 18th - Yakuza 0 (XBO) May 2nd - Streets of Rage 4 (XBO) May 29th - Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath (PS4) June 1st - Bastion (XBO) June 28th - Observation (XBO) July 11th...

Honestly, I think to enjoy wicdiv it helps to be British and/or *really* into the fan culture around pop music and those who make it.

Blue team in Halo 5 is one of those things I moaned about when we were talking about novels and comics based on games overstepping the line of ‘what you need to have read to continue to understand the games’ They’re characters you know really really well. If you’ve been reading the novels for years....

All the deus Ex games are good. Even the second one that everyone hated when it’s only crime was being not quite as good as the first.

Steam achievements for story games can be so funny. I finished Chapter 5 of Death Stranding, something less than 30% of players have done? I'm worried what it's going to be at the end of the game! The last game I finished was Snake Pass and very, very few people have done that, according to Steam. ...

My gut here is that Sony pulling it is a compromise they reached with CDPR after the latter said people should ask Sony for refunds. Sony’s policy is they don’t do refunds for janky games, only ones that break the console. So this is the only way in which what CDPR told people to do can actually wor...

Jan 10th - Spider-Man (PS4) Jan 26th - Children of Morta (XBO) Feb 10th - Indivisible (XBO) April 6th - Monument Valley 2 (iOS) April 18th - Yakuza 0 (XBO) May 2nd - Streets of Rage 4 (XBO) May 29th - Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath (PS4) June 1st - Bastion (XBO) June 28th - Observation (XBO) July 11th...

The Game Awards are a public facing set of awards that really only consider the final output.

I can’t see it doing *quite* so well in the next AIAS awards or the GDC ones that are voted for entirely by other devs.

Finally got around to playing Control now that it’s on gamepass. Very much my jam, I love the setting (and it’s use of typography to set the tone... awesome). But my word it’s crashy. Every session I’ve played so far has ended cause it crashed and I didn’t want to face the incredibly long time to re...

My understanding is that there’s a full xsx optimisation patch due, but that won’t be this year.

Video from people playing it today suggests if you’re still on the base PS4 or XBO (rather than the pro or X) then... best to wait.

Reviews so far seem to suggest it’s good, but not great, and that it has a lot of bugs right now.

My decision to wait until the XSX version in the new year seems sound, but it’s going to be tough waiting that long, heh.

Those who are into Commandos, have you looked at Shadow Tactics? A lot of the same dev team, one of my favourite games of the XBO era.

I vaguely remember that the Friday the 13th game was one of the first that got the bbfc involved with game rating in the uk.

Apparently there’s a fairly hefty discount on XSX and XBO joypads on the MS store for Black Friday.