Videogame News

[Lego Solo]

Going back to Fallout 4. Apparently there could be a 30min behind closed doors gameplay demo?

[Sinclair Gregstrum]

I really hope that's true - that's a proper way to reveal a game! No fannying around with cinematics, just a massive chunk of lovely gameplay!

Some genuinely delightful news - Grandia 2 is being re-released on PC with an HD spruce up. For those not familiar, this is one of the great JRPG's (for me anyway) and was criminally under-played thanks to it being a relatively late release on the wonderful but short lived Dreamcast. I still own my original copy and it's one of the reasons I'll always have a Dreamcast tucked away somewhere.

It was and still is a beautiful game with a great battle system, and while there were eventually ports to PS2 and PC I heard neither lived up to the Dreamcast original. Here's hoping they do a good job with this new version and are sympathetic with the visual upgrade. I'm not a PC owner at present so my fingers firmly crossed for a console port!

[arry_g]

Some genuinely delightful news - Grandia 2 is being re-released on PC with an HD spruce up. For those not familiar, this is one of the great JRPG's (for me anyway) and was criminally under-played thanks to it being a relatively late release on the wonderful but short lived Dreamcast. I still own my original copy and it's one of the reasons I'll always have a Dreamcast tucked away somewhere.

It was and still is a beautiful game with a great battle system, and while there were eventually ports to PS2 and PC I heard neither lived up to the Dreamcast original. Here's hoping they do a good job with this new version and are sympathetic with the visual upgrade. I'm not a PC owner at present so my fingers firmly crossed for a console port!

That is pretty awesome, I played the PS2 version and it remains one of my favourite games of that era, I never had problems or felt it was lacking but then again I never played the Dreamcast version. Personally though, I am a bigger fan of the first game than the second but both are great and tell interesting stories. It is a shame I never got the play the Grandia titles that came after.

[Sinclair Gregstrum]

Yeah I think content wise they were identical and any difference was purely visual (ran a bit better on it's native DC apparently but that's to be expected), but as you say if you played one version and loved it what does it matter!

I sadly never played the original Grandia, although have heard nothing but great things about it. I was a Sega kid growing up and the game was originally a Saturn game that never made it out of Japan before thankfully being ported to Playstation and getting a global release two years later. I remember poring over screenshots in Official Saturn Magazine praying the next issue would bring news of a PAL release that never came!

I know the Playstation version is on PSN now and I could play it on my Vita, but it has this mystical status in my mind now that makes me a bit afraid to play it! That and I've got no bloody time.....

[Flabyo]

It has some pretty epic music from Noriyuki Iwadare too (Phoenix Wright games amongst others).

Child of Light pretty much borrows the battle system from Grandia 2 wholesale. It's one of the more interesting examples.

[Sinclair Gregstrum]

Yeah the music's great isn't it!

I did not know that about the similarities with Child of Light! Wanted to play that for a long while and picked it up through Games With Gold a couple of months back (and maybe even on PSN as well), so I might have to get stuck into that soon!

[dezm0nd]

Nintendo hire Bowser.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... ales-chief

[dezm0nd]

Need for Speed revealed. It's a reboot and an "immersive narrative" promised.

Excuse me whilst I go blow my face off. I'm excited for a new NFS game but leave the story out, eh?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... s-a-reboot

[Scrustle]

Rain-slicked nighttime urban streets, Japanese cars with ridiculously wide wheel arches, brightly coloured neon lights everywhere, and police chases? Damn it, now I'm getting all excited. I really hope this one is good. Once again I'm going to hold off until I can actually try out the handling for myself, but I have to admit I'm already way more interested in this game than I have been about any other NFS in a very long time.

The story will be stupid though. That's a given. I don't see why developers still try to put stories in racing games. It never goes well, and no-one is asking for it. The closest anyone ever got to a good story in a racing game was Driver: San Francisco, and that was because it embraced how stupid it was and ran with it. Most racing games, especially those like NFS, always try to do some terrible sub-Fast and Furious level, overly-serious, cringe-inducing nonsense. Usually it's ignorable though, thankfully.

[dezm0nd]

Halo 3: ODST HD coming to The Masterchief Collection this week!

http://www.vg247.com/2015/05/27/halo-3- ... is-friday/

edit: Turns out it was LIES!!

[Alex79]

Steam offering refunds : http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/steam-no ... ds/0150363

This is pretty interesting I think, and a step in the right direction for digital sales. I think a lot more games will be sold if people know they could possibly get a refund if they really don't like it or it doesn't run very well on their computer. I can't see the PSN or XBL going that way any time soon, but Steam is a big enough player to have at least a small bit of influence over the market. Maybe...

[magicjoef]

Definitely a good thing for PC gaming because there is always a chance your hardware configuration just won't get on with a game.

Hopefully this also applies to pre-orders too (although people shouldn't do them in the first place!). That way, when games come out that are not fit for purpose people can get a refund and wait to see if the dev fixes it.

One thing to note is that Steam kind of had to do this because they've abandoned any kind of quality control at the other end of the process!

[dezm0nd]

If the series is headed back in this direction, then i'll gladly play RE0 again!

[DomsBeard]

Hopefully that means we'll see 2 now. I'm happy to play zero again, I remember very little.

[ratsoalbion]

An HD update for GC/Wii Zero (made in the Resident Evil remake engine, a game which has already been remastered) definitely doesn't indicate a ground-up remake of 2, a PSone game. The amount of work and costs involved would be night and day.

I'm not saying it will never happen - if Capcom believes it would make more than it would cost then of course it could - but updating Zero is a much smaller investment and therefore (obviously) a much lower risk venture.

Even to bring Code: Veronica up to re-re-release standards would entail an enormous amount of work, and that's already been HD-ified on PS3/360 (to a very tepid reception I might add).

[DomsBeard]

Yeah I know but you can dream

[dezm0nd]

Team17 are remastering the best Worms game.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... for-summer

[James]

Team17 are remastering the best Worms game.

Ooh, a Worms 2 remaster. Yay!

Oh. Worms World Party? I guess that's okay too.

[Flabyo]

Good news everybody! We won't get any more of those Kate Upton adverts for Game of War anymore!

They've traded 'up'...

Remember folks: they make over $1 million a day with that game...

[dezm0nd]

Here's a lovely video of how Nintendo got those puppets created for their Nintendo Direct!