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you don't need a great pc to play any of the old games, but best of luck getting something that'll run modern games at high resolution and framerate.

I'm also not defending console manufacturers either, but its fair to say, you'll have a lot of years worth of PS plus or XBL bought by the time you've gathered the price of even a middling GPU at the moment.

keep moving the goalposts along, whether or not you're happy with playing stuff at 1080p or not is irrelevant, if you can buy a much cheaper console that'll do upscaled 4k, straight out of the box for €299, and comes with a €70 controller and doesn't need any additional peripherals to get up and going.

The consoles' digital storefronts have sales as often as PC does at this stage, I'm not as Au-fait with Sony, but XBL are giving away 4 games a month (most of which are the same as have been given away on consoles) and then you've gamepass added into the mix, which gives you access to a crazy amount of titles on xbox, pc, and mobile, as well as remote play with cross save / progression, and discounts on buying those games if you like them.

The Mad thing is, over the last 2 years, I've become a primarily PC gamer, and one thing it most certainly isn't, is cheap. But its allowing me to have unique experiences like Escape from Tarkov.

Laura Croft -> Jonanna Dark

Agree!

That last thing the Xbox needs is another shooter. Hopefully this game is more than just point n click murder + press a to continue.

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Hasbro have apparently set up a AAA studio tasked with developing games based on some of their IPs. I think they already own Wizards of the Coast who have their own studios (and are developing a GI Joe game), but I don't know if this one is going to be in addition to that or not, or separate from WotC. Anyway, there's plenty of decent IPs there for them to work with; Transformers, Power Rangers, Micro Machines, Action Man to name a few.

Where you hearing this ?

The last micro machines game was fairly poor sadly.

I dunno, Eurogamer used to be my favourite source for games news and reviews but I feel they've gone downhill a lot in recent times.

They have a couple of reviewers who seem to love using a review as an excuse to write a long pretentious thought piece about some interest of theirs that is tangentially related to the game, and barely cover the game itself during the review.

Then there's the soapbox reviews - e.g. the latest FIFA 22 review where the reviewer admitted he didn't touch career mode (a large and deep feature that's completely free of IAP and has tons of content which has apparently had a bunch of changes this year, not that I could tell you what they were after reading the review) and instead only played the one mode that has lootboxes in it, then spent the entire review raging about lootboxes the same way as he does every year, while barely talking about what changed from FIFA 21. Lootboxes are bad, sure, I get it, but that was also the case last year and hasn't changed. You can still play the game and enjoy some of the many other modes without engaging with lootboxes and it would be nice if he at least touched upon whether or not that is worth doing.

To look at some other recent examples, there was the Kena review where they decided to get pre-emptively offended about some of the symobology used in the game on behalf of people in Asia who don't seem to have an issue with it, or their recent Lost Judgment review where they basically decided the game doesn't have a right to explore mature themes because it's fun, a criticism that nobody else seems to share - I'm playing the game at the moment and very much enjoying it. And their attack on It Takes Two because the reviewer seemed to have some personal hangup about divorce was pretty bizarre.

All reviews are ultimately subjective of course, but there are different levels of subjectivity and it feels that to a large extent they've moved away from the old fashioned informative review format that talks about game mechanics etc which they used to do, and have moved into this new format where the reviewer just has free reign to pontificate about whatever they want and you come away none the wiser about whether it's a game you should buy.

Digital Foundry remains excellent, though maybe not so relevant for consumer information these days when all games perform excellently on both consoles, but they still produce some articles that make for interesting reading.

Yeah it looks to be but silent hill 2 is not even there so the whole thing is null and void and whilst that is my opinion, I will happily say anyone who doesn't think it should be in the top 100 is wrong and wont be changed on it

It's a list of 64 games. It couldn't even get past the last 16. That is indicative that it isn't that highly thought of by the tens of millions of players that have played it.

So even with their massive player base advantage, Skyrim failed to get past the last 16 in a 64 game competition, that's a big loss for Skyrim and for you.

I'm glad that this discussion is now settled and it's time to move on.