General gaming discussion

Sick burn by the AC social media person 😂 Grifter trying to get people to boycott the game, these people deserve every inch of ridicule they get.

Last update on this, but getting a lot better with the leverless. Made it to Mighty Ruler in Tekken 8 on PC only playing online for less than a week, whereas it took me over 6 weeks on PS5 when the game first came out. A lot of that is obviously down to experience with the game, knowledge of characters/moves, but yeah, the leverless is a very fun way to play and in many respects has improved some aspects of my game. I can hit pretty much all my combos and stuff. The main bits I have trouble with are just the little filler bits between combos; hitting opponents on the ground, changing a combo because it's now against a wall etc. Going to take a while to build up muscle memory for that because it's a hard thing to practice because it's more circumstantial.

Got an adapter thingy so the Haute42 will work on PS5 (apparently without it, you'd have to have the dualsense on beside you and press a button on it every few minutes or the leverless would turn off after 8 minutes or something), but will stick to just using it on PC for now. Ranking up will slow down now because I'm up against better opponents.

So yeah, if you're into fighting games on console but you've never played with a fightstick or leverless, it's worth a try. Takes a bit of getting used to but is actually really enjoyable.

This is Retr0 II. Play Ace Combat 7 😉 😄

I will pay Ace Combat 7 one day..... On my xbox.

I loved THPS 4 so bo have no idea how the new format will change that. People freaking out online but i imagine three devs found a way to make it work or wouldn't have considered it.

Yeah and I'd imagine since you're packaging THPS3&4 together, wild shifts in format between the two of them would be quite jarring to go back and forth between.

I really don't know if I've actually played either of the originals of these. I think I might have jumped out after THPS2 and then come back for THUG. I know I loved the first two but I think just for financial reasons I never got to play 3 & 4. None of the gameplay I've seen looks familiar, and I know I never had Wolverine, Darth Maul or Officer Dick (which I would have done if I'd owned the games). So yeah, this could be a new experience for me.

I think from reading it there will still be a free skate mode for levels with no time limit, it just may not have the challenges.

I was surprised then this was rumoured and then announced, i figured they just grabbed the original devs from what they were doing to make this. Why use new Devs when you already have the og devs (unless they moved on when they were told to work in cod, which i absolutely would not blame them for).

It's like these companies are competing to be the absolute worst. Then you have Josef Fares on the opposite end, I'm shocked EA give him so much free reign but he's such a good example of leaving the devs alone to make the game they want and stop the suits butting in trying to euin it.

Guns of Fury - This looks like a really nice contra / metroidvania hybrid with really nice pixel art ...