So PS Plus Premium is out now it clearly has some issues, the most obvious being there aren’t that many games. I’m sure they’re though, so I’m interesting to know what retro games others are hoping for? I’d really like to see more PlayStation 1 and 2 games, It’d be great if they could get all the classics on there, including tomb rider, Crash Bandicoot, Vagrant Story, and Metal Gear Solid. Those are the game that I personally really associate with the PlayStation 1.
On the PlayStation 2 I’d like to see Final Fantasy 10, Silent Hill 2, Burnout, and as many Japanese role-players as possible. I’m not even sure there’s any at the moment, across any of the formats!
the Mania
Having played through Sonic Origins, following your review, I found the whole experience unexpectedly flat, and I think it’s because of Sonic Mania. relative failure of Sonic games, to convincingly and consistently translate into 3D, ensured the 16-bit era largely remained the gold standard for the series, and it was always something of a relief to go back to them. But Mania taking the best bits of those games and making them better leaves the original titles feeling a tad Almost everything about them seems more antiquated than ever before due to the benchmark set by Sonic Mania, in terms of how creative classic style zones and gameplay can be feels miserly to want Sonic Origins to fail, so I’m not sure I’d go that far. But I hope it at least enough for Sega to they can’t keep trading on the same four games over and over again. Not when Sonic Mania has provided a blueprint for how to continue their legacy.
Punish me
Great news about the free update coming next month for Into The Breach (which, as it happens, I only picked up this year, thanks to some glowing praise for it in the Inbox). New squads, enemies, bosses, weapons, missions, and music are all welcome, but the part I’m most excited about is the addition of an even harder played it enough that I can win a run on hard mode fairly reliably, the option to raise the difficulty further is just what I need. If it’s a decent level of challenge, that could be another 40 hours of fun chasing after a win with every squad with Dead Cells, it’s always welcome to see an indie developer crafting substantial post-launch updates. Kudos to Subset Games for doing this, and I hope the mobile versions succeed in bringing this fantastic game to a wider audience.
The new thing
I think it’s pretty certain that Rockstar is working on a remaster of Red Dead Redemption, given Take-Two has said they’ve got a gazillion of them on the way and the GTA 3 remasters sold a ton even though they were really bad quality.
I certainly won’t be buying it, no matter how much I enjoyed Red Dead Redemption 2, and I hope publishers get out of this new obsession with remasters. When you were upgrading PS1 and PS2 games it was fine, given how limited the graphics were back then. But when you’re dealing with PlayStation 3 and 4 games, there’s just no point. Especially not if you’re going to try and charge full price for it. just see it as easy money now we’ve potentially got Naughty Dog and too of the best developers in the business, wasting their time updating games that are perfectly fine on their own. Thanks to the pandemic the industry already feels like stuck in neutral, and this is not helping
Quick to judge
Sometimes gaming culture and the conversations that go alongside it make me feel so dejected. Recently there’s been a lot of talk around a game that no one really knows much about, but everyone seems to have a high degree of certainty will be a mess
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