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Decent Christmas sale on PSN at the moment. Kinda tempted with Dicey Dungeons for a couple of quid.

I played it last year on the Switch and loved it. It's a cracking 3D platformer.

I fell out of love with them after TLOU2. Not really excited by this at the moment. I'm hoping for a more light hearted adventure (Uncharted) over something moody and serious.

Did you enjoy that? I heard/read mixed things about it. Same goes for Fantasian.

No fancy for Echoes of Wisdom?

Ended 4-3 to Spurs. Absolutely bonkers match. Loved it.

Haha! Now the Man U keeper cocked up and gifted Spurs a goal. Great game for the neutral.

This Spurs v Man U match is hilarious. Spurs 3-0 up but their keeper has gave away two goals to Man U in a short space of time.

I've not been able to watch it since it left Amazon. Shame as I loved it to bits.

Done!

Decent trailer but the teaser for Superman Returns is still my favourite.

Was looking through my trophy history and seen that it was 10 years ago this month that I played and platinumed the game. Looking back through the thread and that checks out. With Julius now playing it, clearly Resident Evil is a Christmas game, just like Die Hard and Gremlins are Christmas movies.

Where is your review, @Glen-i? As per the yearly tradition, I wanna see the ludicrous amount of hours you've played in 2024.

Exactly and that's what's annoying the developers so much. It's one rule for the small guy and another for EA.

In Australia both it and EA FC are rated M, so at least there's some consistency there.

Confirmed for other platforms and out late next year.

Definitely the best outcome from those rumours. I was concerned that they would be acquired, which is something that needs to stop happening, and this seems to be a happy middle ground.

Nah. Still not picked it up. I've got far too many JRPGs to get through as it is. Plus, I'm not a huge fan of DQ3.

Given how many JRPGs you get through, I'm surprised that genre didnt win.

Shoddy year for me. Mixture of a quiet Switch release schedule and the majority of my time being on the PS4/5. 54 hours on Mario Party in single player is pretty hilarious.

Games leaving in January.

Nah, you did the right thing starting with this entry. It sets the story up for the rest of the series, as well as giving an idea on how the likes on Resident Evil 2 and 3 play out. Saying that, if you can't get to grips with the controls then the remake of 2 and 3 would probably suit you more. I wouldn't be so hard on yourself. The original games are quite unique and the first time you play one will be a slow burn. Once you get a feel for the puzzles, controls and start memorising the area, you will be flying through it. I lived through the tank control era and so they come second nature to me but I can imagine them being rough for a young whipper snapper like yourself. Can't you change them in the HD version? I thought you could, it's just that they are still a bit fiddly due to the prerended background environments and fixed camera angles. As for the Crimson Heads, if you kill a zombie in an area you think you'll be returning to on a regular basis then it's best to burn the body. It's either that or risk having to face a tough enemy when going back and forth.

Yeah, Nix was cute enough but Sabaac I wasn't a fan of. It didn't help that I was playing it completely wrong for the first half of the game. I was baffled as to why my opponents were getting extra chips or placing limitations on me. I then realised I could do the same to them with the abilities that you unlock. Once I figured that out, as well as unlocking the cheat to draw 2 cards, it was a piece of cake.

A game that is a very mixed bag. The world of Star Wars is very well represented here. The planets, characters, music and overall look of the game certainly do the franchise justice. That's pretty much where my praise ends. The gameplay is very much a cookie cutter, Ubisoft game. They seem to have taken a lot of inspiration from their Assassin's Creed IP and slapped on a Star Wars skin. The stealth missions being a big comparison. Even when the game doesn't require you to sneak about, it still punishes you a lot of the time for being in open combat. A lot of the side missions start off being a little fun but soon become a grind and very repeatative, with the same kind of thing being repeated on each of the 4 planets. Despite the numerous patches the game has had since release, I still had a fair few glitches. I had one where my speeder bike got stuck in the ground and wouldn't move, a couple of hard crashes that lost some of my misson progress and this gem right here happened on more than one occasion... Yeah, I would have loved to have got a move on except I couldn't! In terms of SW games, this year I've played through this, Clone Wars, Battlefront Collection and Dark Forces Remastered and this was easily the worst of the bunch.