Hate to say it but I don't think PC games had quite got there yet in 1997 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wi… . Quake 2 and Jedi Knight are on that list, but all the true greats of early hardware acceleration turned up a year later.

Is it actually worth playing? The last JRPG I finished was Skies of Arcadia, and I've barely touched one since getting fed up with FFIX after too many hours of waiting for the game to start

So a first-person 4x strategy game about a depressed young lady running a CIA-sponsored skate-shop?

Forgot about that one. Personally I thought Alice was a bit pants, but there you go.

I'd prefer Jon Spencer Battle Explosion but that works too

Well it is a really big deal to win a solo game- it's a free-for-all with 100 players, and it's not simply a case of a 1 in 100 chance of coming out on top. The one game I've won felt like one of the biggest gaming achievements I've ever managed; my hands were shaking afterwards.

Just that calling something X's 'Y'doesn't automatically inspire confidence. Did anyone know who American McGee was before he got his name attached to something?

It’s a great game, but the name is a problem.

Also, Elephunk by the Black Eyed Peas would have been a true work of art if Fergie had kept her damn opinions to herself

Yes, please refer to the game solely as Plunkbat and never PUBG. If it's to have a stupid name, at least let it be a good stupid name.

It's forever tainted. Alto sax, soprano sax: great. Tenor sax: awful.

The 80s sax is the reason I hate the sound of the tenor saxophone.

The AV Club will remember that etc

One of my favourite games ever- an absolute masterpiece. It's a real shame you can't play the co-op, as it's some of the most hilarious and mind bending multiplayer gaming you can do (voice comms are pretty essential though)

Could be worse. I borrowed The Last of Us from my old boss a few years back to play on the abandoned PS3 that was in the flatshare I was living in at the time. He couldn't get past a particular section early on with Joel fighting some big mushroom in a basement. Not because it was hard, but because it kept making his…

Are you sure they were coins?

That's what you think, went and saw it last night- pretty good, though Harisson Ford is looking his age a bit

10.6.17 ? Hey, that means it's been out over here for a month!

Plunkbat. We should all be calling it Plunkbat.