Ah, okay. Yeah I knew you didn’t mean they were on Game Pass, but as you’d just mentioned “free” games and then Lost Odyssey, which was given away free at some point, I thought you meant you’d got that and Blue Dragon for free. I guess you missed the Lost Odyssey promo though - sorry about that! As for Blue Dragon,…

Whoa, whoa - when/where/how was Blue Dragon free? I always wanted to play that and Lost Odyssey - and did get Lost Odyssey when it was free - but never saw anything about Blue Dragon, and was actually looking for a copy on eBay this week.

Same here - I have a PC and all consoles, but the PS4 and Switch only get used for exclusives and the PC mostly gets used for anything that’s best played at a desk with keyboard and mouse, so the Xbox One X gets used all the time for any third party game that I want to play on the TV, lounging on the sofa. That's…

Sony has a Game Pass competitor - PS Now. It started as a way to stream PS3 games to PS4 and PC (as an overpriced half-assed consolation prize for those who wanted backwards compatibility) but now also has PS4 games, which work like Game Pass. But it's more expensive despite having a much worse selection, with games…

They were both on PS2 as well, as was Resident Evil 4 (which is on Switch). The other two Capcom Five games were Dead Phoenix, which was cancelled, and PN03, which remains a GC exclusive.

Yeah, the prices are killing me. I was okay paying full Nintendo price for 1-2 games per year - it started with Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey - but this year I've already bought New Super Mario Bros, Mario Maker, Fire Emblem and Link's Awakening and yet I've still got Luigi's Mansion 3 and Pokémon to get, plus…

Wargroove is excellent, as is Fire Emblem - I haven’t finished it yet but the reviewers consensus is that it doesn’t have the same writing/plot issues that previous games have.

Also a multi platform gamer and I love my Switch. I'd say the amount of time I spend on it has grown this year, thanks to the steady stream of releases, to the point where it's equal to any of my other consoles or PC. The handheld aspect really helps, especially as I'm into strategy and RPGs and those are games that…

You can get third party Pro controllers that are exact replicas of the official ones for a fraction of the price - as in, they even have the Nintendo and the Switch logos on, which is pretty naughty. But I paid £50 for my Pro controller and only £12 for one of these fakes and the quality is about the same - they’re…

I get your point - since I first got a PC there have been lots of games that have made me go “Damn, I’m going to have to upgrade!”, and sometimes that’s been a great excuse to upgrade and sometimes it’s been more painful, because I haven’t been able to justify the upgrade cost at the time - but I’ve never begrudged…

That’s a lot to go through - do you have anything specific to go on?

I guess you weren’t around at the time or don’t remember the backlash against the idea that you had to be online, or at least perform online activation, in order to play a single player game - because in 2004, far fewer people had internet, and those that did didn’t have it in every room of the house (Wi-Fi wasn’t…

Source? (No pun intended there) Because, at time of writing, all they had said was that it is called Half-Life: Alyx and that it is a VR game.

I guess he means everyone should just watch video games instead of playing them, which seems to be a thing among youngsters that I’ve never understood.

Rumour consensus is that it’s a prequel to HL2, so it will be following Alyx with whatever she was up to before she found Gordon Freeman - so while he was in suspended animation or wherever the G-Man was keeping him.

The price is a real barrier to entry (especially if you need to upgrade your PC as well), as is the physical space requirement, but I managed to get a pretty good deal on a pre-owned Oculus Rift and have been really enjoying a lot of what I’ve played with it - but I wouldn’t say that it’s an unmissable experience.

Perfect rebuke from Pandaman there.

Yeah I think Jason’s monkey paw analogy was spot on.

My thoughts exactly! The Lab is a lot of fun and I spent way too much time playing fetch with that robot slinky dog (a highlight of my VR experience was when I reached down to pet him and felt the nose of my real life dog, who had obviously wandered over to find out what the hell this stupid headset was for, so that…

Agreed. There are lots of people saying “This is going to be a flop because not enough people will want to buy VR for it” but, while I don’t know how much it’s going to cost to develop, there is enough of an install base across all VR headsets for it to sell pretty well for a VR game, and even if it doesn’t, Valve is…