I have to admit, I even found the very first trailer for this to be boring as hell, so I’m not surprised that there’s a mixed reaction to the game itself. It just looked dull (in gameplay terms, that is - the visuals obviously looked gorgeous) and samey. When your short trailer leaves me feeling like that, it doesn’t…

I’ve drifted away from AAA games in general over the last few years due to this seemingly endless creep-upward in terms of size and utter filler.

I do love Forza, but I sometimes feel I’m at a huge disadvantage simply because I don’t know that much about cars, so all the tuning stuff sails way over my head. I know you can download tunes (and I do, because it’s the only way to be competitive) but I have no idea whatsoever how/why they work, or what ones are…

I’m actually in a vaguely similar situation, having thought it was something to do with the Elder Scrolls and being out of the loop. Looks interesting, but the Souls-type games are way beyond my frustration threshold nowadays.

I genuinely fall into both of those categories, but came in purely because the article title sounded vaguely bizarre enough to warrant a read.

I still find it incredible how people can put together these images when the game doesn’t have the option to import an image of any kind. Some of the designs I’ve seen have been incredible and my mind boggles at how they could have been put together using a few basic shapes.

I still can’t get Generation Zero to work on PC Game Pass. On both my desktop PC and my laptop, it just shows a never-ending black loading screen (with the flashing diamonds icon at the top right) and doesn’t progress beyond this.

This feels like it has a very Untitled Goose Game vibe to it, and I’m down for that!

The flip side of that being if you want to play online and you don’t know anything about tuning, you need to download a tune for any car you use because the stock tunings are rarely even competitive against the AI or other players. I feel this can be a bit off-putting for the newbies.

Yeah, I’ve not gotten round to trying 12 Minutes either - have only seen a friend playing a bit - but the implementation at least sounded like an attempt to do something a bit different, rather than, say, “climb this tower to unlock quests in this section of the map” stuff, y’know?

Disco Elysium is your go-to for something that feels like a genuinely new experience (well it was for me, anyway).

“I don’t think, when comparing the two, that III possesses any superior game or story aspect over Vice City, which I don’t think can be said when you compare later entries to their forebears.”

Yes! This! The thing I truly don’t get is why they don’t make some of the Online stuff available for single-player as well. Would it really be so hard to give us some of the new cars, for instance, even if we have to earn money and buy them from one of the in-game websites?

Hell, if they charged $5 for a DLC pack of…

They cancelled it all when they realised that focusing on Online would make them more money than God.

Multiplayer has, for me anyway, become more of a hassle than anything else since the advent of online gaming really taking off. I freely hold my hands up to admit I’m simply not good enough to compete with about 80% of users (and that’s not even covering the cheaters, which is a whole other rant) and I simply now, at…

I didn’t mind the GTA V game, but it had virtually zero replayability for me, which was a first for the series. That was, in large part, down to how overpowered the cops were. In prior GTA games, I’d kill some time and chill out by nicking a car and going on a big wild police chase across the map, seeing how long I…

Same. The first two were reasonably grounded, and a lot of fun (the “Insurance Fraud” mini-game was outstandingly hilarious with friends over taking turns), and then III just went full blown “trying way too hard” mode and killed it for me.

I hope PC gamers don’t get left out of the remasters.

That’d be outstanding. One of my favourite books, that.

Has no-one seen the end of Black Sheep? It tells a tale as old as time.