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Games Inbox: Best PS4 exclusive games, Resident Evil 5 remake, and GAME shop closures


Which is your favourite game? (pic: Sony)

The Monday Inbox wants to know what Rocksteady’s new multiplayer game is, as one reader looks forward to 8K gaming on PS5 and Xbox.

To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@ukmetro.co.uk

 

Catching up
I have just recently bought myself a PlayStation 4 and was wondering what are the best exclusives? I got Marvel’s Spider-Man with it and it’s a bit repetitive but still a decent game.
Bob

GC: It really depends what kind of games you like, but some of our favourites include Bloodborne, God Of War, Persona 5, Nioh, Uncharted 4 and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Tetris Effect, Shadow Of The Colossus, Horizon Zero Dawn, WipEout Omega Collection, Street Fighter 5, and (until some of them come to Xbox later this year) the Yakuza series. We also hear that GT Sport has got much better since launch, although we haven’t tried it since then.

 

Square one
So after five years of having no Microsoft console Black Friday and Game Pass have won me back. I got an Xbox One S disc version and two controllers for £150 in Tesco, which got wrapped up for Xmas, and wow the amount of games I’ve tried that I had dabbled with buying but didn’t on the PlayStation 4 is mental.

Dead Cells being a standout and for a quid for three months I’m playing The Outer Worlds, State Of Decay 2 (1 being a favourite before I stopped playing Xbox 360 to jump on The Last Of Us on PlayStation 3) and loads of others. If Microsoft unveil some good exclusive I might be looking at getting an Xbox Series X and waiting for Bloodborne 2 before getting a PlayStation 5.
Zombiekicker

GC: There’ll be no Xbox Series X exclusives for at least a year and there’s never been any hint of Bloodborne 2, so we’re not sure where that leaves you.

 

Tip of the iceberg
Between the Batman and Assassin’s Creed leaks it definitely seems like companies are waiting for a big event they can make their announcements at. That Capcom video also talked about early February, maybe that’s the day Sony or Microsoft will make their big reveal? Sony I’d guess, as they seem to get on better with Capcom. I guess they could wait till E3 but June seems a long way off and a bit too close to launch, relatively speaking.

If those two games are being held back then who knows how many others? That’s three major games from three major publishers so imagine if all the others have one or two games to be showing off?!

I just hope that we see more IPs among them. That’s been my major beef about this gen. It’s generally been very good but the lack of new franchises has been very disappointing and I do wish companies had a bit more faith in that if a game is good people will play it, whether it’s got a number after its name or not.
The Colt

 

Punch that boulder
100% agree with the Reader’s Feature about Resident Evil being the best. For a game about zombies eating your face off there’s something about the games that is just so darn loveable, even the ones that take themselves more seriously. Resident Evil 3 looks to be making all the right moves, in terms of dealing with one of the weaker entries in the series and I only hope they get around to giving Resident Evil 5 the same treatment.

There’s nothing you can do with Resident Evil 6 as far as I’m concerned but I genuinely think Resident Evil 5 is just a few tweaks away from being a classic like the rest. Improve the controls and the AI for the co-op character and that’d already make a big difference. Bump up some of the more samey encounters with the new graphics and you’d have a great game.

Resident Evil 5 has some prime cheese in it, some of the best in the whole series once you get to the end and it’s definitely the best Wesker has ever been as a character. I love it and I hope it doesn’t get skipped over with the remakes.
Poppy

 

Wasted power
If both next gen consoles have got more than enough power under the hood to do 8K 60fps (maybe more with frame rate) what does it matter how powerful each of them are? I’m no gaming geek but just as long as they can do 8K why does it matter? I mean Xbox or PlayStation 5 could have 20 times more power than they’re going to but the max they will do is 8K.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a PlayStation fan from day one but even if the PlayStation 5 has more power the machine will only do what the TV/monitors can do, so what’s the point in so much power? And just to let you know, a few months back I said hell yes about the PlayStation 5 but hell no to 8K TV. Well, I’ve just dropped my £2.5K TV so looks like I will be buying a new Samsung 8K HDR TV. Ordering it next Friday, can’t wait.
David

GC: Increasing the resolution is just about the least interesting thing that can be done with the new consoles’ power. Besides that, 8K on next gen consoles is likely to be as difficult, if not more so, as 4K this gen.

 

The one with the crank
Happy new year and all that. I haven’t written in for a long time, but Playdate have just sent out their December update and I am really looking forward to it. With my kids getting older, getting access to the TV for gaming sessions is harder, so I find myself on handhelds more and more.

Switch, 3DS, even my trusty PS Vita (remember that one?). The Playdate looks really quirky and with good developer support. Details are here.
half_empty80

 

At least it’s over
After finally getting round to seeing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and reading your comments I largely agree. It was much better than I feared but I did find it hugely frustrating in places. To introduce major new plot features and characters in the third film of a trilogy with no build-up is just bad filmmaking!

That kind of sums up my main problems with the new trilogy, there seemed to be no real coherence in plot or tone across the films. From a Star Wars perspective it was also strange to introduce major new mythology at this stage, which everyone seemed to magically know about but again never previously hinted at and the Force powers are just getting silly!

Having said that, I did thoroughly enjoy the last hour or so and thought both Rey and Kylo’s characters really carried the film well. I’d agree with the reader who said it finished off the story fittingly although I’d argue was it a story that ever needed to be continued?! Any had my two pennies worth, pleased the Force is still strong at GC!
DuckOfDeath82 (PSN ID)

GC: Rey and Kylo Ren were always the strongest part of the trilogy. One of its many mistakes was not focusing more on them and wasting too much time with legacy and side characters.

 

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Masters of gaming
Every time news about the new Batman game comes up I just can’t believe how long it’s been since the last one. Not a single game from WB Montréal since Arkham Origins in 2013?! That is some seriously bad management skills in action there. I’m shocked they’ve been kept open to be honest.

I imagine some of the problem is the negativity towards lootboxes nowadays, which probably led to a lot of rethinks but I still don’t understand how they could have possibly taken an entire generation. This next game better be pretty amazing after all this.

The first Avengers movie came out in 2012, so for the length of time it’s taken Marvel to put out two phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and wrap the whole thing up with Iron Man and Captain America we haven’t had a single new Batman game or anything DC-related except for Injustice. Talk about missing the boat and open opportunity.

DC could’ve set themselves up as the masters of gaming when it came to superheroes, but now they’ve bene overtaken by Spider-Man and probably Avengers if that turns out decent. I hope whatever Rocksteady are working on is good, because they’ve been quiet for almost as long too. Is the rumour still something multiplayer related?
Impactor

GC: The rumour for Rocksteady is indeed some kind of DC-themed multiplayer game, but there’s never been any detailed leaks.

 

Inbox also-rans
Poor old GAME, I think this might be it for them at last. To be honest I’m impressed they lasted this long. The last time I went in one of their shops was to look for amiibos, and that was four years ago or so.
Patern

Other Wii U games to port are Kirby Canvas Curse (maybe) and Yoshi’s Woolly World (defo).
Anon

GC: The Switch already has its own Yoshi game and Woolly World was ported to the 3DS. Assuming you mean Kirby And The Rainbow Paintbrush (aka Kirby And The Rainbow Curse) it would never work in docked mode, since it needs the touchscreen, and… it wasn’t very good.

 

This week’s Hot Topic
The question for this weekend’s Inbox is simple, but not easy to answer: what is your favourite video game of the last decade?

We offered up our top 10 list over Christmas but what is your favourite from the years 2010 to 2019? You can name just one game or several, but we want to know what you enjoyed the most during the last decade.

Was your choice a big hit at the time and how influential was it in terms of the decade as a whole? What do you think were the most notable traits of gaming during the 2010s and how well does your pick exemplify them?

E-mail your comments to: gamecentral@ukmetro.co.uk

 

The small print
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