The Friday letters page laments the death of Guitar Hero and rhythm action games, as one reader claims Final Fantasy 8 is his favourite entry.

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Perfect timing
It’s hard not to read the report on GTA 6’s progress and not be worried about another delay. My gut tells me they will hit the November release date, just because it’s a good time of the year and people are beginning to lose patience but just imagine what would happen if they released GTA 6 and it was a buggy mess or not that great.

Cyberpunk 2077 proves you can come back from anything, but the press will have a field day with GTA 6 if it doesn’t live up to expectations. And it took a long time for Cyberpunk to recover, during which there was talk of CD Projekt being sold off, so I’m going to guess that’s not the sort of reaction Rockstar and Take-Two want.

The idea that they’ve not yet started polishing does worry me though. It’s easy to assume from that, that either the game’s going to be delayed until 2027 or it will be buggy. The GTA 3 remasters show Rockstar can put out janky rubbish if they think they can get away with it, but I just hope that they have contingencies for all this and realise that not only does GTA 6 need to be perfect but it also has to actually come out at some point.
Zeiss

One or done
I really hope that Fable turns out to be good. It seems so long since the idea of a reboot was first talked about and we’ve seen so little of it in the meantime. Playground Games do good work with Forza Horizon, so I’m hopeful it’ll work, but those are two very different kinds of games.

I imagine that was part of the problem, in it taking so long, but if this doesn’t impress then that’s going to be the end of the franchise, and whatever team was making it (they’ll keep the Forza Horizon people).

It’s really terrible how so often nowadays the failure of a single game can mean the end of a whole franchise and hundreds of job losses. Here’s hoping that the Developer Direct goes well and isn’t a Suicide Squad style disaster.
Wotan

Turbo milking
Maybe I’m just slow but for me Guitar Hero was the point that I realised that the companies in charge of gaming really haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. Activision could’ve kept that franchise running forever – it was super popular when it came out and non-gamers loved it – but instead they ran it into the ground at warp speed and the whole thing was over in just a few years.

I doubt that this new game will do that well because nowadays plastic guitars are just associated with a weird fad that quickly became uncool, but that didn’t have to happen. If they’d taken their time and tried to innovate, they would be more than a one franchise company and music games might not have been killed off before their time.
Focus

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Seasonal gaming
I know it’s unusual, and there is the problem of whether you can get back the same voice actors, but I really like the idea of coming back to a game after a decade or so and giving it new DLC. A new sequel is a good excuse but I’m happy for it at any time, especially when it’s a game as good as The Witcher 3.

I’d love to see new expansions for Skyrim or anything from FromSoftware. Or definitely the story DLC that games like GTA 5 and God Of War never got. If companies are so keen on live service titles then they could create something like it just by constantly giving single-player games new content. I’d much rather that than watch them waste millions on another identikit online shooter.

I never liked the idea of episodic gaming but if they can make them more like TV seasons, where you get a new expansion every year or two, I think that would be a lot more appealing to most people. If the new Witcher 3 expansion is successful then maybe we’ll see it set a trend.
Brammo

Good publicity
I am fascinated to see what MachineGames will be allowed to get away with when it comes to Wolfenstein 3. Things are a lot different now than they used to be and for me the big question is are Bethesda going to sanitise the new game or are they going to push for it to be as anti-Nazi as possible, in order to get as much publicity as possible. We won’t know until there’s an annoucement, but it could go either way.

Speaking of MachineGames, I hope they get to make a Quake game too. It seems like they were training for that for years and I was really looking forward to a single-player game in their usual style, with optional multiplayer, just like the original game. A Rainbow Six Siega knock-off is absolutely not what I want to see from them next.
Limpton
PS: Also, where’s that second bit of Indiana Jones And The Great Circle DLC?

Power paradox
I also think there’s a reasonable (let’s say 50/50) chance of seeing a new mainline Zelda trailer this year. Something less than a minute long and not really showing much, just like they usually do. But show a new Link and a glimpse at a bit of new landscape and you’ll have fans talking for years (including me).

I do think it’s weird that the 40th anniversary is in barely more than a month, though, and there’s no new game. Come to that, Pokémon’s 30th anniversary is also next month, and they don’t seem to have announced anything for that either. Missing one anniversary is no big deal but Nintendo seem to be doing it more than not now, to the point where it just seems completely random when they do acknowledge one.

I think we have to accept that we are in a new era where Nintendo is suffering all the same problems as everyone else and they can’t put out new games as often as they used to. Things take too long now, for everyone, and presumable they’re more expensive for Nintendo too.

That’s not the end of the world, except I worry it’s going to make them more worried about experimenting. We’ve had not a hint of a new IP yet for the Switch 2 (no, Drag x Drive does not count) and I’m not sure who’d bet on when the next one will arrive.

I get that they have to pay the bills, like any other company, but I’m beginning to wish the Switch 2 hadn’t been that much more powerful after all.
Keef

Hateful eight
In all these years I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about remastering Final Fantasy 8, which confuses me as I thought it was generally pretty well liked. Was that just me and the game is secretly hated or something?

I imagine the game’s not easy to remaster, because of the pre-rendered backdrops, but 9 had them as well and there’s been lots of rumours of that getting a glow-up. Admittedly that doesn’t seem to have happened yet, but I’d rather have had 8 anyway.

Am I the only person who thinks it’s their favourite Final Fantasy? I won’t say it’s the best, because it’s probably nostalgia talking, but it is the one I think of first when I think of older games.
Molb

Unknown presents
A little late to the party when it comes to what I got for Christmas, but I wanted to share my experience of opening gaming presents in front of family who don’t game at all.

My wonderful wife got me two gaming presents this year that I had asked for. On the day, when it was my turn to open a present, I first happily opened Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the title of which alone made many eyes glaze over. I briefly explained that it was 2025’s Game of the Year and allowed the present opening to continue.

My turn came again and I open NiGHTS Into Dreams for the Sega Saturn ‘with the special controller you need to get the most out of the game’. Cue the bemused smiles and lack of follow-up questions.

Needless to say, I’m very excited to play both of my gifts. However, when the other side of the family came on Boxing Day and asked what I’d got for Christmas, I showed them the lovely dressing gown and slipper combo I’d received instead.
Ed

GC: NiGHTS Into Dreams is definitely a nice present, it’s worth quite a bit now.

Inbox also-rans
I wish I could be optimistic about the new Life Is Strange game but the last one was such a disaster I’m not sure I’ll even bother trying it. One of the worst sequels I’ve ever played.
Gibson

I’m not going to argue over Mortal Kombat Mythologies being a terrible game but I will say that the Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection was really good. I appreciate the amount of work they put into it and that even the bad games were included. Completeness matters!
Lang440bell

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Summer dreamin’
I am also resigned to Nintendo’s next big announcements being underwhelming. I’m not sure we’ll even get much this year, since they’ve actually revealed quite a bit already, even if nobody’s that excited about Mario Tennis and that weird Yoshi game they wouldn’t explain.

Add Splatoon and Fire Emblem to that and I don’t think you can really hope for a major annoucement until the summer. Of course, you can’t guarantee anything with Nintendo, but with the Switch 2 selling well and plenty of games on their cards they’re really in no rush.

Still, as a fan, I can’t help but try to imagine what they’ll announce next. I do think it could be a new Zelda. It’s three years now since Tears Of The Kingdom, and they announced that a long time before it came out. Add in the 40th anniversary and I think there’s actually a reasonable chance of a teaser trailer this year. Just to keep the pot boiling, so to speak.

I also notice that that online game they were playtesting a few years ago still hasn’t been announced. I don’t think it’s ever been clear what it is, but a new IP would be a nice thing to hear about right now.
Onibee

Three-way fight
Interesting to see how well Arc Raiders is still doing and that it’s ahead of Battlefield 6, even if that’s also done well. It does seem to me that the hype for Battlefield has cooled pretty quickly though. Redsec didn’t seem to catch on at all and it’s definitely Arc Raiders that was the biggest shooter of last year, with Battelfield second and Call Of Duty a distant third.

I’ll be interested to see how this evolves over the course of the year. Will Arc Raiders be a flash in the pan? Is the race close enough that Battlefield 6 could overtake it? What will happen to this year’s Call Of Duty? Even if it’s good, will there be too much damage to the name that it’s still a flop?

I gotta admit, when it comes to Call Of Duty I am a bit of a hater, so I’d be very happy to see it knocked down a peg or three.
Josh

Radioactive bugs
For me the problem with a Fallout remaster, whether it’s 3 or New Vegas, is that Oblivion is still in an absolute state, with no sign of it being properly fixed, and I’d bet large sums of money that any future game will be as well. Bethesda are just incapable of making a game that’s not a janky mess. Which is really annoying when otherwise they’re really good.

Nothing’s going to stop them from releasing Fallout remasters, not with the Amazon show being so popular, but please just wait for it to be finished first. The amount of time we’ve been waiting for New Vegas in particular, it’s just ridiculous to put it out and it’s a buggy mess that needs six months of updates to work properly.
Focus

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Deluxe celebration
I wonder what Square Enix will do once all three Final Fantasy 7 remake games are out? Obviously, they’ll try and bundle them up into one purchase but how much would they charge for it? Surely not £180 or anything close to it, and yet if it was much cheaper it’s going to really upset anyone that bought the originals at full price.

A part of me can’t help but hope they go whole hog though, with a collector’s edition that includes new content and characters and comes in some kind of crazy box with a statue and merch.

And before you peg me for a money wasting loony, I would say that I’d never usually buy that sort of thing. But I love Final Fantasy 7 and the first two remakes have been fantastic, so I’d really like to celebrate the end of it all in style. Somehow, I feel that Square Enix will be happy to take my money.
Coyotemac

Expensive year
40% of the world’s DRAM (RAM) output being bought Is frightening. Apparently, that will double the price of what remains and that’s how much will it cost now, as less is available; as the year goes on the price can only increase.

I can’t see, on a practical level, how the next gen consoles are not delayed but because the problem is that it’s needed for AI, the need for RAM will only increase. Just crazy times.
TWO MACKS

Technical limitations
I think the worst game I ever bought was Donkey Kong on Atari 2600. It was about £30, which was a lot back then! I saved up and sent my cheque/postal order to a mail order company, then had to endure the two week wait until it arrived. I was bitterly disappointed.

It only had two of the screens, the arcade version had four. Graphics and gameplay were pretty awful too. I should have read a review first but had to have it, as it might have taken magazines up to two months to review it! I listened to a podcast recently, where they interviewed the programmer. Turns out he had a 4K cartridge to fit it all into, which is a tiny amount of memory!

If the software company had given him 8K, he could have fit all four levels in, but more memory meant less profit for them. Also, he had to make it in about two months so they could get the game on the shelves ready for Christmas. I now understand how it turned out like it did.
Tim Keeling
PS: I’ve played Mario Kart World for 270 hours so far! That’s mainly on online Battle Mode, which is crazy addictive!

Eternal regret
RE: Badgerman. The worst game I ever bought was Eternal Darkness for the GameCube.

Despite the good reviews I really disliked it due to the instant high difficulty, confusing storyline, and frustrating gameplay. There is nothing worse than developers making your character limp and shuffle around when you are low on health, as you just become an even easier target for enemies!

The game was exchanged soon after, using GAME’s useful exchange or refund policy back in the day.
Adams6legend

Interestingly bad
It’s questionable whether it counts as the worst game I’ve ever bought, as it was hardly the main reason I bought the collection, but I recently played Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero on the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection, and if anything N64 Magazine were being generous awarding it 9%.

Pretty much every decision was baffling. It’s a platform game where you press up to jump and left trigger to turn around. As you move forward your character is positioned about 80% of the way along the screen, so you can’t see what’s ahead.

Half the traps are unavoidable unless you’ve been hit by them already and memorised where they are, and there are points where the necessary way forward looks identical to one of several instant kill holes in the same area. Also, despite starring Sub-Zero, most of the bosses are completely immune to ice attacks.

At least the live action cut scenes were entertainingly camp. I also played Special Forces but that was just incredibly boring rather than even interestingly bad.
TGN Professor

GC: We’d say that counts, especially as it is genuinely one of the worst games ever.

Inbox also-rans
That Detroit: Become Human story is really weird. I get that the game’s cheap, but £3.40 isn’t nothing. Did people really not have anything better to spend their money on than that?
Joffers

I was ready to call that Red Dead Redemption 2 ‘mystery’ a stupid fan conspiracy but that is actually pretty wild. Strange it’s not been noticed before. I definitely didn’t know there was similar stuff in GTA 5 as well.
Gordo

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Bad idea
I’m always fascinated to read about really bad games but the problem is that, unlike a bad movie, most people never really get to play them. You can play games you don’t like, sure, but you’ve really got to be skipping your homework to end up buying the video equivalent of The Room by accident.

I don’t think even GC or most reviewers play the absolute worst games, because what would be the point? It’d just be some hentai rubbish on the Switch eShop or a broken indie game on Steam. Never anything as interesting as MindsEye, which I’d have to pay real money to experience, before presumably finding out that the reviews are truthful.

I’ve been trying to think of the worst game I’ve actually paid any money for and I think it must be The Good Life, which I bought because I really liked Deadly Premonition. I was hoping it would at least be so bad it’s good, but it was just boring and broken. There was nothing entertaining about it at all, which I guess is probably true of MindsEye too… but that thought still fascinates me.
Badgerman

One to go
Never mind about the first Nintendo Direct of 2026, I’m waiting to see the first State of Play. We know that Xbox has something planned for the early year but it’s always more of a mystery with Sony.

Although at least we have something to look forward with them this year, in Saros and Wolverine. Considering who’s making them I’m pretty certain they’re going to turn out good, which is instantly a far better line-up for the year, than Sony has had for a long time.

It’s probably just a hiccup, and I doubt Saros will sell that well, but two or three quality first party games a year is all I ask. Announce one more before the spring and this year’s quota will already be I the bag!
Purple Ranger

Shadow drop
Why are so many people saying the Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time remake is going to come out on January 16? I’ve seen that date so many times now and everyone seems to think it’s real, but as far as I can work out Ubisoft has said nothing.

I’ll be absolutely shocked if it comes out that soon, considering we haven’t ever seen anything proper of this version of it. I’d be much less shocked if the remake never happened though. It’s been so long and I’m not sure there’s really that much demand for it.

But Ubisoft did finally get Skull And Bones out, so maybe they just like to see an idea through to its end. Here’s hoping (I think, I’m a bit worried what they’ll do to it).
Demmo

GC: There was a rumour of that date before The Game Awards in December, but nothing was announced. Some people still seem to believe it though, despite the fact that it would be commerical suicide to release it in nine days, without any prior marketing.

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Hallucinating madness
I feel like the world has gone mad at the moment, when it comes to AI. Am I really the only one that notices that it doesn’t work? Sure, it can spit you out a picture of something, with gibberish language and three-armed people, but so what? Who actually wants that? Especially as it’s so obvious it is AI.

Searching on Google is now much less reliable than it used to be and ChatGPT lies and hallucinates like a drunk politician. But because it’s making some fat cats rich (it doesn’t make money itself, it’s all about the investment) we suddenly have to use it for everything.

This Sony patent about having AI watch TikTok videos to ‘learn’ how to play game is madness. Ignoring the fact that it’s clearly not going to work, why doesn’t the developer just record a run themselves and use that. It’d take them what, a few hours at most? And they’d be doing it anyway for playtesting.

It’s exactly what Nintendo did for their system which, as you rightly point out, they got bored of very quickly, presumably because nobody used it. Because why buy a game just to have the console play it for you?
The Bishop

Each to their own
I see Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is next to bottom on Metacritic’s list of Switch 2 games.

Personally, I enjoyed the delve into the detailed workings of the Switch 2.

Yes, you do need the camera to fully explore but I had that anyway.

As a great lover of the incredible build instructions of Nintendo Labo I see Welcome Tour as a very well made insight to the Switch 2.

Nintendo Life’s review of Welcome Tour is similar to what mine would be.

Happy New Year to all.
Goldenlay

Direct excitement
Nintendo hasn’t had a Direct in February for the last two years, but I think that was just because the Switch 2 was coming. They had it pretty consistently before that, so I’m hopeful they’ll do one again this year.

The reader on Tuesday was right that Mario Kart World is a very sensible and suitable launch game, but I think most long term Nintendo fans would still say that it’s a bit of a disappointment and missing that classic Nintendo magic, even if it is still ‘good’.

My hope for the Direct is not anything specific, just that it not be the minimum effort we’ve seen so far. Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza felt like the only reveals at the Switch 2 unveil, even though they weren’t. Because who ever cared about Drag x Drive or Kirby Air Riders?

We need more games to get pumped about, to make the console seem like it’s worth it, but I’m afraid we’ll just get that new single-player Splatoon game and a few more unwanted spin-offs and special editions. I realise games take longer to make nowadays but I thought Nintendo were clever enough to work around that.

I’m beginning to worry that they’re not and that this is going to be a very underwhelming generation for them.
Koffey
PS: I just remembered that new Fire Emblem game. They’ll probably talk about that too, which doesn’t seem very exciting either.

Noisy neighbours
He didn’t knock my door down, but I did have the neighbour asking if I was ‘all right’ after getting a bit overexcited with Call Of Duty a few years ago.

I hadn’t really thought of how much noise I was making, since I had my headphones on, but apparently I was ‘cussing and cursing’ and they were worried some kind of fight was going on or that I was generally just a wrong ‘un. To be honest, they were probably right.
Tez

The big five
Well, you weren’t lying about the list of top games being a depressing one. I wasn’t sure what to expect but having the exact five games be the most popular, in almost exactly the same order, from one year to the next is very worrying. What’s worse is that I doubt that it was any different going back at least… five years? Maybe more?

Even worse than that, I doubt it’ll be any different for at least that length of time in the future. Video games aren’t like movies anymore. They’re not something you do where you’re always looking for something new you haven’t played before. Now they’re just these five games, and maybe a few others, that have existed for a decade or more and will go on for so long as anyone of us can imagine.

Other games sill exist alongside them, obviously, but I worry that for younger gamers that fact is going to be increasingly ignored and that for a more casual younger person there’s absolutely no reason to bother seeking out other games that aren’t just one of the ones in the list.

And then to add another problem on top, you’ve got the fact that if something new does come along, it’s still a very similar type of game. Arc Raiders is probably the biggest new title in a while but it’s still an online shooter (and I don’t think anywhere close to Call Of Duty or anything).

It’s a very worrying state of affairs that I cannot see changing for any reason in the future.
Cranston

Inbox also-rans
I never upset a neighbour while playing a game but more than once I’ve managed to startle my cat two foot into the air when failing to beat a boss in Elden Ring. She still loves me though.
Rendel

Since Konami is trying to bring back its old games, I wish they’d do a new Yie Ar Kung-Fu. No one else ever seems to have heard of it but I have very fond memories of that on the Commodore 64.
Focus

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Coming soon
After the upset around Metroid Prime 4 I tried to look on the positive and see what Nintendo had coming up next, but it’s not very encouraging.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but their first game of next year is the Switch 2 version of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and then it’s Mario Tennis Fever in February, and then Pokémon Pokopia in March.

That’s it for games with a date, but you’ve also got that new Yoshi game and the Switch 2 version of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Then things get really sketchy, with The Duskbloods and Fire Emblem maybe sometime in 2026.

I know they probably have plenty of things they haven’t announced (Splatoon Raiders doesn’t seem to be down for any particular year) but I hope that do that sooner rather than later because while the disappointments this year may have been relatively small, they’re still disappointments and I don’t need the Switch 2 to turn into another PlayStation 5 situation.
Connor

GC: You left out Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and Rhythm Paradise Groove, but then they are Switch 1 games.

Undead old school
Excited to hear that proper zombies are going to be in Resident Evil Requiem. I would’ve actually guessed the last time they were in a mainline game was Code: Veronica, but I guess they were also in Leon’s bits in Resident Evil 6. That game was so terrible, my brain has tried to save me but making me forget most of it. It’s so bad I think Resident Evil 7 is a bit underrated for how much it turned the series around.

Everything I’ve seen and heard of Requiem looks great and I am absolutely on board for it already. I just hope they manage to get the cheese right too. I enjoyed the Reader’s Feature about trying to make a straight-up comedy and while I wouldn’t go that far it is important for me that the game shouldn’t take itself completely seriously.

It’s difficult though, because the original’s was all unintentional and trying to copy that comes across as cringy. Hopefully they figure out something.
Janson

Retro definition
I am so over the HD-2D style from Square Enix. It was a fun gimmick at first but it’s actually pretty ugly and always seems to be too dark. I’m seeing rumours of a Chrono Trigger remake or sequel and at first I thought it might be good to do it in that style. But it really wouldn’t.

I know that Dragon Quest one was apparently good but a game of the quality of Chrono Trigger deserves a more personal touch. I don’t mind keeping kind of a retro look to it, but it shouldn’t just be a cheap job with the HD-2D engine, they need to maybe make something in 3D, maybe with voxels, to make it look unique. I’m not hopeful though.
Shatner2

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Don’t please everyone
I think we’re all going to be sick of hearing about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by the end of this month, since it’s obviously gong to sweep The Game Awards, but while we’re still this side of it I’d just like to say I think the game deserves all the praise it’s going to get.

I get that it’s not for everyone but I think that’s one of the great things about it being so successful. We need more games that aren’t for everyone. The very worst games are those bland, artless ones that are specifically designed to appeal to the lowest common dominator and end up doing nothing worthwhile or interesting, no matter how expensive they are.

It may sound odd, but I hope that whatever the next breakthrough hit is, it’s not my cup of tea. Just to prove that I’m not saying that because it happens to be something I like. Keep knocking out new and interesting games, that’s all I want. And I’ll probably buy them, to try them, even if I don’t think they’re my thing. I just appreciate the effort.
Cranston

Better late than never
Never played a Metroid game before but it’s still a shame to see a Nintendo game getting disappointing reviews. Personally, I think they’ve spread themselves too thin, given the amount of games released this year, and I think that’s very obvious in something like Drag x Drive, which was a fine enough idea but was so bare bones there was never a chance anyone was going to care about it.

I think it’s probably a mix of wanting to get as much out there as possible for the launch year and maybe having trouble adapting to a more powerful machine. That said, I’m not very confident that the new Fire Emblem will be anything special and nothing else from Splatoon has been very good in single-player so I’m not too excited about Splatoon Raiders either.

The Switch 2 could end up being a bit of a late bloomer.
Hannibal

Total secret
Just a heads-up for those that care, but there’s a Total War livestream today (Thursday) at 4pm for them to unveil new ‘historical and fantasy’ games. I know there’s been a lot of rumours of Total War: Star Wars but that doesn’t really sound like what they’re trying to hint at.

Star Wars gets called space fantasy a lot, rather than actual sci-fi, so they could be riffing on that, but we’ll see. Funny thing is, it seems to rule out Warhammer 40,000 as well – which was the other rumour. I guess you could also call that fantasy as well, but I don’t think anyone ever really does.

They could just mean fantasy in the sense that it’s not real or historical, but I guess it depends how desperate they are to put people off for the next 12 hours or whatever.

I’ve always liked the Total War games, even as someone that’s not usually that big into strategy, and the Warhammer ones have been easily the best for me, so I’m happy to see more fantasy ones.

It’s an interesting series too, because it’s one of the few that is still PC-only and given the controls and the horsepower it needs is probably always going to stay that way.

I hope whatever’s revealed today is interesting and hopefully a setting they haven’t done before.
Torsman

World of difference
Thanks to that Mario Kart World update I have finally unlocked all the bad guy characters – the ones you can only get from the Kamek power-up. I followed your advice and made it the only power-up that appears in a Vs Race and it became a lot easier to get them all.

Not only that but playing the game like that is wild. I advise anyone who has it to give it a try, as it constantly fills the course with giant obstacles, like dozens of Thwomps or giraffes or Chomps. It makes races even crazier than usual and it’s also impressive that the Switch 2 can do it all without even a hint of slowdown.
Onibee

Everybody hates Myles
Sad to see Metroid Prime 4 turn out to be only okay but I can’t say I’m very surprised. Like the other reader said, Nintendo has made almost no effort to promote it, so they obviously don’t think it’s going to do very well. More importantly, while it’s developed by Retro Studios there’s not many people left there that worked on the original.

The director left ages ago and I believe two of the tech leads died, which is sad. Sounds like they still did a good job in terms of the graphics and mimicking the originals, but not when it came to adding anything new.

I think the problem is that Nintendo doesn’t really get Metroid and if it was as niche in America as it is in Japan it would’ve been mothballed years ago. They definitely don’t know what to do with Samus Aran but it sounds like the story in general is very childish and basic, which is the opposite of what fans like me would like.

I’ll see what it’s like for real when I get my hands on it, but I’m expecting to be as frustrated as I am entertained. Although at this point I think I know what to expect, including hating Myles MacKenzie.

It really is so strange how he and the others have been added. You would’ve thought the first thing they’d identify is that that’s not what fans want, but they went ahead anyway.
Chaser

Inbox also-rans
I keep forgetting that Sega has announced Alien Isolation 2, which seemed a pipe dream for so long. Am I right in thinking they haven’t shown anything of it yet, though?
Cospe

GC: Yes, not a thing has been said or shown of it, other than saying it exists. Technically developer Creative Assembly does have a showcase planned for today, as mentioned by a reader above, but as far as we know it’s only for Total War.

I did not know they did that mech suit thing with shorter characters in Fortnite. I get why, but that is a really ugly solution to the problem. Reminds of playing as Oddjob in GoldenEye 007.
The Bishop

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Come back later
So, Metroid Prime 4 is another disappointment from Nintendo. Apparently not a bad game, but not the sort of 9/10, at a minimum, game we expect from them – especially after the long wait.

For me, it has been a very disappointing year for Nintendo. Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza are apparently their best games, but nobody seems to be think that they’re the top tier games we usually expect.

It all seems to be a case of quantity over quality, which is not usually the case. I feel we certainly could’ve done without Hyrule Warriors and Kirby Air Riders, if more effort could have been put into the others instead.

As a result, I will not be getting a Switch 2 this year. I’ll wait to see what comes next, which at the moment we seem to have very little idea about. It’s not a disaster but there’s nothing here that I don’t think can wait a year or two.
Thompson

Sent to die
Mostly silent, extremely long time reader. I must confess to being unsurprised by your good but not great 7/10 for Metroid Prime 4, given the relative lack of promotion it received from Nintendo.

Going all in on a Kirby racing game few people asked for, then shoving out Metroid Prime 4 in December just after the Black Friday sales have hoovered up everybody’s Christmas present budget looks a bit like sending it out to die.

Maybe I’m just too old and cynical – actually, I am both of those – but it doesn’t stop me being right in my belief that they lacked faith in it.

Since the Switch 2 is somewhat lacking in top class exclusives so far, you would have thought they would have given it a bigger push.

If this was Microsoft, we would have been hearing about layoffs at Retro Studios come January but thankfully this is Nintendo so hopefully we won’t.

Merry Christmas GC and my fellow readers.
Simon
Currently playing: Sektori (badly, very)

Any excuse
I just wondered how Resident Evil Requiem is shaping up graphically on the Switch 2? Also, do you think there is a chance that the Resident Evil 4 remake will appear on the format as well?

I saw a Switch 2 console unboxed for the first time in CeX recently and was impressed by the screen size and quality of the product, so I’m looking for excuses to fork out the 400-odd quid on one now! Thanks in advance.
Adams6legend

GC: By all accounts, Requiem is shaping up very well on Switch 2. If it and the other Resident Evil games sell well, we imagine there’s a good chance that Resident Evil 4 will be added too.

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Blocking alternatives
RE: Brand and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I too struggled with the blocking mechanics, seemed fairly random at first for me too, but there are tells in the form of sound effects or flashes on screen, that helped me figure it out a little better.

If you are still struggling, there’s a couple of other options, like decreasing the difficulty (can always change it back if you get used to it), or utilising the newer options (can GC confirm if one of the updates was less damage taken or similar as well that you can toggle?), or good old level grinding, up to a point.

Even if you aren’t someone that usually plays on story mode, I’d certainly recommend it if you have to for at least the bosses, so you can at least experience the full narrative. Some fights can go on for a while anyway if you aren’t optimised, so I really would suggest that now and again. There’s no shame in – it’s in the name!
SlideAway1983 (PSN ID)

GC: The 1.3.0 patch increased the window of opportunity for parries and dodges by 40% in story mode, and reduced incoming damage from between 10 and 50%.

Delayed opinion
Speaking of best games of the year, are you going to do a readers’ list and write-ins this year?

I know you don’t really do weekend topics anymore, but I’m always interested to hear what fellow readers have played and enjoyed and the top 20s are always interesting to compare.

Although I’ll admit I don’t usually participate, as I don’t really play games upon release (I’m currently playing Konami’s Aliens arcade game, that came out when I was seven).
ANON
PS: I’m sure I’ve heard Metal Jesus and others describe games as cute ‘em-ups. Maybe it’s a modern/YouTuber thing.

GC: If we did do it, it would be at the end of January like it used to be. But the problem is, as you demonstrate, less and less people buy new games at or near launch nowadays.

Time is a cruel mistress
I can’t believe Resident Evil is going to be 30 years old next year. I didn’t get to play it when it first came out but it is still one of the first games I played on the PS1 and left a big impression. It felt like such a grown-up and adult game at the time, to my young mind, and yet if you look at it now it’s most famous for its cheesy campness.

As time goes by, and other games get better at doing similar things, it’s funny how something that seemed so serious and mature is anything but when you look back at it. I feel a lot of Xbox 360 era games are like this, especially Gears Of War but most action games of that generation, especially any of them with tough guy heroes.

Then you’ve got the graphics. At the time Resident Evil seemed completely real to me, especially the cut scenes, including the famous one with the first time you see a zombie. But again, you look at it today and you can see just how primitive it looks.

Will that always be the case? Will GTA 6 one day look incredibly basic and low-tech to some kid 30 years from now? It seems unlikely but then I would’ve said the same of Resident Evil back in 1995.
Bootles

Compatible hardware
Need a bit of help from someone out there. My girlfriend let slip she has bought me a PS5 Pro for Xmas and I’ve decided to upgrade my TV and I’ve seen this TV, it’s a Samsung S95F 65″ OLED at Currys.

Was just wondering if the specs would suit all the PS5 Pro features. I don’t want to buy a TV and find out half of the Pro won’t work on it, if someone can please help me!
David

GC: It’ll do 4K and 120fps, we’re not sure what other features you might be thinking of.

50 shades of grey
Nice Xbox 360 games list, think it covered the bases of the direction gaming was heading in over the first half of that generation at least, you gotta laugh at Bomberman: Act Zero. Despite the Xbox 360’s obvious successes, and how titles like Bioshock, Dark Souls, and Portal pushed story telling forward… I was never a fan of this generation of gaming on the whole.

As a kid of the 90s and the bright blue skies of Sega and the arcades, there were far too many American leaning grey and brown drivers and shooters for me. Compounded by Nintendo’s experiments with the Wii meaning Mario and Zelda were off doing their own thing. Gameplay too started to turn more towards looser PC style design and systems, compared to the tight gameplay reward loops of prior Japanese-developed games.

Microsoft did recognise this, to be fair, commissioning games like Blue Dragon or getting lead format for Bayonetta, but after an initial attempt to woe the non-anglophone world by 2010 they’d given up trying. I always remember the second half of that generation belonging to the PlayStation 3.

Also, a point to make the eyes roll of many of GC’s readers… technical performance at that time was really poor overall, as developers adapted to HD resolutions. We were looking at frame rates in the mid-20s for many major titles, and performance that I think has only been accepted in one other gaming era: the early 3D of the PS1, Saturn, and N64 generation.

Can you imagine GTA6 launching at sub-30fps like GTA 5 did? There’d be riots (well if you have an Xbox Series S maybe you can).
Marc

Inbox also-rans
Would you say the new Metroid game is a bigger disappointment than Shenmue 3 was? I’m still bitter about waiting so long for Shenmue 3 and getting the most useless sequel ever as far as I’m concerned.
Mark Matthews

GC: Nothing could ever be as disappointing as Shenmue 3. Metroid Prime 4 is a decent game, it’s just not a great one.

I didn’t even realise escaping from Tarkov was not a thing you could usually do, so kudos to the guy that did, I guess.
Kelch

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Blocked off
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is no doubt a brilliant game overall. But so far, I am finding the combat so frustrating I am about to give up.

Let me say I am very early in the game (maybe three to four hours in). I have enjoyed the design, the music, the characters, etc. are brilliant so far. I am also really interested in the story, as much as I know so far anyway.

However, I find the combat awful. Specifically, the timings for parrying/dodging. I am quite used to specific timings. I love games like Elden Ring, The First Berserker: Khazan, and Space Marine 2, which all require timings to parry/dodge/block, etc.

But in this game, when to do it just feels random and really frustrating to know. Maybe it’s just me?

I am at the point where I’m not finding the game fun and ready to stop playing, which is a shame. So just wondering if anyone else felt like this and if so, what did you do?
Brand

Eternal appeal
RE: Soldat’s feature. Enjoyed reading this but think the answer – if there is one – lies in which games you show them from the old days.

I used to have an old MAME setup, and the kids really loved Bubble Bobble and multiplayer Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2 but the undoubted winner out of the old school games was… Track & Field. They and their mates went into a frenzy trying to top each other’s high scores and beat the world records. No comments at all about primitive graphics or anything else.

I’ve always thought that graphics age, great gameplay doesn’t.

And if that doesn’t work, visiting retro arcades or the gaming museum in Sheffield might be an idea to show the games off?
Paul

Sensible choice
I do appreciate GC being outraged that Capcom are still not making a new Dino Crisis or remaking it. You would’ve thought with the Jurassic World movies still doing well it’d be more than worth the risk but apparently not.

It may not be a very exciting choice but I’m afraid Dead Rising has a much more solid history of success and, well, it’s zombies. I can’t say I’ve ever particularly liked the ones I’ve played but while more daring than most publishers, in trying risky ideas, they’re not silly.

The sad truth is Dino Crisis has never been a big hit and is about a subject that’s never really sold a lot of games. Compared to that, Dead Rising has been more successful and is about something that’s a very easy sell, whether you’ve heard of the game before or not.

We just have to hope that the next Monster Hunter is an even bigger hit and they have so much money sloshing around that they can afford to be less cautious than usual. I’m not holding my breath though.
Trent

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Running commentary
In response to your reply to Freeway77’s email about cute ‘em-ups I can confirm it’s a term I’ve heard before and there are many great games/franchises that are in that genre. I guess it was probably more of a big thing in Japan but Twinbee, Parodius, Star Parodier and the Cotton series, that the original email, referred to have been around for around four decades.

To any fans of the genre I would recommend the Super Famicom Parodius game with the OTT Japanese commentary, I can’t remember what it’s called though.
John Atkinson

GC: It’s called Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius (aka Live Chat Parodius). These are all famous games, in certain circles, but we’ve still never heard the term cute ‘em-up before and it seems unnecessary.

Killer app
I really can’t agree Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the game of the year. I’m sorry but it’s far from perfect. I’ve played every Assassin’s Creed game to 100% and Shadows isn’t the best by a long shot. There is better games out there.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 isn’t on this planet as a good game; it pains me to say it, but Mario Kart World has to be, for me, that one game that sold the Switch 2. Even though people was moaning about the hardware it was the software and that one game that made gamers say yes, I want one.
David

Time paradox
As much as I love CD Projekt’s games there is something very shifty about that company. I don’t feel they ever really apologies for Cyberpunk 2077’s launch (maybe they did to their shareholders but not to us) and this whole thing about making three The Witcher games in six years makes no sense.

Unless they’ve got a time machine or going to hand the whole thing over to AI (can you imagine!) I don’t see how it’s physically possible. Even Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom, which used the same map as the previous game, took six years, so what gives?

Or is The Witcher 4 trilogy going to be a kind of large scale episodic content, where each one is set in the same game world? Whatever’s going on it’s clearly not the regular way of developing a game. The fastest any of these sort of games can be made nowadays seems to be about five years, so you should really be talking a minimum of 15 years, not six.

I really hope that CD Projekt has discovered some clever new way to get over the problem of games taking to long to make but assuming they’re not using literal magic I hope it’s not something that’s only going to make things worse.

The video games business is in such a strange spot at the moment, I really don’t understand what’s going on.
Billison

GC: It seemed very odd to us too. There is no obvious explanation without more information from CD Projekt.

Milestone release
Unusual to wake to good news, but a new Dead Rising game? Yes, please.

I’m actually just waiting on the Deluxe Remaster for the Xbox to get me to 100K Achievement points. Dead Rising was the first Xbox 360 game, so I thought the remaster would be a fitting game to help me hit the milestone.

I’d actually like to get it to 99,999 but I’d have to work it out and never play the Xbox again, so I’ll abandon that plan. Anyway. Thanks for the good news guys. I just hope it isn’t a letdown like Dead Rising 4 and forces mech suits on you that break after two minutes.
Bobwallett

Indie legacy
The release schedule for this week is pretty packed with games I’m interested. Starting with Marvel Cosmic Invasion, a port of Viewfinder to the Switch, and, of course, Metroid Prime 4 finally coming out.

But among these games there’s also the Simogo Legacy Collection, which I’m hoping doesn’t get lost in the pack.

Simogo makes varied and interesting games and it’s great that they’re bringing out this collection, so their older titles are no longer locked behind legacy releases on mobile.

I’m particularly looking forward to revisiting Year Walk and Device 6 but seeing their older titles that I’ve never played and the extra content is very appealing to.

It looks like they’ve put a lot of effort into this package and it’s really cheap too. I hope GC has time to review it and bring more people’s attention to the games of one of the more interesting devs out there.
Euclidian Boxes

GC: We don’t know that we’ll get around to reviewing the compilation, but their games are great, including Device 6, Year Walk, Sayonara Wild Hearts, and Lorelei And The Laser Eyes.

Inbox also-rans
When can we expect your best games of the year list? I always look forward to it. Also, if you haven’t got one, a database of all your reviews would be great, where you can filter it down into scores, genre, year etc. It’d make it much easier to find some good new games to play.
Bobbleheaddy

GC: We don’t have a filter system like that but our Top 20 of the year is always run over Christmas, usually just before New Year’s Day.

The problem with AI is not enough people care right now but once it takes over, and everything ends up looking and playing the same, suddenly everyone will be upset, but by them it’ll be far, far too late. It’s not going to be pretty
Jonesy

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Humanity is dead
The use of AI is a hot topic in all walks of life at the moment but surprisingly it seems like gaming is one of the places that’s resisting it the most. I’m all for that but I am surprised, given how high-tech gaming is by default.

It’s turning up in all sorts of games at the moment. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Arc Raiders have been the most high-profile that I’m aware of (little indie companies that can’t afford to pay a real artist, right?). But I also read that Let It Die: Inferno has a lot of it. So much for Grasshopper Manufacture’s mott of Punk’s not dead, right?

Personally, I think it’s disgusting and there’s only two real situations: either you’re a disgustingly rich company looking to cut costs and lay off people or you’re a small indie company that can’t accept the limits that everyone else deals with, so they just add to the problem in the belief that their use doesn’t count.

I really dread what the next gen is going to be like, when Microsoft really starts pushing all this stuff. Curious to know what other reader’s think though.
Focus

The f is for free
RE: Black Friday. I got myself Silent Hill f last week or was it the week before? Off of the Xbox store, as soon as it reduced in price from £70 to £55, I used the Microsoft Rewards to knock another £50, off so five quid in the end!

Haven’t even played it yet, as I was growing more and more frustrated with Blue Prince. Gave up once I realised I would need to build a pool and a pump room and a boiler room and then build a chain of rooms with vents all the way to the pump room and drain the reservoir and make it all the way to the antechamber and have enough stamina to make it back all the way to the start and achieve all this in one sitting, all the while relying on the RNG to spawn the rooms you want/need… So yeah enough, thank you.

Now I’m on CloverPit, a demonic fruit machine with never ending debts and that one more spin hook… one day I’ll get around to Silent Hill and its creepy fog. Does it still have creepy fog?
big boy bent

GC: Yes.

Two-dimensional thinking
I’ve just looked at Neon Inferno in your newsletter, and it’s truly a good-looking game. It’s the Emma Bunton (I’m showing my age) of scrolling shooter games. I used to own an Amiga and ST at different times, and every other game was a scrolling shooter.

Neon Inferno has Operation Wolf undertones, which you could tell from the video you linked to. I hope they make another one with better gameplay. Back then in the late eighties I used to think of games being just sprites, just hardware scrolling, everything a young programmer would think, not in terms of the story, just as it being a technical trip… games were never tales to tell, they had to be good gameplay-wise.
Dave Diamond

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A year out
I’ve just got the latest Edge magazine and I see they have an advert for this month’s Retro Gamer, which features the 20th anniversary of the release of the Xbox 360 on the front cover, with a feature inside. I always remember The Gadget Show previewing the Xbox 360 and one of the things that stuck in my mind was that the presenter said you could drive towards the spectators in Project Gotham Racing and they would react to it!

Also, with the Edge magazine they have included a Zelda 40th Anniversary 2026 Calendar. I was going to ask Game Central what was the original release date for Zelda in 1986 in the UK? I am hoping for some Zelda remasters or remakes around the anniversary next year!
Andrew J.

GC: Zelda was originally a Famicom Disk System release in Japan, which is why its 40th anniversary is February 21, 2026. The first cartridge releases were in the West, on August 22, 1987 in the US and November 15 in Europe.

Maximum cuteness
I stumbled across a game over the weekend called Cotton Fantasy on the Switch in the sales. It’s basically a shoot ’em-up with cutesy graphics and an easy going difficulty level.

After reading a few reviews I quickly realised that they call these games a cute ’em-up a term new to me, even though I’ve been playing games for nearly 50 years!

Anyway, I like shoot ’em-ups but I don’t have a time, the patience or, reluctantly, probably the reflexes for those hard as nails games. So this really fits my bill, I just want a great blast on a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously and I want to feel good afterward. After all that is why I started gaming in the first place.

I had Trouble Witches on the Xbox 360 years ago, which is very similar and I know it’s soon to be released on the Switch over here, so my eyes are wondering in that direction.

My question is, can any other readers recommend anything similar on the original Switch?

Many thanks in advance guys.
freeway 77

GC: We’ve never heard that term either. Someone must’ve just made it up for that game. Traditionally, the cuter a retro game the harder it tends to be, so there’s not much else that comes to mind.

Technical requirements
Regarding John needing a TV for films and games for under £1,000 I’d recommend anything but Samsung, as they stubbornly refuse to adopt Dolby Vision and once you’ve seen Dolby Vision, you really can’t un-see it.

As for recommendations, LG seem to offer the best of value and here is a good choice within his price bracket.

Here are some important technical details for both films and games:

Panel bit depth: 10-bit
HDR formats: Dolby Vision IQ, Dolby Vision, HDR10, HLG
Response time: 0.1000 ms
Panel frequency (Hz): 120 Hz (VRR 144 Hz)
Motion processing: OLED motion
Local dimming: Yes
Pixel Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Backlit: OLED

Panasonic or Phillips are not to be sneezed at either, as most of these have Dolby Vision. If you want the best motion handling in the industry though you’ll need a Sony TV. That’s what I rock with personally and I wouldn’t be without it.

Hope John finds a TV that suits him.
Charlie H

Bullet Refutation
RE: Danganronpa series. I’ve always been a massive fan of the games (apart the last chapter of the third game, that ruins the whole series) and they got me into the whole visual novel genre, e.g. Steins;Gate is another classic.

I never really got into Ultra Despair Girls when it came out, though, due to the change in genre and the stop/start gameplay. I have dug it out for another try though and I’m really enjoying it second time around. The soundtrack is excellent and I’m really enjoying the interactions between Komaru and Toko – they are genuinely funny at times. Toko was always one of my favourite characters of the series and she is great in this.

With the Switch 2 re-release of 2 with the extra content, do you know if it’s a Switch 1 release as well?
Simon

GC: Danganronpa 2×2 is multiformat. So it’ll be on Switch, as well as Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC.

Kids today
Totally couldn’t agree more with the weekend feature by Soldat. But don’t agree from down to parenting.

I have two teenagers, and video games for them translates to Roblox, Minecraft, Fall Guys, and a whole other bunch of blah blah not real games (no actual progression to new levels, beating a final boss, etc.).

I do try and push the other many hundreds of games I have. I go as far as putting a controller in their hands for something and saying, ‘play that’.

For my kids, it all falls on deaf ears, because they just aren’t interested. Massively fits with them also doomscrolling random TikTok and YouTube shorts.

They only want short and quick experiences.

My kids (despite my best efforts) just don’t seem to have the attention or desire to play a ‘proper’ game.

They aren’t even interested in the lightgun thing I got a Reader’s review put up for previously.
Si-zero

GC: Fall Guys? That’s so old school.

Inbox also-rans
Funny seeing how popular Kirby is in Japan. There even seems to be quite a gap between there and the US, which usually likes most NES games equally. I guess Kirby’s brand of cuteness just really appeals to his home audience.
Cornst

Just wanted to thank you, as others have, for the Sektori review. Never heard of it up until then but it’s one of the best arcade style games I’ve ever played. Absolutely top notch stuff.
Gordo

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No rush
With all these price cuts and no competition from Microsoft (the Xbox is going to get even more expensive?!) it’s obvious that the PlayStation 5 is going to be massive this Christmas, even with the Switch 2 in play. The thing is, the Switch 2 isn’t competition for Sony. It doesn’t play a lot of the same games and many people would be happy to own both.

So Sony really has everything wrapped up, even more than they did already. This makes me wonder if the new component shortages are going to make them think that there’s just no need for the PlayStation 6 right now and that they will definitely delay it.

The PlayStation 5 might not suffer from shortages but that doesn’t mean the PlayStation 6 is safe. So, if it was aiming for 2027 or 2028, I think that will very likely be moved back a year. And really, I think that’s better for everyone. People can’t afford a new console and developers can’t afford to make games for it, so what’s the point?

Of course, there’s no official annoucement but if we don’t get a reveal next year, which everyone was expecting, I think that will be a clear indication that things are not moving as quickly as we thought.
Austin

Call of apathy
So I guess the other reader was right, we really are witnessing the end of Call Of Duty’s dominance. It’s not doing a little worse than usual it’s being slaughtered. I don’t see how it comes back from this unless it can follow-up with a really great game next year. But Activision wouldn’t have been expecting this kind of thing to happen, so they would’ve had no reason to make a special effort with next year’s game.

By the time they do it could be almost the next decade, which is kind of crazy to think about. For those that don’t like Call Of Duty it’s good news but I think it has less to do with Black Ops 7 being bad and more the recent stories about young gamers not buying new games and only wanting boring Christmas presents.

They’re just not interested in traditional games, whether they’re a critical darling or fast food rubbish like Call Of Duty. So while it’s nice to see Activision’s stranglehold being broken something far worse could take over: a total apathy for proper games from younger gamers.
Cuit

Time skip
So Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet isn’t going to be out next years, so that’s 2027 at the earliest. If there ever is The Last Of Us Part 3 it’s going to be so far away I’m not sure what they’ll even do with it. Maybe make it about Dina’s child?

One of the big themes of the game was generational violence, so Dina’s kid finding an old Ellie sounds to me like a pretty cool idea. Technically Ellie did break the cycle of violence but she was too damaged by the end of it to benefit.

Maybe Naughty Dog won’t want to do it but I don’t see how Sony can resist. In fact, I’m surprise and impressed they’ve not got someone else to do that and Uncharted already. Or maybe they’ve tried and it just hasn’t come together yet.
Lynch

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Price concerns
I’m struggling to be enthusiastic about the new Steam Machine and VR headset. Looking at the specs they don’t seem to be much more powerful than the PlayStation 5 and Meta Quest 3 and will probably cost a lot more. I like the form factor of the Steam Machine but it’s fairly low spec and not upgradable, so will be interesting to see how well it runs new games.

The VR headset looks really comfortable, which most VR headsets out the box are not, and being able to play PC games in standalone is cool but if it’s gonna cost a lot more than the Meta Quest then it’s going to make it enthusiasts only. I think Valve are onto something here but only if it’s affordable, so it will be interesting to see pricing.
Rob

Public test
I haven’t written in a while, but I just had to come to GC’s aid about Kirby Air Riders. I watched the first Nintendo Direct all the way through and totally independently came to the conclusion that the game looked abysmal. Especially by Nintendo’s standards.

In trying to convince me to buy and play the game, all they succeeded in doing in convincing me that I had no interest in buying and playing it. This view seems to have borne out in it chart performance.

Keep up all the good work.
Struthyfizz

GC: As you know, the game only got as high as number 12 in the UK charts on its debut, so it seems you weren’t the only one to be sceptical.

Infinite potential
Can’t believe it’s been 25 years since the PlayStation 2. I know the PS1 was the start of the 3D, but its sequel feels like the real start of the modern state of gaming. It’s impossible to remaster PS1 game and have them not be incredibly ugly and clunky, you have to remake them completely, but PlayStation 2 games still mostly look and play okay.

We’ve moved forward a lot since then but also it’s funny how little has really changed. A lot of the same series are still going, like you said, and mostly the same genres are popular as they were then. We’re even seeing a comeback for survival horror, which was at its peak during the PlayStation 2’s time.

What I miss most though is the jump from one generation to the next. When the PlayStation 2 was going strong it was obvious that games had a long way to go in terms of graphics and game worlds and everything. Now though the only thing that people expect to change is the price, and not in the right direction.

It really feels like the PlayStation 4 was the last real console and everything else that comes after it will just be a minor upgrade. From a technical point of view, it’s almost impossible for a new format to be as exciting as the PlayStation 2 again.
Candus

Oh, it sings to me
Been reading how The Duskbloods has been in development since 2019, so not only is it probably nearly finished but it seems it’s a very important game for FromSoftware. It probably cost Nintendo a lot of money to make it a Switch 2 exclusive, although I doubt it stays that way for more than a year or two.

Even so, I still ache for a new single-player From game. I know it’s not that long since Elden Ring but we have no idea what they’re working on next and I need to know! Especially if it’s Bloodborne 2.
Orion

Costly support
Having lots of games released doesn’t negate the concern of how long triple-A games take to make and cost now. Those tentpole games attract investors, make or break studios, and drive hardware sales.

So, if that collapses it could have very serious repercussions for the whole industry. But my gosh do I have a lot to play from just this year.

Just spent 90 hours on Hollow Knight: Silksong. Not a game from this year, but then spent 23 hours on replaying Astro Bot and the DLC for the first time to platinum and 100% everything. Wonderful game, fully deserved its Game of the Year award.

I’m always conscious of needing to support the type of games I want to see more of. After reading the article about under 17’s wanting live service in-game currency for Christmas I found myself today buying Robocop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business (loved Rogue City) and System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster (value Nightdive Studios work) on PSN, as they had a bit of a discount in the sales.

I still have a day one buy Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 to get to and a good chunk of Donkey Kong Bananza to play. I have pre-ordered Metroid Prime 4 in the spirit of support.

High on the wanted but yet to buy list is Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Silent Hill f, Satisfactory, and V-Racer Hoverbike.

I have PS Plus and Game Pass which will see a Red Dead Redemption PlayStation 5 version, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, and the interesting looking Skate Story come to the services in the first eight days of December.

Thankfully the only game left this year which I really like the look of and will want to support if any good is Terminator 2D: No Fate. But it’s nuts, I genuinely feel I will have to commit to buying no games next year.
Simundo

Inbox also-rans
Now that Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 is out and poorly received, I was wondering which Call Of Duty game is considered the best for its campaign or even as an all-round package?
LoRd SiNn

GC: We ranked all the Black Ops games quite recently.

I don’t know about Kirby Air Riders but GC was dead on about Alan Wake 2. That game sucks.
Venger

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Less for more
Seeing the reaction to Steam Machine being closer to PC in price than console, and how desperate people are for the current Black Friday savings on PlayStation 5, I think it’s fair to say that consoles, and video game hardware in general, has got too expensive for the average person.

We all complain about the cost of games but at least there’s ways round that in terms of sales and buying physical. With a console you’re stuck with an up front cost you can rarely do much about, except maybe at one time of the year.

But why have they got so expensive? As the prices have gone up the leap in graphical improvement has gone down, so it seems like you’re getting even less for your money than you were already. Unfortunately, the answers all seem to be very technical and dull.

Partly it’s because of Trump’s tariffs and AI needing more and more horsepower, as another reader said recently. But it’s also the fact that although the leap is small, getting better graphics still requires more expensive components and the level of complexity nowadays is so far beyond 20 or so years ago it’s really pointless to try and compare.

None of which helps anyone trying not to bankrupt themselves this Christmas. As others have said, we don’t need a next gen and I’d much rather spend £500+ on games than the barely improved hardware needed to run them.
Trepsils

Regular comment
It seems we’re never far away from someone else writing in to complain about Bethesda and I can’t believe this time it’s going to be me. But that story about the Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition being a complete disaster… I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Bethesda are so technically incompetent they can’t even re-release a 10-year-old game as a quick cash grab without breaking the entire game. As far as I’m concerned, it’s just pride and arrogance that makes them like this. They think to actually improve their graphics, or do something about their bugs, is admitting they were wrong all along but nobody cares about that, just make the game work from the start!

Nintendo spent a year polishing Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom and it sounds like Rockstar are doing the same with GTA 6. How long does Bethesda take polishing their games? A whole afternoon?

And like one of those comments said in your story, just stop re-releasing and remastering old games. Stop wasting your time and make something new! It’s 14 years since Skyrim (the anniversary was just the other day) and you’ve barely moved forward an inch since then.
Gemu

High-end purchase
The only unsubsidised home console I’ve ever known was the 3DO. Which was very expensive, especially in the USA. Lacking the monetisation model of a console it had to be sold to make profit day one.

Steam’s and Microsoft’s next machines both sound like they’ll be pricey and not designed as mass market machines.

That doesn’t mean they won’t provide value and find a worthwhile audience. I’m still very interested to see how they turn out. But they don’t sound like direct competition to a console.
Simundo

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Kirby always sucks
One would like to know: will you be reviewing Neon Inferno and R-Type Delta: HD Boosted?

Also, your Kirby Air Riders review… just, ugh. Just kidding. If you feel that the pink cuddly one sucks big time air of joylessness, then in the spirit of subjectivity, I say right on. The maelstrom of malcontent in the comments section was pretty amusing but predictable though.

I’m still looking forward to Sakurai-san’s latest endeavour eventually though, because I quite enjoyed the demo and you could just feel the love and ardour that’s gone into each of its polygonal pores. Just have too many racers on my gaming circuit at the moment with Mario Kart World, Fast Fusion, and Gran Turismo 7 on PlayStation VR2. Sick set of racers, those!
Galvanized Gamer

GC: Yes, to Neon Inferno but we’re not sure about R-Type Delta as we haven’t been able to get hold of the publisher. Also, that’s quite a lot of shade you’re throwing at Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

Fair-weather friends
Microsoft owning Rare is likely the problem with Nintendo putting N64 Diddy Kong Racing on Switch.

Now Microsoft have gone to releasing their own games on different platforms I was wondering if this means they might greenlight Diddy on Switch?

Even better a sequel.
Goldenlay

GC: Microsoft is always bragging that they get on well with Nintendo, so in theory they shouldn’t have any problem with it or any of Rare’s older games.

Spoiler: they didn’t
RE Bosley. I really don’t think Valve are going to choose the Xbox Partner Preview to unveil Half-Life 3.

I think it’s actually real this time, but I don’t think they need to bury the hatchet with Microsoft to gain traction or publicity and the upcoming Game Awards seems like a more natural fit, if they tie it to an event at all.

Revealing the game at the Xbox show would also mean it will be coming to consoles, and I must say I think the game might be a timed PC/Steam Machine exclusive (if it is coming to Xbox, etc. they’d have to make the previous games available on modern consoles too, surely?).

If Valve are serious about the Steam Machine, I can’t think of a better exclusive to coax players to it. It could even be a pack-in game.

A realise I’m getting ahead of myself, as the game might not even exist, but despite all he false flags over the years it really feels like this time Half-Life 3 is really going to happen.
ANON

GC: We think you’re probably right, including it being PC-only. When it will be unveiled is very hard to predict though. The Game Awards seems possible but just suddenly dropping a trailer out of nowhere, like they did with the Steam Machine, is probably more likely.

Gyro-mite
One thing that makes me excited for the new Steam Controller is the potential to make gyro aiming more mainstream and natively supported by more games.

Gyro aiming has been a revelation ever since I first tried it on my Wii U with Splatoon. It beats even mouse and keyboard for accurate and intuitive aiming. Only why does the controller have to be this ugly?
Ali K

GC: We agree, Splatoon’s aiming is excellent and we don’t know why the DualSense doesn’t offer the same options, as it can do it if the developer wants.

Award favourites
Regarding the 2025 Game Awards and the fact that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 seems likely to be the winner, with so many reviewers giving full marks it seems inevitable! But it’s seemingly well-deserved, though I have not played it myself yet. I would have possibly liked to have seen Silent Hill f given a chance but quite satisfied that the audio design award would be a nice win for the game. Best narrative and performance would be a worthy win also, as Silent Hill f definitely was a very atmospheric and character driven story.

I would also like Indiana Jones And The Great Circle to have a win also, as for me I never really would have thought to have got such a high quality movie favourite from this franchise. It’s literally like having another film in the franchise but being able to be immersed in the game itself, instead of just watching it instead.

I did say Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 would possibly win but I’m not going to discount Death Stranding 2 and the ever impressive Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Both games are so well designed from every angle possible, with story and gameplay design depth inside two very large worlds that are so varied and beautiful to explore, with the very finest of acting.

For me, I’d like to see Hollow Knight: Silksong get the best art direction due to my love of the indie style artwork, which these games do so well in showcasing. Along with Death Stranding 2, Silksong also should be a major contender for best score and music also.

I am glad Donkey Kong Bonanza has been recognised for the best family game, as the game was way better to play than I originally envisioned but definitely up against another well received Mario Kart game, which makes this category interesting.

Another three notable games for me are Hades 2 and Blue Prince for the best independent game award and No Man’s Sky for best ongoing game.

Definitely looking forward to the show, with some of the best games of recent years. 2025 has delivered and excelled in my opinion and given 2026 a hard task indeed, to get the better of a great year for our favourite hobby.
Alucard

Inbox also-rans
That Xbox showcase was pretty good, like you said. What a difference not having to see Phil Spencer’s grinning mug makes!
Boltz

If a Steam Machine is going to be as expensive as a gaming PC, or even just close to it, why wouldn’t you buy that instead. That’s the reason Steam Machines flopped last time and I’m not sure Valve has really learnt its lesson.
Shaggy

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Mr Sheen
I’ll say one thing for Rockstar, they are pretty good at keeping a lid on rumours. That new delay for GTA 6 came out of nowhere and we don’t seem to have any idea why it happened. I’m sure the needing ‘more polishing’ excuse is technically true but that is some pretty poor product management if their estimates were out by 18 months.

I know if we made that sort of mistake at work we’d be in serious trouble, but I suppose GTA 6 is such a guaranteed hit that Take-Two almost don’t care, although I doubt they’ll want this to happen again.

I can’t help but wonder what specifically the problem is and I suspect it’s getting everything running at a good frame rate and resolution. Those graphics in the trailer look amazing and while we all know Rockstar are great at that sort of thing they do almost look to good to be true. My guess is they’ve basically finished the game but it’s all running at 20fps or something, and that’s why they need the delay to get it up to speed.
Janson

Christmas is cancelled
Another massive GTA 6 delay is one thing but now think about the mess this is going to cause for other publishers. Now it doesn’t matter if they come out in May but anything that was aiming for a Christmas release should pack up shop right now. What is Call Of Duty going to do now, if it’s coming out within weeks of GTA 6? If Black Ops 7 underperforms this could cause real problems for Activision, having two disappointments in a row.

I don’t think there was any games with a confirmed November release date but apart from Call Of Duty, exclusives Marvel’s Wolverine and Fable were both probably aiming for that time. I don’t know what happens to them, if they come out early or get delayed into 2027, but GTA 6 is going to create a massive black hole in the release schedules, again.
Wotan

Beyond GTA
13 years between GTA 5 and 6 is crazy. That’s literally two console generations that have gone by and no sequel and virtually no other Rockstar games of any kind. Remember when they used to make all sorts of other things, like Bully, and Midnight Club, and The Warriors? If they were ever thinking of going back to that (which I doubt) that’s definitely been postponed for another year, thanks to the new GTA 6 delay.

I want to see GTA 6 as much as anyone but I also want to see Rockstar do something new. I don’t need a Red Dead Redemption 3 – I don’t see how it’s ever going to look significantly better than the current one and I’d much rather they do something completely new, like pirates or sci-fi or something. Anything, even a new ping pong game.
Grackle

Semi-portable
There’s an obvious appeal to streaming video games but the idea of doing that on a portable still makes no sense to me, because you can’t be portable with it! How’s it going to work on a train or taxi or whatever? You’re not going to whip out a PlayStation Portal in the middle of nowhere and start playing because you need a stable, good quality wi-fi. So you can only really use it at home.

I know in this case Sony are just experimenting and seeing what works but Microsoft seem to think it’s an actual good idea, even though it doesn’t seem to be practical at all. The problem with streaming has nothing to do with hardware or games companies, it’s entirely down to wi-fi infrastructure and I don’t want a portable console where it doesn’t work in 60% of locations.
Golem

Cheaper Pass
Been reading on and off for a few years but don’t remember ever posting.

I was wondering if you or anyone else in the GC community know what the best way to get Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is? As in cheapest.

I know lots of the old methods are no more, but I am not sure if I should just buy through the Xbox store, wait for a sale on the Xbox store, or do something like CDKeys or the like. Any thoughts?
Geoff

GC: That’s a question better suited to readers and we’re sure someone will try and help. We will say you’re likely to get some good deals during Black Friday though, which basically lasts most of the month now.

Empty schedule
Anyone really yearning for some new FromSoftware action or any new Soulslike at all? One minute it seemed like there were clones everywhere and now it’s like a ghost town. Elden Ring was three years ago now and we still have no idea what they’re working on now, let alone when it will be out.

There is The Duskbloods, but it’s a Switch 2 exclusive, it’s multiplayer, and we haven’t seen anything on that since the reveal, so it’s probably been delayed or something.

Since it is Switch 2-only there’s got to be something else big that From is working on, if not several things, but what is it and why are they being so secretive? I don’t remember a time when they were ever like this before so either they’re just super behind or they have some kind of really big deal to announce?

Whatever it is, the real reason is it’s just more proof of how long new games take to make nowadays and I’m getting real sick of it. Quality is always better than quantity but you’ve still got to have some kind of balance.
Fdender

90% old
I’ve recently been watching some Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom videos online. Is the emphasis still on weapon battles and exploring dungeons and caves? There seems to be a big focus on building machinery and moving items around in the air here and there via vast and confusing menus and methods.

Give me an old skool style Zelda any day of the week, like the excellent Link’s Awakening remake on Switch.
Adams6legend

GC: Breath Of The Wild and Tears Of The Kingdom are the only games in that style, so you’re spoilt for choice if you only want the older type of design.

Breaking the cycle
I don’t really care about the best Black Ops, I think it’s high time Activision invented a new kind of Call Of Duty game. The last new one was WW2, and I wouldn’t say that even really counted. It used to be we got three different games being released in each cycle: Modern Warfare, Black Ops, and something else. Although it wasn’t even always the first two, as Infinity Ward and Treyarch used to do new stuff sometimes as well.

The last several years though it’s just been the same old series again and again, sometimes two years in a row. There’s lots of reasons why Call Of Duty seems to be falling in popularity at the moment, but I think that’s a big one that’s often overlooked.

It’s not like any of the games are that much different as it is, no matter which series it is, so making them all just Modern Warfare or Black Ops is making it even more obvious that nothing is changing and the whole concept is stuck in a rut.

I believe that’s one of the main reason Battlefield 6 has been popular. I don’t think it’s even that great, and it’s definitely not doing anything new, but at least it’s different to Call Of Duty.

For me, Arc Raiders is much more interesting than either, exactly for that reason. I don’t know how much longevity it’s got yet but at least it’s doing new things in a new world. Call Of Duty hasn’t done that for years.
Goldrick

Inbox also-rans
I wish Bandai Namco would bring back Soulcalibur. My suggestion would be to bring the characters into Tekken and get people interested in them again through that. I miss Ivy and Voldo and all the rest.
Kabobz

I wonder if games like Resident Evil Requiem and 007 First Light are going to delay now that GTA 6 isn’t going to be out in May anymore? Lot of publishers going to be changing their plans now, for sure.
Trepsils

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