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Another quick play…

Star Wars Outlaws
Like a lot of people I'd been waiting for this to hit the inevitable £10 on key sites. But such is the blasted wasteland that is the modern game industry (and the fact I've really been enjoying Avowed and Eternal Strands and didn't really pay anything for them) the £30 on Steam was enough to make me get Outlaws.

I'd been enjoying some aspects of Jedi Fallen Order and been playing it a bit on PS5, but the lead is such a faceless twonk I wondered if Outlaws would give me a bit more WIMMIN IN MY VIDEOGAME and a similar Star Warsy experience without Jedi powers (boring) and the same old shit that's in a million Star Wars games.

And so far its been fine. I like the lead, the cute alien dog thing is cute and the gameplay is Uncharted meets every game ever, but works well enough. Graphically it's very nice, and I think the first game I've seen where Ray Tracing is enforced? It looks pretty good on the Rog Ally, but needs Lossless Scaling to get it anywhere near 60 but looks really impressive on a proper PC. I can't remember if there was a debate here or rllmuk about whether it looked shit or not. I'd say in places it looks really next gen, less so in others.

I can see the stealth loop getting old pretty quickly, but it's all breezy fun so far.

That's interesting. I was in CEX yesterday and wondered why the couple of Series X's they had were marked up at RRP.

I think the best hope for Sony is that they'll be kept in check by Steam/Steam portables and the upsurge in mobile gaming some regions have seen.

It's in the genre of RPGS where everyone wants to fuck you after about 4 interactions.

I got the impression some of the reports suggested sales and downloads on Gamepass were pretty poor. As isn't MS's revenue model either a flat fee or a variable one based on downloads shaping what is given to the studio (all moon money of course if they're an MS owned dev house).

I don't know, I don't think its been a smash hit either way. And some of the reviews have been scandalously sneery.

Starting this a couple hours early, so my post doesn't get lost. (Yes I'm a diva.)

Dragon Age Veilguard. It drops on PS Plus in a couple of days.

I should warn you it has wimmin and the genders in it, so it might make you really angry and forced to take to the internet to shout about how games should be about MEN and MUSCLES and GUNS like they used to be before all the NON MEN SPOILED EVERYTHING.