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Tom Orry, Editor – Football Manager 2016, PS4
“I’ve got three games to go in the Sky Bet Championship and I’m currently level on points with two other teams, 5th, 6th and 7th positions only being separated by goal difference.”
Those were my words last week. Monday lunchtime this week started with these words:
“F***ed it!”
Only 30 minutes into the first of those three games, my Forest side found themselves 3-0 down and things only got worse from their. I ended up with just a single point from my last three games, I wasn’t in the Play-offs and I faced yet another season without any money to compete in the transfer market.
So, happy times lay ahead. I’ve now started the new season with a win and a defeat, but I’m more concerned that my star player has stated he’s leaving. Sadly I only get a measly 10 per cent of transfer fees to use myself, so even if I accepted one of the many £6 million bids coming in, I’d only add £600k to my budget, and Arsenal are apparently due 10 per cent of the fee too! FML!
Steve Burns, Deputy Editor – Bloodborne, PS4
Bloodborne. Yes, still. Sorry about that. You know why I’m still playing it though, right? Because it’s f***ing brilliant. I’ve just killed the penultimate boss and now am getting cheated out of ultimate victory by the secret Big Bad. But they’ll fall soon. They all do.
Bloodborne.
It’s fantastic.
Anyway, there’s not really that much to report aside from More Bloodborne. I’ve been playing one game that I can’t talk about, despite the fact that it’s been out for about 14 years. Amazing scenes are now resident, eh? Zero sum game and all that.
Alice Bell, Junior Staff Writer – Dark Souls 2, PS4
This is a bit of a cheat and/or throw back to a couple of weeks ago, because I’m currently living in a renovated Georgian townhouse and, although I’m sure I can hear a television at night sometimes, I have yet to actually find it – although it could easily be a ghost. Anyway, I basically don’t have access to any of my consoles at the moment.
I did a couple of weeks ago though. I asked mum to get me Dark Souls for Christmas, in preparation for the fact that I’m going to have to play Dark Souls III when it arrives. She got me Dark Souls II, but it’s the thought that counts and all that and I played it anyway.
It was a harrowing experience for me. I mostly died through my own incompetence i.e. I fell off of things a lot. When I tweeted my frustration at the load times being so long in a game where you die so often I received back advice to be less s*** at the game. Cheers then.
Oh, this week I did get to play The Division at preview. I’m mostly annoyed that Ubisoft made a game that I’ll probably like and didn’t let me know that was the case.
Dave Scammell, News Editor – Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, PS Vita
It’s amazing how much you remember. I haven’t played Jak & Daxter since it launched on PS2 almost fifteen years ago, but from the dialogue and the worlds, to the sounds the enemies make when you kill them, I was shocked to see it all still kicking around my distressingly ancient head somewhere. Maybe it’s because it’s all so bloody good.
The Vita port is nothing special, though. In fact, it’s positively awful, dropping the 60fps target and fancy visual effects of the last-last-gen original, while bringing some of its very own bugs to the party, too. But it’s still an excellent game, the kind of platformer that you just don’t see too much of any more. It’s lost some magic in the process of being squeezed onto the small screen, but if it ever comes to PS4 as a PS2 classic, I implore you to give it a go. Another Naughty Dog classic.
