The Friday letters page is relieved to hear that Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is a good game, as a reader thinks Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has been a flop.
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Unofficial mascotInteresting to see Sony realise that is hasn’t got much in the way of major characters that ordinary people can get into. I agree that they should’ve been aware of this problem much earlier than this and I never understood why they passed on the chance to own both Lara Croft and Crash Bandicoot.
For me, those two are the unofficial mascots of the PlayStation 1, which was probably the last time that sort of thing was important. But for me that means they’re still the mascots, since nothing else has replaced them.
If you were going strictly by PlayStation 5 games I guess you’d say it was probably Kratos and Aloy, but I don’t feel they’re particularly interesting or iconic. Maybe Kratos but he’s not exactly something you’d see six-year-olds wearing on their T-shirt, is he?
Neither is Ratchet & Clank or Astro Bot, if we’re being honest, so for me if I think PlayStation I still think Lara Croft. I hope the remake next year is a hit.Kaliban
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GC: We don’t think there was any easy way for them to ever get hold of Crash Bandicoot. It came in a job lot with Blizzard and then went straight to Microsoft when they bought Activision.
Time jumpHappy to see Hogwarts Legacy 2 confirmed and hopefully we’ll actually see it soon, maybe at The Game Awards in December. Personally, I would like to see the game set in the modern day, but I guess that wouldn’t make much sense when Harry is around and doing all the important stuff.
Maybe the answer would be to set it just a few years before Harry gets there. So it can be basically modern day and then once the game is over, he turns up for his first year. I think that would be pretty neat but thinking about it they may want to save that for a third or later game.
Although, I don’t think they’ll want to get into all of the World War stuff from Fantastic Beasts, so I’m not sure where you go from the 1890s, other than to skip ahead to the 1950s at a bare minimum. Maybe the 1990s to make it a round hundred years?Scuz
Inventing problemsEveryone is saying they’re happy with the price of GTA 6; I’m one of them that has bought the higher price. I mean, nearly 14 years in the making. The one thing that will make me flip is a price on the online play. I know there is no news on the online bit and I might be jumping in with both feet but if they think I’m paying £90 for the game and then charging me for the online bit they can whistle.
If they do that and everyone pays for it every single developer will be doing it, starting with Call Of Duty, with them saying why charge once when we can charge twice – and for something they got for free b4efore. I know there isn’t any news on it but I’ve got a feeling they’re going to be charging for the online bit, as the saying goes: more money, more money, more money.David
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Time extensionIt’s funny how the Lego games are probably the best example of how long it takes to make a game nowadays. From at least one a year to one every four years. And that change has come in the space of just a decade. What used to be throwaway games, where you didn’t even care they were so buggy, have turned into big event triple-A games.
