Author: dpugh007

The soul still burns.

Ah, good ol’ Demon’s Souls, eh? Before the series became a colossal hit, Sony actually funded the cult From Software role-playing game – although it famously passed on publishing it outside of its native Japan. The title went on to become a classic, of course, and there’s been rumours for a while that the platform holder’s planning some kind of remaster – in fact, we’ve heard it on the grapevine, too.

The rumours just won’t go away either. Speaking on the Sacred Symbols podcast, PlayStation sage Colin Moriarty admitted that he had expected the title to be announced during this week’s State of Play: “There was one game in particular, a remaster coming out for PlayStation 4, that I thought they were going to announce today, but they didn’t. I don’t know what they are waiting for with that one. Let’s just say the soul still burns with that one.”

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A Trophy hunter’s end.

In recent years, Sony has had the habit of shutting down its multiplayer servers, especially with its first-party PlayStation 3 games. The worst thing about not being able to play a substantial part of these games anymore is the fact that it renders the multiplayer Trophies unobtainable after the servers are shutdown. In May 2019, Naughty Dog announced that the multiplayer servers for some of its biggest games – Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, and The Last of Us (PS3) – would be shut down on 3rd September that year.

As an avid Trophy hunter myself, this sent me into a frenzy as I looked up the Trophy lists for each game and whether or not it was easy to obtain the Platinum Trophy. The only two multiplayer Trophies required for the Platinum Trophies for both Uncharted 2 and 3 were ‘Thrillseeker’ and ‘Buddy System’ which requires the player to complete one competitive multiplayer game and one co-operative multiplayer game, respectively. While that was easy enough, both games had an onslaught of additional multiplayer DLC Trophies. These weren’t required for the Platinum Trophy, but in the case of Uncharted 3, my Trophy list would only show a 51 per cent completion score. Like many others, I wanted that 100 per cent completion.

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But it’s not perfect.

We’re intrigued by Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Ubisoft’s upcoming third-person tactical shooter is more The Division 2 than its predecessor Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and it creates an experience that feels a lot like a Game as a Service would but in a setting that is more than happy to accommodate just the single player. This fact took us off-guard earlier this month when we checked out the game’s closed beta, but we’re back a handful of weeks later ready to dive into the open beta and understand what really makes this sequel tick.

Content-wise, this offering is very, very similar to what was on offer during the title’s closed beta. You can progress the story a little bit further with a couple of extra missions and there are two further regions to explore, but with the game’s early access launch just a few days away now, we’re saving those quests for the final version. The main reason we chose to download the open beta was to see how the game runs after a bit more polish and tweaking, and the results were obvious the moment we touched down on the island of Auroa.

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