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The Thursday letters page is unsurprised God Of War: Sons Of Sparta<\/a> was unremarkable, as one reader is enamoured by fan remakes of Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> Red\/Blue.<\/p>\n Games Inbox<\/a> is a collection of our readers\u2019 letters, comments, and opinions. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Console apocalypse Do we even know if Sony<\/a> and Nintendo<\/a> are safe? They\u2019re not gigantic companies like Microsoft<\/a> and electronics is pretty much all they do beyond games. Maybe all three will go third party at the same time! I\u2019m not really sure what companies he\u2019s hinting at that could go under, as I\u2019m not sure who counts as a smaller business, but it\u2019s clearly not good news, no matter what happens.<\/p>\n There\u2019s so much going wrong with the games industry, and the world in general, at the moment and yet it seems like it could still get much worse and very quickly. In the worse case scenario you\u2019re talking about consoles, and gaming PCs, being impossible to manufacture for several years.<\/p>\n Whether that would last for a whole decade I don\u2019t know but that\u2019s an industry ending problem. I hope you\u2019re all into retro games, because that might be all we have soon! \t\t\t\tExpert, exclusive gaming analysis\t\t\t<\/p>\n Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter<\/a> for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning.<\/p>\n Monkey paw That\u2019s going to affect the rumoured Xbox portable and the PlayStation one too, to the point where they might just cancel them completely, because I imagine they involve a lot of custom chips \u2013 even more than if it was just a home console.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure no one but them knows the full details but this is all very bad news and yet\u2026 if you didn\u2019t want there to be a next generation so soon your prayers have been answered. But you know the problem with being careful what you wish for, since now the PlayStation 6<\/a> might not arrive until 2036! Next in line They definitely seemed to have cooled on the idea of a Final Fantasy 9 remake<\/a>, as there were rumours like crazy around that for a while. That was only meant to be a lower budget remake too, so that might be an indication they\u2019ve already had it with triple-A remakes.<\/p>\n For me the obvious choices for Final Fantasy are 6 or 10, although personally I\u2019d prefer 12. Final Fantasy 6 would require a completely new game, so I don\u2019t think that will get the treatment. 10 is going to be a big job too, so I\u2019m not honestly sure any of them will get remakes.<\/p>\n I\u2019d love Chrono Trigger, but I think that\u2019s the same problem as Final Fantasy 6, and so I think maybe the most likely is Kingdom Hearts, especially with a new game coming up to promote. Or maybe the answer is none of them. If a big budget Final Fantasy 7 remake only sells okay, what chance does anything else have? Email your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Fan suggestion Although most people imagine some kind of amazing high-tech open world I prefer the idea of something closer to the HD-2D style, that\u2019s a mix between modern and retro graphics. There have been a lot of fan mock-ups with this idea over the years and while I don\u2019t think any of them are perfect I\u2019d rather go with something like this but keep it more of a top-down view.<\/p>\n Unless Nintendo is going to spend GTA 6 style money on it I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any point making Pok\u00e9mon 3D. It\u2019s got to be stylised and it\u2019s got to be more like the wonder of the original Game Boy games. We might get that for a future remake but I\u2019m afraid the next mainline game will just be another low-tech, janky knock-off. You can dig it Spaced out on Tramadol for a back issue last night, played for over two hours and it was an almost religious experience. Well not quite, but highly recommended to all other readers, especially for the price. Fighting multiverse This release features Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition. You can choose fighters from all versions of the Street Fighter 2 editions in one package.<\/p>\n Choosing World Warrior Ken from the original will give him extra strength, no super move, and he will be a palette swap of Ryu. Choosing Ken from Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Hyper Fighting will give him his longer range dragon uppercut and air whirlwind kick and still no super move.<\/p>\n Choosing Street Fighter 2 Turbo\u2019s Ken will give him his flaming dragon punch but less damage, and thus more reliant on combos. But he will have his super move to use and the power bar for it at the bottom of the screen. This would apply to all characters across the games so you can have World Warrior E. Honda vs. Street Fighter 2 Turbo\u2019s version of Blanka, for instance. Online ban I guess you could buy the disc and then purposefully keep the console offline, and get around it that way, but who wants that much trouble? And besides, most games don\u2019t seem to work without a day one patch anyway. At the very least a timer would cut the problem down, but the companies don\u2019t even seem to try. \t\t\t\tDon’t miss Gaming news! Add us as a Preferred Source\t\t\t<\/p>\n As a loyal GameCentral reader, we want to make sure you never miss our articles when searching for gaming stories. We have all the latest video games news, reviews, previews, and interviews, with a vibrant community of highly engaged readers.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> and tick\u00a0Metro.co.uk\u00a0to ensure you see stories from us first in Google Search.<\/p>\n \t\t What it looks like I feel you have to be very optimistic given all that, to the point where I could probably sell you some magic beans. It\u2019s not a question of whether it\u2019s rubbish or not but if you want to spend a fair amount of money and a lot of time beating it, and I definitely don\u2019t want to. Talk is cheap but time is not and at the moment I haven\u2019t time for 10\/10 blockbusters, let alone deeply average Metroidvanias.<\/p>\n I feel there\u2019s plenty of interesting things an indie dev could\u2019ve done with a low budget God Of War game and a 2D Metroidvania with Young Kratos seems like the absolute least exciting option. You could\u2019ve had a game where you played as one of the Valkyries, you could have had a literal god game where you\u2019re populating Midgar with humans, you could\u2019ve had an archery thing with Arteus, heck you could\u2019ve had a sledding simulator and it still would\u2019ve been more interesting that what we got.<\/p>\n I know it was the safe option, but when the best option was probably not making a spin-off at all there\u2019s no point going for the boring and obvious choice. Inbox also-rans I really hate that Microsoft switched the buttons round on their controller compared to Nintendo\u2019s. Why do so silly a thing and make it so difficult to switch (no pun intended) between the two consoles. I can never remember which is which way round. 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So, um\u2026 all this stuff about memory and electronic components getting bought up by AI companies<\/a> seems pretty bad, right? Like, really, really, bad? This guy talking about potentially a decade of problems presumably knows what he\u2019s talking about, given his position, and that is going to be a nightmare for gaming. Never mind smartphones<\/a> and everything else.<\/p>\n
Oz<\/p>\n
So I guess one of the big victims of these memory shortage problems is going to be all those PC handheld gaming devices from companies I\u2019ve never heard of. If even Steam Deck<\/a> has only sold a few million I hate to think what some of these others are pushing. Even the Xbox Ally<\/a> one, which I have literally not heard mentioned again even once since it came out.<\/p>\n
Korbie<\/p>\n
Like a lot of readers I\u2019m looking forward to hearing abut the third Final Fantasy 7 remake game but I\u2019m also wondering what might get the remake treatment after that is all finished up with. Do they even consider Final Fantasy 7 Remake to be a success is the first big question and I\u2019m not sure what the answer is, other than there\u2019s a good chance it might be \u2018not really\u2019.<\/p>\n
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I agree that this year is Game Freak\u2019s big chance to turn around Pok\u00e9mon in terms of the quality of the games and the technology behind them. I don\u2019t know how likely it is, but if they don\u2019t try this time I\u2019m not sure they ever will.<\/p>\n
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Great Reader\u2019s Feature about A Game About Digging a Hole<\/a> at the weekend. I instinctively knew I would get some form of enjoyment out of it. Digging, collecting ore, selling it, upgrading equipment, and digging deeper? Absolutely all over it for \u00a33.64.<\/p>\n
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RE: Lee Dappa. The closest you\u2019ll get to playing all versions of Street Fighter 2 in one place, as one game, is not on the 30th anniversary collection of Street Fighter 2 but actually on the 35th anniversary collection labelled as Capcom Fighting Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Nick The Greek<\/p>\n
I always wondered why companies don\u2019t just lock a game out until the day it\u2019s released, to avoid all these leaks you always get. It\u2019s literally every game but they never seem to care. But surely it could just work like pre-loading, where you have the game but you\u2019re not allowed to start playing it until the right time.<\/p>\n
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I know they say you shouldn\u2019t judge a book by its cover but God Of War: Sons Of Sparta was an out of the blue shadow drop, it had what looked like terrible graphics, and it immediately looked inferior to about a 100 other Metroidvanias you could get instead. And as a bonus it was by some developer I\u2019d never heard of, who\u2019s biggest game was a Five Nights At Freddy\u2019s spin-off.<\/p>\n
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So Highguard has outlasted Concord<\/a>, but by the sound of it it\u2019ll be lucky see the weekend, so it\u2019s really only going to beat it by a matter of days.
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