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Games Inbox: What was the best February 2025 State of Play game?
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How excited where you about the Days Gone remaster? (Sony Interactive Entertainment)The Thursday letters page is upset at the decline of GAME and physical releases, as one reader thinks Indiana Jones And The Great Circle is slightly overrated.To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.ukHealthy stateSo that was actually a decent State of Play for once. The pacing was poor, because I was convinced it was going to be a boring one for at least half the time, but it had a good ending and while Im not as big a fan of Returnal as GC is, those magic words new single-player only IP were music to my ears.I also liked that Chinese Dark Souls/Devil May Cry thing set in London, the stop motion horror game [The Midnight Walk GC], the new Onimusha, and Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance. What does worry me though is that I think Saros was the only new Sony-made game, except for the Days Gone remaster.So, were still only finding out what their developers are doing at a snails pace. But if thats because theyve all been moved off live service games and are now doing proper single-player games instead then thats something I can live with.Id give the State of Play a B+, lets see if we can keep the ball running and the next ones good too. Although I guess it wont be, because they seemed to say the next was going to be dedicated to Borderlands 4 only.CranstonAcceptable grabCant help but agree with the reader who wants to see what the real next game from FromSoftware is. This Elden Ring spin-off sounds like such a minor thing. I dont want to call it a cash grab, because I love all their stuff, but I will be shocked if thats not what it ends up being known as.I dont mind. Im happy to give From cash even if it does seem a bit of a push. The mid-budget price tag certainly makes it clear, to me at least, that Nightreign is not a full game and just something they put out there as a quick money-maker. Someone suggested it probably started as DLC and that sounds believable.Its out in May though and so hopefully that leaves things clear for a reveal of something new at the Summer Game Fest in June, which I believe is where Elden Ring got its debut. I dont really mind what the game is, but Id be especially happy if it was something new and not a sequel or remake. Maybe the sci-fi Soulslike that people have been calling for, for years?LimptonMostly great circleJust reached the credits on Indiana Jones And The Great Circle on Xbox. I think they absolutely nailed the Indiana Jones aesthetic and feel, and the slapstick combat was fun. I appreciated the non-linear level design, particularly in the first couple of locations, which really felt worth exploring.The side missions were also more inventive fare than you normally get in games these days and felt genuinely worthwhile. I experienced a few bugs, the worst being when the game crashed at the end of a cut scene that I had to rewatch it in its entirety (it was a lonnngggg one), but generally speaking it was all very slick.Overall, I enjoyed it but I felt like the game dragged a bit in the final quarter, so I wasnt quite as enamoured with it as some, probably an 8/10 for me (the very last fight, in particular, I thought was really naff.) Shout out to Tony Todd, very poignant ending given his recent passing.MagnumstacheEmail your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.ukSo good I bought the companyFor the first time in my life, Ill be buying a game thats actually going to make me money when I buy it.Im so convinced of GTA 6s success that I bought shares in Take-Two Interactive a couple of weeks ago. Its already turned out to be quite lucrative because following an earnings report from them late last week, Im sitting on a 14% return. The share price jumped because their losses were not as much as expected(!).Imagine the share price jump when the next trailer drops, let alone when GTA 6 comes out.The returns I get when I eventually sell up wont be life changing, but to think that the game Im so excited to play is going to end up funding our next family holiday is pretty nuts.Rangersingh (PSN ID)Currently playing: the stock marketLimited releaseIm surprised at how little Alan Wake 2 has sold. 2 million seems to be very low for a game that got so many awards, and which seemed to be constantly in the news around the time it was released. Then I find out that not only did it not get a proper physical release but its not even on Steam I didnt realise that.Did they not want the game to succeed? Was this some kind of secret tax write-off? On top of that I dont remember any actual marketing for it at the time, so it seems like they spent all that time and money making it and then just sent it out to die.TacleGC: It was published by Epic Games, so its not going to be on Steam for a long time.Physically upsetMy first reaction on reading the story about GAME scalping Pokmon cards is not the fact that they were doing something wrong but the fact that they still exist at all. I havent set foot in one for over a decade and havent seen one in the flesh in what must be two or three years.Im not particularly sad to see GAME go but it is a shame that it means that games are basically invisible in any physical shop nowadays. I think maybe John Lewis and some larger supermarkets carry them but Im not sure and I havent noticed them myself in quite some time.And before you say, So what? the very obvious answer to that is that it means that physical games in general are going away and so Sony can suddenly cut access to all your games at a moments notice and not care at all that it happened or bother to give any compensation to ordinary people.Theres no one set of people to blame here, especially as a lot of it is down on fans being too quick to embrace digital downloads, despite the obvious problem, but the end result is that we now have far less control over the things we buy.Imagine if a GAME manager broke into your house and stole back the game you bought from them for a couple of days. Thats exactly what Sony did at the weekend and yet nothing will be done about it.CampbellA long shotI wonder if the GTA 6 trailer will be shown off in the State of Play. Sony has done a few deals with them, like free GTA Online money and its getting to a point where a new trailer needs to drop.Normally Sony will give a few hints whats in their broadcast but this time, nothing. I wonder if today is the day the internet goes hot because GTA 6 Trailer 2 is shown in all its glory.DavidGC: Youll know by the time you read this, but there were certainly no rumours of it beforehand.Forgotten anniversarySo according to the This Day in Gaming section on the GameFAQs site, which I check every single day, Super Mario Bros. 3 is 35 years old.I didnt get to play it until 1995, via the Super Mario All-Stars pak on SNES.I would later re-play it via the Game Boy Advance version.Its a shame Nintendo didnt celebrate this milestone, though re-releasing this game that has already been released eight times wouldnt be as special, so maybe they should have made some cool MyNintendo merchandise.Or even better, and something I would absolutely love, is to re-release the Super Mario Bros. 3 LCD Watch.I really wanted one as a kid but never got one, though I did play one.Buying one off eBay is a no-no as a second-hand one will mean wearing others sweat!Bleugh!LeighDappaGC: Super Mario Bros. 3 will be 37 years old on October 23. Thats the original Japanese release date and all Nintendo will care about.Inbox also-ransIt would be just Segas luck if this Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds managed to come out at the same time as the new Mario Kart. Poor Sega, they never seem to catch a break.LamboThe rumours the Switch 2 can be played upside down brings back good memories of the Atari Lynx, which could flip the screen for left-handed people, if I recall correctly. Heres hoping for Blue Thunder and Todds Adventures In Slime World ports to Switch 2Mark MatthewsMore TrendingEmail your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.ukThe small printNew Inbox updates appear every weekday morning, with special Hot Topic Inboxes at the weekend. 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