The Thursday letters page asks who you’d vote for at the Golden Joysticks 2026 awards, as a reader demands more Jill Valentine in the next Resident Evil.
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Silver medal
We all know what’s going to dominate The Game Awards this year but looking into it, I see that the Golden Joysticks dates are different and they don’t include GTA 6 (they must be quite different because they include Dispatch, which started in late October last year).
Somehow they have Phantom Blade Zero on there, despite it not being out till today, but I guess all these award shows have their own rules. This is the full list of 12 nominees for ‘Ultimate’ Game of the Year: 007 First Light, Big Walk, Control Resonant, Crimson Desert, Dispatch, Forza Horizon 6, Phantom Blade Zero, Pokémon Pokopia, Pragmata, Resident Evil Requiem, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, and The Blood Of Dawnwalker.
Shame that Onimusha: Way Of The Sword is not on there, as it would’ve been three nominations for Capcom, but overall I don’t think it’s a bad line-up. Even though I obviously haven’t played them all.
The question is though, which would you pick, knowing that GTA 6 is not an option? For me the front runners are 007 First Light, Resident Evil Requiem, and Star Wars: Galactic Racer. I think I’d be tempted to go for Resident Evil but it is a close run thing for me, between that and 007.
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Neither of them will have a chance against GTA 6 at The Game Awards, but this is one year where second place will be very important.
Gadfly
Thinking the unthinkable
It’s probably just me being negative but I suddenly can’t help wondering what it would be like if GTA 6 has a bad launch, like Cyberpunk 2077 did. People seem to forget now but that game was unplayable on consoles when it came out and it nearly ended CD Projekt Red – Sony kept it off the PlayStation Store for a really long time.
Now, I don’t think Rockstar would make a mistake like that with GTA 6 but then I wouldn’t have expected the makers of The Witcher 3 to have messed up like that either.
If it happened and they fixed it, I’m sure they’d be quickly forgiven, like CD Projekt Red were, but a part of me wants to see it happen, just for the sheer chaos that would be created. But probably we’ll have to just settle for nobody turning up for work that day.
Olliephant
Ever increase trouble
I don’t even know what to say about the AI blackmailing story. I had to read it twice just to process it. Not because it was a complicated situation but because I just can’t believe that’s where we are right now. Indie developers getting blackmailed for money or some scumbag will use AI to clone your game. That is some dystopian madness.
It seems every day AI causes more problems and there’s no end in sight. I don’t see what we can do about it either, because the genie is out of the bottle and it’s not going to go back in. How are publishers going to be able to make money out of anything if everything gets cloned and copied within minutes?
And that’s just the trouble it causes in the world of video games, let alone the rest of the world.
Purple Ranger
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Lost Valentine
I don’t really know what the Resident Evil guy was talking about with his two 10 year plans but if they are going to start the next 10 years with a big story plan I hope they stick to it properly. All the set-up in Resident Evil Village already seems to have been forgotten and Requiem contradicted itself within the same game, let alone the one that came after it.
Resident Evil doesn’t really need much of a story but it’s all getting so messy and inconsistent now that it’s beginning to get distracting. Also, there’s too much Leon. I know he’s the most popular one, but where the heck is Jill Valentine? Her last mainline game was… Resident Evil 5? That’s the best part of two decades ago! And the only remake she’s been in was a low effort flub, for some reason.
It’s weird because back in the day I always thought of her as the face of the franchise. I’m fine with it being Leon instead, because he is cool, but Jill is far better than Chris, who is the most boring and generic default male character you could imagine. I hope whatever Resident Evil 10 is, that Jill has a starring role. Also, that the story makes sense.
PhantomZ
Mad Link
It always amuses me to see fans talk about the Zelda timeline, because it’s obvious they care about it far more than Nintendo does. Nintendo basically gave up with Breath Of The Wild and Tears Of The Kingdom and said they’re separate and don’t count, because they couldn’t be bothered to pretend they fit in anywhere. To me it would make sense to say that for everything except the ones that are purposefully sequels, which is hardly any of them.
It reminds me of the continuity in the Mad Max films, in that there isn’t really any. It’s just the same basic story told in a different way each time, like it’s a legend that being told by different people with different information. And which was the only one that wasn’t any good? The only one that was a straight sequel.
Focus
Behind the scenes
As much sympathy as I have for BioWare being shutdown I’m not sure the blame can be put entirely at EA’s door. As far as I understand Anthem was actually BioWare’s idea. They saw live service games were becoming a thing and they wanted to get ahead of the game with their own one, and get EA to support them with other stuff afterwards.
I’m sure that was music to EA’s ears at the time, the only problem being it didn’t work and the game was a flop. But sometimes you roll the dice and it doesn’t work out, BioWare had to have known that was a possibility at the time.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard got a lot of unfair criticism, but the fact is the marketing for it was terrible, painting it as some kind of wacky action game, and it came out just before Christmas. It was doomed no matter how good or bad you think it was.
How much of that was EA and how much was BioWare I don’t know, but I’m assuming EA didn’t want it to fail, so there must’ve been conversations between the two.
What I’m saying is we don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes at these companies or who’s making the decisions. At the end of the day, it’s over a decade since BioWare has had a hit and I don’t know any company that would put up with that.
Nimble
Clearing the fridge
Somehow I don’t think people are going to be complaining about the file size on GTA 6 as much as they would something like Call Of Duty. But it’s interesting because at what point do you delete it to make room for other games?
It’s looking pretty likely that GTA Online 2 will be a separate download, so you can keep that (and probably wouldn’t have room for both) but how long will GTA 6’s single-player remain on people’s hard drives? I don’t suppose there’s anyway to tell, but that’s one statistic I’d like to see.
Tim Rogers
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Better ending
I have to agree with the reader that said he doesn’t want any more Zelda remakes after Majora’s Mask. Of course, we don’t know if they will do that, but I really hope so and I think it’s likely as a lot of the groundwork is already done – which means they can probably contract it out to someone else if they want.
I really love Majora’s Mask. It’s my favourite Zelda and one of my favourite games ever for its weird, creepy atmosphere. However, there are somethings I’d like them to improve, beyond just using the new stuff from the 3DS remaster.
The game could really do with a better final section. I don’t want to spoil anything but everything that happened in the last hour or two was kind of an anti-climax, with a weak final boss fight. Some of the graphics were a bit ropey too, where you could see where they kit-bashed Ocarina Of Time to make it.
I also wouldn’t complain if there was an extra dungeon or two. Majora’s Mask has less than usual and while I don’t think the Ocarina Of Time remake adds anything that big it would be nice for its sequel, which is quite short by Zelda standards.
Just my thoughts, but the truth is I’ll be happy with anything they do that looks as good as Ocarina Of Time.
Eaglefan
Inbox also-rans
So how is the review process going to be for GTA 6 for yourself and other sites? Are you receiving it early to review or will you be like everyone and getting release day?
TWO MACKS
GC: Either way, we can’t say.
The mention of the transparent N64s brought me such a wave of nostalgia. They look kind of ugly now, so I’m surprised Sony is copying them, but back in the day they were the coolest.
Renfield
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