The Wednesday letters page wants to learn more about Resident Evil Requiem and Silent Hill f, as one reader is unimpressed by Kirby Air Riders.
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Hard start
If Indiana Jones And The Great Circle looks close to the PlayStation 5 version on Nintendo Switch 2. I will be very impressed. It’s a great looking game, so it’s not an easy one to start with. I see the rumours about Starfield being next but that was pretty low tech; Indiana Jones is a lot more impressive and has open world areas too, so I’ll be very curious to see how it turns out.
Overall, a good showcase and I was interested in a number of games, including Resident Evil Requiem, the new Black Myth: Wukong, and even Lego Batman. Maybe we don’t need E3 after all, if things keep improving like this.
Pascal
Horrific show
I am really hoping that Silent Hill f is going to turn out to be another classic for the series. Everything I’ve seen of it so far has been great and that includes the Gamescom trailer. But then it always looked like the best one from the first time they showed it, to the point where I don’t really know why they bothered with a lot of these other games.
Really looking forward to seeing what coverage comes out of the show and that maybe GC will be able to take a look at Silent Hill f and Resident Evil Requiem for us?
Tosc
GC: We’ll be playing Silent Hill f, and talking to the developers, on Thursday.
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Needs more floppy hair
That was a pretty good Gamescom show, I have to admit, but I was disappointed that we didn’t get more on Resident Evil Requiem. I know it’s not up to Capcom to react to rumours but I was really hoping we’d get to see confirmation of Leon this week and some explanation, or at least hint, of how Raccoon City is involved.
I guess we’ll have to wait till… The Game Awards for that? But still, the game looks great and I’m super invested in it. My guess is that Raccoon City will be the open world area that the rumours have talked about and then we’ll have more traditional Resi action in the hotel.
Whatever’s going on Capcom will have to do a lot to put me off it now. Will GC be seeing it at Gamescom?
Gazza
GC: We cannot say.
Better than expected
I’ll say that I’m very humbled to say that Gamescom exceeded my expectations. I did expect to be disappointed, as I’m sure many set their expectations unequivocally high, but we’ve seen a lot of very impressive looking titles and reveals. Resident Evil Requiem’s new look was brief, but surprisingly eerie and it certainly seems as if secrets are coming to the surface.
I can see why this game is the most wishlisted on Steam; it looks gorgeous and creepy. It was unfortunate to still play the waiting game for Silksong, however. Haven’t we waited enough time and emptied our patience vials, to say that we expect a release date today? Yet we were denied this chalice of good fortune. We deserve to see it this week. The fans deserve this.
Leave it to see the last reveal, a spiritual successor to Black Myth: Wukong. I am flabbergasted to say the least. I expected DLC. A sequel wasn’t on my bingo card or anyone’s. A new horizon looms and if I’m being blunt, I see the sequel launching on PlayStation 6. It is inevitable
So yeah, a lot to look forward to indeed. I was quite stunned to not see a peep out of Battlefield 6 however. That was quite the omission. But I guess Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 needed to answer back to the beta. Yeah, I’ll stick to Battlefield 6. Sorry Activision.
Shahzaib Sadiq
Strange request
I watched all 45 minutes of that Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct and I still have no idea why that was the priority for Nintendo in the Switch 2’s launch year. Even if it looks better than the GameCube original, the GameCube original was so bad it just seems like polishing the proverbial you-know-what.
I get the dev was asked to make the game by Nintendo, and you wouldn’t say no to that, probably, but why didn’t Nintendo ask him to make Smash Bros. instead? You could just do a deluxe edition and add a few new characters and you’d have something that’s a hundred times more popular than any Kirby could be.
If you’re happy about it then great but it’s not for me, I can tell you.
Krampus
Final decisions
Thank you for your replies, Mr Kiwi and Bobwallet, about buying a gaming PC. I have bought the PC now but that was good advice about the SSD getting gen 4 instead of gen 5, to save money on a one second difference.
I got help to decide what computer to buy on the comments section of the Inbox on Monday. I decided to go with the Nvidia graphics card, as someone in the Underbox recommended for people new to graphics settings that Nvidia is easier to use for a novice like me.
I got a modular PSU, so if the PSU fails in the future, or I want to put a more powerful PSU in, I can do that easily and also it kept the price down when I bought the computer now. I am using a 4K TV bought in 2021 and a 1080p monitor bought in 2010(!). My PC tower will be in my living room as well as the TV and monitor.
I’ve decided to get a 2TB SSD with the computer and then save up for another 2TB SSD in future, which is the same type as what is installed. I will also have a mechanical drive in there from 2023, which is 8TB.
That’s handy to know about what PSU I would need for the 5080 graphics card, thank you. Thank you for your help Mr Kiwi and Bobwallet and GameCentral readers and Underboxers.
Andrew J.
Fear the future
It’s so obvious that the next gen Xbox is going to be all about AI and I hate it already. I don’t know what exactly they’re going to do but I can tell you now it’s not just going to be upping the frame rate and resolution.
It’s very obvious that Microsoft has absolutely no respect for artists, in the video game field or otherwise, and that alone disgusts me, before we even get to the half broken ‘games’ they’re going to serve up alongside the console. Imagining playing a game that was the equivalent of all those fake videos you see on YouTube. The future sucks.
Zeiss
All that matters
Your recent discussion on the best console generation really struck a chord. Having played every era since the Atari VCS, two stand out as true creative peaks.
In the 16-bit era (SNES, Mega Drive, PC Engine, Neo Geo, Game Boy) 2D design was perfected. Games were polished, expressive, and endlessly replayable, while the Game Boy made portable play just as meaningful. Fun came first, tech second, which is why these games still hold up today, with classics like Super Mario World, Sonic 2, Streets Of Rage 2, Tetris, and Metal Slug.
In the sixth generation (Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance) 3D had matured beyond awkward polygons. Developers combined ambition and technical skill, producing classics like Zelda: The Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Shadow Of The Colossus, Soul Calibur, and Halo. Strong art direction and creativity endured far longer than raw horsepower.
Other generations often stumbled through experimentation, leaned too heavily on gimmicks, or became overshadowed by monetisation that treats players as data points rather than people seeking fun.
The industry still chases spectacle, but the truth hasn’t changed since the arcade days. The real test is whether a single credit, or a single boot-up, gives you a good time. The games we still go back to decades later are the ones that got that right the first time.
Ryan
Inbox also-rans
Long got over my Wordle addiction post lockdown, but as a lover of card games I’ve found the daily challenge of Battlechips a lot of fun!
Anon
GC: We’ll say one thing, that name is pun-tastic.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War 4? Yes! I was hoping after the remaster of the first one but that is excellent news.
Robbit
GC: We’ll be seeing it and speaking to the developers later today.
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