Games Inbox: Did you know GTA 6 was made in the UK?

The Wednesday letters page is upset there wasn’t a Star Fox annoucement this week, as a reader asks if Assassin’s Creed Black Flag: Resynced is the most leaked game ever.

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Made in Scotland
I’ve been reading about people complaining that while the French government promoted Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the UK government has never done anything to promote the fact that GTA is made in the UK. It’s basically a Scottish game, even though you can’t tell from playing it, and GTA 6 is going to end up as the biggest entertainment product of all time.

Politicians are probably worried about being associated with something ultra-violent (and whatever else goes on in GTA 6) but somehow I get the feeling that they wouldn’t promote it even if it wasn’t. I bet they don’t say a word about Fable either, which is British made and filled with British voice actors and set in a fantasy version of the UK.

All the recent talk about the ZX Spectrum and other older retro formats has been great but as soon as the Amiga and Atari ST died so did games that you could tell were made in the UK. There hardly seems like there’s any developers left nowadays, which seems a real shame.
Korbie

Barrel roll of laughs
When I saw there was a Nintendo annoucement on Tuesday I was really hoping it was going to be Star Fox but sadly that wasn’t to be. I have very little faith in Nintendo rumours as they rarely seem to come true. In fact, I suspect Nintendo actually changes things so they’re not proven true, such is their hate of leaks.

But I really want to see a new Star Fox that is all or mostly an on-rails shooter. I wonder if as build up to that they could do a remake of the original Starwing? They remade Star Fox 64 for the 3DS and it didn’t look much difference but they’d have to make a lot of changes to the first game and I think it’d be interesting to see as it didn’t even have all-range mode.

I don’t think it would be much work to do either, given the game is so simplistic but with the ultra low frame rate on the SNES I think it could be a really fun intro to the series for newcomers and a nice bit of nostalgia for veterans like me.
Limbert

Foxed again
So again we see Nintendo making announcements out of the blue, with a full trailer for Splatoon Raiders (and not the rumours Star Fox). As everyone suspected, it’s a single-player game and I don’t know how that’s going to go down, seeing as none of the previous single-player modes or expansions were all that good. They were okay but it seems to be an odd thing to prioritise when it’s the multiplayer that made the game famous.

I’m kind of shocked that Splatoon 4 wasn’t an early game for the Switch 2 and now it seems like it’s going to be a long time. I realise Splatoon 3 works on the console but the game’s old now and was a pretty weak sequel anyway, especially by Nintendo standards. The line-up for the Switch 2 continues to be anything but the obvious.
Onibee

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Trusted builders
I love the irony that Fallout: New Vegas was built using Bethesda’s own game engine, but somehow not only do they not own source code but they wouldn’t know how to rebuild it anyway? I don’t see how such a big company, with so many people, can be so bad at the technical side of things.

And yet I still wouldn’t trust anyone but them or Obsidian to do a remake, since Fallout is such a complicated game. You can use some cheap dev to do a remaster, but you’ve got to make an effort with a remake and I think that’s the reason it’s never happened before and may never happen at all – given both developers are busy right now.

It’s kind of missed its opportunity anyway, because the last season of the Amazon show was about New Vegas and I don’t know how much the next one is going to spend there. Seems like they obvious thing to do is switch things up each season.
Jack

Shedding a tear
In response to Paulie asking if Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is worth the hype, I think it is. It’s a game that is more than the sum of its parts, but for me it’s worth the accolades for its incredible storytelling and delivery. I will admit to it being the only game to make me cry in 25 years of gaming.

On a different note, Esoteric Ebb is worth a play for anyone who is a fan of either Disco Elysium or the non-combat side of Dungeons & Dragons.
Charlie, a reader since the Teletext days

Invisible upgrade
I’m another person that is considering upgrading from my PlayStation 4 but I’m really struggling with the idea of getting a PS5 Pro. I don’t like not having the best model available but it’s so expensive and I don’t really get the impression it does anything that different.

I get the 60fps and higher resolution and whatever but I’d much prefer if games had a separate PS5 Pro mode that switched on graphics only it can do. I realise that’s probably not feasible, and there probably isn’t much more it can do, beyond improving the performance but its selling points all seem very vague to me.

For that money you’d think you’d get something that had some kind of ‘Only on PS5 Pro’ option about it. It sadly reminds me of the N64 Memory Pak, which you were told you needed but could never be sure what it actually did.

Some games wouldn’t run without it, so obviously it did something but definitely to a child it wasn’t obvious what. You just plugged it into the console and then immediately forgot it was there.

I suppose a big ‘ray tracing’ button is a pretty silly idea but for all that money I’d like a clearcut reason of what I’m spending my money on. To be honest, it’s making me think I should just get a Switch 2 instead.
Olli

Too much information
Does Assassin’s Creed Black Flag: Resynced (thank goodness for Ctrl+P, huh?) win the record for most leaked game ever? Everyone has known about it for literally years, and they knew about the reveal and now we’re getting leaks about the reveal – so much that I don’t think we’ll learn a single new thing on Thursday.

I am interested in playing it but there’s no doubting that constantly hearing about it, or any game in a similar fix, kind of saps your enthusiasm. I wish some of these companies got better at keeping their secrets. Activision, I think, threatened to sue some leakers and we haven’t heard a word about this year’s Call Of Duty since. Normally everything on that would’ve leaked months ago.
Elmo

A good time
I completed Pragmata last night, at a little over 10 hours. What a fantastic game.

I had initially thought that balancing the hacking and the combat might be tricky, but it became second nature. I thought maybe it would be a little bit too grey, with the robots and lunar setting, but it kept everything vibrant and interesting.

I’ve still got a lot of things left to do in the game and I like how easy it makes it to see where you need to go looking if you’re aiming for 100%. The extra post-game stuff is appealing too.

I’ve almost entirely neglected Tomadachi Life because of Pragmata. Capcom are having a really fantastic few years of consistent greatness. I hope they continue to take risks on new things like Pragmata.

They deserve a lot of praise for their engine running so well on Switch 2. I’ve played through this and Resident Evil Requiem just in handheld and it’s been fantastic.

Maybe Nintendo should partner with Capcom on Zelda games again.
Euclidian Boxes

GC: We think many would be happy to see that, if it was a spin-off or remake.

Inbox also-rans
I have no opinion on Diablo itself but I was shocked to see the new expansion is £35! I had no idea things had got that out of control for some games. You could buy multiple indie games for that price.
Monkey

Here’s an anniversary I bet Square Enix don’t mention: it’s been 25 years since Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Do younger fans even realise Square used to be their own company and had to merge with Enix to stay afloat, after the film bombed?
Lacy

GC: Actually, the merger was being talked about beforehand. The film bombing almost put Enix off from doing it.

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