Simulator Special 3: This Time It's Personal!

Outer Wilds has won the prestigious “Best Game” prize at the 16th annual Bafta Games Awards...

You find yourself on a planet with 22 minutes on the clock before the local sun goes supernova and kills you. I’ve had worse days at work.
The title's writer Kelsey Beachum gave credit to players saying: "Word of mouth has been essential in getting people to play the game, you're all really beautiful"'
Thanks, I know!

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Hideo Kojima creator of the Metal Gear franchise, was honoured with the Bafta Fellowship - the highest accolade the organisation can give.
But his latest release, Death Stranding, which was nominated for 11 awards... won just one for technical achievement…

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There was more disappointment for adventure game Control… one of our favourites!
It also had a record 11 nominations going into the event and only won once... for the performer in a supporting role category. Looks like “seize” the game’s ability, where you can control other people’s minds... didn’t work on the judging panel

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Untitled Goose Game won best family game… despite the main character being an anti-social goose who steals from the innocent…

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...and finally, one we’re excited to get our hands on when it gets released on Mac and consoles... is the PC Game Disco Elysium, which won a GAMING BAFTA for best Debut game… as well as two others.

Chris Berrow and Leigh Milner discuss the pros and cons of the new PS5 controller. With an important contribution from Alex Rhodes... 

Leigh - Controller news. PlayStation have revealed their new controller for the PS5 it's called DualSense. So the difference between PlayStation and Xbox controller, when you look at them the Xbox controller is fatter basically, isn't it? 

If we look at the new DualSense, how similar does that look to the Xbox controller? Basically you need a bigger hand to play with this, and I like the PS controller because it's quite small. It fits in your hand.

Chris - The triangle, x, circle, square buttons don't have colors on as well. In the new prototype, they're just white buttons. Look, these are some of the things it has. It has two tone color design, light bar placement, so means it's got a light bar. A built in microphone compared to having to stick one on. That's the only good thing, but they did an hour long presentation to reveal it. An hour. That's too long to reveal a controller. 

We've got our King of controllers, Alex Rhodes to give us a real in depth review.

Alex - Yeah, it looks all right.

Chris - Thanks so much for that, Alex. You took a lot of time to do that. We'll see if the release date of the PlayStation 5 is going to be delayed because of coronavirus as well. It's quite likely given the current climate, so it could be a couple of years before we get our hands on the real deal here. 

Chris Berrow and Leigh Milner discuss the latest remake of Final Fantasy VII...

Chris -  I've recently played Final Fantasy 7 the original and it's so good. Anyway because of the story and even though it's really old and it's quite blocky, but the art is there. It really creates the kind of the atmosphere. If you've never played it before, go and play the original and then come back and play this new one. The graphics are better. Okay. Actually I wouldn't have cared that much. The voice acting and the scripting has been massively improved. 

They've got proper voice actors. It sounds amazing. We've talked about this... when we played the demo instead of taking turns and eventually getting bored of pressing X all the time... so "yes, I won. Well done me." It's realtime combat now. So you can run around, you can block, you can hack and slash your way to victory. One of the biggest changes is absolutely huge and you'd think, they're messing with something that's a part of people's childhoods. But it's better. They're going to lose some points here. And the only reason why is because they've released part one of this remake and they've turned six hours of the original game to about 40 hours.

The next part's coming out at some point. And it's quite frustrating. It's a very badly handled release. But anyway, the game is great. The release pattern is terrible, but it's going to get a 9 out of 10 just for the quality of the content. It's out on PS4 for 60 quid. But you know it's beautiful. So why wouldn't you get it? 

Chris & Leigh preview Pope Simulator. 

The trailer has only just come out. It's called Pope Simulator.

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Leigh - Does it have the Pope Mobile in it?

Chris - How could it not? The game begins on conclave day when the College of Cardinals select a new Pope, that's you Leigh Milner!

Leigh - The white smoke rises.

Chris - You'd have to be a man though. That's the way they roll. Maybe this is the new postmodern Pope Simulator... so you choose a coat of arms... you can organize pilgrimages and wield the influence of the Vatican it says, so just in case you're wondering, keep an eye out for a Pope Simulator coming soon. 

Alex Rhodes reviews Baby Tiger Care, and tries to become the "Tiger King". 

This one is a must listen!