It might feel more fresh then than it does now because all of the conversations around it will have died down, and it’ll seem like a quiet little thing. But much as I’d like to play Rapture - even though I agree with John about Dear Esther, I loved A Machine For Pigs - I’m happy to play it in five years time. I feel like there should be a limit on these things so that I can draw up a list of my favourite games ever and know that they’re all playable in one place by just about anyone who has a computer. Nowadays, I don’t mind exclusives so much until time has passed. John: After the towering pile of wank that was Dear Esther, I’m sort of glad it’s over there in that corner.Īdam: There as a time when I wanted everything as soon as it released and would have been sad that I couldn’t play the new thing everyone is talking about. Pip: Is this a good time to say that because of this reminder I have just set Everybody's Gone To The Rapture downloading? How do we feel about having treats out of reach like that? Except us, because it’s only on PS4, because that kind of thing now happens to small games as well as big games. This is a week in which every games journalist in Britishland is raving about The Chinese Room’s Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture.

Actually, let’s fight PLATFORM EXCLUSIVES. Let’s form a gang!Īlec: That’s settled, we’re fighting John. Is this right? Is it sensible? And what about the other side of the coin, with XCOM 2 being PC-only? Not so grumbly then, are we? Let's see if we can figure this one out, eh?Īdam: There are enough of us to form a gang.

In recent months similar has happened with Tomb Raider, and of course there's a long history of this sort of thing, from your Marios to your Halos. This week, we're discussing the pitfalls and merits of platform exclusives, in the wake of Everybody's Gone To The Rapture being PS4-only, despite its devs making their name with the PC-only Dear Esther. Sometimes it's about SCANDAL, like slow-motion Batman or No Man's Sky hype, other times it's about perennials, like best levels ever or if Early Access means the end times. Once a week most weeks, team RPS gathers, eyes itself warily across the table then debates.

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