I am more than happy with 30 FPS, especially on an underpowered system that is producing quite surprising visual detail.

It’s just absolutely mind-blowing and frustrating that in 2026, developers are hitting frame rate targets but still failing to maintain even frame pacing.

It is madness, as they’ve done the hard work and achieved the miracle, only to fall hopelessly at the final hurdle.

This is GCSE economics. Supply and demand.

Demand increases, there is only a small/no increase in supply and the market rations the goods by price because there isn’t enough to go around.

It’s not companies exploiting us. Rather we are all bidding against each other and the highest payer wins.

This is why housing is so expensive. Governments increased the size of populations and didn’t build enough houses, so we are in a bidding war against each other to rent flats. It’s not landlords scamming us, it’s us offering to pay more than the next guy to secure the house/let.

In a normal market, as goods become more over subscribed and profitable, more people will enter the market to supply the good, and the price will stabilise and fall.

With housing this doesn’t happen due to Government planning restrictions.

With chips, other factors are at play. Firstly it takes time to build these factories. Secondly these factories are complex and expensive.

The manufacturers of memory are betting that the AI bubble will burst and demand for chips will fall. They don’t want to be left with an expensive factory that isn’t needed. Hence we haven’t seen the surge in supply and price correction you might expect.

Fully support the take downs.

If we all used that stuff, there would be no games at all. The games are funded with the money we legitimately paid.

Others are freeloading off us.

I understand why someone with a Switch and PC like me, might argue that they own the digital game and want to enjoy a version with better performance, or a preservation argument, but for everyone one of us, there are a hundred pure freeloaders.

Sadly that’s why we can’t have nice things and why I accept the population can’t be trusted with this stuff, and why I never dabbled.

This game was busted on PS5, Xbox and PC at launch, and never fixed.

Anyone buying the Switch version and anyone reviewing it, would have been well aware that they were dealing with the permanent final state of the game.

New era, new mindset.

In the past, there was the early adopter tax. If you waited, you got the console for significantly less.

This generation I've ensured I got in at launch day for all the consoles.

I didn't predict AI and its effect on the market, so can't claim credit there.

I did predict the "cost of lockdown crisis", wrongly called the "cost of living crisis", that stemmed from the massive increase in money supply and spending during the pandemic.

Rampant inflation was obvious. I ran out and bought a brand new car on 0% finance and laughed as such vehicles then increased 20% in price as inflation peaked at close to double digits and interest rates were jacked.

My pay went up to match and I paid off the car with pocket change. My XSX and launch PS5 were ludicrously cheap. I didn't hesitate with the Switch 2 and PS5 Pro, even though everyone was crying about the cost of the latter.

I hate the Fast games and for me they've never been a suitable replacement for an FZERO or Wipeout type of experience.

Two different games, and the Fast titles do neither well, and neither do they carve out their own niche as Redout sort of did.

I like the idea of this game but there seems to be a mismatch between the vehicles and tracks. Either vehicles need to be improved or the tracks made a lot more pixelated.

Just playing the 2013 game on Switch, lost count of how many times I've played it through on PC, Xbox and PS over the years.

Always amazes me how the first game started to go in the right direction as far as character development goes.

E.g. the part where a bad guy is trapped under rubble asking for help or something, I shoot him in the head and she says "go to hell".

I recall in later section in a bunker she shouts something along the lines of how she was going to kill them all or something.

I was loving it, yet in the next two games the character regressed and went downhill into a whiny self obsessed Lara.

I hope the 2013 Lara is the canon and we can pretend the next two games didn't exist (they were good games but the character development/regression was bad).

As for AI, why do I care if a rock or Egyptian statue was created by AI or a person? I couldn't care less.

I didn’t think it was particularly great aiming with the joycon stick in handheld mode. I will mostly play this docked with Pro Controller though.

This was a huge step up graphically over the first game when it launched. Far more challenging a port.

I very much hope it’s locked to 30fps.

Far better than a bungling 60fps attempt that suffers from low resolution and constant stutter or tearing.

I remember the original (2013) game on PS4 that ran “up to 60”. It felt like utter trash and desperately needed a 30fps lock option.

@Jeronan not Corporate greed.

Thicko consumers slammed hard cash on the table and declared a preference for form factor over the ability to swap out batteries.

They voted with wallets.

Like most people, my S2 is a secondary device for specific types of game.

This one isn't that type of game.

It's a PS5 Pro/PC purchase when on sale for me.

My favourite game of last year. Brimming with atmosphere, incredible world, great music, characters, story and bosses.

Only fly in the ointment is the non boss combat sections that got repetitive and were a barrier I had to get past to continue the story and exploration.

Still a 9 out of 10 to me.

Couldn't care. Makes no difference to me.

If it's just the spell icons on your bar in a game like Divinity then I wouldn't even notice.

If it's some incidental art assets such as a cupboard in a house with a generic medieval look, I wouldn't even notice.

However the game still requires some human art direction. The overall world design/ theme, antagonist/protagonist appearance etc.

If it doesn't capture my imagination, I won't buy it.

That means more money in my bank account, and less money in theirs. So again, no reason for me to be bothered. I end up richer.

Knight remains the only game in the series that I haven't finished.

It was unplayable on my top of the range SLI PC at launch, I ran to the supermarket and bought the PS4 version but that was no good as the frame rate was too low to complete some sections.

Then we had the unplayable Switch port.

At this point I'd like a current gen remaster but I'm not even confident that would run properly.