Games Inbox: Best Gamescom Opening Night Live game, Gotham Knights villains, and PSVR2 priorities

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The Wednesday letters page puts the blame for Saints Row on Embracer Group, as one reader is unimpressed by Hideo Kojima’s Gamescom reveal.

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Lies of CGI I think if I’d known that Gamescom Opening Night Live was going to be two hours long I wouldn’t have bothered, because that was a chore to get through at times. It could, and should, have been half the length, especially if they got rid of all the pointless pre-rendered CGI trailers.

That said, I’m not really clear how much of Lies Of P was CGI, but I would say that was probably my most anticipated game of the show. I also like Moonbreaker, even though it’s weird that the characters don’t animate, and Dead Island 2 looked better than expected.

Overall, it wasn’t particularly fun to watch though and the line-up certainly wasn’t very inspiring. I don’t know why Microsoft and Sony weren’t there, but I do wish they’d wake up from hibernation because, as another reader said, they really are making the worst of a bad situation.

Also, what on earth was going on with those ‘awards’? The most anticipated PlayStation game is Lies Of P… a game that’s not exclusive and is on Game Pass day one? Where was God Of War Ragnarök?!PhantomZ

GC: We think the idea was that the games had to be playable on the Gamescom show floor, but since so few big publishers are there this year, including Sony, the options were severely limited.

Numbers game Like many, I’m still not convinced by Gotham Knights. The graphics do look good but the edgelord characters and no Batman are still issues I’m having trouble with. I’m not keen on it being an action role-player either. If there’s going to be anything on-screen during the combat in a Batman