Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

@Mauzuri I actually had a similar thing last night. When playing Horizon, the coil whine got extra loud and then the screen went black for half a second. It sorted itself afterwards. Weird.

@Mauzuri Not had any other problems in that sense. Perhaps it’s just overheating?

So incredibly tired of seeing some variation of Tom Holland's face for the last three weeks every time I turn on my PlayStation. Am i the only one?

Sorry just had to get that out.

@zupertramp Apparently he is top of the list to play Aloy in the Horizon movie.

@Th3solution It’s self inflicted, trust me 😂

@JohnnyShoulder lol. but it's not him that annoys me per se. he's fine. Maybe not as Aloy of course. It's just... did I buy a budget Kindle or a PlayStation? Fine I can't have themes but i have to startup to ads? Really?

@Fragile At least it would explain why some people think she has a beard...

@zupertramp In the UK and the rest of Europe we don't get as many ads as you guys in the States, due to stricter privacy laws over here. It would probably do my head in too.

@zupertramp I've actually gotten over the ads. It sucks that they replaced the What's New page that was actually really useful with that, but I'm used to it. The dumb thing now is that they replaced the Horizon Forbidden West logo that's to the left of the trophy info on the PS5 home page with the "Official News" for the game's Accolades trailer.

I already bought the game. Obviously I don't need to be sold on the game by them pointing me to a trailer telling me how great it is. It's the only game I own that no longer has the logo on the left side of it's main page on the PS5's home page.

@Fragile I kid ye not. https://www.thegamer.com/aloy-horizon-appearance-beard-beauty...

@JohnnyShoulder I’m not sure that Tom Holland could actually grow a beard yet tbh 🧔‍♀️

Been a while since the last time we played it but the missus and I get the next chapter completed (Chapter 5) on It Takes Two this afternoon. She’s finding it a bit of a struggle as we’re having a fair few weeks between each chapter, so all the skills that she has developed during a session are forgotten by the next. Having said that, she’s pulling her weight once she gets going.

@KilloWertz yeah Horizon's accolades trailer thing also bothers me. Like you, I've already purchased it so stop trying to sell it to me.

Guess I'm just surprised, given the uproar when sports games slip in a few adverts where they technically would go, that this has kind of just slipped under the criticism radar. Sony just about litters the interface with promotional material but I've seen/heard of very little complaining. Maybe people are just happy to have a PS5?

My take is that's what the storefront is for. Go crazy there but not my home screen please.

@JohnnyShoulder so does it not startup to that explore tab over there or is the explore tab more news and less adsy?

@zupertramp Like I said before, I don't mind that page so much anymore and it being on the home screen. What they should do is give people the option to choose what they want to it default to when the console boots up. That way you wouldn't have to look at Tom Holland's face every other day if that bothers you.

I've seen people complain about that, them replacing the artwork in the background with artwork from the latest DLC (Ubisoft does this with every game), or the ads to buy add-ons above the trophy data, but all of that complaining has been in moderation.

What they did with Horizon Forbidden West is the first one that's truly bothered me since I got over the replacement for the What's New page. It truly makes no sense. It's not like it's going to make me mad enough to stop playing it and jump ship to my Series X, as it all goes away the moment I'm back in playing Horizon Forbidden West, but it is something that is just plain stupid and should be reversed before it actually gets out of hand.

@zupertramp No ads in the explorer tab just the latest news from the games I'm following, and it doesn't show up straight away when I first power on the console.

@KilloWertz an option of what to boot up to would be more than fine. and the ability to remove icons from the home screen but that's probably years from now if it happens at all.

weirdly the HFW accolades screen doesn't seem to be displaying correctly on mine. so it's fairly annoying on two fronts.

But yeah the explore startup screen and the cross gen related auto install/update are my two biggest complaints. neither of which being deal killers of course.

@JohnnyShoulder yes well, technically it displays "news" for me too, as in news about new products I can pay for lol.

@zupertramp I haven't tried to actually click on it since I have no plans on ever watching it, and maybe a bit out of spite since I hate what they did. Strangely I think I've only had issues with installing the correct version of a cross gen game once, and that was the day Control Ultimate Edition released and I think they were still in the process of updating things to reflect it's release (it also was releasing on PS Plus that day too, one more thing for them to update).

Speaking of updating, my only real gripes so far with that is the fact that it can sometimes take a good two minutes for a game to actually start installing once I put the disc in or click to download a digital version. I will never be able to figure out why things just don't start installing/updating pretty much right away. That and the fact that you can't update games if they are on an external SSD, and can't check for updates unless the game is in your line of icons on the home page.

It is been a long time since I booted up my PS4, so when I turned it on yesterday to survey what I had on there, I was really confused. 😅 My muscle memory was already reprogrammed for the PS5 UI, so for a few minutes I was thinking “Man, this PS4 interface is garbage. How did I ever like this better?”

But then after about 15 minutes I fell back into rhythm with it and I remembered why I liked it. Although I must say, having to open up the store with clicking an icon and then waiting for the app to load was a bit annoying.

But everything else about the crossbar and the folders and organization was much better on PS4.

It's weird seeing that people had hopes for PS5 even 4 years ago

Looks like VRR is being rolled out on some Sony 2021 televisions.