Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

@Jimmer-jammer Well done on Elden Ring! That is a bummer with your PS5. If you are still getting that error, I would recommend going into safe mode and trying some of the options available, such as rebuilding your database.

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/support/hardware/safe-mode-...

@Jimmer-jammer Crikey, that is awful timing. Can’t believe the power company didn’t appreciate you’d be playing Elden Ring at that time!! Good to hear you got it sorted though and hopefully your save is intact. That last boss can be mildly irritating so be good to not have to do it again.

@Jimmer-jammer I had a power cut this week too, but the PS5 was in Rest Mode at the time and it appears it wasn’t actively downloading anything, thankfully. I just got the ugly warning message on reboot telling me not to unplug the console without shutting down, and then an auto storage rebuild. But I thought to myself, what if that had happened while I was actively playing and the game was auto-saving?
Welp, now I know.
Sorry for your bad luck, buddy.

@Jimmer-jammer yeah if it makes you feel any better mate, I would’ve been tearing up trees in frustration. Probably wouldn’t have been able to relax until it was sorted. You seemed to handle it in a very civilised manner… judging from your posts at least 😉

@Jimmer-jammer Glad it worked out. It’s one of those, “won the battle but lost the war” type of situations if you would have beaten the final boss but bricked your PS5 in the process.

Surely the PS5 engineers built in some kind of contingency systems into the console for power outages. It seems the “other” category is part of that, whereby maybe saved files go there in sequence before being permanently written on the appropriate folders on the drive. It seems doing the factory reset has cleaned it up for you.

Out of curiosity, now that you have reset and started over, so to speak, with your console, did you see the size of your “other” folder to go down? If indeed the “other” files have to do with pieces of save data or files that may have been orphaned, it might be smaller now.

I have about 400 GB of my drive used and about 30 GB is in the “other” folder. After my power cut I checked the sizes and the presence of all my apps and save folders and it appears the same before and after the power cut and storage rebuild process. Which I guess that’s good.

@Jimmer-jammer @Th3solution @colonelkilgore I really wish there was the ability to have multiple versions of a save somehow, either locally or in the cloud so that you could go back to a point in time. It would be perfect for things like this where if you've just got a single save and that gets corrupted then you are done for. Even if you've got cloud saves the one pushed up to the cloud could be a corrupted one, as I don't think it is able to check save integrity first, so when you download it back to the console you still can't use it.

I kind of wished I'd got that ability now as I realised the other night that I've messed up on my Cyberpunk play through and won't be able to platinum it on a single run through now. Autosaves are great but apparently it only keeps so many before it starts auto-deleting 😭

@render @Jimmer-jammer The FromSoft games are particularly egregious in this regard, as they don’t have manual saves on top of autosaves. Of course this keeps the integrity of the experience in check to combat save scumming. But in most other games I create multiple manual saves just in case I want to backtrack (which I rarely end up doing anyway).

But I’m in the same situation with the lack of true knowledge and understanding of how computers and software works. But actually, I think that the fact you did a clean sweep of your console is quite refreshing. Kinda like doing a spring cleaning of your garage and just throwing away all the junk that’s been sitting there collecting dust. I look at my PS4 especially and that poor thing has so much crap loaded on it over the years that I’ve either finished, abandoned, never played, or just plain forgot about. It’s why I’ve decided not to connect an external storage nor buy upgraded storage for my PS5 yet. So far I’m able to keep the hard drive simpler and have had enough room for the 4-5 games I have any chance of playing in the month. I won’t say I’ll never upgrade, but so far I’m okay with what I have. And from time to time I have the temptation to just “start over” with a clean sweep like you had to do.

@render as an out-and-proud save-scummer, I could really do with being able to save to usb that’s for sure.

@Th3solution @colonelkilgore I've certainly save scummed before and will do so again if it means saving myself a ton of time. I still don't understand why they've not kept the ability to copy to USB for PS5 games though, it's just weird. Unless they use some magical multi-dimensional storage format that can't be represented on the same drive as PS4 saves then there's surely no reason to omit it. The cynical view is that they want to push people to use PS Plus, which really is entirely plausible.

@render But then you couldn't have PS4 and PS5 game saves on your internal SSD, which is the case now. It's more likely what you said last about pushing people to PS Plus. It's not a big deal to me as I would be subscribed to it anyways for the free games.

@KilloWertz Which is why it seems all the stranger. I’ve not got a problem with cloud saves requiring PS+ generally but I think if they are tied to that there should be a free alternative, and there just isn’t.

Somebody posted some leaked images from a new Silent Hill game on Twitter and they were DMCA'd swiftly... which kinda proves they're legit?

Got an email about the alpha for that weird MultiVersus game. It’s gonna be awful but I thought I might as well sign up for it. I’m sure it’ll be an experience.

@nessisonett It could be one of those things where it is so bad it is good? Did you ever play PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (man, that title hasn't aged well lol) on ps3? I never had a ps3 so did not experience it. But it comes up occasionally on podcasts and stuff for titles Sony should bring back.

@JohnnyShoulder I have the Vita version and I really don’t get the love. The fundamental gameplay just isn’t fun. Something like Smash Bros has a great gameplay base, whereas PSASBR just doesn’t.

The clearly fake rumours about a Bloober Team remake of Silent Hill 2 are still somewhat horrifying. I quite liked Layers of Fear but The Medium proved that they should not be given Silent Hill, especially not a remake of such an important game. Hit me right in the same place as ‘Quantic Dream Star Wars’.

@nessisonett i was also confused about them making a star wars game but apparently it will be a typical quantic dream style game and i think that can actually work well for star wars.

if it ever comes out that is.

@jdv95 Well according to David Cage, all the women in his games are ‘wh*res’ and ‘at Quantic Dream, we do not make games for f*gs’. So rather different reasons that I would rather they didn’t touch Star Wars but the same energy!

@nessisonett yeah i heard about that to. it's part of the reason sony did not buy them.

i think quantic dream ones pitched a star wars game to sony but they said no.

@nessisonett It's a shame that he has to be a total *****, but at the same time if they continue to make games I love, I will continue to play them. I obviously don't agree with him and what has likely happened at his company, but I loved Heavy Rain when I played it back on the PS3 and Detroit: Become Human was one of my favorite gaming experiences I've had in a while when I finally played that late last year. Say what you will, but games matter more to me than what goes on with the company and it's founder.