Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

@Voltan My settings are below. Hope that works.

I've also got a 4K Blu Ray player (purchased before my PS5) which works the same and is a Sony along with my TV, so not sure if that makes any difference. My TV controller also works on my PS5, which I find useful when watching content in any of the apps and the controller turns off for instance.

@JohnnyShoulder I’m afraid mine were the same. It’s probably a difference on the TV’s side.

Looks like Sony Bend might be getting close to a new game reveal - the quoted tweet is from last year but there are more tweets like this one posted today

@Voltan I get the feeling Sony's going to announce a Playstation Showcase tomorrow for October 6th. Between GoW Ragnarok info blowout (Sony 1st party info blowouts are usually a month before launch), the final Persona 25th anniversary announcement being in the October 13th Famitsu, TLoU Part 1 + Miles Morales PC release date announcements (TLoU Part 1 PC release date not revealed on TLoU day, Miles Morales PC trailer suggests a few weeks), FFXVI trailer in October, PSVR2 needing a release date soon given Early 2023 window, etc.

It feels like there's too much smoke for nothing to happen.

Sackboy PC trailer was posted prematurely by PlayStation Latin America - coming next month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iEg4Eveqc0

@Kairu i had it in my previous controller,along with a broken spring on the r2 trigger.

i'm on my 3rd controller already.

Been to-ing and fro-ing all week on what to play while I’m on leave for the next couple of weeks. Was initially thinking Dragon Age: Inquisition, then Dragons Dogma… and currently thinking maybe Tales of Arise. I also just got a copy of Valkyrie Elysium but it sounds like a pretty short experience… and I’m looking for something to sink my teeth into for a good chunk of the next fortnight… but nothing is seeming quite right.

Getting to the point now where I’m definitely over-thinking it as I’m even considering thawing out Divinity: Original Sin 2 or Diablo 3 for a second chance (after falling off them real quick a few years ago).

Well I want to make a decision by the tomorrow morning as I want to install it ready for a couple of hours Saturday afternoon. I’m guessing by that point, I’ll have settled on something else entirely (that probably isn’t even a fantasy-themed rpg to boot 🤣).

@Kairu I have very slight drift that comes and goes (but enough to be annoying when it's there) in one of my 3 controllers (left stick). It doesn't drift when I'm not touching it but sometimes reads the input as "hard left" for a fraction of a second instead of the correct direction.
I spend a lot of my gaming time on fighting games that don't use the sticks at all so I just kept it for that and didn't bother to do much about it.

@colonelkilgore I can totally relate to the “analysis paralysis” of trying to decide which game to play. I suffer it more with my TV and movie backlog. I mull over what to watch and end up watching nothing. I sometimes do the same with gaming. 😄

@Th3solution yeah it happens with tv shows and films for the missus and I too. Probably even harder to land on something then actually… as we’re trying to decide on something that the two of us are happy with. We’re currently watching Westworld, so we’re set for a while… but once that’s done, we’ll be going through the drama all over again lol.

@colonelkilgore Hitman and Neir Automata (which is a game I have heard lots of good things about) is two games which comes to mind. Ohter then that maybe you would enjoy some role playing game like Final Fantasy or something similar.

@oliverp yeah Nier: Automata is actually a favourite game of mine… probably inside my all-time top 25. Hitman is a decent shout though… I’ve played the first one but I have 2 & 3 ready to go.

So I’ve actually made a decision… Tales of Arise it is. Having reacquainted myself with some of the reviews that circulated at its release, I’m pretty excited.

@colonelkilgore I hope you have as much fun with it as I did. It's my personal game of the year of 2021. Absolutely loved it.

@Lavalera I was thinking that I’ve seen the girl with the pink hair somewhere before 😉

@Lavalera so I had a little blast on it this evening and yeah it might just end up what I was looking for. Early days obvs… but I like what I’m seeing.

@colonelkilgore Glad to hear that m8. The first half is also the strongest part imo. Some people have some problems with the way the strory goes in the end. Even though it isn't as strong as the first half I still loved that part. Especially the combat with the combo system was my favorite part.
Hope you keep enjoying it.

@colonelkilgore honestly it's a great game, there's alot of text and alot of talking skits that towards the end made alot of people fall off, but the combat is fantastic and the end game stuff is pretty cool, I think you'll enjoy mate and have that plat ready to pop after GoW Ragnarok of course

@Lavalera The main reasons why I never got the game after playing the demo was because of how cheesy some of the scenes are (even for JRPG standards), and then one of my two biggest issues with Yakuza: Like a Dragon are in Tales of Arise as well where there would be fully voiced cutscenes immediately followed by one where they grunt and talk via text. It just feels cheap, and obviously I found the useless sound effects they made to be annoying. I really wanted to like Tales of Arise from the demo, but it's especially hard to get past the two Yakuza: Like a Dragon issues I had with the game.

@KilloWertz The useless sound effects with the text I can fully understand, it doesn't bother me really though. The half speech/text thing is pretty common in jrpgs nowadays though, most of them have some form of mix between those 2. The only jrpgs I can think of which are fully voiced are some of the square ones like ff13, ff7r and 15, but those are big budget jrpgs and exceptions. So if you don't like the combination of text and speexh you're prolly gonna fall off of most jrpgs