Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

Of course 😉

@Lavalera Scarlet Nexus is another that's fully voiced. A good amount of it is talking headshots of the characters, but it's still fully voiced. Xenoblade Chronicles 1-3 on the Switch are voiced aside from the Affinity sequences. While you aren't wrong that a decent amount of JRPGs are the hybrid of voice and text, there's enough out there that do it the way they should too. I'm not sure why some developers think having them make noises or say things that have nothing to do with the conversation actually adds anything. I wouldn't mind reading so much if they didn't add that to them, as I understand some games don't get much of a budget. There's no excuse for a game like Yakuza: Like a Dragon though, which would have had a good enough budget.

It's not a genre I'm always playing as there's a lot of other genres to play, but again, there's enough out there that aren't annoying that I can stick with the genre overall.

I’ve recently subscribed to PS Plus Extra and took advantage of the 7 day trial. When the payment (£10.99) was due yesterday I forgot to transfer it from my savings into my account and I received an email from PlayStation about a problem processing the payment. I put the money in my account and went to manually pay it but there’s no option to. They still have not took payment but on my PlayStation account it says my subscription is covered till next month despite them not taking the money, there’s even an option to cancel my subscription and I’d still be covered for the full month. I don’t understand how this can be when they have not took payment?

@RogerRoger They finally took payment this morning so I don’t need to worry about the sub being cancelled but going forward I think I’ll be turning off auto-renewal and just pay it manually myself.

So… PS Stars is… a thing, I guess. 😒
I pulled up my Ps app for something else, forgetting that the Stars feature went live today, and I noticed immediately the little icon at the top. I was pretty excited to click on it and see the wonders of all the rewards I’d be accumulating. After clicking a quick “I agree” to the terms of service I was signed up quickly. And…
So far it looks pretty underwhelming. Perhaps that’s because I haven’t earned any points yet, but I did earn my first two “collectibles”. A T-Rex for playing a PS4/PS5 game, and a telescope for signing up I guess.

The whole system looks pretty cheesy, but I’ll withhold judgment, since all I really want is the free PS Store credit for earning trophies and spending money in the PS Store. Not sure if I need a whole other meta-game to pay attention to besides trophies. Now I have a PSN trophy level — 369, and a PS Stars level — 1. 😌

The collectibles are really weird. It feels like Sony wants to find a way to profit on the NFT fad without suffering from the significant backlash this would entail.

The way Microsoft Rewards and Game Pass Quests work is already almost perfect. Just copy that.

@NeonPizza sounds like you maybe saved stuff to the cloud. Before I got my PS5 I moved everything to a 4TB external and it was ready to go. You should definitely have a look if you have PS+. See what save data might be there!

I have a question about the ps5
Do you need a ps4 controller for ps4 backwards compatibly

@TOUGHDUDE94 No, you can play the PS4 games with your DualSense controller. You do have the option to use your DualShock 4, but you can also just use the PS5’s native pad.

Ok

I had my first chance to spend a little time with the PS5 after the latest update and I do think it’s an improvement to the UI.
The organization of the cards is better now and seem more functional.

I’m still not likely to use the quicklink cards, mind you, but at least they don’t seem as randomly regurgitated on the screen like they used to be.

Every few months I get one of those invitations from Playstation to queue for a PS5 & I finally bit the bullet this time (my brother said he'll pay back half the cost as he wants to get the new Avatar game next year).

I've been contemplating it because of their occasional censorship of Japanese games in the last few years, however for better or worse I think most devs are going to work within their confines from the start so I don't think it's going to come up much in the future (that, & I still have a gaming laptop for the times those issues still pop up).

Ordered it with Miles Morales since my PS4 came bundled with the first *Spider-Man game.

@RogerRoger, thanks! I just hope I don't have to wait too long. I know the shipping is only supposed to take 2-3 days once it's shipped, but I don't know how long the wait is going to be until that point.

Also, definitely starting with Astro's Playroom! After pouring over 140 hours into XC3 on Switch (& I'm still not done), I'm very excited for a short & sweet experience.

@RR529 I’ll second the congrats on the new console! Do you have any other exclusives on your sights?

As for myself, my wife was ordering something off Amazon prime the other day so I got a new controller through. How wonderful to play without fighting my character intermittently pirouetting around the screen, giving my vertigo

@Thrillho, in addition to Astro's Playroom & Miles Morales, I'm looking forward to Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Ghost of Tsushima, God of War: Ragnarok, Stellar Blade, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Final Fantasy XVI, Wolverine, & Spider-Man 2 when it comes to first party & timed exclusive games (though I know quite a few of those are still a couple years off).

EDIT: @RogerRoger, yeah, they don't ship on weekends, so they'll send it out Monday at the earliest. I just wasn't aware if there was typically a waiting period before shipping due to a backlog or anything (granted, it's probably not as bad as it was during the launch period, so I'm not sure how much that's still an issue).

@RR529 Nice list! Ghost looks and runs fantastic, with almost non existent loading times.

I played the base game on PS5 and then the DLC with the PS5 upgrade. The latter isn’t essential but resistive triggers were a nice addition, as was better lip sync for the Japanese dialogue.

@RR529 Nice one! I got mine early last year, and still really enjoy playing.

One piece of advise I'd give - probably worth signing up to PS+ 'EXTRA' service, which is the middle-tier online offering. PS+ Extra provides you access to a huge volume/library of great PS4/PS5 games - including many you mention wishing to play! (Ghost for example)

Can't recall the annual sub fee, think maybe around 80 £GBP? In which case still worth it, as the annual sub < value than 2 x full price PS5 games! Check the list, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised how vast it is

At a crucial point in Trails of Cold Steel 2 and the game went and crashed on me.

Thankfully did some googling and I'm on my way to Trista, that would have been 70 hours wasted if it didn't work!

@MightyDemon82 Hooray for save points

I need to start that series someday....

@KilloWertz exactly, it's a known bug where at a certain point the game just shuts down but I found away to get passed the problem.

It's fantastic, I'm all in on the legend of heroes or just Falcom games in general. Hoping to finish this one before GoW Ragnarok in a few weeks!