Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

@Th3solution Yeah TLoU2 is definitely up there as one of my favourite games despite me not finishing it yet, I’ve just reached the island with Abby and Yara but will now have to wait until after Christmas to continue it. I don’t really understand why it’s so controversial to so many people, I’ve had no issues with it at all as I’m just absolutely loving everything about it. Even though it’s a PS4 game it still holds up well compared to the Part 1 remake.

I’ve set up another couple of accounts for my kids to use when they get the PS5 for Christmas and I can confirm that using their profiles they can access and play games that I own in the game library. I’m not sure if PS Plus Extra will work on their profiles as I’m currently not subscribing to it but I’d be surprised if it didn’t.

@Th3solution @MaccaMUFC I'm pretty sure the ability to play online games and games added via PS+ is shared with other users. Cloud saves I'm pretty sure are not, though.

@KAIRU @Voltan Thanks for the confirmation. I didn’t realize the PS+ online gaming aspect is shared.

I heard PS5 Slim model has been leaked.
Is that true ?

You all need to get on The Pedestrian now it’s on PS+, preferably with a pair of headphones on!

@Anti-Matter It’s been leaked for PS5 slim will have a detachable disc drive. I don’t think we have any details other than that.

Holy crap, plugged the DualSense into my PS3 on a hunch and it turns out yeah, it’s recognised as a microphone in Guitar Hero/Rock Band. Thank god for those PS5 gimmicks, now I can stumble through Should I Stay Or Should I Go and embarrass myself!

@nessisonett Probably the only time you will get something natively working from PS3 on a PS5!

Now that we are into 2023, and with the circus that is game of the year comments sections. What games will be divisive that release this year do you reckon?

FFXVI will definitely be one and most likely Forspoken!

@MightyDemon82 All of them because people love to complain and argue about everything online.

BTW, Final Fantasy XIV has been out for years.

@KilloWertz haha truth.

Damn autocorrect I put XVI

@KilloWertz It's great that people are passionate about their hobby but does it really matter If one great game places higher than another on some list?

@MightyDemon82 I will never forget people having a problem with Sekiro when it won GOTY, deeming it too hard to win such an award.

@JohnnyShoulder I really need to play that. Such a strange reason to not want a game take the top spot.

Maybe 2023 will be the year I get through all Fromsoft games. Looks like this year is full of potential bangers!

@MightyDemon82 What did you make of the Hellboy game recently announced?

@JohnnyShoulder I definitely want to know more. Mignola isn't a fan of his art style being replicated in other media so interested to hear how they got him to agree to that. Certainly looks great just hope the writing and gameplay match those gorgeous visuals!

@MightyDemon82 Everybody always blames autocorrect. Maybe one of these times it's actually just the person that screwed up.

Honestly, not really. I will say it's a shame Horizon Forbidden West hasn't gotten more recognition in any area really given that it's my favorite game of the year (outside of being on the list, but never at #1), but it doesn't change the fact that it was my amazing experience for the year like others had with Elden Ring or God of War Ragnarok.

OK rant time...

So, am I the only one that hates the PS5 UI? It is very convoluted and confusing and, since I use it rarely, I cannot remember where some stuff are. Also tapping or long pressing the PS key takes you to a different menu...

But the biggest problem of all is the updates? Why you cannot update all games?
Only the games that are in the main window seem to be updated automatically. PS4 games that are on external HDD of PS5 game backups do not update automatically... THERE IS NO CHECK FOR UPDATE on each game like the PS4. You have to start the game to trigger the update... Even PSP has this option!

I am not missing some obvious setting somewhere, am I?

This is clearly an issue on all PS consoles. On my PS4 sometimes updates start normally but most of the time I have to check the games manually ONE BY ONE!! Same with my Vita...

@belmont It is a worse issue on the PS5 than previous consoles since you can't even go into your library and check for updates manually like you could on the PS4. I agree that this part of the UI is pretty bad and there's really no excuse why it hasn't been improved by now since it was and still is an option on the PS4. It's dumb that you have to either start the game or put in the disc (if you have physical copies) in order to get the game back on the home screen so it will update. I have had a rare occurrence here and there where a game on the internal drive will actually update on it's own even if it's not on the list, but 90% of the time (if not more) it has to be on the home screen. I uninstalled and redownloaded GTAV to get the latest update since I had yet to play it and didn't want to start it yet until I was ready to actually play it sometime.

They really need to get rid of forcing the activity cards on us as well, replacing the game's art and such with an activity from the game. It is completely useless since the activity cards are right under the Resume Activity and Play Game buttons, and it's even worse if one of the images used for the activity has a spoiler in it by showing an image of a character that hadn't been introduced in the game yet.