Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

@RogerRoger I can't comment on the animated stuff actually, but Mandalorian also qualifies since it has the letters a, n, d, o, r in it. I was hoping you'd pick up on that, but alas. You put a lot of work into trying to defend everything else that has been mediocre at best though.

@RogerRoger It's fine. I appreciate the effort to try to be funny at least. I sometimes fail too, so other than taking up space, no harm done.

Fair enough. I was being honest about only liking Andor and The Mandalorian out of the live action TV shows, and obviously Disney is the common denominator there, but I was just messing with you knowing how big of a fan you are. Even though I don't play online games anymore, we can duel it out on one if need be.

Ok, since you put it that way, I will be sending nothing to you and not posting my thoughts at all. Seriously though, I will. How many screenshots I'll take will depend on how many I think of taking while playing and also how long the DLC is (length might be another reason you tend to not worry about spoilers). I have several from the main game on my PS5, but never even entered the competition on here even though I think a few of them are rather good. It depends on the game, and obviously how much shorter this will be compared to the main game, the possibility of me forgetting to take some during some of it is not out of the question.

@RogerRoger Thanks for the input. My PS5 is functioning fine, so it’s unlikely to have been anything erroneous. I think you’re probably right and I must have downloaded an update in the background and then powered off, so it did the weird rebuild on the next power-on.

And… I’m looking forward to Jedi Survivor too. I’m planning on getting it at launch, although at my current rate it might be a few weeks before I get around to playing it. And I predict millions of people will buy it. Whether it will surpass 20 million like Fallen Order, we’ll have to see.

And I suspect @KilloWertz has the deluxe edition pre-ordered and is going to a midnight launch party dressed in Kylo Ren cosplay. You know, the whole “thou doth protest too much, methinks” 😜

@RogerRoger I haven't had an inactive PS Plus subscription in many years, but Battlefront II isn't free, so I guess we'll just have to duel in our imaginations.

I expect it to be similar to The Frozen Wilds as well. You aren't wrong that there is a good chance I'll actually take some time to do some screenshots given that I will want to do everything, unlike in the main game when I didn't do all of the side "games" like the arena and such to get the platinum as I had already spent around 150 hours. Maybe next time when I replay it before the 3rd game, and in the end it will probably work out for the best as it gives me more of an incentive to play it again, like when I purposely didn't do everything in Cyberpunk 2077 because I knew I'd play it again someday.

I didn't really use the fancy features of the Photo Mode, but I do think I got at least a few pretty good ones regardless. Maybe I will someday when I'm not feeling like my usual lazy self. lol

@Th3solution Oh yes, you nailed it. I obviously have the sequel pre-ordered even though I never played the first one yet. You'd know these things if your PSN name wasn't locked away in the Push Square vaults.

I do plan on playing it at some point though after it was one of the PS Plus Essential games recently. I had planned on playing it well before now, but had heard about how difficult it can be at times. I'll just play it on Easy whenever I do play it, and then play Jedi Survivor someday unless it somehow sucks. The games can avoid the Disney curse.

@RogerRoger Wouldn’t Gollum be an AA game? And did it start looking better? I remember it being rather unimpressive looking.

@RogerRoger It probably was, but since it's an online only game, I would have passed on it. I claimed a couple of online only games when the PS5 had just come out, but I've never played them, so back to my usual ways.

I'll be nice and let you sort that one out.

I'm sure you could make that last line a song if you wanted to...

@RogerRoger Yeah, I hadn’t thought about the Harry Potter - Star Wars - Lord of the Rings licensed game trifecta we have right now. Add on a Marvel game coming, Spider-Man 2, and a DC game coming, Suicide Squad and it would seem 2023 has all the major Sci-Fi/Fantasy/geek squad covered. If we only had a Star Trek game coming it would be a clean sweep.
(Which I say “geek” with all endearment as I proudly consider myself one of them).

@RogerRoger Say what?!? Welp, we have all the franchises covered it seems. Not a Trekkie myself, but I appreciate it’s widespread multigenerational appeal.

@RogerRoger I did not know about the single player actually. I'm still going to pass though. I only have so much time to play and a long list that is my backlog to try to work through.

So I've had my PS5 for a little over two weeks now and here are my thoughts about it so far:

The system is so quiet! I've been using my PS4 in between and it gets so loud with most games I play. The PS5 never gets loud, it's absolutely fantastic!

I love the fast load times with PS5 titles. When I started playing Miles Morales, the game started up rather fast. But after playing the game several times, it boots up even faster and it even skips the start-up screens. It's awesome!

I also really like how you can see how long you've been playing a game, just like with Nintendo titles. It's such a nice feature.

The DualSense is great, it's definitely my favourite PlayStation controller. Feels great to hold, I love the adaptive triggers and the battery life is noticeably longer than the DualShock 4's.

I'm genuinely flabbergasted at how much I've been playing on PS5. I rarely play games during weekdays anymore due to work as I get home and I'm always so tired. But now I'm constantly looking forward to getting home from work so that I can play on PS5. This system has truly reinvigorated my interest in video games.

@RogerRoger I thought about playing the campaign, but I’m just tired of the “turned to the rebellion” stuff. If they made a pure Empire campaign where you and your motivations didn’t take a 180 (even if not a harsh 180) I’d be much more interested.

I have a question regarding DLC. Let's say I have a physical PS4 game that offers a PS5 upgrade, such as Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Are the PS5 versions of the DLCs for the game compatible with the PS5 upgrade?

@LtSarge You should be just fine. The PS5 upgrade would be exactly the same as if you purchased the PS5 version.

I'm glad you're highly enjoying your PS5, btw. While mine is indeed a lot quieter than the PS4 Pro, I do wish they had put in the extra effort to make sure there wouldn't be any coil wine. It's not bad, but the humming sound or whatever it is does keep it from being as whisper quiet as it should be. Maybe you got lucky like some people have or you just don't notice it. Not a huge deal obviously as it's still a really good system regardless.

@RogerRoger @Jaz007 It was also on PS+, if you sub and redeemed the game.

Random question here —
Do you all delete your game save files from your PS5 (or PS4 for that matter) after you’re done with the game?

I have all my save files going back 6-7 years (or more) backed up on the cloud and also still on my console. When I got my PS5 I ported all my PS4 saves. So I have these games backed up and then double backed up on two consoles 😅

I’ve never worried about it because save files are generally not that big. A couple hundred MB at the most. But the cumulative effect has now over 10 GB of save files taking up space on my PS5.

Surely I should just delete any saves that I not currently playing if they’re on the cloud. But I’m so weird about it, a little voice in my head says “what if the cloud save is corrupted or lost”…

The logical side of my brain knows how silly this sounds and also that the chances of me playing something like The Bunker or Severed again is nil, since I platinum’d them. Am I ever really going back to Never Alone or DriveClub? Of course not. But I sure do have their save files sitting dormant for eternity. I need to have a purging of my console.

Even though I've had PS Plus for years and my game saves are in the cloud as well, I don't delete them off of my consoles either. I never transferred them from my PS4 Pro to the PS5 as I can just rely on the cloud for that, but I'm sure I will build up quite the folder of game saves on my PS5 over the years. Like you said, overall they are pretty small and won't make or break hard drive space. If my folder ever gets as large as your's has and that makes a difference, then I need to be worrying about deleting games more than anything else.

@Th3solution
I ALWAYS delete game save files off of the console after I have decided I am done with the game and making sure they are uploaded to the cloud. I figure I can always download them again if I need them. I rarely need them.
Guess you and me are opposites in that regard.

@sorteddan The limited drive space on the base PS5 is probably going to cure me of this digital hoarding. Or maybe I should just install some extra memory so I don’t have to deal with it. 😅

@KilloWertz Yeah, I deleted some games too, in anticipation for Jedi Survivor’s rumored large install requirement. But I’m the process of poring over my drive, I was surprised to see game save file to have ballooned to over 10 GB. I’m not sure if I’ll spend the time to go over each game one by one or, like you say, it’s just easier to delete a large 30GB game in one fell swoop.

@Th3solution I was going to say that yes, I have previously cleared out old save data but the 10GB of game saves on my console back to 2014 would suggest otherwise!

@KilloWertz Thanks, that's good to hear!

Yeah I'm not noticing any coil wine from my PS5. I did remember reading about this though. Hasn't Sony revised the PS5 quietly throughout the years? Could it be that they've fixed this issue with the current model?