The last couple of years I travelled a lot for work and opted to take my PS4, the OG because it is smaller, paired with an internal SSD and a Steam Deck. I did not take the PS5 with me because well it is huge and heavy. Before the release of FF16 (I am a huge fan of the series) I didn't miss it. I played on my PS4 God of War Ragnarok, RE 4 Remake, Resident Evil Village, Horizon Forbidden West, Sonic Origins, Atelier Sophie 2 and Stranger of Paradise. All those games run fairly well. However, when FF16 relased I knew I had to carry my PS5 with me. And, to be honest, there is nothing announced except Rebirth that I want and I can't day one play on the Deck or the PS4.
In any case something that is rarely talked is the horrendous PS5 UI that I hate with a passion. It is bloated with useless stuff, using a HDD via USB is a pain, games take forever to move like we are back in USB 2 ports. You cannot back up PS5 saves in USB.
Yet the biggest offender of all, the worst thing is that there is no way that I found to update a game without having it in the home screen!!!! There is no option to manually check for updates!
@WebHead
I'm the opposite.
Despite I don't have PS5 machine yet (already have the PS5 games) but I really want to play my PS5 games.
On my purchase list, I have written at least 80 PS5 games I can pick.
So far I have collected 11 PS5 games.
Also, I only play kids games, don't even care with AAA games so the reason I can get a lot of choices of kids games on PS5.
(I replied over here so as to avoid further derailment of the thread about the visual design of the PS5)
@Max_Headroom Yeah, I play zero online, but am quite happy with my PS+ Extra subscription (although not too thrilled about the recent price increase). The game catalogue, cloud saves, and sales make it worth the price for me.
@nomither6 It’s a really valid point about the simultaneous use of all the social networking and multimedia stuff you can do on PC. I do think PlayStation has Discord integration now, if I’m not mistaken, but I think they severed ties with Facebook. Most of the others it has also like Spotify, Twitter, Twitch, as well as all major TV streaming like Netflix, Apple, YouTube, etc. But yeah, I don’t think they can be run in tandem with a game. I never use my console for TV apps anyways since my Smart TV does them and I figure, why run two appliances when I can just run one.
I could see if a gamer was really into staying simultaneously connected with several things concurrently that PC would be much easier since you can flip between windows back and forth and run multiple applications at once. But yeah, for me personally that sounds awful. I’m trying to limit notifications I get, not add to them. 😅 Again, at a busy day job that’s what I do all day — people hounding me with messages and interrupting me to do stuff, and me having to email, message, and call people, collaborating with colleagues, bosses, and customers, web meetings and presentations… When I’m home I want people to leave me alone. 😂.
And I don’t even want to multitask by listening to a podcast while I game, much less concurrently watch a movie. My attention range just isn’t that wide and it feels like sensory overload for me.
But I’m probably in the shrinking minority. In a world of constant connectivity and instant bombardment of information, I could see PC being attractive to that subset. So I’ll definitely give you that and I do think you represent a growing subset of gamers who wants those features. And I do think PlayStation (and Xbox, and Switch) is trying to keep up by having the limited social media and streaming capabilities that they do have.
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@Th3solution you can always mute your notifications on PC & adjust your settings - remember endless customization ? heh, not that it matters, different strokes for different folks i understand console provides a different need for you that you prefer . i don’t know about you , but i have something called a “social battery” and when it runs out , i want to be left alone and seek solitude & console was good at providing that - after a long day you can just come home hit the “appear offline” button and slouch on the couch and let a good RPG take you away . As i said consoles strong suit will always be conveniency, it’s great for busy people such as yourself .
that said though , i will always have a console around for exclusives & because keyboard and mouse SUCKS ! i was raised on controller and will die with a controller, sucks that i can’t play the new counter strike though because of no controller support! ugh
but hey, spider-man 2 is right around the corner & im hyped for that ! leaked reviews are saying it’s the greatest superhero game they ever played !
@nomither6 That’s a good way to put it - ‘social battery’. I run through my whole battery most days. It’s why I like Push Square because it’s easy to interact with on my own time without interruptions. And everyone here is nice and enjoyable to interact with.
But yes, Spider-Man 2 is looking more and more like a launch purchase for me. I was going to wait but as it gets closer the hype is building. So many games!
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I have a question about the PS5 and automatic downloads/updates.
So, I turned off both system and game auto-update features but still when I install a game a then connect to the internet the console starts downloading the updates and installs them.
Am I missing on something here? I want to download and update everything manually.
It is really annoying that I have to cancel and delete everything manually because after having an internet connection all of my games queue and start downloading patches ...
@Th3solution I won't be surprised if the metascore is above 90 this time (even though the first one "only" had an 87)
Edit: I was right about the metascore, 91 after 63 reviews
Spider-Man just isn’t going to be a 10 to be honest, especially not after the new experiences we’ve had this year. It looks fantastic though, a proper switch my brain off sort of game that I’ve been sorely missing.
"that said though , i will always have a console around for exclusives & because keyboard and mouse SUCKS ! i was raised on controller and will die with a controller, sucks that i can’t play the new counter strike though because of no controller support! ugh"
Keyboard and mouse rules for shooters on the PC but i also had a pad for other games.
@belmont The PS5 has the world's worst UI. I know some people moan about the Xbox dash but I can't see how it can be as bad?
Getting the obvious omissions out of the way (yes, themes and folders!) the rest of the UI is just a dreary mess. It has a limited number of very small game icons at the top, then a colossal waste of space before you finally get to the bottom of the screen.
And the button clicks required to quit a game are just quite frankly ridiculous! .
When I first got the console, I had to google how to close a PS5 game! Gone is the PS4's long press of the PS button context menu and instead you have to press Options on the aforementioned tiny icon at the top and close the game from that or use the equally bad Switcher on the bloody awful tap-the-PS-button menu.
Given the clean, friendly, straight-forward PS4 UI I cannot work out what the people at Sony were smoking when they green lit the PS5 UI cos it is a mess and a bad one that doesn't seem to have improved after 3 years.
@Voltan 91 is pretty darn good, so I am properly hyped. Push Square was a little more restrained in their scoring and below the average, but 8/10 is still solid.
I think @nessisonett is spot on through. These sequels that merely improve upon a prior entry are just not likely to garner 10’s and 9’s when we have other games pushing the medium more, like Baldur’s Gate and TotK. Most of the established Sony IP have fallen into this lately — GoW, Horizon, TLoU, GT, Ratchet & Clank, and now Spidey. (Anyone willing to bet what Ghost of Tsushima 2 will be like? 😅) Which I’m perfectly fine with, by the way. We are getting games like Returnal and Astrobot mixed in sometimes.
Interestingly 2nd party seems more progressive in its design lately. Which isn’t a terrible way to do things, I guess — have your 4-5 first party ringers which are the comfort food for the PlayStation fandom, and then get all experimental with 2nd party.
@Anti-Matter True, there are elements but the PS3 can have a fully animated theme running in the background and then change the backdrop to the game wallpaper if it has one or, in the cases of games like Bomberman Ultra and Gauntlet 2, the theme just keeps displaying when there is no wallpaper to display.
We need themes back - either that or retro fit the XMB back in to the PS5 front end!
@RogerRoger 😂. I’ve been on some bad dates, but none of them would I describe as a bullet hell, gratefully.
I have, however, gone through a stretch of dating which was definitely a roguelike. Going through the same procedurally generated sequence over and over, only to be defeated and forced back to the beginning, again and again and again…. Yup. Sounds familiar.
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