@LtSarge It’s good to hear you have favorable first impressions. I’m seriously considering jumping up to Premium for the Portal streaming. Not sure if I’ll use the console streaming but it sounds like I actually might.
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@Th3solution I actually realised something with Portal streaming that I didn't understand when I tried it out yesterday. So you're actually able to stream directly to your Portal without turning on your PS5, which basically makes the device standalone. That makes getting Premium for that feature even more worth it. You can also earn trophies while doing this. The only drawback that I can see is that you can't take photos or record clips while streaming to your Portal. Besides that, it's a very convenient feature. I also tried to stream a game on Portal and then continue playing on my TV using console streaming and the transition is seamless. Obviously the games are saved to the cloud so you can just continue where you last saved. But yeah, this also means that you can use the Portal and PS5 separately if you want. Someone could play one game on the Portal, while you're playing something else on PS5 at the same time. The Portal is not simply a remote player now, it's an actual handheld.
On a side note, the game I tested playing on Portal through cloud streaming is Soulstice. It's a very fun Devil May Cry clone with an interesting story. Highly recommend it, it plays wonderfully on Portal.
@LtSarge yeah that was the big thing about the Portal’s recent Cloud Streaming update. A gamer doesn’t even need a PS5 anymore, they can just have a Portal, a PSN account and PS+ premium. I’d imagine it will be a major driver towards the amount Premium subscribers increasing fairly dramatically over the next couple of years.
@LtSarge@colonelkilgore Do you know if this also the case for Remote Play? I don'y have much of a use case for getting a Portal as I can remote play on my table/chromebook. Even then it will be only when I'm at my parents once a month or so, and I don't always use it when I am over.
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@JohnnyShoulder I don’t know for sure but I don’t think so. That’s not to say that it won’t be introduced for other devices in future though. This is a PlayStation and an Xbox! 😉
The dualsense edge is only £30 off at amazon, and considering people still can't even buy the replaceable stick modules, I think Sony can get f***ed with that price tbh 😂
I don't know how they are getting away with not having the parts available. Might as well just buy 3 dualsenses and have them on a stick drift conveyor system.
I'm not sure being able to map sprint and crouch to a back paddle is worth the extra £120 rn 🙄
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Figured I'd mention that Triangle Strategy has been temporarily removed from purchase on the Switch eshop. This happened with Octopath Traveler back in March (got re-added with Square Enix as the publisher) and the end result was the game coming to PS so it seems a safe guess PS fans will be able to enjoy Triangle Strategy in 2025.
Wasn’t sure where to put this random comment, but this seems as good a place as any —
I am just amazed at the productivity of the teams working on the Like a Dragon / Yakuza franchise. I’m not a fan of the series necessarily although I did enjoy my 20-ish hours with Yakuza 0 before I abandoned it. But with the accolades of Infinite Wealth and the building hype of Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, I feel like there’s been an enormous run of continuous releases that boggles the mind. It prompted me to make an accounting and if I’m calculating correctly, there’s been 11 major releases in the series in the last 10 years. That’s including spinoffs like Judgement and full remakes like Kiwami, Kiwami 2, and Ishin. If you include the remastered collection in 2020 of Y3, Y4, Y5 and also include Fist of the North Star (which I guess is technically a spinoff too, but seems less tethered to the series) then that’s a grand total of 15 new console releases on PS4 and PS5 in the last 10 years. That’s more than one game per year, 1.5 games a year to be exact. Even though a portion of these are remaster or remakes, that’s just an amazing clip to sustain for one studio. I know there’s probably multiple teams and I have no idea the size of these teams but in the current industry that productivity is simply amazing, especially when considering the games are in GOTY discussions often, so these are quality products.
Most studios now take at least 4 years (often even more) to make a AAA game. In the same 10 year period (2015-2025) Insomniac and Naughty Dog each released 7 games, which includes the remasters and remakes, so less than half the pace of Yakuza games. In the time it’s taken Sucker Punch to make Ghost of Yotei or Kojima productions to make Death Stranding 2, there will have been 5 major console releases in the Yakuza series. Five! A 1:5 ratio is insane!
I know the Yakuza LAD games are fairly iterative and some of these games seem to be reskinned on top of one another, but it still is impressive. I’m not sure how the studio has kept that pace of production, even pandemic years notwithstanding.
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@PorkChopExpress I’m a few years (generations even 🤣) behind the curve, when it comes to questions like this. As most people know, the vast majority of my 2024 was beavering away at my PS3 backlog and the vast majority of that was… honestly really-good to absolute banger.
There was a few games that I felt were below that high bar though, namely Red Faction: Armageddon (worst game), Asura’s Wrath and most surprisingly Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (my biggest disappointment). Not to say I didn’t enjoy all three of them to varying degrees but they were the bottom of a particularly good bunch.
@Jimmer-jammer If there's a silver lining to @colonelkilgore picking Enslaved as his biggest disappointment of 2024, he is a pretty extreme outlier overall. I played it earlier in the year finally and loved it.
Obviously everybody can't like every game no matter how well liked the game is, but I'd be surprised if you didn't end up liking it.
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I didn’t play any really awful games this year but I’d say probably the worst game was Power Wash Simulator. It’s not a bad game, but after 3 jobs I was done and haven’t booted it up again.
Most disappointing though would have to go to Child of Light. There was aspects of it that I liked and I wouldn’t rule out returning to it one day, but I had heard such superlatives used to describe it that I was expecting to be amazed and it just didn’t quite hold my attention. Next most disappointing was Sifu, which I did finish the campaign and got some enjoyment from it, but I don’t think I felt the thrill and awe that I was led to believe it would bring.
Truly, truly awfully designed game. Padded out to all hell and an utter slog.
Also my biggest disappointment as I was hoping with the Bond/Spy angle it would finally make Clank's gameplay good... But it just made him an even worse Ratchet.
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@Jimmer-jammer@KilloWertz yeah it’s not that I didn’t like it… it was fine, I was just expecting something special-ish (like an 8.5-9) though and I ended up thinking it around a 7.5 (if that tbh). We all have our own likes and dislikes when judging the quality of a game, so for sure I hope I don’t put anyone off giving it a go.
Spider-Man 2 Be better, Insomniac. You suck at Open World game design. Stop trying to make your Marvel games open world sandboxes unless you hire people that can do that aspect properly.
Biggest disappointment...
Astro Bot? Right out of left field to catch people off guard. It's a perfectly made game,
I just don't really like platformers that much, and even though I know it's very good, it didn't manage to make me like platformers, so therfore it's the only one that kind of fits the disappointment. Even if I rated it higher than Star Wars Outlaws, for example. Outlaws didn't disappoint me as such, apart from it not being as technically polished as it should have been. And I still think people who moaned about the insta-fail stealth are properly bananas 😅
Crikey, two PS first party games. Who'd have thought 🙉
My answers are perhaps a little weird as I've only really played games I've liked, overall. Apart from Spider-Man 2. But I also know SM2 has a bunch of really good stuff in it, set pieces, mostly, and the technical stuff, everything Insomniac actually does well.
Just going through my PS wrap up for last year again before it goes on the 10th, and the stats are FUBAR! Apparently I played 73 games in March but 60 for the year...
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