Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

@Th3solution yeah that will be a massive boost, if Sony are able to allow Pprtal access to your whole digital library, even if the games aren’t installed to you PS5. And with the updates to the Portal that they’ve already made, I’m thinking it’s probably more of a case of when that happens rather than if… so fingers crossed on that front.

@xeofate Replacing the controller battery is so easy. Actually removing the old battery is a bit fiddly, but everything else was really simple. If i can do it, pretty much anyone can.

Any fixes to PS5 stick drift? I've had my PS5 since 2022. The controller that came with it started having stick drift a month ago. I bought a new 2nd controller in January, and it already has stick drift. I have tried "fixing" them myself by opening and cleaning the controller area, but it only helped slightly. Any other fixes or should I just buy new controllers?

@Th3solution @graymamba Final controller update. The battery was depleted last night, so not mind blowing but glad it worked as it did before.

One thing I did notice was that the battery indicator on the console suddenly went from full bars to one bar in about an hour. Apart from that though, I can't complain about the results.

@JohnnyShoulder Overall seems a good result if it stayed charged on par with the original battery. No explosions is a plus too. 😄

That’s odd about the battery indicator though. Any chance that you have the more specific battery indicator widget enabled on your Welcome Hub? And if so, did it go from full green circle down to red quickly in an hour also?

@Th3solution Both battery indicators went from full bars to one in under an hour, which is not normal. It felt it stayed that way for a bit longer than with my other controllers. I'll pay more attention to the battery levels when I'm using them, to see if that is case.

But I'm not too bothered about, and it's not an issue really as the battery still lasted as long as I thought it would.

@JohnnyShoulder do you have a set up where you can just have a super long cable plugged in, or a smaller cable in a phone charger nearby where you game. I tend to find the wirelessness of controllers is more about keeping them out of the way, but when in use for single player gaming having a wire is still a very acceptable experience. Although, this in itself probably isn't that good for the batteries anyway, but they don't lose charge when they are still plugged in, at least 😅

@Ravix Nah I just use the cable that came with the console, and charge them when needed. As I have three of them at the mo I rotate them as required.

I could charge them elsewhere in the house, but there is usually another device plugged in and it is more convenient to plug into the PS5.

Weirdly jealous of people getting to play InZOI, I have no idea why, as I only ever really played the sims at one point as a clueless kid that had no idea what the heck it was or what I was doing anyway, and I'm not sure I even really liked it haha.

Anyone know how long the expected early access period is, and when it comes to console? It'd be such a dumb thing to finally buy a gaming PC for, but I don't know... the Fomo is strong at the moment for some reason. It looks like it is absolutely batsh*t mental and I kind of want to try it 😂 I guess I'll wait for the console release, and might not care by then. But who knows.

Anyone trying it on PC?

Anyone know what MindsEye actually is yet?

The trailer feels like "a Ubisoft orignal" iRobot x WatchDogs x Fast and the Furious. It really does feel like the most Ubisoft game I've ever seen not made by Ubisoft. It's more Ubisoft than half of Ubisoft's output tbh. Although the bad guy didn't have a manbun.

I don't mean this in a mean way, btw. It's just the tone reminded me of the kind of thing I probably would have got excited for in the past if it was "new for the PS4", but I'm not sure if I am excited and interested now or not because I have no idea what it even is 😅

Anyway, here is the latest trailer, it launches in June. Does that mean that Everywhere also launches at the same time this releases, as this game is from inside Everywhere (PS Home Advanced) who knows 😂

Taking bets on whether Push can make a Bloodborne article out of this...

PS Stars has a campaign featuring Bloodborne. But all the other games included are either brand new this year, have or have had a sequel coming out this year, have a tv show about to release its latest season, or are set to have a remake soon 😛

@Ravix Bloodborne TV show confirmed.

HDR on PS5. Anyone know which settings to tweak (TV or Console) when in some games really dark scenes can have a kind of shiny grey quality in areas that are supposed to be black or more natural looking dark, dark grey. It's kind of like an reflective shimmer rather than grey or black at times.

Or are some games just badly tuned for HDR?

It was kind of driving me loopy trying to fix it within tbe PS5 HDR menu so I just gave up and turned the black level down a touch and adjusted gamma on the tv itself, but there must be another solution 🤷‍♂️

@Ravix Not sure if it will fix your specific problem, but I used something like dis.

And yeah some game don't have great HDR optimisation.

@JohnnyShoulder weird thing is, I'd seen a similar video by Vincent Toh. And I just think it's wrong for some reason. And I've seen other people saying how actually setting black to 0, even on an OLED is leaving them with poor results too. It certainly didn't fix anything when I tried it (I think it was already set up like that from a while back) so it was set like that when I noticed the issue in AC Shadows. And I was switching HGIG on, Tone mapping on, changing tv settings, changing in game values, and PS5 values and nothing really made that specific thing go away 🙈

It may actually be certain games though, but since changing the third HDR to maybe 5 or 6 up from 0 black, it has looked noticeably nicer in night time or shadowy gameplay. Haven't had a really dark curscene yet to see if the weird grey shimmer has been removed though. But it does seem lesser in regular play.

@Ravix yeah the one from Vincent Toh is the one i used I think, but is was about 20 mins so didn't wanna share it lol.

I don't recall noticing anything like you've explained with my TV, but it is not an OLED.

I remember HDR being a pain to get right when I had my old 4K TV with my OG PS4 (so no 4K just HDR). It took me an age fidling round with settings to get it right, and even then some games looked a bit dodge. When I got my PS5 all that seemed to be ok for me.

@JohnnyShoulder yeah, I've not really noticed it for a while, so it might just be AC Shadows. And it's mostly in cut scenes at night with little to no candlelight, just natural light. Scenes where there are numerous blacks and grey tones, I guess.

I don't know if it's crush or something else (feels more like an unnatural shimmer where the grey is malfunctioning, so no idea what its called) but I find it hard to care about technical things unless it's glaringly obvious and I have to try and sort it 😅

What I will say is, apart from that initial small issue, the advanced Ray Tracing mode for that game is glorious. And I can't justify using performance mode or even balanced, yet 😱 never seen reflections so crisp on console.

Does anyone know if Mafia: The Old Country is officially Mafia 4, or are they still planning/making a Mafia 4 alongside this prequel. I feel like a bunch of rumours did the rounds, but my latest search makes it seem like everyone (the general community of gamers) is referring to this release as Mafia 4, regardless, when I'm not sure it was ever really revealed as such with it being a smaller scale prequel.

I know it's the hope that kills you, but I do hope that this game does well, and helps them to fund/keep funding a larger scale Mafia game, too.

9 years between games to release a small scale prequel does seem a bit of a long cycle, considering its supposed to be less challenging to develop, but then they were struggling at one point, so maybe that is fair enough.

I always say it's strange how in cinema Crime is such a huge genre, and it hasn't really translated to gaming in quite the same way, with Rockstar mostly cornering the market. Compared to genres like fantasy, horror and sci-fi their is nowhere near the same amount of releases in gaming, and it just seems like a weird imbalance conpared to cinema releases.

@Ravix I don’t know about the Mafia situation but thought I’d comment on the wider observation you brought up about low representation of organized crime drama in games. It does seem like the genre is underrepresented compared to movies and TV, as opposed to fantasy, Sci-Fi, and horror which tend to be over-represented in gaming. Historical fiction is probably slightly over-represented in gaming also.

I do think it all goes in cycles. Developers jump onto bandwagons and saturate a genre before moving onto the next popular setting. I think there was a run of crime drama in the PS3 and early PS4 era. The Rockstar stuff (GTA, and RDR/LA Noire although those are also historical drama, but so is Mafia), Saints Row, Sleeping Dogs, the continual deluge of Yakuza games, the Watch Dog games, even the Hitman games and Just Cause games are kind of in the ballpark, and random games like The Saboteur seemed to try to get that narrative driven open world crime essence but with the war backdrop. Of course I’m talking out of my rear about these because I’ve played very few of them, as the crime genre isn’t one that interests me, especially those in a modern urban setting.

Despite all those I listed off the top of my head, most are older series and dormant, like you mentioned. There’s been a drop off of crime games and it looks like all developers have conceded the ground to Rockstar now. The latest Saints Row colossal failure only deepened the divide between GTA and everything else.

With Mafia dipping its toes back on the pool of crime drama games, maybe we’ll see a resurgence. For now the hot genre is Feudal Japan and Sci-Fi. High Fantasy will probably always be a top genre in the gaming Universe. Norse mythology and Greek mythology has been put on the shelf for now, and comic book superheroes appear to be on the way out, with Wonder Woman cancelled, complete radio silence on Wolverine and any Spider-Man spin-off, and the underperformance of Suicide Squad, Midnight Suns, etc. I guess Rivals is a thing keeping it going though.

Pontifications aside, this is a reminder that I need to play the Mafia games. 😅

@Ravix For what it's worth: the official website's codebase refers to the game as mafia-4. Maybe more convincing: when Mafia 4 was originally rumored, it was always rumored to be a prequel. So it's safe to say they are one and the same.