1970sGamer

@MFTWrecks What are you saying, you don't enjoy collecting a load of chemical A and a load of B, putting it in a refiner with chemical C for fuel, to get a load less of product D out of it after a period of time while you collect more of it?! And then navigating the build menus to use it?

It's for sure the biggest issue with the early to mid game, if anything even worse than it used to be.

I don't give a ***** about Gen AI tbh. The 'stance' against it will be seen to be nothing but shaking a fist at a cloud.

PSSR 2.0 patch for Spiderman 2 incoming then, probably same time. Perfect publicity for them.

Look forward to this on PS5 in probably 2028.

@datamonkey Strong rumours PSSR 2.0 will be active by end of the month with RE9 having it at launch

@UltimateOtaku91 I know, right? Makes you wonder why they are even gaming with such an apparent hatred of anything to do with it.

PSSR 2.0 is strongly expected to be out by the end of this month, so this will should one of the early new releases to benefit from it.

I agree with the review of this. Tried the demo and sure, it's novel, but the reference to Lonely Mountain Downhill is spot-on in terms of the repetition and difficulty spikes.

GOTY comments are hilarious tho.

OLED will be the point I jump on, no comparison when you get an OLED panel. Will be great.

Yep, it sounds like how I feared it would be...looks great, different, intriguing and fun at first. Couple of hours later it probably turns into a frustrating, repetitive, rage-inducing slog to the point you're relieved when it's over. Lonely Mountains Downhill had the same kind of issues.

I'll watch a few streams of it but this is a nope from me.

This is great. Put a lot of hours into Subnautica, built a big base and even the cyclops so will enjoy trying out the sequel, even with the mixed reception it got. And the others are more interesting than usual.

@Fiendish-Beaver You'll love it. And with the PS6 not looking to be around before late 2028 now at earliest, you'll get plenty of use out of it.

Been all digital for years so couldn't care less. Save 15% on the price via discounted PSN credit so I'll get it cheaper too. Hardly going to trade it in so that element isn't relevant either.

Now let's wait for all the cope about 'pleased to wait longer' 'wasn't going to buy anyway', 'would rather not buy than buy digitally because I like to shake my fist at a cloud'.

Oh, it's already all here.

@Almost_Ghostly I agree most of them are lying, but I suppose if you're on Essential rather than Extra then it really is just these three games a month and not the whole catalogue.

TV division majority owned by TCL? You've got to be joking....no wonder TCL made sure they got the rights to put the Sony branding on their crap!

Seems likely my current A95L - which is utterly incredible, and leagues ahead of the rest including LG - will be the last of a long line of Sony TV's I've owned.

@tselliot And every day we're all one day closer to death, so none of it matters anyway in anything other than a very tiny picture.

How many people are queuing up to make graphics and performance of their expensive games on their expensive console on an expensive TV objectively worse in return for a few pence?

This is great, I was expecting this much later in the year.

@Fiendish-Beaver Yep, Rollerball with him starring was great and as already mentioned a graphically violent film for the time. Also Misery, where his performance alongside Kathy Bates was top tier. And he was a funny OTT villain in the underrated Arnie flick Eraser too!

@Max_the_German Go to the sites that think they're 'edgy' (we all know who I mean) and the backlash has been on it for weeks.

The funny part is that a lot of the bile elsewhere is spewed by the very same commenters who spent months praising the review of the game and gushing about it in the articles afterwards.

GOOD. Fed up of the crying anti-AI brigade with their oh-so-selective outrage.

@JustMyOpinion Happens pretty much everywhere, on one side or the other.

Go to Eurogamer, and they'll delete comments that dare to suggest AI has some benefits, and probably shadowban you. Go to Resetera and they'll BAN your whole account and IP for making a single comment against their agenda.

Pushsquare isn't perfect, but damn sight better than places like those.

@Contimaloris You can do both though - work reasonable hours AND retire early. I was lucky enough to retire two years ago on my 53rd birthday - property, no debt, money in the bank, investments etc and I sure as heck didn't work more than maybe 45 hours on a busy week and that was the exception.

Although worth noting that even retirement with a quiet life hasn't enabled me to reduce the backlog!

Nothing will satisfy the tiny group for whom this is the latest issue to exercise performative outrage on. And it IS a tiny group, it certainly isn't 'most people'.

When you're in a little bubble, it's impossible to see that the real world is outside and couldn't care less.

@wilky2988 @1970sGamer Yep bought it and loving it, really addictive and easy fun.

Knew nothing about Ball X Pit, assumed it was some kind of shovelware so ignored it. But now I'm thinking that as it has a trial and 20% off in the sale, I'll give it a whirl.

browses comments to see if people are already moaning about a digital sale and that stuff is cheaper on discs and that they hate Sony and that they hate gaming

As ever, not disappointed in my search.

At this point the hand-wringing and fist-shaking is actually getting quite funny.

I look forward to them all leaving gaming forthwith if it upsets their misguided principles that much, and leaving the vast majority of us to enjoy our games without their background 'waaahhhh'

@Joel_Lives Probably true, and in that case, I hope all these principled AI deniers never buy any new games coming out in the future, however much they might enjoy them. Because I'm sure they're not hypocrites; they sound so righteously angry, after all.

@Max_the_German The good news is that nearly all gamers simply don't care about this anyway - we just enjoy the game and leave the vein popping to those who like to rage, as you say.

It's a funny hobby where you spend most of your time getting angrier and angrier every day about it, as the anti-AI luddites are doing recently with gaming.

I dislike some sports - I sure as heck don't buy season tickets for it and then go online every day and moan about how bad it is.

I hope Pushsquare post AI articles every single day, that I may feed on the rage tears of the moaners and grow in power.

@ErrantRob When you start playing Sektori yeah it feels crazy, but it's not actually as bullet-hell as it looks, you get more space and options than is first apparent, and your power usually increases just enough to keep on top of everything (apart from sometimes at the first boss)

It's only £11.99 but I'd say it depends as much on 'is this my type of game?' I grew up playing the likes of Defender and Asteroids so I've always enjoyed old school 2d shooters like Nex Machina, Stardust, Resogun and it was an easy buy. On the other hand, I find souls games simply too hard and not enjoyable so would never buy them however highly they review, so YMMV.

No Sektori? I know it wouldn't have got anywhere but would have been my 4 points. (KCD2 5, E33 3 and filler for the two and one)

Still putting the hours into Sektori and made it to the final boss on one run before succumbing on what I think was its final regen. Super enjoyable but need a break and something totally different after getting that close and failing!

Even if I end up never going back to it, I've had a literal blast with it.

So my whole yearly wrap-up is just one sentence:

"500 Internal Server Error."

@Jrs1 I grab one speed up, then wait for missile upgrades, which are great as they spread wider and home in. Don't get too distracted by trying to complete MIRAGE too early as you'll just likely lose shields trying to time the letters.

I'm far from great and die on first world myself maybe half the time at moment. It bizarrely gets a little easier if you can make it over that bump, which is why I feel it needs a slight balancing to give you longer before that boss. But I'm 55 next week and not quite the gamer I was in these kinds of genres and I'm sure there are people breezing through the whole lot no problem.

Main thing is its still enjoyable however far you get imo. 🙂

Everything else has been dropped since I started playing the incredible Sektori earlier in the week.

It looks like bullet hell (and the first boss CAN be if your upgrades haven't gone that well prior) but it really isn't. It's controllable chaos and deeply enjoyable gameplay, matched with pulsing music and a vivid visual overload that really pops on a good OLED (lucky enough to be playing on a Sony A95L here)

At £11.99, do yourself a favour and grab it. It's effectively Housemarque as they used to be. It's rare I post on this 'now playing', but feel this is something special.

It just doesn't seem to matter what the story is on this site, whether it's good news or bad news - there are certain people in the comments who are never happy. I swear said people, if they won the lottery, it would be a moan about having to split it with other people or how the jackpot isn't as big as it used to be.

If they're determined to be negative about anything on a gaming website, then that doesn't bode well for their lives. Get help, moaners . Life is too short!

Brilliant game. Got to the fourth world once but usually game over much sooner. Hard but fair, and addictive

Few more months and the trendy whine of hating on AI will be yesterday's news. As others have mentioned on here, most people simply don't care about it.

@Max_the_German I'm with you.

It's just a trendy fad to hate on AI at the moment, it'll fade the same way they all do. The same people moved their hate from crypto to AI and they'll move onto something else new to fuel their rage sooner or later.

@KillerIsD34D As @cuttlefishjones suggests, you sound like you would have been at the front of the line to sabotage the steam engines!

The amount of moaning on here, you'd think owning a PS5 was some kind of unavoidable expense like an electricity bill.

Clue: it's an optional, luxury purchase.

Just another example of why it's always worth waiting a few months to get a far better experience.👍

@TheDudeElDuderino It can burn down for all I care, made serious money out of tech equity the last two or so years and sold my final tranche last week.... So I'm certainly grateful to AI!

I'm early retired so I know I'm fortunate in terms of time and cash etc but been very happy with my Pro and the games for it.

Not too bad deals, especially if you add the 15% discount on top of these for the discounted PSN credit that you should be buying for your wallet!

AI is coming. People can piss into the wind as much as they want. I'm going to enjoy the crying.

@StitchJones I know, right? A whole industry of youtubers are making a living now by posting this stuff weekly, and unfortunately there are enough gullibles out there to whip it up on a daily basis.

The crying about job losses is just annoying. Shall we destroy all the computers in the world like modern day luddites to stop this infernal progress? That'll stop that nasty AI 'waaaahhhhhhh.'

Yeah, this is all noise. Playstation aren't going anywhere. And why would you prefer a machine that's probably around Series S level, coming out in 2026?

And by the time PS6 has had it's run, it'll be nearly ten years on. Why wish your life away projecting optional misery onto yourself years into the future?