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I’m sad the incredible throughput has not been utilised by first party devs. So much potential to only need to generate the visible part of the game and open up resources to make that truly special.

I suspect Sony’s plans to release most first party games on PC has something to do with that. And third party was never going to really look at it.

Pacific drive and thank goodness you’re here will likely get a play from me.

Looks interesting, but will wait until it’s finished, and then get it only if the single player game isn’t overcome with monetisation tactics.

I wonder whether it will reset the “correct” and “cancel” buttons back to what they were in Japan for decades, and whether it will allow play of uncensored Japanese games released just in the Japanese market (although many smaller Japanese devs have already abandoned Sony due to their policies of 2018 onwards).

Any game! I thought it would still be a selection of their choosing. That’s awesome.

Haven’t had a need to try since the update, but are there any improvements other than the number of games available to stream (if you own them)? I mean performance is pretty good, but any improvements here?

It shouldn’t be too difficult to require a certain amount of time for a game to be live, per pound spent on that game. Although that might mean more free to play rubbish though…

Just got Dyschronia and enjoying it. Will intersperse with Hall of Torment, but the crashes are really killing my enjoyment at the minute.

@lacerz
Thanks! Don’t know how I missed that, but looks like a new PSVR2 game for me!

Put it in VR and I’m in. Otherwise go bugger yourselves lol.

I continue to find it frustrating that reviewers do not mention such things. I was hit by Hall of Torment recently, a complete broken mess of a game that crashes every other run, which was never mentioned in all the glowing reviews.

Sounds like a good idea, sure, but is itt? Imagine a publisher having to guarantee they will financially support a game for a specified period of time even if few play it. To offset risk they will just make everything free to play rubbish. Plus forget about taking creative risks of any kind…

To be honest, I’ve nothing against Visual Novels, movies etc in VR. It’s a much more immersive experience. No interest in this franchise though.

So the guy admitted sexual harassment? Was he punished by the law? If so, I’m not for the idea of never letting ex criminals work again and just sit around on benefits…if not then, well, I’ve also nothing against a little vigilante justice in this case (meaning the guy losing his job and generally having his past misdeeds all over social media).

Playing Hall of Torment on your recommendation. Great game, only £7.99. Has a few issues with crashing but most progress seems to save.

I’d keep paying for the Premium catalogue anyway, and would still likely have to keep it for streaming to the Portal. And I need the cloud save too.
If I could pay less and leave out the playing with others component then I’d be up for that, as I don’t do social gaming anyway (apart from the occasional local co-op with the wife).

I have a lot of nostalgia for Mortal Kombat 3. And absolutely zero interest in online play. So i might give this a go at some point.

Would have bought this at £19.99. I looked on the store and it’s £7.99! Instabuy

Once it at a good price. It’s a very old game that’s had the multiplayer removed. Maybe if it hits £15 I think. Really should have come in a collection though if they expect anyone to pay close to full price.

Glad it doesn’t. No interest in playing with strangers, and it would have made the platinum campaign annoying if I wanted to100% the game. Shame for those who have gaming friends with time and similar interests I guess.

In light of the season I thought I’d get a spooky game, but VR has ruined pancake “horror” games for me, so I got the somewhat spooky but not terror inducing (a real thing in VR for me lol) The 7th Guest. Enjoying the puzzles and spooky atmosphere so far.

I also downloaded Fate/Samurai Remnant, but hear Sony have censored it beyond what other platforms allow. Will look to play it elsewhere if this is the case, does anyone have details on this as Google and Sony are not being helpful.

May give it a try if it’s a reasonable price for a remake of such an old game, a few new missions or not. I say £25 max. Honestly, I always found Halo a bit “floaty” and lacking impact (I had 2 and 3 briefly) but I always wanted to live it. Its story was right up my street.

This all pretty much makes sense. The main thing that surprised me here, was to learn that MS renumerates games on Gamepass based on hours played. That’s nonsensical. The value of a subscription service lies in having loads of games that people don’t have to buy individually and so save money. MS should be incentivising games that are played, but not for too long. A game someone plays for 200hr is a game that teaches people they are losing money by paying for it via Gamepass

The social hang out “games” she is talking about are a completely different form of entertainment to the games I grew up with and am interested in. Sure, for “games” like she mentions locking it to one format is antiquated due to the number of players needed to rinse the most profit out of the market possible. But the best games will always be exclusive because they are made as much to sell hardware as anything else, and will not need to be as profitable as Fortnite. They can also make the most use of the hardware potential without needing to be playable on a 5 year old phone.

@Th3solution
My situation too (although I am hardwired and streaming is still better over the cloud). I used it for 10 days while at a work thing and it worked flawlessly while there in Southampton; tried to do similar in Birmingham though and it didn’t work. Really is down to the WiFi strength so my mileage varies. Haven’t tried it abroad as I’ve been banned from bringing it on holiday, but I guess it would work the same? Although I’m not sure if I can access my UK sub outside of the EU…

They are saying they will expand it, but this is Sony, wouldn’t surprise me if they kept in just a subscription bonus to keep people paying.

@UltimateOtaku91
Yes, in fact cloud streaming for me is flawless, better than local streaming by far. Not sure why, but there you go.

Sure, let’s have the option to add more fun challenges for players and…just not. Makes complete sense to the moronic.

Keep developing VR (and the power is still needed for that). He’s right, pancake games have reached a point of massively diminishing returns and I can’t think of much else, hardware wise, that will help with that.

Saints row craziness in VR with that character creator…yes please. In fact pretty much anything in VR yes please.

Shouldn’t this be labelled as Rumour?

@8thDoctor
I did, but obviously not as closely as you, lol.

@Futureshark
More problematic is that her bust has no jiggle - encouraging our natural beauties to want the silicon look.

If they announce PSVR3 then I’m day one because, let’s face it, the price won’t drop and it’ll make me sure I’ll want it. If not then I won’t be day one and, depending on what’s released, I may not get it for years.

In all honesty, this might be the first gen I have had a console at launch since I’ve been earning my own money. Looking at the games I play, they are almost all indie or otherwise cross gen.

@StitchJones
I have, but can’t animate it lol

@CrispyMango92
Animated?

Missed a trick with Stella Blade

@naruball
lol, I only go for trophies if I’m enjoying the game and want more challenges. If I just played for the story I’d be finished soon. Sure I could go for the prophesies but most are just collectibles. I’ll hopefully get the platinum, but if it becomes too much of a chore I’ll drop it (I have about a 40% completion rate for platinums because I only care for about 40% of games enough to go for them).
Very glad I have them to keep me engaged here (and that’s the case for many roguelikes), as I have started skimming most of the dialogue now.

About 60hrs into Hades at the moment. Still need to finish a couple of runs to finish the actual story then work on the trophy challenges - getting all the summons, finishing at higher difficulty levels, fulfilling the required prophesies etc. A great game with only a couple of annoyances.

About 60hrs into Hades and just now starting to feel the grind (so I just put god mode on for help on the higher heats - 80% damage reduction I imaging will help a lot - kind of wish I never had that option though). This may well be my next game. Really digging my roguelikes at the moment.

Edit: only £17.99? Nearly pulled the trigger immediately, before remembering to wait until the trophies are live to ensure there aren’t any bugs there. Everything still at 0% so I presume they aren’t ready yet.

Plus the lack of endgame content and modifiers means it might be best to wait a couple of months, especially as the trophy challenges don’t seem to be completionist in nature.

Edit2: seems trophies aren’t bugged, but that there is an “accessibility” setting that lets you turn off all damage and hit many times harder, and it doesn’t disable trophies unfortunately. That takes all the fun out of the trophy campaign and makes me reassess whether to spend time on this or not.

@Milt
The hope was that these, what I’m now going to call Social Hang out Distractions (or SHODies), would encourage a new generation to discover a whole new world of actual gaming. Instead they are happy to mindlessly pay and pay for new clothes to show to each other.

I’ll typically buy games if in a good sale or cheap secondhand. I just don’t need to spend much when I have dozens of games in my backlog. Just bought Hades for £20, and that’s generally my baseline per month. Plus I get PS Premium. All told I probably spend a few hundred a year. So not much. Thank you Microtransactions kids for subsidising my hobby!

Glad I waited now. Sure, people say it’s made for people who have finished, and you can fire up your save…but I’ve usually forgotten everything and played several new games by the time DLC comes out.

Stop it. I spent 100-200hrs in each mainline game (apart from 6) and the story was complete as intended. Just leave it be so I don’t feel I’m missing out, lol.

Things like this are fine, as long as it disables trophies…I’m currently playing Hades, but the cheat mode always calling to me is annoying. If there was a disincentive to using it, like disabling trophies (which is a logical restriction anyway) I’d be more at peace. Same with this had I not already finished the game.

People say competition is good, but with MS I disagree. They know they aren’t going to be able to pull people away from the games they own in another ecosystem, so their only chance would be to totally change the paradigm (subscription, streaming etc). If they succeed I honestly don’t think it would be good for gamers. We already see they are trying to force price increases by including crap few gamers want in their highest tier. It would end up leading to less choice when games become subscription exclusive further down the line.
No, I’d be happy with Nintendo, Sony, and PC battling it out. Keep the sub and streaming companies away from mainstream gaming for as long as possible.

Got into unicorn overload as it was one of the few interesting streamable games on plus I hadn’t played, and I was stuck in a hotel for 9 days…now I can’t stop playing it. Everything else on hold currently.

I’d honestly get it if they hadn’t F’d up the Remaster in multiple ways.

I’m tired of dark mature themes generally. Go back to Japanese wackiness and aesthetics please. Or just combine the two, like in the original Yakuza saga.

To be honest though, I’ve not been really engrossed in a new video game story since Lost Odyssey, which was the beginning of the 360 gen.

He can do what he wants, but with some games it’s the “localisation team” that make the final difference.