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I’m not a gotcha fan, but if the game plays like Cyberpunk, I could be interested to try it. I played a couple hours of Genshin Impact back when it came out, and the same with Star Rail. Those games didn’t have the right gameplay style to hook me, no matter how pretty they were.

FF7 was the catalyst for me to buy the PS1. Prior to that I was a staunch Nintendo guy.

Subsequently I discovered that the games on PlayStation were much better than the poor N64 selection, and though I continued to enjoy some Nintendo games, I was a PlayStation fan ever since.

I’m fine either way. As long as the hardware works well and the games I want to play are on it, and I am not dealing with a PC.

It was certainly a treat when my PS5 Pro restarted after the update. I didn’t know it was coming, and suddenly I was transported to the mid-90s for a brief moment.

I’m back in Night City on my 5th or 6th play through. Cyberpunk has really good replay value because there are multiple play styles and so much to see. Plus Johnny Silverhand is more lovable with every sarcastic quip.

I would place Cyberpunk 2077 in my top 5 all-time favorite video game list.

I was initially on the NO team for PS5 Pro because of the price. Then after looking at gaming PCs for a bit, I came around and pre-ordered the Pro. So far I really like it. GT7 and Dragon’s Dogma 2 are really nice when you pair the PS5 Pro with a 120hz OLED. Not everyone has this setup, but if you do, the experience is noticeably better than the base model.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is definitely my Game of the Year for 2024.

The patched up version.

On PS5 Pro.

I’m still one of those guys who hasn’t purchased BG3. I played the demo and was intrigued, so I will likely add a few dollars to Larian’s coffers once it gets the discount frequented by Divinity 2, which I own but haven’t played much.

After the underperformance of many AAA games in the past couple years, it is reasonable for platform holders and major companies to evaluate what gamers have been buying and what they have been avoiding. It’s just not financially feasible to fund 100-400 million dollar games without a good bet that they will be successful. My guess is that we will see a great number of games currently in development be cancelled, and possibly shuttering of more studios through the next year.

Although I am a RPG fan first and foremost, and not even a racing fan in general, Gran Turismo 2 is the PS1 game that really made the biggest impact on me. I was a teenager who was really interested in cool cars in the late 90s, working a job that saw me pushing shopping carts into the supermarket, and seeing these Gran Turismo cars in real life. GT1 was awesome, but GT2 was next-level and it had so many more cars. It was so much fun to play with my friends after school or work.

I have played a little bit of the first game, and it is one of those games that puts you in the world in a serious sort of way. Due to my backlog, I never made it far, but this is a series that I want to play and take the time to learn.

GT7 has been one of my favorite PS5 games since release. It’s good if more people can get a taste of the game through this option.

I have the PSVR 2, where GT7 shines, but I found that sitting close to a 4K OLED on a desktop like a PC puts you right in the driver’s seat.

@Loamy Yes, LG OLED 120hz is a QOL upgrade like few others in the console world.

@Loamy Yes, a VRR 120hz display is amazing. I barely notice the dips that I read people talking about all the time.

I’ve been binging DD2 ever since my PS5 Pro arrived. Is the game perfect? Not even close. Is it awesome anyway? Absolutely.

This game is pretty short and could use a lot more content. The exploration is great, and I love the Pawn system and combat. So much variety in the various classes.

Even with this game’s flaws, it’s still my favorite game of 2024.

I’ve been playing Dragon’s Dogma 2 exclusively since getting the PS5 Pro. It’s been a pretty good experience, though maybe people are noticing something I’m overlooking. One tiny thing I did notice was the weird shadow effects on my pawn’s back in certain light. Nothing game breaking.

Airship means we may have a means to reach the Knights of the Round summon.

I have a full week of Dragon’s Dogma 2 under my belt, purchased along with the PS5 Pro. This is a game that has been famously criticized for frame rates in some places, but it has been pretty solid for me on a 120hz OLED with VRR.

That bit aside, I absolutely love this game. It’s been the best exploration since my first Skyrim experience, and the pawns are fun to have around.

I think a lot of people will watch this out of pure curiosity. Concord may be infamous for the wrong reasons, but that may draw a lot of viewers to a video series.

Not to sound cold or uncaring towards these people, because I don’t know everything that they are experiencing. However, this doesn’t seem like a good time for their already stressed companies to be dealing with this. It reminds me of the Hollywood strikes recently, coming at a time when almost every movie is underperforming, except Deadpool and Wolverine. Much of the entertainment industry appears to be in free fall.

I have not purchased this game yet. It’s on the radar, but other games are higher up on the backlog. PS5 Pro will be my way to play it.

I grew up playing this series and Final Fantasy on the NES. RPGs were always my choice of game all the way up to present day. That said, I have trouble enjoying and completing retro style RPGs in the past few years. I thought I would love Octopath Traveller or the FF Pixel Remasters. But it turns out that I loved these games for the tales and exploration, and merely tolerated the turn-based mechanics as limitations of the tech at the time. Today I much prefer games like Dragon’s Dogma 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Zelda BotW, or Xenoblade Chronicles X. My memories are very fond of DQ1, 4, 5, 7, and 8, but I think I have moved on from the formula. At least for now.

This game was my first purchase for PS5 Pro. I decided to wait for the game to be patched up and it seems like I made a good decision.

I am level 26 on my first play through, and this game feels like it was made just for me. The world is giving me that first-time Skyrim vibe with the lack of markers everywhere telling me where to go. The art direction is about as perfect as I could ask for this generation. The Pawn system is so much preferable to real players (to me) because they are very efficient, and quite enjoyable to have around.

Lastly, DD2 is the realization of what my childhood imagination pictured in my mind as I played Final Fantasy 1 on the NES in 1990. That original feeling of making your own party, exploring the unknown, and the general fantasy feeling is all there. This game is a 9.5/10 for me.

My son and his high school friend group are Overwatch addicts. He mentioned this Classic patch yesterday and said his team is ready for it. Something about excitement for the broken OG Roadhog.

I’m hopeful for a good PS5 Pro experience, even if it means a 40FPS mode on my VRR-capable 120hz OLED.

Talk about Final Fantasy brings me to a discussion I was having over the weekend with friends, and it came down to how a non-Final Fantasy game feels like what a modern Final Fantasy should be. That is Dragon’s Dogma 2. I’m finally playing it for the first time because I was waiting for PS5 Pro, and wow, I can’t stop feeling like this game is a fully-realized experience of what I imagined in my mind as a 10 year old playing FF1 on the NES. The vocation system, the world, characters, etc.

I enjoyed FFXIV from ARR through the end of Heavensward pretty heavily, then played it on and off to finish every expansion at a super casual pace. The story was my primary focus. Dawntrail is the expansion that lost me for this very reason, but it was a good journey and I finished the 10 year story arc.

I am thankful that I grew up in the 80s and 90s. If being perpetually online was available back then, I would have been.

I drove a few laps and can confirm. Also, the 2022 Porsche 911 GT-3 is the best car in the game. Take that, Italian car guys.

I made it past the character creation for my player character and pawn last night. So far so good on PS5 Pro.

This is why I buy PlayStation games. I left the PC master race around 2018 once I bought a PS4 Pro and started playing the wealth of story-driven single player games.

At the time my choice was to upgrade my 2012 gaming rig, or get the Pro version of the console I already had, but didn’t use much to that point. For me, that $400 white edition PS4 Pro from GameStop turned out to be the best decision I made. I’m still enjoying many of those games purchased back then on my new PS5 Pro.

Yet another game that I haven’t yet bought. Now that I have a PS5 Pro and a 43 (I think?) inch LG OLED 120hz sitting 3 feet away on a desk, it may be time to get a closer view of this title.

I was so close to buying BG3 on this current sale, but decided to finally try Dragon’s Dogma 2 on the shiny new PS5 Pro. BG3 will stay on my radar for now.

It is definitely a boot screen like no other.

I successfully made it home on my lunch break to meet the UPS Delivery driver and sign for the package. Now I’m back at work, wishing that I could be home tinkering with the new PS5 Pro.

UPS says today between Noon and 4:30PM. I gotta leave work a bit early not to miss it.

Something that people may overlook is the dedicated OS RAM. It could meaningfully improve the base system functionality, making everything more snappy, not to mention freeing up all the 16GB of system RAM for the games.

One of my favorite upgrades from the PS4 to the PS4 Pro was the notably better experience from booting up and using the interface. Admittedly, the base PS5 interface is no slouch, so it may not be as dramatic.

@extragood I am one of those people who was initially hesitant about the PS5 Pro’s price. I started looking at gaming PCs, then realized that a graphics card alone would cost almost as much as the Pro. Plus I’m not Digital Foundry, peeping each pixel on a pause screen, so I’ll continue using my Mac for computer stuff (and WoW occasionally), and PlayStation for gaming.

So what they are saying is that I should wait for mid-gen PS6? If my PS5 Pro is good enough, maybe I will purchase my next console in 2035.

Concord gave us some good laughs, anyway. Not a total loss.

I haven’t played this game yet. Perhaps the PS5 Pro version will be a good time to try it out.

So I should not be holding my breath for a Switch port?

They charge for the PS5 Pro stand. Of course they are going to recover some Concord losses with face plates.

I feel a bit ashamed to admit that I fell for the FOMO with Starfield. Not only that; I don’t own a gaming PC, so the cheaper option was to buy an Xbox Series X. This was the singular worst gaming decision I ever made.

The game is based on a comic book, but I think the game’s name won’t do it any favors. It’s really weird for it to have a random sounding number in the title. Is this the 9th in series? That could be a legitimate question for some.

I felt the same way about Alan Wake. The title does absolutely nothing for me and I still haven’t played anything in that series because it sounds like an accounting simulator.

This would be quite unfortunate for those who get a cancelled order, unless it happened to scalpers.

I will try my best to enjoy my plain white PS5 Pro.

I was in my late teens when PS1 launched and enjoyed the system quite a bit. Never played a Tomb Raider game though.

Seems expensive, even with today’s rampant inflation.

I played about 2 hours of the demo and enjoyed it for what it is. Definitely held my interest more than Persona 3 or 5. Although I grew up loving turn based RPGs from Dragon Warrior 1 on NES all the way to Dragon Quest 11, the formula just doesn’t hold my interest anymore. Now I like open worlds like Breath of the Wild, RDR2, Cyberpunk 2077, and the game that started it for me; Skyrim.

The name of the game is really weird. I played the demo and enjoyed it quite a bit, but I think a lot of people will think it’s just a mobile game or something.