The only update I want is a similar Quick Resume feature to what the Xbox has! Having a few games ready to go almost instantly is the only feature from an Xbox that I am jealous of! For me personally, it would be a handy feature.
I have wanted to play this since it came out but have held off for the PS5 update that I hope is coming! Doing the same with Ghost of Tsushima and I so badly want to Platinum TLOU Part II but I know that upgrade will be coming at some point......
I think they are going to have a great show to be honest! If there is anything that looks good, i will pick it up on my PC and if they have a great show, it will only (or at least should) spur Sony on to better efforts. It's a win for all!
I know its being a snobbish gamer, and I should have waited until PS5 to be sure but I have stopped playing FF7 Remake as the textures are, for me, very distracting! I really hope Square upgrade for free and sort them out!
I hope it, initially, fails. £15 is just too much if you have a couple of the other services! I already have Netflix, Prime and Disney+, and this one sounds very promising content wise. However £15 for this, £6.66 for Prime, £12 for Netflix and £6 for Disney+ is quite a lot of cash per month, on top of license fee at £14ish AND the t'internet £24. Not to mention the PS Now and Plus subs too!
I am genuinely quite gutted that, if true, this and FF7 Remake are out so close together. My oldest best game of all time vs my newest best game of all time?! And to top it all off, if it releases on the 14th Feb, that is the due date of my third child!! I have serious decisions to make come Feb/March......
To me, this shows that they can take a hit on the actual sale of the console and that might mean they have a more powerful PS5 coming than we expect? Let's say an average £40 a year for each subscriber, that's £1.5 billion a year just in subscriptions! And that figure will likely go up and up.
Did anyone see the successful Google gaming stream for Assassin's Creed Odyssey through Chrome? Have a look on Polygons website, it's quite an interesting read. I would like to think that Sony have the groundwork sorted, info from ps now etc, for when it does all go streaming and they aren't left lagging behind.
Physical purely for the resell value. But if they general trend towards digital continues, how long before we get knack all for trading in?! Then I will go digital only I reckon.
Managed to get an absolute steal last night! PS4 Pro with Battlefront 2, GT Sport, Fallout 4, Knowledge is Power AND v2 DS4 for £229.99 from PC World! No joke either.
I had a Vita and sold it. The reason being I didn't really enjoy the watered down types of games it had. I also used to get bad cramp if i played it for more than 45mins at a time as it isn't the most ergonomic device ever made! If only they had moved that left stick..... But yeah, I believe the main reason is full fat games. The Switch is selling because it has full, console-like games, of the sort 'I' want, on the go and that is what I thought the Vita would have.
It could go like the film and music industries, were the big companies such as Sony, MS, Nintendo or the EA's etc make games for a single screen/device. All the devices play all of the movies/games and you just buy what you want off the publisher/dev that makes the games you want. It could happen......
I don't think it is so much the offline single player format that is the issue. I believe it is the accessibility of the game that matters more.
I have a young family these days and say games go all online in the way they are currently designed, I would have to stop gaming. The reason being that I will not be able to compete with other gamers PvP, due to insufficient time to spend gaming and getting good. Or MMO's were you need to have people all set up and ready to plough in 3hrs straight, with no interruptions to do dungeons etc. I have good friends but they are either in the same situation as me or living free but either way they are not going to sit there with controller in hand waiting for my call to game!
I'm sure many of you are in the same boat, but that sort of commitment isn't feasible to me anymore. I wish it was sometimes but it just isn't!
So they need to develop an online game where you are not held back or punished or whatever, if you are not able to game 3-5hrs a night like I used to. Or have an entirely single player game that is an online game where you can go through it at a snails/my pace and still be involved! Not entirely sure how they would do that but it must be possible?!
Anyways those are some of my thoughts on online only type games, sorry for going off on a tangent!
Absolutely agree with this! A few people have mentioned this before, but more effort into the actual world would be great. By that I mean, not making white picket fences unassailable or being unable to get past a wooden door when you have a RPG strapped to your back or even an axe!! Just improve the immersion. I am sort of looking forward to playing AC Origins, imagine if they actually got the assassination part of the game down to a tee...., but those games are 70% filler and I ain't got time for that anymore.
It is never nice to have to pay more but....£10 a year divided by 12 = £0.83p increase per month, I can barely get a Freddo for that these days! If the games continue to improve and stay that way, then that's a pretty fair price to me. Also, most people will likely pay less than the asking price anyway, like we do now.
@NinjaWaddleDee I know what you mean! Don't get me wrong, I love an open world game but I think the market has become saturated by them recently and a good old linear, story driven game is becoming rarer and rarer. Nothing wrong being led by the nose if the game is good un!
The show wasn't brilliant by previous standards but it was still great to watch and did exactly what it said on the tin, games and more games! The amount of games they still have in the bank and waiting to be shown properly is mental.
I don't have time to play old games that I have already completed 7 years ago. But even when I did have the time I wouldn't, as i just don't get the whole BC thing. New games for a new console generation.
On a side note, wouldn't a proper SF story mode along the lines of the anime Street Fighter The Animated Movie (one of the best Manga's IMO), be the bee's knee's?! Imagine a Street Fighter RPG, where you travel the world, learning new techniques, hunting for fighters and trying to destroy or takeover Shadaloo....
Sony aren't worried. As most of you on here are, I'm massively into me games. Games being the main word. MS, at the moment anyway, do not have any games that have even made me turn my head. So unless they show some seriously impressive IP's at E3, they will fail. And that fact would apply to Sony too, if their roles were reversed.
I played P4G on my Vita and I sold it after a week of trying my hardest to like it. I really want to get excited for this but I can't! Ah well, just finished FF XV and going to buy HZD very soon, so I will be OK! Will probably still get this in a mega sale at some point though, just to make sure I'm not missing out.
@get2sammyb I would completely agree with you, a few frames is nothing to moan about. However, I feel this Pro iteration should be performing better in ALL respects, otherwise why the upgrade? I am sure that these small 'issues' will be fixed soon though. But any bad press is bad press and Sony really don't need something this minor to drop sales if, as I mentioned before, the average consumer starts hearing about performance issues. But I still want one and I am currently trying to persuade the missus!
I think the sales will slow if they don't address the performance issues that DF have been talking about. If word starts to get to the average consumer on the street, it may hurt sales over the holiday period. I still want one though!
For me the alarm bells sounded when they didn't pre-release review code. They must of known it was going to get some flak for the repetitiveness?! Ah well, at least Rise of the Tomb Raider is bloody good. Will swap with a mate it for Mafia 3 when he finishes it!
I'm really looking forward to this, but to me it is always a little bit worrying when they don't allow review scores prior to release. I don't have to buy the game day 1 obviously, and I won't, but it is still a small worry!
If I get one, I very much doubt I would use it for UHD BD. I have watched one BD film on my PS4 and it was a friends that I had borrowed!
I used to be a bit of a DVD whore back in the day but the price of a BD movie and the massive price (to me) of UHD BD's means I would never buy them anyway. Sony should still have offered the option though, I reckon around £400 for the UHD drive version.
Got one day 2 because a friend of a friend bought about 10 of them, hoping for a 360 like shortage and stupidly inflated price on ebay. Needless to say that that didn't happen, couldn't get rid of the stock and so got it for £400 which I paid for over 2 months!
I would really like to get into Destiny, I just don't have the time required to do the game justice! Which probably means I will give the new one a miss too. Is it as much of a grind as WOW? I got to level 60 and then thought to myself, I don't need this game anymore!
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Re: PS5 Firmware Update 20.02-02.50.00 Available to Download Now
The only update I want is a similar Quick Resume feature to what the Xbox has!
Having a few games ready to go almost instantly is the only feature from an Xbox that I am jealous of! For me personally, it would be a handy feature.
Re: Naughty Dog 'Making Something Very Cool' as Hiring Spree Advertised
I just want a proper next-gen patch for TLoU2, so I can do my second play through for the platinum, in the highest fidelity possible!
Savage Starlight is a good name for a game to be fair and after a quick check on the wiki, looks like it could be cool as bananas!
Re: Kojima Productions Will Mark Fifth Anniversary with 'Exciting Updates' Tomorrow
I have wanted to play this since it came out but have held off for the PS5 update that I hope is coming! Doing the same with Ghost of Tsushima and I so badly want to Platinum TLOU Part II but I know that upgrade will be coming at some point......
Re: Expect More PS5 Game Announcements Today
I think they are going to have a great show to be honest! If there is anything that looks good, i will pick it up on my PC and if they have a great show, it will only (or at least should) spur Sony on to better efforts. It's a win for all!
Re: Rumour: Black and Red PS5 Console Spotted in Sony Marketing Material
Yeah as many others have said, its fake. You can still see the blue shine of the LED on the right inner side of the console at the top!
Re: Kena: Bridge of Spirits Video Breaks Down PS5 Reveal Trailer
This was one of the stand out trailers for me at the PS game reveal last month but not many people seem to be talking about it?!
Loving the art style and the world looks very rich and detailed.
Re: PS4 Game Upgrades on PS5 Will Be Up to Publishers, But Sony Will Offer Flexible Support
I know its being a snobbish gamer, and I should have waited until PS5 to be sure but I have stopped playing FF7 Remake as the textures are, for me, very distracting! I really hope Square upgrade for free and sort them out!
Re: Can You Get HBO Max on PS4?
I hope it, initially, fails. £15 is just too much if you have a couple of the other services! I already have Netflix, Prime and Disney+, and this one sounds very promising content wise. However £15 for this, £6.66 for Prime, £12 for Netflix and £6 for Disney+ is quite a lot of cash per month, on top of license fee at £14ish AND the t'internet £24. Not to mention the PS Now and Plus subs too!
I have just really depressed myself...
Re: Rumour: PS5 Reveal Planned for May 2020, But Sony Might Have to Reschedule
If they are going for November release, then I think they have announce something in May, 6-7 months from now really isn't that far away!
Re: Rumour: The Last of Us 2 Release Date Leaked Ahead of State of Play Appearance
I am genuinely quite gutted that, if true, this and FF7 Remake are out so close together. My oldest best game of all time vs my newest best game of all time?! And to top it all off, if it releases on the 14th Feb, that is the due date of my third child!! I have serious decisions to make come Feb/March......
Re: There Are 36.3 Million PlayStation Plus Subscribers
To me, this shows that they can take a hit on the actual sale of the console and that might mean they have a more powerful PS5 coming than we expect? Let's say an average £40 a year for each subscriber, that's £1.5 billion a year just in subscriptions! And that figure will likely go up and up.
Re: Sony Offers Brief Comment on PS5
Did anyone see the successful Google gaming stream for Assassin's Creed Odyssey through Chrome? Have a look on Polygons website, it's quite an interesting read. I would like to think that Sony have the groundwork sorted, info from ps now etc, for when it does all go streaming and they aren't left lagging behind.
Re: Sony Data Shows Digital Sales Continue to Grow on PS4
Physical purely for the resell value. But if they general trend towards digital continues, how long before we get knack all for trading in?! Then I will go digital only I reckon.
Re: Guide: The Best PS4 Black Friday 2017 Deals UK
I also got the Sony 55XE9305 for £1350 from TPS.uk after a cashback of £350 had been applied. They threw in a wall mount too!
Re: Guide: The Best PS4 Black Friday 2017 Deals UK
Managed to get an absolute steal last night! PS4 Pro with Battlefront 2, GT Sport, Fallout 4, Knowledge is Power AND v2 DS4 for £229.99 from PC World! No joke either.
Re: Soapbox: After the Vita's Failure, Why Do People Now Want Console Games on the Go?
I had a Vita and sold it. The reason being I didn't really enjoy the watered down types of games it had. I also used to get bad cramp if i played it for more than 45mins at a time as it isn't the most ergonomic device ever made! If only they had moved that left stick..... But yeah, I believe the main reason is full fat games. The Switch is selling because it has full, console-like games, of the sort 'I' want, on the go and that is what I thought the Vita would have.
Re: Microsoft May Bring First-Party Franchises to PlayStation in the Future
It could go like the film and music industries, were the big companies such as Sony, MS, Nintendo or the EA's etc make games for a single screen/device. All the devices play all of the movies/games and you just buy what you want off the publisher/dev that makes the games you want. It could happen......
Re: God of War Director Speaks Out in Defence of Single Player Games
There is surely plenty of room for both types of games?
Re: F1 Superstar Lewis Hamilton Will Be Your Mentor in Gran Turismo Sport
He is a bit of a ... but you can't deny he knows how to drive!
Re: Assassin's Creed Origins Looks Like a Very Attainable Platinum
I genuinely hope this is good! It has been too long since this series was worth playing and the setting deserves a good game.
Re: This Shenmue III Facial Animation Video Will Not Alleviate Concerns
I wish I could win the euromillions. I would slap a good few million into this without blinking!
Re: Batman Maker Rocksteady Says Fans Will Lose Their Minds Over Next Game
Game of Thrones?
Re: Single Player Games Are Really Struggling Right Now
I don't think it is so much the offline single player format that is the issue. I believe it is the accessibility of the game that matters more.
I have a young family these days and say games go all online in the way they are currently designed, I would have to stop gaming. The reason being that I will not be able to compete with other gamers PvP, due to insufficient time to spend gaming and getting good. Or MMO's were you need to have people all set up and ready to plough in 3hrs straight, with no interruptions to do dungeons etc. I have good friends but they are either in the same situation as me or living free but either way they are not going to sit there with controller in hand waiting for my call to game!
I'm sure many of you are in the same boat, but that sort of commitment isn't feasible to me anymore. I wish it was sometimes but it just isn't!
So they need to develop an online game where you are not held back or punished or whatever, if you are not able to game 3-5hrs a night like I used to. Or have an entirely single player game that is an online game where you can go through it at a snails/my pace and still be involved! Not entirely sure how they would do that but it must be possible?!
Anyways those are some of my thoughts on online only type games, sorry for going off on a tangent!
Re: Learn All About Ancient Egypt in Free Assassin's Creed Origins Update
I hope they do something similar for God of War, as it looks like they are going deep into Norse mythology. I loves me a bit of mythology
Re: Soapbox: Open World OCD - How Too Much Content Can Ruin a Game
Absolutely agree with this! A few people have mentioned this before, but more effort into the actual world would be great. By that I mean, not making white picket fences unassailable or being unable to get past a wooden door when you have a RPG strapped to your back or even an axe!! Just improve the immersion. I am sort of looking forward to playing AC Origins, imagine if they actually got the assassination part of the game down to a tee...., but those games are 70% filler and I ain't got time for that anymore.
Re: PlayStation Plus Prices Are Increasing in UK and Europe Next Month
It is never nice to have to pay more but....£10 a year divided by 12 = £0.83p increase per month, I can barely get a Freddo for that these days!
If the games continue to improve and stay that way, then that's a pretty fair price to me. Also, most people will likely pay less than the asking price anyway, like we do now.
Re: Publisher Take-Two Doesn't Expect Red Dead Redemption 2 to Equal Grand Theft Auto V
If it sells even a third of the copies GTAV did, it will surely be deemed a massive success?
Re: Hands On: Exploring Uncharted's Largest Ever Environment in The Lost Legacy
@get2sammyb Ok cool thanks! S am I right in thinking this is approx 3/5 the size of Uncharted 4?
Re: Hands On: Exploring Uncharted's Largest Ever Environment in The Lost Legacy
How much is this supposed to cost?
Re: Lara Croft's Latest Game Shadow of the Tomb Raider Seemingly Leaked
Loved the first of the remakes but I haven't actually finished the second yet and I started that one ages ago. I'm sure I enjoyed playing it.....
Re: E3 2017: Days Gone Is a Deadly, Dynamic Open World Game
@NinjaWaddleDee I know what you mean! Don't get me wrong, I love an open world game but I think the market has become saturated by them recently and a good old linear, story driven game is becoming rarer and rarer. Nothing wrong being led by the nose if the game is good un!
Re: E3 2017: Sony's Listening to Your Requests for PS4 Remakes
Came believe nobody has said Metal Gear Solid?! Feckin loved that game! Oh yeah Shenmue 1+2, though they are not PS games, they could be...
Re: E3 2017: What the Hell Is Going on with Sucker Punch?
I hope it is something completely new, IMO the Infamous games are rubbish.
Re: Reaction: Sony Fails to Score an E3 Hattrick, But Still Brings the Best Games
The show wasn't brilliant by previous standards but it was still great to watch and did exactly what it said on the tin, games and more games! The amount of games they still have in the bank and waiting to be shown properly is mental.
Re: Sony's Jim Ryan Just Said a Stupid Thing About Backwards Compatibility
I don't have time to play old games that I have already completed 7 years ago. But even when I did have the time I wouldn't, as i just don't get the whole BC thing.
New games for a new console generation.
Re: Tekken World Tour Announced, Offers Over $200,000 in Prize Money
Maybe when i was a wee nipper of 12, I could have had a go and I reckon I would have done quite well!
Re: Round Up: Injustice 2 PS4 Reviews Fly Super High
I'm interested but Tekken 7 interests me more.
On a side note, wouldn't a proper SF story mode along the lines of the anime Street Fighter The Animated Movie (one of the best Manga's IMO), be the bee's knee's?! Imagine a Street Fighter RPG, where you travel the world, learning new techniques, hunting for fighters and trying to destroy or takeover Shadaloo....
Re: Soapbox: Gamers Are Sleeping on Sony's E3, And That's a Good Thing
As long as they show a gameplay video of Shenmue and FF Remake VII then it will have been a good E3!
Re: Tekken 7 PS4 Gameplay Goes Over Treasure Battle Mode, Character Customisation, More
I'm liking the look of that main menu screen, I'm gonna buy it!
Re: Hands On: Is Tekken 7 the True Return of PlayStation's Most Iconic Fighter?
I loved 2 and 3, 3 especially! I memorised all of King's combo's and my mates hated me! Ahhh, those were the days....
Re: Reaction: Will Sony Be Scared of the Xbox Scorpio?
Sony aren't worried. As most of you on here are, I'm massively into me games. Games being the main word. MS, at the moment anyway, do not have any games that have even made me turn my head. So unless they show some seriously impressive IP's at E3, they will fail. And that fact would apply to Sony too, if their roles were reversed.
Re: Review: Persona 5 (PS4)
I played P4G on my Vita and I sold it after a week of trying my hardest to like it. I really want to get excited for this but I can't!
Ah well, just finished FF XV and going to buy HZD very soon, so I will be OK! Will probably still get this in a mega sale at some point though, just to make sure I'm not missing out.
Re: New Final Fantasy VII Remake PS4 Screenshots Look Tasty
I think it's looking really good! FFVII is my favourite game of all time and I cannot wait for this to release. Just need to see those videos.....
Re: PS4 Sales Triple in UK Following Pro Launch
@get2sammyb I would completely agree with you, a few frames is nothing to moan about. However, I feel this Pro iteration should be performing better in ALL respects, otherwise why the upgrade? I am sure that these small 'issues' will be fixed soon though. But any bad press is bad press and Sony really don't need something this minor to drop sales if, as I mentioned before, the average consumer starts hearing about performance issues. But I still want one and I am currently trying to persuade the missus!
Re: PS4 Sales Triple in UK Following Pro Launch
I think the sales will slow if they don't address the performance issues that DF have been talking about. If word starts to get to the average consumer on the street, it may hurt sales over the holiday period. I still want one though!
Re: Round Up: Mafia III Takes a Bullet or Two in First Reviews
For me the alarm bells sounded when they didn't pre-release review code. They must of known it was going to get some flak for the repetitiveness?! Ah well, at least Rise of the Tomb Raider is bloody good. Will swap with a mate it for Mafia 3 when he finishes it!
Re: Mafia III Reviews Will Remain in the Bayou Beyond Launch
I'm really looking forward to this, but to me it is always a little bit worrying when they don't allow review scores prior to release. I don't have to buy the game day 1 obviously, and I won't, but it is still a small worry!
Re: Microsoft Didn't Expect Sony to Ditch 4K Blu-ray Either
If I get one, I very much doubt I would use it for UHD BD. I have watched one BD film on my PS4 and it was a friends that I had borrowed!
I used to be a bit of a DVD whore back in the day but the price of a BD movie and the massive price (to me) of UHD BD's means I would never buy them anyway. Sony should still have offered the option though, I reckon around £400 for the UHD drive version.
Re: Former Sony Exec Jack Tretton Details What Went Wrong with the PS3's Launch
Got one day 2 because a friend of a friend bought about 10 of them, hoping for a 360 like shortage and stupidly inflated price on ebay. Needless to say that that didn't happen, couldn't get rid of the stock and so got it for £400 which I paid for over 2 months!
Re: Rumour: Destiny 2 Shooting For a Fresh Audience, Will Be a Totally New Game
I would really like to get into Destiny, I just don't have the time required to do the game justice! Which probably means I will give the new one a miss too. Is it as much of a grind as WOW? I got to level 60 and then thought to myself, I don't need this game anymore!