Base ps5 has frequent deals, so with that, the pro usually costs x2 or even more, and it feels too expensive considering the actual value it provides. So for me it comes down to that. I'll pick one when / if the price drops.
Quest's cable-less approach means its processing power is basically that of a mobile phone. Don't get me wrong, mobile phone processors, both gpu and cpu, had amazing leaps in the past 10 years - but the gap between that and a console is still there.
VR is a highly demanding processing tech, so while I understand why people find a cable-less VR appealing, I think that at this point of time it's too much of a compromise and Sony chose well by going with a cabled design, delegating most of the processing power to the PS5.
How big is the hit it takes on graphics, compared to non-vr games? Because vr is quite demanding, with 90/120fps, 3D, tracking... - with psvr1 the downgrade was quite huge and noticeable, though the immersion was worth it - I always preferred to play vr version of games such as RE 7 and Star Wars Squadrons... For sure the graphics in psvr2 are way better than psvr1, but how is it compared to ps5?
@TheGrizMan It's not like you can go to some shop / browse online, pay and take one home. You have to either put a lot of effort and try to pick one in the few seconds it's available (I always failed - sites went down or had errors on the way on stock arrives) or pay an outrageous price to some unofficial seller.
This is not normal and I'm sure it hurts the PS business. But hey I guess we should all say thank big thank you that we're not being forced to be locked down at our houses anymore (for now) and stop nagging about having to pay x2 for products.
1.5 years after launch and the PS5 still can't be found anywhere except some sculptures at an outrageous price. Heck, it's even difficult to find a ps4 at a legit store recently. Isn't it the problem's core? If I had a ps5 I would play much more, it's frustrating
I didn't enjoy the R2 feedback in any game, including the above - and neither any friend/family that had tried it. Beyond the first interesting impression, it quickly feels very artificial, clunky, fragile like the whole thing is going to fall apart and takes away from the immersion (I have 4 controllers so no, it's not an issue with a specific one )
I'm still playing the PSVR quite a lot since despite the quite dramatic graphics degradation compared to my PS5 or even PS4, it's much more intensive and thrilling to actually be in the world you're playing. So will pick PSVR2 the minute it's out (well hoping it won't experience the severe stock issues like the PS5)
Almost 6 months later and it's nowhere to be found on "official" stores, nor it was ever there other than for a few seconds once every 2 weeks. So it still baffles me how can it be the best selling console ever while you cannot really buy it.
@AdamNovice Yes, correction, 6M is the sales figure. Still, it's a device that was never there for sale except for a few seconds every ~2 weeks. Go ahead now and search all "official" web sales (Amazon, Target etc) and let me know where I can buy one. So sorry but I'm not sure I understand why it makes sense to people that a device that you can't purchase had sold so many. Only logical explanation for me is that most purchases are made by scalpers
@AdamNovice Sites restock every ~2 weeks with ridiculously low quantities that go away after a few seconds. I tried several times, right at the time a "sale" was alive, never successful. Human being doesn't have much chance to buy, I reckon most sales are by bots. Or just very few lucky people get them each time - but then those "sales" numbers doesn't make any sense to me. How something that's extremely rare and very hard to get can sale so much??
I heard that at the largest "sales" at the US, a few thousands consoles are being sold. Again, how can a few thousands every week be translated to sales figures of 10M??
The console had never appeared as "Available" ever since last September, except for a few seconds here and there with ridiculously low quantities. So these sales figures don't make any sense, not sure what's going on and who the console is "sold" to. Practically, the console wasn't launched yet for most of us.
Not sure I understand who manages to buy it other than scalpers with some automation tools. It's not there on any "official" site since last October, and when a tiny stock does appear, it goes away after literally seconds. Practically, the console wasn't really launched yet
It's very surprising that they released such a bad web store. The UI design is quite awful, difficult to find info and games, and the worse is that it has tons of bugs. Worse when it happens at the payment phase - got to an error page after putting my CC details - now go figure if it charged me or not.
They should've kept the previous store, was much better (though still with issues) and at least it worked
Thing is, at least from the videos, on the base PS4 it doesn't look exceptionally good or something, there are much better looking games on the PS4 for my opinion. So it's just a poor implementation and not an attempt to run something beyond the hardware capabilities. For example, GTA V on PS3 looked exceptionally well for that console, so people (including myself) didn't mind the pretty poor performance. Here you have something that looks decent and performs very bad.
The new PS Store web site is terrible, broken, not user friendly and full of bugs. I'm not sure I understand why you described it as a "next gen" thing in pushsquare. Works soooooo slow, much slower than the previous one (which was already slow), tons of 504/404 errors, e.g. I can't really get to the deals section, mobile version switches to Desktop version every second link, UI design that looks amateur and broken, can't really find things... Unsurprisingly I had a terrible experience with the payment stage too, had to contact support.
It's really a shame that such a company has such a site, the previous one functioned much better.
Note how small is the leap between next and current gen compared to past generation changes - there was always:
~15 times increase in RAM / VRAM capacity
10-15 times faster CPU / GPU
~10 times the storage size in all generations, PS1->PS2, PS2->PS3, PS3->PS4. In PS4->PS5 we have x2 memory, x4 CPUs (or less compared to Pro). This is because in recent years the speed increase of processors had significantly slowed down since at this level of transistor size it's far more difficult to make those big leaps
Very annoying that cyber criminals can operate from some countries without any fear of punishment or restrictions. These type of ransom attacks are run by big, well organized "companies". There should kind of a global law that forces countries to enforce cyber criminal activities even if they were committed against people from other countries, since basically the internet is one big village.
@Cybrshrk The 299$ xbox series s has a less powerful hardware, so not a fair compare. But anyway, SSD is very expensive and it's a fact, not an excuse. Especially those tailor made for the PS5 / XBOX. The SSD external storage for the xbox costs alone 200$. Compared to a PC, it's more than fair to have an 850GB fast SSD with a machine that costs 399$.
However, again, I think that the mistake is not leaving it up to the user to decide whether to use an SSD for some games or an external HDD, knowing games will load much slower that way. But as I wrote, it's more complicated - Most likely they wanted developers to be able to rely on the SSD access time for real time performance and not just the initial load
SSD is very expensive so it's perfectly understandable a machine that costs 399$ has only 850GB space in. However, I think it's a mistake not to allow to run PS5 games from an external HD leaving it up to the user if he's willing to wait much longer with loading time for some games. I guess the thinking is that games will be allowed to rely on the SSD speed for real time access, not just initial loading, but again, this is redundant
@Far_Cide Soma, LOU and Bloodborne were already given previously. I finally got to play Soma these days, here and there I'm picking games from previous months - VERY interesting game.
@tameshiyaku Cities Skyline from that month is an excellent, high quality game. The farming sim is also unique and interesting. Too bad people don't see such months as an opportunity to try things usually they wouldn't without the Plus. I do agree that they should've put these games in separate months though as they're of a similar genre which is kind of a niche (unfortunately).
I've got to admit I'm enjoying Farming Sim 2019. They've done quite an extensive work there. So I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea (wasn't sure it's mine too), but it's an excellent sim game, glad I've got to try it with the ps plus...
I hate the climbing element in the series, as what he does is completely impossible, at an absurd level. I'm a bit a climber myself so it particularly annoys and distracts me... Besides, climbing in the series is linear, and redundant
You had the same excellent index pages for PS Plus in 2019 and 2018, but they're hard to find now, could you make them more accessible? Every once in a while I'm looking back to catch up on things I've missed as usually I don't have enough time to play everything when it's available each month
I hope it'll turn out to be false, like many of the leaks. Uncharted 4 is overated and it was very well sold and included in many ps4 pre-packged, which means many people already have it, so it's redundant. Shame they don't include anymore less popular yet well reviewed games such as "What remains of Edith Finch"
@Arnna Not sure that creating games using a dual shock controller and no base coding skills or at least understanding is the best place to start. Plus your game will be available to a limited audience.... I do appreciate the great tools and achievement here, but tbh not sure how useful it'll actually be. If you're only into playing and not creating, you have a very short "campaign" and all the community creations - the majority of those, with all the respect, are far from being something you should waste your time on
Not sure I understand what's the target audience and the purpose of this "game"(?) . If you're into game development, why not go straight ahead to real game engines such as Unity? Sounds like you'd have to invest quite a lot of time and effort in Dreams to make a game, yet you cannot really make money out of it, so why would you? And you cannot write code in Dreams, so it can be limiting... so why bother?
PS2 had sold 155m, and it's very unlikely that the ps4 will reach that number. So if the ps4 reached the 100m mark faster than the ps2, it means that the ps2 was selling very well years after the ps3 was introduced (6 years from the launch of ps2 - where we are now)
It's such a big waste of processing power to render in these resolutions, because our eyes cannot really see the difference in any of the exisiting TV size. Heck, even 4k is barely distinguishable from full HD - search in Google how close you need to sit and what 4k tv size you need in order to see any difference... Investments in better lighting models, anti aliasing and more in HD gives much more prominent results. But 4K and 8K sounds more impressive when marketed to people, unfortunately
Agree with the list. I think reviewers overlook Red Dead 2's problems. I felt the same as Liam described - the world is very impressive, many incredible moments and vistas, but actually not all the content is that interesting and the gameplay is too frustrating. Also, they supposedly created a realistic game in which you have to eat / sleep / take a long ride from place to place, yet you can get shot 10 times and continue as if nothing happened, and take out by yourself an army of 30 men. Very realistic indeed. They should've taken The Last Of Us' approach if they wanted to go in the realistic path all the way. I don't think this game deserves GOTY despite all the impressive figures and moments. GOW easily deserves that, and to be honest maybe also games such as Dead Cell.
Could it be merely a matter of cost? Participating in these events costs tons of money and maybe they've decided that considering the benefit it's not worth it. I have a feelung it has nothing to do with ps5. Amazing games and graphics were delivered to ps4 recently, and let's not forget that ps4 pro came not so long ago, so in terms of hardware ps5 won't bring a huge difference as happened in previous generations.
@JJ2 They could've at least made people move put of your way most of the time, something like in Watch Dogs. Game also has pretty noticable frame rate issues in towns, which makes it even harder to avoid hitting things. But it's not only the horse, controls feel awkward and slugish. And sometimes different actions are mapped to the same button which results in unwanted behavior - e.g. R1 is used both to take cover and mark targets in Dead Eye. If you're in Dead Eye and you haven't noticed it run out, Arthur will go out of cover even though you haven't intended that. Games such as God of war, Spiderman, Horizon and a bit less AC Od feel much more fluent, Rockstar hasn't nailed the controls and feel at all in my opinion
Controls are slugish and frustrating. For example, happens to me a lot that I run over someone and get a bounty even though I didn't intend to do so. This gets extra frustrating when it's a task - e.g. someone on the way asked me to get him to a doctor. Took me a long ride to get him to one, and right before the entrance horse went a bit off and stepped over someone because of the sluggish controls. Ended up with half the town chasing me and a big bounty. This game has a few substantial issues and it should not be the game of yhe year.
@GKO900 Indeed the extra realism is tedious for my opinion, you spend quite some time eating, shaving, sleeping, taking care of your horse and yourself and traveling from point to point... Still a great game though
It's an amazing game, but to be honest I enjoyed God Of War better. GOW is almost entirely magical and jaw dropping from start to end. RDR2 has its amazing moments, but also many moments which aren't that fun for me - taking care of yourself and the horse, hunting, some uninspiring side quests - not everything there is super amazing as it is in GOW
@Kidfried Exactly the opposite, I don't understand how you looked at the tables. The sports games are both single and multi. They all have proper campaign mode and multi was there anyway in the last 25 years, except it used to be local multi and now they're online too. So sports games aside, there are only 2 games which are proper multi - Destiny 2 and Call Of Duty. It's those sort of games that EA and others predicted will be the only big budget games. Yet we keep seeing that games with a proper campaign still have very strong sales.
Glad to see that single player, campaign and story focused games are as strong as ever this year, despite estimations of some companies that these games won't exist anymore as big budget productions. Red Dead 2 as well - people are excited for its campaign mode.
@gingerfrog Physical disks very rarley save hd space, as game installation copies the entire content to the hd anyway. So I'm buying only digital too, but having a large xtra drive isn't the consideration.
@Dange Absolutely. I'm playing GT Sport a lot recently and I think that reviews, including in this site, pretty much misjudged it. Polyphony Digital added a lot of content since the release, and online racing is absolutely brilliant and very well maintained. It's more like a 9/10 game than 7/10. If you're an avid racer, for my opinion it's the best game to play today (and I do have Forza 7 and Project Cars 2). Similar goes to Driver Club btw. Too bad review sites rarely update their reviews (@get2sammyb?)
I'm confused with the purpose of this "game". Does it focus in providing tools for creating games and less in actually playing in something like a pre built campaign? If so, why those who dream to create a game will invest their time and effort in Dreams rather than learn a real game engine such as Unity?
Ok, why did Super Mario become a mascot for Nintendo and Sonic is the one for Sega? That's because these sort of games are appropriate for a very large variety of ages and people, including none-hard core gamers. They're cute, the games aren't very violent, and everybody loves them. They're well known in the world even by people who don't play games. Playstation's exclusives are superb, but are more "serious" games aimed mainly for gamers. Maybe Ratchet & Clank could be a mascot, however it's too space oriented and too violent so it can't. Astro Bot has a potential, but Rescue Mission is for VR so not many people know this character, despite Playroom. So PS4 won't have that one distinguished character that almost everyone in the world knows and loves.
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Re: Talking Point: What Do You Think of the PS5 Pro, Six Months Later?
Base ps5 has frequent deals, so with that, the pro usually costs x2 or even more, and it feels too expensive considering the actual value it provides. So for me it comes down to that. I'll pick one when / if the price drops.
Re: PSVR2 to Receive Renewed Competition from Meta Quest 3 This Year
Quest's cable-less approach means its processing power is basically that of a mobile phone. Don't get me wrong, mobile phone processors, both gpu and cpu, had amazing leaps in the past 10 years - but the gap between that and a console is still there.
VR is a highly demanding processing tech, so while I understand why people find a cable-less VR appealing, I think that at this point of time it's too much of a compromise and Sony chose well by going with a cabled design, delegating most of the processing power to the PS5.
Re: PSVR2 Review: Is It Worth It?
How big is the hit it takes on graphics, compared to non-vr games? Because vr is quite demanding, with 90/120fps, 3D, tracking... - with psvr1 the downgrade was quite huge and noticeable, though the immersion was worth it - I always preferred to play vr version of games such as RE 7 and Star Wars Squadrons...
For sure the graphics in psvr2 are way better than psvr1, but how is it compared to ps5?
Re: Sony to Take Action as PS5, PS4 Owners Play Less Than Anticipated
@TheGrizMan It's not like you can go to some shop / browse online, pay and take one home.
You have to either put a lot of effort and try to pick one in the few seconds it's available (I always failed - sites went down or had errors on the way on stock arrives) or pay an outrageous price to some unofficial seller.
This is not normal and I'm sure it hurts the PS business. But hey I guess we should all say thank big thank you that we're not being forced to be locked down at our houses anymore (for now) and stop nagging about having to pay x2 for products.
Re: Sony to Take Action as PS5, PS4 Owners Play Less Than Anticipated
1.5 years after launch and the PS5 still can't be found anywhere except some sculptures at an outrageous price. Heck, it's even difficult to find a ps4 at a legit store recently. Isn't it the problem's core? If I had a ps5 I would play much more, it's frustrating
Re: Feature: Best Uses of PS5 DualSense Controller So Far
So it's great that they have an option to disable this redundant feature
Re: Feature: Best Uses of PS5 DualSense Controller So Far
I didn't enjoy the R2 feedback in any game, including the above - and neither any friend/family that had tried it. Beyond the first interesting impression, it quickly feels very artificial, clunky, fragile like the whole thing is going to fall apart and takes away from the immersion (I have 4 controllers so no, it's not an issue with a specific one )
Re: PS5's New PSVR Headset Officially Named PlayStation VR2, Full Specs Revealed
I'm still playing the PSVR quite a lot since despite the quite dramatic graphics degradation compared to my PS5 or even PS4, it's much more intensive and thrilling to actually be in the world you're playing. So will pick PSVR2 the minute it's out (well hoping it won't experience the severe stock issues like the PS5)
Re: PS5 Stock: When and Where to Buy PlayStation 5 in April 2021
Almost 6 months later and it's nowhere to be found on "official" stores, nor it was ever there other than for a few seconds once every 2 weeks. So it still baffles me how can it be the best selling console ever while you cannot really buy it.
Re: PS5 Has Been UK's Best-Selling Console Two Months in a Row
@AdamNovice Yes, correction, 6M is the sales figure. Still, it's a device that was never there for sale except for a few seconds every ~2 weeks. Go ahead now and search all "official" web sales (Amazon, Target etc) and let me know where I can buy one.
So sorry but I'm not sure I understand why it makes sense to people that a device that you can't purchase had sold so many. Only logical explanation for me is that most purchases are made by scalpers
Re: PS5 Has Been UK's Best-Selling Console Two Months in a Row
@AdamNovice Sites restock every ~2 weeks with ridiculously low quantities that go away after a few seconds. I tried several times, right at the time a "sale" was alive, never successful. Human being doesn't have much chance to buy, I reckon most sales are by bots. Or just very few lucky people get them each time - but then those "sales" numbers doesn't make any sense to me. How something that's extremely rare and very hard to get can sale so much??
I heard that at the largest "sales" at the US, a few thousands consoles are being sold. Again, how can a few thousands every week be translated to sales figures of 10M??
Re: PS5 Has Been UK's Best-Selling Console Two Months in a Row
The console had never appeared as "Available" ever since last September, except for a few seconds here and there with ridiculously low quantities. So these sales figures don't make any sense, not sure what's going on and who the console is "sold" to.
Practically, the console wasn't launched yet for most of us.
Re: PS5 Has Already Outsold PS Vita, Nintendo Wii U, and SEGA Dreamcast in the UK
Not sure I understand who manages to buy it other than scalpers with some automation tools. It's not there on any "official" site since last October, and when a tiny stock does appear, it goes away after literally seconds. Practically, the console wasn't really launched yet
Re: Why You Should Download These Free Play At Home Games
Wow, a great collection of games to give for free, especially those PSVR titles
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 357
Hollow Knight from October's Plus. Incredible game!
Re: Reaction: Sony's New PS Store Is Actively Preventing Fans from Spending Money
It's very surprising that they released such a bad web store. The UI design is quite awful, difficult to find info and games, and the worse is that it has tons of bugs. Worse when it happens at the payment phase - got to an error page after putting my CC details - now go figure if it charged me or not.
They should've kept the previous store, was much better (though still with issues) and at least it worked
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Aiming to Be a 'Playable, Stable Game without Glitches and Crashes'
Thing is, at least from the videos, on the base PS4 it doesn't look exceptionally good or something, there are much better looking games on the PS4 for my opinion. So it's just a poor implementation and not an attempt to run something beyond the hardware capabilities.
For example, GTA V on PS3 looked exceptionally well for that console, so people (including myself) didn't mind the pretty poor performance. Here you have something that looks decent and performs very bad.
Re: PlayStation Store Black Friday Sale Has Awesome PS5, PS4 Deals
The new PS Store web site is terrible, broken, not user friendly and full of bugs. I'm not sure I understand why you described it as a "next gen" thing in pushsquare.
Works soooooo slow, much slower than the previous one (which was already slow), tons of 504/404 errors, e.g. I can't really get to the deals section, mobile version switches to Desktop version every second link, UI design that looks amateur and broken, can't really find things...
Unsurprisingly I had a terrible experience with the payment stage too, had to contact support.
It's really a shame that such a company has such a site, the previous one functioned much better.
Re: PS5 Review - Should You Buy It?
Note how small is the leap between next and current gen compared to past generation changes - there was always:
in all generations, PS1->PS2, PS2->PS3, PS3->PS4. In PS4->PS5 we have x2 memory, x4 CPUs (or less compared to Pro).
This is because in recent years the speed increase of processors had significantly slowed down since at this level of transistor size it's far more difficult to make those big leaps
Re: Devastating Capcom Ransomware Attack Exposes Game Details, Employee Data
Very annoying that cyber criminals can operate from some countries without any fear of punishment or restrictions. These type of ransom attacks are run by big, well organized "companies".
There should kind of a global law that forces countries to enforce cyber criminal activities even if they were committed against people from other countries, since basically the internet is one big village.
Re: Sadly, You Can't Store PS5 Games on an External HDD
@Cybrshrk The 299$ xbox series s has a less powerful hardware, so not a fair compare. But anyway, SSD is very expensive and it's a fact, not an excuse. Especially those tailor made for the PS5 / XBOX. The SSD external storage for the xbox costs alone 200$. Compared to a PC, it's more than fair to have an 850GB fast SSD with a machine that costs 399$.
However, again, I think that the mistake is not leaving it up to the user to decide whether to use an SSD for some games or an external HDD, knowing games will load much slower that way. But as I wrote, it's more complicated - Most likely they wanted developers to be able to rely on the SSD access time for real time performance and not just the initial load
Re: Sadly, You Can't Store PS5 Games on an External HDD
SSD is very expensive so it's perfectly understandable a machine that costs 399$ has only 850GB space in. However, I think it's a mistake not to allow to run PS5 games from an external HD leaving it up to the user if he's willing to wait much longer with loading time for some games. I guess the thinking is that games will be allowed to rely on the SSD speed for real time access, not just initial loading, but again, this is redundant
Re: Talking Point: What Free October 2020 PS Plus Games Are You Hoping For?
@Far_Cide Soma, LOU and Bloodborne were already given previously.
I finally got to play Soma these days, here and there I'm picking games from previous months - VERY interesting game.
Re: PS Plus September 2020 PS4 Games Announced
@tameshiyaku Cities Skyline from that month is an excellent, high quality game. The farming sim is also unique and interesting. Too bad people don't see such months as an opportunity to try things usually they wouldn't without the Plus.
I do agree that they should've put these games in separate months though as they're of a similar genre which is kind of a niche (unfortunately).
Re: Guide: All PS4 Controller Colours
I got the Berry Blue and everyone who sees it responds with a "wow"
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 323
I've got to admit I'm enjoying Farming Sim 2019. They've done quite an extensive work there. So I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea (wasn't sure it's mine too), but it's an excellent sim game, glad I've got to try it with the ps plus...
Re: Poll: Are You Happy With Your PS Plus Games for May 2020?
@TheoriginalJet I don't understand how people can say games are "s**t" without even trying them and despite the fact that they got very good reviews.
Re: Soapbox: Why You Must Play Uncharted 4 While It's Free on PS Plus
I hate the climbing element in the series, as what he does is completely impossible, at an absurd level. I'm a bit a climber myself so it particularly annoys and distracts me... Besides, climbing in the series is linear, and redundant
Re: Guide: All Free PS Plus Games in 2020
You had the same excellent index pages for PS Plus in 2019 and 2018, but they're hard to find now, could you make them more accessible? Every once in a while I'm looking back to catch up on things I've missed as usually I don't have enough time to play everything when it's available each month
Re: PS Plus April 2020 PS4 Games Leaked Ahead of Official Announcement
I hope it'll turn out to be false, like many of the leaks. Uncharted 4 is overated and it was very well sold and included in many ps4 pre-packged, which means many people already have it, so it's redundant. Shame they don't include anymore less popular yet well reviewed games such as "What remains of Edith Finch"
Re: Dreams - Media Molecule's Magnum Opus Is a Dream Come True on PS4
@Arnna Not sure that creating games using a dual shock controller and no base coding skills or at least understanding is the best place to start. Plus your game will be available to a limited audience....
I do appreciate the great tools and achievement here, but tbh not sure how useful it'll actually be. If you're only into playing and not creating, you have a very short "campaign" and all the community creations - the majority of those, with all the respect, are far from being something you should waste your time on
Re: Dreams - Media Molecule's Magnum Opus Is a Dream Come True on PS4
Not sure I understand what's the target audience and the purpose of this "game"(?) . If you're into game development, why not go straight ahead to real game engines such as Unity? Sounds like you'd have to invest quite a lot of time and effort in Dreams to make a game, yet you cannot really make money out of it, so why would you? And you cannot write code in Dreams, so it can be limiting... so why bother?
Re: PS4 Has Officially Sold 100 Million Units, and It's Done So Faster Than Any Other Console
PS2 had sold 155m, and it's very unlikely that the ps4 will reach that number. So if the ps4 reached the 100m mark faster than the ps2, it means that the ps2 was selling very well years after the ps3 was introduced (6 years from the launch of ps2 - where we are now)
Re: PS5 Will Support 8K Graphics
It's such a big waste of processing power to render in these resolutions, because our eyes cannot really see the difference in any of the exisiting TV size. Heck, even 4k is barely distinguishable from full HD - search in Google how close you need to sit and what 4k tv size you need in order to see any difference...
Investments in better lighting models, anti aliasing and more in HD gives much more prominent results. But 4K and 8K sounds more impressive when marketed to people, unfortunately
Re: Game of the Year 2018: Liam's Personal Picks
Agree with the list. I think reviewers overlook Red Dead 2's problems. I felt the same as Liam described - the world is very impressive, many incredible moments and vistas, but actually not all the content is that interesting and the gameplay is too frustrating. Also, they supposedly created a realistic game in which you have to eat / sleep / take a long ride from place to place, yet you can get shot 10 times and continue as if nothing happened, and take out by yourself an army of 30 men. Very realistic indeed. They should've taken The Last Of Us' approach if they wanted to go in the realistic path all the way. I don't think this game deserves GOTY despite all the impressive figures and moments. GOW easily deserves that, and to be honest maybe also games such as Dead Cell.
Re: Reaction: Sony's Decision to Skip E3 2019 Is Confounding, But One We Can't Judge Yet
Could it be merely a matter of cost? Participating in these events costs tons of money and maybe they've decided that considering the benefit it's not worth it.
I have a feelung it has nothing to do with ps5. Amazing games and graphics were delivered to ps4 recently, and let's not forget that ps4 pro came not so long ago, so in terms of hardware ps5 won't bring a huge difference as happened in previous generations.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2's Sluggish Controls Analysed
@JJ2 They could've at least made people move put of your way most of the time, something like in Watch Dogs. Game also has pretty noticable frame rate issues in towns, which makes it even harder to avoid hitting things.
But it's not only the horse, controls feel awkward and slugish. And sometimes different actions are mapped to the same button which results in unwanted behavior - e.g. R1 is used both to take cover and mark targets in Dead Eye. If you're in Dead Eye and you haven't noticed it run out, Arthur will go out of cover even though you haven't intended that.
Games such as God of war, Spiderman, Horizon and a bit less AC Od feel much more fluent, Rockstar hasn't nailed the controls and feel at all in my opinion
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2's Sluggish Controls Analysed
Controls are slugish and frustrating. For example, happens to me a lot that I run over someone and get a bounty even though I didn't intend to do so. This gets extra frustrating when it's a task - e.g. someone on the way asked me to get him to a doctor. Took me a long ride to get him to one, and right before the entrance horse went a bit off and stepped over someone because of the sluggish controls. Ended up with half the town chasing me and a big bounty.
This game has a few substantial issues and it should not be the game of yhe year.
Re: Feature: Best PS4 Music of October 2018
I think that Astro Bot Rescue Mission has the most brilliant and catchy music this month
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 Ships a Staggering 17 Million Units in Eight Days
@GKO900 Indeed the extra realism is tedious for my opinion, you spend quite some time eating, shaving, sleeping, taking care of your horse and yourself and traveling from point to point... Still a great game though
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 Ships a Staggering 17 Million Units in Eight Days
This doesn't include digital sales, right?
Re: Poll: One Week Later, Is Red Dead Redemption 2 the Best Game of 2018?
It's an amazing game, but to be honest I enjoyed God Of War better. GOW is almost entirely magical and jaw dropping from start to end. RDR2 has its amazing moments, but also many moments which aren't that fun for me - taking care of yourself and the horse, hunting, some uninspiring side quests - not everything there is super amazing as it is in GOW
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 - Rockstar's Best Ever Game
The control issues mentioned sound pretty troubling, something that would usually take 0.5 point down from the score. And so is the gruesomeness.
Re: September 2018 NPD: Marvel's Spider-Man Enjoys the Biggest Launch in PlayStation History
@Kidfried Exactly the opposite, I don't understand how you looked at the tables. The sports games are both single and multi. They all have proper campaign mode and multi was there anyway in the last 25 years, except it used to be local multi and now they're online too.
So sports games aside, there are only 2 games which are proper multi - Destiny 2 and Call Of Duty. It's those sort of games that EA and others predicted will be the only big budget games. Yet we keep seeing that games with a proper campaign still have very strong sales.
Re: September 2018 NPD: Marvel's Spider-Man Enjoys the Biggest Launch in PlayStation History
Glad to see that single player, campaign and story focused games are as strong as ever this year, despite estimations of some companies that these games won't exist anymore as big budget productions.
Red Dead 2 as well - people are excited for its campaign mode.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Call of Duty Sinks to 11 Year Low at Retail
@gingerfrog Physical disks very rarley save hd space, as game installation copies the entire content to the hd anyway. So I'm buying only digital too, but having a large xtra drive isn't the consideration.
Re: Excellent PSVR Horror The Persistence Gets Huge Free Update
@Dange Absolutely. I'm playing GT Sport a lot recently and I think that reviews, including in this site, pretty much misjudged it. Polyphony Digital added a lot of content since the release, and online racing is absolutely brilliant and very well maintained. It's more like a 9/10 game than 7/10. If you're an avid racer, for my opinion it's the best game to play today (and I do have Forza 7 and Project Cars 2). Similar goes to Driver Club btw. Too bad review sites rarely update their reviews (@get2sammyb?)
Re: Dreams Will Support PSVR at Launch, Online Multiplayer Coming Later
I'm confused with the purpose of this "game". Does it focus in providing tools for creating games and less in actually playing in something like a pre built campaign? If so, why those who dream to create a game will invest their time and effort in Dreams rather than learn a real game engine such as Unity?
Re: Talking Point: Is Astro Bot the Mascot of the PS4 Era?
Ok, why did Super Mario become a mascot for Nintendo and Sonic is the one for Sega? That's because these sort of games are appropriate for a very large variety of ages and people, including none-hard core gamers. They're cute, the games aren't very violent, and everybody loves them. They're well known in the world even by people who don't play games.
Playstation's exclusives are superb, but are more "serious" games aimed mainly for gamers. Maybe Ratchet & Clank could be a mascot, however it's too space oriented and too violent so it can't. Astro Bot has a potential, but Rescue Mission is for VR so not many people know this character, despite Playroom. So PS4 won't have that one distinguished character that almost everyone in the world knows and loves.
Re: Guide: New PS4 Games Releasing in October 2018
Just Dance 2019. For my girls
Astro Bot, Lego DC - I'll say to my wife it's for the girls, but I'm the one who's really going to play it.