HeroYoshiko

Meh.

Bit of a lacklustre line up for ubi this year.

I dropped $50 on Deluxe Sinking City for this weekend and was pretty disappointed in it. Very janky, empty city with characters and plot that’s hard to care about. Had to check I had the PS5 version, graphics and animation look like an early PS4 game, or even Unity engine (it’s running unreal). So that was $50 wasted, I should have checked the PS5 review here first.

So yeah, just playing a few Switch games instead. Apart from finishing off the last part of Elden Ring, not much going on with the PS5, I’m not seeing anything this year worth getting excited about too. People are still offering $1000 for a PS5 on eBay, so I’m tempted to do that and pick up a new one in a year or two when there’s more stuff.

Picked up the Sinking City deluxe edition, looking forward to it this weekend.

Elden Ring and HFW for sure. But I’m not getting the “redefines open world games” claim for Elden Ring. Horse riding and dungeon crawling has been the norm for a long time. I’d say Witcher 3 had a better story and characters. Combat not as good for sure as Elden Ring. I guess if you don’t play many games, sure? It feels like a mix of Breath of the Wild, Elder Scrolls and Dark Souls. Wouldn’t say redefines, more like a nice mix.

When the guy made the comments that the Switch killed the Nintendo president I was turned off buying Oddworld games. I deliberately skipped downloading it when it was free.

Me, a 140hrs in. Still not cleared the Capital City. “That’s nice dear”.

Damn cool trailer

Smart of them to release this after Spider-Man.

Wait till they find out the majority of humans on earth aren’t European. “Why is Earth woke?! Whaaaa!”

What a great month for PS5 gamers!

Aww man

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Bungie’s version of Starfield, as a MMO.

@AFCC great!

Haven’t played a COD since Ghost.

Just wish I could unlink my old account. It’s locked to an email address I haven’t owned in years. Square wanted me to email them photos of my drivers license and passport to unlink it! No way! Just give us the option to unlink and resign in FFS.

Seems like it’s a good investment getting this game.

Would be cool is it also included a TV streaming service. Doesn’t Sony own crunchy roll or something?

@Mostik Hi, yep, had the OG Switch and the v2 version, I feel hardware wise, it was a bigger upgrade from the OG switch to the V2 switch (runs much cooler - which seemed to help with the FPS since it wasn’t throttling- and a lot quieter. Plastic turned all brittle and broke on the OG too - probably from the heat), than going from the v2 switch to the OLED. It’s literally just a V2 Switch with a better screen.

The screen does look nice on some games, SMT V, Metroid Dread, Tetris Connect and some 2D games if they’re colourful and use a lot of black. But some games don’t look different- No More Hero’s and animal crossing comes to mind. The larger screen is nice.

If you can get a good trade in price or resale on your old Switch and not struggling for money, I’d say go for it. If money is tight, you’re absolutely better off spending that money on games as you’re not really missing out on anything from a games point of view. And no, not daft at all, no harm in wanting things in your home to match and look good. People harp on about “materialism” a lot, but you know, we work hard for our money and you only live once, no shame in spending it to make yourself happy, not everyone wants to be like a monk and live in a hole in the ground.

3rd option could be to just buy the white dock. Depends if you mainly play it portable or docked. I mainly play portable, but found the Lite screen way too small to be usable.

I downloaded the demo and it was a janky mess, I’m not sure what people are seeing in this?

It was fun. I struggled to work out where to go and get stuck a lot. At the time I didn’t find many matches, but I guess it just took a bit of time for PSusers to get around and download it. I’ve cleared my time for the bunch of epic games dropping in the next few weeks (Horizon, Pokémon, Elden Ring, Dying Light 2) but I’ll redownload it once I’m done with these.

Picked up a purple today, looks nice. White and black is still my favourite. Was able to trade in a old DS4 controller and an old game and got 50% off.

OLED Switch and PS5 user myself. They’re too different to be competing against each other. Nintendo/Switch exclusive games & 2D titles for Switch. Everything else on PS5. I enjoy No More Hero’s and Animal Crossing, Eastward etc but sometimes I want a 3D cinematic game like Guardians of the Galaxy or something deep like Elden Ring, Dying Light 2. Sure, there are some like that on switch (dark souls & Witcher 3) but they’re already old games and now that the PS5 is out with 4K HDR, those type of games are just a better experience on a PS5. So no reason (besides $) a gamer wouldn’t own both.

@Korgon oh man, there’s something about AC games that just don’t click with me. I try, I bought Origins and Valhalla, I get so bored after a few minutes in. I dunno what it is about those games. I loved Witcher 3 and it’s characters, but I just can’t get into AC.

I was playing Chorus, an amazing space game but got stuck on a mission I can’t get past (gotta blow up a heap of big ships blocking a laser beam) but I remembered why I got over Wingcommander and the like, damn escort missions. Bah (escort keeps dying) so yeah, that’s deleted, which is a real shame, it’s really really good. Anyway, playing Eastward now, fantastic pixel art game.

@AFCC yeah. To me, it looks like something a modder made using the BOTW engine. Nothing about it seems like there was any effort out into it.

The new Pokémon this month, but next month is going to be a ripper for PS5.

Loved all three movies, even the awesome sex scene. So looking forward to this.

I generally find people don’t like the second movie because they don’t understand the plot. I’m glad they did what they did, sometimes it’s nice to have a plot that’s a little deeper than the average Hollywood movie.

Having lots of fun. The graphics are amazing. Shame it didn’t have a campaign- was surprised to find out after purchase. But it’s going to be my go-to multiplayer game for the next year+ so I’ll get my moneys worth. I’ve turned off cross play for now. Hopefully they’ll add a consoles only cross play feature. 128 player multiplayer is crazy fun.

What a rip off.

Thought the movies were average but this looks good. I like they're more like the comic books.

Sounds like it could make for a TV game show Fallguy type thing.

Never been a fan. Played about 30min of the very first AC when it first came out and stopped. Skipped the rest to AC Origins, played a few hours, found it really dull and boring. They just don't click with me. Loved the first few Thief and Splinter Cell games, so it's not that I dislike stealth games.

It looked so generic. When I tried the demo, it confirmed it. I feel like I've play the same game many, many times before going back decades.

I'll add them to my library, but I won't be playing any of them.

I don't have a problem with this. I see a lot of people saying they're going to buy the cheaper PS4 ver and get the free upgrade. Seems a bit underhanded to me.

And I wouldn't have an issue paying $10 for the Witcher 3 next Gen upgrade. I bought it for PS4, it's an old game, if they're paying devs to upgraded it for PS5, I think it's unreasonable to demand it for free. I'm happy to get it for free, but I wouldn't bitch if I had to throw a few coins to the Witcher.

@Mgene15 I think it looks like upgraded Saint Row 3 graphics. But that's fine, that's great, I don't expect or demand people like everything I like. But what I don't get is how some men get so angry over their sexuality because not every character in every game/movie looks like John Cena. 6 likes that guys comment has gotten. I've worked with gay men before, I never once felt like I was going to "hate my penis" just because they exist. It seems to me more like these people have mental health issues and need help, but on the internet, these people get applauded for their brokenness. If you have this much hatred for someone you've never met, just because of the way their born (hair colour, skin colour, sex, whatever), you're the problem, not them.

@BrettAwesome and there it is.

Silly to get so angry over a none-gameplay trailer. I'm old, been gaming since 1990. I'm fine with seeing young whipper snappers in games. I suspect there are... other... reasons some "gamers" are getting angry about it. So tiring.

@Th3solution sorry I didn't read that wall of text. But I'm glad you're liking the game, it's just not for me.

Look, I wouldn't put it past MS to be working on a new Quake game that will be Xbox only and they're releasing Quake 1 to try and get people excite about the game to try and lure Switch and PS players to buy an Xbox. But maybe I'm just old and cynical.

I just find games set in historic time periods boring. I skip games with those settings (red dead, ghost of T, gta, kingdom come) But I'm glad people are having fun. Just Sci-fi or fantasy for me.

@Ristar24 I find trying to play a FPS on the joycons almost impossible. The sticks are nothing like the sticks in the pro controller or DS4, aiming is a real pain.

Wipeout for the PS5 VR would be amazing. But I hope they get some good groups to do the music (The Crystal Method, Prodigy etc) I recently purchased the Omega collection and the music was like elevator music in a mall (the very first game had some bangers!).

@kingbreww yeah can't wait to see the graphics of games on the PS5 in 3yrs. The 3D audio in Metro was the first time I've been able to sneak around in a game using only hearing to accurately tell where they (not using sight at all). Was an amazing gaming moment for me. Better than the 3D audio cards like the Aureal 3D back in the day.

@kingbreww that was a fun game. Loved the 3D audio.

Playing Elite Dangerous on the PS5 while listening to Podcasts.

Loved all four ME games. Andromeda was underrated, I believe it had some graphic glitches when it first came out but they patched it, played the hell out of it, well worth it!

I tried to play this back when I had an Xbox digital. Ran at about 15fps and was really confusing on what to do. Lasted about 20min.

It's funny how every gets the name mixed with the Outer Worlds. Which was a great game.

Picked up Far Cry New Dawn, only $17AUD.

Thinking of getting Mass Effect Trilogy or Outriders but can't decide.

@render Graphics and sound still does not address the GAMEPLAY of a Rouge-Like. I'm glad the graphics and sound makes it better, but that doesn't change what I (and the reasons he listed too) don't like about RL game play.