NoCode23

I'm the bomb and I'm 'bout to blow up.
I'm the bomb and I'm 'bout to blow up.

Been hyped since E3 2014. I'm hoping it's next favorite zombie game.

My eyes have some problems with color, but it looks like you found a train to match your shoes. The bag too. Nice reference to the Beatles. Interesting read and photos.

Don't stop here, do a monthly series. Each Magical Video Game Tour could be named after the city or country. Would love to see Frankfurt/Berlin, Paris/Lyon, Madrid, Timbuktu, Jakarta, and others.

@sjbsixpack, yes you may ask what I use a console web browser for.

My other posts I made here was using my tablet, this post I am using my PS4 while sitting all comfy on my sofa, controller resting on my lap, no touch the screen to type, and viewed on a large screen looking straight instead of down at a small 10" tablet screen or even smaller phone screen.

I exited a game I was playing to take a break to view a sports site, a news site , to check this site, and to look up something about the game I was playing. I am able to screen shot the info I find about the game or bookmark the article if I desire to.

Then there are times when I want to google and or wikipedia something. Wikipedia works great while other sites are a mixed bag of performance. However I always find enough good sites for what I am searching.

Also the browser version of youtube, only 720p, is available as an alternative to the app.

Yes, of course, other devices have better browsers, the Xbox browser maybe better. For me the PS4 having a browser is about ease of use and convenience for basic but often used browser uses like visiting this game site. Convenience of not needing to use another device, but to just switch from a game to the web.

I hope that answers why someone may be using a funky doodle ,wtf, omg, are you joking, console web browser.

I want to like this game. Would love something that can fill the gap till GTA 6. Two days after release and all my questions will be answered.

So 88% of Playstion players surveyed claim one or more games was the reason they chose the console they purchased. 73% of that 88% claim COD was that game. However 69% claim exclusives and 45% claim GTA 5. Is this some kind of new math or what?😵‍💫

@sjbsixpack, console looks over quality of games? Multiplatform games have dominated my PS3 and PS4 game play. Sony has an excellent exclusives library, but for me I will take the muliplats over over almost all the exclusives from Sony or Xbox to-date.

So with an Xbox I would still be able to play the multiplats that are 95% of my play time. All on a plain black rectangle and featuring a web browser. I only wish to have with a PS5 what I have now with my 2 PS4's along with the upgrade in hardware the 5 has.

I found out long ago.
It's a long way down the holiday road.
Holiday road.
Holiday road.

@stvevan, size, shape, and also with a web browser is why an X would be my next if I laid out $500 today. I rather have all that with a PS5.

@KaijuKaiser, 1080p tv's have not been abandoned from store sales for years. In my part of the USA there were some about 4 months ago when I was browsing to buy a new TV. With only a last gen Pro I decided to stay with my old 1080p tv until I upgraded.

New model PS5? Please ship all black, smaller, and, rectangular in shape, I might buy one then.

Porn left a big footprint when it was a pile of magazines, vcr tapes, and then discs. High definition streaming and downloads has to be a smaller footprint. However gone is the privacy of store purchases 100 miles away and with cash👹

Physical gaming on consoles had privacy until the PS3/360 gen except for the small fraction that played a game featuring online play. Now, disc or digital, all is known as soon as we sign in to visit the store or enable the internet for all the patches now needed.

I can live with some lost privacy, but I still like physical for playing unpatched versions, offline play, and replays where I can load large files from a disc instead of download. Also game rentals and used purchases. Then there is the feeling of ownership that only playing a physical copy can provide. Like playing a 20 year old PS2 game on a DVD in my PS2, no internet, licenses, or PSN account needed.

I have not experienced this problem but a couple of months ago I twice received a message something about game play would soon end because of lack of authorization. My play was not interrupted. I think it may have been Vice City that I had downloaded from Plus Extra.

I have had a problem of lost game saves with streamed games. Last week I lost all saves of 6 of 8 streamed games. No I had not made cloud backups, I do now. One game, Rage, is totally wack as I can not even save any game play to make a backup of.

Last week Sony "support" told me a fix is a high priority, but after a week I still can not save Rage. The other 5 games I lost saves I restarted, was able to save, and was able to do a backup. I switched to my PS3 and disc copy to replay Rage.

Lessen the rain effects and provide plenty of shotgun ammo so I can ditch the weak handgun. I find Ashley's squeaky voice annoying on this older looking Ashley. It's on my to play list this year.

Last summer I did a replay of this Mafia remake, disc, and Mafia 2 streamed. If you like one you will probably like the other or vice versa. Both are similar in structure, however for me Mafia 2 has the better cars, better customization, and better garages.

7 is a fair score for this remake although I love it and give an 8. Also it was only $40 new. My big complaint is no dlc like Joe's for Mafia 2. A dlc about Sam, and or, Paulie would have been nice.

Overall Mafia was fun to play and replay. Performance on my PRO is good frame rates with good 1080p graphics. Interiors like in Mafia 2 are done very well.

I give two thumbs up for this month👍👍.

@jgrangervikings1, Interesting, but now I desire a bowl of French Vanilla with syrup, a cherry, and crushed nuts. All I have are 2 jars of nuts 😫.

It would be interesting to see some movie reviews by these two. Movies like "Shaun of The Dead". Nice to see old school passion.

My only issue with the combat is how much I enjoy one slash dismemberment and decapitation. That is a powerfull juice when I play. Dying Light 1 with a powerfull machete where good timing allows satisfying one slash decapitations
of screaming zombies running at me. Multiple slashes to decapitate will not be as satisfying.

Overall this month may be one of the best. The Mafia remake I think is an excellent example of a story driven open world game. Two of the other three interest me to give a try. OOW I'll pass on, but it's a game that probably has many that will be downloading it as soon as possible.

Thank you Techland for all the crazy zombie killing fun I have had with multiple replays of DL1 and all the dlc.

DL2 is on my play after I upgrade to current gen list. I want it 60 fps.

I have mixed feelings. On one hand after playing the 2 and 3 remakes I have high desire for this 4 remake. On the other hand I may have played the original on PS2 too much with many replays and that this remake could feel too familiar. With much less replays the 2 and 3 remakes were fresh to play, also the jump was huge between PS1and PS4 Pro.

The 90's. Xmas 93 SNES bundled with Mario Allstars, played all night and got sore hands. Beavis and Butthead, Nirvana, camcorders at family gatherings, and the Indians, for real, were in the World Series twice.

@EVIL-C, one day there was a meeting where the design of the PS5 was decided. What were the designs that lost? I have no desire for the current PS5. A slim maybe, but when and how available would one be.

I would not call my PS3 Slim pretty or ugly. It sits beside my PRO, both are matte black, stable horizontal, and both are unnoticed.

A PS5 Pro? I know my PS4 Pro was worth the price, $400 Xmas 2017. I got a needed new DS4, 1TB of needed hdd space, and a game, CD WW2. Also 1080p gallery capture, improved game performance, and allowed my other PS4 to be a backup. Then along came the performance mode option with noticeable improved frame rates with 1080p output to my 1080p screen.

Since I have yet to upgrade to current gen my PS5 desire is for a slim model with 2TB ssd, and a web browser. Also for games to be well optimized for the current gen and 60fps.

A PS5 Pro? Maybe not needed this gen, but a slim most definitely is needed.

Saboteur replay on PS3. An old favorite that I replay about every 2 years and, thankfully, is just like I remember it. That is open world but simple without huge skill trees and inventories to manage. Also the text and subtitles are easy to read and not tiny. I do wish I could custom map the control layout.

I may also try a new Plus game like the recently added Just Cause 4.

@Gremio108, game about a bloke who's lost his pen? Finally a game based on the KITH classic "My Pen" sketch with Bruce McCulloch as the character that's lost his pen. Definitely my 2nd ever pre-order.

I love and have hundreds of hours of playing Fallout 3,4, and NV. After some play of 76 via Plus my take is 76 would be better if it would be single player with online play with up to 3 drop ins like Borderlands, Dead Island or with improved play with followers. Also with a world full of interesting npc's.

I am still getting by with my not huge, not ugly, and has a web browser PS4 Pro. Upgrading to a PS5 in 2023 I would like to do, buuut.
What would excite me for 2023 is a PS5 slim with a web browser
and bundled with GTA, freaking, Six.

I like the storage of 3 custom button settings, but couldn't that be done with the console? My PS4 can store 1 custom setting, why not 3 or more?
Short battery life? Wow does the DS3 really have that long of battery life? Yes, yes it does.

I would prefer a narrower touch pad and larger share and option buttons. Would be nice to hear claims that the sticks won't drift.

Yes for a $100 delux DS5 with back buttons, driftfree sticks, narrower touch pad, and sticks that can easily be replaced. No for this $200 controller.

Longer battery life? Short battery life = more chargers and second controllers sold is my conspiracy theory.

@Gloamin, since my last post I have viewed the side by side presented here with other side by sides, and others have not presented a darkened PS5 version like here. Even with raytracing that adds more natural lighting effects. I still hate the god rays that look like a nuke explosion.

As you say there are some very noticeable improvements, with or without rt, but the dark setting ruins it all.
The PS5 version here that looks dark is the only video that looks dark to me, games, apps, cable, and internet on any of the devices I use.

@Gloamin, it is less about needing an eye exam and more about how the PS5 version looks like a darkened PS4 version. Almost all scenes on the PS5 actually look worse than the same scenes on the PS4.

For example: all interior scenes especially the pub scene 3:45, outside :56 is maybe the worst of dark outside scenes. At 1:45 that closeup shows the improved PS5 lod and along with improved distance lod is obvious even to my old eyes.

Overall this comparison is not good as one version appears to be incorrectly adjusted too dark. For me I would adjust down the PS4 brightness just a tad, and would never play any game set as dark like the PS5 version is here.

And for RDO, sounds of drum roll followed by Sad Trombones, free all you can eat cans of beans, 50% off of all the stupid clothing you don't want to wear, and still no private lobby option. Thanks Grinch Starr.

Long list of fixes is cool but why is breaching into Franlin's house an issue that needed fixed??? Open the interiors already, geez.

Overall this update looks interesting and gives me a reason to play GTAO again. Thanks R*.

I have not played this game because I would prefer it in first person with a 3rd person option for riding a horse, reported poor performance on PS4, and annoying glow/God rays.

That said I still enjoy comparisons like this and again to me sometimes it looks better on new, but sometimes better on old. Here I prefer interiors on old while I prefer exteriors on new.

What puzzles me is why would an overall darker image be considered an improvement. For me 60fp over 30fps and short loading times is what would get my interest to replay or first play. The darkness can be adjusted out in a minute.

Cool heist location but thumbs down to game play. Is there no cover system, are the players wearing magic invisible armor, can the police not hit the broadside of a barn, and the voiced walk through guide sounds like the voice over in a tv comercial.

I was going to play Days Gone until I found out that the protag is another gruff white guy that looks at a female derriere. I would however reconsider if a patch would replace gwg with a mixed race non binary maybe a woman maybe a man of special needs that is height and physically challenged and requires a special built motorcycle.

Looks like if Tarantino made a video game instead of a movie.

The good: guns as weapon options, work benches, electricutions, and IF ammo is plentiful and craftable.

The bad: a release date almost halfway through next year.

The ugly: if release is delayed again, if crafted weapons wear too quickly, are a pain to repair, and can only be repaired 2 or 3 times.

6/15, better than the previous test.🤪

Is he going to dance before cutting off someone's ear? Oh please, oh please.

Interesting video. Much thanks to Jerry Lawson. I may give Google Doodle a try someday when I'm not so busy, busy playing video games.

Nice update for first timers and for those wanting to replay. I have no interest now in a replay or this new sci-fi dlc. However I would have high interest in an arcade mode like FC5 has.

One question. Will the sci-fi dlc file be included with the free update thus adding unnecessary bloat to storage to those not purchasing the dlc.

Looks interesting even though I am an older adult and don't have the energy of a teen.

Want an fov option, larger text sizes, npc's that don't say the same line or two over and over? Of course you do, and for the low cost of a season pass you can have it all.

My knee-jerk response of the day to something I read on the internet.

4/15, the easy last question saved me from a 3/15. I'm the guy in the corner wearing a dunce cap.🤓

Old music, like no silly sounding auto tuned vocals and a real person on drums instead of computer generated drum sounds? That would be nice.

It has flamethrowers, I love flamethrowers. Burn baby burn.👹

RE5, released in 2009, deserves more love. It is not RE like PS1 RE games but is lots of hours of fun, has a co-op option, and like RE4 has the replay value of improving weapons. Both 4 & 5 have weak weapons on the first play that makes enemies overpowered. Replays even things out with more powerfull weapons.

The RE3 remake is one of my favorites. I wish it was longer. Overall it should have been released as a $40 expansion of the RE2 remake. Has anyone actually played the online part of the RE3 remake?

My old RE favorites are 4 and 3, both played on a PS2. PS3 favorite is 5. New favorites are the 2 and 3 remakes. I have played 7 but not 8.

Mr X, RE2 remake, was so less annoying on replays after I learned to play as much that is possible before triggering his appearance, and learning how to dodge him.

5/15, and I have not played one GOW game. There is always some hope with a multiple guess test.🤓

I use a PS4 PRO with an old LG 1080p TV, and I always pick performance. Borderlands 3 is a good example of the smoother play and much less camera motion blur if set at performance.

Vice City definitive offers motion blur off, depth of field off, and performance mode. With that I can have a sharp image with silky smooth frames and no blur ruining the image and causing dizziness and or a headache.

Maybe 4K tv is the blame. Imagine if PS5 was still 1080p. Games could still look awesome, have 60fps minimum, high amounts of trees, animals, people, destructible/interactive world, improved ai, and standard options for raytracing, field of view, depth of field, motion blur, and more.

Screen shots are usually enough for me, but a good photo mode can add much more. Far Cry 5 has one the best photo modes, better than FC6, that I have used, and is simple to use.

A good and easy to use photo mode would be nice at release, but it may not be that simple to implement and is thus scheduled for post release.

@Darude84, thanks. I have Premium so I have them all. My issue was it seemed difficult when deciding between Extra and Premium 2 months ago. Also Dying Light 2 is now, after some delay, viewable when selecting the list of game trials.

Along with this news is still the lack, I can not find it, of a simple way to few the lists of only Extra games and only Premium games.

Also in game trials Dying Light 2 is not listed with trial games and is only found by doing a search of game trials, or on the list of all games. So I would not even know about the trial had I not seen it mentioned on Pushsquare or I am looking to purchase DL2 from the catalogue and find a trial available🤓