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Re: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Gameplay Trailer Looks Simply Sublime

Paranoimia

Used to love them, but haven't played one since A Crack in Time, which to be honest bored me.

At this moment in time, as pretty as it is, this isn't a must-play for me. I downloaded the PS4 're-imagining' (or whatever it was) of the original, but I've yet to play it. When I do, I'll see if it rekindles any of my past love for the games. If so, maybe I'll look at getting a PS5 before Forbidden West.

Re: Sony Asking Suppliers to Increase PS5 Stock Production

Paranoimia

@huyi It's something I wasn't looking forward to. I had most of my stuff on a 1.5TB internal drive, and some on a 1TB external. When I got the new drive, I had to move all the stuff from the internal to the new external, and then move everything from the old external to the internal, and then from the internal to the new external.

It was a bit of a PITA, but I just resigned myself to moving a few at a time, leaving it running when I had other non-gaming stuff do. It's not ideal, but also... isn't that bad if you break it down into smaller chunks.

At least now everything is on the external, and when I do eventually get a PS5, it's just a question of unplugging from one and connecting to the other. Best done sooner rather than later, as your collection is only likely to get bigger!

Re: Sony Asking Suppliers to Increase PS5 Stock Production

Paranoimia

@huyi The storage isn't a major issue for me. I'm sure the storage expansions will be quite pricey, but I currently have an 8TB external drive on my PS4 with about three quarters of that space available.

As I understand it, the drive will plug into a PS5 as is, allowing me to play any PS4 games from the drive, and also allowing me to shunt PS5 games to it for storage.

Re: Guess How Many Currencies Destiny 2's New Transmog System Adds

Paranoimia

You'd think they'd catch as much flak for crap like this as the likes of Activision do for charging $2 for a red dot sight which was free in every previous game.

Still, no skin off my nose... was in the alpha for the first game, but never bothered buying either. If people want to waste time and/or money on this crap, that's their choice. It's just irritating because the more they're let off with this kind of rubbish, the more emboldened other devs are to pull the same crap.

Re: Poll: Is PlayStation Plus Video Pass the Right Way to Expand PS Plus?

Paranoimia

I've said many times previously that I wished they'd offer a mix-n-match of movie rentals and games each month so that there's at least something of value for those who already have or simply don't want the games offered. So it would be hypocritical of me to say now that I wouldn't be happy with it.

But the whole idea seems like a strange move to me, given the fact that they're retiring the video service they already offered. It would surely have made more sense to keep the existing movie purchase/rental set-up, and just add a few 'free' rentals each month to the PS Plus service.

Re: No, Sony Didn't Pay for Performance Parity in Resident Evil Village on PS5, PS4

Paranoimia

@get2sammyb Twitter... initially I didn't see the point of it, but signed up. And I really quite enjoyed it. Spoke to some good people with similar interests... it was all pretty friendly.

In the last (I'd say) 3-4 years, it has degenerated into a very polarised thing. Seems mostly filled with hate from people unwilling or unable to consider any point of view but their own.

I'm still using it, but much, much less than I did. No matter who you unfollow, the unsavoury stuff still seems to weasel its way in your feed from retweets or suggestions. When I use it on the web, I've even started to access it via tweetdeck.twitter.com so that I don't get Twitter's own recommendations, because even they are often filled with clickbait headlines and nauseating content.

Re: What Would the Super League Mean for FIFA 22?

Paranoimia

FIFA is the last of my concerns about the whole situation.

Haven't been following the ESL story as I don't really bother with the news, but a friend told me about it a couple of days ago. I've no interest in it. From what that friend has told me, it'll start with 6 teams from England, 3 each from Spain and Italy? Hardly "European".

I think football needs to move back towards the fans, not further towards making the rich even more billions. And I say that as a fan of one of the proposed 'founding teams', Arsenal, who - given recent history - has no business being in it anyway.

Re: Days Gone Director on Skipped Sequel: 'If You Love a Game, Buy It at F***ing Full Price'

Paranoimia

I did pay full price. Pre-ordered. Love the game. Experienced just one bug. As I've said previously, it turned out to be my favourite game of the PS4 generation. I would pre-order a sequel without knowing any more about it.

All of that being said, I understand why some choose not to... so many (too many) games are quite obviously released with little or no testing these days, only being patched after release - so people are increasingly cautious. The (in my opinion) unnecessary price hike for PS5 games will do very little to help the situation.

Re: Over 15,000 People Have Signed a Petition for Days Gone 2

Paranoimia

While I'd like to think this will work (Days Gone is my favourite game of the PS4 generation, after all), I haven't signed it as it's unlikely to make the slightest bit of difference.

If it sells millions on PC, maybe that will change their mind.

Mind you, must be a real kick in the teeth for Bend, getting your plans for a sequel denied, and then being asked to remake the original for PC. You'd think if it's considered good enough to justify a port, it's good enough to justify a sequel.

Re: PS4 Clock Battery Problem Proven, But Don't Panic Right Now

Paranoimia

What's the betting that despite the usual social media pitchfork mobs crying about it, this never actually becomes an issue for anyone?

If it's a "firmware oversight", it will be corrected. If it's an intentional "security feature", it'll be disabled when the PS4 reaches the end of its useful life and gets its last firmware update.

And if neither of those are true? Maybe focus on the follow-up tweet: https://twitter.com/Forest_Reviews/status/1381747384917630976

Re: Days Gone 2 Not Given the Greenlight, Sony Bend Working on Something New

Paranoimia

Days Gone 2 would have been another strong reason for me to get a PS5. Currently, there's only Horizon Forbidden West which I'm really interested in. (Yes, I know it will be on PS4 too, but it would be a reason for me to get a PS5, just as the original was the reason I moved from a base PS4 to a Pro.)

As it is, I'm still more than happy to hold off on a PS5... and that's something that, a year ago, I would never have envisaged myself saying.

Re: Rumour: Sony Planning 'Counterpunch' to Xbox Game Pass

Paranoimia

I can't be the only one who feels "online optics" are often given far more importance than they deserve - not just in this case, but generally speaking.

Sure, they matter to a few 'extreme' people and the loudmouthed, pitchfork mobs of Twitter, but sane people and most businesses just tend to ignore those.

Re: Reaction: Sony's Storefront Closures Put PS5, PS4 Backwards Compatibility Efforts Back in Focus

Paranoimia

I'm sure a lot of people on social media are just making noise for the sake of it, and don't really care at all... they just want some attention for 5 minutes, as is the norm these days.

It's not like they haven't been available for at least 10+ years now, and it seems to me that anyone who genuinely had any interest in the digital versions of these old games would have long since purchased them, and for those who have, they're not going away.

Re: Rumour: Call of Duty Returns to World War II for This Year's Game

Paranoimia

Haven't bought a CoD since the original Modern Warfare on PS3, though I grabbed the MW and MW2 remasters from Plus.

Haven't bought any Battlefield since 4 either.

WW2 has been done to death by these games... CoD, Battlefield, and in the past, Medal of Honor... give it a friggin' rest.

Prefer my FPS set in present or very recent times... that's why I'm looking forward to 6 Days in Fallujah.

Re: PlayStation Emulation Patent Raises Hopes of Retro Support

Paranoimia

@Blacksmith1985 Agreed. I remember downloading some PS1 games for my PSP and they even looked awful on that.

Personally, I'd much rather Sony focus all their attention on putting something new and worthwhile on the new hardware, than waste time, effort, and money on looking backwards.

Re: Sony Must Communicate Its Plans for PS3, PS Vita, and PSP

Paranoimia

"Sony Must Communicate Its Plans for PS3, PS Vita, and PSP"

And if the original article is to be believed, they will... at the end of the month. The previous PushSquare article says so.

"Sony will confirm the news at the end of this month, with the information coming from a source "familiar with the situation", according to the website in question."

So this article seems... a little pointless. 🤔

Re: Soapbox: PS5 Has Turned Me Into a Total 60FPS Snob

Paranoimia

It is, and shall remain, completely irrelevant to me. As long as it's smooth, consistent, and predictable, I'm quite happy with 30fps. It makes no difference at all to my enjoyment of a game - and that's from someone with both a gaming PC and a gaming-capable laptop.

Re: PS3, PS Vita, and PSP Online Stores to Close This Summer, Says New Report

Paranoimia

Don't really care... haven't bought anything on either for at least 7 years, and had very little digitally anyway.

As much as people here are complaining, Sony wouldn't be shutting it down if it was seeing a reasonable amount of traffic and generating any significant sales; it's a case of "use it or lose it", and clearly not enough people were using it. It's probably reached the point where it's costing them more cash to keep it functioning than it generates, so... away it goes.

You won't lose access to what you've already bought, that's pretty much guaranteed; you just won't be able to buy anything new.

Either way, given the examples of OnLive, Ouya, and (quite possibly, soon) Stadia, the lesson from this for everyone should be: if you want to be absolutely certain that your games are yours to keep forever, buy physical media - it's the only way to be sure. As unlikely as it may be, any of these companies could disappear tomorrow, and take your entire collection with them.

Re: Poll: Which Bethesda Franchise Will PS5 Miss the Most?

Paranoimia

As far as I'm concerned, none of them.

I played Fallout 3 on PS3 and enjoyed it, even though it was a bit of a half-assed mess. I picked up New Vegas when I owned a 360 for a while, but found it so similar to 3 that I really couldn't be bothered and didn't play more than a few hours.

I had the original Dishonored on PS3 and that was okay (still got it, actually), but I never bothered with the second game.

Doom... I enjoyed the original way back on PC and on PS1, but I can't say I'm a huge fan of the series. I got whatever version it was that they released on the original Xbox, but never completed it.

Never had any interest in the other games they make, as I'm not that big of an RPG fan. And to be fair, a lot of their recent output has been so laughably bug-ridden that my own personal nickname for them is Bugtester Notworks.

So this their acquisition by MS makes very little difference to me personally. In the not-impossible-but-highly-unlikely event they produce anything I want in the future, I have a PC... which from what I've read in the past is arguably the best place to lay their games anyway.

Re: Denuvo Anti-Cheat Technology Available to PS5 Developers

Paranoimia

"creating a tremendous risk [to the] monetisation of games"

So it's not really the cheating that they're concerned about.

And the software can apparently have a large impact on the software which uses it. Some devs on PC use it only to bolster sales in the first few months, and patch it out later.