Playing this on the Pro sounds nice. But it’s still not the nearly the best way to play it. The game runs in letterboxed 21:9, which is the way the game was meant to be played. This means it runs best on a 21:9 ultrawide monitor, where you don’t get black letterboxed bars. I played the PC version on my 34 inch 21:9 Oled, maxed out at 120-ish fps. I loved it. I agree with some of the downsides. But I’d rate it at around 8/10. These two games has done a lot to shine a light on mental health. Kudos.
Xbox are the only ones actually committing to their rewards scheme!
And it’s better than Nintendo’s or Sony’s ever been. And it’s built into their consoles and in the Xbox Pc app (and the mobile app), and you can earn reward points in all three ways..
I converted my Xbox points yesterday to a 500 SEK coupon on Amazon (around $45-50). I’ve gathered those points this year, and I haven’t gotten points from game purchases (which you do get as well).
So yeah. The Xbox rewards scheme is fantastic in comparison. Damn Sony… I was hoping they would make Stars better, and implement it into the console. Instead they shaft it completely?? 🤬
I really hope they put out something better. But doubtful, and probably not before the current scheme properly ends in 1.5 years from now(!). 😣
Releasing FF XVI 2 years(!) later on Xbox at basically full price probably didn’t help any sales either. It would most likely have sold more overall if it released on PS5, Series X and PC on day 1. Anyone honestly thinks otherwise? Exclusivity deals like this only hurt game sales and boosts console sales for that console maker (Sony in this case).
And SquareEnix probably, finally, understand that. A bit too late though. I’m keeping my Series X and PC for GamePass (which is wonderful, what a year so far!! The Alters dropped just now, and it’s amazing). I’ll obviously hold on to my PS5 Pro as well, I have to because of the exclusives (do LOVE the Dualsense and Dualsense Edge though..).
PC will be the best version of the game, as most often is the case. I’ll play it day one on GamePass 😁
But yeah, as others have mentioned; I don’t particularly miss all the grey and brown from that UE3 era 😅 But I’ve always loved Gears 1, the setting and mood. It was ofc amazing back in the day, and it has aged pretty well!
Wait, what? They do the exact opposite for Christ sake! MS may be the biggest publisher nowadays. But they realese their games on every platform, including PlayStation!!
If anyone is hindering anything it’s Sony, who only release on the PS consoles (and PC a year + later, except a few games like Helldivers 2). Microsoft is the only one out there actually putting games into more gamers’ hands for f###s sake..
I’ll never understand comments like yours and the one above you. From people who doesn’t even play the game. I play it a lot, and I’ve been doing that since 2016. I love this collab! I loved the Transformers collab as well (I’m born 1980, so I grew up with this *****!), and some of the others.
I think it’s great they’re doing stuff like this. But each to their own ofc.
Well, since Bethesda (and therefor Doom) is owned by Microsoft, this doesn’t matter as much. The more people they get to sub to GamePass, the better. And I don’t think a banger such as Dark Ages would have a high ”play one hour and drop it”-rate. The game is amazing. Even better than Doom 2016 in my opinion.
@thefourfoldroot1
I’d understand if it differed between base PS5 and Series X (X being basically more powerful), but drops on the Pro.. I think it’ll get optimized down the line.
And your statement doesn’t hold any truth by the way. All the recently released games by Microsoft’s studios have been stellar on the PS5/PS5 Pro (Forza Horizon 5, Indy etc.).
Lol what? No it doesn’t feel ”wrong” to play it for ”free”. You’re simply not. They’ve said themselves that being on GamePass has been worth it. Don’t worry. They got paid
I’ve been playing it on PC GamePass. GamePass is getting more and more worth the money spent. It’s almost ridiculous, really. It almost feels like stealing, but in a good way!
” it feels like the world has moved on from this underwhelming Bethesda game.” You clearly haven’t played it? It’s honestly really good, especially if you like Sci-Fi. Better than Skyrim ever was in my humble opinion. And it keeps getting support, the DLC is nice and the ship builder and creations are great.
I’d say it’s the best Bethesda game in a long time. I played it on PC in 3440x1440 Ultrawide oled maxed out (doesn’t take a 4080/90/5080/90), and it looks really good.
I tried it on Series X as well, and with 60fps support arriving after a few patches, it plays great.
Sure this applies to those who just bought a Switch 1. But the OG switch came out in 2017…. MILLIONS are ready to buy a Switch 2. Just like millions were ready to buy a PS5 (even though some surely bought a PS4 or PS4 Pro just before the PS5 released in 2020..).
Your argument is extremely weird to be honest. Sure. They might not get as big of a success as the Switch 1. But I have a feeling they’ll still outsell the PS5 in the next 3-4 years.
@Mincey0
You obviously don’t like Astro Bot. But guess what? Millions do! It’s no mentality whatsoever. It’s a fantastic game. I love it, my son loves it, my daughter loves it and my wife love it. It’s a game for everyone. The controls, graphics, audio and gameplay elements are all top notch as well. I’ve been gaming since around -85, and all the classic PlayStation easter eggs and bots really hit home for me.
The game is a home run (not for everyone though, obviously, like with every game on the planet ever released and will ever release).
It’s Sony’s own ”Mario game”, and I mean that in the best way possible.
Sadly many people still think it’s enough to just have ”fast” internet and the router hardwired. There’s more to it than that, sometimes. If correctly set up it’s an amazing experience on anything except the most twitchiest of games (and that comes from someone that is extremely sensitive to latency in all forms and plays more than one game competitively). With this update (that also fixed the stutter every 7-8 secs!!) I’m buying one again (sold my first Portal ’cause of the stutter).
Thank god ”Jom Carrey”’s not in this movie! That would have been horrible!
Seriously though, I didn’t think anyone in the world disliked Jim Carrey’s BRILLIANT performance in the two previous movies. Obviously there has to be someone, but man, he should get an Oscar for his performance in the first two. He makes both kids and adults laugh, and he’s been doing that for almost 40 years. He’s one of few. A real treasure he is.
I agree that it’s nowhere near a PR disaster yet, though it doesn’t exactly look great either. I’m very curious to eventually hear exactly what the issue is, if it’s just working worse with certain engines or similar. I don’t think it’s as easy as ”it’s the devs fault!” In every single case. Some of those devs are uber efficient technically.
Either way. Just found your comment a bit funny. If there is a gamer that watch what DF say, it’s most certainly the PS5 Pro owner, if any 😂 More likely the Pro owner than the regular PS5 owner at least.
But yeah. Some people are just negative Nancy’s (and most often don’t own one themselves). I love my PS5 Pro, but it sure as hell was expensive here in Sweden. But worth it, for me (barely though, with the disc drive).
Exactly! Sigh! Ffs.. In a game like this, the one mode where a Pro mode would really be of use is in the 60fps mode. You can obviously complete the game in 30 or 40 fps, if you like self torture or the extra challenge. But in a game like this every fps makes it all the sweeter. But instead they focus on the worse-fps modes?? 🫠 I want a big nice boost to performance mode..
I love comics, DC, Marvel and Overwatch. This should be a home run for me. But at the moment it’s nowhere near Overwatch 2, on several levels. No ”oomph” in anything you do, the third person animations feel floaty and a little off. The verticality of a lot of the characters makes it a ***** show when you’re playing a bunch of the ground characters. There’s a lot of things that just aren’t there yet.
I understand that if you aren’t actively playing OW, then this feels great. But it needs a lot of patches still. But hey, it’s been out a few days. So I have hope. I’m not giving up on it. But OW was way more polished from the start.
If Marvel Rivals didn’t have the Marvel characters then this game wouldn’t have had 10 million players this fast..
I hope they bombard it with balance fixes and patches though.
Yeah. But the worst with telling the US prices is that all prices in the US are announced without taxes etc. So it’s almost always more expensive, depending on which state you live in 🤦🏻♂️ So confusing.. And it gives a false picture of the actual price.
Here in Sweden all prices must be put out with taxes and ***** already accounted for. Then again, we don’t have different taxes and so on across the country. And tech is really expensive here…. We might be a rich country overall, but the government has come up with all kinds of taxes on tech (on everything!) to save the environment etc, , so everything is expensive these days here, but tech especially. But yeah, hard to save the world with 10 million people….. 🤦🏻♂️ But typically Sweden, we gotta show the way! 🫠
OMG the drama… I’m sick of whiny people striking over not being allowed to work from home as much as they want (or at all). I DO agree that if people aren’t allowed to work from home even if they have a medical condition prohibiting it, well that plain sucks.
But I bet a ton of ppl not having issues are going out of their way to get a doctor to say they do. It was semi-common before, and most likely more common these days.
So many entitled people out there. I know a bunch myself. I worked as a nurse for 16 years, no working from home for me! But the last couple of years I’ve worked in IT. First it was 100% from home. These days it’s perhaps 20-30% from home and 70-80% at work.
If my employer told me to work 100% @work I would do so without complaining about it. ’Cause I’m a grown man and I understand that employers aren’t pulling ppl back in to work just to be mean 🤦🏻♂️
Not really business as usual. It should be mentioned that sources close to Windows Central are saying that most of the Black Ops 6 players are on GamePass. So yeah. Physical sales are obviously the most on PS4/PS5, but player count are higher on GamePass Xbox/PC.
Surely a win for Microsoft in that regard. They did this right, Stalker 2 and Indy are incoming, effectively keeping many new subscribers subscribing for more than an initial month. And as usual the CoD battle passes will bring in more cash.
Only the ”100 SEK” option here in Sweden. That’s basically the $10/£10/€10 option in the US/UK and the countries with €.
The rewards system was already way worse than Microsoft’s. But now they make the points last a measly 12 months, plus they remove the points made from subscriptions.. Wtf Sony?
🫠😢
I’ve made £30 worth of points in no time on my Series X and PC, and was just about to start gather a bit more on my PS5 and PS app, and then they announce the nerf and seemingly also remove stuff?
Yeah, well in Europe it's €799, and here in Sweden it's gonna be like the equivalent of €820-830, at least. Sony's taking the piss here. No stand, no disc drive.. The regular PS5's been out for 4 god damn years, and they release the Pro with this price tag... Wtf... -_-
It may not look amazing. But it does look really good when playing (courts etc.) and the animations are top notch. The game still has a few balancing issues though (it’s better with the latest patch, but needs more!). It does play great though, best I’ve ever felt in a tennis game.
Sony in a nutshell. They’re very “Google like” in that way. Release something, see if it sticks, then off to the tech/software graveyard. They did it with the Vita (a tragedy!) and they’ve done it with the PSVR 1 and even more so PSVR 2.
I really don’t understand why they do it. Why haven’t they still learned that if you don’t support your product, it won’t sell nearly as well as if you support it.
Baffling, and quite honestly ***** annoying! 🤦🏻♂️
Perhaps the fact that this whole article is wrong? 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Phil didn’t mention Sony, plus he said that Xbox was the ones who started the whole exclusivity with COD-thing… So if anything, Phil mentioned that they themselves have been slimy. But he obviously mean they both have, and that that kind of crap has no place in gaming. He’s said it before as well.
But by reporting lies like this, without fact checking (or even worse, on purpose…), PushSquare is contributing to spreading fake news that only brings hate in the comment sections and amongst fanboys. It’s a shame. And ***** like this makes me think twice about visiting this site in the future. A shame (I know I’ll be back.. But probably not as often 🤷🏻♂️).
Yeah. Sadly PushSquare makes it all worse by making a misleading article without fact checking, making all this even more cringe. This article should be re-written or removed. Stuff like this seriously lowers the journalistic seriousness of the whole site. 🤦🏻♂️
Indeed. It’s not illegal to change the TOS. But to change the exact bit about PSN requirement EXACTLY right after this ***** show started? And they still broke their own TOS, change-after-the-fact or not.
***** move, extremely tone deaf and out of touch, this whole thing. Talk about not having the ear to the ground. It’s like they don’t have people earning A LOT OF money to think about stuff like this and prevent them from happening in the first place. Hell, my 12 year old son could have predicted this.
Hey now… I agree that people are, as usual, overreacting a bit (some at least). But this IS warranted, almost.
Here at Push Square we’re biased so much it almost hurts.
Let’s not forget Sony broke their own damn TOS, and tried to quietly change it just a few days ago. What they did broke the law in most countries. Let’s also not forget that their TOS let people in 170 countries/regions who doesn’t even have access to PSN play their games on PC, something this would have completely broken. And so on, and so forth.
The funny thing is that it indeed did state, for a bit, that PSN linking would be required later on. But that in itself broke their own TOS 🤦🏻♂️ A cluster ***** on Sonys part.
Personally i didn't have an issue with all this. But i'm biased though.
OT though: I’ve enjoyed the hour or so I’ve played so far. I originally played on PC back then. But I’m gonna do another run now on the PS5 (and PS Portal!).
I don’t agree. I mean, The Portal clearly sold well. But I too think a dedicated handheld is the way to go. Look at the Switch, the Steam Deck, Rog Ally and Legion Go. Handheld is on the rise, again.
Hell, if the Portal would accept Bluetooth headphones/plugs/whatnot it would make A LOT more sense (this is something that annoys the hell out of me, I don’t want or need the Pulse Elite or Explorers, I even returned my Pulse Elite ‘cause it’s the worst Planar Magnetic headphones I’ve ever used). I’d still like to try one though 😂 But I got a SD Oled with Chiaki4Deck, and I can set bitrate and more higher than the Portal can handle, plus Chiaki4Deck now supports HDR on the Deck Oled! So the games look fantastic). So that’ll do for me personally.
I don’t think Sony’s gonna release a new dedicated handheld, but Microsoft might… Interesting times!
What are you on about? Seems extremely personal for you? Something happened?
Reddit isn’t a general “place”, it’s basically a forum with dedicated rooms for stuff you’re interested in. I think it’s great! Let’s say I’m gonna buy a Steam Deck (already own one), then I can for example join the Steam Deck subreddit and get a TON of help and tips from the community. And so on and so forth.
Sure, there are subreddits with bizarre topics, but you simply don’t have to join anything you don’t want to. Personally i, obviously, join communities with topics/hardware/software/etc that I’m interested in.
@Sil_Am Which is kind of weird. I like PS trophies, but for example a silver trophy doesn’t tell me jack *****, because i never know beforehand how many of them there are.
On Xbox, every game launch with 1000 Gamerscore (more can be added though with DLC etc.). So I know a 100GS achievement is a big one. I think Microsoft did the simplest and best thing when going with a score/numbers system. Easy for anyone to understand, and easy for people to compare with each other.
The trophies are just trophies. I wish all games had a fixed number of bronze, silvers and golds. And a platinum ofc. With a fixed number, every trophy gets a (basically) set value.
Same here! I love it! I do think the old loot boxes were WAY better compared to payed for battle passes. But hey. Everyone whined about the loot boxes (I got all skins by just playing OW1, didn’t buy a single loot box), so instead we get battle passes. It’s not god damn free maintaining a game like this, so the money has to keep coming.
I still Love OW2 though. And I do buy the battle passes, but I don’t think they’re really worth it to be honest. They have to improve them. Even in cod you get enough cod points in each completed battle pass to buy the next battle pass free of charge.
Isn’t it just a low-life attempt at increasing console “sales”? Then again. This probably isn’t mixed with PS5 sales. If so, then that would be a ***** move. ‘Cause a PS5 this isn’t..
Buy it! I spent around 100 hours on it (might have been more…) and I loved it to bits! It DID turn into a bit of a chore towards the end though. But in the first 50-60 hours I just didn’t want it to end. I’m a big comics fan though.
Seriously just buy it. I highly recommend it. Personally I loved the turn based tactics combined with cards.
Lies of P and Starfield are on Game Pass (both PC and Series S/X). So obviously a lot of people playing those two games on PC and Xbox didn’t buy them outright, but have played through Game Pass.. Starfield STILL seems to have been selling really well. And for the record, the game is fantastic. Played around 60 hours so far, i and I’ll keep going (when i can wrestle myself from the PS5 that is).
Just because a game has been released on the system doesn’t mean Sony can just give away the titles as they please 😂
This ***** has to be approved by the owners of the titles: i.e: Microsoft.
Either a deal was in place beforehand for exactly this kind of stuff. Or a new deal has been struck and money changed hands. Money talks, doesn’t matter how big rivals you are. Business is business.
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Re: Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 Enhanced (PS5) - Cinematic Spectacle Offers Little Else
Playing this on the Pro sounds nice. But it’s still not the nearly the best way to play it. The game runs in letterboxed 21:9, which is the way the game was meant to be played. This means it runs best on a 21:9 ultrawide monitor, where you don’t get black letterboxed bars. I played the PC version on my 34 inch 21:9 Oled, maxed out at 120-ish fps. I loved it. I agree with some of the downsides. But I’d rate it at around 8/10. These two games has done a lot to shine a light on mental health. Kudos.
Re: GTA 6 Might Require Age Verification, as GTA Online Checks Leak
@Czar_Khastik
Hahaha 😂😎
Re: 'Everyone Focuses on Steam Concurrents, But PS5 Is by Far Our Biggest Community': Test Drive Unlimited Dev Hits Back
@Frmknst
Depends on what you mean with ”well”. I’d say A LOT of people have PC’s these days that run games at least as good as the 5 year old current consoles.
Personally I mostly game on the PS5 Pro (and Portal), PC with a RTX 5070 Ti and Switch 2.
But yeah. Most people don’t have the 5-series Nvidia cards, but plenty have rigs that play modern games ”well”.
Re: PS Stars Program Marks Its Eventual Shut Down with One Last Collectible
@itsfoz
Xbox??
Xbox are the only ones actually committing to their rewards scheme!
And it’s better than Nintendo’s or Sony’s ever been. And it’s built into their consoles and in the Xbox Pc app (and the mobile app), and you can earn reward points in all three ways..
I converted my Xbox points yesterday to a 500 SEK coupon on Amazon (around $45-50). I’ve gathered those points this year, and I haven’t gotten points from game purchases (which you do get as well).
So yeah. The Xbox rewards scheme is fantastic in comparison. Damn Sony… I was hoping they would make Stars better, and implement it into the console. Instead they shaft it completely?? 🤬
I really hope they put out something better. But doubtful, and probably not before the current scheme properly ends in 1.5 years from now(!). 😣
Re: Final Fantasy 16 May Have Underperformed on PS5, But It's Doing Terribly on Xbox
Releasing FF XVI 2 years(!) later on Xbox at basically full price probably didn’t help any sales either. It would most likely have sold more overall if it released on PS5, Series X and PC on day 1. Anyone honestly thinks otherwise? Exclusivity deals like this only hurt game sales and boosts console sales for that console maker (Sony in this case).
And SquareEnix probably, finally, understand that. A bit too late though. I’m keeping my Series X and PC for GamePass (which is wonderful, what a year so far!! The Alters dropped just now, and it’s amazing). I’ll obviously hold on to my PS5 Pro as well, I have to because of the exclusives (do LOVE the Dualsense and Dualsense Edge though..).
Re: This Is How Gears of War Reloaded Looks and Plays on PS5 Pro
@OldGamer999
PC will be the best version of the game, as most often is the case. I’ll play it day one on GamePass 😁
But yeah, as others have mentioned; I don’t particularly miss all the grey and brown from that UE3 era 😅 But I’ve always loved Gears 1, the setting and mood. It was ofc amazing back in the day, and it has aged pretty well!
Re: 'Competition Pushes Us to Innovate': Sony Weighs in on Xbox's Potential Exit from Console Business
@crackeastwood
Wait, what? They do the exact opposite for Christ sake! MS may be the biggest publisher nowadays. But they realese their games on every platform, including PlayStation!!
If anyone is hindering anything it’s Sony, who only release on the PS consoles (and PC a year + later, except a few games like Helldivers 2). Microsoft is the only one out there actually putting games into more gamers’ hands for f###s sake..
Re: Devil May Cry 5 Can't Stop Selling, Now Tops 10 Million Units
I wanna chime in as well, i too loved DMC!! 🥳
But, i might like DmC 5 a bit more. DMC was a banger though (in my book).
Re: Devil May Cry 5 Can't Stop Selling, Now Tops 10 Million Units
@Questionable_Duck
Hahahah
Re: Round Up: What Was Announced for PS5 at Xbox Games Showcase?
@AdamNovice
Yeah.. or just watch the official stream and get it first hand without someone ”reacting” live while you’re watching.
I’ll take the licensed songs thank you very much, while I watch it live directly from the source. I can react to stuff myself 😂
Streamers can react afterwards, after editing the video. The people can react to their reactions, I guess.
Just my 2 cents!
Re: Here Comes a New Challenger! Street Fighter's World Warriors Invade Overwatch 2 on PS5, PS4
@Tomato_Goose
I’ll never understand comments like yours and the one above you. From people who doesn’t even play the game. I play it a lot, and I’ve been doing that since 2016. I love this collab! I loved the Transformers collab as well (I’m born 1980, so I grew up with this *****!), and some of the others.
I think it’s great they’re doing stuff like this. But each to their own ofc.
Re: DOOM: The Dark Ages Attracts Three Million Players, Dev's Biggest Launch in Its History
@UltimateOtaku91
Well, since Bethesda (and therefor Doom) is owned by Microsoft, this doesn’t matter as much. The more people they get to sub to GamePass, the better. And I don’t think a banger such as Dark Ages would have a high ”play one hour and drop it”-rate. The game is amazing. Even better than Doom 2016 in my opinion.
Re: Poor Showing for DOOM: The Dark Ages on PS5 Pro
@thefourfoldroot1
I’d understand if it differed between base PS5 and Series X (X being basically more powerful), but drops on the Pro.. I think it’ll get optimized down the line.
And your statement doesn’t hold any truth by the way. All the recently released games by Microsoft’s studios have been stellar on the PS5/PS5 Pro (Forza Horizon 5, Indy etc.).
Re: PS5's Share of Active US Players Is Slowly Beginning to Pummel Xbox
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Re: Plenty of People Are Playing Expedition 33 on PS5, Despite Having to Actually Buy It
@PaperAlien
Lol what? No it doesn’t feel ”wrong” to play it for ”free”. You’re simply not. They’ve said themselves that being on GamePass has been worth it. Don’t worry. They got paid
I’ve been playing it on PC GamePass. GamePass is getting more and more worth the money spent. It’s almost ridiculous, really. It almost feels like stealing, but in a good way!
Re: Official Oblivion Remastered Announcement Coming Today
@Balaam_
Might be digital only. And it’ll be day 1 on GamePass obviously. But yeah, a physical release would be nice.
I’ll try it on PC GamePass though. Hopefully it’ll have ultrawide support from the get-go.
Re: Stellar Blade's Hyper-Realistic $3,600 Statues Sold Out in Minutes
With the quality of those statues I’m not surprised they sold out quickly. They most likely didn’t have THAT many made.. Expensive or not.
Re: Stellar Blade's Hyper-Realistic $3,600 Statues Sold Out in Minutes
Please link Insta or Threads instead of ”X”, please… 🫠
Re: Ex-Xbox System Seller Starfield Edges Ever Closer to PS5
” it feels like the world has moved on from this underwhelming Bethesda game.” You clearly haven’t played it? It’s honestly really good, especially if you like Sci-Fi. Better than Skyrim ever was in my humble opinion. And it keeps getting support, the DLC is nice and the ship builder and creations are great.
I’d say it’s the best Bethesda game in a long time. I played it on PC in 3440x1440 Ultrawide oled maxed out (doesn’t take a 4080/90/5080/90), and it looks really good.
I tried it on Series X as well, and with 60fps support arriving after a few patches, it plays great.
Re: Nintendo Fans Are Desperate to Know How Close Switch 2 Will Get to PS4's Power
@Mikey856
Sure this applies to those who just bought a Switch 1. But the OG switch came out in 2017…. MILLIONS are ready to buy a Switch 2. Just like millions were ready to buy a PS5 (even though some surely bought a PS4 or PS4 Pro just before the PS5 released in 2020..).
Your argument is extremely weird to be honest. Sure. They might not get as big of a success as the Switch 1. But I have a feeling they’ll still outsell the PS5 in the next 3-4 years.
Re: Game of the Year: Best PS5 Developer of 2024
@Mincey0
You obviously don’t like Astro Bot. But guess what? Millions do! It’s no mentality whatsoever. It’s a fantastic game. I love it, my son loves it, my daughter loves it and my wife love it. It’s a game for everyone. The controls, graphics, audio and gameplay elements are all top notch as well. I’ve been gaming since around -85, and all the classic PlayStation easter eggs and bots really hit home for me.
The game is a home run (not for everyone though, obviously, like with every game on the planet ever released and will ever release).
It’s Sony’s own ”Mario game”, and I mean that in the best way possible.
Re: Hands On: PS Plus Cloud Streaming Is a Game Changer for PS Portal
@SleeplessKnight
Sadly many people still think it’s enough to just have ”fast” internet and the router hardwired. There’s more to it than that, sometimes. If correctly set up it’s an amazing experience on anything except the most twitchiest of games (and that comes from someone that is extremely sensitive to latency in all forms and plays more than one game competitively). With this update (that also fixed the stutter every 7-8 secs!!) I’m buying one again (sold my first Portal ’cause of the stutter).
Re: Naughty Dog Turns Off Intergalactic PS5 Trailer's Comments As Discourse Turns Nasty
@ZeroSum
Nothing’s wrong with you. I’m the same way. If we’re not the future of the planet, it’ll end sooner than you can say “basement dwellers”.
Re: Splash Water on Your Favourite Waifus in the New Dead or Alive Game for PS5, PS4
@MrPeanutbutterz
With that logic you wouldn’t wanna watch movies either, ’cause of porn.
Most non gamers don’t know about these kind of games anyway, especially outside of Asia 😂
Re: Round Up: Reviews Dub Sonic 3 Movie the Best of the Trilogy
@Enuo
Thank god ”Jom Carrey”’s not in this movie! That would have been horrible!
Seriously though, I didn’t think anyone in the world disliked Jim Carrey’s BRILLIANT performance in the two previous movies. Obviously there has to be someone, but man, he should get an Oscar for his performance in the first two. He makes both kids and adults laugh, and he’s been doing that for almost 40 years. He’s one of few. A real treasure he is.
Re: Alan Wake 2's Latest Update Tackles PS5 Pro Problems, Includes Toggle for PSSR
@DennisReynolds
I agree that it’s nowhere near a PR disaster yet, though it doesn’t exactly look great either. I’m very curious to eventually hear exactly what the issue is, if it’s just working worse with certain engines or similar. I don’t think it’s as easy as ”it’s the devs fault!” In every single case. Some of those devs are uber efficient technically.
Either way. Just found your comment a bit funny. If there is a gamer that watch what DF say, it’s most certainly the PS5 Pro owner, if any 😂 More likely the Pro owner than the regular PS5 owner at least.
But yeah. Some people are just negative Nancy’s (and most often don’t own one themselves). I love my PS5 Pro, but it sure as hell was expensive here in Sweden. But worth it, for me (barely though, with the disc drive).
Re: PS5 Pro Update on Its Way to Black Myth: Wukong, Arriving Tomorrow
@Rich33
Exactly! Sigh!
Ffs.. In a game like this, the one mode where a Pro mode would really be of use is in the 60fps mode. You can obviously complete the game in 30 or 40 fps, if you like self torture or the extra challenge. But in a game like this every fps makes it all the sweeter. But instead they focus on the worse-fps modes?? 🫠 I want a big nice boost to performance mode..
Re: Marvel Rivals Is Off to a Heroic Start with 10 Million Players in First Three Days
@Shrek_Realista
I love comics, DC, Marvel and Overwatch. This should be a home run for me. But at the moment it’s nowhere near Overwatch 2, on several levels. No ”oomph” in anything you do, the third person animations feel floaty and a little off. The verticality of a lot of the characters makes it a ***** show when you’re playing a bunch of the ground characters. There’s a lot of things that just aren’t there yet.
I understand that if you aren’t actively playing OW, then this feels great. But it needs a lot of patches still. But hey, it’s been out a few days. So I have hope. I’m not giving up on it. But OW was way more polished from the start.
If Marvel Rivals didn’t have the Marvel characters then this game wouldn’t have had 10 million players this fast..
I hope they bombard it with balance fixes and patches though.
Re: PS5 Fans Willing to Pay a Pretty Penny for a Steam Deck-Like Portable PlayStation
@UltimateOtaku91
Yeah. But the worst with telling the US prices is that all prices in the US are announced without taxes etc. So it’s almost always more expensive, depending on which state you live in 🤦🏻♂️ So confusing.. And it gives a false picture of the actual price.
Here in Sweden all prices must be put out with taxes and ***** already accounted for. Then again, we don’t have different taxes and so on across the country. And tech is really expensive here…. We might be a rich country overall, but the government has come up with all kinds of taxes on tech (on everything!) to save the environment etc, , so everything is expensive these days here, but tech especially. But yeah, hard to save the world with 10 million people….. 🤦🏻♂️ But typically Sweden, we gotta show the way! 🫠
Re: Black Ops 6 Devs Walk Out, Activision Strike Makes the Local News
@clvr
OMG the drama…
I’m sick of whiny people striking over not being allowed to work from home as much as they want (or at all).
I DO agree that if people aren’t allowed to work from home even if they have a medical condition prohibiting it, well that plain sucks.
But I bet a ton of ppl not having issues are going out of their way to get a doctor to say they do. It was semi-common before, and most likely more common these days.
So many entitled people out there. I know a bunch myself. I worked as a nurse for 16 years, no working from home for me!
But the last couple of years I’ve worked in IT. First it was 100% from home. These days it’s perhaps 20-30% from home and 70-80% at work.
If my employer told me to work 100% @work I would do so without complaining about it. ’Cause I’m a grown man and I understand that employers aren’t pulling ppl back in to work just to be mean 🤦🏻♂️
Re: Black Ops 6 Drives Monthly PS5 Sales Growth in the UK, 75% of Players Purchase on PlayStation
Not really business as usual. It should be mentioned that sources close to Windows Central are saying that most of the Black Ops 6 players are on GamePass. So yeah. Physical sales are obviously the most on PS4/PS5, but player count are higher on GamePass Xbox/PC.
Surely a win for Microsoft in that regard. They did this right, Stalker 2 and Indy are incoming, effectively keeping many new subscribers subscribing for more than an initial month. And as usual the CoD battle passes will bring in more cash.
Re: Cash Rewards Still Unavailable for Millions in PS5, PS4 Rewards Scheme PS Stars
Only the ”100 SEK” option here in Sweden. That’s basically the $10/£10/€10 option in the US/UK and the countries with €.
The rewards system was already way worse than Microsoft’s. But now they make the points last a measly 12 months, plus they remove the points made from subscriptions.. Wtf Sony?
🫠😢
I’ve made £30 worth of points in no time on my Series X and PC, and was just about to start gather a bit more on my PS5 and PS app, and then they announce the nerf and seemingly also remove stuff?
🤦🏻♂️
Re: PS5 Pro Announced, Costs $700 and Out in November
@MUG3NHC
Yeah, well in Europe it's €799, and here in Sweden it's gonna be like the equivalent of €820-830, at least. Sony's taking the piss here. No stand, no disc drive.. The regular PS5's been out for 4 god damn years, and they release the Pro with this price tag... Wtf... -_-
Re: The Grass Is Greener in TopSpin 2K25's Big Wimbledon Season on PS5, PS4
@Frmknst
It may not look amazing. But it does look really good when playing (courts etc.) and the animations are top notch. The game still has a few balancing issues though (it’s better with the latest patch, but needs more!). It does play great though, best I’ve ever felt in a tennis game.
Re: Sony Is Allegedly Pulling PSVR2 Funding, Report Claims
Sony in a nutshell. They’re very “Google like” in that way. Release something, see if it sticks, then off to the tech/software graveyard. They did it with the Vita (a tragedy!) and they’ve done it with the PSVR 1 and even more so PSVR 2.
I really don’t understand why they do it. Why haven’t they still learned that if you don’t support your product, it won’t sell nearly as well as if you support it.
Baffling, and quite honestly ***** annoying! 🤦🏻♂️
Re: Ex-PS5 Exec Shawn Layden Isn't Holding Back His Feelings on Xbox
@Scrubchub
Perhaps the fact that this whole article is wrong? 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Phil didn’t mention Sony, plus he said that Xbox was the ones who started the whole exclusivity with COD-thing… So if anything, Phil mentioned that they themselves have been slimy. But he obviously mean they both have, and that that kind of crap has no place in gaming. He’s said it before as well.
But by reporting lies like this, without fact checking (or even worse, on purpose…), PushSquare is contributing to spreading fake news that only brings hate in the comment sections and amongst fanboys. It’s a shame. And ***** like this makes me think twice about visiting this site in the future. A shame (I know I’ll be back.. But probably not as often 🤷🏻♂️).
Re: Ex-PS5 Exec Shawn Layden Isn't Holding Back His Feelings on Xbox
@carlos82
Yeah. Sadly PushSquare makes it all worse by making a misleading article without fact checking, making all this even more cringe. This article should be re-written or removed. Stuff like this seriously lowers the journalistic seriousness of the whole site. 🤦🏻♂️
Re: Helldivers 2 CEO Praises 'Willpower' of Community in Sony Showdown
@Intr1n5ic
Indeed. It’s not illegal to change the TOS. But to change the exact bit about PSN requirement EXACTLY right after this ***** show started? And they still broke their own TOS, change-after-the-fact or not.
***** move, extremely tone deaf and out of touch, this whole thing. Talk about not having the ear to the ground. It’s like they don’t have people earning A LOT OF money to think about stuff like this and prevent them from happening in the first place. Hell, my 12 year old son could have predicted this.
Re: Helldivers 2 CEO Praises 'Willpower' of Community in Sony Showdown
@Intr1n5ic
Hey now… I agree that people are, as usual, overreacting a bit (some at least). But this IS warranted, almost.
Here at Push Square we’re biased so much it almost hurts.
Let’s not forget Sony broke their own damn TOS, and tried to quietly change it just a few days ago. What they did broke the law in most countries. Let’s also not forget that their TOS let people in 170 countries/regions who doesn’t even have access to PSN play their games on PC, something this would have completely broken. And so on, and so forth.
The funny thing is that it indeed did state, for a bit, that PSN linking would be required later on. But that in itself broke their own TOS 🤦🏻♂️
A cluster ***** on Sonys part.
Personally i didn't have an issue with all this. But i'm biased though.
Re: Hands On: Fallout 4 Next-Gen Runs Great on PS5, But Some Old Problems Persist
@MrBook
Bethesda.. Bethesda never changes..
OT though: I’ve enjoyed the hour or so I’ve played so far. I originally played on PC back then. But I’m gonna do another run now on the PS5 (and PS Portal!).
And I loved the Amazon series!
Re: Despite Flagging Physical Software Sales, PS5's Retail Presence Is Still Strong in Japan
@get2sammyb
I don’t agree. I mean, The Portal clearly sold well. But I too think a dedicated handheld is the way to go. Look at the Switch, the Steam Deck, Rog Ally and Legion Go. Handheld is on the rise, again.
Hell, if the Portal would accept Bluetooth headphones/plugs/whatnot it would make A LOT more sense (this is something that annoys the hell out of me, I don’t want or need the Pulse Elite or Explorers, I even returned my Pulse Elite ‘cause it’s the worst Planar Magnetic headphones I’ve ever used). I’d still like to try one though 😂 But I got a SD Oled with Chiaki4Deck, and I can set bitrate and more higher than the Portal can handle, plus Chiaki4Deck now supports HDR on the Deck Oled! So the games look fantastic). So that’ll do for me personally.
I don’t think Sony’s gonna release a new dedicated handheld, but Microsoft might… Interesting times!
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Rise of the Ronin?
@Specky
What are you on about? Seems extremely personal for you? Something happened?
Reddit isn’t a general “place”, it’s basically a forum with dedicated rooms for stuff you’re interested in. I think it’s great! Let’s say I’m gonna buy a Steam Deck (already own one), then I can for example join the Steam Deck subreddit and get a TON of help and tips from the community. And so on and so forth.
Sure, there are subreddits with bizarre topics, but you simply don’t have to join anything you don’t want to. Personally i, obviously, join communities with topics/hardware/software/etc that I’m interested in.
Re: Horizon Forbidden West Off to a Sturdy Enough Start on PC
@Sil_Am
Which is kind of weird. I like PS trophies, but for example a silver trophy doesn’t tell me jack *****, because i never know beforehand how many of them there are.
On Xbox, every game launch with 1000 Gamerscore (more can be added though with DLC etc.). So I know a 100GS achievement is a big one. I think Microsoft did the simplest and best thing when going with a score/numbers system. Easy for anyone to understand, and easy for people to compare with each other.
The trophies are just trophies. I wish all games had a fixed number of bronze, silvers and golds. And a platinum ofc. With a fixed number, every trophy gets a (basically) set value.
Re: Overwatch 2 Heroes Freed from Battle Pass Unlocks, Available to All
@Kiefer-Sutherland
Same here! I love it! I do think the old loot boxes were WAY better compared to payed for battle passes. But hey. Everyone whined about the loot boxes (I got all skins by just playing OW1, didn’t buy a single loot box), so instead we get battle passes. It’s not god damn free maintaining a game like this, so the money has to keep coming.
I still Love OW2 though. And I do buy the battle passes, but I don’t think they’re really worth it to be honest. They have to improve them. Even in cod you get enough cod points in each completed battle pass to buy the next battle pass free of charge.
So, come on 😁
Re: PS Portal Will Be Tracked As a Console by USA Data Firm Circana
@DaniPooo
Isn’t it just a low-life attempt at increasing console “sales”? Then again. This probably isn’t mixed with PS5 sales. If so, then that would be a ***** move. ‘Cause a PS5 this isn’t..
Re: PS Store Slashes 500+ PS5, PS4 Game Prices for Halloween
@Matroska
Buy it! I spent around 100 hours on it (might have been more…) and I loved it to bits! It DID turn into a bit of a chore towards the end though. But in the first 50-60 hours I just didn’t want it to end. I’m a big comics fan though.
Seriously just buy it. I highly recommend it. Personally I loved the turn based tactics combined with cards.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Surprise Hit Lies of P Makes an Impressive Third Place Debut
@Sequel I agree. It’s actually fantastic! And damn fine graphics!
Re: UK Sales Charts: Surprise Hit Lies of P Makes an Impressive Third Place Debut
@JAMes-BroWWWn
Lies of P and Starfield are on Game Pass (both PC and Series S/X). So obviously a lot of people playing those two games on PC and Xbox didn’t buy them outright, but have played through Game Pass.. Starfield STILL seems to have been selling really well. And for the record, the game is fantastic. Played around 60 hours so far, i and I’ll keep going (when i can wrestle myself from the PS5 that is).
Re: Capcom's Crazy Win Streak Continues as Publisher Confirms Record-High Profit
@nomither6
Cheap dead hardware? Lol. The Wii sold 101 mil.
But yeah, I agree that it wasn’t the best system for fighting games…
Re: 23 Games Hit PS Plus Extra, Premium Next Week in Big Update
@Northern_munkey
Just because a game has been released on the system doesn’t mean Sony can just give away the titles as they please 😂
This ***** has to be approved by the owners of the titles: i.e: Microsoft.
Either a deal was in place beforehand for exactly this kind of stuff. Or a new deal has been struck and money changed hands. Money talks, doesn’t matter how big rivals you are. Business is business.