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Re: Switch 2 Can't Achieve a Great Experience on Big Screens, PS5 Boss Implies

Shaunholio

More power doesn't equal a better experience, it's all about the games. For me personally, the PS5 has had very little to excite me and I currently have more games on pre-order for the Switch 2 than I do for PS5

I love my PS5 and I love my Switch 2 and I will pick the console that gives me the preferred experience for that particular game

Re: Classic PS4 Racer DriveClub Is Now a Decade Old

Shaunholio

Absolutely loved Driveclub and was probably one of my favourite racing games of all time. Loved that it wasn't just "finish first" for every race and you had interesting challenges. The social challenges were also really cool (when they worked at least)

Re: Soapbox: This Is Why Physical Games Are Still Important to Me

Shaunholio

Funnily enough, I dug out my old Dreamcast from the loft of Christmas, with my copies of Shenmue 1 (both UK and Japanese versions) and 2, and there was something so special about flicking through the manuals. Unfortunately, most modern physical games don't come with a manual anymore (do any?)

Having said that, I have mostly gone the digital route over the last few years, mostly down to it being more convenient and not taking up any space. I do feel like digital games are massively overpriced however, and I only purchase them during sales.

Re: The Last Video Store Is Pure PSVR Nostalgia Inspired by Blockbuster

Shaunholio

I remember going to Blockbusters, there was also a couple of local video rental shops within walking distance of my house. I don't ever remember dancing around the shop though...

The Evil Dead footage looked like a trailer, so this'll probably be how they get around all the licensing issues (do you need licensing for trailers?)

Re: Aloy Trends As Fans Discuss Horizon Forbidden West Hero

Shaunholio

I don’t see anything wrong with the new face and I think one of the main reasons it looks different is due to the generation difference.

Look at Nathan Drake in Uncharted 4 versus Uncharted 3, it’s a completely different character model, but with the enhancements to facial animations and just improved skills in modelling, it results in a more natural looking face. You can see massive improvements to the animation in HFW.

Aloy is beautiful and I don’t think she looks fat, she just has a slightly rounder face than before. I think it’s great we have more diversity with the way females look in games, not every woman is a supermodel in real life 🙄

Re: PS5 Owners Confused by Incorrect Profile Listings for Games

Shaunholio

I've had an issue in the past where a game will show twice - with differing stats for each...

It's funny you should mention this today - last night I browsed through this list to have a look at the trophies for Shenmue...it initially loaded the trophy list for Shenmue 2 until I went back a step and tried again.

Re: Talking Point: How Often Do You Use PS5's New UI Features?

Shaunholio

The cards were fairly useful to jump to missions when playing the 2 Spider-Man games, but the only other PS5 game I have is Dirt 5 and I don't use cards for that.

I haven't even seen the help menu displayed yet, so I guess I'm either looking at the wrong times, or I've accidentally disabled it. The PS Store suggests that Miles Morales supports help guides, but it never showed.

Re: Taxi Chaos Looks Like the Crazy Taxi Revival SEGA Won't Make

Shaunholio

Yah yah yah yah yah

I hope the soundtrack is as good as Crazy Taxi

Sega has so many great IPs, it's such a shame they can't be bothered to invest any money into them anymore. But it's great to see indie devs picking up the slack, with this and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (looking forward to that one)

Re: Poll: How Much Do 'True' Gameplay Trailers Matter to You?

Shaunholio

I don’t mind game reveals with cinematic trailers so much ONCE we’re into a console generation. It’s difficult to get excited about next gen visuals when you don’t see any gameplay, which is one area I think the PS4 reveal smashed it. Cinematic trailers give sod all indication of what new consoles are capable of

Re: Talking Point: What New Trophy Features Do You Want on PS5?

Shaunholio

The ability to view your trophies locally/offline. I don't care much for trophies, but when I receive one, I am quite often interested what I earned it for or just like to view the trophy icon

But it is really frustrating to have to wait for my trophy list to update online. I know it's only a few seconds, but it pulls you out the game and seems like an unnecessary delay. It also means you can't view your trophies if you're not connected to the internet...who thought that would be a good idea?

Re: Soapbox: Uncharted 4's Higher Difficulties Kill the Joy of Combat

Shaunholio

I haven't played Uncharted 4 on hard, but I actually found Uncharted 3 to be a lot harder and frustrating. A friend of mine who recently played it for the first time agreed with me and we both played it on normal.

I'd say maybe we're both just crap at games, but I found that rest of the Uncharted series fine on the normal difficulty setting.