Shmoo

I’m enjoying the game so far, but even not counting the bugs there are some things that are disappointing. White, green, blue, purple, orange loot just seems lazy at this point. It would’ve been nice to see some randomized loot along side craftable sets that you work on as you progress. So far it seems like the best stuff you get is either high level drops or bought off ripperdocs much later in the game. Not the worst thing in the world but I loved how they handled crafting and upgrading in the Witcher 3 and would’ve preferred that over the typical looter shooter approach they took.

Lol I’ve bought this game 3 times, twice at a discount for the complete edition, and I still love playing through it every year. I have probably 500+ hours and can’t wait to get the PS5 edition... especially with CP2077 crashing on me pretty often 😕

I’m playing on PS5 and enjoying it so far. Played about 3 hours today without any real bugs popping up which was a nice change. No doubt in my mind though the console version is a mess. Before today I was encountering serious bugs every hour.

Here’s some bugs I encountered when I played this morning on PS5:

• Jackie walking into things and the game acts like a grenade is going off. Bodies fly apart, lockers blow open, etc.
• V spins randomly
• when putting a hat on and looking in the mirror it shows no hat. Just my bald character.
• Random cars crashing around us mid conversation and we just act like nothings happening. Bug or poor AI it’s annoying
• Waypoint marker will get stuck in last objective and it takes a while for next objective to load (keeps happening at doorways and elevators).

Nothing game breaking (yet) but yeah, I’d say unacceptable is the right word. My buddy bought it on steam and is encountering a problem where he can’t even install it ☹️

@L3GTRIGA

10/10 reference and I agree, couldn’t have been a better show to miss lol

Got this sitting under the tree right now. It’ll be Cyberpunk for a few weeks then Spiderman!...
Then probably back to Cyberpunk lol

Han Solo dies

“What’s your stance on the discussions unfolding on social media about all this?”

Well your other editor felt the need to @ me in the Cyberpunk reviews discussion for having the audacity to suggest you guys should provide context in your articles.

So I guess my stance is that people should wait to play the game themselves because it’s harder to post an opinion anywhere these days without check mark treating you like an idiot 👍

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L

No I’d suggest they put the information I put in my comment in their article to give people context

Ok so let’s be real here there’s 43 reviews on metacritic and only 2 of the 43 are a 7 or below and you guys chose to showcase those 2 here.

This sample is hardly indicative of what people are generally saying about the game 🤷

I know it won’t be there but I’m looking forward to hearing about PSVR 2!

I missed RE7 on PSVR so I really wanna play RE8 in VR

@LiamCroft

They’re needed for 2 rings. I don’t want to go into it too much more just to avoid potential spoilers.

Flamelurker on NG isn’t too bad. He’s a whole different story in NG+ however.

Had to go full try-hard with water veil, PFS, and Sticky White Slime the second time around to take him down.

Still just sitting here laughing at the Push Square article saying the platinum in this would be easy enough to pull off. How’s the 3rd playthrough and gold coin/ pure blade stone farming going for ya?

@Uromastryx

Yes! Keifer did the voice of Venom Snake in the most recent mainline entry Metal Gear Solid V.

I’ll have to disagree on the Tom Holland suggestion though lol

Hoping the new zombies content is a “classic” zombies map and that offline splitscreen finally works.

I know it’s a lot to ask that we be able to do something we could do a decade ago but hey here’s hoping 🤞

I’ll skip the “1st world problem” comment and just say that I agree, but I’m also ok with it. I gave my PS4 to my brother in 2016 so there were very long draughts between releases for me in the following years. Now I’ve got the PS5 and I’m hoping I never have to go back to that waiting for months for something new to play.

Nice Cyberpun 😎

@whizzkidd

Not sure if this was answered already but the review embargo is December 7th 9pm PST.

Loving Demon’s Souls. I beat it last night and I’m looking to get the platinum by the 10th. All rings is by far the hardest part because of the character tendency requirements.

My fiancé is also playing Until Dawn and I enjoy watching her fail all the QTEs lol.

So far the Maneaters have been the hardest boss for me. Took me about 5 tries yesterday. Admittedly they were bugged (got it on video with the instant recording the PS5 does) but still it’s a harder fight than I remember from the original.

I’ll be playing the PS4 version on the PS5 at launch. I liked what I saw from the PS gameplay reveal 😎 and I’ll still have the full PS5 version to look forwards to

@JoshuaTChandler

“Cyberpunk 2077’s multiplayer will arrive as a free download for anyone who already owns the game.”

From RockPaperShotgun and many others. It’ll be a free add on, think GTA online, and it will have micro transactions.

I have serious doubts it’ll be as successful as they’re hoping without a third person option.

GTA online, Fortnite, PubG, and every mmo ever all have one thing in common.

So many games to play I haven’t even had a chance yet to dip into the plus collection.

I’m loving Demon’s Souls and Cold War so far and my fiancé is loving Until Dawn.

It’s probably my favorite controller ever. It’s not as ergonomic as the Xbox controller line but the haptic feedback, built in mic, rechargeable battery, touchbar, speaker, and reactive triggers put it wayyy above any other controller IMO

@AJDarkstar

Interesting I’m wondering if that could be it. Next time it happens I’ll get right next to it to get a better idea

Edit: ok it started a system update when I turned it on so I got very close to check it out. It IS definitely the disc spinning. 100% the noise was coming from the disc drive

@Mostik

I’m on WiFi. If I had to give it my best guess I’d say it’s the fan. But yeah whether I’m installing a game or downloading something it gets very loud during that process.

Not a huge deal since it does this stuff pretty quick

I’m not sure if this is coil whine or not, but whenever my PS5 is downloading or updating a game it definitely gets loud. I’ll know an update is about to pop up as being complete because the console will just get really loud mid game for no reason for a couple minutes.

Cut content, delays, mtx in multiplayer, full-game leaks, CDPR kicked my dog....

I would say this is the year of bad releases but really it’s just the year of bad everything.

@Dan_ozzzy189

Yeah if I go offline it takes away my option to add a second controller.

Online I can sign in my second controller as a guest but they won’t show up in game

Haven’t even gotten to play zombies yet because it crashes every time the game is about to start. A huge bummer.

On a positive note I beat the campaign last night and I was a big fan. Took me longer than most probably close to 7 hours which was perfectly fine by me. And multiplayer has been fun so far

@Ichiban

This. I got through the first 2 missions in about a half hour then got hit with a message saying I need to install the other parts of the campaign. Took me a few minutes to realize you have to go to the store tab in the main menu to get it.

Very weird and unnecessary but the rest of the game has been fun. They need to get offline split screen for zombies ASAP though.

I mean this is probably the wrong site to have this opinion on but it’s pretty hypocritical to be mad about this after what Sony has done particularly in the PS4 era. I mean exclusive games, exclusive companies, in the end it’s about getting exclusives on your platform and PS owners have been fine with it so far 🤷

Yeah it sucks Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Starfield could be Xbox/PC exclusives but remember Demons Souls, MGS4, Bloodborne, Neir (timed), Death Stranding, and many things in Call of Duty and Destiny.

All is fair in love and war... and capitalism.

Dude, yes!! The penetrator boss fight is one of my all time favorites and I always wanted his armor.

Can’t wait to rock it with the Meat Cleaver 😎

Yes! Mine arrived on Tuesday. Loving it so far; although it’s not without its flaws.

I mean I can chime in on this lol. No video needed. Yeah, the sound does get intense. Loud enough that my fiancé did complain of it. It doesn’t happen often though. In my past 3 days of playing the only times I’ve heard it get that loud were installing games and on occasion in Demons Souls. In-game though the sound never lasts more than 15 or so seconds and it goes away and won’t come back for another 45 minutes.

So I mean we can sit here cracking jokes that it’s not loud (it is) but really the people posting about this are blowing it way out of proportion.

I feel their pain. Same thing happened with me and Walmart. I did get mine last night, only after Walmart said for about an hour and a half that they couldn’t find it in their shipment, before finally finding it 😐

Best tip I can give is to not go for “rounded out” stats too early. It’s best to go str/dex or int/dex or str/faith while building up your stam/vitality stats slowly as you level. Once you’re around 40 in one particular stat though you can start putting points into other categories.

Usually the meta endgame is around SL125 so if you want to consistently play with other people after you’ve beaten the game don’t go too far over that.

@get2sammyb

No doubt it’ll make the top of the list! Breaking objects by rolling has never been sweeter now that you can really feel it and hear it through the controller. In fact almost every sound made in the game comes through the controller, it’s quite remarkable.

It also makes getting pummeled by 5 enemies at a time quite unpleasant as you’ll feel each strike come through the controller.

Lol it didn’t really bother me that the matchmaking was broken in MW2019, and it won’t bother me with Cold War either.

I mean when we have a company that openly lets people use cheating hardware (Cronus Zen) it’s hard to take the competitive aspect seriously.

My advice is to find new lobbies after each match. There’s no need to quit matches halfway through but if you’re in a totally unbalanced lobby just look for a new one after the match. This is a double plus because if it places you in a lobby mid game you’re guaranteed to not get a loss stat.

I’ll be playing Cold War mostly in zombies with my fiancé and online with my brother. I could see myself un-installing the campaign portion after collecting the trophies for it.

I love it! I’ve been using it on my PC while I wait for tomorrow and it’s nothing short of amazing!

I’ve never gamed with a headset before and now I don’t want to game without one 👍

Dang if they had been high tops I would’ve considered it. A cool collectors item no doubt!

💯💯💯 got this and Black Ops ready to go! My PS5 last checked in 7 hours away. Could get to Walmart tonight or tomorrow 😺

My Fred Meyer accidentally ordered about five dozen copies of Call of Duty for PS4 and none for PS5. The manager was floored when she realized. Oh well it happens 🤷

My OCD has never let me use skins lol it’s a nightmare

Lol what a non-issue.

Let me stick my phone right next to this and then tell you how loud it is. Don’t mind that me slightly shuffling the phone is x10 louder than the actual noise

Ok yeah huge problems with the console please feel free to send it back to Sony anytime 👌👌

Well my PS5 arrives early next week so I don’t see myself paying this any attention.

Once the game’s on disc and ready to ship I’ll be right back on the hype train 👍

Although I’m sure it’s disappointing for Nioh owners that there is no free upgrade, this is still a step in the right direction for remasters on the PS5.

Able to purchase them separately or together
Free upgrade for the second game
We know off the bat that save transfers will work

Personally though I do hope the game industry phases out “remaster” from its vocabulary, and it’s marketing scheme.

I own the Witcher 3 on XB1 and PC and I’ll be buying it again to play on PS5. Had they made it a remaster I would’ve passed no doubt; but I can get behind a free upgrade that lets me buy the game for cheap at this point and experience the enhancements of next gen.

Got it at Fred Meyer last night! Now just playing the waiting game hopefully Fed Ex delivers a little early.

On a side note I went to Walmart and they didn’t have ANYTHING for the PS5 release. Even their shipment of games (which Fred Meyer had plenty of) was late. I told the worker there that their games were probably with my console on a train in the Midwest.

@CJM Yeah I’m in the same boat lol. I’ll pick up Demon’s Souls at Fred Meyers tonight after work and Black Ops tomorrow. Then just the waiting game. Who knows maybe Fed Ex will be ahead of time with those shipments; it’s happened to me before.

Dang I wonder how many people that took time off are now getting these emails from Target and and Walmart saying their order will likely be delayed 😒

The statue of the demon shown at 33 seconds was ver reminiscent of the one from the beginning of the exorcist!

Color me intrigued 👍