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@get2sammyb if you are really that stuck in ps3 era that your heart breaks if your psplus lapses and you have no option to blow your money on two games.... then the solution is to use that money on a month of ps now when the heartache becomes too hard to live with. If the games are not there, be it.
And if you are in the population that only now plays on ps3 (say, because of your financial situation, country you live in etc.) you for sure are not sinking your hard earned dollar on anything ps plus or psn store - you are buying your games on discs (or you have a modded ps3 and are playing pirated games). It's even worse on Vita in terms of piracy.
If Sony was seeing any meaningful sales of ps3 and vita games on psn they wold not shut things down. The truth is, probably hardly anyone is spending any money there on these two platforms.

@Voltan you will be playing the best version of it. Stick with it, the gameplay mechanics really takes off after a first third of the game and do take on hordes, but treat them as puzzles (you need to be ready, utilise the terrain and environment, plant some traps and then execute).

@LordSteev it's a different game now, in terms of technical issues and the story develops after one third. Great voice acting and great characters AND a phenomenal post credit plot twist. Gameplay also opens up after you have had a chance to get new equipment and weapons. Play it, you won't regret it.

Apart from great gameplay, and awesome graphics, the voice acting was great AND this game managed inclusiveness without it being on the nose. Shame.

@Ralizah @tameshiyaku that voiceover was nails on blackboard horrible, but I ascribe it more to covid level production than to failings of the person narrating.
What did the producers do? Just sent her the text with the following instructions:
"Read this into your webcam mic. Try a mix of intimidating and scared. Just one take will be fine."
Then they gave the voiceover file to their video editor and went: "no, it's fine, just slam the track over that video. No, don't play with levels or adjusting to atmospheric background music."

And here we are. Looking at visuals which are anything but photorealistic and listening to narration that is anything but inviting.
Nope, thanks.
Going back to MGS5.

This is a downgrade on ps4pro.

@Rhaoulos Cyberfunk 😇

Sammy is cracking. Dude, it's simple, the model IS unsustainable. For Sony. It is not unsustainable for MS, who can afford to sink billions at a loss just to remain a relevant player in the gaming industry. Also, if Sony or MLB are getting that sweet gamepass money, that has no bearing on the fact that Sony can't afford to put their 1st party exclusives on ps plus, for example.

Why are you all so mind blown? It's a game that never existed on xb. Of course MS is going to introduce it on gamepass to give it good exposure.
Also, why do you think Sony went multiplat for the game? It was MS offering that sweeeeeet gamepass moneyz, y'all.... quit your childish whining. 🤣🤣🤣

"Normal" 2.5" 4 TB drive
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-2-5-Inch-ST4000LM024/dp/B07MWC6P2L/

@Flaming_Kaiser hey there King, you are making a good point for people with small... hard... drives.
My example is more relevant to people with larger ones.
Having a 4TB HDD already in your ps4pro for example, even a 2 TB one, makes it a hassle to backup and restore, plus you can't get away with buying a smaller, cheaper ssd to benefit.
Sure, if you like to throw money away at this stage of ps4pro's life cycle and pay half of what ps5 is worth, aaand have the time to waste to backup that 2TB/4TB drive (on an additional external usb), install the os, restore your games... sure, do it.
Or, you just spend the least amount of money and time and kick ass.
It was never an issue of anyone's tech capability, LoL.

Here are some load times, ps4 pro with a traditional hdd and then when the game is moved to that external ssd with uasp:

GTAV load times to single player start
2 min 19 seconds vs 1:35

Miles Morales:

Load to title 1:13 vs. 50 sec
To in-game from title 26 sec vs 15

I didn't measure cp 2077 while it was on the traditional disk but my subjective feel is that load times have been halved.

To anyone with a ps4 pro & no plans to purchase ps5 before xmas 2022, do yourself a favor and buy a samsung 1TB qvo ssd and an external case for it that supports UASP (e.g. Sabrent Hard Drive Accessory Case Toolless 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure).
This is the cheapest way and with least hassle to get that sweet, sweet ssd over usb 3.1 speed on your ps4 pro.
I am suggesting usb as the performance will be almost the same as if you installed it internally and you will avoid all the hassle.
Then, move only the games you want to actively play on it and move them back when you finish them (this is why you don't need more than a 1TB drive).
This combo will have you play CP2077 no problem. No texture pop-ins etc.

Yes! I want a great boxing game & yes, it has to be properly animated. UFC sucks at fighthers animation.

@Medic_Alert this. All this talk about technical issues just played into CDPR's hands. No one is talking that what we got has very little to do with what was advertised for years.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the game a lot. Did not ask for reimbursement and will play it again once ps5 visual upgrades are available, but let's call it how it is. The game delivered is at best, at best Rage2 in cyberpunk settings (well, not even that but you know what I mean, it's open world, there is no living cities and the fps is enjoyable and allows for creativity during fights... although Rage2's enemy AI is eons ahead).

@Col_McCafferty do you have a Pro or OG/slim? I finished CP2077 on a ps4pro and had a blast. The game ran fine, the only problem being occasional crashes (the game's checkpointing was helpful to not lose any progress even with those crashes).
Oh, yeah, a "tiny" detail: I played it off of an ssd ... forget it on a standard hard drive.

You all know that, come Monday, everyone, their mother, her uncle and his dog will be buying toilet paper because of this.
Not food. Not medicine. Toilet paper.

Can't wait.
In the meantime, a word of advice to people narrating videos. Use pauses.
Use a purposeful pause between words:
"And" "direction".
If you don't, it sounds like something else (especially if you pronounce "direction" with a "di" like in ditto)

I will never stop being befuddled by allegedly PlayStation oriented journos. They never fail to talk about the greatness of Game Pass (which it is, it's awesome, I am benefiting immensely) and in the same breath go to PS Plus as a comparison.
Same here, same on IGN.
Dudes, it's xbox live gold vs ps plus
And
Xbox game pass vs PS Now.
Sony doesn't need to fret - PS Now is insanely good. The only thing game pass has as an advantage is first party games day one (edit: ok, yes, it also includes xbox live gold). Otherwise PS Now is great (benefiting from that as well).
So yeah, Sony needs to include plus and first party games into Now to compete and they will never do that.
MS can afford to bleed money away. Sony can't.

If it's story driven, smaller, denser is preferable. If it's something that loosely relies on the story but more on it's world, then definitely bigger is what is better.
E.g. Horizon, Yakuza, Assasins Creed, denser
Fallout, GTA, bigger

@wiiware in an ideal world, yes, and I wish it was so, next Horizon PS5 only. Still, keep in mind that this console gen transition is nothing like the ones before. PS4 and ps5 are much closer than any two previous playstation consoles, and I can imagine Horizon development which scales properly to ps5 capabilities without being bogged down by ps4 restrictions.

@Voltan not the point I am trying to make. PS4 still has a huge install base. If you are anyway making a version for it and don't want to kill ps4 sales with all the people who are waiting to upgrade to ps5, it will be sold the same way as Miles.

@wiiware I think Horizon will have a ps5 version as free if you buy ps4 version. They are going to sell like gang busters.

Already bought it for PC but stopped playing once I heard a PS version was incoming (yeah, I would rather have full voice acted lines than read, sue me). Will double dip. This game deserves all the money.
My stupid death in Disco: I kicked a metal cabinet and due to my all-brains-no-brown build for the character, broke my leg, fell, hit my head and died. 😂... this game!

Let me fix that title for you:
PS Now March 2021 Update Adds Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, SUPERHOT, and More

Subtitle: World War Z and inFAMOUS: Second Son too

There, now it's newsworthy.

Oh man, this made me feel tired. As a lot of new games, they just can't contain themselves and hit the brakes at one point. Got a time loop, got all the weapons, throw in multiple targets, put magic in, put regular enemies, put in other assassins and and and. Ah, stop already. I was interested in this game and now am definitely gonna skip. The game sounds like a chore.

@Serialsid every parent should be willing and ready to do the right thing. Save the world and let your child be slaughtered or sell the world for your child's life?
The answer should always be: sell the f**** world!
And your children should live knowing you would sell your soul for their life.

That was the point of the first one. Joel truly became a parent to Ellie. He had no choice in the matter. They were about to slaughter Ellie without giving them a chance to talk about what the procedure meant. Well, no, not if Joel had a say. And Joel told them. Fireflies died because of their hubris and they had it coming.

@Hyperluminal keep in mind that 4000% could be insignificant in absolute numbers. It all depends on the previous value. If last week's sales were 5 units then a rise of 4000% would mean that it sold 205 units this week 😂
This is why providing percentile data without absolutes to which the percentage increase applies is irrelevant.

TLOU2 sales up by 3,992%... so how many did it sell in the week before? 1 copy? 3 copies? Thankfully it wasn't zero, because you'd have to report that TLOU2 sales went up by infinite% 😅

Let's not pretend that this "they are impatient" narrative has anything to do with customers. We will buy games whenever they are released. Regardless of whether we are angry or not because of delays.
All this ever had and will have to do is with higher-ups pushing for a release. All these devs doing the "whoever needs to hear it"... they are talking to their money people, not us.

@danlk1ng I don't know where the confusion comes from but to my understanding while watching state of play:

• ps4 ff7 owners will get a free upgrade to ps5 version
• buying intergrade will come with the yuffie episode
• on ps5 those who got the free upgrade will be able to buy yuffie dlc

@Col_McCafferty regardless of the logic, which is sound, very few mainstream customers will trade the ease of consoles for a complication that is gaming on a PC (for all normies).

Once these games enter bargain bin territory, I would like to see them go to PC (2 years) and then XB (3 years) as well. Why not?

And me here reading patch notes and reading all the comments sitting in silence and pondering zero CyberPunk 2077 main story or side missions issues I had (yeah, yeah, I must have been lucky, still).
Yes, I know, talking about CP being or not being buggy is a diversion from the fact that CDPR delivered a different game than that announced. Thus no amount of patching will sort things out. Nothing short of a re-release a la FFXIV realms reborn course correction.

@striderbob I wonder how much of that work in Prospect got him this gig. In any case, Pedro did some outstanding voice acting in The Mandalorian, managed to channel some of that Clint Eastwood awesomeness as well, so I'm looking forward to seeing his interpretation of Joel.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Is Another "I'll wait for you to be dirt cheap before I think about you again" Game.
Why?
Because I have a huge PS4 back catalogue of great games that will play wonderfully on that PS5, and GamePass for that XBSX kick. I literally have no time for all the games I have even if I didn't do anything else in life.
I'm good. Even if they decide to price it at 99.

@Uromastryx @TheArt @leucocyte @1_W1NG3D_4NG3L the difficulty has no real effect on the Queen in terms of gameplay - one has to play smart in order to beat her. Yes, it will take faster on easy because you'll be able to hurt her more with each attack and she will not be able to hurt Kratos that much as on harder modes, but in essence, the fight is equally difficult on any difficulty level. It took me days (of one to two hours sessions, leaving the game when my frustration ran high) to learn how to beat the Queen with innumerable times dying with the Queen being one hit away from being defeated.
What worked for me in the end (in addition to maxed out equipment) was entering a state of zen, being patient during the fight and NEVER, NEVER getting greedy with my attacks. You have to learn when to retreat and bide your time for the next opening.
I hated that final fight and will never replay it again, ever, but I would be lying if I would say that getting that Platinum (the fight was the last thing left for it) didn't feel great.

@Voltan ha! Nicely done with that ending... and yes, that WOULD have been kinda funny.

@get2sammyb "I'm not sure why Hitman 3 needs to be "associated" with Kinda Funny or MinnMax for new content that ultimately has nothing to do with them, but whatever."
Phew, good. I thought I was being that guy who doesn't get it, but nah, it's really dumb. Well, marketing department dumping money left and right is nothing new, then, I guess. Good times for content creators (if there was ever a dumber nomenclature...).

"Comparison footage of a ride up to the Citadel's Presidium level lasts just 14 seconds in the Legendary Edition, down from 52 seconds in the original."
Well, this just won't do. I enjoyed the elevator rides because my teammates would go on a tangent and I enjoyed those exchanges. This "14 seconds" aggression will not stand! The dude minds!

@KPraj same here, played on OG PS4 on a non-HDR tv @1080p. Although I got a PS4Pro afterwards, never went back to it as I have platinumed it during that first playthrough. I will go for another spin on the ps5 and a 4k oled.

@Mittsu nah man, it's the minority that won't budge. Hold the line! If a consonant can be heard at the beginning, its "a". The fact that a third of english speakers says istory and not history is their problem. 🤣

I enjoyed and finished my first playthrough on ps4pro with ssd. I love cyberpunk and CP2077 was going to click with me. That 3/10 score, though, totally deserved. Releasing a game in this state should be unacceptable (well, except for early alpha access).

Live Gold is dead. MS is going to retire it as soon as they get a significant number of subscribers over to gamepass. This is just going to accelerate the process and the price hike confirms this theory.
As for the price, I subscribe to both plus and gamepass. I have never paid a full yearly price for either (amazon sales, or codes on ebay).

@thefourfoldroot got it. Thanks. I am assuming since PS5 is not operating at 2160 they simply couldn't maintain 60fps at that resolution. Either way, we agree on "stealth" in games, which is a far more important point to agree on👍

@DrClayman ah right, forgot about that aspect: where you owned the games before, for the added content. Good point.

@thefourfoldroot it's difficult to understand what you wrote so please excuse if I misunderstood. The whole point of this comparison is that the game doesn't do dynamic resolution. XB6 does true 4K at 60fps and is clearly the way to go for people who have both consoles.
Then again, if you have both consoles and PSVR, well then PS5 is the clear winner.
Of course, one would need to be mildly interested in Hitman franchise. I tried to like the series but it never clicked with me.

@Dezzy70 I was looking for xb6 after I got the ps5, all over the place with no luck. Then, on a whim, went to ms store via xb1x and half jokingly clicked through an xb6 order thinking "yeah, right, see you in 3 months".
To my surprise, they delivered a week later. I guess either the demand for xb6 is not as great as for ps5, or MS has it a bit better with their supply chain.

@Eldritch as one who got the ps5 during the original preorder (without any hassle on amazon, but only because I was awoken as the preorder went live)... I can tell you this: good call. Yes, cute robot dualsense demo is good but not "gotta play this before I die" good. Cyberpunk is broken and half-baked wherever you play it so the fact that it runs well on ps5 means nothing. I finished the game on my ps4pro with an ssd (it ran well).
Seriously, good call (until Ratchet and Clunk comes out).

@GREGORIAN Ragnarok is coming... to ps4 as well.