I started playing last night. I've already encountered a few bugs still. Nothing huge but I've clipped through multiple cars while driving, had a car spawn on top of me, had DeShawns car drive away on the pavement and seen a 2D truck on the road.
I heard that there were more cars on the road while driving but it still seems to be somewhat barren of life as when I played it back in 2020.
Items I equipped were unequipped. There have been graphical issues when using the in-game PCs. NPCs have had trouble seeing me when I was right only across the street firing directly at them.
The Ray tracing is pretty, though it lacks the reflections I was hoping for like with Spider-Man MM. This game would of been great to have that as you don't really get to see your custom character at all during scenes or combat, being able to see them in reflections would have been great, but then they would have had to animate them.
I'll keep playing with it but doubt I'll finish it. The game lacks charm and excitement. Some of the early concepts they had planned which they gave up on would have made this game such as the parkour - it would have been a sandbox Mirrors Edge.
Maybe if they made a CP 2088, they could learn from this, but I doubt they'd want to touch this IP again.
Go to search, look for final fantasy Vii Select the first version listed Then go to the three dots and select View Product Go to the three dots on the new screen Select Final Fantasy VII REMAKE Upgrade for PS4 Version Owners Then there is a drop-down which has Game listed twice Select the second option Option to download should show.
The comment warfare is strong in this thread, haha. I'm going to look at it from both sides:
Sony clearly has plans to release different plates, either themselves or with a partner company and they want to protect this. I wouldn't be surprised if they sold a contract to a company saying that they would be the sole producer of the alt plates. With this contract in mind, it is Sony's duty to protect the IP at all costs or risk being sued themselves by the third party.
Clearly, Sony believes they have a patent on the plates or the decal of the plates and see that either all or part of the design of the Dbrand's plates infringe on this.
It is Sony's right as with any company to provide a C&D if they feel that their IP is threatened - as with many IPs if you don't actively protect it you can lose it.
On DBrand's side, the reason for the Sue Us campaign was off the back of another company (Trezn) creating plates that included the ^OX[] design PS would have a patent over, they also included the PS logo too (Source: https://www.denofgeek.com/games/playstation-5-faceplate-lawsuit-explained/ ) Did this draw Sony's attention? Possibly. But it also drew the attention of 100s of gaming websites, Reddit and other news outlets to report on this, giving them more backlinks to their product than they could have hoped for.
At the time of the PS5 reveal, there was a huge demand for a black version. Any company that had a method to create these were going to if they could. DBrand were clever and used the reports of Trezn stopping their sales due to Sony's C&D to boost the visibility of their product and establish themselves as the leader in creating these custom plates.
DBrand also clearly think they have legal grounds to be making these. They are an established company and I don't think they would have made these without first looking at the legality of it all.
Overall, I think Sony are foolish for not at least announcing new plates yet - I mean how hard can that be to get into production? The longer they leave it, the more people who want custom plates will look elsewhere. If they don't announce anything for the holiday season then they will be missing out on a whole lot of extra revenue.
Overall, I hope Sony let alt plates from third-party sellers become a thing - I think there would be a lot of creative designs out there if allowed - but knowing Sony, they'd fight as much as possible to keep it under their lock and key, meaning at most we'll get some new colours such as the Cosmic Red and the Midnight Black, probably a Classic Grey and their go-to blue colour. I'd guess they would sell whole limited edition PS5's with custom designs - maybe they would sell the plates separately.
Hopefully it'll fix the CE-108255-1 error. I've sent my PS5 off twice because of this issue and the replacement I was sent on the second attempt also had the same issue and is currently being shipped to them for another repair.
The concept is fun and the art, while generic is nice. Gameplay is okay for a few rounds, but the fact there are only two modes if playing in a party is a shame. Custom skins are lacking though I don't care too much about those. Odd that there is no music while playing matches, just the sound of car engines and explosions.
Overall the game is half baked. I doubt I'll play it again in the future unless they do a large update to finish making the game. Glad I didn't 'pay' for it directly and only got it on Plus.
I play a few online games with my friends and family to keep me social while in Lockdown. Annoyingly my PS5 has the online bug where any games that like to use online features either soft or hard crash the console which I worry is bad for the SSD the amount it has done. I've probably had a crash 100+ times now since having my PS5 in November. Hoped the patches would of helped but no luck so far...
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I started playing last night. I've already encountered a few bugs still. Nothing huge but I've clipped through multiple cars while driving, had a car spawn on top of me, had DeShawns car drive away on the pavement and seen a 2D truck on the road.
I heard that there were more cars on the road while driving but it still seems to be somewhat barren of life as when I played it back in 2020.
Items I equipped were unequipped. There have been graphical issues when using the in-game PCs. NPCs have had trouble seeing me when I was right only across the street firing directly at them.
The Ray tracing is pretty, though it lacks the reflections I was hoping for like with Spider-Man MM. This game would of been great to have that as you don't really get to see your custom character at all during scenes or combat, being able to see them in reflections would have been great, but then they would have had to animate them.
I'll keep playing with it but doubt I'll finish it. The game lacks charm and excitement. Some of the early concepts they had planned which they gave up on would have made this game such as the parkour - it would have been a sandbox Mirrors Edge.
Maybe if they made a CP 2088, they could learn from this, but I doubt they'd want to touch this IP again.
Re: PS Plus Version of Final Fantasy VII Remake Can Be Upgraded to PS5 Version for Free from Wednesday
@CynicalGamer @the_pathos
I had to go a very odd route to locate it.
Go to search, look for final fantasy Vii
Select the first version listed
Then go to the three dots and select View Product
Go to the three dots on the new screen
Select Final Fantasy VII REMAKE Upgrade for PS4 Version Owners
Then there is a drop-down which has Game listed twice
Select the second option
Option to download should show.
Re: Sony Threatens to Sue Company That Goaded It to Sue Over Black PS5 Replacement Plates
The comment warfare is strong in this thread, haha.
I'm going to look at it from both sides:
Sony clearly has plans to release different plates, either themselves or with a partner company and they want to protect this. I wouldn't be surprised if they sold a contract to a company saying that they would be the sole producer of the alt plates. With this contract in mind, it is Sony's duty to protect the IP at all costs or risk being sued themselves by the third party.
Clearly, Sony believes they have a patent on the plates or the decal of the plates and see that either all or part of the design of the Dbrand's plates infringe on this.
It is Sony's right as with any company to provide a C&D if they feel that their IP is threatened - as with many IPs if you don't actively protect it you can lose it.
On DBrand's side, the reason for the Sue Us campaign was off the back of another company (Trezn) creating plates that included the ^OX[] design PS would have a patent over, they also included the PS logo too (Source: https://www.denofgeek.com/games/playstation-5-faceplate-lawsuit-explained/ )
Did this draw Sony's attention? Possibly. But it also drew the attention of 100s of gaming websites, Reddit and other news outlets to report on this, giving them more backlinks to their product than they could have hoped for.
At the time of the PS5 reveal, there was a huge demand for a black version. Any company that had a method to create these were going to if they could. DBrand were clever and used the reports of Trezn stopping their sales due to Sony's C&D to boost the visibility of their product and establish themselves as the leader in creating these custom plates.
DBrand also clearly think they have legal grounds to be making these. They are an established company and I don't think they would have made these without first looking at the legality of it all.
Overall, I think Sony are foolish for not at least announcing new plates yet - I mean how hard can that be to get into production? The longer they leave it, the more people who want custom plates will look elsewhere. If they don't announce anything for the holiday season then they will be missing out on a whole lot of extra revenue.
Overall, I hope Sony let alt plates from third-party sellers become a thing - I think there would be a lot of creative designs out there if allowed - but knowing Sony, they'd fight as much as possible to keep it under their lock and key, meaning at most we'll get some new colours such as the Cosmic Red and the Midnight Black, probably a Classic Grey and their go-to blue colour. I'd guess they would sell whole limited edition PS5's with custom designs - maybe they would sell the plates separately.
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Available to Download Now
@stormyuk all games, ps5 or ps4, disk or download on my first ps5, it would crash after about 3 hours give or take. Second one was all ps5 games
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Available to Download Now
Hopefully it'll fix the CE-108255-1 error. I've sent my PS5 off twice because of this issue and the replacement I was sent on the second attempt also had the same issue and is currently being shipped to them for another repair.
Re: Poll: What Do You Think of Destruction AllStars?
The concept is fun and the art, while generic is nice. Gameplay is okay for a few rounds, but the fact there are only two modes if playing in a party is a shame. Custom skins are lacking though I don't care too much about those. Odd that there is no music while playing matches, just the sound of car engines and explosions.
Overall the game is half baked. I doubt I'll play it again in the future unless they do a large update to finish making the game. Glad I didn't 'pay' for it directly and only got it on Plus.
Re: PS5 Firmware Update 20.02-02.50.00 Available to Download Now
Any idea that this will fix error CE-108262-9? It plagues any games that use online features, which these days is most games...
Re: Soapbox: PS5 Backwards Compatibility Has Kept Me Glued to My Next-Gen Console
I play a few online games with my friends and family to keep me social while in Lockdown. Annoyingly my PS5 has the online bug where any games that like to use online features either soft or hard crash the console which I worry is bad for the SSD the amount it has done. I've probably had a crash 100+ times now since having my PS5 in November. Hoped the patches would of helped but no luck so far...