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Decent line up.
I hope people enjoy Diablo 4 more than me. I was a huge fan of Diablo 3, but by the end of no 4 I was desperate for it to just end!

Im not likely to be tempted by the fighter and Jusant is already on extra so I already have it installed - its a chill game Im enjoying.

Nothing for me then, but a decent mix that means most should have a title they want to try..

@DennisReynolds Then you are aware of it. Your first post implied you were not aware of the patch, so I thought I was providing useful information.

As for its effectiveness or not, we can agree to differ. The eurogamer link I sent was fron Digital Foundrys Oliver, who concluded ' I'm pretty comfortable recommending the PS5 and Pro versions of the game now, just with a few caveats.'
I dont always, but in this case I agree with him and the piece describes and provides measurements to back up his conclusions. You are welcome to provide your own data which shows this to be false, or reach different conclusions of course, but your original statement claiming there have been zero improvements is just not right. You can state they have not been nearly enough for you, but there is plenty of evidence to showcthat improvements were made.
Sorry you didnt enjoy the patch.

Fantasy Life i still, so much content It might take a while to finish!
I fancy some arcade stick schumup goodness, so Im goiing to play Cygni which I picked up in the sale recently.
Im still replaying Forza Horizon 5 too, I never tire of these titles.

Whatever you are playing this weekend, I hope you have fun!

@DennisReynolds It has had an update, I played it and it was much improved.
https://www.eurogamer.net/black-myth-wukong-gets-a-ps5-pro-patch-and-the-base-console-code-is-improved-too.

I thought it was a great looking game on release, but this clearly made it better...

One cant help but wander at the removal of support on PS from a meta owned company at the same time as they reach a deal with Microsoft for a badged version of the Oculus.
These two things are unlikely to be coincidence.

Thank you for this review, I wasnt aware it was coming, but given your positive review Im adding this to the ever growing wishlist!

Im not short of content. But Im happy to get more for this addictive little world!

@Northern_munkey Your driving set up and vr, thats gonna rock!

An absolute masterclass of story telling imo.
Its a shame this was one of the titles that started online hate campaigning, as those who threw their controller down in disgust at Joels demise developed a rage that they felt they had to declare to the world.
But to me this is games as art, and as great as every single component is, the sum of these parts still pushes higher into one of the most memorable games - right up there with my goats like Ico and Elden ring. Its special.

Nice to see. Ive seen all generations since gaming started and Ive never had a bigger better backlog of games to play on playstation.
Ps5 has so far been my fave gen.
Some people seem hung up on 1st party titles, but as long as I have great games to play why should I care what the opening logo says? Seriously, unless Im a shareholder, why would I care, Im playing great games?

Blue Prince
Fantasy Life i
Days gone remastered (surprisingly)

Didnt like Expedition 33, to me putting parry mechanics in an rpg destroys what I like about rpgs, and I didnt gel with the characters at all (I was delighted when we lost the first). However, im delighted for the studio and that so many enjoyed it.

@themightyant Interesting stuff eh? I would hope they focus on getting game efficiency out of windows as a priority. At present, if you had a machine costing $1000, $250 of that is paying for windows lack of efficiency vs , say, steam. Thats a huge burden in terms of competitive advantage.
As for backwards compat, windows central keep mumbling about hardware inclusions to ensure it without emulators. I can see that for earlier platforms such as og xbox and 360 (after all, Sony inluded ps2 chips in early ps3 machines for the same reason). But they cant stick series x chips in their new hardware as they are already going to be up against it when it comes to cost...

Be fascinating to see how they solve this...

@themightyant Im aware of this thanks, but Im betting it will have windows badging in addition to xbox on start up, and have more adds. You are also likely to need to drop to windows to sort some messes out. If you ever use windows you will know what I mean.

Much as a tv freindly PC is desirable, the idea of seeing windows boot on a games machine is disturbing to me, i just dislike windows intensely.
Ive always owned xboxes though so I await proper details with an expectation I might be interested. My games catalogue is almost all PS though, so I dont have that concern, but I dont think they will achieve full back compatability easily even with onboard chips for xbox, 360 and xboxone.

Clearly a wise move to look at turning it around. It was this or kill it based on early feedback.

It would be really good to see this game get a significant ps5 lift in performance,, and I'd hope for some decent pro features too.
I keep meaning to replay this, but I've been waiting for the ps5 release.. It won't make it a better game, but it's breathtakingly beautiful environments could sing on a ps5 version, and who doesn't want to see that 😉

Fantasy Life i still.... I'm also really keen on starting Sandland and continuing with SpaceMarine 2.

Whatever you are playing, I hope you have fun!

Big schumup fan here. I'll be all over this and garadius origins very soon..

Premium is about half the price of a cup of coffee a month.
I like being able to try a game quickly via streaming before committing to a download and I've bought many games after getting the chance to try them in premiums game trials.
For me it makes sense. They even occasionally add a game I'll play 🤣
Everyone's different. Maybe for many people that £1.60 is better spent elsewhere, but I value having premium.

This is a PC, of course it plays PC games? It doesnt play your xbox games though..... And once people start draining their battery playing modern releases at 540p with poor performance, the reality will set in.
Xbox are set to transition to PC only and if your xbox game doesnt have a pc equivalent, its gone.
So much misinformation around this badged rog ally, but I shouldn't be surprised!

Fantasy Life i is all consuming. I keep telling myself Ill get back to other titles, but theres always just a little thing or quest I need to do first!

Whatever you are playing this weekend, I hope you have fun!

With a soundtrack like this Im hopiing they craft something interesting or it would be a waste. I grew up with a lot of this music annd it seems like its been well chosen..

Started off with almost everything looking exactly the same! It was a good dark fantasy theme but weird that they all looked so similar.
Things got more mixed up and theres at least 8 or 10 titles Id like to try, but it didnt hit me as well as the SOP did a couple of days before. Maybe it was the presentation, and Geoff kept the titles coming fairly quickly, but there still felt like there was too much filler..
Tons of games to look forward to over the two shows though, and still the Microsoft show to come, Im enjoying the week.

Excellent its coming. Given theres a new bunch of customers on xbox through the previous titles gp release, it would seem a good fit to put it on gp this time. Dev costs for these remasters should be pretty reasonable and more than offset by Microsofts payment to put it on the service.

@HonestHick OK, I get you. If people been talking that in the past then you gotta a right to turn it round on them now. I finally get it.
They were stupid though.

I loved the sop as Im interested in everything except baby steps. Ill watch Keighly tonight and hope theres a ton of other stuff that excites me too. Im also hoping for a great Xbox show, which I expect as they've been having good shows lately.

I just love games, all genres any platform and it just saddens me a bit that people use it as another chance to fight. Guess you cant change human nature. Hope you enjoy the coming shows if you didnt get the SOP.

Tough to limit it to three as I really liked everything with the exception of baby steps..
What I liked about the show was it appered to have a good variety...

@HonestHick
Ive never stated a showcase must have exclusives and that seems to be something you've invented. It just needs exciting games. That you were having a ' knock on Sony fans' didnt need saying, it is the key driver for most of your posts snd sullen bitching is not sarcasm. Everone called out for posting such rubbish always falls back on 'it was sarcastic', yeah, of course it was.

Ive edited this post to remove some more choice wording. I dislike your posts, but I should still not sink to your level in my replies. I will wish you a good day and move on.

@HonestHick
"funny how so many are saying it was great when there wasn’t EXCLUSIVE content."
Lets ignore that that statement is false for a second.
By your own metric then evey single xbox show from now will be poor as nothing is exclusive. Do you even think before you write?

@Fiendish-Beaver lol mate, I doubt thats where you will be buying them, but thats about the truth of it. An MS show is another 3rd party show now.
As you know, Id rather Xbox kept its identity, but now they are all on PS too, my only reason to play on xbox is if I want them on gp. Ive cancelled gp for now so chances are I might buy one or two on PS as I prefer the machine and its where my wife will play..
Hope theres plenty in both the upcoming shows to keep us happy!

See you all in the chat I hope. Maybe chat can keep us entertained while the worst of the drivel is happening 😂

@Lysterao I can of course agree with much of what you say, but you do seem to be deliberately missing the context of my post which was a rebuttal of the statement I quoted?
Regardless, with the studios PS has you'd expect maybe three 1st party titles a year, so despite squandering some team talent chasing the live service golden egg, they've not missed it by much.
For this particular SOP, the marvel fighting game was a great Sony funded and published new game... If they had also shown Death Stranding 2 instead of leaving it for Keighley tonight, that should be enough as we know ghost gets its own sop soon. Any true gamer might have wished for a glimpse of more 1st party Ill concede, but not having them present did not invalidate the wide range of interesting titles they showed.
Regardless, showing such interesting games as they did is never a loss, and Id suggest those stating it is have ulterior motivation for doing so.

@Godot25
"Pretending like this wasn't a case in the past is revisionism of history. "

What utter drivel. The entire brand and playstation launch was made on the back of 3rd party titles. Not a single Sony game at launch, most people excited for Namcom stuff.
The only person rewritting history here is you. Oh sorry, its obviously essential when writting to end with lol. Lol

@Godot25 " Basically, people are primarily watching PlayStation presentations for new first-party content."

Absolute BS and thats clearly never been the case. Sony have launched consoles with games from 3rd parties, its always been a huge part of their strategy and people watch these shows for the interesting games they might wish to play in the next year.
99% of gamers couldnt care less what logo a game opens with as long as its fun and they can play it on PS.
Why even watch it if you dont care for anything other than 1st party, it was clearly stated they would be showing games from their publishing partners?

This was a banger, for me anyway. Brought a lot of the excitement that games have always given me.

@Rich33 Your experience reflects my own and I also use a Sony 120hz..
I am getting older now, so maybe Im not so able to detect it, and I certainly believe the DF reports, but Im not going to notice its fixed 😄

I'll admit I couldnt actually notice the issue. But Im glad its been fixed anyway! 👍

I really should have thought this purchase through before hitting 'buy'. Bethesda just dont make anything with care and polish and by the time its fixed it will be reduced.
I guess Im glad fixes will come, but they are not rushing are they?

Great show, I wanted it all!

Hey I just wanna see what games im going to offered on this platform in the coming year or so.
Don't see whats not to like... they can balls it up of course, but as long as I see a broad spectrum of reasonably interesting titlles Im all good.

Whilst its annoying, when the dev doesnt even optomise their title for the main console, its hardly surprising.
I wouldnt play this game in a month of Sundays, so Im certainly not bothered by this, but Fomsofts inability to optimise its games when its making so much money is pretty disrespectful to its customers.

@nessisonett It cant happen. They lost the licensing rights to be able to continue to sell this title about 10 months back and can no longer offer it on xbox or PC. I bought it on steam some time ago, and its the only game Ive bought on SeriesX just before it was discontinued.
Id agree that Forza Horizon 4 is the best in the series, with progression actually meaning something and the fortune island dlc having some of the best courses and races Ive played to date.
But FH5 is still a good game..

...and with half my family coming from Edinburgh, they chose the right city too..😀👍

@Nepp67 Nobody ever said anyone was playing anything. This was not a game demo and they never said it was. It was a tech demo. Your consistant responses talking about 'playing' show you didnt appreciate what you were watching at all.

@Nepp67 Hey, if you wish to believe that that a bunch of devs have any interest in faking use of a controller at a UE tech demo, you are welcome to take that point of view, but I most definitely will not.
Im happy to accept that in many instances the controller will have simply selected the next scripted set of actions, that seems obvious, but that the controller was utilised is clearly true. What possible motive would UE have to fake this?
They stated it clearly, the demo was running on an og ps5, so the controller would be used to control that demo, what else would they use?

@Nepp67 Because the demo is running on ps5, its controlled with ps5 controller? Whats difficult to understand about that?

Love a lot of what they are bringing to the table with the new UE features, in particular nanite foiliage. Seeing the designs of Witcher 4 being used to show these features was a treat.

I want to see some wolverine. No reason why they shouldnt tease us some!

@DETfaninATL Well Im suprised you could glean that from a couple of sentences, but yes your quite right.
Have a lovely day and I hope you enjoy the show 👍

@DETfaninATL They always announce them one or two days before. Your comment is the thing smelling desperate....

Nanite foiliage is a game changer...

Fantasy life, not even close.

Doom was ok, but its rare for a shooter to engross me much these days....