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Re: Reaction: PS5's User Experience Is Made for Modern Games

Unlucky13

Everything that I saw is fine. It looks basically how I would expect it to. I wish that things were bigger and easier to see. I have no real desire to do most of the online stuff, so that doesn't mean anything to me, and I don't take screenshots.

I'm a lot more interested in the deeper details about how things are going to work. Will it come with a play time tracker for each game?

Re: PlayStation Trophy System to Be Updated Today on PS4, Also Coming to PS5

Unlucky13

@TimeDelayedGamer I cared a little more before so many games starting making the online aspect key to getting them. If I can get trophies through the normal method of playing the single player, offline aspect of the game, then it feels like I've done something interesting or made some progress when one pops up. Especially if it was a hidden one that I got for being really thorough about something that had meaning within the game.

But as far as chasing them, doing things that I wouldn't otherwise do for no real purpose, then no thanks.

Re: Bethesda Acquisition Will Not Impact PlayStation Immediately, Believes Pachter

Unlucky13

ES6 is my number one game that I'm most interested in for the future, so if it became MS exclusive, that would really suck. If they made it a delayed release, even a whole year, I'd play it on the PS5. But if it were never coming to the PS5, I guess I'd figure out a way to connect my laptop to my TV, get a controller for it, and try to play it that way.

PC games always, always crash though, so I'm not excited about that prospect.

Re: PS5 Won't Play PS3, PS2, or PS1 Games

Unlucky13

@Sknarfm They don't last forever, though. My second PS3 is ten years old now, after the original one died after four years. Once they one does go, I"ll have dozens of PS3 games I'll be unable to play. Same as how I now have dozens of PS2 games the same way, given than the slim PS3 won't play them.

Re: Poll: Will You Buy a PS5?

Unlucky13

I would love to preorder one right now, but they're all out of stock. I'm not optimistic that there will be enough to go around, sadly. I'll get it as soon as I can, but I worry that it will be well into 2021 before they are available for everyone.

Re: PS5's New DualSense Controller Will Cost $69.99

Unlucky13

Not a shock. However, given that the quality of the controllers for the PS3 and PS4 sold near the end of their lifespan is far lower than the ones sold at the start, I might end up buying two more of the things and just storing them away until I need them.

I've only been getting about a year out of the last two DS4s that I bought, while I got about five years out of the two I got at launch.

Re: More Final Fantasy XVI Information Coming in 2021, Square Enix Confirms

Unlucky13

The game IMMEDIATELY felt, looked and sounded like a FF title, which was cool and great. I knew from the start thats what we were looking at. They have their style, which has evolved gradually since the days of the PS1 for what characters look like and how they move.

However, what stuck out like a sore thumb was that the scenes seemed to feature a single character fighting, and not a party. That could of course just mean that its from very early in the game or was created for demo purposes, but I found it odd, and a bit worrisome. As a FF lifer, I'm still super eager for AAA party based RPGS, of which there are so few these days. I love single player action open world titles too, but we've got some of those in the pipeline.

Re: Poll: Did You Buy a PlayStation at Launch 25 Years Ago?

Unlucky13

95 was my freshman year of college, but I was honestly happy with my SNES at that point, and not very interested in the games on the PS. I ended up buying mine used off of a friend two years later when he decided he'd rather have a Dreamcast. I've been a Sony guy ever since.

Re: Poll: Did You Buy Marvel's Avengers?

Unlucky13

I would have absolutely LOVED an Avengers game if it were a single player, offline, action RPG. It would have been a dream!

But I have absolutely zero interest in any game like this one, regardless of the branding.

Re: No Man's Sky Dev Is Working on a 'Huge, Ambitious' New Game, Not a Sequel

Unlucky13

@Northern_munkey The extreme futility is what bothers me. Wondering around, zapping trees and rocks all day. Finding hundreds of words from alien languages, but never having that mean anything. Getting murdered by sentinals any time I got too close to anything interesting. Finding things to buy that cost in the millions of credits, when I myself never had more than the thousands. There just didn't seem to be any real path towards anything. I put a lot of time into it and just couldn't make my way to anything beyond the basics, and left confused if there really was anything. I felt very powerless and lost.

Re: No Man's Sky Dev Is Working on a 'Huge, Ambitious' New Game, Not a Sequel

Unlucky13

I got NMS about a year after launch, hoping that the bugs were worked out. I got it cheap, but was still sad with the whole experience. I put it down for about a year, came back to it after some bug updates, and then put a bunch of time into it. It was playable, but still incredibly user-unfriendly. The game is not intuitive at all, and even after playing for over 50 hours, I never felt like I truly understood what was supposed to be happening. There seems to be an enormous amount of luck involved, and 80-90% of the time, its nearly impossible to succeed at anything you try. I gave up. And I"m not sure that I'd buy another game from the studio.

Re: PS5 Won't Play PS3, PS2, or PS1 Games

Unlucky13

@playstation_king The original ones sold in 2006 could play PS1 and PS2 games. When I got mine, I didn't even own any PS3 games for about six months afterwards because I wasn't interested in the launch titles. I played several PS2 games that I loved during that time on it.

My replacement PS3, which I bought ten years ago now, has been an extremely solid machine. Zero troubles and used all the time as both a game system and a blu ray player. But I miss the fact that it can't play PS2 discs. I've had dozens of them sitting in my entertainment center since then, unusable.

Re: Upcoming PS4 Games for September and October 2020

Unlucky13

That's a really long list of games that I have absolutely zero interest in, lol. I'm probably out until the PS5 gets released, honestly. Had either AC Valhalla or Cyberpunk gotten released in September like they were supposed to, I'd like likely bought one of them. But as it is, I'll just wait.

Re: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Brings the Force to PS5 and PS4 Next Spring

Unlucky13

I've played the Lego games since the days on the PS2. At one point, I was a huge fan, and my wife and I loved playing them together. Later, we introduced our kids to them and they love them too. But then the quality started to suffer around the time the PS4 came out.

Lego The Force Awakens and Lego Jurrasic World are both solid games. But Lego Hobbit was left unfinished, but released that way for some reason. Lego Marvel Super Heros 2 was really poorly made and has tons of game breaking bugs. And the games for the Lego Movie and Lego Ninjago feel like they were outsourced to a different company.

I've basically given up on the series, unfortunately. From the highlights here, it looks like the gameplay is a lot like the Ninjago game, which is a big step down from older titles.

Re: BioWare Gives a Tiny Glimpse of Dragon Age 4

Unlucky13

The saddest thing is that Bioware was working on DA4 at least as far back as 2017, and maybe earlier. (DA:I came out in 2014). The people involved were happy with how things were coming along, making a game and story that the fans would love, and the idea back then was that the game would be out by now.

Then EA got involved, forced them to scrap it all because they wanted to cram microtransactions into it, and a lot of the people involved in the project have since left. So now we're left with them starting over, and we'll likely never get the game that could have been. Really, We should be on DA5 or even DA6 if they would just let them work and make good products.

Re: Sony Sets Up Its Own PS5 Pre-Order Page, Only Available to US Residents

Unlucky13

@ellsworth004 I link my PSN account through True Trophies, and it then keeps a listing of everything that I get, and how common or rare that they are. It seems to be pretty accurate for everything that I've owned on the PS4. However, I didn't have a broadband connection until two years ago, and so my log ins with the PS3 were spotty.

I know for certain that there are a number of PS3 games that I played that aren't listed in the record, even though it goes back to 2010. It looks like it has all of the sports games, but the rest are spotty. I'm curious if I log onto the network with my PS3 if that would change at all. I haven't been online with it in years.

Re: Sony Sets Up Its Own PS5 Pre-Order Page, Only Available to US Residents

Unlucky13

What I find interesting is the line about "your interest in previous Playstation activities". I mean, I've had the same active PS account since the PS2, is that not enough to show that I'm a loyal customer who wants to buy their product? Their system has tracked that I've played 79 different titles in the past decade.

I guess we'll see what happens. All things being equal, I'd rather buy from Amazon anyways because I get points back.

Re: PS Plus September 2020 PS4 Games Announced

Unlucky13

I haven't downloaded any of the free games in months. I might give Street Fighter a look for the single player aspect, given that I'm not playing anything else at the moment. I played SF4 on the PS3, and gave up on it after a short time, trading it in at Gamestop for decent value back when that was still possible. I haven't played a single fighting game since, which I guess is twelve years ago.

Re: Best PS4 Games

Unlucky13

@Kienda Yeah, I don't do anything that's horror, and I dislike gore. There are games that I enjoy that involve it sometimes, but I wish that they didn't.

I do single player RPGs that I can take my time with mostly.

Re: Best PS4 Games

Unlucky13

These lists are always interesting, in a way to see how different we all are. I'm a PS4 exclusive gamer, and have been for six years. However, I've only played ten games on this list. And if you exclude sports games, I own about 40 PS4 games, and a couple in this top 50 that I do own wouldn't be in my own personal top 20. But again, we're all different.

My own top 10

The Witcher 3
AC Odyssey
Horizon Zero Dawn
Dragon Age Inquisition
Ghost of Tsushima
Uncharted 4
Jedi Fallen Order
AC Origins
Final Fantasy 15
Ni No Kuni 2

*FF 12 is the best PS2 game ever made, and in my personal HOF, but I'm not going to put a remaster on this list.

Re: Feature: Ghost of Tsushima - 7 Things We Want from Future Updates

Unlucky13

@ShogunRok I guess I get that. I would just never have any use for it myself. I finished Tsushima yesterday, having taken my time, gotten nearly every item, and completed nearly every task possible. But I still only really changed armor when I was in the Ghost set and was going into either a duel or big battle, where I'd put the Sakai armor back on. Early on, once I got the Samauri set, I just wore it all the time.