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Nothing in my inbox but I'll be away most of this weekend anyway, so no biggie

Last one was very good. Hopefully this one is at least close.

@Fluberuper @somnambulance It's a pirate-themed online survival game, currently in early access on PC
(also an Italian power metal band)

@get2sammyb that's the issue though - it's a train away from home

I'll be getting off a train about 30 minutes earlier so hopefully I can still watch

I kinda forgot Returnal and Saros didn't have the same director (Saros' director was the lead writer on Returnal) since they're similar games.

Letting people keep the old price when it renews automatically is interesting (unless I misunderstood this).

@get2sammyb that and maybe switching tiers often (as in: upgrading to extra for a month and going back to basic later) - because you can't downgrade unless you let it lapse

@Boxmonkey I'm in my forties and despite being big on single player games, my most played one is a fighting game which I've been playing for almost 5 years now (about 3.5k hours).
One thing is a game clicking with you that much but online multiplayer games also have a very strong social aspect about them. People who play them this much usually play them with friends a lot of the time.

That being said, I have no interest in the games on this list (tried a few of them and didn't like it)

@TheFakulty It's a little more nuanced.
Yes, you always start at the crash site in the 1st biome (or 4th if you reached Act 2) but once you get access to a new biome, a shortcut to it opens somewhere in it, which lets you skip a large part of that biome (and the entirety of 2/5 if you're going to 3/6). You also never have to repeat any of the boss fights.
Saying you have to repeat everything from biome 1 is inaccurate.

Saros takes a different approach where it lets you choose between going directly to your latest (the fast way) or taking a longer route through any number of previous ones, which lets you reach the new one with more upgrades (the easier way)

I'm not expecting Saros to be a massive hit but I also don't trust this data. I'm yet to see them being accurate.

Hopefully the game does well enough because it's incredible.

I got a notification about one of my wishlisted games getting a discount - the discount was there when I checked last night but is not there now.
This seems like some kind of technical error to me.

I got it physical so I don't think it counts towards this. Incredible game.

@TheDarts I know. And the data comes from a recent analysis, since DF's original video was based on a pre-release version.
Just thought it's worth clarifying that this is not something that changed just now.

This "new patch" released 3 days after the game launched, more than 2 weeks ago, in case you're wondering.

I'll be at a festival during this, so I guess I'll just check summaries after this time

@datamonkey Loved that one too!

Saros for me but I have to say Pragmata is a very close 2nd

Game looks incredible, can't wait

I liked Bugsnax a lot
Got the plat too but only on PS5

I guess I might check this out 👀

idk if this is for me (probably not) but it does look nice, on the visual side

Great game, very video gamey (in a good way).
I'm halfway done with the 4th map at 10h (this is with me trying to get all the optional things as I go) so while it may not be the longest game, it's not that short either.

@danzoEX A lot of people would consider June a summer month in general but this still says "before June"

@Scottyy There's a group of fighting game players who are very excited for this - not because it's Invincible but because how it plays.
Granted, this is a subgroup within a niche, but hopefully it's enough to keep the game active for a while.

I did not expect a Katamari crossover

I tried streaming on PS+ Premium and it was surprisingly solid. Won't work that way for everyone though, connection quality can be less reliable in some places.
That being said, I'm pretty sure the best way to stream games nowadays is on NVidia's service and I'm not too sure Sony could compete with that if streaming was to become a common way to play games. As I mentioned, PS+ streaming is good but if you had to choose between the PS5 build of Cyberpunk 2077 or the PC build with path tracing and sh*, the choice isn't very difficult.

I don't think anyone is moving away from consoles just yet.

Very interested in Darwin's Paradox (loved the demo). South Of Midnight is on the wishlist too but I might get it a bit later

I'm old enough to remember hardware getting cheaper as it got older...
I'm glad I'm set for a couple years with any hardware purchases but this blows.
Thanks, Sam Altman.

@ShogunRok Yeah I fully agree.
I can appreciate that "we recognize this was bad and we're back tracking a whole year and trying again from there" is a hard thing to say and do but at this point it's what a lot of players would be happy with.
I can also appreciate that balancing a huge game like this is an extremely hard task - but again, missing with some of the changes and going entirely in the opposite direction of what people want are very different things.

It still sounds like they don't know what they're doing - unless they really don't want to go the way the players would like.

I am indeed in my early 40s

This update looks very promising, can't wait.
Also, Jam was my 2nd favorite character in GGX (25ish years ago) so I'll be checking her out for sure.

@LastNorth_16 not all PS5 Pro Enhanced games use PSSR (some might offer enhanced visuals or higher frame rates without relying on upscaling or using another method).
However, all games that do use PSSR should in theory be automatically improved by this update.

last time this happened we got CP2077 PS4 version

@Stocksy yeah that's what it sounds like. I'm somewhat interested but 0 console access makes me concerned about the technical side so I'll probably wait and play it later

I'm sure this was said before (not reading all comments, there's too many) but essentially 8/10 being a "major disappointment" is crazy lol

@Nightcrawler71 the game needs to be using PSSR specifically - if it does, the old upscaler gets replaced with the new one
If it never used it in the first place, it can't be forced to do so

@Fizza I saw that and yeah, skull emoji

So far the community is not very happy with this. It does not seem to do much of what they advertise it as.

I am, in fact, buying this on PS5.

The other statement saying nobody's buying a PS5 for this particular game is probably closer to truth though. I wouldn't expect this to be a system seller, Returnal was pretty niche (still one of my favorite games of the past 5 years)

@StrickenBiged I liked it a lot, would recommend

I did not know this was a thing (tbf I never played Fortnite)

I didn't get it because I don't think I can find the kind of time it would need to be at its best - but I did play the server slam a bit and my impressions where very positive.
Looks and sounds incredible, shooting feels great, the gameplay loop seemed fun enough, even though I didn't really get to see that much of it.

If I get this, I'm definitely going balanced mode with VRR - I still don't really know what to expect from this game though lol

Not like I was really looking forward to the next Xbox (considering I never owned one and there's not much that isn't on PS5 anymore) but I'm definitely not going anywhere near a machine running Windows

@Questionable_Duck @LowDefAl true but those weren't new announcements, all of those were already known to be going to PC (DS2 was previously assumed but this was the proper announcement of the port)
fair enough though

@datamonkey As far as Sony publishing goes, there was Death Stranding 2 (which is more Kojima than Sony, even though it is published by them) and the Kena sequel (which is a sequel to an indie game that was on PC). I think that's it.

@MFTWrecks I'm pretty sure this is the exact same controller

@LowDefAl Thanks for the clarification.
As for the unique features, I found this list - most of the games on it are not made or published by Sony.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_Dualsense_haptic_feedback
AFAIK, the features don't work with PC when using a bluetooth connection (unlike the PS5), hence the included cable in this new "PC Ready" bundle.
You definitely don't need PS Studios games on PC to still want to use a DS controller so I don't think there's much of a correlation between this and the other news.

Worth noting that this was posted on the PS Asia account - and that the PC to console user ration in Asia is much more skewed towards PC.
I think this is just an attempt to sell more hardware (peripherals in this case) in that market and has little to do with their plans regarding game releases. You can use the DualSense with any game and afaik there are games that Sony didn't publish that do support the DS features.