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@Konks I think the review states the performance mode is pretty much a locked 60fps at 1440p (post day-1 patch).

Always great to see a success story. Nice review Liam.

Likely to be as successful as the HD Drive was for the Xbox 360.

If I wanted a drive I would have bought the PS5 with a drive. If I didn't want a drive I'd have bought the one without.

Said in respect and admiration of this site and with nothing but good intentions..... I don't think using the word 'biblical' in this way is entirely respectful to its true meaning. I am not a prude or particularly waving the 'woke' flag, but this usage does flick a switch.
Sorry to raise it, but its not a word i would use in the office and thus I think its perhaps not a word we should be seeing on this well respected site.

imho twas the worst part of the films and books. So glad it wasn't in the Hogwarts game and I wouldn't touch it with yours as a stand-alone.
Doomed to failure I'm afraid.

You need good starting material and that game is not such.

Well done to all involved. Always great to see a success story.

Great game - my kids have been loving it, my daughter is on her second play through.

Great to see quality shine.

@get2sammyb
Thing is with the Q2 at £399 and the Pico 4 for the same you can have 99% of the experience + wire-free on the PC where games tend to be found 30% cheaper and in addition there are a whole load more of them for VR.

If Sony realises they are in a competitive market with PCVR they will see their price isn't, well competitive. In a captive market against the Xbox then they have no competition and hence the price.
VR headsets simply dont sell for $600 notes these days. Not like the $399 ones do that offer 95% of the experience.

It has to be £399 at most imho; crikey just over 6 months ago the Q2 was selling for £299; against that price the PSVR2 is simply not a sensible proposal.

Now more than ever in the post covid world where many of us work from home 5 days a week the mobile gaming plartform just isn't a valid proposition. With all due respect Chardonnay and Anton like to play "Swipe the Bird" on their phone but I mean real gaming, the sort of gaming you get on Playstations.
It was OK for me in PSP days when as a student I had time on my travels, but Vita never got more than 10 hours use in 5 years I bothered to keep it out of the loft. Switch is the same, other than BOTW, its collecting just for 5+ years. Many of us gamers want experiences that blow us away - available on consoles or PCs. And even the same game on a micro screen just isn't going to cut it.

Sorry, not interested. As Sony must know given no-one bothers to stream games to their phone from a PS5, so why would they stream to a phone that cant make phone calls, i.e. a cloud handheld. No reason, no use case.

@Kidfunkadelic83
I played seated and had no issue at all with this. Use a swivel chair rather than an armchair (as you need to be able to reach down for your 'holsters').
I'd also suggest you never run in S&S. There's certainly no need to in S&S 1 (I haven't started 2 yet). Running makes the VR sickness much more of a risk for me.

Great game. I have 75+ hours on it

My top tip would be to take it at your pace. tbh zombies do not really get that much more abundant and items don’t get that much more scarce . Scavenge for days if you like, do a story quest, scavenge for another couple of days and then go back to the story.
Makes the game a lot easier and tbh you can relax and enjoy it, explore, find those secrets, upgrade your crafting and soak in the games glory when not being pressed in to the story elements.

Story is great, but don’t feel you have to rush it.

@OmegaStriver I dont think there are too many gaming PCs still in use that are weaker than a PS5.
The minimum system spec for TLOU PC was more than what we have in a PS5. So I dont recognise your argument. Remember the equivalent GPU (RTX 2080) was released 5 years ago, not just the 2.5 years of the PS5 release in which its performance is now found.

If anything targeting gaming PCs will push the developers rather than hinder them. They will learn and thus be able to release console versions that come a lot closer to PC versions.

Another reason these ridiculously long consile cycles need to stop.

We were promised shorter cycles, and we got longer - on both Sony and Xbox.
Yes I know they released mid-gen GPU updates but unless they up the whole package the devs still have to develop for the lowest common factor.

There is no way building a game that has to run on the 10 year old PS4 doesn't impact its design choices for the PS5/XBX.

@CaptD where you hear it compares well to the PC version?

Q. Are you interested only in response from PSVR2 users or in general, e.g. I can very postively confirm that Saints and Sinners and a few others will be superb (because I have played them on PCVR).

For new owners, and I think you are aiming for this, its more important to have the 'good games' list so as to use their time and money wisely, so long as the 'reviewer' has some real experience on the games, regardless of system played on???

Just to help spread the love of VR

@Vacuumator not at all mate. They are comparing the PS5 version to one running on a mobile phone chipset.
They do state it’s. It the pc version but it appears many of this thread have leapt to that incorrect assumption.

10TF PS5 outperforms 1TF Mobile chipset. That’s all the article says.

@Wolfie_Pie it’s not out on pc yet so which videos were they?

Compare PSVR2 version to the pc version running on a 2080, both about 10TF, when released of course. That would be interesting and valid.

tbh makes me wish Rush of Blood was available on PCVR or Quest.

Well one bad egg in the barn doesn't make it a bad launch. Crack on.

@Marquez Believe me as a fellow scare-easy this is a rollicking fun adventure, it is nothing at all like the Silent Hills / creep you out games that exist.

Its much more Uncharted than it is Layers of Fear.

tbh if it is released 4 years after the PS5 release then that feels about right. Given console generations have become painfully long these last two cycles it will help to fill the gap before the inevitable 8+ year cycle is over ahead of the PS6.

So great news.

Great series imho. Joel was excellent throughout and Ellie grew in to the role after the first couple of episodes (not sure if they shot them in order????).
Just so surprised they didnt make it at least a couple of series for the first game. They added two good 'filler episodes' and even then only managed 9 in total.

Really good show, just had so much more potential.

I hope they see the sense of not just doing the second game. They could easily fill out a series with a new story of J&E in the between years.

@Juanalf I'd hate to be on any media, documentaries included, but have never played any GTA game and never intend to.
Not my cup of tea.

tbh I personally thought last night's episode was much better than the borefest of last weeks 'stroll through an old shopping mall'.

Ep 8 really brought out the growing strength of Ellie as a survivor and the growing strength of the parental like love between Joel and Ellie.

Of course it also said that surviving humans are in the main far worse creatures than surviving infected, but every zombie epidose/film has trodden that road for 50+ years, so you can't blame em for that.

I still dont see how they can end game 1 next week; surely they are not even 50% thru the game yet (I haven't replayed it since the month it came out on PS3).

@thefourfoldroot1

You are right the developer choice is to reduce the resolution of the native image and thus allow more GPU room for FPS or vice versa.

For COTM they must have chosen resolution over FPS; and like you say I hope they make it optional, like they do with 2D games, to have a Performance/Quality toggle on VR games. After all, its exactly the same PS5 GPU of course thats doing the work.

tbh its probably a relief to those staff that are retained. It must have been awful for them; they would have known they had overstretched their ambition beyond their talent - and thats not going to be a comfortable position.

I hope they all find a job that is right for them, in SE or elsewhere.

Love the show. Love the 2 stars.
However this was by far and away the worst show in the series to date.

It was a borefest. Didn't progress the story at all and almost completely lacked the key ingredient, Joel.

Love the series, but a very poor episode imho.

FYI - for another take on survival, I highly recommend TWD Saints and Sinners. The first one was out on PSVR1 (and every other VR platform) and I'd be amazed if it wasn't ported to PSVR2.
I believe the second is released on PSVR2 very shortly. Simply a stunning game ; even measured against non-VR criteria.
Enjoy

Saying again as thats what internet folks do but approx 50% through the series and only 25% through the game tells me its at least 2 series to get through the first game.

I assume thats been confirmed many times and I'm just not listening

@Kundalini - exactly
Its a great novelty, just as Kinect was, and as PSVR1 was. But that quickly wears off and it becomes something you keep in a cupboard and bring out for a drunken Christmas party - unless this time they get some games for it.

For GT7 it will be great for those with full rigs and wheels, even more immersion, but thats a very small market - PS5 owners, with GT7, with a full rig, with PSVR2.

Needs a few games that make you want to use it 20 hours a month not 20 minutes.

I wish those that jumped in all the joy, but I urge those for which £500 is a chunk of cash to think what they will get from it.

For SIMS, VR is great, but it doesnt have the killer app beyond those yet imho.

@Neverwild Assetto Corsa, MFS2020, AMS2, ACC - hundreds of hours in each. VR imho is made for SIMs.
I'd be very surprised to see anything that claims as many user hours as GT7 does on this.

Really needs the killer app other than SIMs though, as SIMs aint for everybody.

@thefourfoldroot1 Thats right mate. Only men, especially those over 30, are bad in this world.
And Santa lives on, the easter bunny is on his way, and you'll see some fairies down your garden if you're quick.

Anyhow, back to point in hand. Never be surprised as to how stupid some folks can be..its sad, very sad. But there are some real dumb s**** in this world.

@thefourfoldroot1 Personally I think it will be hit and miss for many.

I found, and I others did to, that PSVR and other headsets since (e.g. I have a Quest 2) spent most of their time collecting dust. Its a little like 3D on TV and in the cinema; its great to experience that wow moment a few times, but at the end of the day the downsides dont outweigh the upsides (namely big hunking lump of plastic strapped to your face).

It has its place though. I still love VR for simracing. But for everything else I dont find the compromises it imposes acceptable for 99% of my non-SIM game time (it will be nowhere near the graphical fidelity of what the PS5 can do in 2D for example in addition to the lump of plastic issue).

So great to be exited, but I'd be careful with those expectations. After the first two 3D films who went back for more?

@PlatinumKing Leadership doesnt work like that.

• she acted that part really badly
• there is no way the resistance would have put such a useless leader in charge
• she essentially killed her entire resistance group on one initiative that was pointless and added nothing to the aims of the resistance (go back to the point of being a useless leader).

Great episode; but crikey she did her best to spoil it.

good episode but agree Kathleen was pathetic. She was terribly acted, it was like they had dragged a teacher in off the street . Yes she was meant to be a poor leader but surely not that poor, weak and improbable.
Otherwise a good episode after a disappointing ep 3

@S1ayeR74 Agreed. Thats exactly what I said earlier in the thread or another on this site. Its as-if she has played the second game and thus acts to that bitter, hate filled, angry persona rather than the young, open, inquisitive, sometime loving nature of the younger Ellie.
I understand how the life journey from the start of TLOU 1 to the end of TLOU2 makes her a very different person but imho she is playing the wrong Ellie at the minute (in the show).

I’m sorry PS but you’re not being sensitive to the current state of the economy and many peoples wallets when you say £52 is a bargain for a remake of a 10 year plus old game. I’m not looking for a ban but I do think you do owe a little restraint and balance between your just love for all things PlayStation and the loyal users that keep it alive.
£52 for a video game is not a bargain.

Was the least special of the 4 to date imho.
I think tbh that Ellie is much more aligned to the TLOU2 Ellie (bitter, angry, aggressive) than the human, witty, curious and loving of TLOU. And that matters as I dont see the relationship with Joel developing; atm he may as well be transporting a camel. Thus episodes that focus on the relationship are accordingly weak imho.

PS. I guess many have said this but I am supposing that the first series does not cover the first game. We are perhaps 10% thru the game and yet 25% thru the series.

I expect that why its such an early confirmation of the second series - because its such a no brainer given its just the second half of the same story.

Yesterday I said that the first 20 mins didn't work for me. I seldom get an hour chunk of time and thus was left wondering what all the fuss was about and frustrated with the flashbacks.....

But wow. What a story the flashback became. Brilliant, great entertainment. If you told me I'd be weeping at a tragic double xxxxxxx during a flashback in a zombie themed show made on the back of a video game ......

Just watched the first 20 mins and not quite nailing it yet.

I assume if must have a great second half. Will get to that later this evening.

tbh - not sure the flashbacks are helping. Much preferred the first 2 so far.

No mention that his girlfriend has clearly had a tough 15years? Like me, she hasn’t aged that well.

@GuttyYZ doesnt help if you are PS5 only but just £34 on PC and with the right kit 4K60 of course.

tbh I'm usually in mind made up territory well before the 6 hour mark. The fact that it hasn't swayed you enough by that point certainly sways it for me. Shame as we could do with a tentpole to get the games year going.
Looking forward to DS though, just hope EA haven't managed to turn gold in to cabbage.

Much improved. Joel continues to be excellent and Ellie got a sense of humour - so much better for her this week. Overall the show is great imho.

I'm saving it for catch-up to avoid the ads.

I do hope Ellie has perked up a little though. They need imho to capture a little bit of the "the world isn't entirely *****" - which TLOU had even if they burned that to the ground in TLOU2.

Come on Ellie, you dont have to sulk your way through the entire series.

Loved it; as per other comment Joel, Tommy, Marlene and Tess were spot on.
Ellie was completely wrong in the first hour though - in the game she's a scared girl next door to begin with, not some rabid dog.

I do like though that they chose an average Jo to play her and not your typical beauty queen - much more down to earth.

Good first episode tbh. Joel was spot on as was Tess and Marlene and Tommy.

Ellie though obviously has never played or seen the game. Completely and utterly off the mark. She played it like some rabid dog from Oliver, not the everyday girl next door which she is at the start of the story.

I think I hadn't made my point clear. The article was doing its best to suggest high requirements rumours had been disproved. Then listed a set of requirements that was quite the opposite, i.e. the list proves the rumours were true.
. Thanks anyway.

Looks good. Whilst its all subjective I wouldn't suggest that 4K60 needing a 3080 and 32G RAM proves that earlier reports of high spec requirements are shown to be invalid.

I'd be surprised if there's any PC games that cant do 4K120 on a 3080 tbh. I know there will be the exception to prove me wrong.

Surprised that PS thought the Combat was the positive. In everything I have seen and heard the single biggest universally noted flaw in the game is the combat (and the single biggest workaround to make it a decent game is to largely ignore the baton and stick with the hand cannon the gravity glove).

Surprised that after 2 years most dev haven't got it so that
Fidelity = 4K60RT
Performance = 2K60RT. (as with Spiderman).

Buying on PC then.