From the PS5 footage its clear they're using SSR and not Ray Tracing which, for a cross gen title is a little disappointing to be honest.

Something seemed off with the visuals, like a plastic toy look to everything from the foliage to Aloys face and the weird glow around her head when in 3rd person.

Its early code and while the game looks very dense, something seems odd with the visuals for me even with it looking good otherwise.

I'll absolutely be getting it regardless as im sure it'll still be good regardless.

I dont care about titles going multi platform but seeing Sony wanting to push GAAS makes me feel uncomfortable.

I'm more than happy with VF 5.

Pretty much worth the PS plus sub for me if it's true to the original release.

I'll be getting involved with that!

VF 5 is a great addition as I would have likely paid full price for it.

@Ben7982 Its because COD (im assuming you mean that) isnt optimised for PS5 so the devs HAVE to duplicate textures all over the place to allow texture streaming to appear as smooth as it can be with the lowest common denominator in mind (spindle HDDS).

No doubt cost near 20 quid.

Pass.

Companies love patents.. doesn't mean they'll be used.

Especially given the current investigations by governments in to loot boxes.

Bet365 have took bets for LoL, overwatch, dota2 and csgo along with other matches for a while now.

Hopefully this move crashes and burns.

tbf, generally I hope Ubi crashes and burns so my stance hasnt really changed there.

I'll no doubt be a day 1 buyer.. Just hope that they do their best to tackle motion sickness as I was pretty bad with it on occasion.

Thats an absolute nonsense why it isnt on the disc for 2 reasons..
1 So you cant resell it
2 When Sony pull the servers (they will eventually before anyone try's to kid themselves) that'll be that content gone forever

Yet again game preservation takes a hit to save potential sales.

This digital only future is bleak.

As someone who's always enjoyed being able to buy a Yakuza game complete on day 1 this is really crap news.

70 quid for a game then another 10/15 to complete the story means I'll be a hell of a lot more selective going forward.

As I said earlier today..
Yakuza turn based
Judgement beat em up.

Same cities but completely different playstyles.

IN!

I like the way RGG is going to keep things fresh.

Yakuza - turn based - Judgement - beat em up.

Both wacky, brutal, interesting and very much have that Sega DNA of old but above all else.. Fun. So many games these days go for the gritty gameplay, story and completely lose any semblance of fun, the whole reason video games took off.

They always seem to manage to keep them fresh even though its just technically a lick of paint here and there with a new story.

Good. It's about time those with the wool pulled over their eyes thinking PSN etc will be competitively priced like on the PC space with steam and the various storefronts that fight it out

No coil whine but usually on startup you get a buzzing sound as something is vibrating about.

Hand on the console stops it.. I'm suspecting it's the stand not being a snug enough fit.

How is the online anyway busy enough? Don't think I've ever seen a single friend play it... I assumed it was dead.

@StartWars that's excellent news.. I was close to the plat and can't be bothered going through most of it again to finish it off.

Downloaded it but noticed I can't transfer my PS4 save.

Tad annoying that.

I expect it to somehow be heavily locked down given there's grot discord channels etc.

Stop releasing call of duty games on a yearly basis.

Better yet. People need to stop buying games from Activision.

Mark Zuckerberg is a bug eyed freak that just wants to sell adverts and your personal data. He can get tae.

Excellent.. I'll be all over that.

Maybe that's the new way forward for the studio.

Yakuza - turn based RPG
Judgement - beat em up RPG

I can deal with that.

@tinCAT-zero mm-hmm...that's why I said "personally"

I'm not sure what you are having difficulty in understanding. I thought that was crystal clear?

@AdamNovice once PS Now moves to Azure I think that barrier will be largely knocked down barring a few special cases.

@BoldAndBrash I think you are over reacting a bit and blowing my comment totally out of proportion for bait.

I'm not asking for more games I'm personally already a Plus and Now subscriber. Just merge them and be done with it.

PlayStation is the eco system here. I don't want a movie streaming service and I doubt I'm in the minority saying so, there's already more than enough services for that before adding yet more fragmentation to the movie streaming market.

If you aren't going to add anything constructive you might want to get your shine box back out and be useful.

Do you genuinely think it's gonna add much value for gamers as a counter to game pass?

Personally IRacing would be a much better fit for the Motorsport category but atleast it's not Forza.

I'll be honest personally I'd rather have gaming benefits over a handful of movies.

How about incorporating ps now with plus?

Gonna wait for reviews from a few places before I make the plunge (money in my playstation account ready to go) but I'm pleased to see the hands on seems to be going good.

@Korgon get more or less most of the Yakuza games.

They often come with virtua fighter in the arcades in the city.

For example.. with "Yakuza like a dragon" you have fully functioning arcade version of virtua fighter 2 and 5 along with super hang on, space harrier, fantasy zone and out run.

The Yakuza games are the dogs danglies!

I'd buy the GameCube version of mgs tbf. Would upscale much easier.

Slow news day? This has been known since around the launch when DF originally tried it.

@The_New_Butler I think they've been watching us 🤣

Agreed with @the_new_butler don't get an external ssd.

I got this one

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078WST5RK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glc_fabc_8PDZ0M8YA1J6WKCADMSH?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

And the sabrent ssd to usb connector.

Works great and as noted already, digital foundry recommended it. So you can be assured it has good performance.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017NIDXF0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glc_fabc_7496BJJECAG07XPAJ4QD?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I have no idea how to deal with accolades.

I don't think it even works with cross gen titles which makes it all that useless just now

Tbf the Unreal Engine powers not only major games but now with it being used in TV and movies it's a decent bet.

Remember playing around with the unreal editor back in the day to make incredibly basic Unreal Tournament maps.

Really impressed me how big they were then and how they've somehow managed to get even bigger. Just wish Fortnite didn't get as big as it has or I would have had another Unreal Tournament.

@agramonte

The only reason Epic is fighting apple and Google is to make a bigger cut for themselves. They're undercutting steam to take their customers away. They're no robin hood here they just want a bigger proportion of the market to themselves.

Sony and Microsoft charges the same 30% cut to publish on their store. The only reason Epic isn't going after them is that it'd be almost suicidal.

@Brydontk yep, but it's better to be honest than pushing a crap experience.

Do you honestly believe that someone on a One S is ever going to have a half decent experience?

I'm sure the developers themselves know it's a task they'll never really manage. The texture streaming issues are fundamental problems that no amount of tweaking will sort and further exacerbated by the base consoles.

Heck.. to alleviate the fps drops a little bit they've lowered texture load in priority.

It's an impossible balancing act sadly and while disappointing for those not on next gen systems by the time they say they can do no more a huge proportion will have moved on anyway.

They really should scrap the release on PS4/Xbox one, refund customers and concentrate on the new systems.

Never going to happen ofcourse.

The reality is that it's never going to play half decent on older gen machines without huge compromises to the experience.

The pro and series x just about work. The base machines however are shambolic, whatever way you look at it.

I hope it fixes the deleted games bug where a greyed out tile stays on the console after you've deleted it.

Have 2 games sitting there I've long deleted that won't shift.

Game preservation is very important.

Regardless of if YOU think it's a non issue there is a large retro gaming scene that likes playing on original hardware.

From time to time I boot up my megadrive and PS1. If this issue were built in to those older consoles then they would be essentially bricked.

Emulation is not perfect (regardless of how good it can be - even the great emulators can't play some games or bring in imperfections that weren't there on the original hardware) and custom firmware should not be needed to use a product purchased in the far future given then Sony have a legal right to try and bring down the websites distributing it.

This isn't a non issue and is anti consumer. Remember when most playstation fans were gloating about Microsoft going down the "always online" route.

With Sony being big headed with the whole game sharing "thanks" video?

Yea, look at how that's aged.

@ATaco that much is obvious. They can't keep buying studios the way they are and release those titles for GP without eventually hiking the price.

It's all about the hook then the squeeze. It's basically the Uber and new tech startupa that haemorrhage money for years model.

And so my post of about 6 months ago holds weight.

Sony are now doing a ubisoft like approach to gaming and are only interested in churning out similar styled games and to hell with everything else.

Why on earth are they remaking a remake. Heck it's not as if the gameplay of 2 changed all that much from 1.

@BamBamBaklava89 in fairness Microsoft's model isn't sustainable.

They're basically doing an Uber and burning through money till the competition ceases to exist then they'll jack the price up and or the quality diminishes.

I actually half expect Microsoft to go the Netflix way in that they'll publish smaller games.. guage interest and continue developing or kill without finishing the product.

My god the entitlement is ridiculous in here.

Whatever way you look at it Sony have made an absolute arse of this.

@NateGoesLive did you seriously think going digital would have made gaming cheaper?

No offence but should have stayed with physical consoles till they pull the plug, otherwise you've absolutely no choice to shop around.

This is EXACTLY the position Sony want..lock you in digital then drip feed sales to appear like steam but keep certain titles max price for as long as they can.

BuT dIGITaL iS ThE FuTUre.!

@Giancarlothomaz I think people forget that the Witcher 3 was also incredibly buggy and badly optimised on release too. It wasnt as bad as CP2077 granted, but it was still very buggy and wasnt ever really in great shape till the first DLC came out.

Im glad they're fixing it.. but im just going to wait till the PS5 version releases before getting back in to it (was only about 15 hours in on the PS4 Pro anyway)

@jorel262 the battery will absolutely die it's as inevitable as night comes after day.

There's just no reports on modern consoles simply because they're in use and keep the charge topped up and healthy but it's the same battery used all the way back to the PS2 and Dreamcast era: CR2032

And trust me.. they die as I've had to replace on both consoles due to being in storage for long periods of time. They're also nasty for the motherboard when they leak and it's a good idea if you keep a console in storage for potentially years to remove the battery.

If I've a choice of 30 all bells and whistles or 60 I'll take 60 every day of the week.

Some games are fine 30 though and I suspect we'll see whatever the next ND game is (forgetting TLoU 2 remaster) go for 30 to preserve the bleeding edge graphics.