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@sikthvash
I agree, no need for POINTLESS trophies. Some nice new trophy challenges would certainly be nice though. No bragging required.

I remember soul blade being vastly superior in its quest mode to the sequel, but never tried the games beyond that disappointment. Will give this a go if they add trophy challenges to supplement the content.

For me, it’s more about whether you have the support and power of a big publisher behind you. Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that no big publisher has a hand in supporting you to any degree, as if a publisher gives you a tiny tiny budget, 3 members of staff, and no marketing at all, for a passion project, this isn’t fundamentally different to a small team getting a small amount of seed money and being truly independent of a publisher.

For a consumer, the game that is possible under these conditions is what makes something “an indie game” as far as I’m concerned.

A shorter dev period and more streamlined game is what I would like anyway. Hated that BG3 was so expansive that I felt like I had to follow a guide so I didn’t miss 90% of the game (sure, it’s designed to be played multiple times, but I wasn’t blessed with multiple lives sadly). In the end I just dropped it, despite being quite hyped for it and having it be one of the very few games I’ve got at near full price digitally.

Enjoyed the game while I could stomach how broken it was, then the constant crashes meant I had to stop playing. Hopefully they’ll fix their game some day.

We all salute you Sir.

Just have her go back to being unapologetically entitled and sexy. That’s Lara. Or make a different game with a character you like better.

Seems somewhat pointless now for Sony to pay for exclusivity.

@GamingGod
My opinion? They are fine, but devoid of purpose 🤷‍♂️ just lazy.

@GamingGod
The best trophies get you to play a different way or try different things. A list like this, which you can completely ignore and are just given for playing, is not only a missed opportunity, but supports people’s unjustified view that trophy challenges are pointless trinkets for the vain to somehow show off, rather something that adds to a game. Too many people think that and we lose them altogether.

Pointless platinum. Exactly why some people don’t care about trophy challenges.

@tameshiyaku
What’s wrong with “problematic”. If anything it’s more interesting.

Wo long and granblue fantasy both look good. For £1.66 it would be churlish to be anything but happy about Soul Calibur 3! Presuming it has trophy challenges added.

@Oldberic
Funnily enough I just got Octopath traveller 1&2 for £35 combined. They do seem great, not too far in though.

@Marquez
Not hard to have that kind of “willpower” when you have such a ridiculous backlog, not to mention subscription games you can’t keep up with!
And I’m not saying it’s not worth full price, but for ownership of a product you can resell. If I lose my resale value by going digital I’ll wait for the price drop to the amount that the difference is likely to be.

Still waiting for a decent sale on Clair Obscur. I don’t buy digital games for more than £25, and that really is maximum.

I’m late here but as it’s on plus now so I have renewed interest - can anyone tell me one graphical issues mentioned here, is it merely jaggies, which I can cope with, or does it have the kind of blurry plus visual noise that completely destroyed Metaphor: ReFantazio for me?

@MrPeanutbutterz
Yep. Releasing as is would be one thing, but creating a better, more authentic game, marketing it on its down and dirty world and specifically it being uncensored, then sneaking into patch 1.04/1.05 censorship. No. Screw em. Plenty of other games to play.

@RoomWithaMoose
Nope. Female nipples in the city censored, permanent underwear added to your character. Confirmed.

Well, it was censored after release to remove nudity, so I’d rate it very badly. Especially as they sold it on the fact they didn’t censor anything. Stopped playing as soon as I found that out, but it was pretty OK the couple of hours I played. Nothing special.

@Americansamurai1
I do just find it funny how much people expect for £1.66 a month. But if none of the games are for you fair enough.

@Americansamurai1
Why? Because games like Soul Calibre 3 are certainly worth the £1.66 extra to me (less if bought on sale).

Will give Wo Long a go if true.

No, you need 90fps without reprojection, or it is a blurry mess

@Nei
Yes, metaphors hurt my eyes and I had to stop playing. Such a terrible looking game, especially in movement.

OK, so.

46 games. 41 PS5
Top 5: Monster Train 2, Hades, Core Keeper, Ishin, Elden Ring

Gaming style: Platformer (don’t know what that means, the only platformers I played were Max Mustard and a bit of Astro Bot)

Now it’s not working again.

749hrs played
63hrs on Portal
72hrs on PSVR2

PS+ for 11.9yrs (definitely wrong, I’ve had it since PS3)

Played 26 Plus games this year

Now it’s kicked me out…

500 internal error…

a server-side exception has occurred while loading wrapup.playstation.com…

749hr played

Played a lot of long games this year that I got bored with before the plat, so only got 2 plats, whereas I used to get a couple a month. 332 trophies in total, but only plats are relevant.

Somehow I had 5 multiplayer hours this year. No parties joined, messages or friends lol.

500…internal server error.

Man, yet another one to potentially add to the backlog. I’m confident the people that made pixel ripped 1978 will do good here and I really liked the show, so the original writers and cast is a big win. I don’t understand how people claim there aren’t enough PSVR2 games. It seems just because people only count first party.

We don’t need you to look to the future, we need you to look to the 90s and early 2000s

@GamingGod
That’s a shame. If the trophy campaign isn’t finished I’ll wait. Hopefully one day it will be. Ideally by the time it comes to PSVR2. Would always hold off for that anyway.

Couldn’t be bothered with this one. It was a pretty game (first game I tried HDR on on PS4 I think), but puzzle games can easily bore me. If I could play it in VR I might have stuck with it just for the visuals, but there’s only so far flat games can entice me in that sense.

In terms of Platinum trophies, I’m not really interested in them for pure puzzle games as you can always just use a guide. It makes them mean nothing. And if you cared about it there would always be that temptation…

Switching between Octopath Traveller and Core Keeper. They’ll keep me busy for a while.

I must be the only person that’s never heard of this game

Just looked into it. Looks my thing, and only £12. Unfortunately I just learned it won’t be finished until July 😞

Will wait to see whether the jan update adds new trophies. If it does I’ll presume the others will too and will begrudgingly wait half a year to play it.

It’s already changed a lot. No more naughty video stores with FMV girls, etc. maybe as it’s set in these crappy times rather than the 80s, who knows, but the newer Like a Dragon games don’t have anything like the atmosphere of Yakuza 1-4/5

Impulse bought Octopath Traveller 1 and 2 bundle for £35.99. Lowest price it’s been and a great price for both games combined. On my way home from work yo haven’t a go.

The problem is not AI, or even bad AI, but rather a lack of oversight. As AI improves it will become indistinguishable. In fact, most likely is that we will know it’s AI generated in future because it’s too good, too intricate, in a way we know a dev had no time for.

Just impulse bought Octopath Traveller 1 and 2 bundle for £35.99. Lowest price it’s been and a great price for both games combined.

@Kienda
If I remember correctly, I just made another account. Might have been on the ps4 and I played against it on the ps5, but if you have streaming on Plus maybe you can play this other account with one console.

Got this plat over 5 years ago but still remember it fondly too. It’s games like this, without any real narrative pull or real completion, that really benefit from platinum campaigns.

I’ve been playing a lot of open ended games recently and often now get bored before finishing the plat challenges, haven’t got one for 6 months, whereas I used to get over two a month on average. More that I’m just getting bored of flat gaming I think.

Still pretty engrossed in core keeper for now.

8/16. No luck on my guesses either. Not great.

Can’t say I really understand the problem too much. Let’s say the AI gives a few dozen designs for a character and the devs decide what they like most. How’s that really too different from outsourcing as it stands? Just because you can see the database of material that the AI uses for inspiration, but can’t see into a persons head in the same way to view the exact same thing?

@Perturbator
Flat to VR will one day be a thing on consoles I hope.

@Dogbreath
I can’t agree about Resi 4. It’s absolutely phenomenal in VR and I could never go back to playing any resident evil game externally again.

But yes, too many horror and puzzle games no doubt.

Horror is clearly best played in VR. That much is obvious and without question. But it is also true of almost every genre, so please (please!) stop with all the horror games!

@Netret0120
Mahjong is as why it took me about 4 years to plat Zero. Once learned it’s a lot of fun though!

A separate trophy list…interesting. I have all plats apart from Ishin and Pirates, which I’ll eventually get to, and they are the most fun plats of any series I’ve played…but some take up to 200hrs, do I really want to get them twice?

It’s a fine machine with no games worthy of it. Unfortunately most devs are chasing multiplatform success so it’s more unique features aren’t used. Sadly that includes Sony as a dev too. Still, very happy about the lack of loading times at least, and PSVR2 has had some real jaw droppers.

@Martsmall
“ does gaslighting means anything ?”

It usually means “if your opinion is different than mine don’t you dare try to convince me to change my mind or you’re infringing on my right to feel superior” There are few occasions where people accused of “gaslighting” are actually doing so.

But back on point, your comment about Microsoft being in AI and so likely knowing about this in advance is a fair one…if they too stockpiled for that division. You are right they would care little about using it on Xbox.

As someone who reads gaming media daily, and has been gaming for nearly 4 decades and so knows what he likes, I’m fine with it. Marketing is likely to bring more success though. Sounds obvious to say it like that. But then if it’s a low budget, low effort remaster they’ll likely have limited marketing budget anyway.