It feels like there's a couple of things here, I mean for a start nobody needs 64GB of RAM, my machine is perfectly fine with 32, and it also doesn't need to be that fast, mine runs at 6000MT/s and if I was buying now I'd probably have gone for 6400MT/s, but beyond that you're really talking diminishing returns. All of that said, PC building is not cheap right now, I just shelled out £540 for a 9070XT and that's a midrange option, the ROG 5090 Astral edition is £2800.
Consoles are, and will always be, the cheapest way to buy hardware that'll play a large catalogue of games for about a decade from release. The cost of the games is a different story, but the vast majority of people aren't buying enough games over that period to close the gap.
PC only really makes financial sense if you're buying a midrange system about as often as consoles come out, and you're playing an absolute boatload of different titles. The real appeal of PC is a) for people who like to tinker and create (that would be me) and b) for people who absolutely must have the best hardware available to get the best graphics at the highest framerates.
The Steam Machine, for example, makes sense for (a) but not for (b). It's also likely to not be a terrible price for buying to use for about the length of a console generation, but if you're (b), you'll hate it
If this was more powerful I'd say maybe it competes with the next PlayStation, but this is for an entirely different audience or as a second PC used for indie games and to stream to your TV
As someone who plays on PS5 and PC this would drive me towards buying more through the PlayStation store, which is obviously what Sony are going for. When a new game I want to play comes out I have to decide where I want to play it and depending on the game it can be an easy decision or very complicated:
If it's bundled with anti cheat spyware on PC, I'm not playing it there
For most FPS I'll buy on PC because I want to use a mouse to aim on
If a game is likely to have an active modding community that also makes PC a no-brainer
If it's going to be included with PS+ at either Essential or Extra tier I'll play it there
Once all that's out of the way I have to decide whether it's a game I want to play from the sofa, or at a desk, which is about how relaxing/engaging I'm expecting it to be
Honestly there's games I haven't bought because I just couldn't decide, as well as ones I've put off because I want to play on PC but don't have a good enough GPU (hoping for some Black Friday deals) but if I could just buy on the PlayStation store and know I could play on PC too, that's worth a lot.
As for whether playing on PC is viable for the masses, I think that depends on what you want. Hardware can be expensive, and that's going to vary based on where you live and when you're buying. It cost me £500 to upgrade my pc to AM5 including a new PSU and 32GB of RAM but I'm still using my old GPU and it's likely to cost me another £500 to upgrade that, which is way more than the US$700 someone was talking about above. As for plug and play, that's better than it was, but it's still slightly more complicated than on PlayStation, even for new games, but especially for older titles - I don't mind that, I'll happily spend hours tinkering to get old games running with a mountain of mods. I did that for New Vegas a couple of months ago, and then again this month for VtMB, but the flexibility comes at a cost. A lot of these games which came out in the days of WinXP, Vista, Win7 just don't work on Windows 11 unless you install community patches etc, while anything you can install on your PS5 should just work without needing any prodding.
I do hope the sequel plays better with a controller, I started trying to play the original and ended up plugging in a keyboard and mouse, at which point I decided to just play through them again on PC instead
Still plugging away at Blue Prince, but I've switched to PC after hitting the save bug at the end of day 88, meaning nothing I do after that gets saved. I will probably switch back over if they patch it before I do the stuff I've already done on PS5, although I spent a chunk of time yesterday organising my collection of 943 screenshots
@Fritz167 honestly 40 hours in I can see how much work localising this game would be given the number of puzzles involving wordplay and specific letters or homophones. Hopefully the level of success the game has achieved means the small indie studio behind this can afford to hire some decent localisation agencies to perform the monumental task this would be.
@EfYI I feel like it's well played putting this on Extra as I may be playing Blue Prince for the rest of my life, I've already put more hours in since 46 than it took me to get there
@NoCode23 then that's entirely on you. The word was used correctly, and there was plenty in the review talking about how the combat was there, but not great
Honestly the original is possibly my favourite game of all time, and this doesn't look like it's shaping up to be anything like what I'd want from a sequel, but it is looking to be a pretty solid VtM videogame, so my only real complaint is that it should have got a new name when it moved studio given how it's essentially a completely different project.
@NoCode23 "Lacking" ≠ "Lacks". Something is found to be lacking if there is either not enough of it or it's of insufficient quality, i.e something is lacking because you want more.
Not entirely seriously one could say that much of the comment section is found to be lacking in reading comprehension 😂
Yay, managed to refund it. A level 4 stars account seemed to help speed things up, and somehow the refunded purchase still counts towards keeping my level next year?
I'd love more games on PlayStation to have mouse support, especially ports from PC where the gamepad implementation is kinda clunky (a lot of sims). I can see there being a market for a PlayStation branded mouse with the build quality of the DualSense, especially if it was also easy to use with other devices (so Bluetooth, maybe a 5 GHz dongle or able to be used with a standard USB cable), but I already have a £120 mouse (Logitech MX Master) so I'm hoping not to be in the market for a while.
As we shift to PS5, PS4 games will no longer be a key benefit and will only be occasionally offered for PlayStation Plus Monthly Games and Game Catalog starting January 2026. We may still provide titles that can be playable on both PS4 and PS5 consoles after this date.
There's still going to be games you can play on PS4, it's just that they're not adding anything that's not on PS5, and you're not guaranteed any particular number of PS4 titles in any given month.
Breaking news: they're going to stop actively incentivising people to use their 13 yo console and encourage people to move across to their 4 yo console.
2 of my most anticipated are in the top 5, big I'm also quite looking forward to VtMB2, which is slated for the first half of the year. It's not the same game I was looking forward to in 2018, but it still looks interesting, if more of a 7/10 rather than the 9/10 I wanted (i.e if it's your jam you'll love it, but it's unlikely to be a mass market hit). I'm also hoping that STALKER 2 will come to PS5 in 2025, but I might end up getting it on PC anyway.
@Fishnpeas the Steam Deck as a product isn't that old, but the Aerith APU it runs on is a Zen 2 chip, which is a 5 year old architecture. Zen 3 had been out for 2 years when it released and Zen 4 released before the Steam Deck had reached most of the world. There's certainly a lot of new games people consider "unplayable" on the Deck. The PS5 is also Zen 2 but is much larger with a vastly largest power budget etc, meaning it can perform much better through brute force. This is evident when you contrast the Deck's 1-1.6TF of GPU throughput to the PS5's 10TF - it's not apples to apples but it certainly shows the order of magnitude difference in performance, despite the smaller console releasing 2 years more recently.
@ChimpMasta half of all PlayStation players are still on the PS4. The Steam Deck is really old hardware as is the Nintendo Switch. People still want to play games that aren't on the cutting edge and a lot of people are happy to pay a premium to play them on the move without needing a connection to their home console or a cloud gaming service.
I could see it being fairly popular if you have one device that plays all the games from the past two generations, as well as emulated PS1&2 games, as well as being a great way to remote play games from the new generation. It's likely that the PS5 will have an even longer tail than the PS4, so I can't see there being many games you can play on the the PS6 that aren't also playable on the PS5, and of those I can't see them being games you'd want to play on a handheld anyway.
@ChimpMasta not with current chips, but as processor nodes shrink you get more operations per second for less power, although concentrated into a smaller area, which is why newer handhelds are starting to have more complicated cooling systems. I would be unsurprised if by the time the PS6 rolls around you can get a handheld PS5.
@Nowings @UltimateOtaku91 it feels like an acknowledgement that the Chinese games industry sure have made a AAA game that's on par with a lot of what the western industry puts out. That's certainly an accomplishment, and deserves to be celebrated, but it doesn't feel like the same thing as being Game of the Year, and I think there'd be more controversy if it won than Shadow of the Erdtree which doesn't really belong there either.
I'm looking forward to playing this one once the sharp edges have been sanded off. Probably on PC, as I'm hoping someone will make a mod for slavic accented English dialogue. The English dub is atrocious, and otherwise I'm going to end up playing in Ukrainian with subtitles
Honestly the launch model seems fine still to me. It may no longer be the best place to play AAA titles, but it certainly runs them reliably. I've recently built a new PC though, in preparation for Windows 10 End of Life next year, and I'd get prefer to put £700 towards a graphics card than marginal gains on a console that works fine. I anticipate holding onto the launch PS5 until it either dies, or the PS 6 Pro comes out.
I don't think the value proposition is anywhere near as bad though for people who only have the PS4 or PS4 Pro
I feel like a good strategy would probably be to release one tentpole AAA per year, accepting that it may be a loss leader, and release the PC port 2-3 years later, and maybe 3 live service games per generation, forever exclusive, hoping that one of them becomes a must-play. The rest should be smaller titles that are developed at a price point they can sell for £30 day one, drop to £20 6 months in, and add to PS+ after a year, and on the same day release on PC for £30.
That gives people a push to play on PlayStation, it gives players on PC a taste of what they're missing, and it vastly reduces overall development costs from what you see now. The lower budget games should be a reasonable constant trickle so people aren't complaining about there being no games, and if the first party stuff brings players to PlayStation the third party sales should stay up, which is basically free money for Sony
Depending on implementation, this could finally be what gets me to buy into VR, as one headset to play games on both platforms would be a much better value proposition than just one or the other
For those going on about cost, I'm pretty sure the smart move nowadays is going to be to upgrade every 1½ console generations, unless you have money to burn. PS4 Pro owners can probably get away with waiting another 3 years for the PS6, and then wait for the PS7 Pro after, and there'll only be a handful of games you have to wait for the new hardware on. As someone who bought the PS5 at launch rather than upgrading my PC, and who's now about to finally upgrade my rig, I'll probably hold out for the PS6 Pro before buying a new console as the PS5 is still great.
I for one am still very happy with my launch model PS5. Given I'm about to spend £1000 on bringing my desktop up to date, I can't see wanting to replace the PS5 until part way into the PS6's lifecycle so long as it will still play recent releases at 4k/30-60 FPS. If it weren't for Windows 10 approaching end of life, and wanting to install mods, I would be quite happy playing everything on PS5, but seeing as I need to upgrade to be able to keep using my PC for productivity tasks and retrogaming, I may as well give it the grunt to play some more modern games too.
Maybe it's just me (although given how many tutorials called for the move controllers, I suspect it's not) but it seemed pretty much impossible to control in creation mode with the dualsense, because it needed the extra axis provided by the gyro, but the gyro drifts like crazy (which is a common issue with the technology in general, and I tend to see it as more of an addition to stick assuming, rather than another 2-3 axes) on both my controllers making it impossible to be precise. A PC release would have been great, and could have just used similar controls to Unity/Unreal/Godot, while I wonder what they could have done for PS5, other than giving it psvr2 support
I mean if you compare multiplatform stuff to how it's priced on Steam, especially more than 6 months after release, PlayStation is generally more expensive, especially when stuff is on sale.
I don't know whether there's anything illegal about it though. There's also the fact that you can buy discounted PSN credit, which muddies the waters for me, because it suggests that they could sell credit with less of a retailer profit margin, and reduce prices, and things would work out about the same for Sony while being less complicated for the consumer.
@RudeAnimat0r do you have more than a year left on your current sub? It's been suggested that you can make use of the discount if and only if you have less than a year until it expires.
@Member_the_game eh, the further away you are, the greater the latency, so you'd have a pretty bad experience playing from the other side of the world if the software allows you (⅒ of a second minimum, for a signal to travel 20,000km, ⅕ of a second for a round trip)
(Imagine trying to play a game with a maximum frame rate of 10fps but with frequent drops and hitches)
@QBGaming12 that would be awesome, especially, hear me out, if you could switch between them at will, with all three characters playing differently and providing the key to different puzzles.
I was about to say I was looking forward to trying the Aliens game, but I was thinking of Aliens: Dark Descent
Mafia 2 is good for anyone who still hasn't played it, but I can't think too many people who are interested won't have found time in the past 12+ years to give it a go.
My favourite fan theory so far is that the stand-alone DLC which adds a 6th clan is a finished version of the story Hardsuit Labs were making, where you start as a Thinblood
Apparently the name is traditional in Greece and Armenia. I don't know the Armenian pronunciation, but in Greek it's like Fee-ruh.
The more I find out about this game, the less it feels like a sequel to 2004's VtMB and the more it sounds like a decent but wholly unrelated game based on the modern iteration of the same franchise. If I can convince myself not to compare it then I think it'll be great, but if I try to consider it a sequel I expect to be disappointed.
Alas I was stuck on a 80486DX4 until around 2001 when I got an AMD Thunderbird with 12x the clockspeed. I played Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 and Mysteries of the Sith while waiting for Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, but I don't think I've played this one
So he's probably right, but also, if you're the director for a game and you release it thinking it's not worth the money, that seems like a problem, rather than the norm
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Re: 'Not Enough Time, Not Enough Money': The Dismal Vampire Bloodlines 2 Was Doomed from the Start
Geez I used to work with Cat, what a way to find her channel
Re: Suddenly the PS5 Pro Doesn't Look That Expensive Anymore
It feels like there's a couple of things here, I mean for a start nobody needs 64GB of RAM, my machine is perfectly fine with 32, and it also doesn't need to be that fast, mine runs at 6000MT/s and if I was buying now I'd probably have gone for 6400MT/s, but beyond that you're really talking diminishing returns. All of that said, PC building is not cheap right now, I just shelled out £540 for a 9070XT and that's a midrange option, the ROG 5090 Astral edition is £2800.
Consoles are, and will always be, the cheapest way to buy hardware that'll play a large catalogue of games for about a decade from release. The cost of the games is a different story, but the vast majority of people aren't buying enough games over that period to close the gap.
PC only really makes financial sense if you're buying a midrange system about as often as consoles come out, and you're playing an absolute boatload of different titles. The real appeal of PC is a) for people who like to tinker and create (that would be me) and b) for people who absolutely must have the best hardware available to get the best graphics at the highest framerates.
The Steam Machine, for example, makes sense for (a) but not for (b). It's also likely to not be a terrible price for buying to use for about the length of a console generation, but if you're (b), you'll hate it
Re: Poll: Does the Steam Machine Pose a Threat to PS5?
If this was more powerful I'd say maybe it competes with the next PlayStation, but this is for an entirely different audience or as a second PC used for indie games and to stream to your TV
Re: Leaked Cross-Buy Icon on PS5 Hints at Mysterious Pro-Consumer Move from Sony
As someone who plays on PS5 and PC this would drive me towards buying more through the PlayStation store, which is obviously what Sony are going for. When a new game I want to play comes out I have to decide where I want to play it and depending on the game it can be an easy decision or very complicated:
Honestly there's games I haven't bought because I just couldn't decide, as well as ones I've put off because I want to play on PC but don't have a good enough GPU (hoping for some Black Friday deals) but if I could just buy on the PlayStation store and know I could play on PC too, that's worth a lot.
As for whether playing on PC is viable for the masses, I think that depends on what you want. Hardware can be expensive, and that's going to vary based on where you live and when you're buying. It cost me £500 to upgrade my pc to AM5 including a new PSU and 32GB of RAM but I'm still using my old GPU and it's likely to cost me another £500 to upgrade that, which is way more than the US$700 someone was talking about above. As for plug and play, that's better than it was, but it's still slightly more complicated than on PlayStation, even for new games, but especially for older titles - I don't mind that, I'll happily spend hours tinkering to get old games running with a mountain of mods. I did that for New Vegas a couple of months ago, and then again this month for VtMB, but the flexibility comes at a cost. A lot of these games which came out in the days of WinXP, Vista, Win7 just don't work on Windows 11 unless you install community patches etc, while anything you can install on your PS5 should just work without needing any prodding.
Re: Sounds Like Sony May Finally Be Starting to Wind Down PS4 Support
It had a great innings, I hope my launch day PS5 lasts me so long and I can save my money for PC upgrades rather than jumping on the PS6 early
Re: Xbox Console Exclusive S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Sneaks onto PS5 This Year, with PS5 Pro Improvements
I do hope the sequel plays better with a controller, I started trying to play the original and ended up plugging in a keyboard and mouse, at which point I decided to just play through them again on PC instead
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 580
Still plugging away at Blue Prince, but I've switched to PC after hitting the save bug at the end of day 88, meaning nothing I do after that gets saved. I will probably switch back over if they patch it before I do the stuff I've already done on PS5, although I spent a chunk of time yesterday organising my collection of 943 screenshots
Re: Star Wars: Grand Collection Has Three Fewer Games on PS5, PS4 Compared to Switch
KOTOR I and II were Bethesda and Obsidian respectively, so I imagine Microsoft have a say in distribution rights
Re: Mini Review: Blue Prince (PS5) - A Deceptively Deep Puzzler That Delights and Confounds
@Fritz167 honestly 40 hours in I can see how much work localising this game would be given the number of puzzles involving wordplay and specific letters or homophones. Hopefully the level of success the game has achieved means the small indie studio behind this can afford to hire some decent localisation agencies to perform the monumental task this would be.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 577
@EfYI I feel like it's well played putting this on Extra as I may be playing Blue Prince for the rest of my life, I've already put more hours in since 46 than it took me to get there
Re: Atomfall (PS5) - British Charm Elevates Riveting Mystery
@NoCode23 then that's entirely on you. The word was used correctly, and there was plenty in the review talking about how the combat was there, but not great
Re: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Bites an ESRB Rating
Honestly the original is possibly my favourite game of all time, and this doesn't look like it's shaping up to be anything like what I'd want from a sequel, but it is looking to be a pretty solid VtM videogame, so my only real complaint is that it should have got a new name when it moved studio given how it's essentially a completely different project.
Re: Atomfall (PS5) - British Charm Elevates Riveting Mystery
@NoCode23 "Lacking" ≠ "Lacks". Something is found to be lacking if there is either not enough of it or it's of insufficient quality, i.e something is lacking because you want more.
Not entirely seriously one could say that much of the comment section is found to be lacking in reading comprehension 😂
Re: 9 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for February 2025 Announced
Yay, managed to refund it. A level 4 stars account seemed to help speed things up, and somehow the refunded purchase still counts towards keeping my level next year?
Re: 9 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for February 2025 Announced
Lol, of course I just bought Jedi Survivor this week
Re: Poll: Would You Buy a PS5 Mouse Accessory?
I'd love more games on PlayStation to have mouse support, especially ports from PC where the gamepad implementation is kinda clunky (a lot of sims). I can see there being a market for a PlayStation branded mouse with the build quality of the DualSense, especially if it was also easy to use with other devices (so Bluetooth, maybe a 5 GHz dongle or able to be used with a standard USB cable), but I already have a £120 mouse (Logitech MX Master) so I'm hoping not to be in the market for a while.
Re: Sony to Mostly Drop PS4 Games from PS Plus Starting January 2026
Seems pretty clear to me
There's still going to be games you can play on PS4, it's just that they're not adding anything that's not on PS5, and you're not guaranteed any particular number of PS4 titles in any given month.
Re: Sony to Mostly Drop PS4 Games from PS Plus Starting January 2026
Breaking news: they're going to stop actively incentivising people to use their 13 yo console and encourage people to move across to their 4 yo console.
Next up, water is wet. More news at 10
Re: Game of the Year: Push Square Readers' 20 Most Anticipated PS5 Games of 2025
2 of my most anticipated are in the top 5, big I'm also quite looking forward to VtMB2, which is slated for the first half of the year. It's not the same game I was looking forward to in 2018, but it still looks interesting, if more of a 7/10 rather than the 9/10 I wanted (i.e if it's your jam you'll love it, but it's unlikely to be a mass market hit). I'm also hoping that STALKER 2 will come to PS5 in 2025, but I might end up getting it on PC anyway.
Re: PS5 Handheld Device in the Works at Sony, New Report Claims
@Fishnpeas that helps, but it still doesn't make up for an order of magnitude difference in processing power
Re: PS5 Handheld Device in the Works at Sony, New Report Claims
@Fishnpeas the Steam Deck as a product isn't that old, but the Aerith APU it runs on is a Zen 2 chip, which is a 5 year old architecture. Zen 3 had been out for 2 years when it released and Zen 4 released before the Steam Deck had reached most of the world. There's certainly a lot of new games people consider "unplayable" on the Deck. The PS5 is also Zen 2 but is much larger with a vastly largest power budget etc, meaning it can perform much better through brute force. This is evident when you contrast the Deck's 1-1.6TF of GPU throughput to the PS5's 10TF - it's not apples to apples but it certainly shows the order of magnitude difference in performance, despite the smaller console releasing 2 years more recently.
Re: PS5 Handheld Device in the Works at Sony, New Report Claims
@ChimpMasta half of all PlayStation players are still on the PS4. The Steam Deck is really old hardware as is the Nintendo Switch. People still want to play games that aren't on the cutting edge and a lot of people are happy to pay a premium to play them on the move without needing a connection to their home console or a cloud gaming service.
I could see it being fairly popular if you have one device that plays all the games from the past two generations, as well as emulated PS1&2 games, as well as being a great way to remote play games from the new generation. It's likely that the PS5 will have an even longer tail than the PS4, so I can't see there being many games you can play on the the PS6 that aren't also playable on the PS5, and of those I can't see them being games you'd want to play on a handheld anyway.
Re: PS5 Handheld Device in the Works at Sony, New Report Claims
@ChimpMasta not with current chips, but as processor nodes shrink you get more operations per second for less power, although concentrated into a smaller area, which is why newer handhelds are starting to have more complicated cooling systems. I would be unsurprised if by the time the PS6 rolls around you can get a handheld PS5.
Re: GOTY Nominee Black Myth: Wukong Bags PS Plus Premium Demo
@Nowings @UltimateOtaku91 it feels like an acknowledgement that the Chinese games industry sure have made a AAA game that's on par with a lot of what the western industry puts out. That's certainly an accomplishment, and deserves to be celebrated, but it doesn't feel like the same thing as being Game of the Year, and I think there'd be more controversy if it won than Shadow of the Erdtree which doesn't really belong there either.
Re: STALKER 2's Technical Troubles Likely Fixed by the Time It Comes to PS5
I'm looking forward to playing this one once the sharp edges have been sanded off. Probably on PC, as I'm hoping someone will make a mod for slavic accented English dialogue. The English dub is atrocious, and otherwise I'm going to end up playing in Ukrainian with subtitles
Re: Review: PS5 Pro - An Impressive Yet Inconsistent Upgrade
Honestly the launch model seems fine still to me. It may no longer be the best place to play AAA titles, but it certainly runs them reliably. I've recently built a new PC though, in preparation for Windows 10 End of Life next year, and I'd get prefer to put £700 towards a graphics card than marginal gains on a console that works fine. I anticipate holding onto the launch PS5 until it either dies, or the PS 6 Pro comes out.
I don't think the value proposition is anywhere near as bad though for people who only have the PS4 or PS4 Pro
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for March 2024 Announced
Feeling pretty vindicated in my sluggishness to play Sifu
Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now
I feel like a good strategy would probably be to release one tentpole AAA per year, accepting that it may be a loss leader, and release the PC port 2-3 years later, and maybe 3 live service games per generation, forever exclusive, hoping that one of them becomes a must-play. The rest should be smaller titles that are developed at a price point they can sell for £30 day one, drop to £20 6 months in, and add to PS+ after a year, and on the same day release on PC for £30.
That gives people a push to play on PlayStation, it gives players on PC a taste of what they're missing, and it vastly reduces overall development costs from what you see now. The lower budget games should be a reasonable constant trickle so people aren't complaining about there being no games, and if the first party stuff brings players to PlayStation the third party sales should stay up, which is basically free money for Sony
Re: Xbox May Need to Familiarise Itself with PS5, PS4's Platinum Trophies
Obviously the issue with PlatinumTrophy is that it's PascalCase and it would be better in camelCase or snake_case
Re: Sony Testing PSVR2 Compatibility on PC, Aiming for This Year
Depending on implementation, this could finally be what gets me to buy into VR, as one headset to play games on both platforms would be a much better value proposition than just one or the other
Re: Upgraded PS5 Pro Planning to Be the Best Place to Play GTA 6
For those going on about cost, I'm pretty sure the smart move nowadays is going to be to upgrade every 1½ console generations, unless you have money to burn. PS4 Pro owners can probably get away with waiting another 3 years for the PS6, and then wait for the PS7 Pro after, and there'll only be a handful of games you have to wait for the new hardware on. As someone who bought the PS5 at launch rather than upgrading my PC, and who's now about to finally upgrade my rig, I'll probably hold out for the PS6 Pro before buying a new console as the PS5 is still great.
Re: Upgraded PS5 Pro Planning to Be the Best Place to Play GTA 6
I for one am still very happy with my launch model PS5. Given I'm about to spend £1000 on bringing my desktop up to date, I can't see wanting to replace the PS5 until part way into the PS6's lifecycle so long as it will still play recent releases at 4k/30-60 FPS. If it weren't for Windows 10 approaching end of life, and wanting to install mods, I would be quite happy playing everything on PS5, but seeing as I need to upgrade to be able to keep using my PC for productivity tasks and retrogaming, I may as well give it the grunt to play some more modern games too.
Re: Rumour: PC, PS5 Versions of Media Molecule's Dreams Were Allegedly Real, Cancelled
Maybe it's just me (although given how many tutorials called for the move controllers, I suspect it's not) but it seemed pretty much impossible to control in creation mode with the dualsense, because it needed the extra axis provided by the gyro, but the gyro drifts like crazy (which is a common issue with the technology in general, and I tend to see it as more of an addition to stick assuming, rather than another 2-3 axes) on both my controllers making it impossible to be precise. A PC release would have been great, and could have just used similar controls to Unity/Unreal/Godot, while I wonder what they could have done for PS5, other than giving it psvr2 support
Re: Random: Yorkshire Tea Is Brewing Up a Custom PS5 Controller for Some Reason
I used to think Yorkshire tea was ok, until I tried their loose leaf, which is better than a lot of premium teas
Re: Court Rules £5 Billion Lawsuit Against Sony Can Go Ahead, Following Years of 'Excessive' PS Store Prices
I mean if you compare multiplatform stuff to how it's priced on Steam, especially more than 6 months after release, PlayStation is generally more expensive, especially when stuff is on sale.
I don't know whether there's anything illegal about it though. There's also the fact that you can buy discounted PSN credit, which muddies the waters for me, because it suggests that they could sell credit with less of a retailer profit margin, and reduce prices, and things would work out about the same for Sony while being less complicated for the consumer.
Re: PS Plus Subscriptions on Sale Now, But There's a Big Catch
@RudeAnimat0r do you have more than a year left on your current sub? It's been suggested that you can make use of the discount if and only if you have less than a year until it expires.
Re: Gravelly-Voiced Geralt Voice Actor to Reprise Role in The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
@Americansamurai1 sorry, Amazon, it's their stock ticker (and after checking, it's actually AMZN, which is hardly quicker to type 🤦)
Re: PS Plus Gets Heavy Discounts for Black Friday
Just checked and I'm already subbed until 2024-12-03. I guess there was a deal earlier in the year.
Re: Gravelly-Voiced Geralt Voice Actor to Reprise Role in The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
@Americansamurai1 didn't AZN just lay off 180 videogame developers?
Re: Video: PS Portal Unboxing Gives Us Our First Look at Sony's PS5 Handheld
@Member_the_game sure, and my answer was about the limits, in theory. Realistically in real-world scenarios you'd be looking at about 1fps
Re: Video: PS Portal Unboxing Gives Us Our First Look at Sony's PS5 Handheld
@Member_the_game eh, the further away you are, the greater the latency, so you'd have a pretty bad experience playing from the other side of the world if the software allows you (⅒ of a second minimum, for a signal to travel 20,000km, ⅕ of a second for a round trip)
(Imagine trying to play a game with a maximum frame rate of 10fps but with frequent drops and hitches)
Re: God of War's Next PS5 Game Could Be Revealed Before the End of the Year
@QBGaming12 that would be awesome, especially, hear me out, if you could switch between them at will, with all three characters playing differently and providing the key to different puzzles.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for November 2023 Leaked
@nessisonett you think they're funny?
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for November 2023 Leaked
I was about to say I was looking forward to trying the Aliens game, but I was thinking of Aliens: Dark Descent
Mafia 2 is good for anyone who still hasn't played it, but I can't think too many people who are interested won't have found time in the past 12+ years to give it a go.
Re: Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 Reveals Its Protagonist
My favourite fan theory so far is that the stand-alone DLC which adds a 6th clan is a finished version of the story Hardsuit Labs were making, where you start as a Thinblood
Re: Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 Reveals Its Protagonist
Apparently the name is traditional in Greece and Armenia. I don't know the Armenian pronunciation, but in Greek it's like Fee-ruh.
The more I find out about this game, the less it feels like a sequel to 2004's VtMB and the more it sounds like a decent but wholly unrelated game based on the modern iteration of the same franchise. If I can convince myself not to compare it then I think it'll be great, but if I try to consider it a sequel I expect to be disappointed.
Re: PS1 FPS Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster Lands on PS5, PS4 in February
Alas I was stuck on a 80486DX4 until around 2001 when I got an AMD Thunderbird with 12x the clockspeed. I played Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 and Mysteries of the Sith while waiting for Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, but I don't think I've played this one
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 PS5 Director: This Game Is Worth the Money
So he's probably right, but also, if you're the director for a game and you release it thinking it's not worth the money, that seems like a problem, rather than the norm
Re: Artistic PS5 Indie INDIKA Is Unlike Anything You've Seen Before
@Gaia093: I would guess it was edited for the reasons @Hyena_socks suggested
Re: Gimli Actor Will Reprise Role in Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria on PS5
I'll probably try this out if it was on plus, but it doesn't scream "purchase" to me