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One scoop pistachio, the other dark chocolate. Can't go wrong.

@SystemAddict IIRC it's actually one of the fastest SSDs on the market, mostly because you only get up to 1TB per NAND chip, so they need 8 of them, which is the most you can fit on a card, with all the parallel access benefits that brings when paired with a decent memory controller.

@MattBoothDev sure, but the difference is likely immaterial to me

Surely the real question is whether the 8tb Sabrent Rocket is compatible?

Evidently this is the drive that should have shipped with the system /s

See usually I'd be buying maybe 3 or 4 of these, but with the new PS plus tiers I'm not sure what the point would be. I can get a load of them on the Extra tier and it'll cost me less?

@Americansamurai1 the early game is particularly weak, but if you keep at it then it rises to the lofty heights of "fine". By the time you've hit level 20 you're starting to get some interesting skills and some legendary gear, and it's almost interesting?

I'm at level 34 and some of the later side content is good. One or two of the characters are interesting and well fleshed out. I guess some people will have strong feelings either way about how often this game is horny on main?

I could see them getting a limited amount of the PS3 library, the games that didn't make the most of the architecture, working well on the PS5, but I'm pretty sure there will be games which will only run with serious regressions in performance.

If they do this just for PS Plus Ultimate or whatever they're calling it, they can be selective about the library they offer, as well as making sure that remasters and remakes of some of the games which don't make it are included.

If they just roll it out and say you can play your old games, but only these ones - they're going to have a messaging nightmare.

@Rural-Bandit Eh It's basic game theory though: if you have a bunch of entities harmoniously coexisting then everything's fine, but as soon as one of them starts absorbing others, it makes sense for everyone else to absorb anything they can to grow to a size that can't be absorbed by a competitor.

Ultimately this is why without regulation, such as by strict competition authorities, capitalism inevitably leads to monopolies. If the state will not step in and say enough is enough, Sony and Microsoft are going to have to continue to acquire anything and everything they can, else lose any competitive advantage they have. Before Microsoft bought Bethesda things were going at a sustainable pace. Now that one of them has started throwing billions at the market, the gloves are off and neither can afford to stand down.

Please be Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 (It won't be)

@VatoLoco47 they'll be downloadable, apparently.

Given the number of times I almost bought Slay the Spire I'll be glad to give it a go finally. Neither of the other games particularly appeal to me, but it seem like a pretty good variety for a service which has been caught up in giving us the carved-off worst bits of games so frequently nowadays.

I could dig them both being called Ratchet, but every other variation there is objectively worse than Rivet.

Ratchette would have been pretty terrible, given how 'ratchet' is a word and 'ratchette' isn't - it definitely sets her up as a mere variant rather than the protagonist of the franchise in a different universe.

It's the most comfortable controller I've ever used, and very feature rich, but I also never got stick drift on my Steam Controller, despite the gulf in build quality. My launch day controller is still going strong having been relegated to spare after 7 months use, but the midnight black is back with Sony due to left stick issues.

On the one hand its had over 1500 hours of play, but on the other hand my trusty Steam Controller has done 5 or 6 times that despite sounding like it was going to fall apart on day 1.

After finally picking up the platinum for Horizon Forbidden West this week, I've picked up Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time, and it's... Fine?

It's not a broken mess, and it's not a masterpiece (but I wasn't expecting that). It just feels like a much older game, and I was expecting something that felt like an improvement on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided? Instead it just feels kinda bland. As I say, it's fine.

@Grimwood as always, the answer depends on what sort of game you're trying to make and with what sort of budget.

@TheMadRabbid it's all good, this is the internet, misunderstandings happen.

While I'm cis myself, I hang around in a lot of intersectional spaces (mostly with other disabled people, but given how anyone can be disabled, it tends to be pretty diverse), and it's amazing how many problems there are with the world building in question, from so many different angles, once you understand the only inbuilt prejudices. I shan't get into it too much lest it's deemed off topic and deleted, but feel free to hit me up on PSN, same username as here.

@TheMadRabbid I hear it has you quashing a goblin uprising? And that they've worked in the old blood libel? Struggling to figure out whether this is genuine, or people throwing fuel on the fire.

I shan't be buying it (for similar reasons to you), but if the plot is as rumoured, I'll be giving those who do some serious side-eye.

I am 85 hours in and just now finding out you can swan dive?!?

Hope the Firegleam and metal flowers fix also fixes hunting for Greenshine slabs (it keeps trying to send me to where I've already taken one, and doesn't register that it's gone)

@Nightcrawler71 https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/ps_general_discussion/formatting

75 hours into Horizon Forbidden West and while I'm pretty sure there's only one main mission left, the statistics screen says I'm only 70% complete - still plenty of side-content I don't want to miss out on before I put the game down and wait for the DLC.

Edit: I'm not unconvinced at this rate that I will eventually have enough points to upgrade everything. I currently have everything except the skills for two weapons I don't really use, and a load of valor surges. I've figured out I'd need to spend 101 more points to finish everything, and there are plenty of side quests and errands waiting to be finished.

@Voltan Huh, I assumed that San Fransisco was supposed to be because the San Andreas Fault had given way, dropping everything west into the ocean

@ATaco ah the helmets are when I started using the penetrating arrows, before that I was just using standard sharpshot arrows, and one to the head did fine. With the helmets I switched it up to use the penetrating arrows and the weapon skill that does extra zoom and damage, and I was still getting one shot kills.

Silent strike is probably the way to do it, but I prefer the sniper way of doing it: get up high, locate the leader using the focus, scan the surrounding area, picking them off along with anyone with line-of-sight to the leader. Then I glide in, snatch the dog tags, and escape with the rest of the camp none the wiser.

It feels like the smart play, and really what human can take two arrows through the skull?

The only bug that's really bothering me is the Metal Flower/Firegleam bug, but not because of those - it bothers me because it also seems to affect Greenshine. When I set to track the materials for an upgrade which needs a slab of the stuff, it keeps guiding me to sites I've already taken it from, which means scrambling to some barely accessible location only for it to turn out empty.

I have faith they'll fix it soon enough, it just obviously prevents me from playing around with weapon variety as much as I'd like, as without upgrades a lot of them aren't really viable compared to what I'm already using.

I've done Thebes in San Francisco, as well as the companion quest that follows, but currently I'm working through rebel camps etc. Hit level 50 today, and I'm not sure whether it's where I'm at in the rebel camps, or having hit the level cap, or the latest patch, but the enemies have suddenly become much tankier for some reason? As in two piercing sharpshot arrows to the head with maxed out valour, infiltration, stealth coils on a max upgrade bow etc etc are now under half some human enemies health bars on normal difficulty? IDK, just an unexpected difficulty spike which means I have to be a little more tactical with my ammo.

Hoping to do most of the side content before I finish the campaign. Only got 42 trophies so far, so probably still plenty to do

8/15, but I have to admit a couple of those were educated guesses, and another couple were sheer luck

Still Horizon Forbidden West. I'm working through all the side missions and upgrades because I don't want the game to be over yet, but soon I'll be doing [[main line story mission]] Faro's Tomb which I assume starts the slide into the endgame.

Some people didn't sit through the credits to Bastille Day (2016) and it shows 🤣

https://youtu.be/0WShPOyXyW4

@Palleon or just a couple of weeks delay to release? I'd rather play a game which hasn't done lasting damage to the team's mental and emotional health, their relationships, etc.

I'm a little disappointed with the state this released in, but only because my expectations were set so high by the previous game. I feel like this buggyness is the true cost of cross platform development. It's still vastly more stable than the average third party game on release.

The fact that enemies are less bullet-spongy is a positive, but I'm still kinda burned out by BL3. By the time I played it the second season pass was out, and a load of stuff just wasn't viable without paying for it. The kreig dlc for example, highlighted how much the original Zane skill trees had been nerfed, leading to a situation where soloing the end boss isn't possible at high mayhem levels without the 4th skill tree, because you can't carry enough ammo even with all the SDUs and an optimised build using things available from the main game.

@thebizniznizbiz technical babble? I was trying to keep things simple 😅

Apologies if I caused any offence, it very much read as an earnest statement, so it felt worthwhile pointing out the logical errors it seemed to elude to. I guess what I could have pointed out is that it'll run AAA games from a decade ago (that aren't crysis) at 60+ FPS easily, and a fair few which are more recent. Unfortunately having to figure out what games will run on your hardware as an acceptable experience is the reality of gaming on PC if you don't have an unlimited budget.

@thebizniznizbiz AAAs made how recently? It you mean "all AAAs made within a year of release", we're probably talking about waiting at least another decade. Low power computing is always going to come at a performance penalty. Mobile computing has to be low power. You're also talking about a performance target that generally requires spending a minimum of £700 to get on desktop (more with current price issues), and for mass market you need a <£500 SKU.

Ghostrunner is one of those titles that I never would have bought, but I'm excited to try out. The sonic racing game is one of be glad to have in my library for couch coop if it's supported. I have no interest in the carved-off multiplayer parts of full games.

All in all this month is fine for me. It's not spectacular, but it's not terrible either. I gave it a "Meh"

@PenguinL I'm only probably ⅓ of the way in, I've had

• A small handful of insignificant visual glitches (missing particle effects, models clipping through scenery, pop-in during the intro, and sometimes the focus later being incorrectly active/inactive during cutscenes). None of this has been persistent, maybe one to three examples of each, I proudly wouldn't have noticed a lot of it if I hadn't used to work in QA.
• One (physics) clipping problem which made me reload a save to complete a puzzle (kept falling through a box which I needed to put something on, which meant I couldn't pick it up)
• One area with major slowdowns where it became a slideshow. I had to save and reload mid-mission as the frame rate was literally unplayable (1-4 FPS) (seems to be a specific mission set around Plainsong, as part of the main quest-line, probably not unloading an area used in the previous cutscene before loading the next area which is combat-heavy)

Other than those issues of varying degree, playing on resolution mode, I've barely seen it ever dip noticeably under the targeted 30fps, the graphics and artstyle are stunning, and you really appreciate the effort they've put into dialogue scenes, fabric meshes, etc etc if you look back at the original.

Still taking my time in Horizon Forbidden West, and just got past the Base, so I can't imagine, other than the rugby, I'll be doing much else sofa-based with my weekend.

I highly suspect that "premium" will only be available in selected territories, like PS Now

@__jamiie what big words and foreign phrases?

I knew it, I thought I said in the earlier article that it would be about whether you are the one doing it, or whether you just watch it happen, but I can't find that, maybe that's a discussion I had elsewhere. I definitely said though that it mattered whether the content is optional. I think a lot of people will look at this and say "what's the point?", but interaction is the crux of what makes videogames feel so much more personal and immersive than films, and I don't think this was necessarily handled poorly.

Shocking, the rumours were right on the money, who'd have thought?

@Apfelschteiner as for why I don't have gamespass: I want to play the Sony exclusives, and I can't afford to pay two subscriptions as well as either upgrading my PC or buying an XBox. I play AAAs on my PlayStation and indies on my PC - that works out for me pretty well. In 2021 I spent over 1700 hours on my PlayStation, for less than £300 spend, which makes it fairly cost-effective as hobbies go.

@Apfelschteiner to support the studios who make the games I enjoy most. Also it's nice to get to play stuff before the internet has spoiled everything.

Surely it doesn't really matter why I buy new games, just that there are people who buy new games, but also care a lot what they get as part of their subscription?

@KeldorTheCursed I didn't start it yet because I knew that by the time I finish Forbidden West I would have forgotten the controls and any story I'd got through. Next in my queue!

@jbreez00 my only disappointment with the soundtrack is that it doesn't include the licensed tracks. At the price, that seems kinda mean.

@Arasumian that would be enough to make this a decent month

@Apfelschteiner as someone who pre-ordered HFW Special Edition, and would be disappointed with this selection, I beg to differ. I'll buy 1-2 full price games per year, the rest have to be on sale because I'm on a fixed income, and PS+ games fill the time between sales.

@FatalBubbles it would be nice if a game of that length had some extra replayability, or post-endgame content, because otherwise I feel it struggles to justify its RRP (yes it's discounted regularly, but what outside of first party titles isn't?)

Other than that, I totally agree - my first playthrough was great, and if you can pick up the game for £15-25 that's all you need.

@voogles sure, except a load of us have already bought it (I'm just playing Forbidden West first)

I had an absolute blast on my first playthrough of this. Getting the platinum was a little laborious though, as the alternative paths were generally not that different (other than Hellbender's palace), and I generally found it lacked replayability.

@voogles thanks for breaking the illusion for everyone who's been waiting to play on PS5! /s

I feel like part of this is because there's a time and a place for bad films. I wouldn't go into this, or a Marvel film, expecting peak cultural enlightenment. It feels like critic reviews try to put a single score on films that reflects how they compare to every other film out there, and by that metric, these films deserve their low scores.

People who go to see these films, on the other hand, are looking for something big and dumb and joyful, which these films do great, and if they rate them for that, they're justified in getting a high score.

Without agreeing what metrics matter, there's always going to be disagreement, especially for what might be described as low-brow entertainment.

@Liverbirdsarego Seems highly unlikely, but you could always remote play?