@nomither6 to be fair it's the mouse that's a serious advantage for aiming, the keyboard is just its natural pairing. I'd recommend using something like Portal or Superhead to get your eye in before playing more time critical competitive stuff. You'll likely end up slowly increasing mouse sensitivity as you build the instinct for "when my arm/wrist/fingers move like this, it moves my viewport like that" until it becomes something you no longer have to think about.
@nomither6 for me as a keyboard and mouse player since the 90s the difference isn't even funny, although gyro aiming in Deathloop helped me get about halfway there
Seeing as people (including a lot of product managers and developers who implement them, including at institutions that should know better like banks) don't seem to get the point of multifactor authentication, and I've spent time working on security focused systems, here's the deal:
A factor can be:
Something you know (like a username or password)
Something you are (think biometrics like face recognition, fingerprints, iris scans)
Something you have (your phone, a ubikey, a smart card)
Somewhere you are (this could be from GPS or a combination of nearby access points, or a whitelisted IP address range associated with a known site)
2-factor authentication requires that you use information from two of these categories (multifactor authentication requires at least two, but up to all 4, depending on configuration).
An email address only be verifies that you know the credentials to access that email address, so doesn't provide any additional factors on top of a user name or password.
SMS verification is intended to verify that you have possession of the SIM card associated with that phone number, however due to numerous issues that allow a SIM to be cloned or for your SMS inbox to otherwise be accessed (I can get into mine by logging into my provider's website) it is also not any better than a username and password.
An obvious second factor from my point of view would be the primary console or PC that you use to access your account (probably more specifically the MAC Address of your primary network interface, or a motherboard serial number, something like that). You nominate hardware for your account, and that hardware needs to be used to generate an access code to add other hardware to your account. You can move which is your primary device, but only if your account is in good standing, and you can only have any one device associated with any one account at a time. It gets inconvenient if you share a console, although you could maybe have sub accounts where any one account cheating bans the whole group, but it means cheaters rapidly run out of devices to cheat on unless they keep buying new hardware.
And yet PS5 is still the simplest and most cost effective way to play all of Sony's output for the next 5+ years. Which is why I bought their console and skipped a twice per decade PC upgrade.
For some reason I've struggled to get into the third reboot game as much as the others, despite being technically excellent. I'm hoping that this is what pulls me back in.
@stvevan and you did read the part where I was explicitly including side content? It was right there in parentheses. The target demographic I was referring to are unlikely to skip half of the game.
@Max_the_German then consider each main mission a story, and you've got loads of short little games. Meanwhile those of us who don't have more money than time get to enjoy a satisfyingly complete experience for our money. As @TheArt says, not everyone can justify spending £70 on a 10 hour game when that's a few week's food budget, and they can fill their time in less satisfying games from a subscription service.
Meanwhile, there's so much lore they never touched on in the first game, and which is hinted at in the teasers, and you probably need that 3+ hours of cutscenes to do it justice. If the cutscenes were much more than 10% of the game's playtime (including side content) then it probably wouldn't feel much like a game.
@Max_the_German then imagine that it's two games bundled together as a combo deal. I'm not sure what splitting it in two achieves other than extending development times and letting them charge twice as much?
I honestly don't see this needing a huge effort. They would probably get 90% of the way there just moving the existing maps and missions to the version of the engine they used for Forbidden West, and using some of the highest resolution textures etc from the PC port. Then it's a QA pass and fixing anything that didn't quite carry over, and for the effort you get the original game with all the new accessibility features, plus updated visuals.
The only thing which might make it a lot of effort is if they revamp all the cinematics and dialogue, which are much more dynamic in the sequel - that would either mean hand animating dozens of hours of animation, or bringing the actors back into the studio
I honestly don't see this needing a huge effort. They would probably get 90% of the way there just moving the existing maps and missions to the version of the engine they used for Forbidden West, and using some of the highest resolution textures etc from the PC port. Then it's a QA pass and fixing anything that didn't quite carry over, and for the effort you get the original game with all the new accessibility features, plus updated visuals.
The only thing which might make it a lot of effort is if they revamp all the cinematics and dialogue, which are much more dynamic in the sequel - that would either mean hand animating dozens of hours of animation, or bringing the actors back into the studio
While it's never great to see folks getting s***canned, it feels important to note that we know almost nothing about what went on, and we also don't know for sure how much the leads contributed to how great their last game was.
I'd like to hope that they both find something great to work on, whether it's their own thing, or joining an existing project.
@UltimateOtaku91 assuming you have the relevant subscriptions, I'd advise the PS5 over the Series S for Deathloop: the gyro aiming controls make things a lot more fluid/precise than you'd usually expect on a controller, and I was able to consistently best players on PC using a keyboard and mouse, which having only played on console with the PS5, isn't usual for me.
I finished getting the Plat on Deathloop earlier this week, and have downloaded AC: Valhalla to start at some point, but for now it's likely the same mix of Scott Pilgrim and Stellaris as yesterday, switching based on what attention/energy I have to give things.
1/ you can get cold hard cash off your next game or subscription, and
2/ it doesn't require boiling the ocean to run it (a simple centralised database is very cheap and efficient to run, compared to a Blockchain which has to be deliberately inefficient to prevent people from easily being able to make edited versions while still allowing anyone to add new legitimate ledger entries)
@bpomber I get where you're coming from, and the devs definitely deserve to be compensated for their work, but on the other hand it ends up being another CripTax - if you're perfectly able then you can play the PS4 version incredibly cheaply via the PS5 Collection, but if you need the new accessibility options then you need to hand over £70. There's so many things in life where the accessible version costs more because it's sold as the luxury version, and we just have to accept it
I don't know what the solution is, but it's frustrating, especially given that demographically disabled people are likely to earn much less, or like myself, be unable to hold employment, having to rely on our partners and/or meager state aid.
@Broosh that and the gunplay was in no way controller optimised - compared to TimeSplitters it felt very clunky (back when consoles got bad PC ports just as often as PC for terrible console ports)
I'd love to see them make something in the vein of the old Jedi Knight games, 2 and 3 were exceptional for the time. I'd guess their stories are now Legend status, but if like to see something that takes that style of 1st/3rd person dynamic lightsaber fighting with the force powers that kinda interplay. Fallen Order scratched that itch at a very surface level, but it kinda felt more like the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy than it did the classic Star Wars games.
@Broosh to be fair the average-at-best original looked pretty unique at release (cell shading wasn't a common artstyle in 3d yet) which gave it novelty value. I enjoyed it on PC, but remember playing splitscreen on a mate's GameCube and it was not great, at least on Nintendo's console at the time. I don't know how it was on PS2 but given the level of parity in the TimeSplitters series I'd guess it was similar?
@LiamCroft Phew, I'm just so used to seeing only negative comments on articles about it. My only regret is that it's not XCom 3 (yet), although I'm thinking this is that Chimera Squad was based on a tech demo for (really enjoyed it, but much less replay value than the mainline games)
@themightyant for me it's the voice acting; the timing of just slightly off, and I guess we're not used to hearing regional accents on games outside of medieval themed fantasy, which in have a history of being super hammy?
For what it's worth, I liked the second season, even if it was lacking in Yennifer's boobs when compared with the first. It was slow, but IMHO really paid it off towards the end.
In other matters, surely Minnie Driver is best known for her cameo in GoldenEye (https://youtu.be/aTxZeHy4kOI)? That terrible singing seared itself into my youthful mind.
Edit: I can never figure out what this site expects as the formatting for YouTube links as the guide says they're supposed to just work
@LN78 I already did before I posted it (not seeing any edits). Odd that it didn't show immediately for you though, and makes me consider editing the spoiler out completely
Started Deathloop when it was added to Extra on the 20th, and having a great time with it. I had a flu jab yesterday, so I'm feeling rather under the weather, but once I get up, I'll be diving into that again.
Discovering everything is great, and the gunplay is awesome, a lot better than Prey, with the same first person platforming that the Dishonoured series inexplicably made work, but without feeling like stealth is the only valid approach.
Really loving it, sad that it's likely to be the last Arcane game on PS5. Never saw it coming that there was the twist you discover about Juliana (while solving the RAK puzzle), real WTF moment!
I often turn off gyro aiming after giving it a go, because it rarely lives up to the promise. In this game in loving it though. I just wish the flick sticks could be only active after a threshold, do you can have 90% of the travel be normal, with a 90° turn if you dip into the last 10%.
I'm still spoiled by the Steam Controller Overlay and its many configuration options.
@zupertramp I can see why you'd want it, but you'd at least need elbow pads for tracking, and I'm not sure how well it would work with inside out tracking.
You only need to draw the hands when the controllers are in front of the headset, but if the controller is in front but the elbow pad is behind then you likely lose tracking and have to guess the location, which again is likely to be inaccurate.
Folks I know who work in VR gaming say that inaccurate representation of your body is much more immersion-breaking than the lack thereof, and can often seem to increase motion sickness. Showing the hands is necessary feedback for the player (because they show what you can interact with, increase player accuracy significantly) while the arms would be entirely cosmetic
This will likely be the only full price game I buy this year other than Forbidden West (which I've played through 3 times already, but since that I've mostly been enjoying the backlog I got from PS+ Extra) and if it's even half as good as the last one it'll be worth every penny.
The original started during prohibition (1930), but it would be great to see what happened between Sallieri and Morello before then (you see a photo at some point during when they were best mates, so a few missions before some great falling out, followed by all out war until somehow the city is divided up, part way though all of that you get the start of prohibition). The only issue with that idea is that you already know how it ends.
If Sony were to take their latest Xperia phone, weld a controller to it, and call it the Vita 2 then people would be crying out in celebration, but because they're targeting hardware people already own, the same people are in uproar.
I'm up to Chapter 3 of Red Dead Redemption 2, and while I'm still not seeing it for the masterpiece everyone says it is, it's worth playing.
My thumbs are feeling the punishment though, even with the accessibility options set there's just so much tapping. Crafting is a real chore, and I just wish you could say "I want to make 100 split point rifle rounds" and it fades to black, comes back with time having passed as you finish making the last one.
@Th3solution to be fair it used to go towards things like education, but over the past decade of Tory rule anything useful has been stripped back until it's worryingly underfunded, without the taxpayer seeing any real reduction
@Th3solution nah, the NHS, along with State Pension, are funded by National Insurance, which comes out of earnings, VAT goes into the tax pot along with the rest of them, and pays for things like road repairs, expense fraud and paying ministers' mates contracts that they never fulfill so they'll offer those same ministers cushy board positions when they're voted out of office
@Royalblues 3rd party are just as susceptable unless they use hall-effect sensors instead of potentiometers. It used to be so bad that there would be little calibration knobs next to the stick so you could mechanically reset the zero point
@Nexozi Ah, I think you might be missing the context of them having already announced that it'll release Early 2023. It probably would have been clearer if I'd spelled out that that's what the 'if' was referring to. My bad!
@Nexozi No, I said I don't care about release date, just price - it's always good to see progress, but it doesn't mean anything to me. I'm not sure how you read what I wrote and came to that conclusion.
I'll be keeping up with the news obviously, but I'm in the middle of a house move so it's hard to prioritise something that I won't have a usable space to set up in for a while.
I've been incredibly sceptical of this game from the get-go, and honestly this gives me some hope that the gameplay might make up for some of the general jankiness that's so obviously on display (Nothing really seems to fit together - there's a lot that's individually ok or maybe even impressive, but it doesn't mesh well with the stuff it interacts with, which makes the whole much less than the sum of its parts), but I still think nothing short of it turning out to be a gameplay revolution (which it doesn't look like) will make up for voice acting that makes me want to claw my own ears off.
And speaking of voice acting - did they use text to speech for the presenter, or did they really find someone that unable to emote and make the game seem interesting?
I'm glad that this shows progress towards launch, but currently it doesn't mean anything to me. I just need a price, release date doesn't mean much to me if it's the first half of next year, as I'm likely to wait until my birthday in July anyway.
Currently I wouldn't buy it, I already have two controllers, but if one conks out I'd happily pay up to £100, but more than that I'd likely pay up to £125 if both of my controllers died.
The thing that would change that is if they supported multiple switchable pairings, but they've not advertised it, so I'll assume they don't.
I wouldn't worry too much about hall effect sensors, some third party will release a replacement module, like with the Steam Deck and the Switch
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Re: Blizzard Drops Phone Number Requirement As Overwatch 2 Launch Woes Continue
@nomither6 to be fair it's the mouse that's a serious advantage for aiming, the keyboard is just its natural pairing. I'd recommend using something like Portal or Superhead to get your eye in before playing more time critical competitive stuff. You'll likely end up slowly increasing mouse sensitivity as you build the instinct for "when my arm/wrist/fingers move like this, it moves my viewport like that" until it becomes something you no longer have to think about.
Re: Blizzard Drops Phone Number Requirement As Overwatch 2 Launch Woes Continue
@nomither6 for me as a keyboard and mouse player since the 90s the difference isn't even funny, although gyro aiming in Deathloop helped me get about halfway there
Re: Blizzard Drops Phone Number Requirement As Overwatch 2 Launch Woes Continue
Seeing as people (including a lot of product managers and developers who implement them, including at institutions that should know better like banks) don't seem to get the point of multifactor authentication, and I've spent time working on security focused systems, here's the deal:
A factor can be:
2-factor authentication requires that you use information from two of these categories (multifactor authentication requires at least two, but up to all 4, depending on configuration).
An email address only be verifies that you know the credentials to access that email address, so doesn't provide any additional factors on top of a user name or password.
SMS verification is intended to verify that you have possession of the SIM card associated with that phone number, however due to numerous issues that allow a SIM to be cloned or for your SMS inbox to otherwise be accessed (I can get into mine by logging into my provider's website) it is also not any better than a username and password.
An obvious second factor from my point of view would be the primary console or PC that you use to access your account (probably more specifically the MAC Address of your primary network interface, or a motherboard serial number, something like that). You nominate hardware for your account, and that hardware needs to be used to generate an access code to add other hardware to your account. You can move which is your primary device, but only if your account is in good standing, and you can only have any one device associated with any one account at a time. It gets inconvenient if you share a console, although you could maybe have sub accounts where any one account cheating bans the whole group, but it means cheaters rapidly run out of devices to cheat on unless they keep buying new hardware.
Re: CATAN: Console Edition Will Start Feuds and Ruin Friendships on PS5, PS4
Has anyone got wood?
Re: PlayStation Bigwigs Won't Shut Up About PC, Smartphones
And yet PS5 is still the simplest and most cost effective way to play all of Sony's output for the next 5+ years. Which is why I bought their console and skipped a twice per decade PC upgrade.
Re: Hitman 3's Roguelite Freelancer Mode Will Postpone Travel Until 2023
For some reason I've struggled to get into the third reboot game as much as the others, despite being technically excellent. I'm hoping that this is what pulls me back in.
Re: God of War Ragnarok Game Length Is Reportedly Worthy of Jörmungandr Himself
@stvevan and you did read the part where I was explicitly including side content? It was right there in parentheses. The target demographic I was referring to are unlikely to skip half of the game.
Re: God of War Ragnarok Game Length Is Reportedly Worthy of Jörmungandr Himself
@Max_the_German then consider each main mission a story, and you've got loads of short little games. Meanwhile those of us who don't have more money than time get to enjoy a satisfyingly complete experience for our money. As @TheArt says, not everyone can justify spending £70 on a 10 hour game when that's a few week's food budget, and they can fill their time in less satisfying games from a subscription service.
Meanwhile, there's so much lore they never touched on in the first game, and which is hinted at in the teasers, and you probably need that 3+ hours of cutscenes to do it justice. If the cutscenes were much more than 10% of the game's playtime (including side content) then it probably wouldn't feel much like a game.
Re: Beyond Good & Evil 2 Has Been in Development Longer Than Literally Any Game, Ever
This all makes me feel a lot better about VtM: Bloodlines 2
Re: God of War Ragnarok Game Length Is Reportedly Worthy of Jörmungandr Himself
@Max_the_German then imagine that it's two games bundled together as a combo deal. I'm not sure what splitting it in two achieves other than extending development times and letting them charge twice as much?
Re: Talking Point: We Need to Discuss This Horizon Zero Dawn PS5 Remaster
I honestly don't see this needing a huge effort. They would probably get 90% of the way there just moving the existing maps and missions to the version of the engine they used for Forbidden West, and using some of the highest resolution textures etc from the PC port. Then it's a QA pass and fixing anything that didn't quite carry over, and for the effort you get the original game with all the new accessibility features, plus updated visuals.
The only thing which might make it a lot of effort is if they revamp all the cinematics and dialogue, which are much more dynamic in the sequel - that would either mean hand animating dozens of hours of animation, or bringing the actors back into the studio
Re: Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster for PS5 Reportedly in Development
I honestly don't see this needing a huge effort. They would probably get 90% of the way there just moving the existing maps and missions to the version of the engine they used for Forbidden West, and using some of the highest resolution textures etc from the PC port. Then it's a QA pass and fixing anything that didn't quite carry over, and for the effort you get the original game with all the new accessibility features, plus updated visuals.
The only thing which might make it a lot of effort is if they revamp all the cinematics and dialogue, which are much more dynamic in the sequel - that would either mean hand animating dozens of hours of animation, or bringing the actors back into the studio
Re: Lead Disco Elysium Devs 'Involuntarily' Left Studio ZA/UM, Sequel Still in the Works
While it's never great to see folks getting s***canned, it feels important to note that we know almost nothing about what went on, and we also don't know for sure how much the leads contributed to how great their last game was.
I'd like to hope that they both find something great to work on, whether it's their own thing, or joining an existing project.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 446
@UltimateOtaku91 assuming you have the relevant subscriptions, I'd advise the PS5 over the Series S for Deathloop: the gyro aiming controls make things a lot more fluid/precise than you'd usually expect on a controller, and I was able to consistently best players on PC using a keyboard and mouse, which having only played on console with the PS5, isn't usual for me.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 446
I finished getting the Plat on Deathloop earlier this week, and have downloaded AC: Valhalla to start at some point, but for now it's likely the same mix of Scott Pilgrim and Stellaris as yesterday, switching based on what attention/energy I have to give things.
Re: Horizon Forbidden West's Lance Reddick Outs Mocap Work
Honestly can't wait, straight in my veins please
Re: Sony Posts PlayStation Stars Scheme Overview, Release Dates
Much better than NFTs:
1/ you can get cold hard cash off your next game or subscription, and
2/ it doesn't require boiling the ocean to run it (a simple centralised database is very cheap and efficient to run, compared to a Blockchain which has to be deliberately inefficient to prevent people from easily being able to make edited versions while still allowing anyone to add new legitimate ledger entries)
Re: PS Plus Essential PS5, PS4 Games for October 2022 Announced
Glad for an excuse to replay SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot SuperHot
Errm, got carried away there
Re: Feature: How Accessibility Options Help Disabled Gamers Beat The Last of Us: Part I
@bpomber I get where you're coming from, and the devs definitely deserve to be compensated for their work, but on the other hand it ends up being another CripTax - if you're perfectly able then you can play the PS4 version incredibly cheaply via the PS5 Collection, but if you need the new accessibility options then you need to hand over £70. There's so many things in life where the accessible version costs more because it's sold as the luxury version, and we just have to accept it
I don't know what the solution is, but it's frustrating, especially given that demographically disabled people are likely to earn much less, or like myself, be unable to hold employment, having to rely on our partners and/or meager state aid.
Re: Mini Review: XIII (PS5) - Improvements Can't Save This Remaster Redo
@Broosh that and the gunplay was in no way controller optimised - compared to TimeSplitters it felt very clunky (back when consoles got bad PC ports just as often as PC for terrible console ports)
Re: Mini Review: XIII (PS5) - Improvements Can't Save This Remaster Redo
@mrraditch unlucky for some
Re: Rumour: Of Course Disney Wants to Release a New Star Wars Game Every Six Months
I'd love to see them make something in the vein of the old Jedi Knight games, 2 and 3 were exceptional for the time. I'd guess their stories are now Legend status, but if like to see something that takes that style of 1st/3rd person dynamic lightsaber fighting with the force powers that kinda interplay. Fallen Order scratched that itch at a very surface level, but it kinda felt more like the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy than it did the classic Star Wars games.
Re: Mini Review: XIII (PS5) - Improvements Can't Save This Remaster Redo
@Broosh to be fair the average-at-best original looked pretty unique at release (cell shading wasn't a common artstyle in 3d yet) which gave it novelty value. I enjoyed it on PC, but remember playing splitscreen on a mate's GameCube and it was not great, at least on Nintendo's console at the time. I don't know how it was on PS2 but given the level of parity in the TimeSplitters series I'd guess it was similar?
Re: Magik Will Have You Thinking with Portals in Marvel's Midnight Suns
@LiamCroft Phew, I'm just so used to seeing only negative comments on articles about it. My only regret is that it's not XCom 3 (yet), although I'm thinking this is that Chimera Squad was based on a tech demo for (really enjoyed it, but much less replay value than the mainline games)
Re: Magik Will Have You Thinking with Portals in Marvel's Midnight Suns
I seem to be one of the only people on this site looking forward to this game, there have to be others, right?
Re: Sci-Fi Stealth Game Evotinction Gets Technical in New Story Trailer
@themightyant for me it's the voice acting; the timing of just slightly off, and I guess we're not used to hearing regional accents on games outside of medieval themed fantasy, which in have a history of being super hammy?
Re: Toss a Coin to the Third Season of Netflix's The Witcher
For what it's worth, I liked the second season, even if it was lacking in Yennifer's boobs when compared with the first. It was slow, but IMHO really paid it off towards the end.
In other matters, surely Minnie Driver is best known for her cameo in GoldenEye (https://youtu.be/aTxZeHy4kOI)? That terrible singing seared itself into my youthful mind.
Edit: I can never figure out what this site expects as the formatting for YouTube links as the guide says they're supposed to just work
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 445
@LN78 I already did before I posted it (not seeing any edits). Odd that it didn't show immediately for you though, and makes me consider editing the spoiler out completely
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 445
Started Deathloop when it was added to Extra on the 20th, and having a great time with it. I had a flu jab yesterday, so I'm feeling rather under the weather, but once I get up, I'll be diving into that again.
Discovering everything is great, and the gunplay is awesome, a lot better than Prey, with the same first person platforming that the Dishonoured series inexplicably made work, but without feeling like stealth is the only valid approach.
Really loving it, sad that it's likely to be the last Arcane game on PS5. Never saw it coming that there was the twist you discover about Juliana (while solving the RAK puzzle), real WTF moment!
Re: Deathloop May Be Multiformat, But New Controls Make It Best on PS5
I often turn off gyro aiming after giving it a go, because it rarely lives up to the promise. In this game in loving it though. I just wish the flick sticks could be only active after a threshold, do you can have 90% of the travel be normal, with a 90° turn if you dip into the last 10%.
I'm still spoiled by the Steam Controller Overlay and its many configuration options.
Re: Is This Mysterious Image Hinting at Kojima Productions' Next Game?
The obvious joke would be to suggest that it's Abandoned.
Re: Horizon Call of the Mountain Looks Gorgeous in Brief Glimpse at PSVR2 Gameplay
@zupertramp I can see why you'd want it, but you'd at least need elbow pads for tracking, and I'm not sure how well it would work with inside out tracking.
You only need to draw the hands when the controllers are in front of the headset, but if the controller is in front but the elbow pad is behind then you likely lose tracking and have to guess the location, which again is likely to be inaccurate.
Folks I know who work in VR gaming say that inaccurate representation of your body is much more immersion-breaking than the lack thereof, and can often seem to increase motion sickness. Showing the hands is necessary feedback for the player (because they show what you can interact with, increase player accuracy significantly) while the arms would be entirely cosmetic
Re: Reveal All Hidden Trophies at Once with New PS5 Update
@tofuman86 often because they might reference something that happens in the story and they could be considered to be spoilers
Re: Test Your PlayStation General Knowledge - Issue 17
14 baby! Although a handful of those were educated guesses. Still it's the first time over 10. If only I'd played Hotline Miami.
Re: Microsoft, Sony Signed Agreement to Keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for 'Several More Years' Beyond Current Contract
@TheElectroFunky I see the confusion now, when you said "taking over" you meant "overtaking"
Re: God of War Ragnarok's Enhanced Shield Mechanics and Weapon Signature Moves Detailed
This will likely be the only full price game I buy this year other than Forbidden West (which I've played through 3 times already, but since that I've mostly been enjoying the backlog I got from PS+ Extra) and if it's even half as good as the last one it'll be worth every penny.
Re: New Mafia Game Confirmed in Development
@Kairu maybe they want to hire people? Or they're outsourcing something and expect it to leak anyways, and this way they control the news?
Re: New Mafia Game Confirmed in Development
The original started during prohibition (1930), but it would be great to see what happened between Sallieri and Morello before then (you see a photo at some point during when they were best mates, so a few missions before some great falling out, followed by all out war until somehow the city is divided up, part way though all of that you get the start of prohibition). The only issue with that idea is that you already know how it ends.
Re: PlayStation Acquires Savage Game Studios, Focusing on Mobile Games
If Sony were to take their latest Xperia phone, weld a controller to it, and call it the Vita 2 then people would be crying out in celebration, but because they're targeting hardware people already own, the same people are in uproar.
Kinda weird, no?
Re: Beer Brewing Sim Knocks Back a PS5, PS4 Release Date
This seems like a great game to chill out to, preferably with a pint by your side
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 441
I'm up to Chapter 3 of Red Dead Redemption 2, and while I'm still not seeing it for the masterpiece everyone says it is, it's worth playing.
My thumbs are feeling the punishment though, even with the accessibility options set there's just so much tapping. Crafting is a real chore, and I just wish you could say "I want to make 100 split point rifle rounds" and it fades to black, comes back with time having passed as you finish making the last one.
Re: Aloy Confirmed for Horizon Netflix Show, Helmed By Umbrella Academy Showrunner
@Snick27 hopefully it'll continue to be aware of societal issues, as is the role of media.
Aloy always seemed ace panromantic to me.
Re: Why the PS5's Price Hasn't Changed in USA
@Th3solution to be fair it used to go towards things like education, but over the past decade of Tory rule anything useful has been stripped back until it's worryingly underfunded, without the taxpayer seeing any real reduction
Re: Why the PS5's Price Hasn't Changed in USA
@Th3solution nah, the NHS, along with State Pension, are funded by National Insurance, which comes out of earnings, VAT goes into the tax pot along with the rest of them, and pays for things like road repairs, expense fraud and paying ministers' mates contracts that they never fulfill so they'll offer those same ministers cushy board positions when they're voted out of office
Re: Poll: How Much Would You Pay for the DualSense Edge PS5 Pro Controller?
@Royalblues 3rd party are just as susceptable unless they use hall-effect sensors instead of potentiometers. It used to be so bad that there would be little calibration knobs next to the stick so you could mechanically reset the zero point
Re: PSVR2 Playable for the First Time at TGS 2022
@Nexozi Ah, I think you might be missing the context of them having already announced that it'll release Early 2023. It probably would have been clearer if I'd spelled out that that's what the 'if' was referring to. My bad!
Re: PSVR2 Playable for the First Time at TGS 2022
@Nexozi No, I said I don't care about release date, just price - it's always good to see progress, but it doesn't mean anything to me. I'm not sure how you read what I wrote and came to that conclusion.
I'll be keeping up with the news obviously, but I'm in the middle of a house move so it's hard to prioritise something that I won't have a usable space to set up in for a while.
Re: Watch 10 Minutes of Forspoken PS5 Gameplay in New Overview Video
I've been incredibly sceptical of this game from the get-go, and honestly this gives me some hope that the gameplay might make up for some of the general jankiness that's so obviously on display (Nothing really seems to fit together - there's a lot that's individually ok or maybe even impressive, but it doesn't mesh well with the stuff it interacts with, which makes the whole much less than the sum of its parts), but I still think nothing short of it turning out to be a gameplay revolution (which it doesn't look like) will make up for voice acting that makes me want to claw my own ears off.
And speaking of voice acting - did they use text to speech for the presenter, or did they really find someone that unable to emote and make the game seem interesting?
Re: PSVR2 Playable for the First Time at TGS 2022
@zebric21 It is just a brand new article?
I'm glad that this shows progress towards launch, but currently it doesn't mean anything to me. I just need a price, release date doesn't mean much to me if it's the first half of next year, as I'm likely to wait until my birthday in July anyway.
Re: Poll: How Much Would You Pay for the DualSense Edge PS5 Pro Controller?
Currently I wouldn't buy it, I already have two controllers, but if one conks out I'd happily pay up to £100, but more than that I'd likely pay up to £125 if both of my controllers died.
The thing that would change that is if they supported multiple switchable pairings, but they've not advertised it, so I'll assume they don't.
I wouldn't worry too much about hall effect sensors, some third party will release a replacement module, like with the Steam Deck and the Switch