Woah woah woah. Let's not think Sony did this entirely out of the goodness of their big corporate hearts, yeah?
I reckon this is motivated by the fact they changed the servers prior to shutdown, it caused a bunch of new problems, and that combined with the bad press made Sony realise it was easier to just revert all changes, like what happens after a bad game patch (revert to previous working version). It was probably cheaper to rollback like that. Probably the extra profit from all the additional sales that wouldn't have existed prior to the announcement of the closure didn't hurt, either.
I'd like to credit this as "listening to fans" but I think that's just a pleasant side effect. Usually big companies just make decisions like this based on "what makes most profit and minimises overheads".
"Upon further reflection, however, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision here."
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"Upon further reflection, our devs told us it would cost more to fix the problems than it would to revert and keep the stores open, so that's what we went with. Thanks for all the extra sales chaps, we thought some might panic buy, in fact we were counting on it. Also, you're welcome, suckers." 😂
@Phelaidar "People are more willing to pay a subscription than full price, which honestly, subscription is really bad since you don't own anything."
While I see your point, that's not necessarily true when you can buy the games you like on 20% discount and if you choose, cancel your Game Pass subscription. Or isn't a concern for people who buy games once, play them until they complete/get bored, and then would have sold the game anyway, they probably won't ever feel like they've lost out due to the way they consume their content.
@The_New_Butler Very true, for those with poor self control who don't mind being exploited by shady developer practices, loot boxing and MTX is a huge issue, as are "remasters" when they just end up being straight ports of "Complete Edition" type games. Nintendo is getting guilty of the latter now, after holding out for years.
I have the Complete Edition on disc but happy to have it digitally as well so I can leave something else in the drive like Red Dead Redemption II. Well done Sony! I look forward to downloading this and never playing it like the other 15 or so PS4 games I haven't gotten around to yet 😂
There's always an easier way to do these things - a lot of people struggle with the initial Griffin fight, including a close friend of mine, but when you learn the trick(s) to it it's really easy.
@get2sammyb Exactly Sammy. When you can wait and get more for less (a "fixed" game with everything included), why would you pay full price to be a beta tester?
""If you love a game, buy it at f***ing full price."
Sure, if more developers want to put out working games that don't require endless patching in their first year to iron out a multitude of issues including performance, broken quests, crashes etc, I might consider it.
As it is, I know if I wait I can usually end up getting fully-patched GOTY or similar "complete" editions with all the DLC they'd normally expect extra for, and have no incentive to change that behaviour when I've been burnt several times in the past, thanks Mr Garvin.
Maybe now he's not part of Sony Bend he can work towards making that happen, rather than trying to lay down the law with savvy gamers who know better 😂
@djdizzy You've just started The Witcher 3 as a first play through? Wow, lucky devil if so. I'd like to go back and start it again for the first time, it's such a deep and engaging world.
My personal tip is it's well worth going on fetch quests for the Witcher armour sets initially rather than hodge-podging your own together out of loot drops - they tend to be stronger, more durable, and come in light/medium/heavy type variations. Cat (light) and Griffin (medium) school types are personal favourites, but you can also get Wolf (medium-heavy) when Kaer Morhen opens back up and Bear (heavy) too. That's definitely a "fact I wish I'd known when playing The Witcher 3 for the first time" type of a thing, as is using red mutagens to increase your attack stats and buying the Gourmet upgrade first to unlock regenerating health - you'll see the You Are Dead screen a lot less this way.
@Bluetrain7 This is an intriguingly interesting thing in gaming - main story take or leave, side quests are the draw. I have a feeling it ties into not being obligated to do them, and that possibility of stumbling upon them organically leading to a more unique feeling player experience. There are so many games where this is the case, and I seem to remember it's been more and more of a thing since 2015 and The Witcher 3.
@JohnKarnes Agreed. The important thing to remember is that although the storage amount is limited, it beats the hell out of the long load times and dirty/damaged disc problems of PS1-PS3 era gaming where we were hamstrung by optical storage media. Now we're beyond hard drives and onto SSDs which is getting gaming closer back to the cartridge era where we saw instantaneous load times, like in the 80s and 90s except with magnitudes more complex graphics/sound/AI...
@airhead190 I wonder if it's using some kind of proprietary communication bus method that Sony developed, i.e. Cerny's team.
It's funny to think that not so long ago, they'd basically engineer and produce a lot of custom chips or custom solutions either on their own or in conjunction with other companies (MIPS processors in the PS1/PSP/Vita, EE/GS in the PS2, Cell processor in the PS3) and since the PS4 era it's been a lot more off-the-shelf stock PC components.
@Richnj Very well said! It's funny how Cyberpunk 2077 was taken down from the PS Store for being a buggy, unfinished and feature-reduced product while Sony had just released an entire games console that was a buggy (remember all the sleep crashes causing external storage to need "repairing"?) , unfinished and feature-reduced product themselves. Pretty hypocritical when you think about it.
@The_New_Butler Yeah I'm not saying the PS5 OS and core design is bad - although if I'm honest it's pretty iterative compared to the PS4, more tweaks they could have implemented on that system than something groundbreaking, beyond integrating the heavily-pushed-by-Sony Cards, soon-to-be-ignored Accolades and the actually-quite-useful Tips and Tricks (although this relies on whether the developer can be bothered to do it - in my experience just having a laptop open with YouTube reveals plenty of fan created content that shows you how to get through tricky sections etc) it's not reinventing the wheel, although it is fairly attractive. Same old Sony problem though - horribly organised menu systems. This is true on their cameras, their TVs and anything else I've used; nothing is in a logical place at all, it's scattershotted all over the place.
I'm in the minority of people who actually quite like the interface of the One and Series consoles - the layout is more logical, jumping between games/apps/settings is really easily and I don't ever feel I'm wasting minutes at a time searching for something. It's all pretty polished. It's based on Windows 10, but I don't get ticked off like it like I do with the desktop UI of W10.
While there's no doubting the PS5's internal SSD chips are blazing fast, they're too small. We are 100% guaranteed to see models that address the complaints about the console's size in terms of both physical size being too big (it's more huge than original XBOX HEUG) and ironically internal storage space being too small. Incidentally they could do with improving the internal airflow for the console as well - I saw a teardown and temperature test on a YouTube video channel who do these kinds of things regularly and the conclusion was that when a game is playing, the PS5 is cooking it's rear-mounted RAM chips at a toasty 95ºc when really as a rule anything above 70ºc is too hot for RAM chips and can lead to shortened lifespan and potentially memory-corruption related crashes.
"it’s worth noting that the drives expected to be supported are seriously expensive"
Same deal on the Series X, but at least those were available and working at launch.
I think the M.2 SSD expansion slot on the PS5 not being enabled at launch at all is partly the sign of an unfinished product being brought to market. If it were done it would have launched with expansion options available.
@Vincent294
"The original SSD is soldered according to iFixit, so you can't replace it without a good hot air station, and good ones cost more than a good soldering iron"
Yes but even if doing that there's no guarantee the PS5 OS would know how to address the extra storage space, or even boot at all. Potentially the size limits are hardcoded into the OS - without any data it's impossible to tell.
I still find it funny that Sony's new flagship games console (PS5) launched with much less storage space than their previous flagship (PS4 Pro) - seems like a step backwards, perhaps made to help keep costs down because they're at that point of losing money on every one built and sold, and will be for a while longer.
@playthedangame So true. Despite some weird gameplay/story choices (acapella theme tune while Snake climbs a ladder for 3 minutes, anyone?) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a brilliant, memorable game. I've replayed it a fair few times over the years including on the PS Vita. The Subsistence versions with the camera control rather than forced perspectives are my favourite.
@lolwhatno In my opinion, video games can help prevent violence. I lose count of the amount of times I haven't turned around and hit someone, but have used video game violence as a more healthy outlet when I've had a bad day or something. I'm sure your parents mean well, but that blanket statement they made isn't true of everyone. Not everyone who plays an FPS will one day pick up a gun and go shoot up their school.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt [GOTY Edition] It's one of the greatest games of all time, even in light of CDPR pooping all over their good guy reputation. And I don't even really care for medieval might and magic type RPGs at all. Spent some time finding Witcher armour and having it crafted (Cat and Griffin sets, Cat being the favourite for my play style), plus finding all the ? points of interest in Valen.
Call of Duty: Black Ops [Zombie Co-Op Mode Only] Not a big fan of regular CoD by any means, however Zombie mode really shows off just how right the controls on this 10 year old shooter really were. Mostly a steady 60FPS too, apart from when there's too many hoards of the SS Waffen Zombie Nazis on screen. They must be stopped, at all costs, and 2P Local Co-Op is a real h00t.
Forza Horizon 4 Sometimes, nothing beats tooling around a great digital facsimile of Scotland, launching sports cars off of huge ramps to get ⭐️⭐️⭐️ or drifting a 240SX around a snow-covered dirt track to see how good your control of the car is.
"A 2tb SSD is going to cost you around £165 - 200"
Um, not necessarily. The one I had in my PS4 Pro that I moved to my One X is a 2TB SanDisk SSD, and on sale I got it for £100, new including P&P. Pays to shop around and make full use of the Best Offer option search on eBay. 😏
Sometimes it cuts load screens down from about 3 minutes to 10 seconds on The Witcher 3: GOTY Edition. Sometimes.
Depends how many pets, how many children, if they're having renovations done, even stuff like "do they live by a sandy field" can play a part... there's some internal and external factors for you. Oh, and if people run them close to the carpet, because carpets are better dust catchers than the ones designed into the PS5. 😂
"The former is designed to promote a more inclusive PSN community where users can reward medals to the people they play with."
Not to editorialise (although of course, by pointing this out it is pretty much exactly what I'm doing) but in this context I believe the word you wanted was award, rather than reward, Liam. You can use reward but you would need to restructure the sentence to accommodate, such as "a more inclusive PSN community where users can reward the people they play with with medals" which obfuscates the point with too much word surplus, so I'd just swap out reward with award, personally.
I look forward to this comment not being read (by Liam at least) and the correction not being made. 😂 (Yes I do love self-deprecation.)
To be honest I think Accolades is Sony's attempt to set up a "user feedback score" style system similar to how you might rate a seller on eBay. Time will tell, but at this early vantage point I would speculate that it's something they spent an inordinate amount of developer time on, only for it to be mostly ignored and eventually kinda fade away into obsolesce, like Stadia is doing.
I think if you bought this game digitally before it got pulled off the storefront you're now at the point where if you downloaded all the patches that it's now more GBs than the base game was.
Have they written AI for the cops yet, rather than better disguise the spawning in? Have they finished the metro station? What's that CDPR, no? That's okay - if people moan harder you can always take to YouTube and make another "apology" dripping with insincerity. That's what a "good guy" developer does, right, lie about things like this?
Ha. Well I got about 70 hours out of the game and most of it was fun but what's even more fun is writing things like that. 😂
Anyway, the issue is, the word "fix" doesn't cover what's needed to make it a truly great game. "The state" is a good phrase to use when describing it, as the article does, because it'll always kind of be in one won't it.
There's so much cut content and clearly unfinished parts in it that it would be a waste of time/effort/money to spend forever trying to bring it anywhere close to The Witcher 3 - that ship has sailed. For example the abandoned metro station. All the things they promised 3 years ago like wall-running. They can't live up to those promises, they've made their money on the game so maybe now is the time to go make a decent game that isn't released early and brokenish.
Cyberpunk 2077 is kind of a lost cause, is the way I see it. Even at it's very best (i.e. when not crashing or spawning lazy police behind the player character) I don't think it ever quite hit the highs of their last game, which was a study in how to do branch narrative choices incredibly well, on a scale never seen before. This one, all the choice included is basically token and the life paths make no difference at all.
One final fun thing to note is that Sony pulled the game from the PS Store, a game many people have called "unfinished", yet were happy to launch an entire console in an unfinished state. Pretty hypocritical 😂
Fair point, if true I'll take that correction! Just never remember reading about it on, as you put it, a massive scale. Guess years of poor networking in Windows (and the resultant scambling to fix) gave Microsoft the edge over Sony when it came to fixing hacks, or "plugging firewalls" as Pritchard might put it. 💻🔥🧱
@thefourfoldroot Well said, I agree with that. There's enough people having kids anyway, I'm happy skipping out on that too. Very true about the lack of original thought and for some reason a sort of self-imposed censorship going on - I think one may feed the other in perpetuity, the way things are going. People too scared to state their own opinion for fear of ostracism.
@thefourfoldroot This is surprisingly deep and interesting, thanks for sharing! I like philosophy too but it seems fewer and fewer people these days are capable of it - too distracted and too busy having their attention span shot to pieces overdosing on their smartphone digital facsimiles of lives rather than living in the real world. As a former introvert turned (mostly) extrovert I've found it fascinating watching other people kinda go towards what I once was, while I move away from it.
@TrueAssassin86x That's a pretty lame attempt at an insult, which is why it failed.
Actually I own more Sony consoles than any other (PS2/PS3/PS4 Pro/Vita/PSP) but I do have a Switch and One X too. It's called being "platform agnostic", but you probably don't know what that means as you seem like a pretty ignorant would-be rabble rouser. It is possible to say things are good or bad without being a fanboy, but it sounds like even grasping that concept would be far beyond what your tiny, closed mind is capable of.
Why is it so many gamer trolls think it works to call someone a kid? Like literally it's so unoriginal and 🥱 it's like you're all reading from the same hackneyed troll handbook.
I have a great life, thanks. Maybe you should take a look at yours though - being a pitiful keyboard warrior lashing out at random strangers on the internet is usually a sign of poor self-control and other such issues well-served by counselling.
I guess the first seven letter of your username are correct, you really are behaving like a TrueAss 😂
(EDIT: Oh my god this gets better and better. According to his profile he's 34, cares about "games not consoles" - not that he acts like it what with his nascent fanboy talk- and hosts a deserted forum called Mature Gamers Alliance - you can't make this up, can you?)
@Flaming_Kaiser Well yeah I wouldn't expect in-depth crafting mechanics like a full RPG, but I think what I'm asking for is too much for that type of game. It's odd though - if the combat etc is varied enough then I often like it even if it is linear, like the original God of War which had a variety of different combos and things to link together. Not the games which have the "one button does most of the work" type design philosophy.
Yep Ellie's voice actress is super-talented. I like the part where she snidely says something like "is that all girls had to worry about back then, makeup and boys" with total disgust. Who knows, maybe that's why her sexual orientation was what it was in the much less narratively stellar Part II.
@thefourfoldroot Agreed, it's nice to have a civil conversation with a fellow gamer such as yourself rather than be trading jabs back and forth which gets tiring. I'm also a talkative fella yep. Sometimes discussing gaming is nearly as fun as actually playing the games.
EDIT: Oh one thing, what's the basis for your username? Talking about ones that are unique, unlike my SameOldGamer0001 example.
I think if you bought this game digitally before it got pulled off the storefront you're now at the point where if you downloaded all the patches that it's now more GBs than the base game was.
Have they written AI for the cops yet, rather than better disguise the spawning in? Have they finished the metro station? What's that CDPR, no? That's okay - if people moan harder you can always take to YouTube and make another "apology" dripping with insincerity. That's what a "good guy" developer does, right, lie about things like this?
Ha. Well I got about 70 hours out of the game and most of it was fun but what's even more fun is writing things like that. 😂
@thefourfoldroot In my case as far as I remember I only ever downloaded free games, and wouldn't have been annoyed if they deleted my account. Perhaps it was the fact I paid for Xbox Gold that kept it alive. Either way, it was pretty impressive to be able to jump back into several Xbox 360 games as if I never left.
"It was funny they used the excuse that they wanted to free up gamer tags for other people though"
Yeah when people have such memorable ones like SameOldGamer0001, by which I mean it's always something with a number on the end rather than doing something smart like using your name or a screen name and replacing any i letters with 1 and o letters with 0, for example. 🤭
"I personally would have been more likely to come back as a customer if I hadn’t had my gamer points deleted with my account."
For me I never really cared about stuff like that, it was just the convenience of logging into an old account rather than setting up a new one, which I later changed the primary email and gamertag for anyway. 😃
"It was a strange decision by them but too long ago for me to care."
I'm teasing rather than trolling, but you cared enough that we're here talking about it, eh? 😉
@TrueAssassin86x I love it when people say things like "speak English" when 1) we're all writing it not speaking it and 2) the person saying it has poor spelling and/or grammar themselves, like using "your" instead of "you're" and not capitalising the letter "i" when used as a pronoun. Both of which you did.
Ah well, another day another negative comment by NotATrueAssassin69x 😂
"I did lose my Xbox gamer tag and account, but that was because I never had an Xbone so didn’t access my account at all for over 5 years. MS didn’t tell me I needed to so I lost everything."
Uh... ok. That's odd. I didn't use my Xbox account in nearly 7 years, then got an Xbox One X and found that not only did the old gamertag/login details work perfectly, with all the gamer points retained, but old cloud saves from my Xbox Live Gold days still worked. I booted up Red Dead Redemption and there were my old saves from 2012/2013 made on my long-sold Xbox 360. I was suitably impressed.
So what happened to you doesn't happen to everyone.
@Sebatrox "I didn't use my Steam Account for almost 7 years and Valve didn't remove my account. It shows just how stupid microsoft is."
Actually it doesn't. Stupidity isn't a factor here if they've already told you they're culling old unused accounts with no purchases made on them. Wait... arguably it's the stupidity of the user for not logging in for over 2 years if they wanted to keep that account. 😏
I mean, if you don't care to use them then it's one less thing with your personal details on it to potentially be hacked when they auto-close the account, although really Microsoft haven't had that problem (Sony has, though, more than once).
@Flaming_Kaiser Good suggestion. SSDs are surprisingly cheap these days too, not that the PS3 with it's ageing SATA-I bus would benefit hugely but it would still be noticeable. I paid £100 for a new 2TB SanDisk model and I tried it in both the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X - it helped in the Pro, and it really flew in the One X.
@Flaming_Kaiser Agreed, the storytelling is great. I've watched those YouTube videos where people just edit together the story (and in rare cases when needed to make sense of the story, short sections of gameplay) and the first The Last of Us title is an epic. Sadly having tried to play the game myself several times, it's gameplay is not similarly engaging and engrossing to me at all, it's about as basic as it gets. I feel Naughty Dog were doing that to pull in a bigger audience, which is understandable, but it made it very cookie-cutter.
Like I said though, doesn't diminish the story, and maybe if the Uncharted movie with Tom "Spider-Man" Holland in it is a success they'll consider making The Last of Us into a cinematic epic too, which I'd watch.
@twitchtvpat Neither was Xbox 360 game compatibility for the Xbox One, but it's had that for years now and it's excellent - works as if it were designed to be there from the start. What's your point?
@djdizzy I'm glad you made that point about Naughty Dog games. The gameplay always feels really simplistic and skeletal, as if it's the bare minimum they can do and make the player do in order to advance to the next set of story cutscenes. It's part of why I never finished TLoU and never tried even when it came out on PS4 - the story was compelling but the gameplay was a total snooze. Uncharted games are a little more involving, but not by much. People often pass it off as "they're action-adventure games, not open-world games" but even so, they don't have to be so painfully linear.
@mucc Regardless of there not being 100% back compatibility on the One and Series consoles, it's a hell of a lot better than PS4 and PS5 consoles which, last I checked, flat out do not and will not ever play PS3 games without subscribing to PS Now or buying some kind of "remastered" edition that runs natively on that model of PlayStation.
Whereas with the One and Series, if you place an original Xbox 360 disc into the drive it'll download a near-flawlessly emulated version of that game for free. Some of which even look miles better - Red Dead Redemption springs to mind. This doesn't require a subscription service like Gold or Game Pass, it comes with ownership of the console. Hell, it even plays the boot up screen for the original Xbox or Xbox 360 as the game launches, in 4K... 😂
It's probably just some kind of server glitch as a result of them moving things around in preparation for closing PS3/PSP/Vita stores (still a dumb move by the way) but for those in the know it is another event sending a clear message:
We Here At Sony Do Not Care About Legacy.
Do what Jim Sterling suggested and just pirate the games. Most PS3s are softmoddable now. If Sony don't care, why should you?
I voted "Kind of, PlayStation's still on top but Xbox is doing well".
Yes they've made up some ground on Sony, those Microsoft lads and lasses, but Sony are still very much outselling and outgunning them despite not having a direct competitor to Game Pass. If they were really bothered I'm sure they could just retool PS Now to more closely resemble GPU anyway; wouldn't be too difficult. Who knows, maybe that's part of the reason they unwisely closed the PS3/PSP/Vita stores.
There does seem to be an element of hubris and bigheadedness to Sony at the moment though, and I feel Microsoft's communication is more consistent and constant, however what Sony's marketing and PR team might be doing is deliberately making people "thirsty" for knowledge about what they're doing by deliberately remaining tight-lipped about these things, as they did prior to the PS5 reveal, so every morsel of news people do eventually get leads to rife amounts of speculation, postulation and all kinds of rabid discussion.
"Ah, the Console Wars. Although they don't exist in the raw form that many would like to perceive, there's no getting away from that fact that companies like Sony and Microsoft are competing with one another"
I don't care for this line, and it's a shame it opens the article. For platform agnostic people such as myself who just go where the good games are (and PC/PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo all have their share, or at least access to decent cross-platform titles like DOOM) the Console Wars are just a media fabrication and propagation from years ago used for clickbaiting. Personally all of those have their strengths and weaknesses but if you have at least a couple of the four, you start to realise that wasting time on the internet being a rabid fanboy hitching your horse to one wagon basically defeats the object and detracts from being a gamer - time spent arguing on the internet and calling Sony fans "salty ponies" is just time that could have been spent gaming wasted, really.
I will say for my money though, Game Pass has been ridiculously good value recently, and my Pro doesn't barely get switched on unless it's downloading Play at Home games during the few weeks window you can get 'em. It's fairing better than my Switch, which is packed away in it's case since 2 months ago and I haven't missed it enough to reconnect it.
Basically Sony are still on top anyway, and will remain that way unless they keep piling up boneheaded decisions and alienating the fans, but if you're a true gamer you realise the platform is just a means to an end and it's the games themselves that count. Pretty obvious thing to say, but very easy for people to lose sight of when they succumb to nascent fanboy rage monkeying, I suppose.
This game isn't all it could have been. I almost think the team would have spent more time expanding the single player experience if Square Enix hadn't made them shoehorn in some MTX/lootbox BS and additional game modes which really add nothing to the core experience, aren't why people play games like that and were a lame/failed attempt to entice people who like other genres of games that don't do the dark cyberpunk multiple-choice RPG style as well as Deus Ex used to.
Regardless, at certain points it kicks almost as much butt as Human Revolution did so I can't complain too hard. 7/10
@JJ2 Oh wow, the pouty troll is too dumb to realise that "master racism" is a clever little joke based on the "master race" superiority complex thing some PC owners have. 😂
FYI your last two comments are just as "keyboard war" based as you make out the other two are - pot calling kettle black maybe?
One of the benefits to slowed video game production over last year and this year is we're most likely getting a LOT more games patched to run 4K60 than we might have if it was "business as usual" and no pandemic. Sony and Microsoft know they have to make their consoles enticing to buy somehow and that seems to be a pretty good way to do it. Typically Sony aren't good with legacy (them killing the PSP/Vita/PS3 stores says that loud and clear) so the fact some of the previous gen good to great games are getting patched is a Very Good Thing Indeed. 60FPS can make such a big difference if it's stable enough.
Lot of people here saying they can see the difference between 60hz and 120hz and don't really care. I agree. To be honest upgrading to 4K from 1080p was the same for me - yeah I can tell but it's not the huge night-and-day difference going from SD to HD was.
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Re: Sony Backtracks PS3, PS Vita Online Store Closures
Woah woah woah. Let's not think Sony did this entirely out of the goodness of their big corporate hearts, yeah?
I reckon this is motivated by the fact they changed the servers prior to shutdown, it caused a bunch of new problems, and that combined with the bad press made Sony realise it was easier to just revert all changes, like what happens after a bad game patch (revert to previous working version). It was probably cheaper to rollback like that. Probably the extra profit from all the additional sales that wouldn't have existed prior to the announcement of the closure didn't hurt, either.
I'd like to credit this as "listening to fans" but I think that's just a pleasant side effect. Usually big companies just make decisions like this based on "what makes most profit and minimises overheads".
"Upon further reflection, however, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision here."
Translates to
"Upon further reflection, our devs told us it would cost more to fix the problems than it would to revert and keep the stores open, so that's what we went with. Thanks for all the extra sales chaps, we thought some might panic buy, in fact we were counting on it. Also, you're welcome, suckers." 😂
Re: Days Gone Director on Skipped Sequel: 'If You Love a Game, Buy It at F***ing Full Price'
@Logonogo Hahaha no worries man, I usually write a comment and then go back and read the rest... it just made me chuckle. 😃👍
Re: PS4 to PS5: All Games with Confirmed Free Upgrades
MISSING GAMES or INACCURACIES
Just a few as I skimmed the list, might be more.
Re: Days Gone Director on Skipped Sequel: 'If You Love a Game, Buy It at F***ing Full Price'
@Logonogo Hehehe you're only about the 50th person in the comments to point that out 😏😃
Re: Days Gone Director on Skipped Sequel: 'If You Love a Game, Buy It at F***ing Full Price'
@Phelaidar "People are more willing to pay a subscription than full price, which honestly, subscription is really bad since you don't own anything."
While I see your point, that's not necessarily true when you can buy the games you like on 20% discount and if you choose, cancel your Game Pass subscription. Or isn't a concern for people who buy games once, play them until they complete/get bored, and then would have sold the game anyway, they probably won't ever feel like they've lost out due to the way they consume their content.
Re: Days Gone Director on Skipped Sequel: 'If You Love a Game, Buy It at F***ing Full Price'
@The_New_Butler Very true, for those with poor self control who don't mind being exploited by shady developer practices, loot boxing and MTX is a huge issue, as are "remasters" when they just end up being straight ports of "Complete Edition" type games. Nintendo is getting guilty of the latter now, after holding out for years.
Re: Here's When Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition Will Be Free
I have the Complete Edition on disc but happy to have it digitally as well so I can leave something else in the drive like Red Dead Redemption II. Well done Sony! I look forward to downloading this and never playing it like the other 15 or so PS4 games I haven't gotten around to yet 😂
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 372
@djdizzy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeOrzZSXojY
There's always an easier way to do these things - a lot of people struggle with the initial Griffin fight, including a close friend of mine, but when you learn the trick(s) to it it's really easy.
Re: Days Gone Director on Skipped Sequel: 'If You Love a Game, Buy It at F***ing Full Price'
@get2sammyb Exactly Sammy. When you can wait and get more for less (a "fixed" game with everything included), why would you pay full price to be a beta tester?
Re: Days Gone Director on Skipped Sequel: 'If You Love a Game, Buy It at F***ing Full Price'
""If you love a game, buy it at f***ing full price."
Sure, if more developers want to put out working games that don't require endless patching in their first year to iron out a multitude of issues including performance, broken quests, crashes etc, I might consider it.
As it is, I know if I wait I can usually end up getting fully-patched GOTY or similar "complete" editions with all the DLC they'd normally expect extra for, and have no incentive to change that behaviour when I've been burnt several times in the past, thanks Mr Garvin.
Maybe now he's not part of Sony Bend he can work towards making that happen, rather than trying to lay down the law with savvy gamers who know better 😂
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 372
@djdizzy You've just started The Witcher 3 as a first play through? Wow, lucky devil if so. I'd like to go back and start it again for the first time, it's such a deep and engaging world.
My personal tip is it's well worth going on fetch quests for the Witcher armour sets initially rather than hodge-podging your own together out of loot drops - they tend to be stronger, more durable, and come in light/medium/heavy type variations. Cat (light) and Griffin (medium) school types are personal favourites, but you can also get Wolf (medium-heavy) when Kaer Morhen opens back up and Bear (heavy) too. That's definitely a "fact I wish I'd known when playing The Witcher 3 for the first time" type of a thing, as is using red mutagens to increase your attack stats and buying the Gourmet upgrade first to unlock regenerating health - you'll see the You Are Dead screen a lot less this way.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 372
@Bluetrain7 This is an intriguingly interesting thing in gaming - main story take or leave, side quests are the draw. I have a feeling it ties into not being obligated to do them, and that possibility of stumbling upon them organically leading to a more unique feeling player experience. There are so many games where this is the case, and I seem to remember it's been more and more of a thing since 2015 and The Witcher 3.
Re: PS5 Doesn't Like It When You Put an Extra NVMe SSD Inside
@JohnKarnes Agreed. The important thing to remember is that although the storage amount is limited, it beats the hell out of the long load times and dirty/damaged disc problems of PS1-PS3 era gaming where we were hamstrung by optical storage media. Now we're beyond hard drives and onto SSDs which is getting gaming closer back to the cartridge era where we saw instantaneous load times, like in the 80s and 90s except with magnitudes more complex graphics/sound/AI...
Re: PS5 Doesn't Like It When You Put an Extra NVMe SSD Inside
@airhead190 I wonder if it's using some kind of proprietary communication bus method that Sony developed, i.e. Cerny's team.
It's funny to think that not so long ago, they'd basically engineer and produce a lot of custom chips or custom solutions either on their own or in conjunction with other companies (MIPS processors in the PS1/PSP/Vita, EE/GS in the PS2, Cell processor in the PS3) and since the PS4 era it's been a lot more off-the-shelf stock PC components.
Re: PS5 Doesn't Like It When You Put an Extra NVMe SSD Inside
@Richnj Very well said! It's funny how Cyberpunk 2077 was taken down from the PS Store for being a buggy, unfinished and feature-reduced product while Sony had just released an entire games console that was a buggy (remember all the sleep crashes causing external storage to need "repairing"?) , unfinished and feature-reduced product themselves. Pretty hypocritical when you think about it.
Re: PS5 Doesn't Like It When You Put an Extra NVMe SSD Inside
@The_New_Butler Yeah I'm not saying the PS5 OS and core design is bad - although if I'm honest it's pretty iterative compared to the PS4, more tweaks they could have implemented on that system than something groundbreaking, beyond integrating the heavily-pushed-by-Sony Cards, soon-to-be-ignored Accolades and the actually-quite-useful Tips and Tricks (although this relies on whether the developer can be bothered to do it - in my experience just having a laptop open with YouTube reveals plenty of fan created content that shows you how to get through tricky sections etc) it's not reinventing the wheel, although it is fairly attractive. Same old Sony problem though - horribly organised menu systems. This is true on their cameras, their TVs and anything else I've used; nothing is in a logical place at all, it's scattershotted all over the place.
I'm in the minority of people who actually quite like the interface of the One and Series consoles - the layout is more logical, jumping between games/apps/settings is really easily and I don't ever feel I'm wasting minutes at a time searching for something. It's all pretty polished. It's based on Windows 10, but I don't get ticked off like it like I do with the desktop UI of W10.
While there's no doubting the PS5's internal SSD chips are blazing fast, they're too small. We are 100% guaranteed to see models that address the complaints about the console's size in terms of both physical size being too big (it's more huge than original XBOX HEUG) and ironically internal storage space being too small. Incidentally they could do with improving the internal airflow for the console as well - I saw a teardown and temperature test on a YouTube video channel who do these kinds of things regularly and the conclusion was that when a game is playing, the PS5 is cooking it's rear-mounted RAM chips at a toasty 95ºc when really as a rule anything above 70ºc is too hot for RAM chips and can lead to shortened lifespan and potentially memory-corruption related crashes.
Re: PS5 Doesn't Like It When You Put an Extra NVMe SSD Inside
"it’s worth noting that the drives expected to be supported are seriously expensive"
Same deal on the Series X, but at least those were available and working at launch.
I think the M.2 SSD expansion slot on the PS5 not being enabled at launch at all is partly the sign of an unfinished product being brought to market. If it were done it would have launched with expansion options available.
@Vincent294
"The original SSD is soldered according to iFixit, so you can't replace it without a good hot air station, and good ones cost more than a good soldering iron"
Yes but even if doing that there's no guarantee the PS5 OS would know how to address the extra storage space, or even boot at all. Potentially the size limits are hardcoded into the OS - without any data it's impossible to tell.
I still find it funny that Sony's new flagship games console (PS5) launched with much less storage space than their previous flagship (PS4 Pro) - seems like a step backwards, perhaps made to help keep costs down because they're at that point of losing money on every one built and sold, and will be for a while longer.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 372
@playthedangame So true. Despite some weird gameplay/story choices (acapella theme tune while Snake climbs a ladder for 3 minutes, anyone?) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a brilliant, memorable game. I've replayed it a fair few times over the years including on the PS Vita. The Subsistence versions with the camera control rather than forced perspectives are my favourite.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 372
@lolwhatno In my opinion, video games can help prevent violence. I lose count of the amount of times I haven't turned around and hit someone, but have used video game violence as a more healthy outlet when I've had a bad day or something. I'm sure your parents mean well, but that blanket statement they made isn't true of everyone. Not everyone who plays an FPS will one day pick up a gun and go shoot up their school.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 372
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt [GOTY Edition]
It's one of the greatest games of all time, even in light of CDPR pooping all over their good guy reputation. And I don't even really care for medieval might and magic type RPGs at all. Spent some time finding Witcher armour and having it crafted (Cat and Griffin sets, Cat being the favourite for my play style), plus finding all the ? points of interest in Valen.
Call of Duty: Black Ops [Zombie Co-Op Mode Only]
Not a big fan of regular CoD by any means, however Zombie mode really shows off just how right the controls on this 10 year old shooter really were. Mostly a steady 60FPS too, apart from when there's too many hoards of the SS Waffen Zombie Nazis on screen. They must be stopped, at all costs, and 2P Local Co-Op is a real h00t.
Forza Horizon 4
Sometimes, nothing beats tooling around a great digital facsimile of Scotland, launching sports cars off of huge ramps to get ⭐️⭐️⭐️ or drifting a 240SX around a snow-covered dirt track to see how good your control of the car is.
Re: March 2021 NPD: PS5 Is Still the Fastest-Selling Console in US History
@Immortal_Barnet Just totally inaccurate, really. 😂
Re: PS5 Firmware Update: All the Features You May Not Know About
@The_New_Butler Fine deals are regular if you know where to look and how to haggle, I'll allow that. 😃👍
Re: PS5 Firmware Update: All the Features You May Not Know About
@The_New_Butler @0niguy
"A 2tb SSD is going to cost you around £165 - 200"
Um, not necessarily. The one I had in my PS4 Pro that I moved to my One X is a 2TB SanDisk SSD, and on sale I got it for £100, new including P&P. Pays to shop around and make full use of the Best Offer option search on eBay. 😏
Sometimes it cuts load screens down from about 3 minutes to 10 seconds on The Witcher 3: GOTY Edition. Sometimes.
Re: PS5 Firmware Update: All the Features You May Not Know About
IF
$PS5_FIRMWARE_UPDATE includes ENABLE_M.2_SSD_SLOT
then
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ELSE
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Re: Poll: Do You Use These Two Forgotten PS5 Features?
@Mintie Excellent use of the word dander there.
Re: Poll: Do You Use These Two Forgotten PS5 Features?
@thefourfoldroot "how dusty are people’s houses?"
You'd be surprised.
Depends how many pets, how many children, if they're having renovations done, even stuff like "do they live by a sandy field" can play a part... there's some internal and external factors for you. Oh, and if people run them close to the carpet, because carpets are better dust catchers than the ones designed into the PS5. 😂
Re: Poll: Do You Use These Two Forgotten PS5 Features?
"The former is designed to promote a more inclusive PSN community where users can reward medals to the people they play with."
Not to editorialise (although of course, by pointing this out it is pretty much exactly what I'm doing) but in this context I believe the word you wanted was award, rather than reward, Liam. You can use reward but you would need to restructure the sentence to accommodate, such as "a more inclusive PSN community where users can reward the people they play with with medals" which obfuscates the point with too much word surplus, so I'd just swap out reward with award, personally.
I look forward to this comment not being read (by Liam at least) and the correction not being made. 😂 (Yes I do love self-deprecation.)
To be honest I think Accolades is Sony's attempt to set up a "user feedback score" style system similar to how you might rate a seller on eBay. Time will tell, but at this early vantage point I would speculate that it's something they spent an inordinate amount of developer time on, only for it to be mostly ignored and eventually kinda fade away into obsolesce, like Stadia is doing.
Re: Talking Point: What's Next for Cyberpunk 2077, and the State of the Game on PS5, PS4
I think if you bought this game digitally before it got pulled off the storefront you're now at the point where if you downloaded all the patches that it's now more GBs than the base game was.
Have they written AI for the cops yet, rather than better disguise the spawning in? Have they finished the metro station? What's that CDPR, no? That's okay - if people moan harder you can always take to YouTube and make another "apology" dripping with insincerity. That's what a "good guy" developer does, right, lie about things like this?
Ha. Well I got about 70 hours out of the game and most of it was fun but what's even more fun is writing things like that. 😂
Anyway, the issue is, the word "fix" doesn't cover what's needed to make it a truly great game. "The state" is a good phrase to use when describing it, as the article does, because it'll always kind of be in one won't it.
There's so much cut content and clearly unfinished parts in it that it would be a waste of time/effort/money to spend forever trying to bring it anywhere close to The Witcher 3 - that ship has sailed. For example the abandoned metro station. All the things they promised 3 years ago like wall-running. They can't live up to those promises, they've made their money on the game so maybe now is the time to go make a decent game that isn't released early and brokenish.
Cyberpunk 2077 is kind of a lost cause, is the way I see it. Even at it's very best (i.e. when not crashing or spawning lazy police behind the player character) I don't think it ever quite hit the highs of their last game, which was a study in how to do branch narrative choices incredibly well, on a scale never seen before. This one, all the choice included is basically token and the life paths make no difference at all.
One final fun thing to note is that Sony pulled the game from the PS Store, a game many people have called "unfinished", yet were happy to launch an entire console in an unfinished state. Pretty hypocritical 😂
Re: PS Plus Oversight Is a Bummer for PS3, PS Vita Owners
Fair point, if true I'll take that correction! Just never remember reading about it on, as you put it, a massive scale. Guess years of poor networking in Windows (and the resultant scambling to fix) gave Microsoft the edge over Sony when it came to fixing hacks, or "plugging firewalls" as Pritchard might put it. 💻🔥🧱
Re: PS Plus Oversight Is a Bummer for PS3, PS Vita Owners
@thefourfoldroot Well said, I agree with that. There's enough people having kids anyway, I'm happy skipping out on that too. Very true about the lack of original thought and for some reason a sort of self-imposed censorship going on - I think one may feed the other in perpetuity, the way things are going. People too scared to state their own opinion for fear of ostracism.
Re: PS Plus Oversight Is a Bummer for PS3, PS Vita Owners
@thefourfoldroot This is surprisingly deep and interesting, thanks for sharing! I like philosophy too but it seems fewer and fewer people these days are capable of it - too distracted and too busy having their attention span shot to pieces overdosing on their smartphone digital facsimiles of lives rather than living in the real world. As a former introvert turned (mostly) extrovert I've found it fascinating watching other people kinda go towards what I once was, while I move away from it.
Re: PS Plus Oversight Is a Bummer for PS3, PS Vita Owners
@TrueAssassin86x That's a pretty lame attempt at an insult, which is why it failed.
Actually I own more Sony consoles than any other (PS2/PS3/PS4 Pro/Vita/PSP) but I do have a Switch and One X too. It's called being "platform agnostic", but you probably don't know what that means as you seem like a pretty ignorant would-be rabble rouser. It is possible to say things are good or bad without being a fanboy, but it sounds like even grasping that concept would be far beyond what your tiny, closed mind is capable of.
Why is it so many gamer trolls think it works to call someone a kid? Like literally it's so unoriginal and 🥱 it's like you're all reading from the same hackneyed troll handbook.
I have a great life, thanks. Maybe you should take a look at yours though - being a pitiful keyboard warrior lashing out at random strangers on the internet is usually a sign of poor self-control and other such issues well-served by counselling.
I guess the first seven letter of your username are correct, you really are behaving like a TrueAss 😂
(EDIT: Oh my god this gets better and better. According to his profile he's 34, cares about "games not consoles" - not that he acts like it what with his nascent fanboy talk- and hosts a deserted forum called Mature Gamers Alliance - you can't make this up, can you?)
Re: Reaction: Days Gone Was PS4's Black Sheep, But a Darn Good Open World Game
@Flaming_Kaiser Well yeah I wouldn't expect in-depth crafting mechanics like a full RPG, but I think what I'm asking for is too much for that type of game. It's odd though - if the combat etc is varied enough then I often like it even if it is linear, like the original God of War which had a variety of different combos and things to link together. Not the games which have the "one button does most of the work" type design philosophy.
Yep Ellie's voice actress is super-talented. I like the part where she snidely says something like "is that all girls had to worry about back then, makeup and boys" with total disgust. Who knows, maybe that's why her sexual orientation was what it was in the much less narratively stellar Part II.
Re: PS Plus Oversight Is a Bummer for PS3, PS Vita Owners
@thefourfoldroot Agreed, it's nice to have a civil conversation with a fellow gamer such as yourself rather than be trading jabs back and forth which gets tiring. I'm also a talkative fella yep. Sometimes discussing gaming is nearly as fun as actually playing the games.
EDIT: Oh one thing, what's the basis for your username? Talking about ones that are unique, unlike my SameOldGamer0001 example.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.21 Out Now on PS5, PS4, Features More Crash and Bug Fixes
I think if you bought this game digitally before it got pulled off the storefront you're now at the point where if you downloaded all the patches that it's now more GBs than the base game was.
Have they written AI for the cops yet, rather than better disguise the spawning in? Have they finished the metro station? What's that CDPR, no? That's okay - if people moan harder you can always take to YouTube and make another "apology" dripping with insincerity. That's what a "good guy" developer does, right, lie about things like this?
Ha. Well I got about 70 hours out of the game and most of it was fun but what's even more fun is writing things like that. 😂
Re: PS Plus Oversight Is a Bummer for PS3, PS Vita Owners
@thefourfoldroot In my case as far as I remember I only ever downloaded free games, and wouldn't have been annoyed if they deleted my account. Perhaps it was the fact I paid for Xbox Gold that kept it alive. Either way, it was pretty impressive to be able to jump back into several Xbox 360 games as if I never left.
"It was funny they used the excuse that they wanted to free up gamer tags for other people though"
Yeah when people have such memorable ones like SameOldGamer0001, by which I mean it's always something with a number on the end rather than doing something smart like using your name or a screen name and replacing any i letters with 1 and o letters with 0, for example. 🤭
"I personally would have been more likely to come back as a customer if I hadn’t had my gamer points deleted with my account."
For me I never really cared about stuff like that, it was just the convenience of logging into an old account rather than setting up a new one, which I later changed the primary email and gamertag for anyway. 😃
"It was a strange decision by them but too long ago for me to care."
I'm teasing rather than trolling, but you cared enough that we're here talking about it, eh? 😉
Re: PS Plus Oversight Is a Bummer for PS3, PS Vita Owners
@TrueAssassin86x I love it when people say things like "speak English" when 1) we're all writing it not speaking it and 2) the person saying it has poor spelling and/or grammar themselves, like using "your" instead of "you're" and not capitalising the letter "i" when used as a pronoun. Both of which you did.
Ah well, another day another negative comment by NotATrueAssassin69x 😂
Re: PS Plus Oversight Is a Bummer for PS3, PS Vita Owners
@thefourfoldroot
"I did lose my Xbox gamer tag and account, but that was because I never had an Xbone so didn’t access my account at all for over 5 years. MS didn’t tell me I needed to so I lost everything."
Uh... ok. That's odd. I didn't use my Xbox account in nearly 7 years, then got an Xbox One X and found that not only did the old gamertag/login details work perfectly, with all the gamer points retained, but old cloud saves from my Xbox Live Gold days still worked. I booted up Red Dead Redemption and there were my old saves from 2012/2013 made on my long-sold Xbox 360. I was suitably impressed.
So what happened to you doesn't happen to everyone.
@Sebatrox "I didn't use my Steam Account for almost 7 years and Valve didn't remove my account. It shows just how stupid microsoft is."
Actually it doesn't. Stupidity isn't a factor here if they've already told you they're culling old unused accounts with no purchases made on them. Wait... arguably it's the stupidity of the user for not logging in for over 2 years if they wanted to keep that account. 😏
I mean, if you don't care to use them then it's one less thing with your personal details on it to potentially be hacked when they auto-close the account, although really Microsoft haven't had that problem (Sony has, though, more than once).
Re: Some PS3 Games Supposedly No Longer Downloading Patches
@Flaming_Kaiser Good suggestion. SSDs are surprisingly cheap these days too, not that the PS3 with it's ageing SATA-I bus would benefit hugely but it would still be noticeable. I paid £100 for a new 2TB SanDisk model and I tried it in both the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X - it helped in the Pro, and it really flew in the One X.
Re: Reaction: Days Gone Was PS4's Black Sheep, But a Darn Good Open World Game
@Flaming_Kaiser Agreed, the storytelling is great. I've watched those YouTube videos where people just edit together the story (and in rare cases when needed to make sense of the story, short sections of gameplay) and the first The Last of Us title is an epic. Sadly having tried to play the game myself several times, it's gameplay is not similarly engaging and engrossing to me at all, it's about as basic as it gets. I feel Naughty Dog were doing that to pull in a bigger audience, which is understandable, but it made it very cookie-cutter.
Like I said though, doesn't diminish the story, and maybe if the Uncharted movie with Tom "Spider-Man" Holland in it is a success they'll consider making The Last of Us into a cinematic epic too, which I'd watch.
Re: Some PS3 Games Supposedly No Longer Downloading Patches
@twitchtvpat Neither was Xbox 360 game compatibility for the Xbox One, but it's had that for years now and it's excellent - works as if it were designed to be there from the start. What's your point?
Re: Reaction: Days Gone Was PS4's Black Sheep, But a Darn Good Open World Game
@djdizzy I'm glad you made that point about Naughty Dog games. The gameplay always feels really simplistic and skeletal, as if it's the bare minimum they can do and make the player do in order to advance to the next set of story cutscenes. It's part of why I never finished TLoU and never tried even when it came out on PS4 - the story was compelling but the gameplay was a total snooze. Uncharted games are a little more involving, but not by much. People often pass it off as "they're action-adventure games, not open-world games" but even so, they don't have to be so painfully linear.
Re: Some PS3 Games Supposedly No Longer Downloading Patches
@mucc Regardless of there not being 100% back compatibility on the One and Series consoles, it's a hell of a lot better than PS4 and PS5 consoles which, last I checked, flat out do not and will not ever play PS3 games without subscribing to PS Now or buying some kind of "remastered" edition that runs natively on that model of PlayStation.
Whereas with the One and Series, if you place an original Xbox 360 disc into the drive it'll download a near-flawlessly emulated version of that game for free. Some of which even look miles better - Red Dead Redemption springs to mind. This doesn't require a subscription service like Gold or Game Pass, it comes with ownership of the console. Hell, it even plays the boot up screen for the original Xbox or Xbox 360 as the game launches, in 4K... 😂
Re: Some PS3 Games Supposedly No Longer Downloading Patches
It's probably just some kind of server glitch as a result of them moving things around in preparation for closing PS3/PSP/Vita stores (still a dumb move by the way) but for those in the know it is another event sending a clear message:
We Here At Sony Do Not Care About Legacy.
Do what Jim Sterling suggested and just pirate the games. Most PS3s are softmoddable now. If Sony don't care, why should you?
Re: Poll: Is PlayStation Losing Ground to Xbox?
@Vivisapprentice Very true. Gusts From Tsushima and Demon Socks were quality gums/games.
Re: Poll: Is PlayStation Losing Ground to Xbox?
I voted "Kind of, PlayStation's still on top but Xbox is doing well".
Yes they've made up some ground on Sony, those Microsoft lads and lasses, but Sony are still very much outselling and outgunning them despite not having a direct competitor to Game Pass. If they were really bothered I'm sure they could just retool PS Now to more closely resemble GPU anyway; wouldn't be too difficult. Who knows, maybe that's part of the reason they unwisely closed the PS3/PSP/Vita stores.
There does seem to be an element of hubris and bigheadedness to Sony at the moment though, and I feel Microsoft's communication is more consistent and constant, however what Sony's marketing and PR team might be doing is deliberately making people "thirsty" for knowledge about what they're doing by deliberately remaining tight-lipped about these things, as they did prior to the PS5 reveal, so every morsel of news people do eventually get leads to rife amounts of speculation, postulation and all kinds of rabid discussion.
"Ah, the Console Wars. Although they don't exist in the raw form that many would like to perceive, there's no getting away from that fact that companies like Sony and Microsoft are competing with one another"
I don't care for this line, and it's a shame it opens the article. For platform agnostic people such as myself who just go where the good games are (and PC/PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo all have their share, or at least access to decent cross-platform titles like DOOM) the Console Wars are just a media fabrication and propagation from years ago used for clickbaiting. Personally all of those have their strengths and weaknesses but if you have at least a couple of the four, you start to realise that wasting time on the internet being a rabid fanboy hitching your horse to one wagon basically defeats the object and detracts from being a gamer - time spent arguing on the internet and calling Sony fans "salty ponies" is just time that could have been spent gaming wasted, really.
I will say for my money though, Game Pass has been ridiculously good value recently, and my Pro doesn't barely get switched on unless it's downloading Play at Home games during the few weeks window you can get 'em. It's fairing better than my Switch, which is packed away in it's case since 2 months ago and I haven't missed it enough to reconnect it.
Basically Sony are still on top anyway, and will remain that way unless they keep piling up boneheaded decisions and alienating the fans, but if you're a true gamer you realise the platform is just a means to an end and it's the games themselves that count. Pretty obvious thing to say, but very easy for people to lose sight of when they succumb to nascent fanboy rage monkeying, I suppose.
Essay over. There's gaming to be done... 🎮
Re: Review: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (PS4)
This game isn't all it could have been. I almost think the team would have spent more time expanding the single player experience if Square Enix hadn't made them shoehorn in some MTX/lootbox BS and additional game modes which really add nothing to the core experience, aren't why people play games like that and were a lame/failed attempt to entice people who like other genres of games that don't do the dark cyberpunk multiple-choice RPG style as well as Deus Ex used to.
Regardless, at certain points it kicks almost as much butt as Human Revolution did so I can't complain too hard. 7/10
Re: Kojima Reportedly in Talks with Xbox as PS5's Abandoned Prompts Conspiracy Theories
@JJ2 Oh wow, the pouty troll is too dumb to realise that "master racism" is a clever little joke based on the "master race" superiority complex thing some PC owners have. 😂
FYI your last two comments are just as "keyboard war" based as you make out the other two are - pot calling kettle black maybe?
Re: Kojima Reportedly in Talks with Xbox as PS5's Abandoned Prompts Conspiracy Theories
@Alpha_Pulse Yes, but I wasn't comparing Series X and PS5.
"I own both a Pro and a One X and the latter's dashboard and usability are way higher instead of being a sluggish feature crippled mess."
Re: PS Plus Freebie Zombie Army 4: Dead War Upgraded to 4K, 60 Frames-Per-Second on PS5
One of the benefits to slowed video game production over last year and this year is we're most likely getting a LOT more games patched to run 4K60 than we might have if it was "business as usual" and no pandemic. Sony and Microsoft know they have to make their consoles enticing to buy somehow and that seems to be a pretty good way to do it. Typically Sony aren't good with legacy (them killing the PSP/Vita/PS3 stores says that loud and clear) so the fact some of the previous gen good to great games are getting patched is a Very Good Thing Indeed. 60FPS can make such a big difference if it's stable enough.
Lot of people here saying they can see the difference between 60hz and 120hz and don't really care. I agree. To be honest upgrading to 4K from 1080p was the same for me - yeah I can tell but it's not the huge night-and-day difference going from SD to HD was.