Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

Well you can't accuse whoever does the PS UK twitter posts for not having a sense of humour...

@JohnnyShoulder It's my favourite official corporate account on Twitter, along with Devolver and a few others.
PlayStation AU is also better than most but not this good.

@Voltan Ay, those are pretty good too!

SW Jedi Survivor is delayed until April 28. Right in between the Horizon DLC and Zelda.

@RogerRoger Yeah, for sure! I decided to give Hogwarts Legacy an additional two months of patches before buying it (I have a feeling it will need it), and PSVR2 and SW were launching soon after anyway, but now April-May is looking incredibly busy! I may get Hogwarts Legacy at launch after all!

@RogerRoger I’m not sure why I’ve never considered that tactic but it’s a good approach (prioritizing game order based on risk of seeing spoilers). I’m fairly lucky at avoiding spoilers though, seeing as Push Square users are mostly conscientious, especially in the launch period, and I rarely stray too far into the quagmire of other sites or YouTube unless I’m going straight there for a specific purpose. (Incidentally thanks for the spoiler warning on your recent MG Rising review. I’ll need to return to it after I get back with MGS2).
I’ve still mostly been able to stay naïve to the stories of Horizon Forbidden West and GoW Ragnarok, despite their popularity. Still, I do think I’ll do SW Jedi Survivor at (or around) launch. Same for Hogwarts. We’ll see. The launch bugs are definitely a deterrent though. There are already people saying that the Hogwarts performance mode looks pretty bad in the early access version.

@Th3solution I seem to be OK on the spoiler front as I've managed to avoid them for so far on such games as Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarok.

@RogerRoger I caved in and bought a copy of Hogwarts Legacy. I don't really have a spine, I know.

@Octane If it's any consolation, I watched the latest preview about an hour ago and did the same thing. It looks bloody good.

@LN78 At least previews seem to be positive.

@RogerRoger LMAO. There's little hype though for me. I like the world and lore, but the game doesn't look amazing IMO. I'm also afraid they will gamify it too much and it will look out of place. I remember how the old HP games threw in these weird platforming sections in these enormous rooms that were suddenly there in the castle. I want them to keep it realistic, but with plenty of secrets for you to discover on your own, from hidden passageways and shortcuts, to hidden spells. Imagine sneaking into the forbidden section in the library at night, and finding a new spell in a book you wouldn't otherwise learn. I think my expectations are just too high, but we will see. I haven't really the latest trailers and gameplay videos either.

Not digging the create your own character though. I rather have a premade one. The ones I've seen in the trailers have no personality, they all look so bland. Just give me an established character, I don't feel the need to play as an avatar of myself in the game. Gameplay aside, something like Forspoken has so much more personality, solely based on the main character alone. Character creators never live up to premade characters IMO.

@Octane It might be a specious comparison but I got major "Arkham Asylum" vibes from the preview - that and a decent discount (to under £50) convinced me to pull the trigger on it.

@LN78 Yeah, I got it for €55 (<£50) as well, €25 cheaper than most games.

@Octane I agree that sometimes an established protagonist lends itself to a stronger narrative potential than a player created one, especially story-heavy games, but for an RPG in an established universe I think it can be advantageous to have a “create-your-own” character. I guess we’ll see how it turns out, but I like the idea of having an avatar of my own creation that I’m attached to for a game like this. Plus I think it was important to build in the options to create transgender characters. (not to open up the controversy, but it’s been explicitly clarified by marketing). Alas, we shall see, and sometimes player-created protagonists end up looking like they were dropped into a game and don’t belong there. However, I do feel like the world of Hogwarts will be the “star of the show” rather than the actual protagonist, so I think it will work out.

@RogerRoger I played Chamber of Secrets on the GBA, which was fine, because it was a 2D turn-based RPG. But I played Prisoner of Azkaban on the GameCube, and I wasn't a fan of it. It tried to emulate the film and book, but fell short because it couldn't offer the same excitement. There's just a lot of expectations that come with a free-roam 3D game set in the HP universe.

Has anyone managed to install Forspoken off a physical disk? I’ve just tried and it’s not recognising the disk. My PS5 reads other PS5 game is fine, and it’s a completely new disk with no damage.

@Ryall Maybe it's a factory error?

@Octane Yep, tried a different copy and that worked fine. Never had a completely new disc out of the box not work before.

Directly after Gotham Knights did exactly the same thing. And the Suicide Squad game has the whole gear level crap as well. Fully convinced that this is a WB-wide mandate.

@nessisonett Supposedly the review embargo is up tomorrow, so there's time to cancel my pre-order if that turns out to be true.

@Kidfried People are into what they're into - I'm pretty confident that "Madagascar" was someone's personal GOTY for 2004 even if it didn't win any awards. I've revised up my earlier estimation and now I think the game will end up with a low 80s aggregate score. That's plenty good enough for most people. If there's even a hint of gear grinding MTX then I'm out, though. I loathe that stuff.