Spider-Man just isn’t going to be a 10 to be honest, especially not after the new experiences we’ve had this year. It looks fantastic though, a proper switch my brain off sort of game that I’ve been sorely missing.
"that said though , i will always have a console around for exclusives & because keyboard and mouse SUCKS ! i was raised on controller and will die with a controller, sucks that i can’t play the new counter strike though because of no controller support! ugh"
Keyboard and mouse rules for shooters on the PC but i also had a pad for other games.
@belmont The PS5 has the world's worst UI. I know some people moan about the Xbox dash but I can't see how it can be as bad?
Getting the obvious omissions out of the way (yes, themes and folders!) the rest of the UI is just a dreary mess. It has a limited number of very small game icons at the top, then a colossal waste of space before you finally get to the bottom of the screen.
And the button clicks required to quit a game are just quite frankly ridiculous! .
When I first got the console, I had to google how to close a PS5 game! Gone is the PS4's long press of the PS button context menu and instead you have to press Options on the aforementioned tiny icon at the top and close the game from that or use the equally bad Switcher on the bloody awful tap-the-PS-button menu.
Given the clean, friendly, straight-forward PS4 UI I cannot work out what the people at Sony were smoking when they green lit the PS5 UI cos it is a mess and a bad one that doesn't seem to have improved after 3 years.
@Voltan 91 is pretty darn good, so I am properly hyped. Push Square was a little more restrained in their scoring and below the average, but 8/10 is still solid.
I think @nessisonett is spot on through. These sequels that merely improve upon a prior entry are just not likely to garner 10’s and 9’s when we have other games pushing the medium more, like Baldur’s Gate and TotK. Most of the established Sony IP have fallen into this lately — GoW, Horizon, TLoU, GT, Ratchet & Clank, and now Spidey. (Anyone willing to bet what Ghost of Tsushima 2 will be like? 😅) Which I’m perfectly fine with, by the way. We are getting games like Returnal and Astrobot mixed in sometimes.
Interestingly 2nd party seems more progressive in its design lately. Which isn’t a terrible way to do things, I guess — have your 4-5 first party ringers which are the comfort food for the PlayStation fandom, and then get all experimental with 2nd party.
@Anti-Matter True, there are elements but the PS3 can have a fully animated theme running in the background and then change the backdrop to the game wallpaper if it has one or, in the cases of games like Bomberman Ultra and Gauntlet 2, the theme just keeps displaying when there is no wallpaper to display.
We need themes back - either that or retro fit the XMB back in to the PS5 front end!
@RogerRoger 😂. I’ve been on some bad dates, but none of them would I describe as a bullet hell, gratefully.
I have, however, gone through a stretch of dating which was definitely a roguelike. Going through the same procedurally generated sequence over and over, only to be defeated and forced back to the beginning, again and again and again…. Yup. Sounds familiar.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Although annoyingly, the hyphen has been missed out in the thread title! 😂
Thanks for these. I will delete my post and move it into the Spider-Man thread.
Kinda wild we have a Spider-Man thread, we missed out the hyphen and it has no hype there at all. This is one of the biggest PS5 releases of the year, where you all at.
@Pizzamorg I think most of us forum lot a bit more reserved when it comes to being hyped for the latest releases, but I have seen a few posts from peeps that are hyped for the game. Just not in the named topic. 😆
And the odd occasion I've read the comments section, I've seen a fair bit of hyped for Spider-Man. But most of those members don't frequent these hallowed pages lol.
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It is really weird choice from Sony that even the Disc version of the new PS5 "Slim" requires an internet connection to pair the disc drive to the console.
I am surprised because they could've paired it in the factory before putting it in the box.
I am glad that I have one of the newer models of the OG PS5
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