Not sure how "unpopular" this is, but while Xbox Games Pass is a GREAT (and I re-iterate, GREAT) deal for the consumer currently, it's ultimately going to be a huge net negative for the quality of games, the quality of development teams and for the consumers over time.
One thing is for certain is subscriptions are the future of gaming, Microsoft has ensured that. Enjoy the "honeymoon" period while it lasts is all I can really say at this point.
Not sure how unpopular this is but —
I like the PS4 UI better than the PS5 UI.
Having had time to become accustomed to the PS5 now (I’ve had it for almost a year now), I can safely say it’s not that it’s just the newness which is off-putting. I still don’t like the layout and the way you have to click around to get to things. The store is better and the trophy lists are now really well formatted, but the rest is pretty ‘meh’.
Also, now a year later … I still don’t like the chime sound for trophies. PS4 was better on that too. Sometimes I can barely hear the sound when I pop a trophy; the tone is too low and it’s too quiet. I earned a trophy playing Dirt 5 today that I didn’t even know I got because the sound was drown out by the raucous music in the game and I was concentrating on the road so didn’t see the icon in the corner when it popped.
Minor grievances, to be sure. I love my PS5 otherwise but who was the design committee that put these things together? It’s like it was changed for change’s sake.
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@velio84 Upgrades and runes did make some difference in the endgame content (grinding in Niflheim, fighting the Valkyries). I imagine they were also more meaningful when just playing on higher difficulty settings - but I agree they didn't really matter that much if you just did the story on normal and I wasn't a huge fan of that part either.
@Anti-Matter I appreciate what you’re saying but can we just stop weirdly genderising games? There’s no such thing as a girlie game. Boys can play with Barbie dolls if they really want to. Girls can play whatever games they want to as well. It’s a bit reductive.
@lolwhatno It’s not rejecting reality at all, it’s challenging outdated nonsense. ‘Girlie games’ is a quite frankly pathetic label. What’s it even supposed to mean? If anybody tried to explain what makes a game for girls then they’d sound like a blustering fool. Gaming’s a bad enough community without imposing silly rules on what games you can play depending on your gender.
@nessisonett I'm all for people enjoying anything they like, but some games are clearly designed with a young female demographic in mind. Barbie games are definitely in that wheelhouse, just like the toys they're based on. That's not a bad thing, and boys/men can and should be able to enjoy such products if they're so inclined (as Anti-Matter clearly is). That doesn't change the fact that they're primarily designed to appeal to young girls, though.
@JudgeDredd yeah I’d pretty much go along with that. I would say that I enjoy the Horizon games a little more than Spider-man games and I ain’t played any Ratchet games… but I’d probably have to put Insomniac into the top tier on output alone.
@colonelkilgore Wait a minute… you’ve not played any Ratchet games? As in, one of the premier OG Sony exclusives?
I think you might enjoy the series. The PS4 reboot is a great starting place. I didn’t play all the older PS2 and PS3 games and really enjoyed the PS4 game and Rift Apart as well. They aren’t quite GOTY material but are very fun games and good palate cleansers between the gritty dark realistic thrillers and mature titles. Don’t let the art style dissuade you — there’s some great gameplay at the core.
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@Th3solution yeah I do plan on playing them… well the PS4 reboot and Rift Apart anyway. I just don’t fancy playing them really but am sure that when I start one I’ll enjoy it.
@RogerRoger yeah, it just seems ‘accepted’ knowledge online that Forbibben West was not only inferior to the original but poor also. Strange how things become ‘facts’ online.
@colonelkilgore The R&C story is quite silly and forgettable, imo (the series has its fans who would say that’s underselling) but the games play really smoothly and have such satisfying combat and weaponry.
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@Th3solution I’m sure I’ll enjoy them. I’m sure it’ll be something like when the missus twists my arm into watching a Pixar movie… I never fancy it but usually end up thinking it was really quite good. Might try and squeeze the PS4 reboot in before the end of the year if I can.
@colonelkilgore R&C is a series that kind of passed me by back in the day but I had great fun with the reboot (even with a game breaking bug 2/3 of the way through the first time!) and then with Rift Apart.
The reboot looks great on PS5 too and I think I prefer it overall to the new game but the latter does a great job of showing off the PS5.
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You should, I didn't fancy it either but was glad when I finally did. Plus there is a trophy for using the weapon that makes enemies dance on all enemies in the game, it was worth it for that alone!
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