@Th3solution well damn , thats good news and bad news! the good news is it sounds like everything i like ! the bad news is that its on a BIG sale for a whole 20 dollars off temporarily, but i just recently dropped around $70-80 on some steam games to fill my library on my steam account, aah!! on the flipside when it goes back to $70 , its cheaper on steam for $60, but i want it on playstation for obvious reasons. i have until march 2nd so ill see, it really does sound great. doom is another game i actually been dying to play but never bit the bullet to purchase so that all ties into me wanting to play returnal even more!
i also love games that challenge you so none of that difficult stuff bothers me, thats gaming at its best! dualsense features sound great too, and thats exciting that it has co-op, i really gotta check it out.
EDIT: oh thats right ! i can buy ps plus for cheaper than both steam and the retail price ! ok , yea i definitely will check it out
@nomither6 Yeah, I was about to suggest doing the PS+ Extra route. It would be $15 for a month, $40 for 3 months, or $100 for a year. If you’re a fast gamer you could finish Returnal in a month. I’m really slow and it took me two months and I didn’t even play the expansion yet (called “Tower of Sisyphus”) which is a endless tower ascension mode. Probably about 40-50 hrs to get to the full ending, but highly skilled people were getting through it as fast as 20 hrs I think.
If you subscribe then you can try some of the other games too as a bonus. Too bad DOOM isn’t on there but it’s often on sale for like $10 so an easy one to pick up for cheap some day. DOOM Eternal is also supposedly great but I’ve not played it.
Phew, I was a bit worried that there wasn't a recommendations thread for PS5 games!
So I'm considering buying Deathloop and The Callisto Protocol. Are these games worth buying?
I'm also looking for more horror games to play on PS5 (which is one of the reasons why I'm interested in The Callisto Protocol). I've also heard about Martha is Dead and Madison in terms of indie horror games but I don't know much about them other than Madison being compared to Visage (which I sadly didn't enjoy, I just don't like games with a "sanity" system).
I also know that the PS1 version of the first Resident Evil is on PS5, which I adore. Hopefully Sony will add the Dino Crisis games on PS5 soon as we don't have access to them on the PS3/Vita stores in EU.
Dead Space and RE4 remakes are a given, but I'm going to wait until I find them at a good price before getting them.
I think I can recommend Octopath Traveller 2 - I was really not excited to play this as I didn’t enjoy the first overall, but I’ve put 20 or so hours into the sequel and it’s a lot more engaging. I am glad I took a chance on it.
I basically like all the characters I have met (6) - I’ve not rolled my eyes once at the dialogue! I can only say I enjoyed 1 story of the 8 from the first game (Primrose, obviously!)
Between story chapters there’s plenty to discover, and I was laughing with joy when I unlocked the boat. Lovely music, looks great..
I will reserve final judgment until I have played it for longer, as to be fair I think I put more time into the first game and I may yet bounce off this one after another 20 hours. But certainly I am happy to say I was never as excited to play more of the first game, nor did I feel compelled to play it for such long periods at once so they have done something right with the sequel.
I’ll post my reply here rather than the chit chat thread @Th3solution but Kentucky Route Zero is amazing although definitely not for everyone! I replayed it not long after getting my PS5 to get the platinum and I enjoyed it just as much second time around.
It really is a hard game to describe though. It has so many elements of other games but is still really unique. I guess at heart it is a story driven role player but where “it’s about the journey and not the destination” man.
Your choices make next to no difference to the story but really mould it to an experience for you. It’s hard to describe but for instance a character might ask you if you have any siblings and you could respond with;
“No, my parents never wanted more”
“Yeah, an older brother but we don’t talk”
“A younger sister but she died a while back”
None of them affect the game but kind of make the character yours and unique to your game.
The art style is really cool too and the music is amazing and incredibly poignant at times, with one scene blowing me away with the music they used.
Basically, I loved it for being so different to anything I had played before. It’s not for everyone and certainly stretches the definition of being a “game” but it really is a great experience.
@RogerRoger@Thrillho Thanks for the information and also thanks to @Kidfried because yes, I did go back to read the review posted in 2020. And honestly, there’s a good chance I read the review 2.5 years ago and have just forgotten some of the detail. My memory isn’t always sharp so I’m grateful to have had a reminder. (and incidentally, thanks as well @Ralizah and Rog for their continued dedication to keeping the review thread organized and catalogued so that finding a review written in 2020 was a snap!).
One line from Kid’s review struck me:
“The game is definitely for those who like to think about [various subjects] and where society, philosophy and art intertwine.”
And that line alone sold me on it. I’m definitely more apt to pick it up now.
That said, when I checked psprices.com, it drops to its current sale price quite commonly, so I might wait on it. I’m also staring Jedi Survivor right in the face soon, among others. I am encouraged by KR0’s 10 hour limited runtime through, as that’s a great sweet-spot to throw in between longer AAA releases.
Reading about the game also has reminded me to play Disco Elysium, which is another point-and-clicky (maybe, kind of?) philosophical game I have sitting in my backlog.
I’m starting to really worry about drowning in so many wonderful games that I having trouble finding time to get around to. The image of sinking slowly into quicksand comes to mind. The more I struggle, the deeper I get trapped… 😅 Someone send help.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Kidfried You should definitely give 2020 version of Kidfried a nice pat on the back because most certainly the review turned out to be an enjoyable and helpful read in 2023 and is much appreciated by yours truly.
And your expansive Art analogy makes perfect sense! The game does sound right up my street. I adore games as art and when some personal interpretation can be gleaned, especially if it teaches me something about myself.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
And @Th3solution Disco Elysium should definitely be on your list to play. A magnificent game that I really want to find time to replay again.
Unlike KR0 it’s one where your actions very much do affect the game and it’s another true role playing game where you can make the character be whatever you want. I especially like the fact the game almost ridicules you for playing it too boringly.
Honestly, @Th3solution I can’t really add much, having also read the review by @Kidfried which is par excellence! Really wonderful write up.
As they were alluding to, the game definitely benefits from surrendering to it in a way, perhaps not viewing from the usual perspective. Truly wonderful game and one I’ll be picking up on PS too to bag that shiny shiny platinum 👍
@Kidfried Yeah, I’ve felt like the pandemic did some kind of bizarre time-warp on the world where it just feels like a whole generation passed when in actuality it’s only been a couple years. Pre-COVID and early COVID life is like some kind of dream that never happened.
Anyways, apologies if I prompted any feeling of dissection from your prior self. 😅 You’re still very much consistently perpetual, it’s the world around us which has changed!
@AgentCooper I’ll definitely drop a note somewhere when I get around to KR0. I thank you for bringing it back to my awareness. It’s on my PSN wishlist, but that pesky thing is getting so long that it’s easy for games to get buried at the bottom.
@Thrillho Disco will be on deck hopefully sooner rather than later. This year, I suspect. Of course I say that and I see Jedi Survivor and FF16 coming quickly and I know that I’ll get lulled by the siren song of one or both of those. And FF16 is likely to be massive, time commitment-wise (Hopefully Jedi is a manageable 30-40 hour jaunt). And that’s to say nothing of Spider-Man 2 and all the rest. But back on the subject of Disco Elysium, I’m ironically grateful that the recurring controversy of the development team keeps the game popping back up in the public consciousness. 😅 It’s free (or not so free) advertising because each time an article with another lawsuit comes up I’m reminded that I need to check it out. Morbid curiosity notwithstanding! 😄
@Th3solution I’ve played a bit of Disco Elysium and it is a very interesting game, but will say some aspects of it are very cartoony in the philosophy section I found, while some are pretty good.the cartoony aspects were a bit of a turn off for me.
To give an example, the game advertises a being communist, facist, a few other philosophies. I read and thought, hmm, that’s a rather interesting idea, definitely off the beaten path; we’ve got multiple and very opposite ways to be a villian here (not sure I’ve seen that before). I personally like a good villain route. So I started messing around with the facist route, and it was, well, 4chan facism to be honest. After getting some weird rants about women being society’s problems from the internal voices and such in a manner that doesn’t reflect any actual facism, (if you didn’t do your research on 4-Chan at least). I felt a bit disappointed.
I was playing to not have the Fable idea of a villain path, but got too much of the same energy.
There’s still a lot of good to say about what I played, but I was not expecting 4-chan level of thought in parts of the game. I’ll also add it was extra jarring because of the quality of writing elsewhere. The like game opens up and draws you right with in it’s writings
@Jaz007 Thanks for that perspective, Jaz. I wonder if they had a different writing team for the various arcs and so some were less fleshed out. I have noticed this in other games that offer a wide swath of choices and story paths — inevitably some of them seem to be of lower quality.
I’m intrigued with the possibility of choice, but I rarely take an overt villainous route on my first run. I’m really curious whether this game will convince me to do otherwise though.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I think I can recommend Octopath Traveller 2 - I was really not excited to play this as I didn’t enjoy the first overall, but I’ve put 20 or so hours into the sequel and it’s a lot more engaging. I am glad I took a chance on it.
I basically like all the characters I have met (6) - I’ve not rolled my eyes once at the dialogue! I can only say I enjoyed 1 story of the 8 from the first game (Primrose, obviously!)
Between story chapters there’s plenty to discover, and I was laughing with joy when I unlocked the boat. Lovely music, looks great..
I will reserve final judgment until I have played it for longer, as to be fair I think I put more time into the first game and I may yet bounce off this one after another 20 hours. But certainly I am happy to say I was never as excited to play more of the first game, nor did I feel compelled to play it for such long periods at once so they have done something right with the sequel.
Just entered the PS5 club, still waiting for everything to download, going to make a start on Miles Morales first as I’ve been holding out to play it. What other titles are a great showcase for the console so far?
@AgentCooper That’s awesome and I’m really excited for you! I do love my PS5. As time passes, I’m less and less inclined to spend my gaming time on last gen. My PS4 feels like a relic now. PS4 games tend to play a bit better on the PS5 anyways.
As far as showcasing types of games, the aforementioned Astrobot’s Playroom is definitely the starting point. For me, others I’d include would be Returnal, Demon’s Souls, and Control Ultimate Edition. Those are great games which have beautiful graphical fidelity coupled with really smooth performance. Spider-Man Miles Morales is another great one too. I also second Rift Apart. All of the above are either at a good discount or part of PS+ Extra, so it won’t break the bank.
I’ve yet to play HFW, GoW Ragnarok, or TLoU Part I, which all have very high marks for sheer visual and audio goodness.
Most of the of the PS5 versions I’ve played so far are just prettier and smoother versions of the PS4 game, like FF7R, Guardians of the Galaxy, Kena, Immortals… so not quite a showcase like those mentioned above. I’d assume GoT and Death Stranding are similar, whereby the PS4 versions seemed fantastic in their own right, visually and performance-wise, so not sure how much palpable difference one feels on the PS5 version.
And I guess I’ll include Cyberpunk, like @Thrillho says - it’s a game which benefitted greatly and runs infinitely better than on PS4, so much that it could almost be considered a current gen exclusive. I just didn’t care for the game itself, so your mileage may vary. But Control is the other game that has a poorly functioning PS4 version that really shines on the PS5.
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