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Re: PlayStation Has Swiftly Solved Its Profitability Problem

EfYI

@KoopaTheGamer

Damn, I would have liked somebody to bond with over the sticker shock of modern day graphic cards. There are cards for sale that cost more than 5000 USD.

You write it is a bad deal - I haven't upgraded myself and are doing some form of trade-in math in my head even though I could easily just buy, I guess I ultimately agree that it is just short of an acceptable deal for me. I realise that selling my PS5 on the pre-owned market will only get me halfway there. As time passes, it isn't likely to get any better, so I am stuck wrestling with my good senses.

Re: PlayStation Has Swiftly Solved Its Profitability Problem

EfYI

@get2sammyb

And I would add that among gamers, SONY is a kind of Apple-Eco system with many products available to fill or compete in certain niches.

There's even room to grow - they're competing both for the couch and the gamer chair. You could have a Sony screen, console and headset. It is a PC set-up.

Re: Hogwarts Legacy Summons Additional Sales, Soars Past a Staggering 30 Million Sold

EfYI

I will of course support people who feel like they might want to be called this and that - but that is kind of it.

I don't want people to make irreversible choices nor do I want popular culture to cater to the 0,1 per cent all the time.

Therefore, it is a victory for humanity that cancel culture and their proponents failed so utterly and fantastically.

I listened to the podcasts about the Rowling-controversy and the criticism over her legimate concerns (both about irreversibility and about protecting biological sex) is often legitimate itself actually. But the campaign against this game created a severe backlash. 30 million copies are not rookie numbers.

Re: More People Are Playing the Original Horizon Zero Dawn Than Its Remaster on PC

EfYI

I have heard from reliable sources that you can very easily pirate Playstation games on PC, so why would anyone ever buy a game from them?

They should honestly do better and make sure it is unpirateable. Require a verifikation every five minutes or something. Otherwise, pull the games from the platform. DO NOT GIVE IT AWAY FOR FREE at competitive platforms, Sony.

Also, do not waver from having them sign in. There are adult crybabies who will cry about anything that isn't crystal meth shot directly into their veiny eyeballs.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 553

EfYI

This weekend I'm playing FF7 Remake for a second time. I like it, but combat isn't as revelatory for me as it was back in the 90's. I think they do OKAY with modernizing the game. I don't like how the level design is repetitive and the game certainly drags on in sections. And those "retcon" ghosts are annoying. 100 cutscenes of "wow, what are they" "Hmmphf, I can't get past them" just gets incredibly old. But it is a great game 8/10 game. I replayed this game to decide if I want to pick up the second part or not.

Also, on a slow burner I am playing The very first Ace Attorney game which is an okay experience. I got it on sale because I wanted some courtroom drama. It delivers that.

Also, I'm thinking about returning to BG3 which I left of after some time

I think that 2023 and 2024 has had so much to offer the average consumer that I'm spending way too much time thinking about games I don't own. It is the time of the year with good sales.

Backlog:
BG3
PSVR2 (RE: 4+8, Walking Dead: S&S)

Shopping list:

Hardware

  • The PS5 Pro
  • Portal

Software:

  • Jedi™ Survivor
  • FF7 Rebirth
  • GOW: Ragnarok
  • Spiderman 2
  • Alan Wake 2
  • Metaphor Fantazio (or P3 or P4, depending on the deals)
  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard
  • PSVR2 software

Re: BioWare Rules Out Any Dragon Age: The Veilguard DLC

EfYI

... One of the greatest joys of gaming is finding a gem... and then realising how much else there's on offer through DLC.

There's DLC like Kingdom Come where it expands and improve the game, and then there's DLC like The Spiderman where you get a watered down experience that doesn't really connect to the awesome main game.

I guess this might just be a new trend in the tripple-A space.

Re: PS5 Pro Not Compatible with PS5 Slim Face Plates, Sony to Release New Covers for More Powerful Console

EfYI

@StopBeingTribal

Guys, just stop and learn from the wine-drinking pidgin, will you? Even the name tells us this is, in fact, sage advise and I for one like it's gumption and can-do attitude!

Just open a good bottle of wine when ordering to lessen the blow of paying HUNDREDS of dollars for insignificant details about your little collection of printplates and cooling.

In summary, thank you for coming to my TED talk, where we discussed how face plates is a scam no true Scotsman would ever buy.

Re: Random: Forward-Thinking PlayStation Gamer Spends $2,000 on 24 Years of PS Plus

EfYI

@Barryburton97

1. Let's just say that you can't get a better deal for premium which is sure to rise in price at least 10 times until 2048. I think it is a fantastic investment that is paying off today, tomorrow and the day after. All the days until that day in 2048.

2. It is an incredible amount of time, but most likely Sony will honour the deal. Even as subscription services changes names and tiers, you'd think his sub will subsist.

I low-key think he is saving a fortune.

Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (PS5) - The Best BioWare Game Since Mass Effect 3

EfYI

Okay - the game will be to my liking, I think.

The reviews read like it is Inquisition, but a weeee bit more Action Adventure? I initially wanted a more cRPG-feel to Inquisition but have bought all DLC and replayed it again and again. So this game MUST be for me.

I am consumed with doubt, but all signs (except for 6-10 metacritic scores) are positive.

Re: New World: Aeternum (PS5) - Full-Bodied Action MMO Will Devour Your Free Time

EfYI

Great review👍

Didn't know about this game before, but the review makes me want to try it at some point.

The problem is gamers like me have chosen to end their subscription to online play and I cannot get myself to actually buy a digital game at full price unless it's a 10-game. I am aware this is a better package than most new releases, btw.

I might even dare to scoff at GTA 6's eventual price of entry and wait it out, but Kingdom Come 2 will be picked up IMMEDIATELY regardless of reviews.

Re: PlayStation, Bungie Still Going Ahead with Internal Live Service Team

EfYI

Excellent comic legs, Doh'ny.

Even if I were contracted to write satire on Doh'ny pictures I would not have come up with the "SIE Live Service Centre of Excellence".

Inaugural members includes
Sackboii: A big adventure (the always offline version)
Concordia (only for real accordians)
Fairgame$ (games as a charity)
Factions II (in a non-playable state)
Destiny II (the destiny II killer)
Robot Boy (next dlc is ps6-based, coming sooner than you think)
Major League Baseball (available only on GP Ultimate tier)
Gran Turismo 7 (Requires VR2 headset)

Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Collector's Edition Cheaper After Its Season Pass Cancellation

EfYI

Hard to read this piece of news and not think that they are readjusting their reality.

This game NEEDS more work to be accepted by gamers. It is NOT going to sell as well as projected when funding for this game was settled, and therefore the DLC (some of it may be included in the main game after all) are brought down in scope and vision (or the petty vision they had was shot down).

Also, I think they may be wrong in creating a lumbersome character for a game that requires feline agility and finesse. If 50 per cent of the game is wrong DNA, then people will feel like they wasted time on perfecting the true Assassin's Creed experience.

Re: Video: 2025 Is Shaping Up to Be PS5's Best Year Yet

EfYI

You're sending out menus months in advance of when we can eat🎃

It is hard to settle just for three. Hard choices.

My top five:
1. Kingdom Come 2 - I am just so excited and hype bar is filled.
2. GTA 6 - What is there to say about the level of anticipation for this game at this point.
3. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (actually voted for Atom fall, but this is the true nr. 3) - Sounds like the perfect game movie.
4. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - will I like the combat system?
5. Ghosts of Yotei - Can I get excited for 'more of the same'?
6. Atom Fall (voted third, but adjusted for recency bias of just hearing about it in the video and getting excited about it) - Wow, your presentation has me stoked!
7. Amy Hennig's Marvel game is always going to sound interesting on paper.
8. Mafia: Old County - a mild interest. These games DO have such a special atmosphere, question is have they distilled it into a truly great edition?
9: Couldn't get into Deathstranding 1 - went stale on it, trying to do a delivery from the first 'base' or whatever. This game goes over my head. But as gaming event I look forward to read along as bystander.

Re: PS5 Pro's Proprietary Upscaler PSSR Is Looking Very Promising

EfYI

@GamerGuy1970

This guy gets it!

Congrats on getting your pro - but be careful with losing all your PS5s. You could have one in the bedroom streaming the PS5 Pro.

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I could use a Pro to feel like a kid again and maybe squeeze an ounce of extra performance. I could also use a Portal, and a Steamdeck. I could just go out and buy those things, but I am a cheapskate.

My phone is a quite good Semi-portal even if the input is screentouch. There's some lag and... artifacting? But I have made due with so much worse before, and this is a free feature.

Re: Some Marvel's Spider-Man 2 PS5 Fans Are Furious It's Not Getting DLC

EfYI

There are several obvious reasons why DLC isn't coming.

1. This will sound harsh, but I think it HAS to. SONY's Playstation branch is a somewhat failing company with a near incredulous strategy of paying crap developers a ***** tonne of money for absolutely nothing in return (proof: see Haven and Concord. Concord is the biggest disaster in gaming history that just keeps getting bigger (every month, 700-1200 developers are getting their very high salaries in return for absolutely nothing. Same as Jade's crew of crooks and *****)). Just remember this when, in three years, all these Haven and Concord employees are going to be without jobs and they will bitch and moan about it. They will be among the last people in the world who are deserving of our sympathy.

2. Insomniac employees are literally carrying everyone else on their back, so they have to work on experiences that are short and expensive. This means no dlc, because sales numbers will tell you that the adoption rate is between 20-40 per cent for owners of the original game.

3. The dlc of the original Spiderman was cheap and very boring. The original game was not expanded, and for me at least I hate DLC that tacked on the main game as an afterthought. For it to work for me, it HAS to be integrated into the original game. Now, it sounds like the sequel, at least for some, sorely needed to expand upon the original story. The holes will be filled with new full-price entries.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 551

EfYI

Ace Attorney: Phoenix Trilogy - a fun chill out game. Whets my appetite for sequels, if the mechanics improve or something.

Final Fantasy vii remake - probably going to near-plat it as I'm kinda replaying and doing everything this time around. I just don't know if I am in for the sequel, I have issues with this game.

Demo of Metaphor - just dipping me toes.

Re: Spider-Man 2 Won't Receive Any PS5 Story DLC

EfYI

As far as I remember, the dlc of the first game was not part of the main game and largely forgettable. Therefore, it is not a great loss, but it will accelerate discounts and thus accelerate when I pick this title up to play - if I can even be bothered with the two sequels Ragnarok and Spiderman II. They are on my to-buy list, put in the gaming cellar of my hypothetical backlog.

Even on a discount, I find games expensive now a days, but you get definitive, patched, discounted and expanded experiences often with DLC if you wait long enough.

Re: Will the Real Disco Elysium Spiritual Successor Please Stand Up?

EfYI

Wow! As someone who will rate Disco Elysium as a masterpiece of art and gaming I was waiting for this article - but I only knew of the two earlier announcements. I am sad that the team disintegrated into so many factions - we needed them to flip the finger to ZA/UM's evil overlord (seriously, ***** that guy) and band together to create something. But okay - I would trust everyone to create something good. Except for the eternal douchenozzle owning ZA/UM.

Longdue games - sounds like a small team. I would be interested in a more combat-focused roleplaying game, so this is cool news. But WHAT is psychogeography?

XXX Nightshift - Dark Math Games: sounds like a rough version of a DE game with a female narrator. I like the hint that this is adult material, and I think the final product could be amazing if they tweak the sound of the narration to the heights of DE.

Summer eternal - didn't know about this one, but I like the style and panache of their manifesto. Not much more to go on - but the writing seem to be covered in this endeavor. I think the first one was very inspiring to the staff and every attempt at game making is now different as a result - their line about corporations seem unfair if all these game studios are small indie operations? Are any backed by collosal companies?

Finally, we have the Kurvitz/Rostov alliance which admittedly I know nothing about. I don't know if they could create a universe and city quite like Revachol, but I am VERY interested and they have my faith.

In fact, they all do - they all have Cool ingredients, and I guess many of the same instincts. I mean, how often do we get a triple announcement on the same day about spiritual successors. How crazy it would be if all were bangers and of very high quality.

Re: PS5 May Soon Be Unchallenged by Xbox in Some Regions

EfYI

@xxk7xx

Some good points about the positives of an XBOX console. Xbox is also getting remote play streamed from the user's own console, finally catching up with SONY.

If I didn't have my library on Playstation and if VR was available on XBOX I might have surfed the same wave as many others getting game pass virtually for free on a cheap entry point with Series S.

Microsoft have basically bankrolled their customers' gaming for years, and yet their market share is too small. That, I think, is why their declineis inevitable and also why it is smart to pivot into the publisher role.

Re: PS5 Pro Prompts Sony's Disc Drive to Rocket Up the Charts

EfYI

It is so nice of them to include this option. It wouldn't have been too much to ask for people to repurchase their non-digital games, after all.

Honestly, it is a steal at that price, and aesthetically you could argue that it completes the 'look'.

Plus there's like a complementary box with it with limitless potential for application.

Re: Metaphor: ReFantazio (PS5) - Brilliant, Memorable RPG Is One of Atlus' Finest Works

EfYI

@Rich33

Maybe all you need are glasses and 10 minutes break every hour.

Some experts will tell you that the human eye can see between 30 and 60 frames per second. Some maintain that it’s not really possible for the human eye to perceive more than 60 frames per second. Therefore, I find it puzzling that so many are maintaining that they can't enjoy less than 60. I struggle to find it credible. However, another source (how-to-geek) will tell you that some people will tell you they feel a difference.

I started playing games before Playstation even existed - we didn't get sick or complain at all. No one did. But maybe it has to do with transitioning to 3D. I remember a game dev saying that making the screen look right when the player was running was extremely important in not creating nausea.