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@BeerIsAwesome Are you leaving a specific game for that amazing milestone? I remember ruminating on the perfect game to platinum for my 100th earlier this year for like a week till I decided on Nier Replicant and was so glad with my choice because it became my favourite JRPG of all time. Best of luck!

@RatmCky Haven’t played FF 6 yet but I played the OG Final Fantasy and enjoyed that game a lot even though it was made 10 years before me!

Finishing off my 100% completion run of the Witcher 3, I'm 185 hours in and have get all trophies and only have a few markers and a hand full of side quests left to complete. Blood and Wine expansion has been spectacular and really reminds me of the quality of the citadel DLC from Mass Effect 3 in terms of quality except that this just has so much more content! I'm glad I've finally got around to play the two DLC expansions from the Witcher 3, they're more light hearted and add new game mechanics that really elevate the RPG systems of an already deep game!

The first game has the best pixel art in any game I've ever experienced and the actual gameplay is pretty good also!

I prefer the look of the old Shiva and IFrit, but some of the human models are better in the new version. I don't think the graphics have improved much but the lighting they're using seems to have been overhauled a bit. Either way my caveman brain says game look good!

As expected exactly the same as the PC versions, should be pretty easy especially with the modifiers!

What a win for cancel culture 😂

Still on the Witcher 3, at 155 hours I finally 100% completed the base game + Hearts of Stone DLC clearing every single quest, every objective marker, all scavenger hunts, made all alchemy recipes and made Geralt cheat on Yennefer with Shani. All in all my favorite Western RPG of all time. I've barely started Blood and Wine but I think I'm all Witchered out for now after putting in 70 hours in 2 weeks lmao. I might take a break from the game for a while, but the more likely event is I'll be hopping back into Touissant in a couple days😁

I'd need to hear the full theme but it sounds mediocre to me and doesn't seem to fit the theme of the game. This opinion can obviously change once the game releases and I see context for when the song plays, but only time will tell.

I want a Shuhei bobble head and I already own some of these games 🤩 If anyone enjoys good narrative games I'd suggest A Space for the Unbound which is already a gem that many don't know about it, it's a bit of a mind trip and will have you thinking about it for weeks after the experience!

@get2sammyb Because that's a feature everybody uses 🤣

This is so dumb, it 100% won't launch in Australia, we still don't have ps now 😂

Watched Asmongold play the beta, looks pretty good, might be my first mmo I properly dive into!

@Ravix I'm still in Skellige clearing all the dive points but I'm hurrying along the main story so I can get to Khaer mohren so I can finally get the wolf set which I'm basing my build around. I'd say I've cleared about half of Skellige and 85% of the Velen/Novigrad map leaving the North East of Novigrad for the Hearts of Stone DLC. I've probably spent 5+ hours solely theory crafting my build heading into the end game and I still spend time playing gwent even though I have the full base collection already and won the tourney at the pasiflora. I'm going to guess by the time I fully complete the game with all DLC my clock will have easily ticked over 200-250 hours total. Once you know how to build Geralt properly the game becomes laughably easy, even on Death March, I even intend to brew every single alchemy recipe. I have all Oils, potions and have about 5 decoctions left except the Succubus concoction which will be impossible to obtain because I spared it in this playthrough. Not many games truly suck me into their experience like this one so 100%ing it beyond the platinum in both ps4 and ps5 versions is my ultimate respect towards the game. There's just something about the Witcher 3 and games like Mass Effect that make me want to do literally everything possible!

Witcher 3, Witcher 3 and the Witcher 3. I think I had 85 hours in this playthrough last week and now I have 115 and I can't claw myself away from this game. My longer playthrough is sheerly to the fact that I want to completely 100% this game, meaning every quest I can possibly find and clear every single question mark on the map.

IMO it isn’t a matter of if, but when. Should be a simple 4K 60 fps upscale, I played the Xbox one x version of the game and it looks beautiful. Half the works already been done, on Xbox at least…

If this was Square Enix they’d be disappointed 😂

Sadly nothing can beat that cartoon BB avatar from the first game which I missed out on 😑

Yay, they fixed the font!!!

Oh no what am I to do, inserts physical disc...

Even if you get physical some of these games still take forever to download, Horizon Forbidden West takes up 99.57 GB on my PS5 and I remember that taking 2 hours to download with the current updates included.

I've been playing it since the previous patch, so consistently for the last month and a half or so. Yes the performance is much better, specifically in Novigrad but this game is still buggy as hell, one specific example is when going through the inventory and geralts character model will be glitched out and you can't see his appearance at all. Roach is still an absolute glitch fest with terrible pathing, slowing down randomly and she literally can't jump over any wall over 5cm above ground, also whilst in Ard Skellige I ran into a horse with 3 heads which was hillarious.

The last thing that will heavily impact anyone thinking of playing this patch is the literal freezing for 1-3 seconds anytime the game auto-saves, which is very often, any time you finish a quest, some times when you run into a different area, leveling up sometimes. So in conclusion the fps is fixed for sure but the game is still and always will be buggy, although the freezing issues don't make sense to me as I played the PC version prior to ps5 and the auto-saving didn't produce freezing nearly as bad.

I really don't see some of these issues ever getting fixed, NGL Witcher 3 is more buggy than Skyrim for me by far yet it's still in my top 3 games of all time, I'm about to cross the 100 hour threshold on my current playthrough, so if anyone is deciding if they should wait to dive in, they should, some of these issues are never getting fixed yet the game is still a masterpiece in design. I'm currently burnt out on open world games, but I get sucked into the Witcher 3 as if it's a brand new game!

I really don't have much interest on a pro right now, like seriously what will be the difference? We get 99% of games at 60 fps and they all look good, look at Horizon Forbidden West. If the only difference is instead of games being 1080-1440p and now native 4k, I really don't see many people buying this at launch. Even though it's starting to slow down, we're still getting cross-gen games so the generation is only truly starting this year, so there's ALOT of untapped potential left for the current hardware that hasn't been utilized. I might get a pro down the line, but probably only if the form factor is considerably smaller and I'll wait further for a special edition version that appeals to me.

Can't wait to play Sackboy in Co-op with myself 😂

If they like it so much why don't they make a Star Wars themed dualsense!

@Rob_230 I couldn’t imagine travelling without flu powder.

@grapetrap Hearing Revelio gives me ptsd 😥

I did the dumb thing of starting too many RPGs at the same time over the last few weeks. 25 hours in Octopath Traveler 2, 10 in Valkyrie Elysium, 10 in Soul Hackers 2 and 10+ in Atelier Ryza 2 and now I'm kinda overwhelmed with what to actually play, in all the time spent I could have actually beat one of these 4 games. So to deal with this I ran the roulette wheel and am focusing on Atelier Ryza 2 and deleted the rest off my PS5. I've realized that I shouldn't play more than one JRPG at the same time or I'll just get burnt out.

I'm still playing my Witcher 3 PS5 playthrough and am 85 hours in on Death March and have finally made my way to Skellige which is honestly the best part of the game, the art design is genuinely beautiful with the Nordic/Skyrim-esque vistas make me absolutely fall in love with this area. My god, my second playthrough is so much easier now that I know how to build Geralt properly and the fact that I'm fully utilizing the Oils, decoctions and potions systems to their fullest. I feel like going down the alchemy build route takes the immersion of playing as a witcher to the maximum!

I'm trying to find a side game that I can slowly make my way through when I get bored of playing other games. I redownloaded Genshin Impact after only playing for an hour but there's no option to restart my profile on PS5 without making a new psn as I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing so I delted that immediately. Hopefully that Blue Protocol game will be a good replacement and it being new to everyone will make it a good jumping in point for me.

@Korgon It's the actual name of the game

@Magnus_Selene I was using them as examples of good games in early access and couldn’t care less if they’re timed exclusive on a platform if it helps with development. Indie exclusive contracts don’t last long and in the end they really don’t matter because they won’t stop people buying the game on their preferred platform. I doubt many people are fretting over the fact valheim is coming to PlayStation later, especially in a finished state by the time it makes it’s way over to the platform compared to something like Final Fantasy 16 which could take 2 + years or never go to Xbox. Sony have bought times exclusivity on games like Kena, Sifu, Stray and Tchia which have all been partially funded by Sony. Doesn’t matter if Sony,Xbox or a Nintendo buys timed exclusivity of an indie title, if anything it shows that title is promising if a publisher is willing to pay them for a exclusivity contract.

@Magnus_Selene You’re completely right! I forgot about temtem, but more or less what I said still applies in me wanting more early access then. There are so many games in early access that are better than many full release games such as things like Slime Rancher 2, Valheim or Sons of the Forest. Hades 2 is launching in early access and I know many people would jump at the bits to play that in early access on PlayStation.

Simple solution, let developers put early access titles on the storefront and no I don’t think every early access title should be allowed on the platform and there should be a quality bar that should outline the game is only allowed in the ps store if the developers have a clear roadmap up until version 1.0. Early access can be great for developers on steam and I hope this feature comes to PlayStation.

@C25CLOUD Can you tell me where it confirms platforms because I literally can’t find any articles saying where dragon quest is launching? We presumed Dragon Quest Treasures would launch on PlayStation but that still isn’t on anything other than Switch.

Woah, where the heck did this come from! Was never expecting this one to get ported to other systems since the original was on Nintendo. I still have a sneaky suspicion that Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D might only launch on Switch, but I hope I’m wrong. regardless I hope this gets a physical release.

Wow this is the best month they've had in years!!! Tails of Iron is a great game so I really encourage people to try is if they like games like hollow knight or Salt and Sacrifice.

I just flat out don’t want one any time soon, this generation hasn’t truly started yet. The “We believe in generations” quote has aged so well that we haven’t got a single completely new PS5 only exclusive since returnal (I’m not counting Forspoken). Unless Sony is buying square enix, we won’t have got a next gen Sony exclusive till Spider-Man 2 comes out. How could anyone possibly think we need a pro when the majority of developers haven’t made games exclusively for next gen, utilising the full power of the ps5 and Xbox series consoles. I want to see how these SSDs actually change they way games are designed. Many people have only just purchased a ps5 in the last year and a pro would be a middle finger to them. I got my second ps5 at the end of December after my launch model completely bricked in 2021 so there’s no way in hell I’m buying a pro at launch.

I just can’t get over how ugly the box art is, other Final Fantasy games have absolutely beautiful art on all of their steel book cases. I look at FF 10/10-2, 12, 15 are all amazing, it just doesn’t make sense why they give a collection of classic games a dog turd cover art and charge a premium on top of that. They could’ve done a collage type artwork culminating the original box art from all games into one spectacular piece of art. I know this is dumb to fret, but who the heck wants a bunch of pixelated characters with a white backdrop on a box? Look at Octopath Travelling 2’s physical copy and you’ll question what went wrong with this!

Atelier Ryza 2 finally on sale again, just before I get Ryza 3 in the mail later this week. NGL it would be weird to own the finale before the second game, but I just couldn't pass up the physical copy of an RPG!

I don't know why it took this long for Square to show us this type of gameplay, but better late than never because this is just what I wanted and now I'm getting even more hyped!

Remake OG Monster Hunter or Tri

Playing Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order PS5 version in prep for Survivor. I could have transferred the ps4 save for the auto-pop platinum, but I'm not lazy so I'm doing the Plat legit again but this time on Jedi Grandmaster Difficulty. It isn't much harder than Jedi master tbh and I've gone a lot better at finding the collectibles because I actually remember where some of the harder ones were that I had to look up a guide for. The game is still an amazing experience and is my favorite Star Wars game to date, but I'm surprised with the performance as I've noticed there are way more frame drops than the PS4 backwards compatibility version running on ps5 that I originally experienced.

Also playing the Witcher 3 on Death March difficulty with A potion-Melee Hybrid build. You can't Auto-pop Witcher 3 trophies which I'm happy for because it gives me more reason to do everything and I mean EVERYTHING, I'm going for a full completionist run this time, clearing every quest I find and all question marks on the map. I never played any of the DLC my first time round so there's still about 40+ hours of new content for me, plus all the new build stuff that unlocks in the Blood and Wine DLC. My first run through on the ps4 version took 70 hours to get the plat but this time I've spent 70 hours and am still in the Novigrad main quest line. I have no rush to finish this anytime soon so I randomly play this every through weeks and instantly get sucked back into the game and I have to force myself to stop so I can play other games. It's in my top 3 games of all time and this time I vow to not get Ciri killed in this playthrough!

I tried this in a steam next fest last year and enjoyed it, this looks like a good pick up when I’m looking for a pallet cleanser between other games! I’m also looking forward to a game called Dave the Diver which is a scuba diving rpg, looks awesome!

If this is what people are complaining about now they need to go outside.

Tell me your company is creatively bankrupt without telling me your company is creatively bankrupt.

I like how he doesn’t even take responsibility for his actions in that follow up tweet😂

@rusty82 Unless there’s a switch 2 by the time the next sonic comes out I don’t see it being current gen only, but that could be 2-3 years away so who knows. I will be honest, switch didn’t hold back frontiers back from being a great game and as usual gameplay always trumps graphics, we almost never remember great games for only their graphics, if that were the case anything released before ps4 would be obsolete.

Just beat and got the platinum trophy for Sonic Frontiers and am so surprised by how much I enjoyed this game, it was satisfying going around collecting everything I saw.

One of my favourite parts was the fishing mini game, which was so chill, the platinum experience was fantastic, no missable trophies and I could choose to focus on tasks in any order I wanted. I ended up getting 100% on all the portals to retro levels even though you only need to do so on a single level. This game was such a random mix of breath of the wild and Mario odyssey with a tiny bit of Nier Automata with the secret final boss and has made me a new fan of the sonic series. If this is the template for future sonic games you can count me in on day one! I now want to go back and experience some of the older games now, maybe sonic colours on ps4.

Also chipping away at Octopath traveller 2, this one will take me forever to beat as I’m only playing 1 character chapter at a time, I’m 18 hours in and am up to the 8th character’s intro chapter. Combat is crunchy and the visuals are exceptional, I wished there were more games that adapted the Hd-2d style. My only problem with the game so far is the performance takes a hit on ps5 when you’re moving behind backdrops in the environment which really shouldn’t be happening since this isn’t a graphically demanding game.

Lastly, I’m playing the mega man legacy collection which has been a blind spot in my gaming history, but my god the first game is brutally difficult and I flat out wouldn’t have had the patience to get through it without save states. Mega man 2 is a huge step up and is my favourite so far and 3 is also pretty good if not a tad long compared to the other two. I will probably take a break before I play mega man 4 as I have no rush to beat these games, they will be great pallet cleansers between larger games. I’m glad I’ve finally given this series a shot, even if they didn’t click with me, it’d have been a great history lesson. Hopefully after I have more mega man games under my belt I will attempt later entries without save states!

Well there’s literally hundred of hours worth of content in the world of assassination trilogy and a rogue like mode that doesn’t end so I’m not fussed at all, wouldn’t be surprised if the James Bond game is a Hitman reskin!

As soon as I saw this I downloaded the update and went straight to Novigrad and ran through the town square with no frame drops, what is this black magic!

This is one game Sony needs to get put on ps5 ASAP!

I got the platinum on Monday and can say getting to the map chamber on story and skipping everything only takes 1.5 hours each run, but the 100% collectibles can suck a big one, game should’ve made you get maybe 50% and call it a day. Felt like a Ubisoft game when talking about the platinum experience, but at least it was easy and took me 62 hours, so not too bad. I will say that you should give the game a break mid way through or risk burnout, I took a week off it and came back rejuvenated because I was burnt out on open world games.