I'm divided between prefer and don't care, I prefer 60FPS over 30, but for most games I pick quality mode over performance. There are exceptions like Helldivers 2 though.
Nice, Immortal of Averum is a game I wanted to try out eventually. That’s a good choice. Minecraft legends is really ehh, should be something else. I don’t know what Skul is.
Updates look good, I don't like the residence update, the game is so brazenly brutal in that way I think it should remain that way. I'm very glad the character adjustment item is getting bumped to 99.
Dark urge aside, there is only a joke of an afterthought for an evil ending right now, so this is good news. It should have been there at launch and we should be be acting like this is a "great example of going above and beyond", this is base expected content being put in the game over half a year after launch. Every site I've seen has terrible reporting on BG3 stuff added after launch.
The current evil ending a bad cartoon, so imagining something more evil is not hard. I also hope it actually respects your choices (certain evil alliances at the end will actually carry through and you see what happens) and doesn't require me to restart the game but just use one of my already late-game saves that I've kept so carefully.
@mazzel Assuming it’s like the two Divinity DE, it would redo Act 3 big time. There would be more endings, more consequences to choices, more choices would follow through, companion side quests for Minthara and towers would get added, Gale’s and Karla’s quests would get finished, more dialogue between companions like the first, act 3 would also have a lot more camp cutscenes, a few blatantly unfinished quests in Act 3 (the firework shop) would get finished. It would be huge. Act 1&2 would also be changed to accommodate for Act 3’s changes too. So essentially all the cut content would get added back in. Saves from the original game would just be incompatible because the story would change so much.
I will be sorely disappointed if there’s no definitive edition like the previous game. It needs just the same treatment. DLC would be pointless right now, a DE is all that’s needed.
@Ralizah too many games look to see what they can add what they should be seeing what they can cut. For budget and for game quality. Many games for example would have made the ship in Helldivers 2 far too big and with stuff far apart, spending more money on making it and pushing up the budget. The game is both better and cheaper for keeping it so small and concise. "content" in some ways has become a terrible buzzword.
I agree about Jim Ryan, I think he knows how to boost some profit short term, but he doesn’t think out of the box enough for the long term. Sony got where it is now by taking creative risks and building up exclusives very well. I think the direct only thing is a good example too. It was a shortsighted decision that doesn’t take into account any ways to actually solve the problems (PS4 has no issues when pre-orders launched). It just moved it away from risk of that one problem without considering what was sacrificed in the process. Very short-term reactionary thinking.
@NEStalgia I think some proper marketing could help a lot. Making the launch only the for the hardcore willing to buy from Sony direct no extra warranty was an awful idea. They got rid of free marketing from stores and them hyping it up wanting pre-orders. but what if it sold out? GOOD! You think making sure the "loyals" get one in the first 3 months will be better by any real metric in the long term? I think a price drop with some new games could do a lot as long we get support from Sony like the PSVR1 did. I did find a VR market study that more or less said Sony sold about 2M so far and it was holding a 35% VR market share consistently outside when the Q3 launched.
Isn't this the guy who gets corrected by Sony a lot and is usually wrong, or rather just makes stuff up? There is some unknown about the state of PSVR2, but this is just someone's random guess going from history, and he's not even good at guessing.
I think the constant rerelease of games (that don't even transfer saves for moving from one console to another) is catching up with Persona. I would have bought a collector's edition of P3 if I knew it was the last release. when they release the full edition I'll buy the CE.
It either glitched or was hacked into the start of one of my games. No used except for one moment at the start because we were confused about, then didn’t want to get banned or something.
@nomither6 Those aren’t stealthy ninjas, those are loud kill everything ninjas. AC should not have that kind of Ninja, but the quiet ninja, the one that blends in through social stealth. Blending in with the people and social stealth was a very common ninja tactic. This much gore takes the focus away form that. It shouldn’t gorie then Mirage or Unity.
@Nyne11Tyme At this point Arrowhead is psudo first party, like how Sucker Punch wasn't until Second Son or after, but in practice was beforehand as far as output goes anyway.
That sounds terrible. The setting will be wasted entirely. This should have taken cues from Mirage. A focus on gore was the last thing we needed in “stealth” (it’s supposed to be) series game focusing on ninjas.
We talk of the first party games, but how are they not making more profit with their cut from selling all the other games? If they make good decisions as a publisher it should be higher.
@Flaming_Kaiser They cry it’s too short, then they cry it’s too bloated, they cry cry and cry. People go on this same “I want to only $0.50 per hour of gameplay”. If you have that much time, but that little money, you might want to reconsider how your time is spent. Exceptions apply, but as rule I think I’m probably right.
Games are too long these days. Some game shall be long, but take a look at God of War Ragnorok, great game, but it needed 33-50% of it cut. That’s stuff that didn’t even need to be made for the game and costs that cover been avoided, but it’s bloated and that probably bloated the cost of the game by millions too.
@breakneck I thought combat was great, I like it more than D:OS’s, and think BG2’s is a disastrous mutilation of DnD combat.
But if you think act 2 is stalling, you’re not gonna like act 3…
It starts easily as one of the greatest games ever made though. Them starts to stumble away from that as it progresses.
@Frmknst The environmental storytelling in Souls is absolutely incredible, along with the soundtracks. There's an abstract inspiration with the environment and its details telling a story more than a direct one.
@MrHabushi It really needs marketing momentum. Sony ***** itself in the foot by keeping it exclusive to PS direct. It was an insane move I called out the start and I was totally right about.
@UltimateOtaku91 FP support is lacking, but it’s still getting a lot of third party, indicating VR devs see money on the platform. If it’s like the first PSVR, while Quest sells more, the attach rate for software here is much higher.
I quite enjoy it but Sony should have another game announced for it and bring some ports of PSVR1 games on over. It has gotten pretty good third-party support and seems to be pretty profitable for them, which is a good sign. I regularly play and buy games for my PSVR2.
@Chapapa Yes, but that’s not mutually exclusive. PS5 will still be my favored VR platforms, but PSVR1 on PC and little stuff on PC I can’t get on PSVR2 would be cool to play. Also just non-gaming features.
I'd love this. I have a few things on PC I want to try out, not sure how my graphics card will hold up, but this would just be awesome. I've been wanting this for a while. It also gives me hope that Sony really does have some plans for PSVR2 and they're just not communicating to their own detriment.
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Re: 'Smaller' PS5 Exclusives Still Reportedly Coming Later This Year
PSVR2 PSVR2! Give me those exclusives.
Re: Poll: How Much Do You Care About 60fps on PS5?
I'm divided between prefer and don't care, I prefer 60FPS over 30, but for most games I pick quality mode over performance.
There are exceptions like Helldivers 2 though.
Re: Bloodborne Kart Rebrands as Nightmare Kart, Out for Free on PC This May
Do the names just have different spellings now or how different is it?
Re: Jim Ryan Leaves PlayStation as PS5 Set to Become Its 'Most Successful Console Ever'
I'm glad, I hope that we get someone who likes to communicate more and takes some more creative risks.
Re: Looks Like Minecraft Will Get a Native PS5 Version Soon
PSVR2 version please! Even if it still just the Dualsense controller, please let me have those colors and the clarity of the PSVR2.
Re: Game Pass Woes for Indie Devs as Microsoft, Epic Funding Reportedly Drying Up
It was never sustainable. It looks good for a bit, then the problems start showing.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Is Now Completely Free to Play on PS5 for the Weekend
The 5 hours should exclude the character creator.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for April 2024 Announced
Nice, Immortal of Averum is a game I wanted to try out eventually. That’s a good choice.
Minecraft legends is really ehh, should be something else.
I don’t know what Skul is.
Re: Stellar Blade PS5 Demo Drops This Week, Progress Carries to the Full Game
How long will the full game be? I'm more interested in it only being 15 hours or so (or less), if it's 30+ I'm never going to get around to this.
Re: Big Dragon's Dogma 2 Updates Incoming as Capcom Confirms List of PS5 Improvements
@Frmknst Ladders are iconic now, embrace it.
Re: Big Dragon's Dogma 2 Updates Incoming as Capcom Confirms List of PS5 Improvements
Updates look good, I don't like the residence update, the game is so brazenly brutal in that way I think it should remain that way.
I'm very glad the character adjustment item is getting bumped to 99.
Re: Extra Evil Endings Planned for Baldur's Gate 3
Dark urge aside, there is only a joke of an afterthought for an evil ending right now, so this is good news.
It should have been there at launch and we should be be acting like this is a "great example of going above and beyond", this is base expected content being put in the game over half a year after launch. Every site I've seen has terrible reporting on BG3 stuff added after launch.
The current evil ending a bad cartoon, so imagining something more evil is not hard. I also hope it actually respects your choices (certain evil alliances at the end will actually carry through and you see what happens) and doesn't require me to restart the game but just use one of my already late-game saves that I've kept so carefully.
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 (PS5) - The Apex of RPG Adventuring
@ShogunRok Can you still romance every man, woman, and child?
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Slated for Adding Sinister PS5 Microtransactions at Launch
@Mintie That's what easy mode is for. Easy mode should not be the credit card. This once was feature never charged for.
Re: No Baldur's Gate 3 DLC from Larian Studios, and It's Not Making Baldur's Gate 4 Either
@mazzel Assuming it’s like the two Divinity DE, it would redo Act 3 big time. There would be more endings, more consequences to choices, more choices would follow through, companion side quests for Minthara and towers would get added, Gale’s and Karla’s quests would get finished, more dialogue between companions like the first, act 3 would also have a lot more camp cutscenes, a few blatantly unfinished quests in Act 3 (the firework shop) would get finished.
It would be huge.
Act 1&2 would also be changed to accommodate for Act 3’s changes too.
So essentially all the cut content would get added back in.
Saves from the original game would just be incompatible because the story would change so much.
Re: No Baldur's Gate 3 DLC from Larian Studios, and It's Not Making Baldur's Gate 4 Either
I will be sorely disappointed if there’s no definitive edition like the previous game. It needs just the same treatment. DLC would be pointless right now, a DE is all that’s needed.
Re: Feb 2024 USA Sales: Helldivers 2 Kills It as 2024's Best-Selling Game So Far
@Ralizah too many games look to see what they can add what they should be seeing what they can cut.
For budget and for game quality. Many games for example would have made the ship in Helldivers 2 far too big and with stuff far apart, spending more money on making it and pushing up the budget.
The game is both better and cheaper for keeping it so small and concise.
"content" in some ways has become a terrible buzzword.
Re: Chrono Odyssey Is One of Those Korean MMOs That May or May Not Actually Exist
@z0d15g0d Let's not forgot how they thought releasing a weird demo on Plus would work instead of the full game.
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 (PS5) - This Could Be the Apex of RPG Adventuring
@ShogunRok Can you edit how your character looks after the initial character creation?
Re: Sony Allegedly Pausing PSVR2 Production Due to Surplus of Unsold Stock
@NEStalgia this is quarterly market share for PSVR2, so no PSVR1.
Here’s where I saw it. I haven’t looked deep into its reliability, but trust it more than Bloomberg’s guy. (Faint praise, I know.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/PSVR/comments/1bemj0c/psvr2_market_share_by_quarter_units_sold_psvr2/
I agree about Jim Ryan, I think he knows how to boost some profit short term, but he doesn’t think out of the box enough for the long term.
Sony got where it is now by taking creative risks and building up exclusives very well.
I think the direct only thing is a good example too. It was a shortsighted decision that doesn’t take into account any ways to actually solve the problems (PS4 has no issues when pre-orders launched). It just moved it away from risk of that one problem without considering what was sacrificed in the process. Very short-term reactionary thinking.
Re: Sony Allegedly Pausing PSVR2 Production Due to Surplus of Unsold Stock
@NEStalgia I think some proper marketing could help a lot. Making the launch only the for the hardcore willing to buy from Sony direct no extra warranty was an awful idea. They got rid of free marketing from stores and them hyping it up wanting pre-orders.
but what if it sold out? GOOD! You think making sure the "loyals" get one in the first 3 months will be better by any real metric in the long term?
I think a price drop with some new games could do a lot as long we get support from Sony like the PSVR1 did.
I did find a VR market study that more or less said Sony sold about 2M so far and it was holding a 35% VR market share consistently outside when the Q3 launched.
Re: Sony Allegedly Pausing PSVR2 Production Due to Surplus of Unsold Stock
Isn't this the guy who gets corrected by Sony a lot and is usually wrong, or rather just makes stuff up?
There is some unknown about the state of PSVR2, but this is just someone's random guess going from history, and he's not even good at guessing.
Re: Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis Expansion Pass Priced at Roughly £30 / $35
@Ralizah this is what I will be buying. I’ll even get a CE of it if there is one.
Re: Persona 3 Reload's Episode Aigis DLC Was Dropped from the Base Game Due to Development Difficulties
This sounds more like Atlus forced this on purpose than anything else.
Re: PS Store Sales Charts: Helldivers 2 Is Unstoppable, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Settles for Second
I think the constant rerelease of games (that don't even transfer saves for moving from one console to another) is catching up with Persona. I would have bought a collector's edition of P3 if I knew it was the last release. when they release the full edition I'll buy the CE.
Re: The Witcher's Anya Chalotra Is Haroona in Unknown 9: Awakening on PS5, PS4
For a moment I was puzzled as how I missed the first 8 games, then realized they don’t exist.
Re: Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis Releases in September, Is Part of an Expansion Pass
I’ll buy the collector’s edition of the full game when it’s rereleased.
I passed right over this because I knew stuff like this was gonna happen.
Re: Incoming Helldivers 2 PS5 Patch Adds Planetary Hazards, Rebalances Weapons, More
I audibly had an excited gasp when I saw the flamethrower buff. I love that weapon but thought it could use more damage. I’m excited.
Re: Helldivers 2's EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit Rolling Out, 'On the Battlefield Soon'
It either glitched or was hacked into the start of one of my games. No used except for one moment at the start because we were confused about, then didn’t want to get banned or something.
Re: Rumour: Assassin's Creed Red Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like Valhalla
@nomither6 Those aren’t stealthy ninjas, those are loud kill everything ninjas. AC should not have that kind of Ninja, but the quiet ninja, the one that blends in through social stealth. Blending in with the people and social stealth was a very common ninja tactic. This much gore takes the focus away form that. It shouldn’t gorie then Mirage or Unity.
Re: Helldivers 2 Sales Are Actually Increasing, Again
@Nyne11Tyme At this point Arrowhead is psudo first party, like how Sucker Punch wasn't until Second Son or after, but in practice was beforehand as far as output goes anyway.
Re: Rumour: Assassin's Creed Red Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like Valhalla
That sounds terrible. The setting will be wasted entirely.
This should have taken cues from Mirage. A focus on gore was the last thing we needed in “stealth” (it’s supposed to be) series game focusing on ninjas.
Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now
We talk of the first party games, but how are they not making more profit with their cut from selling all the other games? If they make good decisions as a publisher it should be higher.
Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now
@Flaming_Kaiser They cry it’s too short, then they cry it’s too bloated, they cry cry and cry. People go on this same “I want to only $0.50 per hour of gameplay”.
If you have that much time, but that little money, you might want to reconsider how your time is spent. Exceptions apply, but as rule I think I’m probably right.
Re: Almost 3,000 PS5, PS4 Games Discounted in Epic PS Store Sale
@breakneck Some of them just never price drop because of this. Sales aren’t sales half the the time and it is annoying.
Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now
Games are too long these days. Some game shall be long, but take a look at God of War Ragnorok, great game, but it needed 33-50% of it cut. That’s stuff that didn’t even need to be made for the game and costs that cover been avoided, but it’s bloated and that probably bloated the cost of the game by millions too.
Re: Helldivers 2 War Effort Undermined by Sample Cheats and Traitors
@MrMagic special event where we form firing squads as they face the wall too. It would be so epic.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Sales Apparently Top 10 Million
@breakneck I thought combat was great, I like it more than D:OS’s, and think BG2’s is a disastrous mutilation of DnD combat.
But if you think act 2 is stalling, you’re not gonna like act 3…
It starts easily as one of the greatest games ever made though. Them starts to stumble away from that as it progresses.
Re: 'High Possibility' Miyazaki Delegates Direction of Future FromSoftware Souls Games
@Frmknst The environmental storytelling in Souls is absolutely incredible, along with the soundtracks. There's an abstract inspiration with the environment and its details telling a story more than a direct one.
Re: 'High Possibility' Miyazaki Delegates Direction of Future FromSoftware Souls Games
I'm not opposed, we've gotten so many amazing Souls games from him and I'd love to see some non-souls stuff now as well.
Re: Video: One Year Later, Is PSVR2 Doing Enough?
@MrHabushi It really needs marketing momentum. Sony ***** itself in the foot by keeping it exclusive to PS direct. It was an insane move I called out the start and I was totally right about.
Re: Video: One Year Later, Is PSVR2 Doing Enough?
@UltimateOtaku91 FP support is lacking, but it’s still getting a lot of third party, indicating VR devs see money on the platform. If it’s like the first PSVR, while Quest sells more, the attach rate for software here is much higher.
Re: Helldivers 2 Now Kicks Inactive Players, Server Capacity Increased in Latest Patch
Where is the source for 700K? I haven't seen anything number when I followed the sources linked, just that server cap increased.
Re: Poll: What Do You Think of PSVR2, One Year Later?
I quite enjoy it but Sony should have another game announced for it and bring some ports of PSVR1 games on over.
It has gotten pretty good third-party support and seems to be pretty profitable for them, which is a good sign.
I regularly play and buy games for my PSVR2.
Re: New PS5, PS4 Passkey Feature Means You Don't Have to Remember Your Password Anymore
Great, now let's have scanning PSN codes we buy at stores again.
Re: Sony Testing PSVR2 Compatibility on PC, Aiming for This Year
@Chapapa Yes, but that’s not mutually exclusive. PS5 will still be my favored VR platforms, but PSVR1 on PC and little stuff on PC I can’t get on PSVR2 would be cool to play. Also just non-gaming features.
Re: Sony Testing PSVR2 Compatibility on PC, Aiming for This Year
@TrickyDicky99 I don’t really notice mura, I frequently notice the amazing colors though.
Re: Sony Testing PSVR2 Compatibility on PC, Aiming for This Year
I'd love this. I have a few things on PC I want to try out, not sure how my graphics card will hold up, but this would just be awesome. I've been wanting this for a while. It also gives me hope that Sony really does have some plans for PSVR2 and they're just not communicating to their own detriment.
Re: Sony Testing PSVR2 Compatibility on PC, Aiming for This Year
@TrickyDicky99 It's missing haptics, eye-tracking, OLED, the res is barley higher and to many doesn't compete with PSVR2 colors.
There are pros and cons. Also, working with a PS5 smokes stand-alone. Stand-alone VR is a waste if you an afford anything more.
Re: The Best Star Wars Battlefront Games Are Coming to PS5, PS4
That's so cool. I never got to play these online and 65 player MP sounds amazing. That really sells the collection. I will totally get this.