Max_the_German

When reading the article’s title, it took me several seconds to understand that the game’s title is Stumble Guys. Please PushSquare: You want to keep general capitalisation, so please take more care on understandable titles.

Dear Sony, if „richer experiences“ mean Live Service BS: No thanks

Stellar Blade finished on 13, after 2 in the previous week.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/05/uk-charts-sea-of-stars-physicals-dawn-as-endless-ocean-luminous-takes-a-dive

@rjejr Right, I also see Totoki as the new real PS boss, Hulst is not for much more responsible than before. This actually means that PS will loose a lot of its independence, the main decisions will be made in Tokio, not California.

The new combo 4k + 60 fps seems to be the preparation for the PS5 Pro and successors to me.

So DD1 PS5 Remaster incoming?

@Ainu20 I think that devs are not interested in doing tedious things, as everybody of us (okay, except those who like to have their daily grind in random online games). In my team are several working students, creating the draft documents, and the professionals improve them. I am glad these students exist, but I feel also sorry for them, doing this stuff. I‘d rather would use a good AI for creating these documents, and the students would spend more time on more creative work. I believe that these thoughts are not far away from what this EA guy is saying.

Interesting that you see a causal relationship between GP and the closure of these studios. I can’t see that. Please explain it further!

In the end, good taste always prevails.

I can finally replace Fifa 22 (via PS+) with FC 24 (via PS+). But, will I perceive a difference?

Congratulations to Microsoft, seriously. Now let’s see whether Sony has the balls to bring Helldivers 2 to Xbox Series (rhetorical question).

Finally! Towers to climb to unlock a map with dozens of icons, generic quest givers, and hundreds of things to gather and craft stuff with. Can’t wait for 60 hours of bloated „entertainment“.

Burning flags in the fanblock when their team played badly is not representative for all fans of the team.

@amatmulisha They say that the opponent AI is braindead, which‘d kill fun and immersion for me. I’m still on the fence with it. It’s not the money of course, bit I don’t want to waste it for some „solid“ entertainment, if I can spend my precious time with great as well.

I like mine. To love it, software updates are needed to eliminate frame drops (or massively reduce them) and reduce latency. The compression artifacts can be severe, but I can tolerate them.

EDIT: And one thing totally baffles me: When using the Portal or any Remote Play streaming, you often can’t choose „Headphones“ and never „3D headphones“, and I see no technical reason for it. Sony could easily change that!

I heard good and bad things about Metro Exodus, but never played a Metro game. A story-heavy FPS in narrow corridors in an unusual scenario seems to be my cup of tea.

Is this game with its latest patches and with Russian voice-overs a good or a very good experience?

@Savage_Joe And your assumptions are optimistic: The average price should be lower than what you mentioned AND includes taxes (at least in Europe). I‘m keen to see what part 3 is going to look like! If SE hadn’t announced a trilogy, it would probably not be realised at all.

Many devs and publishers seem to have lost their compass in regards of moral and taste. There’s no other explanation for me for this „show nipples, hide nipples, show nipples, …“ back and forth.
Dear devs and publishers, make early and clear decisions and stick to them, instead of reacting on the loudest voices on social media!

@Cutmastavictory And this game doesn’t take itself too serious, and it take risks. These and its moderate price are the opposite of what people see as characteristics for a AAA game these days. The Sony guys in Tokio should already have made their own conclusions on this.

@Yorozayu And everything below 5m copies sold is just not enough to justify its enormous AAA production costs. But people wouldn’t buy a FF7R with only 12 hours of playtime and without expensive cutscenes. I think that’s a real problem for SE.

Tunic is great. You can focus on the main game, or you spend much more effort into the the side stuff which is almost hidden to the average gamer. At least try it!

Most people here and many out there will have it digitally anyway due to Play at Home. You remember 2021? FFP2, social distancing etc.

Bethesda is lying to not losing their face, but I‘m fine with that. Next time, please make these updates available to everyone from the start.
EDIT: The app doesn’t show the PS5 version yet.

At least they don’t pretend to did this „inadvertently“.

Bethesda is repeating the BS move from Square Enix with FF7R back then, with all the same problems. At the end, they allowed the PS5 update also for those who got the game via PS Plus. Bethesda could just allow the PS5 update for all owners of Fallout 4 and avoid negative press.

„Despite Hype, …“ Which hype do you mean? Videos of Tifa‘s bikini?

@Daft_Klebenflw Yes, maybe. And solid exclusives, multiplats, … are just not good enough for me. I invest only a small fraction of my time in gaming. And in that time I want to play fantastic games.

@NEStalgia Comparing PSVR2 and Wii U is unfair. The Wii U had a fantastic first-party lineup.

Who would blame them? Sony took care that PSVR2 is the Xbox Series X in the VR space, a potent platform with poor first-party support. While the Quest is the leading VR platform, like PS5 is for console gaming.

I must vomit, I‘m sorry.

Perfect game for Christmas holidays 2024. Then it’s patched and costs half the original price.
My hopes for 60 fps are quite low though.

Hellblade 2 (an Xbox exclusive, nevertheless) is an upcoming 30-fps-only game. Bad signs for the future.

This year’s releases are not my cup of tea, therefore I‘m very happy with my backlog right now.

PS5 offers what made gaming on SNES made so great for me: fluid 60 fps gaming (okay, 50 fps PAL back then) and minimal loading times. And developers embraced that! Practically every TV in the world supports 60 fps. Why going back to the inferior 30 fps?

Oh, you mentioned the forbidden word. V*ta

@NEStalgia OK, didn’t know that PSVR2 was Sony Japan driven. Fortunately, SIE is now under a stronger control of Sony Group, and what I‘ve seen so far is a „We must clean up here“. This can have good or bad effects on their VR activities. I‘d hope for the better.

@NEStalgia You‘re right, Grounded would be a good fit for PSVR2. And Sony supports this with bringing PSVR2 to PC. I ask myself what Sony was thinking back then: „Let’s bring a new 500 $ accessory plus a small title from a support team plus a GT7 update. That should do it.“

I mean, there MUST be something first-party for PSVR2, right? Right?! I‘ll take Astro Bot 1 Remaster and Astro Bot 2, thank you.

Monty Mole is missing, damn.

These are professional Google devs, and everyone knows that. They did what is usual in the professional space, and Sony would have fixed the bugs nevertheless. So I don’t see a big problem here.

@Luigia Of course

@ReNik PS5 is wired to a dedicated Wifi router which is only connected to the Portal over a distance of 5 m, on a 5 GHz Wifi channel which no other router uses in the whole neighborhood. Ergo: There cannot be a better configuration. I‘m just sensitive on frametime issues and latency. Compression artifacts are the least annoying problem for me.

Nice to have this improvement, but bad image quality is the smallest of my complaints with the Portal. Here in order:
1. Sound lags more than video, both are out of sync. Very annoying and maybe not that hard to fix.
2. Permanently dropping frames
3. Input lag
4. Image quality
UPDATE: The sound lag wasn’t fixed. Frames are still dropping.

@Muttt I wasn’t a PS gamer back then, and I believe you. When, would you say, ended this Golden Age? At the end of 2018, when offline play for PS Now started?

Bundled with a copy of Atomic Hearts, a nice extra present for the families of fallen soldiers.

@N1ghtW1ng That‘s massive. Thank you!

It Takes Two is a success story, and imo totally deserved. Are there recent total sales numbers for it?

With many games offering dynamic resolutions and/or unlocked framerates with more than 60 fps in VRR mode, many games will get the „Enhanced“ batch without even touching the code, rendering this batch almost useless for highlighting significant enhancements.

@Dragon83 Sounds like a good plan to me. And the best: You can focus on the very best games, with much discount (compared to the price at launch, or preowned copies), and fully patched. Enjoy!

@soyabean135876 Exactly that feeling of no mans land I had as well. But maybe it takes some time before it clicks, as it did with the Souls games.