Medic_alert

Man cries after not winning an award shock!

So what? Nice to see some people care in this industry, nothing wrong with shedding a tear or two when your hopes don't come to fruition.

The real test though is how you bounce back.

If you have a kid who is interested in this I'd say go for it.

There is far more to be gained in comfort with numbers, logical thinking, puzzle solving and general fun than there is risk of them turning into a card shark!

@AgentGuapo that's just a silly thing to say.

I'd rather we just dropped the 'increased power' paradigm all together and looked at creative ways for gaming to fit into the modern world and way of life.

@Andy22385 just making excuses my friend. Sony put out the hardware and Sony & Cerny decided to tell the world it would do these things. It has so far not delivered outside of a few instances.

You can't blame 3rd party developers when Horizon Zero Dawn remastered still has those loading screens on PS5.

It was all marketing speak and Cerny is just the figure head to gain public trust for the plop Sony want to tell everyone.

I don't trust a word out of Cerny's mouth. All the promise of the original PS5 and we have seen hardly any of it.

The console was supposed to revolutionise game design, remove the loading screen, remove lower frame rates etc and none of it has truly come to pass.

I don't need more power without real meaningful upgrades.

It is a fancy tech demo.

If it does ever make the leap get it on sale.

So many areas worse than the first game and it has way less impact.

5-6 hours and you are done.

@Ilyn if Valve bring out a console/pc again I would be there.

100% sold because of the flexibility it would give me over other walled garden console experiences.

The end game is surely 3rd party now with some hardware as a side line - like they have done with their surface tablets.

It feels like MS are pushing for people to go PC now and I wonder if the next iteration of Xbox (if we get one) is more a Steam machine running Windows than a console in the truest sense.

But with PS and Xbox dropping games on PC and the flexibility that entails i think I might be on my last console - it is certainly a consideration now.

@Kidfunkadelic83 does effect me, but I see no reason this shouldn't be a basic standard across all vr games.

Seems an obvious accessibility issue easily sorted

Holy moly this sounds terrifying to play... and I so want it.

I hope it's another reason for people to buy in to VR2 - it's the best!

@DennisReynolds woke has lost all meaning to be honest and every sane person should just stop using it because in any of the various definitions people like to use it has lost every shred of nuance in any discussion on the topics it encompasses.

A stupid, throw away buzz word is all anyone is left with.

@Flaming_Kaiser I don't but you can't make a comparison without knowing what is going on either.

There may be a very good reason for her appearance, there may also be a really thin reason for it that works just as well because of her character.

But I do think the comparison is odd at this stage.

Ripley in Alien 3 shaves her head because of the lice in the prison population. It isn't style choice, everyone there is bald for that reason.

I don't have a problem with the shaven headed protagonist but Ripley's circumstances aren't comparable.

As I said before there is very little to have an opinion about on the game itself, because there was zero gameplay.

I thought the trailer was fine, I don't care whether the protagonist is like me or alternatively makes me feel all tingly inside, I want well written relatable characters and personally i found the later parts of Ellie's arc in TLOU2 to be unpleasant and totally unrelatable as her vengeance became more important than the ones she loved.

This trailer was all pretty generic sci-fi, edge-lord (edge-lady?) stuff with some egregious product placement to boot and I think without a Naughty Dog logo at the end, no one cares in the slightest right now but with their pedigree it is definitely one to watch.

The speech was great. He said what so many gamers feel about the modern industry which is driven by men in suits filling spreadsheets with forecasts, targets to ensure the line on the graph goes up.

But as with any business if you focus too hard on the line you forget what made you successful in the first place. It certainly wasn't a man with a spreadsheet.

Crazy numbers and types of opinions based on one cutscene.

Not sure i can make much of a judgement on any of this.

Of course I have an interest in seeing how it turns out but no gameplay means I have no idea what we are looking at.

I just hope the big robot and laser sword combat is not lining up a more Souls like experience.

Just the 80 hours in Vampire survivors for my top game this year....

I almost bought the Star wars vr game in the recent sale! Awesome!

This just goes to show how disconnected i am from modern gaming.

I haven't played any of these albeit I have played the base Elden Ring game.

But then Balatro probably had my vote this year. Simply amazing game.

@Uromastryx there is always a chance.

I guess it just feels like the franchise is reaching that stage where just throwing loads of guns and some crude humour into the world is not enough.

Borderlands has had its time for me.

The humour was alright to start with and I enjoyed the loop for a couple of games but the pre-sequel and 3 were just not very good.

@Vaako007 the console can only be judged by that measure when those games come out.

And my view isn't based on anything online or technical specs because all of that is largely irrelevant when my experience is that I need to see the two side by side to really discern the difference and there are currently a few games that have a horrible shimmering artifact that looks similar to old aliasing artifact from when games were running at lower resolutions.

I'm not trying to wee on anyone's bonfire here. I am glad for others that are more satisfied than myself but I think Sony have tried to create a sales opportunity here where there was no need for one and with the diminishing returns on offer with new hardware this has the potential to make a PS6 even less appealing unless it has some secret sauce to it.

I'm in the middle of Sniper Elite 3 having finished V2 last weekend.

If you like more old school type gaming with some pretty forgiving stealth I can heartily recommend both.

I have also just found out that Baldur's Gate 3 is very much not for me....

@Jacko11 I have played it for a couple of weeks and then a couple of weeks not playing it.

My opinion is that it doesn't do enough to justify its existence but if you are enjoying it that's fantastic.

I guess mine would be Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered but to be honest I haven't turned mine on for a couple of weeks.

I'm a bit underwhelmed Overall.

That would be a nice feature.

Fighting/boxing games would be ace with this.

Love me some VR!

A dedicated device will always have a place in the enthusiasts gamer's home because no matter how fast your Internet connection you are still introducing a huge amount of lag.

I guess the mainstream will be happy enough though and those that grow up with it will likely know no difference - so I guess it may change in time.

This is most likely a simple question of accessibility.

It is easy to access a video any time, just about anywhere these days, it also takes very little investment in time.

But the games companies know this, it is why portal exists, it is why MS and Sony are both working on a mew hand held, it is why the Switch is a massive success and why it pretty much powers on instantly into your games.

It is also why both Sony and MS want in on the mobile market.

Everyone should do themselves a favour and use the demise of twitter/x to allow themselves one less social media platforms.

They are all designed to create addiction and gather information to shove adverts down your throat.

We are all honestly better off without any of them.

So are we saying that these can be redeemed for a limited time or can be used for a limited time?

The second one sounds like the sort of stupid Nintendo like to do.

@Old-Red it warms my heart to see people saying stuff like this about VR.

It is just so hard to explain to people what it is like to experience.

I hope as more games hit, more people will get interested because in my view it is the best thing to happen in gaming for so so long!

@Ilyn yep love that game too and you really don't have to move much as you can warp to the ball with R2 - avoids any potential sickness.

It is one of my favourite vr games.

@Darude84 Sony make this extremely hard to find online but from the ones I have added to my library -

Pistol whip
Kayak mirage
Job Simulator
Ghostbusters frozen empire
Walkabout mini golf
Humanity (was on essential a while back)
The last clock winder
Vacation Simulator
Walking dead saints and sinners
Walking dead saints and sinners retribution
Before your eyes
Synth Riders

That's 12. Not sure if I have them all though.

@Darude84 it is that good.

If you don't already have it, might be worth getting a month of premium to try out a few more games. There are 15 on there i think and some of them are absolute bangers!

I just bought Metro for £8 using PS rewards thingy, which seems a good deal.

I noticed yesterday that there suddenly seems to be a few releases coming now. I really hope it continues!

@Ellie-Moo I get that for physical collectors it is nice to have an option of discs and it certainly is possible to change a disc while in vr - albeit a little tricky, VR really does lend itself to being all digital and not having to worry about coming out of the headset.

I own this game 4 times.....

I recently bought it on android on a particularly slow work day.

I have no regrets.

Nice to have a really positive story to counter some of the more negative results.

I hope that some of the other less well implemented patches get a shine up soon!

Not the best for me. Never going to get to play the co-op game, the theme is not something I want my kid to play and the wife is not a gamer.

The Alien game has just dropped on gamepass - seems like a M+KB affair to me so will probably play it on PC.

Oh well, can't win 'em all.

It's too expensive.

I like to dabble in fighting games but they are too much for me to get too deeply involved in - i don't have the skill and i don't have the time or patience to improve enough.

So when you drop a base game at full price with an expansion that costs almost as much again it just isn't for me.

Worse still, everyone knows full well there will be a 'Komplete' edition that will drop in price down to £25 in a very short time.

Amazing, never used the rewards before. Have just redeemed £25 worth of credit...

@Intr1n5ic I have to admit that I don't pay much attention to performance benchmarks anymore so I hadn't seen that one.

I recently saw a quote (from John Cena of all people) that said something like comparison is the destroyer of joy and that's kind of how I feel about digital foundry and the like.

@Psnfanboy79 really? We've had a couple this year but generally my og PS5 has been great.

It often outperforms the more powerful XSX and in my view it is simply down to developers overshooting the base console specifications when it does go wrong.

@Intr1n5ic that's interesting. Doesn't seem like a game that should have shoddy performance.

@carlos82 I've heard they are good.

I only asked the question because unless a game underperformed on thr base machine or is really pushing dynamic resolution hard there isn't going to be much improvement, so I just wondered what the examples were.

I've seen a few examples of the PS4 upgrades and it isn't enough that I would personally care about it.

@ButterySmooth30FPS what improvements are you seeing on unpatched PS5 games?

Are there any in particular you are picking out?

I am where I started with it before launch.

It is a nice to have at a steep price and any improvements really do need you to have had a very recent experience with the base model - if not a side by side comparison to discern any real difference.

With the PSSR issues I can't really recommend it to anyone over the base model

But then I felt this way about the PS5 at launch. Lots of quality of life features this gen but the improvement really isn't that stark in terms of how games look.

I am happy to have to compromise less but I didn't particularly feel I was compromising on the base model to be honest.

6/10 for me - pro model just not needed this gen.

@themightyant I'm not at all commenting on the pro as a whole, just PSSR.

Whether people notice it or not is not really something I'm concerned about. Objectively PSSR is in some instances introducing new artefacts that spoil the image to a more or lesser degree. This isn't a beta product and it is an issue, albeit one that I expect to improve.

I'd advise anyone thinking about getting a pro to hold off for now.

@themightyant i mean the movement and shimmering artefact seems to be a real issue and it is instantly noticeable.

And even games like R&C which are supposed to do it well have odd parts that look like a muddy mess when you stop to look at them.

When something is supposed to make the game look better and it is a toss up as to whether it actually looks better or worse that is in my view a mess.

Can't wait for this.

I love the sea and marine life, going to be awesome!