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@Integrity @lolwhatno Kotaku had a great post where they said Congratulations to GRR Martin for completing a blog post about elden ring”, noting the post is completed and published.

I think the bigger headline is that GTA 5 is finally not there.

Looking forward to covers included in deluxe editions of games.

Definitely wait for reviews after last night seeing how untrue the initial graphics were.

Honestly on ps5 back combat it was a good game. They should have delayed and ditched last gen the narrative would be different

The game looked good before last night, but last night’s trailer was so hilariously downgraded. Pudddlegate but the whole game.

I guess the one co-op working on this and Witcher 3 remasters needs a little more time.

@NateGoesLive don’t be silly, February will be a ‘love is in the air sale’, or ‘games together’ sale.

The problem is that I don’t want to store the physical copies. Takes up a lot of space after a while. Sadly I end up paying a premium for the convenience of digital

Honestly given the modding community for elder scrolls and the historically ***** UI - especially inventory - this is a game best left to PC anyhow.

….. now to update my PC graphics card…..

FromSoft almost always has relatively poor optimization, and specifically a track record of frame pacing issues, so I would expect that to continue here…. Which is a shame because a locked 60fps would really help a game like this.

Edit: Would like to see a 120fps version, for that matter.

The guide is silly, given they’ll be better info on fextralife by launch, and the gesture is unlockable in game. Rather poor showing

“We can’t finish on time”

‘Okay we’ll descope”

…. Said no PM ever!

(Edit: but serious kudos to them for taking this route)

As an avid save-scummer for over 30+ years, I have to say that if I’ve chosen to go that route in an offline game its my choice and there is really no reason for someone to try and police it.

For example I beat Hades fair and square without save scumming. The second time I got to Hades I wanted to learn the fight and wasn’t gonna do that getting there once every couple days - so I save scummed and don’t regret it, and won’t apologize. I don’t know why this is controversial.

@Quintumply Link above goes to guilty gear not elden ring beta

@get2sammyb says they’re both rogue-lites?

Hades just seems like a better option tho?

Finally, now I can think about getting it…. Of course, Hades is also a really good rogue-lite that I’m playing now and that was like $30.

@Jacko11 it’s not entirely entitlement given that we pay for it.

Bloodborne PS5 Patch from bluepoint would be keen, along with announcement of their sequel

Far cry 3 was hands down the worst example of game design I’ve ever seen, turned me off the whole series.

@Shepherd_Tallon @get2sammyb triggering it based on first booting the game would result in easier manipulation by going offline. But based on “ready to play” would make sense.

@Th3solution No, Peter is Wolverine’s father, but abandoned him in the Canadian woods.

@Ajfennell77 I finished cyberpunk on ps5, experienced zero bugs. No crazy texture loss or anything either. Game is fine.

@frankmcma I played like 800 hours, but two things made me stop without finishing two DLCs:

1: I found a Moze build where I literally just watch IB clear whole rooms on m10 while invulnerable literally dancing inIB’s huge shield, and the CD on IB is up long before he disappears. It makes the game boring but anything else is just hurting myself
2: mayhem 10. I could handle it but it sucked the fun out of the game, and anything less was trivial due to m10 gear, unless I gimped myself.

Assuming this is standalone and not DLC, definitely a day 1 purchase.

All I want is Bloodborne FPS patch.

@dasd2 It had to go to sleep but couldn’t save its progress.

@AdamNovice its been a while, but Horizon: Zero Dawn is from the original military operation planning for extinction of all life on earth because the machines use it as fuel, and how to reboot life on the planet after the machines starve to death. It is directly explained, literally as a one phrase.

The first games title is explained by the end of the game, and its one big phrase… the horizon isn’t separate from zero dawn. They’re gonna have to do some gymnastics for the title to make sense this time.

@Hobbesyall Have you seen the Black Myth UE5 trailer? Because if that’s the competition from has work to do.

Also From always always releases games with frame pacing issues.

FromSoft is a relatively safe bet, still, not sure if there is an actual reason to pre-order. But definite buy.

@lolwhatno Bloodborne quite famously has frame pacing issues causing stutter, and runs sub-30fps at times. I’ve finished it 100% several times over, but last time I restarted I just couldn’t deal with the framerate anymore. Now that ps5 has made 60 FPS standard, it’ll be all the more unbearable.

Now do Bloodborne.

@__jamiie it’s because in the past I/O time has been the silent cause of many problems. People will say they have lag when it’s really the HDD, or that their computer froze when really it’s waiting on IO. It was such a huge problem that the way games were design and shaped were all based around dealing with slow I/O.

Most games are cross-gen still so we’ve seen loading time differences, but not yet the real innovation which will be made possible through really fast I/O

P5R deluxe is 55% off too.

@pimpjuice it what way was it ruined? Do you mean because it shows the other perspective?

I hope I’m not feeding a troll here…. Honestly for a ND game it was one of their best. 30fps was the only downside and now that’s fixed

@LiamCroft missed opportunity… should have said “go to hell in the comments below”.

Been waiting for a decent sackboy sale…. Not sure if I’ll be cheap and wait for better

Returnal is tempting, but still no save feature.

@Jackpaza0508 Not true, the main characters in Avatar are Aang, Katara, Sakka, Zuko, Momo and Appa…. And I think they’re quite memorable…..

@MatthewJP yea, but the interwebs doesn’t acknowledge the existence of numbers between 3 and 10.

@Alpine021 fairly easy to imagine:
DEV: “base PS4 doesn’t have the horsepower to run this game”
Marketting: “There are like 90-100 million people still on base ps4”
Executive: “Make it work on base ps4 or we won’t have money to pay you”
DEV: “you got it”

Purchased, halfway a show of support half because I’ll definitely get it eventually and it was nice to come back not at full price.

Will the ps5 version be a free upgrade?

I assume they’ll be a new patch that comes alongside this.

Will be interesting to hear the DF breakdown, since those numbers (60fps@4k / RT-60fps@1800po) are significantly better than what even insomniac has been able to hit.

Is there a save game feature yet?

@sanderson72 Actually interesting, there is a good chance that the number includes a date/time stamp, lots of generated build numbers do The 21 for example may refer to this year. I wonder if we can glean from this how long Sony’s internal test cycle is

@Quintumply thanks!

@Quintumply Is this kid friendly? IE would kids be exposed to online chat vitriol, or is it safely chat free (text and voice)?