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@jdv95 What about the 'There's already a way to play X-Box games offline. It's called the X360.'

Oh. My. God.

I wonder how much faster PS4 games are going to load on the PS5 without being optimized for the PS5's amazing SSD. Two times faster? Three? Four?

I don't think it'll be so fast to the point that it'll be zero loading times - I still think that loading a save on the Witcher 3 without optimization won't be 1 second, but I'm really curious to see this.

@Col_McCafferty That's exactly what Epic said it was.

Again, it was proven to be a false alarm.

All I'm saying is that people who heard 'no more load times' had a right to - y'know what? I'm going in circles now.

@Col_McCafferty Okay.

I'm going to use a different example to understand where you are totally missing the point. By a mile.

Lets assume that Cerny comes up and says that the PS5 will be not have a game where the screen will have less than 4 billion polygons at the same time. It's going to have 4 billion +. Always.

Then they show a demo where the game screen has 3 billion polygons.

Some guys say "Hey, you said that the game screen will not have less than 4 billion polygons - what's the deal?"

Then comes a guy like you who says "It never bothered me if games have less than 4 billion polygons in screen - gamers are so spoiled these days eye roll "

It's not about whether it bothers you or not. It's about a statement from the lead architect coming into question. (which admittedly turned out to be a false alarm)

Can you grasp the difference?

Insert Total Recall 'twooooo weeeeks ...' gif here

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L I can assure you the majority of gamers would be ok with caves in games not having narrow passages.

But no reason to keep at this. We both made our points.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Did you bother to watch Cerny's speech? He made it clear how hardware limitations were restraining developers and forcing them to create an entire stage according to said limitations.

Did it ever occur to you that the devs may never wanted a cave with narrow gaps every now and then?

@doctommaso Indeed. Thanks!

@playstation1995 Mark Cerny appears on stage.

He says that games ever since the ps2 era had loading times integrated in the gameplay and developers had to create stages around that bottleneck.

He assures us that the ps5 won't have such things.

Epic shows a tech demo for the ps5 containing a scene which resembles said bottleneck.

I think some people were right to be weary.

But don't get me wrong, I'm happy it turned out to be a feature and not a flaw.

@Nyne11Tyme Just so you know, being weary of PR statements doesn't make you a hater.

I was one of the worried folks.

Thanks for clarifying, Jeff!

@get2sammyb TELL ME LIES, TELL ME SWEET LITTLE LIES ...

They could make it free for life and I still wouldn't touch this piece of crap with a ten foot pole.

Havik
Daegon
Rambo

Quan chi
Takeda
Sareena
Reiko
Taven w/Shinnok

100% love Larian and 100% certain bg3 is coming to ps5.

Mother: How did you know the router's name?

Son: AH AH AAAAAH ...

Gets me every time lol

Dreaming sweet PS5 dreams ...

In my opinion, the best trailer every single dev should look up to when making an AAA game reveal, is Horizon Zero Dawn.

It starts with a long cutscene explaining the campaign setting, and continues with a decent chunk of gameplay.

It gives you sufficient info in lore, tone, and gameplay.

It's perfect.

FF7 was amazing. Can't wait to play the 2nd part.

@duhsoares21 Not even a timed exclusive? That sucks.

@Gaming-potato100 I buy a sports game never.

@Octane I think that one was.

Hope it's not, anyway. I'm dying for some dino shooting action. And Dino Crisis isn't coming anytime soon, so ...

The only game that stroke my fancy was Second Extinction Reclaim Earth … was that X-Box exclusive?

OMFG!! THAT WAS - THAT WAS -

Totally uninteresting for me.

@Icey664 BUH ... BUH BUH 12 TFLOPS BUH BUH BUH!!

Finally a space shooter/simulator! I was afraid the only game like that would be Everspace in this gen!

Definitely interested!

@stefan771 And am I the only person who doesn't care anymore about this ip, period?

@swagbag713 Without going into spoiler territory? No. But there are politics involved (both from the praisers as well as the haters), which is fair, considering TloU2 is involved in current politics of America.

ND made their bed, now they have to lie on it. For better, or for worse.

PushSquare: We are tired of remasters.

PushSquare: Just Remaster Mass Effect already.

Music sold me. I'm 100% in.

@Zach_99 Oh, I don't question the importance of the IP, I'm questioning their choice of a main character.

I mean, what's next? A Spider-Man game where aunt May is the main character?

There are quite a few games which make me say to myself … "Why is this game being made?" This is one of them.

I mean, who thought that 'Boy, wouldn't it be cool to make a game about a crazy, pathetic being who talks to itself and gets bullied and beat up by everyone while it chows down on fish and imagines having a piece of jewelry' and someone actually greenlit this project?

The artstyle goes for a Knack kind of feel, while the gamers will compare the visuals to those of Shadow of Mordor and will be heavily disappointed.

Looks like crap. The orcs especially look like an early PS3 game. Disgusting.

But I'm pretty sure that's the devs' fault, not the PS5's or the X-Series X's.

In other words, the sky is blue.

Seriously, cross-gen games have been a thing for years now.

Holy - ! Way to go, Sammy!

Bookmarked!

@InsertUsername When I opened mine after 3 years to change the thermal paste and thermal pads, it didn't have dust in the heatsink at all - well, maybe it had enough dust to block 5-10% of the heatsink, but not like those situations you see on YouTube when the heatsink is 85% blocked by solid dirt to the point it looks like freakin cement.

Anyway, there are enough complaints about the Pro's noise to make one realize it's not Tales from the Backside. Mine would get so loud I could hear it two rooms across. I got stressed just hearing it.

@InsertUsername You got lucky with the quality/placement of the thermal pads and thermal paste on your pro? Got a later model which had less fan noise while producing more heat (the Read Dead 2 bundle)? Not sure.

I mean, my X-Box One X is quiet as a mouse, yet there are people who state that theirs sounds like a jet engine when playing a demanding title.

@3MonthBeef (shrugs) Cerny's words, not mine.

@TheNewButler Cerny actually explains why Horizon gets really loud on the map screen on his "road to ps5" video.

"Power consumption varies a LOT from game to game. When I play God of War on my PS4 Pro, I know the power consumption is high, just by the fan noise. But power isn't simply about engine quality. It's about the minutiae of what's being displayed and how.

It's counter-intuitive, but processing dense geometry typically consumes more power than processing simple geometry. Which is - I suspect - why Horizon's map screen with its low triangle count makes my PS4 Pro heat up so much."

Words from the wizard himself. Hope this cleared it up a bit.

@Arugula Dude, it's not an urban legend. I can personally testify that my PS4 Pro would go so loud, I could hear it two rooms across! I would get stressed by the noise, thinking that if I don't shut it down, it would overheat and get damaged.

I had to open it, replace the thermal pads and its thermal pads with superior ones, and while more tolerable, it's by no means a quiet piece of machinery.

Really hyped to see what Cerny did with the PS5 to prevent overheating issues. This huge heatsink makes me feel better about the console. Safety and functionality first, design and wow! factor second.

And nothing of value was lost.

@kyleforrester87 BA-DAM PSSHHH!

Nice! Always good to have options!

@kyleforrester87 old-school JRPG? So we're killing God again? So 90s!

@Matroska HAHAHHAAAAAAA!!

LIAM!! ALL IS FORGIVEN!! HAHAHAHAHHAAAA!!

Well if anything, that guarantees a sequel.

@Quintumply Have they stated they're working on a VR game?

@Octane Then Corona probably has a far more greater infection ratio than H1N1 had.

Add to the fact that Corona is mostly lethal to the elderly, while H1N1 seemed to have a 'preference' for younger people.

Spider-Man 2, easily.

While I DO want Resistance to come back … I don't really want it to come back at the expense of the wall-crawler, at least not until the obligatory first trilogy is released.

Ratchet and Clank … it's visually stunning, and the action pieces are nice, and yeah it fills that Jak & Daxter hole in my chest … but it's the last on the list.

New IP? Eh, no need for now. Spider-man has a lot more stuff going for me.