@AdamNovice The first thing I thought of was the 1959 Movie "On The Beach" adapted from the 1957 Novel by the same name written by Nevil Shute. A found Easter egg before the first trailer?
Web browser: I paused a game on my PS4 to visit this site and how I am submitting this post. Amazingly without the need of a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. Extemely convenient.
UI/Home Screen, Folders, Themes, and USB saves: just make it like the PS3 and PS4.
Then add a home screen link to the web and issue a retro designed matte black rectangular model for those that do not prefer weird ugly and the additional cost of black side panels. Also with zero desire to place verticle.
@sanderson72
My thoughts too. A similiar design could have been a real slim instead of the smaller but just as ugly and the cheap plastic leg for horizontal placement slimmer Sony designed.
The design here is small enough for travel and easy taking from room to room, but is not portable like a tablet or even a full power laptop as it does not have an internal power supply and is not an option for those that desire a handheld device.
Hopefully Sony has come to their senses and the PS5 PRO will look like a larger version of this design. Just an all black rectangle please.
Still rocking with my 6 year old Pro with a regular PS4 from 2015 as a backup. My 1080p tv PRO combo provides good performance when selecting performance mode on all but a few games. I also replay favorites. New games are always possible new favorites, but previous favorites replayed after 3 years is still fun, can feel fresh, and sometimes have new content. Then there is also Plus games.
I have no desire to purchase a PS5. It's smaller now but still ugly, I would need to pay extra for black side covers, it has a small ssd for what game sizes are now, it does less than my PS4, and it's ugly.
Maybe the PS5 PRO will interest me with not being ugly, plain black rectangle without the hidden cost of black side panels, and have a larger ssd. Maybe a new ui, themes, folders on home screen, and maybe it can do google searches.
I can usually handle difficulty myself if given difficulty options at the start and during the game.
Overall I like the process of getting better in games. That is where the obtaining of better weapons and gear, upgrading weapons, acquiring perks, leveling up skills, and learning what works and what don't actually makes surviving easier. I want to see and experience improving my character. Also being op in some games is just plain fun.
Fallout games does difficulty well for an action adventure shooter type game. Very easy, easy, normal, hard, and very hard affect damage received and damage given. Same weapons, same amount of ammo, and same amount of enemies. The difference being how quick the player dies versus how quick the enemy dies.
Ai controlled dynamic auto scaling of difficulty? I prefer the old fashioned way and work it out myself.
I make lists, my list to Santa is my favorite and Santa being the nice guy he is always comes through. last year I asked for a car and got one, a 1975 Pinto. I had hinted at newer BMW or a Benz, but hey that old Pinto still runs well.
The most important list to me is the list I want to stay off of. That is Santa's list, and he checks it twice, of those that have been naughty and not nice.
I absolutely can not play a game if Y can't be inverted. For me the right stick needs to move like my head. Pull back to look up, forward to look downs. The X axis also needs to be move the stick right to look right, left to look left.
That a game was released in 2023 that is without axis options is beyond incredible. Settings and options should be included in game info and reviews.
@Steel76, Your wishes could come true if the flamethrower and rampages of the PS2 Vice City would return to GTA6. A code for Peds Riot like in Vice City would also be cool, but we are more likely to get a lot of twerking instead.
Grumpy old GTA player here and; 2025! This is taking entirely too long. When in 2025? May have just as well went with "To BE Announced." No date in 2025 means it could be 2026. All that twerking that looks to be featured probably added a year to the release date.
The only one I caught, normal speed, was the Cheetah. Instant flashback to 3 star wanted level in Vice City.
The one with the circle drawn around the guy on the beach could also be an Easter egg of the Far Cry series. He looks a lot like Hurk Drubman Jr. a nutty side character featured in Far Cry 3. 4, 5, and New Dawn.
PS5, 200GB minimum, and enhanced for the PS5 PRO. I never thought or hoped it would also be on a PS4, even a PRO. My only concern was when will 6 release. Now, sadly, I know it's not 2024.
202 freaking 5!😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫!!! Well maybe it'll be the first week of January 202 freaking 5.
The trailer was too much fast cuts from scene to scene for me with only little of interest. That being the gator going into a store. I doubt actual game play will anything like this first trailer.
What I noticed most is the sometimes large amount of haze and glare of volumetric atmosphere. It's Florida, you know, where it is sunshine, blue skies, and clear atmosphere. That is when there isn't a hurricane.
An hour ago a guy knocked at my door and handed me a notice that he said was official, legal, and clearly worded in the purchase agreement. The notice said that come January 2024 the washing machine I purchased 2 years ago would be removed from my home by the company I purchased it from. No refund, no clean cloths.
So when will the refund checks be sent? There will be refunds, right? Please tell there will be prompt refunds. To have no refunds would be theft.
No new or recent media, digital or physical is safe now. Codes included with media, mandatory firmware updates, mandatory connection to the internet, and snap, here today gone tomorrow.
I am very hyped I will admit. I am most curious about when the story takes place, the protagonists, the map, story, and release date. Twenty years ago would be nice as there wouldn't be the current politics, but if current GTA 6 could amusingly parody current politics.
My biggest question and concern is, will GTA6 still be 'GTA'?
Maybe a GPP, Game Pass Playstation, would work. That subscription would provide only XBox exclusives. Seems a win win for both Sony and MS as both would increase their sub income.
Price is a factor. Too high and some will pass while too low and some Xboxers may feel burned for what Gamepass costs them. That burn may be reduced if new games have a delayed release on GPP or a higher sub fee for no delay of new releases.
Another sub I can afford, but a day will still be only 24 hours.
@TripleKing333 The weird X and Y deal is what kept me from finishing BG&E on PS2. Then the PS3 hd version had the same X and Y deal so I passed.
It's so unplayable to pick looking up to look up only to then needing to look right to see to my left. Hopefully any new release will have normal X and Y setting choices.
If it would be on Netflix I would give it a look, but only after about 3 or 4 patches. I'm thinking more comedy and less serious. Goofy supermutants, oddball characters and their quests, plasma weapons that leave a pile of goo, and stealing everything, clothing too, from defeated human enemies. Maybe even partially a musical.
Definitely nothing 2023 in music or current politics. I want Peggy Lee and Dean Martin not autotune rap, and 2 genders and whatever supermutants are.
I haver never owned a PSP or Vita but I do find the photo here of the Vita interesting where it shows features like YouTube, Facebook, and Skype. I never knew Skype was ever available on a Sony hand held. Even when the PS3 was billed as 'it only does everything' it never had Skype.
I voted no way on the PS4, buuuut, it could when it is considered that GTA 5 released on the PS3 and then 4 a year later. However a 2024 or 2025 release of 6 would be 4 or 5 years after the PS5 release.
Overall I only want 6 on current gen and at 60fps. Hopefully the controls and weather effects are improved from GTA5.
It is definitely smaller, but still ugly and weird looking to me. Then there is the still hidden added cost of black side plates if one desires an all black look. Time will tell how quiet this new design is.
Overall this new design is disappointing and not what I had hopes for in a smaller design. The increased size of the base ssd is welcome.
I like 3,4,5, and ND more than 6 and I have recent replays of 3,4, and ND. FC6 has some good like a decent map and cool animal companions, but overall I did not like the Libertards, the story, the forced 1st to 3rd person when entering camps, the ammo deal, and long journeys to get a helicopter.
FC6 is the only game in the series I was one and done with as I was happy to delete the file when I finally finished it after a 3 month break about halfway through.
The slimmer seems to just be the replacement to the fat. It is what you'll get if purchasing a new PS5. There is no compelling new features to raise much interest. OK it is slimmer but still ugly😴. I do think a traditional matte black rectangular design, smaller than the fat, with a 2TB ssd would have received more interest.
The slimmer is still ugly, but now it is smaller. The extra cost vertical stand reminds that I have yet to understand the vertical thing with Playstation consoles.
This gen I will probably pass on Sony and go MS. Then maybe go back to Sony when the PS6 is released.
@Dusk_Actual , don't give up the battle to quit smoking. Try different methods and meds. Cigarettes are obscenely expensive, addictive, makes everything and places stink, can't smoke anywhere, and slowly but surely compromises breathing and health.
I guit after surgery almost twenty years ago. Patches didn't work for me.
After many hours of RE4, PRO, I decided on some RDRO, PRO, after about a year absence. Everything was just like I left it. Same camp, same outfit, and same horse. Also the same demented weather guy that only allows clear weather for about 10 minutes before the overcast, rain, and fog are dialed up.
This could be interesting if the who done it is not already known. Maybe there will be some additions to the 1970's movie that will make it fresh even with the ending known. Still waiting for a Fast Times at Ridgemont High Game.
@boarderbro88, overall I find both ugly, especially with drive and horizontally which how all of my consoles are displayed.
This new model still looks whopperjawed, but now smaller. It still looks to me like parts of 3 designs glued together along with some deformity from exposure to high temperatures. Reminiscent of the old Johnny Cash song 'One Piece At A Time'
Still ugly but now, drumroll, it's smaller 😴. Still have to pay extra for black side panels and now the vertical stand is optional at extra cost. There is now 175GB more storage, thats good. An easy to replace disc drive is also good, but is the ssd still integrated? How quiet is it? Is the horizontal stand improved? Still no web browser, folders, and themes the previous PS3 and PS4 have.
Still disappointed with the current gen Playstation console. Still using my PS3 and PRO.
The ugly deformed looking monstrosity PS5 was launched while JR was ceo. Also dropping the web browser, a ui downgrade from the PS4, no themes and folders, and not being able to store PS5 games externally. To be fair I don't know how much say JR may have had with all that but it was while he was ceo.
After 30 years and a good pension why not retire and leave the grind behind.
Age mid 50's, 30 years with the same company, good pension. Why not retire and leave the grind behind? Enjoy doing what, where, and when you want to do with the short time one has left.
However overall JR never really inspired me much and was the ceo when how the PS5 was decided to look. To be fair I don't know what say JR had in the final decision, maybe he was totally against the final ugly deformed looking plastic monster look. Then there was the dropping of a web browser with the PS5 and other shortcomings of the PS5. All that a switch to a series X could provide. All while JR was the ceo.
Last, but not least, are all of the photos that have JR looking like a doctor about to give his patient some very bad news. Put it all together and for me that is JR's legacy as the ceo.
1) asymmetrical sticks? not even the option to switch to symmetrical? Duh! The controller is for Playstation, double duh.
2) the cost? ain't no way!
3) stick drift? one new DS4 I purchased started to get left stick drift after about 10 days of use. no hitting with a hammer or dropping it into the toilet. stick drift may be a combination of stick design and game design, and maybe too the console. GTA 5 on my PS4 will get left stick drift or no stick drift with my DS4 depending on the dead zone setting.
My current DS4 is now 2 years old with daily use and the sticks do not drift while playing a game. the only issue is when using the browser. the page will auto scroll up until I press the left stick hard to the left or right and then rotate the stick in a circle a few times. that would fix it for a week, but now only about an hour.
4) d-pad? I prefer the DS3 d-pad that is one piece instead of 4 buttons. that one piece, for me, is more accurate, especially in selecting the in-betweens like in-between up and right in Fallout games for selecting weapons.
5) could change my mind factors, How the controller is in use, how it feels in my hand, how the sticks feel, do I like the buttons, the battery life, durability, an option for a symmetrical stick layout along with a pop out pop in feature to replace the stick and trigger assemblies.
While playing Skyrim on my PS4 I hoped Fallout 3, and or, NV would be next, and soon if it looked and played as well as Skyrim on my PS4. The backwards compatibility of the XBox may have kept that from happening.
Right now I am not counting on anything new, remastered, or remade coming to Playstation from Bugthesda, at least not at release.
On one Oblivion save file I left the Adoring Fan at the bottom of a river, that was like 12 years ago. I hope he forgives me. On one Fallout 3 save file I left Sticky at Point Lookout to guard Panada. He still wants to go to big town.
One update for me that is long overdue is to be able to disable auto downloading and auto installing of game updates. I have turned everything auto to off. Works for firmware updates, but not games.
Everytime I start a game, even with the disc already inserted, an update starts to download and will then auto install while I play the game. If I cancel the download at start I will need to cancel again after the loading screens and game play starts.
Three things: I only download after I research the contents, I may want to play unpatched so I can still use some glitches and exploits a patch removes, and I may not want a 15-20GB patch/update that is huge because it contains a dlc I will never want to pay to unlock.
I will save my opinion for after I play some of these added games. Overall the added cost extra and premium has been a good value for me the past year.
This video looks like it could be the next Resident Evil game. The weak base pistol and bullet sponge enemies, looking for a tool to defeat a locked door, and stuff like "just follow this spooky path pretty lady" are all RE. That's cool.
It would be nice with Plus Premium to be able to stream the larger essentials games to play and or demo before downloading. If so I would stream demo Gen and SR. However a 6th replay of SR2 from 2008 still looks better than a first-time play of this SR reboot game.
The PS1 and PS2 library on PS4 and 5 is very small. More PS2 games on Plus Premium is long, long, long, overdue. The worst is the only streaming of the beginning of the HD era PS3 games. Even if a streamed game plays half decent there is still no local saves, screen capture, and often no dlc. Fallout 3 and New Vegas are only half the game without their dlc.
A PS1 and 2 emulator on the PS4 and or PS5? I'll see it when I believe it.
The controls will need fixed for me and many others. Thankfully I got a very cheap used copy because the controls made it unplayable. I need X and Y to move like my body does. That is tilt my head back to look up and turn my head/body right to look right. With BYG&E on PS2 I am forced to look left to look right when I choose the setting that offers head tilt back, cervical spine extension, to look up. It's been maybe 12 years but that's how I remember the controls are and the problems I had with it.
Well I have expected this. What Sony needs now and, has needed, is a basic tier that provides just the online play at a price less than essential. That would work for many, those that do not benefit from the monthly games or sales. Cloud saving would be included in this cheaper tier because the PS5 does not allow saves to a USB drive like the PS3 and PS4 do. Price for basic basic tier? $40 would be reasonable.
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Re: Death Stranding 2 Reportedly Subtitled 'On the Beach', Re-Reveal Expected at State of Play
@AdamNovice
The first thing I thought of was the 1959 Movie "On The Beach" adapted from the 1957 Novel by the same name written by Nevil Shute. A found Easter egg before the first trailer?
Re: The Latest PS5 Firmware Update Is Available to Download Now
Web browser: I paused a game on my PS4 to visit this site and how I am submitting this post. Amazingly without the need of a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. Extemely convenient.
UI/Home Screen, Folders, Themes, and USB saves: just make it like the PS3 and PS4.
Then add a home screen link to the web and issue a retro designed matte black rectangular model for those that do not prefer weird ugly and the additional cost of black side panels. Also with zero desire to place verticle.
Re: Rumour: Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Remake Is Now In Active Development
Still no remake of Total Overdose 😭.
Re: Youtuber DIY Perks Crafts Perfectly Portable PS5 Tablet and It's Glorious
@sanderson72
My thoughts too. A similiar design could have been a real slim instead of the smaller but just as ugly and the cheap plastic leg for horizontal placement slimmer Sony designed.
The design here is small enough for travel and easy taking from room to room, but is not portable like a tablet or even a full power laptop as it does not have an internal power supply and is not an option for those that desire a handheld device.
Hopefully Sony has come to their senses and the PS5 PRO will look like a larger version of this design. Just an all black rectangle please.
Re: Believe It or Not, PS4 Sales Rocketed in the UK Last Year
Still rocking with my 6 year old Pro with a regular PS4 from 2015 as a backup. My 1080p tv PRO combo provides good performance when selecting performance mode on all but a few games. I also replay favorites. New games are always possible new favorites, but previous favorites replayed after 3 years is still fun, can feel fresh, and sometimes have new content. Then there is also Plus games.
I have no desire to purchase a PS5. It's smaller now but still ugly, I would need to pay extra for black side covers, it has a small ssd for what game sizes are now, it does less than my PS4, and it's ugly.
Maybe the PS5 PRO will interest me with not being ugly, plain black rectangle without the hidden cost of black side panels, and have a larger ssd. Maybe a new ui, themes, folders on home screen, and maybe it can do google searches.
Re: Sony Wants PS5 Games to Automatically Adjust the Difficulty While You Play
I can usually handle difficulty myself if given difficulty options at the start and during the game.
Overall I like the process of getting better in games. That is where the obtaining of better weapons and gear, upgrading weapons, acquiring perks, leveling up skills, and learning what works and what don't actually makes surviving easier. I want to see and experience improving my character. Also being op in some games is just plain fun.
Fallout games does difficulty well for an action adventure shooter type game. Very easy, easy, normal, hard, and very hard affect damage received and damage given. Same weapons, same amount of ammo, and same amount of enemies. The difference being how quick the player dies versus how quick the enemy dies.
Ai controlled dynamic auto scaling of difficulty? I prefer the old fashioned way and work it out myself.
Re: 19 Amazing Games Join PS Plus Extra, Premium Next Week
I make lists, my list to Santa is my favorite and Santa being the nice guy he is always comes through. last year I asked for a car and got one, a 1975 Pinto. I had hinted at newer BMW or a Benz, but hey that old Pinto still runs well.
The most important list to me is the list I want to stay off of. That is Santa's list, and he checks it twice, of those that have been naughty and not nice.
Re: PS Plus Indie Hit Teardown Updated with Invert Y-Axis Option
I absolutely can not play a game if Y can't be inverted. For me the right stick needs to move like my head. Pull back to look up, forward to look downs. The X axis also needs to be move the stick right to look right, left to look left.
That a game was released in 2023 that is without axis options is beyond incredible. Settings and options should be included in game info and reviews.
Re: GTA 6's Record Breaking Trailer Has a Profound Impact on Tom Petty Streams
I had been free fallin waiting for GTA6 to be announced, and now R☆ is draggin my heart around making me wait for a release date.
Tom Petty is from Florida but I associate him and his music with California. With Florida I think Lynard Skinnard and Allman Brothers.
Re: Feature: We No Longer Accept Cash Stored in Underwear, and 8 Other GTA 6 Easter Eggs You Missed
@Steel76,
Your wishes could come true if the flamethrower and rampages of the PS2 Vice City would return to GTA6. A code for Peds Riot like in Vice City would also be cool, but we are more likely to get a lot of twerking instead.
Re: GTA 6 Trailer Tops 50 Million Views in 10 Hours, Despite Leak
Grumpy old GTA player here and; 2025! This is taking entirely too long. When in 2025? May have just as well went with "To BE Announced." No date in 2025 means it could be 2026.
All that twerking that looks to be featured probably added a year to the release date.
Re: Feature: We No Longer Accept Cash Stored in Underwear, and 8 Other GTA 6 Easter Eggs You Missed
The only one I caught, normal speed, was the Cheetah. Instant flashback to 3 star wanted level in Vice City.
The one with the circle drawn around the guy on the beach could also be an Easter egg of the Far Cry series. He looks a lot like Hurk Drubman Jr. a nutty side character featured in Far Cry 3. 4, 5, and New Dawn.
Re: GTA 6 Skips Last-Gen PS4 Version for PS5, Xbox Series X|S
PS5, 200GB minimum, and enhanced for the PS5 PRO. I never thought or hoped it would also be on a PS4, even a PRO. My only concern was when will 6 release. Now, sadly, I know it's not 2024.
Re: GTA 6 Trailer Out Now, 2025 Release Window Revealed
202 freaking 5!😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫!!! Well maybe it'll be the first week of January 202 freaking 5.
The trailer was too much fast cuts from scene to scene for me with only little of interest. That being the gator going into a store. I doubt actual game play will anything like this first trailer.
What I noticed most is the sometimes large amount of haze and glare of volumetric atmosphere. It's Florida, you know, where it is sunshine, blue skies, and clear atmosphere. That is when there isn't a hurricane.
Re: Fallout TV Trailer Reveals Vault 33, The Ghoul, Brotherhood of Steel
I don't want to set the world on fire.
I just want to start a flame in your heart.
I was thinking that before all of this that I knew a woman.
Or maybe I was a woman. Aaahh it hurts when I think.
Cazadores to the right of me.
Cazadores to the left of me.
Cazadores in front of me.
As into the valley of Cazadores I go.
Re: As GTA 6 Enthusiasm Mounts, GTA Online Is Getting a New Business
Time to add to my criminal empire and throw snowballs at cops again is near. Thanks Rock☆.
Re: PlayStation Users Set to Lose Hundreds of TV Shows They Paid For
An hour ago a guy knocked at my door and handed me a notice that he said was official, legal, and clearly worded in the purchase agreement. The notice said that come January 2024 the washing machine I purchased 2 years ago would be removed from my home by the company I purchased it from. No refund, no clean cloths.
Re: PlayStation Users Set to Lose Hundreds of TV Shows They Paid For
So when will the refund checks be sent? There will be refunds, right? Please tell there will be prompt refunds. To have no refunds would be theft.
No new or recent media, digital or physical is safe now. Codes included with media, mandatory firmware updates, mandatory connection to the internet, and snap, here today gone tomorrow.
Re: GTA 6 Trailer Debuts on Tuesday, 5th December
I am very hyped I will admit. I am most curious about when the story takes place, the protagonists, the map, story, and release date. Twenty years ago would be nice as there wouldn't be the current politics, but if current GTA 6 could amusingly parody current politics.
My biggest question and concern is, will GTA6 still be 'GTA'?
Re: Microsoft Still Wants to Put Xbox Game Pass on PS5, PS4
@CielloArc
MS and Phil most definitely want games on as many systems as possible for the gamers they love so much. Only one requirement, Gamepass.
Re: Microsoft Still Wants to Put Xbox Game Pass on PS5, PS4
Maybe a GPP, Game Pass Playstation, would work. That subscription would provide only XBox exclusives. Seems a win win for both Sony and MS as both would increase their sub income.
Price is a factor. Too high and some will pass while too low and some Xboxers may feel burned for what Gamepass costs them. That burn may be reduced if new games have a delayed release on GPP or a higher sub fee for no delay of new releases.
Another sub I can afford, but a day will still be only 24 hours.
Re: Fallout TV Series Images, Plot Details Revealed, Out in April 2024
@DonaldMcRonald Are you a Synth? Only a Synth would say something like that.
Re: Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition Announced
@TripleKing333
The weird X and Y deal is what kept me from finishing BG&E on PS2. Then the PS3 hd version had the same X and Y deal so I passed.
It's so unplayable to pick looking up to look up only to then needing to look right to see to my left. Hopefully any new release will have normal X and Y setting choices.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for December 2023 Announced
Lego looks like some fun.
Sable is a maybe.
PW Simulator? Nope.
Re: GTA Stage Invader Prompts The Game Awards to Shore Up Security
Need a flash mob of, who else, Streakers! "Don't look Ethel".
Re: Fallout TV Series Images, Plot Details Revealed, Out in April 2024
If it would be on Netflix I would give it a look, but only after about 3 or 4 patches.
I'm thinking more comedy and less serious. Goofy supermutants, oddball characters and their quests, plasma weapons that leave a pile of goo, and stealing everything, clothing too, from defeated human enemies. Maybe even partially a musical.
Definitely nothing 2023 in music or current politics. I want Peggy Lee and Dean Martin not autotune rap, and 2 genders and whatever supermutants are.
Re: Video: Why Sony Will Never Make the PS Vita 2
I haver never owned a PSP or Vita but I do find the photo here of the Vita interesting where it shows features like YouTube, Facebook, and Skype. I never knew Skype was ever available on a Sony hand held. Even when the PS3 was billed as 'it only does everything' it never had Skype.
Re: Poll: Do You Think GTA 6 Will Release on PS4?
I voted no way on the PS4, buuuut, it could when it is considered that GTA 5 released on the PS3 and then 4 a year later. However a 2024 or 2025 release of 6 would be 4 or 5 years after the PS5 release.
Overall I only want 6 on current gen and at 60fps. Hopefully the controls and weather effects are improved from GTA5.
Re: PS5 Slim 'Not That Much Smaller', According to This Teardown Video
It is definitely smaller, but still ugly and weird looking to me. Then there is the still hidden added cost of black side plates if one desires an all black look. Time will tell how quiet this new design is.
Overall this new design is disappointing and not what I had hopes for in a smaller design. The increased size of the base ssd is welcome.
Re: Far Cry 6's PS5, PS4 Post-Release Support Is Now Finished
I like 3,4,5, and ND more than 6 and I have recent replays of 3,4, and ND. FC6 has some good like a decent map and cool animal companions, but overall I did not like the Libertards, the story, the forced 1st to 3rd person when entering camps, the ammo deal, and long journeys to get a helicopter.
FC6 is the only game in the series I was one and done with as I was happy to delete the file when I finally finished it after a 3 month break about halfway through.
Re: Is It Surprising that PlayStation Fans Don't Really Care About the PS5 Slim?
The slimmer seems to just be the replacement to the fat. It is what you'll get if purchasing a new PS5. There is no compelling new features to raise much interest. OK it is slimmer but still ugly😴. I do think a traditional matte black rectangular design, smaller than the fat, with a 2TB ssd would have received more interest.
Re: Gollum May Not Be the Worst PS5, PS4 Game of the Year After All
Maybe it will be a big seller to the 8 and under gamers.
Re: Poll: Will You Be Buying a PS5 'Slim'?
The slimmer is still ugly, but now it is smaller. The extra cost vertical stand reminds that I have yet to understand the vertical thing with Playstation consoles.
This gen I will probably pass on Sony and go MS. Then maybe go back to Sony when the PS6 is released.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 498
@Dusk_Actual , don't give up the battle to quit smoking. Try different methods and meds. Cigarettes are obscenely expensive, addictive, makes everything and places stink, can't smoke anywhere, and slowly but surely compromises breathing and health.
I guit after surgery almost twenty years ago. Patches didn't work for me.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 498
After many hours of RE4, PRO, I decided on some RDRO, PRO, after about a year absence. Everything was just like I left it. Same camp, same outfit, and same horse. Also the same demented weather guy that only allows clear weather for about 10 minutes before the overcast, rain, and fog are dialed up.
Re: The Plot Thickens in Murder on the Orient Express PS5, PS4 Gameplay
This could be interesting if the who done it is not already known. Maybe there will be some additions to the 1970's movie that will make it fresh even with the ending known. Still waiting for a Fast Times at Ridgemont High Game.
Re: PS5 Slim Officially Unveiled, Attachable Disc Drive, Launches November
@boarderbro88, overall I find both ugly, especially with drive and horizontally which how all of my consoles are displayed.
This new model still looks whopperjawed, but now smaller. It still looks to me like parts of 3 designs glued together along with some deformity from exposure to high temperatures. Reminiscent of the old Johnny Cash song 'One Piece At A Time'
Re: PS5 Slim Officially Unveiled, Attachable Disc Drive, Launches November
Still ugly but now, drumroll, it's smaller 😴. Still have to pay extra for black side panels and now the vertical stand is optional at extra cost. There is now 175GB more storage, thats good. An easy to replace disc drive is also good, but is the ssd still integrated? How quiet is it? Is the horizontal stand improved? Still no web browser, folders, and themes the previous PS3 and PS4 have.
Still disappointed with the current gen Playstation console. Still using my PS3 and PRO.
Re: Reaction: PlayStation Boss Jim Ryan May Have Been Disliked, But Leaves Big Boots to Fill
The ugly deformed looking monstrosity PS5 was launched while JR was ceo. Also dropping the web browser, a ui downgrade from the PS4, no themes and folders, and not being able to store PS5 games externally. To be fair I don't know how much say JR may have had with all that but it was while he was ceo.
After 30 years and a good pension why not retire and leave the grind behind.
Re: Jim Ryan Retires as PlayStation Boss in March 2024
Age mid 50's, 30 years with the same company, good pension. Why not retire and leave the grind behind? Enjoy doing what, where, and when you want to do with the short time one has left.
However overall JR never really inspired me much and was the ceo when how the PS5 was decided to look. To be fair I don't know what say JR had in the final decision, maybe he was totally against the final ugly deformed looking plastic monster look. Then there was the dropping of a web browser with the PS5 and other shortcomings of the PS5. All that a switch to a series X could provide. All while JR was the ceo.
Last, but not least, are all of the photos that have JR looking like a doctor about to give his patient some very bad news. Put it all together and for me that is JR's legacy as the ceo.
Re: Nacon's Revolution 5 Pro Controller Promises to Eliminate Stick Drift on PS5, PS4
1) asymmetrical sticks? not even the option to switch to symmetrical? Duh! The controller is for Playstation, double duh.
2) the cost? ain't no way!
3) stick drift? one new DS4 I purchased started to get left stick drift after about 10 days of use. no hitting with a hammer or dropping it into the toilet. stick drift may be a combination of stick design and game design, and maybe too the console. GTA 5 on my PS4 will get left stick drift or no stick drift with my DS4 depending on the dead zone setting.
My current DS4 is now 2 years old with daily use and the sticks do not drift while playing a game. the only issue is when using the browser. the page will auto scroll up until I press the left stick hard to the left or right and then rotate the stick in a circle a few times. that would fix it for a week, but now only about an hour.
4) d-pad? I prefer the DS3 d-pad that is one piece instead of 4 buttons. that one piece, for me, is more accurate, especially in selecting the in-betweens like in-between up and right in Fallout games for selecting weapons.
5) could change my mind factors, How the controller is in use, how it feels in my hand, how the sticks feel, do I like the buttons, the battery life, durability, an option for a symmetrical stick layout along with a pop out pop in feature to replace the stick and trigger assemblies.
Re: PS3 Classics Oblivion and Fallout 3 are Reportedly Being Remastered
While playing Skyrim on my PS4 I hoped Fallout 3, and or, NV would be next, and soon if it looked and played as well as Skyrim on my PS4. The backwards compatibility of the XBox may have kept that from happening.
Right now I am not counting on anything new, remastered, or remade coming to Playstation from Bugthesda, at least not at release.
On one Oblivion save file I left the Adoring Fan at the bottom of a river, that was like 12 years ago. I hope he forgives me. On one Fallout 3 save file I left Sticky at Point Lookout to guard Panada. He still wants to go to big town.
Re: GTA Online's 10th Anniversary Recognised with Free GTA 5 Threads
I played GTA 5 on it's 10th anniversary and all I got was this stupid shirt😴😴😴😴😴😴.
Re: Stealth PS4 Firmware Update 11.00 Is Adding New Features
One update for me that is long overdue is to be able to disable auto downloading and auto installing of game updates. I have turned everything auto to off. Works for firmware updates, but not games.
Everytime I start a game, even with the disc already inserted, an update starts to download and will then auto install while I play the game. If I cancel the download at start I will need to cancel again after the loading screens and game play starts.
Three things: I only download after I research the contents, I may want to play unpatched so I can still use some glitches and exploits a patch removes, and I may not want a 15-20GB patch/update that is huge because it contains a dlc I will never want to pay to unlock.
Re: 20 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Coming Next Week
I will save my opinion for after I play some of these added games. Overall the added cost extra and premium has been a good value for me the past year.
Re: Alan Wake 2 Really Does Look Like One of the Best PS5 Games of the Year
This video looks like it could be the next Resident Evil game. The weak base pistol and bullet sponge enemies, looking for a tool to defeat a locked door, and stuff like "just follow this spooky path pretty lady" are all RE. That's cool.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for September 2023?
It would be nice with Plus Premium to be able to stream the larger essentials games to play and or demo before downloading. If so I would stream demo Gen and SR. However a 6th replay of SR2 from 2008 still looks better than a first-time play of this SR reboot game.
Re: Is Sony Working on a New PS2 Emulator for PS5, PS4?
The PS1 and PS2 library on PS4 and 5 is very small. More PS2 games on Plus Premium is long, long, long, overdue. The worst is the only streaming of the beginning of the HD era PS3 games. Even if a streamed game plays half decent there is still no local saves, screen capture, and often no dlc. Fallout 3 and New Vegas are only half the game without their dlc.
A PS1 and 2 emulator on the PS4 and or PS5? I'll see it when I believe it.
Re: Iconic PS2 Platformer Beyond Good & Evil Appears to Be Coming to PS5
The controls will need fixed for me and many others. Thankfully I got a very cheap used copy because the controls made it unplayable. I need X and Y to move like my body does. That is tilt my head back to look up and turn my head/body right to look right. With BYG&E on PS2 I am forced to look left to look right when I choose the setting that offers head tilt back, cervical spine extension, to look up. It's been maybe 12 years but that's how I remember the controls are and the problems I had with it.
Re: PS5, PS4 Owners Are Understandably Irate with PS Plus Price Hike
Well I have expected this. What Sony needs now and, has needed, is a basic tier that provides just the online play at a price less than essential. That would work for many, those that do not benefit from the monthly games or sales. Cloud saving would be included in this cheaper tier because the PS5 does not allow saves to a USB drive like the PS3 and PS4 do. Price for basic basic tier? $40 would be reasonable.