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Re: Review: PS5 Pro - An Impressive Yet Inconsistent Upgrade

PaperAlien

If you're going to be spending this money, and don't have an OLED TV, get the TV instead, it will make a far bigger and instantly noticeable difference to your gaming.

The fact that 30 fps is STILL a thing on the "MoSt PoWeRfUl CoNsOlE eVeR" is just a nonsense, I thought the whole point of the Pro was to remove this option, at least thats how it comes across in the Marketing of it.

Re: Australia's Planned Social Media Ban to Include PSN

PaperAlien

The internet is a pretty toxic and dangerous place esp for younger and vulnerable users, so some form of restrictions on Social Media / Internet access for 16 and unders isn't a terrible idea, but I'm not sure this is the right way to go about it.

Re: PS5, PC Flop Concord Never Returning, Studio Closed Down

PaperAlien

Oooft, what an ending to this whole story, not even a second chance to redeem themselves with another game. Flop games come and go all the time, but I dont think theres been anything quite like this, maybe since ET? Wonder if the episode of that Amazon series will go ahead or canned at the last minute.

Re: Ex-PlayStation Exec Shawn Layden Says There's Been a 'Collapse' in Gaming Creativity

PaperAlien

Like others said, AAA creativity is dead, buried and it aint coming back until the money men go and dev prices come down. You're literally paying £75 for the same old thing every time.

AAs and Indies is where all the creativity is, the games ive had most fun and spent most time with this year are Balatro, Vampire Survivors and Palworld, anytime ive dipped into AAA this year its just felt cold and soulless.

Re: Concord Devs Tinker with PC Files, Spurring Free-to-Play Speculation

PaperAlien

I dunno, I don't think going F2P will save it save it, sure there will be the initial spike of curiosity and people checking it out to see, but the issue for most people seemed to be the ugly character designs and not enough unique modes to play, if they could somehow fix them at the same time as going F2p, then it might find a niche audience it can expand from? Stranger things have happened!

Re: Frostpunk 2 Dev Recoups Entire Marketing, Production Budget in Three Days

PaperAlien

Very much enjoyed the first even though I was garbage at it, but had lots of fun trying and being in the world, so good to see its success!

I would love for Sony to look at producing 1st Party AA games for release on PS5/PC, honestly that's where the money can be found, all this hundreds of millions of dollars and 6-7 years for a single beige game is unsustainable.

Re: Planet Coaster 2 Makes a Splash on PS5 in November, PS Store Pre-Orders Available Now

PaperAlien

@Cutmastavictory from their website

The Deluxe Edition of Planet Coaster 2 includes The Planet Coaster 2: Vintage Funfair Ride Pack containing a whopping ten vintage rides, perfect for bestowing a classic theme and feel upon your theme parks:

The ‘Grand Carousel’ quintessential spinning platform ride
The ‘Chair-O-Plane’ traditional suspended carousel
The ‘Helter Skelter’ iconic amusement tower
The ‘Monte Leone’ vintage family ride
The ‘Hyperspin’ open-top Waltzer
The ‘Buoyancy’ diving bell flat ride
The ‘City Peninsula’ Wooden coaster
The ‘Eddie Fun Mitchell Company’ Wooden Side-Friction side coaster
The ‘Whitelake Amusement Shore’ Wooden Wild Mouse 2-seater wooden coaster
The ‘Dart Kinetics’ Antique Powered Cars track ride
Plus
'The Cube' exhilarating thrill ride
The 'Outamax' Water Coaster
The 'FD Vision' Powered Rotating Ride

Re: Reaction: PlayStation Needs to Take a Long, Hard Look at Itself

PaperAlien

The whole Concord fiasco thing is the very small tip of a very large Iceberg when it comes to Sony / Gaming Industry, like how is taking 5 - 7 years and spending hundreds of million dollars per AAA game anyway sustainable? You spend all that time research and dollars just to end up with a beige 8 - 12 hour cookie cutter sequel?

I feel like the AAA gaming industry is a few years away from completely collapsing on itself, and I dont know if thats a bad thing tbh No company should be spending hundreds of millions of dollars and creating 1 singular game, its just insane, perhaps maybe after Concords dust has been settled, it might force companies like Sony to re-assess how AAA games are made, most people just want a decent game to play with a good interesting story, you dont need to spend hundreds of millions to do that.

Re: Rumour: PS5 Pro Design Seemingly Leaked

PaperAlien

It absolutely wont have a disc drive and anyone expecting it is fooling themselves, especially when they've got a expensive disc drive attachment to fleece us all with, KER-CHING! They are absolutely out to rob as much money off people as they possibly can this generation.

Re: Site News: Where's Our Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Review?

PaperAlien

For the longest time, I had no real interest in this, but this week, am thinking of getting it! Combo of the Autumn nights creeping in and looking for a nice bit of story to play. Will check out a few reviews before deciding, plus its Ubi, so I have absolutely no doubt there'll be a few janky bits that need patching / missions not working

Re: PS5, PC FPS Concord's Poor Player Numbers Have Predictably Gone Viral

PaperAlien

Out of curiosity, I watched one of the big D2 PVP players play this yesterday, and he pretty much said "its extremely polished, well presented, runs well and is fun to play BUT lacks originality and for a pvp game thats costs money to play, it needed to do more than offer what you can already get for free elsewhere" Seems like thats the general consensus across the board from people playing it.