Why is it that every single EA game which features 'realistic' character models always seems to have waxy-looking skin? Like a sheen on it - not sweaty looking, but more... 'polished'.
Is it just me, or do others see it that way too? FIFA, Madden, NHL... even NFS, Star Wars... they always have the same look.
Shame they haven't dropped the PS Plus price. Maybe that's still to come, or they're saving it for Black Friday. Think I'm signed up until 2022, but always nice to extend it on the cheap.
@SJBUK Well, we'll have to wait and see. The reason I'm a little pessimistic is that developers tend to play it safe and stick to what they know. That, and the fact that all many people seem interested in are resolutions and frame rates, which in turn encourages devs to play it safe and make the same again, but with minor tweaks.
If we're honest, PC has had the power and the SSDs for a good number of years now, but have games significantly changed or improved outside of graphics and frame rates?
@thefourfoldroot Nope. He didn't have those. Haven't really been a fan of Wipeout since the original anyway.
I played EVE: Valkyrie, RIGS, the Star Wars X-Wing thingy, and a few others. I was impressed with the hardware itself, and there have been a couple of games I'd like to play (Robinson, Moss), but there's nowhere near enough games on it that I'd want to play to justify buying one for myself.
@thefourfoldroot Nah. Used it twice in my life... the original arcade models back in the 90s, and a friend's PSVR. It doesn't do much for me. While it's visually immersive, I've found gameplay for most games quite basic and limited.
Plus I despise having anything on my head for any length of time.
At the moment, if I got a VR system, I probably wouldn't use it for gaming at all, but more for the virtual tour type stuff, to 'visit' places I otherwise may never see.
@Jaz007 We'll see, I guess. But the things I'm thinking of... better AI, more interactive worlds, etc. could have been done by now.
The fact that R&C is the only game so far that anyone can point to kinda proves the point I'm making. The rest - so far - seem like more of the same, and don't really justify new hardware.
It's potentially an advantage which only Sony first-party studios may truly make use of, as others will still have to cater for other platforms; and we already know that one of those platform holders has a habit of requiring 'feature parity', potentially preventing developers from having features in games which their platform doesn't/can't support.
It's all very well saying "it allows developers to...", but it still requires them to actually do it. So far I've not seen much evidence. I do genuinely hope I'm wrong.
Never been that bothered by loading times, coming form 20+ minutes on a C64 cassette.
Naughty Dog seemed to have it cracked, with an initial load and then nothing noticeable during the game.
Though others did begin to try my patience, particularly open-world games. Horizon wasn't great for loading, but the quality of the game made it worthwhile. GR Breakpoint gets very intrusive for the supposedly 'fast' travel... so much so that I tended not to use it, but rather find a helicopter and actually make the journey across the map.
Even so, when loading times are one of the 'big things' people are talking about, it's easier to understand why this 'next gen' is the least excited I've been in a long time.
I want something that's going to really improve the actual games I'm playing. The new controller might help a bit. Load times, 4K, and 60fps are not going to lead to better games - only more of the same, but slightly prettier. And that's not enough to get me excited.
@MarcG420 Smaller than they would be, perhaps. But that's not what was stated. If someone installs a game which takes up 100GB, I don't think they're going to be that bothered that it might have taken up 120GB on a HDD.
As the other article I linked states, savings from not requiring duplication of assets could be lost or even outweighed by the higher quality of those assets. So while it's certainly true that games may be smaller than they may have been if using a standard HDD, the assertion that they will be smaller over all isn't going to be true in all cases. In the case of Spider-Man Remastered, it's entirely possible that the game takes up less space because it shares at least some assets with the Miles Morales game; that would make sense, as it's the same city... plus you can't buy it as a stand-alone title.
Wherever you choose to look, the general consensus is that the installs are going to be large, and eat up the initial internal storage fairly quickly.
@thefourfoldroot No, I read it all. They're about the same size as PS4. That makes them not smaller.
If you only play 2 or 3 then yes, you'll be fine. I don't play that many myself compared to some, but on PS4 I've got a 1.5TB internally and a 1TB external, and I've still had to delete some to make room after various patches, updates, and DLCs.
They're possibly going through by name in alphabetical order... a mate whose surname starts with H has updated, another starting with T is yet to update, mine and another mate starting with W are untouched.
I had this on PC way back when it originally released. I seem to remember you were supposed to be able to pull in at a gas station and refuel the cars, but it never seemed to work. Have they fixed the bug in the last 18 years? 🤔😄
I've been gaming for 40+ years, since the late 70s. Through all the nonsense in the past about gamers being nerds, spotty teenagers, living in mum's basement, having no girlfriends, etc. I've never been embarrassed to tell people that I'm a gamer.
This last 2 or 3 years, though... that's starting to change. Some people are an absolute fecking embarrassment. A hobby which was once great fun, even with the 'tribal' rivalries of format wars (which go back to the C64/Spectrum days) were light-hearted. Barely a week goes by now without someone being "outraged" or "offended" about something completely insignificant.
Once again, as with so many of the (non) issues plaguing the world today, social media is usually at the centre of it, allowing the rants of morons to find traction when in the past they'd have been laughed at and forgotten. The faceless keyboard warriors, wastes of skin and oxygen, desperate for likes and clicks of approval from their idiot followers to make them feel like they somehow matter in the grand scheme of things.
@Arugula I'm the same. As long as the frame-rate is smooth and consistent, I really couldn't care less if it's 30, 60, or higher. I'll take a smooth, locked 30 over something which varies between 50 and 60 any day.
This video, to me, looks no different to when I played it on my Pro. 60 is not the necessity many believe.
I enjoyed Fallout 3, but New Vegas was way too similar, bored me, and I didn't play much of it. Plus, Bethesda have become a bit of a running joke.
Horizon 2 will do me for the next gen, even if it's the only one I ever play on it.
There's always been a bit of a disconnect for me with MS. The games they've made have never held much appeal for me (probably why my original Xbox and 360 hardly saw any use), and none of the studios they've bought in recent times have really inspired me either. It's just a big ball of 'meh'.
This doesn't really bother me personally, but that being said, I can see absolutely no valid reason why this should be the case, apart from 'the individual developer wants it that way.'
Why they'd want it that way, I don't know... except perhaps as a form of encouragement to buy a PS5 version. But it's just data... there's no reason you couldn't just copy the file and have the game read and convert it as necessary.
Never been interested in it. Love the two games, but tried the multi-player briefly on PS3 and never touched it again. Same with the Uncharted games... played the required amount of online for the Platinums, but that was about it.
@blockfight They are best played that way, but since PS4 (and presumably PS5) support keyboard and mouse, there's no reason it couldn't be played that way on the console - if the developer were to support it, which many don't even when they could/should.
@710King As I recall, it was all about the graphics. It was right at the beginning of all this nonsense about higher resolutions and frame rates supposedly being what makes a 'good' game - the start of the dumb PCMR "ooh, shiny!" mentality. Even back then, graphics aside, many saw it as being a distinctly average game.
It's ridiculous that Sony should even be expected to clarify it.
Not sure why anyone would expect a PS5 version of Spider-Man to be completely free. I don't, and I only bought it in a sale in November 2019.
The free upgrades are for late-generation games, in the months prior to the new consoles. For TLOU2 and GoT I could understand if they did it, but wouldn't be shocked, surprised, or angry if they didn't.
For a two-year-old game? Nah, that's reaching, and smacks of the "gamer entitlement" we're seeing more and more of in recent times.
What this game needs is some AI helper bots which you can send off to collect all the stuff you need for jump fuel, to relieve some of the tedium and just let you explore. That's why I stopped playing; loved the rest of it, just got sick of that.
Yes, I'm aware there's an 'easy mode'; no, I don't want to enable that. It's just that with all that theoretical tech, you'd have something to do the menial work.
Not in the slightest. I've never bought many of their games, so it's no loss to me. Besides, I buy PlayStation primarily for Sony's own games. Third-party titles are a bonus, but everything on Xbox will also be on PC, so I'm not going to miss out on anything.
Besides, who has ever based a hardware purchasing decision whether or not it plays Bugtester Notworks (sorry, I mean Bethesda Softworks) games?
Wasn't planning to buy it this year anyway. I'll give it a miss for a year or two. Only ever really play it in local co-op with a mate anyway, and since we can't get together at the mo there's no need.
No big deal as far as I'm concerned. Enjoyed Fallout 3 on PS3. Never completed New Vegas on 360. Had Dishonored, which was okay. That's about it, I think.
They're not a developer I personally will be losing any sleep over, especially as Bethesda has become a bit of a farce in recent years. And as I've said previously, if they should make anything worth my time in future, it'll be on PC.
@Flaming_Kaiser I didn't say it would be ideal, just that it could be done. Wouldn't be much worse than the delay jumping across the same world in Horizon, The Division, or Breakpoint. Just stick in some Stargate-like portal as a load screen, or a story-related minigame to play while it's loading like they used to do back in the C64 days, rather than a static screen with gameplay tips and a progress bar.
I said ages ago that the supplied storage wouldn't last long before it's full. If it constantly captures an hour of video like PS4, that's going to eat into it too... especially if it records in 4K.
So as well as needing to know what expansions are available/compatible, we also need to know how we're going to be managing the storage. Will you have to uninstall a game, or can you shunt it to an attached HDD? Can you run a PS5 game from an external HDD if you wish?
More importantly, what's the point of an instant-loading super SSD if you have to waste several minutes moving a game from HDD to internal SSD in order to play?
I've got a nasty feeling that for all the crowing about these fancy new drives, in the long run, they're actually going to be the biggest PITA of the new system.
It's okay for Microsoft, because they don't have the range or quality of exclusive titles which Sony has. They don't have the studios, they haven't been investing multi-millions into numerous games, so it's more cost-effective for them to bung some cash at publishers and give away low-cost access to everyone else's output. For my tastes, the studios they recently bought won't change that.
Very different situation for Sony and Nintendo.
Game Pass is on PC, but I haven't taken it up there. Not interested in most of the games, so for me at least, it's a waste of money no matter how low the cost.
There's not going to be a vast difference in actual gameplay, because I've not seen anything on PS5 which couldn't be done on PS4, minus some snazzy effects. Even Ratchet & Clank would most likely work on PS4, albeit with some loading screens.
They were originally planning to have co-op in the original Horizon, but dropped it. I'm guessing "built from the ground up for PS5" means features like co-op will exist there, but be stripped from the PS4 version.
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Re: FIFA 21 - A Step Up from FIFA 20, But Must Do Better on PS5
Why is it that every single EA game which features 'realistic' character models always seems to have waxy-looking skin? Like a sheen on it - not sweaty looking, but more... 'polished'.
Is it just me, or do others see it that way too? FIFA, Madden, NHL... even NFS, Star Wars... they always have the same look.
Re: Amazon Prime Day PS4 Sale - All Deals on PS4 Games, PS Plus, Consoles, and More
Shame they haven't dropped the PS Plus price. Maybe that's still to come, or they're saving it for Black Friday. Think I'm signed up until 2022, but always nice to extend it on the cheap.
Re: Devil May Cry 5 Takes Four Seconds to Load on PS5, 22 Seconds on PS4
@SJBUK Well, we'll have to wait and see. The reason I'm a little pessimistic is that developers tend to play it safe and stick to what they know. That, and the fact that all many people seem interested in are resolutions and frame rates, which in turn encourages devs to play it safe and make the same again, but with minor tweaks.
If we're honest, PC has had the power and the SSDs for a good number of years now, but have games significantly changed or improved outside of graphics and frame rates?
Re: Devil May Cry 5 Takes Four Seconds to Load on PS5, 22 Seconds on PS4
@thefourfoldroot Nope. He didn't have those. Haven't really been a fan of Wipeout since the original anyway.
I played EVE: Valkyrie, RIGS, the Star Wars X-Wing thingy, and a few others. I was impressed with the hardware itself, and there have been a couple of games I'd like to play (Robinson, Moss), but there's nowhere near enough games on it that I'd want to play to justify buying one for myself.
Re: Devil May Cry 5 Takes Four Seconds to Load on PS5, 22 Seconds on PS4
@thefourfoldroot Nah. Used it twice in my life... the original arcade models back in the 90s, and a friend's PSVR. It doesn't do much for me. While it's visually immersive, I've found gameplay for most games quite basic and limited.
Plus I despise having anything on my head for any length of time.
At the moment, if I got a VR system, I probably wouldn't use it for gaming at all, but more for the virtual tour type stuff, to 'visit' places I otherwise may never see.
Re: Devil May Cry 5 Takes Four Seconds to Load on PS5, 22 Seconds on PS4
@Jaz007 We'll see, I guess. But the things I'm thinking of... better AI, more interactive worlds, etc. could have been done by now.
The fact that R&C is the only game so far that anyone can point to kinda proves the point I'm making. The rest - so far - seem like more of the same, and don't really justify new hardware.
It's potentially an advantage which only Sony first-party studios may truly make use of, as others will still have to cater for other platforms; and we already know that one of those platform holders has a habit of requiring 'feature parity', potentially preventing developers from having features in games which their platform doesn't/can't support.
It's all very well saying "it allows developers to...", but it still requires them to actually do it. So far I've not seen much evidence. I do genuinely hope I'm wrong.
Re: Devil May Cry 5 Takes Four Seconds to Load on PS5, 22 Seconds on PS4
Never been that bothered by loading times, coming form 20+ minutes on a C64 cassette.
Naughty Dog seemed to have it cracked, with an initial load and then nothing noticeable during the game.
Though others did begin to try my patience, particularly open-world games. Horizon wasn't great for loading, but the quality of the game made it worthwhile. GR Breakpoint gets very intrusive for the supposedly 'fast' travel... so much so that I tended not to use it, but rather find a helicopter and actually make the journey across the map.
Even so, when loading times are one of the 'big things' people are talking about, it's easier to understand why this 'next gen' is the least excited I've been in a long time.
I want something that's going to really improve the actual games I'm playing. The new controller might help a bit. Load times, 4K, and 60fps are not going to lead to better games - only more of the same, but slightly prettier. And that's not enough to get me excited.
Re: Western Digital Reveals First PS5 Compatible SSD
@MarcG420 Smaller than they would be, perhaps. But that's not what was stated. If someone installs a game which takes up 100GB, I don't think they're going to be that bothered that it might have taken up 120GB on a HDD.
As the other article I linked states, savings from not requiring duplication of assets could be lost or even outweighed by the higher quality of those assets. So while it's certainly true that games may be smaller than they may have been if using a standard HDD, the assertion that they will be smaller over all isn't going to be true in all cases. In the case of Spider-Man Remastered, it's entirely possible that the game takes up less space because it shares at least some assets with the Miles Morales game; that would make sense, as it's the same city... plus you can't buy it as a stand-alone title.
Wherever you choose to look, the general consensus is that the installs are going to be large, and eat up the initial internal storage fairly quickly.
Re: Western Digital Reveals First PS5 Compatible SSD
@thefourfoldroot All a diversion from the point I initially made: PS5 games aren't smaller in size.
Re: Western Digital Reveals First PS5 Compatible SSD
@thefourfoldroot No, I read it all. They're about the same size as PS4. That makes them not smaller.
If you only play 2 or 3 then yes, you'll be fine. I don't play that many myself compared to some, but on PS4 I've got a 1.5TB internally and a 1TB external, and I've still had to delete some to make room after various patches, updates, and DLCs.
Re: Poll: What's Your New PlayStation Trophy Level?
I've gone from 16% of the way through level 25 to 40% of the way through 375. So... Silver Tier 1.
Re: Western Digital Reveals First PS5 Compatible SSD
@thefourfoldroot Guess you didn't read this article: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/09/ps5_game_install_sizes_revealed_and_theyre_enormous
Re: Don't Expect Star Wars: Squadrons to Get Any Post-Launch Content
@graysoncharles Got it in one, I reckon.
Re: World Record Trophy Hunter Hakoom Has Hit Level 999 Already
Mine hasn't even updated yet.
They're possibly going through by name in alphabetical order... a mate whose surname starts with H has updated, another starting with T is yet to update, mine and another mate starting with W are untouched.
Re: First Mafia: Definitive Edition Update Adds Noir Mode
I had this on PC way back when it originally released. I seem to remember you were supposed to be able to pull in at a gas station and refuel the cars, but it never seemed to work. Have they fixed the bug in the last 18 years? 🤔😄
Re: PS5 Could Lose Out on Upgraded Versions of Past Bethesda Games
Honestly don't care. Haven't played them anyway, and I don't buy new hardware to play old games.
Re: More PS5 Launch Games Will Arrive a Week Before the UK Console Release
No, because...
(a) At the present time, it seems I won't be getting a system for launch day, as I pre-ordered with ShopTo.
(b) I'm not that bothered by (a) because, for the first time since PS2, there are no launch titles I feel I absolutely must have.
I've said before that I'd have been happy if 'next gen' hadn't happened for another year or two, and so far nothing has happened to change that.
I'll get my PS5 whenever the pre-order materialises, but for now I'm perfectly happy with PS4 and my PC.
Next-gen for me so far is stacking up to be a bit of a let-down.
Re: Star Wars: Squadrons - This Might Not Be the Game You're Looking For
A Star Wars game which is disappointing? Imagine my lack of surprise.
Re: Spider-Man Creative Director Calls for Respect as PS5 Remaster Criticism Crosses the Line
I've been gaming for 40+ years, since the late 70s. Through all the nonsense in the past about gamers being nerds, spotty teenagers, living in mum's basement, having no girlfriends, etc. I've never been embarrassed to tell people that I'm a gamer.
This last 2 or 3 years, though... that's starting to change. Some people are an absolute fecking embarrassment. A hobby which was once great fun, even with the 'tribal' rivalries of format wars (which go back to the C64/Spectrum days) were light-hearted. Barely a week goes by now without someone being "outraged" or "offended" about something completely insignificant.
Once again, as with so many of the (non) issues plaguing the world today, social media is usually at the centre of it, allowing the rants of morons to find traction when in the past they'd have been laughed at and forgotten. The faceless keyboard warriors, wastes of skin and oxygen, desperate for likes and clicks of approval from their idiot followers to make them feel like they somehow matter in the grand scheme of things.
Re: PS5 Fan Noise First Impressions Are Promising
I've recently been playing some games on a Dell G7 laptop. Trust me, the PS4 really isn't that loud.
Re: Sony Abandons Decades-Old Japanese Controller Logic for PS5
It's amusing how gamers can adapt to different controls from one game to the next, yet swap 2 buttons on the UI and everyone has a hissy-fit.
Re: Ghost of Tsushima Looks Insane at 60 Frames-Per-Second
@Arugula I'm the same. As long as the frame-rate is smooth and consistent, I really couldn't care less if it's 30, 60, or higher. I'll take a smooth, locked 30 over something which varies between 50 and 60 any day.
This video, to me, looks no different to when I played it on my Pro. 60 is not the necessity many believe.
Re: PS5's Stray Shares New Story and Gameplay Details
So far, probably the game I'm looking forward to most... behind Horizon 2.
Re: Spider-Man PS5 vs PS4 Comparison Shows Off a Generational Leap
The mug clearly does cast a shadow on the PS5 version, it just seems to be shorter due to a higher lighting angle.
Apart from that, the biggest change appears to be in the reflections in skyscraper windows.
I won't be buying it again, though; might not even bother with Miles Morales.
Re: PS Plus October 2020 PS4 Games Announced
Nothing for me thanks, Bob.
Re: PlayStation and Funko Collaborate Once Again on New Line of Vinyl Figures
Not usually interested in these, but... that ThunderJaw...
Re: New PS5 Features Discovered in PS Store's Source Code
Has anyone ever wanted or needed a party with up to 100 people?
Genuine question.
At some point, it just becomes noise, surely?
Re: Talking Point: Are You Worried About the Future of Western RPGs on PS5?
No, because I've never really played them anyway.
I enjoyed Fallout 3, but New Vegas was way too similar, bored me, and I didn't play much of it. Plus, Bethesda have become a bit of a running joke.
Horizon 2 will do me for the next gen, even if it's the only one I ever play on it.
There's always been a bit of a disconnect for me with MS. The games they've made have never held much appeal for me (probably why my original Xbox and 360 hardly saw any use), and none of the studios they've bought in recent times have really inspired me either. It's just a big ball of 'meh'.
Re: Sony Begins Advertising Spider-Man Films as PS5 Essentials
Yeah... no.
I have a large DVD collection. I rebought a few movies on Blu-ray. I won't be re-buying anything in 4K.
New purchases may be 4K discs. Depends on the price. This habit of charging more for the same movies in higher resolutions is complete BS.
Re: PS5 Pre-Orders from Some Retailers May Not Be Fulfilled Until 2021
I had a message from ShopTo telling me they couldn't get me mine for launch day. They did ask if I wanted to switch to the Digital Edition. Ha ha! No.
I'm honestly not that fussed. I'm sure the wait won't be too long afterwards, and I've still got lots of stuff unfinished/unstarted on my PS4.
It's also helped by the fact that there's nothing I feel I absolutely must play on day one.
Still, more stock is being produced all the time, so there's a good chance they'll get another allocation of units soon.
Being perfectly honest, I'm less excited for "next gen" than I've ever been before.
Re: Rumour: Your PS4 Saves May Not Work on Upgraded PS5 Games
This doesn't really bother me personally, but that being said, I can see absolutely no valid reason why this should be the case, apart from 'the individual developer wants it that way.'
Why they'd want it that way, I don't know... except perhaps as a form of encouragement to buy a PS5 version. But it's just data... there's no reason you couldn't just copy the file and have the game read and convert it as necessary.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Multiplayer Will Be Worth the Wait, Says Neil Druckmann
Never been interested in it. Love the two games, but tried the multi-player briefly on PS3 and never touched it again. Same with the Uncharted games... played the required amount of online for the Platinums, but that was about it.
Re: Soapbox: The Week After PS5's Showcase, Sony Told Us Nothing About Its Next-Gen Console
If it plays games, I'm happy. Everything else is fluff.
Don't really care what the UI looks like. Just want to know about the copying of games when internal storage is full.
Re: Football Manager 2021 Is Not on PS5, PS4 Because Sony Didn't Send Devkits
@blockfight They are best played that way, but since PS4 (and presumably PS5) support keyboard and mouse, there's no reason it couldn't be played that way on the console - if the developer were to support it, which many don't even when they could/should.
Re: Mini Review: Crysis Remastered - A Poor Remaster of a Pretty Important Game
@710King As I recall, it was all about the graphics. It was right at the beginning of all this nonsense about higher resolutions and frame rates supposedly being what makes a 'good' game - the start of the dumb PCMR "ooh, shiny!" mentality. Even back then, graphics aside, many saw it as being a distinctly average game.
Re: Gamers Will Happily Pay $70 for PS5 Games, Argues Analyst
Some will pay, some won't. I don't see that anyone will really do so 'happily', though.
It may or may not reduce the number of games I buy, but we'll see by how much physical copies are discounted on Amazon, Game Collection, etc.
Personally, I still don't see that it's justified.
Re: Reaction: Spider-Man PS5 Debacle Shows Sony Is Out of Touch
It's ridiculous that Sony should even be expected to clarify it.
Not sure why anyone would expect a PS5 version of Spider-Man to be completely free. I don't, and I only bought it in a sale in November 2019.
The free upgrades are for late-generation games, in the months prior to the new consoles. For TLOU2 and GoT I could understand if they did it, but wouldn't be shocked, surprised, or angry if they didn't.
For a two-year-old game? Nah, that's reaching, and smacks of the "gamer entitlement" we're seeing more and more of in recent times.
Re: No Man's Sky Origins Update Available Now on PS4, Adds Huge Amount of New Content
What this game needs is some AI helper bots which you can send off to collect all the stuff you need for jump fuel, to relieve some of the tedium and just let you explore. That's why I stopped playing; loved the rest of it, just got sick of that.
Yes, I'm aware there's an 'easy mode'; no, I don't want to enable that. It's just that with all that theoretical tech, you'd have something to do the menial work.
Re: Poll: Has Xbox's Bethesda Buyout Made You Reconsider a PS5 Purchase?
Not in the slightest. I've never bought many of their games, so it's no loss to me. Besides, I buy PlayStation primarily for Sony's own games. Third-party titles are a bonus, but everything on Xbox will also be on PC, so I'm not going to miss out on anything.
Besides, who has ever based a hardware purchasing decision whether or not it plays Bugtester Notworks (sorry, I mean Bethesda Softworks) games?
Re: Reaction: Bethesda Acquisition Is a Kick in the Balls for PS5, But Sony's Goals Won't Change
"How much do you want for your company?"
"$7.5 billion."
"Done!"
"Yes, you have been."
Re: FIFA 21 Won't Have a Free Demo for the First Time This Generation
Wasn't planning to buy it this year anyway. I'll give it a miss for a year or two. Only ever really play it in local co-op with a mate anyway, and since we can't get together at the mo there's no need.
Re: Future Bethesda Games Could Still Come to PlayStation Despite Xbox Ownership
No big deal as far as I'm concerned. Enjoyed Fallout 3 on PS3. Never completed New Vegas on 360. Had Dishonored, which was okay. That's about it, I think.
They're not a developer I personally will be losing any sleep over, especially as Bethesda has become a bit of a farce in recent years. And as I've said previously, if they should make anything worth my time in future, it'll be on PC.
Re: See the PS5 in Your Own Home with Augmented Reality Model
Doesn't work for me. I can view the model on my phone, but when I hit the AR button it just takes me to the Google AR Core website.
Re: PS5 Size Put Into Perspective with Series of Scale Illustrations
Will fit just fine, horizontally under my TV.
Re: Horizon Forbidden West Built from the 'Ground Up' for PS5
@Flaming_Kaiser I didn't say it would be ideal, just that it could be done. Wouldn't be much worse than the delay jumping across the same world in Horizon, The Division, or Breakpoint. Just stick in some Stargate-like portal as a load screen, or a story-related minigame to play while it's loading like they used to do back in the C64 days, rather than a static screen with gameplay tips and a progress bar.
Re: PS5 Game Install Sizes Revealed, And They're Enormous
I said ages ago that the supplied storage wouldn't last long before it's full. If it constantly captures an hour of video like PS4, that's going to eat into it too... especially if it records in 4K.
So as well as needing to know what expansions are available/compatible, we also need to know how we're going to be managing the storage. Will you have to uninstall a game, or can you shunt it to an attached HDD? Can you run a PS5 game from an external HDD if you wish?
More importantly, what's the point of an instant-loading super SSD if you have to waste several minutes moving a game from HDD to internal SSD in order to play?
I've got a nasty feeling that for all the crowing about these fancy new drives, in the long run, they're actually going to be the biggest PITA of the new system.
Re: Sony Won't Follow Game Pass Model on PS5, Doesn't Believe It's Sustainable
It's okay for Microsoft, because they don't have the range or quality of exclusive titles which Sony has. They don't have the studios, they haven't been investing multi-millions into numerous games, so it's more cost-effective for them to bung some cash at publishers and give away low-cost access to everyone else's output. For my tastes, the studios they recently bought won't change that.
Very different situation for Sony and Nintendo.
Game Pass is on PC, but I haven't taken it up there. Not interested in most of the games, so for me at least, it's a waste of money no matter how low the cost.
Re: Horizon Forbidden West Built from the 'Ground Up' for PS5
There's not going to be a vast difference in actual gameplay, because I've not seen anything on PS5 which couldn't be done on PS4, minus some snazzy effects. Even Ratchet & Clank would most likely work on PS4, albeit with some loading screens.
They were originally planning to have co-op in the original Horizon, but dropped it. I'm guessing "built from the ground up for PS5" means features like co-op will exist there, but be stripped from the PS4 version.
Re: Fans Want to Know if They Can Upgrade from PS4 to Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered on PS5
Don't care. Got the original in a sale and enjoyed it, but wouldn't want to play through it again.
Re: Sony's First Year, First-Party PS5 Lineup Blows PS4's Away
That's all very, very subjective.
Of the games listed, for PS5 there's only one which is an absolute must-buy for me, and that's Horizon.
Whereas from the PS4 list, I bought eight, and three of those were launch titles.