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Re: PSN Down Worldwide as PS5, PS4 Players Can't Log In or Play Online

Perryg92

From the UK here.
Might be sheer coincidence but 2 days ago I suddenly got a spam of notifications on my PS App in a matter of seconds that someone was trying to log into my account and asking me to approve or decline.
Ofc I declined and immediately changed up security details. After that all clear... But now this outage has happened!
Hopefully nothing malicious.

Re: PS Portal Will Allow Cloud Streaming in New Beta Update

Perryg92

After seeing this article, just bought a Portal from Game Collection for £180 (using some of my points).
Their current price is £184.95

Sure, i'll be seen as a muppet by some for getting one, but might as well utilise my Premium sub (which recently got its annual renewal) to its fullest.

As someone who opts to play Switch handheld often at home with something playing on the TV in the background, curious to see how much more I'll play my PS5 as such through the Portal and if it'll take over from Switch.

Re: 13 More PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Are Available to Download Now

Perryg92

I've been on a bit of a PS Classics run lately with Sly, TR: Legend, Lego Star Wars II and Daxter, so R&C; Size Matters will definitely be downloaded.

Maybe I was just young at the time of the original release, but I remember Size Matters getting seriously difficult at the end, with the enemies being bullet sponges.
Also curious if the camera controls will be somewhat reworked like in Daxter to use the right analogue stick. Hope so!

Re: State of Play Officially Confirmed for 30th May, Updates on PS5, PSVR2 Games

Perryg92

Montage trailer of every Insomniac VR title is ported with enhanced & expanded editions to PSVR2.
Edge of Nowhere, Feral Rites, The Unspoken & Stormland... Available after the state of play.

Cut to black with a slow fade in of a 1st person view from the top of the Empire State Building, looking across the skyline... A call comes in and an icon of Ganke pops up in the bottom right hand corner, saying there's a problem. The 1st person camera dives off the Empire State Building and with their arm outstretched to show a red & black suit design, ready for a web swing. Sharp cut to black.... electrified logo appears with very memorable music... It's a Miles Morales 1st person spin off VR title.

Heard it here first folks

Re: Sly Cooper, Tomb Raider, Star Wars Revealed as Surprise PS2 Games on PS Plus Premium

Perryg92

Tricky situation as I still have both my Tomb Raider & Sly Cooper HD trilogies for my PS3.
Question is can I be bothered to take out the PS3 console!?!...Or just download these PS2 versions of the first games to the PS5?!

PS3 is superior with the better visuals + I think Sly 2 & 3 on PS3 are in 3D!! (The 4K projector I play on still has 3D capabilities... Not letting the fad die! )

Re: PlayStation London Studio Shares a Farewell Message Following Closure

Perryg92

Such a shame to see!
I used to work round the corner from them and when I'd pop into the nearby Costa, I'd usually see some of the devs chatting about their new VR work (once saw Alex Evans from Media Molecule too)... I even had a job interview with them in 2016 just before the launch of PSVR1.

Unfortunate The Getaway 3 never came to light, nor a PSVR2 sequel to Blood & Truth.

Re: The Sims Is Being Turned into a Movie

Perryg92

Base it on the weird DS game which was set in a haunted hotel of kinds in the middle of a desert, with ghosts and aliens etc in residence!
Was a fever dream of a game, a could make for an off the wall movie! xD

Re: GTA 6 Trailer Debuts on Tuesday, 5th December

Perryg92

Mere hours before R* announced the date, a friend asked me to predict when it'll happen and off the cuff I said, and I quote:
"I think they'll just do it on a random Tuesday. Placing my bets on Tues 5th Dec".

And now it's officially revealed to be that date, he's 100% assured that I am some R* insider xD
Can see how easy it was for Jon Cartwright as Waddle Dee Knows! xD

Re: GTA 6 Trailer Debuts on Tuesday, 5th December

Perryg92

Everyone thinking it's set in a tropical locale, but what if! ... the trailer starts with that image of the palm trees and then the camera pans out and it's just a mural/poster on a wall in some dank alleyway in Soho.... The camera turns around to see Piccadilly Circus and BAM! "GTA London" logo

Re: Poll: Spider-Man 2 PS5 Bugs are Apparently a Real Problem, But Have You Had Any?

Perryg92

Only 15hrs in so far. Overall it's been super polished for me, but I have had 3 very minor bugs/glitches.

1) during a cutscene of Peter and Miles just having a casual chat, their spidey outfits just started getting ripped to shreds bit by bit for no reason... Found it funny more than an annoyance. Hilarious seeing Pete asking Miles about an essay and then suddenly Pete's mask just got a massive gash across.
Kinda reminded me of Aloy's sentient hair that jumps all over the place xD .

2) In another cutscene VO cut out completely... Thankfully subtitles were on so I could read what was happening

3) After fighting some goons, the follow up event didn't trigger.. so I had to load from last checkpoint... which thankfully was literally 2 secs back. And was working fine again.

Re: Video: We've Been Playing PS5 Games On a 200" 4K Projector Screen, and It's Insane

Perryg92

@theMEGAniggle sure!
If you're UK/EU based it's called the "Epson EH-TW9400". I got it from the site ProjectorPoint. Was best price and they gave me 5 years additional warranty from Epson themselves.

If you're US based the model is slightly different and is called the "Epson Pro Cinema 6050UB" I think.

Speakers are "Q Acoustics 3050i Cinema Pack" + the 2 Atmos in ceiling speakers are called "Q Install QI65 Speaker".

My AV Receiver for all of this is the "Sony STRDH790.CEK 7.2"

Re: Video: We've Been Playing PS5 Games On a 200" 4K Projector Screen, and It's Insane

Perryg92

I have been doing this since 2020 when I got my launch day PS5 with Miles Morales and love it!

My screen throw in my home cinema room is at 140" in 4K enhanced/60FPS with HDR10/10+. But that's based on the room size and can go up to 300" and with lossless optical zoom and lens shift.
My projector was a hefty £2800 at the time :/ (still goes for 2-2500K today!) BUT was praised for low latency with games, so got it and agree, there's no issue.
My speaker setup is 7.1.2 with Q Acoustic speakers (still waiting for that Atmos firmware update Sony!)
I do have a Sony A8 OLED too in the living room, but so much more immersive on a projector with full surround.

That XGIMI is so much smaller though! Which is a pro. Mine weighs near 2 stone and ain't budging now it's in place!
Lucky that it has Dolby Vision too, although as you said in the vid, still doesn't exist on PS5 anyway. The inbuilt speakers sounded pretty good too!
Curious about the projection itself as it says on the XGIMI site that it's an LED/Laser combo, but then mentions DLP in the spec.

Being a bit of a home cinema fan, my eyes widened in shock @AaronBayne at the sight of the projector resting on a Wii balance board!

Re: No Man's Sky's PSVR2 Visuals Take a Massive Leap with Foveated Rendering

Perryg92

As someone who mainly plays very heavy story driven, single player games, always been unsure if i'd like NMS.
But now with this patch on PSVR2 and it only being £20 on PSN, I think it's time to bite! So curious to see all these procedurally generated worlds, especially in VR.

Considering too it seems that it was only one person at Hello Games who tinkered to get the foveated rendering (tweet below!.. or do we call it X? xD) I think it definitely deserves a purchase in support of their efforts!

https://twitter.com/Griff_/status/1694765522972213267?s=20

Re: New PS5 Firmware Beta Starts Today, Bigger SSD Support, Extra Features

Perryg92

@SamMR & @Olmaz Atmos already works on Blurays/4Ks since launch if you set it to "bitstream" for Blu-ray playback and have eARC.

For me it remains Linear PCM for games and then when I watch 4K Blu-rays it switches to bitstream which passes through Atmos.
Whenever I watch Atmos mixed movies, I always double check the info on my AV receiver and it switches from the PS5 default LPCM to Dolby Atmos.

I'm assuming the new native choice of Atmos either might be to simplify setup, or so that it'll also work on Apps like Disney+ and AppleTV+, because currently those don't seem to register Atmos.

Would be cool if it works with games too, but I thought that was using Sony's proprietary Tempest audio, so no clue!

Re: PS Plus Premium Members Can Test Drive Another Brand New PS5 Game

Perryg92

Was initially very tempted to get this game as I struggled with the UI with Planet Coaster on PS5 (RCT3 on Switch has a better UI!), which was a huge shame as I've grown up on Theme Park World, RCT1-3
.
The added preorder bonus at The Game Collection with 2for1 tickets to Thorpe Park was somewhat enticing. But I still held off.

Was thinking of trying out this demo when I spotted it on Saturday, but seen some vids stating that the base game only has 25 rides and the rest seem to be locked behind a season pass.
Plus there's issues such a performance taking quite a hit when the park gets busy and guests just always unhappy and asking for more rides, even if you have them all.

Might just try and overcome the hurdle of Planet Coaster's UI.

Re: Break the Fourth Wall in 16-Bit Celebration Pixel Ripped 1995 for PSVR2

Perryg92

Sweet! Me too @get2sammyb I didn't play it on PSVR1.
Was wondering if 1995 and 1989 would also come to PSVR2 eventually with enhancements. Looking forward to it!

PSVR2 is having a pretty nice week, with trailers for the likes of Wanderer, Hubris etc.
I'm sure was possibly due to legalities, devs not ready to show a trailer etc, but it does baffle me why these weren't shown at the PS Showcase.

Re: Feature: PSVR2 Three Months Later - The Good, The Bad, and The Worrying

Perryg92

Have had PSVR2 since launch and so far it's been pretty good from my perspective.

Granted some are simply upgrades from PSVR1, but got a nice selection of titles currently (Horizon, Moss 1&2, Kayak, Another Fisherman's Tale, Walkabout Mini Golf, Beat Saber, Pistol Whip, Synth Riders, Red Matter 2, GT7 & Garden of the Sea).

I'm quite nitpicky, but overall definitely feels a big step up visually and tracking wise compared to PSVR1.
Have had friends try it out too and they're very impressed by the clarity n whatnot. But the asking price is a total turn off for them.

My only concern is that I feel PSVR2 might go the way of the Vita with Sony first party themselves not making any titles for it, but just relying on 3rd party/indies.
They own Insomniac now and yet none of their VR titles have made its way to PSVR2 for example, which is a shame.
The lack of 1st party titles at the PS Showcase was very disconcerting. And no word if any studios that worked on PSVR1 games (London Soho Studios, Team Asobi etc) are doing anything related to PSVR2 either.

My other concern is just the other day the seam/groove of the plastic of the ring going around the right sense controller popped out. No clue if it will negatively affect tracking (so far not seen any changes) and too nervous to try and pop it back in, as it feels so fragile!

But I still really like my PSVR2! Was cool to see the likes of Bulletstorm announced.
If they are making PS3 era games possible in VR.... gimme Puppeteer! xD... or the HD Sly Collection from a 1st person perspective!