Shstrick

Would love a score attack mode outside the Daily Challenge mode. Maybe a repeatable biome that you play until you die.

Custom starting loadouts would also be cool, along with a biome select option for when you have a specific biome you want to play through without having to use the normal gates.

I would guess 'MLB' likely has all the rights to baseball games covering the major leagues, so dropping MLB and making a competing baseball game might not make sense. Although, if Sony stops making these games, MLB will likely go to Microsoft and future MLB games would probably be on both systems anyway. I would just let Microsoft foot the bill and use the talent to make something entirely different, unless there's tons of money involved, which there is. I'm glad I'm not the guy at Sony that has to figure this stuff out.

@Rob_230 I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts recently where it seems like every conversation eventually turns into praising Gamepass, even when the conversation has nothing to do with Gamepass.

“This week I’ve been playing ‘X game’. It’s great! But I really wish it was on Gamepass. Gamepass is the best. Xbox is the savior of the industry because Gamepass. Everyone should subscribe to Gamepass because Gamepass Gamepass Gamepass. Sony needs to do something like Gamepass.”

This coming from people who have every system and get all their games for free anyway. It’s very clear there’s Microsoft money coming in, either from direct payments or investments or advertising promises, etc.

I agree that the game is pretty good when it’s working. It sounds like you’ve managed to avoid the worst of it. For me, also playing on ps5, I’ve had 5 crashes in 5 hours since the 1.04 patch. Two of them were hard crashes where I had to reboot the console and rebuild the database. I really want to play it more, but I’ve had to put it on the “do not touch” list until the crashes are fixed. Incidentally, I have friends playing it on PS4 pro they say they haven’t had a single crash since 1.04.

@HMazzy111 The PS4 version running on PS5 isn’t great. It’s a pretty solid 60fps, but looks blurry as hell on a 4K screen and pop-in and low res textures are super noticeable. I’ve also seen ~50 graphical bugs in 3 hours of playtime, so there’s that. There’s also a scene in the rain at the beginning of the game which looks awful. I think the best comparison is the grey, blurry rain from MGS2. It seems like almost the exact same rain. Really curious/worried to see what they can do with the PS5 version.

@Paranoimia Nope! It’s just plug-and-play. No redownloading needed.

I can only think of a few scenarios why PS5 is getting the short end of the stick:
1) Microsoft paid them (EA) for specific upgrades or has some other deal with them on this
2) PS5 really is much weaker and can’t handle the upgrades, which seems plausible given the rumors and half-confirmation from Ubisoft (see AC Valhalla upscaled to 4K on PS5 instead of native)
3) Dev laziness (seems unlikely to me, but who knows)
4) the devs were given a hard deadline for updating all the SKUs, started with XBOX improvements, and ran out of time with the PS5 improvements
5) there’s some weird technical issue with the PS5 making it hard to implement all the upgrades

I’ll test them myself in 2 weeks..

What drugs are marketers taking this year? So many weird, pointless ads!

@wiiware I’ve found that not all of my saves upload automatically for some reason. Probably best to manually upload the ones you really care about

@andreoni79 don’t sleep on FF7R. It seems almost all of the problems were on PS4 pro. I played through it 2 1/2 times on my launch PS4 and it ran buttery smooth and never saw a single bug of note.

@Bdbrady Same here. Played through on Normal, then Hard, then the first few chapters on Easy and never saw a single issue besides the texture stuff. Maybe we just got lucky?

I don’t really believe that they weren’t able to use whatever face model they wanted. I mean, I’ve seen Shrek. What I think happened is they had some sort of falling out with the original model so they don’t want to work with him again. They still need someone for Miles Morales and Spider-Man 2, so they hired a new guy and redid everything for consistency. It would be weird to go have Spider-Man look like a completely different person between games if you start the series with the remaster. This way it doesn’t affect people that are new to the series.

The new face looks better graphically, but I’ve already played 40 hours as the old Peter, so the new one just looks wrong.

Also the new Peter looks like a 16 year old with no expressions. (Although there isn’t much to go on in this scene)

@sajoey It could also just be that they realized they’re selling an all-digital console with no way for people to pre-order digital games other than through the website. Really hoping you’re right though!

At his point I’m convinced they’re not giving us any information because they know we won’t like what they have to say. I’m not sure what that might be, but why else would they not be talking about their most important piece of hardware in 8 years?

@BrainHacker People that cant afford an expensive PC but can afford a $300 series S definitely care.

@jdv95 every platform except their biggest competition .

I agree. There’s no world in which Microsoft keeps supporting PlayStation. They’re playing the long game here.

I’m guessing he’s referring to 3D audio and haptic feedback as the PS5 features these games were built to utilize. Those are probably things that devs don’t have to do anything with, they just don’t work if the hardware isn’t there. Probably turn down some LODs and ray tracing as well. Pretty sneaky wording there, Jimmy!

Fingers crossed for Knack 3!

@smell_ya_l8r This. It would incentivize people to buy the DLC. Seems like a win for everyone

For anyone interested: this is a mobile game from around 10 years ago. The devs don’t have anything about that on their website, but a quick Google search brings up reviews of the Android version from 2013. I don’t think that makes it a bad game, just something people might want to be aware of.

Edit: Metacritic has two reviews of the iOS f2p version of this game from 2011 citing Blue Shadow Games as the developer. They’re both positive reviews, for the record. Seems like someone else might’ve picked up the publishing rights and want to sell the full game for a fixed price, which I think a lot of mobile games should do. Might be worth giving the devs some money if the game seems up your alley.

Edit 2: More info over at PlayStation Blog. It looks like this version is a remake of the original, overhauling the graphics, sound, and controls. Which is pretty cool!

@Mostik for what it’s worth, Blood Dragon is on PlayStation Now. Definitely not the best way to play games, but at least it’s something. Also only $10 a month isn’t too bad.