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@Lup First descendant is kind of the opposite in a way. Dodgy gameplay but "appealing" character designs, if you get me

Kojima posted this on his own instagram 4 days ago, and another one the day before

Anything Blizzard is a no go for me.

@Frmknst multipler is just a segment of a game, that allows people to play together, whereas live service aims to keep players engaged for a long as possible with constant updates, new characters, battle passes, etc. All live service games are multiplayer but not all multiplayers are live service

@nessisonett yeah the "welcome playlist" is a lot of fun. It's a shame they didn't have proper matchmaking after that otherwise I'd still be playing

@Mikey856 I'm all the way down in Suffolk, I've seen a fair bit of welding/fab pop up but never really looked into it

@Waluigi451 It was in the top 10 on PS for a while, so yes maybe you do live under a waluigi shaped rock

This game was very good until you hit Level 25, after which all skill-based matchmaking is thrown out the window and you end up in incredibly sweaty try-hard lobbies where the entire opposing team are snipers. I quit at that point because it was so frustrating

@Mikey856 What makes you say welder's wages are about to go up? I recently quit my chef job and need to retrain, welding might be an idea

@gollumb82 I try and help my friends build their PCs and I always advise investing in really good cases, cooling, and PSUs. Of course they don't listen and only a few months go by until they have loads of issues and everything needs upgrading. It's so, so much easier to upgrade RAM, GPU, or SSDs than to rewire your entire cooling system, repaste the cpu, replace PSU etc 😂.

Windows indeed sucks. SteamOS I think is pretty good, I'd love to see valve have a second go at the Steam Machine thing. The Asus looks like a much better handheld but the Windows puts me off, I'll have to look at SteamOS on it

@gollumb82 So many PC people will say you can get a PC to outperform PS5 for like $800, but neglect to tell you that requires buying a very cheap case, very cheap noisy fans, a cheap cpu cooler, and an awful PSU, creating a hot, loud, time bomb of a PC lol.

@WhiteRabbit expensive TV + console always looks better than expensive PC + montior IMO. Shame my TV is crap lol

@glennthefrog I think people are sympathetic for the coders/engineers, and other developers who are not directors/designers/artists etc. The ones just make the game work as opposed to designing it

I mean, look at the steam deck, asus ally, etc. Sure they're PCs in software but they're really consoles in hardware.
The steam machine flopped in 2014 but maybe it was just ahead of it's time. I think it would be a lot more successful now after the Steam deck's success.
I used to play on PC, but now I'm console only and even looking to get rid of PC all together as there's not much my mobile phone can't do at home (obviously a much different story if you do work on a PC)

If anything, I think consoles have room to grow. It's just $500 consoles in this economy are simply not going to do as well as consoles which were half the price

Considering how the actual character design comes very, very late into the development cycle for a game like this, it's a possibility this game looked very promising in pre-alpha builds but the characters they slapped on top of the game ruined it for everyone

@Deityjester well I thought it was worth sharing incase you didn't know. I know plenty of people who buy keys for indie games knowing those indie devs would rather you pirate the game instead

@Northern_munkey no worries

@Northern_munkey and I agree with you? I was having a polite discussion not arguing with you.

@Northern_munkey ehh?? I was taking sales not day one prices

@Deityjester best looking up how key sites work, it often ends up costing the developers money. If it's a ubisoft or EA then whatever but please dont use keys for indie games

@Northern_munkey uhm. Ok then bud..

@Jacko11 or developers could make lower budget games? Weird how this is occurring at the same time indie games are so loved by gamers, probably because you actually get your money's worth

@Northern_munkey you say it sucks to have digital only consoles, but I have the disc PS5 and only have a couple discs. Reason being is that the sales on the digital store are usually much larger than they are for discs, or at least I'm notified of sales on my wishlist instead of having to check on game stores often

I've only paid full price for a PS5 game once and that's because it was a console bundle and the only option to get a PS5 at the time. But that was demon souls so I'd say that one was almost worth it

Video games are so back

@Vaako007 I don't think you're wrong, console is definitely better optimised than PC, but a whole 6GB less ram is quite a lot. As you say, smoothness is important, but they might be struggling to get 1080p@30fps smoothly.

Hellblade 2 is another game that has a minimum of 16GB ram, also minimum GPU of a gtx1070, and that game runs at a staggering 1536x643 resolution on Series S. Albeit at a smooth 30fps but that's a first party team that will have the best optimisation possible

@Vaako007 the minimum requirements for Wukong on PC are higher than the Series S spec. GTX1060 6GB as a minimum, which is more powerful than the Series S. Minimum RAM is 16GB, the Series S has 10GB.

Wukong might well run at less than 1080p on Series S

@HonestHick Sea of thieves, the same game that had 58% of it's PS players stop playing after less than a month.
Concord sucks, but Helldivers 2 was a massive success. Sony are simply taking risks. I'd rather see a great game come out of several bad ones than many mediocre games.
But as you said, to each their own.

@HonestHick I don't want Microsoft's garbage live service games either. The best online games are always third-party multiplatforms

@HonestHick ...my entire point was that there has only been ONE sony studio online game so far...

I was not saying they have been successful or not. Only that only one exists so far and it's been an astounding failure. How the hell did you come up with the idea that I was supporting them?

The design looks like it'll use the slims face plates even if the console is bigger

I dont know if everyone so angry over a bunch of rumours is sad or hilarious

Give me strength

@HonestHick You specifically said Sony's own studio games. Not anything to do with games they invested in.

Really didn't enjoy cyberpunk. Just felt really boring and shallow. Some of the least satisfying combat I've ever experienced in a game. So many other games do the cyberpunk genre justice and 2077 felt like a teenager's interpretation of the cyberpunk genre

@HonestHick ah yes, Sony studios online games, such as.. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what exactly

@z0d15g0d I don't think you should hit on your colleagues, though.
I understand social awkwardness very well (hey, that's me), but I still am very aware of workplace boundaries

@Mortal well that sucks.

@Sequel it's still extraction. Don't know where you heard hero shooter from

Absolutely love the Taiko series. Played the rhythm adventure game recently and it's such a goofy game but brilliant fun.

If you've spent any time in Japan you know that this is abhorrently expensive. Things in general are very cheap in Japan, and salaries are relatively low, so this is the equivalent of the PS5 being $800 thereabouts in the west.

Sony need to sort it out, I understand hardware is sold at a loss but I suppose they're not making enough software to cover it.

I usually tolerate this s**t because business is business but this will only hurt them

I'll be buying that map off Ebay I think.

200 Groschen? Bloody hell, that's a bit much.

@arzis100193 Yeah I agree with all of your points really. We are really hitting a wall of diminishing returns in terms of performance, it will take a big increase in hardware to make a small increase in performance. I do hope the next gen will focus on making consoles smaller and more efficient, although I think that will require physical media to change.

One thing I don't like about this gen is having to pick between graphics and performance modes. Having a pro might do both, and I'd be happy with that.

My issue with the Switch and PC handhelds (Steam deck, Asus Ally) is they're massive. They're not really that portable. The PSP/Vita or GameBoy/DS I could put in my pocket.
So I do think there is a gap in the market for a genuinely portable console.

If it could run PS4 games without needing any sort of developer optimisation, I would be 100% all for it. Although that would mean we never get any new releases for it

@arzis100193 from what I've read, PS5 gets priority from developers over Xbox, hence why so many games perform better on PS5 at launch despite not being as powerful on paper. Xbox usually catches up after a few patches though. And because of this, I think developers will be prioritising PS5 and PS5 Pro so the series S isn't going to hold them back as it's more of a secondary thought.

PS5 Pro will have to hit 60fps in most games for people to even consider buying it. As for graphics, there isn't much more they can do other than resolution, and most games are running 4k or close to it, so I understand your point there. They can potentially increase textures and lighting but that adds a lot of complexity for the developer.

I agree with you as well that the PS4 needs to be left behind now. This generation has been slowed down by crossgen releases.
Personally I still would like a pro, because in 4 more years I know the releases are going to struggle on PS5 as we look towards PS6... unless this generation is going to last a lot longer than we thought

This serves me mostly as reminder that I haven't played all the uncharted or tomb raider games, and I should go play them first..

This is the kind of game I'll get on sale several years after it comes out, but it's definitely going to do really well I think. Will help Bethesda recover from it's last few controversial games

@UltimateOtaku91 Absolutely could go f2p. They just give everyone who bought the game £35 worth of currency. Cosmetics were planned for the game anyway.

CSGO, TF2, PUBG, Destiny 2, Rocket League, Fall Guys, all went paid to f2p. Main difference was they already had a playerbase though

Well, you win some, you lose some.

Expect this to go free to play very, very soon. Don't know who thought charging £35 for a hero shooter was a good idea

@GreatAuk I feel the same way. Been building PCs a long time but don't game on them. When I did, I'd spend more time in settings than the game. That's why I like consoles, although I sometimes can't pick between performance or graphics modes.
If a pro came out and ran 4k60 more frequently, and was still cost effective, I'd probably buy it. Although maybe I should upgrade my TV to OLED first.

I've only bought 4 discs this gen, so I'd probably switch to digital while im at it and save £100

@arzis100193 Wukong, for example, skipping Xbox for now could be because they can't get it to work on Series S. Buldurs Gate 3 didn't come out on Xbox initially for similar reasons, until Spencer changed his mind on console parity. I can see more devs skipping xbox because of the Series S.

Loads times are longer than the start of the PS5. We started the gen on 2 second loading times, now 10 is about normal (well, for wukong anyway).

And well if you can't tell the difference between 30fps and 60fps, I don't know what to tell you. I guess you don't play many fast paced games?
30fps doesn't bother me much, but 60 is still better

Kind of sucks as I don't buy that many games (got a massive backlog to get through). Almost have enough for the £20 reward

Will it be 13 months starting from now or when you originally got them? Because my rewards are from over the years

All I want is Stalker 2, really. But will just wait to see if that 3 month exclusive leak holds any weight.

Seems odd to announce everything for PS when they finally, finally have a games lineup that's decent. They've had nothing but 2 Bethesda flops in the past 4 years, and hellblade 2 I guess, although I don't know anyone who cares about hellblade