@Justin113 That all sounds great, except again, "the PS4 is holding back ps5 games" isn't a verified fact, it's just your assumption. Sure, it'd hold back the new ratchet and clank with all its SSD wizardry, but that isn't releasing on PS4 for that very reason - but for some IPs maybe it isn't crucial to load new scenes in such a small amount of time, so maybe ps5 users get to benefit from super fast loading times while PS4 users just have to bear with their hard drives. And maybe for some games, the main (unrelated to SSD) difference between PS4 and PS5 is simply frame rate, resolution, ray tracing and haptic feedback/adaptive triggers. Ray tracing alone is a huge difference in terms of the processing power it requires.
And you're right that cyberpunk isn't really suitable for PS4. But cyberpunk is a behemoth of an open world game, not all games are going to try and do the same things that cyberpunk tries to do. "Games like cyberpunk shouldn't try to run on PS4" is a completely different statement to "new IPs should never touch the PS4"
The day a dev for a cross-gen game says "we wanted to make this game much better for the PS5 but the PS4 version held it back", I'll take it as a valid complaint. Until then, I'm going to stick with my theory that all the gamers complaining about this are making assumptions that might not be based on fact
@Justin113 I don't think they do have a valid issue personally. They just think they know what they're talking about because they've heard that the new ratchet and clank does stuff that couldn't be done without the ps5's SSD - and that's true. But not every game needs to do that stuff.
Console gamers always act like PC gamers are snobs because they spend so much on their rigs, but PC games manage to cater to an incredibly broad range of setups from the bloody expensive all the way down to the reasonably priced. The expensive end completely knocks the socks off the PS5 at the moment, and yet the Devs still manage to cater to whatever the current "moderately powerful" rig looks like.
At the end of the day the jump between PS4 and ps5 is much more like a jump from one PC to a more powerful one. Gone are the days when Sony talk about the Emotion Engine or the Cell Processor, look at the specs of the PS4 and PS5 and they use exactly the same language as PC specs (AMD Radeon graphics for PS4, zen 2 CPU and rdna2 graphics for ps5), and I can only assume that this has a lot to do with why it's so much easier for ps5 to do PS4 back compatibility than either of the other two generations have managed (PS4 didn't do it - PS3 did initially, but it wasn't so much "compatibilty" as they literally put PS2 hardware in there in addition to PS3 hardware, until they stopped doing that)
So no- PS4 gamers aren't going to be hampering the experience of PS5 gamers- they'll struggle to get anything like a comparable experience themselves, bit that's to be expected
This is a really weird complaint from ps5 owners if I'm honest. I mean for the first time in a couple of generations of Sony consoles, you've got a situation where new-gen consoles can play old-gen games, so PS5 owners get to play everything, it's just that some games look and perform a lot better on a PS5 than they do on a PS4.
It's like the people who get all mardy about Sony exclusives going over to PC, except in this case apparently some Sony fans think they're more special than other Sony fans. About time they just grew the hell up
(Btw I'm a ps5 owner, it's just that I don't care one bit that some games are being released on both consoles now. I'd rather that than they just cancel all those games because there aren't enough ps5 owners due to the stock issues)
@Steel76 to be fair PS plus has had some amazing offerings recently - and I know they're not free but it's still amazing value for what you get (despite the fact that I'd bought one or two of them already)
With Nintendo, you're incredibly lucky if you can get 25% off RRP, let alone get decent games on a relatively cheap subscription service. I couldn't care less whether they offer an old classic that I'm not likely to finish for "actually free" as opposed to "free if you're a subscriber"
And this isn't a console war comment either. I have no particular commitment to Sony, but I own both a PS5 and a switch and I know which one I consider better value for money in terms of games
@sanderson72 in fairness PS4 owners still get the two games per month they've always been promised, and there's nothing stopping them claiming the PS5 games in case they ever get a PS5. It's not as though this is unprecedented or anything, the situation was the same when the PS4 launched and PS3 games were still part of the Plus monthly games
@tselliot it's 10 to the power of 100 (as in, 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
technically it's spelled "Googol", but it was allegedly misspelled when they were checking if the domain was available.
So that's what a googol is . Let's just say you wouldn't want more than one
I've just bought Exodus on PC (or rather I've just claimed it through humble choice) but my PC isn't powerful enough for the enhanced edition - I assume the standard edition doesn't get these features
@lindos are you the kind of person who goes round supermarkets pointing out "buy one get one free? I think you'll find you mean 'buy 2, pay half price for each!'"
@Mellors86x here's the thing though- they don't lose a thing due to your unwillingness to buy digital. It's not like that game you might have bought exists somewhere physically, taking up space and having cost money to create the copy.
Physical retailers will always sell games for cheaper because they want to sell as much as they can, as fast as they can - whereas Sony can afford to have a game sat there for £70 even if very few people buy it (and from what we can see, plenty of people are buying them) - it's not like they don't make money off the physical sales too
@lindos you're right that if they just dropped the cost, more people would buy it and ultimately they'd make more money straight away, but what's actually more important is the costs involved rather than the potential revenue. That is - the cost of producing, storing and distributing a digital game is massively smaller than that of a physical one. There's a direct incentive to shift as many copies of a physical game as quickly as you can - it's the fact that that stock cost money to make (as in, make the physical copies) and ship, so failing to sell the stock actually costs you money.
Digital games on the other hand, have massively smaller costs. Sony can afford to hold out on lowering the price because ultimately it doesn't cost them anything in stock related costs. No doubt they know that there'll be a sudden rush to buy once they lower the price tag, but the longer they hold out, the more people might buy full price
To bring maths back into it - sure 100 copies @ £50 means more money than 50 copies @ £70 - but what if there were 200 customers who'd definitely buy the game straight away if it was reduced down to £50? If holding out at £70 for longer means that 75 out of those 200 people cave and buy the game full price instead of 50, then that means more money for them - and waiting doesn't cost them anything.
Getting a distinct "people are pretty satisfied with what we gave them already, but we said we'd do more so let's just dish out some in-game content" vibe here. And they're right - I'm pretty satisfied with what Play at home has already given this year, so I can't even really complain
I have such a backlog that I don't buy anything full price - the recent spate of games releasing straight onto PS plus is a bit of a novelty for me, getting to play games while they're still current
I'm also pretty much solely responsible for games not getting sequels, haha
@Jeevz isn't it though? Bear in mind I never said I was talking about everybody, only those who specifically consider collecting trophies to be an achievement in itself (e.g. the sort of people who both completed My Name is Mayo and also don't feel a little bit ashamed including it in their number of platinums, because most of their other platinums are similar BS).
If that sentence doesn't describe a type of trophy hunter you were thinking of, then it's ok- I wasn't taking about them . I was talking about the guys who have more trophies than that, because they also have less shame
@nessisonett I did Origins recently and got so thoroughly burned out on AC after the platinum (specifically the need to complete every location in the main game in Origins) I couldn't touch the DLC for a month or two, and I wanted to finish that before Odyssey - I'm just at the stage of starting Odyssey now
@ShogunRok only reason I even know about that game is I had a look at the #1 guy on PSNProfiles - and sure he plays some pretty decent games, but for the most part it's trophy hunter BS, the time to platinum is 15-30 minutes for most of them. This one stood out because it said he'd finished it in 45 seconds or so- and they pull some dirty, dirty tricks so that they actually get multiple sets of trophies by buying the game in multiple regions (for instance I believe he had 3 sets of trophies for the game in the video - 3 platinums all for about a minute of gameplay!)
But yeah, it does just seem very ridiculous. He's top of the leaderboard for what - he's completed more of the world's easiest games than anyone else has? I don't deny that it takes a bit of work to get through that many but still, it's more than a bit silly
@ShogunRok meh I dunno. I guess it depends on your definition - are we talking about hunters of hardcore trophies or hardcore hunters of trophies? The latter are more than happy to do this (video is clean, don't worry):
@nessisonett it does. Personally I just play games I like, and if it's the sort of game I like enough to let my completionist tendencies out on, then I'll go for the platinum. I've gone for the platinum on recent Assassin's Creed games for example - where I'm thankful that a platinum trophy exists because while it's a lot of game time, it's a hell of a lot less game time than trying to thoroughly clean out the game of everything you could possibly do
nah, hardcore trophy hunters (as in, the type who aim to get more trophies than anyone else) don't go anywhere near this sort of thing - at least not for trophies. it's all about the easy wins
Played the first two games on PC and loved them - been holding out on this one purely because I refuse to buy a PS4 game purely to get a PS5 upgrade later, after being burned by Control
@Pditty1980 2 and 3 don't really seem like reasons to buy physical tbh - you can get a 10% discount on a digital pre-order of ME Legendary if you have an EA play subscription (a month of EA play doesn't cost a lot but arguably it does eat into your discount a little - but on the other hand it does give you a month to play some of the decent games in the EA play catalogue, I did this with Jedi Fallen Order as I'm sure many others did back when they were offering a month for £1) - and you're not forced to save PS4 games onto the SSD if they're digital.
On the other hand, if you wanted to you could sell on your physical version (as long as they're including all games on the disc and not merely a download code) so there's that advantage
Sorry but the sentence "if you already own the original Subnautica, then you’ll also be eligible for a free PS4 to PS5 upgrade" is completely incorrect. You don't get the sequel free on PS5 if you already own the original game - you get the sequel free on PS5 if you buy the sequel (not the original game) for PS4
Edit: ok, not entirely incorrect I didn't realise the original game was being upgraded
personally I think it's a decent month, in that these games don't too bad, but I wouldn't have bothered buying any of them. If I try them and they're fun, then that's a bonus, but I wouldn't consider any of these games to be "additions to the backlog" - which is good because the backlog is hefty enough already
@Mintie I get what you're saying, but at the same time any kind of hardware (from consoles to PC CPU's and graphics cards) is priced such that in the UK you pay about the same number of pounds as you'd pay dollars in the US (for example a PS5 is £450 in the UK, whereas the $500 that Americans pay is way less than £450 according to the exchange rate). Sometimes you actually have to pay more pounds than you'd pay dollars in the US - because there's more to pricing than just "apply the exchange rate to whatever country you're selling in" (hence why sites like InstantGaming make a profit, they buy game keys in cheaper countries and sell on to more expensive ones)
I know we're taking software, not hardware here. My is merely that the same role applies to buying anything tech related, it's not merely a con by the PlayStation store
Good question, but a better one might be "is having a separate article asking for people's opinions when they've already given it on the other two articles, the right way to expand Push Square"
@fR_eeBritney you have 100GB of save data in the cloud? I think you just need to let some of it die . Old game saves are never much fun to play anyway, especially when everything's already been done
I'm kind of in two minds on this issue - on the one hand, it's great that a whole bunch of people can continue buying & playing their digital games.
On the other hand, PS3's are incredibly susceptible to the yellow light of death, and any PS3 that's actually had a fair amount of use is a ticking time bomb at this point - it'd be far more useful overall if Sony took backwards compatibility seriously.
Me personally though, I've long moved on from PS3 after mine died - a lot of my favourite games I've either since bought on PC, or bought the PS4 version, and I can neither confirm nor deny whether I've also messed about with emulators
John Garvin should just go work for nintendo - where first party games stay at (or near) RRP forever, sales are as minimal as possible and the idea of a giveaway or a subscription model is practically a swear word (yes I know that nintendo has a subscription, but it doesn't really net you anything significant in terms of games)
This is what happens when you're such a hard hitting news publication, you decide to report the facts and only the facts, even when the facts are utterly unremarkable
@skywalker0794 to be fair, you also had people complaining that March's PS Plus games were all rubbish (not even people who already owned the games, just people who thought all the games were rubbish). You can never please everyone, and some people just can't be pleased
@80sGamer directly from the review: "I only noticed one moment where it dips" I mean, no one's going to force you to play it, but your reasoning does sound a bit silly..
Purely because I imagine the vast majority of the people who wanted to play it and hadn't bought it yet, took advantage of the recent £0.79 deal for a month of EA play, and completed it already. I know I did
It's also one of those oddly divisive games that is loved by many, but there are also many who think it's utter trash - which makes it the perfect PS Plus game, after all what's a month of PS Plus without at least a few people complaining that "this month's games are utter trash"
@ILikeStake you say that, but it's spring here. The leaves are all sitting smugly in the trees looking down on me like "good luck with that!". I will however obtain my crunchiest crack, by ripping off their puny faces (that might be my recent god of War playthrough talking, though )
If you edit the comment, you can see that it changes your asterisks to "strong" tags. You can actually input these directly and if you replace "strong" with "em" that'll give you italics. Not sure if there's a shortcut key to do that like the asterisk does
(these are based off HTML tags but in a slightly different format, i.e. square brackets)
It can load as quick as it likes, I still have zero intention of buying and playing what's essentially a grind-fest that they decided to make even grindier. I have too much actual good stuff in my backlog
@Turismo4GT at the moment, if you were to resubscribe to PS plus they would automatically be part of your library again, as PS plus games that you've claimed. But:
If you're no longer a PS plus subscriber, you'll be able to claim these again
Also, even if you are a ps plus subscriber you can re-claim these, so that they're permanently yours instead of just when you have ps plus (at least, that worked for ratchet and clank)
Nice. Already own some of these through Epic Games free weekly games for PC, but my PC is a bit rubbish so no doubt they'll play better on my PS5. And I already own a copy of HZD, but a physical copy, so no longer having to get off my ass to put the disc in will be a bonus
@TranslucentEye It's not "the superior console" - it has marginally better performance in some areas, nothing to build a superiority complex on. It's not like comparing last year's Nvidia graphics cards with this years, for example. Hence why marketing, the size of the existing fanbase and game exclusives have a lot more to do with the disparity in sales than "my GPU has 10% more Flops than yours" and similar stuff that few console gamers really care about
If they're that concerned about getting the grind just right, all that really suggests to me is that the game itself really isn't a lot of fun- that people keep playing more because they don't want to be a quitter rather than because they're enjoying themselves. Count me out
For me it's mostly Jedi Fallen Order (via a month of EA play for 79p) - which I'm absolutely loving - and maybe a bit of the God of war playthrough that J:FO rudely interrupted.
Am also installing an NVMe SSD into my PC and moving my OS onto it - from an SSHD so hoping for a much snappier experience (it's held back by it's graphics card at they moment though, so not likely playing anything other than PS3/early PS4 era games)
@Dan_ozzzy189 not likely to happen IMO.. but, the expansion pass is only 7.99 at least. A bit more expensive than the difference between what you paid and the price of the gold edition, but better than RRP for the DLC (it's regularly on sale though so could be worth just waiting till you're ready to play it, as it might be even cheaper by then)
@Shigurui shock horror, some PS gamers also have PCs
I know, right! THE HORROR
what I really don't understand though is why someone would click on and comment on an article they're not interested in rather than showing genuine non-interest and just leaving it alone. Sure we're stuck at home, but there's a big, wide internet just outside your (browser) window!
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Re: Talking Point: Did Sony Lie About PS5?
@Justin113 That all sounds great, except again, "the PS4 is holding back ps5 games" isn't a verified fact, it's just your assumption. Sure, it'd hold back the new ratchet and clank with all its SSD wizardry, but that isn't releasing on PS4 for that very reason - but for some IPs maybe it isn't crucial to load new scenes in such a small amount of time, so maybe ps5 users get to benefit from super fast loading times while PS4 users just have to bear with their hard drives. And maybe for some games, the main (unrelated to SSD) difference between PS4 and PS5 is simply frame rate, resolution, ray tracing and haptic feedback/adaptive triggers. Ray tracing alone is a huge difference in terms of the processing power it requires.
And you're right that cyberpunk isn't really suitable for PS4. But cyberpunk is a behemoth of an open world game, not all games are going to try and do the same things that cyberpunk tries to do. "Games like cyberpunk shouldn't try to run on PS4" is a completely different statement to "new IPs should never touch the PS4"
The day a dev for a cross-gen game says "we wanted to make this game much better for the PS5 but the PS4 version held it back", I'll take it as a valid complaint. Until then, I'm going to stick with my theory that all the gamers complaining about this are making assumptions that might not be based on fact
Re: Talking Point: Did Sony Lie About PS5?
@Justin113 I don't think they do have a valid issue personally. They just think they know what they're talking about because they've heard that the new ratchet and clank does stuff that couldn't be done without the ps5's SSD - and that's true. But not every game needs to do that stuff.
Console gamers always act like PC gamers are snobs because they spend so much on their rigs, but PC games manage to cater to an incredibly broad range of setups from the bloody expensive all the way down to the reasonably priced. The expensive end completely knocks the socks off the PS5 at the moment, and yet the Devs still manage to cater to whatever the current "moderately powerful" rig looks like.
At the end of the day the jump between PS4 and ps5 is much more like a jump from one PC to a more powerful one. Gone are the days when Sony talk about the Emotion Engine or the Cell Processor, look at the specs of the PS4 and PS5 and they use exactly the same language as PC specs (AMD Radeon graphics for PS4, zen 2 CPU and rdna2 graphics for ps5), and I can only assume that this has a lot to do with why it's so much easier for ps5 to do PS4 back compatibility than either of the other two generations have managed (PS4 didn't do it - PS3 did initially, but it wasn't so much "compatibilty" as they literally put PS2 hardware in there in addition to PS3 hardware, until they stopped doing that)
So no- PS4 gamers aren't going to be hampering the experience of PS5 gamers- they'll struggle to get anything like a comparable experience themselves, bit that's to be expected
Re: Talking Point: Did Sony Lie About PS5?
This is a really weird complaint from ps5 owners if I'm honest. I mean for the first time in a couple of generations of Sony consoles, you've got a situation where new-gen consoles can play old-gen games, so PS5 owners get to play everything, it's just that some games look and perform a lot better on a PS5 than they do on a PS4.
It's like the people who get all mardy about Sony exclusives going over to PC, except in this case apparently some Sony fans think they're more special than other Sony fans. About time they just grew the hell up
(Btw I'm a ps5 owner, it's just that I don't care one bit that some games are being released on both consoles now. I'd rather that than they just cancel all those games because there aren't enough ps5 owners due to the stock issues)
Re: PS Plus Users Can Get Capcom Arcade Stadium's Ghosts 'n Goblins for Free
@Steel76 to be fair PS plus has had some amazing offerings recently - and I know they're not free but it's still amazing value for what you get (despite the fact that I'd bought one or two of them already)
With Nintendo, you're incredibly lucky if you can get 25% off RRP, let alone get decent games on a relatively cheap subscription service. I couldn't care less whether they offer an old classic that I'm not likely to finish for "actually free" as opposed to "free if you're a subscriber"
And this isn't a console war comment either. I have no particular commitment to Sony, but I own both a PS5 and a switch and I know which one I consider better value for money in terms of games
Re: Rumour: PS Plus June 2021 Line-Up Leaked Ahead of Time
@sanderson72 in fairness PS4 owners still get the two games per month they've always been promised, and there's nothing stopping them claiming the PS5 games in case they ever get a PS5. It's not as though this is unprecedented or anything, the situation was the same when the PS4 launched and PS3 games were still part of the Plus monthly games
Re: PC Games Now Utilise PS5 DualSense Controller Features
@tselliot it's 10 to the power of 100 (as in, 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
technically it's spelled "Googol", but it was allegedly misspelled when they were checking if the domain was available.
So that's what a googol is . Let's just say you wouldn't want more than one
Re: PC Games Now Utilise PS5 DualSense Controller Features
I've just bought Exodus on PC (or rather I've just claimed it through humble choice) but my PC isn't powerful enough for the enhanced edition - I assume the standard edition doesn't get these features
Re: Talking Point: What Free June 2021 PS Plus Games Do You Want?
@lindos are you the kind of person who goes round supermarkets pointing out "buy one get one free? I think you'll find you mean 'buy 2, pay half price for each!'"
Re: Final Fantasy XIV Players Hold Brilliant In-Game Vigil Following Death of Berserk Creator
ah, ok.
I assumed the title meant the creator of the "berserk" spell, as in the first person to put it in an FF game. This makes much more sense though
Re: Sony Discounting Demon's Souls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and More PS5 Games in Days of Play Sale
@Mellors86x here's the thing though- they don't lose a thing due to your unwillingness to buy digital. It's not like that game you might have bought exists somewhere physically, taking up space and having cost money to create the copy.
Physical retailers will always sell games for cheaper because they want to sell as much as they can, as fast as they can - whereas Sony can afford to have a game sat there for £70 even if very few people buy it (and from what we can see, plenty of people are buying them) - it's not like they don't make money off the physical sales too
Re: When Will PS5 Exclusives Drop in Price on PS Store?
@lindos you're right that if they just dropped the cost, more people would buy it and ultimately they'd make more money straight away, but what's actually more important is the costs involved rather than the potential revenue. That is - the cost of producing, storing and distributing a digital game is massively smaller than that of a physical one. There's a direct incentive to shift as many copies of a physical game as quickly as you can - it's the fact that that stock cost money to make (as in, make the physical copies) and ship, so failing to sell the stock actually costs you money.
Digital games on the other hand, have massively smaller costs. Sony can afford to hold out on lowering the price because ultimately it doesn't cost them anything in stock related costs. No doubt they know that there'll be a sudden rush to buy once they lower the price tag, but the longer they hold out, the more people might buy full price
To bring maths back into it - sure 100 copies @ £50 means more money than 50 copies @ £70 - but what if there were 200 customers who'd definitely buy the game straight away if it was reduced down to £50? If holding out at £70 for longer means that 75 out of those 200 people cave and buy the game full price instead of 50, then that means more money for them - and waiting doesn't cost them anything.
Re: Final Play At Home Update Includes Free Content for Lots of PS4 Games
Getting a distinct "people are pretty satisfied with what we gave them already, but we said we'd do more so let's just dish out some in-game content" vibe here. And they're right - I'm pretty satisfied with what Play at home has already given this year, so I can't even really complain
Re: Poll: Did You Buy Resident Evil Village?
I have such a backlog that I don't buy anything full price - the recent spate of games releasing straight onto PS plus is a bit of a novelty for me, getting to play games while they're still current
I'm also pretty much solely responsible for games not getting sequels, haha
Re: Mass Effect Legendary Edition Has Three Platinum Trophies on PS4, 130 Trophies in Total
@Jeevz isn't it though? Bear in mind I never said I was talking about everybody, only those who specifically consider collecting trophies to be an achievement in itself (e.g. the sort of people who both completed My Name is Mayo and also don't feel a little bit ashamed including it in their number of platinums, because most of their other platinums are similar BS).
If that sentence doesn't describe a type of trophy hunter you were thinking of, then it's ok- I wasn't taking about them . I was talking about the guys who have more trophies than that, because they also have less shame
Re: Mass Effect Legendary Edition Has Three Platinum Trophies on PS4, 130 Trophies in Total
@nessisonett I did Origins recently and got so thoroughly burned out on AC after the platinum (specifically the need to complete every location in the main game in Origins) I couldn't touch the DLC for a month or two, and I wanted to finish that before Odyssey - I'm just at the stage of starting Odyssey now
Re: Mass Effect Legendary Edition Has Three Platinum Trophies on PS4, 130 Trophies in Total
@ShogunRok only reason I even know about that game is I had a look at the #1 guy on PSNProfiles - and sure he plays some pretty decent games, but for the most part it's trophy hunter BS, the time to platinum is 15-30 minutes for most of them. This one stood out because it said he'd finished it in 45 seconds or so- and they pull some dirty, dirty tricks so that they actually get multiple sets of trophies by buying the game in multiple regions (for instance I believe he had 3 sets of trophies for the game in the video - 3 platinums all for about a minute of gameplay!)
But yeah, it does just seem very ridiculous. He's top of the leaderboard for what - he's completed more of the world's easiest games than anyone else has? I don't deny that it takes a bit of work to get through that many but still, it's more than a bit silly
Re: Mass Effect Legendary Edition Has Three Platinum Trophies on PS4, 130 Trophies in Total
@ShogunRok meh I dunno. I guess it depends on your definition - are we talking about hunters of hardcore trophies or hardcore hunters of trophies? The latter are more than happy to do this (video is clean, don't worry):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKRvbbOlV8c
whereas the rest of us rightfully look down on such practices
Re: Mass Effect Legendary Edition Has Three Platinum Trophies on PS4, 130 Trophies in Total
@nessisonett it does. Personally I just play games I like, and if it's the sort of game I like enough to let my completionist tendencies out on, then I'll go for the platinum. I've gone for the platinum on recent Assassin's Creed games for example - where I'm thankful that a platinum trophy exists because while it's a lot of game time, it's a hell of a lot less game time than trying to thoroughly clean out the game of everything you could possibly do
Re: Mass Effect Legendary Edition Has Three Platinum Trophies on PS4, 130 Trophies in Total
nah, hardcore trophy hunters (as in, the type who aim to get more trophies than anyone else) don't go anywhere near this sort of thing - at least not for trophies. it's all about the easy wins
Re: Metro Exodus PS5 Version Emerges on the 18th June, Still a Free Upgrade for PS4 Players
Played the first two games on PC and loved them - been holding out on this one purely because I refuse to buy a PS4 game purely to get a PS5 upgrade later, after being burned by Control
Re: Metro Exodus PS5 Version Emerges on the 18th June, Still a Free Upgrade for PS4 Players
@Danloaded something tells me it'll still be there for both July AND August. I don't really see what the issue is
Re: Mass Effect Legendary Edition Download Size Is Massive on PS5, PS4
@Pditty1980 2 and 3 don't really seem like reasons to buy physical tbh - you can get a 10% discount on a digital pre-order of ME Legendary if you have an EA play subscription (a month of EA play doesn't cost a lot but arguably it does eat into your discount a little - but on the other hand it does give you a month to play some of the decent games in the EA play catalogue, I did this with Jedi Fallen Order as I'm sure many others did back when they were offering a month for £1) - and you're not forced to save PS4 games onto the SSD if they're digital.
On the other hand, if you wanted to you could sell on your physical version (as long as they're including all games on the disc and not merely a download code) so there's that advantage
Re: Submerge Yourself with Subnautica: Below Zero PS5 Gameplay
Sorry but the sentence "if you already own the original Subnautica, then you’ll also be eligible for a free PS4 to PS5 upgrade" is completely incorrect. You don't get the sequel free on PS5 if you already own the original game - you get the sequel free on PS5 if you buy the sequel (not the original game) for PS4
Edit: ok, not entirely incorrect I didn't realise the original game was being upgraded
Re: Court Documents Reveal Almost 50% of Fortnite's Revenue Is on PlayStation
Does this mean I probably have Sony to thank for my weekly free PC game from Epic?
Re: PS Plus May 2021 PS5, PS4 Games Announced
personally I think it's a decent month, in that these games don't too bad, but I wouldn't have bothered buying any of them. If I try them and they're fun, then that's a bonus, but I wouldn't consider any of these games to be "additions to the backlog" - which is good because the backlog is hefty enough already
Re: Poll: Will You Be Buying Returnal?
@Mintie I get what you're saying, but at the same time any kind of hardware (from consoles to PC CPU's and graphics cards) is priced such that in the UK you pay about the same number of pounds as you'd pay dollars in the US (for example a PS5 is £450 in the UK, whereas the $500 that Americans pay is way less than £450 according to the exchange rate). Sometimes you actually have to pay more pounds than you'd pay dollars in the US - because there's more to pricing than just "apply the exchange rate to whatever country you're selling in" (hence why sites like InstantGaming make a profit, they buy game keys in cheaper countries and sell on to more expensive ones)
I know we're taking software, not hardware here. My is merely that the same role applies to buying anything tech related, it's not merely a con by the PlayStation store
Re: Poll: Is PlayStation Plus Video Pass the Right Way to Expand PS Plus?
Good question, but a better one might be "is having a separate article asking for people's opinions when they've already given it on the other two articles, the right way to expand Push Square"
Re: Rumour: PS Plus Expanding with PlayStation Plus Video Pass
@fR_eeBritney you have 100GB of save data in the cloud? I think you just need to let some of it die . Old game saves are never much fun to play anyway, especially when everything's already been done
Re: Sony Backtracks PS3, PS Vita Online Store Closures
I'm kind of in two minds on this issue - on the one hand, it's great that a whole bunch of people can continue buying & playing their digital games.
On the other hand, PS3's are incredibly susceptible to the yellow light of death, and any PS3 that's actually had a fair amount of use is a ticking time bomb at this point - it'd be far more useful overall if Sony took backwards compatibility seriously.
Me personally though, I've long moved on from PS3 after mine died - a lot of my favourite games I've either since bought on PC, or bought the PS4 version, and I can neither confirm nor deny whether I've also messed about with emulators
Re: Days Gone Director on Skipped Sequel: 'If You Love a Game, Buy It at F***ing Full Price'
John Garvin should just go work for nintendo - where first party games stay at (or near) RRP forever, sales are as minimal as possible and the idea of a giveaway or a subscription model is practically a swear word (yes I know that nintendo has a subscription, but it doesn't really net you anything significant in terms of games)
Re: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Yuffie DLC Officially Titled Episode INTERmission
Oh, come on.. compared to some of the weird and wonderful names of games in the kingdom hearts series, this is extremely tame
Re: PS5 Has Already Outsold PS Vita, Nintendo Wii U, and SEGA Dreamcast in the UK
This is what happens when you're such a hard hitting news publication, you decide to report the facts and only the facts, even when the facts are utterly unremarkable
Re: PS Plus April 2021 PS5, PS4 Games Announced
Honestly, I'm kind of relieved a PS Plus Collection game made it into the PS Plus games for this month. My backlog is getting ridiculous
Re: PS Plus Game Oddworld: Soulstorm Gets Physical Release This July
@skywalker0794 to be fair, you also had people complaining that March's PS Plus games were all rubbish (not even people who already owned the games, just people who thought all the games were rubbish). You can never please everyone, and some people just can't be pleased
Re: It Takes Two (PS5) - An Insanely Inventive Co-Op Adventure
@80sGamer
directly from the review: "I only noticed one moment where it dips"
I mean, no one's going to force you to play it, but your reasoning does sound a bit silly..
Re: Talking Point: What Free April 2021 PS Plus Games Do You Want?
I'm gonna throw in Jedi: Fallen order
Purely because I imagine the vast majority of the people who wanted to play it and hadn't bought it yet, took advantage of the recent £0.79 deal for a month of EA play, and completed it already. I know I did
It's also one of those oddly divisive games that is loved by many, but there are also many who think it's utter trash - which makes it the perfect PS Plus game, after all what's a month of PS Plus without at least a few people complaining that "this month's games are utter trash"
Re: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 on PS5 Supports Cross-Save, Activity Cards, DualSense, and More
@ILikeStake you say that, but it's spring here. The leaves are all sitting smugly in the trees looking down on me like "good luck with that!". I will however obtain my crunchiest crack, by ripping off their puny faces (that might be my recent god of War playthrough talking, though )
Re: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 on PS5 Supports Cross-Save, Activity Cards, DualSense, and More
@lolwhatno
If you edit the comment, you can see that it changes your asterisks to "strong" tags. You can actually input these directly and if you replace "strong" with "em" that'll give you italics. Not sure if there's a shortcut key to do that like the asterisk does
(these are based off HTML tags but in a slightly different format, i.e. square brackets)
Re: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 on PS5 Supports Cross-Save, Activity Cards, DualSense, and More
@lolwhatno I was actually trying to put asterisks around the sentences. Turns out it makes them bold
I'd demonstrate, but rather than asterisks you'd just see a bold sentence
Re: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 on PS5 Supports Cross-Save, Activity Cards, DualSense, and More
It's almost like...
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IT'S A PS5 GAME
faints
Re: PS5 Makes a Mockery of Marvel's Avengers' Long PS4 Load Times
It can load as quick as it likes, I still have zero intention of buying and playing what's essentially a grind-fest that they decided to make even grindier. I have too much actual good stuff in my backlog
Re: PlayStation Players Get 10 Free PS4 Games This Spring, Including Horizon Zero Dawn
@Turismo4GT at the moment, if you were to resubscribe to PS plus they would automatically be part of your library again, as PS plus games that you've claimed. But:
If you're no longer a PS plus subscriber, you'll be able to claim these again
Also, even if you are a ps plus subscriber you can re-claim these, so that they're permanently yours instead of just when you have ps plus (at least, that worked for ratchet and clank)
Re: PlayStation Players Get 10 Free PS4 Games This Spring, Including Horizon Zero Dawn
Nice. Already own some of these through Epic Games free weekly games for PC, but my PC is a bit rubbish so no doubt they'll play better on my PS5. And I already own a copy of HZD, but a physical copy, so no longer having to get off my ass to put the disc in will be a bonus
Re: #EAGate Investigation Uncovers 'Questionable Activity' in FIFA 21's Ultimate Team
EA are only angry because it turns out one of their employees is more unabashedly EA than they'll ever be
Re: PS5 Stock Issues Lead to Currys PC World Lottery System
@TranslucentEye It's not "the superior console" - it has marginally better performance in some areas, nothing to build a superiority complex on. It's not like comparing last year's Nvidia graphics cards with this years, for example. Hence why marketing, the size of the existing fanbase and game exclusives have a lot more to do with the disparity in sales than "my GPU has 10% more Flops than yours" and similar stuff that few console gamers really care about
Re: PS5 Stock Issues Lead to Currys PC World Lottery System
Getting hold of a PS5 is difficult, sure - but it's nothing compared to trying to get hold of a graphics card, at the moment (yeah, thanks Bitcoin)
Re: Marvel's Avengers Dev Doubles Down on Level Progression Nerf
If they're that concerned about getting the grind just right, all that really suggests to me is that the game itself really isn't a lot of fun- that people keep playing more because they don't want to be a quitter rather than because they're enjoying themselves. Count me out
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 366
For me it's mostly Jedi Fallen Order (via a month of EA play for 79p) - which I'm absolutely loving - and maybe a bit of the God of war playthrough that J:FO rudely interrupted.
Am also installing an NVMe SSD into my PC and moving my OS onto it - from an SSHD so hoping for a much snappier experience (it's held back by it's graphics card at they moment though, so not likely playing anything other than PS3/early PS4 era games)
Re: PS Store Essential Picks Sale Has a Long List of Cheap PS4 Games
@Dan_ozzzy189 not likely to happen IMO.. but, the expansion pass is only 7.99 at least. A bit more expensive than the difference between what you paid and the price of the gold edition, but better than RRP for the DLC (it's regularly on sale though so could be worth just waiting till you're ready to play it, as it might be even cheaper by then)
Re: All PlayStation Studios Games on PC
@Shigurui shock horror, some PS gamers also have PCs
I know, right! THE HORROR
what I really don't understand though is why someone would click on and comment on an article they're not interested in rather than showing genuine non-interest and just leaving it alone. Sure we're stuck at home, but there's a big, wide internet just outside your (browser) window!