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"No losing faith.....and this time we mean it" is an unfortunate combination of phrases lol - as it implies that they "didn't really mean it" the other times they gave expected release dates, but asks you to believe them this time anyway

already played through Fallen Order on PS4 through EA Play ages ago (this was before the native PS5 version but after they optimised the PS4 version for running on PS5), but I keep being tempted to pick it up in a sale and play through it again, so I'll take it (there's really very little else that interests me on EA play, especially since Mass Effect has already landed on PS Plus)

@TheArt my point is you said it's a game with "a different name" - I'm just saying that the other 4 series mentioned have different names and are all completely different in their own ways too (the possible exception being Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, which are arguably more alike than any of the others), but they all have a common thread in that they're difficult to progress through if you're having trouble with the bosses. My point is I don't really blame anyone for being apprehensive because it's a FromSoft game, but I agree that it's by far their most accessible game to date

@TheArt in fairness, every other From Soft souls like game had a similar structure before Elden Ring - Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro.. They're all very different games with very different gameplay, but they all have pretty linear levels (branching, but linear branches) with bosses that prevent you from going past certain points without beating them

Elden Ring isn't just "a different name", it's a completely different way of designing a game, when it comes to From Soft. And to be fair they always said it was going to be an open world game, I just don't blame people for assuming they're not going to like it because they "don't like from soft games"

@Ravix you're here voluntarily?

@Matthewnh thanks for clarifying that you mean the game GOW Ragnarok, not actual Ragnarok. Although saving up games to play for Ragnarok isn't a half bad idea - I get the impression it'll be worse than COVID, so I can't imagine anyone will be allowed outside

@aj21009 I remember the first 10 months of the PS5's life though, there were barely any discounted PS5 games at all, and the games were all selling for £70 (particularly for first party releases).

The article says "PlayStation 5 Owners Prefer Boxed Games" but you could just as easily interpret these findings as "people would rather get a physical copy if they have to spend £70 on a game". Also, people will more often than not buy a game for whatever is a reasonable price. For example, I bought The Last of Us 2 for £15 for a physical version about 18 months ago. At the time it was a bargain. But, I never got round to actually playing more than an hour of it. I then recently saw it on PSN for only £8 - so I decided to buy it digitally and give my physical copy away to a friend who hasn't played it yet. I couldn't care less whether I own a physical game or a digital one, I'm just after value for money - and £70 for a digital game isn't much "value for money" considering if you buy a physical version you can at least sell it on/give it away when done with it (that, and in the early stages of a game's life, the physical copy is usually cheaper)

What would be really interesting to look at, is to completely ignore Sony first party game sales. I want to know how many people were botthered enough to buy Control: Ultimate Edition physically for PS5. Or Bugsnax, or Hades, or any number of other much lower priced (especially when on sale/given away by PS Plus) games. I know for a fact that those people are out there, and maybe you're one of them, but they're bound to exist in much smaller numbers than the people who don't feel like forking out £70 for a digital game.

apparently I spent 735 hours playing games, and ojnly 2 hours playing online games.

but then it turns out that my "online game" was minecraft - pretty sure that was my kids..

We'd heard about the optional new camera angle, but actually seeing it, it looks great

@DETfaninATL but the upgrade is free, and the game (with all DLC) costs £7 if you're not a complete muppet who buys it when it's not on sale - or goes for the physcial edition (I mean, some people like physical editions, but they're only going to complain if you don't let them buy physical editions, so I wouldn't really call that a "cash grab". No one's forcing them to spend more than they need to on the game)

@KidBoruto stupid thing is, before 2020 my PC was barely capable of running games (turned out I'd been using an early 2000s graphics card that was more suited to 3D modelling than gaming - but again.. in the early 2000s. Thanks to my Dad salvaging his work stuff when building it ) and my PS3 was completely dead. I'd always been more of a physical game owner on PS3 anyway, I had a few digital but we're talking around 50 games between the physical and digital ones, over 10 years or so owning that console. But since 2020 I've embraced digital games more and my library has exploded - according to GOG (I love GOG galaxy as you can integrate it with your PSN and other games platform accounts, and see your whole library) I have 809 games to my name between PSN, GOG, Steam, Ubisoft and EA, not counting PS3 games that are attached to my PSN account in the aether somewhere, as they don't show up. Some of those will be PS Plus/Game catalogue games but the vast majority are just sitting in my library waiting for the attention that they're never going to get

@aj21009 I always thought "most people" referred to the majority of people in a particular group - but apparently I've been wrong all this time and it refers to a particular individual. You really get aroound a lot, Most People. There's a lot of stuff said about you, not all of it good

@KidBoruto in general I'm liking the mostly digital era of video games. Even just counting games I "own" (in so much as you really "own" digital games - I just mean, excluding game libraries like PS plus extra's game catalogue), I have way more games than I ever could have physically fit in a room back when all my games were physical copies. But I do miss only having 20-30 games or so, and considering that a "decent collection". I must have at least 200 or so completely untouched at this point (although a lot of them are Humble Choice games that I never would have bought purely on their own merit anyway)

@Arkham24601 why would you even want rat tracing though? Personally I'd rather not have a realistic representation of where all the rats are in TW3. If I wanted that, I'd play a Plague Tale game instead

Geralt, seeing the vague outline of a PS5
"place of power, gotta be"

I'm not really getting it. I mean, I'm not saying it's a masterpiece or anything. It just looks fine, in the same way that most box art looks fine

If we're going to talk abbout physical things that look ugly as hell, let's address all the stupid plastic tat that comes with "collectors editions" that gamers pay top dollar for..

I've bought enough old games at this point, that I know for a fact that if I were to buy any of these, they'd just sit in my backlog for ever. I'd be owning them purely for the sake of owning them for nostalgia value, not to actually play them (which to be fair is pretty much the arrangement I have with the Legacy of Kain series on PC as well, but at least I only paid around £1 per game for those )

@Hundred_Hand_Slap perhaps because Dead Space was made in 2008, pretty much at the beginning of the PS3's life, whereas TLOU is from 2013 and has already been remastered once, and said remaster is easily playable on current gen (PS4 and PS5) consoles. You can play the original dead space on PC but you can only really play on a Playstation console if you either have, or can find a PS3 that hasn't YLOD'd itself into the bin

"Sky exclusive"

yeah, good luck with that, Sky..

booooo - launched the video on this article assuming it was the actual trailer, but it's just some rando talking over clips from the trailer, which I now have to spend like 3 extra seconds to find (luckily there appears to be a link to it in the article) like a mug

I'm sure under different circumstances I'd address him as something other than "some rando" - that's just the disappointment talking

No but I'm fighting daily the temptation to buy a Radeon 6000 series graphics card to replace the old one in my PC (what with Nvidia apparently being relentless in their pricing policy at the moment). The relevance here being that the ones I'm looking at have a special promotion where you get this game for free. The game isn't really a factor in the decision though.

@KidBoruto @YMM on a similar note (in case you were curious and hadn't tried it) you get the same number of points whether you buy games with cash on the PSN store, or whether you use funds from your wallet. Sounds obvious, but the headline here is that you can load your wallet with funds from cheap PSN vouchers (like ShopTo and various other places sell), and get just as many points for spending less actual cash (and therefore spend less cash to earn enough points to claim a PSN voucher).

It's not the heist of the century or anything, and obviously the main benefit of getting cheap PSN vouchers is spending less cash in the first place, not claiming more wallet funds through PS Stars - but I think it's vaguely worth knowing

it's true that back in the day AC was pumping out games year after year, but back then they were relatively short 20 hour or so affair. Even if you were trying to 100% the game, most of them wouldn't take you much more than 40 hours. It took me 150 hours to get through Oddyssey, and that's not even a "do everything possible in the game" playthrough, that's just "get all trophies" and nothing more (I mean, maybe I did a bit of side content that didn't contribute to a trophy at the start, but towards the end I was getting so sick of it, I was a lean, mean trophy machine)

My point being that I can only assume that it takes a lot longer to actually make the games than it used to, too

@Nintendo4Sonic it's included in the newly released Game Of The Year Edition, which is essentially the same as the Ultimate Edition except it also includes this extra DLC, and is currently on sale on the PS Store at £39.99 (RRP £99.99 - price in different regions will vary though)

This is why I never buy Ubi games on release. The base game is always pretty much a carbon copy of previous games in the franchise, possibly borrowing from other Ubi IPs or general changes in gameplay trends- and the price of the "complete game" is always ridiculous, but it's usually a lot cheaper a year or two later.

I'm quite happy having picked up AC Valhalla complete edition for £40. It'll be a long while before I can be bothered to pick up Far Cry 6 though, it just seems pretty much like all the other Far Cries and I'm still working my way through 4 (kind of - ended up stopping to play something more interesting and haven't gone back to it in months)

@Olskeezy depends on the developer/publisher but it's not a given nowadays that there's even just one "season pass" - some games have multiple season passes

amazing how often I end up with two copies of the same game due to subscribing to both Humble Choice and PS Plus lol - Mass Effect is this month's duplicate. Would rather play that on PC anyway tbh, and at least I get to keep the humble choice games regardless of whether I keep my subscription going

Biomutant might be fun

Complete edition is cuurrently £41.29, went on sale at about midnight. It's not an insignificant sum of money but it's easily the best price for the game and all of the DLC. I went ahead and bought it, but I probably wouldn't have decided to if I hadn't already played some of the game on PS Plus, as Oddyssey completely wore me down and I wasn't sure I'd be interested enough

@Milktastrophe but I thought Naughty and Dog merged to form Bandai Namco?

@PhantomMenace84 yeah I understand. When I say "I've just finished Oddyssey" what I didn't say is that it took me just over two years to finish it - not of constantly playing Oddysey, obviously - I picked it up, got bored after a bit and then picked it up again a few months later, over and over again.

Out of Origins and Oddysey I'd defintinitely recommend Origins more highly - I'm not knocking the Greeks, but going back to ancient Egypt (even if it's only "kinda ancient Egypt" lol- what you're really going back to is the end of ancient Egypt, around the year 49 BC) is much cooler, and IMO the open world map in Origins is much more managable, in Odyssey it's just bonkers.

But if you still don't really feel like doing either, that's understandable. I loved Origins and managed to play through it without taking months long breaks, but I definitely felt burnt out after getting the platinum and finishing the DLC (the platinum involves visiting every single location on the map and completing the objectives - fortunately the platinum for Oddyssey doesn't have a trophy for this - there are whole areas of Ancient Greece that haven't even been to, despite spending twice as long overall in that game)

subtitle on this article blew my mind. I honestly thought they came together to form Naughty Dog

@PhantomMenace84 I've just come into it from finishing AC Oddyssey, so IMO the combat/game systems generally are vastly improved. Especially glad I'm not having to play the whole game of "not levelling up my armour every single time I level up, because that's insane, but levelling up often enough to keep up with the enemies" any more

This is kinda good for me in that I've only just started a playthrough, but have already loaded my PSN wallet with cheap credit to buy the Complete Edition next time it's on sale, assuming it's about the £40 mark. I'm unlikely to be anywhere near done with the base game by the time it comes off PS Plus extra, so I'll be getting even more of my money's worth

been looking forward to having another play through of TW3 once the PS5 edition launches, thanks for mentioning "The Witcher 3" and "Armour" in a headline though, and reminding me I'll have to deal with that armour/loot system again

Cross-save/progression is by far the best news for me, as I have it on both PS4 and PC but haven't really started on either yet (I've played it on the switch before, which ironically was able to cross save with PC at the time, but I didn't own it/have a PC capable of playing it back then, and I sold it to buy the PS4 version before I ever did)

Just bought a £50. I find it a bit hilarious that apparently EA are subsidising my PSN wallet (I mean maybe that's not how it works but I don't care, I can believe what I like) on the grounds that I'm going to use it to buy digital FIFA tat. Yes of course I am EA - don't let anyone tell you otherwise

I just happen to have been given £100 in Amazon vouchers (for signing up to a broadband deal 4 months ago - who'd have guessed they actually do cough up the vouchers in the end) so this is a pretty tempting option

I've only just beaten Oddysey and all the DLC, it's taken me 2 years (not of constantly playing - I've picked it up several times, got bored and picked it up again a few months later - around 200 hours play time in total), and have just started Valhalla. I might care about this sometime in 2025, but my thoughts will probably be "screw that, I don't want it" anyway

Horizon forbidden west is £25 (for PS4 or PS5) at Asda if you're in the UK. Although, my local Asda megastore thing still had them at £55 in store, I had to order online to collect (from the same store ..) to get it at that price

worth pointing out that you can actually get Horizon: FW for £34.19 for the PS4 version with free upgrade (only on the phone app, if you have a PS5) - and you can get it for around £30 if you fill your wallet with vouchers from the various places online that sell them cheap (although that's not an exclusive trick for HFW)

@Bentleyma as long as it is a full on remake (or just a new game/reboot) and not just a re-master. I've got the original on PC, and actually playing it again 20+ years later is rough. It's not even just "I'm used to modern control schemes and don't want to re-learn a different one". The original SR was a very early 3D game - devs were still working out exactly what "good" controls were, and a lot of those early ones were a pain in the arse - but we put up with it at the time because we were amazed at just being able to play 3D games and didn't have any better options

@huyi what would actually make this pretty brilliant, is if when you're playing as Nier ("unnamed protaganist"? I mean I know he's not named in game but I thought his canonical name was actually Nier...), everyone else in the game looks like a shade from replicant

@rjejr and yeah, it actually released at £8.75/$9.99 - which like I said, surprised everyone who was expecting a full priced PS5 version. Even I caved and bought it lol, despite fully not intending to before the launch price was revealed

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/03/gta-5-ps5-price-is-just-usd10-until-14th-june

obviously this only applies to the digital version, not the disc release

@Gh05tm4ch1n3 what price increase? I didn't defend anything, I just stated a fact that when it released, GTA V for PS5 was actually very cheap, which frankly amazed everyone at the time because we thought they were going to pull the same stunt they did with the remastered PS2 games. I wasn't "defending price increases", I was just stating what actually happened because it didn't seem to me that @rjejr was aware that the game had actually launched yet. And as for "went in depth with the game naming" - when did I do that?? I didn't even mention the game naming lol. I mentioned the name of the game "GTA V", that's about it.

It seems to me that not only are you bad at judging whether people understand sarcasm or not, you're just generally bad at reading people's comments. As such I'm not exactly clamouring for you to consider me credible - it's a bit of a low bar

Something about the unnatural look of a smile on Kratos's face reminds me of Agent 47. Speaking of which - if Agent 47 took out Kratos and donned his outfit (beard and all) would we even know?

Forgot all about this (it's been a few years since I played TW3) but I think what we all want to know is, can Geralt jump off a 4 foot wall without dying in the PS5 version?

@Gh05tm4ch1n3 I understand sarcasm perfectly well - if GTA V wasn't already out yet, it would be a perfectly good sarcastic comment. In fact it's still a perfectly good sarcastic comment despite the fact that GTA V is already out on PS5, because the joke appears to be about ridiculous naming conventions for new releases of games, not "whether GTA V is out yet". I think you don't get sarcasm, you just think you do

WHAT????

(no PushSquare, I don't think there's any more I have to say)