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@Ralizah Yeah lack of interactivity isn't the worst thing in the world. Just woulda been nice if there was a little bit more than we actually got. Definitely still a good time though!

@Turbodream I'd say I like visual novels, obviously given it's a VN I didn't expect there to be a ton of gameplay, but even by VN standards, I just wish there was a little more for me to do haha

Been waiting for this for more than a decade at this point. I couldn't be more ready for this if I tried! AWE in Control was just a 1st step

@Amnesiac It absolutely nails that feeling this time too!

@mattesdude That was definitely part of where I was coming from when trying this out. Honestly, I would say it didn't disappoint (despite the score). It's the type game sure I know has problems, but I enjoyed it so much back in the day, that just experiencing it again is pretty fulfilling in its own right!

@NoCode23 Yeah, I found the "do hunting properly angle" to be especially interesting. It was a good way to bypass kinda lackluster gameplay. It made it a more interesting experience than it might otherwise be!

@Digit2021 Full price too! I absolutely think if they wanted to do that, the best approach would have been to include the story DLC out of the box for the PS5 version. At the very least!

@NeonTiger It's a much stranger game than I remember it being haha, I will say that!

@JustPlainLoco Yeah only Xbox and PC until, well, now haha

@Arugula Okay yeah, I am definitely going to need to check this out!!

@Arugula Oooooo, like Synthwave artist Danger? Sign me up!

@strawhatcrew Forgive me please! (I'll check it out!)

@XanderTigerclaw <3 Thank you! This is one of my very favorites so far I think!

@Mostik I could definitely see that having a hand. VR stuff, especially when it's exceptionally well done (like Astrobot) just has that extra level to it!

@Alstil I wasn't thinking much of it and I was absolutely blown away by how much I ended up loving it at launch! Music caught me way off guard in how incredible it was too!

@DrJames Of course! Yeah Until Dawn just set such a high bar to clear, and the smaller bite-sized experiences this Anthology is aiming for just aren't in the same league, Still neat in their own right though!

@starlokk your comment directly next to @Jimmer-jammer 🤣

"pathetic, disappointing" vs "excellent interview, thanks!" Bahahaha

@Jacko11 Oof, night and day!

@Mostik I was getting worried for a while there honestly when Sony was getting quiet about VR 2, but now they've reaffirmed that commitment, definitely a little less worried. Plus as long as there's a steady stream of releases like this, there'll be a lot to like!

@jorel262 Not long after probably haha

@RogerRoger Why are you crying though?!?! That was such a happy scene!

I'm so incredibly on board for this whole thing Aspyr's going for! Between all the old Star Wars games they helped bring over and now this! Keep it coming!

Sure hope they start talking about this sometime soon if they wanna drop it. I definitely want to play it, but it's basically been complete radio silence for about two years now

@danlk1ng Haha that's what I did with the countermeasures as well! I do those early to get the trophies out of the way, and then just leave a couple of important ones that if I get them, great. But if I don't I don't mind too much. Especially once you start playing the DLC if you haven't yet. Some of the mods you get in there are wayyyyyyyy more powerful!

@danlk1ng Yeah all the surrounding stuff with the PS5 upgrade was...well, let's call it messy haha. You're so close to the platinum now!!!

I'd recommend snagging those 100 point and board countermeasure trophies first! That Tomassi fight is by far the hardest in the game! Finished that one up get the platinum the other day actually! Platinumed it and got 100% of the DLC trophies twice now haha. PS4 and PS5!

@Thrillho Awwww <3

Voice cast or no, pretty excited for this one! Looks to be yet another example of Annapurna's golden touch!

@RogerRoger I can't wait to start seeing the games taking better advantage of the new hardware going forward. Like that Control PS5 port! Honestly, the game looks and plays like Remedy made it for the PS5 first, but the fact it was still a PS4 game also kinda shows just how much closer the line is than ever for console generations! But those load times though. The SSD, even if it is that teeny tiny one, is sooooo much faster for loading!

Yeah Jeopardy's one I figured might not have carried too far outside North America. Basically, everyone knows the show and Trebeck around here, but it makes sense that that doesn't carry outside the area all that much.

Hell soccer works in that same way in the states. America basically just doesn't care! I always loved playing it growing up, but I don't watch it very much either. So I'm a fairly typical American in that respect. And nah, hockey's huge overseas too! Russia & Scandinavia though, not nearly as much the rest of Europe. Never played, unfortunately. By the time I realized I was absolutely obsessed with it, it was too late to be worth trying to play. When I'm a settled old grump, might try 'n pick up a rec league to play in or something though haha. Agreed though, it's crazy how much overlap differing cultures have, but more interesting is often the stuff that DOESN'T overlap!

@RogerRoger Agreed, I never really got that. It's pretty easy to see something that's good as a quality product even if it doesn't cater to what you specifically want. Just because you don't want it, doesn't suddenly invalidate it as a work of art. And yep yep some film courses, some game courses, little bit o' everything, very helpful for being able to articulate why I think certain elements of a project work or not, not too helpful past that though haha. What kinda writing you trying to pursue? Or do you mean you did do that, and now are doing something else?

Oh yeah, I felt the same way! The further from the Return it gets, the less I feel like I need another season. I'd absolutely watch one, but I don't feel as though I need it anymore. Completely agreed though. For everything that worked, there was something that didn't really land. Which almost became part of the appeal. But the stuff that did work? Hoo boy, it realllllllly worked!

Yeah, it's a pretty damn cool statue! I basically only have statues that were included in collector's editions of games, and by those standards, it's probably the nicest looking one I've got! You'll be able to re-create the entirety of Attack of the Clones soon! Or as, we call it here, the best Star Wars movie.

Oh, I totally forgot about Agents of Shield haha. I watched the first few seasons, I remember liking it early before I kinda just stopped caring haha. I remember I liked season 1 and 2 a lot.
I do miss seeing Brendan Fraser in movies. I always liked him. Bring him into Star Wars, hell with it! Get that man on screen again! Oooo that's true, Tython coulda been placed there because it'll be important for something in the High Republic. I haven't seen it explicitly brought up, but I haven't exactly dug very far into the High Republic yet either.

Oh yeah, I saw that Liara easter egg! All the little references to things happening over in the galaxy I cared about were nice to see haha. Well, luckily you don't have to hurry up and get a PS5 to play the remasters, since they're just...PS4 games? Bit of an odd choice honestly, but eh whatever. The remasters look pretty good from what we've seen so far.

I'm very curious to see what their solution winds up being? I don't see how they can win with doing it either. No matter what ending they pick, a huge number of people are gonna be upset? And if they're so determined to bring back faces from the old ones, then they basically have to pick on no? And I definitely don't have trust in Bioware haha. They lost it after ME3, and continued to not gain any trust back afterwards too. Especially since they said it's gonna take place after the first trilogy. ME1 is my favorite by far too! Not too worried about Pinnacle Station not being in the remaster either lol. The source code was gone so they'd need to remake it, and frankly, it's not worth it. Pinnacle Station was awful!

@RogerRoger A true believer of super...bom...bad...dery? I guess? Right back atcha on the holiday wishes, even though it's now February lol.

Success seems to vary wildly. I recall one of them (Absolution?) being very poorly received because it was basically just a linear action game and everyone seemed to kinda hate it haha. Having never really spent time with 'em, I find it super weird just how much I've paid attention to them!

Yeah, it's pretty exhausting! But immensely fulfilling. What did you do in the past that called for leading a team like that? What'd you switch to when you stopped?

I keep needing to actually go back to Squadrons. I played mission 1, thought it was alright, and then just...kinda never went back to it haha. I need to finish it! Every time I think I'm ready to go back, I decide it's time for another game. Been playing through all of Control again now cuz of the PS5 one! Yeah, Cyberpunk's a big ol' yikes. I just haven't bothered to start. I'll wait till it's actually in the shape they shoulda waited to ship it in. Probably gonna be a few more months lol. You know I'd have expected Spidey to be fixed as well, but it's not been patched in months, and I still can't play it. Kinda messed up that such a widespread problem is just kinda...okay? Especially given how much attention the game gets.

See I would think so too, but they already knew the familiarity sold well because of stuff like Rogue One. I'm worried that they're gonna overcorrect now. They need Favreau and Filoni to stand firm on their instincts because for better or worse they know their fan-service. It's all still fan-service, but it's hard to argue it's not all done pretty damn well.

Especially with the High Republic stuff, I've looked up some synopses and narrative ideas, and bought the Claudia Gray book (haven't started ut yet) but so far everything I've seen in the era just seems kinda...dull? It all feels like uninspired retreads of stuff that's come before, they're just taking from more sources at once than usual, so it's a bizarre mishmash. And all the stories so far just sound kinda tame. They basically took Outbound Flight and put a bunch of "retro" republic stuff around it haha.

I thought the one to answer Grogu's call would have been Ezra! Or, when I was really worried about the show, I was worried it was gonna be answered by the ghost of Yoda. I got especialllllllly nervous about that when they said they were going to Tython! But I'm not sure I'm more satisfied with it being Luke lol. That final episode was basically exactly what I was worried the show was gonna turn into all along. Although it seems like Grogu might just not be around for season or 3 or something? I'd be very okay with that, but I don't see how Disney could possibly financially justify doing that? But I'd rather have this safe show that connects a lot of things together than someone who actually despises the property? It won't get me excited in the way I'd necessarily want, but at least it won't actively destroy the fictional world? I guess that's a win haha.

@Papasears of course!

@RaZieLDaNtE Ahhh okay, that's more or less what I was expecting given how much shooting there is in Borderlands! I do really like seeing DualSense implementation on shooters especially, it's really impressive how different it can make every gun feel!

And you as well!

@Papasears You sure can! While aiming it's down on the D-Pad

@Hurblyburbly Given how choppy it was on the PS4 I couldn't bring myself to stay on graphics mode for too long haha. Although the ray tracing is also rock solid and stable!

@Kieren1234 Unfortunately no. Gotta start fresh. I've seen that asked a bunch. Your PS4 saves would carry over to the PS4 version on a PS5, but not the PS5 version.

@PossibLeigh Can't wait for that PS6 announce!

"The console can literally fly! All on its own! And you can ever control it if you want to!"

@PossibLeigh Was the 8K stuff talked about beyond "yeah, this has the capacity to do that?" I don't think assumed games would be able to do that outta the gate?

Gotta skip that pre-launch hype! It's basically always just a whole buncha nonsense hahaha

@Culjoseth Yeah this one seems to have caused more of a headache with which version of the game is being installed than any of the others I've seen. It having multiple version on the PS4 and then shifting that to the PS5 seems like a huge headache!

@Batty5 It's been long enough that I honestly wanted to start over again anyways haha. Loving going through it again!

@RaZieLDaNtE How'd Borderlands handle the DualSense? That's a series I don't really play, haven't heard about it though!

@vapidwolf touche lol. They've been doing a pretty good job of it so far. The success of Control's probably gonna help them in that respect too!

@PossibLeigh Well of course it's not gonna be able to hang with a rig like that. But looking at only the PS4 version for comparison this outpaces by soooo much!

@ILikeStake @Elodin Of course! Happy to help

@JapaneseSonic Ahhh, that I missed, musta been while I was asleep haha. Different time zones and such!

@JapaneseSonic lol all good! He did write the PS4 review though, which I linked, could be that too?

@GhostInAJar All my previous PS5 reviews, I think I've talked about how noticeable the controller implementation was. Standout feature on a lotta games so far in my opinion! granted, Control's version of this is less noticeable by design, it goes for nuance, but it's almost too subtle at times in my opinion!

@ILikeStake The secrets are largely collectibles, so if you don't care it might be fine to just find what you would naturally find and that's it, but for what it's worth Remedy is one of the best in the biz when it comes to collectibles. One of the only devs where I actually listen to and read anything and everything I can find! They have a devilish sense of humor! Some of the secrets are tied to unlocks and abilities too! Might be worth a secret guide at least for some of the bigger things!

@vapidwolf I didn't say it was bad so much as just not as impressive as I've seen it in other games, the stuff that Remedy did do is very much welcome! I think Sony buying Remedy would be awesome! They're my favorite dev in all of gaming, but they've historically heavily valued their freedom, so I'd imagine they'd do their damndest to stay independent. And just find publishers on a game by game basis. Like 505 for Control. I would love to see Sony lend a hand and get a new Alan Wake made though!

@Gmork___ It's not great. Base PS4 it struggles to hit 30, and on the Pro it...struggles to hit 30, but slightly less often haha

@Hopewell The app explicitly tells you which version you sent to your console I think. At least the US version of the app. I don't know if that's for all games or only devs that include that distinction though!

@Elodin Even though the PS4 version was my game of the year when it came out, I definitely recommend you hold out. Make sure you add the game to your account and then just hope you find one! The PS5 version is better by such a degree that I think the wait's worth it!

@MrSands Still more or less a mess. This version already existed on the PS4, it's just the regular game with all the DLC far as I know, all the changes are on the PS5 version

@wiiware Given how stable it runs, honestly that wouldn't surprise me!

@r3dman21 Yeah I agree 100% . It looks noticeably better cuz of the ray tracing, but the gameplay of the game makes that 60FPS mode a lot more important in my mind!

@Max2574 honestly might still be worth revisiting! The PS5 version is huge step up from the original version!

@ShaiHulud Couldn't agree more! The signage in Control is absolutely perfect. Anytime I had no idea where I was and needed to know where to go, pretty much guaranteed the sign I needed was in sight!

@GhostInAJar Oh what? This is the first game for PS5 I've played where the DualSense implementation underwhelmed me. A lot of the other games I've played, the ones where utilizing its features made sense, I was blown away!

@danlk1ng @Voltan The PS5 version runs on a newer iteration of the engine Remedy used for Control, so it's almost definitely because some of the data has been more effectively compressed and such.

@Odium The map has been changed from the PS4 day 1 version, but it's still, it's still kinda rough. It's a headache to navigate haha

@Mepics Yep yep! Whole separate list, though all the trophies are the same as last time, so no real surprises, and pretty easy platinum!

@ApostateMage WHAT IF IT MOVES

@JJ2 Very quick, could toggle in the menu super fast without having to reload or anything!

@JapaneseSonic I'm not Liam, but you're welcome

@Total_Weirdo It's not so much that it's poor as it's just not as noticeable. Some of the other shooters I've played with it have blown me away with the stuff they do with the triggers for example. Control doesn't really do much

Noticed this was happening for me a couple of days ago as well. Practically every other game seemed incorrectly labeled for a while there!

@AFCC I used to a long long time ago! Around Assassin's Creed 2, Far Cry 3, I loved the format then, but I got more and more sick of it as it went along before I more or less just gave up on their open-world games haha. I just don't have the interest to play that format from Ubisoft anymore. I do play Rainbow Six: Siege basically every day though!

@AFCC I'd probably play it before either of Watch Dogs or Valhalla haha. I'm not super keen on the whole "Ubisoft Open World Game" thing though. I think the last one of those type-a Ubisoft games I played was the first Division? It's been a bit haha

@AFCC Yeah i just really wish the action coulda been paused here and there haha.

And followed! Lotta these pictures are awesome!!!!

I had already forgotten all about Immortals! 🤣

@AFCC luckily, the game didn't have too much of a ui, so it didn't interfere with getting really nice pictures! Not really being able to pause definitely did though haha.

Ooo, care to share the link to your insta? I'd love to check those out! What was your first post?

@Kienda 🤣 any time!