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@jdv95 I posted on the other comments, but that SSD must be coming into play for this? 500 of those high detail statues in 1 room can't be in ram?

@FullbringIchigo Maybe that superfast SSD helps loading all those high detailed statues in real time. What was it? 500 in that room?

Just this minute had the credits roll on my second run of TLOU. Enjoyed it even more than the first time through. Really looking forward to part 2.

I gotta admit, that board would look good on the wall.

I'd never really understood the hype about 60fps, I just figured you wouldn't be able to tell. Movies and TV are 25fps after all.
But after reading these comments, I booted up TLOU to try the different modes. Holy crap, I can actually head shot someone with a pistol. It's so much smoother. Need to try some more now. What other games have the 60fps option?

I don't necessarily think it's about the IPs, but the talent of the studios. Whatever these lot put out next I'm interested in. Sequel or not.

I've got a UK, US and Canadian Psn account for different sales options. It's really easy to do. Chinese censorship not fond of that sort of thing maybe?

Looks great. I like that it seems like they are going to delve into the deeper moral issues of revenge/killing. Always a brushed over plot point in the Uncharted series .
And it did make me laugh in Days Gone (and don't get me wrong I love the game, 10/10 for me) when Deacon grumbles about the marauders killing, as you sneak around the ambush camps brutally slaughtering every single one of them.

Right, in my basket I have:
Forbidden Siren - £2.79
Darkwood - £5.99
Super Blood Hockey - £3.99

What do folks think of those?

@LiamCroft Your welcome. It's in the psdeals.net added today list with all the other 'Hidden Gems' games, expiring at the same time too, so it must be part of the same sale, and they must have just accidently missed it when writing the blog.

It's not on that list on the blog for some reason, but Talos Principle is an absolute bargain at £2.99 if you like puzzle games.

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EP3643-CUSA01256_00-00000000000TALOS

Added them. Cities is the kind of game I like the idea of playing more than the actual experience, but may give it a go. No personal interest in FS, but my daughter will definitely give it 10 tractors out of 10.

Over zealous copyright strikes are understandable right now. They aren't going to sit and watch everything with TLOU in the title on YT. The 10 mins of talking about the game, could still have the spoilers spliced into the middle. They are best off just nuking everything.

@ShogunRok Jokes on you. You're going to have to review Farming Simulator now

Someone posted those two games in the comments of the rumour story. How did they know?

The PS3 launch price is more like £625 in todays money too. So I don't think £400-450 is particularly unrealistic.

I've never bought a console at launch, so if I still have a job by November (seems likely, but nothing is a sure thing right now), I'm definitely going to treat myself.

Sony have done some decent stuff last few weeks ($10m indie fund, $100m Covid fund) too.

It's quite interesting how different people have different ways of thinking of the buttons. Honestly, if someone had asked me yesterday if the DS4 buttons were coloured, I wouldn't have known. It's all about the shapes, those are the iconic parts to me.

But then, is it because after 20+ years, I know that x is blue, triangle is green, without them actually being coloured.

@LieutenantFatman My favourite part was 20 minutes in to the load having to go to the toilet, then coming back to a loading error, and spending the next half hour rewinding and playing the tape to try and find the point where it went wrong.

Just completed Control. Was great to play a Remedy game again. Sam Lake is an excellent writer, so definitely interested in any big original adventure game they do.

Just adding a note for anyone looking at this review and wondering.
Completed on PS4 Pro, very occasional slowdown, mostly when coming out of the pause menu for some reason, but for the most part it runs perfectly fine, and evidently miles better than on a base PS4. Loading times a little slow, but not the worst I've seen.
Very good story led game, but the plot is dense and opaque. You have to read the files to really fill in your knowledge. I thought it did a great job of pulling you in to the world and mystery.

Just completed Control. Really good game, with no real in game performance issues on the Pro, but damn, after those load times I'm ready for a super fast SSD.

Just watched it again. He said AMD made backwards compatibility a key part of the design process, and have done a masterful job. Then he mentioned a boost mode for PS4 games, but some game code just can't handle the boost. So needs to be tested game by game. They've looked at the top 100 and results are excellent, and expect almost all of them to be playable on launch.

There are so many ways to interpret that. Is there a non boost mode where everything will work? Is that almost all of the top 100? Or almost all of the ps4 catalogue?

I'll definitely get a ps5 at some point, they have the far better exclusives, so the possible power difference is irrelevant to me. But the backwards compatibility thing will be the deciding factor on if I pick one up at launch or not.

Has anyone played Resonance of Fate? How does that hold up? £16 with PS Plus, so quite tempted.