Review made me want to play it, but I know better. After 2 years I can barely remember a single thing about it, I'd need like 20 hours to get myself reacclimated. Plus I can't b/c no PS+ and I relied on the help whenever possible, it was my "playable" mode.
May try to convince my kid to hook up their laptop to the TV so I can watch a bit though. Hope their laptop can run it, it's 2 years old, and PC games tend to like to push the envelope.
Thought this was Silksong when it first started in the Direct. 😂 To be fair I have no idea what Silksong looks like, just that my kid has been waiting for it for years.
Did remind me a bit of the Ori games, so that's a plus. Will keep an eye on it.
I was really enjoying this in the Nintendo Direct - maybe next time PushSquare can do a live feed since you're covering half the games in it anyway - and then they mentioned the word "seed" and I was out. Too. Much. Farming. Take out the farming and I was probably in. 🤷♂️
@ShogunRok Look on the bright side, the Final Fantasy 7 remake will cost ya nearly $200, and it looks like DQ HD-2D parts 1 & 2 will be a bundle for $60, so that's 3 full games for les than 2/3 the price of one FF7. 😉
I feel like all of the HD-2D games on Switch have been full price, even before they were called that w/ games like Bravely Default on 3DS, so I don't know why anyone would be surprised a full JRPG wouldn't be $60. Plus isn't $60 a discount over the normal PS5 $70 game price? 🤷♂️
Personally most of the Switch JRPG games look like 3DS games to me and none of them should be priced more than $40 like handheld games cost but that's just me, I'm a graphics snob, and Switch games cost $60. 🤑
Edit: Oh and these are priced for Japan, where they will sell b/c DQ, so maybe they'll go on sale quickly in the West?
I liked thi trailer better b/c less hot dog guy and I don’t understand his presence. I mean ok yeah I like the guy and he would fit right into any of the Lego movies but he just doesn’t seem right for Horizon.
Animal Crossing New Horizons was my first AC game and it served its purpose. So I could see me playing this if we wind up in another lock down due to another global pandemic. I also feel like it seems kind of free to play so I’m not sure I could see myself paying for it. Though it is nice for PS4 for get for those families with kids who don’t have a Switch.
We liked it. For those who can’t recall from so long ago the first Uncharted game wasn’t good, it was no more than a PS3 tech demo which of course had to have zombies b/c everything had to have zombies back then. The 2nd game was the best interactive movie I still have ever experienced, liked it much better than the 3rd game and a little better than the 4th.
So from where I’m sitting the movies are already ahead of the game b/c the 1st movie was better than the first game. Now I don’t expect the 2nd movie to be anywhere near as good as the 2nd game but if it’s as good as the 3rd game I’d be ok w/ that.
Here’s the 1thing I don’t like about the games which I really wish they could fix in the future, it’s completely out of order chronologically. Nathan doesn’t even have a brother until the 4th game. I’d really like to be able to play Nathan’s story in order. I really hated the first half of 3, it only gets enjoyable when they get picked up in the airport in the desert halfway thru the game. It would be great to play Nathan from a kid, when he has a brother, to meeting Scully, to the UK years, to the bad first game, then have all the great scripted action from games 2, 3 and 4 at the end.
So that’s what I’m hoping and expecting from further movies, great set pieces w/ Nathan and the gang. And yetis. Yetis are the best.
I dig it. Characters have a kind of "Vagrant Story" graphical angularity to them, like if they remastered that PS1 game for PS2. And the game play looks a bit Mideval so that's good. If the reviews are decent I could see dropping $20 on it. 👍
Booted it up on PS5 last night to see if I’d beaten the bloody guy in the mausoleum to use the dlc and it turned out I had. Game also reminded me I no longer have PS+ so I can’t get players in to assist me, which I did at every opportunity when I played the game, so 1 more reason not to concern myself with the dlc.
@NEStalgia Talking to you always reminds me how glad I am to be born a Gen Xer rather than a baby boomer, even if it is only by 7 months, b/c I just don't think I could survive dealing w/ people under 30 knowing I was a baby boomer. Going bald is bad enough. 😝
@PsBoxSwitchOwner " but majority of those ps4 owners will have upgraded to ps5 " " So by now that ps4 only crowd will be dropping. "
Well you're half right, the PS4 crowd is dropping, but as of 2 weeks ago there are apparently still the same amount of PS4s as PS5s being used. So it was a good guess on your part, but Sony's data says otherwise.
@ShogunRok Follow up from last comment. I got Discord linked to my PS5, didn’t need the password just scanned the QR code, technology is frightening, but I still don’t see it. The PS5 instructions said you have to start the call on your phone first then TRANSFER IT to your PS5. Which is stupid and way too much work. I’m going to go play Fortnite in my quiet.😝
@Th3solution Nah, I’m just discombobulated trying to get this thing to work. I give up. I’m too old for this nonsense.👴🏻
@NEStalgia That’s a good Discord description.👍 So where do you fit in? I feel like my kids are close to the age you were when we first met but that was like a decade ago so…😂 Discord does feel like it’s the great generational divide, with a cut off of like 25. Well 25 to start, you can use it until 30 but after that you have to get a job and a real phone plan. 🤑 You’re not still using Discord on your yearly $1,000 phones are you?😉
@ShogunRok My PS5 says it’s updated and I’m in Game Base, both the little windowed version and full screen, but I don’t see anything Discord anywhere, just party stuff. I’m in the US so maybe we didn’t get it? Maybe someone there could write a step by step guide?🤷🏻♂️ Ok maybe we need to go into Settings > Users and Accounts > Linked Services > Discord which I could do if I could remember my password. Does the PS5 Dualsense have a fingerprint reader?😂
@Olmaz Same for Discord being really obtuse to use. I can manage to use it to text, and I think I managed a phone call once, but it’s so convoluted to just do that basic stuff. My guess is they want it to be used for so many things by so many people, friends and strangers, that they made it complicated like that to make it look like even more is going on than there actually is.
I am happy for it though, both my kids use it almost exclusively to communicate with their friends so I have them each on basically a free phone plan. My wife and I just can’t use it with them. Discord did help in Montreal though, we had no phone service b/c out of country so my wife and I texted each other on it. Well whatever Discord calls sending text messages in the app, Discordinating? 🤷🏻♂️
So are we believing him? I know I do but I saw at least a few people on here surmising Lego was making the call. Oh, also, probably make a lot of sales on Switch to more than recuperate the cost.
Funny how he keeps saying things like: "We're trying to bring as broad an audience as possible" "we wanted to make sure that it was for everyone"
Yet no PS4 version, which last I checked had about double the install base of PS5, and no Xbox version of any kind. 🤷♂️
OK @Savage_Joe made the Xbox comment better than I did, but it takes me a while to type. 😂
Is there a breakdown by hardware? Just curious, no real reason.
That is an insane number considering there must have been at least a few people who avoided it b/c of the difficulty. Though I suppose a few more bought it b/c of the difficulty?
I could see it selling a few more million when they're selling a $15 Complete Edition like Witcher 3 seems to always be on sale. And the requisite PS6 remaster.
Still wish they'd put in an easy mode so I could talk my other kid into playing it, was such a great game but they'd really rather not. I made my own easy mode, 100 hours of grinding before I started doing the story, but who has time for that?
@Rich33 Definitely remember frog farming, killed way too any of those things while they were just laying there minding their own business along that fallen column. I do recall making it to the end of there thru the red swamp and having a big boss battle in a temple. My kid said they'd check out my save file w/ me later to see what's what. They said it's definitely the mausoleum b/c it has something to do w/ the story arc in the dlc. 19 yr PC game master race know-it-all. 😂
I'm at 4 or 5, which is 4 or 5 more than I thought when I clicked on the article, so that's pretty good for me. 😂
Cat Quest 3 Astrobot Visions of Mana Plucky Squire Lego Horizons
I would have probably attempted to play the Elden Ring dlc if my kid were getting it on the PS5, where we bought them the game for their birthday when it released, but they've since moved on to PC gaming so they'll be getting it there and I won't be playing it.
I'm looking forward to it, but not as much as I was before Lego Horizon was officially announced. As fun as this looks it still seems to be single player. As much as they say it wasn't designed for PSVR it doesn't look like they took advantage of that by adding in the option of a 2nd player like Sackboy Adventures.
So while I will play this at some point, unless they announce 2 player story co-op it will probably be awhile. 2 player co-op would be day 1.
Thanks everyone. The fact that no one seems to be 100% sure just goes to my point. What if you buy the DLC thinking you already beat the boss, but you beat the other similar one instead? I've had the conversation w/ my kid, who knows the game pretty well having beaten in on both PS5 at release and more recently on PC, and even they're not sure which of those I beat. I really don't recall any type of mausoleum though, and while I do recall transporting once I don't recall transporting twice. Maybe I'll boot up the ole save file later and my kid and I can try to figure it out. I'm sure they'd be willing to beat it for me if I haven't already. Not that I'm getting the dlc anyway, once was enough. 😁
Not a fan of 9, bummed they skipped 8, could really use an update where they ditch the Draw system. That’s really all I want, a functioning remastered 8, not the remaster we got.
@ShogunRok Looks good, looking forward to your review. Trials was a really fun little game, and who knows when we’re getting DQ12. I do still need to play Tales of Arise though, disc is just sitting there on my end table staring at me. So after that. Which is after GoW:R. Then this, if it reviews well. The graphics are a little too mobile and the voices are a little too grating but the game looks good.
Judging by the pic I think I beat that guy. Was he in a bloody casket at the end of a long bloody walkway? There are a couple of guys with similar names in the game. Oh and by beat I mean I probably summoned in another player, or 2, and watched them do most of the work.
So are they really selling a DLC that a lot of people may buy but won’t be able to even start it? Does the Steam refund policy cover dlc and would Sony do something similar? I’m passing on it b/c my kid is a PC gamer now so I’m not spending $40 for the PS5 version just for myself. Maybe I’ll watch the kid play a bit.
Nobody has been waiting for this game except Pushsquare, who has kept listing it coming “this year” or “next year” the past 5 or 6 years. 😂 Even the joke is getting stale now.
Any word on how many of the 5 new drivers will be voiced? It is weird driving with the new ones that aren’t.😝
I thought I would stop playing when they started requiring money for the season pass rather than the 990 S tokens but I’m still playing every day. Not ranked multiplayer as having all my drivers around level 15 but it says 9 is a real disincentive to keep playing with them. I also can’t complete the 5 weeks b/c Calhoun is needed for 2 of them but I can’t figure out a way to unlock her without paying. I have 2 of her shards of the 10 required.
One of the things I really like about this game is I still can’t figure out what currency stays and goes w/ the change of season. I have about 700,000 season coins, 70,000 level up coins, 500 S tokens and 7,000 multiplayer. Oh and a few season credits but I’ll use those. I always use the universal when I get them.
So, if my loot goes away, I’ll probably go away. Especially the level up coins, those seem difficult to come by. I do want to play as Anger though, Lewis Black is the man. Of course if he isn’t voiced then Anger is just a red troll doll and I’ll pass. Not long now.
I don’t get the “sad dad sims” thing. Sounds more like those - drive a car in the woods - indie games than GOW or TLOU. I mean I’m a sad dad and neither of those is even remotely close to a sim of my life. I will admit to thinking Sony had a “type” w/ the Uncharted look, single player 3rd person adventure games, but “sad dad sim”? Really. 😝
I was really looking forward to Astrobot until Lego Horizon showed up w/ its couch co-op, so I’ll wait to buy Lego instead, borrow Astrobot from the library, probably no more than a 10 hour game I’ll only play thru once. Unless they add co-op, then I’ll buy it.
Some of my kids friends tried this for 12 hours before they bailed. My kid passed, figuring it was too long of an ordeal. Congrats to those who beat, got their money’s worth in bragging rights.👍
I don't understand how this entire article was written about a Marvel super hero game w/o a single mention of Avengers, which surely wasn't that long ago that people still have a bad taste in their mouth from it and may give this a wide birth b/c o fit. And it's not like Suicide Squad is doing great. And free-to-start turns some people off immediately.
This all seems a bit too optimistic to me. Though I do like that it's 3rd person, but playing a team based game didn't turn out to well for me w/ Splatoon, so I'll probably avoid.
It's good we have things like this so we know who the insane console war fanbois are and we can block and ignore them, win-win.
I will admit it seems a bit odd not being on PS4, which obviously can run a Switch game, probably in both a higher resolution and frame rate, but after 3 years I suppose Sony finally figured out what "generations" are. 🤣
Not being on Xbox makes sense, that's a direct competitor. A few years or so ago several games were characterized, I think mostly by EA, as home console versions on PS/Xboxen and handheld versions on Switch. This is just Sony's way of saying - If you want a home console version of Lego Horizon, buy it on PS5, if you want a handheld portable version, buy it on Switch. Who knows, they may even market it that way at some point?
And anyone thinking this is just Horizon in Lego form didn't watch the trailer. There's a freakin talking hot dog. I don't know why, and I hope it isn't in the game, but that trailer has very little in common w/ HZD. This is not HZD being ported to Switch in a Lego skin, this is a Lego game that has Aloy in it.
After years of telling myself not to watch any more of these shows b/c it always feels like I wasted my time when it's over I finally didn't watch and really don't feel like I missed anything. I've already watched the Lego trailer and I think I'm good.
I'm glad it's on Switch, where 2 player co-op Lego games belong. I wouldn't buy i ton Switch as I'm sure it will look and play better on PS5 but I'm glad it's there.
This will probably make me hold off on Astrobot unless that too has couch co-op. My family is all about the couch co-op.
I never double dip on games but I'm counting this as something different b/c of the couch co-op. My wife watched me play the original and now she can play along.
Edit: Wow that trailer was on all the drugs. Looks very Skylanders, wasn't expecting that. If hotdog guy was player 2 I wasn't buying it though. 🤣
@GamingFan4Lyf Astro's Playroom was really good, and I'm 100% sure your daughter is way better than I was at those monkey climbing sections, just could not get the hang of those. 😂
Can confirm on my end. The little circle was there, I clicked on it, brought me to n error page that said “Something went wrong” and then when I backed out the little circle icon had just vanished. Poof. 🤷🏻♂️
Not my type of game, but neither are all the others mentioned here. I could see this doing ok on PC but not on PS5 as people aren't looking to pay $40 for a live service game, though Helldivers proves that wrong.
I guess it depends on the metrics. I do think it will do better than Foamsters and Suicide Squad, though that just gives them a slow painful death rather than a quick one. 😝
The name is generic, the look is generic, the $40 is too much, and nobody will have time for this when CoD releases. The August release may help it at the onset but I don't see it surviving.
Should probably be free w/ some level of PS+. Do you need PS+ to play this online? Probably I suppose. So many online multiplayer games do NOT need PS+, not sure how they make some of them do. 🤷♂️
@GamingFan4Lyf It doesn't take much for Anti to ban a game. Like if someone at Sony mentions Kratos in the same sentence w/ another game character all of that other characters games have to be deleted. 😂
I get the sentiment of wanting to have a safe environment, I have 2 kids of my own, but they seem so far out there they probably need professional help. But they aren't hurting anyone so... 🤷♂️
My kids birthday is mid-Sept and I know they want this so may be a gift, but they're also dollar smart and this will likely be $40 for a Black Friday sale so it might be worth it to wait. If it were couch co-op like Sackboy's Adventure it would be a certain day 1, but it's probably just single player so I'm less tempted.
Three parts is how the game played out so it would make sense to break it into 3 parts. Though really the whole concept of "season" of a tv show is really reaching it's limit when 7 episodes is a season. I'm old, 7 episodes is a "miniseries", not a series. Roots had 8 episodes, Rich Man, Poor Man had 12. That's not a season of an ongoing tv show. So when the show is over it will basically still be 1 season spread out over 4 or more years in parts. 😝
This show is going to be a mess. TV shows don't work like a video game, especially this game. I grow less and less interested. 🤷♂️
If that pic w/ the words (You can purchase more) on it is real and not just someone having a go on Reddit, then whoever said "bug" probably should be fired. But will probably be promoted to President of the company instead b/c lying and receipts don't matter anymore. 😩
@get2sammyb Thanks. I watched the first few seconds of the IGN video after posting my comment. Weird how you posted an IGN video right after they bought the company owning stock in your company even though Ant swore up and down and promised nothing would change from that big purchase that was such a non-event none of your websites even posted an article about it but here we are, watching IGN videos on PS, which I don't think I've done in my 16 years of being here. 🤷♂️
@CielloArc I don’t recall the specifics but I agree with you that 8k was always meant as movie and tv media playback, not games. I feel like Sony went through something similar with PS3 when they were promoting 1080P video playback but a lot of the early games ran at 720p and were upscaled.
Either way I feel like there aren’t enough 8k TVs out there to worry about it. Maybe by PS7 or 8.
Echoing @themightyant I don’t expect to hear anything about BG&E 2 ever again. And if we do that will be the 3rd time they talk about a game that’s never coming out.😝
What “series” is this a continuation of, Infinity, Niki, or Hoyoverse? Legit question, not a joke.🤷🏻♂️
Edit: Nevermind watched the first 10 seconds of the vid, I’m good.🤪
Some people are just anti f2p and that’s that. Probably the same people willing to pay $60 or $70 for Destiny, CoD or FIFA and then spend $100 a year on dlc, so they’re ok being milked to death that way, but tell them it’s free to start and somehow that’s worse.😂
May look into this Princess Peach Showtime the anime as I’m kind of getting bored with Speedstorm and it looks less complicated than the Hoyoverse stuff.
Though in fairness I still haven't played GoW:R yet, so I do want to play that, but on PS5, not on PC, my PC can't even upgrade to Win 11, pretty sure GoW:R would be a slideshow.
Also to be fair there's not really all that much I do want to play these days, just don't have the time or energy. I'm really looking forward to "Plucky Squire", that would have been my 2nd if that were in it, or Wolverine, or a new Uncharted, maybe w/ the daughter, but I don't tend to venture out of my comfort zone much. This would have made a good Halloween SoP and I don't really do Halloween games. Or VR.
When the trailer started w/ all the on rails flying shooter sections I died a little inside, but the great deku tree resurrected me. Then I saw him dressed as all those other characters and realized this is just LBP4, or 5 if you count Sackboy Adventure. Though I suppose that makes it Sackboy Adventure 2. 🤷🏻♂️
Wish it had co-op but it looks like they kept the same camera angle from the VR game so co-op probably wouldn’t work. It would have been day 1 w/ co-op, will probably just wait and borrow it from the library w/o. Unless my kid wants it for their birthday. Seeing a game just 3 months before release is also very Nintendo.👍
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Re: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (PS5) - Familiar FromSoftware Brilliance
Review made me want to play it, but I know better. After 2 years I can barely remember a single thing about it, I'd need like 20 hours to get myself reacclimated. Plus I can't b/c no PS+ and I relied on the help whenever possible, it was my "playable" mode.
May try to convince my kid to hook up their laptop to the TV so I can watch a bit though. Hope their laptop can run it, it's 2 years old, and PC games tend to like to push the envelope.
Re: Stylish Metroidvania MIO: Memories in Orbit Powers Up on PS5, PS4 in 2025
Thought this was Silksong when it first started in the Direct. 😂 To be fair I have no idea what Silksong looks like, just that my kid has been waiting for it for years.
Did remind me a bit of the Ori games, so that's a plus. Will keep an eye on it.
Re: Weird Pokémon, Harvest Moon Hybrid Farmagia Grows a PS5 Release
I was really enjoying this in the Nintendo Direct - maybe next time PushSquare can do a live feed since you're covering half the games in it anyway - and then they mentioned the word "seed" and I was out. Too. Much. Farming. Take out the farming and I was probably in. 🤷♂️
Re: Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake Is a Full $60 Release on PS5
@ShogunRok Look on the bright side, the Final Fantasy 7 remake will cost ya nearly $200, and it looks like DQ HD-2D parts 1 & 2 will be a bundle for $60, so that's 3 full games for les than 2/3 the price of one FF7. 😉
I feel like all of the HD-2D games on Switch have been full price, even before they were called that w/ games like Bravely Default on 3DS, so I don't know why anyone would be surprised a full JRPG wouldn't be $60. Plus isn't $60 a discount over the normal PS5 $70 game price? 🤷♂️
Personally most of the Switch JRPG games look like 3DS games to me and none of them should be priced more than $40 like handheld games cost but that's just me, I'm a graphics snob, and Switch games cost $60. 🤑
Edit: Oh and these are priced for Japan, where they will sell b/c DQ, so maybe they'll go on sale quickly in the West?
Re: Sony Game LEGO Horizon Adventures Reveals Footage in Nintendo Direct
I liked thi trailer better b/c less hot dog guy and I don’t understand his presence. I mean ok yeah I like the guy and he would fit right into any of the Lego movies but he just doesn’t seem right for Horizon.
Probably day 1 but still need a date.
Re: Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake Gets November PS5 Release, Dragon Quest 1 and 2 Remakes Coming 2025
You guys at PS are doing ok from the Direct, huh?
I did like the look of this a bit but I still think I’ll wait and hold out for DQ 12.
Re: Preview: Hello Kitty Island Adventure Could Be the Best Alternative to Animal Crossing on PS5, PS4
Animal Crossing New Horizons was my first AC game and it served its purpose. So I could see me playing this if we wind up in another lock down due to another global pandemic. I also feel like it seems kind of free to play so I’m not sure I could see myself paying for it. Though it is nice for PS4 for get for those families with kids who don’t have a Switch.
Re: As If There Was Any Doubt, a Sequel to the Uncharted Movie Has Been Confirmed
We liked it. For those who can’t recall from so long ago the first Uncharted game wasn’t good, it was no more than a PS3 tech demo which of course had to have zombies b/c everything had to have zombies back then. The 2nd game was the best interactive movie I still have ever experienced, liked it much better than the 3rd game and a little better than the 4th.
So from where I’m sitting the movies are already ahead of the game b/c the 1st movie was better than the first game. Now I don’t expect the 2nd movie to be anywhere near as good as the 2nd game but if it’s as good as the 3rd game I’d be ok w/ that.
Here’s the 1thing I don’t like about the games which I really wish they could fix in the future, it’s completely out of order chronologically. Nathan doesn’t even have a brother until the 4th game. I’d really like to be able to play Nathan’s story in order. I really hated the first half of 3, it only gets enjoyable when they get picked up in the airport in the desert halfway thru the game. It would be great to play Nathan from a kid, when he has a brother, to meeting Scully, to the UK years, to the bad first game, then have all the great scripted action from games 2, 3 and 4 at the end.
So that’s what I’m hoping and expecting from further movies, great set pieces w/ Nathan and the gang. And yetis. Yetis are the best.
Re: Cancelled Over 10 Years Ago, PS2-Era Action Game Captain Blood Returns on PS5, PS4
I dig it. Characters have a kind of "Vagrant Story" graphical angularity to them, like if they remastered that PS1 game for PS2. And the game play looks a bit Mideval so that's good. If the reviews are decent I could see dropping $20 on it. 👍
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Adds Full Discord Calls and More
@NEStalgia I'm on Insta and play Fortnite every day to fulfill my daily quotient of sex and violence, so I'm hip man, yeah I'm one hip cat, ya dig. ✌
Re: Big Elden Ring Update Adds New Features and Adjusts Balance Ahead of DLC's Release
Booted it up on PS5 last night to see if I’d beaten the bloody guy in the mausoleum to use the dlc and it turned out I had. Game also reminded me I no longer have PS+ so I can’t get players in to assist me, which I did at every opportunity when I played the game, so 1 more reason not to concern myself with the dlc.
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Adds Full Discord Calls and More
@NEStalgia Talking to you always reminds me how glad I am to be born a Gen Xer rather than a baby boomer, even if it is only by 7 months, b/c I just don't think I could survive dealing w/ people under 30 knowing I was a baby boomer. Going bald is bad enough. 😝
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Adds Full Discord Calls and More
@Slayer25c "they starting with Japan first"
Ah thanks, only read here, not the blog.
Re: LEGO Horizon Adventures Is on Nintendo Switch Because It's a Game 'For Everyone'
@PsBoxSwitchOwner " but majority of those ps4 owners will have upgraded to ps5 "
" So by now that ps4 only crowd will be dropping. "
Well you're half right, the PS4 crowd is dropping, but as of 2 weeks ago there are apparently still the same amount of PS4s as PS5s being used. So it was a good guess on your part, but Sony's data says otherwise.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/the-aging-ps4-still-has-as-many-active-users-as-the-ps5/#:~:text=The%20new%20data%20comes%20from,PS5%20units%20sold%20thus%20far.
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Adds Full Discord Calls and More
@ShogunRok Follow up from last comment. I got Discord linked to my PS5, didn’t need the password just scanned the QR code, technology is frightening, but I still don’t see it. The PS5 instructions said you have to start the call on your phone first then TRANSFER IT to your PS5. Which is stupid and way too much work. I’m going to go play Fortnite in my quiet.😝
@Th3solution Nah, I’m just discombobulated trying to get this thing to work. I give up. I’m too old for this nonsense.👴🏻
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Adds Full Discord Calls and More
@NEStalgia That’s a good Discord description.👍 So where do you fit in? I feel like my kids are close to the age you were when we first met but that was like a decade ago so…😂 Discord does feel like it’s the great generational divide, with a cut off of like 25. Well 25 to start, you can use it until 30 but after that you have to get a job and a real phone plan. 🤑 You’re not still using Discord on your yearly $1,000 phones are you?😉
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Adds Full Discord Calls and More
@ShogunRok My PS5 says it’s updated and I’m in Game Base, both the little windowed version and full screen, but I don’t see anything Discord anywhere, just party stuff. I’m in the US so maybe we didn’t get it? Maybe someone there could write a step by step guide?🤷🏻♂️ Ok maybe we need to go into Settings > Users and Accounts > Linked Services > Discord which I could do if I could remember my password. Does the PS5 Dualsense have a fingerprint reader?😂
@Olmaz Same for Discord being really obtuse to use. I can manage to use it to text, and I think I managed a phone call once, but it’s so convoluted to just do that basic stuff. My guess is they want it to be used for so many things by so many people, friends and strangers, that they made it complicated like that to make it look like even more is going on than there actually is.
I am happy for it though, both my kids use it almost exclusively to communicate with their friends so I have them each on basically a free phone plan. My wife and I just can’t use it with them. Discord did help in Montreal though, we had no phone service b/c out of country so my wife and I texted each other on it. Well whatever Discord calls sending text messages in the app, Discordinating? 🤷🏻♂️
Re: LEGO Horizon Adventures Is on Nintendo Switch Because It's a Game 'For Everyone'
So are we believing him? I know I do but I saw at least a few people on here surmising Lego was making the call. Oh, also, probably make a lot of sales on Switch to more than recuperate the cost.
Funny how he keeps saying things like:
"We're trying to bring as broad an audience as possible"
"we wanted to make sure that it was for everyone"
Yet no PS4 version, which last I checked had about double the install base of PS5, and no Xbox version of any kind. 🤷♂️
OK @Savage_Joe made the Xbox comment better than I did, but it takes me a while to type. 😂
Re: Elden Ring Hits a Staggering 25 Million Sales Ahead of Erdtree's Arrival
Is there a breakdown by hardware? Just curious, no real reason.
That is an insane number considering there must have been at least a few people who avoided it b/c of the difficulty. Though I suppose a few more bought it b/c of the difficulty?
I could see it selling a few more million when they're selling a $15 Complete Edition like Witcher 3 seems to always be on sale. And the requisite PS6 remaster.
Still wish they'd put in an easy mode so I could talk my other kid into playing it, was such a great game but they'd really rather not. I made my own easy mode, 100 hours of grinding before I started doing the story, but who has time for that?
Re: Only 35% of PS5, PS4 Elden Ring Players Have Progressed Enough to Start Shadow of the Erdtree
@Rich33 Definitely remember frog farming, killed way too any of those things while they were just laying there minding their own business along that fallen column. I do recall making it to the end of there thru the red swamp and having a big boss battle in a temple. My kid said they'd check out my save file w/ me later to see what's what. They said it's definitely the mausoleum b/c it has something to do w/ the story arc in the dlc. 19 yr PC game master race know-it-all. 😂
Re: The Rest of 2024's PS5 Release Schedule Is Finally Filling Up, and It's Looking Good
I'm at 4 or 5, which is 4 or 5 more than I thought when I clicked on the article, so that's pretty good for me. 😂
Cat Quest 3
Astrobot
Visions of Mana
Plucky Squire
Lego Horizons
I would have probably attempted to play the Elden Ring dlc if my kid were getting it on the PS5, where we bought them the game for their birthday when it released, but they've since moved on to PC gaming so they'll be getting it there and I won't be playing it.
Re: Preview: Astro Bot on PS5 Could Be the Best 3D Platformer This Side of Nintendo
I'm looking forward to it, but not as much as I was before Lego Horizon was officially announced. As fun as this looks it still seems to be single player. As much as they say it wasn't designed for PSVR it doesn't look like they took advantage of that by adding in the option of a 2nd player like Sackboy Adventures.
So while I will play this at some point, unless they announce 2 player story co-op it will probably be awhile. 2 player co-op would be day 1.
Re: Only 35% of PS5, PS4 Elden Ring Players Have Progressed Enough to Start Shadow of the Erdtree
@Mythologue @Rich33 @J2theEzzo
Thanks everyone. The fact that no one seems to be 100% sure just goes to my point. What if you buy the DLC thinking you already beat the boss, but you beat the other similar one instead? I've had the conversation w/ my kid, who knows the game pretty well having beaten in on both PS5 at release and more recently on PC, and even they're not sure which of those I beat. I really don't recall any type of mausoleum though, and while I do recall transporting once I don't recall transporting twice. Maybe I'll boot up the ole save file later and my kid and I can try to figure it out. I'm sure they'd be willing to beat it for me if I haven't already. Not that I'm getting the dlc anyway, once was enough. 😁
Re: Final Fantasy 9 Remake Is Almost Certainly Real as Another Database Leak Appears
Not a fan of 9, bummed they skipped 8, could really use an update where they ditch the Draw system. That’s really all I want, a functioning remastered 8, not the remaster we got.
Re: Very Promising Action RPG Visions of Mana Adventures to PS5, PS4 In August
@ShogunRok Looks good, looking forward to your review. Trials was a really fun little game, and who knows when we’re getting DQ12. I do still need to play Tales of Arise though, disc is just sitting there on my end table staring at me. So after that. Which is after GoW:R. Then this, if it reviews well. The graphics are a little too mobile and the voices are a little too grating but the game looks good.
Re: PSA: Most Elden Ring Players Have Yet to Beat Shadow of the Erdtree-Blocking Boss
Judging by the pic I think I beat that guy. Was he in a bloody casket at the end of a long bloody walkway? There are a couple of guys with similar names in the game. Oh and by beat I mean I probably summoned in another player, or 2, and watched them do most of the work.
So are they really selling a DLC that a lot of people may buy but won’t be able to even start it? Does the Steam refund policy cover dlc and would Sony do something similar? I’m passing on it b/c my kid is a PC gamer now so I’m not spending $40 for the PS5 version just for myself. Maybe I’ll watch the kid play a bit.
Re: Beyond Good & Evil 2 Seemingly Vapourware After Another No-Show at Ubisoft Forward
Nobody has been waiting for this game except Pushsquare, who has kept listing it coming “this year” or “next year” the past 5 or 6 years. 😂 Even the joke is getting stale now.
Re: Get the Inside Out on Disney Speedstorm's Newest PS5, PS4 Season
Any word on how many of the 5 new drivers will be voiced? It is weird driving with the new ones that aren’t.😝
I thought I would stop playing when they started requiring money for the season pass rather than the 990 S tokens but I’m still playing every day. Not ranked multiplayer as having all my drivers around level 15 but it says 9 is a real disincentive to keep playing with them. I also can’t complete the 5 weeks b/c Calhoun is needed for 2 of them but I can’t figure out a way to unlock her without paying. I have 2 of her shards of the 10 required.
One of the things I really like about this game is I still can’t figure out what currency stays and goes w/ the change of season. I have about 700,000 season coins, 70,000 level up coins, 500 S tokens and 7,000 multiplayer. Oh and a few season credits but I’ll use those. I always use the universal when I get them.
So, if my loot goes away, I’ll probably go away. Especially the level up coins, those seem difficult to come by. I do want to play as Anger though, Lewis Black is the man. Of course if he isn’t voiced then Anger is just a red troll doll and I’ll pass. Not long now.
Re: Reaction: You Said You Were Sick of PS5's Sad Dad Sims, So You Better Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
I don’t get the “sad dad sims” thing. Sounds more like those - drive a car in the woods - indie games than GOW or TLOU. I mean I’m a sad dad and neither of those is even remotely close to a sim of my life. I will admit to thinking Sony had a “type” w/ the Uncharted look, single player 3rd person adventure games, but “sad dad sim”? Really. 😝
I was really looking forward to Astrobot until Lego Horizon showed up w/ its couch co-op, so I’ll wait to buy Lego instead, borrow Astrobot from the library, probably no more than a 10 hour game I’ll only play thru once. Unless they add co-op, then I’ll buy it.
Re: Destiny 2 Clan Clears The Final Shape Raid, Unlocking Game's Final Mission
Some of my kids friends tried this for 12 hours before they bailed. My kid passed, figuring it was too long of an ordeal. Congrats to those who beat, got their money’s worth in bragging rights.👍
Re: Preview: Marvel Rivals Is Overwatch with Superheroes, But Can It Live Up to Either?
I don't understand how this entire article was written about a Marvel super hero game w/o a single mention of Avengers, which surely wasn't that long ago that people still have a bad taste in their mouth from it and may give this a wide birth b/c o fit. And it's not like Suicide Squad is doing great. And free-to-start turns some people off immediately.
This all seems a bit too optimistic to me. Though I do like that it's 3rd person, but playing a team based game didn't turn out to well for me w/ Splatoon, so I'll probably avoid.
Re: We Heard You Like Dark Fantasy Action RPGs! So, Here's WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers on PS5
@ShogunRok In the future all videogames will either be Hoyoverse or Soulslikes. I actually read this as 1 long game title.
Black Myth: Wukong, Where Winds Meet, Phantom Blade Zero
Is it just me or are you guys busier today than the SoP day? 😂
Re: Poll: Was Summer Game Fest 2024 Great or a Letdown?
@KillerBoy Don't think of it as wasting 2 hours, think of it as stroking Geoff's ego for 2 hours, I'm sure he appreciated it.
Wait, I just made it worse didn't I. 😁
Re: Some PlayStation Fans Are Losing Their Minds Over LEGO Horizon Being on Switch
It's good we have things like this so we know who the insane console war fanbois are and we can block and ignore them, win-win.
I will admit it seems a bit odd not being on PS4, which obviously can run a Switch game, probably in both a higher resolution and frame rate, but after 3 years I suppose Sony finally figured out what "generations" are. 🤣
Not being on Xbox makes sense, that's a direct competitor. A few years or so ago several games were characterized, I think mostly by EA, as home console versions on PS/Xboxen and handheld versions on Switch. This is just Sony's way of saying - If you want a home console version of Lego Horizon, buy it on PS5, if you want a handheld portable version, buy it on Switch. Who knows, they may even market it that way at some point?
And anyone thinking this is just Horizon in Lego form didn't watch the trailer. There's a freakin talking hot dog. I don't know why, and I hope it isn't in the game, but that trailer has very little in common w/ HZD. This is not HZD being ported to Switch in a Lego skin, this is a Lego game that has Aloy in it.
Re: Poll: Was Summer Game Fest 2024 Great or a Letdown?
After years of telling myself not to watch any more of these shows b/c it always feels like I wasted my time when it's over I finally didn't watch and really don't feel like I missed anything. I've already watched the Lego trailer and I think I'm good.
Re: LEGO Horizon Adventures Is Official, Out on PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch
I'm glad it's on Switch, where 2 player co-op Lego games belong. I wouldn't buy i ton Switch as I'm sure it will look and play better on PS5 but I'm glad it's there.
This will probably make me hold off on Astrobot unless that too has couch co-op. My family is all about the couch co-op.
I never double dip on games but I'm counting this as something different b/c of the couch co-op. My wife watched me play the original and now she can play along.
Edit: Wow that trailer was on all the drugs. Looks very Skylanders, wasn't expecting that. If hotdog guy was player 2 I wasn't buying it though. 🤣
Re: There's a Damn Good Reason to Buy Astro Bot Physically on PS5
@GamingFan4Lyf Astro's Playroom was really good, and I'm 100% sure your daughter is way better than I was at those monkey climbing sections, just could not get the hang of those. 😂
Re: PS Stars Program Seems to Be Offline as Mobile Icon Disappears
Can confirm on my end. The little circle was there, I clicked on it, brought me to n error page that said “Something went wrong” and then when I backed out the little circle icon had just vanished. Poof. 🤷🏻♂️
Re: Video: Is Concord Destined to Fail?
Not my type of game, but neither are all the others mentioned here. I could see this doing ok on PC but not on PS5 as people aren't looking to pay $40 for a live service game, though Helldivers proves that wrong.
I guess it depends on the metrics. I do think it will do better than Foamsters and Suicide Squad, though that just gives them a slow painful death rather than a quick one. 😝
The name is generic, the look is generic, the $40 is too much, and nobody will have time for this when CoD releases. The August release may help it at the onset but I don't see it surviving.
Should probably be free w/ some level of PS+. Do you need PS+ to play this online? Probably I suppose. So many online multiplayer games do NOT need PS+, not sure how they make some of them do. 🤷♂️
Re: There's a Damn Good Reason to Buy Astro Bot Physically on PS5
@GamingFan4Lyf It doesn't take much for Anti to ban a game. Like if someone at Sony mentions Kratos in the same sentence w/ another game character all of that other characters games have to be deleted. 😂
I get the sentiment of wanting to have a safe environment, I have 2 kids of my own, but they seem so far out there they probably need professional help. But they aren't hurting anyone so... 🤷♂️
My kids birthday is mid-Sept and I know they want this so may be a gift, but they're also dollar smart and this will likely be $40 for a Black Friday sale so it might be worth it to wait. If it were couch co-op like Sackboy's Adventure it would be a certain day 1, but it's probably just single player so I'm less tempted.
Re: Feature: Predict Summer Game Fest 2024 with Our 20 Question Quiz
Gotta say, good poll, as a lot of these fall in the range of 40-60 splits. 👍
Re: The Last of Us 2's Story Could Take Three HBO Seasons to Complete
Three parts is how the game played out so it would make sense to break it into 3 parts. Though really the whole concept of "season" of a tv show is really reaching it's limit when 7 episodes is a season. I'm old, 7 episodes is a "miniseries", not a series. Roots had 8 episodes, Rich Man, Poor Man had 12. That's not a season of an ongoing tv show. So when the show is over it will basically still be 1 season spread out over 4 or more years in parts. 😝
This show is going to be a mess. TV shows don't work like a video game, especially this game. I grow less and less interested. 🤷♂️
Re: MultiVersus PS5, PS4 Dev Underfire for 'Bug' Allowing You to Buy Extra Lives
If that pic w/ the words (You can purchase more) on it is real and not just someone having a go on Reddit, then whoever said "bug" probably should be fired. But will probably be promoted to President of the company instead b/c lying and receipts don't matter anymore. 😩
Re: Breath of the Wild Meets Style Savvy in Whimsical PS5 Open World Infinity Nikki
@get2sammyb Thanks. I watched the first few seconds of the IGN video after posting my comment. Weird how you posted an IGN video right after they bought the company owning stock in your company even though Ant swore up and down and promised nothing would change from that big purchase that was such a non-event none of your websites even posted an article about it but here we are, watching IGN videos on PS, which I don't think I've done in my 16 years of being here. 🤷♂️
Re: PS5 Packaging No Longer Mentions 8K, Some Fans Accuse Sony of False Advertising
@CielloArc I don’t recall the specifics but I agree with you that 8k was always meant as movie and tv media playback, not games. I feel like Sony went through something similar with PS3 when they were promoting 1080P video playback but a lot of the early games ran at 720p and were upscaled.
Either way I feel like there aren’t enough 8k TVs out there to worry about it. Maybe by PS7 or 8.
Re: Don't Expect GTA 6, Judas, Beyond Good and Evil 2, or Josef Fares at Summer Game Fest
Echoing @themightyant I don’t expect to hear anything about BG&E 2 ever again. And if we do that will be the 3rd time they talk about a game that’s never coming out.😝
Re: Breath of the Wild Meets Style Savvy in Whimsical PS5 Open World Infinity Nikki
@get2sammyb Couple of things.
What “series” is this a continuation of, Infinity, Niki, or Hoyoverse? Legit question, not a joke.🤷🏻♂️
Edit: Nevermind watched the first 10 seconds of the vid, I’m good.🤪
Some people are just anti f2p and that’s that. Probably the same people willing to pay $60 or $70 for Destiny, CoD or FIFA and then spend $100 a year on dlc, so they’re ok being milked to death that way, but tell them it’s free to start and somehow that’s worse.😂
May look into this Princess Peach Showtime the anime as I’m kind of getting bored with Speedstorm and it looks less complicated than the Hoyoverse stuff.
Re: Astro Bot Is the 'Biggest' Game Team ASOBI Has Ever Made
Not a fan of the name, they should have called it “Astro Bots BigAdventure” if that’s what it is.
Besides that yes.👍
Re: Poll: What Was Your Favourite Game from State of Play?
AstroBot and I don't have a 2nd.
Though in fairness I still haven't played GoW:R yet, so I do want to play that, but on PS5, not on PC, my PC can't even upgrade to Win 11, pretty sure GoW:R would be a slideshow.
Also to be fair there's not really all that much I do want to play these days, just don't have the time or energy. I'm really looking forward to "Plucky Squire", that would have been my 2nd if that were in it, or Wolverine, or a new Uncharted, maybe w/ the daughter, but I don't tend to venture out of my comfort zone much. This would have made a good Halloween SoP and I don't really do Halloween games. Or VR.
Re: Astro Bot Raises the Bar for Sony's PS Studios Intros on PS5
When the trailer started w/ all the on rails flying shooter sections I died a little inside, but the great deku tree resurrected me. Then I saw him dressed as all those other characters and realized this is just LBP4, or 5 if you count Sackboy Adventure. Though I suppose that makes it Sackboy Adventure 2. 🤷🏻♂️
Wish it had co-op but it looks like they kept the same camera angle from the VR game so co-op probably wouldn’t work. It would have been day 1 w/ co-op, will probably just wait and borrow it from the library w/o. Unless my kid wants it for their birthday. Seeing a game just 3 months before release is also very Nintendo.👍