Saw the trailer once streaming and in a theater before “Deadpool & Wolverine”, which is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen in my life so I’m the target audience for this type of film, also a big Mad Fax fan, and “Fallout” on Amazon was great, but this looked so meh. Like “ meh” was invented knowing this film was coming out. I mean I liked “Jumanji”, and this kind of looks like they were going for “Jumanji 3”, but they put out all the scenes they cut off the floor rather than the actual movie. And yes I got all of that from the trailer.🤷🏻♂️
@get2sammyb Were people walking around that snack area making comments like: “Well it could have been worse, we could have been at the Willy Wonka Experience.” 😂
So does this mean you’re back? I’m going to miss the booth babe pics. 😁
The way I see it, if you're upset that people will be able to BUY in 18 months stuff that you got free today, well maybe you need to revaluate your world view, and spend less money on virtual skins. 😂
18 months. 🙄
And that's from someone who has bene playing for 2 1/2 or 3 1/2 years (calendar time is hard at my age) and spent $8 in PSN credit abck in the beginning and has plenty of virtual items and I always have 2,000 V-bux avaible to buy anything I want. So I get the long term addiction, but it's not "somebody gets for free what you paid for", it's "somebody gets to pay what you got for free" 18 months form now.
I mean this whole comment was a waste right, I'm just incorrectly assuming anyone will care, right? 🤷♂️
Or it was just first and now the other consoles, along w/ phones, PC, video cards TVs etc, will catch up? 🤷♂️
PS5 will get a price cut when Pro launches, probably, and I would like to see it as $350 digital $400, but inflation says no. That and the "Class war" is over and working people lost, greed is good, and we're all screwed, so... 🤑
@get2sammyb "PS5 is a much better system to play on than PS4"
Yes, and that's why PS5 has sold 60 million, for the new hardware. But if you want the hardware to be constantly sold out cutting the price isn't going to do that over the long run, new games will. People know we don't get price cuts anymore, we get more expensive Pro's and $200 controllers and the 7 year old Switch w/ a new screen for $50 more. (8 year old Switch launched at $299, now $350, it set the bar.)
Waiting for a sale is wasting your time, if you want it you buy it now, that's what credit cards and payment plans are for, things don't get cheaper any more. And people would need to buy it now if it had more system selling exclusive games.
Guess we're just going to have to disagree on this one. 😁
@Th3solution I suppose I could have elaborated on "exclusives" with "system seller" exclusives. People aren't lining up to buy a PS5 for Returnal or Stellar Blade, but Spiderman 2 (forgot that one before) type games. Quality over quantity. I've owned every Sony and Nintendo console since PS1 and Gamecube but I have a 3 game rule, 3 games that I must play. PS5 is in year 4 and it barely has that. I think I bought mine b/c I finally could, and FOMO, as much as anything else.
PS5 has about as many exclusives as "New 3DS" had, and Nintendo doesn't even consider "New 3DS" anything other than a system refresh. In Sony's defense PS4 Pro has zero exclusives, and PS5 Pro (yes I do believe it's real b/c history) probably won't either, but in return PS5 has to share.
And yes, it is what the people wanted, to be able to play last gen games on PS5, backwards compatibility. But just b/c it can play last gen games doesn't mean it shouldn't have it's own next gen games. I feel like if GoW:R and HZW had stayed next gen exclusive sales could be up a bit. Without a price cut. Maybe Ghost of Tshusima 2 will keep things going. And Wolverine. (Full disclosure I'm a big Wolverine fan since his first appearance in Hulk in 1974, yes I'm that old.)
Much like PS3 was battered by Xbox 360 in the beginning but then made it's way to 80mil PS5 should do fine in the end, but for right now, games would help more than a price cut. Like a $50 price cut, sure if PS5 is $150 tomorrow it's gonna sell.😂
Not a Warhammer guy, don't really know it, but that top pic made me think of Darksiders and I like 3rd person so I may be in, if there's a stand alone campaign. Also sounds a lot like Serious Sam, which I played as much as I could considering I don't like first person.
So I'll take a 3rd person Serious Sam game w/ these graphics, but not doing anything online co-op. Guess I'll stay tuned.
From a purely perception standpoint, how can you price the ALL POWERFUL NEXT GEN CONSOLE PS5 below the 8 year old Switch handheld tablet ($349 w/ OLED screen) w/o making your home console look like a complete failure of a joke? 🤷♂️
So no, not NEED. May sell a few more, but not enough to justify the embarrassment. Blame it on inflation, or Covid, or Biden, or Brexit, but things don't get cheaper anymore, just newer and more expensive. 🤑
Anyway since I wrote this long comment this morning about it being all about the lack of games, not price, might as well repost it here. 😁
@get2sammyb Money isn't real anymore, people have crypto and record (in the US) credit card debt. What's another $400 or $500?
The PS5 needs big AAA Sony type games, Uncharted, GoW, Spiderman, Horizon, to keep releasing every year to keep the console in the news. Sony really shoved their foot way down into the back of their mouth w/ that stupid "We know generations" comment, whatever it was and how ever much it was taken out of context. The reality is the PS5 can be viewed as a PS4 Pro Phat w/ the amount of games dual released on PS4 and PS5. And we saw a list lately of top played games, and it was all stuff like Fortnite, Robolox and Minecraft, w/ the usual sports games and FPS, I'm guessing most of which are available on PS4 or PC.
PS5 is the most unnecessary console gen upgrade there's ever been, carried I'd say more by Squenix w/ FF16 and FF7 Rebirth than Sony w/ Ratchet & Clank and well what else exactly? So sure, they could drop the price and sell a few more, Fortnite looks slick on PS5, or they could have had another Uncharted ready. Or made GoW and Horizon "we know generations" exclusive.
When it's all said and done PS5 will probably be fine and hit 100mil and the gen will last 8 years like Switch, 10 years if you count all the dual releases w/ PS6 it's first couple of years, who's sales will similarly be stymied by dual releases but turn out fine in the end. Point is, it's not the price, it's the lack of exclusive 1st party big Sony AAA games. The should have had Wolverine ready last quarter, he's kind of in the news lately.
Oh, and when PS6 releases as a digital only console, remember this sentence from August 2024:
"80 per cent of all games sold across PS5, PS4 were for a digital copy, sourced from the PS Store."
The PS5 needs big AAA Sony type games, Uncharted, GoW, Spiderman, Horizon, to keep releasing every year to keep the console in the news. Sony really shoved their foot way down into the back of their mouth w/ that stupid "We know generations" comment, whatever it was and how ever much it was taken out of context. The reality is the PS5 can be viewed as a PS4 Pro Phat w/ the amount of games dual released on PS4 and PS5. And we saw a list lately of top played games, and it was all stuff like Fortnite, Robolox and Minecraft, w/ the usual sports games and FPS, I'm guessing most of which are available on PS4 or PC.
PS5 is the most unnecessary console gen upgrade there's ever been, carried I'd say more by Squenix w/ FF16 and FF7 Rebirth than Sony w/ Ratchet & Clank and well what else exactly? So sure, they could drop the price and sell a few more, Fortnite looks slick on PS5, or they could have had another Uncharted ready. Or made GoW and Horizon "we know generations" exclusive.
When it's all said and done PS5 will probably be fine and hit 100mil and the gen will last 8 years like Switch, 10 years if you count all the dual releases w/ PS6 it's first couple of years, who's sales will similarly be stymied by dual releases but turn out fine in the end. Point is, it's not the price, it's the lack of exclusive 1st party big Sony AAA games. The should have had Wolverine ready last quarter, he's kind of in the news lately.
Oh, and when PS6 releases as a digital only console, remember this sentence from August 2024:
"80 per cent of all games sold across PS5, PS4 were for a digital copy, sourced from the PS Store."
Saw all the quests this morning but didn't play, a bit annoyed I paid 1,000 V-bux for the Pirates quests which went away right quick, without my ever even getting levels 7 and 8 open, meanwhile all the other quests seemingly hang around for the season. And at least the weekly ones open each week, we don't have to do all the previous ones first, even though the weekly are free. 😝
Saw I saw these, and saw the one about the bean idols, and highlighted it thinking it would show up on the map, but it didn't, so I didn't play.
Thanks to this article if I do play tomorrow at least I'll know to go to Classy Courts to get things started. If I play. I always get bored near the end after I've made it to level 100 and finished all the story quests. 🤷♂️
@Grumblevolcano Nice call on the Switch 2 port, on top of things as always. Not like they can come out and announce a Switch 2 port of this, and let's just assume the first game, until Nintendo announces the Switch 2. Probably figured if they are porting to Switch 2 might as well add PS4, probably comparable power. Bonus points b/c I didn't think of it first.👍
@NEStalgia If anyone starts porting Switch games to Wii U then we'll know we've reached the end of the line for video game advancement. Though I'm not sure there are any games on Switch that aren't already on Wii U besides TotK and Mario Odyssey. 😝
@ShogunRok My wife and I will probably play CQ3 next week*, we just finished 2 so it's fresh, and she's a harsher critic than I am so I'll get an honest "better or worse" opinion out of her. We stopped about level 120, couldn't do the 150 caves. If this is much shorter though, 2 took us about 10 or 12 hours, than we won't be happy. your 2nd review paragraph made me sad. 😥
*Unless the library let's me renew Stellar Blade again, I read it was only a 20 hour game but I'm at 30 hours and only 43%, just got into the great desert, not even doing the side missions. 🤷♂️
"However, you can only have one ship, which both of you control, meaning that you'll either have to divvy up duties, or decide who's taking charge on the high seas."
My wife just pointed out that's how the menus and shops worked in the first game, one screen w/ both of us moving stuff about, so since we do only get 1 ship at least we can sort of take turns, which I suppose is better than only player 1 always controlling the ship while player 2 does nothing. I'll probably just let her do it, how much trouble can she get in in a ship?
You talk to the person who gave it a 9 out of 10 on sister site Nintendo Life? I never heard of them before but their profile says they work for you guys as well as NL. Not that a 7 and 9 are all that different, but they are different.
Sorry, I don't have any questions about this game as I've already pre-ordered it. I have about a million about Stellar Blade but that seems a bit off topic. 😂
@ShogunRok Thanks. But if the review doesn't mention if there is couch co-op pi-rat shipping I'm going to have to take it personally now. 😂
My guess has always been it's something lame like player 1 steers the ship and player 2 gets to hit a button to fire a canon, b/c that's what Nintendo would do. 😂
I actually pre-ordered this, which is something I almost never do b/c I'm cheap and sales are frequent and soon, but I wanted to play it with my wife as we just finished 2, as did my 2 kids playing together. The stickers and map that come w/ the boxed set are also kind of cool. In the 2nd game you could never pull back enough on the overworld map when playing the game, so I'm hoping having this paper map helps with that if they limit it the same way in the 3rd game.
@ShogunRok Did you have a chance to play it yet and is the pirate ship section limited to player 1 b/c I've never ever seen 2 ships being controlled by players at the same time in all the trailers I've watched?
Oh and if you happen to speak to them again, thank them for the couch co-op, disc version, map and stickers, in that order. 😁
Queens Blood was good, a nice step up from triple triad. I hated the card game in 9, it was like they said, "OK, how do we make triple triad too confusing and unplayable?" 😜 So I'm glad they're bringing the card game back, but hopefully it's just a game and they don't spend any time coming up w/ it's own JRPG storlyne and characters, save that for the main storyline.
Also, the protorelic minigames were all some of th eworst I've ever seen in a JRPG. Those tower defense games were almost worse than they were in the original game. And what sucks is they have one of the best side storys in the game locked being something nobody in my house wanted to slog through. We had to change it to "Easy" just to get it over with. 😩 Gilgamesh was great though. Hope they bring him back. 👍
They really need to release this on PS5, save the Complete Edition $150 remaster for PS6.
Well I get it in theory, it's just the putting the various activities into practice that I have a problem with. No flow w/ the rest of the game. Log in, open the store, scratch off card, get coffee, do a story mission. That's my day. 🤷♂️
@Yousef- Silly pun? No no Waifu is laifu, laifu is waifu. I can't unsee it.
@Malaise " Hentai and nekomata? Might as well do a bit more Googling "
I don't need to google just close my eyes I have a very overactive imagination. Saw a midnight showing of "Legend of the Overfiend" in 1989, there was no going back after that. Though after the 2nd one I had to give up hentai, I know my limits. 😂
Speaking of gyro controls, anyone know how to turn them on in Stellar Blade? I don’t need them on all the time, just for shooting. Even shooting those 6 stationary targets to find the corpse was such a slog.😝
I didn’t read that correctly until @get2sammyb said get it printed on a tee. It is a take on “ *** is life “ yes?🤷🏻♂️
Thing is, all 3 of these characters are too gray for me to even consider them waifu. I think my brain mixed up hentai and waifu awhile back. Not that I want them naked, but a little more colorful like Nekomata. Even Enby has more color than these 3. That guy is just a NPC Xenoblade character and I expect KOS-MOS. 😁
I’m still not sure how these “events” work. I filled out the survey yesterday best I could but I just don’t get it. 🤪
Anyway this update has nothing exciting for me, may be time to move on. Oh and dropping the monitor maze isn’t for me, it’s one of the more unique aspects of the game, I like it. Oh well time to go claim my polychrome code, thanks.👍
@Yousef- I read the article before reading your post, which was what I was going to write. Well I don't actually have any friends, but I read enough online to know not to play the 3rd game. And the 4th game I may have tried a demo or trial for 15 minutes and knew it wasn't for me.
Going back to the first game's style could be fun, but it will probably be a rogue lite souls like live service game.
I confused the first movie w/ something else I saw recently about some street kid fighting his way up the ranks in a tournament, which I liked, but I liked this one more I think. They all kind of start to run together after awhile. 🤷♂️
I thought this was on PS+++, not buying a PS1 game full price in 2024. 🤷♂️
I will buy PS1 games on sale though, just recently bought FF7 for like $5 and FF8 for like $8 even though I own them both on disc, the new features are nice.
I thought GoT felt like Horizon in Japan. I’m playing Stellar Blade now, w/ my wife watching a bit, and she keeps saying “this is Horizon”. I mean that first solar tower is basically a tall neck. And well the game could almost take place in the same universe.
Anyway Ghost was Horizon in Japan, with much emphasis on the Japan part. Horizon is a bit more generic open world. It’s open world Uncharted. Which itself is Dude Tomb Raider.
I feel like several games recently have seemed similar to GoT, but it’s all the Japanese based ones, not the open world ones, it’s very Japanese. Horizon is very generic open world.
I haven’t really played any of the Assassins Creed games but I did watch my kid play Immortals and there was just something a bit off about it that I don’t really compare it to anything else. Well maybe that season of Fortnite where they basically just dropped Immortals into it.
11,000 likenesses could not have been done on time without AI. AI will be replacing more and more jobs as it's used to do more and more tasks that "take too long" for humans to do.
I'm ok w/ AI doing some stuff, just as I'm ok using my microwave to reheat food rather than turning on my oven. But to say it won't be taking human jobs is a lie. Of course it won't be taking any CEO jobs, those guys need money to pay for their jet and yacht fuel. 🤑
I think the only way to look at these ridiculous number purchases, I mean come on did $3.6B in any currency actually exchange hands or is this all stock swap make believe, is look to see how much Sony’s stock price went up or down when they made the deal and how much it goes up or down with this announcement, b/c while it’s real for all the people getting fired and the few executives making millions the rest of the $3.6B isn’t real money and Sony will likely be just fine.
Does look like a bad purchase at any price though.🤷🏻♂️
Looking forward to this one. As much as I don't like the 2D-HD look so many JRPG have these days I'm also getting kind of burnt out on "photorealistic" and sometimes just want to play something colorful and fun.
Good timing for the release of this one while DQ12 hides away some where until who knows when.
“ Bungie to Layoff 220 Employees, Will Be Further Integrated into Sony “
I’m a little confused, are some of the 220 in the title being integrated into Sony, or are those 220 gone and the additional 155 mentioned in the article moving over to Sony? If it’s the latter perhaps the title forgot the 155 and should have read:
“Bungie to Layoff 220 Employees, an Additional 155 Will Be Further Integrated into Sony” 🤷🏻♂️
Edit: Ok after reading over the title an additional half dozen times I suppose everything after the comma , is referring to Bingie being integrated into Sony, not any of the 220.
“Bungie to Layoff 220 Employees, Developer Will Be Further Integrated into Sony”
@get2sammyb So I'm up at 7:30 looking for the ZZZ live stream on YT and it isn't until Saturday. 😩 No way no how I'll be up out of bed at 7:30 on a Saturday. 😂
I know you guys use a different temp over there, wherever there is for you these days, but what about humidity and dew point? It's currently 81', which isn't bad, but 81% humidity and 76 dew point. I'm basically drowning as I breathe, which is why I'm up, couldn't sleep. Hopefully it's nicer by you.
@get2sammyb Couple of Stellar Blade related things.
1, I am really enjoying it, 23% in, getting ready to leave axion and head to the wasteland for the first time. 2. Doesn’t seem to be any gyro for the ranged weapon, took me way to many shots to get thru the 3 target tutorial, so we’ll have to see if I can hit anything in the heat of battle. 3. I think I found out what is going on with the comments we spoke about earlier, the article with this title: “NEWS Stellar Blade's Eve Is Ready for the Summer in New Swimsuits Update for PS5“ links back to this article, not it’s own. Not that suits matter to me if they don’t affect gameplay, just looks. Might be nice for photo mode but I’m busy trying to survive. I do really enjoy the music but my wife doesn’t, she’s not really a smooth jazz kind of gal.
Time for bed, enjoy the ZZZ show. I’m currently playing 3 games b/c of you, this, ZZZ and Fortnite still. No tennis though, I have my limits.😂
@get2sammyb Thanks about the English, 7:30 will hopefully still be too early though as I'll likely still be sleeping. Maybe if I'm up. I promise to read and comment on whatever article you write about it though. 😁
Thanks, just downloaded it from the app to my PS5, found it no problem. Will probably wait to play it until I finish Stellar Blade in another week or so.
@jrt87 “ 'loads to do and see' equates to being enjoyable? “
I think the “loads to do and see” has less to do with “being enjoyable” and more to do with giving people “their moneys worth”. Not everyone wants to pay $70 for a 12 hour game but tell them there’s 40 hours of content and maybe they’ll pony up.
@Haruki_NLI Trademark “porn and pulls” right now pronto then sue MiHoYo when they change their name to it. 😂
I’ve played ZZZ for about 30 hours and it really doesn’t seem all that porn and pull to me. I mean I really can’t see any reason why anyone would feel the need to spend any money at all on it. And I haven’t really been grinding either. I am also playing Stellar Blade which has the porn thing covered, or uncovered as the case may be. And Disney Speedstorm has turned into the worst free-to-start game I’ve ever come across. They’re still calling it free to play but half of it is locked behind a paywall that no amount of grinding can overcome, and it’s so in your face. ZZZ has 80 different screens showing stuff and I think only 1, maybe 2, actually let you spend money.
So maybe that’s what MiHoYo has going for it, it’s a little pully and a little porny but neither is really in your face so they almost cancel each other out. 🤷🏻♂️
I’m not watching this at 7:30 in the morning, will it even be in English, but I’m PS will cover it well enough for me to check out later.
This reminds me of Sonys $500 3D display, not a monitor, not a tv, a display, that went down to $300 right quick. People may complain about the lack of PS VR2 games but I bet there are more of those than there were 3D games. 😂
@NEStalgia " Sadly with a game list like that, you are the best Judge...that's the sad part, you're now the whole PS market "
Yeah this really is a sorry lame excuse for a console generation where each game takes 5 years to make, 10 if you're remaking a 20 year old FF game. 😜 Sony has been living off of 1 game a year, which was Uncharted, GoW, Horizon, Spiderman w/ some Infamous and Ratchet & Clank to keep things flowing, but now it feels like we're just waiting for Wolverine. And like, that's it? 🤷♂️
Ok we know Horizon 3, Spiderman 3 and Ghost of Tsushima 2 are coming, but they haven't been technically announced yet that I'm aware of, so maybe dual releases w/ PS6?🤷♂️
$500 is a lot of money to play all of my PS4 games in 4k w/ faster loading times. I really don't know how they'll sell PS6 b/c I don't see 8k TVs catching on for a long while yet, a lot of cable/steaming TV isn't even caught up to 4k yet. I really don't think I need graphics better than we have now. How much bouncier can boobies get? 🤣
So while I do think PS5 will outsell PS3 and probably break 100mil, so no worries from me there, I really don't know how they sell PS6. Maybe the PS5 Wolverine dlc will be exclusive to PS6 and contain Deadpool voiced by Ryan Reynolds? (Have I ever mentioned that I HATE when dlc is locked behind next gen versions?🤬)
@NEStalgia " I can't imagine why Sony's struggling to move $500 machines to play gatcha games on. No idea at all... "
Maybe they need some gatcha games on $600 PR VR2. 🤑
I wouldn't say they're "struggling" though, despite the last bad quarter, it's basically in line w/ 115 million seller PS4, and that was back when Sony actually really did know what "generations" meant. 😜
My PS5 is currently used to play Fortnite, Disney Speedstorm, Zenless Zone Zero (now that I finally figured out the convoluted mess that is character leveling up) and Steller Blade which I borrowed from the library. So I'm probably not the best judge.😁
I just looked it up, you probably replied before my edit, and that translates to " The Legend of the Sacred Sword ", but we got "FF Adventure" in the West? Who's in charge of this stuff. 😜
@get2sammyb If for some reason you ever decide to continue writing your guide for ZZZ may I suggest hitting up @ATaco and @Carck for some pointers. Took me reading both of their comments and putting them together to finally figure out what I think is the most important aspect of the game, Agent leveling up, or as the game calls it Promotion. Despite playing on Easy Story Mode I was stuck with all my Agents at level 20 b/c I had “Insufficient items” and couldn’t figure out how to get them, but thanks to messing around and reading the comments I finally figured it out. And dying and failing all of the level 25 and 26 missions was not fun.😝
So here goes.
Access your Agents by either: L2 and Square, or, Options button, select Agents
Select the Agent you want to Promote, then with Base Stats and their LV highlighted, go to the promotion screen, then hit R3 to highlight the required item icon, then Item details, then choose either “Craft” or Combat Simulation to teleport to a Challenge Level screen (which takes places in HIA using Berthas VR machine). The game seems to highlight which fight you need this way. Then fight, using up your batteries, you can get free every day from drinking coffee.
Or, go to HIA using R1 and choose HIA Club, then talk to Bertha, then choose “Agent Promotion”, and the fight of your choice to get the items you need and some items to craft the items you actually need, ugh. Oh and choose how many waves to fight, the more waves the more items.
Edit: Or, With L2 and X, or the Options button, or Errands book in the back of the store, go into your Z Compendium, then under Training choose “Combat Simulation” and Agent Promotion” which will bring you to the battle screen.
Why have 1 way to do something when you can have 3 or 4 or 5? 😁
And that’s all I’m doing to try and get thru the other 48% of this game.
@NEStalgia “ Square-Enix still makes like 70% of the games I want to play. “
And the other 30% are Kingdom Hearts. 😂
Looking forward to this one. Enjoyed the last, which I thought was called “Visions of Mana” but I suppose was something else. 🤷🏻♂️ I’m just calling all JRPG not FF or DQ “Tales of Mana” from now on, that seems to cover most of the ones I want to play. Or as my wife calls them “The JRPG With the Tree”. 🤪
Edit: OK last 1 I played was “Trials of Mana”, and “Tales of Arise” is still around here in the box somewhere, that’s next after GoW:R, then this when it’s on sale for $20, shouldn’t take long.😁
Another day another Astro Bot, but I’ll give you this one.😁
Not sure I can give Sony $80, EIGHTY dollars, for a controller though. Normal is $70, colored is $75, and $80 for this? If it’s $80 so they can sell a game and controller bundle for $119 and have it look like a real savings ok, but not stand alone. And like some other people here we have stuck drift in 2 of 3 controllers,so I need another 1, but not for $80. 🤑
@NEStalgia This is the most Nintendo Switch looking game I’ve ever seen not on Switch. “Princess Peach Explores the GatchaStation” will be some reviewers subtitle.
The next “Stellar Blade” should be a free to play rogue lite Souls like Metroidvania and it will be the last game we ever need. Or get, humanity’s extinction feels nigh.
Though I suppose this is the big 1st party Sony game for the holiday so we need an article a day until they show some “Wolverine” footage. If only there was something else having to do with Wolverine going on in the world they could piggyback off of? 🤷🏻♂️
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Re: PSA: Buying The Exit 8 on PS5? Don't Get Ripped Off by The Exit 9
Playstation store needs some "Gad of War" and "Sp1derman" games, see if Sony does anything about those. 😝
Re: Movie Review: Borderlands - As Bland As the Brand It's Based On
Saw the trailer once streaming and in a theater before “Deadpool & Wolverine”, which is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen in my life so I’m the target audience for this type of film, also a big Mad Fax fan, and “Fallout” on Amazon was great, but this looked so meh. Like “ meh” was invented knowing this film was coming out. I mean I liked “Jumanji”, and this kind of looks like they were going for “Jumanji 3”, but they put out all the scenes they cut off the floor rather than the actual movie. And yes I got all of that from the trailer.🤷🏻♂️
@get2sammyb Were people walking around that snack area making comments like: “Well it could have been worse, we could have been at the Willy Wonka Experience.” 😂
So does this mean you’re back? I’m going to miss the booth babe pics. 😁
Re: Fortnite Adds Option to Buy Its Battle Pass Rewards After 18 Months
The way I see it, if you're upset that people will be able to BUY in 18 months stuff that you got free today, well maybe you need to revaluate your world view, and spend less money on virtual skins. 😂
18 months. 🙄
And that's from someone who has bene playing for 2 1/2 or 3 1/2 years (calendar time is hard at my age) and spent $8 in PSN credit abck in the beginning and has plenty of virtual items and I always have 2,000 V-bux avaible to buy anything I want. So I get the long term addiction, but it's not "somebody gets for free what you paid for", it's "somebody gets to pay what you got for free" 18 months form now.
I mean this whole comment was a waste right, I'm just incorrectly assuming anyone will care, right? 🤷♂️
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
@Porco " the switch is certainly an anomaly "
Or it was just first and now the other consoles, along w/ phones, PC, video cards TVs etc, will catch up? 🤷♂️
PS5 will get a price cut when Pro launches, probably, and I would like to see it as $350 digital $400, but inflation says no. That and the "Class war" is over and working people lost, greed is good, and we're all screwed, so... 🤑
Re: PS5 Sales Reach 60 Million Milestone, Now at 61.7 Million Consoles Sold
@get2sammyb "PS5 is a much better system to play on than PS4"
Yes, and that's why PS5 has sold 60 million, for the new hardware. But if you want the hardware to be constantly sold out cutting the price isn't going to do that over the long run, new games will. People know we don't get price cuts anymore, we get more expensive Pro's and $200 controllers and the 7 year old Switch w/ a new screen for $50 more. (8 year old Switch launched at $299, now $350, it set the bar.)
Waiting for a sale is wasting your time, if you want it you buy it now, that's what credit cards and payment plans are for, things don't get cheaper any more. And people would need to buy it now if it had more system selling exclusive games.
Guess we're just going to have to disagree on this one. 😁
Re: PS5 Sales Reach 60 Million Milestone, Now at 61.7 Million Consoles Sold
@Th3solution I suppose I could have elaborated on "exclusives" with "system seller" exclusives. People aren't lining up to buy a PS5 for Returnal or Stellar Blade, but Spiderman 2 (forgot that one before) type games. Quality over quantity. I've owned every Sony and Nintendo console since PS1 and Gamecube but I have a 3 game rule, 3 games that I must play. PS5 is in year 4 and it barely has that. I think I bought mine b/c I finally could, and FOMO, as much as anything else.
PS5 has about as many exclusives as "New 3DS" had, and Nintendo doesn't even consider "New 3DS" anything other than a system refresh. In Sony's defense PS4 Pro has zero exclusives, and PS5 Pro (yes I do believe it's real b/c history) probably won't either, but in return PS5 has to share.
And yes, it is what the people wanted, to be able to play last gen games on PS5, backwards compatibility. But just b/c it can play last gen games doesn't mean it shouldn't have it's own next gen games. I feel like if GoW:R and HZW had stayed next gen exclusive sales could be up a bit. Without a price cut. Maybe Ghost of Tshusima 2 will keep things going. And Wolverine. (Full disclosure I'm a big Wolverine fan since his first appearance in Hulk in 1974, yes I'm that old.)
Much like PS3 was battered by Xbox 360 in the beginning but then made it's way to 80mil PS5 should do fine in the end, but for right now, games would help more than a price cut. Like a $50 price cut, sure if PS5 is $150 tomorrow it's gonna sell.😂
Re: Preview: Space Marine 2 Is a PS5 Blockbuster That's Worth the Hype
Not a Warhammer guy, don't really know it, but that top pic made me think of Darksiders and I like 3rd person so I may be in, if there's a stand alone campaign. Also sounds a lot like Serious Sam, which I played as much as I could considering I don't like first person.
So I'll take a 3rd person Serious Sam game w/ these graphics, but not doing anything online co-op. Guess I'll stay tuned.
Re: Reaction: PS5 Needs a Price Cut
From a purely perception standpoint, how can you price the ALL POWERFUL NEXT GEN CONSOLE PS5 below the 8 year old Switch handheld tablet ($349 w/ OLED screen) w/o making your home console look like a complete failure of a joke? 🤷♂️
So no, not NEED. May sell a few more, but not enough to justify the embarrassment. Blame it on inflation, or Covid, or Biden, or Brexit, but things don't get cheaper anymore, just newer and more expensive. 🤑
Anyway since I wrote this long comment this morning about it being all about the lack of games, not price, might as well repost it here. 😁
@get2sammyb Money isn't real anymore, people have crypto and record (in the US) credit card debt. What's another $400 or $500?
https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/study/credit-card-debt-statistics/
The PS5 needs big AAA Sony type games, Uncharted, GoW, Spiderman, Horizon, to keep releasing every year to keep the console in the news. Sony really shoved their foot way down into the back of their mouth w/ that stupid "We know generations" comment, whatever it was and how ever much it was taken out of context. The reality is the PS5 can be viewed as a PS4 Pro Phat w/ the amount of games dual released on PS4 and PS5. And we saw a list lately of top played games, and it was all stuff like Fortnite, Robolox and Minecraft, w/ the usual sports games and FPS, I'm guessing most of which are available on PS4 or PC.
PS5 is the most unnecessary console gen upgrade there's ever been, carried I'd say more by Squenix w/ FF16 and FF7 Rebirth than Sony w/ Ratchet & Clank and well what else exactly? So sure, they could drop the price and sell a few more, Fortnite looks slick on PS5, or they could have had another Uncharted ready. Or made GoW and Horizon "we know generations" exclusive.
When it's all said and done PS5 will probably be fine and hit 100mil and the gen will last 8 years like Switch, 10 years if you count all the dual releases w/ PS6 it's first couple of years, who's sales will similarly be stymied by dual releases but turn out fine in the end. Point is, it's not the price, it's the lack of exclusive 1st party big Sony AAA games. The should have had Wolverine ready last quarter, he's kind of in the news lately.
Oh, and when PS6 releases as a digital only console, remember this sentence from August 2024:
"80 per cent of all games sold across PS5, PS4 were for a digital copy, sourced from the PS Store."
Re: PS5 Sales Reach 60 Million Milestone, Now at 61.7 Million Consoles Sold
@get2sammyb Money isn't real anymore, people have crypto and record (in the US) credit card debt. What's another $400 or $500?
https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/study/credit-card-debt-statistics/
The PS5 needs big AAA Sony type games, Uncharted, GoW, Spiderman, Horizon, to keep releasing every year to keep the console in the news. Sony really shoved their foot way down into the back of their mouth w/ that stupid "We know generations" comment, whatever it was and how ever much it was taken out of context. The reality is the PS5 can be viewed as a PS4 Pro Phat w/ the amount of games dual released on PS4 and PS5. And we saw a list lately of top played games, and it was all stuff like Fortnite, Robolox and Minecraft, w/ the usual sports games and FPS, I'm guessing most of which are available on PS4 or PC.
PS5 is the most unnecessary console gen upgrade there's ever been, carried I'd say more by Squenix w/ FF16 and FF7 Rebirth than Sony w/ Ratchet & Clank and well what else exactly? So sure, they could drop the price and sell a few more, Fortnite looks slick on PS5, or they could have had another Uncharted ready. Or made GoW and Horizon "we know generations" exclusive.
When it's all said and done PS5 will probably be fine and hit 100mil and the gen will last 8 years like Switch, 10 years if you count all the dual releases w/ PS6 it's first couple of years, who's sales will similarly be stymied by dual releases but turn out fine in the end. Point is, it's not the price, it's the lack of exclusive 1st party big Sony AAA games. The should have had Wolverine ready last quarter, he's kind of in the news lately.
Oh, and when PS6 releases as a digital only console, remember this sentence from August 2024:
"80 per cent of all games sold across PS5, PS4 were for a digital copy, sourced from the PS Store."
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Re: The Seemingly Inevitable Fortnite, Fall Guys Crossover Is Now Upon Us
Saw all the quests this morning but didn't play, a bit annoyed I paid 1,000 V-bux for the Pirates quests which went away right quick, without my ever even getting levels 7 and 8 open, meanwhile all the other quests seemingly hang around for the season. And at least the weekly ones open each week, we don't have to do all the previous ones first, even though the weekly are free. 😝
Saw I saw these, and saw the one about the bean idols, and highlighted it thinking it would show up on the map, but it didn't, so I didn't play.
Thanks to this article if I do play tomorrow at least I'll know to go to Classy Courts to get things started. If I play. I always get bored near the end after I've made it to level 100 and finished all the story quests. 🤷♂️
Re: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Studio Really Will Try and Port the Game to PS4
@Grumblevolcano Nice call on the Switch 2 port, on top of things as always. Not like they can come out and announce a Switch 2 port of this, and let's just assume the first game, until Nintendo announces the Switch 2. Probably figured if they are porting to Switch 2 might as well add PS4, probably comparable power. Bonus points b/c I didn't think of it first.👍
@NEStalgia If anyone starts porting Switch games to Wii U then we'll know we've reached the end of the line for video game advancement. Though I'm not sure there are any games on Switch that aren't already on Wii U besides TotK and Mario Odyssey. 😝
Re: Cat Quest 3 (PS5) - Fun, Seafaring RPG Doesn't Quite Match Its Pawesome Predecessor
@ShogunRok My wife and I will probably play CQ3 next week*, we just finished 2 so it's fresh, and she's a harsher critic than I am so I'll get an honest "better or worse" opinion out of her. We stopped about level 120, couldn't do the 150 caves. If this is much shorter though, 2 took us about 10 or 12 hours, than we won't be happy. your 2nd review paragraph made me sad. 😥
*Unless the library let's me renew Stellar Blade again, I read it was only a 20 hour game but I'm at 30 hours and only 43%, just got into the great desert, not even doing the side missions. 🤷♂️
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/97758
Re: Cat Quest 3 (PS5) - Fun, Seafaring RPG Doesn't Quite Match Its Pawesome Predecessor
@ShogunRok " Co-op only allows for one ship "
I feel seen. Unhappy, not surprised, but seen.
"However, you can only have one ship, which both of you control, meaning that you'll either have to divvy up duties, or decide who's taking charge on the high seas."
My wife just pointed out that's how the menus and shops worked in the first game, one screen w/ both of us moving stuff about, so since we do only get 1 ship at least we can sort of take turns, which I suppose is better than only player 1 always controlling the ship while player 2 does nothing. I'll probably just let her do it, how much trouble can she get in in a ship?
You talk to the person who gave it a 9 out of 10 on sister site Nintendo Life? I never heard of them before but their profile says they work for you guys as well as NL. Not that a 7 and 9 are all that different, but they are different.
https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/cat-quest-iii
Sorry, I don't have any questions about this game as I've already pre-ordered it. I have about a million about Stellar Blade but that seems a bit off topic. 😂
Re: Interview: Cat Quest 3 Dev on the Success of Its Delightful RPG Series, and What's Next for the Studio
@ShogunRok Thanks. But if the review doesn't mention if there is couch co-op pi-rat shipping I'm going to have to take it personally now. 😂
My guess has always been it's something lame like player 1 steers the ship and player 2 gets to hit a button to fire a canon, b/c that's what Nintendo would do. 😂
Re: Interview: Cat Quest 3 Dev on the Success of Its Delightful RPG Series, and What's Next for the Studio
I actually pre-ordered this, which is something I almost never do b/c I'm cheap and sales are frequent and soon, but I wanted to play it with my wife as we just finished 2, as did my 2 kids playing together. The stickers and map that come w/ the boxed set are also kind of cool. In the 2nd game you could never pull back enough on the overworld map when playing the game, so I'm hoping having this paper map helps with that if they limit it the same way in the 3rd game.
@ShogunRok Did you have a chance to play it yet and is the pirate ship section limited to player 1 b/c I've never ever seen 2 ships being controlled by players at the same time in all the trailers I've watched?
Oh and if you happen to speak to them again, thank them for the couch co-op, disc version, map and stickers, in that order. 😁
Re: Queen's Blood Confirmed for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Sequel, CCG to Be Expanded
Queens Blood was good, a nice step up from triple triad. I hated the card game in 9, it was like they said, "OK, how do we make triple triad too confusing and unplayable?" 😜 So I'm glad they're bringing the card game back, but hopefully it's just a game and they don't spend any time coming up w/ it's own JRPG storlyne and characters, save that for the main storyline.
Also, the protorelic minigames were all some of th eworst I've ever seen in a JRPG. Those tower defense games were almost worse than they were in the original game. And what sucks is they have one of the best side storys in the game locked being something nobody in my house wanted to slog through. We had to change it to "Easy" just to get it over with. 😩 Gilgamesh was great though. Hope they bring him back. 👍
They really need to release this on PS5, save the Complete Edition $150 remaster for PS6.
Re: Two New Waifus, Selfies, and a Ton of Events Front Zenless Zone Zero's First PS5 Update
@get2sammyb " gameplay activities "
Well I get it in theory, it's just the putting the various activities into practice that I have a problem with. No flow w/ the rest of the game. Log in, open the store, scratch off card, get coffee, do a story mission. That's my day. 🤷♂️
@Yousef- Silly pun? No no Waifu is laifu, laifu is waifu. I can't unsee it.
@Malaise " Hentai and nekomata? Might as well do a bit more Googling "
I don't need to google just close my eyes I have a very overactive imagination. Saw a midnight showing of "Legend of the Overfiend" in 1989, there was no going back after that. Though after the 2nd one I had to give up hentai, I know my limits. 😂
Re: Epic Mickey Rebrushed Looks Magical, Has Gyro Controls on PS5, PS4
Speaking of gyro controls, anyone know how to turn them on in Stellar Blade? I don’t need them on all the time, just for shooting. Even shooting those 6 stationary targets to find the corpse was such a slog.😝
Re: Two New Waifus, Selfies, and a Ton of Events Front Zenless Zone Zero's First PS5 Update
@Yousef- “ waifu is laifu “
I didn’t read that correctly until @get2sammyb said get it printed on a tee. It is a take on “ *** is life “ yes?🤷🏻♂️
Thing is, all 3 of these characters are too gray for me to even consider them waifu. I think my brain mixed up hentai and waifu awhile back. Not that I want them naked, but a little more colorful like Nekomata. Even Enby has more color than these 3. That guy is just a NPC Xenoblade character and I expect KOS-MOS. 😁
I’m still not sure how these “events” work. I filled out the survey yesterday best I could but I just don’t get it. 🤪
Anyway this update has nothing exciting for me, may be time to move on. Oh and dropping the monitor maze isn’t for me, it’s one of the more unique aspects of the game, I like it. Oh well time to go claim my polychrome code, thanks.👍
Re: Well-Liked Action Series Darksiders Will Ride Again in New PS5 Game
@Yousef- I read the article before reading your post, which was what I was going to write. Well I don't actually have any friends, but I read enough online to know not to play the 3rd game. And the 4th game I may have tried a demo or trial for 15 minutes and knew it wasn't for me.
Going back to the first game's style could be fun, but it will probably be a rogue lite souls like live service game.
Re: Kitana's Only Fan Leaks in First Mortal Kombat 2 Movie Image
I confused the first movie w/ something else I saw recently about some street kid fighting his way up the ranks in a tournament, which I liked, but I liked this one more I think. They all kind of start to run together after awhile. 🤷♂️
Dug the Only Fan pun. 🤣
Re: Ignore the Story and Card-en-Ciel May Be a Fun PS5, PS4 Deckbuilder
"Card Incel" what now?
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Tomba! Special Edition?
I thought this was on PS+++, not buying a PS1 game full price in 2024. 🤷♂️
I will buy PS1 games on sale though, just recently bought FF7 for like $5 and FF8 for like $8 even though I own them both on disc, the new features are nice.
Re: This Could Be Your First Look at the PS5 Game from Sony's Newly Established PS Studio
Isn't that just a Fortnite loading screen? 🤷♂️
Re: Sony Boss Hermen Hulst Allegedly Taking Control of Bungie as Ex-Employees Call for Current CEO to Leave
Sounds like “Bungie” the company is done to me. Maybe not today or tomorrow but in a decade nobody is going to say they “work at Bungie” anymore.
Re: Ghost of Tsushima Now Considered a Major Influence for Big Open World Games
I thought GoT felt like Horizon in Japan. I’m playing Stellar Blade now, w/ my wife watching a bit, and she keeps saying “this is Horizon”. I mean that first solar tower is basically a tall neck. And well the game could almost take place in the same universe.
Anyway Ghost was Horizon in Japan, with much emphasis on the Japan part. Horizon is a bit more generic open world. It’s open world Uncharted. Which itself is Dude Tomb Raider.
I feel like several games recently have seemed similar to GoT, but it’s all the Japanese based ones, not the open world ones, it’s very Japanese. Horizon is very generic open world.
I haven’t really played any of the Assassins Creed games but I did watch my kid play Immortals and there was just something a bit off about it that I don’t really compare it to anything else. Well maybe that season of Fortnite where they basically just dropped Immortals into it.
Re: EA Sports College Football 25's Level of Detail Only Possible Through the 'Power of AI', Says EA
Both things can be true.
11,000 likenesses could not have been done on time without AI.
AI will be replacing more and more jobs as it's used to do more and more tasks that "take too long" for humans to do.
I'm ok w/ AI doing some stuff, just as I'm ok using my microwave to reheat food rather than turning on my oven. But to say it won't be taking human jobs is a lie. Of course it won't be taking any CEO jobs, those guys need money to pay for their jet and yacht fuel. 🤑
Re: Reaction: Sony's Billion Dollar Bungie Buyout Is Looking More and More Like a Blunder
I think the only way to look at these ridiculous number purchases, I mean come on did $3.6B in any currency actually exchange hands or is this all stock swap make believe, is look to see how much Sony’s stock price went up or down when they made the deal and how much it goes up or down with this announcement, b/c while it’s real for all the people getting fired and the few executives making millions the rest of the $3.6B isn’t real money and Sony will likely be just fine.
Does look like a bad purchase at any price though.🤷🏻♂️
Re: Sony to Establish Brand New PS Studios Team for PS5 Sci-Fi Action Game
"Born out of Bungie"
Born? More like ripped out the burning corpse on the funeral pyre. 🔥
Re: Hands On: Visions of Mana Is Far From Revolutionary, But It Should Still Be a Rock Solid Action RPG
Looking forward to this one. As much as I don't like the 2D-HD look so many JRPG have these days I'm also getting kind of burnt out on "photorealistic" and sometimes just want to play something colorful and fun.
Good timing for the release of this one while DQ12 hides away some where until who knows when.
Re: Bungie to Layoff 220 Employees, Will Be Further Integrated into Sony
“ Bungie to Layoff 220 Employees, Will Be Further Integrated into Sony “
I’m a little confused, are some of the 220 in the title being integrated into Sony, or are those 220 gone and the additional 155 mentioned in the article moving over to Sony? If it’s the latter perhaps the title forgot the 155 and should have read:
“Bungie to Layoff 220 Employees, an Additional 155 Will Be Further Integrated into Sony” 🤷🏻♂️
Edit: Ok after reading over the title an additional half dozen times I suppose everything after the comma , is referring to Bingie being integrated into Sony, not any of the 220.
“Bungie to Layoff 220 Employees, Developer Will Be Further Integrated into Sony”
Re: Stellar Blade's New Summer Song Is a Vibe on PS5
@get2sammyb " I put some redirects on the older articles "
Ah, well that explains it then, thanks, it's not just me.
Re: What's Next for PS5 Smash Hit Action RPG Zenless Zone Zero?
@get2sammyb So I'm up at 7:30 looking for the ZZZ live stream on YT and it isn't until Saturday. 😩 No way no how I'll be up out of bed at 7:30 on a Saturday. 😂
I know you guys use a different temp over there, wherever there is for you these days, but what about humidity and dew point? It's currently 81', which isn't bad, but 81% humidity and 76 dew point. I'm basically drowning as I breathe, which is why I'm up, couldn't sleep. Hopefully it's nicer by you.
Re: Stellar Blade's New Summer Song Is a Vibe on PS5
@get2sammyb Couple of Stellar Blade related things.
1, I am really enjoying it, 23% in, getting ready to leave axion and head to the wasteland for the first time.
2. Doesn’t seem to be any gyro for the ranged weapon, took me way to many shots to get thru the 3 target tutorial, so we’ll have to see if I can hit anything in the heat of battle.
3. I think I found out what is going on with the comments we spoke about earlier, the article with this title: “NEWS Stellar Blade's Eve Is Ready for the Summer in New Swimsuits Update for PS5“ links back to this article, not it’s own.
Not that suits matter to me if they don’t affect gameplay, just looks. Might be nice for photo mode but I’m busy trying to survive. I do really enjoy the music but my wife doesn’t, she’s not really a smooth jazz kind of gal.
Time for bed, enjoy the ZZZ show. I’m currently playing 3 games b/c of you, this, ZZZ and Fortnite still. No tennis though, I have my limits.😂
Re: What's Next for PS5 Smash Hit Action RPG Zenless Zone Zero?
@get2sammyb Thanks about the English, 7:30 will hopefully still be too early though as I'll likely still be sleeping. Maybe if I'm up. I promise to read and comment on whatever article you write about it though. 😁
Re: Visions of Mana Playable Demo Available Now on PS5, PS4
Thanks, just downloaded it from the app to my PS5, found it no problem. Will probably wait to play it until I finish Stellar Blade in another week or so.
Re: Preview: Star Wars Outlaws Thrives in Its Rewarding Open World
@jrt87 “ 'loads to do and see' equates to being enjoyable? “
I think the “loads to do and see” has less to do with “being enjoyable” and more to do with giving people “their moneys worth”. Not everyone wants to pay $70 for a 12 hour game but tell them there’s 40 hours of content and maybe they’ll pony up.
Re: What's Next for PS5 Smash Hit Action RPG Zenless Zone Zero?
@Haruki_NLI Trademark “porn and pulls” right now pronto then sue MiHoYo when they change their name to it. 😂
I’ve played ZZZ for about 30 hours and it really doesn’t seem all that porn and pull to me. I mean I really can’t see any reason why anyone would feel the need to spend any money at all on it. And I haven’t really been grinding either. I am also playing Stellar Blade which has the porn thing covered, or uncovered as the case may be. And Disney Speedstorm has turned into the worst free-to-start game I’ve ever come across. They’re still calling it free to play but half of it is locked behind a paywall that no amount of grinding can overcome, and it’s so in your face. ZZZ has 80 different screens showing stuff and I think only 1, maybe 2, actually let you spend money.
So maybe that’s what MiHoYo has going for it, it’s a little pully and a little porny but neither is really in your face so they almost cancel each other out. 🤷🏻♂️
I’m not watching this at 7:30 in the morning, will it even be in English, but I’m PS will cover it well enough for me to check out later.
Re: PSVR2 Sales Explode After Sony's Deep Price Cut, Up More than 2000%
2350% of what, a dozen? Two dozen?🤷🏻♂️
This reminds me of Sonys $500 3D display, not a monitor, not a tv, a display, that went down to $300 right quick. People may complain about the lack of PS VR2 games but I bet there are more of those than there were 3D games. 😂
Re: Urban RPG Zenless Zone Zero Is Totting Up Tons of PS5 Playtime
@get2sammyb Hopefully someone will use it? By the way I added yet another way, or 2, to reach the Combat Simulation above, it’s after the edit.
Re: Infinity Nikki Is the Cutesy PS5, PS4 Fashion RPG You've Been Dreaming Of
@NEStalgia " Sadly with a game list like that, you are the best Judge...that's the sad part, you're now the whole PS market "
Yeah this really is a sorry lame excuse for a console generation where each game takes 5 years to make, 10 if you're remaking a 20 year old FF game. 😜 Sony has been living off of 1 game a year, which was Uncharted, GoW, Horizon, Spiderman w/ some Infamous and Ratchet & Clank to keep things flowing, but now it feels like we're just waiting for Wolverine. And like, that's it? 🤷♂️
Ok we know Horizon 3, Spiderman 3 and Ghost of Tsushima 2 are coming, but they haven't been technically announced yet that I'm aware of, so maybe dual releases w/ PS6?🤷♂️
$500 is a lot of money to play all of my PS4 games in 4k w/ faster loading times. I really don't know how they'll sell PS6 b/c I don't see 8k TVs catching on for a long while yet, a lot of cable/steaming TV isn't even caught up to 4k yet. I really don't think I need graphics better than we have now. How much bouncier can boobies get? 🤣
So while I do think PS5 will outsell PS3 and probably break 100mil, so no worries from me there, I really don't know how they sell PS6. Maybe the PS5 Wolverine dlc will be exclusive to PS6 and contain Deadpool voiced by Ryan Reynolds? (Have I ever mentioned that I HATE when dlc is locked behind next gen versions?🤬)
Re: Infinity Nikki Is the Cutesy PS5, PS4 Fashion RPG You've Been Dreaming Of
@NEStalgia " I can't imagine why Sony's struggling to move $500 machines to play gatcha games on. No idea at all... "
Maybe they need some gatcha games on $600 PR VR2. 🤑
I wouldn't say they're "struggling" though, despite the last bad quarter, it's basically in line w/ 115 million seller PS4, and that was back when Sony actually really did know what "generations" meant. 😜
https://www.vgchartz.com/article/460060/ps5-vs-ps4-sales-comparison-january-2024/#:~:text=The%20PS4%20is%20currently%20ahead,PS4%20sold%2054.97%20million%20units.
My PS5 is currently used to play Fortnite, Disney Speedstorm, Zenless Zone Zero (now that I finally figured out the convoluted mess that is character leveling up) and Steller Blade which I borrowed from the library. So I'm probably not the best judge.😁
Re: Visions of Mana Looks Like Fantastic Action RPG Fun Ahead of August Release on PS5, PS4
@MasterVGuides " Seiken Densetsu "
I just looked it up, you probably replied before my edit, and that translates to " The Legend of the Sacred Sword ", but we got "FF Adventure" in the West? Who's in charge of this stuff. 😜
In case I read that wrong I'm blaming Wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana_(series)
Re: Poll: Is the Astro Bot PS5 Controller the Best DualSense Yet?
@playstation1995 "Cosmic red is the best ps5 dualsense controller"
That was my choice. And it's even sorta almost working after I took it apart and cleaned it out, which is more than I can say for the purple. 😝
Not sure if it is the "best" DualSense but at $80 I do think it is the most expensive. If it drifts within a year will Sony fix it? 🤑
Re: Urban RPG Zenless Zone Zero Is Totting Up Tons of PS5 Playtime
@get2sammyb If for some reason you ever decide to continue writing your guide for ZZZ may I suggest hitting up @ATaco and @Carck for some pointers. Took me reading both of their comments and putting them together to finally figure out what I think is the most important aspect of the game, Agent leveling up, or as the game calls it Promotion. Despite playing on Easy Story Mode I was stuck with all my Agents at level 20 b/c I had “Insufficient items” and couldn’t figure out how to get them, but thanks to messing around and reading the comments I finally figured it out. And dying and failing all of the level 25 and 26 missions was not fun.😝
So here goes.
Access your Agents by either: L2 and Square, or, Options button, select Agents
Select the Agent you want to Promote, then with Base Stats and their LV highlighted, go to the promotion screen, then hit R3 to highlight the required item icon, then Item details, then choose either “Craft” or Combat Simulation to teleport to a Challenge Level screen (which takes places in HIA using Berthas VR machine). The game seems to highlight which fight you need this way. Then fight, using up your batteries, you can get free every day from drinking coffee.
Or, go to HIA using R1 and choose HIA Club, then talk to Bertha, then choose “Agent Promotion”, and the fight of your choice to get the items you need and some items to craft the items you actually need, ugh. Oh and choose how many waves to fight, the more waves the more items.
Edit: Or, With L2 and X, or the Options button, or Errands book in the back of the store, go into your Z Compendium, then under Training choose “Combat Simulation” and Agent Promotion” which will bring you to the battle screen.
Why have 1 way to do something when you can have 3 or 4 or 5? 😁
And that’s all I’m doing to try and get thru the other 48% of this game.
Thanks everyone.👍
Re: Visions of Mana Looks Like Fantastic Action RPG Fun Ahead of August Release on PS5, PS4
@NEStalgia “ Square-Enix still makes like 70% of the games I want to play. “
And the other 30% are Kingdom Hearts. 😂
Looking forward to this one. Enjoyed the last, which I thought was called “Visions of Mana” but I suppose was something else. 🤷🏻♂️ I’m just calling all JRPG not FF or DQ “Tales of Mana” from now on, that seems to cover most of the ones I want to play. Or as my wife calls them “The JRPG With the Tree”. 🤪
Edit: OK last 1 I played was “Trials of Mana”, and “Tales of Arise” is still around here in the box somewhere, that’s next after GoW:R, then this when it’s on sale for $20, shouldn’t take long.😁
Re: Astro Bot PS5 Controller Announced, Pre-Orders Start 9th August
Another day another Astro Bot, but I’ll give you this one.😁
Not sure I can give Sony $80, EIGHTY dollars, for a controller though. Normal is $70, colored is $75, and $80 for this? If it’s $80 so they can sell a game and controller bundle for $119 and have it look like a real savings ok, but not stand alone. And like some other people here we have stuck drift in 2 of 3 controllers,so I need another 1, but not for $80. 🤑
Re: Infinity Nikki Is the Cutesy PS5, PS4 Fashion RPG You've Been Dreaming Of
@NEStalgia This is the most Nintendo Switch looking game I’ve ever seen not on Switch. “Princess Peach Explores the GatchaStation” will be some reviewers subtitle.
The next “Stellar Blade” should be a free to play rogue lite Souls like Metroidvania and it will be the last game we ever need. Or get, humanity’s extinction feels nigh.
Re: Deals: Sony Goes for the Jugular with Humongous PS5, PSVR2 Discounts in USA
Still holding out one more Black Friday for GoW:R. Unless I cave and borrow it from the library after I return Stellar Blade.🤔
Re: Astro Bot Continues Its Quest for PS5 Game of the Year with Sublime Gameplay Demo
Couldn’t you just have edited & updated this article from yesterday and added “Now with Flamingos 🦩 “ to the title? 😂
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/07/anticipated-ps5-platformer-astro-bot-looks-absolutely-outstanding-in-gameplay-demo
Though I suppose this is the big 1st party Sony game for the holiday so we need an article a day until they show some “Wolverine” footage. If only there was something else having to do with Wolverine going on in the world they could piggyback off of? 🤷🏻♂️