That opening fight was very shiny, looked like it was inside Chadley’s VR headset, which made we want Chocobo out in the world. (Just finished 90 hours of FF7 Rebirth)
Does the game have couch co-op split screen b/c they kept showing the game like that?🤷🏻♂️
@NEStalgia Or there are a whole lot of 3rd party controllers for the PS5 in the $150 to $200 range, there just isn't a single one under $69.99. Well that's not entirely true, there is a $50 one that has no thumbsticks, think pad, but who wants that?🤷♂️
So is Stellar Blade not in the Soulslike category? Only played it for an hour, twice, soon to be 3x, but it feels like the whole "lets send someone to a planet full of aliens armed only w/ a sword, no long range weapons whatsoever where even Lara Croft would forge herself a bow" is just begging to be in that category.🤷♂️
I also thinks it's weird that Elden Ring, a wide open great exploration adventure, is considered part of a series of hall crawlers which make you fight, die, repeat and constantly block your way. Which is what that first hour of Stellar Blade feels like, hope it opens up soon or I'm done.
So I don't play "soulslike" b/c they are hard, only picked up SB yesterday b/c I found out it has a story mode, but, if they just put in a difficulty setting for "Easy", I'd probably play a lot more. Wukang looks good. I'd like 3rd person fighting, PS3 was the glory days for that, God of War, Enslaved and a bunch of others. I'm just sick of the whole "git gud" nonsense. Not everyone can equally git gud any more than color blind people can all of a sudden see colors. Good is relative, it just factually is.
Maybe by PS6 games can use AI to put us in a battle arena at the beginning, have us do a tutorial, then do half a dozen fights, then set the right difficulty for us. That I'd accept, otherwise it's just laziness and blaming the gamer.
@AverageGamer Thanks for the explanation, that actually makes sense now. Still think it's just asking for trouble but now at least if the game bombs they can blame it on the $. 😂
@get2sammyb "In terms of revenue reports, Star Rail has actually been bigger than Genshin recently."
Just replied to a bunch of these, missed yours somehow, and I'm not sure I can equate revenue w/ popularity. I mean it makes sense, CoD, FIFA, the biggest games make the most money, but I still feel like Genshin is the answer to the question "Name 1 game by MiHoYo?". When HSR becomes the defacto answer to that question, then I'll reconsider my stance. Wonder what affect ZZZ and all the seemingly endless others will have? Not Concord though, no affect there. 😝
@C25CLOUD " star rail more popular then genshin right now "
What @themightyant said. I had those thoughts but the numbers agree w/ what I thought. Genshin just feels like it's own thing, a life of it's own, and the others are just "more Genshin" or "not Genshin" or "Genshin wannabees". Genshin is the Metroid and Castlevania and Souls of gatcha games, until it isn't.
@TH3solution US still cares about the Olympics, mostly women's soccer it seems like, but I think after the men's big hockey team win in 1980 then the Wall coming down in Berlin and the USSR disintegrating I don't think older people care as much, the "us vs them" draw isn't there. Of course this year 1/3 of America may be rooting on the Russians. 😜
@B-Real This whole site has gotten very political the past 2 days, and what's funnier is it's based in the UK who had their pollical stuff a few weeks ago and it barely came up. If it wasn't for Jon Oliver I may not have even known about it. 🤷♂️
@nessisonett " Mockingbird and Hawkeye power couple "
I haven't really read any comics since the mid 90's, Marvel since the late 80's, but I did read some of the WCA and all I recall is that it was basically just a lot of dating and sleeping around.😂
@NEStalgia Well at least they were trying with the Minidisc, I think the Vita storage was their most egregious, unnecessary and downright stupid product. 😝 I'll give them credit for selling the Portal as well as they have, wonder how long before it outsells the PS VR2? 🤷♂️
You know, it is possible that Portal sells well enough for Sony to make an actual worthwhile follow-up system that streams from the cloud and has some basic apps. I think they have enough games in the PS+ Premium backlog that they wouldn't even need to make games for it, just let people play those. You know, like this system should have done. I still don't understand a $200 Portal.
Wow, just realized this is out in only 6 weeks (maybe 7 weeks, months are weird) which isn’t really long at all now. Wish it had a 2 player focus like Sackboys Adventure or R&CA41, would be day 1 for us, but I think I may wait on this one, September is early enough to get a Black Friday deal and late enough to wait for a BF Buy 1 get 1 half off sale.
I thought it was Baby Shark (dont' exactly know who or what that is either, something to do with phukpoaw I'm guessing) and now I have nothing but disappointment.
"recognise the character from the West Coast Avengers"
Well that explains it, the "Love Island" of superhero teams. 😂
@NEStalgia @thefourfoldroot1 It's so weird though, and consumer unfriendly, in particular to Sony's consumers. 😝Every other device you log onto the PS5 and THEN choose which account to log into, and Sony paid people to impalement some software lock on THEIR OWN DEVICE to keep people from using it like all the other devices out there? I mean, come on man.
My autocorrect turned "implement" to impalement and I don't even think it's wrong, Sony paid it's employees to impale it's consumers. 😂
@get2sammyb Thanks, I'll keep ya posted. Wish PS5 still posted directly to Twitter but whatever. Oh and the front page pic now says 28 comments, not 47. I'm guessing the additional 3 are people I've blocked? 🤷♂️
Not much of a big Olympics guy myself so I probably wouldn't have even noticed.🤷♂️
I do think it's weird MiHoYo is going all in on HSR when Genshin is so well known and ZZZ is just getting off the ground. Though I suppose no weirder than the US Olympics being sponsored by a Chinese company. I wonder what horrors the world will inflict upon us while we're distracted by the Olympics the next two weeks?😩
@get2sammyb On the article pic on your home page it says there are 47 comments but I get in here and there are only 22. Did you purposely or accidentally delete all the comments from yesterday when you updated this article? I wanted to thank all the people, you included, who told me this game had an easy mode, picked it up today.
That's funny, I started there as well, Wii was all the rage. I enjoyed it so much I asked 1 of the people who worked there, seemed like only 2 of them at the time, if they knew of a similar site that covered Playstation. And they replied, "This guy Sammy who used to work here just went off and started his own PS site called Pushsquare." so here I've been ever since. W/ you and I'd say a handful of others I recognize long term. I've tried quitting a few times, moved on to Twitter, but as long as I'm gaming there's things to learn about here. And some fun to be had. 😁
I'll hit ya up in another 5 years, see if we're still both around. 😂
$84.99 for a controller, that will probably drift in a year or two and need to be replaced? Even if a game code came included it would still be a hard pass. Still waiting on $50 3rd party controllers for the PS5, maybe by the time the PS6 releases.😝
@thefourfoldroot1 @Yusuo Ok how can Sony make a streaming device that doesn’t let you sign into any account after you connect it to the PS5? How?
My kid was away at college and while 400 miles a bit much to stream from PS5 to their laptop they wanted to try out the Stellar Blade demo. At first they couldn’t get their laptop to connect but then I did some research and it turned out the PS5 wouldn’t let them connect b/c I had it default to log onto my account when I turned it on. So I changed it to not log into anyone, just boot to the “choose your avatar” screen, and no more problems. And now that they’re home I’m glad I have it set up that way, seems the most fair.
So I could understand if the Portal had the same problem with a PS5 account set to auto log in, but the Portal SHOULD work the same way as remote play on mobile or PC. But it wouldn’t surprise me if it didn’t b/c Sony sucks at this. I returned my PSP b/c I bought into the hype of “It’s a PS3 on the go” only my PS3 had 4 accounts on it, my wife also games a bit, but the PSP was locked to one. So I returned it the next day. Wasn’t easy, lots of trouble trying at several stores, but finally got my money back.
The Portal is so limited as it is fora $200 screen, if Sony didn’t have 5GHZ, and they made it worse than every other remote play device on the entire planet by locking it to 1 account, well screw them. 😝
Super Switch 2 will get a Monster Hunter game. If it’s Wilds it will probably be in the announce trailer, but if not, well there will still be a Monster Hunter game on the new console. Maybe a Worlds port to start.
Switch 2 won’t be nearly as powerful as PS5 but it should be close enough to Series S that Nintendo should send a thank you card to MS for making it and forcing companies to support it. 👍
@get2sammyb Did you mention this game had an "easy mode" in the really long and detailed review you wrote were you gave it an 8 but most people complained it read like a 7? I just read it twice, didn't see modes mentioned. 🤷♂️ Thanks for letting me know now though, gives me something to want to play. 👍 May wait for the more content though, b/c that's what I do, wait for the game to be done. 😁
Huge missed opportunity by PS by not having the person who gave Concord a 3 write this so we could get a nice comparison. This person seems to prefer Concord to this which makes this either a 1 or 2 out of 10. Will probably make billions.
@Anke “ oh wow I'd forgotten about Fairgame$, surely that can't still be coming out can it? “
This GaaS area is becoming so over saturated I’ve been reading comments about Concord for a few days now and I thought Fairgame$ was the company developing Concord b/c everyone kept saying that it was going to die soon. And who names a game w/ a $ at the end, that’s just asking to be memed for a gatcha game. 🤑
But now I know, so thanks. Guess we’ll have to do this all over again though huh?😩
If they can add a photo mode for people who want to stop playing the game to take pictures of it maybe they can also add an easy mode for people who want to stop looking at pictures of it and start playing it? 🤷♂️
I'll assume by stamina you mean the battery charges that we get from drinking a cup of coffee a day? I only play for an hour a day so don't think I'll ever need to worry about running out.
I spent my hour today, well besides from opening the store and rubbing off a lottery ticket, in the new work area w/ the new Meowmee cat cop waiting for nightfall to check out a rambunctious cat. Night never fell so maybe tomorrow?
No matter how long I play this game don't think I'll ever understand it all. You ever look at those 4 storage pages? 😱I've been playing Fortnite for 3 1/2 years, still don't know how to build. 😂
@get2sammyb I hope MiHoYo is paying you with polychrome for writing up all of that. It helped a little, in that you pointed out how convoluted everything is - we buy monochrome to exchange them 1:1 for polychrome which we then exchange 160:1 for Encrypted master tapes, not to be confused with master tapes, to then pull things to hopefully get things we can then hopefully level up with other things of various shapes and colors. 🤪
Decided I’m just going to go keep doing what I’ve been doing and when I get bored, stop playing. Maybe go try out 1 of the others, or First Descendant, or FF14. Free is free.🤷🏻♂️
So if 1 monochrome is worth 1 polychrome why not sell polychrome instead? And if polychrome is only used to buy tapes why not sell tapes instead? This is why I don’t play gatcha games.
@get2sammyb Thanks, I'll read the guide after lunch. Not sure If I tried that screen, the odds seemed against me, so I've been trying the others. Good luck w/ the guide, hopefully people on this site will still be playing it by the time you're finished, this comment section is kinda small. 😢
@Carck "if you click on the thing you need, you have quick links to where you can get it."
Well that should help, as long as I can get it. I have 1.5 million denny, 6,000 polcrhome, but none of the b&w monochrome. I do understand how to look around the screens at stuff but there's a lot of stuff. Thanks.
@themightyant " you should probably focus on levelling one team "
My agents are the 3 Hares, Anton, Soldier 11 that I just got, and I think maybe the maid girl and the chainsaw girl, both of which may still be at level 10 b/c I don't have the required "things" to get them to 20. I really only use the 3 Hares b/c they are at 20. Well unless I'm in VR and the game is having me play as someone else. And I got 1 Bangopoo up to 20, the dart one that looks like a target, didn't feel like buying anymore from that guy next door to Random Play. Thanks.
@Northern_munkey " who knows maybe it's a deliberate homage to the original movies blue screens 🤣 "
Your emoji may be laughing but that would at least give them an excuse for it to look like that, b/c it kinda really does look "cheesy". 😜
Somebody should make a cheesy bad looking sci-fi game w/ Buck Rodgers, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galatica and the like. Mostly little kids, dogs and robots. 😂
The 3/10 score vs the game doing well is making me want to try it. Well that and I’m already kinda bored of ZZZ.
And I don’t know who reviewed this, had never seen the name before, but Shogun liked the beta a year ago. I’m pretty in line w/ him, so I’m going off of that. Had he given it a 3 I’d pass.
Now I understand why PC gamers are the “master race”, no Roblox, no CoD, no Minecraft, no Fortnite; they’re just better than us. 🤪
I’ve been playing ZZZ every day for about an hour but I’m beginning to wonder why? 🤷🏻♂️ I think they need to do a MUCH BETTER job of explaining what I’m supposed to be doing with all of these currencies. I went into “channels” yesterday and got another 29 W engines and Soldier 11 but I’m still not sure why. I dig the story and fighting but there’s a lot that could be explained better. I’m at 52%, beginning of chapter 2, finally have a list of missions to do, so things may be picking up, but also, I’m stuck w/ all my agents at 20 but the missions are higher than that. Just got my Internet level up to 25, my bangboo at 20, but even playing on easy mode things are starting to get tough.
Maybe the game needs a warning: Please play Genshin Impact or Hinkai Star Rail before starting to play this so you know how to play, b/c we’re not explaining it again. 😝
@Northern_munkey I don't have much S/NES experience, I usually compare stuff to the static background look of FF7, 8 & 9, but to it's credit it didn't look quite like a PS1 game, just, off.
Probably doesn't help I just finished 90 hours in FF7 Rebirth. The story and mini games had some odd choices but the openish world looked really good for a 3rd party game. This isn't comparable.
Not sure what IGN vid this is referring to but I did watch about a minute this morning of the main character in search of a sarlacc tooth which made me decide the only reason this game takes place when it does is for the talking C-3PO head. 😂
Other than that it looked like a PS3 game, or Forspoken, which itself looked like a PS3 game, at least in the demo. Both her speeder and spaceship looked like it was standing still while the background was moving, not sure how else to describe it.
I’m not a Ubi hater, I thought Immortals was good as were the 2 Mario v Rabbids strategy games, I just know I didn’t like what I saw. Certainly didn’t look as good as the recent Tomb Raider trilogy. May borrow it from the library next year if it reviews well, we’ll see.
I’m sure I’ve seen some stuff about this and just forget but I really don’t know much about it and think it has gotten a lot less coverage than either Harry Potter or Pandora.
Since I’m not reading a ton of hate in the comments I suppose this isn’t Suicide Squad or Concord with a Star Wars skin. If it’s Immortals Fenix Rising with a Concord skin I’d probably be ok with that. If it’s getting a physical release my library will probably carry it so maybe I’ll check it out.
Alright now I’m intrigued, going to go do my own research.
Edit: Ok not impressed. Which is weird b/c I like SW and I like “ Uncharted” games like most of you all like “Soulsborne” but it looks weird. The character almost looks green screened, or she’s moving over a static background. Even the ship in space doesn’t look like it’s in space. As Liam said we already have Jedi Survivor, which I still haven’t played, so may play that instead, get this next year when it’s completely done.
They should have made a “Young Ridley” movie instead, “The Birth of Kylo Ren”. Must be some fan fiction they could use.🤷🏻♂️
It does? Well then I’m really running out of reasons why we need a Pro.🤷🏻♂️
4k, HDR, SSD, VRR
Does it still need 7.2 ATMOS? Maybe wireless HDMI? DisplayPort out? There aren’t enough 8k TVs out there to be promoting that.
I’m sure in another few years, after FF7 Part 3, Ghost of Tsushima 2 and Wolverine Sony will force a PS6 upon us b/c they know generations, but I barely see what we’ll need even then, much less now. For all Concords issues I haven’t heard people complaining all that much about the graphics.
Thanks for the VRR info though, I’ll try to keep it in mind for the next time one of these articles shows up.👍
@get2sammyb Question about the Concord “open beta” on PS5. Is the beta really open to everyone b/c the info, at least on the shop in the app, says PS+ required, which wouldn’t make it open to everyone and would instead only make it open to PS+ subscribers, which, while there might be a lot of them, is not everyone.🤷🏻♂️
Edit: I was able to start the beta so it looks like it is open to everyone. Didn’t land on the planet b/c touchscreen controls on my tablet are not the way to go but it did let me get that far. Too bad there’s no campaign, I kind of enjoy the B-Team GotG. 🤷🏻♂️
@sanderson72 I've had my PS5 for about 3 years, our 3 controllers less than that, and the 2 I bought after, red and purple each for $75, both drift. The purple unplayable and the red just annoys me trying to open chests in Fortnite. I've taken them both apart to clean them and it did work for awhile, red is fine, but the purple became unusable again a short time after.
But both of my PS4 controllers work just fine, and they must be close to a decade old at this point, 9 years this Christmas maybe, pretty sure it was a family Christmas gift.
So yeah, Driftsense. At least Nintendo let me rerurn my drifitng Joycon FOR FREE to fix it. Meanwhile I can't even buy a cheap knockoff PS5 controller for $50 or $60, only $70 or $150.
It's really bad, and I'm greatly annoyed as you can probably tell. 😁
I feel bad for the Brexit folk, but at lest their recent election seems to have taken a turn for the better. I'm afraid the next US one will be our last. 😝
Read the update, so my update is: I didn’t know when the TGS was but I can live w/ a very late September announcement for a November launch, 6 weeks notice is more than adequate to sell a VRR system to the few people who have a VRR capable TV.
Why they’re doing it in Japan where people will be saving their money for Switch Pro is beyond me though.
@NEStalgia I think I’ve been paying too much attention to politics lately - just recently found out that Joe Biden is old 😱 - that I only understood about half of that.😂 The part about Nvidia, the new IBM/Intel/MS. (Have you noticed lately that money seems to have like no meaning anymore, $30 billion here, $50 billion there, most people probably can’t even count that many zeros.🤑)
I don’t really like streaming, at all, especially companies trying to sell you part time rentals as full price games (should be illegal and no I’m not joking) I was just using it as an example about things making consoles obsolete. Sony is selling a $200 Wii U Gamepad, why CAN’T it work over the cloud?🤷🏻♂️ Sony needs consoles though, Nintendo sells handhelds with TV out and MS sells PC, Sony has consoles, that’s it. Maybe the Portal is test? VR is as niche as niche gets, I can’t even be bothered.
Certainly feels like something has to give. Maybe the PS6 can work as a home phone for people who miss having a landline? Media discs are dead, can’t use that secondary function. It’s inevitable. Some day Pachter will be right, maybe in his lifetime.
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Re: Free RPG Wuthering Waves Is Running Flawlessly in PS5 Gameplay
That opening fight was very shiny, looked like it was inside Chadley’s VR headset, which made we want Chocobo out in the world. (Just finished 90 hours of FF7 Rebirth)
Does the game have couch co-op split screen b/c they kept showing the game like that?🤷🏻♂️
Re: Poll: Are You Sick of Soulslike Games?
@NEStalgia rogue lite, souls dark 😜
Re: Poll: Are You Sick of Soulslike Games?
@NEStalgia " Sekiro is a Nioh-like "
Are there any roguelike soulslike? 😝
Re: PS Portal Update 3.0.1 Allows Connection to 5GHz Public WiFi, Here Are the Patch Notes
@NEStalgia Or there are a whole lot of 3rd party controllers for the PS5 in the $150 to $200 range, there just isn't a single one under $69.99. Well that's not entirely true, there is a $50 one that has no thumbsticks, think pad, but who wants that?🤷♂️
Re: Poll: Are You Sick of Soulslike Games?
@fleenerstrunk " skill issue "
So I've been told. 🤣
@Th3solution Wait, so Sekiro isn't a Soulslike? My 19 year old, who says we need more Souls like games, said it was. 😂
Re: PS Portal Update 3.0.1 Allows Connection to 5GHz Public WiFi, Here Are the Patch Notes
@NEStalgia " "haptic triggers "
The standard reply to every time I ask "Why has the PS5 been out for 3 years yet I still can't buy a Power A wired controller for $50?"🤑
Re: You Won't Believe Marvel Rivals' New Playable Character on PS5
@nessisonett " the best Avengers team! "
Well it was certainly the best Avengers team to be on. 😂#TigraStans
Re: Poll: Are You Sick of Soulslike Games?
So is Stellar Blade not in the Soulslike category? Only played it for an hour, twice, soon to be 3x, but it feels like the whole "lets send someone to a planet full of aliens armed only w/ a sword, no long range weapons whatsoever where even Lara Croft would forge herself a bow" is just begging to be in that category.🤷♂️
I also thinks it's weird that Elden Ring, a wide open great exploration adventure, is considered part of a series of hall crawlers which make you fight, die, repeat and constantly block your way. Which is what that first hour of Stellar Blade feels like, hope it opens up soon or I'm done.
So I don't play "soulslike" b/c they are hard, only picked up SB yesterday b/c I found out it has a story mode, but, if they just put in a difficulty setting for "Easy", I'd probably play a lot more. Wukang looks good. I'd like 3rd person fighting, PS3 was the glory days for that, God of War, Enslaved and a bunch of others. I'm just sick of the whole "git gud" nonsense. Not everyone can equally git gud any more than color blind people can all of a sudden see colors. Good is relative, it just factually is.
Maybe by PS6 games can use AI to put us in a battle arena at the beginning, have us do a tutorial, then do half a dozen fights, then set the right difficulty for us. That I'd accept, otherwise it's just laziness and blaming the gamer.
Re: Marvel Rivals' Closed Beta Is Putting Concord's Player Numbers into Perspective
@AverageGamer Thanks for the explanation, that actually makes sense now. Still think it's just asking for trouble but now at least if the game bombs they can blame it on the $. 😂
Re: PS5 RPG Honkai: Star Rail Is Sponsoring the Paris Olympics in USA
@get2sammyb "In terms of revenue reports, Star Rail has actually been bigger than Genshin recently."
Just replied to a bunch of these, missed yours somehow, and I'm not sure I can equate revenue w/ popularity. I mean it makes sense, CoD, FIFA, the biggest games make the most money, but I still feel like Genshin is the answer to the question "Name 1 game by MiHoYo?". When HSR becomes the defacto answer to that question, then I'll reconsider my stance. Wonder what affect ZZZ and all the seemingly endless others will have? Not Concord though, no affect there. 😝
Re: PS5 RPG Honkai: Star Rail Is Sponsoring the Paris Olympics in USA
@C25CLOUD " star rail more popular then genshin right now "
What @themightyant said. I had those thoughts but the numbers agree w/ what I thought. Genshin just feels like it's own thing, a life of it's own, and the others are just "more Genshin" or "not Genshin" or "Genshin wannabees". Genshin is the Metroid and Castlevania and Souls of gatcha games, until it isn't.
@TH3solution US still cares about the Olympics, mostly women's soccer it seems like, but I think after the men's big hockey team win in 1980 then the Wall coming down in Berlin and the USSR disintegrating I don't think older people care as much, the "us vs them" draw isn't there. Of course this year 1/3 of America may be rooting on the Russians. 😜
Re: Date Everything in This Absurd Sandbox Dating Sim on PS5
@B-Real This whole site has gotten very political the past 2 days, and what's funnier is it's based in the UK who had their pollical stuff a few weeks ago and it barely came up. If it wasn't for Jon Oliver I may not have even known about it. 🤷♂️
Gonna be a crazy few months. Again. 😩
Re: You Won't Believe Marvel Rivals' New Playable Character on PS5
@nessisonett " Mockingbird and Hawkeye power couple "
I haven't really read any comics since the mid 90's, Marvel since the late 80's, but I did read some of the WCA and all I recall is that it was basically just a lot of dating and sleeping around.😂
Re: PS Portal Update 3.0.1 Allows Connection to 5GHz Public WiFi, Here Are the Patch Notes
@NEStalgia Well at least they were trying with the Minidisc, I think the Vita storage was their most egregious, unnecessary and downright stupid product. 😝 I'll give them credit for selling the Portal as well as they have, wonder how long before it outsells the PS VR2? 🤷♂️
You know, it is possible that Portal sells well enough for Sony to make an actual worthwhile follow-up system that streams from the cloud and has some basic apps. I think they have enough games in the PS+ Premium backlog that they wouldn't even need to make games for it, just let people play those. You know, like this system should have done. I still don't understand a $200 Portal.
Re: Sony's Going to Make Damn Sure You Pay Attention to Astro Bot on PS5
Wow, just realized this is out in only 6 weeks (maybe 7 weeks, months are weird) which isn’t really long at all now. Wish it had a 2 player focus like Sackboys Adventure or R&CA41, would be day 1 for us, but I think I may wait on this one, September is early enough to get a Black Friday deal and late enough to wait for a BF Buy 1 get 1 half off sale.
Re: You Won't Believe Marvel Rivals' New Playable Character on PS5
I thought it was Baby Shark (dont' exactly know who or what that is either, something to do with phukpoaw I'm guessing) and now I have nothing but disappointment.
"recognise the character from the West Coast Avengers"
Well that explains it, the "Love Island" of superhero teams. 😂
Re: Date Everything in This Absurd Sandbox Dating Sim on PS5
If you can date the couch I know a VP candidate who might be interested in buying a copy.😂
Re: PS Portal Update 3.0.1 Allows Connection to 5GHz Public WiFi, Here Are the Patch Notes
@NEStalgia @thefourfoldroot1 It's so weird though, and consumer unfriendly, in particular to Sony's consumers. 😝Every other device you log onto the PS5 and THEN choose which account to log into, and Sony paid people to impalement some software lock on THEIR OWN DEVICE to keep people from using it like all the other devices out there? I mean, come on man.
My autocorrect turned "implement" to impalement and I don't even think it's wrong, Sony paid it's employees to impale it's consumers. 😂
Re: Stellar Blade's New Summer Song Is a Vibe on PS5
@get2sammyb Thanks, I'll keep ya posted. Wish PS5 still posted directly to Twitter but whatever. Oh and the front page pic now says 28 comments, not 47. I'm guessing the additional 3 are people I've blocked? 🤷♂️
Re: PS5 RPG Honkai: Star Rail Is Sponsoring the Paris Olympics in USA
Oh these comments should be hysterical. 😂
Not much of a big Olympics guy myself so I probably wouldn't have even noticed.🤷♂️
I do think it's weird MiHoYo is going all in on HSR when Genshin is so well known and ZZZ is just getting off the ground. Though I suppose no weirder than the US Olympics being sponsored by a Chinese company. I wonder what horrors the world will inflict upon us while we're distracted by the Olympics the next two weeks?😩
Re: Stellar Blade's New Summer Song Is a Vibe on PS5
@get2sammyb On the article pic on your home page it says there are 47 comments but I get in here and there are only 22. Did you purposely or accidentally delete all the comments from yesterday when you updated this article? I wanted to thank all the people, you included, who told me this game had an easy mode, picked it up today.
Re: Capcom Endures Some Truly Incredible Monster Hunter Wilds Investor Questions
@Gamer83 " vc-reviews.com "
That's funny, I started there as well, Wii was all the rage. I enjoyed it so much I asked 1 of the people who worked there, seemed like only 2 of them at the time, if they knew of a similar site that covered Playstation. And they replied, "This guy Sammy who used to work here just went off and started his own PS site called Pushsquare." so here I've been ever since. W/ you and I'd say a handful of others I recognize long term. I've tried quitting a few times, moved on to Twitter, but as long as I'm gaming there's things to learn about here. And some fun to be had. 😁
I'll hit ya up in another 5 years, see if we're still both around. 😂
Re: Special Concord PS5 Controller Looks More Appealing Than the Game
$84.99 for a controller, that will probably drift in a year or two and need to be replaced? Even if a game code came included it would still be a hard pass. Still waiting on $50 3rd party controllers for the PS5, maybe by the time the PS6 releases.😝
Re: PS Portal Update 3.0.1 Allows Connection to 5GHz Public WiFi, Here Are the Patch Notes
@thefourfoldroot1 @Yusuo Ok how can Sony make a streaming device that doesn’t let you sign into any account after you connect it to the PS5? How?
My kid was away at college and while 400 miles a bit much to stream from PS5 to their laptop they wanted to try out the Stellar Blade demo. At first they couldn’t get their laptop to connect but then I did some research and it turned out the PS5 wouldn’t let them connect b/c I had it default to log onto my account when I turned it on. So I changed it to not log into anyone, just boot to the “choose your avatar” screen, and no more problems. And now that they’re home I’m glad I have it set up that way, seems the most fair.
So I could understand if the Portal had the same problem with a PS5 account set to auto log in, but the Portal SHOULD work the same way as remote play on mobile or PC. But it wouldn’t surprise me if it didn’t b/c Sony sucks at this. I returned my PSP b/c I bought into the hype of “It’s a PS3 on the go” only my PS3 had 4 accounts on it, my wife also games a bit, but the PSP was locked to one. So I returned it the next day. Wasn’t easy, lots of trouble trying at several stores, but finally got my money back.
The Portal is so limited as it is fora $200 screen, if Sony didn’t have 5GHZ, and they made it worse than every other remote play device on the entire planet by locking it to 1 account, well screw them. 😝
Re: Capcom Endures Some Truly Incredible Monster Hunter Wilds Investor Questions
@Gamer83 Hey congrats on the 15 years of commenting on here, nearing 10,000, nice.👍 Crazy right. 😱
Re: Capcom Endures Some Truly Incredible Monster Hunter Wilds Investor Questions
Super Switch 2 will get a Monster Hunter game. If it’s Wilds it will probably be in the announce trailer, but if not, well there will still be a Monster Hunter game on the new console. Maybe a Worlds port to start.
Switch 2 won’t be nearly as powerful as PS5 but it should be close enough to Series S that Nintendo should send a thank you card to MS for making it and forcing companies to support it. 👍
Re: PS5 Smash Hit Stellar Blade's Photo Mode Appears Imminent
@NEStalgia "if you ignore the porn"
What would the point of this game even be then?😂
@get2sammyb Did you mention this game had an "easy mode" in the really long and detailed review you wrote were you gave it an 8 but most people complained it read like a 7? I just read it twice, didn't see modes mentioned. 🤷♂️ Thanks for letting me know now though, gives me something to want to play. 👍 May wait for the more content though, b/c that's what I do, wait for the game to be done. 😁
In case anyone else wants to read it, obviously took you a long time to write it.
https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/stellar-blade
Re: Marvel Rivals' Closed Beta Is Putting Concord's Player Numbers into Perspective
@Anke It would take Dr. Strange to find that 1 universe that Farigame$ is a success in. And it's not this one.
@Ogbert " I'd not seen Fairgame$ before but looked it up after everyone mentioning it. Yeesh. "
Thanks, glad I wasn't alone. And I was about to go look it up but your description saved me the trouble.
Re: Preview: There's Nothing Super About Marvel Rivals on PS5
Huge missed opportunity by PS by not having the person who gave Concord a 3 write this so we could get a nice comparison. This person seems to prefer Concord to this which makes this either a 1 or 2 out of 10. Will probably make billions.
Re: Marvel Rivals' Closed Beta Is Putting Concord's Player Numbers into Perspective
@Anke “ oh wow I'd forgotten about Fairgame$, surely that can't still be coming out can it? “
This GaaS area is becoming so over saturated I’ve been reading comments about Concord for a few days now and I thought Fairgame$ was the company developing Concord b/c everyone kept saying that it was going to die soon. And who names a game w/ a $ at the end, that’s just asking to be memed for a gatcha game. 🤑
But now I know, so thanks. Guess we’ll have to do this all over again though huh?😩
Re: PS5 Smash Hit Stellar Blade's Photo Mode Appears Imminent
If they can add a photo mode for people who want to stop playing the game to take pictures of it maybe they can also add an easy mode for people who want to stop looking at pictures of it and start playing it? 🤷♂️
Re: Urban RPG Zenless Zone Zero Is Totting Up Tons of PS5 Playtime
@ATaco Thanks. For all of that. 👍
I'll assume by stamina you mean the battery charges that we get from drinking a cup of coffee a day? I only play for an hour a day so don't think I'll ever need to worry about running out.
I spent my hour today, well besides from opening the store and rubbing off a lottery ticket, in the new work area w/ the new Meowmee cat cop waiting for nightfall to check out a rambunctious cat. Night never fell so maybe tomorrow?
No matter how long I play this game don't think I'll ever understand it all. You ever look at those 4 storage pages? 😱I've been playing Fortnite for 3 1/2 years, still don't know how to build. 😂
Re: 'Unpolished' Star Wars Outlaws Gameplay Gets Blasted, But Ubisoft Insists on August Release Date
@Northern_munkey Oh yeah, almost forgot, yes that is the Watcher. I liked what he said, though you can't read it here b/c it's too small. 😜
The quote is:
"I have come to witness the worst choice that any living being has ever made in the history of thought. And the immediate consequences thereof."
So, basically, like anytime someone tweets something out. 😂
Re: 'Unpolished' Star Wars Outlaws Gameplay Gets Blasted, But Ubisoft Insists on August Release Date
@Northern_munkey Starcrash? Wow, how'd I miss that one, looks epic. May have to go find it bootleg on YT.
I've always been a big "Battle Beyond the Stars" fan. John Saxon doesn't get nearly enough respect.
Re: Urban RPG Zenless Zone Zero Is Totting Up Tons of PS5 Playtime
@get2sammyb I hope MiHoYo is paying you with polychrome for writing up all of that. It helped a little, in that you pointed out how convoluted everything is - we buy monochrome to exchange them 1:1 for polychrome which we then exchange 160:1 for Encrypted master tapes, not to be confused with master tapes, to then pull things to hopefully get things we can then hopefully level up with other things of various shapes and colors. 🤪
Decided I’m just going to go keep doing what I’ve been doing and when I get bored, stop playing. Maybe go try out 1 of the others, or First Descendant, or FF14. Free is free.🤷🏻♂️
Re: Zenless Zone Zero: How to Get Monochrome Film
So if 1 monochrome is worth 1 polychrome why not sell polychrome instead? And if polychrome is only used to buy tapes why not sell tapes instead? This is why I don’t play gatcha games.
Re: Zenless Zone Zero: Should You Play As Belle or Wise?
Does MiHoYo release the % of Belle vs Wise? I cant picture the banter going as well w/ Wise w/ all the Agents, he’s so monotone.
Re: Urban RPG Zenless Zone Zero Is Totting Up Tons of PS5 Playtime
@get2sammyb Thanks, I'll read the guide after lunch. Not sure If I tried that screen, the odds seemed against me, so I've been trying the others. Good luck w/ the guide, hopefully people on this site will still be playing it by the time you're finished, this comment section is kinda small. 😢
@Carck "if you click on the thing you need, you have quick links to where you can get it."
Well that should help, as long as I can get it. I have 1.5 million denny, 6,000 polcrhome, but none of the b&w monochrome. I do understand how to look around the screens at stuff but there's a lot of stuff. Thanks.
@themightyant " you should probably focus on levelling one team "
My agents are the 3 Hares, Anton, Soldier 11 that I just got, and I think maybe the maid girl and the chainsaw girl, both of which may still be at level 10 b/c I don't have the required "things" to get them to 20. I really only use the 3 Hares b/c they are at 20. Well unless I'm in VR and the game is having me play as someone else. And I got 1 Bangopoo up to 20, the dart one that looks like a target, didn't feel like buying anymore from that guy next door to Random Play. Thanks.
Re: 'Unpolished' Star Wars Outlaws Gameplay Gets Blasted, But Ubisoft Insists on August Release Date
@Northern_munkey " who knows maybe it's a deliberate homage to the original movies blue screens 🤣 "
Your emoji may be laughing but that would at least give them an excuse for it to look like that, b/c it kinda really does look "cheesy". 😜
Somebody should make a cheesy bad looking sci-fi game w/ Buck Rodgers, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galatica and the like. Mostly little kids, dogs and robots. 😂
Re: PS5, PS4 Looter Shooter The First Descendant Is Proving a Colossal Hit
The 3/10 score vs the game doing well is making me want to try it. Well that and I’m already kinda bored of ZZZ.
And I don’t know who reviewed this, had never seen the name before, but Shogun liked the beta a year ago. I’m pretty in line w/ him, so I’m going off of that. Had he given it a 3 I’d pass.
Re: Urban RPG Zenless Zone Zero Is Totting Up Tons of PS5 Playtime
Now I understand why PC gamers are the “master race”, no Roblox, no CoD, no Minecraft, no Fortnite; they’re just better than us. 🤪
I’ve been playing ZZZ every day for about an hour but I’m beginning to wonder why? 🤷🏻♂️ I think they need to do a MUCH BETTER job of explaining what I’m supposed to be doing with all of these currencies. I went into “channels” yesterday and got another 29 W engines and Soldier 11 but I’m still not sure why. I dig the story and fighting but there’s a lot that could be explained better. I’m at 52%, beginning of chapter 2, finally have a list of missions to do, so things may be picking up, but also, I’m stuck w/ all my agents at 20 but the missions are higher than that. Just got my Internet level up to 25, my bangboo at 20, but even playing on easy mode things are starting to get tough.
Maybe the game needs a warning: Please play Genshin Impact or Hinkai Star Rail before starting to play this so you know how to play, b/c we’re not explaining it again. 😝
Re: 'Unpolished' Star Wars Outlaws Gameplay Gets Blasted, But Ubisoft Insists on August Release Date
@Northern_munkey I don't have much S/NES experience, I usually compare stuff to the static background look of FF7, 8 & 9, but to it's credit it didn't look quite like a PS1 game, just, off.
Probably doesn't help I just finished 90 hours in FF7 Rebirth. The story and mini games had some odd choices but the openish world looked really good for a 3rd party game. This isn't comparable.
Re: 'Unpolished' Star Wars Outlaws Gameplay Gets Blasted, But Ubisoft Insists on August Release Date
Not sure what IGN vid this is referring to but I did watch about a minute this morning of the main character in search of a sarlacc tooth which made me decide the only reason this game takes place when it does is for the talking C-3PO head. 😂
Other than that it looked like a PS3 game, or Forspoken, which itself looked like a PS3 game, at least in the demo. Both her speeder and spaceship looked like it was standing still while the background was moving, not sure how else to describe it.
I’m not a Ubi hater, I thought Immortals was good as were the 2 Mario v Rabbids strategy games, I just know I didn’t like what I saw. Certainly didn’t look as good as the recent Tomb Raider trilogy. May borrow it from the library next year if it reviews well, we’ll see.
Re: Star Wars Outlaws Boasts Ubisoft's Biggest Ever Marketing Budget, Strong Launch Expected
I’m sure I’ve seen some stuff about this and just forget but I really don’t know much about it and think it has gotten a lot less coverage than either Harry Potter or Pandora.
Since I’m not reading a ton of hate in the comments I suppose this isn’t Suicide Squad or Concord with a Star Wars skin. If it’s Immortals Fenix Rising with a Concord skin I’d probably be ok with that. If it’s getting a physical release my library will probably carry it so maybe I’ll check it out.
Alright now I’m intrigued, going to go do my own research.
Edit: Ok not impressed. Which is weird b/c I like SW and I like “ Uncharted” games like most of you all like “Soulsborne” but it looks weird. The character almost looks green screened, or she’s moving over a static background. Even the ship in space doesn’t look like it’s in space. As Liam said we already have Jedi Survivor, which I still haven’t played, so may play that instead, get this next year when it’s completely done.
They should have made a “Young Ridley” movie instead, “The Birth of Kylo Ren”. Must be some fan fiction they could use.🤷🏻♂️
Re: PS5 Pro Still Likely to Launch This Year, Tokyo Game Show Reveal Possible
@Pranwell “ Regular PS5 has had VRR for years. “
It does? Well then I’m really running out of reasons why we need a Pro.🤷🏻♂️
4k, HDR, SSD, VRR
Does it still need 7.2 ATMOS? Maybe wireless HDMI? DisplayPort out? There aren’t enough 8k TVs out there to be promoting that.
I’m sure in another few years, after FF7 Part 3, Ghost of Tsushima 2 and Wolverine Sony will force a PS6 upon us b/c they know generations, but I barely see what we’ll need even then, much less now. For all Concords issues I haven’t heard people complaining all that much about the graphics.
Thanks for the VRR info though, I’ll try to keep it in mind for the next time one of these articles shows up.👍
Re: Concord's Free Open Beta Is Performing Abysmally on PC
@get2sammyb Question about the Concord “open beta” on PS5. Is the beta really open to everyone b/c the info, at least on the shop in the app, says PS+ required, which wouldn’t make it open to everyone and would instead only make it open to PS+ subscribers, which, while there might be a lot of them, is not everyone.🤷🏻♂️
Edit: I was able to start the beta so it looks like it is open to everyone. Didn’t land on the planet b/c touchscreen controls on my tablet are not the way to go but it did let me get that far. Too bad there’s no campaign, I kind of enjoy the B-Team GotG. 🤷🏻♂️
Re: EA Sports College Football 25 Sells 2.2 Million Copies for $100
Is that $220 Million? On Deluxe preorders? I don’t know how much it costs to make a yearly football game but I’m going to assume that should cover it.
So, has EA announced they’re firing the people who made it b/c it hasn’t lived up to their expectations?
Re: PS5 Simply Can't Match the Pace of 2023 in Europe
@sanderson72 I've had my PS5 for about 3 years, our 3 controllers less than that, and the 2 I bought after, red and purple each for $75, both drift. The purple unplayable and the red just annoys me trying to open chests in Fortnite. I've taken them both apart to clean them and it did work for awhile, red is fine, but the purple became unusable again a short time after.
But both of my PS4 controllers work just fine, and they must be close to a decade old at this point, 9 years this Christmas maybe, pretty sure it was a family Christmas gift.
So yeah, Driftsense. At least Nintendo let me rerurn my drifitng Joycon FOR FREE to fix it. Meanwhile I can't even buy a cheap knockoff PS5 controller for $50 or $60, only $70 or $150.
It's really bad, and I'm greatly annoyed as you can probably tell. 😁
I feel bad for the Brexit folk, but at lest their recent election seems to have taken a turn for the better. I'm afraid the next US one will be our last. 😝
Re: PS5 Pro Still Likely to Launch This Year, Tokyo Game Show Reveal Possible
Read the update, so my update is: I didn’t know when the TGS was but I can live w/ a very late September announcement for a November launch, 6 weeks notice is more than adequate to sell a VRR system to the few people who have a VRR capable TV.
Why they’re doing it in Japan where people will be saving their money for Switch Pro is beyond me though.
Re: PS5 Simply Can't Match the Pace of 2023 in Europe
@NEStalgia I think I’ve been paying too much attention to politics lately - just recently found out that Joe Biden is old 😱 - that I only understood about half of that.😂 The part about Nvidia, the new IBM/Intel/MS. (Have you noticed lately that money seems to have like no meaning anymore, $30 billion here, $50 billion there, most people probably can’t even count that many zeros.🤑)
I don’t really like streaming, at all, especially companies trying to sell you part time rentals as full price games (should be illegal and no I’m not joking) I was just using it as an example about things making consoles obsolete. Sony is selling a $200 Wii U Gamepad, why CAN’T it work over the cloud?🤷🏻♂️ Sony needs consoles though, Nintendo sells handhelds with TV out and MS sells PC, Sony has consoles, that’s it. Maybe the Portal is test? VR is as niche as niche gets, I can’t even be bothered.
Certainly feels like something has to give. Maybe the PS6 can work as a home phone for people who miss having a landline? Media discs are dead, can’t use that secondary function. It’s inevitable. Some day Pachter will be right, maybe in his lifetime.