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Seems I’m getting 30% off premium renewal. I always buy this time of year though so I could have just let it lapse and then buy anyway. Maybe they look at this.

Arizona sunshine 2 for under £20. Can’t beat that.

@SystemAddict
Sure. Mine runs out on the 25th so I’m waiting for that before getting the deal.

@Michael2008ish
There are more must have games on PSVR2 than on PS5 in my opinion, but then I always consider VR better, so games like resi 4 and village, gt7, no man’s sky etc, whilst not must have in flat mode are must haves for me in VR.
Others? Loads. Both Moss games, both Red Matter, both Walking Dead S&S, both Arizona Sunshine, All the Pixel Ripped games, Max Mustard, Cyube, Demeo, Metro Awakening, Vertigo 2, Hubris, Synapse, 7th Guest, Pistol Whip, Beat Saber, Townsmen…probably loads more I can’t remember at this point, and I can’t really check as I’m meant to be working, but there are also several good ones incoming before the end of the year.

@Rob3008
Yes, but make sure you’ve turned off auto renew.

My WiFi is pretty rubbish but this works perfectly for me.

I was a bit surprised, but my experience with the portal is weird generally.

When streaming from the ps5 in the living room it’s perfect, but when doing so from the PS5 in the bedroom, less than 10 meters further away from router, through one wall, I get weird input issues where inputs can repeat. This makes a game unplayable when it happens. It’s weird because I can play the one in the living room perfectly when I’m in the bedroom. Maybe I’m just on the edge my wifi capability.

Nevertheless, streaming from the router to the bedroom works flawlessly, which I’m very happy about. Just needs to get out of beta so there are more games available.

@LordAinsley
Nah, I’d pay £3.99 on every game and not a penny more.

Everyone who has the money, get a PSVR2. Don’t listen to all the haters who want VR to fail, it’s the only thing that makes this generation worthwhile. There are dozens of games that’ll give you more enjoyment than the same old reskinned pancake games. Treat yourself to something amazing.

I’ll be getting the Black Friday PSN Premium as usual (I let mine elapse on the 25th and get it fresh every year ), and be happier about it due to all the free PSVR2 games they are giving away, plus the new Portal streaming.

Nice. I’ll give it a go. Have a few trade shows coming up and I’ll be away several days at a time. Hopefully hotel wifi holds up enough for some turn based games.

Frankly, I don’t trust Sony to maintain Japanese IP any more.

Will be giving synapse a go when I get home. Only other one that would have appealed is Ishin, but I already have it.

@TrannosaurusBex
Really? Strange. I can’t get any wallet amounts to show at all. Either way, Sony have not been exactly open with a solution. I can’ only see it benefitting them.
I did some calculations, and on all the games I checked, it works out exactly £5 more to get the game with points than it does with PSN wallet credit. Which is scummy enough without taking the obvious wallet option away from millions of people.

Last 5 games I bought? In no particular order, Bloomtown: A different story, Cyube VR, Max Mustard, Vampire Survivors, Arizona Sunshine remake.

Before that it was Astro Bot, which might be considered AAA, but the rest are definitely Indy or smaller games. I don’t think I paid much more than £20 for each of them. They were all well worth the money.

The next game I’m excited for is the next Yakuza game. That’s a half game really, and even the mainline games are without huge budgets, but the series is my favourite of all time.

Clearly the issue is that Sony don’t seem to be checking patches properly, and devs are just rushing them out (perhaps under pressure by, or with incentive from, Sony?)

@AhmadSumadi
Yes, I just saw that their customer service confirmed it isn’t a bug and that options can change and the wallet cash out may come back in the future. Which has taken away any value. If I wanted one of the games that they have as payout options I would buy the game when on sale, not pay their ridiculous digital prices in any form.
I accepted not getting stars for the sub. It was a kick in the teeth but is a minority of my yearly points. I accepted the 1 year cash out because it was easily long enough. But to take away the only worthwhile reward makes the whole thing useless. I guess I’ll stick with it and just save up the points in the hope that the option comes back periodically and I can cash the points out.

@AhmadSumadi
I’m still waiting for the wallet top ups to come back. As it’s still available out of the U.K. I’m hoping it’s a bug. Otherwise, yes, Stars is now totally pointless.

I’m glad I never got trapped into this bullsh*t way of thinking as a kid. I was truly blessed to grow up during peak home gaming.

I guess so. As long as they are judged on the same terms I don’t see the problem. Meaning if a DLC is terrible value for money, because it has 3 hrs of new gameplay for £20 and requires the purchase of another game to access, that would count heavily against it. Realistically though, would be best to have a separate category.

Not sure why Remasters would be ignored. Especially if they are from a generation ago (considered 16yrs for humans) as people who have never played the game before should be given a fair indication of how good it is without that impression being influenced by us old folks complaining we’ve already played it (we can just…not play it again after all). We wouldn’t expect a republication of a book to be marked down by a new critic just because it’s a republication after all, and that would be identical content.

It’s almost like Sony know their market and customer base after all these years.

Jessie J has one of the best voices of her generation. Her performances on that Chinese talent show were unreal. Shame I’m not a big fan of most of her original songs. But that’s why she went independent I guess.

Scrolls straight to PSVR2 offering…Synapse! Happy bunny.

Ishin shouldn’t be slept on of course. It’s the worst Yakuza game, including spin offs, but it’s still Yakuza, so better than most out there.

Flight simulator VR is the only MS owned game I’d actually be excited for

@havoc33
See, I generally agree, but Yakuza 5 was my favourite. I firmly believe that a longer game is better as long as it maintains both quality and variety. There was so much of both in Yakuza 5 that it was my favourite of the Like a Dragon franchise. 6 left me feeling like it was incomplete (especially with the less comprehensive platinum campaign run).

I get what he is saying, but I’ll gladly take Yakuza games that are 400hrs long. It took me 200hrs to finish some of them (with platinum) and they were still over too soon.
Less phenomenal games however, sure, drop the run time. And the price.

@Mikey856
Yes, wonder how that would go these days with physical media being a fraction of sales.

7/10 for me. But I expect most to get a higher number than normal. After all, far fewer consoles to have owned than there are games we could have all missed.

@Bobobiwan
Yes, Astro bot rescue mission is quite possibly the greatest game ever made. I hope Sony remake it at some point, or let someone else do so.

I got mine for free but have never used it. With PSVR2 I’ve just been spoiled and don’t want to go through the hassle of setting up the original, even if it is still the only way for me to watch 3D films properly.

I keep seeing this. Liking the look of it. Then remembering it’s a live service game. And my interest immediately evaporates.

Arizona sunshine remake and maybe some cyube. Likely I’ll play a bit of monster train on the portal while watching TV. Nothing new this week. If the wife is game we’ll play a bit of Resi5 together.

@NEStalgia
Not sure about this game, but if VR games can hit higher fps naturally then it will mean that reprojection isn’t needed and a lot of the “blur” will magically disappear (away from the edges anyway). Here’s hoping devs care enough!

Never really had an issue. Always hovering about 40gb left as I delete games when I’m finished.

Depends what he means. I’d be happy for ai to take the actually coding work away and free up people to be more creative. The industry is in desperate need of technology that can reduce the cost and, critically, time it takes to make AAA games. There are things I wouldn’t want ai to do. Such as replace human voice actors, who will inevitably bring more emotion to a performance, but there are so many areas where it could help.

@naruball
Sure, but for me I just see it as a good or bad score, like critical reviews. The difference in numbers isn’t too important to me. There are some 10s too.

The main problem, is the same as in many areas of life, Intolerance, and people thinking their opinions are of greater importance (and just not allowing for the possibility they could be wrong).

Funny, I just checked and I couldn’t find any reviews for the PlayStation or PC platforms, and only a few for Xbox with an average of 5. Are the others hidden? Or maybe I’m not able to navigate the site as I never use it.

edit: it’s back now. Was just telling me there were no reviews for a while.

To be fair, some of the complaints I’ve seen, if true, would make the game a no go for me. Boring writing with banal “tik tok” conversations and “ forced ideological elements that detract from immersion”? Well, I’d have to play the game myself to judge that but I can well imagine it because it’s been the case with too many TV shows to count…

I’ve always been of the opinion that devs are entitled to put whatever message into their games they want of course. But then can’t complain if others don’t like it 🤷‍♂️

To then compound that with what sounds (from critical reviews also) to be myriad other issue and I can imagine that average of 5 not being far off.

I’ll give it a go if it hits plus, maybe, but I bounced hard off inquisition and this sounds even less my deal.

@LogicStrikesAgain
You are in for a real blast.

I’ll probably try it at some point, but not a fan of stealthy, low ammunition, conservation gameplay. Still haven’t finish the sublime Arizona sunshine remake trophies and haven’t got to the sequel anyway. Let alone all my existing PSVR2 wishlist games. So I have plenty of time to wait for a sale.

Edit: according to others ammo is no issue on standard difficulty.

I skip anything social. All the best to those who try it though. Sounds like they’ll need to hit the ground running if the game requires a pre release video to explain it. Nobody will bother with anything that requires effort unless it’s a big deal socially.

@LordAinsley
I wasn’t arguing that. Although I’d take a game every few months from them. I was just giving an example of where sacrificing up front income can lead to many more sales. Which is absolutely what they did not do in this case. Digitally only with no sales does not make them more money in my opinion.

@LordAinsley
Well, I wouldn’t say I don’t pay for anything. I buy every Yakuza/Like a Dragon game and spin off for example, and that was through getting one of the games on plus and having the chance to try it. There are numerous franchises I could say the same about too. The thing that unites them are they are great franchises. I feel publishers are just looking for a quick buck rather than building something great. Devs / publishers should have to earn your money, and if that means selling a game at heavy discount after the first 6 months then that’s what they should have to do.

@LordAinsley
There are differing ideas on whether a franchise will make more long term by gaining more fans, even at a lower initial price. There are also differing ideas on whether the second hand market impacts legit sales given those people willing to pay £10 are not the same people as those willing to pay £60 a particular game and are excited about it’s release (when the vast majority of sales are made). That debate is boring by now though.

All I can say is that the only games I buy day one are ones I’m confident in because I’ve played their games earlier releases, usually through borrowing off mates or buying second hand. Anecdotal I know, but then I was only giving my personal feelings anyway.

I’ll wait until the PS6 to get the true true vision via back compat

Sadly, even if they do some day recoup the costs, it will still be seen as a loss due to the opportunity cost. It will be considered that the profit they could have made from going with a more populist genre is in the loss column.

Now, I say “sadly”, because it’s a very much needed single player game, but I haven’t played it myself. It could be crap. But I and many others will never know anyway because it released digital only and has remained double the price I would consider suitable to give it a go (never falling below £42 at this current time).

Now if it would have released physically I might have got it more cheaply, even second hand, which, if they made a great game, would have then meant I buy and sequels, or even similar games from the same dev, day 1. It’s happened with many series in the past. But obviously they were not confident enough in their own game and franchise at release.

Of course there won’t be the same high of concurrent players as with the original, people either won’t feel the need to buy the remake after playing the original, or won’t feel the same urgency as they’ve experienced most of the game before so the sales will be more spread through time.

Playing resident evil 5 with the wife. We have a spotty history with it. Loved it on 360 and played for hundreds of hours. Then got it on ps4 and it was gimped (second player couldn’t get their own cash or retain there guns. Which made it a faff and take twice as long to strengthen), so we dropped it. Now, as we have two PS5s, we can finally get back to playing it as it should be played, and it’s a nostalgic blast.

@Hypoman
Really? I’m the opposite. I feel like I’m wasting my life by denying myself the chance to experience something new by spending my finite time playing something again.

This would have appealed to me if it was a one off game. But this structure makes me feel like the game is forever unfinished, and I’d be paying a huge amount over time for said unfinished game. Shame.

Then to hear there are no trophy challenges for the additional parts…even more of a sense of an incomplete product.

Nothing of interest there. Online collaboration is always an immediate no, the racing game…maybe. Ghostwire did not appeal to me in the slightest other than the setting.

But I’m always most excited for the premium games anyway as there is always a VR game in there. Hoping for another I don’t have.

So they both look good then. No major upgrades, but a nice iterative improvement for a limited cost.

@Jaz007 PSVR2 is broken. You need to wait for a patch (likely numerous) before even considering it. The issues go far beyond what was mentioned here. 0/10