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@NoCode23 then that's entirely on you. The word was used correctly, and there was plenty in the review talking about how the combat was there, but not great

Honestly the original is possibly my favourite game of all time, and this doesn't look like it's shaping up to be anything like what I'd want from a sequel, but it is looking to be a pretty solid VtM videogame, so my only real complaint is that it should have got a new name when it moved studio given how it's essentially a completely different project.

@NoCode23 "Lacking" ≠ "Lacks". Something is found to be lacking if there is either not enough of it or it's of insufficient quality, i.e something is lacking because you want more.

Not entirely seriously one could say that much of the comment section is found to be lacking in reading comprehension 😂

Yay, managed to refund it. A level 4 stars account seemed to help speed things up, and somehow the refunded purchase still counts towards keeping my level next year?

Lol, of course I just bought Jedi Survivor this week

I'd love more games on PlayStation to have mouse support, especially ports from PC where the gamepad implementation is kinda clunky (a lot of sims). I can see there being a market for a PlayStation branded mouse with the build quality of the DualSense, especially if it was also easy to use with other devices (so Bluetooth, maybe a 5 GHz dongle or able to be used with a standard USB cable), but I already have a £120 mouse (Logitech MX Master) so I'm hoping not to be in the market for a while.

Seems pretty clear to me

As we shift to PS5, PS4 games will no longer be a key benefit and will only be occasionally offered for PlayStation Plus Monthly Games and Game Catalog starting January 2026. We may still provide titles that can be playable on both PS4 and PS5 consoles after this date.

There's still going to be games you can play on PS4, it's just that they're not adding anything that's not on PS5, and you're not guaranteed any particular number of PS4 titles in any given month.

Breaking news: they're going to stop actively incentivising people to use their 13 yo console and encourage people to move across to their 4 yo console.

Next up, water is wet. More news at 10

2 of my most anticipated are in the top 5, big I'm also quite looking forward to VtMB2, which is slated for the first half of the year. It's not the same game I was looking forward to in 2018, but it still looks interesting, if more of a 7/10 rather than the 9/10 I wanted (i.e if it's your jam you'll love it, but it's unlikely to be a mass market hit). I'm also hoping that STALKER 2 will come to PS5 in 2025, but I might end up getting it on PC anyway.

@Fishnpeas that helps, but it still doesn't make up for an order of magnitude difference in processing power

@Fishnpeas the Steam Deck as a product isn't that old, but the Aerith APU it runs on is a Zen 2 chip, which is a 5 year old architecture. Zen 3 had been out for 2 years when it released and Zen 4 released before the Steam Deck had reached most of the world. There's certainly a lot of new games people consider "unplayable" on the Deck. The PS5 is also Zen 2 but is much larger with a vastly largest power budget etc, meaning it can perform much better through brute force. This is evident when you contrast the Deck's 1-1.6TF of GPU throughput to the PS5's 10TF - it's not apples to apples but it certainly shows the order of magnitude difference in performance, despite the smaller console releasing 2 years more recently.

@ChimpMasta half of all PlayStation players are still on the PS4. The Steam Deck is really old hardware as is the Nintendo Switch. People still want to play games that aren't on the cutting edge and a lot of people are happy to pay a premium to play them on the move without needing a connection to their home console or a cloud gaming service.

I could see it being fairly popular if you have one device that plays all the games from the past two generations, as well as emulated PS1&2 games, as well as being a great way to remote play games from the new generation. It's likely that the PS5 will have an even longer tail than the PS4, so I can't see there being many games you can play on the the PS6 that aren't also playable on the PS5, and of those I can't see them being games you'd want to play on a handheld anyway.

@ChimpMasta not with current chips, but as processor nodes shrink you get more operations per second for less power, although concentrated into a smaller area, which is why newer handhelds are starting to have more complicated cooling systems. I would be unsurprised if by the time the PS6 rolls around you can get a handheld PS5.

@Nowings @UltimateOtaku91 it feels like an acknowledgement that the Chinese games industry sure have made a AAA game that's on par with a lot of what the western industry puts out. That's certainly an accomplishment, and deserves to be celebrated, but it doesn't feel like the same thing as being Game of the Year, and I think there'd be more controversy if it won than Shadow of the Erdtree which doesn't really belong there either.

I'm looking forward to playing this one once the sharp edges have been sanded off. Probably on PC, as I'm hoping someone will make a mod for slavic accented English dialogue. The English dub is atrocious, and otherwise I'm going to end up playing in Ukrainian with subtitles

Honestly the launch model seems fine still to me. It may no longer be the best place to play AAA titles, but it certainly runs them reliably. I've recently built a new PC though, in preparation for Windows 10 End of Life next year, and I'd get prefer to put £700 towards a graphics card than marginal gains on a console that works fine. I anticipate holding onto the launch PS5 until it either dies, or the PS 6 Pro comes out.

I don't think the value proposition is anywhere near as bad though for people who only have the PS4 or PS4 Pro

Feeling pretty vindicated in my sluggishness to play Sifu

I feel like a good strategy would probably be to release one tentpole AAA per year, accepting that it may be a loss leader, and release the PC port 2-3 years later, and maybe 3 live service games per generation, forever exclusive, hoping that one of them becomes a must-play. The rest should be smaller titles that are developed at a price point they can sell for £30 day one, drop to £20 6 months in, and add to PS+ after a year, and on the same day release on PC for £30.

That gives people a push to play on PlayStation, it gives players on PC a taste of what they're missing, and it vastly reduces overall development costs from what you see now. The lower budget games should be a reasonable constant trickle so people aren't complaining about there being no games, and if the first party stuff brings players to PlayStation the third party sales should stay up, which is basically free money for Sony

Obviously the issue with PlatinumTrophy is that it's PascalCase and it would be better in camelCase or snake_case

Depending on implementation, this could finally be what gets me to buy into VR, as one headset to play games on both platforms would be a much better value proposition than just one or the other

For those going on about cost, I'm pretty sure the smart move nowadays is going to be to upgrade every 1½ console generations, unless you have money to burn. PS4 Pro owners can probably get away with waiting another 3 years for the PS6, and then wait for the PS7 Pro after, and there'll only be a handful of games you have to wait for the new hardware on. As someone who bought the PS5 at launch rather than upgrading my PC, and who's now about to finally upgrade my rig, I'll probably hold out for the PS6 Pro before buying a new console as the PS5 is still great.

I for one am still very happy with my launch model PS5. Given I'm about to spend £1000 on bringing my desktop up to date, I can't see wanting to replace the PS5 until part way into the PS6's lifecycle so long as it will still play recent releases at 4k/30-60 FPS. If it weren't for Windows 10 approaching end of life, and wanting to install mods, I would be quite happy playing everything on PS5, but seeing as I need to upgrade to be able to keep using my PC for productivity tasks and retrogaming, I may as well give it the grunt to play some more modern games too.

Maybe it's just me (although given how many tutorials called for the move controllers, I suspect it's not) but it seemed pretty much impossible to control in creation mode with the dualsense, because it needed the extra axis provided by the gyro, but the gyro drifts like crazy (which is a common issue with the technology in general, and I tend to see it as more of an addition to stick assuming, rather than another 2-3 axes) on both my controllers making it impossible to be precise. A PC release would have been great, and could have just used similar controls to Unity/Unreal/Godot, while I wonder what they could have done for PS5, other than giving it psvr2 support

I used to think Yorkshire tea was ok, until I tried their loose leaf, which is better than a lot of premium teas

I mean if you compare multiplatform stuff to how it's priced on Steam, especially more than 6 months after release, PlayStation is generally more expensive, especially when stuff is on sale.

I don't know whether there's anything illegal about it though. There's also the fact that you can buy discounted PSN credit, which muddies the waters for me, because it suggests that they could sell credit with less of a retailer profit margin, and reduce prices, and things would work out about the same for Sony while being less complicated for the consumer.

@RudeAnimat0r do you have more than a year left on your current sub? It's been suggested that you can make use of the discount if and only if you have less than a year until it expires.

@Americansamurai1 sorry, Amazon, it's their stock ticker (and after checking, it's actually AMZN, which is hardly quicker to type 🤦)

Just checked and I'm already subbed until 2024-12-03. I guess there was a deal earlier in the year.

@Americansamurai1 didn't AZN just lay off 180 videogame developers?

@Member_the_game sure, and my answer was about the limits, in theory. Realistically in real-world scenarios you'd be looking at about 1fps

@Member_the_game eh, the further away you are, the greater the latency, so you'd have a pretty bad experience playing from the other side of the world if the software allows you (⅒ of a second minimum, for a signal to travel 20,000km, ⅕ of a second for a round trip)

(Imagine trying to play a game with a maximum frame rate of 10fps but with frequent drops and hitches)

@QBGaming12 that would be awesome, especially, hear me out, if you could switch between them at will, with all three characters playing differently and providing the key to different puzzles.

@nessisonett you think they're funny?

I was about to say I was looking forward to trying the Aliens game, but I was thinking of Aliens: Dark Descent

Mafia 2 is good for anyone who still hasn't played it, but I can't think too many people who are interested won't have found time in the past 12+ years to give it a go.

My favourite fan theory so far is that the stand-alone DLC which adds a 6th clan is a finished version of the story Hardsuit Labs were making, where you start as a Thinblood

Apparently the name is traditional in Greece and Armenia. I don't know the Armenian pronunciation, but in Greek it's like Fee-ruh.

The more I find out about this game, the less it feels like a sequel to 2004's VtMB and the more it sounds like a decent but wholly unrelated game based on the modern iteration of the same franchise. If I can convince myself not to compare it then I think it'll be great, but if I try to consider it a sequel I expect to be disappointed.

Alas I was stuck on a 80486DX4 until around 2001 when I got an AMD Thunderbird with 12x the clockspeed. I played Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 and Mysteries of the Sith while waiting for Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, but I don't think I've played this one

So he's probably right, but also, if you're the director for a game and you release it thinking it's not worth the money, that seems like a problem, rather than the norm

@Gaia093: I would guess it was edited for the reasons @Hyena_socks suggested

I'll probably try this out if it was on plus, but it doesn't scream "purchase" to me

@lindos the main problem was that it was around a metric that is both unpredictable and not tied to revenue, so with the initial plan it would have been possible to owe Unity more than you'd made in revenue.

@RedPlay44 I just went to the blog to read it carefully and it says

A horizontal stand will be included with the new PS5 model. Also a new Vertical Stand compatible with all PS5 models will be sold separately at 29.99 USD | 29.99 EURO | 24.99 GBP | 3,980 JPY.

That seems pretty indicative that the vertical stand isn't included, unless there's somewhere else where it's stated?

It's cool that it supports itself horizontally, but paying more for vertical? Gross

@rjejr AOL did make an appearance at some point, and I seem to remember friends on AOL could use the phone at the same time as the internet somehow, whereas I was on a pay-by-the-minute ISP where essentially you got your internet via a premium rate phone number, so we'd pay BT through our phone bill, and BT would pay them for the time we were connected.

@rjejr it's a big box hardware store, I think it might be similar to Lowe's or Harbour Freight?

As for domains, co.uk had been around as long as I've been around, and I remember 28k dialup. Technically though .uk is the tld and domain name registrar's are free to create whatever subdomains of that as you want (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk)

I feel like which of their people are on the team may be less important than whether this I've is given enough time in the oven before release. I don't think anyone on the original team were happy that it was released in the state it was

@rjejr eh, I mean if you know you know, but if you don't... like the URL for B&Q is diy.com, which nobody would guess without a search engine.

You also get websites where the .com is singing completely different to the .co.uk or .org or whatever

@rjejr it's pronounced Coe dot Ewe Kay. He specified dot-com because that's the URL. If it was co.uk they may or may not have said it anyway for completeness (I don't think they even mentioned that it was a UK website), but what I was saying is that .com isn't the default. amazon.co.uk, google.co.uk, ford.co.uk - they're all American companies but the UK facing websites are .co.uk because that's the default here. If you tell someone from the UK to go to the website for Amazon, Google or Ford, those are the sites they'll have bookmarked, or type in, or find in their search results. In Germany it might be .de, in France it might me .fr. Some sites use .eu for all of Europe.

@rjejr you evidently didn't read my message fully. I said we default to co.uk for most things, so .com is worthy of note

@rjejr nobody here shops on amazon.com because shipping from the states is extortionate (we have amazon.co.uk, which we just call amazon). Did you forget that the rest of the world exists? The default over here is co.uk