About time from a thread on these right
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:20 (eight months ago) link
currently live: PS5 - the future of gaming showhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuLci-lSeCo&feature=emb_logo
i'm guessing that anything with "project" in front of its name is a tech demo that will never be released as a game
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:22 (eight months ago) link
1 more tryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuLci-lSeCo
quite underwhelming so far
― ||||||||, Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:26 (eight months ago) link
feed gone
― Ste, Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:30 (eight months ago) link
xp strong disagree, this is one of the most impressive console launch/line ups I've ever seen
― lumen (esby), Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:33 (eight months ago) link
the one where you're the cat in robot blade runner world? the avatar/spirited away looking one... the lbw4 trailer with the go team music!
― lumen (esby), Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:37 (eight months ago) link
I'm just here for Spider-Man: Miles Morales
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:39 (eight months ago) link
SOLAR ASH looks like Journey?
― Shade Kool-Aid (Leee), Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:43 (eight months ago) link
new hitman looks class
― ||||||||, Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:45 (eight months ago) link
ok this fake animal crossing looks bad lol. but most everything else looking pretty good I thought!
― lumen (esby), Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:52 (eight months ago) link
oh! the trailer had a dark twist ending...
― lumen (esby), Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:53 (eight months ago) link
PS.. is it 5? I think we're on 5 now. PS5
― na (NA), Thursday, 11 June 2020 20:54 (eight months ago) link
OMG HZD2!!!
― Shade Kool-Aid (Leee), Thursday, 11 June 2020 21:10 (eight months ago) link
we knew that was coming tho
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 June 2020 21:12 (eight months ago) link
I mean yes, I knew they had a sequel planned, but I did not expect it to be part of the presentation and be a launch title.
― Shade Kool-Aid (Leee), Thursday, 11 June 2020 21:19 (eight months ago) link
i doubt its a launch title unless they announced it as such and i missed it
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 June 2020 21:24 (eight months ago) link
2021 at earliest I'd think.
The one game (Pragmata?) had a 2022 date
― groovypanda, Thursday, 11 June 2020 21:26 (eight months ago) link
this was my favorite trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-v1BxSETvIweenie hands
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 11 June 2020 21:27 (eight months ago) link
"talkin bout Bugsnax!"
― Ste, Thursday, 11 June 2020 21:44 (eight months ago) link
Was that the Morty voice actor?
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 June 2020 22:19 (eight months ago) link
Doesn't sound like him to me. Was that the Yakko voice actor in the Hitman III trailer?
― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 12 June 2020 00:24 (eight months ago) link
That Bugsnax song is a jam
― jmm, Friday, 12 June 2020 01:38 (eight months ago) link
I love it when songs sound like they're in another language but it turns out to be english.
― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 12 June 2020 02:23 (eight months ago) link
Unless they announce some kinda Game Pass equivalent I'm not buying a new system for a good long while
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 12 June 2020 02:24 (eight months ago) link
https://www.engadget.com/control-ps5-xbox-series-x-154810298.html
This was inevitable. Probably won't be available for launch (DLC isn't even completely out yet) but I'm sure when it arrives in a "Bureau Director's Edition" of some sort it'll have the DLC and look gobstobbingly amazing with ray-tracing and hopefully a smoother frame rate.
― Nhex, Saturday, 13 June 2020 02:07 (eight months ago) link
Control is one of a very few acclaimed PS4 games I want to play but haven't bought to add to my vast backlog just yet, not least because I've heard questionable things about how it plays on non-pro PS4 (though of course other people say it's fine). But if it's being better optimized for PS5, and the changes/improvements/additions turn out to be significant, I guess that means it's going to have to wait a few years for me, unless there is a PS4 fire sale that drops it below, like, $10.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:14 (eight months ago) link
can I not just buy a cheap digital copy of control... and it will play better on PS5?
― ||||||||, Saturday, 13 June 2020 19:42 (eight months ago) link
they haven't given details, but the hope is that they'll actually bump up the graphics and such to use the power of the new consolesi'm saying this is one of the remasters that will actually be worth supporting? i hope
― Nhex, Saturday, 13 June 2020 19:52 (eight months ago) link
digital foundry put up an article on backwards compatibility on the series x:https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-xbox-series-x-back-compat-is-transformative
PS5 BC in boost mode should give similar results
― chihuahuau, Monday, 28 September 2020 20:23 (four months ago) link
"Should" as in "they need to match it to stay competitive" or "is reasonably expected to"?
― Kaliningrad Oberst (Leee), Monday, 28 September 2020 21:10 (four months ago) link
Reasonably expected. It feels like these new consoles are more massive spec bumps than architectural leaps
That said I'm a little jealous when I see PC footage of games like Avengers which don't even come close to a steady 30fps on the stock PS4. Slightly makes me want to upgrade. Or spend $1k+ and get a gaming/streaming PC. If I do upgrade to PS5, (to be charitable) unoptimized multi-platform games like Avengers and Control will be my first tests.
― Nhex, Monday, 28 September 2020 21:36 (four months ago) link
i assume PS5 BC will just run the game with the PS4 Pro graphics/resolution settings unless the dev tests and patches in a new performance profile
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 September 2020 21:38 (four months ago) link
> "Should" as in "they need to match it to stay competitive" or "is reasonably expected to"?
the latter, it's hardware compatiblity
> i assume PS5 BC will just run the game with the PS4 Pro graphics/resolution settings unless the dev tests and patches in a new performance profile
that's what the legacy modes are for and no patches should be needed there except for the rare pathological case
boost mode should work like series x: games with unlocked framerates run better, games with dynamic resolution spend more time in higher res or lock to the max, etc.this is where issues are likely to appear and patches might be needed to fix problems, for example, some games like dark souls 2 tie game code to framerate so the 60fps ps4 port initially had a bug where weapon durability wore down 2x faster
― chihuahuau, Monday, 28 September 2020 22:08 (four months ago) link
We can't believe we have to say this, but please do not blow vape smoke into your Xbox Series X.— Xbox (@Xbox) November 11, 2020
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 23:48 (three months ago) link
Not hearing a no from Sony, though.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Thursday, 12 November 2020 00:26 (three months ago) link
Brag if you snagged one today so I can seethe in jealousy
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:29 (three months ago) link
theres no games yet
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:03 (three months ago) link
but bugsknacks
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 12 November 2020 17:39 (three months ago) link
thats on ps4 and pc
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 November 2020 17:54 (three months ago) link
I miraculously scored a PS5 thru Best Buy online the other week. Picked it up tonight. It’s huge and absurd, but honestly sitting here looking at it with its lights on in the semi-dark I’m coming around to it aesthetically.
― circa1916, Saturday, 30 January 2021 09:36 (three weeks ago) link
It’s a lot of things, but I like how it gives me Hopper’s Nighthawks vibes most of all.
― circa1916, Saturday, 30 January 2021 09:39 (three weeks ago) link
Demon’s Souls remake is incredible so far, I’ll save that for another thread.
― circa1916, Saturday, 30 January 2021 09:41 (three weeks ago) link
i don't think i've ever felt as much desire for violent retribution as i do for the painful death of scalpers at the moment
― the scamp has a thousand fries (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 January 2021 09:48 (three weeks ago) link
The late teens looking kid who processed my order in the pick up area asked me “Is this your first one?”Apparently a good amount of people have rolled through openly bragging about how this is the 3rd, 4th, 5th one they’ve snagged. Fuck those assholes for real.
― circa1916, Saturday, 30 January 2021 12:35 (three weeks ago) link
real q - why is this such a big deal rn? surely there are very few exclusives and few TVs that can even show off the improved gfx?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 January 2021 12:46 (three weeks ago) link
It honestly shouldn’t be a big thing right now. Unless you’re a Souls dork and are really excited for that Demon’s Souls remake. Which is me. And maybe 10% of the market.People freak for a hyped product regardless of its immediate usefulness, particularly if it’s rare and status-y.
― circa1916, Saturday, 30 January 2021 13:06 (three weeks ago) link
I never got a PS4, I want a new gen machine to catch up on stuff I've wanted to play for ages and maybe new stuff over the next few years, shd've known capitalism never comes thru when you want it to
― the scamp has a thousand fries (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 January 2021 13:08 (three weeks ago) link
I was also stoked on grabbing the PS5 because I have a grip of PS4 games on disc that I never completed because my optical drive shit the bed. Being able to play PS4 games on the PS5 (with graphical/performance upgrades!) is a big sell.Reports seem to indicate the PS5 won’t be terribly hard to come by in a couple of months. Production’s ramped up hard.
― circa1916, Saturday, 30 January 2021 13:23 (three weeks ago) link
Demon's Souls and Spider-Man MM is way better than most launch lineups I can think of tbh, and I hear the platformer that comes preinstalled is really fun
Also being able to play Hitman 3 with fancy graphics and no Epic games compatibility headache would be a draw for me
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 30 January 2021 13:38 (three weeks ago) link
i have been happily playing spider-man mm on my ps4 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:04 (three weeks ago) link
B-but ray tracing!
Whatever that is
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:25 (three weeks ago) link
it does look slick as hell at 60fps on piss5 tbf
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:30 (three weeks ago) link
Once you've become a Framerate Guy you cant really go back
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:34 (three weeks ago) link
thats rightmiss me with that 30fps shit, i’m a 16.6ms frame-pacing diehard now
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:38 (three weeks ago) link
I'm sure something will come up, but I've yet to play anything on PS4 that has made me think, man, I wish this ran better. The Switch? Absolutely. But the PS4? So far, so good, with the exception of storage, maybe, and PS5 doesn't solve that problem. Pretty soon I'll need to install Red Dead, and I suspect I'll have to clear out half the hard drive.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 January 2021 16:53 (three weeks ago) link
did you know you can attach an external to your ps4 via usb? works v well
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 January 2021 17:13 (three weeks ago) link
yeah, but I actually have one plugged in there as my backup drive. and as far as I can figure out you can't use one drive as a backup and as storage. I could be wrong though, but it seemed kind of tricky.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 January 2021 17:17 (three weeks ago) link
lol it never even occurred to me to back up my playstation.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 January 2021 17:39 (three weeks ago) link
I forget why I did it, exactly, other than because I could, but it may have followed some horror story about being 2/3 of the way through a big game and then having something fail or crash? Honestly, if I was 2/3 of the way through a few games I've played, even the ones people play again and again, and I lost all progress, I'm not sure I would start over again.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:23 (three weeks ago) link
I've yet to play anything on PS4 that has made me think, man, I wish this ran better.
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:48 (three weeks ago) link
Ha, I have no interest in that one. I suppose the most conspicuous bellwether will be Control, which iirc I did buy, and which I may get around to in 2021.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:50 (three weeks ago) link
Would recommend getting the Control DLC, also, unless you bought the ultimate version where they're included. The Foundation adds new enemies, locations, and hidden bits, while AWE ropes Alan Wake into the Control universe. Playing with the various objects in Control made me appreciate the meta "Alan fights WORDS!" Alan Wake ending more. After fighting 'real' shadow enemies through the game, at the time, the ending didn't connect. On the second AWE mission now and enjoying it. The main game's jukebox Expedition is still kicking my butt, but other than that, have used YT to find any missing secrets and ramp up my player.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Sunday, 31 January 2021 19:23 (three weeks ago) link
I think I bought the base game because it was on sale? Or maybe there was no DLC at that point? Anyway, don't know what Alan Wake is!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 January 2021 19:39 (three weeks ago) link
Older game with a Twin Peaks / X Files vibe. Writer goes to remote town, population vanishes, uses flashlight as weapon against shadow people.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:36 (three weeks ago) link
I was also stoked on grabbing the PS5 because I have a grip of PS4 games on disc that I never completed because my optical drive shit the bed. Being able to play PS4 games on the PS5 (with graphical/performance upgrades!) is a big sell.
I'm not getting a PS5 anytime soon but when I do will i need to get the disc version of the PS5 in order to do this?
― groovypanda, Monday, 1 February 2021 08:40 (three weeks ago) link
Would recommend getting the Control DLC, also, unless you bought the ultimate version where they're included
Ultimate edition is free with PS+ for Feb btw so don't pay for this now if you haven't already, you'll get it anyway in a couple of days.
― JimD, Monday, 1 February 2021 10:47 (three weeks ago) link
I just went ahead and overpaid for a PS5 this week. It's my son's 16th birthday and honestly, if he'd asked for a PS5 I'd have gently told him to piss off. But he's not actually asked for anything at all. And 16 is a semi big deal and he's having to spend it locked down with no party or friend contact and so I wanted to get him something big and surprising and...couldn't think of anything that'd fit the bill better really. Ebayed some other stuff I had lying around to make up the difference between RRP and the price I paid and that was enough justify the expense to myself heh.
Anyway it's still under wraps but yeah it's in the house!
― JimD, Monday, 1 February 2021 10:52 (three weeks ago) link
dad of the year! well done, totally makes sense
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 February 2021 10:55 (three weeks ago) link
Makes sense except for the bit in 2.5 years where he moves out to go to college and takes it with him and then I need to buy myself a replacement! Hopefully there'll be a slim version by then, at least.
― JimD, Monday, 1 February 2021 10:59 (three weeks ago) link
lol i didn't think of that
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 February 2021 11:03 (three weeks ago) link
Being able to play PS4 games on the PS5 (with graphical/performance upgrades!) is a big sell.
So I've been reading up on this, because it's not always true you'll get better visuals or performance in back compatibility mode. But in some situations it makes a huge difference! At the very least you'll be getting PS4 Pro equivalent performance (though not all games were patched to run any differently on the pro compared to the base PS4 anwyay). Beyond that though it depends on whether the game in question was using dynamic resolution (if it was, you'll usually get more consistently high resolutions on PS5) or whether it had an unlocked frame rate (eg Ghost of Tsushima does, which is why it can run at 60fps on the PS5 when it was only hitting 30 on PS4). Best title-by-title resource out there so far seems to be this thread:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ps5-backwards-compatibility-all-ps4-games-with-benefits.322747/
― JimD, Monday, 1 February 2021 11:17 (three weeks ago) link
one underappreciated advantage is that the ps5 runs virtually silently compared to my old ps 4 pro, which perpertually sounds like a jet engine at max revs
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 February 2021 12:45 (three weeks ago) link
I've heard our Joel's PS4 that was another big factor in wanting to skip straight to the 5
― Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 February 2021 12:47 (three weeks ago) link
don't worry there will definitely be a nicer, cheaper version available in 2.5 years
― Nhex, Monday, 1 February 2021 14:34 (three weeks ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/veNpa5B.png
as the frequently annoyed owner of multiple left joy-cons that have become unusable thinks to drift (even after several self-repairs), may i be one of the first to sayNOOOOOOOO
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 04:23 (two weeks ago) link
Eh. I doubt any console has ever launched without some of its controllers doing this. The thing that makes the Switch special is that it eventually happens to ALL of them. Easy headline for clicks for now, but I’d be surprised if Sony’s fail rates are actually high enough to be a problem.
― JimD, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 10:00 (two weeks ago) link
Let's see how they handle it. What also makes the Switch special is that Nintendo made it really easy to get the joy-cons repaired/replaced. Or at least it used to be that way.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 14:17 (two weeks ago) link
They sent our one back as repaired and it wasn't repaired 👍🏻
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 14:29 (two weeks ago) link
Ugh, I'm on my third PS4 controller. One of them had phantom R2 inputs and the down D-Pad stopped working. It's such a lame thing to spend money on.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 14:35 (two weeks ago) link
I wasn't 100% sure one of my Joy Cons was drifting, but I sent it in, anyway. So I'm not sure they repaired it, either, because maybe it wasn't broken! I did notice that the only time I ever had a real problem with drift was playing hours and hours of Breath of the Wild, and only in portable mode; my Pro has never had a drift problem. I've had no problems since, so either it *was* fixed or maybe the problem only came up when I played a game that involved virtually walking and running for hours.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 15:08 (two weeks ago) link
My Joycons didn't start to drift until several hundred hours of gameplay, at least a couple of years. But when it started to do so, it was unmistakable - like even in something like Animal Crossing. Not sure if I want to bother sending it in for a fix tbh
― Nhex, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 15:18 (two weeks ago) link
I did this a few months back, it was just the left one, and it was pretty quick and stressfree. Would advise doing it.
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 16:00 (two weeks ago) link