zappi please teach me... i have failed like 50 times to get one
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 11 June 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Lol depends where you are in the world, plenty of websites that have alerts set up for stock e.g. for US @wario64 and @mattswider on twitter, there's a Bestbuy restock happening today for example
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 11 June 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
Really tho being in UK I'd handroll my own alerts system by using one of the many browser extensions to watch for webpage changes on any webpage that is selling the PS5 in my country. just a lot of waiting around and hoping I'm quick enough on the draw.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 11 June 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
italy need little balls. apparently.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 June 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
not that hard, just need to roll your own alert system is all lol
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 June 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
i believe i posted in the wrong thread.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 June 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
xplol you don't really need to, but it sure would help a lot!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 11 June 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
showing my little balls to the shopkeep so i can buy an italian PS5
― ciderpress, Friday, 11 June 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
Ooh this is good to know: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2021/06/11/elden-ring-ps5-upgrade-free/
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 11 June 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 June 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
Italy Needs Little Balls is the system seller Sony has been waiting for
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 June 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
But will it even be playable on a PS4 xps
― groovypanda, Saturday, 12 June 2021 08:23 (two years ago) link
don't see why not, the trailer looks like a ps4 game. it'll probably run similar to sekiro
― ciderpress, Saturday, 12 June 2021 11:14 (two years ago) link
I just read that, in a twist, a game called "Godfall" was apparently released as an early PS5 showcase exclusive, but came and went with such little notice that it's actually being re-made backwards for PS4. That's pretty sad, tbh. The press release apparently featured this blurb:
Unfortunately, Godfall is not coming to PS4, because the game is being tailor-made for Sony’s new console, which means that many of the features the game will use are simply not possible on a PS4.
One step forward, two steps back.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 June 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
Was watching the Dunkey review of the new Ratchet and Clank (mostly meh), and he dismisses the idea of this as a "next generation" game, and makes the observation that a) it doesn't look or play much if any better than the last one for PS4 back in 2016 and b) if the next God of War is being released on the PS4 as well as 5, then certainly this one could have made it to PS4, too.
I read of faster load times and, I dunno, ray tracing or whatever, but I wonder how long until the PS5 gets a game that not only runs a bit better on PS5 but can *only* be run on PS5. Not in the exclusive system, but in the sense that only the PS5 is powerful enough to pull it off. Maybe it's not that kind of a system, in which case maybe it's best to view it as a PS4 Pro-Pro?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
you should view it as a PS3 Pro-Pro-Pro
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
The "3" is for triple-pro. That's how you can tell it from the 4 and the 2.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
i think in terms of GPU/visual fidelity all consoles are gonna be incremental improvements from now on because there's an upper bound on how big your tv is. just depends on whether they can find cool stuff to do with the extra CPU power
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
Early games for new systems are generally not these giant leaps forward for numerous reasons. Dev time, dev familiarity with hardware, straddling previous/next gen consoles. The PS5's GPU is like 2.5x that of the PS4 Pro and 8x the original PS4 fwiw, the hardware is there, just might take another year or two before we see it really showing off.
Demon's Souls remake is probably the prettiest one of the "next gen" games i've seen in person so far. Gorgeous. Also 60 fps vs. 30 fps is really a world of difference.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
Is it? I'm not doubting, it's just that I've not noticed any comparable game being particularly smoother or whatever than the next. For example, God of War on PS4 runs (and looks) about as well/good as I'd want or need anything to run/look. RDR2 so far as been pretty smooth. There have been moments of frame rate slowdown on every game I've played, if only fleetingly, but nothing as bad as, say, Doom for the Switch, which was bad enough to actually hamper game play.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
I played all of those and yeah, 30 fps seemed perfectly fine for them while playing. But when you jump from a silky 60 fps game to a 30 fps game, it's genuinely jarring.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
I think dismissing load times is a little disingenuous; whenever you get to an entirely new stage on previous generations, you'd get hit with a loading screen that may take up to a few minutes (even new sections of the same state might have those hidden loading speed bumps), and the fact that the new Ratchet and Clank lets you load different world maps almost instantaneously is kind of marvelous.
― BABA BUOY (Leee), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
I guess? I like load screen breaks, I get to pee or grab a snack.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
False!You can’t leave during the loading screen. When it finishes loading, in many games, you’re right in the middle of something (usually someone demanding that you travel somewhere and stand in a glowing circle, talk to someone, or collect 10 of a certain object). The pause button is the pee button, imo.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
I prefer minimal load times, like real life
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
putting on your socks and shoes to go out is a load time. flip flops are basically the same thing as a ssd
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
that’s right
― mh, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
As much as I'm a gameplay-over-graphics person, I never really got the fps thing until I went back and forth between Dark Souls 3 (30 fps) and the Dark Souls remaster (60). I was kinda shocked how much my eyes had to adjust going back to 30, it feels crazy for a few minutes.
It's also trippy that you can be playing multiplayer with someone who's seeing the game in 60 fps (if they have a PS4 Pro, apparently).
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
I do like flip-flops. Though I admit I don't usually pee during load screens, but I do put down the controller and have a few sips of whatever I'm drinking. Lately I seem to be on a run of games that don't really have a pause option, I just go back to the PlayStation menu.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
Convincing JiC to use the pause button is the new convincing JiC to play BOTW
― ✖, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
As someone who hates it when streaming services automatically skip the beginning/end credits of tv shows I can at least partially sympathize
― ✖, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
I only play games without pause buttons, taking a bathroom break means taking your life into your hands.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
(or exiting to the menu)
There are def. times playing Dark Souls where I would think I was in a safe spot, and them come back to find myself dead (again).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
but think of the excitement that it adds to real life pissing
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
soulslike defecation
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
you don't know what you're going to find when you get back, but the longer it takes, the lower your chances of success. integrate your gaming life with your bathroom life. DARK STOOLS 4
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
Dark Souls x Death Stranding
― BABA BUOY (Leee), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
using the new PS5 haptic feedback triggers, you will have to maintain a delicate and excruciating balance between your buttocks, upper thighs, and many sphincters
rated E for everyone
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
I think you mean rated P
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
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there's a hilarious attempt at a survival mechanic in 2002's Arx Fatalis where every couple hours your character will say "i'm hungry" or "need to eat now" in a sort of pissy voice, and if you don't feed him something from his inventory he'll just drop dead 10 minutes later. there's no visible hunger meter or anything, just "i'm hungry" and then he dies. there are no other survival mechanics in the game and it happens so infrequently it's hard to remember the mechanic is there at all. invariably every time i left the game unpaused for any amount of time i would come back and find him dead because i failed to feed him a single wedge of cheese from his satchel
― ✖, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:50 (two years ago) link
Was watching the Dunkey review of the new Ratchet and Clank (mostly meh), and he dismisses the idea of this as a "next generation" game, and makes the observation that a) it doesn't look or play much if any better than the last one for PS4 back in 2016
Downloaded R&C this morning and this is nonsense. Gameplay criticism obv subjective, but it looks incredible.
Also the PS5 controller, haptic feedback and adaptive triggers and such, are genuinely super cool and the game makes good use of that stuff.
― circa1916, Sunday, 11 July 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
People who've managed to get one:
how do this
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 2 September 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
^^^
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
i'm shocked these are still impossible to find and that they haven't yet produced a slim edition
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
they're probably working on it but why introduce a new model when they can't keep the original in stock?(they did a minor revision with a slightly different heatsink apparently)
unfortunately it seems tied to the same global chip shortage that's effecting cars
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
yeah its still the same materials shortage i think. blame the crypto miners
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
Really not many (any?) must have games yet tho
I guess I'm kind've interested in Deathloop I suppose
― pings and noodles (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
I basically stopped trying. Fuck it
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 2 September 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
Yeah tbh I don't really care as long as Elden Ring runs ok on my non-pro PS4.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 September 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link