PS.. is it 5? I think we're on 5 now. PS5

not that hard, just need to roll your own alert system is all lol

i believe i posted in the wrong thread.

xp
lol you don't really need to, but it sure would help a lot!

showing my little balls to the shopkeep so i can buy an italian PS5

Ooh this is good to know: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2021/06/11/elden-ring-ps5-upgrade-free/

showing my little balls to the shopkeep so i can buy an italian PS5

Italy Needs Little Balls is the system seller Sony has been waiting for

But will it even be playable on a PS4 xps

don't see why not, the trailer looks like a ps4 game. it'll probably run similar to sekiro

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.

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?

you should view it as a PS3 Pro-Pro-Pro

The "3" is for triple-pro. That's how you can tell it from the 4 and the 2.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I guess? I like load screen breaks, I get to pee or grab a snack.

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.

I prefer minimal load times, like real life

putting on your socks and shoes to go out is a load time. flip flops are basically the same thing as a ssd

that’s right

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).

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.

Convincing JiC to use the pause button is the new convincing JiC to play BOTW

As someone who hates it when streaming services automatically skip the beginning/end credits of tv shows I can at least partially sympathize

I only play games without pause buttons, taking a bathroom break means taking your life into your hands.

(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).

but think of the excitement that it adds to real life pissing

soulslike defecation

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

Dark Souls x Death Stranding

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

I think you mean rated P

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, June 29, 2021 4:59 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

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.

People who've managed to get one:

how do this

^^^

i'm shocked these are still impossible to find and that they haven't yet produced a slim edition

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

yeah its still the same materials shortage i think. blame the crypto miners

Really not many (any?) must have games yet tho

I guess I'm kind've interested in Deathloop I suppose

I basically stopped trying. Fuck it

Yeah tbh I don't really care as long as Elden Ring runs ok on my non-pro PS4.

Yeah, it's still fairly early in the generation for there to be any must-have exclusives. I want to try because I skipped the last console generation entirely and Sony seems to have at least the one generation of backward compatibility working properly, and because Criterion have started releasing 4k titles (their move to blu-ray was what got me aboard the PS3 however many years ago).

Basically when and if i am economically secure enough where this doesn't feel like a waste AND when it's easy to find AND when i know I'll have enough time to play demon souls, that's when i'm getting it. so maybe early 23 or later.

yeah, it's on track for either a skipped generation or a very late-in-the-lifecycle for the cheap games kind of thing for me.

Which might make sense now that the current gen is trying to set $70 as the standard retail price for AAA games.