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

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).

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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

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.

To answer the revive, there are a handful of Twitter accounts that keep track of what retailers are getting new stock and at what time it goes up online. I forget which ones I was following, if you’re interested you can find info on Reddit with some Googling.

It’s still a pain in the ass to get one, you’re up against everyone else + bots, but you can luck out. Make sure you have an account set up with whatever retailer you’re trying to score one from and be logged into it of course. I snagged one after like a week or two of trying but I know people who have been trying off and on for months.

I did hear that people were having luck signing up for whatever GameStop’s “membership” thing is because apparently they set aside a certain amount of stock to give members first dibs. Weeds out a lot of the bot nonsense.

i got really lucky and got the PS5 but i'd also skipped PS4 so i'm just using it as a catch-up for now

Yeah, I still don't see the incentive to put any real effort into tracking down one of these boxes quite yet.

Well, I managed to get one. Insert Thanos "what did it cost" meme here; answer: just about the entirety of my months-late tax refund ($800 after tax, since only bundles were available- a disc model, the director's cut of Ghost of Tsushima, an NBA game I am already trying to flip on Amazon, a year of PS Plus, and a $50 Gamestop gift card I combined with points to get Deathloop since my poor PC can't handle it).

If this is anyone else's white whale, I'll pass along the recommendation that worked for me: pony up the $15 for a Gamestop Pro Rewards membership. They've restocked more often than other major retailers in recent months, and you'll get advance notice of inventory drops by email (typically a couple of hours beforehand), though you'll still have to fight for it while their site grinds to a halt. I was on mobile, which made it more difficult than it had to be, but I wasn't able to successfully load the checkout page before the first wave sold out. Kept refreshing the page, and about 15 minutes later, more inventory was added and I was able to complete the process.

So yeah, Deathloop and Tsushima aside, I mostly have this so I can finally experience all the hottest games of 2016- Nier Automata and the Last of Us part 1 remaster are already sitting on my shelf, and once the GameStop ProGamer GameRewards RewardPoints from the console purchase are credited to my account I should be able to cover most of Persona 5 Royal.

At least you spent that 800 on actual stuff... that's about what all the resellers are trying to sell theirs for on clist, and that's just for the machine

I got excited the other day after getting into a PSN queue based on one of those twitter accounts, but no dice.

Lucky bastard! Tried to get that Gamestop drop yesterday and failed miserably

The $5 coupon every month easily makes that GameStop Pro Rewards membership worth it btw, you can use it on PSN/eShop currency cards as well

I know it's Dunkey, but if this is at all indicative of the P5's power and potential, then I guess I'm glad there's a shortage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p24cqO7rP8o

Are you sure that isn't the PC version?

I bet it is.

it does not look fun

i thought people loved arkane games

reviews seem generally positive? but i can wait a long time. never even got around to Dishonored

dark messiah of might and magic was fun, dishonored suffers from being designed around a controller imo, felt like i was constantly bringing up one of 7 different wheel menus

dark messiah had a sweet kick similar to the dunkey vid