Tbh I am too skittish a person to really enjoy the pvp experience and pandemic life has only made that worse. The single player game (supported by outside help to murder bosses) has always been my method of gameplay
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link
A friend lent me the Demon's PS5 disc, I should really put it in the machine one of these days
xp, makes sense, thinking back on it I remember the toughest part of getting into pvp was just the nerves due to being observed by another human in a game that's largely solitary. After you get over that the rest works itself out. :)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
You really should! I think you would be impressed
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
thx for the input gents! i'll chew on it.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
This is the external drive I am usinghttps://www.amazon.com/WD_Black-Drive-External-Compatible-WDBA3A0050BBK-WESN/dp/B07VNTFHD5/
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
> Plus you can connect headphones directly to the controller which has been a revelation
you also can do that in the PS4 with the DS4. or is this about the 3d audio thing they were touting?I'm legit curious about that, do you find it a meaningful improvement vs regular stereo or it's just more marketing bs?
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
i mean, i guess i never noticed that was an option? in the past two years, i finally got decent soundblocking headphones and got the necessary wires to connect them, so i think this is more of a me thing than a tech thing. But the sound is fucking great in something like demon souls and genuinely feels like it's directional... so i dunno!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 22:02 (two years ago) link
I was able to order a PS5 from Walmart yesterday that should be delivered on Tuesday. I'm definitely getting Spider-Man: Miles Morales and likely Demon's Souls; what else should I look into, keeping in mind that shooters and I don't get along?
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
Last Of Us 2: Electric Stealth-a-loo
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 14 January 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
Just wait a month for Elden Ring :)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
Elden Ring will be the end of the era that began with Christ. many are asking that the new era of time will be called the year AER-1, After Elden Ring
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
i think i will be playing it on a Steam Deck. I hope i'm not an idiot playing a Ouya
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link
My expectations for Elden Ring are so checked haha, I think I just don't wanna be disappointed
I have however secured a PS5 and a release-date copy just so I can say "I was there"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
just remember that it's a PS4 game and thus won't be some huge leap above ds3 or sekiro
― ciderpress, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
if it's not a great leap above ds3, i will never buy a steam deck again
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
Oh, I think the leaps will be pretty huge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jswbGVlNKU8
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
Will Steam Deck play current-gen titles (at 720p, ofc)? I thought it was half-a-gen behind graphically or something
― Nhex, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link
eyeballing the specs looks like it's better than a ps4 but not by a ton? hard to tell
― ciderpress, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
the ps4's cpu was so awful that it might end up being a lot better even if the gpu isnt much better
― ciderpress, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
tricky too to see how the overhead of the SteamOS/Proton/Windows will affect it as well. i'm sure we'll see lots of benchmarks over the next few months. (cue God of War port benchmarks...)
i would personally use a system as an alternate Switch/Indie portable to play the bazillion backlogged titles in my Steam library already, especially since the Mac 64-bit apocalypse happened
either way for i'm happy to wait until a) it's deemed a failure or b) supply chain woes settle down and it's not as hard to get one
― Nhex, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:35 (two years ago) link
ouya baby
― ciderpress, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
yeh the Deck CPU is light years ahead of the PS4 CPU, should be a emulation beast
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
i'm gonna go ahead and say that elden ring will be The Perfect Game, ready to die (repeatedly) on this hill
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 January 2022 04:01 (two years ago) link
(praise the sun)
otm
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 15 January 2022 06:14 (two years ago) link
same
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 15 January 2022 07:27 (two years ago) link
if it is not the perfect game, we will be angry until someone does it again and again
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 15 January 2022 07:28 (two years ago) link
I guess the main difference will be online play, because PS3 Demon's Souls servers no longer exist
I might be alone in this but I prefer to play online solely for the shared messages/ghosts. One of my favorite game mechanics ever
― ✖, Saturday, 15 January 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
You guys, Spider-Man: Miles Morales is so fucking good
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 00:45 (two years ago) link
Also, Disco Elysium is really fucking good too
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link
but did they remember to put spider-man in it this time
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link
I am enjoying Demon's Souls a lot
I am finding it reallllly easy after Dark Souls 3 though. I completed two legs back-to-back without dying, bosses included. I MUCH prefer comestible healing over Estus healing
This is the fourth From game I've played in a row and my boyfriend wants me to play something else. I bought Control and immediately disliked everything about it and quit after an hour. Neither he nor I like Spider Man enough to play it in game form. I don't know what to do. Toying with getting Edith Finch or something
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 03:45 (two years ago) link
tbh swinging through NYC is the entire reason to get the Spider-Man games, it’s completely glorious
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 03:47 (two years ago) link
Things I like about Demon's Souls: smaller pool of weapons, combat feels like "moving pieces around a board" more than "realistic" and it feels closer to a turn-based RPG as a result, the tone/mood/aesthetic, seeing how Dark Souls 3 was much more of a sequel to this rather than Dark Souls itself
Things I dislike about Demon's Souls: the corridors, the tunnels, the cell blocks, the voice acting
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 03:48 (two years ago) link
xp I also don't like NYC enough to desire to play it in game form
it’s absolutely glorious when you’re swinging through the tops of buildings!
― mh, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 04:15 (two years ago) link
Guys BUGSNAX
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 04:32 (two years ago) link
Maybe not really
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 04:33 (two years ago) link
New free DLC for Returnal that adds co-op (!!!) as well as a new area March 22.
― circa1916, Thursday, 10 March 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
You know what they should do? Make the PS5 easier to find and buy.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 March 2022 12:47 (two years ago) link
isnt there still a global chip shortage
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 March 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
judging by the e-mail i just received that said a piece of electronic equipment i ordered in November 2021 won't be available until November 2022 at the earliest, it appears that is still an issue, yes.
― circa1916, Thursday, 10 March 2022 14:28 (two years ago) link
By the time the chip shortage is resolved they'll probably introduce a new model, and then *that* one will be hard to find for years.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 March 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
don't think there will be a new model this gen at least not with different internals, a smaller one may be possible several years down the line. the ps4 pro was motivated by 4k TVs proliferating quickly. 8k is not a real consideration until there's widespread demand for 100 inch TVs which seems unlikely
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 March 2022 15:14 (two years ago) link
Maybe they can go the other direction and make a PS5 Lite or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 March 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
not to be a dick but this is a very good system
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 March 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
The PS5 system, or the catch as catch can system of getting a PS5? I'm sure the PS5 itself is a good system, but I neither want to hunt for one nor pay what they're asking right now.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 March 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
My PS5 hunt was:
- see initial frenzy- go "fuck that noise, I'll wait"- wait- idly check earlier this year to see if any restocks were coming up by googling randomly- stumble across a site that alerted me to a Walmart restock the next day- log into the Walmart website the next morning- wait in a queue for 10 minutes- buy PS5 at MSRP- have PS5 delivered to house 4 days later
I think it was a maximum active time investment of 30 minutes
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 10 March 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
and the end result was that for my birthday, I gave myself a PS5
i've done the first few steps and will continue when there's a ps5 game i want to play
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 March 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link