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Modern Video Games / Re: IMO...the PS5 is a POS

« on: October 03, 2021, 09:29:18 pm »

I guess I'm on the unlucky side then. I'm out at my parents now, but will check the week-long installation of Ghost of Tsushima  when I get home. I've manually prioritized the PS5 on my router and my Series X is off so it won't download while the PS5 attempts to finish.

It allowed me to play until I faced Khan on the bridge attempting to rescue my uncle. 

Like bikingjahuty, buying the system over a PS4 has proven to be mostly a waste. The only PS5 exclusive I own is Returnal and I haven't even tried it out yet.

I mean, issues aside (Any console can have problems), there's not a real big reason to get a PS4 at this point if you are able to get a PS5 (That's the hard part right now), the PS5 plays almost all the same games and most PS4 games look and run way better.  That is absolutely a big plus for me, even without huge new games to play.  Though really, most systems have pretty light launches, like the PS4 was way worse than the PS5 was.  I don't think there was a single game I was into until Bloodborne and even then, I didn't get one till more games were available like Uncharted 4.

I've bought every Sony system including the PSP and Vita right at launch since the PS2. The original PlayStation about a year after launch. The PS5 has been nigh impossible to get, so when I finally did get one after all this anticipation and I've had these issues and all but a single title I've bought is available on the PS4 i feel colossaly let down. Sony said "We believe in generations" and has completely walked back on that. The best big-hitters they have this holiday are ports of PS4 games and Horizon Forbidden West is pushed back to next year. The announcement of the Uncharted collection feels like a slap in the face including only two of six games in the series and aquiring Blue Point just "points" to more re-releases/ports of older games. And it's immensely frustrating to be cut off from all of the PS1, PS2 and PS3 games on the system. I'd love to do a complete playthrough of the God of War games before Ragnarok comes out, but that isn't possible.

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Modern Video Games / Re: IMO...the PS5 is a POS

« on: October 03, 2021, 05:41:27 pm »

I guess I'm on the unlucky side then. I'm out at my parents now, but will check the week-long installation of Ghost of Tsushima  when I get home. I've manually prioritized the PS5 on my router and my Series X is off so it won't download while the PS5 attempts to finish.

It allowed me to play until I faced Khan on the bridge attempting to rescue my uncle. 

Like bikingjahuty, buying the system over a PS4 has proven to be mostly a waste. The only PS5 exclusive I own is Returnal and I haven't even tried it out yet.

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Modern Video Games / IMO...the PS5 is a POS

« on: October 03, 2021, 12:15:26 pm »

Since finally scoring a PS5 on July 29th, I've played it mostly on the weekends since I work 12 hour days Monday thru Friday. Mostly, I've played Horizon Zero Dawn. After beating it and doing most of the side quests, I've moved on to Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut.

And in all honesty, the games by Sony are as always fantastic. The PS5 on the other hand leaves much to be desired. I could delve into how the dashboard is junk. How they STILL don't have a legitimate and easy path to upgrade the storage. Or how the system itself is a giant, unweildy, curved monstrosity. But no, my problems lie almost entirely with the system's reliability or lack thereof. It's a hot mess.

I've had over a dozen random crashes while playing Horizon alone. Ghost of Tsushima has been a nightmare just getting it installed!  It's been trying to install and update since last week!  After the latest update, the install is stuck around 36% .  Numerous complete system restarts have prodded it along a bit...until it threw an error installing a language pack, requiring yet ANOTHER system reset and hoping that I may be able to play a little more some *&$$ day!  At this point, I don't even really want to bother and halfway want to just delete the damn game.

All of the issues I have with the system are giving me a real case of buyers remorse. It's also stopped me from picking up Deathloop and I'm cancelling my Guardians of the Galaxy preorder for it. Hell, I am considering returning Death Stranding since I haven't opened it yet. Maybe in a few months, Sony will get their head out of their ass and get the bugs worked out. At this point, it is just more frustrating than fun. I don't want to invest more money in games when every one I try to play has issues. I've been so looking forward to Horizon Forbidden West,  but is it going to crash randomly like the first?  I think I should have just picked up a PS4 pro as pretty much everything I want to play is on it as well and doesn't look much different than the PS5 versions.

Anybody else have honest, non-fanboy opinions to share on your PS5 experiences? 

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Modern Video Games / Re: PS5 is FINALLY getting Internal SSD Expansion!

« on: September 06, 2021, 04:36:19 pm »

PS5's storage compared to the Series X is pitiful. It's like they put zero thought into how fast gamers could run out of storage space and they've been in absolutely no hurry to address it. The PS5 has a paltry 667.2 gigs available to users whereas the Series X has 802 gigs to use. Xbox also had Seagate 1TB expansion cards since day one and according to Seagate, you can hot-swap as many as you like.

https://www.seagate.com/consumer/play/storage-expansion-for-xbox-series-x/faq/

I purchased one a few days after I got my Series X, plugged it in and it has worked flawlessly. I have over 40 games installed including bloated monsters like Mortal Kombat 11 and Halo the Master Chief Collection and still have about 35-40% available on each internal and expansion.

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Modern Video Games / Re: PlayStation Showcase | September 9 2021

« on: September 06, 2021, 10:34:30 am »

You misunderstand,  in no way was I writing off cross gen games or the PS5 itself. Simply pointing out that cross gen games aren't true PS5 titles as Sony claimed they would be. I fully understand the reasons by which they changed their stance on this, but find it hypocritical when Xbox got trashed for their Smart Delivery system which is pretty close to the same thing. The main difference being that over 99% of the games coming out for Series X will work just fine on an Xbox One whereas a PS5 disc will NOT work in a PS4.

Series X and all the games that run on it pretty much instantly recognize the faster SSD in the system and load faster accordingly. PS4 games may load faster on PS5 because of the faster drive, but they aren't near instantaneous as the PS5 itself isn't speaking to the software and loading it faster natively. Hence, why Horizon received a patch last week to speed up load times.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eurogamer.net/amp/digitalfoundry-2021-horizon-zero-dawns-60fps-ps5-upgrade-is-nigh-on-flawless

I'm enjoying my PS5 which I finally scored about a month ago. But it is disappointing to see areas where it lags behind the Series X, the seemingly random crashes that occur, everything else I already mentioned and after starting it up this morning - being reminded how loud it is compared to the Series X.

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Modern Video Games / Re: PlayStation Showcase | September 9 2021

« on: September 05, 2021, 12:36:36 pm »

If you ask me, this console hasn't even been properly released yet.
I don't know how's the situation where you guys live, but here in Japan, I've been trying to get my hands on a PS5 for almost a full year and it has been simply impossible.

PS5 and Series S/X are still nearly impossible to find in the states. Unless you are willing to pay a small fortune to scalpers on eBay.

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Modern Video Games / Re: PlayStation Showcase | September 9 2021

« on: September 05, 2021, 12:33:14 pm »

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They are all true games. Some are only true exclusives but it doesn't mean games like Sackboy weren't made for PS5 and then ported to PS4.

PS4 games do not load slow without patches. Majority of people agree DualSense is an actual evolution for controllers while Series X is basically the exact same with an added share button.

You're right. Mario, Zelda, Halo and Gears aren't on PlayStation. Shocking. All of the latest entries in the DOOM, Wolfenstein, RAGE, Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series are though and the next Elder Scrolls games is years and years away.

Why do you care so much about playing old games if you won't even consider games released for PS5 as true PS5 games since they are also on PS4?

So why did Horizon load slow as molasses until last week when it was patched? 

I didn't say they weren't true PS5 games as that is what's printed on the discs and they only work in a PS5. But Sony said "We believe in generations" while everyone tore MS a new rear for their cross-generation ideas. Sony did a 180 and are doing the exact same thing.

As for the controllers, if it ain't broke why fix it?  Nothing wrong with the slight changes between One and Series controllers. Instantly comfortable and familiar. Also no reason to buy a bunch of new controllers when the ones you already own still work. The Dual Sense is fine, but things like the touchpad will receive token support at best, same as the PS4 touch pad.

Your arguement is that I don't believe games like Sackboy are true games whatever that means and why should I care about old games because...I'm lost on this one. What does caring about older games have to do with Sony backpedaling and releasing what were supposed to be PS5 exclusives on the PS4?

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Modern Video Games / Re: PlayStation Showcase | September 9 2021

« on: September 04, 2021, 04:44:55 pm »

Since PS5 launched they've released Miles Morales, Sackboy, Astro's Playroom, Returnal, Ratchet, MLB The Show, Destruction All Stars, Demon's Souls, The Nioh Collection and Ghost of Tsushima's Director's Cut. Death Stranding Director's Cut is right around the corner with Horizon Forbidden West in February, Gran Turismo 7 likely soon after and God of War sometime in 2022.

In reality, the only true PS5 games in your list are Astro's Playroom,  Returnal, Ratchet, Destruction All Stars and Demon Souls which is y'now...a remake. And Astro is a fun but admittedly short preloaded glorified demo. The rest are also on PS4, The Show is on Xbox, etc.  I'm very much looking forward to Forbidden West and other exclusives to come.

I however have been disappointed with the PS5 itself. I've had some games crash for no apparent reason. My Controller wouldn't connect out of the blue requiring a hard reset to correct it. Unless specifically patched, PS4 games load as slow as ever unlike the Series X and the ability to upgrade storage is still not finalized while I've had an extra terabyte plugged into my Series X since day one. The size of the PS5 is ludicrous and required me to stand it behind my television to ensure adequate ventilation. There's also the lack of Quick Resume where I jump back and forth between a half-dozen games on the Series X and it even kept my progress during a power outage. I also find the series X controllers to be more comfortable and they work on Xbox One just as my Elite controllers work flawlessly on the Series X.

Looking at my favorite games of all time, the list includes Mario, Zelda, Doom, Wolfenstein and pretty much all id games. Skyrim, Fallout, Halo, Gears...none of these are on PlayStation from here on out if they ever were in the first place. I've also had no shortage of games to play on Series X including og Xbox, 360 and One games. Conversely,  I find it irritating that I can't play anything before the PS4 on my PS5.

Of course, YMMV.

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General / Re: Nintendo Switch kept me sane these last six days

« on: April 06, 2019, 10:02:03 pm »

Thank you everyone!  I'm back on my feet and feeling good. Have a couple chapters of Diablo III left and I'll have completed that title (on one platform or another) for the fourth time!  Just one of my all-time favorite games.

On a side note, I picked up Red Dead Redemption II yesterday. Started installing it, finally swapped out the discs and finished this morning. One of my favorite things about Switch, not having to install crap or wait for huge multi-gig updates (with a very rare exception here & there)!

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General / Nintendo Switch kept me sane these last six days

« on: April 02, 2019, 09:02:01 pm »

Wenesday, I picked up Sekiro - Shadows Die Twice for Xbox One. At 4PM when I got home, I popped it in. On top of the obligatory install, there was a 2.8 gig update. Fast forward to 8:30PM and it's finally finished on my pathetic internet connection. I played for a half-hour but didn't feel well and went to bed. Get up for work Thursday morning at 5:30 AM, feeling like complete crap. As the minutes ticked by, I got worse & worse and by 7:45, I hit the restroom at work with it coming out both ends like a busted fire hose. The doctor shoved a hard ass wooden swab up my nose and 10 minutes later, confirmed I had Flu A. So I go home and start my quarantine in the bedroom to protect my family - especially my 19 month old son from it. During my fever, aches, sweating, vomiting, hershey squirts and pounding head there was only two things that kept me sane.

The first was screwing with my iPhone loving friends on Facebook by making memes about how great my Galaxy S10 Plus is. But the real savior was my Switch. Diablo, Yoshi's Crafted World, Nintendo Online and a few other games kept me going.

I was in no condition to be crawling around unplugging cables, etc to relocate my Xbox and the Switch's portable nature and USB-C cable was all I needed. And it just highlights why I have fallen in love with the Switch as my primary gaming platform. It's not the most powerful. It doesn't get all the "big AAA" games, whatever that even means anymore. But it's the most fun for me. I can play it on my tv or on the go. I can pop a cartridge in and start playing, even if the games have an update. No waiting hours on end for a beta product on a disc to get patched up. It's just fun.  Thank you Nintendo.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests

« on: March 22, 2019, 06:03:24 pm »

So....were we going to add a dedicated VR hardware, software & accessories section?  Nobody ever said either way. 

Need to wait until the site admins do it.

Thanks for the update!

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Video Game Database Discussion / Google console & phone games - a revisit necessary?

« on: March 18, 2019, 06:04:49 pm »

I know years ago, it was decided that phone games weren't going to be in the database. But I think with the upcoming Google console(s), maybe we should reconsider. There are numerous reasons why we should have a category for mobile games. I'll list some.

1.  Mobile games have come a long way graphically. The current handsets pump out graphics that surpass the Switch, PS3 & 360.

2.  There are many, high-quality games for mobile. We are past the point of blah-fare like Farmville and have great titles like Darkness Rises, Bright Ridge, Bendy Run, Another Eden, etc.

3.  Many titles on mobile are also available on consoles & vice versa. Why should one person's Oceanhorn count because its on Nintendo's eShop, but the next guys doesn't because its on Android?

4.  Many of our favorite series & publishers are on mobile. Rayman, Mario Run, Final Fantasy, Elder Scrolls, Diablo...should these games be ignored because they are mobile titles even though they are part of some of our favorite series?

5.  With the ever-growing prevalence of download-only games on all the major systems as well as streaming services like Xbox Games Pass, mobile games are on equal footing.

6.  Mobile has a variety of controllers & attachments just like consoles. You can even use your Xbox One and Switch Pro controllers on your phone now. Many mobile games have added controller support. How is playing Walking Dead or Rayman with a controller on a mobile device any different than on a Switch?  There really is no difference.

7.  We include free to play games in the console games databases. Warframe, Blacklight. Etc. have entries. How is a mobile game with IAP any different?

Please, discuss and thank you for considering the possibilities that extending categories for Android & IOS games would bring to many members collections.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests

« on: March 16, 2019, 03:28:47 pm »

So....were we going to add a dedicated VR hardware, software & accessories section?  Nobody ever said either way. 

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General / Re: The worst people on Ebay are the ones who buy video games

« on: March 07, 2019, 05:46:28 pm »

Welcome to the forums op!

I hate to sell just about anything on eBay now. More than even games, selling high-priced items makes me nervous. Say you sell a phone. Mint condition, gently used, complete in original box with matching serial numbers. Doesnt matter how many pictures you take or all the precautions to cover your ass. All it takes is some scumbag to say you shipped a broken phone or whatever. Doesn't matter if I have 2000+ 100% positive feedback and they have 4 with a dozen bid retractions. Ebay will take their side and you are screwed.

So many scammers & sheisters out there. Wasn't like that back in 2000 when I joined. It went from a Godsend for finding rare & htf items to a cesspool of jerkoffs. /end rant

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests

« on: March 06, 2019, 05:02:20 pm »

Can we make a new hardware category for dedicated VR headsets?  There are numerous stand-alone sets with their own app stores and do not require a PC to use. Examples are Gear VR, Oculus Go, Google Daydream, Oculus Quest, etc.

They also have dedicated storefronts for their games & apps. Thanks for considering this!

Make specific category requests here. It helps if you already know what categories you want, rather than to make the admins try to figure it out on their own.

But let me ask you this, do you think there is enough stuff for each of those platforms to have their own category? Or could we simply make Dedicated VR Hardware and Dedicated VR Software categories?

I think one VR hardware category would be sufficient, along with one VR accessories category. One games category should work. I can just note at the end of the title what platform the game is for. Ie  "Drop Dead for Gear VR."