Gaming PlayStation 5 | Forza Horizon 5 coming Spring 2025

Mart1974 said:
I am a ps5 owner but am going to buy a metaquest 3 rather than the psvr. Why are you going for the psvr?
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Because I have GT7 and might end up with other compatible games.

I've got a metaquest, which just makes it even more bonkers to spend over £500 on the ps5 version.

My metaquest definitely wasn't in that price range.
 
noodlehair said:
Because I have GT7 and might end up with other compatible games.

I've got a metaquest, which just makes it even more bonkers to spend over £500 on the ps5 version.

My metaquest definitely wasn't in that price range.
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Gt7 and the horizon game are the 2 which make me want to get the psvr2 but like you I think the price point is mental. Especially when the future doesn't look amazing for it, less upcoming games every time I look.

I'd probably get my money's worth from gt7 alone though.
 
One Night Only said:
Gt7 and the horizon game are the 2 which make me want to get the psvr2 but like you I think the price point is mental. Especially when the future doesn't look amazing for it, less upcoming games every time I look.

I'd probably get my money's worth from gt7 alone though.
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GT7 is what tempts me most but I don't want to spend that amount and then after an hour be like "meh over this now" and never use it again.

My metaquest is fine but basically the only time I use it is when I'm showing it to someone else.
 
Have basically retired the console for 4k blu rays for evenings. As others have stated the general quality of games the last few years is diminishing.

Think the only game / publisher that can compensate overall quality with hype and general expectation is Rockstar via the new GTA. Obviously very subjective but I think unless your interested in RPG's there's nothing on the market.

Will potentially give DBZ sparking zero a try but that's about it.
 
noodlehair said:
Because I have GT7 and might end up with other compatible games.

I've got a metaquest, which just makes it even more bonkers to spend over £500 on the ps5 version.

My metaquest definitely wasn't in that price range.
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Fair enough. I am going to use the MQ in my work flat, I don't have a console there so I hope to get some use out of it.
 
Serious question, is the console side of things as bad as made out by the gaming industry with low fps etc. I don't have any of the latest generation consoles, I have a PS4 and my daughter has a xbox one. I can't remember the last time I turned on a console.

I'm very much a pc gamer that has a console for the caravan during the summer but now I've a retro machine that doubled up as a low end gaming pc (dual boot situation). So even at the caravan I don't use the console anymore
 
Steve Bruce said:
Serious question, is the console side of things as bad as made out by the gaming industry with low fps etc. I don't have any of the latest generation consoles, I have a PS4 and my daughter has a xbox one. I can't remember the last time I turned on a console.

I'm very much a pc gamer that has a console for the caravan during the summer but now I've a retro machine that doubled up as a low end gaming pc (dual boot situation). So even at the caravan I don't use the console anymore
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No, but if you’re a serious PC gamer you will probably have different expectations than your average gamer like me.

Current consoles are fine, I just think the hardware isn’t really being utilised as well as it should be. We have had very little on these next gen consoles that you could consider ground breaking but I guess the same applies to PC.
 
Woodzy said:
No, but if you’re a serious PC gamer you will probably have different expectations than your average gamer like me.

Current consoles are fine, I just think the hardware isn’t really being utilised as well as it should be. We have had very little on these next gen consoles that you could consider ground breaking but I guess the same applies to PC.
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PC Gaming and console gaming isn't a fair comparison.

My pc cost me over 3k whereas the new top end PS5 costs 700 so I wouldn't expect similar performance at 1440p.

But as ever there's no grey area on the net. It's either amazing or rubbish.

On the hardware side for pc. There's a lot of things to be excited about but the cost is starting to get prohibitive for a lot of people. The new 5090 is going to be some card but at 2k-3k I'm not prepared to pay that.
 
PSV said:
Just play the two other Hazelight games after It Takes Two, they are all gems. A new game by the studio arriving soon named Split Fiction (March i believe) as well, probably another masterpiece.

On a different note, Stanley Parable coming to PS Plus in January, thats a game I would easily recommend to anyone.
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Loved Brothers, gotta try and play their other games, just wish I had someone to play couch multiplayer with but those days seem gone
 
noodlehair said:
GT7 is what tempts me most but I don't want to spend that amount and then after an hour be like "meh over this now" and never use it again.

My metaquest is fine but basically the only time I use it is when I'm showing it to someone else.
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Hasn't the PSVR2 been on sale for £350 many times this year? Maybe even now?

Anyway, at that price it's a no brainer there's plenty of games at or past the quality of what's on Quest...
 
Redstain said:
Have basically retired the console for 4k blu rays for evenings. As others have stated the general quality of games the last few years is diminishing.

Think the only game / publisher that can compensate overall quality with hype and general expectation is Rockstar via the new GTA. Obviously very subjective but I think unless your interested in RPG's there's nothing on the market.

Will potentially give DBZ sparking zero a try but that's about it.
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Same here. The only game I play these days, though not often, is Gran Turismo. Football games have become shit and most other games are also generally boring these days. The last game I purchased was the latest Assassin’s Creed but I lost interested in it so fast I don’t want to spend money on another game anytime soon.
 
Any trophy hunters here?

Managed to get two platinum trophies in a single day today which I'm pretty thrilled about.

The first Astro Bot was intentional as I've been playing through with my daughter and found myself only a few trophies away on completion.

The second was a complete accident, Helldivers 2!

After completing Astrobot I thought I'd look how far away I was with Helldivers, low and behold I was two trophies off but they seemed pretty hard to achieve.

My first game of the day, my squad finish a blitz mission in under 6 minutes... now only one away.

The final trophy was to complete a mission without using a primary weapon, after some thinking it was too hard to achieve (using a blitz mission). So 30 minutes later, that popped too.

First time getting two platinums in a day, they do feel like an achievement.

My most difficult platinum was probably Helldivers 1, what was yours?
 
I barely touched my PS5 in 2024, maybe 10-15 hours total if even that. Got Astro Bot yesterday and been having a blast so far, it’s really as close as anyone got to Mario games. It’s been on the easy side so far but hoping that challenge will come with new levels.
 
lilcurt said:
Any trophy hunters here?

Managed to get two platinum trophies in a single day today which I'm pretty thrilled about.

The first Astro Bot was intentional as I've been playing through with my daughter and found myself only a few trophies away on completion.

The second was a complete accident, Helldivers 2!

After completing Astrobot I thought I'd look how far away I was with Helldivers, low and behold I was two trophies off but they seemed pretty hard to achieve.

My first game of the day, my squad finish a blitz mission in under 6 minutes... now only one away.

The final trophy was to complete a mission without using a primary weapon, after some thinking it was too hard to achieve (using a blitz mission). So 30 minutes later, that popped too.

First time getting two platinums in a day, they do feel like an achievement.

My most difficult platinum was probably Helldivers 1, what was yours?
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@Damien loves a plat
 
GTA trilogy is £21 currently on the PS store. Is it any good? Mainly for nostalgic purposes it must be worth that?
 
Carlsen19 said:
GTA trilogy is £21 currently on the PS store. Is it any good? Mainly for nostalgic purposes it must be worth that?
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Now it has been fixed, it's pretty good. Other than playing on original hardware, it's the best way to play those games. Personally, I found it hard to go back. Loved them at the time, but I don't really enjoy playing them now.
 
lilcurt said:
Any trophy hunters here?

Managed to get two platinum trophies in a single day today which I'm pretty thrilled about.

The first Astro Bot was intentional as I've been playing through with my daughter and found myself only a few trophies away on completion.

The second was a complete accident, Helldivers 2!

After completing Astrobot I thought I'd look how far away I was with Helldivers, low and behold I was two trophies off but they seemed pretty hard to achieve.

My first game of the day, my squad finish a blitz mission in under 6 minutes... now only one away.

The final trophy was to complete a mission without using a primary weapon, after some thinking it was too hard to achieve (using a blitz mission). So 30 minutes later, that popped too.

First time getting two platinums in a day, they do feel like an achievement.

My most difficult platinum was probably Helldivers 1, what was yours?
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I have 75 plats…I have a problem, I know! To be fair some of them are duplicates like when you complete it on the PS4 and it synchs with the PS5.

As others have said sometimes trophies can actually kill your enjoyment, But they can also feel great when you are forced to play a certain way or do a difficult challenge. Beating RE1 for instance against invisible enemies or with only a knife is pretty ridiculous but it does add another layer to the survival element of the game’s design.
 
esmufc07 said:
@Damien loves a plat
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I'm nothing compared to Reditus and Irwin's numbers.

Bloodborne is probably technically my most difficult plat but the chalice dungeons made it a piece of cake relatively speaking. If I ever get the plat in one of the Crash games that'd probably be my toughest as I'm shit with speedruns and jumping over holes as a few members can attest.
 
Sarni said:
I barely touched my PS5 in 2024, maybe 10-15 hours total if even that. Got Astro Bot yesterday and been having a blast so far, it’s really as close as anyone got to Mario games. It’s been on the easy side so far but hoping that challenge will come with new levels.
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Astro Bot was fantastic. There's a secret Christmas level unlocked too when you complete the game, my nephew and neice loved it. It's got to be the worst generation for PlayStation overall though, despite the sales. Then again Sony have no competition these days, so there's no real initiative to flood the market with great games anymore.
 
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Shark said:
Astro Bot was fantastic. There's a secret Christmas level unlocked too when you complete the game, my nephew and neice loved it. It's got to be the worst generation for PlayStation overall though, despite the sales. Then again Sony have no competition these days, so there's no real initiative to flood the market with great games anymore.
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I’m past the first two worlds and really loving this so far. It’s not at the level at Mario Odyssey but it’s a super enjoyable game. Still a bit on the easy side but I don’t mind it much, I can use a less intense experience.

Last PS5 game I finished prior to this was GTA5 back in 2022, and before then Ghost of Tsushima. I don’t think I’ve finished any other PS5 games having owned it since launch. I’m really keeping it only to play GTA6 when it’s out.

I have basically switched to Switch entirely in the last two years, even in its worst year in a while it still got a couple of pretty fun games last year.
 
Sarni said:
I’m past the first two worlds and really loving this so far. It’s not at the level at Mario Odyssey but it’s a super enjoyable game. Still a bit on the easy side but I don’t mind it much, I can use a less intense experience.

Last PS5 game I finished prior to this was GTA5 back in 2022, and before then Ghost of Tsushima. I don’t think I’ve finished any other PS5 games having owned it since launch. I’m really keeping it only to play GTA6 when it’s out.

I have basically switched to Switch entirely in the last two years, even in its worst year in a while it still got a couple of pretty fun games last year.
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Good for you, Switch is at least filled with Astro Bot type genres. I'm the same as you, only I switched to PC. There's always something to play on Steam at least. Speaking of Ghost Of Tsushima, that was the last game I tried to replay on PS5 because I originally completed the older PS4 version, but around an hour in I said to myself "do I really want to complete a game I've already done so" and that was that. It's a generation of remakes..
 
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I'm actually looking forward to quite a few games coming this year, just off the top of my head:

Sniper elite: resistance
Ac: shadows
Kingdom come deliverance 2
Ghost of yotei
Atomfall
GTA 6?

Those are all fairly big games for me. GoY and GTA will probably slip into 2026 mind
 
Just finished Aliens Dark Descent. I’m shocked that we actually got a really good game based on the Aliens movie. It took nearly 40 years but we got one in the end (Alien Isolation is brilliant but based on the first movie).
 
Can't feckin wait for the new sniper elite game, it'll be more of the same but they're ridiculously good fun.

Last night me and swoosh basically stealthed an entire level (about 80mins of great coordinated work) until near the end when I decided throwing a grenade was a smart move, then all hell broke loose. Swoosh 100% wants to kill me sometimes I swear :lol:
 
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