Gaming PlayStation 5

Massive Spanner said:
I gave in and got the portal now that my tv time is much more limited than it used to be. It’s great! Can’t believe how well it works once the ps5 is on Ethernet. Lovely screen and love how it retains the dual sense
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Yep love mine too - just wish there was a better way of using the trackpad functionality
 
Gehrman said:
I finished DD2 a few days ago. Like Diablo 4 the reviews are way too positive. I can say i probably didnt change vocations enough to get the variety of combat but that was because getting the best gear is expensive and i didn't have a good way to make tons of gold. Its a decent game, but the metacritic average is around 9/10. I wouldnt give more than a 7 at most. Lots of good looking combat animations, but it becomes hollow after the 1st 10 hours. Shite story and shite open world. Its like really shit smaller skyrim but with only selling point being varied combat and pawns. Quests are abysmal and so is story. I played it on PC and its terribly optimized. I would only recommend it on a sale.
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Yeah, i've yet to finish it because i can only stomach half an hour - an hour at a time before i become bored out of my mind. The first few hours was decent because traveling at night posed some challenge, but i've finished most of the main quest now and there is zero challenge left in the open world besides the Drakes
 
The first dragons dogma was one of my favourite games, especially with the dlc. As long as the combat is fun that's enough for me, that's what I loved the first for.
 
I have plus premium for the next 3 months, any hidden gems I should try? I don't like multiplayer.
 
maniak said:
I have plus premium for the next 3 months, any hidden gems I should try? I don't like multiplayer.
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Im playing Blasphemous at the moment. Retro style metroidvania with souls elements

Its ace
 
maniak said:
I have plus premium for the next 3 months, any hidden gems I should try? I don't like multiplayer.
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There are so many but my top picks would be

OUTER WILDS (One of the best ever) - base game and echoes
Subnautica
Discon Elysium
Hollow Knight
 
Finished FFVII Rebirth, finally. Just like Remake, it can drag on.

Solid 7.5/10

Currently playing through Sifu and oh my god its brilliant.
 
For a game thread in general really but I have a PS5 so... Anyway for you AC fans:



Looks like Japan? I skipped Mirage so my last experience was Valhalla which while enjoyable dragged on way too long and was so much for drab and dreary compared to Odyssey.
 
Right trigger on controller has broken, guess i have to send it for repair. Long time out of warranty at this point so not sure if its worth paying over just buying a new one :(
 
caid said:
Right trigger on controller has broken, guess i have to send it for repair. Long time out of warranty at this point so not sure if its worth paying over just buying a new one :(
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The controllers are noticably worse this gen. I've had stick drift on three of them so far, usually just after the warranty expires.
 
Solius said:
The controllers are noticably worse this gen. I've had stick drift on three of them so far, usually just after the warranty expires.
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Its a bit annoying, i haven't used it that much. Support for it on PC took a long time to come in so its pretty recent I've been using it there and i just haven't played that many games on the playstation. I dont really like it in general either, it feels uncomfortable to use over long periods and I'd normally turn vibration off so thats not a big selling point. I'm half tempted to use a wonky controller while playing ps5 games and buying a controller i actually like for pc gaming. Or just going back to an xbox controller. I think i have a 360 controller somewhere and im pretty sure that'll still work. So yeah, annoying.
Do you remember how much it cost?
 
caid said:
Its a bit annoying, i haven't used it that much. Support for it on PC took a long time to come in so its pretty recent I've been using it there and i just haven't played that many games on the playstation. I dont really like it in general either, it feels uncomfortable to use over long periods and I'd normally turn vibration off so thats not a big selling point. I'm half tempted to use a wonky controller while playing ps5 games and buying a controller i actually like for pc gaming. Or just going back to an xbox controller. I think i have a 360 controller somewhere and im pretty sure that'll still work. So yeah, annoying.
Do you remember how much it cost?
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I think it was about £27 at CEX to repair.
 
I modded my controller to add paddles, but when I took one apart it turns out they're very simple inside and pretty modular in nature. The parts are easily available online. Always worth trying to fix yourself first.
 
caid said:
Right trigger on controller has broken, guess i have to send it for repair. Long time out of warranty at this point so not sure if its worth paying over just buying a new one :(
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They're relatively easy to fix yourself. The spring inside has broken. You can buy the springs yourself and install it. Don't pay anybody to do this.

 
Pre ordered Sw outlaws as my next PS5 game. Not even into open world games, these days but I love the IP so much I thought why not.
 
DixieDean said:
Pre ordered Sw outlaws as my next PS5 game. Not even into open world games, these days but I love the IP so much I thought why not.
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Just a shame the greedy cnuts have put a paywall behind some missions with a season pass.
 
esmufc07 said:
Anyone played Stellar Blade yet? Bought it other day only managed to get an hour on it so far but seems like it’ll be a fun game.
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afrocentricity said:
Demo was good fun.... Nier vibes
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It's decent, nothing groundbreaking. The gameplay suffers from not knowing what it really is and the story is standard fare, but it has it's charms.
 
Strangely, playing hellblade 2 got me in the mood to play...The Order 1886
bought it on sale, anyway
 
The other day I posted abut pre ordering SW outlaws. It was the disc version. Problem is I have a digital PS5...

I'm losing it in my old age.
 
DixieDean said:
The other day I posted abut pre ordering SW outlaws. It was the disc version. Problem is I have a digital PS5...

I'm losing it in my old age.
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How did you even get as far as ordering a disc? I'm assuming you haven't done it for a while as you'd be buying digital
 
afrocentricity said:
How did you even get as far as ordering a disc? I'm assuming you haven't done it for a while as you'd be buying digital
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I was going to order it for my xbox but for some reason I switched it. It took me days to notice this.

So, we now know of one game sale Sony are missing out because I can't use that detachable disc drive for my PS5!
 
DixieDean said:
I was going to order it for my xbox but for some reason I switched it. It took me days to notice this.

So, we now know of one game sale Sony are missing out because I can't use that detachable disc drive for my PS5!
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Fair enough, we all do dumb shit like this don't sweat it..... You should get that Xbox in the bin though tbh
 
I had held off from playing a few major titles on PS Plus as I didn’t want to exhaust the library of such games too fast. But I gave in and started Returnal. I didn’t realise that it was a Sony published game, or that it would feel so damn good. Only 2 hours in and I’ll probably eventually struggle with it given it’s a roguelike/lite, but games that are brilliantly put together stand out so much. The combat is great but the sound design is what is so striking as well as the use of the dual sense.
 
amolbhatia50k said:
I had held off from playing a few major titles on PS Plus as I didn’t want to exhaust the library of such games too fast. But I gave in and started Returnal. I didn’t realise that it was a Sony published game, or that it would feel so damn good. Only 2 hours in and I’ll probably eventually struggle with it given it’s a roguelike/lite, but games that are brilliantly put together stand out so much. The combat is great but the sound design is what is so striking as well as the use of the dual sense.
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Despite being a launch title it’s probably still the best feeling ps5 game for me, best use of the dual sense and sound. It’s great, if infuriating at times.
 
amolbhatia50k said:
I had held off from playing a few major titles on PS Plus as I didn’t want to exhaust the library of such games too fast. But I gave in and started Returnal. I didn’t realise that it was a Sony published game, or that it would feel so damn good. Only 2 hours in and I’ll probably eventually struggle with it given it’s a roguelike/lite, but games that are brilliantly put together stand out so much. The combat is great but the sound design is what is so striking as well as the use of the dual sense.
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Returnal is my favourite 'most disliked' game. I love the graphics, I fecking love the sound design, I love the controls, I adore the atmosphere, I love the gunplay. It's just such a shame that it's wrapped up in that roguelike/lite package. I found it too frustrating to persevere with. I don't feel that it's the sort of game that respects your time. You could play 5 or 6 hours on this, die once, and then have to restart the entire thing from scratch, spending more hours just to get back to where you once were. I didn't really feel there was any need to go down this route.

My wife put more time into it than I did and got pretty far into it, and in the end she gave up, too. I question just how many people actually got to the end of this. I didn't feel that it was rewarding enough. The gains didn't seem to weigh up with the time needed to be sunk into it.
 
Superunknown said:
Returnal is my favourite 'most disliked' game. I love the graphics, I fecking love the sound design, I love the controls, I adore the atmosphere, I love the gunplay. It's just such a shame that it's wrapped up in that roguelike/lite package. I found it too frustrating to persevere with. I don't feel that it's the sort of game that respects your time. You could play 5 or 6 hours on this, die once, and then have to restart the entire thing from scratch, spending more hours just to get back to where you once were. I didn't really feel there was any need to go down this route.

My wife put more time into it than I did and got pretty far into it, and in the end she gave up, too. I question just how many people actually got to the end of this. I didn't feel that it was rewarding enough. The gains didn't seem to weigh up with the time needed to be sunk into it.
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Beat it and saw all 3 endings, still go back for the tower and just to shoot shit. It's an evergreen...
 
Superunknown said:
Returnal is my favourite 'most disliked' game. I love the graphics, I fecking love the sound design, I love the controls, I adore the atmosphere, I love the gunplay. It's just such a shame that it's wrapped up in that roguelike/lite package. I found it too frustrating to persevere with. I don't feel that it's the sort of game that respects your time. You could play 5 or 6 hours on this, die once, and then have to restart the entire thing from scratch, spending more hours just to get back to where you once were. I didn't really feel there was any need to go down this route.

My wife put more time into it than I did and got pretty far into it, and in the end she gave up, too. I question just how many people actually got to the end of this. I didn't feel that it was rewarding enough. The gains didn't seem to weigh up with the time needed to be sunk into it.
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Yeah I didn't finish this either. Think I was in Biome 4 or 5 and just moved on to something else then never came back to it. Maybe I should pick it up again now there's feck all out.
 
Massive Spanner said:
Despite being a launch title it’s probably still the best feeling ps5 game for me, best use of the dual sense and sound. It’s great, if infuriating at times.
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I’m hoping turning aim assist will help me in case I’m stuck in the future but it’s so darn good to play.
 
caid said:
Theres a thread for it somewhere that has a lot of good tips.
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Thanks, I tried to find it but couldn’t. Will look again.

Just died (not counting the first death) for the first time - reached the sentient on the second biome but he did too much damage for me.
 
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