I like a bit of motion blur so I appreciate that there’s a slider, more games should have that. Also 30 quality mode doesn’t look good, too jittery for basically not much visual difference.
I find 30fps modes really only work if the game is built for it or the developer tailors for it. For instance I found the spiderman ps5 30fps mode really smooth and solid, same with ratchet and clank rift apart, and they were the default settings too I think, so it’s clear they spent time making it actually feel smooth for 30fps
It’s why I’m never like “I 100% prefer such and such fps” because I feel like some games have 30fps modes that feel slow and jittery, while others feel fine and only become apparent if you directly compare it to 60
Though I think the age of 30fps first person perspective games is over (fps fps hehe). That perspective just demands 60fps
One setting I wish more games would implement that isn’t here is dialogue sound booster. I always have to turn all the other sliders down, turn the dialogue to maximum, then turn my tv up.
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There's no way I am going to just say 30fps is no longer going to be a thing.
As long as people care about pretties over performance, it is going to be a thing.
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Higher FPS is usually only seen as important for Player vs Player games. Like 60 is nice but once you jump to 120 it's almost assuredly an enthusiast thing. I specifically bought a 1080p120fps monitor to take advantage of the 120 mode for Destiny 2 while on my Xbox (or I guess now my PS5). I don't give a toss about 4K but I do care about framerate.
Now my PS5 is hooked up in the family room, to the big ass Bravia so I can enjoy that sweet RTX mode, but not even a $1400+ TV can do all that + 120, so for competitive gaming I stick to monitors.
I don't really care that they block recording, I just wish it didn't have to pop that damn notification when they do it.
You can turn that off thatnkfully.
There was a bug early on with some PS4 games that would still have the pop-up(P5 Scramble Im looking at you!) But I assume that has been patched yea?
And yea, 30FPS is not going away. No matter how string the hardware gets cutting frames in half means you can push the fidelity that much further elsewhere. And that fidelity is a huge selling point for many people and especially the general masses wherein they don't really know or care about framerate.
PS5 came Tuesday when it was supposed to. Walmart box, totally unsurprisingly (wooo Ontrac!) was bent and battered, but the PS5 box was fine.
Honestly the only reason I haven't posted about it, is that I've been too busy playing it.
Well, Spider-Man specifically.
The visuals are amazing, the detail, particularly if you slow down to look (walking along city streets at night, is especially notable to me for some reason), is pretty spectacular. I'm to understand Miles Morales is a bit more technically impressive, but I'm more than impressed with what I've been playing. I've only played on Performance RT, as while I'm sure the high detail 30fps mode looks a bit better (comparison videos I've seen don't make it look that much better), but I can't imagine playing a game like this at 30fps. I'm glad I waited for the PS5 and didn't grab it on the PS4. No doubt I still would have enjoyed it, but this is pretty nice. The only really bizarre thing that keeps sticking out to me is that even in the remaster they're using an ungodly low quality skybox and a PS2 era sun graphic, and are relying entirely on HDR to distract you from it. Hopefully Miles Morales does that a bit better, but we'll see I guess.
I haven't had a chance to play anything else really. My son has played the game that came on it, and he's having fun with it. It looks nice, but nothing mind blowing (what I wouldn't give to play a 3D Mario game at 4k and 60fps :rotate: ), I'll probably give it a go after he gets bored, since there's only one save slot.
I also loaded up the Matrix experience thingy.
It's nonsense.
I know it's not a game, but it doesn't really feel real (olol Unreal) to have an engine running actively, that looks that real. For sure, if you put an actual game over that engine, a lot of the bells and whistles they're using would have to be reduced or turned off, to handle all the other stuff going on, but even what it is right now is absurdly impressive. Maybe by the end of this console generation there'll be games with that level of detail and fidelity that are actual games. That'd be rad. EDIT: and weirdly, the sub 30fps that you get a lot of time, actually works. I think it's because it is so close to actual reality, visually, that the same thing that makes your brain accept 24fps movies kicks in here. It's an interesting thing, and I wonder if any developers are working with that, to make a higher fidelity game, using an intentionally lower FPS.
I got the Pulse 3D headphones along with it, and they're fine. I wish they made the earcups the same size as their old PS4 gold headset, instead of going smaller here, because those fit my ears perfectly, and the Pulse is slightly too small, and it makes it a bit uncomfortable. I'll have to try them again with a game that is made for them, as I don't notice any major "3D" audio in Spider-Man. They sound good, but not amazing. They're light, and that's nice, and offsets the can shape a bit, but in the end I'm not sure they're worth $100. My opinion might change after playing some "proper" PS5 games.
Almost done with the main story in Spider-Man, then there's the DLC. Not sure if I'll go right to Miles Morales, or play something else and get a break from the specific type of game.
All in all, I'm happy with it. I knew, intellectually, that watching comparison videos on a 1080p monitor, to get an idea of what real difference there'd be moving to an actual 4k gaming console, wasn't going to give me the full picture; but so far actual 4K (yeah yeah I know, dynamic resolutions, and different rendering types, etc, I'm generalizing) is pretty pretty good. If I'm feeling really ambitious at some point I might take my PS4 into the living room and play FF7 on both consoles to see how distinct the difference is visually between playing 1080p on a original PS4 and 4k on a PS5, on the same big ass TV. Maybe I'll notice immediately when I load it up on the PS5; but I remember distinctly thinking, when I played FF7 on this TV, on the PS4, that it already looked amazing and aside from framerate, I wasn't sure how it could look more detailed. I'm sure I'll find out soon!
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Question - if I got Dying Light 2 on PS4, could I have a version on my PS4 Pro and an upgraded version on my PS5 on two accounts (mine and my wife's), could they play at the same time.
We both want to play but don't want to have to buy the game twice as well as not having to wait weeks until the other person is done.
Question - if I got Dying Light 2 on PS4, could I have a version on my PS4 Pro and an upgraded version on my PS5 on two accounts (mine and my wife's), could they play at the same time.
We both want to play but don't want to have to buy the game twice as well as not having to wait weeks until the other person is done.
I have done this exact thing with Borderlands 3, and it worked.
PS4 Pro: Using a throwaway second account, but with my main account registered on the system, so it gets multiplayer access. Playing the PS4 version of BL3
PS5: Using my main account, playing the PS5 version of BL3.
It all worked with no issues.
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Wow, you folks were, if anything, understating the weird-ass difficulty ramp/tuning on Kena: Bridge of Spirits.
For context, I have achieved the true ending of Returnal. I have conquered every Valkyrie in God of War. I'm rolling at about heat 14 in Hades (though not with EM4).
I don't think I can summon the resolve to fling myself one more time at what I presume to be the final battle of Kena.
I haven't had a chance to play anything else really. My son has played the game that came on it, and he's having fun with it. It looks nice, but nothing mind blowing (what I wouldn't give to play a 3D Mario game at 4k and 60fps :rotate: ), I'll probably give it a go after he gets bored, since there's only one save slot.
It's well worth giving it a go. The mind blowing stuff isn't the way it looks but the shit the controller's doing. As a tech demo for the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback, it's fantastic. I feel like it's there to give developers ideas as much as players.
Plus it somehow manages to exploit PlayStation nostalgia I didn't even realise I had in a very Nintendo-esque way.
Wow, you folks were, if anything, understating the weird-ass difficulty ramp/tuning on Kena: Bridge of Spirits.
For context, I have achieved the true ending of Returnal. I have conquered every Valkyrie in God of War. I'm rolling at about heat 14 in Hades (though not with EM4).
I don't think I can summon the resolve to fling myself one more time at what I presume to be the final battle of Kena.
While I found it quite hard, I definitely personally found returnal, the Valkyries and hades on anything above like heat 8, way harder. Maybe take a break and come back to it, cos if you can do those other things it’s definitely within your skill set to finish Kena.
Also playing Uncharted 4 for the first time (playing the ps5 version). Holy fucking shit the facial motion capture and performance capture is insane
Also after years of throwing baddies off ledges having one randomly grab onto my ankles and have to be kicked off was very clever and thrilling. I love when games add a twist to a small trope like that
Wow, you folks were, if anything, understating the weird-ass difficulty ramp/tuning on Kena: Bridge of Spirits.
For context, I have achieved the true ending of Returnal. I have conquered every Valkyrie in God of War. I'm rolling at about heat 14 in Hades (though not with EM4).
I don't think I can summon the resolve to fling myself one more time at what I presume to be the final battle of Kena.
The thing that bugs me about Kena is that dropping down a difficulty level doesn't make it a little easier, it makes it massively easier.
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I wish that game felt more like a fully fleshed out game as opposed to a low budget Pixar cash in. It wasn't bad, just incredibly underwhelming.
I finally got mine, and I was not prepared for how good Hades would be. I have something like 15 games installed, all of which I want to play, but it still hasn’t happened.
Preordered GT7, ER, and Sifu. One of those has to dislodge me right?
A few months back I bought a roach infested PS5, took it apart, cleaned out the nest/eggs, and put it back together.
While the PS5 still works, I damaged something that caused the disk drive to not work. Unfortunately, PS5 disc drives aren't really replaceable like a normal drive would be, so I resigned myself to now owning a Digital Edition with a dead disk drive on it.
I decided this week to open it up and take another look to see if I could find where I fucked up. I think it might've been something I could fix all along.
The 4 pin wire below (is that the right terminology? I'm not really a hardware guy at all) looks damaged/stripped a bit where it connects to the...connector thing. This wire goes from the PS5 guts to the disc drive. Could this little wire be the problem with my PS5's disc drive not working?
I put the console back together without the wire and it still works like normal.
I can just replace this, right? If so, can someone point me to where I can buy it/what it is called?
When you say the disk drive doesn’t work, what exactly do you mean? Does it not power up/take disks at all, or does it just not read/process any disks you put in?
That cable looks to me like the disk drive power cable. The data cable for the drive is the ribbon cable located an inch or so away from it, and it has some locking tabs when it goes in, so you have to make sure the release bar is pressed down. If you didn’t depress that part during disassembly originally, you could have damaged the data ribbon cable.
If the drive isn’t getting power, it’s possible it’s the cable in your pic, or one of the socket ends that’s damaged. If it is getting power but won’t do anything, I would suspect the ribbon cable or the ribbon cable socket ends.
posting from mobile so sorry for the huge eBay link, but I think you want something like that. Check the lengths though, not sure what the ps5 cable length is vs the ps4
I remember being careful with the ribbon cable - I watched a teardown to see how exactly to take it apart, so I don't think I damaged that.
I did damage to a different ribbon cable though, but I think that was connected to the front USB (which doesn't work, but I am not worried about it)
That sounds like the power cable/sockets then. When I took apart my brothers old ps4 and attempted to replace the bad laser it had, it still never read a disk at the end but it would at least take in and spit out the disks.
Unless you had some ESD cause a short/break somewhere, but if that’s the case you likely aren’t ever fixing it.
I've got a 1tb Samsung 980 Pro + a $10 no-name heatsink. So far it seems to be working great, no issues with any games so far. That said, I do have it setup to install PS5 games to the internal system drive and ps4 to the m.2, so I really haven't stressed it too much.
I put one in a few weeks back, WD Black SN850 and the Sabrent 'designed for PS5' heatsink because it wasn't that much more than a normal one. Honestly the hardest bit for me was taking the white cover off the PS5, felt kinda like I was going to break it but after that was all easy and working perfectly.
I've got everything set to go to the new drive first, I figure I'd rather have that one fail from overuse compared to the built in one.
I finally got the 'complete ending' for Returnal over the weekend, I nearly gave up in Act 3 but glad I stuck it out - for the sense of achievement if nothing else.
Was getting frustrated finding the fragment in biome 6, must have missed it before the point of no return the first time through so made sure to fully scour the top area next time with no luck, then found it in the second part pretty easily. Can't say the 'complete ending' really shed a whole lot more light on what I'd already picked up.
Hell of a game. Now I'm playing through Ratchet and Clank for something easy and light and fun, should be able to knock off that and maybe Uncharted 3 (yes, I'm way behind) before Horizon comes out.
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As I wait for Forbidden West to hit, I glanced through my PS library and found that I never had upgraded the Nihi games to PS5 versions, so that's been rectified.
My god is Niho Remastered a sexy beast for a 5 year old game when it's being pumped out at 4K60. I'm going to enjoy trying to platinum this bad boy between now and getting the new Aloy hotness in a couple of weeks.
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Yeah I've opened up the PS5 already to clean it out and seen where the drive would go. I just wish they weren't so bloody expensive! That said it's helped me save even more since i can't fit any new games on lol
Sweet merciful crap, I'm digging Guardians of the Galaxy. Just endless amusing/compelling dialog while exploring colorful surroundings and fighting bizarre creatures.
Though I've noticed the game itself is a touch rough. A few times the camera tried to reorient itself to a person speaking and managed to zoom into a spot on the ceiling, a special attack managed to zoom the perspective into deep space, and the game has locked up a couple times. But it's a little hard to really care when you have to convince Drax not to huck Rocket over a chasm or when you manage to trigger some sweet-ass 80s music during a battle.
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My niece and nephew were over this past weekend and my nephew loves sports games so I cracked open the copy of NBA2K22 that I got with my PS5. I remember the last version of Madden I bought (I think 2008) turned me off due to the controls and amount of pre-snap options getting so complicated. NBA2K22 blows it out of the water. My god this game has way too many options.
The idea that there is a right-stick input combination to perform spinning reverse off-hand layup rather than just have that animation be context-based is insane to me. It's double insane that the combo requires near perfect timing based on where the player is. I don't think I'll be playing this much if at all, lol.
BREAKING: Sony is buying Bungie, the maker of Destiny — another seismic gaming deal that comes just two weeks after Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard.
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I'm assuming when or if Call of Duty suddenly goes fully exclusive despite their promises otherwise, Destiny or whatever Bungie is doing them will not so suddenly also become fully exclusive. They'll play nice until they suddenly don't.
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I find 30fps modes really only work if the game is built for it or the developer tailors for it. For instance I found the spiderman ps5 30fps mode really smooth and solid, same with ratchet and clank rift apart, and they were the default settings too I think, so it’s clear they spent time making it actually feel smooth for 30fps
It’s why I’m never like “I 100% prefer such and such fps” because I feel like some games have 30fps modes that feel slow and jittery, while others feel fine and only become apparent if you directly compare it to 60
Though I think the age of 30fps first person perspective games is over (fps fps hehe). That perspective just demands 60fps
One setting I wish more games would implement that isn’t here is dialogue sound booster. I always have to turn all the other sliders down, turn the dialogue to maximum, then turn my tv up.
As long as people care about pretties over performance, it is going to be a thing.
Now my PS5 is hooked up in the family room, to the big ass Bravia so I can enjoy that sweet RTX mode, but not even a $1400+ TV can do all that + 120, so for competitive gaming I stick to monitors.
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You can turn that off thatnkfully.
There was a bug early on with some PS4 games that would still have the pop-up(P5 Scramble Im looking at you!) But I assume that has been patched yea?
And yea, 30FPS is not going away. No matter how string the hardware gets cutting frames in half means you can push the fidelity that much further elsewhere. And that fidelity is a huge selling point for many people and especially the general masses wherein they don't really know or care about framerate.
Honestly the only reason I haven't posted about it, is that I've been too busy playing it.
Well, Spider-Man specifically.
The visuals are amazing, the detail, particularly if you slow down to look (walking along city streets at night, is especially notable to me for some reason), is pretty spectacular. I'm to understand Miles Morales is a bit more technically impressive, but I'm more than impressed with what I've been playing. I've only played on Performance RT, as while I'm sure the high detail 30fps mode looks a bit better (comparison videos I've seen don't make it look that much better), but I can't imagine playing a game like this at 30fps. I'm glad I waited for the PS5 and didn't grab it on the PS4. No doubt I still would have enjoyed it, but this is pretty nice.
I haven't had a chance to play anything else really. My son has played the game that came on it, and he's having fun with it. It looks nice, but nothing mind blowing (what I wouldn't give to play a 3D Mario game at 4k and 60fps :rotate: ), I'll probably give it a go after he gets bored, since there's only one save slot.
I also loaded up the Matrix experience thingy.
It's nonsense.
I know it's not a game, but it doesn't really feel real (olol Unreal) to have an engine running actively, that looks that real. For sure, if you put an actual game over that engine, a lot of the bells and whistles they're using would have to be reduced or turned off, to handle all the other stuff going on, but even what it is right now is absurdly impressive. Maybe by the end of this console generation there'll be games with that level of detail and fidelity that are actual games. That'd be rad. EDIT: and weirdly, the sub 30fps that you get a lot of time, actually works. I think it's because it is so close to actual reality, visually, that the same thing that makes your brain accept 24fps movies kicks in here. It's an interesting thing, and I wonder if any developers are working with that, to make a higher fidelity game, using an intentionally lower FPS.
I got the Pulse 3D headphones along with it, and they're fine. I wish they made the earcups the same size as their old PS4 gold headset, instead of going smaller here, because those fit my ears perfectly, and the Pulse is slightly too small, and it makes it a bit uncomfortable. I'll have to try them again with a game that is made for them, as I don't notice any major "3D" audio in Spider-Man. They sound good, but not amazing. They're light, and that's nice, and offsets the can shape a bit, but in the end I'm not sure they're worth $100. My opinion might change after playing some "proper" PS5 games.
Almost done with the main story in Spider-Man, then there's the DLC. Not sure if I'll go right to Miles Morales, or play something else and get a break from the specific type of game.
All in all, I'm happy with it. I knew, intellectually, that watching comparison videos on a 1080p monitor, to get an idea of what real difference there'd be moving to an actual 4k gaming console, wasn't going to give me the full picture; but so far actual 4K (yeah yeah I know, dynamic resolutions, and different rendering types, etc, I'm generalizing) is pretty pretty good. If I'm feeling really ambitious at some point I might take my PS4 into the living room and play FF7 on both consoles to see how distinct the difference is visually between playing 1080p on a original PS4 and 4k on a PS5, on the same big ass TV. Maybe I'll notice immediately when I load it up on the PS5; but I remember distinctly thinking, when I played FF7 on this TV, on the PS4, that it already looked amazing and aside from framerate, I wasn't sure how it could look more detailed. I'm sure I'll find out soon!
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I have done this exact thing with Borderlands 3, and it worked.
PS4 Pro: Using a throwaway second account, but with my main account registered on the system, so it gets multiplayer access. Playing the PS4 version of BL3
PS5: Using my main account, playing the PS5 version of BL3.
It all worked with no issues.
For context, I have achieved the true ending of Returnal. I have conquered every Valkyrie in God of War. I'm rolling at about heat 14 in Hades (though not with EM4).
I don't think I can summon the resolve to fling myself one more time at what I presume to be the final battle of Kena.
Plus it somehow manages to exploit PlayStation nostalgia I didn't even realise I had in a very Nintendo-esque way.
While I found it quite hard, I definitely personally found returnal, the Valkyries and hades on anything above like heat 8, way harder. Maybe take a break and come back to it, cos if you can do those other things it’s definitely within your skill set to finish Kena.
Also playing Uncharted 4 for the first time (playing the ps5 version). Holy fucking shit the facial motion capture and performance capture is insane
Also after years of throwing baddies off ledges having one randomly grab onto my ankles and have to be kicked off was very clever and thrilling. I love when games add a twist to a small trope like that
The thing that bugs me about Kena is that dropping down a difficulty level doesn't make it a little easier, it makes it massively easier.
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Preordered GT7, ER, and Sifu. One of those has to dislodge me right?
While the PS5 still works, I damaged something that caused the disk drive to not work. Unfortunately, PS5 disc drives aren't really replaceable like a normal drive would be, so I resigned myself to now owning a Digital Edition with a dead disk drive on it.
I decided this week to open it up and take another look to see if I could find where I fucked up. I think it might've been something I could fix all along.
The 4 pin wire below (is that the right terminology? I'm not really a hardware guy at all) looks damaged/stripped a bit where it connects to the...connector thing. This wire goes from the PS5 guts to the disc drive. Could this little wire be the problem with my PS5's disc drive not working?
I put the console back together without the wire and it still works like normal.
I can just replace this, right? If so, can someone point me to where I can buy it/what it is called?
That cable looks to me like the disk drive power cable. The data cable for the drive is the ribbon cable located an inch or so away from it, and it has some locking tabs when it goes in, so you have to make sure the release bar is pressed down. If you didn’t depress that part during disassembly originally, you could have damaged the data ribbon cable.
If the drive isn’t getting power, it’s possible it’s the cable in your pic, or one of the socket ends that’s damaged. If it is getting power but won’t do anything, I would suspect the ribbon cable or the ribbon cable socket ends.
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I remember being careful with the ribbon cable - I watched a teardown to see how exactly to take it apart, so I don't think I damaged that.
I did damage to a different ribbon cable though, but I think that was connected to the front USB (which doesn't work, but I am not worried about it)
That sounds like the power cable/sockets then. When I took apart my brothers old ps4 and attempted to replace the bad laser it had, it still never read a disk at the end but it would at least take in and spit out the disks.
Unless you had some ESD cause a short/break somewhere, but if that’s the case you likely aren’t ever fixing it.
Here’s hoping! Disk drives on consoles suck to try to fix in general. Copy protection just mucks everything up that much harder.
I've got everything set to go to the new drive first, I figure I'd rather have that one fail from overuse compared to the built in one.
I finally got the 'complete ending' for Returnal over the weekend, I nearly gave up in Act 3 but glad I stuck it out - for the sense of achievement if nothing else.
Hell of a game. Now I'm playing through Ratchet and Clank for something easy and light and fun, should be able to knock off that and maybe Uncharted 3 (yes, I'm way behind) before Horizon comes out.
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My god is Niho Remastered a sexy beast for a 5 year old game when it's being pumped out at 4K60. I'm going to enjoy trying to platinum this bad boy between now and getting the new Aloy hotness in a couple of weeks.
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Though I've noticed the game itself is a touch rough. A few times the camera tried to reorient itself to a person speaking and managed to zoom into a spot on the ceiling, a special attack managed to zoom the perspective into deep space, and the game has locked up a couple times. But it's a little hard to really care when you have to convince Drax not to huck Rocket over a chasm or when you manage to trigger some sweet-ass 80s music during a battle.
The idea that there is a right-stick input combination to perform spinning reverse off-hand layup rather than just have that animation be context-based is insane to me. It's double insane that the combo requires near perfect timing based on where the player is. I don't think I'll be playing this much if at all, lol.
Wonder if this will result in Bungie developing more stuff or if it will be all Destiny, all the time.
Oh no... the person I broke up with... what a tragedy... *burp*.
I read 3.6b. A fraction of what MS spent for Acti/Blizz. Makes me think this is just an appetizer and not the main course, but I dunno.
they're already working on at least 2 known new IPs, and the FAQ post on the Bungie site say that any upcoming games will still be multiplatform: https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/50989
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