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[Playstation 5] New Slim version announced.
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Playstation 5: disc and discless available. Now you can buy yours.
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So far I love the setting. Feels like Expanse.
Oddly it's not really as scary as I hoped. Especially since early is when scary games are usually the scariest. A few jump scares made the SO scream but thats about it.
The melee combat feels really good so far. It's got an awesome flow to it. It was actually cool seeing the SO actually playing most of the combat herself and dodging the shit out of things. For reference she does not play games. The only game she ever played through herself(mostly i did a platforming section or 2 for her) was Astro's Playground where she couldn't move the camera and character at the same time.
And yet here she is dodging more attacks on 1 night than our entire playthrough of Kirby and the Forgotten Land haha. She said since it isnt a reactionary thing it just felt easier. She actually got it quicker than I did since I had to break out of trying to tap it in reaction.
Overall fun time so far! Although the "return to cockpit" goal early on was some terrible design haha. It says return to cockpit so we did just that... only to find out they meant continue forward and follow a completely different path to the cockpit or it doesn't count..
Fun fact, I last played this game 20 years ago, in Japanese. I cannot read Japanese.
This is a lot easier.
Another one I need to go back to! I was enjoying it until Callisto Protocol came out haha.
Saves the checkpoints so it's less good. And maybe it's always been there? I don't remember seeing it but I'm getting old.
My body is ready for FF16 now.
One of my few unshakable beliefs when it comes to games is "single player action games should have in-engine replays that you can edit", and this only strengthens my belief.
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky
. . .the UI is going to turn a lot of people off though.
Also as someone who’s never owned a PlayStation console before it took me forever to find the demo, given that it’s hidden under the three dot menu of the game, with no other way to know it exists unless you’ve heard online
Use the PS App. I don't do ANYTHING on the main system anymore. Like, I dunno why they did it, but the change from the UI of the PS4 to this one is just blargh. It's not good. The app you can navigate far quicker than the PS5's integrated store (I mean that's what it feels like; the PS4 you could customize to your tastes, this is just them needing to be able to deliver product to you).
. . .and yeah, the HDR on FORSPOKEN is shockingly bad. There's gotta be a bug. And Frey's voice work is good, it is just constant.
Also the fire magic just gets me.
At first it was a bit of chaos just working out what was happening, but by the third video where I utterly demolished the demo "boss" (I hesitate to call it that as it seems just a thing you can encounter just wandering around, like the giant deer) I had complete control over the chaos. There is a lot of options for upgrading the character, some fashion souls involving the cloak and so forth too. I am really into this game and am definitely buying it day 1.
Glad to see someone else was enjoying it as much as I was. The combat felt SO good to me once I got the hang of it. This was already super high on my list for things I was looking forward to but it's nice that the demo didn't leave me disappointed.
I've been excited for the game for awhile and have seen many instances now of people who *weren't* interested actually really enjoying the demo.
Does the demo say if it unlocks anything in the main game? Not planning on playing it but ill download it if it gets me something!
In other news, I don’t think I brought this up in the previous thread: to my genuine shock, PlayStation Direct emailed me last week to let me know my spot in the PSVR2 pre-order queue was ready! I have now converted a nontrivial sum of US Dollars into the promise that a Call of the Mountain bundle and controller charge dock will arrive at my home on release week. Best Gaming Dad 2022/2023 title: maintained.
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I def hope they implement an option to turn down the banter, or ideally an on/off toggle; that became increasingly annoying the longer I played. Repeats too much, isn't interesting, occasionally mildly funny but more often it's not. Oh wow, the main character likes to say fuck, how edgy and hip you are. I think respawn is a *little* too high for my personal taste but at the same time it looks like optional grinding may be useful, plus there are skill specific challenges so I guess it's fine.
I liked the exploding spear move, and the kick, and the one that just summoned flame dudes to fight for you
My favourite thing about the demo was the fact that it was available - is this going to be a new thing moving forward?
There is an option for that. Cuff Chat Frequency is what you’re looking for, under Cuff settings.
I've been super tempted to get it on PS5, but the PC version lets you mod in different characters and that's too tempting to ignore. I wanna play as Sakura or whomever else.
Go go go go go go! Beat those reprehensible scalpers! Get you one!
Godspeed, forum friends.
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I was actually looking forward to this, but a combination of tiny text size I can't find any way to increase (only subtitles, which doesn't seem to affect anything else), and excitingly skewed text (which is also too small) on the menus meant that I just couldn't bring myself to play beyond the first proper fight on the bridge. There may be a good combat system in there, but I was getting a headache before I got to it.
And this is one day after I had an eye test and was told my vision was excellent.
Also, from the brief time I spent trying to play it, it feels like it wants me to use the shoulder buttons, both sticks and the circle button in a fight? I can't evade with circle and aim with the right stick and attack with the right shoulder buttons at the same time.
Just tremendous depth once you start properly fiddling with it.
Switch actually had my game with the most playtime this year with XBC3. Which was like 200 hours or something haha.
127 hours on Mass Effect Legendary Edition - wow, was it that much? Felt much less but then again I was having a great time.
Good on Sony for doing these wrapups, but a lot of it felt like an ad. It noted I tend to play a lot of action-adventure games, then served me a bunch of stats on the new God of War, which I don't even own yet. And then an entire section on PlayStation Plus, which I don't even subscribe to.
Yup, that checks out. My PS4 was basically a Horizon Forbidden West machine when it wasn't a dedicated Apex Legends machine.
If I hadn't reloaded my saves to play through the various endings in Cyberpunk, my top game would have been Horizon: Forbidden West. Ragnarök managed to make the top 5 even though I haven't finished yet.
I cleared those endings last weekend. Which one did you end up liking the best (in spoilers)?
I dont usually get 20 new games per year total. So 25 on a single platform seems pretty suspect to me.
I think it just counts all the games you played, even if they were old games that you played before on previous years.
Cyberpunk ending stuff
Seems about right