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Ya I have 5 controller ls and 2 charging stations so 4 always have juice and one is my travel one.

I feel like playing for like 4-5 hours straight it starts to run low

bill wrote:

same situation for me (minus the wife-having)

I have 4 controllers but only 3 in rotation as one of the first ones had drift issue. And i’m sensing it happening slowly on one or two of the remaining ones now, so I guess I’ll have to buy another controller at some point. Switch is even worse when it comes to this.

Seems absurd, i don’t remember PS3 era and previous having such issues with the analogue sticks, felt like you got way more life out of each controller

I needed to replace one of my ps4 controllers (drift) about a month before I got a ps5. Oh well.
That was the first time I'd had trouble with a ps3/4 controller.
I had more trouble with ps2 controllers.

The worst was Atari 2600 joysticks. My brother and I would break one every few months. I can still remember what they were like inside because we often took them apart to try to fix them.

Haven't played anything in a while. But on a whim the other day logged on to the PS5 and saw The Witcher 3 next-gen update was out. So I downloaded it instead of spending money on something I probably wouldn't play. Lots of good changes (mainly updates to movement and combat, fast casting of signs and a bunch of balancing fixes). It actually sucked me back in. Not sure if because I haven't played anything in a very long time, or what. Right game at the right time kind of thing. But I imported my old PS4 save and started with the DLC. Not sure if I'll replay the main game or not yet. But gosh darn is this DLC fantastic. I forgot how good the DLC is.

It also made me want to watch the new Witcher thing on Netflix. That was a mistake. I don't think the people involved in that ever read the books. They just made up their own story, and its not great. The acting is also very poor.

I played like 3 hours of God of War and I really just don’t get it.

Like it’s pretty and is seamlessly linear, but the voice acting and story kind of annoy me, as they did before, but somehow this seems worse, but won more awards?

I mean. Somehow Detroit Become Human and The Witcher 3 won awards besides being dog crap garbage.

3hitcombo wrote:

They took a series that was 95% over the top violent combat and made it 75% boring cinematics and walks in the snow. I didn’t like it very much until the endgame stuff and then it was fun as hell. Mostly because the story was finally over. It felt like a lot of investment for a little return. I don’t understand why anyone would want a NG+ here.

I recently started playing Returnal for the first time.
I don't do too badly, but I'm terrible at dashing and taking zero damage, so my adrenaline is usually low.
After days of playing, I failed to beat Phrike. Honestly, I only made it to him like 3 times.
I tried hosting a game (generally multi-player is not my thing). I got a guy that seemed pretty good. We made it to Phrike after he revived me a couple times, but we had low health and we died.
The next game, Phrike's room was right at the start and the dude was still with me, so we tried again, without exploring/upgrading. Died again and he left my game.

I started thinking this game sucks. I'm going to quit. Then, I beat Phrike. I didn't even use the astronaut I had. I'm glad but also feel weird because I had half-convinced myself to give up on this stupid game.


Witcher 3 game was decent. I know many love it, but it was just pretty good for me. Witcher TV show was good at times, but I didn't love all the non-Witcher political stuff. I would have preferred just focusing on the Witcher and the interesting monsters, more like the game. It's a bad sign that Henry Cavill left the show, but I'll keep watching. I'll probably watch that Michelle Yeoh prequel soonish, though it doesn't look great.

The first Witcher 3 DLC is one of my favorite stories in video game history. The second is a good wrap to the story. Both essential playing. I want to jump in and see the updates, but I’ll get sucked into another 100+ hour play through for a third time and I have plenty of other games I haven’t touched yet. One of the best games of all time and arguably the greatest of the eighth generation

beavis wrote:

I’m seeing all these images of the update and it looks great. I’m like you- I really want to check it out but 100% I’ll burn through another platinum. HoS story and villain are so great. Creepy stuff.

Kommie wrote:

I’ll say this. I absolutely LOVE cinematic movie games LIKE Detroit. Even liked heavy rain. But I also thought Detroit was whack. Like the storyline wasn’t there, and without that…..wtf???

I was however surprised to see “Immortality” nominated for a number of awards this year. That game is kind of genius in the world of MOVIE games.

Feeb wrote:

Ok this is exactly how I felt with the snow walking and snore fest story. I think I’m good quitting 3 hours in and going onto something else. I’m still finding Bayonetta 3 to be more enjoyable action.(then again it won best action game so….)

The biggest turn off for me was the huge puzzle areas- but they are so well done it becomes fun to figure them out. I think I quit 3-4 hours in before I came back to it after a few weeks.

bill wrote:

I think you will probably like it as youre a DSouls veteran. This game felt to me like a Dsouls game with guns.

Its tough to get used to at first but its fun once you get a hang of it. I normally played 1 or 2 runs max and called it quits for the day. The 1rst boss did kill me a few times but eventually got him as his attacks can be learned. I thought the rest of the game was easier for some reason except for the last stage which kicked my ass. Im pretty sure I wasnt supposed to get through the previous levels that easily and thus my guns were under powered for the last stage.

Yeah, I think I'll do something like 1-2 runs per day. My progress seems semi-random. Like, I'll do great sometimes, but often will die early too. Also, the game seems like it's going to take longer to make a run because I want to build-up before skipping ahead. I haven't spent much time in biome 2 yet. I've been doing daily challenges too, which seem less hard and I get some ether.

You can skip straight to Biome 2. In the beginning there's a pickup to level you up to the appropriate level. Only downside is you might not get a weapon you like.

The +5 proficiency thing at the start of biome 2 is nice.

I got the Crimson Key from beating Phrike, but the Crimson Gateway's location is random in biome 1. So, I may still have to do some of biome 1 before I can skip to biome 2.

I assume the upper level with a light thing that's right at the start near my crashed ship requires some other equipment I don't have yet but might take me direct to biome 3.

Potentially, if I play most of Biome 1 and do well, I will have more integrity, consumables, good parasites, and artifacts. But it takes extra time and I often just die. So, I'll have to see how it goes. At this point, I may go to biome 2 the first chance I get to see how well I do.

If you've been keeping your PS5 vertical like I have...maybe don't do that anymore.
https://wololo.net/2023/01/05/youre-killing-your-p...

Horizontal for me for all my systems. Gravity is a MF.

I keep mine horizontal as well. Mostly because back when I had my ps2 vertical the drive would do weird things. Seemed bad for the discs.

My TV stand thing has only horizontal space. I don't love the weird little hooked piece that it sits on. The ps5 slides off it if I touch it. This doesn't seem to matter much either.

I think PS5 and Xbox 360 are the only consoles I've kept vertical.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

I wonder if that's what happened to mine that went kaput 6 months ago...
Due to lack of space and proper air circulation, I've always kept my 5 vertical...even my new one. Ugh

I normally always go horizontal but with the PS5 it's so damn big it only fits beside my tv vertical. It doesn't fit in any of the shelves or cubbies.

I bought my PS5 shortly after a big earthquake hit us. Horizontal 100% of the time.

I've never had a system vertical and never will

But these are the guys who brought you upside down consoles... weird that they can't do vertical correctly

If the liquid dripping / running is the issue it’s best to make sure it sets pretty straight horizontally too. Mine does not 95% of the time for the reason @bill mentioned. That little plastic turntable thing always slips and it’s slanted a bit.

@bill @Feeb I ended up buying a way too expensive plastic stand to make it more stable: https://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&lo...

I’ve always had my systems vertical since PS2 let me. Saves so much space in my setup. I’ve never had issues, and I’m not letting a tweet by a store in France trying to get hits deter me from going back to the horizontal days

Orlandu wrote:

That looks solid. I’ll definitely consider something like it.

Are many of you doing PS Plus Extra?

I signed up for it around Black Friday ($75/year on sale). I'm going to try to mostly play games in the catalog this year (and beyond?) and see how that goes. Many of the games in the catalog are games I bought and liked, so it seems sad to have paid what I did. There are a bunch I'm interested in trying too, and a few that were on my wishlist (Stray, Returnal, Spiderman Miles...). So, it's a decent deal for me even if the catalog doesn't grow to my liking.

I'm otherwise pretty good at waiting to play stuff (mostly to avoid paying $60+). I really don't mind not exactly owning games as I rarely go back to play something I beat.

I got Premium right away, Extra seems like better value objectively but my FOMO too hard to go down to it

I got premium because my stacked PS+ turned into it with the one month Now hack thing.

I would say that extra would have sufficed, i don't really use the retro system stuff or any game streaming. I just like the monthly games and the discounts.

I would do extra but I've played or bought nearly everything of interest. $60 for a year isn't too bad of an offer, but I don't play online and play most of my indies on PC. It seems like most of the stuff on there is a "yeah, that might be worth checking out eventually" game rather than a recent must-play

Id say Extra is the best value one if you can get it on a sale. Playing PSX games isnt for me and I dont see any value on playing the PS3 games streaming without any performance upgrades.

I think there is a sale right now. I also got the one on Black Friday but I dont remember what I paid for the year.

On a different topic, I just finished The Pedestrian via PS+ whichever included it. Fun little puzzle game that didnt overstay its welcome.

I just put Pedestrian on my wishlist, looks interesting. Why not, it's "free".

That's what I did when I got Extra. I went through the catalog and put games on my wishlist that I wanted to check out. There were too many to download all at once. I'm planning to go through them slowly when I'm looking to try a new game. It's like a virtual backlog.

I was already doing normal Plus for the past few years. I had done the math on it, and it came out that I'd save more money from the discounts on what I was buying. I tend to buy a lot of odd games that go on sale. Some have been good, but many I just can't get into. That's part of how I got to this point, wanting to instead play random games in the extra catalog, cheaper than buying them directly.

I'm unsure about the must-plays. I may still buy some if I just can't wait. I am pretty good at waiting, though. I've already been doing it, waiting for sales and such. For example: Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart, Horizon: Forbidden West, or Elden Ring - haven't played them yet, but if any of those drop into the catalog, I'll feel like I made the right call. If they drop to $20, I may buy. ...then kick myself when they get added to the catalog later. Or die, never having played them because I waited too long.

Yeah I agree as long as we hold off on day-1 buying $60-70 games then Extra/Premium may be worth it. Returnal is one game I was looking to buy for $25-30 so I got some value playing it over PS Extra. I can think of a couple more like Onechanbara Origins and Judgement.

Ive also sort of reduced the amount of cheap games Im buying lately because they are or eventually will be in the service.

I upgraded to the PS+ Premium tier last night, so I'll have it until late July. My backlog must feel so disrespected right now.

My friend upgraded too and we started playing a game called KeyWe. I recommend it if you like co-op games like Overcooked.

I'm finding myself wanting to play exclusively off PS5 anymore because I can play in the basement to escape the family and have a nice big TV ... but I can also play upstairs, from my gaming laptop. Best of both worlds. Yet, I'd like to figure out if remote play can/should be operating better.

My PS5 and my PC are both connected over ethernet. I have a pretty nice setup using Ubiquiti Unifi gear and generally speaking, everything runs great in my house.

Remote play works well enough, but it feels like it 'should' be better running over ethernet. I get a little bit of choppiness/slow downs, and slightly pixelated resolution.

Is there any optimizations/tweaking to be done?

THanks

I just platinumed the Rag. Such a great game. I miss if already.

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