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I loved Days Gone, really awesome game. Death Stranding looked like a slog. MGS2 was really the height of Kojima for me too.

Finn wrote:

I loved that whole trilogy. I just did the single player, but seeing that MW3 logo turn into WW3 was one of the most exciting title screens I've seen. I don't even like realistic first-person shooters, but those hooked me. Couldn't get into any of the other Call of Duty games, but I'd recommend those three to people who don't even like the genre.

Days Gone was surprisingly great. I would like to replay at some point.

I really enjoyed Days Gone too.

Same. I just thought DG was a tad too long.

TalonJedi87 wrote:

same.

DG is an open-world game, they're all too long.

I kinda like that it can be long or not long depending on how you play. I don't do a lot of side stuff and unlike some games you don't need to level up slog style to progress.

Enjoyed the story. If they make a 2nd one for whatever reason I'd replay the first.

I miss linear narratives with closed controlled maps. Those were the days.

DG was long even in just core narrative. All open-world games have that lateral time-wasting filler, but it felt like the story had an extra act. I was really hoping we'd get the sequel, but I'll just tell myself an implied sequel is better (kind of like if The Matrix just stopped after the first film).

I am enjoying MW2 right now.

Day's Gone, I bought that when it released and never played it. I seriously need to fix that.

Can someone help me out? Which colors are the "new" dual sense controllers? I remember hearing about some of the new ones is better

SilverOwl wrote:

Technically they all are I beileve. Even the OG white ones got updated I believe. Could be wrong.

There was some recent internal change to the whites to reduce Drift. I had one with drift. Luckily it was still under warranty by like a day.

White, Black and Red I believe did not initially get the update. That maybe different now assuming the old stock has been sold.. I would probably check the versions.

Blue, pink, Purple did and I would imagine the new ones recently released have also got the same treatment.

Bungie says it has “noticed a notable number of PS5 players playing the PS4 version of Destiny 2 on their current-generation consoles.”

I've seen far too many threads on Reddit, Twitter, other gaming forums etc. where people haven't figured out how to upgrade to the PS5 versions of PS4 games. Sony dropped the ball there by not making it dummy-proof. This is a simple process that you shouldn't have to be going out of your way to do.

I told myself I would hold off on getting a PS5 until GOW2 hits, and now that it's here I just placed my order on PS Direct. I could not be any more excited about a game...I'll prob just unplug my XSX until I beat it.

I tried playing Hollow Knight yesterday and I really could not get into it. It was more slower paced than I like my metroidvanias (I know that doesn't last) and I found myself dying constantly to really cheap hits from enemies where they were finding kinks inbetween my character hitbox and my attacking hitbox and I was getting very frustrated. I'm sure I'll get back to it eventually but for now I moved on to Dead Cells and this is waayyyyy more my speed. I am loving it

I don't like Hollow Knight either, but playing on PC with mods is the way to go.

I've tried getting into Hollow Knight on 3 separate occasions because of how great people say it is. But it's just not for me. I don't get it.

Anxiouz wrote:

It took me 4 times before it clicked. Nothing really changed except me. I had the same issue with BoTW. I think in both cases I needed to meet the games half way.

With Hollow Knight I was able to be more zen about getting lost and dying. I also didn't try to "souls-through" the bosses that 4th time. Instead I skipped them and came back if it stopped being fun. Not saying it will click with you, but it ended up being one of my favorite Metroid-like games; definitely the most recent of my favorites.

Feeb wrote:

Yeah but don’t you think we have enough of those types of games? I may not love his stories either but I appreciate that he is doing something different

Shane12m wrote:

We didn’t when he made MGS2.

Has anyone here having issues where the ps5 will randomly shut off when playing certain ps5 games? It's fine when playing ps4 games.
I have to play the ps4 version of gow, so my ps5 doesn't shut off

SilverOwl wrote:

Never seen, nor heard of this.

MrBean wrote:

Yea, so far 3 ps5 games just shut off my ps5 after like 30 mins of playing. I took the system apart and cleaned it real good, and it still does it.

It's fine with all most games and have never done it with ps4 games.

Man that's weird, and really sucks!

I don't have that problem. But my Ethernet port started randomly dropping a month or more back. And the other day it fully died. Now the wifi is starting to randomly drop. Love it when an expensive electronic device starts failing just shortly after the warranty expires.

Any chance it’s your TV that’s turning off (auto-shutdown after X minutes)?

SilverOwl wrote:

Power or heat related. Call Support, get it taken care of

Drizz might be onto something. My PS5 activates some new connectivity features on my TV that the XSX doesn't. The PS5 turned on by me just navigating some TV settings.

DarkFact wrote:


The system is almost 2 years old, so no warranty. It's starting to aggravate the piss out of me. Im always afraid that a new game will cause it to do this.

Its sounds as though the Signal just drops. I would check the simple things first New HDMI cable, different port on the TV...

Finn wrote:



No, it actually shuts off. I have to unplug the power cord before it even comes boots back up.. it's 100% def shutting off

Hasn't happened to me. The other day though while playing Horizon: Forbidden West I did have the picture on the TV flicker black for a second on 3 occasions, maybe 10-15 minutes apart. Hasn't happened again since then though.

Yeah, signals dipping is one thing (could be a sound system sync issue for instance), the system powering down is either overheat or power supply failure. Having to unplug and replug is actually a +1 for bad power supply. It could be a bad SSD, but much less likely, that'd probably cause a hung system, not a powerdown.

It may not be covered under warranty, but it beats paying $500. I'd still call Sony and see if they'll take a look; if it's a defect from an early line it's also possible they may just take care of it and have you pay shipping or something. If it's a power supply that's like a $100 part swap, maybe $180 on top for labor, if it's overheating they could charge for a new mainboard... but it's more likely it just needs to be re-lubed and re-sealed. I'd trust Sony over any third parties right now, because if the third party guesses wrong or fudges it up it's just gonna cost you more to fix it.

How exactly would I go about getting a hold of Sony in this kind of situation

SilverOwl wrote:

That sounds like either a faulty or dusty power supply (PS4 games draw less power than PS5 games). Try to clean really well around it and see if that fixes the problem.

Also, I want to say that it doesn't do this all the time. I can play for hours without issues, but select games will make it shut down. The games are Outriders and Biomutant ( both games caused the issue twice within and hour period). And it happened once on GoW