VideoGame_Discussion

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

It’s mostly gameplay. The cutscenes are just front and back loaded. It’s so much better than other Kojima games in that regard. After chapter 2 you’ll go long stretches without any cutscenes.

TalonJedi87 wrote:

Lol yeah by gameplay I obviously meant walking and making deliveries. It’s a weird game. Takes far too long to get going, but it’s very unique and unique isn’t always a bad thing. It was an interesting experience. I wouldn’t play it again, but I’m still glad I gave it a shot because it does quite a few things well and the soundtrack is sooo good!

Heavyd814life wrote:


I've been liking that so far.

Death Stranding takes way too long to get into agreed, but once you get like 10 hours in it finally clicks and you get a rhythm going. It’s an ok game. Not sure if I’ll play the sequel though as much as I love Kojima. Don’t think I have another 40-50 hours of walking around carrying boxes dealing with black goo babies in me heh.

Death Stranding, lol. It's like an elaborate prank we all fell for.

What was Sony's involvement in this game anyway? Did they just pay Kojima for console exclusivity? I feel like it wouldn't have mattered much if it did release on Xbox. This ain't a system seller.

They paid Kojima for console exclusivity I believe. The rest was basically him running buck wild. Like the old Penny-Arcade strip said. Soon he’ll be jacking off sharks for 50 hours and we’ll happily pay to experience it.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/06/24/hide...

That castle made of hands and marrying a tooth could be fun.

But only if they handle the shark jacking well. If they nail that I’m in.

I’d like to see him work on a CoD inspired game where you loot hundreds of guns but there is only one bullet. Genius.

PS5 Pro just dropped.

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PS5 Tall

I’ve heard they stay pretty cool at least. No melting glue.

So if in 2011 you picked Killzone Liberation as your free game you get it free on PS4 n 5. I am pretty sure I picked Infamous.

Groo wrote:


You mean from that time PSN was down for like a month straight? I think I went with LittleBigPlanet.
I haven't played Killzone Liberation or InFamous before, but I plan to check out both via PS+ Premium. So many games, so little time.

What a time to be alive
https://twitter.com/BenjiSales/status/167153286610...

Now watch half those get delayed haha

That would be OK. Too many as it is.

E3 for the next two years has been cancelled. They should just admit its over and officially announce a permanent end to it.

BucketofJustice wrote:

Yeah for sure. Remedy should probably move Alan Wake II. It's going to get buried otherwise and I'd hate to see it bomb.

And Baldur's Gate III comes out August 31st so those October games might as well not even exist to me because that's all I'll be playing in October.

I hope a lot get delayed. I still have like 10-12 long games in my backlog to sift thru before I’m even allowing myself to buy a new game.

Had my PS5 since the forced GS bundles. Well I DL Apple TV and it offered 6 months free with the PS5. I was already on a 3 month. Fast forward I signed on recent and it still allowed the 6 months free. If you dont have a sub but want to try out apple tv for 6 months DL it on your PS5. Sub wont be limited to being used on the PS5 etc. I am enjoying Silo.

So looks like no physical releases for Alan Wake II, Baldur’s Gate III and Like a Dragon Gaiden. This is such a bummer.

No physical copy for Alan Wake II and having them hide behind a cop out about keeping costs down is weak sauce.

Just wait until they're dirt cheap to buy them.

I was definitely going to buy Baldur’s Gate III if there was a physical PS5 version, but now I’m just going to stick with my PC preorder and play it a month earlier.

Heavyd814life wrote:

Orlandu wrote:

Yeah. I kinda wasn't going to get BG3 for a while bc of starfield. But if there is not even a physical version it's totally on the back burner. It's not like I don't have a crap ton of great games on my backlog. It's not like I'm totally against digital. I'm going to buy Mortal Kombat 1 day one on digital just because they always release a Komplete version later anyway. But I don't like it when companies say no physical period. In principle I don't support them.

If digital games on console went on sale at the frequency and discount like it does on Steam I'd be more willing to buy digitally. But that's not happening

I feel like digital games on consoles often have good sales/discounts and perhaps are as good or better than Steam. Is there some way to compare them?

I use https://www.dekudeals.com/ to track prices/sales, but it doesn't cover Steam.

Is there a way to track historical prices for games on Steam?
(deku has this for consoles, both digitcal and physical)

I'm not sure. But the Demons Souls remake took a good year to get any digital sale.

That's an unusual example because it's a ps5 exclusive, never on Steam.
https://www.dekudeals.com/items/demons-souls does show it dropped to $40 a year after release. $30 in Apr '23.
I'm playing it now via PS+ extra for "free"...

I wonder if Steam will eventually do some sort of game-pass like subscription thing. So far, I've been enjoying it. Though, I'm playing games "late" and things may be drying up as the year passes.

Kommie wrote:

yeah. Gog and steam are really great with sales. I don't think I've bought more than 2% of my games day one full price. It's no comparison to how much better it is than consoles.

Right. I got no problem paying full price/release day discount on indie games $25 and lower. But no way I pay $70 for a digital "AAA" game with guaranteed problems.

bill wrote:

https://steamdb.info/

It doesn't send you notifications when games go on sale and if they are an all-time low, but I use this in combination for the Steam wishlist to determine if the current sale price is an all-time low since Steam's wishlist does send you an email when a game on your wishlist goes on sale.

I've been so backlogged that I end up playing all my PS5 games for free anyways once they hit Plus or whatever it's called now. Or for a pretty deep discount.

This month having CoD Black Ops (awesome game with a great zombies mode) and Alan Wake is pretty dope.

I'm a PS noob and I need some help. I'm looking to go ahead and sell my PS4 since I won't be playing anything on it for the foreseeable future, and then I'll get a PS5 sometime down the road, hopefully after a price drop. I want to make sure me and my son don't lose our saves. I thought they just saved to the cloud automatically, but it looks like that's just a PS+ feature, is that still the case? If so, can I just use a free trial long enough to get our saves saved to the cloud? Will it keep them there even once our PS+ trial ends? Also, once we get a PS5 down the road, will our saves even transfer to the PS5? If so, can we just do the free trial method again, long enough to download them to the system?

Edit: Looks like there's an option to save my save data to a USB device. Can I retrieve this on a PS5 later? Or is the only way to get save data transferred from PS4 to PS5 is to use cloud saves?

Scott wrote:

PS+ keeps the saves for a handful of years, so just do that. As I'm not 100% sure you can do a usb transfer of a PS4 backup to a PS5 either. I know you can do the initial data transfer between systems. But I don't think it will read/handle the PS4 backup file. It could. But I'd just go with PS+. Just simpler. And you don't have to worry about formatting a USB device and only using it for your PS console.

EDIT: apparently PS+ only keeps the saves on their server for 6 months after an expired sub now. So that might not be a good idea either. I'd go with the usb device knowing that now.

Scott wrote:

Saves made on a PS4 work perfectly on a PS5 using a USB. I transfer them all the time. This is assuming you are playing the same PS4 game on the PS5 system. You can't use a PS4 save for a PS5 version of the same game unless there is an in game save transfer option available. There are allot of games with this option, but you will need to have access to the PS4 version as its almost always an in game upload/transfer.

Something to keep in mind in the future is PS5 games you can't backup the saves to USB, only the cloud. So once you get a PS5 you might want to consider having a subscription. I had one time the power went out while I was playing the PS5. For whatever reason it basically bricked the system. I found some workaround online to get it to boot into safemode. My only option was a factory reset. I was pretty bummed as I lost 2 game saves with hundreds of hours. Its the main reason I quit wreckfest. I had all the online cars unlocked and lost everything. The system is supposed to back them up automatically, but for some reason I had no PS5 saves online.

Thank you both for all the info! I'm glad to hear I can use USB to transfer the saves. I'm not thrilled to find that I'll have to have a subscription for cloud saves once I'm on PS5 though. I barely ever play my PS's, so it's a lot of money compared to how much I actually need it.

Scott wrote:

Its just to backup PS5 saves. You can still use USB for PS4 game saves on the PS5.

I actually thought cloud saves were just free on PS5. I didn't realize you had to have PS+ in order to utilize them, that's why I was disappointed.