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I’m about 7 hours in for GoW Ragnarok and I think it finally clicked with me that I just don’t like the gameplay much. The first one I had fun because the story and the world was new but now I’m just not that interested in much beside the story, and I feel like just watching the story on YouTube.

You probably won't like it much more than you do now. You might try turning it to the easiest difficulty and completely skip all side-quests. That will make the game move much faster. You also eventually get an added layer to combat, but it's probably not enough to significantly alter your opinion of the game.

Orlandu wrote:

You know honestly I gave it another go last night and lowered the difficulty to just below default and started enjoying it a lot more. I’m fully invested again for now.

I don’t know what it is about this game, I’m generally pretty good at games, but I can’t get good at this combat system

It's a big game and I had more fun when I lowered the difficulty. Just grinding away during battles got old after 15+ hours and when easier I enjoyed the faster progression.

I enjoyed Ragnarok, beat it on Hard, with Plat ... but I'd kinda agree with @Shane12m.

Couldn't/can't quite put my finger on it, but it just didn't feel as fun/engaging as the first for some reason. Overall it was a absolutely a great game, but I found myself feeling that I was just grinding to get through it. I enjoyed the combat, didn't find it overly difficult until the very end of the game (two bosses stood out as very challenging). The amount of back tracking was a bit much, and in retro I should have waited to do it at the end vs. constantly doing it throughout. Still, I think it's absolutely worth the time.

Yet, I felt the same way about HFW as well. The first of each of these series was much better to me personally. Still, glad I played them, great experiences.

Enemies have a bit too much health. You can use an option to start boss fights at a “checkpoint” but it’s limited to certain difficulty.

There's always an enemy behind you, too. Doesn't matter how you try to position your back to a wall, they will always spawn behind you. The tight third camera and a main character that moves like a tank sucks for this type of game.

Yeah camera is terrible. Need to kite often and it really makes it difficult.

I only found the camera to be a pain against a few of the Berserker's because of their speed.

Its odd. I loved the first one. But I have zero interest in playing Ragnarok.
Same with Horizon. Loved the first, no interest in Forbidden West.

I played Ragnarok on Normal difficulty. I remember I played the first one on the hardest and it took away from the experience. I found Normal Difficulty to be perfectly balanced for a fun yet challenging playthrough. Plat is not tied to the difficulty either

@Archer You aren't missing much. Both sequels are a step down. Both are fine examples of more not necessarily being better.

disagree on Horizeon FW. They expanded the story, kept the awesome gameplay and made a really good game. I liked it as much as the first one. Can't wait for the third installment.

Haven't played GoW R yet, but we'll see...

@Archer I feel similarly. Well, I want to play both, but I'm in no rush.

@bill I'll probably play Ragnarok once it hits PS+ next year. Or at least check it out. I already checked out HFW, with the PS+ trial. I think I only got 15 minutes into it before shutting it off and deleting it. I didn't like anything about it.

HFW is much better than Rag imo. Freedom / improv is the highlight.

I got about 3-4 hours in and gave up on it. Not sure why, but moving around felt so clumsy (getting stuck on the environment, poor flow in general). Had to turn on all the accessibility stuff just to see what I could even grab. Elden Ring felt way better, which was surprising to me since From games tend to feel kind of stiff.

Totally different games.

HFW love the stash box and quick refill and overflow going to it etc I like not being punished for harvesting or collecting. I upgraded all I got BUT have not picked up the outfits or weapons to purchase. Alloy does mention being Hot and Cold etc, I will get the purple level stuff when they are available. Didn’t upgrade the few given outfits just the original one, Nora Proud!

Speaking of collecting I kept picking up Bristleback Spheres, well I am pretty sure I was picking up warm spheres of crap. Around the Poseidon mission, I saw a couple of spheres by the water hole then while getting them, my tame fire Bristleback was in the screen and while walking forward I saw more sphere. Have I been cleaning up his poop?

I have a slight resentment toward GOW2Rag because the only way I finally got a PS5 was to get it with a bundled GOW2Rag (just a code) at full price (~$70).

It is basically more of the same in terms of gameplay. Just more story and little improvements here and there really. But, for me the first ones where amazing, and so are these.

Play it now if you already bought it.

bill wrote:

Ya that is pretty gay, but not even as bad as those places like gamestop that ONLY sold these stupid ass bundles with like extra controllers and stuff.

longhornsk57 wrote:

People still talk like this? I used to until I said something similar around a good friend that I knew was gay. She was super offended, but at least she was cool enough to call me out while making fun of me.

I have gay friends and we always say that. They say much worse to me just talking crap no bad intentions. I think my friends and I just know the intention is good so it's just a phrase.

I'm sorry if that is offensive I'll be more careful in these forums if that's the case.

Everything is considered offensive nowadays

bonham2 wrote:

Don't be so gay about it, Jesus

kevolones wrote:

I know, and I agree, but people on here get offended and I am not trying to start a big thing about it by arguing about it, especially not trying to derail a PS5 thread.


right on brother!

DarkFact wrote:



Stop it gaywad

longhornsk57 wrote:

Not offended, just thought it was weird because I haven't heard anybody say that for a long time.

Carry on with the PS5 discussion.

bonham2 wrote:.

I heard it a couple weeks ago, some kid maybe 10 or 11 years old at gamestop was calling Xbox gay because he was buying a PlayStation game.

Which is about the age group I associate with it being used as an insult (no offense intended to longhorn, just from my experiences in the early days of Xbox live)

Didn’t think it would be offensive to use a homophobic slur. What a dumb fudge. I don’t expect this to offend dumb fudge nation. My dumb fudge friends love it when I call them this. 🤡

Kommie wrote:

Haha, haven't heard this one in ages

ya it's a classic for sure

Golden oldies. I only whip it out when someone's making a big fudging stink about someone casually using it in a context that's clearly not meant to evoke homoeroticism

For instance, I would never call BENSTYLUS gay.

DarkFact wrote:

Bro get out of here with your logic..

DarkFact wrote:

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This is the only thing that came to mind for a response.

So, I know I'm a little late to the party (talking about 2 year old games), but I am very disappointed in Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart. Don't get me wrong, I'm still playing through it and enjoying it, but I expect much better from this series, especially given the glowing reviews it received. I know a lot of games ship unfinished nowadays, but you would think they would update this stuff by now. I have encountered so many glitches in this game. It might be the worth glitching game I have ever played. I get stuck on walls, sometimes just teleporting to different locations. Sometimes Ratchet will be falling and start skipping up and down on whatever surface I am touching. I have had to quit and restart multiple times due to objectives not updating. Sometimes button prompts don't show up. In some cases, items just don't appear where they should. This doesn't even say anything about the obnoxious repeating dialogue.

Overall, I expected MUCH better.

I played through Rifted Apart a month ago and looking at it outside of the launch window shine, I had plenty of complaints. I didn't really have any bugs though, but found it super annoying how the game encourages exploration yet a lot of staircase looking things waist-high can't be jumped on. Jumping up to only slide down off it was constantly happening.

I bailed out of A Rift Apart after an hour or so. I've never played any of the other games in the series. To me it just seemed like a dull corridor shooter. Maybe I'm missing something.

Wasn’t for me either. The gimmick / rift was graphically impressive but overall it felt very mid and early 2000s. I may finish it since it’s pretty short. This one was mostly fanboy hype I’m afraid.

Did the rift stuff ever turn into anything more than just instantaneous movement to different cover points? It seemed like it had a lot of potential.

To me Ratchet & Clank are just fun colorful platformers where you break stuff and get bolts, and get to upgrade and use a whole bunch of weapons. But I admit it's mostly because I love the colorful graphics. Rift Apart made a fun beatufiul tech demo for "next gen" when PS5 was less than a year old.

I remember enjoying the Ratchet & Clank games, but I guess it was mostly on ps2. So, a long time ago. I haven't played Rift Apart. Looking at trophies, I played the ps4 Ratchet & Clank almost 6 years ago (but no other R&C is in my trophy list... strange, maybe I missed some). I want to play Rift Apart, but I'm hoping to get it cheap (or "free" via Extra). It's currently $70 in the ps store (lowest sale price was $30 last month).

From memory, the R&C games were light, highly-animated (mostly bolts flying all over the place) and colorful games. The weapons you acquire along the way had an enjoyable variety to them and the upgrades were satisfying too. That kept me motivated. I recall there were challenges and puzzles at times. Also, exploration aspects where I had to find secret passages to hidden items. The parts where you play Clank to sneak into small areas (not sure all games had this... one game was mostly Clank) helped vary what you were doing too. The story stuff was cartoonish and amusing. I liked that it wasn't strictly linear too, you could travel around to different areas to make progress.

But yeah, it has been a while. And, I'm sure not everyone would be into this sort of game. I think they are mostly highly-rated and sold well, though. I don't recall any being buggy, so it's disturbing to hear that Rift Apart is.

I should start saving screen shots. I was playing one of the puzzle sections last night and I missed a jump. Clank landed on the side of the platform and got stuck on a metal rim, I tried to walk to my death, but he just started walking on air. Another time I was trying to get to a hard to reach area, was sliding on an invisible barrier in the sky and fell into a hole that was surrounded by invisible walls. After a few seconds of trying to get out, Ratchet started glitch jumping up into the sky. Those are some of the bad examples, but I have encountered at least one glitch every 5-10 minutes.

I have played every R&C game before, and while they aren't the pinnacle of 3D platforming, they have always been well made with fun and varied weapons. The weapons in this are way too similar and tired. Many of the old weapons have returned (RYNO, Buzz Blades, Glove of Doom, etc), and the new weapons are just variations of old weapons. Some of the older weapons were so much fun, like turning enemies into chickens.

The graphics are beautiful, and I guess I'm still enjoying enough to play to the end, but I'm just seriously disappointed after such glowing reviews. And I would have thought they would patch some of this stuff by now.

I never had an issue with Rift Apart.

Same, maybe some graphical glitches here and there but nothing i had to restart for or anything like that
Bill described it well, feel the same. Only played ps4 one and Rift Apart though

Quite possibly my favorite game of all time, Nier Automata, is on sale right now for $18 in case someone hasn't played it yet.

It's about 50 hours with minimal side crap and is just an amazing experience from gameplay to story to everything else.

Yeah Nier Automata is great (although I wouldn’t say there’s minimal side stuff, IIRC there was plenty and I missed a lot of it)
I second the recommendation

What j meant was the first time i beat it i did minimal side stuff and it took about 50 hours.

A complete play would be a ton more hours over twice as much probably

Ahh gotcha, my bad i read it wrong. Yea agreed

Well at least more retailers have it now. Waiting till they drop at least $50 or improve battery life.

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/162876425377901...

MrBean wrote:

$200 for a controller? Holy crap does it cook dinner for you too or something at that price?

@sa330206 Xbox Elite v2 is $180, I think it's worth it.

Yeah I have no interest in those expensive controllers. I like buying special edition controllers, but those are $60 recolors. I think there was a Halo Elite one that was expensive, but at least that had a special look to it. If you enjoy it go for it though.

I've been interested in the elite V2 since i game on my laptop sometimes and the controller would work well for both

longhornsk57 wrote:

I am selling my barely used v2 black ... because I'm insane and going to pay even more money for a custom build.

Has anyone here changed their PSN ID recently? Back when Sony first allowed users to change their ID I recall there would be all kinds of issues it caused, including losing game progress. So that was enough to make me not want to bother with it. I'm just curious if those issues still exist.


edit: Just editing this in case anyone else needs to know in the future, but apparently PS3 and PS Vita games still have that issue where you might lose progress, but PS4 and PS5 games should be fine.

For those of you that beat Horizon:FW what level were you by/near the end? I think I'm about 20 and I feel like this is turning into an Assassins Creed that just seems to go on forever. I'm trying to decide if I power through or just set it aside for a few months and come back later.

Anxiouz wrote:

Main story is pretty short. After 2 full plays I was level 65. Cap is 50 but “ghost levels” continue with no stats. I hit cap before finishing first playthrough but I’m a completionist. Nothing is super difficult unless you’re on hard etc- then you need to cap.

I beat HFW at like, 12-15 hours. Did one optional Tallneck and that was it.

Ya i didn't really do any side stuff and was pretty under leveled at the end. I can check my actual stats but the last boss was almost impossible because of how under leveled i was.

Definitely didn't grind it at all.

I also dumped it to story mode at some point.

Thanks all. I may stick with it then but just focus on the main missions.

Kommie wrote:

I think I actually did do that on the final boss honestly, got tired of replaying it.

I did a lot of the Side quests. Going to do a Game+ at some point and do the side stuff also. Such a great game. I want to go back and get the Horizon Plat though first, never played the Frozen Wilds DLS either.

I did everything in HFW and I would definitely say ... wasn't worth it. I had a good enough time, but was the best use of my time? Definitely not.

Played through the Resident Evil 4 remake demo. Damn, I didn't know it was going to have the option for gyro aiming. Something about it feels just a little bit off, but I'll get used to it. GG Capcom, we need more devs to get on board with this so it's treated like less of a "Nintendo thing".

Is this game using the adaptive difficulty of the original RE4? I always wondered why more games didn't do that.

Just finished the demo too. Short but sweet. Man the graphics look stellar. They continue to impress me with this RE engine. And the village opening section still gives me anxiety 18 years later. Now with more ray tracing in HDR.

Capcom will get my money this year. For RE4 and SF6

Capcom has been hitting hard on a winning streak for the past like 6 years now with no signs of slowing down and I’m about it.

TalonJedi87 wrote:

Have they released anything of note other than RE, Monster Hunter, and Street Fighter?

I guess there are some Arcade compilations too (which I like) but honestly I can't remember the last time I saw them stray from their big three IP for new games.

Ghouls N Ghost Resurrection

Devil May Cry V, Mega Man 11

benstylus wrote:

Mega Man 11 feels like so long ago, but I guess it is less than 6 years old.

Picked Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart again couple weeks ago. They updated it in November for the anniversary added 5 suits so Ratchet can have the suit from your favorite game in the series.

Tonight should be my final night and glad I gave it another shot.

benstylus wrote:

Yeah its been a while since they have gambled on new IPs. Or even revived IPs like Bionic Commando. They did well with RE and SF these past years so hopefully they do something new or revived soon.

I would love a new Onimusha or Lost Planet.

Or Okami! Man I loved Okami. I’d adore a remake or sequel. Onimusha too.

Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection

The share button on the controller is absolutely useless. Who actually uses it?