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11-Jun-20 5:34pm
#1
Frank
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Let's discuss Sony's latest console, the PlayStation 5!

13-Feb-23 1:17pm
#41
Feeb
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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.
13-Feb-23 10:33pm
#42
Orlandu
Double Gold Good Trader

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.
14-Feb-23 12:52am
#43
ErickRPG
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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.

14-Feb-23 7:51am
#44
bill
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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.
14-Feb-23 8:43am
#45
bonham2
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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.
14-Feb-23 8:58am
#46
Kommie
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I never had an issue with Rift Apart.
14-Feb-23 11:44am
#47
DrizzDrizzDrizz
Double Gold Good Trader Global Trader - willing to trade internationally Croatia

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
22-Feb-23 3:41am
#48
longhornsk57
Quadruple Gold Good Trader

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.
22-Feb-23 3:50am
#49
DrizzDrizzDrizz
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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
22-Feb-23 4:15am
#50
longhornsk57
Quadruple Gold Good Trader

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
22-Feb-23 6:19am
#51
DrizzDrizzDrizz
Double Gold Good Trader Global Trader - willing to trade internationally Croatia

Ahh gotcha, my bad i read it wrong. Yea agreed
23-Feb-23 9:58am
#52
MrBean
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Well at least more retailers have it now. Waiting till they drop at least $50 or improve battery life.

https://twitter.com/...
23-Feb-23 1:27pm
#53
sa330206
500 Trade Quintuple Gold Good Trader

MrBean wrote:
Well at least more retailers have it now. Waiting till they drop at least $50 or improve battery life. https://twitter.com/...
$200 for a controller? Holy crap does it cook dinner for you too or something at that price?
23-Feb-23 1:28pm
#54
MrBean
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@sa330206 Xbox Elite v2 is $180, I think it's worth it.
24-Feb-23 12:48am
#55
ErickRPG
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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.

24-Feb-23 2:23am
#56
longhornsk57
Quadruple Gold Good Trader

I've been interested in the elite V2 since i game on my laptop sometimes and the controller would work well for both
24-Feb-23 8:25am
#57
MrBean
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longhornsk57 wrote:
I've been interested in the elite V2 since i game on my laptop sometimes and the controller would work well for both
I am selling my barely used v2 black ... because I'm insane and going to pay even more money for a custom build.
3-Mar-23 6:37pm
#58
PizzaTheHutt
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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.
7-Mar-23 12:28pm
#59
Anxiouz
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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.
7-Mar-23 12:44pm
#60
Feeb
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Anxiouz wrote:
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.
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.
7-Mar-23 1:06pm
#61
Kommie
250 Trade Quintuple Gold Good Trader

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

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