PS5 thread 2.0

To be fair, it's not that major an issue - a wait time of 21 working days that they said to me on the call would be a pain in the arse and I would end up buying a new controller if I didn't already have a spare if I was to have to wait that long.

I didn’t get the email for 50% off but found a link online that brings me to the offer as it doesn’t show up on the app for me. Might grab it at this price

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/IP9102-NPIA90011_01-PSNOWSUB12MDIS50/

Cool. A free update to Bugsnax

Only good thing so far. Another meh State of Play. They would have been better off just doing a blog post and releasing the videos on YouTube

The state of this state of play

edit: That's it? what a massive wet fart waste of time that was

Only thing that interested me was Deaths Door coming to PS5. Have heard great things, and after how amazing Hades was (which had fairly similar hype and reviews), I'm inclined to believe the hype for Deaths Door.

The rest didn't really interest me at all, but considering the main game they were advertising in advance was Little Devil Inside and I couldn't remember ever even hearing of it before, I didn't really have any expectations at all.

I was watching trying to identify what would be on Plus. If that Kart game wasn't free to play, I'd say it would be on Plus.

Speaking of Plus, no mention of the new lineup apart from First Class Trouble.

Line up was leaked this morning, they will probably officially announce it on Friday

The other stock update thread mentions no chat so I'm posting this here. Chances of picking up a PS5 this side of Christmas?

People swear by this Twitter account - https://twitter.com/ps5_ireland. I already have a PS5 but I was trying to help my wife's cousin get one for her son and started following them but she's given up on the idea of getting one so I haven't been following it too closely.

I haven't played it but sounds like that's the point ala Dark Souls although it seems a bit harsher losing 2-3 hours. My problem would be the real world calling me in the middle of a run which a save and quit option would work but then, maybe it's not too much fun dying and losing 2 hours worth of progress. I suppose thinking of it, like if Dark Souls had no bonfires or shortcuts, that could be fairly tedious.

Losing 2 hours I can live with. Playing the same level 40 times I can't be arsed with 🙂. The game gets very boring very quickly.

I'm not good at these types of games so it straight up excludes players like me. There is no valid reason not to have a respawn or save state as an alternative mode.

There is no online that needs balancing. You are just playing against yourself. Who cares if I saved and reloaded or if someone else ran right through as long as we enjoyed ourselves doing it.

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Plus the Rogue-ness of it means each run still does feel different. Even though you come across a lot of the same rooms, enemies etc in almost every run, the rng means each run will throw different things at you that can either really work in your favour or completely f*ck you over. You're never really starting from square one or the last bonfire like with Dark Souls, where enemies are always in the same locations and you're trying to go in the same direction. Every door and chest in Returnal is a flip of the coin.

The full length of a run can definitely be too long, and the suspend feature really helps with that. There are other features designed into the game to help with deaths, which can bring you back to life on the spot or the regenerator (if you can find one). But if you could roll back saves, you're less likely to use those, meaning you're less likely to use your currency on them (meaning you use them on damage or something instead), and takes out part of the risk/reward of the game design. You could save abuse before opening malignant chests too.

I disagreed with the lack of a save feature at the start, and it was only because I enjoyed the gameplay so much that I ended up just powering through and spending those hours on often wasted runs. But having played the game, a full save feature would just go against the overall design of the game. The suspend feature (6 months too late for a lot of people) is a decent compromise.

"I suppose thinking of it, like if Dark Souls had no bonfires or shortcuts, that could be fairly tedious."

Ahem, it already is even with those...

I think a suspend is a fair compromise in Returnal. I look forward to getting it again, preferably through Plus or Now. Might be able to finish it if it has this.