PS4 Megathread goes fourth.

EoinHef · 26-03-2019 7:03pm

Bought an Oculus Rift,sold it about a year later.

Wires from the headset were annoying,actually wearimg the hmd for a prolonged period was a no go for me,visually games appeared slightly blurry.

All in all,i think VR is a bit gimmicky currently and doesnt interest me amymore in its current guise.

CastorTroy · 26-03-2019 7:36pm

I would be interested in PSVR. Was thinking of getting it when it was on offer in November. Apart from my backlog meaning I have loads of other games to play, one big thing that stops me getting it is paying the money for it only for it to not work on PS5.

Potential-Monke · 27-03-2019 7:21pm

CastorTroy wrote: »

I would be interested in PSVR. Was thinking of getting it when it was on offer in November. Apart from my backlog meaning I have loads of other games to play, one big thing that stops me getting it is paying the money for it only for it to not work on PS5.

The rumour mill says the PS5 will be backwards compatible, so I'd imagine PS4 peripherals will work with it. Hell, the Move controller from PS3 works with PSVR, so i'd be surprised if the current VR won't work with the PS5. Great thing about the PSVR is you don't need a tv at all. So when you get your shiney new PS5, you can leave the PS4 hooked up to power but no the TV and still enjoy VR.

NIMAN · 30-03-2019 12:25pm

CastorTroy wrote: »

I would be interested in PSVR. Was thinking of getting it when it was on offer in November.

Would you not be tempted to buy second hand?

Some great bargains on psvr out there.

That's goes bought mine.

CastorTroy · 30-03-2019 12:47pm

Maybe at some point, but just stick with my backlog for now

Zero-Cool · 02-04-2019 9:26pm

COD battle royale yokie free from today to the end of April to coincide with the launch of the new Alcatraz map. Might give it a go.

F1ngers · 03-04-2019 2:44pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

COD battle royale yokie free from today to the end of April to coincide with the launch of the new Alcatraz map. Might give it a go.

Alcatraz is bedlam, great fun.

Penn · 10-04-2019 1:31pm

PSN name changing available to everyone from tomorrow
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2019/04/10/psn-online-id-change-feature-launches-for-all-ps4-players-tomorrow/#sf210774800

Zero-Cool · 10-04-2019 1:44pm

Penn wrote: »

PSN name changing available to everyone from tomorrow
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2019/04/10/psn-online-id-change-feature-launches-for-all-ps4-players-tomorrow/#sf210774800

Link is still on the blog site but brings you to a page not found.

The US site has it up with info

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2019/04/10/online-id-change-on-psn-your-questions-answered/

edit again: EU link working again

gimli2112 · 10-04-2019 2:40pm

just a snippet from the Bloodborne Reddit on it

There's only a handful games listed with serious issues. Most notably for me: LBP3. Those more serious games have issues where changing your ID might lead to loss of savegames, user generated content or even ingame purchases

If I changed my PSN and lost my Bloodborne platinum there'd be serious consequences

Zero-Cool · 10-04-2019 2:45pm

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/network/onlineid/games-list-home/issues-identified/

Games with Issues Identified*
Games which have been tested and were found to have one or more of the following known issues which we did not consider critical to the game play experience but which you should review to consider how important they are to you:

Previous online ID(s) may remain visible to you and other players, or the online ID is no longer visible in some areas in a game title (in-game rankings, leaderboards, etc). For some game titles, the online ID will automatically update if you sign out and then sign back in to the game or when various gameplay activity is performed after sign-in; User accounts on PlayStation may be unlinked from game accounts. Linking accounts again may restore the original linkage; and Certain game settings may be initialized to their default state (audio setting, controller setting, etc). For some game titles, settings may be recovered if you sign out and then sign back in to the game.

These games are identified on the Games List by (Issues Identified*).

Absolver: Downfall (Issues Identified*)
Assassin's Creed® IV Black Flag™ (Issues Identified*)
Big City Stories (Issues Identified*)
Bloodborne™ (Issues Identified*)
Call of Duty®: Ghosts (Issues Identified*)
Crossout (Issues Identified*)
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin (Issues Identified*)
DARK SOULS™ III (Issues Identified*)
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ (Issues Identified*)
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 17 Standard Edition (Issues Identified*)
Gauntlet: Slayer Edition (Issues Identified*)
GOD EATER 2 Rage Burst (Issues Identified*)
Grand Theft Auto V (Issues Identified*)
GUNDAM VERSUS (Issues Identified*)
GUNS UP!™ (Issues Identified*)
Injustice™ 2 - Standard Edition (Issues Identified*)
KILLZONE™ SHADOW FALL (Issues Identified*)
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite (Issues Identified*)
MLB® The Show™ 17 (Issues Identified*)
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4 (Issues Identified*)
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM Trilogy (Issues Identified*)
NARUTO STORM 4 : Road to Boruto Expansion (Issues Identified*)
NBA 2K19 (Issues Identified*)
PlayStation®VR Worlds (Issues Identified*)
Rock Band™ 4 (Issues Identified*)
ROCKSMITH® 2014 EDITION – REMASTERED (Issues Identified*)
The Last of Us™ Remastered (Issues Identified*)
Titanfall™ 2 (Issues Identified*)
Trackmania® Turbo (Issues Identified*)
Trove (Issues Identified*)
UNCHARTED™ 4: A Thief’s End (Issues Identified*)
UNO® (Issues Identified*)
Warframe® (Issues Identified*)
WipEout™ Omega Collection (Issues Identified*)

Zero-Cool · 10-04-2019 2:46pm

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/network/onlineid/games-list-home/critical-issues/

Games with Critical Issues**
Games which have been tested and one or more of the following known issues which we considered fundamental to the game play experience:

User may lose in-game currency whether paid for or earned;
Loss of game progress, including scores and progress toward trophy unlocking; and
Loss of UGC or parts of the game may not function properly, both online and offline.
If you have a game in this category, we do not recommend changing your online ID if you wish to continue playing that game without losing its entitlements and achievements which you have already bought or released. It is possible to incur permanent game errors or data loss as a result of using the feature.

Disc Jam™ (Critical Issues**)
Everybody's Golf (Critical Issues**)
Just Dance 2017 (Critical Issues**)
LittleBigPlanet™ 3 (Critical Issues**)
MLB 14 The Show (Critical Issues**)
MLB The Show 16 (Critical Issues**)
MLB® The Show™ 15 (Critical Issues**)
ONRUSH (Critical Issues**)
The Golf Club 2™ (Critical Issues**)
Worms™ Battlegrounds (Critical Issues**)

Doodah7 · 10-04-2019 3:30pm

Everybody’s Golf is a biggie for me on that critical list.

Zero-Cool · 11-04-2019 8:43am

Done, Sheehy83 is now Zero-Cool-Ire

(Since most people are changing from a stupid name to a sensible one, I'm doing the reverse)

EoinMcLovin · 11-04-2019 10:17am

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Done, Sheehy83 is now Zero-Cool-Ire

(Since most people are changing from a stupid name to a sensible one, I'm doing the reverse)

Shame that inactive accounts can't be deleted as EoinMcLovin is being used but there are no trophies on the account. I can live with Eoin_McLovin but will probably change the ids for my non Irish accounts as I was doing EoinMcLovin_CA for my Canadian account and EoinMcLovin_US for US account.

Zero-Cool · 11-04-2019 10:20am

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

Shame that inactive accounts can't be deleted as EoinMcLovin is being used but there are no trophies on the account. I can live with Eoin_McLovin but will probably change the ids for my non Irish accounts as I was doing EoinMcLovin_CA for my Canadian account and EoinMcLovin_US for US account.

Yeah, the few names I wanted to use were already in use by people who were level 1 at trophies, not a big fan of -ire on the end but new unique names are hard to find.

Zero-Cool · 11-04-2019 10:22am

Also, be careful if you are not changing your name and have lads around for drinks/games. They will most likely change it when you're gone to the jacks....

EoinMcLovin · 11-04-2019 10:25am

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Yeah, the few names I wanted to use were already in use by people who were level 1 at trophies, not a big fan of -ire on the end but new unique names are hard to find.

Yeah, there are probably a load of inactive accounts with good user names. Even if they were to change their ID the original name would not become available as it would still be tied to the account. If an account has been inactive for a number of years Sony should contact the account owner to see if they are still using it and if no response is given after a given time they should release the name from the account

gimli2112 · 11-04-2019 10:48am

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Also, be careful if you are not changing your name and have lads around for drinks/games. They will most likely change it when you're gone to the jacks....

trying to get sony to unban your account in such situations is going to be horrid.

EoinMcLovin · 11-04-2019 11:00am

gimli2112 wrote: »

trying to get sony to unban your account in such situations is going to be horrid.

Surely it would ask for your password before confirming a name change?

Zero-Cool · 11-04-2019 11:08am

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

Surely it would ask for your password before confirming a name change?

Oh yeah it did, balls to that plan so

bigphil2 · 11-04-2019 12:20pm

thank fook.. ive changed it.. shall report back if ive any issues for certain games..

dudeeile · 11-04-2019 12:23pm

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

Shame that inactive accounts can't be deleted as EoinMcLovin is being used but there are no trophies on the account. I can live with Eoin_McLovin but will probably change the ids for my non Irish accounts as I was doing EoinMcLovin_CA for my Canadian account and EoinMcLovin_US for US account.

TheRealEoinMcLovin

Cienciano · 11-04-2019 12:34pm

I have the year of birth in my username, definitely getting rid of that.

Penn · 11-04-2019 12:45pm

gimli2112 wrote: »

trying to get sony to unban your account in such situations is going to be horrid.

I think they said in such situations, now that it is possible to change your name, that you'll be given the chance to change your name away from something offensive before being banned.

Zero-Cool · 11-04-2019 12:48pm

Penn wrote: »

I think they said in such situations, now that it is possible to change your name, that you'll be given the chance to change your name away from something offensive before being banned.

Oh and it's always free to revert back to your old one. Damn Sony thinking of everything. Took en long enough anyway.

Kenjataimu · 11-04-2019 4:09pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Done, Sheehy83 is now Zero-Cool-Ire

(Since most people are changing from a stupid name to a sensible one, I'm doing the reverse)

Fast forward a few months & I'll be wondering who the feck Zero-Cool-Ire is and I'll end up deleting you.

Zero-Cool · 11-04-2019 4:27pm

Kenjataimu wrote: »

Fast forward a few months & I'll be wondering who the feck Zero-Cool-Ire is and I'll end up deleting you.

I look forward to that day :pac:

Kenjataimu · 11-04-2019 4:38pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I look forward to that day :pac:

New psn, who dis?

Mr Crispy · 16-04-2019 1:44pm

Hardly worth starting a new thread for this just yet, but Wired sat down with Mark Cerny to talk about PS5 (assuming they stay true to form with their branding). Backwards compatibility confirmed, and interesting news regarding media storage/loading times, and 3D audio.

heebusjeebus · 16-04-2019 1:52pm

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Hardly worth starting a new thread for this just yet, but Wired sat down with Mark Cerny to talk about PS5 (assuming they stay true to form with their branding). Backwards compatibility confirmed, and interesting news regarding media storage/loading times, and 3D audio.

Sounds great from what I'm seeing. Ryzen 3rd Gen (Zen 2) 8 core & custom Navi GPU should be a huge leap from the current generation in terms of CPU compute power.

16-04-2019 2:44pm

I think the SSD he refers to is some kind of Optane cache module. Maybe 32GB...64GB, something like that.

Seems unlikely that the console could ship with pure SSD storage. A next-gen console would surely want 2TB at a minimum. This amount of NAND is expensive, even at wholesale. It will be cheaper next year but not massively so. Moreover it's hard to get sufficient quantities. Just seems to far fetched for a console in the near future to ship with 2TB SSD.

So instead I imagine you'll have a standard 2.5" HDD for cold storage and the system can load assets (or entire games) in and out to the cache module intelligently. Like a hybrid drive (eg Firecuda) but much faster and controlled by the system so smarter about what to load in and out. Optane is mega fast and has near-unlimited write cycles so you can load stuff on and off willy nilly withouy worrying about wearing it out. (current hybrid SSDs utilize cautious strategies for this reason).

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 19-04-2019 2:57pm

Wasn't sure where to ask, PS4 controller triangle button stopped working so need a need a new one, would the Hori Wired Mini Gamepad work okay for awhile? Can get a proper one in a few weeks.

Varik · 19-04-2019 3:44pm

Do you already have the Mini Gamepad or have access to one, or will you be buying this ~20 controller and then a 50-60 controller later.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 19-04-2019 5:34pm

Varik wrote: »

Do you already have the Mini Gamepad or have access to one, or will you be buying this ~20 controller and then a 50-60 controller later.

No access to one, buying the 20 and then a more expensive one later, if it was decent enough, if its very bad like I'd wait.
I'm playing Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight atm and want to go onto P5Dan soon.
Never have more than 1 controller for anything since it's just myself

Varik · 19-04-2019 6:59pm

Would just try to save the money or shop around.

You see dualshock 4s in for less than 40 sometimes.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 19-04-2019 8:03pm

Varik wrote: »

Would just try to save the money or shop around.

You see dualshock 4s in for less than 40 sometimes.

Grand just wanted to check and see. No on the high street you'd see it for 40? Would it have to be online?

Varik · 20-04-2019 2:09am

Problem is when they are that cheap they go quick.

Smyths had the steel black down to 40 but sold out everywhere.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 20-04-2019 12:17pm

Varik wrote: »

Problem is when they are that cheap they go quick.

Smyths had the steel black down to 40 but sold out everywhere.

Yeah was only for short term, thanks for letting me know though.
E50 was best I found in PC World I think
Friend suggested giving it a clean and it worked a bit so might get another bit of time out it from doing that.

Exclamation Marc · 20-04-2019 1:55pm

Varik wrote: »

Problem is when they are that cheap they go quick.

Smyths had the steel black down to 40 but sold out everywhere.

Yeah so true. Even the nice new ones when they come out (like the savage Alpine Green version) if you're prepared to spend full price don't last in stock for long at all.

shuffles03 · 21-04-2019 7:56am

Does anyone have any bite sized Japanese game recommendations (or does such a thing exist)?

I’ve only ever played Final Fantasy games but I love them so much that I’d like to try other Japanese styles games.

However, I’ve no clue where to start.

I’ve just come off the back of playing AC: Odyssey so looking for a relatively short game to dip into.

Any help would be really appreciated, cheers!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 21-04-2019 2:03pm

shuffles03 wrote: »

Does anyone have any bite sized Japanese game recommendations (or does such a thing exist)?

I’ve only ever played Final Fantasy games but I love them so much that I’d like to try other Japanese styles games.

However, I’ve no clue where to start.

I’ve just come off the back of playing AC: Odyssey so looking for a relatively short game to dip into.

Any help would be really appreciated, cheers!

RPGs or just general Japanese games?
Was thinking of Short Peace but seems PS3 only

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 21-04-2019 2:05pm

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

Yeah so true. Even the nice new ones when they come out (like the savage Alpine Green version) if you're prepared to spend full price don't last in stock for long at all.

I'd love the alpine green, I'm hoping it'll come back into Smyths, seems best price for it atm

shuffles03 · 21-04-2019 8:44pm

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

RPGs or just general Japanese games?
Was thinking of Short Peace but seems PS3 only

General Japanese games

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 22-04-2019 1:33am

shuffles03 wrote: »

General Japanese games

Dragons Crown is about 15 ish
Shenmue is 20 hours ish
Might be worth checking?

Potential-Monke · 23-04-2019 7:44pm

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

Yeah so true. Even the nice new ones when they come out (like the savage Alpine Green version) if you're prepared to spend full price don't last in stock for long at all.

I googled that when I saw your reply last week. Wouldn't really be my cup of tea, but of course now Facebook is advertising it to me...

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 23-04-2019 7:49pm

Ended up getting the Alpine Green off Amazon, seemed to be sold out in most places.
The sunset orange one was pretty nice too

Exclamation Marc · 24-04-2019 1:09am

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I googled that when I saw your reply last week. Wouldn't really be my cup of tea, but of course now Facebook is advertising it to me...

Haha that advertising will NEVER end.

Retr0gamer · 24-04-2019 2:16pm

shuffles03 wrote: »

Does anyone have any bite sized Japanese game recommendations (or does such a thing exist)?

I’ve only ever played Final Fantasy games but I love them so much that I’d like to try other Japanese styles games.

However, I’ve no clue where to start.

I’ve just come off the back of playing AC: Odyssey so looking for a relatively short game to dip into.

Any help would be really appreciated, cheers!

Would highly recommend Ace Combat 7. Just super, super fun gameplay and the storyline is utter bonkers like the best JRPG

Devil May Cry 5, Deception 4, Gravity Rush and Gravity Rush 2, Ys VIII would be other recommendations.

Varik · 26-04-2019 6:14pm

Sony financial reports out.

Says they've shipped 96.8m PS4s.

PS4 Megathread goes fourth.

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