henke on 7/8/2021 at 11:05
Ok I've had the PS5 for a month now, here's some scattered thoughts.
I've played Spiderman Miles Morales, Astro's Playroom, Cyberpunk 2077, Snowrunner and tried a few others. The only true PS5 game I've played is Astro's Playroom. The others look great on PS5 and benefit from the better hardware, but don't take advantage of the new gamepad's features like adaptive triggers and refined rumble system. Not a whole lot of interesting PS5 games out there. I'm kinda interested in Returnal, but not 80 EUROS interested.
The BadNo Man's Sky looks a lot better than it did on my PS4 and I'd love to get into it again but it keeps CRASHING every 15 minutes or so. Started a game up from the start but it's impossible to enjoy like this. Just Cause 3 ran like shit on the PS4 (seriously, worse than any other game I played on the system) so when I got Just Cause 4 in a PS+ I never even tried it. Until now. Installed it, started playing aaaaaand... it's running in 720p. On PS4 Pro it apparently runs in 1080-1440p dynamic resolution, so this is actually WORSE and the devs are seemingly not going to do anything about it. WHY? WHAT? HOW? Ugh.
Feels like the wi-fi reception on this is weaker than on the PS4. I have the router in another room and I frequently get pop-ups notifying that Wifi connection has been lost, and Netflix streaming cutting off. The Switch also has this issue, even more so. The PS5's wifi reception is better than Switch, but worse than the PS4.
Also there's no HBO Nordic app, so stopping that subscription.
Also also the PS5 looks like shit. I guess it's tradition by now that every other PS generation looks like shit and every other looks sleek a cool and we were just due one that looked like shit. Oh well. I keep it hidden under the table so at least no one's gotta look at it.
The GoodKillzone Shadowfall has gotten some new bells and whistles and looks
amazing for an 8 year old game. Most other PS4 games also look and run better. Load times are brief everywhere. I appreciate how your current game just pauses in the background so you can get right into it after starting the console up again.
Also PS+ subcription on PS5 gives you a very generous 20 game (
https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/all-ps-plus-collection-games-on-ps5) CLASSICS COLLECTION. Unfortunately I've already played all the ones I'm interested in in that collection. :|
You can differentiate the Power and Eject Disc buttons by touch now (the eject disc one is smaller). I had the PS4 for 8 years and never figured out which was which with those buttons. It was always just a matter of pressing one at random and hoping for the best.
Astro's PlayroomGameplaywise this is very good. Mario Odyssey-levels of polish and fun variety with some really nice minigames sprinkled in. But the presentation kinda drags the whole thing down. Not the actual graphics and animation, mind you, those look great, but the fact that the whole game is kinda about playing through the history of the Playstation makes the whole thing feel like I'm playing through and advertisment for a product I've already bought. It cheapens what might otherwise have been a great platformer.
I like the very fact that we're getting a bundled-in game tho. It seems like that's a trend that stopped with recent console-generations? When I bought the original XBox it came bundled with Midtown Madness 3 and Halo! Great games! Proper games! This playable Playstation Ad feels closer to Oculus Rift's "First Touch" experience than those games.
Overall: it's fine.
Anarchic Fox on 24/8/2021 at 21:37
Quote Posted by henke
Also also the PS5 looks like shit. I guess it's tradition by now that every other PS generation looks like shit and every other looks sleek a cool and we were just due one that looked like shit. Oh well. I keep it hidden under the table so at least no one's gotta look at it.
I liked Sony's concept of abstract, but near-uniform, solid shapes for the previous three generations. And I see what they were going for with the PS5, but we haven't seen design this funky since the Nintendo 64. I do wonder when the various companies will run out of things they can rightly call controller innovations.
Anyway, I'm still saving up for mine. It'll be a Deathloop-and-Elden-Scrolls machine for the time being.
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I like the very fact that we're getting a bundled-in game tho.
I miss that too, and hope it returns. I think the reason was that foregoing bundles until a few years after the product's release gives an ample boost in sales, once the bundled versions do appear. (See: the wide variety of Nintendo Switch bundles.)