Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

Physical games All the way no matter what.
Let's get physical, physical.... 🤟

@Grumblevolcano
Right, but that's all in the past now, and a separate issue for legacy hardware. Switch doesnt have that issue, thankfully.

@Grumblevolcano Digital 3DS and Wii U games are tied to an NNID. While it's not super convenient, you can still easily call Nintendo and have them unattach an NNID from a stolen or broken console so that you can reattach it to a new system and redownload your games.

Source: I've had a 3DS just break on me before.

@Grumblevolcano The game is not a license key though. Not sure what Series X is doing, because I did read something about DRM, but I haven't looked into it, but I can guarantee you that one Xbox One, PS4 and PS5, you can always install a game from the disc. If you don't connect the PS5 to the internet, you can still pop-in Demon's Souls, install the game, and play it. There's no license key involved. You don't have to download the game, the game is all on the disc.

@Anti-Matter Can you please stop spamming music videos (and box art posts for that matter). It's really clogging up the pages, and it's completely unnecessary as well. Just post the link instead of the whole video/image.

Anyway, I finished Astro's Playroom. Probably the best console tie-in game I've played. It's kinda short, but it still took me around 8 hours to complete it. I'd love to see what they can do with VR and the DualSense combined, so I'm hoping for a sequel. It's inevitable, right?

@Octane
Eh, sorry about that.
Btw, i saw something at the bottom on PS5 U/I menu.

It said Must See.
Can i disable the Must See so i will not get disturbed by unnecessary games information ?

I agree Astro's Playroom is a great pack in. Definitely better than that ridiculous excuse for a tech demo called 1-2 Switch (well, it wasn't a pack in, but it should have been). Or the 3DS's Face Raiders AR game. I did love Wii Sports and NintendoLand though. Those are like, the best pack ins I've ever played.

The thing I appreciate about Astro is it really does do a great job of showcasing the controller. A sign of a great pack in. I just wish there were slightly more complex mechanics, like a roll and an air stomp... stuff like that.

@JaxonH The thing I'm really looking forward to with Astro is all the various references and easter eggs to PlayStation history as someone who's been with Sony consoles a lot longer than any other console manufacturer. It looks like a love letter to their history in a sense I don't even think Nintendo Land evoked

How dare you...

@TheFrenchiestFry
I was playing NES and Gameboy in the late 80’s as a very young child, but I’ve owned every Sony gaming platform ever made. My PSone broke so I never really played that one, and I owned a PS2 three different times, since I was a teenager back then I would sell it whenever I needed money. It was mainly just used for EA Sports hockey. I didn’t know much about video games back then but I loved that hockey game. In Alabama we used to play hockey on the tennis court of the apartment complex I lived in. We’d take down the net and play with rollerblades and a Pizza Hut street hockey ball lol. Maybe that had something to do with it.

PS3 I sold a month after buying it, because I was hard-core into partying back then and needed money, but I bought one again later. Had a PSP that was hacked. Bought a Vita and PS4 day one. PSVR day one. Now a PS5.

So while I don’t feel as attached to their history because I haven’t spent that much time on their systems by relative comparison, It was still a nice trip down memory lane in Astro’s Playroom. The first thing I said to myself when playing the game was that they seemed to finally be taking a page out of Nintendo‘s playbook and leveraging their brand identity. I did enjoy seeing the little Astro bots in Monster Hunter gear, and I’ve had a pretty fun time guessing what franchise each of the characters dressed up are representing.

@JaxonH I've seen a few clips. I think there's an area with cardboard boxes referencing Metal Gear, and there's also a point where you can put on the little transport backpack cargo thing Sam Bridges wears in Death Stranding as well

I also saw a photo of a PS1 console with its underside bearing a model number named KUTAR4GI referencing Ken Kutaragi

So of all the oddities with the PS5, be it downloading PS4 versions on the sly, cards being messy, the odd crash...

The weirdest thing for me so far is simply charging the controller.

Got a solid 7 hours out of it. Go to charge it. Controller plugged into the front USB port. All good.

Says it's charging, can keep playing, that's great. Put it in rest mode for a day, come back later after work (about 12 hours), lights on the controller are off, unplug it...no battery.

Put the cable back in, says it's charging, controller is fully usable.

So I put it into Rest Mode and watch the controller start to charge and then...stop. It just stopped.

So I plug the cable into one of the back USB ports, go into Rest Mode and...the controller is charging lights and all.

So from my guesses, it looks like for some reason the front USB port doesn't supply enough power.

@Grumblevolcano brain training for the wiiu was a special case because people were using it to home brew their systems

Played some Demons Souls with my brother coaching me. He’s the biggest Souls fan I’ve ever met (think he’s beaten all 3 Dark Souls games twice over, Demons Souls, Nioh 1 and 2, Sekiro, The Surge 2, Bloodborne, etc). He loves Souls like I love Monster Hunter. He knows every secret by memory so he helped guide me to get this ring right away that got me 75% health when hollowed instead of the standard 50% health. And he beat the first boss for me because I wasn’t mentally prepared. I remember beating a few bosses in dark souls three and spent an hour losing my mind (although I did eventually beat them despite thinking it was impossible at first). I wanted to take the opportunity to watch and observe.

I really liked it. But I don’t think I’ll be playing it on my own. Since you can now set a password and limit who joins you, I can actually co-op with him in the game. May jump back into Dark Souls on Switch though. For some reason these games seem less intimidating to me on a handheld (same for Alien Isolation- that game creeped me out, but playing on handheld I was fine).

I know that pain... I tried powering my SNES mini via a USB port on my Wii U last night. It lights up... then just goes off again.

Cyberpunk footage on PS4Pro and PS5.

Lol base PS4 and Xbox One aren't gonna be viewable until launch I guess. They're probably still around 20fps, ans desperately trying to get to 30 for launch.

@Dezzy looks great! But yeah imagining this running on the OG eraser and VCR from 2013 is painful to even think about lol! Really hope the next gen patch doesn't take too too long but those folks need a break more importantly

@redd214

Which is the eraser and which is the VCR?

Maybe it's just YouTube, but it looks kinda fuzzy.

@Dezzy eraser = original PS4, VCR = original Xbox One