Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

Meh, it's only Bungie. Is Destiny still popular?

@jump Between 50,000 and 100,000 players at any time (Steam only). I think that's pretty good?

I remember seeing an article on PushSquare on the God of War numbers after it launched on Steam and that was like 80,000. So similar numbers for Destiny 2 so many years after launch suggests it's still doing well.

Kind of difficult to be excited about Gran Turismo 7 considering I haven't played a game in the series since 2, lol.

@Octane I'd thought it would be alot less than that. I remember the mass exodus of players once they actually played it and realised it wasn't the bee knees as many had hoped.

I used to play a butt ton of Destiny, but all there guns felt sammy, and i got bored.

I hope that Microsoft makes it to where you can't buy barbie games unless you buy an Xbox.

@Octane
It is free to play, also, which should probably be taken into account. And as a live service game is kept alive with new expansions and content.

Even Ninjala did like 8 million sold on Switch as F2P. Ppl eat those free games up. Pretty sure thats why Rocket League went F2P. I saw Asphault Legends on mobile had like 50 million downloads, like what?!!! It's crazy.

That said, the game is pretty popular regardless. But from what I've heard, the over grinding and MTX has caused it to lose a good deal of its player base. Also, Monster Hunter World tore away a good chunk of disenfranchised players back when it released, which explained the huge spike World saw- it was all Destiny 2 players migrating over looking for a different online co-op experience.

I still voted Race with Ryan over than Gran Turismo games.

I feel bad for that kid. His parents treat him like a brand instead of like an actual child, and it's sickening.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/horizon-forbidd...

HFW sitting at 89 on metacritic so far.

@Ralizah It must be unplayable garbage then since it's not in the 90s! ;p I did see Eurogamer give it a so so review which really surprised me.

Hopefully with no BOTW this time it gets a bit more exposure but I'm looking forward to playing in a year or two time when it's £20 and comes with all of the DLC on PC.

@jump Hard to argue the value proposition of waiting for these Sony exclusives to crater in price and come included with their expansion.

If the PS4 version ships with gyro aim like the PS5 version does, though, I'll probably get it soon. Visually, it's really close to the PS5 version (just at a lower resolution). A true technical marvel.

Even though I said I would wait for $70 games I made an exception for Horizon due to it including gyro aiming. And my desire to support that overrides my desire to not support $70 games.

When in resolution mode (4k 30fps) the gyro feels stuttery. Just a bit, but enough to not feel butter smooth. Yet in framerate mode (1800p 60fps I think) the gyro feels sooo good. Muah! So freaking good.

And I love it because of it. It's amazing how much more fun games are when they're not hamstrung by inadequate control schemes. I never finished the first game (was waiting on SteamDeck for that) so it kinda sucks the beginning of the game gave away all the spoilers. Like, ALL of the spoilers. No matter. I'm just happy the game has Gyro.

The rumble is also very good. Not as good as Returnal, but still pretty good.

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After playing through the first boss last night, I can say the gyro isn't perfect. There's a weird deceleration issue similar to what God of War had on Steam. But as long as you don't crank the sensitivity and don't jerk the controller super fast, it works fine. The issue started rearing its head when the sensitivity was almost maxed out.

Finally decided and ordered a nice thermal paste for my Pro. I hope I do it right and not kill my PS4

I noticed that on some heavy games (Spider-Man, Village etc.) it ramps up more than before.

I played HZD for the first time today......I'm hooked and I'm so sorry for past me for not trying this sooner.

I tried getting into Horizon Zero Dawn, but I couldn't. I think I probably would've had a better time if I didn't play BotW before it, but I just couldn't get hooked to it. It could also be that I just don't really enjoy the more cinematic Western blockbuster type games, so something like doesn't resonate with me as much as a JRPG would, or as much as BotW did.

@VoidofLight Maybe it was because I wasn't the biggest BOTW lover. So I really didn't think I would be loving this game as much as I i'm.

@Snatcher I also started HZD yesterday Still in the beginning but the game looks lovely! I had it for over 2 years sitting in my backlog!

@Zuljaras TBH, I have no idea if it was a ps plus thing, or ps now, but it didn't look like it was, it looked like it was owned, so I have no idea how long that was in there LOL.