Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

So, after 45ish hours I have cleared the main campaign, the additional red camps and every question mark I could find in Ghost of Tsushima.

For those who have beaten it, some questions:

• Those things that become replayable once the campaign is finished. Is there any reward for doing so, or is it just something to do?
• Is there anything unique about New Game+ or is it just a chance to play the game on a higher difficulty because you go in with your Jin? I ask because I have basically fully upgraded everything on this playthrough.
• Is now the time to jump into the DLC, or should I be doing Legends first?

I went ahead and made a start on Iki Island. I am roughly five hours in.

They really weren't kidding about the difficulty jump. My Jin is like as upgraded as he can be, and I am still getting absolutely wrecked. Had to put the game on easy and even then, it is super easy to get overwhelmed and absolutely *****.

I don't inherently hate the shaman enemies on principle, but I do hate how it funnels your approach. The main game (outside of those opening hours) was a true sandbox, but here you are basically forced to use stealth and pick off the Shaman and really as many enemies as you can before you engage, or you'll just get absolutely ruined. I don't mind playing in a stealth way, but feel less good about it when bad difficulty design forces me to play that way.

Everything else though I would say actually feels like a step up from the main game. It is kinda weird that basically everything beat of Jin as a character is just exclusively in this DLC. Seems really baffling to design the game in this way. But whatever, I'll just take actually being able to care for Jin for the first time.

Playing your flute might be a wrist sprain risk, but the result of you getting to pet cute animals makes me feel this should have been in the main game.

The archery challenges are like whatever, but they aren't horrible.

Although it still maintains a lot of the core art design seen in the primary game, Iki island still manages to have some unique locations that are really breath taking. And given it is a smaller map, you build more familiarity with the geography which I always appreciate in an open world game. In an open world game you don't want to spend your whole-time fast travelling or stuck in a map screen, so when you can eventually just start to learn your way around, it is very satisfying feeling.

They expand on some of the traversal elements, I'll be honest, I don't really care for the traversal challenges much. Given they borrowed so much from the modern AC formula, I dunno why they only half committed to the parkour systems. Jin can barely jump higher than I can in moment-to-moment gameplay and slides off of things even I could climb. But then if there is a clearly marked ledge around chest height for me to mantle onto or a tree branch poking out he suddenly becomes spider-man for some reason. And the fall damage might be the worst thing in the whole game, given that land roll thing is so unreliable to pull off. Like I guess I should be glad it isn't true platforming, but then when it is up to the game to basically do it for you, and Jin just doesn't latch for some reason, my God that frustration is real. However, in moderation the new grappling hook pull merges together some descent problem solving and traversal for some nice micro diversions.

The new horse charge skill is very awesome, especially when you have the horse armour.

And there is just generally more organic discovery on the island it seems. I have found side missions and activities that aren't marked on the map, if I wasn't exploring and didn't bump into it organically, I would have never found this. I think this wouldn't have worked in the core game, but with a map this small I really appreciate this reward for going off that main path.

I found, especially in the second zone in the core game, they kinda overlaid too many things into single spots for me. Like every two steps that yellow bird was like 'HEY LOOK AT THIS' and I almost wanted to be able to turn them off. Especially when I was trying to solve like a shrine traversal challenge and really concentrating and that bird is like 'HEY LOOK AT THIS' over and over just never stopping because they put one of those pillars or a spa or something right next to it. I dunno how this didn't drive people crazy when testing the game.

But yeah, overall, I am having a great time right up until I go into a camp, do a showdown, and then get two tapped by the first enemy I fight outside of the showdown and just give up and do something else.

I used to love the Playstation (especially 1 and 2) but now that I have a proper gaming PC I have no need for a PS5 and don't plan on ever getting one. Nintendo + PC covers all the bases, really.

It pissed me off when they shuttered Japan Studio, and Sony's current strategy seems to be releasing the same kind of third-person open world games ad nauseum.

Every few months I get one of those invitations from Playstation to queue for a PS5 & I finally bit the bullet this time (my brother said he'll pay back half the cost as he wants to get the new Avatar game next year).

I've been contemplating it because of their occasional censorship of Japanese games in the last few years, however for better or worse I think most devs are going to work within their confines from the start so I don't think it's going to come up much in the future (that, & I still have a gaming laptop for the times those issues still pop up).

Ordered it with Miles Morales since my PS4 came bundled with the first *Spider-Man game.

OMG.
Dragon Quest X Offline looks so cute and great in PS5 version.
Wish for English version release.

@Anti-Matter

Are games in your country usually localised to your language or do you often get english versions?

@Jhena
Some of PS3 / PS4 / PS5 games that available in my country Indonesia are Asia English version (either from Singapore or Hong Kong).
The Asia version came with three different age rating label.
There is age rating like PAL version from 0+, 6+, 12+, 15+, 18+.
There is age rating with four different Chinese letters that tells the age rating, from General, Parental Guidance, Mature.
There is age rating from Singapore like Australia age rating from G, PG, PG13, 18+
There is Asia version with no age rating label at all, the same thing happened on certain Switch games Asia English version.
There is one game that have Indonesia language option, it was from Kitaria Fables since the developer was from my country Indonesia 🇮🇩

@Anti-Matter

That is tough. I hope in the future more games will be released with Indonesian language options.

Got my PS5 in yesterday! Probably won't be able to set it up until sometime during the weekend though.

This might be one of the better PS+ months of recent memory.

Superhot, Hot Wheels Unleashed, and Injustice 2.

Three games I've been interested in playing but couldn't be bothered to drop money on. Very nice.

We should all do some races on Hot Wheels some time.

So we've got the Silent Hill livestream today.

On one hand, it's nice that SH2 remaster (remake?) is confirmed.

On the other hand, it sucks that SH2 is being broken up into parts.

I remember RE1R utterly blowing me away when I first played it. It was such a gigantic step up from the original.

I experienced a similar, but less intense, reaction to RE2R.

RE4R just looks like RE4 with modern graphics, from what I've seen. Obviously nicer looking, but unlike the other remakes, I haven't seen any evidence that it's going to establish its own sense of identity. The game isn't transformed in any way.

In that respect, it reminds me a bit of Xenoblade Chronicles DE, or that remake of TLOU that came out recently.

@Ralizah Am I the only one who thinks the RE4 remake looks...kinda ugly? Idk it's something about the artistic direction. I think Leon in particular looks very jarring...particularly in how his character model is lit compared to his environment (his hair looks luminescent and artificial). And the game as a whole fits more into the "uncanny valley" of graphics for me than did the original game.

@Buizel Only in the sense that characters in a lot of AAA games are ugly and kind of uncanny looking. I tend to prefer more stylized character models with fewer triangles.

Otherwise, it just looks like RE4.

Ben 10 anyone ?
I'm surprised some of old PS4 games by Outright Games got the PS5 version on this year.

@Ralizah I don't know...I think Horizon Forbidden West, for example, looks great. I don't think it's a universal problem in modern AAA games.

I much prefer the lighting and character design of the original from what I've seen.

Damn if only it was 4k 45fps and I would have been golden. I feel like you gotta go 60 fps with a game like this, but I wonder what resolution the 60 fps version is. I hope it is higher than 1080p.

@Eagly
I guess the old games by Outright games from PS4 will get 60 fps version on PS5 version.

I'm guessing this is filled with ps4 and 5, but anyone still got a PS2? My brother has, like, 5 of them, and I play on the main one all the time. I even play a game in Japanese I don't understand.