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jpiniero

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Ooh... Witcher 4. Trailer is the old skool CG bullshots but it looks good at least.

Stars Ciri.

Edit: Oh and Elden Ring GAAS.
 
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purbeast0

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If Night Reign does not have single player, I am 100% out on it. I was disappointed to read it's a "co-op survival" game.

I'm also 100% out if it's F2P and is a "live service" type of game.
 
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jpiniero

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If Night Reign does not have single player, I am 100% out on it. I was disappointed to read it's a "co-op survival" game.

I'm also 100% out if it's F2P and is a "live service" type of game.

From said that you can play it solo. Does look Live Service tho.
 

sze5003

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Definitely will play witcher 4 but I still need to finish 3 one day. The elden ring game as a service would be interesting but if it requires playing online with others I'm also out as playing with randoms has never been a good experience in the past.
 
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jpiniero

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So I completed the new Astro Bot level. It's cute. It's less of a real level and more of a grab bag of using the powerups. There are also presents to collect - collecting them all gets you the final bot.
 

purbeast0

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The DLC level of Astro Bot was awesome. You can just tell how much love and heart those guys put into this game. It's also better than any of the 5 speed run DLC levels they put out.

I am glad those guys won the game of the year award last night.
 

sze5003

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I guess for Nightrein it makes sense to try and get people in there that might otherwise be like the base elden ring game is too much for me but this is something people can jump in quickly and not have to commit too long to it while also playing with a group.

Never been a huge fan of rogue like titles. They are fun but I'm never good enough to get through them without dying like you're supposed to. The randomness of them though makes it interesting.
 

MoragaBlue

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Count me as another who's kind'a iffy on Nightreign. It looks like a live service type game to me, but Fromsoft asserts that it isn't. Coop & multi player isn't really my thing and I much prefer one vs one fights. I'm not into gank fights, of any kind.

However, the trailer looks good, and I suspect many will enjoy it. It's unlikely I'll be one of those, and that's ok.
 

MoragaBlue

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Hey guys. Hope everyone is looking forward to Christmas and the Holidays!

On that note, I noticed Steam has Ghost of Tsushima on sale for 20% off. Worth buying for the PC? I've just started playing Sekiro and having a blast playing it, while marveling at the beautiful scenery.

Would Ghost of T be redundant, since both are based on the Feudal Japan backdrop. How's the combat? Is it similar to Sekiro or more of the the just "point and mash button" variety?

Thanks.
 

SteveGrabowski

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Hey guys. Hope everyone is looking forward to Christmas and the Holidays!

On that note, I noticed Steam has Ghost of Tsushima on sale for 20% off. Worth buying for the PC? I've just started playing Sekiro and having a blast playing it, while marveling at the beautiful scenery.

Would Ghost of T be redundant, since both are based on the Feudal Japan backdrop. How's the combat? Is it similar to Sekiro or more of the the just "point and mash button" variety?

Thanks.
It doesn't really play much like Sekiro. I'd say it's more Witcher 3 than Sekiro in that it has an awesome story, is in a big open world that's pretty impressive graphically (much much moreso than Sekiro), and has a ton of cool side quests. Probably better combat than Witcher 3 (swordfighting is good but not Sekiro good), worse sidequests. You can either play it as an honorable samurai challenging everyone to showdowns or as a ninja assassin. The honorable route is much better IMO because you can do big standoffs where you get these cinematic combo kills while the ninja route plays like a really old Assassins Creed game with the same piss-poor AI and isn't very interesting IMO. I highly recommend the game, it's a blast, but if it's not what you're playing next after Sekiro I wouldn't pay $48 to bury it in your backlog. I have done that so many times buying a game for $50 or $60 only to put it in the backlog and then by the time I play it the game is on sale for $20 on Steam. But if you're ready to play it in the next few weeks it's definitely worth $48.
 
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MoragaBlue

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It doesn't really play much like Sekiro. I'd say it's more Witcher 3 than Sekiro in that it has an awesome story, is in a big open world that's pretty impressive graphically (much much moreso than Sekiro), and has a ton of cool side quests. Probably better combat than Witcher 3 (swordfighting is good but not Sekiro good), worse sidequests. You can either play it as an honorable samurai challenging everyone to showdowns or as a ninja assassin. The honorable route is much better IMO because you can do big standoffs where you get these cinematic combo kills while the ninja route plays like a really old Assassins Creed game with the same piss-poor AI and isn't very interesting IMO. I highly recommend the game, it's a blast, but if it's not what you're playing next after Sekiro I wouldn't pay $48 to bury it in your backlog. I have done that so many times buying a game for $50 or $60 only to put it in the backlog and then by the time I play it the game is on sale for $20 on Steam. But if you're ready to play it in the next few weeks it's definitely worth $48.

Thanks! This is very helpful.

Yeah, I've picked up almost 20 games during the Steam sales, including Witcher 3 for $7.99. Salient point on the backlog, since I'm not sure when I'll get to these 20+ backlogged games.

My problem is I can really only play one game at a time. Once I get used to a certain game (e.g., LOP timing), I'll get wrecked in another game until my muscle memory readjusts. Not sure if it's because I'm getting older, but it had taken me almost 10 hours to muscle memory the Sekiro parry timing and mechanics. If I were to play ER now, I'm sure Rellana would wipe the floor with me for at least an hour or two.

Not sure what I'm playing after Sekiro, but it certainly may be Ghost of T. If 30% off, I'd pick it up and backlog it, but it appears 20% is a customary sale for most of Sony's titles.

Anyway, I'd like to play this, just in case I may want to play Ghost of Yotei, especially if the PS5 series goes on a steep sale next year.

PS - Also, picked up Sifu on sale for about $15, so that could be next. If I recall, you recommended the game? I'm looking forward to playing Sifu shortly post Sekiro.

PS 2 - By the way, I don't recall whom, but I think several of you guys observed Sekiro was the best sword fighting game of all time? I have to agree. The fight mechanics in this game is perfection, IMHO. In ER & LOP, my favorite weapons were always the katanas, so using only the katana is just perfect. Though, admittedly, I do miss the range and reach of the Nagakiba!
 
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SteveGrabowski

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PS - Also, picked up Sifu on sale for about $15, so that could be next. If I recall, you recommended the game? I'm looking forward to playing Sifu shortly post Sekiro.
Yeah Sifu is amazing, though not sure I'd play another hardcore fighting game like Sekiro again right after finishing Sekiro. Usually like to play different style of games after finishing one. Then again I'm currently playing through Persona 3 Reload's DLC and the next two games at the top of my backlog are turn based RPG also (Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth and Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance). Though I'll probably play Indiana Jones next just because it's on Game Pass and I had to get a month of it to claim the P3R DLC and still have 3+ weeks of the sub left while being nearly done with P3R.
 

MoragaBlue

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Yeah Sifu is amazing, though not sure I'd play another hardcore fighting game like Sekiro again right after finishing Sekiro. Usually like to play different style of games after finishing one.

For whatever reason, I enjoy challenging one on one combat. So far, I'm about 1/3 into Sekiro? And the first skill check boss, Genchiro I assume, didn't give me too many problems. Once I learned his moves, IMHO quite simple and telegraphed, he was pretty easy to kill. Or, could be I'm over powered, since I've killed a fair amount of mini bosses for the prayer needs. I'm assuming the boss fights will get much harder from here on in, since I'm assuming it's the Fromsoft skill check boss, not unlike Margit.

For me, so far, Rellana with a katana with no summons or overpowered AOW was much more challenging than anything I've encountered in Sekiro, thus far. However, as I progress, that may change, since I've heard so much about Sekiro being the hardest Fromsoft game.

Parrying is just the preeminent skill in these games, IMHO. For instance, in LOP's Laxasia, you can just parry her all day, and she'll give up in phase 1. PCR can be bullied by parrying in between the Star Wars light shows.
 

blckgrffn

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Speaking of skill checks… got Armored Core 6 for Christmas and wtf were they thinking on the tutorial boss?

I get skill checks but a boss that flies and can leave the combat zone (you can’t) and can continue to fire at you? That needs one specific (melee stun) strategy to beat since you me gun and mistakes aren’t up for the task? Smh.

I’d read it was silly but not the strat before getting there and managed to clear it on my fourth attempt but it felt way more like button mashing than actually strategic on my part given the 10 minutes or so I had played up to that point. Clearing it was more like “jeebus wtf was that” than satisfying - if I hadn’t read about it I would have thought for sure this was a battle I needed to lose to progress the story, even the bot radio chatter that foreshadowed the fight intimated as much. And, you know. From Soft.

It’s just a weird way to start a game.
 
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MoragaBlue

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Speaking of skill checks… got Armored Core 6 for Christmas and wtf were they thinking on the tutorial boss?

I get skill checks but a boss that flies and can leave the combat zone (you can’t) and can continue to fire at you? That needs one specific (melee stun) strategy to beat since you me gun and mistakes aren’t up for the task? Smh.

I’d read it was silly but not the strat before getting there and managed to clear it on my fourth attempt but it felt way more like button mashing than actually strategic on my part given the 10 minutes or so I had played up to that point. Clearing it was more like “jeebus wtf was that” than satisfying - if I hadn’t read about it I would have thought for sure this was a battle I needed to lose to progress the story, even the bot radio chatter that foreshadowed the fight intimated as much. And, you know. From Soft.

It’s just a weird way to start a game.

I was tempted just to pick this up on sale and backlog it, but weren't sure. I've never played a "mech" game before, but since it's from Fromsoft--they have tons of street cred with me.

Is there anything similar about it to other Fromsoft games? Worth picking up, or are you regretting the purchase?
 

Oyeve

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Speaking of skill checks… got Armored Core 6 for Christmas and wtf were they thinking on the tutorial boss?

I get skill checks but a boss that flies and can leave the combat zone (you can’t) and can continue to fire at you? That needs one specific (melee stun) strategy to beat since you me gun and mistakes aren’t up for the task? Smh.

I’d read it was silly but not the strat before getting there and managed to clear it on my fourth attempt but it felt way more like button mashing than actually strategic on my part given the 10 minutes or so I had played up to that point. Clearing it was more like “jeebus wtf was that” than satisfying - if I hadn’t read about it I would have thought for sure this was a battle I needed to lose to progress the story, even the bot radio chatter that foreshadowed the fight intimated as much. And, you know. From Soft.

It’s just a weird way to start a game.
Dude, its a Fromsoftware game. Of course its gonna be weird and hard.
 

blckgrffn

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Dude, its a Fromsoftware game. Of course its gonna be weird and hard.

Plenty of threads already out there hashing through it, so it’s not “weird and hard” just bad. You get a real tutorial… after it. Anyway, it is what it is. A suspect design choice at the very least.

Not a huge From Software resume here, maybe 20 hours into Demon Souls and 10 into Dark Souls, Demon Souls stressed me out and Dark Souls was fine but I was too deep into other games at the time. That said…

I like big mech games. If you know that you need to cheese the first boss with essentially no guidance on the controls and that RNG might carry the boss out of the arena so you’ll have to kite them back in and that’s cool with you then it’s worth it IMO. Past that there’s a lot going on that’s Mech Game cool, just not much RPG as farm as I can tell. Definitely and asymmetric kill/be killed super quickly with a lot of movement (so much) options Mech game. Digging it so far, and if you can stomach the boss fights being a reload checkpoint fest then it seems worth the time.

Got the PS4 version for $20, popped the disc in and it prompted me to get the PS5 upgrade for free. 40GB later and it’s rocking with what I can tell is a solid frame rate.
 

sze5003

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I don't recall the first boss fight when you start the game in Armored core. I think it took me 3-4 tries and this was my first time playing an armored core game. It was annoying for sure due to the flying moves and then you just need to dodge as much as you can.

I think I got like 4-5 levels in and stopped but would like to get back to it at some point. I just don't understand all the stats and upgrades one bit. It's like stat overload and I have no idea what I'm doing combining parts and weapons or changing things out to progress. I feel like I'll hit a wall if I don't do the right build at some point.

I've been very deep into stalker 2 lately on PC and even went as far as manually modding shadow of Chernobyl because I want to go through it but I can't stand the 2007 graphics.

I know the trilogy is out on ps5 now and plans are that GSC will remaster them at some point in 2025.
 

MoragaBlue

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Ok, I do have a complaint on FromSoft.

I get it. Some like gimmick fights, like wayward game journalists. I'm not one of them. I disdain and loathe gimmick fights and find them a waste of time. I've spent more time trying to complete the Folding Monkeys than I did on all the bosses so far. I was down to the last one, which I assume is invisible? Somehow, I fell, died, and it reset.

Can I skip this? Must I do this? Cuz, I'm sick of running around chasing them. Makes me want to stop playing.

I don't get gimmick fights. So darn lame.

PS - I'm going to look for guide on how to complete this part, and would rather not spend another minute wasting time on it.
 
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