The Sony Playstation Thread

I’m still on PS4 but I’ll wait some technical report on the new one when it will be available in November, especially about thermal, noise and power consumption. I don’t care about the looks, it could be ugly as hell.
In any case going with the normal one, even if I buy mostly digital, because I want to have options. And may be one day we will get a H3 offline physical version.

IGN’s deep dive into Spider-Man 2’s performance modes.
Some boss battles/playable sequences shown off here, so don’t watch if you don’t wanna know!

(I regret using my eyes lol – giant Sandman Boss and Mary Jane with a Stun Gun – plus Aunt May flashback revealed!)

Personally I don’t know enough and probably have any use in knowing all the VRR and 120hz specs since we don’t have a fancy 4K HDR TV, but it’s cool to see that Insomniac have found a way to do Ray Tracing reflections in both 30fps and 60fps modes! And the game just looks fantastic in either one!

EDIT: Okay, Digital Foundry, probably the premier source for performance checks in gaming nowadays has a fantastic performance review that shows off how well-optimized the game’s loading and detail is.
One of the opening sequences has you thrown across the map at incredible speeds, all in-engine, in a disorienting, but stunning showcase of how fast the PS5 can load New York from one point to another.

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The 2023 Wrap-Up is here! Even though I’ve had my PS5 for less than half of the year I’ve already clocked 20 more hours of Hitman 3 in it compared to the PS4 version! Freelancer basically by itself got me to spend over 3 weeks of my life in Hitman 3. Very impressive!

If it wasn’t for the Uncharted collections counting multiple games as one, my actual 4th and 5th places would be Resident Evil Village with 25 hours and Ghost Trick Phantom Detective with 21 hours.

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Just checked my Playstation wrap of 2023!!!

Hitman was second close to Last Of Us Factions (the only multiplayer mode I keep enjoying for many years) but I have time to play 19 more hours and reach 470 hours total time :smiley:

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If anyone is interested

here is my wrap


















I should probably complete my backlog of 15 Lego games next year or replay a hat in time again

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:grimacing: Thanks Freelancer! :joy:

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I feel like this new God of War free roguelite dlc is getting a lot of attention that skipped over Freelancer. GOW is a much larger game so I get why it’s in the press, but I can imagine some devs there seeing Freelancer come out and going, hmm, we should do something like that.

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It is interesting, though I think at the very least GOW has the benefit of having fully-produced unique cutscenes, adding story elements that close off the Norse chapter of Kratos.

Hitman Freelancer does… a few allusions here and there to it being post-WOA, but the lack of total main target-removal and very little detail to tease what could come next probably hampers the mode from being “an impressive, vital free addition”

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Gonna have some fun watching this beeg comics nerd’s thoughts on the new Spidey game.
Only seen the first 15 mins and I gotta sleep now, but hey yeah, so far so agreeable and cool.

Fantastic gameplay, lightning-fast tech finally feels PS5-enhanced, strange QOL omissions and a strangely paced story & Act 3.

It’s villain problem is that Venom is one of the villains. Should have been Big Wheel but alas we cannot turn back time.

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I’m not interested in this game at all but I wonder how long they will actually support it for considering how quickly games that launch on ps plus die out

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This might be very silly for some people but a few days ago I noticed this change to the classic PlayStation logo and it intrigues me due to the fact that there is no official documentation of the change anywhere at least to my knowledge.

EDIT: The bottom is the Official 1994 Classic, The top is the logo they use today.

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I’m surprised 3 years later sackboy a big adventure is still getting free cosmetic dlc but it’s a shame it hasn’t gotten any actual content updates

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Little big planet 3s servers were taken down last year temporarily but now they have decided to extend that temporary outage into a permanent one rip

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At least they gave a definitive answer to the server question, unlike this other company who just claim they’re looking into a solution :eyes:

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Only just saw the news on that link underneath the LBP3 news that a bunch of apps for games that used their PlayLink stuff (you used an app to play the game rather than the controller) got delisted in December last year. :frowning:

Only one on the list that I’ve played/own is Hidden Agenda (a game released by Supermassive Games that was released between Until Dawn and the start of the Dark Pictures Anthology). I liked it, but it never really got much attention.

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Tunic interests me so going to give that a try

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Been meaning to play Tunic since it dropped on Gamepass. Now I’ll have two platforms where I can procrastinate on it.

Ghostrunner 2 is the only other one that interests me…aaaand I still haven’t played the first one.

/patientgamers for the win

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PS plus games for June 4th


And days of play

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Wow, I know there have been many “worst month” months, but this for me is the worst month in a LONG time.

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