General gaming discussion

I recently replayed Bloodborne which is probably the first 30fps game I've played in ages. It's jarring at first but you get used to it again pretty quickly. Stable frame rate is far more important.

I see Sony are launching a special 30 year anniversary edition of the PS5 Pro "at participating retailers". Anyone have any idea if it will be possible to preorder this in Ireland?

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/19/celebrating-30-years-of-playstation-with-a-nostalgic-look/

I use a C2 OLED Tv as a monitor and also for gaming on Xbox. I have it over a year now and tbh I wasn't that impressed with OLED. My old 120Hz LG Tv was just as good imo as this OLED. Mind you though the OLED has Freesync Premium where as the old tv just had adaptive sync with HDMI 2.0. Freesync is way better.

LG OLED game mode really shows up 30 FPS games as choppy. You can see each frame. And watch them blend..yuck 🤮

But BOTW/TOTK are buttery smooth in regular modes. I think it's cause they are 1080p. I know the TV does some kind of frame compensation.

Seems to be a sweet spot. Or just pure luck. And there is no perceived lag for me either. This is on a C1.

Other higher resolution stuff 30 FPS stuff I've tried on Series X and PS5 makes me feel sick after a short while.

OLED HDR 60 FPS or 120 is incredible. Ori and the Will of the wisps runs 6K downscaled to 4K at 120 FPS on Series X.

I've sold the Xbox now, but Ori for me was the killer XBox Series app. And RDR2 at native 4K 30 FPS but only on an LED monitor. Amazing.

This is my experience with 30fps on a 120fps capable OLED too. It really is way worse than 30 fps on other TVs in the house.

I restarted Lies of P myself but yeah, I'd forgotten that as great as it is, a big part of the difficulty is somewhat artificial due to incredibly weird hesitations in attacks throwing off dodges and deflects.

Actually ended up installing Dark Souls 3 again and decided to replay it instead.

I don't get how God of War 2018 is a "10/10"/masterpiece game.

It's very repetitive, the dwarf shop keepers appearing after every "stage" gets annoying very quickly, you can spam the combat, the puzzles are the same, the monsters are repetitive, the hokey dialogue, the kid sounds like he's from a 2020s US suburb, the endless junk you pick up and all the stupid fiddling you need to do to upgrade your characters, and it goes on and on ...

... Luckily I paid 10 euro for it, and won't be getting Ragnarok. So that's time and money saved. I will finish it thought because I'm half way through, Kratos is a bad ass and has some good lines, and it looks beautiful at times and it's very polished. But it's a 7/10 game for me.

Honestly I don't think you'd enjoy the game. It's a beautiful game in spots and the narrative, does well in some places and falls over in others. The cast are well voiced, and can be likable (mainly Cid) but ultimately two dimensional characters (bar Clive who does have a bit of growth to be fair). The gameplay is flashy but lacks any real strategy once you learn to parry/block effectively, and the end combination of powers you get are just crazy overpowered.

Unfortunately the most intriguing parts of the game are in the trials where your combat scope narrows significantly and you need to be more inventive, but this is such a small part of the game that it almost feels like a teaser.

And to be clear, I'm as dopey a FF fanboy as you can get, and I know I won't be replaying this any time soon

The tag line on that review "if it were half as big, it'd be twice as good" is pretty much how I'd suggest to fix the game too. The world itself is fine, but the amount of retracing of steps in boring fetch quests is ridiculous. It really does miss the wacky part of FF games that Rebirth chased after, and honestly, it made Rebirth a nice palette cleanser after it, because there was dorky, wacky bits in it

2 hours till Days Gone 2 confirmed...

So tell us, will you be a consultant for Ace Combat 8? 😉

Bet you're glad Assassin's Creed abandoned their numbering system.

Smyths Pre Orders for the PS5 pro now live. They do have listed a 30th anniversary edition Pro for €1,099 which actually isn’t as bad as I expected considering it looks to include a DualSense and DualSense Edge. Obviously there was no stock though!

Did grab one of the anniversary controllers though, love the look of it.

Oh, definitely - I just expected it to be more considering the normal console is €800 and buying the controllers separately would be €330, and there’s a very limited production run.

Didn’t bother checking to see if the normal Pro was in stock but presume it was.

You're only getting one Pro controller extra in that bundle over the base bundle so you're not saving anything.

It's a great deal. I'm going to sell the 30th pro controller still in the box. Which will take 200-250 off the price. When I trade this in (or sell online) for a ps6 it'll have retained it's value unlike the Pro which Will probably lose 300+ of it's value. I got an extra regular 30th controller for the same price as any other and likewise it'll have a much better sell on price.

The oul business degree coming in handy because so many people don't see it this way.

I think you’d be mad to sell any of it separately tbh - will more than retain its value as a full set.

20th anniversary PS4s still go for well over 2 grand. I’d be hanging on to it the PS5 edition long as I could.

As long as I cover the PS6 cost I'll be happy but you're right. I'm not short on money and the value of that unopened pro controller will increase faster then the money I'd get now sitting in an account.

Your valuations for the ps4, are they not based off unopened ps4s? Because I'll be playing the **** out of this pro.

Theres an unopened one priced on eBay for nearly €5k, and I’ve seen unsealed but in great condition for €2.3k.

I would just keep everything as pristine as possible, and would never use it as a trade-in. There’s such a limited run on these that unless you were desperate for money I’d hang onto it for as long as possible.

Yeah no rush to sell. I put the stuff I'm not using in the attic.

Warming to God of War 2018, only cause I'm getting near the end and the boy has become snarky and annoying the **** (more) out of Kratos 🤣. Also, the are lots of little dense puzzle areas to solve all over the place.

I wish Sony would let us know what games they are not going to remaster for PS5 pro, so I can avoid playing those until I get a PS5 pro or PS6 in 5 years time.