Problem for me with the classic titles is that anything PS3 and older is streamed rather than downloaded, and if when I tried it on now is anything to go by, it just doesn't work very well.Originally Posted by Gray Fox
Problem for me with the classic titles is that anything PS3 and older is streamed rather than downloaded, and if when I tried it on now is anything to go by, it just doesn't work very well.
At least this will bring more old titles to the store. I've grabbed my PS5 version of Abe's Oddysee. Already had it on PS3 so I could grab it for free.
I finally have a dedicated GPU (a 970 from like 2016, lol). First time I can actually sort of play proper games on a desktop computer since the halcyon days of playing battlefield 2 on medium-low settings in 2006.
Any general recommendations lads? As mentioned, I used to love BF2, and some of the Xbox ones from about 10 years ago, but I get the impression the new ones are a bit crap. So a squad based FPS that is fairly forgiving of someone with my cretinous reaction speed would be cool. But pretty much anything tbf.
You're bound to find something in the summer steam sale.
I've got a 970 in my system. Used to be a decent little card but time hasn't been so kind to it. Provided you have a decent CPU and 8GB+ of RAM in your system you should be able to play Battlefield 4 with reasonable quality.
I wouldn't touch the newer ones that that unless you can upgrade really. Even so BF4 is still the best one they've done since the days of Bad Company 2 and BF3.
I finished the main story on GTA5 last night (woo!) so will make a choice on carrying on Ass Creed t'Egypt or RDR2. GTA really is just a fun game you can pick up at any point, really perfect when I'm such a flakey game player.
Nice one, I do need to go back to GTAV. I think I got a PS5 version for a tenner earlier in the year.
I find it perfect for just farting about in for 20 minutes here and there, they've crafted a great little world that still holds up now for me.
I only bought it this year after realising I had never played it and it's just an outstanding game. I'm tempted to enter the online world but it will probably make me resent life.
It is pretty outstanding but when you have to learn to fly with Michael it can fuck right off.
I'm a twit
I don't recall the flying school in V which means it must've been better than the one in San Andreas.
One I remember being a pain is where you have to jump a bike onto a moving train with Trevor which was definitely in tribute to the ballache in SA, although nowhere near as annoying. No Zero RC missions either thankfully.
You can skip them if you balls it up too
Disappointed Father Simulator 2(ish) has a release date of November 9th.
Collectors edition comes with a Mjolnir too.
My bank balance wont like me for it but I'm buying that collectors edition.
I'll probably wait until they give it away on PS Plus. I thought that first one had a good story but the combat was a bit meh. I've the the same problem with The Last of Us, to be honest.
Got my first Ultrawide monitor arriving tomorrow. 200Hz.
Never played above 60Hz before. Fucking stoked lads, bought a shit ton of games in anticipation. God of War, Horizon, Days Gone, Death Stranding, Doom Eternal DLC, Hellblade, Red Dead 2, and installed a ton of others (Cyberpunk, Wolfenstein 2, Hitman 3 etc).
Which means I'll end up playing Slay the Spire, as ever.
Going from 60 to 120 was mega for me. Playing on 200 sounds insane.
When people used to minmax counter strike to get the lowest FPS there was always some nerd counter arguing that human eyes are only capable of seeing so many frames per second, so what’s the benefit of more Hz?
I'm a twit
It's hard to properly describe it without your eyes actually seeing it for yourself, but the image refreshes twice as fast on 120 against 60, so in theory if you're playing an FPS and someone moves across your line of sight, you will see them quicker the higher refresh rate you have.
The higher you go the more buttery smooth all kinds of movement are in games.
Its more about how its rendered on the screen. Its shown in competitive FPS that higher refresh rate can show enemies quite a bit before lower refresh rate as its rendering more frames per second. It also smooths out the experience, aiming, movement etc.
I've just had to drop res from 4k to 1440. Ended up with 70 inches of screen on my fucking desk now.
Fuck me how did i ever game at 60fps, this is insane
I have a 240hz monitor. It all looks the same to me.
Some of my games having a 60fps option on PS5 means I can never now go back, but I don't think I'd want to go any further as it would make real life feel like stop motion.
Going from 60hz to 144hz is a huge difference. Going from 144hz to higher is less appreciable to my eyes.
You can notice a big difference between 144hz and 60hz even just browsing, everything is so much smoother.
Most things run around 100-150 for me. Doom Eternal is just so well coded.
Beauty of G-Sync, no tearing until it drops below like 40.
I’d love to see a 4K 144hz monitor in full action with my own eyes.
Though I do imagine going back to not having that afterwards would be quite the let down.
Yeah there are few things more wasted on me than bigger, fancier screens.
Televisions haven't really wowed me since I got my first 1080p screen.I'll make the jump eventually but I've barely seen 4K in action.
Higher resolution doesn't do much for me honestly, but going from 60hz to 144hz is night and day.
skate. It's going to be free-to-play. Microtransactions will be limited to cosmetics and 'conveniences'. People are annoyed.
It's been 6 and a half years since I put this current PC together and it's starting to show a little bit of age. Probably needs a de-dust and re-paste more than anything, but I have the funds for building an upgrade.
Looking through and yikes prices are a mess. We're paying more in £ over here than the Americans are in $ for most of your main components. For example, one of the top GPUs on the AMD side is the 6800XT. In the US that's $700 while here it's £750.
I knew it had got bad through COVID but I didn't realise it was that bad.
It's been bad for years, to be honest. First it was crypto miners taking the stock, now it's probably chip shortages.
The yanks seem to be now on the receiving end of the crypto mass sell off, so I'm hoping that doesn't take too long to sail over here. Nvidia also seem to be gearing up for their 4000 series launching in Q3, so hopefully there's some sales.
The second hand market over here is already feeling the benefits of the crypto sell-off I understand. Deals to be had.
Yeah just you're gambling a bit if you buy an ex-miners GPU. The thing could be on its last legs when it gets to you.
From what I understand, prices over here tend to follow a few weeks after. So my eyes are out for one new, in a week or two. There is now stock of 3060's readily available coming in around £370(which is still crazy when you think about it). I expect the top range stuff will see the big price drops though, not so much what I'm really after.
Playing (as in its just moving a cat about, nowt else) Stray.
Stunning looking thing, wonderfully chill. Optimised ridiculously well on PC.
I gave it an hour yesterday and really liked it, I'm hoping it's a relatively short game as it could outstay its welcome otherwise. Plus I've only got a week to complete it thanks to the PS+ Premium trial
Its about 5-7 hours long I believe, 5 if you just mainline it, 7 if you wanna collect a few things. I've got all day today so just gonna finish it.
Its ridiculously simple but just a joy guiding the cat around.
I'll probably give that a go at some point.
Needed a break from RDR2 because there's only so many times I can do the exact same story quest and the side distraction stuff is all a bit pointless unless you just like being in that world so I'm playing Shotgun King (tricky, fun) and Citizen Sleeper as a bit of a palate cleanser. Citizen Sleeper often doesn't have a lot to it and I think I might be making it a bit easy by actually playing it and getting all the upgrades but it's well written, looks nice and is quite relaxing.
I am on some little strategy game called The Cyclist Tactics. Good fun, plays like a board game basically.
I’ve been playing Yakuza 1. As with all these games the intro hours are incredibly slow. Seems like an interesting story though.
I probably should revisit the earlier ones but they keep recapping the story every new game.
Wow, I thought FM was like playing spreadsheets. Now this really is.
Finished Citizen Sleeper. Good stuff. Any worry about resources is basically gone about halfway through and it feels like they're not expecting you to actually play the game properly. Like a lot of games these days I guess where if you fully engage with it you can end up a bit OP.
Next up I did a bit of Into the Breach for the first time in ages because they've added some new content and it's still mega. Such a perfectly honed thing
And also did a bit if Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion. It's a sort of Zelda-y game I guess. Quite simple but a pleasing game to play and quite funny so far.
It's incredible in this day and age that they're still working on a free content update 2 years since their last update. Bravo to them.
I never ended up finishing all the squads on the original, but still have it installed. It's such a well balanced game and satisfying when you get the hang of a new squad. I just struggle to summon the brain power these days.
Finished up a week's trial of the PS+ Premium thing and it all works very well but the only way I could see myself signing up is if there was a game on there I'd been looking at buying for full price. I read somewhere that the value of everything is offset by the amount of time you'd need to get value out of it which was the case as I'd download something and then give it a few minutes before moving on due to the sheer amount of other things I wanted to try. Netflix all over again as I spend longer in menus than actually watching anything.
Stray and Spiderman Miles Morales are both good and while the streaming worked surprisingly well a lot of the games from PS3 back should be left in rose-tinted nostalgia as they're really too rough now to get on with.
Yeah, the PS3/360 grittiness that just doesn't hold up. I never expected that era to look old but here we are.
Tekken 2 was still playable but Toy Story 2 was the one that really jarred. I remember that being great but my god it's so clunky and unwieldy now.
I'm playing Road 96 and I love it. What a great little game.
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