General Videogame Thread

[bluetonium]

Have there been any good racing games recently? Used to love the original gran tirismo, but it’s been an age since I’ve played one.

Played about 10 hours of Stellaris and really struggling to get into it.

Enjoy a bit of Forza horizon 4, a few in here recommend F1 2020 too but not played that myself.

 

[SWP's back]

Problem with digital only is the games are increasing digitally to £70+ per game. So from what they lose on hardware they will soon make up in money from their digital store. Also means no more buying second hand games for a fraction of the cost. I may buy the disk version just so I can have a blu-ray player as well.

True but I just looked through my back catalogue and the last disk game I bought was GTA5 about 5 years ago so I think digital makes sense for someone like me.

 

[peoffrey]

Are all games on digital and disc?

 

[SWP's back]

Are all games on digital and disc?

I’ve never not been able to buy a game I wanted digitally. The PS Store has millions of titles, 95% of which I’ve never heard of, from massive titles to little indie games for a tenner.

 

[LWashington]

Played through a few level of Half Life 2 last night. This is one shooter I missed out on playing 15-20 years ago. Probably because there were so many at that time, Quake, Doom, Fear, Far Cry , MOH, COD, Deus Ex. Had a lot of fun smashing crates with a crowbar. Took me while to work out how to deal with those creatures dangling from the roof .

 

[quiet_riot]

I'm not sure I've posted my PS5 stance, but I'm definitely waiting until after christmas, probably the 2nd or 3rd wave of the machine. Nothing announced for launch excites me, I only really want Ghost of Tsushima and TLOU2 for PS5, as I've purposely not bought them on PS4



EDIT: Also going for the disc version. Absolutely no chance I'm paying an extra £20-30 per game to have the extra burden of downloading it and my ISP moaning about my usage.

 

[Blue Maverick]

I'm not sure I've posted my PS5 stance, but I'm definitely waiting until after christmas, probably the 2nd or 3rd wave of the machine. Nothing announced for launch excites me, I only really want Ghost of Tsushima and TLOU2 for PS5, as I've purposely not bought them on PS4

I managed to snag a disc version, I’m selling my PS4 for £104 at cex so brings it down to the digital version price I’m happy with that best of both worlds and 4K player to boot. Also going for a new PC as well as mine is dying in its arse, the new nvidia 3000 series look great and with the steaming app included I might delve into that a bit as well. Just don’t tell the wife

 

[SWP's back]

I'm not sure I've posted my PS5 stance, but I'm definitely waiting until after christmas, probably the 2nd or 3rd wave of the machine. Nothing announced for launch excites me, I only really want Ghost of Tsushima and TLOU2 for PS5, as I've purposely not bought them on PS4

There’s a few PS4 games that I really enjoy, or would enjoy but for the loading times. As an example I love Cricket 19 but there’s a 2 or 3 minute load time for each game which ruins it for me. On the PS5, the exact same game will have almost instant load times.

That alone makes it worthwhile for me (plus I’ve just paid for my pre order in full as Qatar will run out in short order).

 

[talkativesprout]

Having an interesting chat with a very old friend from back in the JTAG-RGH/Firmware flashing days (i'd just dug out my glitched 360 and wanted to play Fall out New Vegas and the DLC) He was a bit of a wizard of the scene and told me people were running all kinds of unsigned code on Nintendo Switch...how did they defeat this consoles security?...by shorting out to pins in the joycon area and getting it into recovery mode. I imagine that would save parents £100s and cost the console dearly in pirated games.

 

[Stuuuuuu]

Having an interesting chat with a very old friend from back in the JTAG-RGH/Firmware flashing days (i'd just dug out my glitched 360 and wanted to play Fall out New Vegas and the DLC) He was a bit of a wizard of the scene and told me people were running all kinds of unsigned code on Nintendo Switch...how did they defeat this consoles security?...by shorting out to pins in the joycon area and getting it into recovery mode. I imagine that would save parents £100s and cost the console dearly in pirated games.

Pardon?