Demon's Souls - Easily the best thing I've seen on PS5.
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After owning a PS5 for a while and been moderately underwhelmed with the gaming experience, I finally picked up the Demon's Souls PS5 remake. I would have got it earlier but its still a whopping £70 on the PS Store. That's for a download of a launch title that's now 3 years old. Crazy expensive. After having some bad luck getting a reasonably priced new, physical copy on eBay (order got inexplicably cancelled) I saw it going for the same price (£30) on Amazon so I went for it.
Wow - this is the sort of thing I was expecting from the PS5. Definitely looks a step up from what the PS4 could have done, even the Pro. It's just glorious on a 4K OLED. And having played the original PS3 version to death back in the day, it was just so amazing seeing the sum of all the improvements in graphics, 3D sound, haptic feedback on controller, super-fast loading time plus the 'Quality of Life' things they added to make basic inventory management less of a pain. All whilst staying incredibly true to the original gameplay.
Pretty much everything else I've used my PS5 for is as a 'PS4 Pro Plus' ... it's absolutely the best way to play PS4 games but the native PS5 titles didn't seem that far ahead than their PS4 versions, except in even quicker loading times.
Perhaps it's because I haven't been a big buyer of PS5 games - I basically just get whatever is going on Plus monthly games and play a lot of my sizeable PS4 library because I don't want to pay the silly prices of PS5 titles - but Sony really need to put out/fund more games of this quality.
As it is, even the supposedly 'exclusive' PS5 stuff I can get on PC and run them on better spec hardware (as well as be sure they will run on PC hardware well into the future) so I don't have any interest in locking myself into the PS ecosystem on those games. Especially not at the PS Store prices.
Wow - this is the sort of thing I was expecting from the PS5. Definitely looks a step up from what the PS4 could have done, even the Pro. It's just glorious on a 4K OLED. And having played the original PS3 version to death back in the day, it was just so amazing seeing the sum of all the improvements in graphics, 3D sound, haptic feedback on controller, super-fast loading time plus the 'Quality of Life' things they added to make basic inventory management less of a pain. All whilst staying incredibly true to the original gameplay.
Pretty much everything else I've used my PS5 for is as a 'PS4 Pro Plus' ... it's absolutely the best way to play PS4 games but the native PS5 titles didn't seem that far ahead than their PS4 versions, except in even quicker loading times.
Perhaps it's because I haven't been a big buyer of PS5 games - I basically just get whatever is going on Plus monthly games and play a lot of my sizeable PS4 library because I don't want to pay the silly prices of PS5 titles - but Sony really need to put out/fund more games of this quality.
As it is, even the supposedly 'exclusive' PS5 stuff I can get on PC and run them on better spec hardware (as well as be sure they will run on PC hardware well into the future) so I don't have any interest in locking myself into the PS ecosystem on those games. Especially not at the PS Store prices.
I already have Elden Ring on PC and was thinking about getting Horizon: Forbidden West and Ghost of Tsushima but they are out for PC now and as I said, I much prefer to buy on PC. My current PC hardware is already better than PS5 and they will work pretty much for all forseeable future h/w upgrades too, unlike Playstation Games that may or may not be stuck on the console generation you bought them on and not work with the future generations of hardware. Just look at all the great games 'stuck' on PS3 because Sony won't do PS3 backwards compatibility with PS5. That's mostly why I still have my PS3 set up - also because its a really nice Blu Ray player with proper interactivity with my Harmony Remote for Blu Ray playback. From PS4 onwards, Sony got very unfriendly towards third party control.
I'm not 'cheaping out' on games ... I just don't see much that really justifies a PS5 over a PS4 Pro and the real AAA stuff is just ludicrously priced. £70 for a download only, 3 year old launch title? Come on!
I got the PS5 because I wanted a UHD disc player primarily and they'd just come out with the much nicer 'slim' version as opposed to the monolithic behemoth of the OG hardware which tipped me into getting one (upgraded from PS4 Pro). And it is a decent 4k disc player as well as being a really, really nice way to play my old PS4 games. But in terms of a proper generational jump for gaming there's just not many games out there that are clearly a leap over PS4 level.
I'm not 'cheaping out' on games ... I just don't see much that really justifies a PS5 over a PS4 Pro and the real AAA stuff is just ludicrously priced. £70 for a download only, 3 year old launch title? Come on!
I got the PS5 because I wanted a UHD disc player primarily and they'd just come out with the much nicer 'slim' version as opposed to the monolithic behemoth of the OG hardware which tipped me into getting one (upgraded from PS4 Pro). And it is a decent 4k disc player as well as being a really, really nice way to play my old PS4 games. But in terms of a proper generational jump for gaming there's just not many games out there that are clearly a leap over PS4 level.
Lucas Ayde said:
I already have Elden Ring on PC and was thinking about getting Horizon: Forbidden West and Ghost of Tsushima but they are out for PC now and as I said, I much prefer to buy on PC.
Yes Horizon is graphically superior on the PC. There are a couple of really cool things that are not on the PS5 and the Cauldron graphics are vastly superior (Yes I have lots of games on PS5 and PC!)...Jasandjules said:
Lucas Ayde said:
I already have Elden Ring on PC and was thinking about getting Horizon: Forbidden West and Ghost of Tsushima but they are out for PC now and as I said, I much prefer to buy on PC.
Yes Horizon is graphically superior on the PC. There are a couple of really cool things that are not on the PS5 and the Cauldron graphics are vastly superior (Yes I have lots of games on PS5 and PC!)...But there are very few PS5 'exclusives' that aren't on PC too and where I've seen PS4 and PS5 versions together, there usually isn't a huge difference in the PS5 version (* running on PS5 hardware).
Apparently the current active Playstation market is pretty much split 50/50 for PS4/PS5 ... this is after 3 years of PS5 sales and about halfway through the PS5s lifetime as being the 'current gen' platform. Seems to me that there's not much incentive for games companies to exclusively target PS5 when it's really easy to code for a PS4 target and then offer an extra bump in image quality for PS5 - which doubles your effective market.
They generally do a really good job of getting PS4 titles framerates to 60fps when run on the new hardware, too. Even the loading times for PS4 titles on PS5 are very decent - not as good as the dedicated PS5 titles which assume a fast SSD but still noticeably better than on a PS4. And the confusing PS4->PS5 'upgrade' scheme for software doesn't help either.
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