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Mirth

What’s the deal with the PS5 now? I’m at a stage where I want one now but they’re still out of stock in the usual places .

Mirth

Coombs wrote:
Did a co-op playthrough of Divinity II with my partner. Was really good fun, quite an impressive game. Looking forward to the full release of Baldur's Gate 3 now.

On my list for ages. Is it worth playing Divinity 1 first?

goon

Mirth wrote:
What’s the deal with the PS5 now? I’m at a stage where I want one now but they’re still out of stock in the usual places .

Are they still out of stock? That's crazy.

If you don't want to wait any longer you probably need to get one of those apps that alert you when there's stock, I used HotStock. Most days it runs out too quickly, but eventually there will be a day where one of them has enough to give you 30-60 mins to grab one. At least that's how it was for the Xbox.

Big Willie Champ

Mirth wrote:
What’s the deal with the PS5 now? I’m at a stage where I want one now but they’re still out of stock in the usual places .

I want one, can afford one, and can probably find one if I wanted it badly enough.

But I still have 80% of my PS4 catalogue unplayed plus I reckon I'd want to wait until they launch the v2 whatever it is. That's usually when they iron out the kinks in the original ones going by what hapoened with the PS3 and PS4s.

Remind me again, did the PS5 come out last November or November 2020? If 2020 then the v2 should be out soon enough I reckon.

QuincyAbeyie

What were the kinks with the PS4? Had mine since release until I got the PS5.

Big Willie Champ

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
What were the kinks with the PS4? Had mine since release until I got the PS5.

There were problems with overheating due to the thermal paste not working as intended and the ps4 ending up sounding like a jet engine. I bought one for my little brother at launch and after a year it was near impossible to use without turning up the volume to drown out the sound of the fan. Ended up getting him a slim for 250 when that came out and sold the original for like 150.

Coombs

Mirth wrote:
Coombs wrote:
Did a co-op playthrough of Divinity II with my partner. Was really good fun, quite an impressive game. Looking forward to the full release of Baldur's Gate 3 now.

On my list for ages. Is it worth playing Divinity 1 first?

Not necessary at all, especially if you're going to co-op Dos2. Could play them in any order.

QuincyAbeyie

Big Willie wrote:
Quincy Abeyie wrote:
What were the kinks with the PS4? Had mine since release until I got the PS5.

There were problems with overheating due to the thermal paste not working as intended and the ps4 ending up sounding like a jet engine. I bought one for my little brother at launch and after a year it was near impossible to use without turning up the volume to drown out the sound of the fan. Ended up getting him a slim for 250 when that came out and sold the original for like 150.

Oh right. I misunderstood, didn't realize you were talking about the slim version vs the original one. Thought you were talking about smaller changes, as in that the current PS5 is already the second "version".

https://www.makeuseof.com/new-sony-ps5-model-redesign-changes/

Qwiss

goon wrote:
Mirth wrote:
What’s the deal with the PS5 now? I’m at a stage where I want one now but they’re still out of stock in the usual places .

Are they still out of stock? That's crazy.

If you don't want to wait any longer you probably need to get one of those apps that alert you when there's stock, I used HotStock. Most days it runs out too quickly, but eventually there will be a day where one of them has enough to give you 30-60 mins to grab one. At least that's how it was for the Xbox.

They can't get enough GPUs to meet demand cos Bitcoin miners are buying them all

Asterix

I'm on a list with a local retailer for a PS5. You had to keep going into stores and asking if there was any space on the list. After a few months I got on to the list for the digital version.

This was mid December. I asked last week how I was progressing up the list. It doesn't work that way apparently. Whenever stock comes in they just call people on the list. If you answer your phone and get in quick you get one. If you don't they call someone else.

The world has gone nuts.

Burnwinter

I mean, you guys read that story about Kazakhstan having a 10% spike in electricity prices that led (along with the prevailing economic winds) to widespread, violent civil unrest … ? The reason was that China had regulated Bitcoin mining so all the miners had jumped over the border to Kazakhstan with hangars full of GPUs.

Then, when Kazakhstan also turfed the miners out, thousands of people lost their jobs, which just consisted of hanging around rooms full of GPUs keeping them fed with electricity and operating within their temperature parameters.

So yeah, the world has gone mad. Humans have devised an investment vehicle pretending to be a currency, a fake good whose mechanism of scarcity is arbitrarily energy-intensive computation. One of the stupidest things humanity has ever done.

jones

Exactly Burns. Charlatans have always been around, people used to lose insane money on tulip futures hundreds of years ago, invest in companies or even countries overseas who didn't exist or were run by frauds, then you have the dotcom bubble where again a gold rush leads to people losing their minds.

But none are as neck hair raisingly retarded as this object of pure speculation where one transaction consumes more energy than an average person in the first world does in a year. If you ever needed proof that at least large parts of humanity have lost their minds and should be sent back to live in caves there you go.

goon

Decided to buy Civ 6 not long ago, £10 for the platinum edition seemed to good to turn down. Terrible idea that was, I can't think of another game that's such a time sink. Tell yourself you're going to have a couple more turns, next thing you know it's been another 60 mins.

That being said, it feels like the game hasn't really developed all that much since the one I played back when I was still a teen, no in any way that really matters. Diplomacy in particular seems so restrictively basic, you'd have thought you'd be able to form slightly more complex military or economic alliances. In fact I think it's actually simpler than it was?

mdgoonah41

goon wrote:
Decided to buy Civ 6 not long ago, £10 for the platinum edition seemed to good to turn down. Terrible idea that was, I can't think of another game that's such a time sink. Tell yourself you're going to have a couple more turns, next thing you know it's been another 60 mins.

civ 5 was one of my all time fav games, and i cant even imagine how much time i sunk into that game. when they changed the core things like religion and city building in the expansions and updates, and then in civ 6, i just lost touch with the game and how to really play it. when it was more simplistic, i could easily sit down and devote 3 hours at a time to playing out a game on normal speed to try and get either a domination, cultural or scientific victory.

goon

To be fair it’s simple enough once you get the hang of it, I mean I’m not really sure what I’m doing but it’s working well enough.

Asterix

Picked up Gran Turismo 7 on the weekend for the PS4, so can't comment yet on the stunning visuals, although the mountainous backdrop on Sardenga is still wonderful on the PS4.

The game is comfortingly familiar, with a few tweaks. Good fun so far.

Asterix

I'm listening to a series of old podcasts called Quickly Kevin Will He Score - about 90's football, it's great - and one episode was devoted to Championship Manager 97-98, which in my view was one of the best iterations. But my favourite was the 01-02 version, so I've downloaded it and started a new game. What a classic. Arjen Robben is 17 at the start. Freddie and Bobby Pires are injured for 4 months. Put in a bid for Emile Mpenza.

I'm going to have to delete it or I'll waste months of my life. Again.

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My favored hamster wheel at the moment is this supposedly P2E game called League of Kingdoms. It's buggy as all get out, but still annoyingly addictive as one gathers resources and fights in battles to improve ones kingdom and get stronger in order to compete for the battle royale Continent vs Continent Event.

Stay away.

Asterix

My son picked up the box set of Uncharted games. I'd never played any of them before, and have just finished the first one. It's old obviously, but good fun - the voice acting is particularly good. He tells me the second one is fantastic, so can't wait.

Burnwinter

Second and third ones were pretty amazing, hadn't really played any games at all for several years immediately prior to playing UNCHARTED 2, and I got so wrapped up in its non-stop plotline I took the day off work to clock it after I'd gotten started. Not exactly unpredictable or challenging on the gameplay, but really, really fun.

They made an UNCHARTED film adaptation which didn't go so well, I didn't see it but I did read one critic arguing pretty plausibly that it was on a hiding to nothing trying to be more "cinematic" than the games.

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