What's even the point in buying a PS5 anymore?

[Flamingbabypunch]

Getting one, to begin with, seems like an impossible task due to scalpers.

The next God of War game is a PS4 game.

There are no decent games on the system to justify getting the console.

Sony are starting to get ridiculous with their censorship for ports to their console making them inferior versions to one on other systems.

The console itself looks way too big and cumbersome to fit on a set-up. Plus it looks like an absolute dust magnet.

Naughty Dog has destroyed their reputation with The Last of Us 2.

And now Sony is starting to put their exclusives to PC. Hell, why even get the new God of War Ragnarök when we can just wait for a better version to release here?

[Stoibs]

RedRiot193님이 먼저 게시:

but for her dad who was so quick to put another girl that was his daughters age down. So if it was your daughter or "daughter" you would be okay with it? Ellie wasn't even consulted before hand about it. A way to avoid the situation would have been to let ellie decide and let her calm joel down as goodbye.

This is covered in Abby's flashback sequences.

The Doc wasn't at all 'So quick' on that decision, there's a whole cutscene involving the ethics and struggling with it.
Furthermore in the timeline of the first game this was directly after they fish Joel and Ellie out of the sewers from near drowning, the whole point is that she's still comatose at that point, and the decision to go ahead with the procedure rests on the fact that she might not even wake up at all and have her brain functions die before they can perform the surgery; so the decision was either now or possibly never. There was no waiting around or asking permission.

It's a 'right' decision from one point of view, obviously not from Joel's. No bad guys here just different ideologies and values. It's a sucky situation.

RedRiot193님이 먼저 게시:

How would I have written it? I would have had the player playing as joel in that section. You save abby, and make your way back to tommys place...

Nah, that whole chapter makes it pretty clear how far out they are from the city and that there's a horde of hundreds descending on them.

Tommy: We Aint gonna outrun them all the way to Jackson we need to barricade that door // The horses aint making it all that way!

Abby then brings up the Baldwin mansion which is fortified, Tommy and Joel are familiar with it being a few minutes north of their current position, all the while infected and clickers are breaking through the doors and windows.

So the choice is to try and make it probably dozens of miles back to Jackson with hundreds of infected on their heels in the middle of a blizzard that reduces visibility to zero (we literally saw this during Ellie's recent gameplay); or seek immediate shelter 5 minutes away - of which we see even *that* was near death with them almost being pulled off their mounts and needing to shoot their way through.

Hinfsight is 20/20 and it's all well and good to be an Armchair commentator on what they 'should' have done given the luxury of foresight and timed planning, but that's neither here nor there when you're in the moment and have seconds to make a choice.

RedRiot193님이 먼저 게시:

Why would that stop ellie? She's KILLED HUNDREDS of people by that point. Women, men, dogs, some of them might have had kids or been pregnant (You like to throw around perspective well there's some perspective) who did nothing to her. But abby is a no go? Please.

Because she finally grew as a character, and did the damn thing I was *shouting* at my screen for her to do during the first dozen hrs of gameplay by just going home and stop the needless slaughter. Heading off and abandoning her partner/child for that final chapter was way beyond the threshold of ridiculousness for me and I thought she was too far gone at that point. Actually surprised me and I was glad at the ending and realization. Albeit too little too late as she makes the lonely (but self inflicted and deserved) walk home to nothingness. Bitter sweet, but good stuff all the same.

All this reminiscing about the story beats is making me want to take another run at it I'm not going to lie

[SleeveDagger]

By the time PS5 becomes readily available to everyone they will be outdated consoles anyway. Aren't they already 2 years old? Sony have already stated that PS5 will be hard to get hold of for the foreseeable future.

[SleeveDagger]

I would also like to say that The Last of Us 2 was garbage.

[DM Hunk]

to play games earlier and because of budget. these are the 2 main reasons..

[topgun43]

I finally got to try a PS5 at a friend of a friend's house. It looks like a toilet seat. It did play Demon Souls well but that game will be ported over to PC at some point. Sony used to be a honorable company with great exclusives.....I don't know what Sony is now.....seems it will go the way of Sega and it's Saturn....they don't have the money to compete with a Trillion dollar company.

[The Ferret]

Misery1ndex님이 먼저 게시:

2 words. Demon's Souls. It's the only reason id buy one, but not for double the price. someday i will play it....

I never understood people who buy a console for a single game.....

[J0ust]

Flamingbabypunch님이 먼저 게시:

Getting one, to begin with, seems like an impossible task due to scalpers.

The next God of War game is a PS4 game.

There are no decent games on the system to justify getting the console.

Sony are starting to get ridiculous with their censorship for ports to their console making them inferior versions to one on other systems.

The console itself looks way too big and cumbersome to fit on a set-up. Plus it looks like an absolute dust magnet.

Naughty Dog has destroyed their reputation with The Last of Us 2.

And now Sony is starting to put their exclusives to PC. Hell, why even get the new God of War Ragnarök when we can just wait for a better version to release here?

You realise Ragnarok and other specifically PS5 exclusives won't be on PC for at least 4 years, right?

[n#n#m#]

After years of being on PC I'm seriously considering buying PS5 just because I want to play TLOU, TLOU2 and Bloodborne. I'm not sure they're coming to PC ever.

[Stoibs]

The Ferret님이 먼저 게시:

I never understood people who buy a console for a single game.....

To play them
It's a hobby, I have disposable income.

I got my PS3 for Valkyria Chronicles originally.

I think Until Dawn was what pushed me over the edge in getting a PS4

Octopath Traveller sold the Switch on me (which later came to gamepass.. lulz )

The libraries on the respective systems grew into the dozens over time though so it's not like you're dropping hundreds of dollars for *one* thing; just one that at that moment, which then opens up your options for everything else it has to offer over the course of it's era.

[n#n#m#]

Stoibs님이 먼저 게시:

The Ferret님이 먼저 게시:

I never understood people who buy a console for a single game.....

To play them :conwayshrug:
It's a hobby, I have disposable income.

Plus you can always sell your console If you don't need it anymore. PS or Switch will always find a buyer with decent price, not sure about Xbox though.

[Tox Laximus]

The console industry shot itself in the foot, great hardware with no bloody decent games.

[PiTCHBLaCK]

⎛⎝Radrooster⎠⎞님이 먼저 게시:

Fëanor님이 먼저 게시:

Because the controller is cool? 🤷‍♂️

You could also ask what's the point of getting an Xbox since all Xbox "exclusive" games are available on PC as well, and Game Pass makes it super cheap to play the latest and greatest games.

fyi windows is microsoft platform too, of course microsoft will release their game on their own platform to gain more users... and in that sense it's actually still an exclusive cause it's still only available on microsoft own platform soo... cope lol

at the end of the day, sony still makes a pretty penny from sales, not everyone is willing to wait and/or buy a PS5 just for a game or 2.

[Nohiro]

an other question to you then, what's the point of buying a 4 year old game port ?

[Stoibs]

young person online님이 먼저 게시:

Plus you can always sell your console If you don't need it anymore. PS or Switch will always find a buyer with decent price, not sure about Xbox though.

EB Games here in Australia had a trade-in promo when the PS5 went up for pre-order also, knocked a few hundred off by turning my Ps4Pro in at the same time.
(Sure could have potentially gotten more on an individual sale, but that would involve having to deal with.. *the public* which always sucks when it comes to these things. Lowballers and scummy people all the time )

[בתאניה]

I don't own a console and never will and I get upset when they make things exclusive. If they make something a PC exclusive it's usually because the console hardware can't handle it and that's mainly the only reason, unless the devs are just not wanting to or unable to develop a game for the console(usually indie devs). I would rather they get rid of game exclusivity all together so everyone can enjoy the games on any device, but that usually takes away development time to get it running on every device(look at Cyberpunk 2077 for that example), focusing on 1 things to develop on will make the game better, so they make it a masterpiece on the console first, so what, as long as they make it for the PC later and put some effort into porting it over, im fine with that as ill be getting a quality game.