Official Playstation 5 thread

[MoragaBlue]

RE: GTA6

Ok, I've never had an interest in GTA before, but after playing RD2, I just may give it try.

Rockstar has major street cred with me after my RD2 experience. I've got to say, RD2 has got to be one of the greatest and most immersive gaming experiences of all time. I can see why many call it the "greatest game ever made." Though, IMHO, I'd still give the nod to ER, one can't really argue with RD2's greatness. It's just a sublime gaming experience, especially for those of us who had grown up watching all those gunslinging westerns.

If GTA6 will be anything like this, I'm all in this time.

I can appreciate why other gaming studios are a little concerned about the GTA launch. I mean, games like ER & RD2 completely dominate a players' gaming time for months; ER, in my case, consumed me for over a year. When I'm consumed with these games, there's just no compulsion to play anything else.

Can't believe it's taken me this long to play finally play one of the greatest games of any era.

 

[jpiniero]

I can appreciate why other gaming studios are a little concerned about the GTA launch.

Given the rumors about GTA 6's budget, Rockstar pretty much has to in order for it to not be a flop, lol.

 

[MoragaBlue]

Given the rumors about GTA 6's budget, Rockstar pretty much has to in order for it to not be a flop, lol.

According to the grapevine, they've spent close to a billion? Given the recent price hikes, I'm curious how they'll price GTA6 at launch. The first $100 game?
Not sure I'd pay $100, since post ER, I have hard time pay for any title asking me more for what that cost.

While predicting the future is incredibly challenging at best, it appears most are of the opinion GTA will mint close to a billion at launch at around 20 million - 25 million unites sold immediately.

I have no idea. While I'm open to it, I'm not as enthused as I would be for a future FromSoft or even the LOP DLC. However, after RD2, I'm open to it, where otherwise I would not have been.

 

[MoragaBlue]

Curious what you guys would think of Maluca, a boss in Khazan which has given many a hard time. Took me a couple of days to get him down.

I thought that one was easy lol. No one can ever agree on Bloodborne bosses. Literally Maria and Kos were the only bosses I had trouble with including Chalice Dungeons.

My initial plan was to start on Khazan while waiting for LoP's DLC, but got sidetracked by RD2. The ultimate edition was $20 on the PS store and why not? Worth a try.

I was so engrossed and immersed by RD2 and it's one of those really rare games where it pulls me in completely where it's the only entertainment I'll choose for however long it takes me to "tire" of it. As with ER, I've stopped watching movies, streaming stuff and all other games until I'm finished with this. It's amazing, at least to me, a PS4 title could pull me in like this. If boggles my mind they made this over 5 years ago on vastly inferior hardware.

As to boss fights, I'm with Steve on this one. I just think it's a style makes fight thing. I'm sure there are boss fights easier for me that are insanely challenging for others, and vice versa. However, at a certain point, in my view, a player gets skilled enough where most fights pre ER SOTR bosses will seem easy.

I'm sure had I started with Bloodbonre as my first "Souls" game, it would have been very difficult and the Orphan would have given me a much harder time.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I don't mind that it got delayed. I had already known in the back of my head it will be a while. Knowing Rockstar their stuff usually comes out polished and with few issues. This will be the title that will get me back on the PS5. I still need to finish Stellar blade but I've been playing a lot more on the pc lately.

So now is Nintendo going to push all their best Switch 2 games to July 2026? Looked like they were scared of GTA VI when they decided they weren't releasing crap for 2025.

 

[MoragaBlue]

So now is Nintendo going to push all their best Switch 2 games to July 2026? Looked like they were scared of GTA VI when they decided they weren't releasing crap for 2025.

For me, the delay is good. It'll give me time to enjoy RD2, though I've played easily a hundred plus hours, where I'm nowhere near finished and enjoy LoP's DLC.

For the time being, I have so many titles picked up on deep discounts during sales, I don't think I'll ever play them all during a single lifetime. It's not possible when "great" games from time to time pop up and just take up years of one's immersion time.

Hopefully, GTA6 will be one of those titles for me, which is an unexpected surprise, because prior to RD2, I had zero intention to play it. However, Rockstar has really impressed me with RD2, similar to how From impressed with ER, and I may, as with From, just buy their next title on faith & general principle.

 

[sze5003]

Rockstar has always done a decent job on their games. A while back I got original RDR on PC when it went on sale. Finally got to finish it and not one time did I think man this wasn't worth it. It was well done, not even sure if it was Rockstar that did the remaster since usually third party studios work on remasters.

Can't say the same for days gone remaster. Different studio worked on that game and on the PC it brought back bugs that had been fixed shortly after the initial game was released. I'm going through that game now on PC as it plays and looks much better than what it did on PS4 plus I never finished it.

I also won't be surprised if GTA VI does end up scaling down on looks if it can't run properly when it's all done. The story looks interesting too but I think I could tell what will happen with the story just by watching the second trailer and reading about the character profiles.

 

[jpiniero]

According to the grapevine, they've spent close to a billion? Given the recent price hikes, I'm curious how they'll price GTA6 at launch. The first $100 game?

It'll be easily more than a billion once you factor in marketing and all that. As for the price, that remains TBD but I'll say $80 but they might charge extra for the MP.

 

[MoragaBlue]

It'll be easily more than a billion once you factor in marketing and all that. As for the price, that remains TBD but I'll say $80 but they might charge extra for the MP.

None of my business how Rockstar runs its business, but anything above $60 is too high for me. Whatever their costs of production is none of my concern, I just can't see paying any initial asking price higher than ER.

I suppose, if they ask for more than $60, I'll just have to wait and resort to my ever expanding backlog; or, at the very least, await for independent gamer reviews to see if their game is really what everyone's expecting.

 

[JujuFish]

I bought GTA V when it came out on PC and still haven't played more than a couple hours of it. I won't be getting GTA VI any time soon.

 

[JujuFish]

if they ask for more than $60

There is no chance they price it at $60. Nearly every AAA game these days starts at $70 and TakeTwo is one of the greedier publishers.

 

[purbeast0]

I bought GTA V when it came out on PC and still haven't played more than a couple hours of it. I won't be getting GTA VI any time soon.

I didn't like GTA4 but played 5 for like 10 minutes and I remember it having some kind of bullet time when driving the car and I was like WTF is this Matrix bullshit and cut it off.

GTA got old to me around San Andreas.

I have zero interest in 6. It does look very damn impressive from a technical point of view though.

 

[jpiniero]

I didn't like GTA4 but played 5 for like 10 minutes and I remember it having some kind of bullet time when driving the car and I was like WTF is this Matrix bullshit and cut it off.

Oh that's Franklin's special move, ha.

Pretty sure I am going to play GTA 6 but maybe not Day 1. May as well play one of the few actual current gen games out there.

 

[sze5003]

With the cost of all other tech items going up due to tarrifs and trade war crap I wouldn't be surprised if the price of games also keeps going up. It will probably be $70 nonetheless. At this point I spend a lot more than that bi-weekly on other crap and essentials so $10 increase won't matter.

Also at this point in my age I feel like I've played pretty much every type of game and nothing really is special anymore. It will be a day 1 buy for me, I'm curious what new side activities will be available. We've had pretty much all type of open world games and by the looks of GTA 6 I hope they scrounged up some new interesting content instead of your usual fetch quests.

 

[jpiniero]

Kinda interesting, Doom TDA's physical version is just 88 MB on disc. Essientally you would have to download a 60, 70 GB "patch" to play it.

The Game Collectors are all mad about this.

 

[Mopetar]

Did you get the complete edition? SOTE isn't quite as good as the base game but is worth playing for sure.

Yeah, but I'm only about 20 hours in so far and getting my ass properly kicked up and down the starting area. I know I can remap the controls, but I plan on grabbing some of the older Fromsoft PS4/3 games and figure I may as well get acclimated.

According to the grapevine, they've spent close to a billion? Given the recent price hikes, I'm curious how they'll price GTA6 at launch. The first $100 game?

I don't think they need to sell that high, but they certainly could. If they promise free DLC they can get away with $100. They'll make more money from the online service over the lifespan of it than they do from game sales.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I didn't like GTA4 but played 5 for like 10 minutes and I remember it having some kind of bullet time when driving the car and I was like WTF is this Matrix bullshit and cut it off.

I think Franklin in GTA V is supposed to be descended from John Marston from RDR and that's why he has that dead eye ability.

 

[jpiniero]

Yeah, but I'm only about 20 hours in so far and getting my ass properly kicked up and down the starting area.

I would suggest going East and not North.

 

[Mopetar]

I would suggest going East and not North.

I've gone to the East zone and the South zone already and have done a lot of the stuff there. I had tried going north by the boss was kicking my ass, but I did later find a hidden path to skip around him to go North.

I think my biggest issue is that I'm not quite sure what I should or shouldn't be doing. There was one boss in one of those warp jail things that I probably put 70+ attempts into before killing him. The number of runes I got from him was so much more than anything else that I concluded I probably wasn't meant to challenge that boss until I'd progressed a lot further.

I also got warped to some area that seems to be part of the late game. I managed to kill an enemy and get a drop for weapon upgrading that's a tier 5 item when I'm still using tier 2 items to upgrade my weapon. It was kind of fun just trying to figure out how to escape and in doing so I learned you could dodge roll evade magic, so it wasn't a completely bad experience either.

I've been trying to backfill some of the first three zones while slowly trying to map out the North area. A lot of it has just been realizing that ruins should have a treasure chest somewhere underneath them or other things that eventually I figured out. There's still some bosses I've encountered that I haven't cleared, but I've figured out that the game doesn't expect you to be able to beat everything right away and that it's perfectly fine putting something in your way that is better fought later. I'm assuming skilled players can beat them from the start of the game, but I'm not there yet.

I don't know if you can really screw up your character as I assume that there's no level cap. I've been a bit all over the place with level ups and stats. I have a problem of finding some new weapon that seems cool that I don't quite have the stats for and spending level ups chasing after it, only to find something new and just out of reach again. I put an enhancement on my main sword that lets me infuse it to do holy damage and that seems to be pretty broken, or at least it's probably given me enough extra damage to kill some things I otherwise couldn't because I do hit like a truck with it.

I'm a little confused about armor though. While backtracking through the first area and exploring I did unlock a tailoring option, but I can only use it on my starting armor pieces and it makes them suck worse for dropping the weight by a small amount, so I'm not really sure if I just need to progress that mechanic more or why I'd ever want to use the option because it's nowhere near enough weight loss to get me to drop down to a light weight.

The game is a lot of fun though. I do realize I could look up most of this stuff, but I've been getting a lot of satisfaction at figuring stuff out. Not knowing can be frustrating, but the game seems to be designed such that not knowing everything right away doesn't matter. If you miss something you can come back to get it later and you're free to approach solving the game's challenges in whatever way you want.

It'll probably be months before I finish my first play through but I've found enough interesting stuff that's obviously for a completely different build and play style that I already want to go through again and try out those options. From my limited use of magic I kind of feel as though it would be completely busted. There have been a few enemies or bosses that I've had a lot of trouble finding good ways to deal melee damage to that I was able to pelt with a spell and kind of trivialize. Or maybe that's the point and there are other enemies and bosses that resist magic or ranged attacks and I've had a much easier time killing because I got close and melee killed them.

 

[jpiniero]

I don't know if you can really screw up your character as I assume that there's no level cap. I've been a bit all over the place with level ups and stats. I have a problem of finding some new weapon that seems cool that I don't quite have the stats for and spending level ups chasing after it, only to find something new and just out of reach again. I put an enhancement on my main sword that lets me infuse it to do holy damage and that seems to be pretty broken, or at least it's probably given me enough extra damage to kill some things I otherwise couldn't because I do hit like a truck with it.

Later in the game you get the ability to respec.

I'm a little confused about armor though. While backtracking through the first area and exploring I did unlock a tailoring option, but I can only use it on my starting armor pieces and it makes them suck worse for dropping the weight by a small amount, so I'm not really sure if I just need to progress that mechanic more or why I'd ever want to use the option because it's nowhere near enough weight loss to get me to drop down to a light weight.

I never really bothered with the tailoring.