Exposition Dump
Was working towards saving for a PS5 with the intent of getting it close to my birthday in March to play FF7 Rebirth.
Went online to see what places near me offered the best prices etc and noticed there was a ridiculous sale on, over 100 off on a disc edition of the console… (I want physical ff7 rebirth for the true nostalgic buzz.)
Now there is a PS5 in a warehouse being loaded on to a delivery truck and it is heading my way this week.
Very quick turn around of events.
Look forward to playing No Mans Sky Expedition all over again on my original account 
If I am remembering correctly, owning NMS on ps4 means I have it on ps5 too?
Will my cloudsaves from 3 years ago still be on sonys servers?
Will I need to do anything on ps4 to convert the saves or will it work?
Those are my only questions.
Oh and of course, if you can suggest any cheap or cheerful quintessential PS5 exclusive titles I may have missed out on I’d love to hear them <3
Playing PS5 NMS from the PS4 disc that I already owned. It auto upgraded but I have to have the disc in to play
Yes. You just need to download the PS5 version.
Old saves can be transfered across from the PS4, (if it can be resurected enough to talk to the new console), but I can’t answer your query as to your cloud saves still being accessible…
You’re going to love the faster load screens on PS5!
I recomend a USB memory extension thingy to keep your dormant games on, as the PS5 has the memory capacity of a 1980’s Commodore 64 which isn’t very helpful in the current era.
Really don’t understand that decision by Sony.
Our 1Tb PS4 also has a 1Tb storage thingy but its been the entire family’s go-to console since they were first released so there are a lot of games stuffed in there.
As for recommendations, so long as you can get your head around the exaggerated controversies (thanks internet) I found Hogwarts Legacy to be a nicely rounded game.
Mrs Mad is currently ploughing her way through Avatar which is very very pretty & quite immersive & is essentially Far Cry on Pandora from a play perspective.
If you want little & fun, I’d suggest the Little Nighmares franchise. Simple but creepily beautiful side scroller with a third game coming this year & some DLC available. Lots of wierd lore to investigate online too. Wear your brown pants though.
PS5 arrived today.
I boot it up, I download NMS and I also download NMS ps5 upgrade.
I boot up PS4 version on PS5 and upload save for transfer via in-game menu.
I then quit out and boot up shiny new NMS.
It looks…
worst than on my pc.
Not sure why…
Then it dawns on me. Oh yeah, this is still the ps4 version being emulated on ps5. DERP.
Quit back out
Boot up the real McCoy… Holy funk balls all of yall!
It looks amazing and runs so butterly smooth.
My CPU on PC was starting to show its age and struggle to render the world at the same pace my GPU was so this is a nice breath of fresh air.
Also I got a HDR 4k PC monitor for 100 euro on a dirt cheap sale during lockdown, never got to actual go 4k with it, best i could do was 1080 hdr 60hz or 1440 hdr with DLSS on performance. (okay sorta lie, I play Minecraft RTX bedorck at 4k because its Minecraft, of course I can)
Happy I can finally use that monitor to its fullest ability (only 60hz but no rush to try 120hz, I’m an old school “25 frames is fine for non-competitive” kinda guy)
Very happy. Time to start collecting BluRay again I guess.
Also was a treat to see my post atlas rises pre next base again.
Took a screen on PS4 emu and then ps5 version
Uploading from phone, actually can’t tell which is which on small screen
Nightingale is a survival game with procedurally generated worlds. You use cards to control what features the next world you travel to will have. It’s in early access and a bit rough around the edges currently, but looks like the kind of game people in this community might like
Been waiting for this game for a long long time. I actually thought maybe it was never going to see the light of day. I’d check every few months and every major games con for news. Absolutely nothing for 3 years just silence and a missed release window.
It’s back and looks like it might actually get released. Sounds like the studio went through a massive growth spurt and didn’t transition well to becoming a bigger studio.
Basically what if Zack Fair made it to Midgar alive and lived out his Merc dreams, the video game. Glad to see that original vision is still intact (another worry I had was the game would have to sacrifice it’s scope for a more linear tale to get out of Dev hell)
We became a team, then grew into a company and tried many hands to make light work.
Along the way in all efforts to making a great game, many great people have come and gone.
People with respectable but different purposes and pursuits.
In sharing these differences and thoughts, we were sometimes touched and moved and sometimes in conflict.
We are responsible for not being able to embrace the differences.
And of course, sincere apologies to you all.
I’ve been playing and really enjoying this new game Pacific Drive. I would describe it as “Sci-fi haunted road trip” game. You drive out in the Pacific Northwest forested areas where a government experiment has unleashed dimensional warps and objects similar to SCPs. You have to stop at abandoned houses and collect materials to repair your car, so it’s kind of a survival game. Each area you drive through is procedurally generated with different terrain, foliage and anomalous dangers.
Worlds Of The Future
Worlds Of The Future is a futuristic open world, 3rd person single player, action/adventure game. The game is set in a bright, vibrant and fun version of our solar system in the year 2500. Explore a fully seamless solar system full of adventures, mysteries and colorful characters. Build your space delivery company from the ground up, climb the solar system company rankings and become a legend among the worlds!
Worlds Of The Future 
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I never understood the hate for ffviii, I think being 12 when I played it and not quite yet a teen critic probably helped but it always has a place in my heart and brings back fond youthful memories.
It was also the first game where I had the internet and a hype train to live on. I loved Nobuo Uematsu and would spend hours on fan sites and blogs downloading midi files of the music as there was no other on demand alternative l.
This blog really takes me back to that time, when the internet was a fractured place of fan sites and love bubbles. Shit posting and hate comments were rare <3
I never understood final fantasy, period. Never could get into it. Have a DVD of spirits within, which was a decent enough movie, but as far as I can tell has very little to do with the game, but any game seemed to have very little to do with any other of the games either. Played the Snes games, even finished one if I remember right (I vaguely remember airships, and a mountain, and paladins or something) But none of them had anywhere near the resonance of comparable games like chrono trigger (also Snes) or Albion (PC). I guess I just don’t get it.
…a worldwide concert…a cookbook… 
Being ten years old and only ever having a console and JRPGs/RPGs basically being non existant on those platforms until FF7s arrival in Europe exploded the genre definitely has me primed with Bias.
I havent actually played or enjoyed any FF game after FFX and thats mostly to do with me just not being the target demographic for Shonen stories anymore (but also has been experiencing an identity crises since the 360 era imo)
But for someone who was raised on captain planet and living through the tail end of the troubles albeit from a very safe place, this game about a bunch of eco warriors labelled as terrorists by an empire was VERY appealing to me
I do think FF games themselves have taken a massive move away from what I enjoyed about them, ffxii left a bad taste in my mouth and Tetsuyo Nomura should not have been allowed to evolve past a character designer and Kingdom Hearts producer… He’s a terrible Director imo and a one trick pony, able to take something cool and water it down and milk it well past its prime. You can clearly see what decisions are his in the FF7 remake trilogy but thankfully the original writers are still around making sure he doesn’t get full reign '
FF7 also came to me at a time where I was being bullied and moving to a new school, the first friend I made in that new school was drawing pictures of the characters on my first day and immediately dispelled my nerves and fears <3 (id just moved from and english speaking school to an irish speaking school and my irish was more or less non-existant)
I am fully aware that if I had never played ff7 when I did, or any of the ps1 era games, I probably would not have any interest in this whatsoever. I’m also very congnitave of what the fandom has done to the characters over the decades, and some of the remakes worst moments and decisions seem to come from their desire to appease the fandom, even if the fandom has it totally wrong.
For example, sephiroth is barely in the Midgar chapter, which is all the first game covers. But Sephiroth/cloud/zack, the horniest part of the fandom just wont fuckin shut up about em…
So midgar chapter arc is just FULL of sephiroth and zack moments, which kinda robs the story of how they were originally revealed and how the curtain was slowly pulled back. Up until the exit of midgar and the sudden return of sephiroth, you genuinely think he’s going to be this guy who helps the good guys. He’s even listed in the manual with the cast of playable characters.
As a kid that was a big moment, the game makes you think he’s going to be the aged warrior trope who guides the new hero, then suddenly he shows up and its not what you were expecting at all.
Obviously they cant pull taht same trick again, even people with a passive awareness of Final Fantasy know or have heard about Sephiroth, but I still feel having him haunt cloud all throughout Midgar and pegging him as the big bad before Cloud even gets to Sevent Heaven was a bad decision just trying to do fan service.
Its funny because the first remake actually has a whole meta story line about that. There is this force going around called whispers, any time the game is about to go off the beaten track or change story beats from the original, they show up and put the story back on course.
My interpretation of this was that its a representation of the fears the original writers had about changing things, and the whispers were the future rage comments of the internet had they made those changes (no, fix it or we send death threats, you know how gamers be)
The first part ends with yr party defeating the Time Lords just as they leave Midgar, signalling to the fans in an in-universe way (pretty smart actually) that yes, from here on out, we are going off script and doing things drastically different, this is a new timeline.
So my excitement for ff7 part 2 is naturally at an all time high because I cannot wait to see how this story plays out with nuances changes coming hard and fast.
I came here to apologize for and explain my bias for Final Fantasy (classic ones, not the smelly new ones) and ended up fanning out like a dolt. Apologies <3 not apologies
Chrono Trigger… Now theres a masterpiece. Never played Chrono Cross but I loved the soundtrack for that, played that lovely guitar/vocal theme for my Junior Cert in secondary shcool <3
Huh, now that sounds interesting. Will have to take a peak at it. See what happens when I try to Solo it…
