Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anssi Saari Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2024? Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:53:29 +0300 Organization: An impatient and LOUD arachnid Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <5opl0jdttbig6piphp01k4sp2ltjs51thn@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:53:31 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b8e4dbe73719673341890355c95b2756"; logging-data="878240"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/3S2j/5chs8Cy+voIyEgMC" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tevMJQ3sC16FOQ3hKvPw6xOatpw= sha1:Bw1sbU8OKgNuRltISHtiMYW706Q= Bytes: 3011 Spalls Hurgenson writes: > What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2024? Only Horizon Forbidden West. Streaming the Playstation version with PS Plus. I have now about 100 hours in it. I guess I'm hopelessly enamored with the game since I'm nowhere near finishing it, I think. And the reason is clear, HFW is exactly what I want from games these days. Exploration, entertaining little stories in the side missions and a main story that isn't complete crap. And action that doesn't suck either. I'm not really sure the last is true, the game's limitations are starting to show. In some ways it feels like a PS2 game, step out of the local little bubble and back in and almost everything resets. Convenient for farming to be sure but meh otherwise. The tech issues with PS Plus streaming have pretty much stabilized. I don't mind the occasional video glitches and drops in quality. Controller disconnects usually just mean I need to restart the gamepad emulator (DualSenseX) and PS Plus patiently waits through that. As a gaming platform PS Plus seems a little poor in information, for example I have no idea if I'm playing the PS4 or PS5 version of HFW or if there's any way to choose that. Also the DLC doesn't seem to be available. So it looks like a meh effort by Sony. They also "helpfully" recommend you save your game if the connection quality goes down but not all games have save anywhere, anytime. Controller delays are a bigger issue especially when I fail an easy jump five times in a row. I've come to the conclusion it's not that I suck, it's the streaming that sucks, at least some of the time. This likely affects combat also but it's harder to see there, I have no way to compare. The PC version of HFW was released in March but as there seems to be no way to transfer a save from the PS version, I don't think I'll get that until later, in a sale. I'm not sure I want to replay the whole thing, maybe a speed run of sorts.