Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2024?

On 4/4/2024 11:53 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
 

What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2024?

 Only Horizon Forbidden West. Streaming the Playstation version with PS
Plus.

I assume it's pretty much just more HZD which is essentially an AC/Farcry clone with enough difference/innovation to barely keep me interested to finish.
 > I have no idea if I'm playing the PS4 or PS5 version of HFW or
 > if there's any way to choose that.
I looked a bit into that previously, and found info that they claim they're using the highest listed version, so it should be the PS5 version.
Unlike with Bloodborne which is listed as only PS4, so it plays like it's running on a PS4 (People claim it works much better on a PS5, and looking at old stream recordings vs. newer ones stating they were played on PS5 that looks to be the case, and the streaming more closely matches PS4 play.)

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.

Yeah they really need to give more info, finding anything is horrendous even compared to Epic's app.  The DLCs of games not being available on PS streaming and being not at all indicated by them was a big disappointment.  Apparently you can buy the DLCs, but you can't play them unless you stream or play from a PS4 or 5 you have running it.

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.

I'm still not sure how much of my difficulties with Bloodborne and God of War (2022) were from any input lag, vs. my old reflexes.  They have some sort of predictive input, but I'm not sure how good that is, nor if that means I'm really playing, or their logarithm is playing the game for me, or maybe it's just failing on those games.
Some games, like Spider-Man: Miles Morales didn't seem to have input delay (except for the rare lag spike as we've experienced,) but that may be more the way the game is made with allows inputting the next move in while the current is executing and having long chains of moves possible.
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