Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

Lies of P is one of our PS+ games of August.

I've always been curious about this Timothee Chalamet simulator.

@Magician If you like FromSoft, you'll love it. It leans heavily into all of From's games, but still carves out its own identity... a lot of fun.

Refreshingly linear and chapter-based also, quite challenging but fair

Think I'm giving up on Ghost of Tsushima after around 12 hours.

It's just..beyond sleep inducing so far. I'm playing on the difficulty level just below lethal - because that seems dumb as hell for a first playthrough - and combat is hilariously one note so far. You pop the stance that's good against whatever you're fighting, whack at shields or defenses until they break and just slash enemies till they drop dead. Very little strategy beyond a very shallow RPS style idea. Stances also change disappointingly little about how you fight and, afaik, there's only the regular sword in this one so that's gonna be very engaging for a 40 hour game.. The tools so far also seem kind of op? The Kunais feel like they're just get off me buttons because they stagger the hell out of stronger enemies and outright kill regular goons. The bombs are similar. The smoke bomb means you just get free instakills, too. I think there's one or two more tools I haven't unlocked yet but I may also just have forgotten about a fourth one I do have. I'm not sure tbh.
Horse riding feels bad to me. I tried avoiding that but traveling by foot feels WORSE than that so that's a no go.

Jin...is beyond bland. This guy doesn't really emote, he isn't really interesting so far, he doesn't give me a reason to care about his motivation, same for the general setup. He very much admires his uncle, I think that's about it as far as his characterization at the start/in chapter 1 goes here.

Other characters I met till now don't fare much better. I think I kind of like Ryozo/the strawhat leader because he displays a little bit of emotion. He doesn't really get anyone to play off of tho, because of how jin is in those missions/in general.
The thief lady /Yuna is awful, first thing she does is lie to you and then she's kind of a capital b about it to boot. I only met her brother once and that's right as he's freed so no opinion on him yet, don't wanna be too judgemental when they actually did a good job making me feel bad for him, he seemed to be in rough shape.
The old guy I don't care for at all.
Which leaves the merchant who helps with Yuna and her brother, he's fun but, again, I've only seen him in one mission.
Everyone else I've encountered so far seems like a one off character. They at least don't seem to join jin in his undertaking to take back that first enemy base, at least.

And then there's the missions in general. Feeling like I repeat myself here but jin drags those down, too. He's so...passive in most of them. If he doesn't have something that allows him to go off about his honor - after I've been killing dozens of mongols in stealth - he just doesn't seem like he cares at all. He's very "matter of fact" which doesn't need to be a bad thing in character writing but they just do so little with it with Jin and I legitimately don't know if the writing is just horrible or if the acting/direction for Jin is at fault here. Although the generic villagers aren't exactly great either. There's a short quest with a man fleeing from his home and you find out his wife and child got killed. And this guy basically just goes "oh" in the most apathetic way possible and the mission just...ends. Same for jin who doesn't seem to give a damn about "his people" whatsoever.

The world is hella pretty. I'll give the game that. The bad thing here is just that there's not a whole lot to do besides busywork that has yet to feel like it actually empowers me in any way. Sure, I get more health, more of those focus points and I got a new bow, some armor and...some other tool, I think. But with the combat being as shallow as it is it doesn't mean anything to me.

I genuinely feel like I'm just going through the motions with the game and I can't tell if it's legitimately a boring as hell game and story or if it just doesn't "click" whatsoever for me. I don't see at all how this isn't just another take on the ubisoft open world formula and I'm kidn of shocked how much the game has been talked up. I don't think that's a bad thing, there's nothing the game does glaringly wrong but it's all very milquetoast in execution. No real flaws but nothing that sets it apart.

I got kind of excited for Yotei. That's why I started Tsushima in the first place. And I'm starting to think I'll just skip that for now. SURELY it's going to end up on psplus at some point, like GoT. And if not it's gonna get discounted. I also went and checked out trailers from Tsushima, just to compare how they market both titles, and it looks pretty interesting in those. They show all the things I do, no real surprises there, but somehow the game is more interesting to just look at than to actually play it to me. Or maybe Suckerpunch are just that good at making it seem intriguing.

Just kind of wanted to ramble about this a little because it bums me out. On paper Ghost of Tsushima is my jam. But I guess I can't expect every game to be exactly to my tastes. I jsut didn't expect it to leave me cold THIS much.

Sucker Punch, going through the wringer this week. Feels bad for the folks at SP who don't share the opinion of the dev who got merc'd. But it's a bad look for the game, the studio, and Sony. Mildly shocked Sony didn't offer a statement expressing how that person's world view doesn't align with their business practices.

Or whichever corporate rhetoric you prefer to sling at customers to gloss over the issue.

Ghost of Yotei hype is skyrocketing! I have to move my display cases into my office (den is smaller in my new home) and that means seeing Jin’s mask daily. Can’t wait to add its counterpart!

Recently, PS5 machine is my most played console so far since August 2025 after I got Fantasy Life I and purchased some DLC for my The Sims 4.
PS5 is perfect machine to play my Home Builder games like The Sims 4, Fantasy Life I, Dragon Quest Builders games, Portal Knights, etc.
Man... I need to check my other Home Builder games as I haven't finish yet some of my post game missions.

@Magician Nor should they need to respond. People making a mountain out of a molehill there.

Well, this morning I turned on my PS4 Slim machine and played some PS4 games for maintenance.
I also installed again a few PS4 games I got recently on my PS4 Slim since those games don't really need to be played on my PS5 machine due to have natural 60 fps on PS4 machine.
I need to give more space for my PS5 Fat before I will purchase SSD 2TB to add more storage.