Playstation 5

Alasliasolonik said:

People must have really messed with him, this is a rule in his subreddit.

6. No elaborate schemes to subject Spoony to MKUltra style psychological torture.

Elaborate schemes to subject Spoony or any affiliated parties to MKUltra style psychological torture or the equivalent thereof will result in laughter and a permanent ban.

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I won't derail any further, but his Ultima reviews were pretty comprehensive and funny (not sure if they have aged well but I remember liking them).

Synj said:

I won't derail any further, but his Ultima reviews were pretty comprehensive and funny (not sure if they have aged well but I remember liking them).

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Noah/Spoony did some really good stuff. His Ultima reviews are my favorite videos of his because he goes so in-depth. It simultaneously makes me want to play the Ultima series but also not play it because I feel like I did already from watching his synopses. Also check out his reviews of Final Fantasy 8, 10, 10-2, and 13, and the Highlander movies, and Miami Vice. Guy was just awesome ten years ago. Unfortunately he got depressed over time and his output of videos completely dropped off, and so did his Patreon funding, and he lost his GF/house/etc. Every once in a while he puts a low-effort stream online of him playing something for a couple hours with no edits. Down The Rabbit Hole did a good video about the rise and fall of Spoony. He could be successful again pretty quickly if he could snap out of his depression and revive his channel, which still has a ton of subscribers who wish he'd return, etc.

Utnayan said:

All it takes is a few beers and some free time. I’ll probably last about two hours myself but I like to talk a big game. If @Brahma shows up for once in his life all three of us could blow past it all and start the end game in 8 hours.

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I still need to play Monster Hunter World and Iceborne, but I was pushed away by the time required. If it's online and you're going to plow it, hit me up when you're getting people together for it and I'll get it / get online.

Vanessa said:

So boys... has gaming platforms graphics finally outpaced my monitor? Or have graphics just somewhat plateau'd?

Because when I see videos of Demon's Souls and Miles Morales gameplay, it looks no different than my PS4. There have been clear jumps in graphical prowess in some gaming generations, with a more robust and noticeable curve going backwards in time, not forward. By that, I mean that as games evolve, the jump in technology is getting less and less perceptible. The jump from Atari to NES 8 bit was HUGE. The jump to NES to Super NES was enormous too. But the jump from PS3 to PS4? Ehhh... good but not so hitting-in-the-face obvious imo. Ditto here, but moreso.

So when looking at the PS5, I had an epiphany. Are we at a point where advanced monitors / TVs at 4k are required just as much as the system / hardware? For me to appreciate the graphic upgrade? Or are the graphics just kinda... plateau'd and meh?

Retard small brain analogous way I'm relating my thoughts to you tech wizards: I realize that you can have a liquid stream this big . this big o and this big O, as well as a hole this big . and this big o and this big O. If you have a hole this big o with both streams . and o trying to get through the hole, you see difference in output. But if you have a hole this big o and try to squeeze o and O through it, it'll look like the same amount of stream coming through this size --> o o even though the actual stream is o O because the hole was only o big.

In the above example, it's like

NES - .
PS1 - o
PS5 - O
CRT - .
Monitor - o
4kHD - O

There will be at LEAST one of you that will grasp what I'm asking here The rest can make fun of me in the rickshaw... that'd be terrific <3

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Blergh, multi-quote isn't working so I'm posting a bunch in a row like Foler.

Lot of people here suggesting budget TVs, but I'm gonna recommend against that. Getting a powerful TV that'll last you ten years is much less of a waste than getting a discount one that won't maximize the potential of the PS5. The $1000-1500 range is usually sufficient. LG OLED is absolutely the way to go. I've got a Sony 4K 55'' TV in one room and an LG 4K 55'' TV in another room, both cost around $1500 each, and the LG blows away the Sony in picture quality. Put it on credit or something, Best Buy lets you pay over 18 months with no interest which is pretty nice.

The visual jump between PS4 and PS5 might be the smallest of any console generation but it's certainly noticeable depending on the TV. PS5 games are much more detailed and breathtaking on the LG than PS4 games. Yet on the Sony TV, the gap isn't that big.

Another thing is the TV size. The bigger the TV, the more stuff like 4K matters. Anything under 47'' and 1080p / 4K don't look that different. At 55'' like my TVs, 1080p starts losing a good amount of ground while 4K loses absolutely nothing. On 65'', 1080p starts to look more like a 720p PS3 game while 4K still holds strong. I assume that 75''+ probably start to lose 4K fidelity which is where 8K would actually have a reason to exist (I doubt 8K would make any difference on my 55'' displays).

So basically... get a really solid LG OLED with HDR10 or whatever the latest HDR is, plug in the PS5, marvel at how much better it looks than PS4. 55'' is an optimal size for these systems for maximum effect. Doing this wil also pull up the visual quality of PS4 games, both through the TV and through whatever enhancements the PS5 offers for that particular game. I'll say this: Last-gen when I played Bloodborne on PS4, I tested it on both TVs and on the LG it looked like I'd jumped a half-generation to PS4.5 or something. It was that big of a difference.

Vanessa said:

This is where my mind was basically floating at, yeah, just wanted confirmation from you guys. Thx!!! I dunno when or where it'll happen, but I look forward to seeing a PS5 game the way it was meant to be displayed.

It's wild to think that we went from Pong's giant pixel by pixel gaming to photo-realistic gaming (skirting the edges of it at least right now but we're still young!) in one lifetime.

My (our?) generation (40+) is truly the gaming generation that saw it all happen. Amazing

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Yeah, I was just telling people yesterday how lucky we are (mid-30's) to have grown up precisely when we did, at one of the very few times in human history when none of the major powers were at war with each other, and during the advent of the NES+ for games. Like there's no better time to have grown up than 1980+...I think. People have told me that the 1950's were pretty great in their own way, as well.