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Ah screw it, just one more bump since this board moves pretty fast. I think a lot of these gamestops actually got a good amount today....just been reading about a lot of people in the reddit PS5 drop thread getting one today.

1 more bump in case those PS5s aren't sold out by now

Yeah, there has actually been a good bit of drops across all the major retailers this month looking at this tracker, with best buy, amazon, and target all having restocks within the past week. They still sell out stupid fast, but its something.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ps5-restock-update

Just sayin', these bundles tend to be headache free when it comes to not having to compete with the dreaded scalpers+robutts and fellow gamers that have the money to buy a PS5 but not quite enough to get a bundle which cuts out a lot of the competition. Also things like the bundle games+random accessories can just be taken straight back to the store for cash so honestly you get that money right back in your pocket but eh , its fine either way.

https://bit.ly/3xOCtJT

Figure I would drop this here for those who don't like touching the PS5 boards (which I don't blame you for, lol). From what I understand they should have them soon the store open up, and yeah they will be bundles so its probably going to be like 750 dollars or so.

Also, be a pro member. 14.99 a year or 19.99 for getting game informers in the mail. Go go go.

dj1200 posted...

When were the fucking ps5s released? And where the fuck are the new ones? This is taking forever.

@dj1200
Gamestop is having a PS5 drop today....

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/gamestop-ps5-restock-confirmed-for-this-weekend-date-time-and-how-to-get-yours

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I really do believe that if someone really wanted a PS5 by now they could have gotten one simply by following like two dudes on twitter matt swider and jake randall, lol.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Whats the point of game pass if you just have to buy the games when they take them off? Recently they took off the yakuza games and Nier automata as well right?

Yeah, 3rd party games regularly come and go...only microsoft published stuff is expected to stay on there for as long as possible, but games like those and things like scarlet nexus n' tales of vesperia definitive edition should be played while they are there. Game pass is basically just netflix for video games....now if you are the type of gamer who plays a ton of games and can dedicate a good amount of hours (and at the same time does not care much for actually replaying games that is beaten) into each game then a service like this really has value. You also get to potentially try out smaller indie like games that you possibly would have either missed out on or never bothered with before if you had to buy it. Discover new things and whatnot.

Now for gamers like me, who sometimes has enough time in the day to put in a lot of gaming hours and sometimes don't, but at the same time prefer to take my time with playing variety of games instead of feeling the pressure or need to play certain games before they are potentially removed from the service, something like game pass is not for me. Something like the entire yakuza series, that is something I like to take my time with since these games can be pretty lengthy....its something I rather own so I can play at my leisure. RPGs in general is a genre I rather own so I don't feel pressured into getting through them asap before they are potentially removed. I would never expect for 3rd party games to stay on there for that long a period.

Games, both the mainstream and indie type of games tend to regularly go on sale so actually buying stuff will always be my preferred way to play, but I also see how game pass can be useful for other types of gamers. (It can also be a good thing for those countries where the price of new games is crazy high....get the cheaper xbox series s and gamepass and you can have a more budget friendly way to play new releases).

Scorsese2002 posted...

I see that the game is onlinebetter to play it offline I hope cause I dont want people showing up while Im gaming, if thats the case

You can still play online if you like seeing various player messages and whatnot....what people normally do is that everytime they kill a boss and get their fleshy bits back they would just go straight to the nexus/the hub and kill yourself via falling from up high. Like post 10 said, if you die as a human in a actual world the "world tendency" will turn dark (basically the game gets harder......its a very backwards system. You would think dying=make the game easier and not dying=make the game harder, but whateves), and a lot of times being at a certain world tendency level means certain items disappear. Normally its recommended to go through the game with your worlds at white tendency so you can get all the white tendency only items, and at the very end have a friend or something kill you over and over to turn the worlds dark tendency so you can get those items.

If you are in ghost form then there is no world tendency changes thus why you should play through the game as a ghost so you don't have to worry about the world tendency stuff. Basically play the game>kill a boss>the boss' death will automatically change you to a fleshy human>immediately fast travel to the nexus>kill yourself. There is a ring you can equip that will give you 50 percent more HP in ghost form so you aren't always running around at half HP (basically you will have 75 percent of your max HP), and if you are about fashion there is also a ring that will give you the "alive" appearance despite being a ghost.

If you love it then why not like, buy it? Pretty sure its 25 dollars.

If you care about getting all the rings in the game (which is a trophy if you care about that) then pick the Providential Ring as your starting gift. The only other way to get that ring is to upgrade a certain weapon to plus 8 and trade the weapon to the item tradin' crow.

In general you get a lot of use out of the ring since it boost item discovery rate.

Crab meat in general.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/0/0/AARkkPAADJcM.jpg
lol, I love everyone's portrayal in strikers. Especially DK.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/0/1/AARkkPAADJcN.jpg

They should make a new opening just for that damn roof battle, lol.

I played the absolute shit out of the PS4, and I am still buying PS4 games of niche stuff to play on my PS5 off of limited run games (my physical PS4 limited run games copy of zombies ate my neighbors n' ghoul patrol should be arriving in the next day or so actually). The switch is my nintendo exclusive machine since it's performance for the vast amount of jrpgs and those PS4 shared japanese games like dbz kakarot, Ys monstrum nox n' the world ends with you neo for example is way too slack at this point....well that and portability is something that doesn't really matter to me much these days since I am always gaming on my 65 inch TV anyway. My switch was a dust ball for the longest time but recently I've been messing around in rune factory 5.

I have a like, 380 game plus PS4 game library that carried over right away to the PS5 since I had all the PS4 game installs on my 8 TB external HDD.

My xbox one s was a glorified cable box back when I had dish network years back. Its a gears of war 4 special edition model so I never had the heart to sell it off, but yeah, its not really used much at all.

PS4>Switch>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>xbox one.

They could if all those studios they bought actually produces games and don't either get denied (I recently watched that "wut happun? perfect dark zero video by matt mcmuscles....its wild how microsoft totally self-sabotaged on that and the sequel games the rare guys at the time was apparently really motivated to make) or just flat out cancelled like that last fable attempt and scalebound.

I'm kind of meh on the fact that I bought a xbox one s last generation and did not use it much at all (I bought the gears of war 4 bundle since I used to be a huge gears of war fan. I.....don't like the way the new guys is running the gears of war series these days. I tried both 4 and 5 and felt "eh" on both compared to the greatness that was gears of war 3), so I am definitely on wait and see mode this time around. Hopefully they actually do something with all those wrpg studios.

Looks to be a nice console for those that love the game subscription thing though.

Heavy_D_Forever posted...

Yeah I can see that being useful for some people. I only buy like 2 - 3 physical games a year and just play everything else on Game Pass or buy digital so it wouldn't help me much.

You could also just put them towards PSN or xbox/digital currency in general.

Heavy_D_Forever posted...

Don't you have to use the $5 monthly thing in that month tho? I thought the girl said you can't stack those $5 coupons last time I was in there.

Yeah, they don't stack. You can use them in pre-orders though, so if I'm not spending anything for the month I usually just put it towards a pre-order.

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lmao That meteor smash was brutal.

Agreed.

Hell I mostly use the monthly coupons on pre-orders for future games if I'm not buying a recent game. I put the one I get for this month towards the ninja turtles collection.

This ninja hideaway track looks awesome as hell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE_p_Gr2yKM

I gotta' get up on this dlc

No. Nepheli, alexander, and D all survived the entirety of the boss fights they helped me with...especially alexander, he a ol' tanky pot bastard.

I personally beat a lot of the end game bosses on my first try dual-wielding rivers of blood and a occult nagakiba (alongside using hoslow's whip, urumi whip, and great stars when something needed strike type bashing) and summoning my best friend/buddy mimic tear or black knife tiche as a 55 dex 55 arcane weeb. I did had to actually put in effort to beat malenia, the one two headed dragon in farum azura and the final boss combo, but admittedly bosses like the godskin duo, fire giant, maliketh and so on got freaking melted.

Even though the bleed arcane stuff hits hard, I still don't think its quite a automatic I win button in pve.....still got to be a little decent to get up close and not face plant. (Not unless its something like using the dragon's seal and spamming swarm of flies or something since the dragon's seal has arcane scaling).

Came in here to make a jrpg joke but its already covered.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/0/1/AARkkPAADIj9.jpg

35 years old is damn near ancient, so you already up there at 34 old man.

Just over here getting in some morning co-op mohg runs. It is not going well with hosts face-planting and all of the ones I ran into so far did not catch on about using the one crystal tear to reduce the damage of mohg's blood suck you off move, lol.

Soon I posted this message I get summoned into a game where the two guys started spamming swarm of flies, I figure screw it and join them and we just melted mohg down. Didn't even stand a chance, poor bastard.

Bio1590 posted...

You wanna talk installation being stupid, on the disc PS5 if you're installing a game from disc that installs in two parts (as in it installs part of it so you can start playing, and then a second part), it doesn't actually install that second part from the disc, it literally downloads it from the PSN servers instead.

You can install the whole game off disc by intentionally going offline, but yeah.....its still dumb. I'm assuming they did it that way since they figure it would be faster installing one part off disc one part off the net compared to the entire thing off disc. This method is probably a good thing for those with fiber internet, but kinda' eh' for people like me rocking that basic tier 200 down 10 up spectrum internet.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Theyre shutting down the estore? Thats extremely shit of them

Yeah.....nintendo's digital ecosystem is like a decade behind even sony's. I am still a little pissed that I missed out on buying castlevania rebirth when the wii's digital marketplace got shut down.

With that said I really need to get around buying that fire emblem fates and echoes dlc at some point. Maybe a few shin megami tensei games too.

Smackems posted...

I'm wondering if cyberpunk is worth it on xsex

Its certainly worth playing on the PS5, so the sexbox version is more than likely just as nice.

HDR is still booty butt cheeks though.

Ohhhhh, might see if I can get the PS5 version for cheap because that does look pretty cool.

Well zero is robot, so he has nothin' to worry about.

This topic is a nice coincidence...I happen to be playing mega man x7 via the legacy collection and not only is the game hot donkey balls but I am playing wind crowrang's stage...a bigger steaming pile on a already crappy game.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/9/AARkkPAADIMz.jpg

Trying to save all repoids to not only play as x dumb-ass but there is a trophy for saving every single one and I can't just plat legacy collection 1 and leave 2 undone. Why is playing as zero so much pain in this and why he got that bored 3 pack a day smoker dub voice....he already suffered enough in x4 goddamn.

Man.......I was just watching whatever random elden videos that caught my eye and came across a video about the golden parry ash of war....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGAxCJWAV-w

I completely missed this ash with all my 300 hours of playing the game and I don't know how the hell I did since I been in the area where it's at like 3 times, lol.

Seriously that ash would have made my crucible knight life like 50 times easier and now I am mad thinking about it.

Suolevram posted...

I don't understand the need to have a system as soon as it launches. Nothing wrong with playing previous gen systems. Why get caught in the rat race?

Because playing janky frame rate PS4 games like earth defense force 5, one piece pirate warriors 3, and Ys monstrum nox on my PS5 with basically non-existent slowdown/a hardlocked 60 fps is a very beautiful thing.

Xavier_On_High posted...

If I wanted good writing, I wouldn't be playing a Tales of game.

https://i.imgur.com/m8kB5Te.gifv

Also, using a spread needle as a humar in the first version of phantasy star online on the dreamcast, lol.

Getting really good at playing as ludger in tales of xillia 2. The guy has 48 artes spread out across three different movesets, can equip all the best passive skills like glory/aerial glory so enemies cannot stun you and whatever else that makes you kick the most ass, and to kick it all off he has a exclusive super transformation. Even on unknown difficulty you have to actually try to die as ludger when its all said and done, lol.

He is the most busted tales of main character the series has came up with. Velvet and yuri is also definitely up there though.

Damn.

I recently sent my beyerdynamic DT 770 pro headphones off to a vendor on there, dude did a great job removing my falling apart cable and installing a removable audio cable mod. Hopes this works out for'em.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMRhcrcs5YQ

The second time me and everyone I knew played the absolute hell out of a snowboarding game. (The first time was the second snowboard kids game on the N64, lol).

Well, half of the chapter spent running around panicking about some dumb fire when you have these two pirate guys on a skull roof just splitting the sky with their super ambition powers n' getting into dragon jump-rope nuttiness and then finally smacked with the dreaded "break next week" will kill the hype, lol.

Ving_Rhames posted...

https://youtu.be/vKUcIaGvSmw

LMFAO

Ratchetrockon posted...

would you guys consider the upper half of caelid to be end-game or mid-game? i consider Atlus plateau mid-game and the upper part of caelid seems tougher than it.. I'm talking like the black blade kindred.

Felt like caelid was higher level than atlus plateau to me. Caelid's bell hunter and lesser erdtree spirit thing hit so much harder than the atlus counterparts. I went to caelid first and by the time I got to the atlus region and the royal capital I bulldozed through it.

Lookin' like neptune, king of the sea lol

TheGoldenEel posted...

Holy FUCK are those sniper enemies in siofra annoying

god damn

Boy you gonna' love this certain optional area later on in the game when it comes to arrows.

My favorite classic ninja gaiden stage theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW0Db5HVEqU&list=PL63A620D86D053A64&index=7

Ratchetrockon posted...

i guess I relied too much on the colossal hammer damage to kill them quickly without them retaliating. weapons like katana stun them for like 3 hits and then they jump away. i thought whip would work but it too slow. Im used to whip being a fast weapon like in runescape xd.

Yeah, they are some quick bastards. Since I played the entire way using katanas, whips, occasionally claws, twinblades and bows the R2 counter hits and flame arrows was the most reliable method I had, lol. Elonora's poleblade and especially rivers of blood ruin their day although it was a long while before I got those weapons.

lww99 posted...

Crumbling crucible knight is making me want to quit lol

lmao, its pretty telling when the message that I put down after I beat him that says nothing but "...dastard" reached like 200 something likes and also surpassed other messages I had that I put down ever since the game launched in february in the span of two days. That crucible knight was a asshole, lol.

TheGoldenEel posted...

encountered those hand enemies for the first time. Really cool design, but holy crap are they annoying to fight

Ah yeah, those big hands was a friggin menace, lol. As a melee guy I found the best way to deal with them is to equip whatever shield that you have been putting smithing stones into (for me it was always the brass shield) to level up it's guard boost stat, equip the greatshield talisman so that guard boost stat is even higher, and just rely on the R2 guard counters to deal with them. It works pretty easy on them.

Also, using fire helps a lot....they will start flailing around for a bit when hit with fire.

Elden south carolina

Game probably had my favorite soundtrack for a open world game ever. Like, this game alongside GTA5's original ost (bully also, can't forget about that) made me a believer that rockstar really can make some amazing music without having to rely on radio stations to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSm7nPf3U

Don't even remember micah landing a hit because I had this song pumping me up, lol.

Man.......I really should just trade in my PS4 pro for that juicy trade in credit, lol.

On one hand it constantly gathers dust and I'm not going to actually play games on it since I have a PS5. On the other, it can be useful to have if I for whatever reason need a streaming box in another room, or if I have that nostalgic feeling to cut it on and let it idle with the nice collection of chill dynamic themes I have for it.

(Seriously though, dynamic themes is like the number one thing I want sony to hurry the fuck up and add to the PS5 besides VRR).