If the point of entertainment is to excite the senses and make me feel things and to escape the everyday, then nothing has ever done it like this game.

I spent a ton of time thinking about it during my workday. During the month or so it took me to play it, I took 2 days, not consecutive, off work! I didn't even tell my wife. I sat on the couch and played all fucking day long! It was the best. Except the next day I beat myself up about it and felt like an asshole all day, lol.

Some things I loved about the game were that it forced me to play in ways I wouldn't. I like to sneak and would do everything that way but there's parts where you just can't and they're exciting.

There were parts I couldn't play alone. I grabbed my son and he sat there scared with me while I played.

I laughed and cried and felt quite a few more emotions in between. If it was just a show, I would have loved it for that.

Even after playing the first and having high expectations for the 2nd, it still blew me away. I was aware that they were trying to get me to sympathize with Abby and I resisted. But it still happened. Not so long into it I began thinking "Abby is not really so bad a person". Then by the end I'm yelling " Ellie no, don't do it!".

And when I was fighting Tommy, it never once occurred to me that it was him and I was surprised and it was awesome.

I loved everything about it and couldn't really come up with any negatives. It was a masterpiece. The pinnacle of all gaming for me. I couldn't say enough great things about it and I'm excited to see what else is out there from Naughty Dog.

Tldr: I fucking loved it and can't wait to see what else this studio has to offer.

In June 2022 the PS Plus Premium's Classic Catalog was added, adding classic PS1 ,PS2,PSP PS3 games etc;. I expected Sony to continue to add to this but so far, it's been very disappointing.

I get it. Licensing and porting can be a pain. A toaster can run ps1 games and I should just emulate them. Sometimes I am happy perfectly happy paying for a copy for my PS5

An advantage sony has is it rich history of games. Can they just add them to the store? If companies like Capcom, Square, and Sega, and even Disney can all do an amazing job of porting their PS1 games to the store why can't Sony?

Another annoying thing is when I pay for PS3 game and I can't download on PS5. Example I paid for a game called War of the Monsters , it's a PS2 game. I can't redownload it on my PS5, I can only rebuy a PS4 version.

Hope Sony fixes this all soon

I'm 51. Just got my son a PS5. I became obsolete to video game developers once using those thumbs ticks became pretty much mandatory 20 or so years ago.

But now that we have a PS5 in the house, I wouldn't mind finding a couple of games that I would like to play.

No sports, unless strictly simulations. I was never a fan of any sports games (other than NHL games in the 90s). But I liked franshise mode games 25 or 30 years ago.

No action games. I'm old. I can't be taught to figure out 10,000 buttons. I bought Red Dawn Redemption 2 for the 360 a few years ago and it took me 3 weeks to get out of the first scene. That was more than enough for me.

Strategy and thinking games appeal to me. I was a big fan of Sid Meier games (esp Pirates and Civ) before I became a caricature of myself.

Just hoping to find a couple games we can play together, because watching Fortnite for hours at a time is not the greatest bonding experience...

Thank you all for any recommendations you may have.

What are some RPG games like where you grow in power and become a beast with sick armour and equipment at the end of the game. For example baldurs gate 3 has a great one where you get so much cool armour and equipment and skills at the end of the game even something like terraria.

I did this test several times and I recommend you do it too if you take a looot of screenshots.

Possibly get in some area in a game which is dim and grey. That shows compression / macroblocking the most.

For example, I take 3 identical stellar blade shots and:

PNG is 8.54mb - obviously best quality

JPG is 630kb - 2nd best

HDR (after moving to usb stick) - 430kb - a lot of blocking.

And JPG is way faster to move to usb stick because there is no hdr to sdr conversion on the way.

If you don't have a PS5 or PS4 controller and just have a PS5, you can use a keyboard to get to the media apps. Hopefully this helps someone like me (I'm waiting for my controller to arrive!)

Picked up BroForce for $1.50 to have something to play with my son. This is way more enjoyable than we expected it to be. And for $1.50 you can’t go wrong. Check it out if you want a side scrolling couch /online co-op.