I would take it at face value but you can make £¥€$¥£€ on ebay if you want to venture into that hole.

mistercrayon wrote:

(edit for context - Bugsnax:) Sounds absolutely shite

It’s made by a small team. If you have loads of patience I think it’s very good. I wish there was a fast travel or infinite ammo and the game would be great. The interactions and so on in each biome are fun and all the animals are super cute.

I'm quite enjoying Bugsnax to be honest.  It feels like a slightly ridiculous game to be playing on a shiny NextGen machine, but it's an entertaining little thing.  A kind of free roaming Pokemon Snap, with added cutesy body horror.

I'd agree that fast travel would be nice, but I've not really had the running out of ammo problem, in so much as there's usually either more near by, or another way to solve the puzzle.  In fact it's that latter aspect that I'm enjoying most - there's clearly an intended way to capture each bug, but it's loose enough to let you experiment and produce your own solutions.  Whenever I decide to try something stupid it usually pays off.  (Currently I am experimenting with a flaming hamster ball).  

I'm not sure I find it as funny as the authors would clearly like me to, but conversely I love the inherently disturbing conceit of the whole thing, and the fact that's it's mostly played as if changing your limbs into hot dogs is a perfectly normal thing - but with the occasional acknowledgement that, actually, this is all very messed up.

Visually it's incredibly basic, and the main character design is terrible - but it runs smoothly, the Snax themselves are sometimes ingenious, and there's some gentle but effective usage of the new controller. 

I would never have bought the game in its own right, and it's not going to blow anyone away,  but so far at least it's an enjoyable little yarn, and I'm glad it popped up as a freebie.

I'm giving up on everywhere except Amazon too, the morning of hitting F5 while all the websites melted took a chunk out of my soul.

This reminded me to order the VR dongle though, which I've now done.

A start would be eBay and other similar sites banning the sale of new consoles until a month after launch and Christmas.

One guy has 2000 of them and there are currently 4000 listings on eBay. 
I was gonna shrug but that's not on.

If eBay could find a way to get him stuck with 2000 that’d be fucking hilarious.

I’ve had a quick look around but can’t find these videos that are supposed to help you when you’re playing certain games, I’ve not needed any yet for Demons Souls but where would they be?

Kernowgaz wrote:

I’ve had a quick look around but can’t find these videos that are supposed to help you when you’re playing certain games, I’ve not needed any yet for Demons Souls but where would they be?

Don’t you press the PS button and it brings up the options along the bottom? Guides or some such are there.
Not had much time on the PS5 as I’m plowing through Star Wars on gp but I’m pretty certain it’s to do with pressing the PS button. You also need PSplus to access these.

Completed Sackboy Big Adventure.  Hmm.  Didn't really get any better, and the end game has slightly shat the bed, so probably a weak-ish [7] that might even be a harsh six but for ooh shiny / speedy loading.  Expect co-op could boost that slightly though.

End terms of end-game collection bollocks:

Kernowgaz wrote:

I’ve had a quick look around but can’t find these videos that are supposed to help you when you’re playing certain games, I’ve not needed any yet for Demons Souls but where would they be?

You need a psplus sub for the help vids.

Astro head to head stuff looks great, are there many of those sort of mini stages?  Is that a simultaneous online Vs mode or two separate runs dropped into one video?

Really enjoyed the 2 levels of Astro Bot, now to set up the VR Headset and play more of the that.

The Haptic feedback was good but couldn’t really tell if it felt different when I walked over different materials apart from the skating which was brilliant, for me I think it’s subliminal because you can hear the sound coming from the speaker to tell you what material you’re walking on.

My Adaptive Triggers weren’t as loud as Sparky’s but they felt harder to pull in the jump suit thing. Could be used in interesting ways if not being overdone.

There’s lots Easter eggs which were funny, my favourite was some I don’t who they’re supposed to be.

It's Phil Spencer.

Fuckin Ace