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PS5's Activities cards in action with Astro's Playroom | Cold boot, no logos, 7 seconds load time and straight to the level.
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So, I know people are saying about "save games" but do we know if it's possible to create, effectively, save states using Activity Cards?
Could a game let you "create" a card of where you currently are which loads from the menu?
Probably way to early to establish if they are as dynamic as that from the user end.
Could a game let you "create" a card of where you currently are which loads from the menu?
Probably way to early to establish if they are as dynamic as that from the user end.
Oh well.
I still want them both to have as many cool features as possible.
Imagine if PS4 never enabled external game storage.
Exactly. It's also why Sony is most likely going to eventually allow us to use cold storage to transfer PS5 games to and from. More features, even if they exist elsewhere, are good for us.
According to him. We should never be able to transfer PS5 games to cold storage.
What would be the point?! haha
In my experience pausing Tetris at an advanced stage to go and do something else always results in a quick loss when you leap back in because you're no longer in the zone.
Your post was basically can we stop downplaying activities when it does similar to quick resume and we will get quick resume anyway surely you see an issue with that ? By that stance what stops Ms doing activities or similar on their UI if it takes off ?
Why can't both just be good ? And appreciated for what they offer.
I'm referring to Tetris Effect, which is pretty chill, but to play through one round of Journey mode can take over an hour, and there's no way to save your spot if you need to do something else.
It's kinda sad how every thread about one of these has to become about the other as well. As if every post in a console's thread needs to be about why you're buying it over the other or not or why it'll be your main over the other or not.
Like it's fine to say "this PS5/Xbox feature is good" without trying to side eye the other side as you do it lol.
Quite often, and in plenty of cases I've had to deny the invite because of the hassle that starting the SP game back up would be, with this it'd be a no-brainer for me, honestly. It's not a dealbreaker (I just pre-ordered the console today and it costs about $850 in my country), but I do hope they add it down the line. The PS4 received great OS support after all.
Wow if they didn't have that title picture at the beginning that all games seem to get, it would easily be 4 seconds.
Didn't we have a thread months ago that indicated Sony had patented this method?
Depending how its achieved they can probably find a way around it if it is patented.
It'd be cool if for something like uncharted you can go back to a level real quick to find a treasure and then pop right back to where you were.
Jesus, this is huge.
For a game with levels like Astro Bot - it makes sense.
But what about narratively driven games like TLoU? Where could cards even take you?
For a game with levels like Astro Bot - it makes sense.
But what about narratively driven games like TLoU? Where could cards even take you?
It'll be amazing for fighting games too. Boot up into training mode immediately if you see a combo online you want to practice, or jump into a lobby or the offline VS screen.
Yeah for all the complaining about the storage space, people seem to really want more of it used up. I would rather keep the space tbh, these load times are fast as hell and I'm going to be playing 3 or 4 games at the same time.
I suppose on a first playthrough though, I'll simply want to start where I left off.
Nevertheless - game-changer if and when developers take full advantage.
Most recent checkpoint. Otherwise Chapters or select Encounters as someone suggests above.
Oh yeah that'd be cool.
Spider man seems to be using it to jump straight to diferent kind of missions. For example if, you pick a mission from the card, after the load you will spawn in front of the NPC that will give you the mission.
The French video posted shows there's multiple cards to different missions in the game, add that to the addition of estimated play time to complete on the cards, and you can see Activity cards are very different to quick resume and shouldn't be compared.
I would think of them more like chapters in a book that you can jump to through a table of contents. In the case of MP games, that means you could jump directly to a certain MP mode instead of having to load up the game, etc.
Sony out out a small video weeks ago detailing what the cards can do. Quite a great feature and what you see demonstrated in the video.
Do we know what it'd be like for an open world game like Skyrim or Witcher 3 though? Maybe the activity card would be able to load most recent saves instantly or something?
Oh I must've missed that. Thanks I'll see if I can find it.
Think of them as hyperlinks to webpages, except the pages are in-game locations.
Think that begs the question of whether Persona 6 will have autosave.
For a dad of two small children who has very limited time to play games, getting in a game quickly is a huge plus for next gen consoles. The less waiting I have to do through loading screens, the more time I have to play.
Wait until you see a Spider-Man example. There are side-quests in the game and they surface as Activities. With the game closed, you can go from the main menu to the beginning of the side-quest in approximately 10 seconds. If you've already got the game loaded, you can jump to the beginning of the side-quest in about 2.5 seconds.
Nuts!
Nuts!