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IRIS "morbid doodling" JAYa friend of mine lent us a copy of Spider-Man for the PS4 and I’d like to say that it should be fucking illegal to put a game onto a disc and then give it a 47-gig “patch” to download the first time you run it
At the very least they should put a big label on the front of the game like “JUST POP THIS IN LIKE AN HOUR BEFORE YOU WANNA PLAY, BECAUSE THIS GAME FOCACCIA NEEDS TO RISE
Awesome. It crashed mid-download. I don’t think I’m gonna have TIME to play this before I go to sleep tonight. Very Cool
MORNING UPDATE!! after crashing mid-download a few more times, I reset my PS4 to factory settings and rebuilt its database (basically the PS equivalent of defragging). i also very, very carefully cleaned off the disc with dish soap, water and an eyeglass cloth. we'll see if this makes things go smoother
my biggest fear is that our PS4 just hasn't been used for games in so long that it, like, forgot how to Do Games or something
WELL THAT DIDN'T WORK. trying one last Hail Mary and reformatting the PS4. redownloading our TV apps is going to be a bit of a pain, but at this point it's going to bug me if I don't figure this shit out
i'm not even THAT psyched to play Spider-Man, i just want to figure out if our PS4 can still potentially play games or if it's just a weirdly-shaped Netflix box now
FINAL UPDATE: yyyyyyyeah we're getting error code CE 30005-8, which indicates a hardware failure. i don't think this is happening. :< gonna try to re-initialize and install the system software from a USB drive but i don't really have much hope at this point
i got this PS4 used and it was one of the models that came out at launch (the Black Ops III model that, for some reason, had a 1TB internal HD when all other models at the time only had 500GB on board), so it's, like, Old old. could probably use a dust blowout too. if it does end up being just a glorified blu-ray player that's no skin off my nose, it'll just be a little annoying
YUP, no dice. oh well! it'd be nice if it comes out on PC eventually, like Horizon Zero Dawn did, but i'm not gonna lose sleep over it. it's not like i don't have a million other games to fart around with
Pupkin Spice Computer@irisjaycomics I heard some Video Gamesters talking excitedly about new features that will potentially let you download new games on console BEFORE you buy them and I'm trying to think about how this is anything but a screaming damnnation on how fucked video game physical media is nowadays.
@ComputerHusband ahh yes, from the magical parallel universe where we all have infinite bandwidth and nothing else to do with our time or money
@irisjaycomics I know it ended up making me go on a "hey how IS physical media doing anyways" and, uh
like blu-rays are by default only 25gb, and you can apparently do some weird bullshit Extended Mode recording to them to make them 50gb.
we're gonna go back to fuckin cartridges at this rate or just buying a case with a USB stick in it.
@ComputerHusband I think the idea is we’re all just going to give up and start downloading shit by default, which Isn’t Great but does make me glad I’m primarily a PC gamer at least
@irisjaycomics todd howard launches a copy of the complete works of skyrim directly into my nuts, taking me out
thats gameing, friends
@ComputerHusband can’t spell “starfield” without “idle farts”
@irisjaycomics starfield and friends. Starfield Crusaders.