Knurrunkulus

Hands down: Fahrenheit - The Indigo Prophecy. The absurdity of it all is a thing to behold, but it, to this day, remains one of my favourite gaming experiences. Not exactly because it‘s „good“. More because it was quite unique, certainly for its time. I appreciate it for that.

Alright, so let's get the obvious thing out of the way first: Something about this rubs me the wrong way. No real send-off for Jeff, him mentioning that everything happened pretty quickly... it's pretty clear to me that something happened behind the scenes that probably wasn't pretty - but speculation is going to get us nowhere.

So here's my take on this: Whatever happened, it's pretty likely that the new crew (or at least most of the new crew) didn't have anything to do with it, because this will have been decided by higher-ups. Which is why I feel it would be highly unfair to not give some of the new (or not quite new, but also not really old) faces their fair chance. I for one don't quite know how well the chaos of Dan is going to work without a Jeff Gerstmann being constantly annoyed by it (or at least playing this role very convincingly), but some of the plans that were just mentioned on the Bombcast sound pretty intriguing, not gonna lie.

So the way I see it is: I'm going to stay hopeful for the future. We'll see what comes out of it. Best possible scenario would be that in the future I'm going to have Gerstmann's portfolio and GiantBomb's portfolio to waste my precious time on. And by the way: Jan is a pretty great podcast host. Who knew? (I didn't)

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I had an external 1TB drive from Seagate connected to my PS4 Pro all the time and never had a problem with it, but I haven't switched that over to PS5 so far, although from what I understand it should be a very easy process because it's already formatted for Playstation systems and I would really just have to plug it into the new console and would be good to go. However, from listening to some GiantBomb podcasts I got the impression that a significant number of people ran into problems with their PS5 after having first connected an external drive to it. But I'm quickly approaching the point where I could really use some more hard drive space in order to migrate my PS4 games there so that they don't all have to be on the internal drive of my PS5.

Which was all a rather lengthy wind-up to a pretty simple question: Does anyone know if the problems with external drives connected to a PS5 still persist or whether the problem seems to have been fixed by now?

@bigsocrates: The regular Hitman GotY Edition is actually not discounted at all at the moment in Europe and costs 59,99 €. Contacting Sony support seems like too big a hassle honestly, but maybe I'll just wait a bit longer until Hitman GotY goes on sale at some point in the future. And if that doesn't happen I can still buy the Access Pass then. It's not like Hitman 3 doesn't have enough content already now that all of Hitman 2 is in there as well (I just played the separate "sniper mode" for the first time and actually found it to be a lot more fun than I would have imagined). Thanks for your reply.

Thanks for your replies, I bought Hitman 2 Gold and it worked like a charm.

Now I just need to decide if Hitman 1 is worth 29,99 € and if I want to add that by buying the Access Pass, because honestly I have a very hard time finding another, cheaper option to add Hitman 1 to my Hitman 3 copy. The PSN store can be such a mess. I seem to own some form of Hitman 1 on my account, but I'm pretty sure I never bought it, so it likely is the "free" version that was at some point released and only offers one misson or so? There seem to be several GOTY edition upgrades on the PSN store for Hitman 1, but all of them are listed as "not purchasable" for me. So: The Access Pass seems like the easiest option.

29,99 € is of course too much for such an old game, but hey: It's a good old game at least, so my money could be spent on worse. And it has Sapienza going for it.

Hi there,

so right now in Europe Hitman 2 Gold is on sale via PSN for 19,99 €. I was planning on adding the earlier entries of the new Hitman trilogy to my copy of Hitman 3 with time, but the prices for the access passes are just insane ("Hitman 3 Access Pass" for Hitman 2 Gold is 99,99 €). What confuses me right now is that while Hitman 2 Gold as the original second game of the trilogy is now on sale, the "Hitman 3 Access Pass" for Hitman 2 Gold still isn't. So: Is there any difference?

I was under the impression that as long as you own the original games of the trilogy Hitman 3 should automatically give you access to them, so my guess would be that I can just buy Hitman 2 Gold for 19,99 € and get the same result I would also get if I bought the access pass, but I'd like to make sure I'm not wrong. So: Can anyone lessen my confusion? That would be great. :)

Regarding my previous posting: The game is now available as the "Club Access" version via Uplay Plus. Glad I didn't buy it yesterday evening and waited for a day.

So here’s another thing I find confusing: I’m a subscriber to Uplay Plus and was under the impression that this would give me access to any game released on Uplay. Doesn’t seem to be the case, however, because when Trackmania launched a few hours ago, I didn’t automatically get access to any of the “tiered” versions (except for the free Starter edition, of course, which is free for everyone). I mean: It’s Trackmania! I’m going to buy it if it’s not included in Uplay Plus. But it’s a bit of a shame that Ubisoft don’t communicate in any way that Trackmania seems to not be included. I’m going to wait one more day or so. If it’s still not in the Plus library by then, I’m going to likely buy the Club version.

Alright, I'm a massive HL fan and this might just be the incentive I needed to buy a Valve Index. Which is kind of crazy, if I'm honest, but I don't own any other VR headset for PC yet and I simply can't miss this game. However, I'm wearing glasses, and it's very difficult to find info online about how the Index handles that. Does anyone here have experience with that? My glasses are 14 cm (5,5 inches) wide. Should I be fine or could that be a problem?