I exist in a very odd space when it comes to gaming, or at least my gaming habits are less than average. Much of what comes with console gaming takes for granted that you would be playing said games in a comfortable couch based set up. That is not the case for me however because the screens that are “mine” and not considered communal space are up in my office. I’ve always felt like I couldn’t exactly commandeer the Livingroom television for the hours that gaming would require, when my wife might want to be watching some program downstairs or just basking in the silence and reading. When I am hanging out downstairs it generally means I am on a laptop with headphones.
This has generally meant that in practice I end up playing a lot fewer console games because it is just easier to remote control my gaming desktop upstairs and play PC games through either Parsec or Moonlight. In the past I have tried using the PlayStation Remote Play app and even an unofficial Remote Play app to varying degrees of success. Though as I sit down and write this article it looks like the second option has changed drastically and probably deserves a revisit. Basically the problem that I ran into is that the baseline PlayStation 4 that I had ultimately has fairly slow wireless and was limited to 720p game streaming… which looked and felt awful.
Since getting the PlayStation 5, I have to admit there have just not been a ton of games that I felt like I could play through remote control. Ratchet and Clank for example… has just enough input lag to make it exceptionally difficult to time some things. Playing Final Fantasy VII Remake however seems to be just fine given that most of the inputs are not exactly twitch oriented. I did struggle a bit with a puzzle that required me to pressurize a valve and then do another action extremely quickly to seal in the pressure. However for the most part I spent last night chilling on the sofa happily playing PS5 through my laptop with a Dualshock 4 connected.
I’ve now made it through the entire Don Corneo/Wall Market story arc and I am not back in Sector 7. I have no clue how much more there is to go in “Remake” but I feel like I have to be circling in on the end of the game at this point. It is going to be really weird to reach the end… knowing that the story is so far from over. I’ve been pretty pleased with how the story has gone and Cloud is finally starting to grow a heart. There are events that I know are coming… but I am curious to see how they play out. This mornings post however is mostly me re-exploring Remote Play with the PlayStation 5. I do need to investigate what became of TMACDEV and the new REPL4Y product. Previously it had way less input lag than the official offering so I want to give it a test and see how that goes.
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