A PS4 Thread: Because You Had to Play "Knack"

PS Plus freebies for Feburary:

Grid Autosport, PS3
Helldivers: Democracy Strikes Back , PS4, PS3, PS Vita
Lemmings Touch, PS Vita
Nom Nom Galaxy, PS4
Nova-111, PS Vita
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, PS3

Always been curious about Helldivers (will it actually be a good version of Magicka?) and am super happy about P4AU, came close to buying that many times.

helldivers is excellent. great couch co-op game.

being new to the latest generations of consoles what the fuck is this error code shit - ce-34878-0 that keeps popping up? how do i fix ?

i've done the database rebuild and even initialized but it seems to be a short term fix

might want to consider doing a fresh install. If that doesn't work, send it in.

should i have any expectations of CS being anything less than terrible to deal with?

I mean... they'll make you do a bunch of stuff before they send you a box but eventually they'll send you a box if stuff doesn't work. Definitely want to set aside some time for it.

a box to mail your system in, i mean

that they will bother to send you a box at all puts them ahead of both CS departments IMO

If my experiences with PSN customer service are any indication, you can probably expect an interaction with someone in possession of at least a third-grader's cognition and reading comprehension.

holy shit the witness.

these puzzles haunt my dreams

also picked up divinity: original sin, never heard about it before but it is pretty cool, and super hard. if you are into SRPGs it would probably interest you. very good mechanics and lots of care/thought invested in the story thus far

the witness last week, next week firewatch (really been looking forward to that one!), Gravity Rush Remastered should be good, Far Cry Primal also interesting. Good time to own a PS4.

can't wait for firewatch. looks great

upgraded my Harddrive to a 2TB and after the reload everything working great.

Helldivers looks like it might be fun - on this month's free PS+ games list

how the fuck do you guys hear about these games

I read hip gaming blogs like Gamespot

industry insider here

i keep up on all of the information from industry events such as e3, tokyo game show, pax prime and pax east

ok, now i know, thank you

in all seriousness tho i have no idea how i found firewatch, it may actually ahve been an e3 trailer? but the second i saw the little 60 second teaser i knew i had to play it.

i saw it on twitter

i saw it a while ago, idk where, but it looks pretty good!

probably be tied up with SFV and maybe that new Naruto game this month, but def. interested in Gravity Rush Remastered. weirdly Amazon-exclusive

anyone else playing the witness? i'm downloading it right now

how far are you, art? (or, how far art thou? sorry)

aaaand i'm hooked. enjoying this a lot so far.

surprisingly amazing sound design in some areas, too. early example: after you get to the first kind of canyony/deserty type of passageway and then do the puzzle that involves a doubled path that's mirrored vertically, it opens the door to this crazy boathouse with 8 different colored vases, and as you near each one, you get a different drone that harmonize with each other, so you can stand between different ones and get different harmonies that also sound nice layered over the wave and wind noises.

dude yes this game is amazing. i would guess im perhaps halfway through. unfortunately i just got rocket league so this is going down for a few

i feel like i suck really bad at the witness, but maybe it's just normal to have to skip a decent amount of puzzles at first and come back to them later?

i am obsessed with rocket league as well. if you (or anyone else) ever want to party ps4 style i am we_invent_you

nah man it is so open you can easily end up at the wrong step in a sequence or find a panel that was deliberately set in the wrong area (as far as what you know how to do) so backtracking is definitely expected

explore the space

Nuclear Throne is pretty great in a Smash TV kind of way

how does the witness compare to talos principle

firewatch bad. like a poorly executed gone home. fake open world forest corridors.

its weird how all these games, on this thread, are pc games

sad about firewatch though, i kinda liked the sound of it

me too man! i "pre-loaded" it and everything. i love the idea of a forest ranger open-wander type game with some non-murderous narrative. don't want to ~spoil~ anything for ppl that care about ~spoilers~ but i'll say it's way more linear and directed than the trailers imply.

can you maybe ~spoil~ it for me to satisfy my curiosity, since i am unlikely to actually play it

Im liking it so far. The dialogue is the high point after 2 days

When you start it, turn off "show location on map", you have to actually orienteer a little bit. It's cool man I like it

i read a good review of firewatch that made it sound interesting. so it's crap?

has anyone played "the disappearance of ethan carter"?

I played that, think I repped for it in last year's p+c? It's beautiful, not a huge amount of game there but I loved the environment enough to more than make up for that.

firewatch is not crap, adam is a bum who hates neat things

i beat it last night btw... one sitting... if short length bothers you, this will bother you. probably 4 hours. worth it imo though. it's beautiful and the writing is fantastic and the score is p much perfect and the plot is enough to drive you forward inasmuch as i started it at 11pm last night (i worked OT... got home late) intending to play for an hour and then stayed up to 3am to beat it.

i'm not sure how you'd expect "open-wander type game" from those trailers! those trailers screamed linear experience to me, maybe that's why i wasn't disappointed?

i kind of want a mod version where you have to keep watch for years of gametime on end, and then after around 500-600 hours of gameplay a small fire breaks out, you tell the person on your walkie talkie, a fire crew arrives and easily puts it out

then it's back to reading the second part of the hunger games trilogy yet again, the only book available in the game to read

Just out of curiosity, what are the PS4 exclusives y'all feel have made the system worthwhile thus far? I'd intended to resist the pull to upgrade and milk my PS3 for as long as humanly possible, but there have actually been very few PS4 releases that I'm all that jealous about.

i don't mind the short playtime, i actually prefer that at my advanced age. i just didn't enjoy the gameplay and found the characters/plot/setup to be bad. also the structure (not the content) of the narrative "twist" is EXACTLY THE SAME as in gone home. which is a better game.

erp looks like my PS4 is dead, refuses to boot up & crashes in safe mode. gonna try and change the hard drive & reinstall before i give up :/

xxp bloodborne is the only exclusive i can think of at the moment (multi-plat is the wave of the future) and that having been said it is sufficiently valuable to me to rationalize a ps4 purchase; however, ymmv