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

I doubt I'm getting Spidey (webslinging "feels good man" doesn't have much appeal to me).

I'm not sure about the pure narrative/walking simulator part, but maybe I just haven't found the right one? I'm all for twee magical realism though.

The combat is pretty fun. It's basically just batman but it's a good batman game.

pretty much. still, there's a real love and attention to geeky detail that puts it over the top IMO

TLOU Remastered is $10 in the PS store right now. I'm almost tempted to get it just to have it on PS4.

it's a classic. i got the PS4 disc version on sale for the same reason

probably a good thing to replay around the time the sequel comes out, though I don't remember how long a full playthrough is. 15-20 hours?

Spider-Man reminded me how much I love the arkham games, and i remembered that I'd never played the Season Pass content from Arkham Knight, so I've spent the last week doing the combat challenges and DLC missions. In fairness to WB they did give a lot for that pass, even if a lot of it's small DLC missions, alt-costumes or tons of tank/racing/predator challenges I'm not gonna touch

Hollow Knight out today, I'm excited.

I tried to sell two games to Gamestop, and they offered $6 (PFFFFT). Is ebay/Amazon the better bet nowadays?

(Uncharted 4 and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection FWIW. And that's $6 total.)

ugh.
GameStop has always been terrible, tbf. i'd go with eBay or craigslist

tbf i think you can find each for about that much individually or a little bit more new

yeah old non Nintendo games sell for like 10-20 bucks new these days which puts a pretty low ceiling on trade ins

the way to game on the cheap now is just to be a year behind, not to resell everything

reselling's for suckas anyway. you gotta hoard it all, forever, like a troll

But I don't even want to think about Uncharted anymore! (I still have Lost Legacy in my download queue.)

Give them to goodwill or something. You got your money’s worth.

you could attach tiny leather straps to them and make a nice pair of little cymbals

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4Deals/comments/9ujc35/rps4deals_2018_black_friday_deals_megathread/

I guess God of War for $25 is a no-brainer, right? What else?
Dragonball FighterZ is a great game which I picked up at release.

Getting God of War and, if it goes on sale, Spider-man, assuming that my family, as usual, hasn't picked up on any of my gifting hints.

yeah i'll probably pick up god of war and fallout 4

maybe an extra controller

tetris effect is game of the year

definitely the game that most makes me sad i dont have one

first game that's made me wish I had VR

definitely considering VR just for this game. still dope without it tho

I plotzed over a few hours into Horizon Zero Dawn in the other thread, but getting a decent way through the game, there are a LOT of rough patches (just starting with the facial animations and the uneven game mechanics, the ) -- like, how is this one of the PS4's best selling games ever?

And yet, the main story line has grabbed me! (Which I know goes against the general ILG ethos, but IMAMAVERICK.)

This was cool. Taking a classic Tetris player and plugging him into VR for the first time.

https://youtu.be/7T7mg6JZZzg

xp i don't think horizon is one of the best selling ps4 games? maybe if you only count first party games

It’s a question that’s actually probably not best suited to Wikipedia: this chart looks more like I’d expect (which is to say, depressing)

http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/69/playstation-4/

Huh I'm not sure where I got the best selling thing from!

But anyway, some of the world building is so moving and breathtakingly epic.

Wow, EU is out-buying NA, and not just for FIFA titles. What's up with that?

NA is more split between ps4 and xbox, EU is full on sony territory

Ah, that makes sense

Yep UK is still relatively balanced but there are plenty of EU regions where the combined market share of Microsoft and Nintendo is still sub 10%.

anyone gonna pick up that new tetris?

Yeah I played a bit last night. Mizughuchi would 100% be my favourite developer if only his taste in music was a bit less cringey.

But yeah it's already my favourite Tetris ever. And I've only played in 2d so far, haven't got round to plugging the pace in yet.

Er pace? psvr.

damn thanks for reminding me it's out

Looks cool, but also looks like something I'd prefer on the Switch. Can't imagine playing Tetris on my TV.

Nier Automata is $20 online for Best Buy's Black Friday, so I'll be getting that despite my demo experience. I assume the sale price will only be in effect around BF time?

Oh whoops I checked the Reddit thread and it said it starts on 11/22.

i thought the demo (at least the one i played) was awful. it wasn't fun, and it didn't really capture what the real game (which is fun and addicting) is actually like to play.

just finished playing nu God of War, it's absolutely fantastic, go buy!

i thought the demo (at least the one i played) was awful. it wasn't fun, and it didn't really capture what the real game (which is fun and addicting) is actually like to play.

Ah good 2 kno!

in case you do get the full game, let me save you some potential heartache: just turn down the difficulty all to way to easy at the beginning. the beginning of the game is identical to the demo, but the boss is kinda difficult (i thought, at least) and if you die, you have to go all the way back to the beginning (about 25 minutes back). i died a few times, like an idiot, and also played the demo a couple times, so i going absolutely insane after playing the first 25 minutes of the game 5 times before ever getting to see anything else.

oh yeah for some reason theres no save point or checkpoint in the intro sequence. i think i managed it first try without knowing that but no shame in turning it down and then back up once you get to the 'real' part of the game where you have latitude to actually practice the combat

i whined about it in the nier thread, but what's really frustrating about is that the rest of the demo is suuuuuper easy, like there's no way you can possibly die. and then all of a sudden a 400-foot tall machine is murdering you

karl otm, put it on easy until after the first boss fight.

to emphasise: the whole game has no auto-save, saving is done from the pause menu or in save terminals sprinkled throughout the game world but in the prologue neither of those are available yet, so any death and it's back to the very beginning. really, just play it on easy until that's done with

Thanks guys, I'll try to remember that when I actually own the game and start in on it.

Switching topics, I think there aren't many posters still wondering about the Slim vs Pro difference, but this seems like a nice summary:

For one thing, despite the much-vaunted 4K support, it’s been more of a compromise than a revelation. As exhaustively shown by all sorts of technical breakdowns, these images are often not native, or true 4K; that would take more computing power than the Pro can handle. Instead, they use upscaling to massage a lower-resolution image into 4K, in concert with advanced rendering techniques. The drumbeat of games that harness the console’s pseudo-4K capabilities has remained steady, especially among system showpieces like Horizon Zero Dawn, but the impact on performance remains undetectable to many laypeople. And when it comes to frame rate, the increased resolution can sometimes come at a cost to performance, so it really depends on your preferences as a player. If you’re willing to sacrifice the console’s 4K capabilities, however, the “performance modes” of God of War and Monster Hunter: World can balance some of the frame rate spikes and troughs that might otherwise take you out of the game, resulting in a decidedly smoother experience.

https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/reviews/2018/11/15/17845492/ps4-review-anniversary-five-years

are we still talking about god of war? bc i'm gonna go buy it tonight

oh nm, you guys are talking about nier automata