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

There's a delightful scene set in a jazz club which kind of captures the essence of this game: awkward and stuttering but slowly fills in its empty spaces with charm and magic. And later, the new powers that you get which give even MOAR magic. And the dialogue, even though it's mostly unvoiced (and even when it is, it's just a Japanese interpretation of what French sounds like (which really is even more delight)), is so well written and funny.

I should also mention the visceral delight of just crashing into the ground and through things.

There is a side quest where you have to fill up a meter called DOGGY JOY.

(Sadly, that side quest is otherwise unfun.)

Are the dogs into some dark shit?

Nah, the gameplay mechanics are rubbish.

Dead Cells slightly on sale now: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP4016-CUSA11253_00-DEADCELLS0000000

can't decide whether it's worth paying a little more to have it on the switch...

Alright, i'll finally give this a shot; seems like it's very much up my alley.

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/indie-playstation-bundle-2019
Deep PS4 steam discounts:
$1 for Grim Fandango, Bard's Tale and Inner Space
$10 for Broken Age, Wasteland 2, Talos Principle and Layers of Fear + above
$15 for Shadow Warrior 2, Killing Floor 2 + above

i'm guessing Shadow Warrior and Killing Floor not worth paying for the top tier?

Probably not...but I've paid 15 anyway.

I just remembered that I have a PS4 20% off coupon that's set to expire this month, I was probably saving it for an early TLOU2 release but clearly that's not happening. Gimme non-soulsborne rex!

whatve you played and liked already

have you played yakuza 0

TLOU is god-tier
Hollow Knight would be too if I were better at it/it weren't so hard
HZD, Nier Automata, Persona 5 all have various flaws but once they hit, it feels like a kiss
Dead Cells I just started, outside of my usual comfort zone but good
GOW is fun, good combat mechanix, but ultimately a shallow experience
LIS1 peaked about halfway through then completely cratered
Witcher 3 boring
Bloodborne ugh not my thing

PS - no horror games.

Maybe GTA5? MGS5 (MGS4 ruined the franchise for me)?

Havne't played any of the Yakuzas, is that the right entry point?

yes, 0 is the entry point, its a prequel to the series thats intended as such

RDR2? Horizon Zero Dawn I liked a lot - probably inexpensive now.

Isn't RDR2 slow and huge? That's among the things I disliked about Witcher 3. HZD is pretty small by comparison.

absolutely do yakuza 0

spidey spidey spidey

seconding spidey; it's great

I've finished the main story and am still playing, just tooling around, whacking fools. i NEVER do that. the core mechanics are so satisfying that actually i occasionally kind of resent having to play the main story??

MGS5 is great, both wolfenstein games, doom. skyrim if you haven't already gone there. Leftfield pick: Rayman, charming, easy but such fun.

Spider-man is tons of fun.

I forgot my usual caveat of no first person games! So no Doom or Wolfenstein obviously but that also rules out Skyrim.

Tracer, I’m like you in that after I beat the base game I’m usually done with it, but I’ve NEVER experienced gameplay that feels good enough to want to play just for its sensuousness. Maybe I’ll play Spidey eventually but it’ll probably need to be in the $20 range with the DLC included.

Yakuza does sound like it’s my speed though!

is no first person for motion sickness reasons or do you just not like it

You can play Skyrim in 3rd person

Motion sickness. I couldn't even get through Edith Finch!

I also think that I need a strong central narrative. I'm not interested in simply exploring the world and coming up with my own stories.

ok guys overcooked might be the best local multiplayer I've ever experienced

it's scarily addictive

days gone looks like the AAA game equivalent of nu-metal

Isn't RDR2 slow and huge? That's among the things I disliked about Witcher 3. HZD is pretty small by comparison.

― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Friday, 1 February 2019 01:34 (three days ago) Bookmark

fucking hell, it took me 2 hours to load and it was like a bad channel 5 late night movie or something. Lousy gameplay, hmm let's follow a horse for nearly 10 minutes with some tedious expository "world building" dialogue. not for me.

same

glad I'm not the only one who thinks that because this is my first games console action since about 2001. maybe the online version might be fun though.

I also think that I need a strong central narrative. I'm not interested in simply exploring the world and coming up with my own stories.

Skyrim does have a central story, and it's pretty good even though there's not a lot of it. And if you play the main track of the game it's pretty linear.

rockstar games are popular because of the graphics and the scale and the "detail porn" aka depth of simulation, not the gameplay.

i can't imagine someone disliking Witcher but liking Skyrim unless theyre specifically into the character customization

Hi, I'm that person. Witcher looks gross to me.

I'm not a Witcher fan, either.

yeah i get it but i mean in terms of making recommendations I'd need a pretty strong read there

The Witcher is the Red Dead of fantasy videogame RPGs.

I on't like Rockstar games nor anything that dwells in that gamespace.

fucking hell, it took me 2 hours to load and it was like a bad channel 5 late night movie or something. Lousy gameplay, hmm let's follow a horse for nearly 10 minutes with some tedious expository "world building" dialogue. not for me.

RDR2 has a really slow intro, and if you didn't like the story during that part you're not going to like where it goes from there, most likely. i found it to be really fun once it opened up to an actual open world game, but it takes several hours of gameplay before you're past the tutorial missions and you can finally get a decent setup with most of core game mechanics unlocked. by the time you get that far, you'll have watched the guy ride his horse and have really dumb conversations for a really long time, though

don't play online

good general advice for gaming in 2019

RDR2 has a really slow intro, and if you didn't like the story during that part you're not going to like where it goes from there, most likely. i found it to be really fun once it opened up to an actual open world game, but it takes several hours of gameplay before you're past the tutorial missions and you can finally get a decent setup with most of core game mechanics unlocked.

To play devil's advocate against my own feelings on this subject: PERSONA 5 has a painfully slow and protracted tutorial dungeon, but it ended up loving the game.

persona is on like a different planet from AAA open world games though, apples and oranges

play yakuza 0

I most probably will! Just going to wait till the end of the month (when my coupon expires) in case it goes on sale.

I was going to curse the PS4 Media player but it is actually very good. It wasn't initially working because it doesn't recognise any files unless you put them in a folder. Not tried its subtitles capabilities yet though.