btw, the "just buy games online and download them" strategy won't work as well if you're the kind of person who likes to have 30+ games accessible at any point. for me, i usually have 2-3 games i'm working on at any given moment, another handful for certain situations, and then the rest of them are ones that i've deleted to save space on my hard drive but can be re-downloaded at any point if i want to play them.
it's never created a situation for me, but not for everyone
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
I think my greatest axe to grind was that newest Final Fantasy game, which I probably spent more time installing than playing because I couldn't get into it.
Put disc in, it wants to install. I let it install. Then it immediately downloads a patch that's nearly the size of the entire game. Actually, thinking back, it might have just downloaded the entire game and the disc was useless.
The "day one patch" offenders for games released on discs are bad enough now that the downloaded version is superior
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
cool. what do i do to download? I haven't seen that option.
Also, are we sharing handles on here for multiplayer online purposes?
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
Many xps but I don't think you got any answers to this?
Wouldn't mind some recommendations of two-player or multi-player games that I can download and play with my S/O and housemate
I'd definitely look at Rocket League, Overcooked, and one or more of the Jackbox Party Packs (esp the one that includes Fibbage). But in all honesty if this was a key driver for you, you might have been better off with that Switch after all - couch multiplayer largely died out on other platforms when online play took off.
― JimD, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
(Oh, also Nidhogg and maybe Towerfall Ascension, if you want competitive rather than co-op)
― JimD, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
We had a lot of fun with Broforce too though it's hard to recommend because the performance is so bad on PS4 and I don't think it ever got fixed? But yeah 2d 16-bit style games shouldn't be seeing their frame rates drop to single figures on modern hardware)
― JimD, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
Even on Switch I want to say many of their best multiplayer games are designed for online play. Thinking of stuff like Splatoon, though of course there is always Smash Brothers and Mario Kart, which are both also ideal for couch multiplayer. I don't think I've purchased a game for PS4 thus far that made me regret not having online access, though there are a few games in which said feature seems intriguing.Overcooked ... I think we collectively played about 15 minutes of it as a family before we realized it was a really really bad idea.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
Rcket League, Overcooked, and one or more of the Jackbox Party Packs
Towerfall Ascension, Broforce
yes to all of these, and also otm about couch multiplayer being garbage on ps4
haven't played Nidhogg! in fact i haven't even heard of it, i gotta check it out.
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
recently i was having a brodown with an old friend with a ps4, so we decided to get super-nostalgic and purchase the remastered tony hawk 2 so we could do multiplayer like we did a million times in the past. turns out the remastered game took out the split screen option so that the only way you can play with your friend is if they are in their own home, online.
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
there's plenty of couch multiplayer on ps4 especially if you include stuff like the entire fighting game genre or sports genre
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
thanks everyone!!
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
it's so sad that multiplayer couch style games aren't really a thing though.. I mean, that was half the fun of having a console back in the day, getting your mates round and playing rounds of Mortal Kombat or Mario Kart and stuff.. I get why you'd want to play online with loads of other people you've never met, but there's room for both right?
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 21 October 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
I think we collectively played about 15 minutes of it as a family before we realized it was a really really bad idea.
Hahaaa same here tbh but I assumed that just meant it was a bad idea for our family. I've enjoyed it more with peers, just a tricky one to play with your kids without finding yourself yelling at them.
― JimD, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
i played overcooked with a friend who is a irl short order cook, and also exceptionally good at video games. i was kind of shocked at how poorly we performed as a team
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Monday, 21 October 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
it's so sad that multiplayer couch style games aren't really a thing though
Yeah definitely. Like, me and my son loved playing destiny together but to do it we needed to be in different rooms on different ps4s plugged into different tvs using headsets to communicate, it was pretty fucking dysfunctional really.
(ciderpress is right though, I was forgetting fighting and sport games, they still exist if you're into them).
― JimD, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
I mean, that was half the fun of having a console back in the day, getting your mates round and playing rounds of Mortal Kombat or Mario Kart and stuff.. I get why you'd want to play online with loads of other people you've never met, but there's room for both right?
It's not an issue in my house, since my girls don't really play any of this shit, but I know plenty of parents of kids who do, and their kids apparently spend hours playing multiplayer games together online with friends as an activity seemingly preferable to interacting in real life, which is very much on generation trend (see also: less partying, drinking, drugs, sex, per studies). I wonder if any of it stems from the fact that in many cases these games make it, per the earlier comment, literally impossible to play together on the same screen, in the same room.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 October 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
There's always LAN parties. :)
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 21 October 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
ciderpress otm. couch multiplayer is totally a thing.every sports gameevery fighting gamegt sportminecraftovercookedbut ESPECIALLY crash team racing
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 October 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
competitive competitive is a thing - cooperative, not so much. but i suppose that's always been true
tbh i may have a warped perspective because my coop partner doesn't like sports, fighting, or racing games.
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Monday, 21 October 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
oh - or FPS/shooting games
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Monday, 21 October 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
people still go nuts for Nintendo franchises like Smash Brothers and Mario Kart, right?
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
There are also all those Lego and Marvel games, right? Are they couch co-op?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 October 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
there's also still lots of smaller/indie hack-and-slash type games with couch coop, in the tradition of gauntlet, though i don't play them so i can't name the good ones off the top of my head
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 October 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
Sure but this was "offer recommendations" not "list all the ones that exist" and while I love playing the lego games with family I wasn't about to assume that DL and his adult friends would be into them (though maybe they would be! It's my wife's favourite game series, she's 100%ed them all).
Crash Team Racing is a PS1 game, c'mon.
Minecraft technically does split screen but from what I remember it makes the crafting menus unusably tiny (though I've not tried it for years, maybe they fixed that eventually).
― JimD, Monday, 21 October 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
they just put out a remake of crash team racing, its a ps4 game now
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 October 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
Yeah I'm aware it got a PS4 remake. But a remake of a PS1 game is still a PS1 game. Or at the very least isn't enough of a ps4 game to make a good answer to "what ps4 games should I get for me new ps4?"
― JimD, Monday, 21 October 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
it is an extremely good game that you can buy and play on your ps4 and it is the most fun if you have friends over to play it with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 October 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Son would quite like Rocket League for Christmas.
Can you play this offline?
(Don't have any online subscriptions but would probably opt for the Switch version if you have to pay subs)
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 09:33 (four years ago) link
Yes and quite fun too - there's even some mini levels that can only be completed in co-op mode.
The dynamic split screen takes a little bit of getting used to but is actually quite a neat idea
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
The Lego Star Wars games on the PS2 were awesome IIRC
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
I'm really enjoying Witcher 3, you guys! Just done killed a Griffin and now I'm running around in a towel. But yes, all this alchemy and runestones and swords and stats is way over my head. Oh well, it's a romp
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
Worms WMD is on PS4 and is a great couch multi-player, even more venerable than Crash.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
the Divinity games can both be played couch co-op if you fancy something a bit meatier. feels a bit odd playing an rpg in split screen but works pretty well
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link
I tried the second Divinity and have no idea how combat works (kind of a high learning curve to not dying in a battle).
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
Yeah Divinity’s got a pretty steep learning curve. Gave it a few hours but it didn’t really click at the time, hope to return to it at some point.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
EDF games have couch co-op
― chihuahuau, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
oh what's the indie game where you run about inside a spaceship trying to pilot it while manning the cannons and sort out problems? that was fun twoplayer.
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
my memory, sorry. "Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime", that's it.
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
I think it's local 4p too
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
Son would quite like Rocket League for Christmas.Can you play this offline?
You can play against the computer but the computer AI isn't very good.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
The writing is excellent, what I've seen of it! It eschews the "one of these options is the objective best option," which really confounded me when I ran up against a certain decision point.
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
Best local co-op on PS4 is Towerfall btw
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
re Rocket League you can do up to 4p local though.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Lol Just remembered I bought this for Switch eons ago but never got around to playing it, possibly because I bought it to play 4p family coop but abandoned that idea as well in the wake of the Overcooked debacle.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
overcooked gets incredibly stressful incredibly quickly
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
Speaking of stress, I started "Alien:Isolation," and hoo boy ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
Remembering incredibly fun times in Uni with 8 of us playing Micro Machines 2 at the same time
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
Cat Quest $6 on PS4, I'd be stupid not to buy it right?!?
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but my PS4 is getting appalling wi-fi signal. Speeds in the kbps and lots of connection drop-outs. My ISP basically don't give a shit because other devices seem to work fine in the same room. Anyone else had similar problems and managed to get them fixed?
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
change your wifi channel maybe?alternatively, if your ps4 is in the same room as your wifi and your wifi does dual-band, use the 5Ghz connection
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link