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

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There's always LAN parties. :)

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 21 October 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link

ciderpress otm. couch multiplayer is totally a thing.

every sports game
every fighting game
gt sport
minecraft
overcooked
but ESPECIALLY crash team racing

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 October 2019 18:24 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link

people still go nuts for Nintendo franchises like Smash Brothers and Mario Kart, right?

mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 18:27 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link

There are also all those Lego and Marvel games, right? Are they couch co-op?

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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link

There are also all those Lego and Marvel games, right? Are they couch co-op?

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 (five years ago) link

The Lego Star Wars games on the PS2 were awesome IIRC

frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 09:43 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link

EDF games have couch co-op

chihuahuau, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:11 (five 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 (five years ago) link

my memory, sorry. "Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime", that's it.

thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link

I think it's local 4p too

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:19 (five 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 (five 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.

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 (five years ago) link

Best local co-op on PS4 is Towerfall btw

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link

re Rocket League you can do up to 4p local though.

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:26 (five 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 (five years ago) link

overcooked gets incredibly stressful incredibly quickly

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link

Speaking of stress, I started "Alien:Isolation," and hoo boy ...

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link

I think it's local 4p too

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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link

it's got an ethernet port, if you have a physical router to plug it into

ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link

At the very least you should do that to check its speed, to see if it's still sloth when it's getting it straight from the tap.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:42 (five years ago) link

the PS4 has shit wifi, possibly alleviated a little in the newer models but Sony still recommends a wired connection in nearly all their documentation

mh, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link

huh. for years i've streamed HD baseball with it with zero problems.

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link

I mean, it all depends on the antennas on your wifi, distance, etc. too

or, as I remembered the other day, standing directly in front of the microwave with your phone meants wifi might work poorly

mh, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link

My ps4 had shit WiFi and I read on a forum to try rotating it 90 degrees

Worked a treat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link

so I knew you could remotely play a PS4 with a Vita but until today I didn't know you could via any PC. just tried it and v impressed. now I can play PS4 on my laptop lying in bed, lol fuk u Stadia.

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 26 October 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link

I think on Android systems too.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 October 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link

xp how do you do that? p amazing

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link

I got a bunch of new games. mostly puzzlers :

Unravel 2 (very sweet and satisfying so far)
Little Nightmares (I'm stuck on this one already. feels a bit bleak).
Bendy and the Ink Machine (fucking terrifying. I'm only a bit in and I'm a bit scared to play it tbhwu)
Overcooked 2 (cos I want a 2 player but not played it yet)
Undertale (love the concept and humour but I can imagine getting hacked off with it quickly)

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link

I played the Cat Quest demo. Needless to say I ended up buying it.

T/S: Eliot (Leee), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link

ON IPHONE too

L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link

re remote play, can use DualShock also

L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link

Really digging Control, if only for the way it plasters the name of a newly discovered room onto the screen in huge letters.

T/S: Eliot (Leee), Monday, 28 October 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link

I'm wishing the adaptive difficulty in Control would adapt itself back down a few notches because I'm near the endgame and the last few encounters (main story, some side missions) are a pain in the ass

going to grind out a few more upgrades but those flying assholes that fling rocks really chafe

mh, Monday, 28 October 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link


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