The current controllers are great, except they keep breaking down for me. My original one has phantom R2 inputs and generally unresponsive, and on the newer one the down button only works about 1/10th of the time. This makes for a fun challenge in Dark Souls 3, where I never know if I'll be able to change consumable items or not.
Admittedly, this is probably related to the fact that I now mostly play while I'm on the stationary bike, with sweaty hands. :/
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
xp lol
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
Maybe that's not a speaker, maybe that's a fan that blows in your face to make you feel like you are outside.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
The DS4 already has a speaker!
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
oh yeah one of my 2 DS4s has a bad stick. but at least it doesn't cramp my hands up
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
PS plus giveaway this month is Uncharted 4 which I've already played to death years ago and Dirt Rally 2 in which you need to connect to a game server in career mode and the servers don't work. So I've basically spent hours downloading a title screen and an options menu.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
Speaking of servers, I can’t connect to anything in the Show, either - is there a widespread problem?
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
I've basically spent hours downloading a title screen and an options menu.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
Karl Malone's milk post: thanks mate, you really cheered me up!
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
:D hey man, i'm just giving you a glimpse of the future. glad to see the synergy with the thinking behind the new PS5 controller!
"Our goal with DualSense is to give gamers the feeling of being transported into the game world as soon as they open the box. We want gamers to feel like the controller is an extension of themselves when they’re playing – so much so that they forget that it’s even in their hands!"
*hundreds of journalists hands go up*
"WILL WE BE ABLE TO PUSH MILK WITH OUR "HANDS" USING THE PS5 CONTROLLER???"
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
Sony currently giving two games away to encourage us to stay and play at home: Journey - I've been Journey curious for a while now so I'll play through todayUncharted Nathan Drake Collection - same thing they gave away with PS+ a couple of months back. Pretty decent remake and polish that improved the combat and graphics but it's Uncharted and generally not for ILGers
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
Journey is lovely and only takes a few hours to play through. it's really something though
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
I've been playing Uncharted 2 these last few days; a little goes a long way, because the dialogue is terrible even by video game standards, but it's pretty enough and as close to watching tv as I'm gonna get.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 17 April 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
Started Death Stranding two nights ago. So far I’ve carried some stuff
― ncxkd, Friday, 17 April 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
keep playing the main quest till lvl 4
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link
i haven't played death stranding in 3 days and I keep saying 'i don' feel like hiking tonight'. I get anxiety about the rain!
― Yerac, Friday, 17 April 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
Keep on keepin on! 👍
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
My active pile:
Red Dead OnlineBorderlands ScienceLonely Mountains DownhillMarvel Puzzle QuestTotally Accurate Battle SimulatorInto the Breach
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
oh, this is the ps4 thread dummy!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
I had quite a good time playing through Journey while half baked this afternoon. Lovely experience.
― circa1916, Friday, 17 April 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
you're doing it right
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 17 April 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
Journey is beautiful and I cried at the end but it's not exactly fun.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Friday, 17 April 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
Yerac, yeah you have to keep on keeping on. sometimes it does feel like 'ugh I have to get up and go to work today'. it really ramps up around chapter 4 though
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 18 April 2020 10:27 (four years ago) link
I think I had the most fun in Chapter 3 - that's the really long chapter right? I'm addicted to building roads and that one felt like I had the most freedom to just grind on that
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 18 April 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
I still don't know whether I would like to play Death Stranding. I have not played a Metal Gear game since the first one on NES a million years ago, and I did not understand that game at all, neither how to play nor "what it all meant". This one seems like that too? Like, I've read all your writing on this, and read other writing on it, and I can't tell if it sounds fun. and maybe...that's the real game?
― Joey Corona (Euler), Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
I think there’s a thread on it no? Which I’m not reading yet...I played the original MGS on the NES too and it was like nothing else and had some memorable moments ... so I’m hoping DS does too.
― ncxkd, Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
death stranding definitely ticks both those boxes
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
there has been twice now where I got attacked by BTS and I totally got stuck up against a mountain/hill. Like I couldn't go anywhere so had to go back to a saved point. I don't know if that was a bug or what. Also I have trouble finding places to put ladders.
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 April 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
I also once shook the BB so hard it turned red.
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
do not shake the BB!!
― mh, Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
― circa1916, Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
yeah the reason I've spent so long on DS is through road building addiction
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
it is definitely 'deliberately a pain in the arse' but once you get the hang of it, very little of it feels illogical or unfair
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
when I get stuck in the sludgie the whale my spouse becomes a total backseat hiker and gets all stressed out. Emotions have been running high!
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
Game definitely becomes more manageable when you attune to it and more tools are open up, but yeah, the stress factor is almost comical when you’re trudging through tar and demon arms are ripping cargo off of you while a baby is crying in your face. Like Kojima thought “hey, let’s combine several nightmare scenarios into one here.”
― circa1916, Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
But the joy of taming the wilderness pioneer-like is so so good.
― circa1916, Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
The baby crying out of the controller speaker was definitely unexpected. This was also when I first discovered there is a speaker there
― ncxkd, Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
lol yeah i think a couple launch titles used it and then nothing again until now
― ciderpress, Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
It’s used in nba 2k19 and in injustice 2 at least
― Joey Corona (Euler), Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
The controller makes a thwacking sound on Everybody's Golf
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 18 April 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
If I remember correctly the police radio comes through the controller speaker in GTAV
― treefell, Saturday, 18 April 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
TLOU Remastered has audio logs play through the controller speaker and HZD has some minor sound effects go through it too.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Saturday, 18 April 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
― ncxkd, Saturday, 18 April 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
In the various Tomb Raiders it makes gunshot sounds when you shoot
― crisp, Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
it's actually a really cool feature, that adds an extra weird little dimension. wish more games would use it
― Nhex, Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
f it. bought GTAV last night.
― Yerac, Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
SweetMaybe we can get some multiplayer going sometime. Always wanted to do those coop missions
― ncxkd, Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link
I also bought gta5 this week, guess the extra one euro off in this sale did the trick. I really don't want to do the torture mission, just want a playground for doing dumb stuff that's not scifi or wild west
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 19 April 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
the curiosity got to me and I bought FF7Rthe 20% off PSN credit helped with my poor decision making tho lol
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
man i dunno if i should but
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link