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

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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

Sweet
Maybe 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 FF7R
the 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

the honey bee inn sequence is... good now

mh, Sunday, 19 April 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link

Haha yes!!

Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 19 April 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link

i am very happy with GTAV. Needed another faster game like spiderman to fill that gap.

Yerac, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Is there a decent arcade-style joystick available for PS4 for playing Pac Man and that sort of thing? All the ones I'm seeing are advertised as fight sticks, which apparently are no good for games where you only want 4-way or 8-way movement, not a full 360 degrees.

early rejecter, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link

No experience myself, but a guy on reddit suggests that some Hori sticks support 4-way: https://stores.horiusa.com/

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link

but aren't all arcade games from that era (excepting trackball ones) digital inputs only anyway? (that is, 4 or 8-way vs. analog)

Nhex, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link

Yeah, after poking around more it seems like the issue is that you need a stick that is restricted to 4-way movement, because a game like Pac Man will ignore any input that isn't exactly up-down-left-right so you miss turns if you don't hit it just right. I'll check into the Hori sticks, thanks, looks like they have an inexpensive 8-way that can possibly be modified with an aftermarket restrictor plate.

Totally different topic: do you all back up your game data? I got the kid a PS4 for Christmas and there's been one instance since then where he lost progress in a game due to a corrupted file. Only happened that one time and fortunately he hadn't gotten far in yet, but is that something to worry about?

early rejecter, Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link

I think psplus syncs saves to the cloud, but that's probably not consistent between games and I'm not sure how good they are at not propagating local corruption

mh, Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link

One data point: I've had my PS4 for a couple years, and haven't had any corrupted saves.

Judd Apatowsaurus (Leee), Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link

Check the Upload/Download Saved Data menu dialogs, but if it was a long time ago then it's probably too late. Usually there are a few instances of your data in there.

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link

Is it a Sony memory card?

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link

memory... card?

mh, Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link

if you're really hardcore, early rejecter - you can get a high quality fight stick, and buy a restrictor gate like the ones seen here:
https://focusattack.com/spare-parts-tools/by-part/restrictor-gates/

I don't think there are a lot of sticks these days being sold like that as-is

Nhex, Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link

and yeah I just allow PS+ to backup all my saves

Nhex, Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link

Ghost of Tsushima looks tasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur0pQblaZcE

So buttons. (Leee), Monday, 18 May 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link

once they showed gameplay without the UI turned off it became obvious that it's just an offbrand assassins creed game

ciderpress, Monday, 18 May 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link

i'm thinking hard about going in on sekiro

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 May 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link

i loved sekiro, and once the combat clicks, it’s fantastic, but like all fromsoftware games it is not without its frustrations.

Fizzles, Monday, 18 May 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link

three weeks pass...

RE2, spiderman, and god of war... in the sale, all for the price of one new game... tempting

||||||||, Saturday, 13 June 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link

RE2, spiderman, and god of war... in the sale, all for the price of one new game... tempting


All pretty dope, though mixed feelings about GoW. Just finished RE2 today and had a lot of fun with it. Spider-Man the best of the bunch imo.

circa1916, Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link

Spider-Man (as much as I played it) and God of War share a similar button-mashing DNA, I've got to admit. But swinging around the city in Spider-Man is about as good as that sort of thing gets in game.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I've just started playing The Outer Wilds. I'm loving it so far.

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 09:45 (four years ago) link

I literally just looked up which was which, Worlds vs. Wilds, and I already forgot. Is this the looping one?

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link

it's easy - Wilds is the one with the other Worlds, Worlds is the one where you go Wild looking for other Worlds

(Wilds is the 22 minute loop one and is amazing)
(and i have to look it up every single time because i always mix it up too)

time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link

whoever said "the i in wilds stands for indie" fixed this problem for me
i bought wilds and control last night for $35

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link

Wilds is the one that is wildly amazing and innovative
Worlds is the one that is Worldly and like other worldly games, not as innovative

time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link

yes, and the o in worlds stands for Obsidian Entertainment

ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link

i guess that requires that you know who obsidian are though

ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link

God yeah, who okayed the fact there are two almost identically-titled space exploration games out in the same year?

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link

yeah, i'm always curious if the two production studios had any communications about that. i'm assuming the pro studio would have sued or something, if they had standing

time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link

Outer Wilds is fab though.

At first I was a bit disappointed by the cartoonish characters, the slightly vectory graphics, fiddly controls and the fact there's no speech, just writing. It does give me the feeling it was all made using the Dreams software package, but this is an indie game after all.

Once it gets going though, all these factors get left behind. It's a really lovely, extremely original game. I'd say the closest thing I can link it to are the old Elite games perhaps.

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link

for the kind of game it is it's a little unforgiving imo. very easy to die, very hard at times to make progress. but yes extremely original, but very fun i just wish i felt inspired to finish/solve it.

Mordy, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link

there have been moments when the game seems to suddenly glitch out and send me into a completely different world, or I'll end up suddenly transported into another random spot in space, but I can't work out if it's a mistake or part of the game yet. spent ages trying to use my rocket pack to jump out of water onto a platform

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link

I downloaded NBA 2K20 and COD Warzone this week. A 1TB console can store 7-8 games of that size. Ridiculous.

BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link

yeah, i have to erase a game before adding a new one 9 times out of 10

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link

Just got a 2TB external and I’m pleased to find that all the games I deleted still have their Save data

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link

yeah, i'm always curious if the two production studios had any communications about that. i'm assuming the pro studio would have sued or something, if they had standing

― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, July 8, 2020 12:14 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

wilds was openly in development with that title for years before worlds was announced. and "the outer worlds" is not a remotely good enough name to warrant the inevitable confusion.

this is at least the third time the worlds or wilds conversation has happened on ilx

℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Thursday, 9 July 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link

i'm here for it every time - i try to say a variation on the same joke each time

time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 July 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link

which one is which again

per aspera ad scampo (||||||||), Thursday, 9 July 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link

The Outer Worlds = postmodern satirical AAA RPG where you explore the galaxy
Outer Wilds = Indie action-RPG where you explore the galaxy but only for 22 minutes at a time

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 9 July 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link

I can see the post above but I've already forgotten

per aspera ad scampo (||||||||), Thursday, 9 July 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link

those really are the same game, dang

Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 9 July 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link

I just bought "Wilds" and "Control" (which was 66% off; $20 is my cutoff point for impulse purchases). My 1TB drive is pretty packed, but I figure as I go through titles I can delete them and, should I return to complete more of the games later, just download or install them again. I assume that whether playing from a disc or from a download, my progress is saved on my machine, and that when I reinstall my progress returns with it. Right? So if I uninstall, say, "God of War," where I am hovering around 60% completion, and then reinstall it later, I'll still be at 60%?

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 July 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link


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