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

ooh yeah -- i have avoided walk-throughs but did read something on ?kotaku that was a beginner's primer or w/e and one of the tips was "make sure you visit every single question mark in white orchard" (nb doing everything = significant armor/weapon upgrade)

based on my limited experience in the wider world, 'visiting every question mark' as a general strategy might not be similarly necessary for level progression, but it sure seems appealing for the casual gamer. which seems counter-intuitive, since i've read a number of articles that are basically like 'these open world sandbox games have gotten too long!' ...but the side-quests in the witcher are actually fun/interesting enough that i can treat them as worthwhile diversions. if i've only got an hour or two to play, it's actually easier and more entertaining to bop off on a potentially funny/poignant lil side job than it is to settle into a multi-part quest that advances the main story. i just finished what i think is the first real dungeon and afterwards i was like "welp i think it's time to just investigate some local weirdness, that took longer than I thought"

also avoiding fast travel except when finishing a quest is a really great way to appreciate ~the gameworld~ and also pick off those areas of interest and mark them for return later

traded in Star Wars Battlefront already. huge star wars fans, have loved some star wars games in the past, even a big FPS fan... but it was just weak. looks and sounds amazing, but gameplay is just so repetitive and there's so little content. in exchange got Alien Isolation, The Evil Within and Killzone Shadow Fall. i reckon even the last of those will be more enjoyable than battlefront

Super Mega Baseball is $4 - maybe I'll pick it up on the recommendations here.
And Gradius V because I never played that in the PS2 days.

picked up SMB, it's great fun so far but I've no idea what all the abbreviated skills, positions and special abilities mean.

got a PS4 for christmas. Haven't had a system since PS2 so this is interesting . so far getting schooled in NBA2k and just started on Witcher 3 . Haven't been able to set aside a few good hours yet.

tonight i made it to 61st in the world on resogun:demolition mode. my highest ranking. i was stuck at 66th forever. i changed my tactics today and voila. i want to make it into the top 50. if they ever come out with a new resogun i think they'll have to put me in the loony bin.

highly recommend Life Is Strange - it is clunky and slow and i never need to hear the protagonist say "wowsers" again but it's like nothing else i've ever played and by the 4th episode it really starts figuring out how to be great - seriously on tenterhooks for the last ep, which is already loaded up and ready to go

by the way i'm still on a PS3 and apparently Yakuza 5 (which just came out as a PS3 exclusive??) is awesome in a great-side-quest open-worldy kind of way

got a PS4 for christmas. Haven't had a system since PS2 so this is interesting . so far getting schooled in NBA2k and just started on Witcher 3 . Haven't been able to set aside a few good hours yet.

same, tho bloodborne rather than NBA. the jet set willy difficulty level of bb really intensifies the hard work put into atmospherics. like walking across the bridge to The Cleric, produced a genuine feeling of fear and tension I don't think I've felt in a game before.

witcher iii far more relaxed obv and it's extremely enjoyable just trotting around completing side quests, tho got trapped in underground ice king quest at too low a level for ages.

I'm steering clear of resogun - scott's sad decline into rg-induced insanity a hogarthian moral progress for our times.

the jet set willy difficulty level of bb

lol otm

Just picked up The Last of Us to start during the snowstorm. What an amazing game! I had really no idea what to expect but I’m blown away.

Just picked up The Last of Us to start during the snowstorm. (...) I’m blown away.

and the game's pretty good too badum pshh someone update excelsior i've made a joke

lol

jealous of anyone playing Last Of Us for 1st time

i played the whole thing again on hard; considering one last time on "insane" or whatever the extreme difficulty is

i finished Life Is Strange by the way and the last episode while far too short is easily on par with anything Kojima has done as a meta joke on videogames and videogame playing - i have probably never played anything quite as weirdly unsettling as it

played it for the first time last year and i agree it's wonderful. also loved the dlc. xp

in one of the most straightforward moments of Life Is Strange Ep 5 your character has the choice of saying "eat shit and die" by pressing circle, or "fuck off" by pressing square

heh, i gotta buy that!

I tihnk you should all wait until you've sent in your 2015 ballots for best games to play it, but PSA: The Witness comes out tomorrow apparently!

boooooooooo @ Sony for deactivating cross-save functionality on old Vita versions of MLB: The Show; being able to continue my RTTS characters & Franchise teams on the road was such a glorious thing

PS Plus freebies for Feburary:

Grid Autosport, PS3
Helldivers: Democracy Strikes Back , PS4, PS3, PS Vita
Lemmings Touch, PS Vita
Nom Nom Galaxy, PS4
Nova-111, PS Vita
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, PS3

Always been curious about Helldivers (will it actually be a good version of Magicka?) and am super happy about P4AU, came close to buying that many times.

helldivers is excellent. great couch co-op game.

being new to the latest generations of consoles what the fuck is this error code shit - ce-34878-0 that keeps popping up? how do i fix ?

i've done the database rebuild and even initialized but it seems to be a short term fix

might want to consider doing a fresh install. If that doesn't work, send it in.

should i have any expectations of CS being anything less than terrible to deal with?

I mean... they'll make you do a bunch of stuff before they send you a box but eventually they'll send you a box if stuff doesn't work. Definitely want to set aside some time for it.

a box to mail your system in, i mean

that they will bother to send you a box at all puts them ahead of both CS departments IMO

If my experiences with PSN customer service are any indication, you can probably expect an interaction with someone in possession of at least a third-grader's cognition and reading comprehension.

holy shit the witness.

these puzzles haunt my dreams

also picked up divinity: original sin, never heard about it before but it is pretty cool, and super hard. if you are into SRPGs it would probably interest you. very good mechanics and lots of care/thought invested in the story thus far

the witness last week, next week firewatch (really been looking forward to that one!), Gravity Rush Remastered should be good, Far Cry Primal also interesting. Good time to own a PS4.

can't wait for firewatch. looks great

upgraded my Harddrive to a 2TB and after the reload everything working great.

Helldivers looks like it might be fun - on this month's free PS+ games list

how the fuck do you guys hear about these games

I read hip gaming blogs like Gamespot

industry insider here

i keep up on all of the information from industry events such as e3, tokyo game show, pax prime and pax east

ok, now i know, thank you

in all seriousness tho i have no idea how i found firewatch, it may actually ahve been an e3 trailer? but the second i saw the little 60 second teaser i knew i had to play it.

i saw it on twitter

i saw it a while ago, idk where, but it looks pretty good!

probably be tied up with SFV and maybe that new Naruto game this month, but def. interested in Gravity Rush Remastered. weirdly Amazon-exclusive

anyone else playing the witness? i'm downloading it right now

how far are you, art? (or, how far art thou? sorry)

aaaand i'm hooked. enjoying this a lot so far.

surprisingly amazing sound design in some areas, too. early example: after you get to the first kind of canyony/deserty type of passageway and then do the puzzle that involves a doubled path that's mirrored vertically, it opens the door to this crazy boathouse with 8 different colored vases, and as you near each one, you get a different drone that harmonize with each other, so you can stand between different ones and get different harmonies that also sound nice layered over the wave and wind noises.

dude yes this game is amazing. i would guess im perhaps halfway through. unfortunately i just got rocket league so this is going down for a few

i feel like i suck really bad at the witness, but maybe it's just normal to have to skip a decent amount of puzzles at first and come back to them later?

i am obsessed with rocket league as well. if you (or anyone else) ever want to party ps4 style i am we_invent_you