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
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
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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
Is it a Sony memory card?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
memory... card?
― mh, Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:38 (three 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 (three years ago) link
and yeah I just allow PS+ to backup all my saves
Ghost of Tsushima looks tasty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur0pQblaZcE
― So buttons. (Leee), Monday, 18 May 2020 18:08 (three 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 (three years ago) link
i'm thinking hard about going in on sekiro
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 May 2020 18:56 (three 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 (three years ago) link
RE2, spiderman, and god of war... in the sale, all for the price of one new game... tempting
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