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

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

nah man it is so open you can easily end up at the wrong step in a sequence or find a panel that was deliberately set in the wrong area (as far as what you know how to do) so backtracking is definitely expected

explore the space

Nuclear Throne is pretty great in a Smash TV kind of way

how does the witness compare to talos principle

firewatch bad. like a poorly executed gone home. fake open world forest corridors.

its weird how all these games, on this thread, are pc games

sad about firewatch though, i kinda liked the sound of it

me too man! i "pre-loaded" it and everything. i love the idea of a forest ranger open-wander type game with some non-murderous narrative. don't want to ~spoil~ anything for ppl that care about ~spoilers~ but i'll say it's way more linear and directed than the trailers imply.

can you maybe ~spoil~ it for me to satisfy my curiosity, since i am unlikely to actually play it

Im liking it so far. The dialogue is the high point after 2 days

When you start it, turn off "show location on map", you have to actually orienteer a little bit. It's cool man I like it

i read a good review of firewatch that made it sound interesting. so it's crap?

has anyone played "the disappearance of ethan carter"?

I played that, think I repped for it in last year's p+c? It's beautiful, not a huge amount of game there but I loved the environment enough to more than make up for that.

firewatch is not crap, adam is a bum who hates neat things

i beat it last night btw... one sitting... if short length bothers you, this will bother you. probably 4 hours. worth it imo though. it's beautiful and the writing is fantastic and the score is p much perfect and the plot is enough to drive you forward inasmuch as i started it at 11pm last night (i worked OT... got home late) intending to play for an hour and then stayed up to 3am to beat it.

i'm not sure how you'd expect "open-wander type game" from those trailers! those trailers screamed linear experience to me, maybe that's why i wasn't disappointed?

i kind of want a mod version where you have to keep watch for years of gametime on end, and then after around 500-600 hours of gameplay a small fire breaks out, you tell the person on your walkie talkie, a fire crew arrives and easily puts it out

then it's back to reading the second part of the hunger games trilogy yet again, the only book available in the game to read

Just out of curiosity, what are the PS4 exclusives y'all feel have made the system worthwhile thus far? I'd intended to resist the pull to upgrade and milk my PS3 for as long as humanly possible, but there have actually been very few PS4 releases that I'm all that jealous about.

i don't mind the short playtime, i actually prefer that at my advanced age. i just didn't enjoy the gameplay and found the characters/plot/setup to be bad. also the structure (not the content) of the narrative "twist" is EXACTLY THE SAME as in gone home. which is a better game.

erp looks like my PS4 is dead, refuses to boot up & crashes in safe mode. gonna try and change the hard drive & reinstall before i give up :/

xxp bloodborne is the only exclusive i can think of at the moment (multi-plat is the wave of the future) and that having been said it is sufficiently valuable to me to rationalize a ps4 purchase; however, ymmv

Okay, cool. I'm like an hour and a half into Demon's Souls still so I'll probably stick with my expected PS4 purchase sometime after 2020.

seems like there's still pretty substantial overlap b/t ps4 and ps3 generations (which is kind of crazy tbh) and i could be missing some exclusives but if u haven't been through DeS and DaS then i'd say u still have work to do last gen

I still have a ton of work to do. I'm honestly trying to figure out how to keep my PS3 viable for the next decade+ (I'm assuming, for example, that PSN will stop supporting previous gen at some point and that I'll need to figure out what to do with my massive backlog of digital games before that happens).

i'm in the same boat. Yakuza 5 = PS3 exclusive!! though at this point i'd almost fork over the PS4 purchase price just to get rid of the Singstar homescreen.

Just out of curiosity, what are the PS4 exclusives y'all feel have made the system worthwhile thus far? I'd intended to resist the pull to upgrade and milk my PS3 for as long as humanly possible, but there have actually been very few PS4 releases that I'm all that jealous about.

MGS V is available for PS3 so I'm not sweating that one. In all honesty, Just Cause 3 is the one that has me the most worked up.

Just out of curiosity, what are the PS4 exclusives y'all feel have made the system worthwhile thus far?

EDF 4.1

The PS3 does have EDF4 but imo the update is that much better.

same can prob be said about MGSV. not a +0.1 but having played ground zeroes on ps3 and ps4, i gotta say ps4 was better

The PS4 operating system is reason enough to upgrade imo unless you already have an xbone

I would get a PS4 for Bloodborne if I had a spare $400 laying around.

i kind of want a mod version where you have to keep watch for years of gametime on end, and then after around 500-600 hours of gameplay a small fire breaks out, you tell the person on your walkie talkie, a fire crew arrives and easily puts it out

― Karl Malone, Thursday, February 11, 2016 3:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

then it's back to reading the second part of the hunger games trilogy yet again, the only book available in the game to read

― Karl Malone, Thursday, February 11, 2016 3:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is my favorite thing on ilx in months

would your mod have "catching fire" puns

I am among you

:)

I has 4PS too now.

wilkommen

My PS4 revived after putting in a new hard drive. Phew. Lost PT though :/

Gbx be my pal on the playststions (the rest of you too). I'm probably still "nnnnnggggghhhhh" I think? Maybe jjjusten?

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