anyone else playing the witness? i'm downloading it right now
― Karl Malone, Friday, 5 February 2016 00:46 (eight years ago) link
how far are you, art? (or, how far art thou? sorry)
aaaand i'm hooked. enjoying this a lot so far.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 5 February 2016 01:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 5 February 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
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
― art, Friday, 5 February 2016 03:21 (eight years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Friday, 5 February 2016 03:29 (eight years ago) link
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
― art, Friday, 5 February 2016 03:41 (eight years ago) link
explore the space
― art, Friday, 5 February 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
Nuclear Throne is pretty great in a Smash TV kind of way
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Friday, 5 February 2016 07:34 (eight years ago) link
how does the witness compare to talos principle
― am0n, Friday, 5 February 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
firewatch bad. like a poorly executed gone home. fake open world forest corridors.
― adam, Thursday, 11 February 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
its weird how all these games, on this thread, are pc games
sad about firewatch though, i kinda liked the sound of it
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, 11 February 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
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.
― adam, Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
can you maybe ~spoil~ it for me to satisfy my curiosity, since i am unlikely to actually play it
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:19 (eight years ago) link
Im liking it so far. The dialogue is the high point after 2 days
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Thursday, 11 February 2016 05:26 (eight years ago) link
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
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Thursday, 11 February 2016 05:29 (eight years ago) link
i read a good review of firewatch that made it sound interesting. so it's crap?
has anyone played "the disappearance of ethan carter"?
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 11 February 2016 09:16 (eight years ago) link
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.
― JimD, Thursday, 11 February 2016 09:47 (eight years ago) link
firewatch is not crap, adam is a bum who hates neat things
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
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?
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
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, 11 February 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
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, 11 February 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
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.
― adam, Thursday, 11 February 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
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 :/
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 11 February 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
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
― art, Thursday, 11 February 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
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.
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 February 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
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
― art, Thursday, 11 February 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
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).
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 February 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 February 2016 18:31 (eight years ago) link
― ulysses, Thursday, 11 February 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
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.
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 February 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 11 February 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
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
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Thursday, 11 February 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
The PS4 operating system is reason enough to upgrade imo unless you already have an xbone
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 11 February 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
I would get a PS4 for Bloodborne if I had a spare $400 laying around.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 February 2016 03:02 (eight years ago) link
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this is my favorite thing on ilx in months
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Friday, 12 February 2016 04:07 (eight years ago) link
would your mod have "catching fire" puns
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 12 February 2016 05:04 (eight years ago) link
I am among you
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Sunday, 14 February 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
:)
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 14 February 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
I has 4PS too now.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 14 February 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
wilkommen
― Nhex, Sunday, 14 February 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
My PS4 revived after putting in a new hard drive. Phew. Lost PT though :/
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 14 February 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
Gbx be my pal on the playststions (the rest of you too). I'm probably still "nnnnnggggghhhhh" I think? Maybe jjjusten?
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 15 February 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
we_invent_you
― Karl Malone, Monday, 15 February 2016 04:29 (eight years ago) link
i'm not sure if i can? do i need a monthly subscription or something?
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 15 February 2016 13:34 (eight years ago) link
There's probably not a good answer to this but how loud is the ps4 fan? The fan on my ps3 is super loud and it's annoying when I'm trying to watch a movie.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Saturday, 20 February 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
the ps3 fan was ridiculous, i've never heard my ps4 sound anything like that
― adam, Saturday, 20 February 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
the only other modern console i've had was the xbox 360. the ps4 is much more quiet than the 360. i haven't really noticed it
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 20 February 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link