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

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?

we_invent_you

i'm not sure if i can? do i need a monthly subscription or something?

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.

the ps3 fan was ridiculous, i've never heard my ps4 sound anything like that

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

they're making a knack 2!
ps4 is a quieter fan.

Actually I think I'm ilxnnnggghhhxli because lol at me and it wasn't taken.

yeah you're the worst ;)

the PS4 exclusive nobody itt is mentioning is The Show, second-best baseball game in the universe behind Super Mega. I will sorely miss the ability to pick up the action on my Vita, but the mainline game is just an incredible translation of the aesthetics of sports into something interactive. I wish somebody would make a pro wrestling game with the same attention to detail.

also v much looking forward to the new Odin Sphere

I wish somebody would make a pro wrestling game with the same attention to detail.

PS1 New Japan Pro Wrestling... 4eva!!!!

sooo... after a debate about getting a gaming pc set up or buying a ps4 where i settled on neither, a ps4 is coming my way after an impulse buy

i'm hankering for a batman game, do i get the version that's bundled with the season pass, or is the game by itself fine?

did you play the original arkham? pretty sure that's the best of the three.

Yeah, but this is PS4 thread :)

dig. if you like the arkham games and you wanna be batman, i would strongly recommend you just get Metal Gear Solid V.

how many hours of cinematics does it begin with?

Significant reduction in cinematic length/frequency in 5, though the opening sequence before you get to the meat of the game is obnoxiously long. Great game!

Phantom Pain is on "sale" (i.e. cheaper than usual but still not exactly cheap) this week on PSN.

i kvetched through the first hour and a half of MGSV; there's interminable cinematics and nonsense tutorials. But the instant you finally are on the horse and put in the sandbox, holy shit it is amazing. Maybe my fave game of the year.

i hear there's some sort of post modern meta swing or two coming later in the game (i punked out about the 30th mission or so and got into Witcher 3 and am about to switcheroo back) but oh boy the basic story is dumb as hell.