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

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.

you have to look at the story as a kind of pointillism i think

i've been thinking about getting MGS5 but i've never played a metal gear game and the plot sounds so stupid

the stupidity is part and parcel of the beauty of Metal GEAR

i was about to talk about mgsv again

i don't think i need to tho

just search for my posts, about 50% of them at this point are probably about how great mgs is

I never finished the last PS3 one because uhh I started it later at night, watched the hour of exposition, realized I really should restart because I was botching it so bad (tired), and couldn't deal with having to watch all that again

thankfully they are not in any chronological order so I can jump into MGS V?

really loved the first couple games

yeah, you don't need to know anything about lore tbh. i'm sure it helps but i know fuck all about anything since MGS3 and it was fine. Psycho Mantis is in it, it might help to know who that is.

a major annoyance iirc

he knows if you like castlevania and he's on fire and floaty

I'm only going to have one PS4 controller, is that going to be a problem? Can't plug it into a second slot :)

I figured out how to tweak the settings and circumvent that difficulty on the Vita re:MGS1 so I'm sure there must be a way on the PS4.

(I was frankly shocked that the Sony corporation was forward-thinking enough to allow users to switch controller numbers on a handheld that obviously has, y'know, just the one controller.)

To answer the original question, the Arkham Knight season pass has some fun fan service stuff in there but there's already tons to do in the core game, so I'd probably avoid paying full price for it, it's due to start going on sale pretty soon anyway I expect (new content stopped being added to it in December I think?).

yep... i think general opinion of the Arkham DLC was one of disappointment. on another note, hubba hubba for this Uncharted trailer graphics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh5HV4iic1Y

looks so cool! just finished the the first three that came bundled with my ps4

arkham knight was such a bitter disappointment - those interminable fucking batmobile sequences killed it for me

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

super-otm

PS4 arrives tomorrow. Goodbye, weekend.

you probably need a second controller. the battery life on these is terrible and the sad answer there is that you want to have one charging while you play so you can swap out when your gamepad dies.

I know it's not very well-received, but the deal I got includes the Star Wars shooty game. Does anyone here play that?

you probably need a second controller. the battery life on these is terrible and the sad answer there is that you want to have one charging while you play so you can swap out when your gamepad dies.

do people really do this? when mine gets low on battery i just plug it in to a standard USB charger and keep playing while it's connected

couch is too far away from the machine in my house but god bless if it works for you!

battlefront is sort of fun for a little while, some of the modes are cool, but hopefully it's a box copy bc you might wanna trade it in (...he said, not having traded in a game for years)

hah, no, I think it's a bundled download code

I am getting that phone-controlled BB-8 droid, though. If the PS4 is a great disappointment, I'll always have that.

couch is too far away from the machine in my house but god bless if it works for you!

you don't need to plug your controller into the ps4 to charge it! all you need is any usb charger (from your kindle/iphone/android/novelty mug warmer/whatever) and somewhere to plug it in

yeah, i just ain't big on having strings on it really.

I have a couple usb battery pack things and have used those for random charging devices. Should work for the PS4 controller if it'll charge an iPad, I'd think.

obvious solution is to wear a utility belt 90s comic style with a half dozen usb charger packs

like batman

the bat is short for battery

should I play Ground Zeroes before The Phantom Pain y/n

ground zeroes is great and will prep you for phantom pain (exact same controls) PLUS you can completely skip the cinemas! So i say yes.

if you do play GZ first then TPP report back bc i am jealous that you get to play GZ then you don't need ot WAIT IN AGONY for TPP to finally come out like i did

looks like ground zeroes has no online sale, i'll either scramble to find it locally or wait if deciding to do them in order

playstation network has phantom pain for $30 heck yeah

ground zeroes was free with ps+ (which you should get immediately) otherwise, i would recommend just getting phantom pain straight up.
again: until you are riding a horse in the desert, you are in the tutorial which is dopey. Wait until after you've finished your first mission to levy judgment.

until you are riding a horse in the desert, you are in the tutorial which is dopey.

The same is true for real life

I have PS+! It's $20 now.

wellllll the thing with ps+ is that you have access to anything you've "bought" from the moment you've subscribed and not the stuff that WAS free. so i think you missed that one.

yeah, I am a subscriber, but I didn't pay attention and "buy" everything for all platforms during that time, woe is me

i thought the intro was amazing personally and also totally in the spirit of the craziness of the older Metal Gear Solid games. MGSV is the perfect open world game and this is the perfect tutorial. the player is learning how to walk, crawl, sneak, etc. alongside the character. one of MGSV's main themes is the merging of player and character experience and the tutorial is both a way to introduce the new gameplay mechanics and let Kojima go hog-wild with this Del Toro-and-horror-films-(and anime of course) inspired intro. i love the direction and the dark humor.

to those that don't like the intro, what was it about it that you didn't like? all modern open world games have to have a linear/intro/tutorial mission, Kojima is doing so in his cinematic style. i thought the scene where you learn you have lost your arm was very moving. the scene with the doctor putting up x-rays and explaining that you have 108 pieces of bone and metal embedded in you was also amazing. perhaps this has to do with my own medical history, i have had many operations, and i think i can relate to the idea of a phantom pain. this game definitely captures that.

Ground Zeroes was incredible, and still is the height of Metal Gear Solid imo. it is the most polished, at least, being a smaller area, with some better animations, more compact level design, and a higher guard count. TPP is such a huge area(s) and Konami cut off the budget before they could really polish it to that level. just the introduction to GZ, the seamless single-camera continuous shot, the staging of all the guards and choreography of vehicles, the lighting is so much more impressive than most of TPP. i say play both, and if you start with TPP then you will have a very cool and meaningful experience playing GZ after you finish the game. let's just say plotwise and thematically the two really are parts one and two of the 5th Metal Gear Solid. i played GZ when it came out and beat TPP twice before going back to try GZ and it was still very surprising how i felt after being in TPP's world for so long.

spoilers!!