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

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!!

the intro/tutorial was great, really intense. also i replayed gz and noticed the a.i. isn't nearly as good as tpp. like in gz i slowly crawled away from a guard like 10 ft in front of him while he scratched his head trying and said "huh?" and then lost his interest minutes later

tbf that's me as a guard. there's gotta be a few terrible guards in there

"what was THAT noise?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjPpX1g1juo

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I guess we can use this as the default thread for Sony gaming media, yeah? Since everything that isn't the PS4 is slowly dying?

Speaking of, Sony just announced that they've officially stopped producing the Playstation TV. Anyone have one of these? What do you think? Should I get one while the gettin's good? I think I like the idea of playing my Vita games on the TV. But I don't know if it would be more than just a novelty, particularly since not all games are even compatible with it.

Between this and the announcement that they're shutting down PSP access to the PlayStation Store, I'm feeling more and more like I need to figure out the intricacies of getting survivalist with my last gen media so that I'm not caught unawares when Sony disavows the existence of anything pre-PS4.

the pstv always seemed like a baffling idea to me right from the off - i still can't quite believe it made it to market in the first place

i have a vita but i never felt like i was missing out not being able to play those games on my tv, either because the games i enjoyed most were a) cross-play with ps3 and ps4 so i could already play them on my tv using those machines instead or b) not compatible with the pstv because they needed the vita's backend touchscreen. also i'm pretty sure a lot of vita games which look great on the vita's little screen would look like total butt on my 40-inch tv.

it's kinda weird too that sony thought consumers might need not just one but two additional devices capable of streaming gameplay from their ps4, right?

with the new beta update you can stream to PC/mac

New PS4 firmware adds ability to stream gameplay to George Foreman grills, stability update

Yeah I mean, like many of Sony's gaming ideas, it has potential but its actual implementation seems utimately half-assed.

was surprised to hear about the streaming to PC/Mac, even more surprised to find that they were just playing catchup with the XBone/Windows 10 functionality appparently

yesterday my kids discovered a trove of ancient games, all still perfectly playable on my PS3:

- vib ribbon
- parappa the rapper
- tomb raider

i really like that i can still play them

uh, i mean that they can play them ;)

btw been playing star wars battlefront, if anyone else wants to shoot me a lot

i haven't played in a long time but i'd be up for it! i pretty much play Assault mode exclusively

I've played that one a bit, but have mostly been playing the capture the flag / capture the escape pod variants. I'm reeeeeally bad at shooters on consoles so far, but I think I'm getting incrementally better

if anyone wants to add me for this or any other PS4 game you can recruit me for, my PS4 name is "precisiongrind"

xp parappa the rapper for ps3? It was a port or something?

kick, punch, it's all in the mind

I'm guessing he meant physical copies of PS1 games. Parappa is only available digitally for PSP/Vita afaik. But Parappa 2 is available for the PS4 in the PS store now, you lucky sumbitches.

you mean umjammer lammy?? that is a genuinely great game, sort what parappa should have been. yep i've got the parappa disc. comes with a poster!

gah it's been on playstation store for the last..... 7 years?? https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/um-jammer-lammy-(psone-classic)/cid=UP9000-NPUI94448_00-0000000000000001

it me

No, apparently Parappa 2 is an actual PS2 game I didn't even know existed. Um Jammer Lammy is fantastic, though. So nice I've bought it thrice.

never played Parappa 2 but most reactions I heard were negative

Speaking of, Sony just announced that they've officially stopped producing the Playstation TV. Anyone have one of these? What do you think? Should I get one while the gettin's good? I think I like the idea of playing my Vita games on the TV. But I don't know if it would be more than just a novelty, particularly since not all games are even compatible with it.

as the resident in-house dumbass who buys all the stupid things (you may remember me from such films as "trying to convince myself to buy a 3DS Happy Home Designer bundle to get the smaller New 3DS with the colored buttons"), the Playstation TV feels like a safe one to skip. if I'm going to be playing a video game on my TV it should be something designed to look & feel good on a screen of that size. some of those experiences (hello Spelunky) are exportable to the Vita platform because the Vita is actually a wonderfully powerful piece of hardware which can handle a considerable amount of video game, but most aren't so 9 times out of 10 the Playstation TV brings nothing to the table. I seriously doubt P4 is going to be any more fun played with a DS4 gazing across my living room at a TV than it was on my Vita over the course of a couple dozen airports.

hell yah all my fellow noobs are playing on PS4 on the weekend and I'm kicking ass

I downloaded Salt & Sanctuary, i.e. 2-D Dark Souls (+Castlevania?). They really released this at the absolute perfect time, didn't they.

Man, this is great so far. It actually feels like playing Dark Souls for the first time, in that I am bad and don't exactly know how everything works yet.

looking forward to Star Wars Battlefront dlc, much nerdery abounds

Yeah, I'm planning on checking out Salt & Sanctuary this weekend as well

hm, i'm into trying salt and sanctuary now!

bit of a bummer that it looks just short of copyright infringement tho

i haven't tried it, but don't most groundbreaking games spawn legions of imitators? didn't the original final fantasy pretty much rip off the most essential features of dragon quest?

it does look cool! kind of shocked when i found out it wasn't by FromSoft, they even have the exact same font for the UI.

omg the skill tree on salt and sanctuary, this is amazing

no one has mentioned symphony of the night as an influence on salt & sanctuary, probably just because SOFT is an obvious influence on the souls games, but the quality of salt & sanctuary 2-d combat feels pleasingly similar.

i love this game. working on a certain dragon boss, and i think i might be making it hard on myself by sticking with a whip a la Castlevania/Bloodborne. also it seems like this game might turn out to be as long as a real Souls game, which is crazy.

I'm only 3 bosses in, so a long way to go

anyone else play the nioh alpha

yeah i died a bunch of times and that's about it

Ok - I too have drank the kool-aid and picked up a '4PS' - my PS3 wasn't getting gaming love, and the Uncharted 4 pushed me over the edge - it is indeed a beautiful game. Picked up Ratchet and Clank too, since that was my first PS3 game, and it's awesome. Super Mega Baseball and Resogun purchased just b/c of this thread. I'm 'mct_rt' on Playstation network ...

Big <$5 flash sale in the PSN store. I mostly just want to stump for the two Jackbox Party Packs because everyone should own them.

Oh and everybody's talking about that Super Mega Baseball thing here and that's on sale, too.

thanks for the head's up! i got a few games i've only played on mac with a keyboard (Terraria and Rogue Legacy, which i'm assuming i will be able to do 100x better with a controller), along with super mega baseball & jackbox partypack 1

Another Flash sale. Vita owners may be interested to know that the portable amalgam of XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within (whose existence seems to have been very effectively buried) is on sale for like $5.

Any good recent/new releases coming out this month? Got a GC I need to burn by the end of August. Might get the new Deus Ex or No Man's Sky depending how good word of mouth is.

spiritual sequel to Limbo out in a couple weeks! Inside.

Nice, will definitely keep that in mind

I finally got a PS4. Just finished Uncharted 4 which as good as terribly plotted climbing has ever looked.

I think I'll go for Witcher 3 next.