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

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.

see you in a year. grab yourself some Bloodborne too.

think witcher 3 is my favourite game of all time. it's up there anyway.

^^

i want to play that but my wife will make fun of the sex scenes and i don't know if my fragile ego can take it

ts: witcher 3's sex scenes vs bloodborne's cryptic world of lovecraftian menstruation cults

yeah a few times in my flatmate chatted to me while i was playing witcher 3 and i was incredibly embarrassed. that wasn't even during the boning scenes. i was caught between shame and the need to intently watch the cutscenes because i was engrossed in what was happening.

lol. just gotta say fuck everyone else!!

has anyone got the virtual reality thing or given it a go? i'm kinda tempted i have to say. reviews seem fairly positive.

i watched some VR livestreams last night via ps4/twitch and every single game looks fumbly and immensely awkward to control

played some rail shooter game for a few minutes in gamestop, it was fine i guess. the resolution left something to be desired but was able to get immersed pretty quickly.

i'm not entirely convinced we've figured out what good VR experiences are going to be. much like how the Wii went from standing up and swinging your remote to sitting on the couch and flicking your wrist as little as possible, i think the physical/spatial interactions are just a novelty. cuz of that i think im going to sit out the first and probably second gen of VR

my workplace got a hololens and that's pretty dope though, i can see more legit cool uses for that. the problem with the current dev model is that the "active" is about postcard sized but i imagine that'll be fixed in later iterations

"active" area*

i watched some VR livestreams last night via ps4/twitch and every single game looks fumbly and immensely awkward to control

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Well, it's like a whole new paradigm, yeah? People who have been gaming for years are used to variations on basically the same controller (some fiddly bits and buttons) + video screen so we're comfortable with that setup and it's relatively easy to adapt from system to system. But if you watch someone with very little gaming familiarity try to navigate that setup, it's like watching an infant learn to walk. I would imagine adjusting to VR is pretty similar.

certainly, but my impression was that game designers are in the same boat for the most part and are unclear how to best design for the tech.

someone please send me a playstation vr headset and a copy of rez infinite and i will let you know if it's any good

Mentioned this a bit on the rift and general vr thread, I got one of these and I'm really really loving it, but you just shouldn't trust my opinion of it because I'm a massive nerd for anything 3d. I mean I can still happily lose hours of my life in a viewmaster so vr is just perfect for me. That batman thing is meant to last 30-60 minutes but I've been in there a couple of hours and still haven't even finished a first run through yet because I'll just end up standing around marvelling at the detail on a handrail or whatever.

With that in mind, the things I've loved most so far are yep, Batman. Also Tumble VR because it's just a "build a tall pile of bricks" game but a) it feels hugely tactile and *real*, and b) I've been enjoying "build a tall pile of bricks" since I was 2, it's an all time classic. Also, Rez on this is just as amazing as you'd hope it'd be. And the "Robot Rescue" minigame within the Playroom demoy thing is really amazing too, and needs to become a full game asap.

I havent tried VR yet but agree that Build a Tall Pile of Bricks is an all-time classic regardless of...platform. Haha

bought one and sent it back a few days later... i couldn't get past the fact that i could always see the side of the lenses whatever i was doing; it totally stopped the immersion for me...
but maybe i have a weird shaped head that emphasised that? also the power/quality just didnt feel like it was there yet for me to put down £350 on it right now.
amazon refunded within 2 days so no big issue. if it turns out that the catalogue becomes fantastic and ps 4 pro / ps5 really ups the quality, then maybe i'll jump back on in a year or two when it'll be cheaper

My first big disappointment of remaining steadfastly last gen is discovering that this year's Jackbox Party Pack won't be released on PS3. The two previous editions have been huge holiday-time hits with my family.

Time to blow it all on a PS4 Pro with VR!

OK, so we finally got a PS4 with Uncharted, Star Wars BF and GTAV. Coming late to this, what should we get next? I kinda want an online FPS with a bit more depth than Star Wars so Battlefield 1/ Call of Duty/ an other? Voice chat is an absolute must as I want to be able to swear creatively at teenagers and I WANT THEM TO HEAR ME.

titanfall 2 for sure

Titanfall 2 is getting ace reviews. Destiny PvP is fantastic fun and you can get the base game plus all DLC for a really good price - hundreds of hours of goodness in there.

initial thoughts are Bloodborne, Witcher 3, Doom for the singleplayer, Rayman Legends if you have kids/a partner who can do the co-op with you.

Thanks both. Great fun digging into games available for a 'new' console. I think I'm spending more time on metacritic and the playstation store than I am actually playing. Loved Dark Souls 1 & 2 so Bloodborne looks a bit good, ditto DS3 and Salt&Sanctuary. Hard to justify to the wife and teens though 'cos its only really me that likes hard games. I somehow had it in my head that the Titanfall games were all flash and no substance but, as you say, 2 is getting great reviews. Witcher 3 on the list but slightly daunting as looks massive - maybe after we've got bored of GTAV. So maybe Doom? Hard decisions !

Inside (sequel to Limbo) is short but great, maybe a tiny bit too dark for kids but idk?

Ace, will have a look at Inside. Youngest is 14, and anyway we've long given up any pretence of being responsible parents, so dark is good.

If you have any interest in cooperative instead of competitive shooters, highest recommendation for EDF 4.1, especially in split-screen co-op with someone next to you devising far-fetched tactics that'll backfire horribly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9BCSckR00A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hr-XC9ucE

+1 for Inside

is that blizzard shooter game any fun on ps4

I like it

yes. bit short on content but whats is there is some shiny shiny quality goodness.

xposts I'm way late to the party but I just recently installed one of the EDF games on my Vita and its like my platonic ideal of a certain type of game (I guess the 'unending hordes of things coming at you but with a completely variable level of difficulty depending on your mood' type of game).

is edf online multiplayer too? looks a bit clusterfuck in a good way like planetside 2

how come no 1 plays planetside 2, its free on ps4

I am intrigued, tell me more

large scale multiplayer sci-fi fps. 3 factions that fight for territory so its always battles of attrition but its often chaotic and hilarious imo

xp

EDF 4.1 has online and offline split-screen multiplayer but not both at the same time.
Since you mentioned Planetside, perhaps I should clarify that EDF's MP is strictly co-op PvE and the team maxes out at 4 players if online, 2 if split-screen.

titanfall 2 is the real deal. so much fun and chock full of ideas. brutal at first, with a real steep learning curve but once it clicks... hooo boy

oooh i want it

that and/or dishonored 2

cool if you get it and have any questions (you will), I'll try to help out. frothyomen's videos on youtube are worth watching for guides (and a flavour of the different mechanics)