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

that's pretty cheap!

This is the part that sold me: "2017’s first (and potentially only) big-budget video game about the income gap, the ethical and personal complexities of salvaging modern capitalist societies.."

Polygon writers can get a little loopy

ok guys -

ps4 gets opened in 4 days. two kids, 10 and 7. i am not into them playing SHOOTING games so fortnite is out. i am definitely getting them fifa 19. but.. what else? a driving game a bit more arcadey than GT maybe? they love super mega baseball. the littlest actually really loves Stacking. they both like Beyond Good and Evil though it is a bit complex for them. they like action. and they like competition, particularly if it can be calibrated/handicapped - super mega baseball is great for this.

I play Dirt4 and Driveclub and both are fairly arcadey especially with some of the driver assists but still quite tough for an under 10 I think. Maybe a karting game would suit more?

PS4 is crying out for something like Modnation Racers. Maybe give TrackMania Turbo a whirl? Rocket League is good fun too.

My kids absolutely love the Ratchet & Clank games. Platforming and shooting (but in a completely cartoony way). Same with the various Lego games.

I was watching broadcasts of combat racer Onrush this morning as it's a PS+ freebie this month.

Everything on screen looks so BUSY with bright colours and flashing things and a dozens of cars all crashing and racing at once and arrows and weird scoring and pick ups and a billion things to see. I think I'm getting too old to play online.

Tracer do your kids know the lego games?

oh xp right

My family got me Spiderman. Haven't played yet but looks cool, though not sure how violent the violence is. that is, hitting but no killing, maybe? I'm sure bad guys have guns.

xpost Oh, maybe nu Tetris?

trackmania turbo is rad

they do know the Lego games yes but not well - they've played a bit of Lego star wars on my phone

they both LOVE real cars, talking about cars difft models etc - so I'm thinking Drive Club might be a more accessible alternative to GT for them

ok the birthday game lineup is:

- fifa
- driveclub
- super mega baseball TWO (omg!)

if i were 10 or 7 i would love that combo

i would still love that combo

yeh Driveclub a better choice than GT, and not just for kids!
there's a remake of Crash Team Racing coming next summer btw.

anybody got any experience setting up subaccounts for kids on a PS4? i did it for my PS3 and it was 100% not worth the effort

Depends whether you expect them to ever play online, but if they will at some point in the future, and you don’t want to pay a psn subscription each at that point, then yep sub accounts are worth it. I don’t remember it being tricky to set up, but we did ours years ago so the procedure’s likely to have changed by now anyway.

driveclub is so good. the rain effects are obscene. tough game tho.

hope SMB comes to switch

My family got me Spiderman. Haven't played yet but looks cool, though not sure how violent the violence is. that is, hitting but no killing, maybe? I'm sure bad guys have guns.

― Josh in Chicago

That's about right. Spider-Man doesn't kill any bad guys, even the ones he throws off of skyscrapers. Some bad guys have guns and rockets.

Everything on screen looks so BUSY with bright colours and flashing things and a dozens of cars all crashing and racing at once and arrows and weird scoring and pick ups and a billion things to see. I think I'm getting too old to play online.

Onrush is pretty sweet so far, but I wouldn't call it a racing game. More of a destruction/stunts thing. There's no finish line, for example.

Some nice looking stuff on sale right now. If I have literally never played any Tomb Raider ever, are either Tomb Raider Definitive or Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration worthwhile?

i think the tomb raider games are all super mediocre though i havent played the reboot ones except for a bit of the first

The rebooted Rise of the Tomb Raider was the first one I played and I thought it was excellent (but then these sort of third person shooters/platformers/puzzlers/foraging type games are right in my wheelhouse)

There's diminishing returns as the series goes on, but the first rebooted tomb raider is an excellent popcorn third person shooter/platformer/puzzles/foraging type game. Worth the sale price imo.

Tomb Raider Definitive is something like $7, Rise of the Tomb Raider 20 Years is something like $17. $7 seems like a no-brainer for a AAA game. Is $17 a good price for the second one? I should probably just wait for the price to drop even more in the future.

games go on deep sales so frequently nowadays, imo you shouldn't buy anything unless you're intending to play it in the next couple months. that's how they get you. steam sales taught me that it's too easy to buy a bunch of well regarded games for $8 and then still not have played them a year later when they go on sale for $5

Fair enough. My attitude the past few months has been that I bought a PS4 so late in the (er) game, and mostly just for a handful of specific titles, that as things on my list get discounted I generally pick them up. $5, $7, even $10, compared to the Switch they might as well be paying *me,* and since I'm not paying for PS4 (or Switch) online access I've more or less saved the sum total of most of the games I want.

it's not even that late in the game, still 2 years until the expected ps5 release and then there always a year or 2 of crossgen releases

Yeah, good point. What are the high profile releases in the pipes? Resident Evil 2 reboot, Last of Us 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Death Stranding, Rage 2, Doom Eternal, Ghost of Tsushima ... I guess we don't know for sure when most of these are coming out or if most of those will be ps4 or 5.

TLOU2 is all but assuredly a PS4 title, which Naughty Dog has explicitly said. I don’t know about the others though.

I assume all of those will be PS4 2019? I have no idea what advances are or could be in store for Ps5, but I'm more than happy with the PS4 right now, and it's several years old.

all the games they've shown thus far will be on ps4, whatever the big ps5 exclusive release title is won't be shown until the ps5 reveal.

TLoU 2 GO ON SWITCH U COWARD

(even more not gonna happen than persona 5)

tlou is first party sony, might as well ask for zelda on PS4

whereas persona 5 is atlus who release the vast majority of their games on nintendo systems hmmmm

And whose protagonist was just revealed as a new playable character in one of their flagship titles, hmmm.

ok i have this thing now and i dunno i guess i imagined they would have done something smart about the menu navigation but it's overloaded with undeletable rubbish.

and, i really must be dim but every time you turn on a controller the game STOPS and you have to SELECT A USER? who must have their own account on the system?? yes i know you can turn on autologin, but i don't want to turn on autologin because i have two kids and i don't want them playing metal gear solid on my account. sorry i'm a little salty because i just had to create a new EMAIL ADDRESS FOR MY CHILDREN in order to get their account onto the PS network, involving an untold number of 2-step verification processes to get that plumbed into sony's system, then going through about 10 screens of permissions, then creating an EA account once fifa loaded, more 2-step verification, and now just playing a two player game involving more than 1 controller means everything stops and i have to select "which account is using this controller" i mean FUCK'S FUCKING SAKE. if the original playstation was intended to be an appliance this feels like an admin system that eats its own tail. ANYWAY i'm playing super mega baseball late at night now, only one controller to fuck with so that's fine. i have a PIN set up on my master account but it apparently means nothing because i can just switch back and forth between the two accounts at will. whatever.

i just had to create a new EMAIL ADDRESS FOR MY CHILDREN in order to get their account onto the PS network

Just ask them if they have a burner address.

The PS4 is clogged with shit it's pushing you, but I found it pretty easy to turn off pretty much all notifications.

I am Technology Uncle, always given the job on Christmas Eve of making sure that everything is filled with batteries and has received all its updates before it's put back in the boxes so the kids can play with it immediately on Christmas Morning.

Apart from last Spring when my oldest nephew got a (checks thread title) special type of PS4 while I was there, and I had to set up everything for him, creating accounts for him and his dad, with his dad's account having powers of buying stuff (initially linked to my debit card!) and him not, and gave him his password, and carefully gave his father both passwords, and also mailed them to myself in case they forgot and lost them. And all the time all the kids are going "Is it ready yet?" and then I have to explain that he didn't buy FIFA, he bought a download code for FIFA...

Anyway, long story short his dad gave him the password to his (the dad's) account within a week the end. Except the last time I was home my nephew gave me €5 because he wanted to buy a skin on Fortnite - and that's when my card got unlinked from the account.

but i don't want to turn on autologin because i have two kids and i don't want them playing metal gear solid on my account.

Yeah it sucks when you're trying to do a no-kill run and the little brats go full commando.

lol it really does seem like each controller needs its own.... email address

getting the ps4 started earlier this year was total bullshit & you are triggering me here

it's fucking wild.

on starting FIFA 19 i had to set up a whole new EA account for each player account. that required email addresses and 2-step verification, passwords etc.

then i selected "kick off" and it wanted me to CREATE A KICK OFF PROFILE FOR EACH PLAYER GODDAMN

If you're having trouble setting up multiplayer, have you tried adding sub accounts under Parental Controls > Sub Account Management? That might help. You'll need your primary login info to access it.

Here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPdqXEEx-iI

yes I've added those. to get online they need email addresses against them. so in effect each controller needs its own email address. unless I'm missing something - which is entirely possible!

you stumped me. haven't played an EA game in a while tbh