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

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ps4: josephcotten

hahahaha i was just wondering the other day who that was. apparently we have been friends on there for a while

Are you orsonwelles?

brillidotam

anyone getting a french friend request, that is (probably) me

Initials MG?

oui

(leee, check the upcoming ballot polls thread on ILM - your short music poll has been Chosen)

add polyphonic if you want all your Trials records to be blown out of the water

i didn't know that you were polyphonic!

i can confirm that adding polyphonic as a friend will result in dropping down the rankings of pretty much any game

socially anxious gamer mr_thoth over here

xp i'm not polyphonic, i just added him once and gave up on ever trying to beat any of his Trials runs

new trials out in a couple weeks, maybe you can beat him to the punch

oh whoops, gotcha. i was going to say, i totally missed that polyphonic morphed into diamonddave at some point!

forksclovetofu of course

I also applied to the ILX gamers group. Is that still active?

im 'mtlnx' on psn if people want to add me, i don't have a ps4 yet still though, waiting for the next sale

I like this alt history where I'm good at games.

(Other than Trials, I mean.)

I've given up on RDR2 as a complete duffer. Was feeling an urge for some Silent Hill type action which I have fond memories of on the PS1. So after one lazy search I decided to go for Outlast rather than the latest Resident Evil whatever it's called.

just ordered a ps4 pro, looking forward to only using it to play niche small budget rpgs at 1080p

got my pro, this thing is huge. getting some xbox meme vibes...

my psn name is 'mtlnx' if anyone wants to add me

Is Journey + fl0w + flower at $7.50 worth the plunge?

if you haven't played at least two of those yet, absolutely.

tempted to pay $15 to bum around ubisoft egypt for a bit

Divinity Original Sin 2 is on sale in PSN for $36 now, kinda tempted but I'm trying to be smart and wait till it gets to $20.

tempted by some stuff in this sale and my bonus just came in...

I made it pretty far into Doom on the Switch, but I'm thinking about buying and playing it again on PS4 for the better performance and graphics (and price, since it's basically $10 or so). Question: if I've only played it with Nintendo's gyro, will the learning curve be insane for twin analog sticks? It's literally the only FPS I've ever played, so that could work either for or against me if I switch to sticks after gyro.

Playing a FPS with analog (really with anything other than a mouse) is among the worst game experiences imo - I don’t know how anyone does it

imo consider waiting for the sequel later this year rather than buying the same game twice

though i guess that'll be full price

Maaan, being a “FPS only with mouse and keyboard” dude is some olde tyme shit. Been pretty well optimized since (I guess?) Halo. I honestly prefer it now, but I am not a hardcore competitive shooter bro.

Doom for 10 bucks on PS4 is absolutely worth it. A lot was compromised to get that working on the Switch. Kinda of a VHS to Blu-Ray jump. I imagine it would be tricky adjusting to the non-gyro aim tho if that’s all you’re used to.

I have Wolfenstein 1, will try that.

i'm annoyed that ps4 shooters don't have gyro fine tune as an option, it's such an improvement over twin stick once you learn how to use it

Oh, it was great for Nintendo Doom. The trade off is at the graphics and performance of Nintendo Doom is not on par with the PS4.

I've also been thinking about Wolfenstein II, which makes the choice a bit more stark: get it on Switch and get gyro controls but compromised graphics and performance (which were still pretty good on Switch Doom), or get it on PS4, which is bundled with Doom at a price slightly lower than Wolfenstein II alone on Switch, with better graphics and performance but no gyro aim. Clearly most people playing these games on PS4 are using the controllers/twin sticks, right? Or does everyone have some sort of mouse and keyboard adapter? Pretty soon I'll dive into those Uncharted games, and Last of Us - I assume there's twin sticks aiming and shooting in those as well?

stick isn't really that bad in 3rd person shooters. i haven't played the naughty dog ones but i assume they have generous aim assist since they're made for the masses

i played the last one with lock-on because I'm a basic bitch but also because aiming with a stick sucks

lock on is just the most generous aim assist

i feel like it's more realistic for me to drop these fools like a cold-blooded badass than to be drunkenly waving my hi-tech weaponry around like a senile gorilla

so you see, it's for the good of the game

Playing The Last of Us as a shooter is going to lead to bad times.

You all are talking about lock-on/auto-aim (are they the same thing?) on ... Last of Us? Iirc there is some sort of aim-assist in Doom but tbh after the time I've spent with it on Switch using gyro it's just so fast and chaotic I can't imagine any sort of "assist" helping, short of lowering the difficulty level. Even with gyro - which is a huge help - I never thought it was particularly easy, unless set as such.

yeah the naughty dog games arent really shooters like doom is hence lock on

I'm talking about the last Uncharted game fwiw, the one with the ladies in India

Uncharted: The Ladies in India

Anybody heard or know anything about A Plague Tale?

it's got rats aplenty