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

Yeah, I was looking forward to it, then heard about the performance issues on even the Pro, then heard the patch fixed them, but was going to wait for a Black Friday sale or something. (Also waiting on a bigger discount for A Plague Tale, as far as newer games I've heard good things about go.)

excited for whatever this is

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— Wario64 (@Wario64) September 24, 2019

I've started A Plague Tale, and if you were wondering, yes, you can pet the dog.

People say Borderlands 3 is "more borderlands" but it's definitely worse than 2 in many respects.

In what way? I love B2 but have a game backlog and haven't picked up B3 (also because Randy Pitchford sucks)

Extremely clunky, laggy, etc. The writing is worse than ever. It's trying to be a Destiny clone and not doing a good job of it. Etc.

Still fun when you're blowing fools away but the rest of it is in poor shape.

That's a bummer.

The new character classes are pretty sweet.

as expected

PlayStation 5 launches holiday 2020: https://t.co/VuaxUVoBaR #PS5 pic.twitter.com/MPkKyRaHio

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) October 8, 2019

14 months! and nothing exclusive for probably another year after that? feeling ok tbh

yeah ps4 will get stuff until like 2022, even later for JRPGs

i assume that big samurai game is gonna be a crossgen launch title botw style given it doesn't have a release date still

To that end, there are two key innovations with the PlayStation 5’s new controller. First, we’re adopting haptic feedback to replace the “rumble” technology found in controllers since the 5th generation of consoles. With haptics, you truly feel a broader range of feedback, so crashing into a wall in a race car feels much different than making a tackle on the football field. You can even get a sense for a variety of textures when running through fields of grass or plodding through mud.

The second innovation is something we call adaptive triggers, which have been incorporated into the trigger buttons (L2/R2). Developers can program the resistance of the triggers so that you feel the tactile sensation of drawing a bow and arrow or accelerating an off-road vehicle through rocky terrain. In combination with the haptics, this can produce a powerful experience that better simulates various actions.

We’re getting closer to fighting games that actually kick your ass irl

Personally I love it when the selling point of a new product is something I'm not interested in. Imposes a nice consumption break, like when the New Yorker fiction issue arrives and for a couple of blissful weeks I don't feel any pressure to read the magazine.

hope that controller has decent battery life, cos the DS4's is garbage

Now, see, this is why I'm glad I bought a Playstation. I keep a relatively short list of must-have games, titles that caught my eye or system showcases, and whenever they go on sale I can just snatch them up for next to nothing. Mad Max game? Currently $5! The first two Batman games? $8! Are they great? Are they terrible? Who knows! But I've heard enough good things about them to justify $13 all-in.

they are definitely worth 13 dollar; you will be happy.

https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-playstation-5/

While a number of studios already had their PS5 devkits, the controller prototypes began rolling out much more recently, and no one is ready to name specific titles they're developing for the PS5. "We're working on a big one right now," says Marco Thrush, president of Bluepoint Games, which most recently worked on last year's PS4 remake of Shadow of the Colossus. "I'll let you figure out the rest."

KNACK 3

Rumor is Demons Souls Remastered

Extremely clunky, laggy, etc. The writing is worse than ever. It's trying to be a Destiny clone and not doing a good job of it. Etc.

Ehhh, it's running pretty well now and the middle of the game is pretty fun so far.

Plague Tale on sale for $30 till the end of the month. I'm not terribly impressed with it so far.

the rats of us

wonder if bluepoint are working on a silent hill remaster

bunch of people seem to think they're doing demons souls for ps5

silent hill is konami who haven't shown much interest in making video games in recent years

bluepoint remastered metal gear iirc tho

(personally i’d love a demon’s souls remaster fwiw)

oh i didnt know they did the metal gear ones

Initial reactions to Plague Tale were kind of underwhelming, then there was a simmering rally of people saying it's a lot better than people gave it credit for.

I've decided I want to get a Playstation rather than a Switch, if only cos it means I can turn my TV into a Smart TV and stream movies too.

Went into the shop ready to pay on finance but the woman in there completely put me off. She said I should wait and buy a PS5 or if not get one on Black Friday.

So I shrugged and left the shop.

I'm way confused now. i waited til the new Switch was out and now I'm wondering if the games shop want my money or not

you can probably get like a 40% lower price around black friday, that part is true

PS5 is still a year off and will be significantly pricier than the PS4 at launch and it'll probably be 2022 before the PS4 gets fully phased out for new games, so that one's your call

There's no real point getting a PS5 until a year after release (at least) but waiting 5 weeks to Black Friday is probably a good idea as there'll be lots of good bundle deals around

Unless you're not gonna play it at all in the next two years, this is the best time (end of generation) to buy a console.

That said I might just give in and get PS5 at launch. I pussyfooted on the Switch and eventually got it, but there was no point in waiting in retrospect. PS5 will probably get better deals the holiday season after year one though, especially if X-whatever launches as well.

Waiting on price drops for Nintendo is, uniquely, a sucker's game, isn't it? Still makes sense to wait on MS/Sony since they follow saner (less insane?) pricing.

higher entry point, but on the other hand if you buy physical you can sell it a month later for roughly the same price unlike yr typical AAA games which quickly drop in price these days

MS/Sony are by and large competition for each other, not Nintendo, is what's going on there.

Nintendo has basically settled for being the secondary/tertiary home system, though, which makes it weirder that their prices rarely go down. But yeah, true - PS5 prices will surely go down faster. And who knows, maybe they'll pump out a hardware revision within a year.

Then again, maybe I'm wrong and the Switch has a higher base than PS4? I dunno

I mean, they haven't outsold the PS4, but the PS4 has a head start:

Here is an update to the cumulative global console shipment chart.
The chart is launch aligned.

Key points:
- PS4 surpasses 100m, faster than PS2 and Wii
- Switch reaches 36.87m, tracking inline with PS4 pic.twitter.com/o28T7l9f9j

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) July 30, 2019

Or does secondary/tertiary refer to some headology about systems within the same home?

Switch only has a higher base than PS4 in japan, everywhere else there's about half as many (but it's been out for half as long)

nintendo's game prices don't go down because no one else competes with them meaningfully in the style of games they make

I've heard that Nintendo's price inflexibility also has to do with the fact that they're still using cartridges, where the costs are still higher compared to optical discs. Dunno how much water that holds though!

it's true that carts cost more to produce but i don't think it's the reason given that their last 3 consoles used discs and they weren't any more flexible with their pricing for those

i guess last 2 since gamecube wasn't standard discs

What I don't get is the third-party stuff ported over to Switch at a huge premium. Doom, for example, is currently $60 on Switch. It's currently $9.99 on PS4.

paying for the portability

For sure, to some extent. But why does it have to be at the Switch premium price default of $60? They could sell it for $50 or $40 or $30 or lower, and it'd still be several times the PS4 price.

Anyway, I do have it on Switch, but I just bought it and Alien for PS4, because cheap.

https://www.amazon.com/Control-PlayStation-4/dp/B07DPJ3LZQ/

Control under $40 with the coupon! Just picked it up because I doubt it's going to get much cheaper on Black Friday.

nice!

i've never even heard of this game but it looks interesting - are the reviews good??