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

Even on Switch I want to say many of their best multiplayer games are designed for online play. Thinking of stuff like Splatoon, though of course there is always Smash Brothers and Mario Kart, which are both also ideal for couch multiplayer. I don't think I've purchased a game for PS4 thus far that made me regret not having online access, though there are a few games in which said feature seems intriguing.

Overcooked ... I think we collectively played about 15 minutes of it as a family before we realized it was a really really bad idea.

Rcket League, Overcooked, and one or more of the Jackbox Party Packs

Towerfall Ascension, Broforce

yes to all of these, and also otm about couch multiplayer being garbage on ps4

haven't played Nidhogg! in fact i haven't even heard of it, i gotta check it out.

recently i was having a brodown with an old friend with a ps4, so we decided to get super-nostalgic and purchase the remastered tony hawk 2 so we could do multiplayer like we did a million times in the past. turns out the remastered game took out the split screen option so that the only way you can play with your friend is if they are in their own home, online.

there's plenty of couch multiplayer on ps4 especially if you include stuff like the entire fighting game genre or sports genre

thanks everyone!!

it's so sad that multiplayer couch style games aren't really a thing though.. I mean, that was half the fun of having a console back in the day, getting your mates round and playing rounds of Mortal Kombat or Mario Kart and stuff.. I get why you'd want to play online with loads of other people you've never met, but there's room for both right?

I think we collectively played about 15 minutes of it as a family before we realized it was a really really bad idea.

Hahaaa same here tbh but I assumed that just meant it was a bad idea for our family. I've enjoyed it more with peers, just a tricky one to play with your kids without finding yourself yelling at them.

i played overcooked with a friend who is a irl short order cook, and also exceptionally good at video games. i was kind of shocked at how poorly we performed as a team

it's so sad that multiplayer couch style games aren't really a thing though

Yeah definitely. Like, me and my son loved playing destiny together but to do it we needed to be in different rooms on different ps4s plugged into different tvs using headsets to communicate, it was pretty fucking dysfunctional really.

(ciderpress is right though, I was forgetting fighting and sport games, they still exist if you're into them).

I mean, that was half the fun of having a console back in the day, getting your mates round and playing rounds of Mortal Kombat or Mario Kart and stuff.. I get why you'd want to play online with loads of other people you've never met, but there's room for both right?

It's not an issue in my house, since my girls don't really play any of this shit, but I know plenty of parents of kids who do, and their kids apparently spend hours playing multiplayer games together online with friends as an activity seemingly preferable to interacting in real life, which is very much on generation trend (see also: less partying, drinking, drugs, sex, per studies). I wonder if any of it stems from the fact that in many cases these games make it, per the earlier comment, literally impossible to play together on the same screen, in the same room.

There's always LAN parties. :)

ciderpress otm. couch multiplayer is totally a thing.

every sports game
every fighting game
gt sport
minecraft
overcooked
but ESPECIALLY crash team racing

competitive competitive is a thing - cooperative, not so much. but i suppose that's always been true

tbh i may have a warped perspective because my coop partner doesn't like sports, fighting, or racing games.

oh - or FPS/shooting games

people still go nuts for Nintendo franchises like Smash Brothers and Mario Kart, right?

There are also all those Lego and Marvel games, right? Are they couch co-op?

there's also still lots of smaller/indie hack-and-slash type games with couch coop, in the tradition of gauntlet, though i don't play them so i can't name the good ones off the top of my head

There are also all those Lego and Marvel games, right? Are they couch co-op?

Sure but this was "offer recommendations" not "list all the ones that exist" and while I love playing the lego games with family I wasn't about to assume that DL and his adult friends would be into them (though maybe they would be! It's my wife's favourite game series, she's 100%ed them all).

Crash Team Racing is a PS1 game, c'mon.

Minecraft technically does split screen but from what I remember it makes the crafting menus unusably tiny (though I've not tried it for years, maybe they fixed that eventually).

they just put out a remake of crash team racing, its a ps4 game now

Yeah I'm aware it got a PS4 remake. But a remake of a PS1 game is still a PS1 game. Or at the very least isn't enough of a ps4 game to make a good answer to "what ps4 games should I get for me new ps4?"

it is an extremely good game that you can buy and play on your ps4 and it is the most fun if you have friends over to play it with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Son would quite like Rocket League for Christmas.

Can you play this offline?

(Don't have any online subscriptions but would probably opt for the Switch version if you have to pay subs)

There are also all those Lego and Marvel games, right? Are they couch co-op?

Yes and quite fun too - there's even some mini levels that can only be completed in co-op mode.

The dynamic split screen takes a little bit of getting used to but is actually quite a neat idea

The Lego Star Wars games on the PS2 were awesome IIRC

I'm really enjoying Witcher 3, you guys! Just done killed a Griffin and now I'm running around in a towel. But yes, all this alchemy and runestones and swords and stats is way over my head. Oh well, it's a romp

Worms WMD is on PS4 and is a great couch multi-player, even more venerable than Crash.

the Divinity games can both be played couch co-op if you fancy something a bit meatier. feels a bit odd playing an rpg in split screen but works pretty well

I tried the second Divinity and have no idea how combat works (kind of a high learning curve to not dying in a battle).

Yeah Divinity’s got a pretty steep learning curve. Gave it a few hours but it didn’t really click at the time, hope to return to it at some point.

EDF games have couch co-op

oh what's the indie game where you run about inside a spaceship trying to pilot it while manning the cannons and sort out problems? that was fun twoplayer.

my memory, sorry. "Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime", that's it.

I think it's local 4p too

Son would quite like Rocket League for Christmas.

Can you play this offline?

You can play against the computer but the computer AI isn't very good.

Yeah Divinity’s got a pretty steep learning curve. Gave it a few hours but it didn’t really click at the time, hope to return to it at some point.

The writing is excellent, what I've seen of it! It eschews the "one of these options is the objective best option," which really confounded me when I ran up against a certain decision point.

Best local co-op on PS4 is Towerfall btw

re Rocket League you can do up to 4p local though.

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Lol Just remembered I bought this for Switch eons ago but never got around to playing it, possibly because I bought it to play 4p family coop but abandoned that idea as well in the wake of the Overcooked debacle.

overcooked gets incredibly stressful incredibly quickly

Speaking of stress, I started "Alien:Isolation," and hoo boy ...

I think it's local 4p too

Remembering incredibly fun times in Uni with 8 of us playing Micro Machines 2 at the same time

Cat Quest $6 on PS4, I'd be stupid not to buy it right?!?

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but my PS4 is getting appalling wi-fi signal. Speeds in the kbps and lots of connection drop-outs. My ISP basically don't give a shit because other devices seem to work fine in the same room. Anyone else had similar problems and managed to get them fixed?

change your wifi channel maybe?

alternatively, if your ps4 is in the same room as your wifi and your wifi does dual-band, use the 5Ghz connection

it's got an ethernet port, if you have a physical router to plug it into

At the very least you should do that to check its speed, to see if it's still sloth when it's getting it straight from the tap.

the PS4 has shit wifi, possibly alleviated a little in the newer models but Sony still recommends a wired connection in nearly all their documentation

huh. for years i've streamed HD baseball with it with zero problems.

I mean, it all depends on the antennas on your wifi, distance, etc. too

or, as I remembered the other day, standing directly in front of the microwave with your phone meants wifi might work poorly

My ps4 had shit WiFi and I read on a forum to try rotating it 90 degrees

Worked a treat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯