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

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)_/¯

so I knew you could remotely play a PS4 with a Vita but until today I didn't know you could via any PC. just tried it and v impressed. now I can play PS4 on my laptop lying in bed, lol fuk u Stadia.

I think on Android systems too.

xp how do you do that? p amazing

I got a bunch of new games. mostly puzzlers :

Unravel 2 (very sweet and satisfying so far)
Little Nightmares (I'm stuck on this one already. feels a bit bleak).
Bendy and the Ink Machine (fucking terrifying. I'm only a bit in and I'm a bit scared to play it tbhwu)
Overcooked 2 (cos I want a 2 player but not played it yet)
Undertale (love the concept and humour but I can imagine getting hacked off with it quickly)

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/ps4/features/remote-play/

I played the Cat Quest demo. Needless to say I ended up buying it.

ON IPHONE too

re remote play, can use DualShock also

Really digging Control, if only for the way it plasters the name of a newly discovered room onto the screen in huge letters.

I'm wishing the adaptive difficulty in Control would adapt itself back down a few notches because I'm near the endgame and the last few encounters (main story, some side missions) are a pain in the ass

going to grind out a few more upgrades but those flying assholes that fling rocks really chafe

here's a tip: don't play Overcooked 2 with your partner when you're both extremely hungover but also hungry.

tfw you bought a game a year ago on Black Friday, never opened it, and it's now PS+

no one playing death stranding ?

aka parcelforce, the game

It’s not out afaik