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

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

I will probably buy it though

nov 7 i think?

It's already being reviewed, e.g.: Death Stranding is a long, bizarre journey that’s both breathtaking and boring

i’m down for playing anything Kojima puts out but i have the chance to play games so infrequently these days i have no idea when i’m gonna find the time to put 50 hours into a stumbling simulator

sounds like at its core it's one of those 'satisfaction via overcoming frustrating limitations' games but with a shared-world twist (have seen QWOP namechecked in multiple impressions, of all things)

wth this has me intrigued now:

Its most recurring visual motif is a not-so-subtle gesture towards Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.

"Everything past page 100 of the manual is printed blank"

since constructs that can help other players are shared between contacts, do we need an ilx ps4 contact list?

I ask only because I haven’t added any ps4 friends at all and should get on it — I have only one local friend on my pa4 contacts and he plays all older games

From Kotaku:

As I understand it, the game sort of culls the potential objects you see. It prioritizes friends and “stand connections” that you make (which is basically like, the in game version of a friend) and then kinda pulls from a mixture of what is highest rated and what also happens to be around your general vicinity.

50 hours might be much for me (I still haven't even beaten Link's Awakening!) but eh, maybe i'm in on this

i'm not gonna play it for a while sorry you'll have to do without my poorly placed ladders

Death Stranding is a game that demands to be argued over and analyzed for years. It starts rough, and then gets better and better as it goes along, culminating in an ending that is both hugely important to its universe, and also very small and personal to Sam. It has big ideas for things it wants to say, and then it layers them in with heavy-handed messages about togetherness and bonding with your fellow man. It’s also a story about the reconstruction of America that takes place in a world that bears absolutely no physical resemblance to the real America, lending it all an allegorical tone that allows some of its metaphors and weird imagery to breathe in a way they might not if this were a more “normal” or “realistic” game. It’s hard to say if it’s fun, and it’s hard to say if it’s a good game, but it is undeniably interesting in a way that not enough games try to be. If you buy in to what it’s trying to do—if you allow it to make that connection—Death Stranding will stick with you, one way or another.

https://games.avclub.com/death-stranding-is-an-allegory-for-a-broken-america-an-1839481823?utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_content=Main

oh no!!

paging sic ;_;

https://games.avclub.com/death-stranding-is-an-allegory-for-a-broken-america-an-1839481823

If you buy in to what it’s trying to do—if you allow it to make that connection—

so cheesy in the context of the review (which is otherwise pretty good), which criticizes the game's heavyhanded message about the importance of making connections

but anyway, this certainly does sound...interesting. a lot of the gameplay seems to revolve around navigating the terrain.

I survived Killer7 and loved it despite its flaws, somebody needs to tell me if it's worse than that

I love the fact that you’re supposed to be traversing America but the landscape is essentially Iceland.

I’m sort of a masochist when it comes to video games so if I literally have to miserably crawl through mud and rocks at the get-go if I sense a grander ~vision~ at play, I’m more intrigued than turned off.

The ~vision~ will undoubtedly be mostly nonsensical and ridiculous knowing Kojima, but an expensive AAA prestige project like this that seems deliberately anti-fun is kinda rad and likely never to be seen again so I feel like I have to give some time and money to it.