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

i watched the entire tim rogers review and bought a ps4 pro

lol nice

sony should give him a raise for sure

thanks for the review mention, adam. a couple minutes in and it’s already pretty great

oh god he's going to reuse the pissing and toenail clips every two minutes throughout, isn't he?

i don't consider myself to be overly squeamish but i had to turn it off early because of that

lol i had to look away every time for the toenail, it was at least a dozen times

stop being taking the abuse by that charlatan

jesus, this review is towering and makes me want to both preorder it and start an online letter writing campaign against it at the same time

deliberately anti-fun seems accurate; it's amazing how much money kojima gets to make these things he's a glitch in the machine and no wonder that's what he makes.

similar situation to twin peaks s3 but for games and probably not as good

tim's complaint that, while the game gives you the option to take a shit for full character immersion, when he makes the character eat nonstop for a month but never take a shit yet there's never any repercussions or in game results is at the heart of why i don't like RDR2. You can do anything but nothing matters. It's astonishingly complex but then a horse appears in midair for no reason. Kojima takes his shit less seriously, less macho focused and more gonzo than rockstar and that somehow works better for me.
Anyway, i'm sure i will pay for this and will probably hate it but so fascinating that it exists.

i mean he's calling it a Seamless delivery person RPG set in the Stalker universe and fuck i guess that's what i'll be doing for the christmas holiday

"Death Stranding is basically 'Andrei Tarkovsky's Super Mario Brothers the Movie: the Videogame'"
i mean are you in my head right now

love Tim Rogers but you'd have to pay me to play that game lol, like it's Journey's 90 minutes stretched out over 50 monotonous hours

so you're saying you ARE in my head right now

msotly i want to support the monster energy brand family

Good post forks

Ha, in the Tim Rogers review he estimates it took him about 20 *hours* to get into the swing of things, then quotes Kojima saying it only gets fun at about the *halfway point.* If Rogers says the game took him about 80 hours, that puts it around *40 hours* until it gets "fun." Or, you know, somewhere between 20 and 40 hours. Which is a heck of a curve!

i wouldn't assume the game is 80 hours, tim is a slowgamer. he said DQXI was 100 hours and i finished that in 50-60

60 hours is a number I've seen a lot of, so that is probably more accurate at a good pace. But then we're still talking a couple of dozen hours to get into the swing of things, and/or "fun."

Which lol is probably my usually pace for all games!

Why does Tim Rogers sound like a permanently-sarcastic Nolan-Batman?

that's the "american explaining art/culture" voice imo

Close cousin of the 'American podcast' voice, eh? It's quite annoying. Even when he's being sincere it's hard to take him seriously

I'm likely never playing this game but I also watched that entire video review.

good combination imo

Tim Rogers is the worst version of whatever you think he is

who's the best version of american game critic with experience in the japanese game industry

it's all a coooonnnnnnnnnn

hm

http://gph.is/17Dpg5E

what are the good video game websites? i'm allergic to places like kotaku. i check out rockpapershotgun sometimes tho it's uneven, eurogamer (but also uneven)...

imo, there are zero good game websites left

I like some stuff on Polygon

Polygon and kotaku are basically the same site

https://www.gamasutra.com/
https://toucharcade.com/
https://statelyplay.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/Chrontendo
https://gamehistory.org/blog/
https://gameandgraphics.com/
http://shmuplations.com/games/
https://www.thewikigame.com/
https://www.criticalpathproject.com/
basically zs otm

i like polygon more than kotaku but yeah they often feel the same now.
bored kids with word counts to fill

i look at some jrpg-centric sites for news and reviews but there's nowhere with particularly good articles atm

https://gamehistory.org/every-english-language-video-game-magazine/

Thanks to subscriptions being included with the GameStop rewards card, the magazine’s circulation is over 7 million – the fourth largest overall circulation in the country

fwiw i go to eurogamer to find out what's newly released and what's the rumpus and for reviews occasionally
tbh ILG is my primary game website and has sold me on buying more things than anywhere else maybe ever

I think the best way to do it these days is to just follow a lot of indie game devs on twitter

the best way is just to follow/know a bunch of gamers e.g. this board

I just copy josh

eurogamer reviews are uneven but the writers there at least attempt to situate the games into some kind of genre context, explain how it fits into the culture, etc - most other reviews just feel like recaps

ilg is good but really isn't large enough to really be sufficient. lots of new interesting games we don't get around to at all or not until much later. i found dice dungeons through steam by accident (i was like a new terry cavvanaugh game??? how did i not hear about this?) it was great but no one here had mentioned it. curious about like disco elysium but i don't think anyone here has played it. i don't think anyone has played frostpunk. idk it seems like there's a lot of probably worthwhile games that we just don't have the numbers + dedication to cover just in the course of talking. has anyone played the new age of wonders (planetfall)? i do have to thank ilg for clueing me into Control an okay fun game <thumbsup>

nb even if i knew disco elysium was amazing sadly it's pc-only atm. but frostpunk is now on the ps4!

I'm so far behind that there's no way one of you wouldn't have mentioned a game if it were any good.

eurogamer's the only consistently decent games site imo

forums full of melts but