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

Control is $30 at Walmart now for some reason.

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP3971-CUSA23079_00-HONKHONKHONKHONK

Like, guess what game just debuted on the PS Store.

Yesss

also: from the maker of katamari damacy
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP2470-CUSA06238_00-WATTAMPS4GAME001

I just played Journey recently and wow, totally choked up at the end.

It was especially powerful because I did it with a companion.

oh I just got this. only played for about 30 mins so far. very cool

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/campaigns/2019/wrap-up
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2020/01/14/look-back-at-your-gaming-year-on-ps4-with-the-playstation-2019-wrap-up/

Think this should link to my stats: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/campaigns/2019/wrap-up/?PXP=6a64953fef71a29c157de5fb2520a50a8a61447834e48d87286f8132ad12ca0b

Your prime time to play is
TUESDAY
AFTERNOONS

my "total hours played" stat was.......troubling

My top game was Horizon Zero Dawn. Which makes sense as I'm several years behind.

apparently my prime time to play is SATURDAY EVENINGS so this does not speak well of my 2019 social life

lol, same here

My total hours count seems off the charts too much. I assume (hope!?) a good chunk of that was idle time I left a game sitting on a menu screen or something. Have been known to leave these things on.

Top two games were Death Stranding and Sekiro by far. Apparently I plugged 80 hours into both of them. Wtf am I doing with my life.

SATURDAY EVENINGS crew checking in

longest play session was 6 hours, yikes! i'm guessing that was a persona5 binge

or (hopefully) something i left paused for 5 hours

My max sesh said 10 hours, which I doubt is true. must be counting a time I paused the game and walked away

Mine was 9 hours, which is not at all normal for me but was definitely true of that one day. Surprised it wasn’t longer tbh

It’s glitched on some things, because it says I got zero trophies in the five games I played the most, but then says I got 85 trophies this year?

Your top game was...Knack 2.

smdh

in death stranding it's very easy to treat that moment standing in front of an access terminal as a kind of pause screen and walk away

I usually dump Sam in his sleeping pod before getting a snack

Saturday evening saddo here too!

Longest stint was 12 hours. That is troubling.

Quite pleased I only spent 14 hours grinding Borderlands games. Worried I spent 33 hours on Far Cry 5 despite it being just ok.

Most played game of 2019 - Witcher 3
Most played game of 2020 - it's going to be Witcher 3 again isn't it?

(although I've not touched it for a couple of months)

a total of seven games over 41 hours last year

lol i have a small child

my playtime numbers are also small due to my small child (nintendo switch)

YOUR TOP GAMES
1 BORDERLANDS 3 175 HOURS
2 THE DIVISION 2 82 HOURS
3 RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 38 HOURS

Some depressing stuff right there

Slightly ashamed but wholly unsurprised:

1. Dark Souls III - 195 hours
2. Sekiro - 60 hours

In my defense, I was on an exercise bike for most of those hours!

For the other stats, I think it takes into account non-game things like watching tv, since those are way out of proportion for me (and we use the PS4 for all of our streaming).

I am finally going to order a ps4.

DO EEEET

You do not understand the level of conversations we have had about getting one.

Mine was like a billion hours of nba 2k19 and a little (50 hours) each of ac Paris and Yakuza 0

which is, like, a good reflection of “my life” tbh

Yerac you should definitely consider this bundle: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-playstation-4-1tb-only-on-playstation-console-bundle-jet-black/6380812.p?skuId=6380812

Though not necessarily from Best Buy.

yeah that is the bundle I am getting. and then trying to pick out some additional games. We also already have a kid picked out to give it to if it ends up ruining our lives.

I'm mulling over upgrading from my beloved PS3 to a 4. Probably give it another year, though. Wait until it's well and truly on the way out, as I do.

No way am I posting my top playtimes on games. The amount of time I've frittered away on Skyrim alone would almost certainly require the imposition of a conservatorship over the handling of my life.

lol ruining your lives
how can this be

I sunk over 200 hours into Skyrim xp

Thought those days were long gone but am probably about 50 hours into Zelda as the Switch makes it much easier to spend time playing

i pulled the trigger and need to go pick it up sometime in the next couple of days ( I actually did buy it from Best Buy, thx Leee!). Though reading upthread about controllers needing emails and two step verification tediousness I may also need to pick up more alcohol. Also need to do some research because I am taking this to another country and I think there is some weirdness? about having to re-register the account.

Picked it up. I am playing Last of Us and I am so not used to everything (pacing, controller, viewpoint) considering the last time I played a lot (PS1) I was all about Oddworld, Tetris and Tony Hawk.

I like this but are there games for ps4 with fewer cutscenes and more action? I need to research. Basically i have to hoard in the next month and a half before I feel cut off from consumerism.

DOOM

also on some old school stuff which is v good:
tetris effect.
binding of isaac
dead cells

i love dark souls/bloodborne/sekiro but they’re hard and require some dedication.

so this Knack game in the thread title. Yes/no? It's $10.

Yerac if you're interested in action games to play with your partner I'd suggest Crash Bandicoot Racing and Overcooked 2. I got my ps4 late last year and before that I'd hardly gamed at all, but those two have kept us very entertained when I'm not playing hours of Witcher 3 on my own

I have a general question about games:

I know that some. games like Dark Souls kind of make dying part and parcel of the experience, but has there ever been a game where dying is literally part of it? like rather than simply dying and then respawning or losing life/money/points it's an integral part of the game?