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

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?

A few, yeah. In Heavy Rain you control a few different characters and if one dies, that’s it, you just have to carry on the story without them. In Rogue Legacy, when you die, your descendants take over having inherited some of your attributes. I’m sure there are a bunch of other examples too. Probably justifies a thread in fact!

Isn't there at least one area in Bloodborne that's opened up by dying to a particular enemy?

Minit gives you 60 seconds to live, but you get to keep your loot.

There's a very extremely first-gen PS2 game called Shadow of Memories where you're trying to prevent your own murder.

I guess there’s a distinction to be made between what usually gets referred to as permadeath (you’re dead, that’s it, game over, start again from the beginning but you may or may not get to keep some stuff) and games where you die and the game doesn’t end, it carries on somehow. Former is pretty common these days (roguelikes especially) but the latter is still rare and probably more interesting.

Wasn’t there an Ultima game where when you died you went to the afterlife and the game continued there?

Death Stranding!!

If anyone dies they have about an hour to be cremated. otherwise their body creates a rip in space-time called a 'voidout' - which has comparable effects to an atomic bomb and it's game over. therefore you have to be very careful not to kill any of the baddies. if you do, you have to lug them on your back to an incinerator ASAP

if YOU die, you wake up underwater in 'The Seam', where all dead souls go, and must swim out onto your own private 'beach', from whence you can rejoin the land of the living. very few people have this ability. one of them is named 'Heartman' who has a device rigged to his chest that induces cardiac arrest every 60 minutes. during the time that he's dead he searches other people's private beaches for his dead family. then the device resuscitates him.

'Heartman' a bit on the nose, but no more so than two other main characters, 'Die Hardman' and 'Deadman'

Braid

Minit gives you 60 seconds to live, but you get to keep your loot.

There's a very extremely first-gen PS2 game called Shadow of Memories where you're trying to prevent your own murder.

The Outer Wilds, which everyone seems to love, iirc centers around a cycle where the sun explodes/world ends every 20-30 minutes or something and then starts over, a la Groundhog Day.

Shadow of Memories is super clunky and cheesy, but I loved the crazy concept and execution, as a Groundhog Day game. Also has the visual novel-type structure where you need to get all the assorted endings to get the "true" ending.

Never got through it but Majora's Mask is one of the most popular of this kind of game, right?

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

― Yerac, Saturday, January 18, 2020 3:43 AM

lots of good suggestions above, but just want to buzz in and make sure someone definitely answers "NO!" to this question. i've never played it, but i'm pretty sure the thread title is a joke

although as an ilxor and a ilg'or i have sometimes felt compelled to buy it just because

knack 2 though...

ah, thx about the Knack. ILX got jokes.

I do want to get Death Stranding mostly because everyone in it is hot.

if you want a pure action game thats not dark souls hard there's always devil may cry 5

or horizon zero dawn if you want a big open world one though i havent played that yet so idk exactly what its like

I have and loved the setting and the slow reveal of What Happened. There's a fair amount of talking in it though, but the action is very smooth.

Gotta say, as someone who bought a PS4 and a Switch more or less within the same year or so, both after years and years of no gaming, I've played a lot more of the PS4 than the Switch. Switch is fine and has a couple of great exclusives, but those PS4 exclusives are something else, and most of the other AAA games are so reduced in price that it's mind boggling. Every once in a while I check out my Switch backlog and find games I forgot I even bought, but with the PS4, there are so many games I can't wait to play. The forward-flip side of that is that if the PS5 is indeed properly backward compatible, I can totally see myself upgrading, but a new Nintendo system ... I dunno.

I feel I've just about exhausted the PS# library in terms of stuff I actually wanna play, trying to decide if I should get a PS$ now, wait for the PS%, or wait even longer than that to see how low the ps4 goes

err that's PS3 library

If the PS5 turns out, 100% officially, to be backward compatible, I'd wait for the PS5, which is not that far off, since all the PS4 games will still be dirt cheap, and the $200 you save not buying a new system and the hundreds more you'd save on these old but still awesome games would justify the new model, plus you'd have a ton of backlog to go through before the new PS5 exclusives (whatever they may be) start dropping in price, too.

maybe wait to see how much a ps5 is gonna cost, shit ain't gonna be cheap

I could have sworn I saw they were going to keep the price reasonable. Which is of course relative. I would guess it'll go for ... $350 or $400, maybe? But hey, people pay $1,000 for a cell phone for some reason.

PS5 will probably be 500 bucks at launch in the US is my guess. solid state drives still aren't cheap and that's the big upgrade this gen.

PS4 launched at $400 and had weaker internals for its time than what the PS5 supposedly has

Yeah, if that's the case, I would guess between $400-$500 at launch.

yeh i can't see either console being under 500 bucks, unless Sony or MS decide to eat a big loss
vs getting a new PS4 for $200, and $100 for games would go a long long way

I thought about getting a switch but honestly every time I buy a Nintendo console I never play them even 1/10 as much as any of my PSs. So PS5 for me and I can finally play all the games I missed in the decade or so I didn’t play anything. Plus discovering the Yakuza series has made my gaming life for the past couple of years, and I want to go on dipping in and out occasionally, even just for stuff like disco or mahjong.