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

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.

But yeah if you don’t care about backward compatibility do get a PS4, esp with price drop!

also belated to Fizzles, but I’m intrigued by Tetris Effect. But it’s always like £30 every time I see it and the videos aren’t really convincing me...is it worth it?

$500-600 will be my guess on PS5 pricing, wouldn't be shocked if it's even higher. Hopefully Sony still remembers fucking up with overpricing the PS3, and just press their lead with a decent price.

Tetris Effect has already been on sale a few times, I got it for a crazy deal, $10 several months back. (It's in the backlog) I wouldn't be surprised if it hit that digitally by the end of 2020.

it is what it is, which is just tetris, but made by the rez/lumines guy

ty, I was right to wait then!

tetris effect in vr when you're high is something else

PS5 pricing rumors have been hovering around $499, fwiw. There was a comment from Sony at an investors meeting a couple of months ago that their focus is on “market penetration and market acceptability.” Which usually means not priced so high as to put people off. But again, we live in the era of $1000 telephones, so who knows.

xps My kids love the Knack games but they're both pretty awful

Ratchet & Clank is a much better action platformer that you should be able to pick up really cheaply

I keep buying games that are cheap and I like the look of, but honestly the amount of value I've gotten out of Witcher 3 so far, it seems pointless. I can't believe I'm not totally bored of it but I'm sort of deterined to finish it before starting on Dark Souls or Red Dead or CIV6 or any of the other ones I'm keen to check out.

I own but have not so much as booted up The Witcher 3 yet, but almost everything I've read about it implies, for better or worse, that finishing it is practically optional, and just dipping in and out is part of the fun. Having finished Breath of the Wild, I can see that, since I can totally imagine lingering in that world and doing more tasks and completing more adventures even after the (imo anticlimactic) big bad is vanquished. Of course, I didn't, since there are lots of other games to play, but I do like the *idea* of open worlds you can just inhabit and explore at will.

Speaking of finishing, I haven't returned to Alien:Isolation in a while, and I suspect it's because the game is *too* good. It's just like one of the good "Alien" films, but, like, hours and hours and hours long.

i almost wish I'd played a few different games before taking on Witcher 3, but it was the first game I'd decided to play properly save for a few old SNES games I'd rebooted, so it was a baptism of fire. I did start Red Dead, and it looks absolutely incredible, but starting it while still being half way through the Witcher main quest felt like I was about to start Gravity's Rainbow halfway through Infinite Jest, for want of a better analogy.

Alien Isolation is one of those games that is great but I can't be bothered playing because my wife has already completed it and I was probably in the room about 80% of the time.

yet another example of how women are ruining gaming

Tell you a good couch/party game - Knowledge Is Power. Apart from a few connectivity issues, it's a proper hoot

I did start Red Dead, and it looks absolutely incredible, but starting it while still being half way through the Witcher main quest felt like I was about to start Gravity's Rainbow halfway through Infinite Jest, for want of a better analogy.

rdr2 is less of an epic tale, and more like a short story read incredibly slowly, while you also walk around and do things incredibly slowly. want to turn around to face the other direction? that takes 3 hours

i still liked it btw

thx dog latin! I put overcooked on my list (but will need to get another controller).

I also put spiderman, outworlds on the list and saw Witcher 3 and Dark Souls 3 together for $34. That's a good price, yeah?

rdr2

You can always just go straight to RDR online. There's a lot of content in there now.

is it still full of people who just show up whenever you spawn and try to kill you? that's pretty much what GTA online and RDR online have been like for me, in the 3-4 total hours i've spent with them. maybe i've just been getting really unlucky with the servers i'm assigned to, but just the possibility of that is enough to keep me away

You can turn on safe mode and turn off mics, which is what I do

gta online was the best car racing game of all time

I'm still smarting from all the times goole beat me

frostpunk is $20 + age of empires: planetfall is $25 in the store atm (until 2/5). i've wanted to play both but feel unsure about 4X/city building games on the ps4... has anyone tried either?

i haven't, but i share the same unease. apparently civ VI on ps4 actually has pretty good console interface, but otherwise it seems like a frustrating exercise to use a controller

i realised that my old crappy tv cuts the edges off the picture of anything i plug through the HDMI, making CIV6 impossible to play because the icons are all on the very border. This has annoyed me.

you can adjust that in PS4 settings, right?

tried. did nothing. TV doesn't seem to have a setting on it either. happens when I plug my laptop in too. I think it's got some sort of automatic overscan you can't override. I mean, I got it secondhand in 2011, so I dunno

generally:

To set the display area of the game screen to match the TV screen, select (Settings) > [Sound and Screen] > [Display Area Settings].
This setting is effective only for some applications.