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

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.

er, sorry xp

Kentucky Route Zero finally out on consoles ... been looking forward to checking this out

it's good, looking forward to finally playing the last act after all these years. will probably need to replay the whole thing to remember what's going on

makes me glad i kept it in the backlog for all these years lol

A week into having that ps4 bundle. Have played a lot of God of War and Event Horizon Zero or whatever it's called. Not really feeling Last of Us even though I love zombies.

I've ordered Sakuza, Spiderman and Witcher 3 and holding off getting another controller and Outer Worlds/Death Stranding until i've made my way through the other games.

Spiderman is absolutely sensational. One of the best games ever.

Come back to Last Of Us in a different mood, maybe. To an extent the effect is cumulative.

Spiderman is such a blast, one of those games where the game itself is almost irrelevant to the experience of just swinging around.

it was outrageously fun

Last of Us is definitely a story driven game. It gets really engrossing once you finish the Capitol building.

Ha Sakuza. I think I mixed up Sekiro, Yakuza and Sakura all together.

We've been tag teaming all the same saved games (like doing handoffs when one gets aggravated or needs to do some work), so I might play Last of Us on my own.

does The Last of Us involve violence on children? that's a no go for me, and I see a child in the game art.

yeah

:(

it was free on psplus

i haven't made it far but I say yes. One dies in the prologue.

I have been very surprised about the amount of swearing in the games. I wished there was a function to play a cleaner version. I have been trying to figure out which games might be ok for this 8 year old that I watch sometimes.

Part of the "games aren't just for kids anymore" aesthetics is swearing.

As for what the games you have that are appropriate for a pre-teen, I think Horizon Zero Dawn is the best bet. It's almost profanity-free (the one censorable swear that I can think of is missable, meaning that it's not part of the main storyline), and also doesn't ogle its main character. That said, it is post-apocalyptic and there are scenes where people die horribly.

The horrible deaths aren't graphic, however.

NBD, really, if you play anything online most of the profuse swearing you'll hear from fellow players is by eight-year-olds afaict.

I might just get FIFA for him to play and be done with it. He's not my kid so I don't want to be responsible for corruption.

Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty good! but it’s also guilty of some of the most outlandishly dull dialogue ever committed to ones and zeroes in a AAA game.

Spider-Man would be a very good bet for an 8 yo - there is no outright killing, you never use a gun, it’s v wholesome

i was reading about spiderman and it said there was some violence and mild swearing.

Yeah we really like Horizon Zero. So far it's our favorite although the dialogue and the one dude that just lays on the ground forever are dull. We just started Witcher 3 last night. So much prologue!

Spider-man might have the occasional "damn" or "hell," something like that, but it's pretty innocent super hero fun. But, like, for example, something like Resident Evil 7, if that were a movie it would have to go out unrated for all the extreme violence and language.

My 9 year old son loves Ratchet & Clank (good) and Knack (bad) but also racing games like Driveclub and TrackMania as well as Rocket League.

All of those are dirt cheap now.

If you can find games that are rated ESRB "E" or "10+" those tend to be "good for children".

spider-man is damagingly boring. ratchet and clank and rocket league are both enormous fun.

still obsessively playing Witcher 3 and nothing else. completed the main quest and now it feels like the real fun is starting somehow