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

Control has always looked awesome, but I've been waiting for it to drop to $20 before picking it up, since I have a ton of cool stuff I've accumulated on PS4 to burn through first. Bloodborne, God of War, Spider-man, Wolfensteins, Uncharteds, Witcher 3, Event Horizon Dawn, Mad Max, Last of Us, RE2, more Alien, Sekiro, some other stuff ... just looking at that list makes me so happy.

Bloodborne, haven't played! next time i go back to the From Software well it'll probably be this or sekiro
God of War, any time you get stuck, just throw your axe at objects in the sky!
Spider-man, trying to get through life without watching or playing any spider-man. i bet it's actually pretty good but i have to keep the streak alive now
Wolfensteins, a friend of mine is obsessed with the newer reboots
Uncharteds, no! no nathan drake! fuck you nathan drake!
Witcher 3, oh hell yeah, but this one is 400+ hours long, just for the introduction
Event Horizon Dawn, one of those AAA games that i know is going to be really good and fun in some ways and also predictable in others. seems like the archetypal "play for 25 hours and quit" game, for me.
Mad Max, didn't know there was one!
Last of Us, i really need to play this, i never gave it a real shot
RE2, haven't played it since PS days
more Alien, Alieeeen!
Sekiro, Sekirooo!

finished spiderman and event horizon!.Both super fun! I like spiderman because we could shout things like "no, go to the west side! where we went kayaking that one time!" They did the city so well.

You guys trolling me with this "Event Horizon Dawn" lol.

I 100% lost interest in Spider Man, never care to play it again.

GOW is wildly overpraised.
Never want to play an Uncharted again.

I enjoy GOW well enough. We are I think halfway through. I am tired of rowing this boat.

I like to throw things in the house now and shout "Nista!"

bloodborne is amazing - in fact i replayed it just the other month.
i found spider-man staggeringly dull.
witcher is grebt but like yerman says it’s a long play
sekiro. sekiroooooo.

i kind of enjoyed GoW but it didn’t have much sticking power for me and i stopped prob about halfway thru.

i found spiderman amazingly fun and freeing; webbing your way through faux manhattan is very dreamlike

yeah i liked the speed of the character. I get annoyed sometimes with how long it takes to move sometimes in other games.

yeah spider-man rules, i had thought this was universally accepted but i guess not

just went back and did the DLC recently so it's fresh in my mind

I just bought Skyrim, even though my track record with medieval/open world games is rather poor.

Skyrim is fantastic. I probably sunk 200+ hours into it

hard to imagine a game much better suited for a quarantine

Skyrim is by far the worst game I have ever put 300+ hours into

Sekiro is the game that most makes me feel like that "EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM A VHS INTO THE SLOT. ITS CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK" meme

Control DLC ready for me to play, excited to jump back in while Skyrim downloads.

i liked Control but

- too much fiddly aiming
- really bad face animations

I feel like Sekiro is totally For Me but maybe a younger version of me with more patience?

- too much fiddly aiming

this is why i've avoided Control, up until now. precision aiming with the PS4 analog stick is excruciating for me, like it actually puts me in a bad mood

shooters are pc games to me forever and always

Control is.. kind of a shooter?

tim rogers called it a "metroid prime-like" which intrigues me. can anyone else corroborate?

i complained about this on whatchu playing now but i thought control was cool until i couldn't get past the first boss. i am terrible at shooters though.

its a shooter/adventure game hybrid like metroid prime yes. prime had lock-on shooting though iirc so it didn't require very much aiming

I can't aim worth shit on the PS4. When I restarted Doom on that system I had to set the level down to poopypants or whatever, because it's like I'm playing with my left hand only and no thumb. Didn't know Control needed, well, controlled aiming.

control also doesn't let you change the difficulty fyi

Yeah, Control is actually fairly hard and has few alleviations for that (aside from investing in the Launch power, but that won't get you through everything alone); one of the flaws for sure. A friend of mine never made it past the first boss fight and gave up on the game :( Your main defensive powers don't open up for a long time and you have to run-and-gun or duck behind furniture for a while.

It is like Metroid Prime in its overall world map, places getting unlocked over time via new abilities, environment puzzles, secrets, collectibles etc. an a relatively enclosed world, as opposed to the stuff you see in GTA and Assassin's Creed games. Also the dark, mysterious, lore-ridden spookiness of it, maybe.

Ack, just saw that you had the same problem as my friend, NA

yeah. i wish games still had cheat codes.

I admit that the shooting isn't great in CONTROL, but the game wants you to use the Launch ability as your primary offensive weapon.

Moreover, Launch has auto-lock so as long as you get your reticle in the neighborhood of an enemy they'll probably get hit with a wad of concrete.

Yep, and even the gun aiming is fairly generous when you are using Pierce.

Regular battles are easy, the bosses are quite tough so far.

Mostly because it is very easy to fall off stuff when you are fighting them though.

launch and levitate and a modicum of common sense will see u thru

first boss is the hardest required boss, a few of the side bosses are pretty tough. very annoyed that the DLC is ps4-exclusive (or at least not on xbox) for the time being!!

agree first boss is the hardest then it gets easier tho i did quit in frustration last night after dying twice to some banshee/phantom boss in black mesa that appears behind you clobbers you for 90% of your health and then turns invisible only to do it again. both times i got her to a sliver of health and then died myself. frustrating!

I read that you can sit pat and use shield to block most of the banshee's damage, I never tried it though. (What I did actually track it down while it's mostly invisible -- you can see some ripples in the air to roughly locate it. Also, evade when it becomes visible again.)

i'm not sure i have shield. where do i get it? i do have evade.

I'd completely forgotten that it's an acquired ability! You get it on this side quest: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-08-28-control-a-good-defence-shield-6043

If that's not available to you yet, IIRC you can still spam evade to avoid getting hit by her. I also remember struggling against that boss.

haven't played Control for a while but the one thing that became obvious was that doing the side quests is key because unless you're insanely good, you need all those abilities

ah, you know i did get that mission but i couldn't figure out how to get into field training bc the door had that red block on it and i didn't realize i could puzzle solve to open it. thought it would just open later on its own and i'd backtrack.

Yeah, any sidequest that mention an Object of Power, do it right away.
Hah, yeah, I had the same feeling on that particular thing; it's not always clear what a story-progression gate and what's an environmental puzzle to solve.

a friend of mine has coaxed me into playing COD together online as a way to socialize and my god i am so horrible at shooters with a controller, Karl otm it really does almost make me angry (esp since on the computer i'm pretty ace)

guys, I've been playing Doom Eternal on pc and... I'm not good at shooters on pc anymore, either

old :(

Play it on easy mode imo

Forgot to mention that Control's music is pretty ace too! Excellent use of Tricky, among other highlights.

control probably deserves more points than i gave it in the poll i'll share more thoughts there when it places but i also assumed it would probably do well anyway even without me and there's always too much stuff that i want to vote for

dark brutalist aesthetic that's fairly minimal other than the ZILLIONS OF PARTICLES FLYING is pretty fucking awesome imo

Uncharteds, no! no nathan drake! fuck you nathan drake!

I've just spent days and days playing through the Nathan Drake collection and I 100% support this sentiment.

i never understood its popularity