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

oh yeah one of my 2 DS4s has a bad stick. but at least it doesn't cramp my hands up

PS plus giveaway this month is Uncharted 4 which I've already played to death years ago and Dirt Rally 2 in which you need to connect to a game server in career mode and the servers don't work. So I've basically spent hours downloading a title screen and an options menu.

Speaking of servers, I can’t connect to anything in the Show, either - is there a widespread problem?

I've basically spent hours downloading a title screen and an options menu.

Karl Malone's milk post: thanks mate, you really cheered me up!

:D hey man, i'm just giving you a glimpse of the future. glad to see the synergy with the thinking behind the new PS5 controller!

"Our goal with DualSense is to give gamers the feeling of being transported into the game world as soon as they open the box. We want gamers to feel like the controller is an extension of themselves when they’re playing – so much so that they forget that it’s even in their hands!"

*hundreds of journalists hands go up*

"WILL WE BE ABLE TO PUSH MILK WITH OUR "HANDS" USING THE PS5 CONTROLLER???"

Sony currently giving two games away to encourage us to stay and play at home:
Journey - I've been Journey curious for a while now so I'll play through today
Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection - same thing they gave away with PS+ a couple of months back. Pretty decent remake and polish that improved the combat and graphics but it's Uncharted and generally not for ILGers

Journey is lovely and only takes a few hours to play through. it's really something though

I've been playing Uncharted 2 these last few days; a little goes a long way, because the dialogue is terrible even by video game standards, but it's pretty enough and as close to watching tv as I'm gonna get.

Started Death Stranding two nights ago. So far I’ve carried some stuff

keep playing the main quest till lvl 4

i haven't played death stranding in 3 days and I keep saying 'i don' feel like hiking tonight'. I get anxiety about the rain!

Keep on keepin on! 👍

My active pile:

Red Dead Online
Borderlands Science
Lonely Mountains Downhill
Marvel Puzzle Quest
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Into the Breach

oh, this is the ps4 thread dummy!

I had quite a good time playing through Journey while half baked this afternoon. Lovely experience.

you're doing it right

Journey is beautiful and I cried at the end but it's not exactly fun.

Yerac, yeah you have to keep on keeping on. sometimes it does feel like 'ugh I have to get up and go to work today'. it really ramps up around chapter 4 though

I think I had the most fun in Chapter 3 - that's the really long chapter right? I'm addicted to building roads and that one felt like I had the most freedom to just grind on that

I still don't know whether I would like to play Death Stranding. I have not played a Metal Gear game since the first one on NES a million years ago, and I did not understand that game at all, neither how to play nor "what it all meant". This one seems like that too? Like, I've read all your writing on this, and read other writing on it, and I can't tell if it sounds fun. and maybe...that's the real game?

I think there’s a thread on it no? Which I’m not reading yet...
I played the original MGS on the NES too and it was like nothing else and had some memorable moments ... so I’m hoping DS does too.

death stranding definitely ticks both those boxes

there has been twice now where I got attacked by BTS and I totally got stuck up against a mountain/hill. Like I couldn't go anywhere so had to go back to a saved point. I don't know if that was a bug or what. Also I have trouble finding places to put ladders.

I also once shook the BB so hard it turned red.

do not shake the BB!!

I think I had the most fun in Chapter 3 - that's the really long chapter right? I'm addicted to building roads and that one felt like I had the most freedom to just grind on that

yeah the reason I've spent so long on DS is through road building addiction

it is definitely 'deliberately a pain in the arse' but once you get the hang of it, very little of it feels illogical or unfair

when I get stuck in the sludgie the whale my spouse becomes a total backseat hiker and gets all stressed out. Emotions have been running high!

Game definitely becomes more manageable when you attune to it and more tools are open up, but yeah, the stress factor is almost comical when you’re trudging through tar and demon arms are ripping cargo off of you while a baby is crying in your face. Like Kojima thought “hey, let’s combine several nightmare scenarios into one here.”

But the joy of taming the wilderness pioneer-like is so so good.

The baby crying out of the controller speaker was definitely unexpected. This was also when I first discovered there is a speaker there

lol yeah i think a couple launch titles used it and then nothing again until now

It’s used in nba 2k19 and in injustice 2 at least

The controller makes a thwacking sound on Everybody's Golf

If I remember correctly the police radio comes through the controller speaker in GTAV

TLOU Remastered has audio logs play through the controller speaker and HZD has some minor sound effects go through it too.

If I remember correctly the police radio comes through the controller speaker in GTAV

In the various Tomb Raiders it makes gunshot sounds when you shoot

it's actually a really cool feature, that adds an extra weird little dimension. wish more games would use it

f it. bought GTAV last night.

Sweet
Maybe we can get some multiplayer going sometime. Always wanted to do those coop missions

I also bought gta5 this week, guess the extra one euro off in this sale did the trick. I really don't want to do the torture mission, just want a playground for doing dumb stuff that's not scifi or wild west

the curiosity got to me and I bought FF7R
the 20% off PSN credit helped with my poor decision making tho lol

man i dunno if i should but

the honey bee inn sequence is... good now

Haha yes!!

i am very happy with GTAV. Needed another faster game like spiderman to fill that gap.

Is there a decent arcade-style joystick available for PS4 for playing Pac Man and that sort of thing? All the ones I'm seeing are advertised as fight sticks, which apparently are no good for games where you only want 4-way or 8-way movement, not a full 360 degrees.