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

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.

No experience myself, but a guy on reddit suggests that some Hori sticks support 4-way: https://stores.horiusa.com/

but aren't all arcade games from that era (excepting trackball ones) digital inputs only anyway? (that is, 4 or 8-way vs. analog)

Yeah, after poking around more it seems like the issue is that you need a stick that is restricted to 4-way movement, because a game like Pac Man will ignore any input that isn't exactly up-down-left-right so you miss turns if you don't hit it just right. I'll check into the Hori sticks, thanks, looks like they have an inexpensive 8-way that can possibly be modified with an aftermarket restrictor plate.

Totally different topic: do you all back up your game data? I got the kid a PS4 for Christmas and there's been one instance since then where he lost progress in a game due to a corrupted file. Only happened that one time and fortunately he hadn't gotten far in yet, but is that something to worry about?

I think psplus syncs saves to the cloud, but that's probably not consistent between games and I'm not sure how good they are at not propagating local corruption

One data point: I've had my PS4 for a couple years, and haven't had any corrupted saves.

Check the Upload/Download Saved Data menu dialogs, but if it was a long time ago then it's probably too late. Usually there are a few instances of your data in there.

Is it a Sony memory card?

memory... card?

if you're really hardcore, early rejecter - you can get a high quality fight stick, and buy a restrictor gate like the ones seen here:
https://focusattack.com/spare-parts-tools/by-part/restrictor-gates/

I don't think there are a lot of sticks these days being sold like that as-is

and yeah I just allow PS+ to backup all my saves

Ghost of Tsushima looks tasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur0pQblaZcE

once they showed gameplay without the UI turned off it became obvious that it's just an offbrand assassins creed game

i'm thinking hard about going in on sekiro

i loved sekiro, and once the combat clicks, it’s fantastic, but like all fromsoftware games it is not without its frustrations.

RE2, spiderman, and god of war... in the sale, all for the price of one new game... tempting