I also once shook the BB so hard it turned red.
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
do not shake the BB!!
― mh, Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
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
― circa1916, Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
yeah the reason I've spent so long on DS is through road building addiction
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
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
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
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!
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
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.”
― circa1916, Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
But the joy of taming the wilderness pioneer-like is so so good.
― circa1916, Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
The baby crying out of the controller speaker was definitely unexpected. This was also when I first discovered there is a speaker there
― ncxkd, Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
lol yeah i think a couple launch titles used it and then nothing again until now
― ciderpress, Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
It’s used in nba 2k19 and in injustice 2 at least
― Joey Corona (Euler), Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
The controller makes a thwacking sound on Everybody's Golf
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 18 April 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
If I remember correctly the police radio comes through the controller speaker in GTAV
― treefell, Saturday, 18 April 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
TLOU Remastered has audio logs play through the controller speaker and HZD has some minor sound effects go through it too.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Saturday, 18 April 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
― ncxkd, Saturday, 18 April 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
In the various Tomb Raiders it makes gunshot sounds when you shoot
― crisp, Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
it's actually a really cool feature, that adds an extra weird little dimension. wish more games would use it
― Nhex, Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
f it. bought GTAV last night.
― Yerac, Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
SweetMaybe we can get some multiplayer going sometime. Always wanted to do those coop missions
― ncxkd, Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link
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
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 19 April 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
the curiosity got to me and I bought FF7Rthe 20% off PSN credit helped with my poor decision making tho lol
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
man i dunno if i should but
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
the honey bee inn sequence is... good now
― mh, Sunday, 19 April 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
Haha yes!!
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 19 April 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
i am very happy with GTAV. Needed another faster game like spiderman to fill that gap.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
No experience myself, but a guy on reddit suggests that some Hori sticks support 4-way: https://stores.horiusa.com/
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
but aren't all arcade games from that era (excepting trackball ones) digital inputs only anyway? (that is, 4 or 8-way vs. analog)
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
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?
― early rejecter, Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
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
― mh, Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
One data point: I've had my PS4 for a couple years, and haven't had any corrupted saves.
― Judd Apatowsaurus (Leee), Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
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.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
Is it a Sony memory card?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
memory... card?
― mh, Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
and yeah I just allow PS+ to backup all my saves
Ghost of Tsushima looks tasty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur0pQblaZcE
― So buttons. (Leee), Monday, 18 May 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
once they showed gameplay without the UI turned off it became obvious that it's just an offbrand assassins creed game
― ciderpress, Monday, 18 May 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
i'm thinking hard about going in on sekiro
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 May 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
i loved sekiro, and once the combat clicks, it’s fantastic, but like all fromsoftware games it is not without its frustrations.
― Fizzles, Monday, 18 May 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
RE2, spiderman, and god of war... in the sale, all for the price of one new game... tempting
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― circa1916, Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
Spider-Man (as much as I played it) and God of War share a similar button-mashing DNA, I've got to admit. But swinging around the city in Spider-Man is about as good as that sort of thing gets in game.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
I've just started playing The Outer Wilds. I'm loving it so far.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 09:45 (three years ago) link
I literally just looked up which was which, Worlds vs. Wilds, and I already forgot. Is this the looping one?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
it's easy - Wilds is the one with the other Worlds, Worlds is the one where you go Wild looking for other Worlds
(Wilds is the 22 minute loop one and is amazing)(and i have to look it up every single time because i always mix it up too)
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
whoever said "the i in wilds stands for indie" fixed this problem for mei bought wilds and control last night for $35
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
Wilds is the one that is wildly amazing and innovativeWorlds is the one that is Worldly and like other worldly games, not as innovative
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
yes, and the o in worlds stands for Obsidian Entertainment
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
i guess that requires that you know who obsidian are though
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link