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

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

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

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.

I've just started playing The Outer Wilds. I'm loving it so far.

I literally just looked up which was which, Worlds vs. Wilds, and I already forgot. Is this the looping one?

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)

whoever said "the i in wilds stands for indie" fixed this problem for me
i bought wilds and control last night for $35

Wilds is the one that is wildly amazing and innovative
Worlds is the one that is Worldly and like other worldly games, not as innovative

yes, and the o in worlds stands for Obsidian Entertainment

i guess that requires that you know who obsidian are though

God yeah, who okayed the fact there are two almost identically-titled space exploration games out in the same year?

yeah, i'm always curious if the two production studios had any communications about that. i'm assuming the pro studio would have sued or something, if they had standing

Outer Wilds is fab though.

At first I was a bit disappointed by the cartoonish characters, the slightly vectory graphics, fiddly controls and the fact there's no speech, just writing. It does give me the feeling it was all made using the Dreams software package, but this is an indie game after all.

Once it gets going though, all these factors get left behind. It's a really lovely, extremely original game. I'd say the closest thing I can link it to are the old Elite games perhaps.

for the kind of game it is it's a little unforgiving imo. very easy to die, very hard at times to make progress. but yes extremely original, but very fun i just wish i felt inspired to finish/solve it.

there have been moments when the game seems to suddenly glitch out and send me into a completely different world, or I'll end up suddenly transported into another random spot in space, but I can't work out if it's a mistake or part of the game yet. spent ages trying to use my rocket pack to jump out of water onto a platform

I downloaded NBA 2K20 and COD Warzone this week. A 1TB console can store 7-8 games of that size. Ridiculous.

yeah, i have to erase a game before adding a new one 9 times out of 10

Just got a 2TB external and I’m pleased to find that all the games I deleted still have their Save data

yeah, i'm always curious if the two production studios had any communications about that. i'm assuming the pro studio would have sued or something, if they had standing

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wilds was openly in development with that title for years before worlds was announced. and "the outer worlds" is not a remotely good enough name to warrant the inevitable confusion.

this is at least the third time the worlds or wilds conversation has happened on ilx

i'm here for it every time - i try to say a variation on the same joke each time

which one is which again

The Outer Worlds = postmodern satirical AAA RPG where you explore the galaxy
Outer Wilds = Indie action-RPG where you explore the galaxy but only for 22 minutes at a time

I can see the post above but I've already forgotten

those really are the same game, dang

I just bought "Wilds" and "Control" (which was 66% off; $20 is my cutoff point for impulse purchases). My 1TB drive is pretty packed, but I figure as I go through titles I can delete them and, should I return to complete more of the games later, just download or install them again. I assume that whether playing from a disc or from a download, my progress is saved on my machine, and that when I reinstall my progress returns with it. Right? So if I uninstall, say, "God of War," where I am hovering around 60% completion, and then reinstall it later, I'll still be at 60%?

yeah unless you explicitly delete your saved game data files, all that information will remain when you reinstall your games

yeah saves don't go away unless you go into the system settings somewhere and purge them. i think the sports games are the only ones where that'd even be a consideration because they make huge save files for the simulation stuff

Thanks. Size of games can be so misleading, especially since game discs still need to download most (all?) data to the drive to play, right?

right, running off the disc is too slow for modern games. the disc is basically just a DRM check once you've installed the game

Just like PC gaming of old. Looks like killing of the physical disc might finally happen this generation for consoles given the new driveless models

I haven't bought a game disc in years. I have maybe three PS4 discs.

gotta love that ps5 box though

I definitely wanted to play something lighter and less intense/gruesome than "Last of Us" next (even though honestly I've been looking forward to "Bloodborne"), but while I was considering a return to "Spider-Man" again, I think I may go for something like ... "Ratchet and Clank," which I know I bought at some point, since iirc people really like, and I've never played in any way shape or form.