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

It's a little bit complicated.

https://www.ign.com/wikis/hitman-3/How_to_Get_Hitman_1_And_2_in_Hitman_3

Since you can import H2 progress to 3, 2 is a good starting place, but you won't have access to the Hitman 1 levels out of the box unless you pay extra for it as DLC or already own it.

at least it's a free upgrade from the PS4 version but yeah, weird

Except it's not, if your PS4 version is the one you'll be getting free with PS+ next month. So yeah, even weirder.

https://gamerant.com/final-fantasy-7-remake-playstation-plus-ps5-upgrade/

There's a Ratchet and Clank game that's free to download for some reason!

Ah ha: https://www.cnet.com/news/ratchet-clank-ps4-free-to-download/

Is there a way to make the button prompts bigger in Hitman 2? I can barely make out the onscreen tips and tutorials.

that's a problem for tons of games, for me. i think we're supposed have bigger and better displays

unfortunately, I enjoy having a wall in addition to a display, so

As well as hardly ever being able to make out button prompts, my TV is so old it overscans my PS4 and there's no option to stop it doing it, making a lot of games more difficult and some (Civ 6) impossible to play

Do I need a PS+ account to play Hitman 2? I bought Hitman 2: Gold Edition, which is supposed to be the full game + DLC, but I can only play the first level plus the prologue -- all the other missions say "Get Access" with a link to go to the store, but when I go there, it says it's already installed.

You shouldn't need it, unless you got Hitman 2 as part of PS+ a while back. Maybe delete and reinstall?

I figured it out, the levels are separate downloads.

Free from April 19 to May 14
Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition

Of course, I've bought like half the games in that promo and they're still sealed

I've had my eye on ABZU for a bit, and mildly curious about The Witness (mild because of my wariness about the FP POV).

Incidentally, I think I'm going to delete Ratchet & Clank. Unengaging script/characters, basic gameplay, and 25GB that could be better used for Hitman levels.

abzu and witness and gungeon are all very much worth playing; looking forward to finally trying subnautica

Free games! https://store.playstation.com/en-us/category/9779f12f-50c8-4c07-8d20-47e21293b6c6/1

nice of them to drop them all at once! though they would do the Epic Store drip feed
are the PS5 versions claimable too?

btw, i noticed that Sony quietly re-added the Wishlist function back to the store. good move. too bad my 100 WL titles from pre-Nov are gone, though.

at last!
I found out you can still access the old store the other day, my old wishlist was still there
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/home/games?smcid=psapp
https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/home/games?smcid=psapp
etc

They're all up but Horizon Zero Dawn, iirc. No doubt because that game is much bigger and takes longer to download.

xp aw, those links just redirect me to the current store

Horizon Zero Dawn now available as a free dl

I just found the perfect supplementary thread for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/

A gaming sub free from the news, hype and drama that surround current releases, catering instead to gamers who wait at least 6 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

a smart and patient gamer is a horse's worst nightmare

My horse in Red Dead (named "My Horse") would probably agree. But then again, I brush him and pat him and keep him fed and healthy.

Last chance to grab HZD for free today

If you've not experienced Aloy's journey yet, today is the last day to claim Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition for 𝓪𝓫𝓼𝓸𝓵𝓾𝓽𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓮 as part of Play at Home.

Grab it while you can: https://t.co/0LTkUC4I14 pic.twitter.com/OwDchykfIl

— PlayStation Europe (@PlayStationEU) May 14, 2021

Done thanks! Don’t have a PS4 but used my old, unused PS3 account. Someday...

Yeah, thanks! I assumed that since I don't pay for PS+ I couldn't get it, but no problems!

Question about the new Mass Effect remaster: as someone who only played the first one on Xbox, is it a trivial thing to just buy the new one and start with part 2 on PS4? (I actually still have disc copies for of 2 and 3 for 360)

Yeah, I think you can start wherever, though I think it uses some defaults for the narrative choices in the first game.

No idea what the prices will be, but there's a PS sale hitting at the end of the month that I think for the first time includes Ghost of Tsushima, Miles Morales and The Last of Us Part II, which were maybe the last three big titles dropped before the PS5 was released. I'm totally down for all of those, though most likely would skip Miles for now, only because I never finished the first game.

virtua fighter 5 will be released as a ps+ game, available on june 1st

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/05/26/playstation-plus-games-for-june-operation-tango-virtua-fighter-5-ultimate-showdown-star-wars-squadrons/

I thought God of War nu-2 would be the one that could convince me to get a PS5, but now it looks like it not only got delayed to 2022, it'll be for PS4 as well as PS5. So that's even less incentive to upgrade any time soon.

2 years crossgen period is pretty normal, 2023 is when you'll get the first big ps5-only title

Yeah, but for huge flagship first-party titles? I guess even Nintendo did it with the Zelda games from Wii to Switch, still hard to get used to that idea. I don't feel like this happened with Mario or Halo.

They don't need any help selling ps5s right now though, GoW2 will probably be old news by the time supply comes close to exceeding demand

the first huge flagship first party game on ps4 but not ps3 was horizon zero dawn wasn't it? which came out 3.5 years after launch. bloodborne was earlier but that was still a bit more niche at the time.

I didn't realize till this week that PSPrices only aggregates price histories on the PS store, and not from retailers.

OTOH I didn't realize till 15 minutes ago that Deku Deals also lists PS4 games.

hello, i have a ps4 question but it is for sensitive eyes only, so it's on 77 in the what's happening thread

Sort of related, I just paid $40 for a big pile of PS4 games, many big name AAA, a handful of steelbooks. Maybe 20 of them? Where's the best place for me to sell them? I know I can flip them for more than I paid for them, and I know that a place like Gamestop would buy them all and I'd more than make my money back, but I was still hoping to get a good price rather than a lowball.

if you want the best ROI sell them individually on ebay. otherwise put them up on craigslist or facebook as a lot and hope someone else who has the time to resell them on ebay will bite. you probably won't get more than half of the ebay going rate for them, but it'd be a lot more than gamestop will give you.

All the Sony PS4 are dark and stressful and lonely. I appreciate the vibe, but I was on a serious hangover yesterday and I can't fucking play Bloodborne when I'm in that headspace. Like, even pretty indie games like Celeste are frantic and lonesome, and Journey is very beautiful and everything but it's also kind of sad and reflective.

I guess what I'm saying is I need something that's a bit jollier and escapist; something a bit more Nintendo, when I'm feeling broken and sorry for myself. I'd buy a secondhand Switch if I had a little more money, or maybe I could just dust down my SNES mini and replay Yoshi's Island or Chrono Trigger again.

I just find it strange that there's a dearth of these kinds of games on the PS4. I appreciate it's aimed more at an adult market than Nintendo, but adults like Earthbound, right? And sometimes we have dreadful hangovers too. What can I do?

Everybody’s Tennis is available in the store for PS4 iirc! Go get it! Incredibly addictive ime

There are fun multiplayer games too like Crash Team Racing and Overcooked

I agree with you in general though. For a long time Sony’s had the gritty/sophisicated console and that’s not always what you want

Ah yes I have Overcooked (super stressful but great fun) and Crash which I used to play a lot with my ex before we broke up. *Sigh*.

I don't have PS Now, but I'm considering it. I just really like (and miss) involving storylines with a bit of fun and magic to them - you know, like Chrono, Earthbound, LTTP and all that. I enjoyed Undertale as a kind of gritty parody of those kinds of games; but there was also an element of trying too hard while trying to be edgy. I can see there's a bunch of new-style JRPGs on PS4 invaribaly called things like Brave Crystal Dragon Team X VI or whatever, but they all look very teenage and anime; a bit spiky hair and short-skirts and tons of lore stemming back to previous games.

Tbf, the From games are all about stressful and lonely. I thought God of War was a blast, have you played that?

I'm playing "Wolfenstein: New Order" right now and it's stupid trashy fun, albeit with a latent and totally unearned tonal sadness to it.

Yeah God Of War was a fabulous game, and I guess a bit less lonely than many of those other kinds of games because you have a companion with you. Not exactly Final Fantasy VI.

I did get Nier Automata which seems like a lot of fun although it's a bit bullet-hellish in the one go round I had. Seems cool though

But yes there's a strange tonal sadness that seems to come with the vast majority of PS4 games. It's not really something I got from playing Nintendo games in the nineties. Super Metroid certainly did this, but not that many other games - they just gave me good feelings. Maybe it's just nostalgia talking though?

It's fine and everything, but it can feel very lonely and isolating if I already feel this way and need cheering up. A little humour, a little companionship, you know? I wonder why this is? Is it something to do with third or first person 3D? It's always you, a sullen loner figure out on your own... Even Witcher 3 with its world full of characters deliberately makes you feel like an outcast. I guess RDR2 is less like this - there's a cast of allies and you're able to walk around and say hi to people.

That's kind of a video game trope, though I think because Sony/PS4 sort of focuses on single-player games they play it up a bit more. The exclusives, at least. That said, I thought Ratchet and Clank was good silly fun.

i just bought R&C. There's nothing wrong with a bit of light relief. I haven't played Outer Worlds or No Man's Sky though - just thinking maybe they might tick the box? I have played Outer Wilds though and that's goofy but also still a bit isolatory