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qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Please add to the OP that Bloodborne is good so half the thread won't be people repeating that fact any time someone asks for a recommendation.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 03:22

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 08:26

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

OP thanks for adding my post to the OP, and sorry I caused the exact thing I didn't want to happen.

Edit: gently caress Defiled Amygdala.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 10:19

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

They should've included the post game dungeons in FF15 trophies. The no-item dungeon and the Pitioss dungeon were one of the only challenging things in the game.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 21:47

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Uncle w Benefits posted:

Can someone help me with HBO Now? I have it installed on my PS 4, but I go to the website to sign up and the only option I have is to download it through Amazon. I can't even register an account through the website, and trying to go to order.hbonow.com on my PS 4 results in repeating 'not enough system memory' errors.

You basically have to sign up via iOS app, Android App, or Amazon whatever (app?). Then download the app on the PS4 and just sign in. I don't think you can sign up via computer/browser.

Just download the app to your phone and sign up through that.

# ¿ May 2, 2017 01:56

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Quantum of Phallus posted:

How do these loving patches get through "certification"

Sadly certification doesn't check for "does the game run smoothly", it just checks for "does the game crash the console".

The FOV bug is subtle enough that it would be easy to overlook. DigitalFoundry noticed something was amiss but it took them a while to figure it out.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2017 21:07

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

rabidsquid posted:

they might as well have been throwing her into a sinkhole to appease god

Based on the new trailer, I think you just spoiled the plot of TLOU 2.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2017 20:53

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

This trailer's also the first one that's made me think, "Hey, a green band/red band thing at the beginning of video game trailers wouldn't hurt."

# ¿ Oct 30, 2017 22:06

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Kirios posted:

Metal Gear Solid V is the best game this generation not on a Nintendo device.

Pretty sure my Top 10 of 2017, even excluding all Nintendo games, are all better than MGS 5.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 00:11

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

I really enjoyed Hellblade.

That is all.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2017 23:19

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

I've never played a Monster Hunter game and I didn't play the World betas, but I love all the Souls games and I know two people who are gonna be getting the new game I could co-op with.

Worth checking out?

# ¿ Jan 25, 2018 19:31

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

RareAcumen posted:

Well gently caress, that's the problem. I looked at the case and it says 'licensed for sale in Europe, India, and Russia only'

Now I gotta get a normal US copy I guess. I hope this doesn't mean I lose my saves for some reason too.

Can't you make a PSN account in one of those regions and get the dlc again? I imagine that would be cheaper.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2018 01:25

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

anyone manage to complain about this months games yet

gently caress, I already own both of them because they're such good games.

Does that count?

# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 00:50

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Wow, the decal on the God of War bundle is deeply, deeply ugly. Like, definitely the ugliest looking PS4 Pro they've put out, right?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2018 19:28

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

fridge corn posted:

The voice acting in HZD is really bad because everyone sounds like a generic modern day american which is really jarring for the setting imo

The setting is America, so...

# ¿ Mar 6, 2018 21:42

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

They are a lot alike, and Monhan is about 150x more fun, as my 150 hours may attest. I think you're being a bit disingenuous here, honestly, because I remember the reveal trailers of Horizon and many of the initial comments around the web were about how it was a single-player Monster Hunter game with robot dinosaurs instead or regular ones.

There are cosmetic differences for sure, but gameplay wise HZD is aping the monhan formula in a way that's similar to how Ni-Oh apes Bloodsouls. You go out in the wilderness, trapping, stripping, and crafting. Using stealth and agility to carve up giant beasts into requisite parts for future equipment. The moment to moment gameplay in MHW is just so much loving better. Hell, just simple things like climbing, swinging from vines, grappling, sliding, jumping, and dodging....basic concepts of movement feel soooo much snappier and more accurate in MHW.

Can I easily grapple onto a wingdrake and then slam down with a charged thrust into a mounting attack on some bloated fool? Yes.

Can I run up a wall, jump off it and spincombo down the back of a T Rex? Yes.

Can I don a glider suit and use geothermal vents to push me into the air while peppering some lizard rear end motherfucker with his own dung? Yes.

Can I dress my cat-slave up like a total goddamned goober? Yes.

Can I jump off an impossibly high cliff and slice a dragon's tail off sending him careening off another cliff into another dragon and then watch them then duel each other while I sit back and barbecue meat? Yes.

Can I drop giant rear end rocks onto lizard skulls, or catch three huge dragons in the floodwaters of a broken dam that washes them off a montaintop, or buy my friends meals made by a one-eyed feline sushi chef? Yes. Yes. And Yes.

And it can literally all be played solo or with friends.

A revelation that I had after I built my longbow out of a Legania's corpse that LOOKS loving AWESOME and has a porno name like Snowfeltcher or something...is that the kinetic, exciting movement of the bow class in MHW (just 1 class out of 14) plays better than the entirety of HZD, a game that only features bow combat and nothing else.

Seriously, I've had more awesome moments in 1 month of monhan gameplay than I've had during entire years with other games. That is all. Monster Hunter owns.

I like Monster Hunter too but all of this is like dumb tumblr meme poo poo that doesn't make a case for it at all.

I also like HZD and think comparing the two is pretty loving dumb.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2018 01:35

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

All the ways in which HZD and MHW are alike:

They're both open world games
They both have a character leveling system
You gain ability points to apply to a skill tree as you level up
You can upgrade your item capacity for various storage stuff
Both have dialogue trees
Both let you switch weapons on the fly during combat
Both are single-player only campaigns
There's an extra vision layer mechanic in both
Both feature intricate upgrade trees for weapons
Buffs are a big deal in both

Oh wait, none of that is true.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2018 03:06

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

RBA Starblade posted:

Well the storage one is.

You can't upgrade the capacity of anything in MHW.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2018 03:20

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

El Jebus posted:

Tell me about your PS4 compatible headsets. I�m losing the final strands of tape and plastic holding my Sony Golds together and I need something new. I don�t think I�ve got $300 for A50s, probably something closer to $100-150. Anyone have the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 or 700?

HyperX recently released a wireless headset, the Cloud Flight, and I've owned them for about a week and am enjoying them so far. Super comfortable, solid sound quality (it's stereo not surround, but their stereo sounds a lot better than other "surround" headsets I've tried), and some insane 30 hour battery life. Only annoying downsides for me are the LEDs are on by default and they contribute to battery drain, so you have to click 2 buttons every time you turn on the headset to turn the lights off, and my old headset had separate volume wheels for game and voice chat, which were a really nice benefit I had gotten used to, and the Flight only has the one wheel so you might have to fiddle with on-screen volume controls once in a while.

Otherwise, recommended.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2018 22:46

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

man nurse posted:

Yo, questions. I'm a 1080p tv user. Does the new supersampling option only work on non pro-supported games? And is it worth leaving on or does it cause performance issues?

Actually, it's the opposite. It only works on Pro-supported games that have a higher res mode that's only selectable if it detects you have a 4k tv. Basically it tricks games into thinking your tv is 4k and unlocks their 4k mode.

Leaving it on could affect performance if the game has been shown to run slower in its 4k mode.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2018 00:16

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

man nurse posted:

Weird. So for example, Shadow of the Colossus lets you pick performance or resolution. I'm assuming therefore that the supersampling option would have no effect on that game? Or would it supersample even when on performance mode?

I think for that game it would have no effect, because even 4k tvs running Performance Mode are getting 1080p, cause that's what Performance Mode is designed to do. Some games already do their own supersampling so this new mode should have no effect on them. Just for games that lock out Resolution mode or 4k auto-detect from 1080p displays.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2018 00:21

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

A game getting good reviews seems to have sparked a lot of arguments in this thread.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2018 23:47

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

HGH posted:

I think the skepticism is understandable. The last time something like this happened was with MGS5, which no matter how good you might think it is has some pretty noticeable flaws. Nothing wrong with waiting a couple weeks for things to simmer down a little.

By "something like this happened" do you mean a game getting a bunch of good reviews? Because BotW and Horizon seem like more recent examples than MGS5 and there wasn't really a furor over them.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2018 00:00

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Although I enjoyed all the GoW games for the most part, there was one moment I vaguely recall that left a horrible taste in my mouth. I think it was in GoW 3, and it was where Kratos finds this random woman, who's not a god or anyone special, and you basically have to drag her while she's begging for her life and tie her to this crank which ends up crushing her to death and the whole thing was just to use her body as a doorjam so Kratos could get to the next room or something? I just remember finding it really disturbing and thinking, "What the gently caress was the point of all that?"

# ¿ Apr 13, 2018 06:19

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

I�m gonna bust up irl when all the R2D2 folks are crushed because their game is plagued by insane grinds and p2w mechanics, even in the single player campaign. There�s no reason to think otherwise

GTA: Online baffles me. I don�t even know anyone that plays the game but they�re literally printing money and fleecing folks for how long now? And everyone just goes along with it. I�m sure it�s fun on some level but drat. I�m a capitalist consumer whore as much as the next but GTA: O just seems so fleecing in every way possible

I still play GTA:O from time to time and enjoy it. I've also literally never spent any real world money on GTA:O outside of the cost of buying GTA5. You can just do poo poo and have fun and buy the stuff you want normally. On the fleecing scale, I feel like GTA is on the middle to low end compared to a lot of other games.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 23:40

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

LionArcher posted:

How long is HZD? Trying to figure out what to play next.

I think I 100% everything in the main game right around the 40 hour mark. The dlc adds another good 10-12 hours. Main story alone is probably 30-ish hours?

# ¿ May 3, 2018 22:16

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Over There posted:

Are most of HZD sidequests trash? I got extremely bored with them. I still haven't finished the game

I guess they can be hit or miss but some of them are decent. There's one where a guy keeps asking you to bring the "blood" of different machines and he proceeds to drink each one as you bring it to him and Aloy just kind of watches in disbelief as he gradually gets sicker and sicker from stupidly consuming battery acid or whatever. It's pretty hilarious.

# ¿ May 4, 2018 00:10

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

jabro posted:

Holy poo poo. I missed that one. Do you remember where it started at?

https://www.supercheats.com/horizon-zero-dawn/walkthrough/acquired-taste

This link I googled has the map location at the top.

# ¿ May 4, 2018 00:18

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Morby posted:

I gave the Detroit demo a try and...wow. Not sure if I will pick up the full game, but it was interesting to play through.

It is so painfully David Cage from the very first second.

# ¿ May 4, 2018 22:48

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Wolfsheim posted:

My girlfriend just started playing Beyond Two Souls and its not bad for a story game but am I correct in assuming it's a Telltale style 'make these choices, but very few of them change anything just enjoy the ride' style game? She's up to the Navajo bit but it all seems very on rails in term of the direction it goes.

I don't remember much about Beyond but I do remember the story goes extra, extra batshit crazy towards the end. Like trying to outdo Kojima crazy.

# ¿ May 5, 2018 20:20

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Andrast posted:

Not really

I mean I remember a literal apocalypse and a giant government conspiracy to stop a ghost army but sure, Kojima stuff is probably wackier.

# ¿ May 5, 2018 21:28

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

DrNutt posted:

I think this is where my expectations might be skewed because the modern dev cycle has really limited the amount of quality AAA titles that can come out in a console's life cycle. Like, we had three Uncharted games and Last of Us from Naughty Dog on the PS3, and so far on a console that's been out since 2013 we've got one and a half Uncharted games and we're still waiting on the next Last of Us. Same for God of War, four titles on the PS3 and one on the PS4 that didn't even hit until near the console's fifth birthday. I'll always support quality over quantity but I legitimately think that all the Uncharted games on the PS3 were worth playing, and while I didn't much care for God of War, I think most people still thought that 3 out of 4 of those were pretty drat great.

I actually think there are more quality AAA games coming out on a constant basis on the PS4 than any previous console, the only difference is they're not all from the same dev. Like you said, development times for those type of games are longer now so a company like Naughty Dog puts out less games during this generation, but the sheer number of different devs currently working on games means that you're still getting big releases all the time. It feels like every other week there's some big great game coming out and I find myself playing catch-up way more these days than I remember doing during any of the previous gens.

That's not even getting into the infinite list of indie games coming out daily.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2018 19:18

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

I said come in! posted:

Assassin's Creed Odyssey comes out the same month and it'll probably be the better game, but i'm hyped for both.

Disagree, even though I loved Origins. Black Flag team made Origins and Syndicate team made Odyssey, and I vastly preferred Black Flag to Syndicate. Odyssey feels like an old-school Ubisoft cash grab, though I hope I'm wrong.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2018 21:13

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Kilometers Davis posted:

Odyssey and RDR2 are going to take up way too much of my time. I didn�t realize those were coming out around the same time.

I will definitely be playing both and then immediately drop everything to play Hitman 2 when that comes out early November.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2018 21:20

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

So I did a stupid thing and traded in my perfectly fine PS4 Pro that I had for about 7 months for the new model with the supposedly quieter fan. The fan noise has just been a constant annoyance for me, even before I found out it was a common thing in a lot of Pro models.

Holy poo poo it's like night and day. On God of War and RDR2 on my old Pro, the fan would constantly blast at (I assume) max speed and sound like a jet engine. On the new Pro I tested both games and I literally can't hear the fan changing from any more than low hum.

Again, it was a total waste of money and no one should do what I did, but I'm kinda glad I did? Also I now have an extra copy of RDR 2 I need to trade in or something.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2018 20:20

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Jimbot posted:

Do the PS+ memberships go on sale cheaper than 40bux? Was thinking about getting that to reup my sub but since black friday is around the corner, I don't know if it's ever been cheaper around that time.

Maybe you could combine a sale with coupon codes to once in a while get it for like $36 or something, but $40 is basically the standard floor price and I'd jump on it just to save yourself future hassle. I'm probably gonna get 2 years just to not have to think about this again next year.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2018 22:14

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Real hurthling! posted:

I opened my pro yesterday to look at the dust and despite way more noise than ever, it was clean inside. Getting the lid off was really hard though vs vids i saw online. My finger tips are still faintly hurting 18 hours later because i had to pull so hard on the corners. Anyway point is, when i put the lid back on and relaunched rdr to see if i broke anything, the fan ran at a different, less annoying pitch. but maybe the lid was improperly seated on it to begin with?

Do you have a 70xx model Pro? I really think it's some sort of hardware design issue. My fan ran super loud from the moment I first booted it up and started God of War. I eventually traded it in for the newer 72xx that just released and I basically can't hear the fan on the new one at all playing RDR2, GoW, etc. Whatever they've done internally on the new ones worked.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2018 22:30

qbert: Oct 23, 2003; It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Real hurthling! posted:

Yeah its launch.
Digital foundry tested them, its actually close to the same amount of noise, but launch models can have an intense high pitch whine and a much too fast/often transition between speeds that is very distracting.

Im interested in the new one but im gonna wait things out. Too much hassle vs wearing earphones.

I saw the same test video, which made the difference seem minor, but just from my personal experience the difference is insanely huge. LIke the difference between a vaccum cleaner and a low hum. Not sure if it matters that decibels are measured on a logarithmic scale, so each 1 dB difference is an order of magnitude more/less than the previous value.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2018 22:57