Playstation 4 Games Catch-All

Yeah get straight onto MGSV: TPP, one of the best gameplay experiences I've ever had, every base infiltration feels like a puzzle that has so many options & ways to complete it. It hooked me hard, nothing touches this for stealth gameplay & third person shooting mechanics with unreal enemy A.I, get on it!

TPP hasn't quite clicked with me yet. I haven't played any Metal Gear and I don't quite have a grasp on the controls yet. I don't know what level of play could be considered a "good" performance. I don't like to kill everyone I see but so far I am bad and can't avoid doing so.

imbiginjapan wrote:

TPP hasn't quite clicked with me yet. I haven't played any Metal Gear and I don't quite have a grasp on the controls yet. I don't know what level of play could be considered a "good" performance. I don't like to kill everyone I see but so far I am bad and can't avoid doing so.

I don't feel there's any wrong way to play a MGS game, including TPP. Hell, one of the buddies you get is basically a walking tank. It's not stealthy, nor is it non-lethal.
So don't worry about "good" performance, because as long as you're having fun, that's the important part.

Ground Zeroes was worth your time up until The Phantom Pain arrived. It was a good preview of the mechanics and the gameplay. I had fun with it. I have yet to get around to TPP.

Taharka wrote:
imbiginjapan wrote:

TPP hasn't quite clicked with me yet. I haven't played any Metal Gear and I don't quite have a grasp on the controls yet. I don't know what level of play could be considered a "good" performance. I don't like to kill everyone I see but so far I am bad and can't avoid doing so.

I don't feel there's any wrong way to play a MGS game, including TPP. Hell, one of the buddies you get is basically a walking tank. It's not stealthy, nor is it non-lethal.
So don't worry about "good" performance, because as long as you're having fun, that's the important part.

The controls take forever to get used to. On an ease of use scale, MGS5 skews heavily to the wrong side because you're able to do so much. Rarely is much of it intuitive, however.

"Rarely is much of it intuitive, however" kind of describes every MGS game.

Once it clicks, you do start to appreciate the amount of control you are given. There's a lot you can play around in with that game, so not being limited by a simple control-scheme is a benefit.

imbiginjapan wrote:

TPP hasn't quite clicked with me yet. I haven't played any Metal Gear and I don't quite have a grasp on the controls yet. I don't know what level of play could be considered a "good" performance. I don't like to kill everyone I see but so far I am bad and can't avoid doing so.

Get up to mission 4, rescue the puppy, stop playing past mission 9 or so, so that he never grows up. Just hang out with him on your oil rig and watch him do pupper stuff.

That dog is op if you're the type that gets bored scouting a site yourself. Just bring the dog along and he'll "discover" enemies so they show up as if you discovered them.

D-Dog will mark enemies through terrain too. His only downside is he has a low range, so you have to pick him for the right missions. Anything indoors or near a complex like a power plant/base he's amazing for. For more open terrain, I recommend a different buddy who you'll unlock a bit after Chapter 9.

PSN has a good sale. I bought the Witcher 3 complete edition for $20 on principle. I hope to find time to dive back in

I picked up Observer for $18.

I also pre-ordered the Battlefront 2 PS4 Pro, because I am weak and I have a 4K HDR TV.

Just dropping by to recommend one of the PS+ games (PS4 & Vita) this month, Hue:

I finished it yesterday, after only playing it for a few days, and I highly recommend it. It has a good mix of puzzles that can become difficult at times, but never overbearing. A few of the last puzzles took 25-30 min to solve/or time right, but felt great once conquered. The only issue I have with Hue is that many of the collectables in the early levels are locked in areas only inaccessible because you don't start with all the colours unlocked, not because of any skill involved. Anyway, I wanted to spotlight this game before it falls out of October's PlayStation Plus free games.

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

According to Twitter there will be 7 new games announced at Sony's Paris Games Week presentation. This blog has links to where they'll be streaming. Live 8am Pacific, which means 11am Eastern.

Wow, there was so much shown at the Paris Games Sony conference. Trailers for smaller budget games that looked interesting:

This last one is out today.

And bigger budget games:

I'm glad to see Sucker Punch isn't doing another Infamous game.

That's a nice bonus character for MH:W on PS4. Tempting.

That was a superb presser, much better & fresher than the E3 conference. Loads of cool looking indies, Concrete Genie has an especially majestic look to it. God Of War's combat looks very Dark Souls/Bloodborne like & it seems such a good fit.

TLOU part 2, looks to take the violence up a level & the engine just looks ridiculous, even the animation of the girl struggling hanging from the rope, it just seems eerily realistic. That last scene with the clickers (was it?) running towards the group felt tense!

Ghosts of Tsushima (glad Sucker Punch are onto a new IP), God Of War & Spiderman all look staggering. The little section of Detroit: Become Human was a good bit darker & more serious than previous trailers, I hope they pull it off with the insane amount of threads that are available throughout each of the scenarios.

Onrush looks like a spiritual successor to Motorstorm & after the brilliant Driveclub I'm fully in on whatever Evolution was gonna cook up, that they've decided on this bonkers arcade style racing with crazy tracks is right where I wanted them to go.

I'm really glad I skipped Shadow Of The Colossus on the PS2 & even though I bought the HD collection with Ico on the PS3 I never got around to it. This looks beautiful & so atmospheric with the new engine, better animations etc

Still no Dreams though, really interested to see what it looks like in its next showing, it's been so long & Media Molecule are a superb dev studio. The Last Guardian shows a game can still be superb after running into development problems over years & years.....& years.

That Last of Us trailer was incredible! I'm all in when that drops and need to grab the remastered original in the meantime.

It's all looking great.

Finally knowing what Sucker Punch is up to was enough for me, and hot damn am I psyched for whatever they're cooking.

It was fun to watch the presentation. Makes you wonder what they've got left for the Playstation Experience.

EDIT: They've got some additional trailers that were either only sizzle-reeled or weren't there at all in the pre-show or conference.

Skyforge?
As in... the MMO I reviewed a while ago?
Looks like the correct icon.
Wild. Didn't know that it was coming to PS4.

Taharka wrote:

Skyforge?
As in... the MMO I reviewed a while ago?
Looks like the correct icon.
Wild. Didn't know that it was coming to PS4.

Skyforge is already available on the PS4.

It seems Detroit is being taken in a competely new direction? The last trailer had them show a group of synthetics in a city instead.

No, I don't think so - that looked to me like a run-down suburb of Detroit. And maybe you missed it, but the caretaker was a synthetic (in fact, the same one that showed up in his Project Kara demo five years ago).

Even though I pretty actively follow gaming news, I don't think I'd ever heard of Paris Games Week until a bunch of videos showed up in my YouTube feed last night. Wow, did Sony open up the firehose of trailers - I'm really impressed by how many there are, and how many look like things I want to play. I'm going to have to keep close tabs on reactions once the games are released; if I bought everything that looks interesting right now, I'd go broke within the year.

Is Planet of the Apes done by anyone of note? Its just been a while since I've seen a semi-movie-based-franchise game. Maybe Mad Max?

Anyone want my copy of Horizon Zero Dawn? Good condition, only slightly despised.

Depending on price, possibly!

Free, and on your own head be it.