Playstation 4 Catch-All

Extinction got pretty terrible reviews; basically it has one gameplay gimmick repeated over and over and over, with an often-malfunctioning camera thrown into the mix.

Evan E wrote:

Extinction got pretty terrible reviews; basically it has one gameplay gimmick repeated over and over and over, with an often-malfunctioning camera thrown into the mix.

So it's Dark Souls?

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Evan E wrote:

Extinction got pretty terrible reviews; basically it has one gameplay gimmick repeated over and over and over, with an often-malfunctioning camera thrown into the mix.

So it's Dark Souls?

There it is. That's what I was missing during my hiatus.

Like the first mug o' hot cocoa of the wintry season.

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Best Buy will have PS Plus 1 year cards for $39 on black Friday.

They're regional, right?

Ooh, good call, Baron, my membership doesn't expire before Black Friday so I will just chill.

I wasn't sure where to put this, but this seems as good a place as any:

The license for PCSX allows commercial use, so Sony isn't doing anything shady here, but it is a little ironic.

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BadKen wrote:

I wasn't sure where to put this, but this seems as good a place as any

Maybe: https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/... ?

BadKen wrote:

The license for PCSX allows commercial use, so Sony isn't doing anything shady here, but it is a little ironic.

I like the irony. I can certainly see being like "this has been used to pirate our stuff, might as well make something off of it."

Ooh, there's going to be a Free Weekend for Rainbow Six Siege on PSN starting Thursday. As someone who has always wanted to try this game but has been wary of purchasing it (I heard there's a cheap version that there's some major downsides to buying and that made me too confused to pull the trigger), I'll probably give this a shot.

If true, this is pretty interesting.

Playstation Skipping E3 2019

Guess they can only show the same games so many times.

Phades wrote:

If true, this is pretty interesting.

Playstation Skipping E3 2019

Aside from Spiderman, the big games they showed last year aren't coming out until at least fall 2019, if not 2020 and beyond. Days Gone will be out by then. Dreams will hopefully be coming in the fall, but they've already shown it many times. Even if it hadn't been shown much, Dreams isn't the flashy prestige AAA-style game that Sony likes to highlight during their E3 shows.

Unlike Microsoft, Sony doesn't seem to have much interest in filling their press conferences with 3rd party games, and they stopped giving indies a big spotlight a few years ago. They have quite a few teams with unannounced projects, but there's a good chance that a good majority of those are PS5 bound, so we won't see anything about those until they host a PS5 reveal event.

That doesn't leave much to show that we haven't already seen, so what's the point? Even so, I am surprised they're abandoning E3 entirely.

Something that occurred to me is that Sony might be taking a "wait and see" approach to see what kind of hardware Nintendo and Microsoft pull out at E3, assuming they do. Microsoft already said they're doing another console, and there are rumors of a Switch revision or new model. Not sure a new variant of the Switch would impact whatever they're working on, but if there are three hardware announcements at once you suddenly invite everyone to start comparing and you don't own the conversation.

So see what the competition does, and then adjust your announcement accordingly.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Best Buy will have PS Plus 1 year cards for $39 on black Friday.

PSN have them for this price right now.

12 months of PS Now for $80, which is a steal.

Reminder: PS Now has a bunch of PS4 games and you can download them.

Make sure you don't redeem PSNow codes for any PS4 family account that is registered to an under 18 user. PSNow is not authorized for anyone under 18 and they will not reverse it if you redeem a code for an underaged user account. I found this out the hard way.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

12 months of PS Now for $80, which is a steal.

Reminder: PS Now has a bunch of PS4 games and you can download them.

At £5 a month it's tempting.

The boy lost a few of the games he enjoys when I cancelled PS+ which I believe are on Now so there's that too.

Also, I trialled it a fair while back and seemed to work ok on the Vita. Edit. If Now still runs on the Vita.

Boudreaux wrote:

Make sure you don't redeem PSNow codes for any PS4 family account that is registered to an under 18 user. PSNow is not authorized for anyone under 18 and they will not reverse it if you redeem a code for an underaged user account. I found this out the hard way.

So a moment of weakness and I subscribed and on my account so didn't think 18+ thing would be an issue. However the boy can't load Now as a parentally controlled user... Looks like on Now you have to be 18+ to play Lego Indiana Jones for example.

It doesn't look like it goes by parental restrictions but user DoB, so can't temporarily up the age in restrictions, not something I'd want to do anyway. Making a false 18+ user from scratch, nope no control over online access and chat etc am guessing.

For now he's signing in as me, but this isn't ideal.

Any workarounds? I want to limit his access to online features, and the most inappropriate games but be able to use Now... ?

On a positive note streaming PS3 Lego indy works perfectly!

PlayStation Plus renewal from Walmart for $29.99 with code ELLEN10. I think it's new customers only. Worked for me.

Baron Of Hell wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

Best Buy will have PS Plus 1 year cards for $39 on black Friday.

PSN have them for this price right now.

So does Amazon, digitally, if you still want to avoid ever giving PSN a credit card number.

That's me, thanks.

Bubblefuzz wrote:

It doesn't look like it goes by parental restrictions but user DoB, so can't temporarily up the age in restrictions, not something I'd want to do anyway. Making a false 18+ user from scratch, nope no control over online access and chat etc am guessing.

For now he's signing in as me, but this isn't ideal.

Any workarounds? I want to limit his access to online features, and the most inappropriate games but be able to use Now... ?

Honestly, Sony's entire approach to parental controls and user permissions is so convoluted and difficult to understand on the PS4 that it just pissed me off and I gave up. My kids all have sub-accounts under mine, because that was the only way we could have one household PSPlus subscription (mine), but they could all still play online. (We have one PS4. It is absurd to suggest that all 4 of us have our own PSPlus subscriptions, but unless their account are subs that's the only way it works.) I can also set limits to their content, whether they can receive messages/chat, etc.

All of this works fine except for PSNow. For whatever reason, they locked that out for any account with a registered DoB that puts them under 18. There is also no way (I think) for multiple people to share the same PSNow account anyway, because all of the save game data is overwritten by multiple users. A single account gets a single PSNow profile. If my son wanted to play Sly Cooper, for example, and spent 3 hours playing, as soon as someone else came along on a different profile and started a new game, all of the first progress is gone.

It's probably fine if you are the only user of your PS4 and only you use PSNow. For households with one console and multiple users, it sucks.

How to get a year of PS Plus for $30 plus tax via Wal-Mart online and a promo code

https://gamerant.com/playstation-plu...

Mixolyde wrote:

How to get a year of PS Plus for $30 plus tax via Wal-Mart online and a promo code

https://gamerant.com/playstation-plu...

YMMV. Me and at least one other person in the deals thread tried, and had our orders cancelled immediately after placing, with Walmart citing a problem with the payment processor. There should have been no problem with the credit card I used, and they don't report any problems or fraud alerts, and the account shows a charge and immediate credit from Walmart.

Boudreaux wrote:
Bubblefuzz wrote:

It doesn't look like it goes by parental restrictions but user DoB, so can't temporarily up the age in restrictions, not something I'd want to do anyway. Making a false 18+ user from scratch, nope no control over online access and chat etc am guessing.

For now he's signing in as me, but this isn't ideal.

Any workarounds? I want to limit his access to online features, and the most inappropriate games but be able to use Now... ?

Honestly, Sony's entire approach to parental controls and user permissions is so convoluted and difficult to understand on the PS4 that it just pissed me off and I gave up. My kids all have sub-accounts under mine, because that was the only way we could have one household PSPlus subscription (mine), but they could all still play online. (We have one PS4. It is absurd to suggest that all 4 of us have our own PSPlus subscriptions, but unless their account are subs that's the only way it works.) I can also set limits to their content, whether they can receive messages/chat, etc.

All of this works fine except for PSNow. For whatever reason, they locked that out for any account with a registered DoB that puts them under 18. There is also no way (I think) for multiple people to share the same PSNow account anyway, because all of the save game data is overwritten by multiple users. A single account gets a single PSNow profile. If my son wanted to play Sly Cooper, for example, and spent 3 hours playing, as soon as someone else came along on a different profile and started a new game, all of the first progress is gone.

It's probably fine if you are the only user of your PS4 and only you use PSNow. For households with one console and multiple users, it sucks.

Yeah ps+ worked fine with sub account for the boy. Apart from things like some of the later Lego games which have an online aspect, so to play had to raise the parental controls age to 12+ for a 7+ rated game... At least I think that was the problem, as you say a pain.

Yesterday would have said yep having exact same problems as you with ps now and kids sub accounts not being able to play the games... However just now... We were confused why Lego Harry Potter had no save data when the boy went to continue his save from earlier game...

After scratching head for a minute we noticed he had logged in on his kid sub account and had started a new game.

Reading your comment there I'd assume that his new initial auto save would have overwritten his earlier save on my account...

Nope logged in as me and the older 4.5% complete save was still there...

Long story short we have two saves for Harry potter, one main account and the other on the boy's under 18 sub account.

Today, more confused than ever, as yesterday I'm sure we couldn't do that and your assessment of Now saves and ages was spot on.

It's possible the boy stumbled upon a random workaround accidentally... F knows.

Ahhh. It appears that on the kids sub account he can't start up Now to browse the games and start playing...

However...

If I browse and start streaming a game on my adult main account and quit so the game appears on my PS home screen, I'm assuming initial game save has happened. Then switch user to my kids sub account, he can then start up and play that game directly from the game icon on his home screen rather than via the PS Now app. Also with his own profile save... am pretty sure.

So it does work kind of...

What a faff.

Chaz wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

How to get a year of PS Plus for $30 plus tax via Wal-Mart online and a promo code

https://gamerant.com/playstation-plu...

YMMV. Me and at least one other person in the deals thread tried, and had our orders cancelled immediately after placing, with Walmart citing a problem with the payment processor. There should have been no problem with the credit card I used, and they don't report any problems or fraud alerts, and the account shows a charge and immediate credit from Walmart.

Yeah, happened twice in a row to me. Bugger.