Spider-Man Uses Your PS4's Internal Clock for a Nifty Easter Egg

Lol that’s pretty awesome. Those little details are amazing.

And (some) people say old games were the best.

This, right here, is pretty awesome and one of the many things that have improved over the years.

NEVER would've known this was an easter egg in the game. Definitely a neat one.

Probably confirmed it b/c Passover started at sundown Friday night, not b/c of Easter, but I know you mean well.

Maybe they should call this one a Beitzah egg instead.

I was going to make a comment about the Easter egg being NPCs w/ measles in the game, but that's mainly in Brooklyn, not Manhattan.

I have never even seen those dudes in the first place. Have I been playing exclusively on Saturdays...?

It’s great when devs go the extra mile with little touches like this. I remember a racing game on Dreamcast - PGR I think - used the console’s internal clock. So if was daytime outside, it was day in the game, and ditto for nighttime.

@naruball I think people are saying that the way old games are released are better.

Complete finished without paying through your nose for the most simple things. Mising levels if you dont preorder. You need a chart to see what you get.

Please dont tell me that Super Metriod is worse then a game from this time. Or Legend of Dragoon /Final Fantasy 7 or 8 is worse then Final Fantasy 15. Or the liveservice treatment which in the end means we did not get the full story because the main writer left.

You pay more and i dont believe you get more even if it looks better but that is just the time.

@Flaming_Kaiser I haven't played any of those games, so I can't really commend on them.

Old games may have been complete and without day one patches, but the content is nowhere near the same. Keep in mind that most games had very few levels and could be beat in a few hours, so they made them too difficult and since there were no save files, you had to start from the beginning. So a game that was 2-3 hours long could take months to beat. There was no voice acting, the music didn't sound as good because of hardware limitations, the AI was considerably worse and NPCs were laughably bad with their limited options/ with how limited your interaction with them was. Most of the time, they'd just stand still repeating the same line. Over the years, they've made them more natural and realistic. Gameplay has also greatly improved. The difference between FF4 and FF15 is incredible. The combat is much more intense and gives you the freedom to try all sorts of strategies that turn-based doesn't. Also, just because FF15 has dlc, it doesn't mean that the main game doesn't already have more content than FF4.

Let's not forget multi-player, which for many people offers an excellent, additional experience and that storylines have gotten deeper and deeper.

@naruball I did get a 100 hours out of Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8 more then double then that i loved it. Plus i got a complete story, secrets, sidequests and that new way of playing wont call that a pro. 😆

But thats my opinion and a comparison between Final Fantasy 4 and 15 come on.

Kingdom Hearts III just download the prologue. 😑

@Nightcrawler71 it was metropolis street racer.

@Sr71blackbirdace That’s it! I think it then became Project Gotham Racing in subsequent games. Thanks 👍

Yeah it became project gothem racing on the original Xbox.

Not as good as MGS3 where putting your PS2 clock forward by a week would defeat the ancient sniper boss (The End) because he dies of old age.

@Flaming_Kaiser Why not a comparison between FF4 and 15? Like I said, I haven't played 7. Only FF1, 2, 3, 4, 13 and 15.

@naruball Lol you’re watching too many speed runs on youtube.. games did not last 2-3 hours back then. They were lengthy games filled with sidequests and a lot of extra contenent, and you only had to pay once for it. You cannot even compare FF15 to FF4 because 15 was released as an unfinished game, and never not the final ending that was planned for it. If you really want to do a comparison just compare EA games now to back then, they may look prettier now but deep inside they are meant to take your soul

@Onion_Knight Haven't watched a single speed-run. No need to make an assumption. I'm speaking from experience. A few years ago I played Castlevania (NES) on an emulator and it took me a few hours to beat. Back in the day, I played it for months. There was even a door that kept making the game freeze, so I would have to reset the console and start from the beginning. It happened 25% of the time. The newgame+ was the same, just more enemies and harder to beat.

You can call FF15 an unfinished game, but it wasn't. With FF4 even if there were a different ending planned, we wouldn't hear about it, because not everything leaked nor did we have the internet or twitter/redit for developers to discuss such matters.

As for EA games, yes by all means play an old Fifa game and a recent one. If you feel that the old one plays better, then I really have nothing else to say.

@naruball well if you’re going way back to NES games then yeah of course they are short... but i’m pretty sure people are talking about the good snes-ps1-ps2 era when making the comparisons. E/A sports games are still solid games and havent made that much changes besides the graphics getting much better and some added content.. but i’m talking more about games like Anthem and Star Wars, you know.

@naruball

1. Old games are not the best.
2. New games are not the best.

There is a lot of variation between games and the depth of games changes. Yes, this game utilised a cool feature, and that is a great way to show what modern games can do.

However, there are lots of modern games that don’t even scratch the surface of older games, such as Final Fantasy 7, which was mentioned earlier, or Shen Mue.

FF7, for example, has tens-of-hours of gameplay, a gripping story, arcade style games inside the game. A cross-dressing side story (which is not as dodgy as it sounds) and flipping Chocobo Racing! It was amazing back then and still holds up today.

It doesn’t matter how mechanically good a game is or the new and added features. Certain games captivate us because of how they make us feel or they stories they tell. And ultimately, classic stories will always be classic. Think Shakespeare. It’s old, but still holds up today.

Having said that, games should improve as time goes on. With new technology and more experience making games they should improve the craft and give us better experiences.

But that doesn’t mean we will get the same feelings playing an old game when we are 15 compared to playing a new one at age 33. We don’t even have the same chemical balance in our brains to be able to experience it the same. So a 15 year old today will look back at today’s games in the same way I look back at PS1 games.

Does anyone know what happened Christmas? Maybe their was a big dude's legs sticking out a chimney or something.

@naruball You missed the golden age of Final Fantasy 7/8/9/10/12. If you finish these games below 50 hours you missed the good stuff.

@Kienda I would love too see FF7 remade with small extra's without changing the gameplay with a fresh lick of paint i would buy that day one. If you ever get the change try Koudelka on PS1 and ofcourse Legend of Dragoon but i agree i miss the feelings i had when i played games at a younger age.

Calendar Man in Arkham City was a cool one.