Topic: General PlayStation 4 Thread

@RogerRoger Only a 49 incher but it is a whopping 7 inches bigger than my current 1080p tele.

My Nephew turns 6 next week and he wants a PS4 and Spider-man for his birthday, I've lost one nephew to fortnite and fifa, but there is still hope for his little brother. I got him Dragon Quest Builders 2, Rayman Legends and Ratchet & Clank so those games should keep him entertained and help with his reading, especially DQB2. I downloaded the demo and will probably get it for myself😂.

@RogerRoger Yeah, it was one of the rumoured shadow drops for Gamescom, but then everyone forget about it it seems lol.

Anyway, it's decent so far. There's an annoying narrator throughout the game, and I wish there was an option to turn it off. The puzzles are fun at least, but I'm hoping they get more difficult as the game progresses.

Rather bizarrely, Final Fantasy XIV is having a Yo-Kai Watch crossover. They’ve done ones with games like Nier and stuff but this is extremely strange!

@Arugula Sony have finally taken revenge on you for not liking the majority of their own games this gen. 🤣

Woah!
I haven't played my PS4 games since 2 months ago after i got Animal Crossing New Horizons on 27 June 2020.
My PS4 games purchase recently are Autobahn Police Simulator 2 and The Sims 4 Island Living Bundle but i only played them very quick just to test the game.
My hype currently still on Animal Crossing New Horizons.

Uh, oh.
Spammer alert!

@EBAYLISTING Which is considered spam on this forum and against the rules. Plus you have repeatedly posted the same thing across the forum which is also considered spamming. The cool thing to do is just post it in the PS Vita section and be done with it.

Here’s a general question for you all —
How do you feel about fast travel in your games?

I was thinking about it since they discussed it on Sacred Symbols and as I’m currently playing through Ghost of Tsushima I think it’s an interesting conundrum.

In GoT, admittedly the fast travel is very convenient, not only because the load times are very fast, so that’s not a disincentive as it is in some big open world games. And you can initiate fast travel from anywhere on the map and there are tons of fast travel destinations so you’re likely to have one close to your desired destination. Problem is that the fast travel ability is a bit of a immersion breaker. In a game as beautiful and realistically rendered and conceived as this, it seems a little out of place in principle.

In Spider-Man, the fast travel was rarely used by most people because traversal was so enjoyable and honestly just part of the experience. However, at least the idea of Spidey using the subway was at least consistent narratively. Yet, with the added travel screen and load times and more limited points of entry and exit, it just wasn’t convenient enough to use regularly.

Death Stranding struck a nice balance with its somewhat gimped system which had both limited starting points and destinations, and times when it couldn’t be used. Again, here it at least made narrative sense to “jump” locations, but I found that the experience of traversing the land was part of the enjoyment, so I didn’t use it much. Not to mention the late game construction items that become available and the copious number of online vehicles hanging around, it’s just easier to use the in-game systems to traverse since you can at least be making deliveries in the process.

So I’m of two minds about fast travel. I really like the convenience of it and I am definitely grateful for it in GoT. But in a way it feels like cheating the experience a little.

What do you think? Are there games you think fast travel was done well, or those where it was implemented poorly? Or games that didn’t have it that you wish did have it?

@Th3solution I made a concerted effort to never use fast travel in Watch Dogs 2 and I think the game was better for it. The map was really great and the multiplayer events being random meant that you were never just driving from point A to point B. There were loads of hidden things around the map as well so you could stop on the way. Some games like Horizon I’d use it because I just found traversal rather dull in that game. It depends on the situation.

@Th3solution I try to use it as little as possible but there’s only so much time I have to traipse across gameworlds.

Some games like Witcher 3 and RDR2 I rarely did as there is so much going on in the world and you never know when you might stumble on a mission or event. Spiderman was fun to get around so I rarely used it.

But games like Fallout, you know that you’ve found the map points when you’ve already been through an area and it all looks so similar. Plus, stumbling on a Deathclaw, getting killed, and losing a few hours game time is not fun.

Dragon’s Dogma was ridiculous in that fast travel was limited to using a quite rare item and you spend so much time running between two areas on the map. Trudging for the sake of trudging is no fun.

I don't suppose any of you guys know someone on PlayStation who goes by the name Legendary_Looker do you? The guy has been harassing me on the friend requests, just because of the things I said about Xbox.

@nessisonett Yeah, I do think that the map can really have a lot to do with whether fast travel is useful/necessary

@Thrillho I was the same with RDR2. That open world was teeming with random events that it was better to just ride your horse and mosey along the old fashioned way so as not to miss anything.
It’s been a while since I played Dragons Dogma, and I don’t remember the fast travel system. But yes, I do very much dislike it when games have the consumable item that you have to use to fast travel or warp to the exit of a dungeon, etc. I always end up hoarding those items, especially if they’re rare, because I’m obsessive like that. Then I end up grumbling and complaining about how long it takes to travel somewhere or get to a save point in a dungeon rather than to use my stash.

@RogerRoger I agree — I end up really abusing the fast travel system in a game during the mop-up phase at the end.

And speaking of photo mode... With Ghost of Tsushima I think I’ve easily set my personal record for photos taken in a game. You know how I usually forget to stop and take time to capture pictures but it is so natural in this game. Around every corner is a new picturesque scene and I can’t help but snap a shot. And I haven’t even delved much into all the photo mode settings and modifications. I just frame a pretty scene and screenshot it. I think you’d adore the game for that part alone. As far as wandering the countryside chasing icons goes, taking pictures on the way really makes the trip worthwhile.

@AdamNovice No idea who that is. If he/she is harassing you, I’d reckon they aren’t one of the PushSquare regulars, although you never know. I guess blocking him/her would be the best course of action.

@Th3solution Yeah I reported them, hopefully I'll never hear from them again

@AdamNovice I can’t imagine having so little of a life that I would harass someone about Xbox through Playstation. It’s possibly the silliest thing I’ve heard all week. What next, harassing someone about their Android comments through iMessage?

@nessisonett Oh I don't know mate. He was going off about me having hatred for Xbox and being an embarrassment to the Playstation community. All I've said on here and Twitter was doubting how much of a market reach Xbox can realistically make.

Lol just got an alert from Playstation, they've warned him about his behaviour.

Hang on this is getting weird, @themcnoisy said he's been contacted by the same guy.
I'll let @get2sammyb and @ShogunRok know so they can keep an eye in case if someone starts something on here.

@AdamNovice Well this is bizarre. Honestly, as somebody completely platform agnostic who just buys Playstation because Xbox have games on PC, any sort of behaviour like this just strikes me as silly and childish. At the end of the day, who really cares if you aren’t into Xbox? It’s not like it really affects this person in any way.

@AdamNovice Not heard of that person, but have recieved a few random friend requests. Unless ther say where there are from i ignore them, if they are being abusive I report them and block them. But I have been trying to keep my head down recently and not venturing into the comments section too much.

I always get requests for sexy time. But when I accept their invitations, I never hear from them again... SMH