Topic: General PlayStation 4 Thread

@Tasuki I did the system initialisation yesterday, and just a word of warning, it did take about 3 hours to do.

Helped my niece set it up earlier, and it seems to be working as expected.

If I'm playing PS4 games but on PS5 do I still post about them here? If so I'm absolutely loving 13 Sentinels aegis rim, so many of my favourite things wrapped up in one package!

@ShaiHulud What games have you been playing recently?

@TheBrandedSwordsman I've replayed Dead Space for the first time since its release, which wasn't as good a I remembered unfortunately. Too many jump scares and a dull narrative, but the gameplay and sound design especially were still very neat. Also replayed a couple of old Castlevanias and I'm currently playing through Super Lucky Tale (quite enjoyable) and Vanquish (which is as good as I remembered).

@ShaiHulud Which Castlevanias did you play? I've got Lords of Shadow - beat that a few years ago. I absolutely loved that game ,especially the SOTC inspired bosses. Also, I think it was the first game I played and beat when I got back into gaming - before Dark Souls.

@TheBrandedSwordsman Cool you mention LoS, which is massively underrated in my opinion. As I got a Series S for Christmas I'm planning of playing that again actually. I finished Bloodlines for the first time, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Never used to own a Megadrive so this one has always slipped me by. Also completed the first Gameboy title (The Adventure?) which was awful! The most unresponsive controls I've ever experienced in a platform game. I don't normally abuse save states in retro games, but in this occassion I used them a lot.

You've had a non-gaming period then?

@ShaiHulud No, I've been playing Death Stranding recently, loving it, I was playing Dark Souls 3 with a Kratos (GoW) build before then, just taking a break again since yesterday, but I was playing in the last month or so.

Got my first ever ‘The PS4 is too hot’ error message today. Perhaps it’s time to clean out the dust or whatever.

@nessisonett Have you ever done a deep clean?

@Th3solution I only got my Pro about this time last year so not yet. It’s probably due for one.

@TheBrandedSwordsman Beneath all the ridiciously long cutscenes there was quite a wonderful game hidden in Death Stranding!

My DS4 that’s about a year old’s right stick is starting to drift pretty badly. It’s a weird one because I wouldn’t say that I use the right stick that much in the grand scheme of things. It doesn’t register in most situations but any sort of camera movement or aiming it totally throws off and is starting to get in the way of actually playing. I had a look at the inputs through my laptop and it looks like the stick input is bouncing when I don’t touch it at all. Bizarre. I don’t think even a clean out would do the trick as it seems more like an issue with the actual mechanism.

@RogerRoger I might take it apart and have a look but then again, I do have an Amazon voucher so could always just order another.

@RogerRoger Ooh, now I’m torn between replacing my white one or going for the blue controller! I do like the white but that Midnight Blue is quite the looker.

@nessisonett My original (came with my launch PS4 7 yrs ago) DS4 has right stick drift. It is very subtle also random, sort of. It is not severe enough to throw off aiming much, but it manifests usually on the map screen (menu gradually gets magnified), or occasionally noticeable when idle during the game with a very slow subtle tilting of the camera.
Strangely, it occurs sometimes and then resolves on it own sometimes. Usually it’s most severe when I first start using it then it’s gone after using the controller for 30 minutes or so. Also using canned air to blow into the space at the base of the stick, while pushing the stick down and rotating it around, seems to help about half the time. So I’m not entirely sure it’s dust in there. I’ve heard the DS4 is a nightmare to take apart, so I just live with it.

Fortunately I have a second controller to use as my primary one. Also... I hope to be converting over to a DualSense eventually. 😄

@RogerRoger I’ve got the midnight blue one coming today! Seeing as how PS5s are seemingly impossible to get hold of, I thought I might as well just get a new controller because it’s getting pretty hard to use.

It never occurred to me until recently of how large the PS4 library is. With that many games there's most definitely a plethora of hidden gems to discover.

@Th3solution With regard to what you said about Nathan, Elena and Sully, wouldn't you agree that Sam is an excellent Naughty Dog creation as well? I would have liked to have seen a game about him and Sully adventuring together in addition to The Lost Legacy!

@Jimmer-jammer I'm currently farming blood echoes in Bloodborne to get to a +99 Vit tank build for going into The Old Hunters DLC, with 50 Str & 50 Skl. Will take a while, but should be worth it, I really want that Moonlight Greatsword! What are your thoughts on Bloodborne? What are you playing right now? Did you finish Ghostrunner?

@Jimmer-jammer I look forward to The Old Hunters then, yeah ,pretty much everyone says it's some of, if not the best content in Bloodborne, and DLC often beats playing a vanilla game anyway. Congratulations on finishing Ghostrunner and good luck with Ashen, my gripe with that game is that all the weapons seem to be axes, doing a quick scan of the game's weapons online didn't turn up any swords, and as a D&D/Souls type guy swords are essential for me - hence the hope of getting either Ludwig's Holy Blade or the Holy Moonlight Sword in Bloodborne.