Topic: General PlayStation 4 Thread

@bluedex Doing uni work from home has made it worryingly easy to play games. Normally I’d be in and out of the city centre every weekday 9-5 like a proper job but now I can just do work a few hours at a time, spread out across the week. Just getting an hour or two to play a bit of Tony Hawk or make some progress in AC Odyssey helps break up the day.

@bluedex I usually get 2-3 hours per night after I've finished work, eaten, cleared up and watched some TV. I've been working from home since March last year, so have lost the travelling to and from the office each day but have replaced that with walks, weather permitting.

@JohnnyShoulder thanks guys. 2-3 hours in a day sounds like a dream!
I dunno where I'm gonna get the time when I'm not working from home 100%. Spending some time with my spouse is kinda important (I guess 🤔 😄) where we watch Netflix for a bit etc.
I'm thinking of getting up earlier to play. The problem with late nights struck me last week when I had a few too many glasses of wine at the weekend, played Witcher for over an hour, then had to go back to a previous save point the next day coz the story was a bit blurred in my memory 🤣

@bluedex I have a variable schedule as well. I average a couple nights a week for an hour or two each night, then do the majority of my gaming on weekends. A good weekend without commitments could yield 8-10 hours. And then sometimes two weeks goes by with no game time. Sometimes I get into a TV mood or a movie mood and the gaming takes a hit. PlayStation is keeping these statistics on us, so I’d like the PS5 to start to give us a breakdown of our time playing by day of the week, like they did for the end of the year wrap up a few months ago. If I recall my wrap up showed that Saturday was far and away my heaviest gaming day.

@bluedex i work 35 hours per week over four days, so my fifth ‘week day’ (non working day) is always 100% game time. Not happy unless I get a minimum 10 hours in on that day. I also try to fit in around 5 hours of gaming in on top of that spread throughout the week.

This week however, I’ve injured my back and been immobile... and consequently been unable to go to work, so I’ve probably averaged 12 hours per day. If it wasn’t for the pain and discomfort I’d swear I was in gaming Valhalla!

Heres a video explaining the whole battery thing.

@TrueAssassin86x That’s interesting. Makes me want to replace my PS4’s battery.
But like he says, thankfully the PS5 plays those discs via BC. But still, it’s an annoying requirement to have the battery active if you can’t connect to the servers. It’ll likely never apply to me personally but you never know.

@Th3solution
I posted another video for the Ps5 makes me kinda second guess my future PlayStation purchases especially since people are claming Xbox doesn't have this problem

@TrueAssassin86x I saw that. It’s good to see that at least the PS5 will play most all PS4 discs even when the battery is taken out and internet turned off.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a patch eventually. It’s a problem weren’t not likely to have to face for many years, for the PS4 anyways. PS3 might be an issue within the next few years, but hopefully the concern from the gaming public has Sony’s attention so they simply keep the PSN authentication servers up. So long as they do that, we’ll be okay, or at least patch the requirement for authentication out of the firmware.

It turns out not all my trophies transferred correctly to Tony Hawk’s PS5 version and so the platinum is impossible to achieve. I’m gutted to be honest, only got a few trophies left to get and I’ve almost finished one of the hardest trophies in any games I’ve played.

@nessisonett I wonder how that happened?! That stinks! Well, does it mean you can go back and at least earn the platinum on PS4 though?

Happens. to a few games. Sometimes they never get a fix. Doom 2016 was one of those games. Platinum's feel a little more pointless then they already did though thanks to the removal of Communities. I mean they were bragging rights and now they're really not even something to brag about. In regards I see posts of people who support it and say things like "what were communities?" on reddit. I personally used them for several games from MMORPGs to team building and support and just regular banter chat with about games or giving tips to those needing them.. I think it's just one more poor decision from Sony since the start of the PS4 era of gaming. Previous consoles and games Sony seemed all for the consumer and quality of the experience as well. In regards they're taking pages out of Microsoft and Nintendo's flaws from shut downs and pushes to furthering the newest console. I'm honestly thinking of just building my Steam Library at this point as it keeps it's communities and I won't lose out on any of my past games unless the creator of the game does something like Microsoft for Fable 3. lol. In regards I still won't go down Microsoft's route as lack of trust with their consoles and lack of great exclusives to enjoy asides Fable which when was the the last decent Fable game? lol.

With Sony falling behind because their consoles can't end up better then a PC I use to think Sony's best option would be keep the console gaming but also start developing their platform on PC. However it seems Sony is doing less and less with the assumption they're on top and don't need to do anything. However that's not the case they're falling behind. They aren't making big announcements at things like E3 anymore and they don't really show us anything that makes their new console seem desirable anymore. There also taking away things that helped their console thrive so it's more of a disappointment. I already had issues of Sony also not fixing half their features like messaging in the past. Took them a year and a half to fix it so I could sctoll up and read my friends messages. Any thoughts about Sony moving forward?

@Th3solution I could go back to the PS4 version but then I couldn’t get my progress from the PS5 version across, meaning that all my weeks of work doing this one specific trophy would be down the drain 😂

@nessisonett Oh, I haven’t tried this yet but I understand now — so you can port over from PS4 your progress into the PS5 version, but not vice versa. Did the actual game save transfer over from your PS4 or did just your trophies [inaccurately] transfer?

The closest thing I can think of I had was a lot of progress in the Vita and PS3 version of Borderlands 2, then when I booted up BL2 in the Handsome Collection on PS4, strangely only certain random trophies transferred over. But my progress and my character all ported over fine. I didn’t play it long enough on PS4 to really see, but it does seem like the trophies that didn’t transfer weren’t achievable anymore, but I can’t be certain.

I also had some trophies that got ruined during my Assassin’s Creed 2 playthrough when Sony had the PSN outage related to leap year a few years ago and that locked me out of the platinum for that game too. I think I had found all the feathers and everything. 😣

@Th3solution Yeah, the save transfer is one way but it’s meant to unlock all the trophies you’ve unlocked on that version. Which it didn’t. The only thing I can think of doing is completing this file to the point where I have the harder trophies and then completely restarting to get the trophies that didn’t transfer.

@Th3solution Finally managed to get those trophies to pop, I had to back up my save to PS Plus, delete it and then retransfer from PS4. They popped and I restored my old save. That would be impossible if I didn’t subscribe to PS Plus though.

@nessisonett That’s a relief though. Cloud saves ftw!

@Th3solution Shame it’s all for nothing, I’m completely and utterly stuck on one challenge that I need for a trophy. Like ‘playing till my fingers bleed’ stuck.

What the hell happened to the UK Store, half of the genres are missing? Mainly Action, Shooter and RPG

Was playing on my dad's PS4 this weekend and for the first time I really struggled. The games I played felt a but blurry and sluggish. Maybe it because it was the first time I played the same games on both consoles at similar times, but when I was back on my PS5 the games felt so much better.