Topic: General PlayStation 4 Thread

honestly , black flag did have some padding with the ship sailing though...

i don't remember much from it neither , but i do remember dying waiting to be on foot with some assassin gameplay again.

@Bentleyma- Very cool. The pro might not be a game changer but it's a nice upgrade if you have that 4K screen

Hey guys. So, I'm having a issue with rest mode. Playstation will not start from rest mode using the controller nor from pressing power button on the console itself. I have to unplug the power and plug it back in to restart it. Anyone know how I can fix this or what may be causing this to happen?

PSN down for anyone else?

@nessisonett yup. i only noticed because it turn out my PS4 is not set as primary for some reason... Guess no gaming for tonight

Steam is down at the same time. Interesting

@nessisonett it seems fine for me atm

Edit. Maybe not 😅

Apparently it’s a global outage across multiple sites! Edge DNS apparently.

When is black ops 4 next double weekend xp for weapons and xp?

its a new era for gaming and visuals

@Bentleyma- Turd-tanic 😁

@Bentleyma- Ha! That's amazing! Comment of the week.

@Bentleyma- Mass Effect Legendary Edition is the same way. I have no idea why, but that collection has 4 separate lists (3 for the games and 1 short collection specific list). It's a bit odd, especially considering they are all grouped together on Xbox.

@Bentleyma- Magnificent.

@Bentleyma- I don't really look at the trophy lists that way, so I didn't know. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure why I thought it was weird Maybe just because I went from playing Mass Effect Legendary Collection on Xbox to the PS5. All collections have their games separated when looking at your trophy lists on the Trophy page, so I'm not sure what I was thinking.

So I was reading an article about latest games to go to arcade archives collection and ended up browsing the full list of games available. Much to my surprise it included a game I had searched for in the ps store on occasion - namely Bomb Jack - my favourite all time coin-op. So back to ps store search again and no it's not there. Back to Google and turns out it is available in US and Europe but not UK. I cannot find a reason why this is the case, any ideas?
So looks like I'm gonna have to go down the route of creating US account with fake address etc then buying dollar credit for that account just so I can play it. Seems a lot if messing around. Why is it not just available here???
Suppose I could just go play on MAME for the millionth time and save my money though so it's not devastating... just seems weird to me that I can't buy it on PS4 where I live

Pardon my ignorance, but there's one thing I've been wondering about regarding the PS4 for a long time and that's the way it installs games now. I remember when I bought mine back in 2014 and whenever I put in a game disc, I would have to spend like an hour or so for the game to be installed before being able to play it. But that seems to have been changed now because as I've been playing more games on PS4, I've realised that I don't need to install anything anymore. I only need to download any potential patches. For example, I just put in my disc of Resident Evil 4 and after a second or so I could start up the game immediately. That's absolutely incredible! On the other hand, I started up Forza Motorsport 5 on my original Xbox One the other day and had to wait an hour for it to be installed, just like how it was on the PS4 back in the day. So I'm guessing Sony managed to change this with a system update or something? I'm just impressed that they've found a way for users to access physical games much quicker. It honestly feels like I've gone back in time to when you would just put in a disc and the game would start up right away.

@LtSarge I never remember older games having to be installed on the PS4 as I thought it was mostly read off the disc. I only really remember any significant installation being for RDR2.

I was surprised when I first got the PS5 how long it would take to install a game before I can play it.

@Thrillho Oh really? I swear I remember having to wait a long time before being able to play any of my physical games on PS4. Maybe I'm mixing it up with games that got huge patches.

Either way, it's still cool that PS4 is able to do that even if it's that's been a thing since the beginning, lol.

@LtSarge I’ve not played many PS4 discs lately but it seems like it’s highly variable depending on the game as to whether it loads up right away or has to upload an hours worth of information to the HDD. It may be that the firmware has better ability to queue up the right files in order of priority so the essentials get loaded quickly.