Topic: General PlayStation 4 Thread

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/resident-evil-village...

There's a redeemable RE Village PS4 theme and avatars available in NA.

I’ve somehow only just realised that the voice actors in FF7 Remake are like actual actors. Cloud is voiced by a guy I remember from Pretty Little Liars of all things. Sephiroth is voiced by Tyler Hoechlin, the Arrowverse’s Superman. Even Rufus is voiced by a guy I recognise from that rubbish Revenge show with Emily VanCamp back in the day.

@nessisonett I wonder how many game voice actors are also live actors (and actresses) and vice versa.
Playing Control like a madman lately, I’ve grown to fall in love with Courtney Hope. It’s probably some kind of weird psychological phenomenon of feeling close to someone that you’ve experienced great trials with ...or something. Because at first, I thought her voice acting was actually rather subpar. Now I’m finding myself considering watching old episodes of The Young and the Restless and some horrible B movie called Displacement just to see her some more. 😅

But I remember after I was heavy into the Uncharted games that I was clamoring to watch some live TV show that had Nolan North and Emily Rose in it and I can’t even remember the title because it was so awful.

So in general, I think voice actors and live action actors should each stay in their lane 😜

@Th3solution Oh yeah, I knew Emily Rose from before Uncharted because I’d watched Haven before getting round to the series. It’s properly rubbish but I was way into those low-budget Canadian sci-fi shows back in the early 2010s.

@nessisonett Haven .... that might be it. Was North in that too?

@Th3solution I have no clue. Might have made a guest appearance. I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup unless he opened his mouth! Haven was the one with Eric Balfour from Six Feet Under and, bizarrely enough, Edge, like the wrestler.

@colonelkilgore I thought I'd move the discussion over here.

Having plans and structure are good an all, but not for everyone. I have a lot of that in work so like to have a different approach to gaming.

I'm going more with the flow recently and just playing what feel like in the moment. Trying to stick with games until I've at least finished the story, as I've got too many games unfinished in the past. Some of those games I've accepted I won't go back to now. But at the same time sometimes it is good to have a break from a game to refresh, especially if you are stuck or something.

I'm more about playing a totally different game from the previous one, rather than concentrating on the length of the game. After finishing FFXII the other week I was never gonna play another JRPG, so it was good timing that Returnal was out. I've heard people have completed that in something like in 12 hours, but I'm on about 30 hours and nowhere near finishing it. After Returnal, I don't know what game I'll play, but I'll have a look through my library and see what I feel like playing.

@JohnnyShoulder yeah nothing in this world is for everyone... nor will anything that is for someone at one point in time, be for someone always. I personally never used to hunt platinums or schedule (or play anything other than open world action & open world RPG) but things and people can and often do change.

@colonelkilgore @JohnnyShoulder As I’ve alluded to before, I live in this space of being half way between: ‘methodical-planner guy who organizes my games or else I end up like a rudderless ship’ and ‘enjoy the moment, relax, and go with the flow to choose to play something based on the mood at the time.’

I create my backlog lists and break things down in a fairly obsessive grouping and mini-schedule, but I keep it relatively loose so that I just pick games in the moment from categories based on genre, length, or setting. If I didn’t keep my lists then I’d certainly completely forget about a few of the games in the backlog that would have been buried deep. However, I have found that I have enjoyed certain games more when I play them in the right mood or setting.

And sometimes I just chuck the whole business aside and end up playing a game on a random whim (usually it’s a new game or randomly dropped on PS Plus and it’s a ‘flavor of the month’ that catches my eye). An example is some of the game club games which I’ve often joined in. I plan to participate with Subnautica this month, which honestly would have been way down my list but I’m willing to be spontaneous with it and shoehorn it in since the club has introduced me to some of my favorite games the last year. And playing alongside other people has typically enhanced the experience for me.

So, there’s definitely no wrong approach, obviously. We all are wired differently. If you’re having fun, you’re doing it right. 😄

@JohnnyShoulder @Th3solution absolutely... and although I have a schedule it is constantly in flux depending on various variables. I’ve probably changed mine (for the better) about 5 or 6 times in 2021.

@13Mhoney

Not sure how to contact Push Square but there is a free game out there-

Free game- between now and June 1, you can download Capcom Arcade Stadium: Ghosts 'n Goblins, for free, as long as you're a PlayStation Plus subscriber.

@get2sammyb @shogunrok @quintumply

Msg copied from comments of the Nathan drake article.

Think this has been on PC for awhile,so not sure if it is any good but looks kinda cool.

@JohnnyShoulder This caught my attention too. It’s only £15.99, so I might just take a chance on it.

It really is amazing the changes they’ve made to this game now.

@JohnnyShoulder It looks like my kinda thing. It won’t review well here though, by all accounts it has a few puzzles which are pretty obtuse. Which has become a major negative in recent years despite ‘classic’ games like Monkey Island being full of them.

@Thrillho Yeah, I was just commenting on the main article about the game. I played a decent amount at launch, but eventually lost interest in the gameplay loop. I’m curious to see what it’s like now, and given the free PS5 upgrade then it’s a reasonable chance I’ll spend some time trying it again.

@nessisonett @Bentleyma- Could be a good entry point into the genre and then a segue onto Disco Elysium.

Started Mass Effect last week but as I was getting close to the end of inFAMOUS Second Son that took up most of my gaming time. Now that's been done (good game by the way) ME is my 'main' and I'm really starting to get into it. The combat is very much of it's time of course but the sci-fi setting is ace and so are the characters. I'm not going to play the entire trilogy back to back but mix things up with other games. I remember when I first bought a PS4 I played the Uncharted collection almost one after the other and I don't think that was wise, started to feel a bit samey and repetitive. With other trilogies (such as BioShock and Tomb Raider) I left longer gaps between each installment and that helped keep things fresh.

The music is really cool as well in ME and the Normandy is one good-looking starship.

@Arugula I’m not sure what the conversation was either.. 😂. I think I was talking about No Man’s Sky, but somehow Disco Elysium was dropped in somewhere. I do want to play it, but it’ll be a while until I can get to it.

@Arugula @Th3solution If/when you do play it, be sure to bump the game thread as it’s a game that is fun to hear how other people are playing and doing.