Topic: General PlayStation 4 Thread

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

its a new era for gaming and visuals

You can now see PS5 games on your PS4. You can only see how many trophies you or a friend have for a game though, you can’t view trophy lists.

@Bentleyma- Turd-tanic 😁

@RogerRoger Shenmue is a bit of a weird one. Usually when you have a collection the games get grouped together.

I dunno why Shenmue is different, especially because it seems to group them together on PS5. 🤷

@Thrillho That’s my brothers account! My brothers and I make films and “Turdtanic” is a popular line from one of our older films! We even sell t-shirts!

@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.

@KilloWertz Yeah, Mass Effect Legendary Edition has four separate trophy lists, but when you highlight the game they are grouped together.

@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.

@Keith_Zissou As far as I know, it pretty much was a total secret until it dropped yesterday. Not sure why, but I will definitely be playing it whenever the next gen version releases. Not sure if it will be much better, but since I have plenty of other stuff to play right now, it can wait.

I'm glad they went the extra mile and even included new content.

@LtSarge @Th3solution I think it might be related to file size? 🤔 I can’t imagine that Resident Evil 4 takes up much space compared to something like Death Stranding.

@Th3solution @Bentleyma- I haven't noticed any PS4 game needing to be installed ever since this change. I started playing Wolfenstein 2 on PS4 a few weeks ago and when I put the disc in the only thing I needed to do was download the game's patches before I could start playing. And that game's size is around 50 GB, so it's not the difference in size.

I actually looked up videos from how it was back when the PS4 came out and it looked like this:

So back then, you had to wait for the game to be installed (up to a certain amount apparently) before you could even start it up. I never see that anymore.

@LtSarge Interesting. I’d expect the PS5 to be doing this, but it still has a delay when you put the first disc in, I think it took about 20-30 min to download the file from my Returnal disc before I could play.