Topic: General PlayStation 4 Thread

@NecuVise Others have mentioned that problem too, including me. It seems to auto update any game but the one you are playing.

@JohnnyShoulder @NecuVise @Thrillho Yes, that’s one of my complaints too. I used to leave the game on stand-by mode more often, but now I figure what’s the point? The updates are done so unpredictably.
You do need to put it in standby periodically though to have all your saves uploaded to the cloud. (Unless you fancy doing them one by one manually)

Man, it's going to be tough avoiding impulse buys on my PS4. Checked the store the past couple days and while I didn't bite on anything, it was tempting seeing Titanfall 2, Unravel, & Burnout Paradise at $10 each yesterday, and Ys Origins at $8 today (not to mention that Batman: Arkham Knight & InFamous Second Son seem to be $20 at their base price now). If I hadn't done any Christmas shopping this past weekend I probably would have nabbed a couple things.

Also, I'm now 75% done with the main story in Spider-Man (just completed the mission where you had to fight Li on the subway).

BTW, I completed all the challenge missions but lost to Taskmaster (I was actually doing really good until he knocked me down into a tight space and the camera zoomed in so close I couldn't see him or the spider sense indicator & got pummeled). Will he randomly challenge me now, or will I have to go out of my way to grind high scores in the challenge missions for him to show up again?

@RR529 You know if you’re impressed by $20 for those games you really need to look at Gamestop more. It has cheaper for games like long before the “officially” hit $20.

Sounds like we're getting SOMA and OnRush for PS+ this month.

@LieutenantFatman Indeed...

Surprised that Onrush is being offered - that was only released in June. Soma isn't my type of 'Horror' game - I don't tend to like the hide and seek Horror genre but will still add both to my download list - just because I can...

@BAMozzy You're probably the only one surprised... It really did tank.

The retail price went through the floor in no time and this is probably the closest the game will ever get to any sort of targeted sales figure.

I, like a lot of people, thought it looked great - but really just wanted MotorStorm 4 and have the Onrush thing as a mode. I came close to buying it a couple of times... but, hey ho.

@BAMozzy I believe they patched SOMA to where you can remove enemy encounters. It's more of a science-fiction meditation on the nature of consciousness and subjectivity than it is a horror story, really.

@KALofKRYPTON I know it tanked - so much so that Codemasters had to make some redundancies - inc the Game Director of Onrush. I too would have been more interested had this been Motorstorm with 'Onrush' being nothing more than a mode. I enjoyed Motorstorm - mostly as a Solo player rather than competitive online and Onrush could have been part of the multiplayer suite of modes.

Just because it tanked, that to me still doesn't scream PS+ inclusion. A lot of games haven't sold 'well' that are older and still not been offered as a PS+ title. What about Agents of Mayhem, Dead Rising 4, Metal Gear Survive, Godzilla, Zombie Army Trilogy, Yooka Laylee, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, Knack 2, Homefront 2, Dirt Rally, Dirt 4, Sniper Elite 4, Battleborn, Evolve... None of these sold 'well' and haven't (yet) been offered on PS+. Fallout 76 for May 2019 PS+ then

@BAMozzy You may not be that far off with Fallout '76.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that the other games you mentioned probably sold better/covered costs better than Onrush did. I'm not certain, but I doubt most on that list had their retail prices slashed so quickly either.

@KALofKRYPTON Possibly not as bad as Onrush in most of these at least - although they have been on the market for longer too. As for development costs, some may well be less because they were built on existing games - like Fallout 76 was probably built on Fallout 4. Onrush may have had to have a lot of work done on the engine before they could start creating assets etc.

There could be a difference too in the status of the publisher. EA for example can offset under-performance in Need for Speed: Payback with gains in Battlefield, Fifa and Micro-transactions. Codemasters may be in a more precarious position and feel the pressure a lot more.

I'll probably add SOMA & Iconoclasts to my library, but I'm in no rush to play either.

@Kidfried Didn't they just break free from square enix not to long ago

@RogerRoger i wonder how much freedom would these studios have at microsoft a big prb they have always had was it was always one game per studio and nothing else

@RogerRoger why would Microsoft allow future games on competing platform? Tomb raider was timed exclusivity deal with square Enix which is obviously a lot different to owning and financing a game. But I think IOI is too big for Microsoft, not that they don't have enough money, it's that they're looking for smaller studios.

@RogerRoger there was a situation like that recently with compulsion games and will be probably with Obsidian and inxile but because these games already had deals before to publish currently working projects on ps4 with other publishers like we Happy few and the wasteland 3. you won't get any future games from any Microsoft recent acquisition, dunno why would you even think about it.

@RogerRoger I still don't think MS will buy IOI, but if that will save them from going down, then I hope they will. Anyway, let's stop this story or move it to some other thread before Tasuki warns us

not sure if this is the right pace to post this BUT current rumour is that WB are making a new Batman game based around the Court of Owls story https://uk.ign.com/articles/2018/12/04/batman-court-of-owls-g...

any thoughts?

@FullbringIchigo wasn't there a leaked Harry Potter game from Warner Bros Montreal? Doubt they're working on two full aaa titles at the same time. If these are two different studios then it's possible and I'm all in for a new batman game.