Well, it looks like PSN is having issues. Sigh. I retried my PS4 and it said maintenance was undergoing, even though Sony’s official site claims it’s all up and running. Explains why the free games wouldn’t load on the PS Store. I also saw a few problem go offline at the same time , so yeah. C’’mon Sony. I hope this fixes itself. @get2sammyB any issues on your guys end?
@Jaz007 Seemed fine here in the UK yesterday evening, and I was able to add Sniper Elite 4 to my library. Might have just been a blip or something wrong at your end.
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@JohnnyShoulder I have been rumbled... all these years and all these Playstation comments on Pushsquare based on nothing but misinformation. I don't even know who Nathan Drakles is... let alone Kwatos.
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@Kidfried Yeah, I have tried to be more honest with myself on some of those games that I just am not enjoying and need to cross off if they don’t sell me on their content in the first couple hours. I have some of those too. Transistor took me a while, but in the end, I finished it and felt it a decent experience. Perhaps over-rated, but I didn’t feel it a waste. Now Drawn to Death on the other hand....
You do have have to be quite brutal and more realistic at times. I know some of the games I mentioned before I will never get round to finishing or playing. I try not to concentrate so much on the number game as I know I will get overwhelmed by it.
@Kidfried Yeah it seems like LiS2 has fizzled a little bit in the hype department. With such delays between episodes, it’s hard to keep a game in the public consciousness.
I would be curious to see how the average episodic game’s sales figures break down. I wonder if they usually get much buy-in early on, or if most of the games’ sales occur after all the episodes are released. I would suspect the latter. But these companies keep doing this episodic release thing so apparently some people out there actually buy these games one episode at at time in the annoying drip-feed fashion and/or buy a season pass early on even though they have to wait a year to see the full product. To each their own, but not me... I always wait and buy it all after it’s complete.
Speaking of ridiculous episodic releases — I need to play the final season of The Walking Dead. Despite the tumultuous development, it seems like Clementine’s series ends on a high note. I’ve played 3 of the 4 TWD seasons, so I can’t stop now. Skybound seems to have done the fans of the game a solid with how they saved the last episode from the grave. (Hmmm... symbolic, actually. The game rose from the dead, just like a zombie.)
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@Th3solution I thought episodic was dying out tbh. Off the top of my head I can only think of Life of Strange and The Council that currently use the system. There is of course FFVII Remake, but that is a different beast to the rest.
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@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, I think you’re right. Surely the crash of Telltale Games is a cautionary tale for publishers. I think the episodic format was but one of many issues with TT, but it certainly didn’t help their cause. To me, the concept seems kinda like living off of too much credit — it’s just too easy to over extend yourself and spend money you don’t have yet by constantly borrowing from the future to pay for the present.
The only other one game that comes to mind is Man of Medan. It’s not truly “episodic” I guess but rather an “anthology” of related games, but to me that seems a variant of the episodic model.
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After finishing Hellblade, I needed something to dip into that isn’t too heavy as I’m going on holiday early next week so didn’t want to start a story heavy game.
I gave Onrush a go and did all the training levels to get a feel for it and I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing Any takedowns seemed pure fluke rather than skill. And AI vehicles seem to land on me witch alarming regularity while I didn’t do it once to then.
Quite a sensory overload as well that game. Pretty much the antithesis to Hellblade!
@Frigate@RogerRoger This might not work for some reason, as I've never tried it, but couldn't a solution to not getting the perfect screenshot be saving the video, and then screenshotting it from there where you can pause? Just a thought.
@RogerRoger Ah, I hadn't considered resolution or any of that technical stuff. Makes sense why it wouldn't be the goto form for screenshotting in that case. I guess it could only really work as a last resort, for when you miss a one time moment you desperately wish you'd been quicker to sceenshot.
My dad was having problems with his PS4 as he was playing Hitman 2 but the game kept crashing on him. The latest update was not downloading as apparently there was not enough space on the console. My dad said he had deleted stuff but the update would still not download. I did quick a Google and a few results turned up that a database rebuild sorted it out, whereas a uninstall and a reinstall of the game didn't. So I did the database rebuild and it took 3 minutes to do. Which is interesting to find out cos I always thought it would take a lot long longer. Mind you my dad has the 500gb model, I wonder how much longer it would take with mine, a 1tb internal and a 4gb external drive. Hmmmm. Anyway, the update would still not download with the same error message, not enough space. Grrrrr. So I checked the storage setting and there was only 20gb space left..... dunno what my dad deleted but turns out he was looking at the section out at the top which states how much storage is being used, and not the 'Free Space' section. Double Grrrrr. So I deleted some more games which he wasn't playing any more, tried the update again and it started to download again. The lesson from this story? I'm always gonna double check anything my dad has said he has done as he gets easily confused with anything to do with technology in his old age, bless him.
@JohnnyShoulder Lol, old people and technology. But man, I’m impressed your dad plays PS4, and Hitman to boot - Not even just stuck on old retro games. What are his favorite games? Do you two co-op together?
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Does anyone else agree with the prediction that Vigil: The Longest Night will be a 2D equivalent of Bloodborne? I think it will be worth getting if this prediction is correct, and from the trailer it certainly seems like it can boast a wealth of horrifying bosses for us to deal with. The trailer's on YouTube.
@Th3solution Ha Ha co-op, that's a good one! He only plays single player games, his fave games over the years are the recent Tomb Raider games, BioShock, Wolfenstien, Far Cry, Uncharted (or those Nathan Drake games as he calls them). Recently he has struggled when anything gets a bit complicated. For example he really enjoyed Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but did not understand all the building and crafting in the game so never got thst far into Fallout 4. So anything where there are a lot of different mechanics to deal he veers away from, stuff like The Witcher 3. He also found God of War too difficult. He used to play the Medal of Honour games back in the day, but begrudges the latest Call of Duty and Battlefield games as the single player campaigns are too short. He has recently found the Sniper Elite games which he likes. He comes to me a lot for reccomendations, I have tried to get him to go onto YouTube and look at the magazines I get him, but this is when he generally gets stuff he doesn't enjoy. I got him Hitman 2 for his birthday, basically because I'm running out of games to get him. I probably wouldn't normally of got him it as I think he is gonna find all a bit too much. I will probably get him Metro Exodus for Xmas.
He only started playing video games when he got made redundant, so it was the first time that he wasn't working. So I gave him my old PS1 console as I had upgraded to PS2, and that was about the only thing thst took his mind off worrying about getting a new job. He has been hooked ever since!
@JohnnyShoulder That is so cool! And so sweet the way you try to find games for him. I had to laugh at “those Nathan Drake games” 😂
Sounds like he gravitates to story driven shooters, both 1st and 3rd person. Would he like Red Dead Redemption? Not sure if he likes the old Western theme, but the 2 games would definitely not be too short for him. Gameplay mechanics might be a little too much, but it’s not too far from Uncharted or Tomb Raider in that regard. He likes military based themes so maybe the Metal Gear Solid franchise? Or if he likes to keep it a little simpler, Ratchet & Clank would be up his alley if he can tolerate the cartoonish nature. Or Borderlands might be worth a go as well. Also has he tried Horizon Zero Dawn? Good story driven / shooter (kinda) that’s in the neighborhood of TR and UC. It probably has too much going on with all the armor crafting and trap setting, etc, so yeah, nevermind that one. I’m surprised he’s not into puzzle games like Tetris Effect, The Witness, or Fez. Usually that’s what I’d imagine an older gamer enjoying the most —Something with very limited mechanics to have to master.
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