Topic: General PlayStation 4 Thread

@JohnnyShoulder I feel positively ancient. 😂

@KratosMD That is the one thing I will miss with Sony being absent from E3 are those gob smacking reveals. Xbox don't have any titles with that kind of pulling power, and Nintendo already have all there big hitters in rotation. Seeing Metroid Prime 4 in action would be hella cool though.

@mookysam I get my walking stick!

@JohnnyShoulder One of my friends from primary school had it and we used to play it together so much. I remember beating the final boss with him.

I also remember the booklet that game with the game having the back page telling you that you’ll need to buy a memory card to play the game.

@Thrillho I didn't play it until I had a PS2, as it was a bit more expense with all those discs. But yeah I remember the case. I probably had dozens of those memory cards in the end! Never did finish it, or any other Final Fantasy game I've played.

Man, every time the BBC covers gaming it's like they hired my dad.

Should I get a PS4 now or wait for ps5 and hope for backwards compatible

@andrew20 BC has been confirmed but it depends if you want to play PS4 now. Also, it’s looking likely that coronavirus will delay PS5 so you might want to consider that too.

@nessisonett that what I been thinking will it be early 2021 or late 2021

@andrew20 Nothing has been confirmed yet, so we can only guess at the moment. But it is still being released in Holiday 2020, until we hear otherwise. If the coronavirus does effect the ps5 there might even be just a limited release.

Dark Souls Remastered vs. Dark Souls 3 anyone? I believe the first game is arguably harder, although I made it up to Seath the Scaleless, playing offline, but kept getting cursed and killed and gave up, the last trophy I earned for it was the Lordvessel. I, however, always wanted to go back and finish that game after finishing DS3, it would be nice to 'complete the circle' , so to speak. Do you think it's worth going back to it and starting from the beginning now that I have a new PS4, so in other words; bearing in mind that I would have to go back to the beginning and beat O&S again, although this time I have access to the internet on my PS4 and can summon help? I beat DS3 that way, although I only summoned help from other players for the last two bosses, and my only other summons in the game were for the Abyss Watchers and Pontiff Sulyvahn, I used Black Hand Gottard.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Yes, do it. I had got upto a similar position in the game, the caves before Seath. I was not entirely sold on the game then on the 360. But after playing the other games, when I played the remastered version I saw it through new eyes. Plus sections like blighttown are not a juddering mess and it is a relatively smooth experience.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Absolutely give it a go again. It’s my favourite Soulsborne by a country mile. It’s such a tight experience compared to the other games and there are way more shortcuts, so it feels like the one world more than the others. The Duke’s Archives down to the cave with Seath are particularly nasty however and I dread going there every playthrough!

@nessisonett @JohnnyShoulder Have either of you played King's Field? I was interested in checking it out as a pre-Miyazaki FromSoftware game. Is it similar to the Souls games? I hear it is, but I thought the quality might suffer from Miyazaki's absence. I'll be sure to go back to Dark Souls Remastered as well, but only if I can summon help for Seath, my SL was pretty high when I was playing it before but that curse just kept taking me out. I know the cursebite ring is in the New Londo ruins somewhere but the directions I read about online just weren't sufficient to help me find it, and those 'ghosts' just kept getting me!

@Draco_V_Ecliptic King’s Field games are worth playing as a curiosity but they’re really not balanced, fair or fun in the slightest. They’re interesting in the sense you can see the influence it had on the Souls games though.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Not played any of em unfortunately, just know that they influenced parts of the Souls games.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic KF is Souls before Souls was a thing. It's incredibly difficult and has that same dark fantasy atmosphere. It's very difficult (I died like 6 times before understanding there was a pit of lava 5ft in front where you start in the game) and more unforgiving than a Souls game. I got frustrated and quit, but remember the areas I went through pretty well, kinda like how Souls is memorable. If you're interested in the history and a PS2 (very early PS2 at that) era Souls From game in first person that's more maddening than Dark Souls, check it out. If you don't have copious amounts of patience to deal with it, then skip it.

@nessisonett @JohnnyShoulder @Jaz007 I'm going back to Dark Souls Remastered now, as I said I would, I've just started and I'm in Asylum Demon territory again. The visuals in the remastered version look gorgeous and I'm going for a Berserk Guts build (I'm currently engaged with volume 2 of the manga, as I heard it inspired Dark Souls) . Have any of you read Berserk? Do you like it?

Glad you are enjoying your time with DSR. No not read any of Beserk only a couple of pics of the internet. Can see the SoulsBorne influences even from that brief look.

The first NieR is being remade for PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Though it's the version with the brother main character instead of the version with the father.

Platinum may be involved with it? Some other company is doing most of the work apparently

There's also a NieR mobile game called Reincarnation but... It's a mobile game so...

Well that's The Last of Us 2 delayed https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1245773000592384001?s=19