Topic: PS4 recommendation thread

@JohnnyShoulder I just can't stand FPS Horror but wanna give it a go due to the critical reception, I also am hoping that Jack doesn't chase you whenever you're in the house as that will poo me up lol

@DonJorginho Well that is the first part of the game but not all of the game. It wouldn't be doing it's job if it wasn't scary.

As you have already got it, just try it. You've got nothing to lose really.

@JohnnyShoulder I will definitely try it out once I complete RE2 Remake mate.

So I've been gifted a £30 psn card among a few christmas presents I've recieved from friends.

I've already planning to buy Dark Souls Remastered for £13 and Final Fantasy X/X-2 for £12.49

This leaves me with a little over £4 left in the wallet.

I'm a bit of a stickler for leaving money in the account though and suprisngly there is a few noteworthy things I can choose from (Though I'll be stretching the topic thread title a little)

For PS3

Final Fantasy IX is up for £3.99

Symphony Of The Night is up for £2.39

The PS1 Classics of the Spyro trilogy in a bundle is £3.99

-EDIT- Sonic Adventure is also availible for 73p that's piquing my interest and the DX add on is only a pound or so...

and I think some classic sonics are also on the cheap
for 70p or so.

For PS4 (Bit more slim pickings here)

Saints Row IV Re-Elected is £3.99
(I have played the PS3 version)

and if I wanted to go even more/completely off the rails... Onechanbara Z2 chaos is also on offer for £3.99.

Was curious to know if anyone has any particular knowledge on any bugs or the likes on the ports in particular (My earlier in the year (January in fact) purchase of Star Ocean III on PS4 and it's crashing bug springs to mind)

I don't know anything about FF IX either besides it having a more medieval fantasy setting for example so any and all info would be appreciated though. 😁

I really enjoyed Saints Row IV when I played it on PS3. It’s a large open world superpower game. You can get guns and drive cars. But you’ve run faster than cars drive and superpowers are more useful than firearms. I like the sense of humour. You get to design your own character but everyone still treats you like a middle-aged man regardless. It’s very much is own thing and far better than Gat Out of Hell.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy

Thanks @Ryall.

I have actually played Saint's Row 4 (and 2 & 3) before (I'll edit that in my original post)

I remember 4 being a little janky though on PS3 from what I remember so was curious if the PS4 Re-Elected version was a bit smoother.

Did you play the dlc's for 4 though on PS3? I only played the base game myself (which I did enjoy).

The fact that it includes everything for only £4 is pretty tempting...

But aside from SR4 all the others I haven't touched before.

To be honest this is a more agonising descision then the main bulk of my purchase which was ridiculously easy to make 😂

Dark Souls Remastered and Final Fantasy X/X-2 are both large games that will take a long time to complete. If there’s nothing you particularly want available for less than £4. I would play the games you’ve already got and let for heavily discounted games reshuffle.

The credit will remain on your PSN account until you’re ready to use it.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy

@Ryall Unless you have a subscription, say for Spotify for example, and then whatever money you have in your wallet will be used against that subscription when payment is due. I found that out the hard way when I had tenner left over and left in my wallet. 😕

I'm looking for a fps with a good career/story mode.. not really interested in online play.

Ideally something war based / realistic (not something like DOOM) that will take a while to complete (I looked at COD WW2 but reviews said it takes 5 hours to finish)

Thanks

@Sgude Titanfall 2. Could be a little short for what you’re wanting, it’s probably about 5-6 hours as well but it’s free on PS Plus now if you have that. Might be a little Sci Fi for your tastes though.

@Sgude The Outer Worlds is a FPS single player only game. You can blitz through the story but it took me well over 20 hours to complete it. It is very much in the same veign as Fallout 3/New Vegas/ so has a similar vibe in regards to dialogue and combat. It is science fiction though so doesn't fit the bill in that respect.

@KratosMD The only game I can really think of is The Outer Worlds. You’ve probably either played it already or seen it about but it’s basically Fallout meets Mass Effect. I liked it a fair amount and it leans heavily into Firefly as an inspiration. I just wish they’d release the OG Mass Effect games on PS4 already.

@KratosMD What about Prey? It offers a good sci-fi story set in a gorgeous space station (E.V.A. included!), all with the typical Arkane Studios gameplay.
Alien: Isolation is another sci-fi classic.

@KratosMD Being an Arkane Studios game, you are free to complete every mission as you prefer.
You can upgrade your character focusing on "human" skills (combat, hacking, crafting...) and on "alien" skills (telekinesis, elemental powers, mimicking...). There are trophies for beating the game with only human skills or only alien skills, which means beating it with two very different approaches.
https://youtu.be/0QCR6nOPOLc

Man that reminds me, i have Prey and still not started it. The shame. 😶

@KratosMD Out of the two games you mentioned, I say Dues Ex was the more fun game to play. Dragon Age got bogged down with the side quests being lame and too much stuff felt like a chore to do. Others really enjoyed it though, I did not.

The Outer Worlds is the bomb though. If you wanna fun sci-fi dialogue heavy consequence based RPG, then that is the game you need to play.

@KratosMD Yeah for those prices you can't go wrong really. Deus Ex is the shorter game and Dragon's Age is more open world, so there is more content. It just whether you can put up with the slog that some of the stuff feels like.

I was thinking last night, as i was playing The Outer Worlds, I was defo getting a bit of a Mass Effect vibe, especially with some of the choices you make.

@RogerRoger I apologize for saying some of this again, but since @KratosMD is considering the series it bears repeating — I played Inquisition without having played DA2 and I felt it was fine, but you’re right, I did a lot of shrugging and just going on without a full understanding of some of the characters and world. The few characters that return from previous games were all new to me, so I had no emotional investment in them. Perhaps that’s why I never finished it. I’ve always attributed my running out of steam for the game to its somewhat long-windedness, large number of diversionary side activities and areas to explore that bogged me down, and the relatively cumbersome constant menu checking and shuffling around of equipment for my party. I think I burned myself out by not being more focused in my playthrough. I explored every map fully and constantly focused on my equipment and I think this led to my undoing. In my wandering about, I eventually ran into a dragon that I couldn’t defeat despite shuffling multiple parties and using various tactics and equipment and I grew frustrated; I think that was the final straw for my losing interest (despite the fact that there were tons of open quests and areas I could have gone to level up and come back to that stupid dragon, which was a completely optional boss in the first place and separate from the main story). But perhaps if I had a little more investment in the characters and seeing the lore of the world play out, then I would have pushed through.
I played the first few hours of DA: Origins and never really clicked with it, so Inquisition was definitely my first real time in the world. DA : Origins is definitely less refined in the gameplay and combat department, so it may be off-putting for someone new to it. But if you enjoy older games and don’t mind a little jankiness, then you’ll likely be okay.
That all said, I really enjoyed the 50-60 ish hours I spent with Inquisition and have oft felt the need to return to it. I think I said this before as well, but I might have played it a little too close to Skyrim and Dragon’s Dogma too and that could have cause the burn-out (no pun intended) with dragon over-saturation.

I actually have Dragon Age Inquisition downloaded on my PS4 and untouched, hmm.....

Not once when I was playing Inquisition did I think I was missing anything from the previous games. As far as I know the story is pretty much self contained and there are only a few characters that pop up in the previous games. So it would be like oh thats whats his face from the previous game. And then you move on with the rest of the game.

@KratosMD BTW, you can play PS3 with a Dualshock 4. I do prefer the controller and can never bloody find a charger for it so if I’m playing old Gran Turismo or last gen games I’ll reach for the DS4 before the DS3.