Topic: PS4 recommendation thread

I actually did a post about Shadow Of War in the games you're playing thread last week and am about to do another one @Kidfried as I've played it some more ... I'd respectfully disagree with a lot of what @ZeroOverOne has said, of course that's his opinion and he's more then entilted to it

@Kidfried I did play it and honestly its the same game with same graphics, same mechanics but Shadow Of War has its own and unique atmosphere when you explore the world and it has some kind of charm killing packs of orks with amazing moves. Btw story ending is prettt epic. Dont know why monolith didnt make the WHOLE story that epic like in last 45 minutes in story

@KratosMD Alien Isolation is brilliant but a lot has to do with I think on how much you like the first two films. Still a good game if you don't but you will get more out of it if you do. Until Dawn surprised me as I didn't think would like it as much. And it plays like a cinematic version of the walking dead games but set in a slasher film. There is more to it than that but to say much more I might spoilt it.
Alien Isolation is the more scarier and tense game overall, I found Until Dawn only that in places. The facial animation can look a bit weird at times, especially when compared to more recent games.

@KratosMD Not too many no. The ones I can think of are Resident Evil 7 and Outlast. I thought RE7 was brilliant but couldn't get into Outlast as I found the whole camera thing a bit gimmicky. I've got Soma and The Amnesia Trilogy but not yet started them. Those last two were done by the same developers who are from Sweden, not sure if that will influence your decision.

I do enjoy playing them but I will only play them in the dark evenings to fully get into the atmosphere, so don't get round to playing them too often.

@KratosMD If you liked Soma, you could like both Alien Isolation and the Outlast series, but for different reasons.
Outlast (especially Outlast 2) is scary as hell, gory, disgusting and totally focused on hide&seek.
Alien Isolation is a masterpiece: it mixes hide&seek (when facing the alien brilliant AI), shooting (against humans and androids) and survival (managing resources for crafting), all in the best Alien setting I've ever seen: the original music, sound effects and artworks of the 1979 movie have been used wisely. You can play it on many different difficult levels, so you'll surely enjoy it.
If you check my games collection you'll find many other horror games rated!

EDIT: I found this video about the incredible AI of the alien and it surely explain it better then I could...

@KratosMD I can also vouch for Until Dawn. Like you, I don’t actually care for horror games usually. I’m not sure why I even tried Until Dawn, other than it was frequently recommended and it was free to play on PS Plus so I took a chance. I enjoyed it a lot. As @JohnnyShoulder says- it’s a more cinematic game, in the vein of a Telltale game, but more diverse gameplay, mild exploration, and much more complex in its “choice and consequence” narrative. In other words, your choices really do affect the outcome and the conclusion. Also the game adjusts in small ways depending on how you play. The story is pretty interesting also and not too scary either (probably not any scarier than the average RE game) It has its scare moments, some of the “jump scares” and gore that you’d expect, but relies on the “psychological thriller” type of narrative more. I appreciated its length too, as I didn’t feel it outstays it’s welcome, taking about 8-10 hrs or so.

@KratosMD Another +1 vote for Until Dawn from me too. The Telltale style choice making is really well done and cleverly done that the "right" choice can still mess things up for you later on. The story is well done and the voice acting really good. The teen slasher tropes are out in force but also spoofed quite nicely too.

But man, those "hold the controller still" bits were so infuriating.

@KratosMD I haven't played Resi 5 and 6, and only part of 4(they were too action oriented for my liking). Some Easter eggs or references might have gone over my head, but I didn't feel I was missing anything from Resi 7 by not playing those games. 7 is kinda a soft reboot for the series, so don't feel you have to play the previous games!

@JohnnyShoulder @KratosMD Yeah, I was actually wondering if I’d like any of these Resi games. I played some of RE5 and some of RE2 (the original). Decent enough, but just not my cup o’ tea. Of any, RE4 looks the most to my liking, and I’ve thought about getting the PS4 remaster, but I fear that it won’t hold up due to antiquated gameplay mechanics. RE2 Remake is probably the best place for me get on the RE wagon; that or RE7 it sounds like is also a decent entry point. I’ll probably only take a dive if one of them ends up free on Plus.

I'd say REmake is nowhere near as bad as you're making it seem to be @KratosMD having played it recently for the first time ever and knowing nothing about it

Your first item box is a bit further in then I'd like but it's not too bad

Only one doorknob breaks and it's pretty easy to get around Plus it gets fixed permanently later on

I'll give you the picking items up one though it is a "Survival Horror"

0 is VERY bad though due to the switching mechanics mainly that make it very tiring and tedious

Also another one for Until Dawn... Pretty good game overall

Granted, I've not played RE7 or Zero yet, but REmake beats the pants off of every other game in the series I've played. REmake 2 included. It's meant to be intimidating and forces you to adapt to changing circumstances as you go on. It's one of the few games in this "survival horror" series to actually feel like "survival horror" and not "action with a dash of horror and item management." And, good god, it's the most atmospheric game I've ever played. Only entry in the series I've come across that can compete with the original Silent Hill trilogy.

Until Dawn didn't really work for me. The characters often hang out in the same uncanny valley as some of the people in Horizon: Zero Dawn. Being modeled on B-grade cinema, it's... not particularly good script or story-wise. And I really didn't like how the scope of the game changed as it went on. It turned into something much more generic, IMO. The interactivity and gameplay are pretty limiting as well.

Yeah Resi 1 remake is absolutely fine, it takes a certain way of playing to make progress but it isn’t so hard. Personally I really struggled with Resi 4 back in the day because I was trying to play it like 1-3, to the extent I didn’t play it for a while and a friend literally had to show me how to do it properly (who knew the knife was useful in a Resi game?!).

I don’t like the character swapping in 0, for some reason this mechanic flat out makes me lose interest in it.

As for Evil Within, I’m a big fan of number 2. Number 1 is okay, pretty confusing and also really quite hard in some areas. I found it harder than any of the resident evil games, anyway. Honestly I’d say skip it, play EW2, and go back to experience EW1 if you like what you played.

And since we’re talking about it I am pretty excited for that Ghostwire Tokyo game, even though we don’t know a whole lot about it.

Thinking about what I'm going to get during the summer sale. I have two paydays during it's run, and if I budget roughly $20 per paycheck for the sale, I'll be able to get 4 games out of it (if I pick choices at or around the $10 mark)

The Last Guardian is a sure pick, but for the other three I'm going to have to pick between one of the LEGO games (I'm thinking Jurassic World or Batman 3), Star Wars Battlefront II (no interest in the multiplayer, but the single player could be worth it at this price, plus it'd give me access to the VR bonus mission which looks cool), Unravel 2 (really enjoyed the first one, but not sure how well this one plays as a single player experience), and the Witcher 3 (I think I'm caught up in all the hype surrounding the series thanks to the upcoming Switch port & Netflix series, but I'm not sure if I'm really interested or if it's just FOMO. Still, the big western AAA titles I've played thus far have really suprised me with how much I've liked them, as someone who traditionally prefers Japanese games, so maybe I should give it a chance).

@RR529 The Witcher 3, you will thank me later.

Has anyone played the Banner Saga games before? The trilogy is only £16 in the summer sale and it’s a game I’m aware of with good impressions but don’t know much about it.

@Thrillho I played 1 and 2 and it's a solid turn based RPG. For that price I surely reccomend it since it's really well crafted.

The recent talk about horror games convinced me to try Until Dawn, especially because an italian retailer is selling now most of the Playstation Hits titles for € 9,00!

So I've been watching A LOT of Critical Role rather then gaming cus of the heat here in the UK (and I'm free from work now, on my summer holidays!).

Aside from grabbing the D&D books & pen and paper or that MMORPG Neverwinter (That I'm not really interested in because of it's MMO nature) are there any other D&D or D&D inspired games I could try?

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy A package containing remastered versions of Planescape: Torment & Icewind Dale will be releasing in the next few months for home consoles, I believe. I've always heard people talk about the quality of the writing in those games (especially Planescape).

I'm panning on picking up the Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, NWN, Planescape games as they release. I doubt I'll clear any of them to be honest (it depends how well they've done porting to a controller) but I've dipped my toe some of them in the past and I do enjoy them.