Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@Tjuz a gaming grandma… that’s awesome!

Yeah I love the fact we can all approach gaming looking for such different things, yet all feeling satiated by it. We’re all gamers at the end of the day, regardless of how we place its various facets in terms of importance. I’m slightly ashamed to admit, that I used to feel quite dismissive to the narrative-first gamers out there… but it eventually dawned on me quite how different gaming narratives have evolved since I were a lad and consequently, anyone that was introduced to gaming since/during that evolution would obviously view it a far more pivotal gaming cornerstone. Particularly for someone like yourself given your creative pursuits even when at a such a young age.

@CaptD ikr 😂

Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online

Started playing this game and played it for a whole hour today. Pretty good start, and as usual I got a few good laughs from the character dialogue 🤣. Haven't moved on to the second area yet because I'm busy grinding experience points in the first area.

@graymamba Haha, it is really cool! I wish I could tell you more about her, but she passed away just a few years after when I was still young, so my personal memory of her is sadly limited to a few things here and there. I do remember that the reason she had a SNES was because she loved platforming games! She had the whole Mario collection as well as the Disney movie tie-ins like Aladdin and The Lion King. I'd watch her occasionally beating a level of one before demanding to take the controller and play myself (which she luckily always let me do). The memories may be few, but they're good at least! And don't worry... since you've turned around on your thoughts regarding other's preferences in games, we can all just band together to dismiss people who don't see gaming as an art form now. The enemy of my enemy is my friend! Haha.

@Vermines Yeah, the music is really the star of the show. That said, I think the Mega Drive version was different from the SNES version, as many of those movie tie-ins used to be back in the day. The SNES version was probably easier then, since I remember finishing it many times as a young child. Fun times!

After really enjoying the PS4 port of classic PS2 game Bully last month, I’m back on the PS2 ports with Psychonauts. As a general rule I’m not really into cutesy platformers but it is pretty cool to be fair. Very creative as is expected from Double Fine, a really goofy (in a good way) art-style and some great voice acting. Better than I was expecting tbh.

@graymamba Glad to hear you’re enjoying it. I tried playing it again after the excellent sequel but struggled to properly get into it again, it’s definitely showing its age. Double Fine always deliver something interesting though!

@Metonymy it was a game if two halves for me today, the morning I played through some levels (the mental psyche palaces of the various patients at the asylum) that I found pretty mind blowing in the best possible way. The creativity and specific mechanics for each (particularly the theatre and Waterloo) were brilliant… then there was this afternoon 🤬! Ascending the Asylum… and then as ending the meat-circus just exemplified how janky the controls of old games were. I haven’t been that frustrated for a while fair play 😅

@graymamba Can’t say I had Meat Circus flashbacks on the bingo card today but here we are 😬 I really enjoyed the Waterloo level as well! Safe to say when you get around to the sequel, they did an excellent job of doubling down on the better half while losing the lesser.