Munkyknuts

I'm 40ish hours in to Dragon Age: Inquisition and still loving it all....exploring all the areas and completing the side quests, it's a game that just keeps on giving. I'm hoping to have clocked another 10-20hrs by Monday and maybe even get somewhere with one of the romances I've been pursuing in it....plus all the demon slaying and world saving stuff.

When I played Destiny I liked the Suros Regime and generally used a shotgun as my special.

I got this or at least a version of this on the PS3...possibly via PS+ or maybe just an impulse buy, I can't recall. I never played it but my girlfriend loved it...certainly looked nice when I watched her play. She never finished it tho so I didn't see a great variety of levels....actually the only game I can think of she ever completed was Thomas was Alone.

Destiny is the Marmite of gaming....love it or hate it....or be crushingly disappointed by it not being what you thought it would be like. It's far enough away from the release of the game that most people's opinions of it are set. While I and others are not fans of it, plenty of other people clearly are....the time for arguing about it all is long in the past. The people who like it will continue to rabidly defend it...those that aren't fans, or more accurately were disappointed by what the game ended up being should have moved onto other things. Personally playing Alien: Isolation, Shadow or Mordor and currently Dragon Age: Inquisition has helped me leave Destiny in my gaming past....and it certainly won't be in my gaming future.

I love Kingdom Hearts but I gave up on hopes of the 3rd game arriving anytime soon a long time ago....honestly I have doubts of it ever showing up in a decent state at all but I can hope.

It was the lack of support for the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime that killed interest in it for me....went with an Amazon Fire TV instead. The console wasn't well advertised either tho...but still it lacks the features of the products its trying to compete against.
I didn't even know the Fire TV had games on it until I turned it on...good bonus.

I've heard some people haven't gotten the gifts...no idea if that's the case or not...this have mainly been greeted on other forums and posts with people b*tching about getting a weapon they don't want or a type they don't use. I'm very far from a fan of destiny but still....a free gift is a free gift, at the very least breaking the weapon will yield some materials.

I mostly buy physical copies of games so I didn't think space would be an issue on my PS4 until I found I didn't have any space left on my PS4s hard drive when I tried to play Dragon age: Inquisition.....I hadn't realised that if I buy games on disc it still installs the data on the Hard Drive....so I had games like Destiny and Infamous: 2nd son that I've not played in ages taking up 10s of GB each....that might be obvious and common knowledge to most but I hadn't realised. I really didn't think having to install a new hard drive would be an issue for me just over a year into owning my PS4.

@gregmcevil I do have definite lag on the PS4 so what you say makes sense. I'll try and remember to switch the setting back when all of this dies down. At least it's worked as a fix in the mean time for some folk. If Id still been into playing Destiny the network down time would have sucked more, so i'm pleased I moved on...I feel for those into it and other online only games that have suffered during all this.

I'm still online ok since I used the MTU 1473 thing but I've not been gaming much anyway as I've been lost in a lego building wonderland. I've suggested the MTU fix to some friends who had issues and it worked for them as well. Hopefully it will all be running normally soon and we can have a decent period of time without more connection issues and Pushsquare getting flooded with new people ranting swearing and shouting about throwing their PS4 out of windows.

@gregmcevil oh? I didn't change mine back from 1473. It's still all functioning ok as far as I can tell tho downloads from the store are taking longer than usual. Is it meant to be reset to 1500?

The PS4 becoming anymore socially orientated and anything like facebook isn't anything Id want any part of so it would need to be able to be all switched off if anything like that was implemented. I'm not a social person and I'm certainly not a social gamer.
I would very very much like to be able to change the username I've had since 2009.

I'm happy with the quiet time...I have Farcry 4 and Dragon Age: Inquisition to get started on as well as smaller titles and games I plan on replaying like Skyrim and Dishonoured to play the DLC I've not tried yet.

My PS4 is still online just fine after I changed the MTU setting before I went to bed. Games had downloaded ok when I checked on them. It would be nice to know why changing that network setting fixes the problem.

@Corey32989 I don't have CoD so I don't know about that don't have Destiny anymore either. I tried Shadow of Mordor, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Farcry 4 and the online elements of them worked ok. Games I had bought digitally that were locked while I was off PSN are working ok as well.

@Colesfd everything I've tried so far is working OK but I think people are getting varying results from it. Store is working...online component of games I tried worked...friends list is showing now. The 'what's new' section isn't loading but everything else seems ok.

@MrDoctorDr Yeah it does work. I'd like to know why it works tho.

@Corey32989 I've no idea if it's a permanent thing or not...messing with settings is beyond my usual expertise. I just know Sonys suggestion of a reboot did nothing and this worked. Maybe someone smarter than me can tell us why the MTU thing works and what it is and stuff.

@dedeaux1 The MTU thing just worked for me..it was my last resort.

@Corey32989 Changing the MTU setting to 1473 in the network settings just got me back online...like others have been saying. I didn't want to start messing with settings but it worked.

@Corey32989 Yep same here...reboot, still got same error message.

I went to safe mode...chose restart system, waited for it to go through the process. I assume this was what was meant by rebooting? Anyway it didn't work and I'm still getting the NW-31194-8 error message.
I guess next I'll try that other fix to do with MTU or whatever it is on the network settings.

I'm still not online in NE England so I'll try rebooting my PS4...how do I reboot my PS4? I assume it's more than just switching it off and on again? Is it going into safe mode?. Thanks for the info Pushsquare...it must suck having to post about PSN outages at anytime but having to cover it and deal with it over Christmas is even worse. Nice of you to keep us all informed

@BizkitBot that's the same error code I've been getting...ive not tried logging in in the past few hours so I've no idea if it's working for me or not yet.

Everyone also now knows what he looks like now so hopefully the sound of him being slapped repeatedly everywhere he goes will be ringing in the new year.

I'll have to try getting online when I get home.

@get2sammyb Kudos for P.T being on the list...it was excellent and it was also on the list rather than the endlessly divisive Destiny, which was a pleasant surprise. P.T, along with Outlast, really rekindled my love of horror games and restored my faith that Silent Hill can still be a great thing in the aftermath of some dodgy entries in the series.

I'm still not online in Sunderland area of UK. While it's frustrating I've just found other stuff to be getting on with that don't involve the PS4. My PS3 is working ok so I could have played on that, I've just done none gaming stuff...the lack of gaming isn't ideal but it can't be helped right now. Sony does need better communication with its users in future incidents tho.

This wouldn't usually bother me much as I don't play online...however I bought games using PSN credit I got for Christmas by accessing the store through my phone earlier and Id quite like to just get them onto my PS4. It's more serious to the people I know who just got the new system and can't log in to do much with them. Hopefully soon this will all be done with. Until then I'll continue to read and build Lego kits I guess.

I have no idea how to post pictures on here...can it be done from an iPhone? I got Farcry4, dragon age: inquisition and Shadow of Mordor...I already have SoM so I need to get it to a store to exchange it without letting my parents know...it's the thought that counts tho

Merry Christmas

I don't play MineCraft, but I thought the allure of it all was that there wasn't a narrative just worlds to alter and shape as the player wishes to? Putting the game into a story driven structure just totally goes against the grain....I'll have to ask my girlfriends 10yr old niece what she thinks of it to get a super fans perspective.

I won't be multi playing with anyone....they can all b*gger off and leave me alone to enjoy playing solo
This Christmas I'll be playing Dragon Age: Inquisition and Farcry 4 and more of the excellent Shadow of Mordor.

The DLC would have to be a whole lot more than it is to be worth £20....it's a shockingly high price for shallow content...the stripping down of exotic weapons to start all over again and the locking certain things to those who didn't buy the expansion are just more slaps in the face to gamers. I'd imagine at this point Destiny is only relevent to hardcore fans who love the grind and to those who are still enjoying the crucible....personally I'm happy I've moved on to better things, like the Lord of the Hunt DLC for shadow of Mordor ( sold at a reasonable DLC price), but I'm still annoyed by articles I read about Destiny and the choices being made with it.

@johnny30 I preferred Heavy Rain the most of the games, with Fahrenheit 2nd. There was something about Beyond: Two souls that just didn't click with me. I'd be more excited if it was a PS4 remaster of either of the other two titles rather than this one.

@FiDRoC I thought so as well. Ridiculous reason to tie up the legal system.

It's a huge list, but the only thing of interest to me is the Lord of the Hunt DLC for shadow of Mordor. Happily I snagged the delux version of the game during the sales and it included the season pass...got the DLC and from the 1st mission I played it seems pretty awesome.

Why not have the game version of a shlock horror movie? I'm assuming it's intentionally done in such a corny way? It looks fun, Id give it a shot.

I loved the original games but I couldn't get into DMC at all when I tried it....maybe it wasn't as good, maybe it was Dante looking like a d*ck or maybe I've just moved on from that kind of game.

This sale does seem to have been poor compared to other recent ones. I have some interest in The Evil Within but as others have said it's cheaper elsewhere.

in the screenshots it looks like the last Adventure Time game....can't remember it's name. That game sucked and didn't capture the feel of the show at all, so I'm pleased this game gets closer to it. I only ever played the last one because it was a well meaning gift from my Girlfriend who knew I love the show, I think the only reason I'll play this one is if the same happens again.

The Demo was ok but to be honest I was getting bored by the end of it, so I doubt I could manage playing through the whole game.

I'm lopping heads and making Uruks flee in terror in Shadow of Mordor....about 10hrs in and I've barely touched the main missions...I'm currently planning how to take down the bane of my gaming life, a weasely little Uruk with a poisoned bolt spewing crossbow....can't remember his name but I'll be separating his head from his shoulders before I go to bed....or having him kill me for the 5th time. The nemesis system is awesome.

I agree...I've left Destiny in the past and because its look was so well designed and the combat was so fluid and so well presented I put well over 100hrs into the game despite the mind numbing grind and all the other flaws. I got to level 29 and couldn't take it anymore. Destiny could have been a universally adored game, a title held up as a true masterpiece if different decisions had been made. Instead it's the divisive love it or hate it thing that it is. Clearly there are gamers that love the grind and defend Destiny saying haters just don't understand MMO games...but are other MMOs as mean spirited as Destiny? Others say other MMO games were as flawed when they 1st started but Destiny had the mistakes of others to learn from. I won't be putting any more time into the franchise but I'll be watching how it all progresses with interest.

As others have said, that's a rubbish sale price. If I do bother with Assassins Creed again it won't be until Unity is definitely totally fixed or maybe not until a few games down the line.

The consoles are gorgeous and if they had been on sale in regular stores even for a very limited time Id had got one...I've been Playstation since they began, even put up with the ridicule of everyone I knew at school when I sided with Sony and they all went with Sega. It would be nice to own one of the anniversary consoles.

A roaring lion would have been cool as a special edition here in England...the dragon is very cool.

If I was into customising my console I'd rather have a metal cover plate with the design cut out of it...then maybe some small light source fitted inside...a nice blue light. As it is my PS4 is tucked away and can't really be seen so the standard version suits me. Customisation options are always nice tho.

Another bad move on top of so many other bad moves that have been made. I'm so pleased I moved on from Destiny long ago.
_{Please watch the language -Tasuki -}

@viciousarcanum I agree...it's the narrative that makes the game stand out...a 3rd person cover shooter is going to operate pretty much like any other. The order has a lot going for it and if it does as good a job as Spec Ops did at drawing me into the story then it's doing well.