Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

Batman AA and Darksiders III for the PS+ games next month.

Not bad.

Yakuza 7 has turn-based combat now in addition to a new main character.

LOL I'm excited for this new evolution of the Yakuza series. It was always basically a JRPG anyway, so this makes perfect sense to me.

Oh hey, I'll take both of those. Arkham Asylum is always worth another dive into, and Darksiders III is on my wish list. Not that I know when I'll play them but...

@Magician @link3710 it's not Arkham Asylum it's Arham Knight

@redd214 Oh welp. I mean, I haven't played that one yet, so that's probably better anyways. I didn't exactly hear good things about it though.

@link3710 Don't believe a word of it. Arkham Knight is fantastic. I liked it more than Arkham City, personally.

@Ralizah Most of what I heard involved stuff like the massive frame rate issues and the like, so I'm guessing that's all been patched up by now. Or maybe it was PC exclusive, never played the series on console before.

@link3710 Performance was fine on PS4 at launch. It was, indeed, a total mess on PC, unfortunately. Really poorly optimized, for some reason.

@link3710 I 100% it and thought it was great!

Ah okay, I guess that explains it! Thanks!

I got the Return to Arkham collection (Asylum & City remasters) awhile ago when it was on sale, so this is perfect timing for me. I've only played Asylum so far.

From what I've read over on Push Square, it's mixed reception comes largely from the how the Batmobile controls, which is a real love or hate it kind of affair.

State of Play on Tuesday

And since Batman was actually the last topic of discussion, I really do think we are nearing an announcement of a new game soon!

Not sure how I feel about Yakuza 7. I mean they have done wacky before...that isn't new but I guess I just wanted it to still try to take itself somewhat seriously. However I'm going to buy it either way and I'm still hoping for another Kenzan game. Ah well I'm going to try to replay the whole series (except of the end) next year. Seeing as Yakuza is pretty much the reason that I buy Playstation systems lol.

It says a lot about the "state of play" when the PS4 fan thread is mostly dead and seems odd to be reawakened. Sony really got weird by vanishing entirely from the scene like late-era Wii. I know they're going to ham it up for PS5, but sheesh, this just seems lame.

Well regardless, I hope Sony does keep improving. Directs are my new favorite way of communicating. Last time was a definite improvement at least.

Strangely, I found some unexpected upcoming PS4 games during this year (2019) and most of them i found from playasia preorders.

Some of interesting upcoming PS4 games for me such as Stranded Sails, The Unicorn Princess, Olympic 2020, Astroneer, Autobahn Police Simulator 2, Bus Simulator, Race with Ryan, Two Points Hospital, Trials of Mana, etc.

I think if Last of Us 2 and Ghost of Tsushima don't get launch dates in this event, we can assume they've just being delayed to be launch games for the PS5. Probably cross-gen games though, given how long they'd been targeting the PS4.

@Dezzy I think LOU2 will be their big Q1/Spring game like Horizon and God of War. Really don't think they can hold that one off for another 12+ months. Ghosts definitely seems like a candidate to get pushed though.

@redd214

Yeah that's what I'm expecting. Or maybe swapping those 2 games. But I think a Q1 game should get a launch date at this event, or at least very soon.

@Dezzy not necessarily. God of War release date was announced only 3 months beforehand. January announcement, April release so could go either way really.