Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

The people I know who have issues with 1st person games have said that their issue is helped by changing the field of view. Have you tried that?
Maybe need PC versions to get that option.

Plus games for September announced, quite a packed month with the ps4 technically getting 8 games!! Destiny 2 and GOW3 are the headliners

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2018/08/29/playstation-plus-f...

Pretty good idea to offer Destiny 2, since it's the kind of game people should be able to get a feel for before committing to a purchase.

@EvilLucario Indeed, staring at the pile is awesome. Not relying on the internet that can go down for any reason at any time is also awesome. I love the pile. I just hate managing the pile. Especially when I find a case that the disc is missing and after spending 20 minutes moving the pile and all the milk crates stacked up holding them (and the precariously leaning tower next to it that fell over twice) that the disc is probably in the case I put in a bin in the basement 2 years ago....

Seriously though up until the past year I was 1000% physial-only and anti-digital. Part of me still is. I was swayed mostly by game sharing on PS/X1 to be honest...with 2 PS/XB in the house, it cut my spending in half!

@Ralizah "Digital games can't be lost"
Well, that's my one huge problem with digital. Accounts can and are compromised. Regularly. And on Playstation they hand out your passwords to everyone. If your account is hosed, there goes thousands of dollars in games in the blink of an eye. That doesn't happen with physical short of a natural disaster. I do fear that heavily to the point that I'm considering a new Microsoft account for everything Windows, to keep it separate from what would become an XBox only account. PS is my only Sony account, but it was already hosed by them once.

Those steelbooks also tend to take up extra space on my shelf that makes organizing more annoying, so I wouldn't want that anyways. GOTY editions also tend to have all the DLC and patches on disc...it's not always true, but I've yet to a see one from Sony at least where that wasn't the case.

...I dunno, I'm just not the type of guy who lives on hope and promises. I wait for reviews so I know what I'm getting. Now that DLC is more content that will affect the game overall that won't release until later. With a Season pass, even if I know what I'm getting, I don't know the quality of it, and if it's just extras, would it even matter? The stuff they want you to actually buy sounds important, but if that's the case, why wasn't it part of the main game? Is it just gonna be disappointing? I won't know until they're out. I can be excited, but I'm not a teenager anymore. I don't open my wallet just because I'm excited, it's gotta be worth my while...

@MisterPi I spent over an hour yesterday confirming that Destiny 2 wasn't my kind of game (to spare a rant: It's the very definition of style over substance. Very pretty with nothing to offer under the surface).

I also spent 2 more hours confirming that the newest God of War is not my kind of game, and is more flawed in excecution than the big hype machines want you to believe, even if it's still a pretty good game in most respects. I reslly want to try the older God of War games again, so yes, I'll take a free copy of God of War 3 Remastered, please.

I'll grab Q.U.B.E Director's Cut while I'm at it. That looks interesting

@EvilLucario I second this idea. heck even a decent run on the color laser would do a passable job at a Hong Kong bootleg

@redd214 Wow, Destiny 2 for free?! I realize the whole game is a DLC machine, but still, that's never been particularly cheap on sales...that's surprisingly big for a freebie! Played the demo back in Winter....it was interesting...wasn't Halo...Bungie's sank a little...but it was intriguing enough to be interested, not intriguing enough to pay money for. This is perfect! Or, will be, once Razer's new controllers come out... I'd have done this on X1 if ever if it weren't free.

GoW3 is hard to go wrong with either. Nice month!

@NEStalgia yeah the gunplay/mechanics of D2 is impeccable but the progression, content cutting, story, dlc is where things go awry. Just be forewarned you may get the base game free but to do any high level activities you're looking at another $60-80 to be "up to date"

While it is a good month in terms of quantity, unfortunately I won't be downloading any of them. Already have D2, Knowledge is Power, and Sparkle 2 (fun little puzzle game btw). Another world looks like something my 8 year old would make so no go there. And it's going to be very very hard personally to go back to old style GOW after this years masterpiece. Ah well no every month can be a winner for everyone, hope people e joy the offerings!

@CanisWolfred Yeah I've found the DLC to be pretty much non-essential on most games. There's handfuls where it matters. Diablo, Hitman, Forza Horizon, Rabbids, Dragon Age III. XC2, but that's really a separate game at this point. A few others I can think of, but usually DLC is just that, fun extra stuff that obsessive completionists love, and I just sit there thinking "I just reloaded a game I beat 5 months ago....for this...? )

Desiny 2 is an MMO quest based Halo style shooter from the people who made Halo, but a lot less fun and a lot more MMO Intriguing...not worth paying money for...but darned fun for free.

I don't know about the new GoW though....peek-a-boo was nearly in withdrawal after that game. Come to think of it, where is @peek-a-boo , anyway?

@redd214 Yeah...same with any MMO kit....TES:O, looking at you! Still, unlike TES:O where the base game is often $9 or $10, D2's base game never dips below $35 at lowest, so as a promo it's still a pretty fair deal rather than the usual clearance bin scraping.

Don't write off Another World for free. It's an HD remaster of a very old game (I played it on SNES, it was renamed "Out of This World" in the US at the time due to some licensing issue), it was on Amiga prior I believe. It's also on Switch.) By today's standards it's clunky and awkward, but it's a monumental piece of gaming history as one of the first, if not the first cinematic type story driven video game. It's another game that despite it's importance, I played it 25+ years ago and it was tough as nails for all the wrong reasons, so I wouldn't buy it on Switch, but as a piece of important gaming history, that's absolutely a fun revisit for free, and leagues better than average indie fare. It was a big deal back in the day!

Don't know what rock you've been hiding under but D2 base game has been on sale regularly for $5 to 15 last couple months. Maybe not digitally but definitely physical. Its only 10 on gamestop and Amazon right now.

Yeah going to pass, I can appreciate it's importance but not enough time in the day to play something just for history sake.

Cd Projekt released some sales data for the Witcher 3.

It actually sold more in 2017 than it did in 2016 (probably because the GOTY edition which contained all DLC).

Both 2016 and 2017 sold about 50% of what it sold in 2015. For anyone who doesn't follow sales distributions, that's an incredibly fat tail (meaning it didn't drop off in popularity as much as most games do). Very few games sell 50% of the launch year in the second year and third year.

@NEStalgia I mean, that's a possibility, but I'm willing to bet it's a lot less likely than flooding, house fires, or games just getting lost when, say, a child decides they want to pull one off the shelf.

With that said, we do need better protections for people who buy at least some digital games (which is the vast majority of gamers, at this point).

Oh yeah, how bad are installs with physical media? Are they still massive or more manageable than digital purchases?

@EvilLucario exactly the same as far as I know. The ps4 requires mandatory installs from the disc's. The base game (what's on a disc) doesn't take too long typically, what can make it a pain is of course day one patches, updates etc.

@EvilLucario It takes a few minutes to install the game from a disc, versus possible hours from PSN. Not including time to download patches, of course.

@redd214 @Ralizah So... it takes roughly the same amount of space as digital stuff? Boy, that just sucks.

@EvilLucario yes exactly same amount of space. Reason is the drive in ps4 doesn't spin fast enough to load the data off the disc thus requiring install to the hdd

@EvilLucario Yeah, media doesn't play off the discs. The discs contain most of the data for the game and function as an unlock key, but the system itself is functionally digital-only in terms of how it processes media.

@NEStalgia I believe he's moving to a new place. But that was in June I think. Maybe he bought an old cottage that's falling apart at any moment, and he's still fixing the plumbing I hope he's alright though!

@Dezzy Impressive! I wonder what the actual numbers are. I'm certain it's been a huge success for them, considering the budget was quite small.

@EvilLucario You can ''delete'' a game at any time, and keep the save data. So if it's a game you likely won't play in a good while, just delete it. Installing takes a few minutes. Though I do recall that you can play a few games right away. I assume they just install everything for the first level/area first or something like that. So you don't have to wait for the entire game to finish installing. That being said, I own a 1TB model, and I currently own about 25 physical games, and a good amount of digital games, and everything still fits on it. I haven't had to delete anything yet.

@Ralizah The thing is that's how most games actually operate. As far back as the GameCube I recall. It loads the game onto the RAM, then plays it from the RAM. Except that the RAM wasn't big enough to load everything at once, and it deletes the data as soon as it loads a new part. You can try it for yourself though. You can open the top loader and take the game out while you're playing Mario Sunshine or Wind Waker. Just don't enter a new area and you're fine. Make sure to put the game back in afterwards though!

Boy that blows. Rip. That basically makes physical titles lose a lot of space convenience.