Topic: PS4 recommendation thread

@KratosMD What about Prey? It offers a good sci-fi story set in a gorgeous space station (E.V.A. included!), all with the typical Arkane Studios gameplay.
Alien: Isolation is another sci-fi classic.

@KratosMD Being an Arkane Studios game, you are free to complete every mission as you prefer.
You can upgrade your character focusing on "human" skills (combat, hacking, crafting...) and on "alien" skills (telekinesis, elemental powers, mimicking...). There are trophies for beating the game with only human skills or only alien skills, which means beating it with two very different approaches.
https://youtu.be/0QCR6nOPOLc

Man that reminds me, i have Prey and still not started it. The shame. 😶

@KratosMD Out of the two games you mentioned, I say Dues Ex was the more fun game to play. Dragon Age got bogged down with the side quests being lame and too much stuff felt like a chore to do. Others really enjoyed it though, I did not.

The Outer Worlds is the bomb though. If you wanna fun sci-fi dialogue heavy consequence based RPG, then that is the game you need to play.

@KratosMD Yeah for those prices you can't go wrong really. Deus Ex is the shorter game and Dragon's Age is more open world, so there is more content. It just whether you can put up with the slog that some of the stuff feels like.

I was thinking last night, as i was playing The Outer Worlds, I was defo getting a bit of a Mass Effect vibe, especially with some of the choices you make.

@RogerRoger I apologize for saying some of this again, but since @KratosMD is considering the series it bears repeating — I played Inquisition without having played DA2 and I felt it was fine, but you’re right, I did a lot of shrugging and just going on without a full understanding of some of the characters and world. The few characters that return from previous games were all new to me, so I had no emotional investment in them. Perhaps that’s why I never finished it. I’ve always attributed my running out of steam for the game to its somewhat long-windedness, large number of diversionary side activities and areas to explore that bogged me down, and the relatively cumbersome constant menu checking and shuffling around of equipment for my party. I think I burned myself out by not being more focused in my playthrough. I explored every map fully and constantly focused on my equipment and I think this led to my undoing. In my wandering about, I eventually ran into a dragon that I couldn’t defeat despite shuffling multiple parties and using various tactics and equipment and I grew frustrated; I think that was the final straw for my losing interest (despite the fact that there were tons of open quests and areas I could have gone to level up and come back to that stupid dragon, which was a completely optional boss in the first place and separate from the main story). But perhaps if I had a little more investment in the characters and seeing the lore of the world play out, then I would have pushed through.
I played the first few hours of DA: Origins and never really clicked with it, so Inquisition was definitely my first real time in the world. DA : Origins is definitely less refined in the gameplay and combat department, so it may be off-putting for someone new to it. But if you enjoy older games and don’t mind a little jankiness, then you’ll likely be okay.
That all said, I really enjoyed the 50-60 ish hours I spent with Inquisition and have oft felt the need to return to it. I think I said this before as well, but I might have played it a little too close to Skyrim and Dragon’s Dogma too and that could have cause the burn-out (no pun intended) with dragon over-saturation.

I actually have Dragon Age Inquisition downloaded on my PS4 and untouched, hmm.....

Not once when I was playing Inquisition did I think I was missing anything from the previous games. As far as I know the story is pretty much self contained and there are only a few characters that pop up in the previous games. So it would be like oh thats whats his face from the previous game. And then you move on with the rest of the game.

@KratosMD BTW, you can play PS3 with a Dualshock 4. I do prefer the controller and can never bloody find a charger for it so if I’m playing old Gran Turismo or last gen games I’ll reach for the DS4 before the DS3.

@KratosMD I forgot about that, yeah. Some games I don’t even understand why, like the old Tiger Woods games. I can’t even play an actual good golf game since they royally screwed up the franchise.

@KratosMD From that list, I played Bioshock Infinite on PS3 and the Collection on PS4. A part from looking a tad prettier, I can’t say it was a wildly different experience but the Burial at Sea DLC is fantastic.

@KratosMD I don't have an answer for you as i tend not to double dip on games. Darks Souls remastered is the exception as I'd never finished it and had played all the other games in the series.

But I totally get where you are coming from. When I bought my ps4 I still had my 360, I hated using it as it felt so sluggish to use compared to my ps4. No wonder some are so keen on backwards compatibility for PS5 lol.

The only game on your list that I played a last ten version of and a current version of is Sleeping Dogs. I rented the 360 version from Gamefly enjoyed it and beat it. I never owned it though so when I saw it cheap on a PSN sale I snagged it as I wanted to play it again. Of course it's going to look better on PS4/Xbox One but that's a given.

My suggestion would be if you rather play it on PS4 then get it on that console. Trade in (if you can) the PS3/Xbox 360 version towards the new gen version if you prefer that one.

@KratosMD Of those I've only played The BioShock Collection and I played all of the original versions on the Xbox 360. The first two are good upgrades both visually and in terms of increased framerate, which makes a big difference as they play considerably smoother. Some people aren't keen on the visual changes to the water and some of the textures, but I think they look good.

BioShock Infinite is a decent upgrade visually - though nowhere near as pronounced as the other two (to be expected as it is more recent). The framerate is also increased, which brings rhe same benefits as 1 & 2, but there is a streaming issue carried over from the original PC release which causes the game to stutter a little. Oddly I found this decreased somewhat after I replaced the hard drive. Anyway, if you haven't yet got Burial at Sea, it's well worth getting the Collection.

@KratosMD I enjoyed Sleeping Dogs alot, I can't compare it to Saints Row IV as I never played it but I enjoyed Sleeping Dogs even more then GTA V. The story and the interactive backgrounds that you can use in fights was brilliant. It's just a shame the sequel was cancelled

@KratosMD I forgot to mention something strange regarding The BioShock Collection. At the time I initially played it (so it may have been patched since, I'm not entirely sure) 1 & 2 shared a pool of finite save slots. When I started BioShock 2 it wouldn't let me save my progress because the slots had been filled by BioShock 1 saves that couldn't be overwritten. So I had to leave the game, delete some saves and then start 2 again from the beginning. Just a heads up, so be sure to leave a few empty slots before you start BioShock 2!

@mookysam Wow, that’s a pretty weird design flaw for the Bioshock save files. I’ve not heard of that happening with other collections before.

@RogerRoger I only know Spidey through the Maguire and a few of the more recent films and had no problem with “lore/canon” for the game. In some ways it made it more fun not knowing who some characters are!

@RogerRoger Definitely get Spider-Man. It sits squarely with Spiderverse in it's glorification of Spider-Man-ness.
There are also few things quite as zen as nailing the traversal and just having a lovely time swinging about.

Would anyone recommend the Middle Earth games? I come from a Dark Souls/Bloodborne background and really enjoyed the fantasy setting. Would you say that these games are good too? I know the combat is meant to be more similar to the Arkham games, not particularly challenging, but are they still worth playing and is there a wide variety of weapons/armour available?

@RogerRoger YES. YES. AND YESS.