Topic: PS4 recommendation thread

@johncalmc But I literally just got home from school!!

@Kidfried Here’s another vote for Persona 5, because it’s the greatest.

@Kidfried If you like the Souls games, then Nioh is a must. It's a bit more accessible than those games and the combat is quite unique (each weapon has a low, middle, and high stance). It's also more classically laid out with separate levels rather than one large world.

@Kidfried Ooh Persona 5! It would certainly be the best value and it is glorious after all. Don't listen to that cheeky scamp @kyleforrester87, he's been sent to bed with water and a crust of bread! I would also very highly recommend Dishonored 2. It's very skillfully made with some amazing level design.

@mookysam I wish I enjoyed Persona 5 as much as everyone else, I tried!!

@Kidfried @beemo I stalled out on P5 too at around hour 20 or 30 ish. But I can still confidently recommend it since it oozes style and I enjoyed my time. It’s just really long and probably my ADD is getting worse.... Or something....What was I saying? I lost my train of thought when that Toyota advertisement came on TV just now. I really like the sporty look of the new Camrys. The front end grill looks a little bit like the car is grimacing at you. If I owned one I think I’d call him “Grimace”. Man, that reminds me, I’m hungry.... a Big Mac sounds good right now....
Oh yeah, anyways. Persona 5. Yeah, it’s really good. Spectacular art style, the story is interesting, and the gameplay is pretty good, if not derivative of P4G. The long games are killing me though. I have trouble completing games over 50 hours lately.
Rise of the TR is really good (Shadow is better imo, but not by a huge amount and the story builds somewhat on Rise so it would behoove you to play Rise first if possible). Ultra Despair Girls is good too. I would probably avoid Rise of the TR back-to-back with Red Dead, too much open world action fatigue that might set in. And that would be a whole lotta bow-and-arrow hunting all at once too. But definitely play it later on at some point.
UDG is more niche of course, but if you liked the Danganronpa universe, then it might be a fresh change of pace from cowboying. It is still 3rd person shooting, though, but very different in its own right. Better than expected.
Those 3 are the only ones from the list I played, and I can recommend them all.
To me the game that is the most different from RDR2 is OnRush. Except no one actually has played that game, so it will be hard to get any recommendation on it, so we’ll never know. 😉

@KratosMD I didn't pick the DLC up! I always wanted to but rarely do I bother (still to get the XBC2 DLC, but it will happen!)

I did hear it is worth having, though. I believe Pushsquare reviewed each part as it came out?

@KratosMD Urgh I sent links but my phones screwing up. But yeah PS did review them.

The second one sounds best lol

@KratosMD Not that it helps but I've got the season pass but not played any of it yet.

My advice with any dlc is to play the main game first. There is a risk you may not like a game so would never play the dlc. You can always purchase the dlc at a later date if you want more from the game. Those things are always on sale on the ps store.

@KratosMD The DLC are surely worthy € 10 to me. End of Zoe changes the combat mechanics (and lasts around 2 hours), Daughters add some background story (1 hour), Bedroom is an interesting extra (1 hour) and the remaining are funny replayable minigames.
I personally play through any Resi at least twice since a single run is not enough to enjoy all the little creepy details and this one has its regular collectables and unlockables so the main base + the free DLC should still be enough and you could spend the saved € 10 to buy for example the Resi Origins Bundle (often on sale for that price) or The Forest which is surprisingly good.

@KratosMD Yeah for a tenner it's a no brainer to me to just get the DLC.

Is the teaser the beginning hour? I wouldn't bother with that to be honest, I played it before the main game launched (assuming it's the same demo) and I didn't like it and was worried about the main game. Sammy convinced me to get the main game in his review and I'm really glad I did. My opinion of it did a 180 after the first hour.

Hi guys, my pal (who isn't on here) has just picked up a PS4 with Spider-Man, Horizon Zero Dawn and Wipeout(?). He is looking for the exclusives and I have recommended God of War, Detroit Become Human, the Uncharted games and Shadow of the Colossus as that's what I've seen you chaps talk about a lot here. Is there any other exclusives that you could chuck in the ring for my pal to have a look at?

@KratosMD It's not part of the main game at all, but it's set in the same house and has puzzles which are representative of what show up in the main game and a bit of plot. But you're just sort of plonked into the demo without any establishment and you have no weapons or anything. It's okay to get an idea of the environment, visuals and how the character controls I guess. And it had a few items and puzzles which kicked up lots of debate on the internet, helping advertise the game. But generally I was unimpressed by it. I'm assuming it's the same demo, anyway.

I dunno, give it a go, it's free after all. But if you don't really dig what you played don't think you necessarily won't like the main game.

@KratosMD Thanks man, passed on to my pal.

@RogerRoger Thanks, I'll pass that on too.

@crippyd The Last Guardian and The Last of Us of course!

@Octane Thanks for that. I've passed it on.

@KratosMD I already finished it twice, but I'm sure I'm gonna do a third run sooner or later not for the trophies alone, but just because this game has that "classic" vibe that made me play the original four times on PSX and two on PS4. I'm sure you'll enjoy even the craziest of the "minigames" since they are still related to the main story.

@KratosMD That's good to hear! I reckon you'll really enjoy the full game.

@crippyd All the main recommendations have been given and I can agree with most of them. Only ones I can think to add that I quite enjoyed would be Until Dawn and The Order 1886. With him playing some large open world games like Spider-Man and Horizon, and then possibly picking up other fairly big games like Infamous, Bloodborne, Persona 5, and a bunch of Yakuza and Uncharted games, he might like a couple short and sweet experiences like these two to throw in some variety.
I don’t even like horror games generally speaking, but I like choice and consequence story driven games and so I was very pleased with Until Dawn. It’s a surprising gem.
The much maligned The Order 1886 has received a bad rap, mostly because of its very short run time (6-8 hrs) and linear, fairly basic gameplay. But it is well worth playing imo, especially if he likes cover based shooters. Just warn him that since the game sold poorly that we won’t see a sequel, so it leaves a bit of a disappointment in that regard. But you can find The Order preowned for $5 max, and probably even cheaper. Both games are 7-8/10 if I had to score them.
Has he ever owned any of the previous PlayStation consoles or has he just been a Nintendo or Xbox guy up to this point?