Topic: TOP 5 PS4 games

1. Deus Ex
2. Doom
3. Hyper Light Drifter
4. No Mans Sky
5. Fez

1. Witcher 3
2. The Last of Us
3. Uncharted 4
4. PES 2016
5. GTA 5

QFT.

I was going to write out my own list, but apparently @arnoldlayne83 already did that for me.

Ok so my top 5 games right now in half a gens worth of time;

1) Rocket League
2) One Piece Pirate Warriors 3
3) MGS V Phantom Pain
4) Destiny
5) Driveclub

Wanted to shoehorn GTA V, TLOU, Resogun, videoball and Rogue Legacy in and all 5 would round out my top 10, then tales from the Borderlands, Hotline Miami, Fez, gone home, Cod advanced warfare and Pacman 256 would be sat inside my top 16.

Hmmm tough one.

1) TLOU Remastered
2) Everbody's Gone to the Rapture
3) Uncharted 4
4) Rocket League
5) Journey

I will say though that there are a good few games I haven't played yet that I know might well deserve to be on this list. Namely, Witcher 3, Bloodbourne, GTA V and Hyper Light Drifter.

I haven't played that much more than 5 PS4 games but here's mine for now:

1. Rocket League
2. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
3. Trackmania Turbo
4. FIFA 16
5. Destiny

I want to play Ratchet & Clank, though, and that would most likely take my top spot or at least number two, and I've got a feeling I'm gonna love The Last Guardian and Steep.

I can easily say that The Witcher 3 deserves a spot in my top 5 now that I've player enough of the game. Still think it's a bit too buggy and glitchy at times. If it wasn't, it may have ended up a little higher even.

1. The Last of Us Remastered
2. Uncharted 4
3. The Witcher 3
4. The Witness
5. Hyper Light Drifter

Been awhile since I updated this and yes my best of 2016 was in the news feed a few days ago but this is overall.

Old List

1. Call of Duty Black Ops III
2. Overwatch
3. Transformers Devestation
4. Diablo 3: UEE
5. Rocket League

New List

1. Overwatch
2. Modern Ware Remastered
3. Black Ops 3
4. Fallout 4
5. Lego Dimensions

Old List (May)

1) Last of Us Remastered
2) Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
3) Uncharted 4
4) Journey (remastered)
5) Shadow Of Mordor (toss up between this and MGSV) but I like orc killing.

New List:

1) Last of Us Remastered
2) Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
3) Inside
4) Uncharted 4 - hard choice but played Inside twice now.
5) Firewatch

I still have masses of games that I haven't got yet, including Bloodborne and Witcher 3 so the list is limited!

Old:
1. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
2. Ratchet & Clank
3. inFamous: Second Son
4. Resident Evil: Revelations 2
5. Mortal Kombat X

New:
1. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
2. Ratchet & Clank
3. Rise of the Tomb Raider
4. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
5. inFamous: Second Son

Upon reflection, while I really like Uncharted 4, I didn't find myself to be wanting to go back to it as much as R&C so I moved the latter ahead of it.

1. The Last Guardian
2. Uncharted 4
3. Gravity Rush Remastered
4. Grand Theft Auto V
5. Overwatch

Was tempted to put The Last of Us in there, but I never managed to play it on the PS4 so it felt a bit disingenuous to do so.

I completed The Last Guardian a few days ago and I can't stop thinking about it. It affected me on a deep level and I don't think any other game has had quite the same emotional impact on me as the growing bond between the boy and Trico. That game alone was worth buying a PS4 for.

Yay its back!

Old top 5;
1) One Piece Pirate Warriors 3
2) Rocket League
3) Uncharted 3
4) MGS V Phantom Pain
5) Table Top Racing

New top 5 - of ALL TIME (on ps4)
1) Rocket League
2) MGS V Phantom Pain
3) Final Fantasy 15
4) Driveclub
5) One Piece Pirate Warriors 3

Resogun, TLOU remastered, Infamous second son (pro), Rogue Legacy and Destiny round out my top 10.

I was running my top 5 as to what I was playing at the time. Here on in its my best on the PS4 Platform.

@Acquiescence: @Gamer83: @Rudy_Manchego: I found U4 to be overrated and have really struggled to motivate myself to play the game. I've noticed it on all your lists and am wondering if I've missed something.

1. The Witcher 3
2. The Last of Us Remastered
3. Bloodborne
4. Fallout 4
5. Tomb Raider: DE

I've only had my PS4 since last March so I have many games yet to play. I'm sure my list will change in the future though.

Sorry HLD, but you gotta make place for TLG. Seriously, any game that starts with ''The Last'' turns out to be a masterpiece. ''The Last of Knack'', bam!, masterpiece, easy million seller. I need to work for Sony.

1. The Last Guardian
2. The Last of Us Remastered
3. The Witcher 3
4. Uncharted 4
5. The Witness

Also, the Witcher 3 moved up in the ranks, I finished the main story and I just started the DLC. It's becoming one of my favourites too.

@themcnoisy:
How did you feel about past Uncharted games? I've liked all of them and thought from a gameplay perspective 4 was the most refined and while I didn't enjoy the story overall or some of the side characters as much as the what was in 2, I did like the pirate story the best out of any background story in the series. The recent Naughty Dog games definitely seem to split opinion though, they've very popular but also have many detractors because of how story heavy they are. I guess maybe that's a factor? That's definitely a driving force in these games. The gameplay itself isn't bad, but it's also nothing mind blowing, it's finding out what's going to happen next that gave me the most thrills.

@themcnoisy: Not sure you have necessarily missed anything with UC4. As @Gamer83 said, they are story heavy. As you can tell from my list, I am someone who loves a good yarn and characters in a game, even over gameplay sometimes. That is just a personal preference.

From a gameplaying viewpoint, UC4 is not the best or most innovative. It does what it does pretty well but there are plenty of games that do similar things so I can see why the gameplay hasn't necessarily floored them.

I think it placed high for me was because of the story and characters and because they pulled off, in my opinion, a good ending for a franchise. Endings are really uncommon in the gaming industry where franchises and characters need to be milked. While I think we will see more Uncharted games, I don't think they will continue the Nathan Drake character so it was refreshing for the story to have an ending and it feel like a real ending. I also felt that in places, this game felt like a movie that could be played and it had a big blockbuster cinematic feel. So I think it is original in that fact.

However, if you aren't gripped by the characters and story (and those are unique to individuals likes/dislikes) I would say that other than pretty graphics, there isn't a whole lot of reasons to rank it high. So I get why some people aren't as enthused by UC4 as I am.

Currently:

#1 Battlefield 1
#2 GTA online (again)
#3 Diablo (again)
#4 Minecraft (again)
#5 X-COM 2 (still)

@themcnoisy: The trouble is with games like Uncharted is that they are heavily focused on Story telling. Stories though can be quite personal and whether or not you connect with them can make a big difference to how you feel about these games. Games like Super Mario 64 for example don't really have a story so it comes down to 'is this 'fun' or not. Uncharted hardly breaks the mould from a game-play perspective - its not the only 3rd person cover shooter. That being said it does make a few big improvements over the last gen games - taking control of the Jeep (which were on rails sections before), Opening up the levels more (not so narrow), many of the missions can be stealthed completely and with no killing, combat is more fluid now and the rope adds something new to this too etc but its still nothing 'new' for gaming. I admit that I prefer the story of Uncharted 2 and didn't like the fact that Sam seemed shoehorned in for this game. I wasn't keen on the MGS style 'alert' on the enemies - although it does help if you are stealthing your way through certain areas - at least one trophy requires you to get from Point A to B without alerting any enemies - something that wouldn't happen in previous games - and it does give more options as to how you approach combat areas. Whilst progression is linear, that doesn't make the game-play 'linear' as in most situations you have a choice in how you approach the combat and even how you get from A to B in some cases. That jeep chase for example has multiple side roads but you could if you wanted just follow the main road. It might be a 'small' example. You could go in all guns blazing to some combat areas, you could sneak around the peripheral edge and pick off a few stealthily before mopping up the rest or just sneak by them altogether without being seen or killing anyone.

Yes its beautifully crafted (a technical masterpiece) and mechanically far more polished than previous games - more so than many other games too but if the story doesn't grab you and take you on that Journey through the game, make you want to find out what happens next, where the characters go etc, then I can understand why it may fall a bit flat. The characters and story is more grounded in reality than other games too - gone are the more mystical elements and the story is more 'Goonies' than Indiana Jones. Its not offering a great deal 'new' even if some of it is new for Uncharted for the game-play itself. I wouldn't say the game-play was secondary to what makes Uncharted 4 great as its been expanded and refined over the previous games but story is also a major part too...

@Gamer83: @BAMozzy: @Rudy_Manchego: I seem to be far more gripped by the infamous second son story, I'm on my second play through ironically and prefer that world to the one Nathan Drake inhabits. I've enjoyed every uncharted but wouldn't say they are the best ever, but as you have all pointed out maybe the story and semi linear nature of it isn't for me. They are polished, thanks for the replies I may get around to finishing it soon.

@themcnoisy: I guess for me, having played the Uncharted series from the very first release on PS3 (I was one of those that bought at release and then have pre-ordered every subsequent game since) and also played the previous Infamous games too, I feel that Uncharted actually took the franchise forward where as Infamous, if anything, went backwards. Visually of course, Infamous 2nd Son was great when it released although does seem to have aged now. The gameplay hasn't really progressed either and actually felt much smaller than Infamous. The fact I platinumed 2nd Son in less than a week was a good indication. I felt that it was almost knocked up to sell the PS4 at launch although it wasn't released for a few months after but it was meant to be a launch title to showcase the PS4 and its new DS4. I am not saying it wasn't fun (I wouldn't have beaten the game at least twice to get the platinum otherwise) but I really felt it was smaller and the characters were not as great as previous titles either. More flash than substance. In many ways, Infamous is more a 'game' as its more 'fantastical' with powers, more comic book etc where as Uncharted is generally more grounded (although the first 3 do have a more 'supernatural' element than the last and with that also comes more human interaction and less of an escape from reality in a lot of ways - although none of us really get to go on a treasure hunt around the world but we may have more in common with Drake and/or his friends than we do with Delsin which may not provide as much of an 'escape' as a result. Instead of getting bogged down by the 'should you put your Brother before your Wife' situation that U4 confronts, Infamous lets you loose on a city with some incredible powers. the story is more incidental - more like a loose thread holding things together and easier to play sporadically as a result.

Maybe as a newcomer to PS and these games, as well as having less time to commit or become attached to characters/story etc, Infamous 2nd Son may have more appeal as its a 'fun' game and not knowing the games that came before means its less disappointing as a follow up. I have invested a lot of time with Nate, Sully and Elena on their adventures. I joined them at their start - like watching a TV series from the beginning, you get to know the characters well, their stories etc and by the 4th series, you are looking forward to seeing their new adventure.

To me what makes Uncharted as one of the best ever isn't just 'game-play' or just the 'story'. Neither are 'spectacular' on their own and borrow heavily from other franchises. In terms of 'production' though, you can't fault what Naughty Dog have achieved, their attention to detail etc. Each game has raised the bar in terms of what can be achieved on the Playstation. Uncharted gave us characters that seemed 'real', Uncharted 3 and Last of Us are the most visually impressive games of last gen. Uncharted 4 raises the bar on this gen and I wouldn't be surprised if the Last of Us 2 pushes that bar higher again - even if it doesn't radically change what we know about 'game-play' and third person Action Adventures. Its not just one aspect alone that makes these games as the best ever - its everything combined. The reason we knew instantly when ND showed its two trailers at PGX they were ND games was because they oozed the quality that they put into their games. Stories can be hit and miss with people, we respond to them in different ways but you can't deny that ND's production values are above the majority if not the best and that sets them apart from others.