Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

Full Throttle: Remastered - never had a PC back in the day, so never had a chance to play these Lucas Arts point-and-click adventures. Played and quite enjoyed Day of the Tentacle: Remastered a couple of years back… and think I might like FT even more. Love the gruff main character and the biker gang theme, as well as the remastered art work.

@colonelkilgore damn that’s quite a classic right here.

@Yousef- ikr… one of my favourite things to do with these games is to hit the touchpad every time I reach a new screen to cycle between the original visuals and that of the remasters. I remember looking at screenshots of the games back in the day and being amazed… but looking at them now I can barely see through the pixelisation.

@colonelkilgore could be a monitor thing. As someone with a few older monitors still lying around, I can attest some things looked better on their at-the-time intended monitor. But I can’t verify it for this game because I never grew up with LucasArt games.

That said, I’m actually generally a big P&C adventure buff. Before TWD, telltale made a ton of them. Back to the future, Sam & Max: Save the World, Jurassic Park: the Video Game, Tales of Monkey Island, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Cool Attractive People… all classics in my eyes. But a lot of them are much harder to get now than ever due to both 7th gen exclusivity AND digital exclusivity. I have ‘em all on PC though.

@Yousef- I hadn’t heard of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Cool Attractive People before… but might have to look that one up 😉

There wasn't in that first hour as Ryza isn't an Alchemist yet @Ralizah

But I played a little longer and... Soon as she became an Alchemist pretty much EVERYTHING could be gathered in some way or another (Flowers, barrels, cobwebs, grapes, rocks, water etc.) and the alchemy/crafting system went over my head (I was rather tired last night when I played it).

That's all I can say about it though. I was only giving it a little look-see as I won't actually be playing it properly anytime soon but hopefully these first impressions give you a little heads up.

I know. But hey I'm a bit of a control freak when I game

Scott Pilgrim

... This beat 'em is... Really quite hard. Barely managed to scrape by the first level/boss. The second level wasn't so bad... But level 3 is rather grueling.

Not gonna give up on it just yet (it is a beat 'em up and not very long after all)... But it is testing my patience a little.

I do really like the music though. It's really REALLY good. I'm humming the first level's theme as I type this even!

@HallowMoonshadow it is. Made me realize I’m not a fan of 2D beat ‘em ups like I thought I was. I grew up with golden axe and streets of rage, so I always thought I’m a big sucker for beat ‘em ups but the charm of those games was ironically only captured in 3D beat em ups for me. Turns out I’m a larger sucker for simple combat with a lot of depth rather than sheer difficulty. Retro City Girls might be up my alley though. Looks cute, I like cute, can’t really complain at all.

@Yousef- Same here! I played the most recent Street of Rage, but ditched it after a few levels. Love the art style, but found the gameplay too repetitive. Which is my achilles heel with any game.

Started playing BioShock 2. Can't believe it's been several years since I played the first one. I think it's cool that you get to play as a Big Daddy and explore Rapture underwater, which is something that was missing from the first game. I'm curious to see where the story will go in this game.

Yesss I wasn’t huge on SoR4 either. Feels like a certain magic that can’t be captured again.

I didn’t play 2, but 1 was a huge blast. I played the OG PC version which I do think is the worst, but I had fun anyways. I vibe a lot with the setting. Political dramas always appealed to me and this had a unique and interesting setting and fun gameplay superpowers.

I'm quite fond of Dragon's Crown in particular @Yousef- and Shredder's Revenge was a decent enough time too.

I don't think it helps Scott Pilgrim's case that the levels seem to go on a bit longer then they probably should (along with the high difficulty) which is probably making it drag a lot more then I'd really want for a Beat 'em up.

@HallowMoonshadow oh wow, Dragon’s Crown, that name is old enough to make me nostalgic now. I totes adore vanillaware’s outings.
Shredder’s Revenge is a game I have insane respect for. Textbook definition of timeless classic. I actually have a lot of fondness for all five major turtle eras (1987, 1990, 2003, 2007 and 2012) so I’ll have to pay that game a visit if I get a turtlemania urge kicking in.

Shame about Scott’s level design. Truth be told, I’m more fond of the movie.

@Yousef- Yeah the setting won't have the same impact the second time around but it's great to explore Rapture once again. I am more excited to play BioShock Infinite though since it has a different setting.

@LtSarge BioShock Infinite is fantastic, and my favorite of the series. I only made it halfway through BioShock 2, and it wasn’t bad, but doesn’t have the panache of the first or of Infinite. I always meant to go back and finish off BioShock 2 but never have taken the time.

@Th3solution that’s the one I always look forward to the most, especially after really liking the first one. Hopefully I’ll find the time to continue it. I do have the series.

@Yousef- From a gameplay perspective, I’m not sure how it will hold up. I’m not the biggest fan of FPS, but I think it’s got some decent combat and traversal. The story is what I enjoyed the most and I thought the ending was one of the best I’ve ever experienced.

Looking forward to Judas and what it might bring from the mind of Ken Levine.

@Th3solution After having played BioShock 2 for several hours now, I'm actually enjoying the gameplay way more than the first game's. The drill started out cool but then became redundant once you got other weapons. Then I learned the ability to drill dash, which instantly takes out a regular enemy and is just so much fun to use.

Then there's the hacking mini-game, which is so much better than the first game's. I liked the pipes in the first BioShock, but it just took way too long. The one in BioShock 2 is much simpler where you just have to time a moving needle on a graph to hit a blue or green space multiple times. It literally takes only a couple of seconds to hack now, which is so much more convenient.

The camera makes a return as well, but instead of taking a limited amount of photographs, you're filming everything and there's no limit of how much you can film. Another very welcome improvement to the gameplay.

There's so much I can talk about with regards to the gameplay, but I'm definitely enjoying it way more than the first BioShock's. It's an absolute blast.

@Th3solution I’ll somewhat embarrass myself by admitting prior to playing bioshock, I didn’t have a clue it had super powers. If you want my unapologetically honest opinion, it’s that knowledge that truly tipped me into enjoying it. It’s possible I already knew this, but I always found it bizarre fans never prompted this. What, they’re scared their precious political drama get mistaken for a dumb superhero game? Well I adore both dramas and shooting stuff with lighting. You can enjoy both!
On a more serious note, I do take some blame in my ignorance, because I vividly remember superpowers being a selling point in Infinite, but I never looked into it further.
Truthfully, gameplay is what always tips me. I will eventually play a game with highly praised story, but you must at least make an effort to sell me on the gameplay. I feel that should be a given.

@Th3solution alright, you may wanna pardon me for my sudden tanget. But your FPS comment has made me ponder and realize a few things. One of them was the likelihood you have likely missed out on one of the worst and ugliest eras in gaming, the post-2007 era of FPS games.

Now the golden age of FPS is actually shocking easy to summarize, you have Doom, Half-Life, Quake, Unreal Tourney, Deus Ex, Wolfenstein, System Shock, Shadowman… I can go on. But you get the idea.

Now brace yourself for the funny part; those don’t really matter in the context of what I’m about to say. The golden age was, well, golden. The dark ages though? Well, let’s just say you have likely missed out on horrific demonization and infantilization of foreign cultures. When I was younger, I loved battlefield 3. Now that I’m more mature and sophisticated (so sophisticated in fact, my favorite ps2 platformer is ape escape 3), revisiting battlefield 3 and hearing the dialogue makes my skin crawl. This sadly extended to some non-FPS games like a few mid-2000s one splinter cell game, though forgot which one and frankly I’m not overly interested. It’s best to let some games buried.

From the sound of it you played the good ones doe. Might I recommend Serious Sam 4? Careful, it’s a very serious game!