Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Jaz007 I like to watch them occasionally before bed. I get sensory overload and this helps chill me out. However, it is weird.

My Pro was 'roaring' whilst playing God of War yesterday. It may have sounded at lot louder than I remembered as I have been playing a lot on the Xbox X which is a LOT quieter anyway.

Don't most consoles with recommend external temperatures for use? I know Switch did, because battery, dont use it in warm weather.

I imagine PS4 would need to given it's penchant for acting like a jet. Then again mine isn't an OG PS4. It's a 1TB model so I believe the internals are very slightly refined.

@RogerRoger Now what I meant wasn't "My PS4 isn't OG". That it's not a Slim or Pro. Is your PS4 an actual original PS4? Be interesting to find out I suppose.

What mine is, is the all matt-black, original form factor, 1TB PS4, so around mid 2015 IIRC. I know it has some refinements to certain internals though I couldn't tell you what, as this system is a pain to open thanks to security screws I dont have, but it definitely runs differently to the original PS4, and obviously the allegedly cooler Pro and Slim models. But it's noisy even in colder weather.

And you may not know this, but Sony doesn't sell the "same" consoles in different places, at least not in ways we would notice. Due to the different power requirements and outputs in different countries, the adaptors will be different, obviously, but that also means the built in power supply will have to process that power differently based on where it is. Very, very minor adjustments, but not all PS4s globally are the same system.

I'd be willing to bet in some countries, hypothetically, if there was such a wild difference in the intensity of a power supply to other regions, even the cooling would need to be modified to accommodate, or at least the internals reshuffled around a bit.

Of course that's all hypothetical. I dont think many places differ that wildly. Granted at the end of the day it's still heated silicon in a plastic shell that heats up to unholy degrees if you actually measure the temperature of the system. Down to user discretion I suppose.

As for the British Hyperbole, well my PS4 is the loudest device I have, and I have a Slim PS3, Wii U + HDD, and a huge PC by my side. None of them combined make the noise my PS4 makes.

@RogerRoger I keep all my systems on a stack of shelves, with the TV on a shelf above them. Well except my Switch, thats small enough to sit on my desk under a monitor.

Of course at temperatures over 10C I start to malfunction. I dont know why but parts of me stop working. Its weird.

One thing I dont miss on the Switch is the noise. The fan at full pelt is barely noticable and of course no drive noise either. PS4 though? Heats the room up and is stupidly loud. That BluRay especially. Sounds like its choking!

@YummyHappyPills The PS4 is dual-voltage, they can take anything from 100V up to 240V. Your European console will work fine in the US with a US power cable (or even one of those plug converters), the power adapter in the console itself is a worldwide standard.

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I’ve got an OG PS4 & I’m suprised at how quiet it is when running God of War. The fans kick in when booting up the game, but after that it’s all good.
This is particularly surprising as RiME was really ‘loud’.

I do keep the room well ventilated & the PS4 is raised of the table.

@Octane Thanks for sharing

Going to my local comic shop to continue playing a ongoing campaign of Dungeons and Dragons. I just hit level 3 with my half or ranger, so I am excited to test out all my new skills I got for leveling up.

Ive been playing Dragons Dogma for a couple of hours. I don't have a clue what I'm doing and I bloody love it. This is why I prefer this kind of game over the likes of God of War, Uncharted etc.

They just throw you in the deep end and see if you have the patience to figure out what the hell you're meant to be doing.

I wasn't sure what thread to put this in so I figured this one would do. The other day I was talking to a couple people at work. This girl says how when she met me she thought I looked like some gamer guy. I laughed and then the guy in this conversation asked if I am a gamer and I said yes. He's like oh what do you play? I told him all kinds of stuff. So then he starts listing games. Modern Warfare? No. Black Ops? No. Fortnite? No. Madden? No. What do you play?! GTA? Yes I used to on my 360.
I laughed to myself afterwards. I live in Texas and he's one of those big truck driving, country music loving, southern boys. Idk how much he knew about other games to even start naming off anything I love playing.

@ArkhamKnerd Lol, yeah I’ve had similar interactions. Do you play COD? Nope. Fortnite? Nope. Madden? Nope. Pfffssshhh ... Those are peasant games. Give me Persona 5, Nier Automata, or Danganronpa. Never heard of those? Well, I love Shadow of the Collosus, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Metal Gear Solid. Then after receiving a blank stare, I just walk away feeling sorry for them. Poor people limiting themselves to like 5 basic games they play over and over. 😂 Oh well, to each his own. I suppose they can be happy in their world, I’ll be happy in mine.

@Th3solution Yeah I know what you mean! 😆 It's not like there's anything wrong with those games or those who only play them. It just was funny to me when he didn't understand what I play if I don't play any of those games.

Back when I worked at HMV, I was playing Rayman Origins during my lunch break (a game I love), and a colleague came in. He couldn't believe that I'd rather play a colourful platformer than Call of Duty, or Gears of War, or that kind of thing. I tried to explain that Rayman Origins is brilliant and that games are more than just violent shooters, but he just stared at me like I'd smacked him in the face.

Back when I worked at EE (I had a job, yes), all people there played was Xbox/PS4, for FIFA, CoD, Forza and Battlefield. 3 weeks I worked there and that was it. No interest in indies, Nintendo, any other big franchises like Overwatch from third parties. Just those 4.

Then again this is the UK where you get bullied in school for playing anything BUT those games so...meh. It's weird.

My mate at work used to play the annual PES and that would be it (good choice of football game, though). One day we were talking about it and I jokingly told him his then-new PS4 was going to waste if that was all he was using it for. He said that he'd like to play something good, but he didn't know what, and that the last non-PES game he'd really enjoyed was Legacy of Kain (it took him about a week to remember the name!)

So I told him about this game called 'Bloodborne' that had just come out and to maybe give it a try, but to watch out for the difficulty. Next thing I know, he's platinummed it before I've even bought a PS4! Nowadays, our gaming conversations involve him telling for the hundredth time that I need to play Firewatch and Salt and Sanctuary.

I think we're in a gaming echo chamber of sorts, that bubble that Sammy talks about. A lot of these people you speak to genuinely don't know these games exist.

@Gremio108 A friend of mine had The Last of Us on his PS4 through PS+, and he also got Ratchet & Clank and Bloodborne not too long ago through PS+. I asked him whether he had played them or not, his response: ''Why? Are they any good?''

@Octane I suppose it's them that are in the bubble? To not have played those games despite having them given to you, for free........

Now I'm going to ask the question that everybody is thinking: "But did he play Knack?"

@Gremio108 Haha, no! He mostly plays the free indie games he gets and games like Overwatch and COD. I got another friend of mine hooked on the single player magic though. I knew he liked Skyrim a lot, so I casually showed him Horizon, next thing I know, he bought a PS4 and beat Horizon within a single week. I believe he also played The Witcher and God of War, and a ton of other games.

I think gaming follows other entertainment trends a lot. The big names, simplest gameplay and easily marketable package sells more. In books it is typically celebrity biographies, or recurring franchises where there is one every year and every story is near identical to the last. Movies too - people go see the big films and it takes something special for a breakout hit from a lower ranking.

It does rankle but to be honest, in the 360 gen (when gaming had become an occasional hobby and something I didn't really follow), I tended to buy what was popular and it was only my street smart friend (and podcast co host) who kept pushing me to get games like Bioshock, Portal 1 & 2 etc. This gen, I've sought out better games, firstly from scouring Sony's first party catalogue and then through recommendations, particularly on this site and now I've have rekindled my passion for games I've not had since the PS2 days and earlier days.