Real time strategy games and consoles have a checkered history. A genre usually designed to be played with a keyboard and mouse, few games have genuinely made a successful leap to a console and controller setup. Of course, it isn't impossible, and Paradox Interactive is bringing its ambitious space-faring title Stellaris to PS4 on 26th February 2019.
The studio has labeled the game as grand strategy, giving you a huge amount of choice and top level decisions to make in your quest for supremacy: "For those new to the genre, Grand Strategy Games put players in control of an empire over hundreds of in-game years, and allow them control over a large array of interconnected systems: military, economic, political, diplomatic, technological, and many more." You play as a race capable of traveling at light speed, beginning the game as you set out to explore the cosmos. How you tackle the game is largely up to you; do you want to form alliances with other powers, or conquer every world you come across?
The above trailer offers a decent explanation of the gameplay you can expect in Stellaris. Grand strategy seems to be an apt descriptor -- let's hope it'll all work nicely on PS4. Are you excited about Stellaris coming to Sony's console? Live long and prosper in the comments below.
[source blog.us.playstation.com]
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Oh yeah. I've been waiting for this!
I dread to think how this will run late-game.
I suck at these kind of games but God I would be so tempted to make others submit and be come the master of the universe.
I'd really love to be able to play games on ps4 with mouse + keyboard. If that was possible maybe we could see more strategy games releasing on the console, which now I can't play as my pc is really weak and I don't think I'd ever need a gaming one anymore.
@stevenfins I would guess we will start seeing more games implement KB/mouse controls in the coming future. Both major consoles now support it, so it's just a matter of devs utilizing it. The native kb/mouse drivers for PS4 are pretty poor in my experience (FFXIV, lots of input delay and the mouse appears to be a vitalized mouse, not really 'native').
This looks pretty entertaining and a nice diversion from the norm, in console terms anyway. Just hope it runs well enough, thats usually the killer for me...
Hope it does the job, i'll be picking it up if it runs as it needs...
The game certainly sounds interesting from the trailer - will put it on my watchlist for when reviews surface. Used to love strategy games growing up, but Theme Hospital/Park, Tropico, and the Tycoon games were my strategic limit as I sucked massively at the Populous games and Sim City (my brother made them look much easier!) The only ones I could play comfortably on PS though were the two Theme Parks, and even they were much better on PC tbf. Never been a better time to get back into strategy games on Playstation though - there seem to heve been a fair old few released in recent years and more in the near future!
There is a very good video in German about Stellaris on Ps4 on youtube. The Youtuber interviewed one of the porting devs and plays the first 20 minutes.
The four major differences to the PC-Version:
Game does not come with the most recent Patch, but will catch up later
biggest map size will not be available
fastest game speed (4 out of 4) will not be avaiilable
all menus are re-designed for gamepad use, obviously
The game seems to run absolutely fine (on a base Ps4), but the real test will be the endgame, when several huge star empire coalitions fight each other with armies of space ships.
To be honest: I`m hopeful, but I have no idea how they will make the endgame work with the Ps4 CPU. All I know is beefy gaming CPUs many times more powerful struggle. Mostly because the game uses only one core, but the single core performance of a 2017/18/19 CPU would still outperform the Ps4....
I guess we have to wait and look at Reddit for those brave enough to pre order.
Love strategy games. I would love to see Civ 6 ported to ps4
@arnoldlayne83 I agree. Was hoping the Switch release would mean a Ps4 port would follow, but it seems ot wont happen. Oddly enough, one of my fave Ps1 games was Civ 2.
The thematics appeal to me but I too get overwhelmed with all the choices. The same reason I never play chess: I know there is a perfect move to be made but it can take me an infinite time to figure it out so I just go with a seemingly random choice.
Maybe I will check this out or maybe not. We'll see.
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