Hero-of-Time Posted January 20, 2016 Posted January 20, 2016 Here's a new promo for the Q1 lineup for Japan. That's a crazy amount of good looking games in a short period of time.
Retro_Link Posted January 20, 2016 Author Posted January 20, 2016 Just snapped up Transistor, Flower and Ether One for £15 in the most recent Digital Discounts sale. Some good stuff in there.
Retro_Link Posted January 20, 2016 Author Posted January 20, 2016 ... And Sound Shapes Ultimate Bundle!
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 20, 2016 Posted January 20, 2016 Just snapped up Transistor, Flower and Ether One for £15 in the most recent Digital Discounts sale. Some good stuff in there. Ooooooh, Flower! Don't mind if I do!
drahkon Posted January 20, 2016 Posted January 20, 2016 Ooooooh, Flower! Don't mind if I do! You still don't have Flower? Have you never bought this on PS3? I hate you.
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 20, 2016 Posted January 20, 2016 You still don't have Flower? Have you never bought this on PS3? I hate you. I had no PS3 last gen. Hashtag FormerlyTeamWii.
drahkon Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 I had no PS3 last gen. Hashtag FormerlyTeamWii. Hate intensifies. :p Enjoy Flower. Make sure to be in the mood for a relaxing game, though.
Hero-of-Time Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 That looks stunning! Sounds amazing, too. Here's the Push Square review. This War of Mine: The Little Ones Braving the sniper fire of Call of Duty-loving console players, anti-war-'em-up This War of Mine: The Little Ones brings the civilian side of conflict to the PlayStation 4. 11 Bit Studios has created a heart-wrenching experience of a game, one that puts you in charge of a group of adults and children stuck in a scarily believable situation. Trying to survive until the ceasefire is everything here, and, perhaps more importantly, you may find out just what lengths you are prepared to go to in order to do so. The 18-rated gameplay is brought to life with an immersive 2.5D charcoal-stylised aesthetic; animated backgrounds are rich with the ongoing destruction that war brings and the motion captured characters are wonderfully brought to life on screen. Your quest for survival begins with nothing but a wrecked house for shelter, which operates as your base of operations. Everything you need has to be crafted, scavenged, bargained for, or looted, and there are two main phases of play: day and night. By day you are confined to your house due to there being enemy snipers outside stopping you from leaving your refuge. The focus is on maintaining your hideout: crafting, trading, repairing the house, and taking care of the young. It can be tough right from the outset as you must juggle tasks such as gathering the pitiful resources from your randomised house and building essentials like a cooker, beds, heater, etc. The scarcity of the resources leads to immediate trade-offs between whether you can find an adequate way to feed your people, concentrate on trying to make your house secure, or focus on providing ways for them to rest up and heal. By the cover of night, one of your people can venture out on a mission to scavenge through the city for items that will help you stay alive. This is a perilous endeavour and one that will force you make some very tough calls. When moving around you make noise and, at the start of the game, will most likely be unarmed, so you have two choices: do you go all Metal Gear and grab what you can, or do you boldly ransack the dwellings of others risking their potential violent response? Then there are the recriminations that come with having to hurt or even kill those whose only crime may be having some tinned food or component parts that you need. These are the sort of choices that you are forced to make, and everything takes a toll on your characters both emotionally as well as physically. During war, there are not necessarily any good or bad decisions: there is only survival. The haunting visuals are backed up by an emotive, powerful score by Piotr Musiał which really adds to the immersion as it builds dramatic tension in a truly cinematic fashion. The gameplay itself utilises a simple control scheme that allows you to worry more about the desperate events unfolding around you rather than getting any button combinations right. The combat mechanics work well when needed, although opting for violence feels like a last resort and will leave your characters not just potentially injured but psychologically damaged, too. The PlayStation 4 edition builds on the 2014 PC version which received a lot of praise for the way that it captured a believable war nightmare situation. The makers have based some of the scenarios tackled on authentic real-life events which adds pathos and is certainly enough to make you pause for thought when you realise that it might be impossible to protect everybody in your shelter. Having to decide whether or not to maybe sacrifice someone is tough. The addition of children to the struggle is an emotional gut punch that will really test your character, too. The moral dilemmas come thick and fast: are you prepared to let your adults go without food in order to keep the kids alive? Who will you give your limited medicine stocks to when the group gets ill? Then there is the constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers which will keep you on edge throughout. This certainly isn't a game that you can chill out with. It's hard to find adequate words to express quite how moving This War of Mine: The Little Ones can be. Coming back from a night mission with hard won supplies, only to find that a group have broken into your house, scared or hurt your children, and stolen your carefully crafted resources invokes real anger at the sheer injustice of it all, until you realise that is potentially exactly what you've just been doing to someone else. This is a rare game that could leave you changed, maybe even a better person in real-life as a result of having played it. Reading the aftermath stories of what happened to your people after the war is a nice touch. When the game ends, either through all of your group dying or reaching a ceasefire point, the credits roll alongside a day-by-day recap of what happened, with some great artwork and captions – especially those from the children's points of view, showing how little they understood – that drive home the cost of your survival. Conclusion This War of Mine: The Little Ones throws you into a beautiful and compelling hell. Experiencing war as a group of civilians whose lives rest in your hands with only your conscience to guide you is a refreshing change of pace from pretty much any other game out there. This is a brilliant mix of harrowing survival interspersed with moments of joy. Having fun really isn't the point here: this is a game that will challenge anyone desensitised to the real sufferings of war – and that's a bold move. 9/10
drahkon Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 I'm allowing myself to buy a "new" game as soon as I've wrapped up Rogue Legacy. Did anybody get any of the GTA PS2 re-releases on PS4? I'm tempted to get GTA Vice City. I bloody loved this back in the days (Jesus Christ, it's been almost 14 years...) and am in the mood to play this again. Just wanted to know if the PS2 games do run as great as promised? Gonna be a close one between GTA Vice City and Rogue Galaxy...
Happenstance Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Rogue Galaxy is gonna be my next PS2 classic but you certainly cant go wrong with Vice City.
Sheikah Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Still holding out for Shadow Hearts 1 and 2. It's really unlikely, but it would be awesome.
Hero-of-Time Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 I'm allowing myself to buy a "new" game as soon as I've wrapped up Rogue Legacy. Did anybody get any of the GTA PS2 re-releases on PS4? I'm tempted to get GTA Vice City. I bloody loved this back in the days (Jesus Christ, it's been almost 14 years...) and am in the mood to play this again. Just wanted to know if the PS2 games do run as great as promised? Gonna be a close one between GTA Vice City and Rogue Galaxy... I snapped up Vice City on release day, as its my favourite GTA game. I tried playing it but just couldn't get used to the controls. Generations of using the right stick as a camera makes it a right pain in the butt when playing older games that don't use this control method. I gave up trying to play it after 20 mins.
Tales Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 With you guys bringing up GTA I just had to buy San Andreas finally. Been thinking about doing it since they launched, but the honestly the graphics have put me off. They look a lot more awful than I can remember :p Just played an hour or two, but I intend to platinum it by a week or so. If it matters to Hero, it uses the right stick to move the camera. I have never owned GTAIII or vice city, but I have played parts or all of them. San Andreas is the only one of the PS2 games I owned myself. I'll consider to buy the other two when I'm done with San Andreas. Also have Rogue Galaxy, but only played the first chapter. Loved the game back on PS2 so intend to platinum this one too eventually.
drahkon Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 it uses the right stick to move the camera. Hm, that's interesting. Might sway towards San Andreas and get Vice City later this year. But Vice City was the first GTA I have completed...the nostalgia is real. Also have Rogue Galaxy, but only played the first chapter. Loved the game back on PS2 so intend to platinum this one too eventually. How "big" is Rogue Galaxy? Will it take 50+ hours to beat?
dan-likes-trees Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Sounds amazing, too. Here's the Push Square review. I played the PC version on steam last year and thought it was absolutely fantastic - really evokes a kind of desperate mood through the music and the gameplay mechanics. Toward the end of the war I distinctly remember caving in and robbing a house, with an old couple cowering in the kitchen because my team were so desperate for medicine and food. Makes you take tough choices and you feel them.. Kind of a strategy game in some of it's mechanics - I'd be interested to hear how it holds up without a mouse.
Tales Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 (edited) Hm, that's interesting. Might sway towards San Andreas and get Vice City later this year. But Vice City was the first GTA I have completed...the nostalgia is real. How "big" is Rogue Galaxy? Will it take 50+ hours to beat? Sounds about right. It's been so long I can't remember how long I played, but it is a pretty long rpg. People say how the plat took them 80-100 hours. Edited January 22, 2016 by Tales Automerged Doublepost
drahkon Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 Thanks. That's a bit long. Not in the mood for such a long game. I just went with Vice City I want to wrap up Grim Fandango today and then it's GTA time
Hero-of-Time Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 (edited) Thanks. That's a bit long. Not in the mood for such a long game. I just went with Vice City I want to wrap up Grim Fandango today and then it's GTA time Let me know how you get on with the controls. Edited January 22, 2016 by Hero-of-Time
Jimbob Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 Playing the later GTA's (IV and V), then going back to the likes of Vice City, you do certainly notice the control differences. The game's not unplayable, just gets a little getting used to.
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 It must be coming up to a month since we bought our second PS4. Seriously...no regrets at all! By now, I thought buyer's remorse would have kicked in. But, it really, really hasn't. @Eenuh was playing Tearaway last night and I was tackling Uncharted 3. Feelsgoodman.jpg.
Shorty Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 It's been 18 days. Did you try swapping the cover yet??
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 It's been 18 days. Did you try swapping the cover yet?? Is that all? Jesus, feels longer. Hahahah, nooo. I suggested it, but I don't think she was very keen on the idea. I wonder if it would look better on a coloured console, rather than white. Will probably give it a go in a bit now that you've reminded me.
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Time for a 3rd PS4 soon? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
S.C.G Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 That HDD cover was awkward to remove when I installed a new hard drive in my PS4, that thing is never coming off my console for rest of its gaming life.
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