Rummy Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Buy-it-nows seem around the 70-90ish mark depending on included tings, but wasn't sure how well they sell at that. Might watch a couple auctions see what they end up at. For all I know the thing's gone by now, but I might pass regardless as I'm not sure if I've got anyone I could shift it to anyhow. Back to PS4 stuff - does anyone else out there have Worms Battlegrounds? Me and my mate were chilling t'other day so I bought it on a whim for £4, but it seems for a game that's been out a while there isn't very much out there or even a thread here! Can't complain for four quid espesh as we had a chuckle with a few matches, just wondering why it never had much about it - was after a guide/FAQ to answer some questions and surprised to see no such thing exists. Maybe not too surprising as it isn't exactly groundbreaking on the worms formula, but it's got some differences to it I'm not wholly used to yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Back to PS4 stuff - does anyone else out there have Worms Battlegrounds? Me and my mate were chilling t'other day so I bought it on a whim for £4, but it seems for a game that's been out a while there isn't very much out there or even a thread here! Can't complain for four quid espesh as we had a chuckle with a few matches, just wondering why it never had much about it - was after a guide/FAQ to answer some questions and surprised to see no such thing exists. Maybe not too surprising as it isn't exactly groundbreaking on the worms formula, but it's got some differences to it I'm not wholly used to yet. My nephew bought it and was trying to get me to do the same. I was sitting in party chat with him while he was playing it and I couldn't stop laughing when the worms voice came through the headset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drahkon Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Tempted to get Worms, but not sure if it's worth it..basically all of my friends who like video games are abroad, live quite far away or don't have a PS4. So every multiplayer option is rendered useless, because I think Worms is a game to play with friends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) I mean for £4 I'm sure it can't be terrible, but I'm not sure I'd have bought it if my mate hadn't been around nor how much I'll bother with it otherwise. Found it a bit strange(though it's been a while since I've played any worms games) in that the weapons/utilities available seem slightly randomised, and there's a ton which we had no idea what they did. On top of that there seems to be an option to 'buy' the weapons with coins, though I've no clue where said coins come from. There's also some special worm types which I don't wholly know what they do, but the fat one seemed fun at least. EDIT: Decided to make a thread. Any mod/admin's able to just shift the couple posts over into it? Edited January 8, 2016 by Rummy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2) arrives next week. Dark Cloud 2 will be the latest PS2 title to receive the emulation treatment for PlayStation 4 next week, with Level-5's RPG sequel coming soon. Known as Dark Chronicle in Japan and Europe, the second Dark Cloud isn't connected to the first game in narrative terms, although you can pick up the original Dark Cloud on PS4, being as it was one of the first titles for the console's PS2 emulator. Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle will be coming to PlayStation 4 via the PS2 emulator, complete with trophy support, of course, on 19th January 2016, as confirmed on the PlayStation Blogcast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 I got an email from Sony this morning saying that as PSN was down on 4 Jan 16 then an extra day will be added to my Plus subscription. I have to input a code. Did anyone else get this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 I got an email from Sony this morning saying that as PSN was down on 4 Jan 16 then an extra day will be added to my Plus subscription. I have to input a code. Did anyone else get this? Yeah, they are dishing it out to all PS+ members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Nice gesture, but inputting a code seems too much effort for like 10p worth of reward. Can't be arsed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.C.G Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Nice gesture, but inputting a code seems too much effort for like 10p worth of reward. Can't be arsed. You could log into the Playstation Store on your PC instead, cut/paste code from e-mail, redeem, done! : peace: It's marginally less effort that way in any case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 My time is worth more than that. I'm an important guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro_Link Posted January 16, 2016 Author Share Posted January 16, 2016 Yeah for a one day extension I couldn't be bothered either :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happenstance Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Well I redeemed mine! Thank you Lord Sony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I got the email but was out so haven't done anything about it yet, think I definitely will as I was actually trying to play my PS4 for most of that afternoon with very little joy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted January 20, 2016 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro_Link Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro_Link Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 ... And Sound Shapes Ultimate Bundle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 20, 2016 Share 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drahkon Posted January 20, 2016 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 20, 2016 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drahkon Posted January 21, 2016 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted January 21, 2016 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drahkon Posted January 21, 2016 Share 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happenstance Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Rogue Galaxy is gonna be my next PS2 classic but you certainly cant go wrong with Vice City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheikah Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Still holding out for Shadow Hearts 1 and 2. It's really unlikely, but it would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted January 21, 2016 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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