PlayStation 4 Console Thread

[carlospie]

Anyone got sniper elite 3? My mates at work are all hammering it and telling me to get it for multiplayer lols

[SeanR]

Sure, pm me your address...

[carlospie]

Ha ha I meant does anyone think it's any good who's got it!

[Dude Ranch]

Sean might be offering it to you. I'll have/borrow it if it's going spare!

[carlospie]

Get in line!!

[omus]

Bought a £50 PSN voucher to buy GTA, went to a pub for a drink and somebody stole my bag containing the voucher (among other things) while I was turned around for ten seconds.

Gutted

Sony customer service ups their game. Is there any level they wont stoop to?

[jonamok]

Yeah it's silly but there's that thing of wanting to keep up. You don't want to miss out on deals or an exciting new release. It's just the way I am I suppose, I know it's a bit weird but to just be out of it is nice. It's like the difference between watching a horse race and watching one when you've got a bet on it. With the Wii U there's only about 5 games to think about and I already know what they all are. There is an element of being finished with it all though, I just can't bring myself to care as much as you're supposed to now, complex control schemes or mechanics and I just can't be arsed.

At the risk of turning this into our annual gaming ennui thread, this and Pockets' longer post are pretty much my feelings. Have a Vita I never play. A PS3 and 360 with a never to be played pile of shame each. A PS4 with FC4 and DA:I unopened. I'm enjoying my new 3DS, but only an hour or so a week. And now I am obsessing about speccing a mega PC to play E:D a year or more from now when the consumer Rift finally drops.

Nothing else on the horizon that I'm truly anticipating. I think I'm tiring of the hobby, and just ticking off new gaming sensations, rather than loving games themselves. And I feel guilty for not throwing myself into the amazing stuff I have just an arm's length away. Ah well. Maybe a WiiU will sort me out, eh!

[Uncle Mike]

I do think gamers should probably stop buying games they're not going to play and consoles they're not going to use. It makes sense. Why celebrate the pile of shame? That is a pretty strong representation of a waste of money.

[carlospie]

First world problems

[Stanley]

At the risk of turning this into our annual gaming ennui thread, this and Pockets' longer post are pretty much my feelings. Have a Vita I never play. A PS3 and 360 with a never to be played pile of shame each. A PS4 with FC4 and DA:I unopened. I'm enjoying my new 3DS, but only an hour or so a week. And now I am obsessing about speccing a mega PC to play E:D a year or more from now when the consumer Rift finally drops.

Nothing else on the horizon that I'm truly anticipating. I think I'm tiring of the hobby, and just ticking off new gaming sensations, rather than loving games themselves. And I feel guilty for not throwing myself into the amazing stuff I have just an arm's length away. Ah well. Maybe a WiiU will sort me out, eh!

How much would you take for Dragon Age?

[gospvg]

At the risk of turning this into our annual gaming ennui thread, this and Pockets' longer post are pretty much my feelings. Have a Vita I never play. A PS3 and 360 with a never to be played pile of shame each. A PS4 with FC4 and DA:I unopened. I'm enjoying my new 3DS, but only an hour or so a week. And now I am obsessing about speccing a mega PC to play E:D a year or more from now when the consumer Rift finally drops.

Nothing else on the horizon that I'm truly anticipating. I think I'm tiring of the hobby, and just ticking off new gaming sensations, rather than loving games themselves. And I feel guilty for not throwing myself into the amazing stuff I have just an arm's length away. Ah well. Maybe a WiiU will sort me out, eh!

Stop buying any more consoles or game you are just adding to your ENNUI. Too much choice makes it even more difficult to sit down and enjoy what you have. If you are not playing the 360/PS3 get rid stick with the PS4 for now & open up FC4 or Dragons Age & give yourself some time to enjoy playing them.

Don't be afraid to take a break from gaming, you should be using your spare time to experience much more than just gaming.

Pick one game you want to play the most & forget about the rest.

Sit back and enjoy.

[JohnnyNolan]

I cut down to one console last gen and I've done that for this gen too.

Now that I've de-cluttered my gaming I actually enjoy it more. The problem many of us older folks with plenty of disposable income have is we have the funds to buy all sorts, but often not the time to commit. I think forums like this make it worse for many. They buy one game and then come on to read up on that, but end up reading about another ten games all of which are "the greatest thing ever that you MUST play". They then buy those, despite the first game hasn't been played or has been played for all of about an hour!

Other than the PS+ stuff, of which little of the PS4 content has even remotely interested me, I've cut my gaming collection down to three or four games at the most. Normally a sports game, driving game and something else. When I finish them or get bored they get sold.

I hate to think how much money I wasted back in the PS2/Xbox/GC era. I must have bought dozens of games that I never ever played and many more that got about 30 playtime at best!

[MattyP]

I cut down to one console last gen and I've done that for this gen too.

Now that I've de-cluttered my gaming I actually enjoy it more. The problem many of us older folks with plenty of disposable income have is we have the funds to buy all sorts, but often not the time to commit. I think forums like this make it worse for many. They buy one game and then come on to read up on that, but end up reading about another ten games all of which are "the greatest thing ever that you MUST play". They then buy those, despite the first game hasn't been played or has been played for all of about an hour!

Other than the PS+ stuff, of which little of the PS4 content has even remotely interested me, I've cut my gaming collection down to three or four games at the most. Normally a sports game, driving game and something else. When I finish them or get bored they get sold.

I hate to think how much money I wasted back in the PS2/Xbox/GC era. I must have bought dozens of games that I never ever played and many more that got about 30 playtime at best!

Nail on the head!

That is the reason why I've just cut back pretty much everything. I looked at my PS2 collection (let alone PS3) and many games I actually played to completion and it was quite depressing really.

Last gen was equally as bad. Especially picking up "bargain" games.

This is why I'm now strictly PC and WiiU. I need a PC anyway and there are more than enough games on WiiU to keep me busy.

Its great having a massive choice on XBO and PS4 but you become paralysed by the sheer volume of games that get released (Have a couple of hours spare... what shall I play? What system should I play it on? etc). Always chasing the next big thing. Not sure how many gamers actually complete things these days anyway even ones that have time on their hands.

Anyway steam is the other thing I'm watching on the PC - not to overindulge and build a digital backlog..... At least the games are cheaper I guess. And stay in your library.

At the moment its : Mario 3D world on WiiU, Elite on PC and Gran Turismo 6 on the PS3.

Still have Beyond Two souls on PS3 to work through, Super Mario Bros Wii U and I dip into racers on PC now and again (ditto for MK8 on WiiU).

Fully intend to buy the next Zelda, Splatoon and Metroid Prime Trilogy on WiiU

Project Cars on PC

What I like about WiiU is you can dip in and dip out of the games without a massive time investment* and I really enjoy them!

That lot will probably keep me busy until the end of the year TBH.

* OK Zelda will need some time setting aside for it! Which is why I don't mind if its delayed a little bit!

[Retroguy]

Now that I've de-cluttered my gaming I actually enjoy it more. The problem many of us older folks with plenty of disposable income have is we have the funds to buy all sorts, but often not the time to commit. I think forums like this make it worse for many. They buy one game and then come on to read up on that, but end up reading about another ten games all of which are "the greatest thing ever that you MUST play". They then buy those, despite the first game hasn't been played or has been played for all of about an hour!

Yeah it's exactly that for me. My gaming habits have changed a lot over the years. I'm sure that there are a lot of games out now, like Guild Wars 2, Marvel Heroes etc which I would have loved as a kid. Those offer hundreds of hours worth of game for very little cash input, and would have been amazing to me as a kid I'm sure. Hell, I used to by almost any game if it hit the £5 mark. It took me a while to realise I was being stupid and just had an ever-growing pile of shrink-wrapped games.

I've tried to learn the error of my ways though. Now that I recognise that I don't have seemingly infinite amounts of free time, I tend to stick to the games which provide me with the greatest amount of fun per hour, which are usually slightly tighter, more focused games, perhaps more story-based. I guess it's that I want to enjoy the experience with other players, but I know I'm not going to have the time necessary to put in to appreciate certain titles.

I do find I always want to be playing the latest release with all the buzz around it though. I often try and limit myself to 2-3 games on the go at once, and when I force myself to delay starting the new forum favourite, I do regret missing out on all that joint enthusiasm which has evaporated somewhat a few weeks/months later.

[V3zna]

Digital distribution has been my issue. Cheap games that are noticeably reduced on different stores has sent my impulse purchasing soaring. Stuff like Dragon Age Inquisition on the US PS4 store for £26 at Christmas. PES2015 on the UK PS4 store for £20. Alien Isolation as a new release on the Indian Xbox One store for £27. All bought, enjoyed for a short time and then replaced by further cheap digital impulse purchases. When I fire up my consoles I'm paralysed by the choice I have. I can't decide what to play and just fire up Destiny instead.

In short, too much choice is crippling, a waste of money and we gamers never learn.

[SMD]

You could just have self control. It's a hobby.

[Garibaldi]

I do think gamers should probably stop buying games they're not going to play and consoles they're not going to use. It makes sense. Why celebrate the pile of shame? That is a pretty strong representation of a waste of money.

I can't get my head round buying/recieving a new game in the post and not being excited to see what it's like right away. That might make me sound like someone with not enough in their life, but I think it's more a reflection of only picking up games that you're genuinely enthused about; rather than 'ehhh, kinda sorta' and clicking the buy button like someone's twisted your arm.

[V3zna]

You could just have self control. It's a hobby.

It's just too easy to get a discounted fairly new release digitally and be playing the thing 1/2 an hour later. First world problem for sure, ultimately unrewarding but compelling.

[SMD]

It's just too easy to get a discounted fairly new release digitally and be playing the thing 1/2 an hour later. First world problem for sure, ultimately unrewarding but compelling.

Don't tie your card details to your account, only use credit.

[Stanley]

People in here sound like they have genuine problems. Buying loads of games at discounted prices that you don't play isn't saving you money. It's costing you.

[Spacehost]

People in here sound like they have genuine problems. Buying loads of games at discounted prices that you don't play isn't saving you money. It's costing you.

See also: the Steam Effect. I have a section in my Steam catalogue for games I bought on sale and know I'll never actually be arsed playing and it's got about £300 worth of stuff in it.

I believe the term is "spaving": spending in the deluded belief that you're actually saving money, when frankly by the time you actually got around to wanting to use the item (if ever) it'd probably be cheaper anyway.

[Mr Majestyk]

People in here sound like they have genuine problems. Buying loads of games at discounted prices that you don't play isn't saving you money. It's costing you.

For me it goes back to the old Amiga days and piracy. Where you essentially collected games, not playing half of them. Nowadays, with having disposable income I'm more inclined to buy bundles / games in the "sale".

Companies have picked up on this massively, so no matter what system you have (even Nintendo FFS, buy Wii remasters in week 1, get it for half price) you'll be getting bombarded with "bargains".

You're right. It is a problem. I've taken the line that I'm buying no more retail games until I've gone through what I have. Also, when the pile of shame is cleared, I'm not pre-ordering anymore as there's too much crap being shovelled out in a broken state these days (Driveclub, AC, I'm looking at you).

[Puck]

Yeah, I'm of the age where I don't actually have much time to play games now I can finally afford them. I don't however have a massive pile of unplayed games - my pile of shame, such as it is, is limited to PS+ releases. I find instead that for the longest time now I've been around 6-12 months behind eveyone else and while I enjoy reading about new games and titles in development, I buy most things months after release for around half the original RRP. There are a few exceptions, last year Dark Souls 2 and GTAV were bought on release day, but I knew I'd play the fuck out those games and that's exactly what I did (if you can consider maybe 2 hours a night playing the fuck out of anything).

So, reading about Dying Light now it's out, it looks like something I'll really enjoy. I look forward to playing it sometime around late summer.

This all sounds good, until I remember all the unplayed games I have on iPad which I bought because at the time they were heavily discounted. But they're iOS games, so I doubt the total amount spent on uplayed games comes to more than £20

[ChewMagma]

I'm fairly disciplined with finishing the games I have paid money for (by whatever arbitrary yardstick I have applied to determine when something is "finished", but normally when the story/campaign is complete) before purchasing or starting anything new, so I tend to avoid the bloated backlog problem or at least keep it to an acceptable level.

This does result in occasionally feeling obliged to finish things I'm really not enjoying that much though and sometimes that leads to me stepping away from games for a while to do something else or risk feeling like gaming is just another form of work.

I do the same with books, comics, films etc as well, unless they are really, really awful. I feel genuine guilt if I don't finish things to my satisfaction - stupid, I know, to treat your leisure time like that, but it is what it is.

I've only ever pre-ordered once, for Dark Souls 2 last year. I might pre-order Bloodborne. I'm definitely not interested in the cult of the new or having a stack of stuff on the shelf just to look at though.

[Qazimod]

Anyone concerned about the amount of games they are buying or how much they are spending should take part in the annual games expenditure threads - seeing all your purchases totalled up can easily make you rethink your spending habits...

[K]

On mobile and can't post a link for some reason, but according to Eurogamer, Spotify is coming to PS3 & PS4, and you can use it to stream music during games. Amazing news if true; if they let you use Spotify as a radio station in GTAV, I would probably catch fire with delight.

[joffocakes]

I'd really love games to implement it that way; playing the Spotify music where the games' own music tracks would play rather than just playing over everything.

[kradica1]

Spotify coming to PS4 and PS3 in conjunction with Music Unlimited shutting down. Article only mentions spotify premium, but apparently both free and premium accounts will be supported.

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/01/28/playstation-meet-spotify/

[Spacehost]

On mobile and can't post a link for some reason, but according to Eurogamer, Spotify is coming to PS3 & PS4, and you can use it to stream music during games. Amazing news if true; if they let you use Spotify as a radio station in GTAV, I would probably catch fire with delight.

Sony are dropping their Music Unlimited service entirely for one that people actually use, and I think for the first time in a while I'm tempted to switch to Spotify instead of Google Play Music Key All Access EX Plus Alpha 4 The Bloodening: Hyper Edition.

[Majora]

Interesting that it's replacing Music Unlimited but I guess no-one would pick that over Spotify if given the choice so it makes sense. Another example of Sony cutting back by trimming off the failing bits of the company?