days gone is the best ps4 game.
@āfamily_computerā#p140291 if you hit the option button I believe you can see how much time is left on the ps5 btw!
I really like the PS4, it was the first HD gaming machine I had. My laptop at the time was pretty bad and couldn't handle much, so booting up the PS4 was always a cool time.
I bought it in 2016 because I wanted to play Mirror's Edge Catalyst, a pretty cool game that you can now get for pretty cheap.
I then bought Bloodborne and got FFXV on the same holiday time. Bloodborne was really scary to me lol, I never had experience so much ambient noise so it felt very real. FFXV was okay, its become a good conversation piece among gamers lol.
I then went on to buy many PS4 games, NieR Automata, Gran Turismo Sport, Tetris Effect and Persona 5 Royal were some of my favourites.
I think the best thing about the PS4 was that everything just worked. I had it at the time that graphics cards were ramping up and Raytracing was becoming a thing. I found a lot of PC specs confusing at the time, so just putting in a disc and playing a game was simple and created no stress.
I think the PS4 was at the start or just before a plateau of computational improvements. Honestly I think most games can get away with being 1080p and 30-60 fps, I don't think there's much reason to go any higher than that. People (I'm people) can't actually notice the difference of higher specs.
I've been working a lot with PS4 development this year, deep diving into all the specs and how everything works is pretty cool. This is a 'tech demo' (_massive air quotes_) I made for some classes. Its an application made from the ground up using some of the inbuilt libraries.
Learning this under time pressure has been quite stressful, but easy enough that the devs making games for PS4 were definitely having a pretty good time.
[img width=600]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1065048444584087615/1143044011326709822/ps4Pfx-min.gif[/img]
I think the PS4 will be considered the next PS2 and I see it still getting games for another 2 or 3 years.
p.s. shoutout to Paragon and Paragon gamers, that game was okay
@ācopySaveā#p140200 I bought the PS4 on release and there wasn't a whole lot of games that interested me. I think Resogun may have been an early and free game part of PS Plus.
But my gosh Resogun is incredible and made me feel good purchasing that console so early on. Loved Returnal when it came out on PS5 and I'm basically interested in anything Housemarque moving forward.
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@ābeetsā#p140350 I think the PS4 was at the start or just before a plateau of computational improvements. Honestly I think most games can get away with being 1080p and 30-60 fps, I donāt think thereās much reason to go any higher than that. People (Iām people) canāt actually notice the difference of higher specs.
I think that you notice it, but the thing is you need to have a little bit more time and patience with that, and I also there's an off-topic that might go with the art versus industry that goes with what you said. Bloodborne was the one game that made me thought I didn't care about 60 or more fps in some cases where the atmosphere requires more of a different vibe, and I think that is where you can appreciate that, but this is something for another thread and I need to give this thought a little bit more time.
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@ādeepspacefineā#p140304 I think those big first-party open-world blandish but beautiful games are the āquintessentially ps4ā thing for me.
This is a great way of putting it and I'm right there with you.
The other day I started TLOU2 after many months of playing only older games, and I was floored by how good-looking it was. I like kind of forgot that games could look that nice. Not saying TLOU2 is as bland as most of those first-party Sony games (because I've barely played it), but I agree with you that Sony seemed to have a house style that heavily leaned on crisp, clean graphics and writing that was trying to be in line with popular prestige TV shows. So basically, that was the company's own chosen legacy for it, maybe.
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@āfamily_computerā#p140291 resogun rules tho.
> @āMovingCastlesā#p140351 But my gosh Resogun is incredible
Somehow I've never had any interest in Resogun in spite of owning both a PS4 and a PS Vita. I'll have to fire this one up asap.
Started playing Wattam last night. This thing is a hot, weird mess and itās exactly what I always wanted my PS4 to have more of.
I also started Bloodborne. I loved DS1, so Iām looking forward to this.
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the PS4 probably closed a pattern of reduced times i had to wait until i got the current-at-the-time generationās console
PS1: released in 1994, got it in 2001
PS2: released in 2000, got it in 2004
PS3: released in 2006, got it in 2008
PS4: released november 2013, got it in december 2013
i have not and probably wonāt buy a PS5
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Iāve been trying to ferret out PS4 exclusives (or sort of exclusives) for a while, but Isomehow just came across this weird one just today: Paper Beast. Directed by Eric āAnother Worldā Chahi (!), this game was originally for PSVR, but a non-VR version came out, as well. I always feel like the PS4 needs more weird games; really, this looks like a good fit for the disorienting games thread. I havenāt tried it yet, but Iām hoping to check it out at some point.
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Dreams is very good. As indie games were becoming more and more about what will make money, here was a platform where you couldnāt sell anything and could only create for the sake of creating. And the default is to share your ācodeā for others to learn from and build upon.
The look and feel of your creations is limited in some ways, but people have done a lot of creative things with it and I would recommend exploring them even now regardless of whether youāre interested in making anything of your own.
Paper Beast is unique and worth a look, though I only played it in VR so I donāt know how it would be without that.
Speaking of VR, Astro Bot is one of the most significant PS4 releases, and still the best thing Iāve seen in VR. (Okay, maybe tied with Rez because you just canāt top Rez in any format.)
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PS4 has a bunch of cool weird games!
- Bokosuka Wars II (weird RPG simulation sequel to an old Japanese pc game)
- Doki-Doki Universe (puzzle game / personality quiz hybrid)
- Hero must die. again (not exclusive but an expanded vita game by LindaĀ³ creator Shoji Masuda)
- Hohokum (open world puzzle game with a wonderful, colorful artstyle)
- everything by Jeff Minter (Moose Life, Polybius, Akka Arrh, Minotaur Arcade Volume 1) [psychedelic arcade games with an emphasis on reaching transcendental flow; best in VR]
- Jupiter & Mars (underwater dolphin exploration game w/ VR support; performance on base PS4 is a bit rough)
- Kromaia Ī© (Kromaia Omega) [freeform space shooter with cool graphics]
- Lizard Lady vs the Cats (terrible third person shooter with weird graphics, routinely less than a dollar)
- The Midnight Sanctuary (āoccult horror visual novelā)
- One Way Trip (adult swim-esque VN, super underrated)
- Prismatic Solid (cool shmup made entirely of particles)
- River City Melee: Battle Royal Special / River City: Melee Mach!! (arena fighter spin-off of the Kunio-Kun / River City games)
- Rym 9000 (shmup w/ a singular aesthetic)
- SG/ZH: School Girl/Zombie Hunter (dumb Oneechanbara third person shooter spin-off)
Shake That Controller! (asian only minigame compilation)[thatās now delisted
]- the Skylight Freerange / Dragoon Entertainment games (Canadian open world RPGs; I talked about them in a different thread here)
- Sportsfriends (one of the best local multiplayer games ever. now permenantly free! you have no excuse!)
- Summon Night 6: Lost Borders (tactical RPG. you like these or you donāt lol)
- Super Exploding Zoo! (RTS thing, I donāt remember a lot about this one)
- Thatās You (Jackbox-like, mobile phone based party game)
- Tony Hawkās Pro Skater 5 (I 100%'d this game, there are definitely worse TH games)
- The Unfinished Swan (cool first person puzzler with unique art style)
- void* tRrLM2(); //Void Terrarium 1 & 2 (traditional roguelike + life sim hybrid)
- Zanki Zero: Last Beginning (experimental first person dungeon crawler)
- ZONE OF THE ENDERS: The 2nd Runner - MāRS (upgraded Kojima mech game w/ VR support)
Thereās 100% more of this kind of stuff, but I tried to stay within the semi-exclusive range. Hopefully you learned about some new titles!
Iāve tried to campaign for physicals for the ones that donāt have them from Limited Run to no avail. Thankfully a lot of them do! (If someone with contacts is reading thisā¦ I realllllllly want One Way Trip and Bokosuka Wars II!)
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Thank you! This is an awesome list, and the comments are really helpful!
You are no doubt correct that the PS4 has got its fair share of the tasty weird stuff. I think I have sometimes struggled with attributing much personality to the PS4 because
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Itās just so hard for consoles to have a stable of interesting true exclusives nowadays because even if we allow games that are also on PC or mobile by saying āwell, at least itās console exclusive,ā some of the PS4ās games were co-releases (PS3, Vita, PS5) anyway, and some of them eventually even went to other consoles. (Please note that my frustration is not aimed at you, Sony, or, honestly, anyone. I just miss the days when consoles had more of their own personalities).
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Sonyās big marquee franchises (Horizon, GoW, TLoU, Spider-Man, Uncharted), while very good games, are often painfully safe.
That said, lists like yours prove that thereās more to the story, and, recently, I beat Wattam, played the prologue to Death Stranding, and have gotten myself about a third of the way into Bloodborne, so clearly the PS4 has some cool exclusives (or exclusives with caveats) with plenty of special sauce on them.
Mmm, this is a good point and gets me even more on board with the concept. Definitely hoping to grab this soon.
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