Wandering around continental Europe this week has separated me from my PS4 but I have dragged my PS Vita along for company. It’s been subjected to being swabbed for explosives and careful examination under x-rays, being surrounded by dense rubber in its case it does look a bit suspect I have to admit, but is none the worse for it.
What this has done is give me the opportunity to see how well Remote Play works. I have to say that I am pretty impressed so far as given a moderately good Internet link it has enabled me to log into Warframe to get my daily bonuses though there’s been enough lag to put me off trying to actually play a mission. If I had a game to try that was less dependent upon reaction speed and reliable hitting of L2 and R2, which are mapped to small areas of the Vita’s rear touch panel, I suspect it would work quite well despite being some 4 milliseconds away from home as the photon flies.
Dear ol’ Tuffcub is still racking up the hours, kills and completed challenges in Killzone: Shadow Fall. He’s also been having some ‘unsuitable for minors’ fun with PS4’s Playroom and its second-screen app Toymaker. Sony didn’t have the kind of toys that he’s been making in mind for that!
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Ni No Kuni and King Oddball, a review of which is incoming, have all seen some screen time as have “LEGO: Marvel Heroes on PS4 which is great fun and Don’t Starve which is not”. In the latter he “wandered about, picked some berries, annoyed some bees and not much else happened so I turned it off”.
As for Need for Speed: Rivals on PS4, “it’s pants. You can barely drive an inch without a cop car trying to take you down. What a stupid game mechanic.” Which is hard to disagree with. The ‘Master’ levels of Resogun have also been causing a degree of consternation and resulted in him “swearing an awful lot”.
DanToo has just finished his exams so is looking forward to getting some serious amounts of gaming in over the coming weeks but has still managed to find time this week for some Crysis 3. “It’s bloody brilliant to be honest. It looks fantastic and feels more polished than the second. Loving the bow too.”
Obviously his exams haven’t kept him too busy as he also “played the usual races on F1 2013, and have taken over Real Madrid on Football Manager 2013. I’ve lost 4 matches and won 16 but somehow I’m close to getting sacked. Strange one that.”
Like all good snake oil salesman Blair is peddling his own brand nonsense this week:
I’ve played The Stanley Parable. I wrote about it at length and did some third person nonsense because that’s what the game is all about. Well, that and finding all of the different outcomes and endings. It’s one of the best games I’ve played recently.
I then thought I’d be a bit disappointed by BioShock Infinite’s DLC – Burial at Sea Episode 1 – but was pleasantly surprised. It looks wonderful, Rapture is really a beautiful place, and it was great to explore it again. It really felt quite short and the gameplay was much the same, but the story was brilliant and Levine managed to take me by surprise with a brilliant ending once again.
I’ve also played OlliOlli, which I can’t talk about until next week.
Which is probably as close to a cliffhanger as we get around these parts. Stefan has played through the “eminently enjoyable” Broken Age and thanks to the ditching of the daft embargo you can read all about it in his review. He’s also played some more Planetary Annihilation where he “can now hand it to the one note AI, but get thoroughly smashed by anything vaguely human.”
Aran has been concentrating solely on Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag this week and has scoured the surface for chests and animus fragments leaving him just the wrecks still to explore. He’d like to get the platinum but is concerned that as “one of the social trophies relies solely on luck” that it’ll take a while.
Last up this week is Dom who has been playing Mario Party: Island Tour for our review and notes that “it wasn’t really something to repeat on your own – it improves a bit with some other 3DS owning mates but not much!” On a happier note he completed his first PS4 game, Knack, and says that if he “didn’t have a pile of other games to play I’d just carry on with it on a higher difficulty having really enjoyed it”.
At the top of the Knack-preventing pile was Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag so he’s made a start on that and reckons that “so far it’s great, the graphics are awesome on PS4, though in some cases they’re so good they hurt my already poor eyesight!”
That’s it from us so now it’s time for you to join in and share what you’ve been playing…
Cron_13
Quiet week for me really, just been working my way through Assassin’s Creed 4 mostly. Have gone back to Resogun for a few achievements and trying for a high score on Acis rookie for the TSA competition. Forgot what a fantastic game Resogun is.
Downloaded that Stanley Parable that Blair was on about but I’ve not had a chance to play it yet.
tactical20
More AC4. The finishing post is in sight though. A couple of legendary shits, sorry, ships and a few missions to 100% and I’m done. My £20 eBay copy of Killzone arrived today, so will give that a go over the weekend.
Taylor Made
Been playing Killzone online, it’s so good & addictive. Trying get the online trophies but I hate the other classes besides support. AC4 as always loving it, ain’t even scratched the story yet
Taylor Made
Resogun!!!! OMFREAKINGG!!!!! Addiction
Youles
Pretty much FIFA 14 for me this week on PS4, which I platinumed. Other than that, a regular daily dose of Sounds Shapes and Escape Plan, just because my 3 year old son goes crazy for Lil & Laarg for some reason. Bless him.
Actually, I’ve also got back into a bit of Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes on my iPhone.
Am probably going to head back to some GTA Online over the weekend.
cam_manutd
Been finally getting into MGS: Peace Walker this week. Really good game I imagine for the handheld and its good on console too. But the shooting mechanics are simply awful.
Got into Killzone also this week. Really good fun but compared to Killzone 2, I feel KZ has slipped considerably.
bunimomike
Hammered Don’t Starve this week and found all four “things” to open the portal and let me leave the world. Modded to buggery (PC version) so it was more my game-type than the vanilla install. However, very, very enjoyable.
Looking forward to trying out Saints Row IV with Tef on the weekend (free to play on the weekend on Steam). :-)
Eldaveo
Hold the front page: I actually played some games this week!
– Dabbled in a bit more Peggle 2, scratching off a few more optional objectives.
– Fired up FIFA 14 and knocked out another couple of achievements (reach level 15, purchase a 99 day contract, star in Team of the Week, reach silver level in all training modes). Only the online stuff to go.
– Tried out the Extinction mode on COD Ghosts with a friend. It’s a pretty fun extra and I must admit I enjoyed it more than the rest of the game. It’s really put me in the mood to play Turtle Rock’s “Evolve” game when it releases later this year.
– Finished off my first play through of Dead Rising 3, before firing it up again in co-op Nightmare mode. A very fun but ridiculously short game when you focus solely on the main missions (final completion time was 3hours 10minutes in comparison to the 15 hours it took me first time around).
– Borrowed a copy of Ryse from a buddy so played through the campaign. Again, pretty fun but very short, taking me 5 hours in total to see the ending credits. Decided to try the multiplayer mode last night with a friend however and, honestly, its probably the best next-gen experience I’ve had so far. Brutal, bloody and challenging, it was a lot of fun and pretty addictive. Will hopefully play it some more this weekend before my mate wants his game back!
mrfodder
Also went back to Resogun for the competition. Bit of Tearaway and Sunflowers on the commute, but mainly finishing the campaign in Killzone Shadow Fall. A quiet week.
Dan Jones
Played a bit more Football Manager 2013 since this, and finally won the Champions League :D
The Lone Steven
I’ve been playing Dragon’s Dogma:Dark Arisen. Tis a bloody good game but does have it’s flaw. It’s world, it’s a bit generic but with a lot of work, Capcom can turn it into something else. Dragon Battles are done right in this. Hell, all boss battles are done correctly. Most of them. Do wish the pawns would not eat everything i gave them and had the common sense not to get rotten food!
Then i decided to take a break from it. Picked up RDR:GOTY and ZOE HD collection. Watched 3:10 to yuma and that got me into a western mood. Tis excellent. As for RDR, only an hour or two in. Have made a fair amount of cash so far and lost at poker. Am takign me time with it.
Zoe 1, it’s a bit average and very disappointing due to it being a Kojima game. Zoe 2 is a lot better and feels like a Kojima game.
Am focusing on Red Dead Redemption and intend to do every stranger mission and generally take it at a fair pace.
Also played the MG:RR demo. But is it MGR:R or just MG:RR? PG confuses me! Tis good and fun. But do wish stealth was an option instead of just the “Stealth” the demo has.
blast71
Agree on 3:10 to Yuma, great film. (both versions, so I should have said “great films” really)
The Lone Steven
I can’t think of anythign bad to say about the remake. Hell, I barely recongised Russel Crowe due to his accent and him not looking like a typical Crowe character.
blast71
Since you mentioned it, I felt like watching it again. Only trouble is, after having a butchers through my blue-rays it’s not there. Must have borrowed it to 1 of me mates ages ago. At least I hope I did :~<