Gaming Livin' La Vita Loca: The PlayStation 4 Discussion Thread

Killzone 2 was nowhere near launch. it came out in early 2009.

For the most part people really liked the Killzone 2 multiplayer, at least those who stuck around for more than 1 month.

Killzone 3 changed the multiplayer to be more like call of duty, so it lost a lot of appeal and individuality.

People are probably weary of killzone 4 because killzone 3 just reeked of them trying to appeal to the COD fanbase.

 

Of course games written for the PS3 (even downloadable ones) won't work instantly on a PS4 with completely different architecture and OS. They'd have to emulate them, which is what they are attempting to do with their entire back catalogue.

 

Options replaces Start and Select.

 

if you are offline then the whole streaming PS1, PS2, PS3 games wouldn't work right?

 

Killzone 2 ended up being released on February 27, 2009. I follow the series, but haven't played any of them but KZ1, and consider KZ2 and KZ3 to be major reasons to get a PS3 at some point.

 

Lucky for you Sony released a Killzone collection for $40. It has two discs: Killzone 1+2 and Killzone 3.

Killzone 1 is installed to the ps3 harddrive while killzone 2 plays off the disc. Also, all of the killzone 2 and 3 DLC comes in a voucher.

 

Remember what Sam Witwer said on that recent interview? TFU3 will be released in the next-gen consoles. Now Microsoft needs to release something and 2015 needs to get by

 

Knack is the only game Sony showed off that interests me. Watch Dogs looks awesome, but I'll likely end up getting it on the PC.

 

I will aim for getting a PS4 in 2014 or 1015. But I only got a PS3 last summer so have plenty of those games to play beforehand. The lack of BC is disappointing.

I'm looking forward to Uncharted 4! Its gotta come eventually!

 

I think I'll follow a similar strategy. Perhaps even later than that as well. I bought my PS3 in 2011.

 

There are still PS1 and PS2 games I have yet to have conquered as well as my ps3 backlog. Next gen can wait.

 

I hear ya. Quite a few years ago a music chain called MVC went out of business here in the UK. My local branch had brand new PS2 games marked down to £5 each. I picked up anything I thought I'd ever want to play (and still haven't). I also got some CDs at bargain prices.

 

There is at least one more PS2 game coming out in 2013. Its a new expansion of Final Fantasy XI, but its ps2 release is exclusive to japan.

Amazing that its lasted so many years.

 

It truly is an amazing console. I brought my PS2 with me to my temporary apartment last summer for my internship, since I didn't want to take my PS3 out of my regular apartment. I have a first DAY of North American sales PS2 and it still works fine.

The price was an even bigger mic-drop moment, as was the no-internet-required things... both of which came after the no-restrictions comment.

I'm a total SONY whore, so I am always *susceptible* to bias, but I like to think that I can view things objectively usually. I actually wasn't terribly impressed with the games they talked about. I was more impressed with Beyond: Two Souls (that PS3 game they started out with when they finished up yacking about Vita). Other than ACIV, there wasn't much that caught my eye as, "Oh, definitely a buy, no question."

I agree about the design. I think it looks slick.

 

Actually, that got clarified further as being essentially the same as the way it currently works on the PS3 - basically, publishers are free to include those godforsaken online passes that have started cropping up in recent years.

 

PS+ being required for online multiplayer might be a bit of a bigger sticking point, but as I've been subscribing to that for over a year already, and I don't play multiplayer anyway, its not much for a problem for me. Although they've already clarified that F2P games will be up to the publisher and Sony's F2P MMO games don't require PS+ (DCUO, Planetside, a few others I think).

Yeah, nice price point, and I'm hoping for the Gaikai streaming to come sooner rather than later.

I'm a bit of an Infamous fan, but aside from that, comparing Infamous 2 to Second Son, the graphics of Second Son already look much, much nicer, so that's good to see. Nothing from Naughty Dog yet, and I don't expect anything until late 2014 or probably 2015, but I think I've heard they're modifying their current engine so hopefully it won't take as long as for them to adapt to the next gen as usual.

 

I think Gaikai will be coming to US 2014, they mentioned. As I'm in Australia I'll probably never see it.

 

Actually they further clarified it even more. Online passes are not allowed period. Neither First or Third Parties can use them on PS4. The reasoning is that because Plus is required for online multiplayer, it isn't fair to use online passes; so Sony banned them for everyone.

 

Well, it's region free, so you could import, theoretically.

Hah, awesome.

 

My PS4 is now paid in full!

 

Just announced the release date at Gamescom:

North America - Nov 15th
Europe - Nov 29th