Playstation 4

[JarylGaren]

so, full disclosure, I never had a Playstation 4, but one of my brothers got one!

But in hindsight, the Playstation 4 is probably the console I regret not getting the most, because as it turns out, Horizon Zero Dawn, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Persona 5 and Nier Automata are *VERY* good games that I only got to play way after the fact through ports, because I was admittedly a very obnoxious Nintendo defender at the time during the Wii U era (which in hindsight I don't get, because the Wii U was just misery in terms of support >_> but that might be a topic for the inevitable Wii U thread)

I also remember a couple memes surrounding the game Knack (which iirc was a launch game for the system), but from what I've seen, it seems like a fun and competent enough platformer, I wouldn't mind giving that one a shot eventually!

and of course, currently there's the whole thing with Bloodborne being stuck on the PS4. To my knowledge it didn't even get an update to take advantage of the PS5's power, which still strikes me as odd. Guess Sony also does really baffling decisions?

edit:

also, I hate how I'm kinda considering getting a PS4 Slim for Knack and the Crash Team Racing remake at some point literally a day after I sold my PS5 >_>

[Enbyeon]

I have my PS4 in my closet on the off-chance I ever want to play through Bloodborne again. The last thing I bought for it was Crash 4 and I get really upset about it, because the load times were ridiculous. The whole "PS4 Pro existing isn't gonna make games worse for base PS4 (the one I had)" made me angry enough to skip the PS5 until they release the PS5 Mega Pro Slim or whatever it is that's gonna be the baseline.

[JarylGaren]

oh yeah, right, I remember long loading times being a thing on the PS4. as well as the base PS4 getting the short end of the stick a bunch of times for some games compared to the PS4 Pro.

The last thing I bought for it was Crash 4 and I get really upset about it

to be honest, Crash 4 in its vanilla state has more problems than just long loading times >_>
the level design and difficulty just feel needlessly brutal

[Galuade]

Used PS4s and PS4 games are as cheap as they probably will ever be now, if you want to jump in late! I grabbed a slim to have a PS4 again after I sold my launch day console to a friend

[plumpan]

Alright all of my thoughts on the PS4 are negative so I'm going to put them in a spoiler tag. You've been warned.

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I had a PS4 on loan from a friend for the better part of a year, and while it had some REALLY fun games that I enjoyed, I thought it was awful as a games console.

It was loud, much louder than even even the earlier (albeit not launch) model 360s I have. I found the menus and general non-game parts of the console to be slow. On top of that, Sony's CDN was slow as hell, which sucks even more with modern consoles that refuse to launch games before you grab updates. Knowing I could have a game ready in 2-3 minutes based on my network speed but it taking 15+ because Sony didn't want to cough up a better CDN really stung. Especially when paying for PSN+. I also hated how it would get upset at me and take a year and a day to turn on if it wasn't shut down correctly.

It was nice that it had built in streaming, but the quality was pretty bad. In retrospect I think I'm less upset about that because have something barely acceptable built in was nice, but at the time it bothered me a lot more.

The number of console exclusives, given the ease of making PC ports for games of this era, aggravates me a lot more now than it did at the time.

I did really like the controllers, aside from the charge port (a common plague of the era), and there's plenty of good games on it. I do wish I had a way to play Everybody's Golf 2017 still. And I know some of the issues, mainly noise, got fixed in later versions (I think). But as a box that is supposed to make playing games easy and fast in exchange for paying more money, I feel like it was awful. Not that the xbone was any better, they can both be bad.

But hey at least Sony made it easy to keep getting hacked!