Anyone here play video games?
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@Matt They're nuts dude. be prepared to break shit. Nobody who's ever played VR hasn't knocked down a lamp or kicked a dog on accident.
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@Matt we got one too! Only thing I’ve played so far is “Beat Saber”. Highly recommend. I bought the Green Day song pack and was literally sweating buckets after a few rounds. It’s so freaking fun. Let us know any cool games you find. My kids have played “Job Simulator” and seem to like it.
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@Matt Yeah I love mine! I use it mostly for fitness-based stuff, Beat Saber as @SKT mentioned and Les Mills Body Combat are my go-tos to get a proper sweat on. Virtual ping-pong is quite addictive too, but like @WhiskeySandwich said, make sure to set up the boundary properly or you will break stuff - I've already accidentally smacked my 5 year old in the face playing bowling!
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@SamD HAHAHA thats exactly what i'm talking about! boundary or not, if you're the only one who can see it, people will enter the Danger Zone....
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@WhiskeySandwich I did try and warn him, so technically it was his own fault
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@Matt Definitely get Beat Saber. That game is the shit on VR. And it can be a great workout, particularly if you get to the higher difficulty levels - over the lockdowns it was my main form of exercise and I got to the point where I was on the hardest difficulty, playing shit like this
and getting my heartrate to >170 according to my watch.P.S. If you do get it, the best music packs to add on are the Rock pack and the Electronic mix pack.
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@SKT Just for clarity, that's not me! I've been able to get a SS rank on that song, but don't think I've ever fully-cleared it.
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It’s probably been mentioned on here before but I really like Dead Cells. It’s the one game I always come back to.
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@Tago-Mago ha!
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@jiminstitches If you're new to PlayStation I'd definitely pick up a subscription to the PS+ Extra service. There are tonnes of really good games on there for people who didn't play them when they were new.
Highlights of the PS4 generation for me (with a focus on PlayStation exclusives):
The Last of Us Remastered Set a new benchmark for videogame narrative storytelling, and looks fantastic, but is perhaps a bit mechanically stale.
The Last of Us 2 Sequel to the above, took the story in a direction that was very divisive, but I enjoyed it with a few caveats. Looks incredible, but again, very narrative-driven.
Marvel's Spider-Man A somewhat original take on Spider-Man. Open world traversal at its very best with all the swinging. Story is good, some of the side missions felt a bit like busy-work towards the end but most had a good enough payoff.
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Sort of an expansion to the above. A shorter game and a way for the developers to re-use many of the assets they'd developed for S-M1, but if you liked the first one this is more of the same, if anything elevated for being a bit tighter.
God of War (2018) Taking the titular God of War in a new direction. He's older, wiser, and a dad now, and has to wrestle with his past as a new pantheon of gods comes knocking on his door.
Hades Probably the best rogue-like I've ever played. The way the narrative is interwoven with your successes and failures is masterful.
Persona 5 Royal A fantastic JRPG. Go to high-school and hang out with your friends by day, and delve into the psyches of villains by night, to battle their demons and cure them of their wicked ways.
Journey A short and sweet game. Quite hard to describe. It's best just to play it and then speak about it afterwards.
Uncharted Collection A remastered collection of Uncharted 1, 2 and 3 from the PS3 era. Swashbuckling Indian Jones-esque adventures and treasure hunting. Some of the best set pieces moments in video gaming.
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Fourth entry in the series, and more of the same. Climb around, shoot baddies, travel to exotic locations, and more phenomenal action set pieces.
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy A smaller expansion to the above series, focussing on some of the side-characters. Well worth the price of entry, and has the single best set piece in the series, in my view.
Bloodborne Very difficult Japanese action game. Set in a gothic city and its surrounds, Lovecraftian horrors try to tear you to shreds, while you battle to end your hunt and wake from the dream.
Sekiro: Shadow's Die Twice Similar to the above, but a much tighter and more comprehensible story based around a Japanese ninja trying to rescue his royal ward from corrupt usurpers. Again, very, very difficult gameplay. But whereas Bloodborne requires you to master the environments and enemies but gives you a number of options to do so, Sekiro requires you to master a single weapon, your sword. By then end, you'll be in a flow-state of parrying enemy attacks with precision timing.
