Reflections of a complete gaming nube on the installation of a PS4: our first gaming console. Though Pip and I have been playing and writing roleplaying games for over thirty years, video games have never really appealled. I had a flirtation with Asteroids in my undergraduate days (remember, David Purdue?), suffered a few bruising encounters with Doom, played Diablo happily through a few times in god mode, and enjoyed a few social games of Mario Cart. Thats been about my total exposure. So here are my first impressions of PS4 after a few days casual play, sampling DriveClub, FarCry4, Alien Isolation, The Last of Us Remastered, and Little Big Planet 3. Its a beautiful system. As a 3D artist, I love the incredible real time rendering and texturing. This is the future. Those controllers are new way of thinking. The learning curve is very steep, and for casual/older folk, a considerable challenge. Were persevering though, and getting noticably more competent. I found R1! I found the brakes! Despite vast improvements, I am still... *shocked* is an accurate word here, about the centrality of violence in the games. Not as mechanism, but as rationale. Its a far right, gun-nut universe. And its often creepy. We have a long way to go in our storytelling. Im *loving* Alien Isolation, the only story Ive advanced in to any depth. But its usually a case of check the walkthrough/cheatsheet, advance, die, check the walkthrough... Is every game,like this? Surprisingly, the most satisfying experience so far has been driving through Northern Europe and Canada in the snow and rain in DriveClub. Blissful - I can see myself doing this for hours at a time. You folk have really icy roads. Luckily there are no insurance premiums in virtuality. The great game continues!
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 01:29:42 +0000
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