Isn't Mlb the show coming out this month?
FF14 ARR recently came out officially on the PS4, on April 14th.
I've been busy at work, so I haven't had a chance to play it yet (although I did try the Beta). The PS3 to PS4 upgrade was easy to do, but there was about a 500MB update after the game download.
From what I saw of the Beta, it should have graphics similar to PC High settings, a 1080 resolution, and includes mouse+keyboard support, complete with PC style hotbars, if you want.
Maybe not everyone's thing, but it's in my opinion, one of the 3 best themepark MMOs on the market right now, and arguably the best MMO available on a console.
Apparently I'm behind in gaming terms... what is a "themepark" MMO?
Themepark MMO is basically almost every MMO since WoW. Where you start, get a bunch of quests from a quest hub, do them, return to the hub where they give you one last quest that makes you go to hub 2, where you get a bunch of quests, do them, return to the hub to get the last quest that makes you go to hub 3, etc. etc. etc. all the way to max level where now you just do the same dungeons/instances over and over.I am wondering the same thing. :hmm:
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Yeah, you basically have the 2 main MMO types. Themepark MMOs or Sandbox MMOs.
A Themepark MMO has static attractions. Let's say a quest taken from an NPC or an instanced dungeon. You generally don't have a significant impact on other players' ability to enjoy many of the attractions, and the developers have a great deal of control over the experience.
Most recent MMOs I can think of are fancy themepark MMOs. ESO, TOR, FF14 ARR, WoW, GW2 (for the most part), The Secret World, etc etc.
It almost makes you think that's what all MMOs are...
Except Sandbox MMOs still exist. They more or less lay down a world and set of tools for players to interact with it, and step back more. Off the top of my head, though, all I can really give for examples would be Eve and Star Wars Galaxies. But, I'm sure there's a lot of others, even though they're significantly more rare.
That's why, though, I was anticipating EQ Next a LOT more than ESO. EQ Next has more Sandbox MMO elements added in, instead of just being another themepark, although it will feature themepark MMO elements as well.
FF14 ARR is like a best of, for Themepark MMOs. If there was a good idea in one of them, like say, GW2 having dynamically join-able group quests, they stole it, and put it into FF14 ARR. That, and it has good gamepad controls added, and solid trinity dungeon party gameplay... with bosses and encounters that often require some actual thought to get through.
By Trinity, I mean tank, healer, damage dealer. In FF14 ARR, the roles are well defined, and the party sizes are small enough where everyone is important, and needs to fill the role well. As opposed to other MMOs out there right now, where it's degraded down into a horrible zergefest.
Anyway, though, FF14 ARR is a really solid game. Much better than most other recent MMOs of it's type.
Preloading games from PSN confirmed for firmware 1.70
http://m.ign.com/articles/2014/04/17/massive-playstation-4-update-incoming
It also includes an editing studio for videos and will allow you to upload your own soundtracks. So if they can do that I don't see why the dlna and mp3 support isn't in there yet.
It's supposed to be a big update so there may be more stuff in there. Game suspend is still conspicuously missing though. That was a big feature they touted at E3. Not saying that it's not in there, but I would assume they'd at least mention it.
I'm not terribly bent out of shape out DLNA and MP3 because I have an HTPC that runs XBMC. So it pretty much plays everything under the sun. I would like an official YouTube app though. That's another curious thing. You can now save your gameplay video to a hard drive and upload them to YT that way, but you can't do it locally. So is something going on behind the scenes with Sony and Google that we don't know about?
A YouTube app would be nice and I feel its needed. I'm also curious about what else will be in there. As long as these updates improve and not make the system less functional, should be fine.
Anybody know how to install Yellow Dog Linux on a PS3?
Ah, my honeymoon period with the PS4 is over. Already moaned enough about that though. I just realized I haven't touched it since I got back from vacation. That was the first week of March. D:
It needs some freshness injected into it to fix the lingering issues and limitations. Hopefully the market for used games will mature a bit over the summer too.
With your specific situation, the pricing of games in Canada...I don't blame you for wanting a bigger used game selection out there. $70 I think you said? That's a lot of scratch for a game you might not even really like as much as everyone else.
I saw a camera at best buy and picked it up as a knee jerk reaction. I was there to get Rayman which I did, but I bought the camera simply because I knew it's been selling out and I have hope that will entice devs to use it. I haven't opened it yet though... May decide to return it if I sleep on it
So all the analysts were picking the XB1 to win March NPD (US Console sales numbers). Reasons being : Titanfall launch, Titanfall bundles, discounted bundles all over the place during the month, and marketing from here to the moon. I was pretty skeptical to be honest. Logically most of the hardcore fanbase willing to pay that $$ for it already had bought one (which shone through in the disappointing bundle sales, but super solid TF standalone software sales).
Neogaf is melting, there's like an 80+ page thread on it already. Basically everyone and their dog had picked XB1 to win, and PS4 aced it by ~50k units. At launch MSRP. With no game.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...art-but-ps4-leads-hardware-again-in-march-npd
E3 is going to be mind-blowing. Heads exploded throughout Microsoft today to be sure.
XB1 is being dominated globally, but to lose in the US by a sizable margin despite everything they've tried, well, it will be fun to see what they do next. Should be major.