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golightly said:
I saw this:

While you might want to "cut the cord" and use Bluetooth headphones on your PS4, there's an important caveat: the PS4 uses a special version of Bluetooth for audio, and so most Bluetooth headsets are not compatible.

To ensure that you can connect a headset to your console, make sure it's specifically branded as compatible with the PS4.

Some models that are PS4 compatible include Sony's own PlayStation Platinum Wireless Headset, as well as the Turtle Beach Stealth 600, SteelSeries Arctis 7, and the Razer Thresher.

It looks like Sony are just twats.

I have the Arctis 7 headphones, which are nice but charging is a bit odd and annoying. Can't comment on how they are with a PS4, mind you, as I don't have one.
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Sony used to be notorious for using weird Sony specific hardware connections. We used to hate them for it back in the days before ethernet and HDMI. Doesn't surprise me they still do it in software.

I just run my headphones off the controller.
 
Sweet FA said:
Got a recon'd PS4 for Christmas so I'm catching up after having sold my PS3 a few years ago.

So far I've enjoyed, yet was slightly underwhelmed by Assassin's Creed: Origins. Looks lovely as usual and some excellent slaughter but a bit brief; not madly engaging.

Should I bother with Odyssey or skip straight to Valhalla?

I've been looking forward to Red Dead Redemption II but having read the last page of the RDR thread, it looks like I'm where spitfire was: once you've marvelled at the beauty and the sound and the detail, there's a lot of riding your horse to be done. A lot. Attempting shortcuts generally leads to a plunge over a cliff. Did you persevere, spitfire? I'm also in a spot of trouble over a slight misunderstanding. I honestly meant to 'pick up' the injured traveller after I'd saved him from wolves. I've only been playing for a few days and it's not the first time I've shot someone in the face by accident. Though doing it with a shotgun was new.

Also got The Last of Us I/II.

Is Gods of War any good?

The freebies included Just Cause 4, Far Cry 4 and Metal Gear Solid V (I played MGS I and III (I think) and quite liked them). Any picks from those?
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I did persevere and it does get better/more involving. Lots of horse riding still though.

It is worth keeping at it and earning some cash to get out of the basic levels, then you will really know if it is for you or not. I'll pick it up again soon.
 
Sweet FA said:
Got a recon'd PS4 for Christmas so I'm catching up after having sold my PS3 a few years ago.

So far I've enjoyed, yet was slightly underwhelmed by Assassin's Creed: Origins. Looks lovely as usual and some excellent slaughter but a bit brief; not madly engaging.

Should I bother with Odyssey or skip straight to Valhalla?

I've been looking forward to Red Dead Redemption II but having read the last page of the RDR thread, it looks like I'm where spitfire was: once you've marvelled at the beauty and the sound and the detail, there's a lot of riding your horse to be done. A lot. Attempting shortcuts generally leads to a plunge over a cliff. Did you persevere, spitfire? I'm also in a spot of trouble over a slight misunderstanding. I honestly meant to 'pick up' the injured traveller after I'd saved him from wolves. I've only been playing for a few days and it's not the first time I've shot someone in the face by accident. Though doing it with a shotgun was new.

Also got The Last of Us I/II.

Is Gods of War any good?

The freebies included Just Cause 4, Far Cry 4 and Metal Gear Solid V (I played MGS I and III (I think) and quite liked them). Any picks from those?
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Just cause 4 is good fun if you like explosions.
 
At the moment... Sekiro, got it on Ps4 but never get the chance to play it enough so bought it in a sale on PC. Forgot how good it is.

Yakuza, Like a Dragon is waiting for when that finishes, was half price on Humble.

Desperadoes 3 is on game pass, so downloaded that.

And Bezier on the switch. Twin stick bullet hell score attack shooter. It's pretty brilliant to be fair. Can see myself frying my brain with that one for a while. I think it might be 75% off too, was when I pre-ordered it.
 
Got Ori and the Will of the Wisps* for £8.24 yesterday. It's on offer until Monday. It's utterly charming. Beautiful graphics, great gameplay. Really glad I got it, even though I gave to turn graphics settings right down and shut down Chrome and Discord to run it properly :D
 
Injustice 2. Nice 2d fighter based on dc universe. Quite liking the controls and learning curve isn’t too steep compared to most fighters these days. Added bonus it actually tells you what buttons to press to pull off combos and special moves. Some may say that’s too easy but I’m in my 40s and I just want a nice casual beat em up. This fits the bill nicely.
 
Yeh my son roundly mocks me for playing almost everything on the easiest difficulty but I'm often shit at games and don't want to get stuck a couple of hours in on something I'm really enjoying. For him it's the challenge and the achievements; for me it's the experience and the escapism.
 
S☼I said:
Got Ori and the Will of the Wisps* for £8.24 yesterday. It's on offer until Monday. It's utterly charming. Beautiful graphics, great gameplay. Really glad I got it, even though I gave to turn graphics settings right down and shut down Chrome and Discord to run it properly :D
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I’ve got the first (equally as charming and beautiful) and got stuck (yeah I know) as I’d used up too much if my light or something. Can’t remember. Need to revisit it before I decide on the follow up.
 
I just got 'Ori and the will of the wisps' as it was on offer on steam and the reviews seemed to be glowing. Only played it for a half an hour or so, but looks great so far!
 
Took a break from playing first-person shooters to play some modded Minecraft. I'm exploring the Aether, a sky dimension full of floating islands, with the help of an electric jetpack. I discover that for some reason the jetpack has a really low flight ceiling, as in I'm no more than two-thirds up this mountain I'm trying to summit. After coming to terms with the sheer arbitrary nature of this previously-unknown limit, I get out my diamond-tipped electric drill, and start digging my way up the sheer mountain face. I reach a plateau and spot one of the denizens of this realm, a hostile creature resembling a flower that attacks by flinging poison barbs. After shooting it once with my rifle, I reload and try to fire again to finish the job. This is when the game crashes.

Yup. That's the modded experience all right.
 
I'm back playing EVE Online for the first time in years. Trying out wormhole life for the first time, since it's the only part of the game I've not really tried before. We'll see if it holds my interest or if I burn out on it again.
 
jesus christ Dream League Soccer is a beautiful thing. Easily the best football game i've played. in app purchases (must have spent £100 over the years!)
 
Bought Warhammer 40000 Inquisitor - Martyr in the Steam sale; it's basically Diablo/Path of Exile in the WH40K universe, but so far it's plenty of fun, and doesn't have the awful inventory juggling issue that PoE suffers from.
 
I have an old computer that I wasn't doing much with so I decided to see if I could turn it into a steam machine or something. Had a look at steamos but it hasn't been updated in ages so I downloaded a copy of GamerOS, once installed it completely takes over your computer and turns it into a dedicated steam machine. It works brilliantly, loads of games just work, and if they are windows they often automatically install the right version of proton and just work. You can also access the backend so you can install your own roms or choose from a list of apps including stuff like Kodi. You can plug in a controller, it supports PS4, xbox etc and it maps it automatically, Oh and it supports remote play so you can stream from another more powerful machine.
I've been having great fun playing all the weird indy games I wouldn't have bothered with otherwise.

Well, I would be over the moon with my setup if one of my horrible children hadn't managed to smash the screen of the only two month old 4k TV I had only just bought.
 
I'm having a run through Dishonored 2, clean hands. Also playing with a PSP emulator (I want to play MGS: Peace Walker), still trying to map the gamepad correct tbf.
 
I bought Kerbal on ps4.

I'm finding it impossible to learn the controls to build the rocket etc.

Is it flipping hard on pc too or is this a limitation of it on ps4?

I just want to design build and fly some rockets please. I feel a need a day long classroom based learning to get to grips with how to do it
 
dervish said:
I have an old computer that I wasn't doing much with so I decided to see if I could turn it into a steam machine or something. Had a look at steamos but it hasn't been updated in ages so I downloaded a copy of GamerOS, once installed it completely takes over your computer and turns it into a dedicated steam machine. It works brilliantly, loads of games just work, and if they are windows they often automatically install the right version of proton and just work. You can also access the backend so you can install your own roms or choose from a list of apps including stuff like Kodi. You can plug in a controller, it supports PS4, xbox etc and it maps it automatically, Oh and it supports remote play so you can stream from another more powerful machine.
I've been having great fun playing all the weird indy games I wouldn't have bothered with otherwise.

Well, I would be over the moon with my setup if one of my horrible children hadn't managed to smash the screen of the only two month old 4k TV I had only just bought.
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Okay, so potentially stupid "I'm not that that techy" question, if I have an old pc with no OS currently installed, could I boot it from a thumb drive straight into gamerOS?

(My son built himself a new pc and, obviously, moved the SSD with windows on it. Old machine has a secondary SSD still on it)

Sorry to hear about the TV (((derv)))
 
fucthest8 said:
Okay, so potentially stupid "I'm not that that techy" question, if I have an old pc with no OS currently installed, could I boot it from a thumb drive straight into gamerOS?

(My son built himself a new pc and, obviously, moved the SSD with windows on it. Old machine has a secondary SSD still on it)

Sorry to hear about the TV (((derv)))
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Not quite, that was what I wanted to do initially. But you can install it from a usb stick onto the ssd and use it like that. It will wipe the disk though so be warned.

But you really don't need to be techy, it was a surprisingly smooth process and much more enjoyable playing the random indy games I've collected, didn't realise that actually Braid is quite fun and really good looking game.
 
dervish said:
Not quite, that was what I wanted to do initially. But you can install it from a usb stick onto the ssd and use it like that. It will wipe the disk though so be warned.

But you really don't need to be techy, it was a surprisingly smooth process and much more enjoyable playing the random indy games I've collected, didn't realise that actually Braid is quite fun and really good looking game.
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The SSD is clean anyway, so that's ideal. Ta!

The wife is going to be very excited when I explain that I'll now have a pc in the front room as well as the PS4 :D
 
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