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I am patiently awaiting the arrival of Persona 5, FF7 and Miku X for ps4. I had a moment of weakness and bought JStars victory VS+. 

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But are there any ps4 games out right now that would tickle my fancy? I really like jrpgs, and i'm bad at fps...

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The Last of Us

Tales of Zestiria is a good JRPG for the PS4.

You should buy Bloodborne, and then install a Happy Mod.

Assuming it's backwards compatible, Legends of Legaia was a great JRPG 3 Playstations ago.

What is this Happy Mod you speak of?

I need this, now.

Mad Max was hella fun, I would reccomend that, It's reminds me a lot of red dead redemtion.

It's not japanese, but its some pretty shifty roleplay

Not as good as dead or alive doe  :3

Bro, Dead or Alive is hecka goooood. :D

better storyline than the last of us 10/10.

Never played The Last Of Us. Sooo, I wouldn't know.

Just a man who has emotional problems that joins a rebellious girl at the beginning who end up becoming best of friends. Dead or Alive overpowers it. :P

You're joking, right? I mean, Dead or Alive is a good game series, don't take it the wrong way, but The Last of Us is a masterpiece compared to it.

BTW have you played the game since you have a very simplified view of it.

Yeah I was joking, have played the last of us too, I just prefer gameplay over story and it just wasn't my kind of game.

The Last of Us is garbage.

Sure, the graphics are purdy, but it suffers from a serious case of stupid, sociopathic characters, predictable, cliched plot, tired, uncreatively used zombie and horror tropes, it's got mozarella melodrama pouring out of every orifice, and Ellie is just a slightly more articulate clone of Whatserface from Resident Evil IV, except, instead of hiding in a trash can like a good, obedient escort waif, she just sneaks around zombos in ways that poor Beardy McGenericgameprotagonist couldn't get away with in a million goddamn years. The gameplay is also, frankly, disgusting for a gaming gen that claims to be so "advanced" from its predecessors. It's the same old "Crawl between convenient, un-jumpable waist-high-barriers and try to shoot without getting shot"-type bullshit that got old after the first few minutes of Gears of War, except this time the characters have the excuse of not being heavily armored chainsaw brigades. It's as clunky and awkward as Dead or Alive's front-of-the-boob-only physics, and not nearly as sexy.

In fact, I'd argue that TLOU and Dead or Alive are nearly on the same level as each other, since they're both equally shit, but at least Dead or Alive manages to be endearing about it, whereas TLOU is just pretentious critic-bait to get money out of gullible Game Magazine subscribers and people who've never played video games before. I mean, sure, Dead or Alive is just a mildly unoriginal fighting game with strangely little body diversity for a fanservicey game, and the only difference in character anyone in this disjointed plotline has has is their accent and their motivations, (How the fuck am I supposed to get my mack on to this if all the girls are basically the same people in different skimpy 80's sportswear!?) but it's at least honest enough about it's absurdity to be adorable in a strange way, like when you see dogs on youtube not recognizing their reflection and banging their heads against a mirror over and over again. TLOU takes itself too seriously, and it's not adorable at all, like when you see inscrutable emos on youtube screaming at their reflection and breaking the mirror with their heads in order to make an artistic statement of some sort, but only really ending up getting attention from pretenders and people who desperately want to believe there was actually something worthwhile there.

Now if you know me, it is easy to anger me. After seeing that I have to find where you live, and knock the sense into you. The story in The Last of Us was great. The main reason I got a ps4. If you look at the ratings for the game, it is 10/10, 5/5, or whatever else you wish to use. So it looks like the world disagrees with you, and you are probably the only one that doesn't like it. I mean seriously, how could you not? The story was perfect, seeing this man that has lost everything, pushes everything, and everyone, and then finds Ellie, and finds a new purpose in his life. The bond that these two characters form, after what Joel has been through is amazing, and he now treats her as his daughter. Obviously you don't know a good game if it smacked you in the face. Either you are heartless person, or you can't admire a masterpiece. They are even making it into a movie (why I don't know, it doesn't need one, but that's how much people liked it.) "I've struggled a long time with surviving, but no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for." - Joel, The Last of Us.

Another good game to get though is Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and you don't have to play the earlier games to understand the story. In 1868 London, with two new characters Jacob, and Evie Frye.

FITE ME IRL SCRUB! YOUR INFERIOR SHEEP OPINION MUST BE PURGED WITH THE FISTS OF MORE INTELLIGENT BEINGS!

The story was shit, overhyped by pretentious critics to the point of sickening inflation because they've been stuck playing too many AAA games to know what real storytelling was. It shows us the story of Emo Dad who goes through cliche Dead Relative Motivation Type #023 and finds new purpose Typical Self-Discovery Baby Type #405. Together, they fight crime!... Gee, I could've sworn I'd seen this kind of thing in a much better executed format before... And I could still take it more seriously than this garbage, even if the other two dressed up as forest animals and punched homeless clowns. 

Let's count cliches, shall we? News reports about "Mysterious disease that's obviously zombies but nobody says zombies because even that's too fucking cliched to use anymore", "World falls into Martial Law Dystopia, but there's still bandits everywhere for some reason", "Grizzled survivor and compadre(s) fight boring choke monsters who can't bite properly". That's just in the first few fucking seconds. I mean, unless you count the tutorial, which is so goddamn melodramatic and predictable that the only thing I really remember about it is "Oh, right, the girl in pajamas died."

And then they expect me to empathize with these characters, because even though they're murdering people left and right, all those people are CLEARLY more sociopathic than our "heroes", and there's no way our guys could do any wrong! They're the good guys! Give them your emotions so that you actually feel bad when the giraffes and shit roll by! Objectively, they're shitty people. They have no higher cause, they're just fighting to survive like everyone else in the damn game, what makes them so fucking special? I mean, I cheer them on because they're badass, but don't expect me to start crying tears of empathy because they have to kill a bunch of people in all the melodrama. I feel just the same amount of emotion for those doctors as I do for the forgettable protagonist that murdered them.

Hell, if anything, I'm playing as the villain. I mean, I killed all the guys who were working on the cure, and I spent the entire game murdering all the poor looters who were apparently both nearsighted and severely retarded. Seriously! They have all the eyesight of fucking bats, and all the attention span/memory of a goddamn goldfish! What happened to the days in E3 when enemies tried to, y'know, AVOID PEOPLE WITH GUNS, like ACTUAL HUMANS!? I guess they had to turn everyone into the AI from Quake. I mean, they're already emotionlessly slaughtering like the goddamn Terminator, if they were chasing down gunless peasants who have no choice but to run and hide like innocent deer, desperately trying to get the drop on the big, scary beard man and his stabby sidekick, people might lose faith in the morality of our OH-SO-LOVEABLE recycled whitebread heroes!

So yeah, the story held no emotion for me, because the characters held no emotion or real morals themselves, and it was filled to the brim with tired, overused video game story tropes, shitty, uninteresting gameplay, brown, overbloomed graphics, and "grittiness" that drained more soul out of an already soulless experience.

I can admire a fucking masterpiece when I see a fucking masterpiece, and TLOU is NOT a masterpiece by any stretch of the word. It's an over-polished borefest that falls off the top of the Zombie Story tree and hits every nightmarishly overused branch on the way down. "Endure and Survive"-Nathan Drake (Oops, I mean, Joel. I couldn't tell them apart. Maybe it's because Joel's a generic, brown-haired, beardy generic male protagonist, or maybe it's because the game's enemy AI seems like it was copy-pasted from Uncharted and then shat on a few times. Either way, it doesn't bode well for the game.)

Obviously, you're just in denial and defending a shitty game that tricked you into feeling feelz over something stupid and wasting your money on a game that sucks in Gameplay and has an over-hyped story. It's a shit game that tries too hard to be a movie, and now that they're making it a movie, maybe they'll finally see it never was any better than the Book Of Eli, which was, at base, the same fucking story, but with less zombies and more Jesus. Oh, right, and action that actually made sense. If you want a game with emotion, go to a fucking Indie site and have an actually unique experience for free. AAA these days couldn't stir up unique emotion if it tried, and this turgid, hype-ballooned trial and sickeningly overlooked trainwreck is proof of that.

... And yeah, that bikini volleyball/fighting game is better.

^ TD;LR 

he agrees with me. :D

And of all the great things about Syndicate, the STORYLINE is your selling point!? The only difference between this one and the pirate game was that Arno had a love interest and actually gets involved with the assassins at some point. Now, I'm all for a good multilayer romp across Les Miserable with axes and daggers and ninjas, but the storyline just isn't that great.  The protagonist goes from charming and likable to broody and boring after the first few quests and then brings everyone else down for his lack of interesting traits that keep you caring about what's going on. I mean, I suppose a silent Arno is better for immersion purposes, but you don't just introduce us as an established character and then take it all away. That's not fun or immersive, that's lazy and disappointing.

The only thing that sold me for syndicate was the bringing back of the brotherhood system, that grappling hook to, grappling hooks are my bane.

Syndicate is the French one, right? Ubi's been cranking them out so much that I just stopped trying to keep track after the little pirate spinoff.

Nah unity is the French one, Syndicate is the industrial Revolution one. Yeah I kinda Lost track to. I just watch the cutscenes on youtube now. :P

And such is the will of ISentinelPenguinI. 

1. Not a mysterious disease, Google Cordyceps it's a real fungus that takes over the brain of an ant. They added science into the game.
2. The world went to hell in a hand basket, so yeah, martial law was the response.
3. Supplies are scarce, and the bandits were cocky assholes that thought they could take you, so they attacked you.
4. If they are so easy to kill, then try playing on something harder than easy, it helps.
5. Joel is not a good guy, he is both (can't remember what the word is). 
6. That was the point it was suppose to show him being a good guy at the start, and then show how much this new world effected him.
7. Yeah you kill the guys working on the cure, because he had finally opened up to another person, and wasn't about to lose another young girl. Does this mean he was right with this choice? No. I believe the opposite, the sacrifice should have been made.
8. "Endure and Survive" was Ellie's quote, not Joel's.
9. If I thought it was a shitty game then why would I convert consoles? I wouldn't, that is how good it was, and still is.
10. Tell me where you live, so I can find you, and send you back to hell. (IF you don't want to tell me where you live, I live in Ellsworth, Wisconsin, now fight me like you said, unless you are a bloody damn coward. So make me shut up.) I like this game, and so do billions of others. You are just one of the many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many few that can't see the lesson.

 

1. Does the news announcer tell it that way? It's "An unnamed disease is turning our heads into popcorn! The army is killing popcorn monsters as we speak!" not, "Yeah, remember cordyceps? Shit got real". They only brought "Science" into the game as much as they brought "Science" into spiderman when they said the source of his stickiness was caused by tiny hairs on his palms. Any moron who's looked up fungus on Buzzfeed knows that there's an ant zombie fungus. There's also a snail zombie worm, but Resident Evil already has worms out the wazoo, doesn't it?

2. Yeah. You're telling me that the 2 million trained human-killing machines and human-killing-machine operators the United States has on hand failed to stop The Purge from happening? Under their noses? I guess, judging from the fact that they were so inept that they couldn't stop one bunch of popcorn-headed monsters from turning into several bunches of popcorn-headed monsters with tanks and rocket launchers at their disposal, that shouldn't come as much of a surprise... But if the law is in your hands, you should at least be able to effectively stop the species you were trained to kill from turning this into the second Medieval Age. Hell, maybe there were actually intelligent people in the militiary mostly everything is normal, and we only saw the shitty parts of America run by Monty Python's finest generals.

3. Yeah, because god forbid we attempt to humanize enemies in a game supposedly about what makes us human. Yeah, it really drives the point home there, Naughty Dog! Turn those poor souls into stormtroopers! Fuck it, why don't you give them Confederate Flag shirts and nazi armbands while you're at it, just so we know how human and empathetic they are at first glance? And they attack us? Yeah, they may be cocky, sure, but they don't attack for shit! You have to be two feet in front of them and uncrouched before they even see you. You could be chasing them down a hallway like the shining and have beat them over the head with a pipe wrench twice before it ever occurs to them that they can shoot you!

4. Check out this shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF0EaH73ee4
That footage was on the highest goddamn difficulty. THE HIGHEST! GODDAMN! DIFFICULTY!

5. He isn't even an anti-hero. He's a wanton murderer with a wanton murderer pixy daughter who was presented with a moral dilemma that didn't have a right answer anyway. Just because zeds kill his daughter make him a human, relatable character? So what? All the Punisher's friends die and he decides to blow everything up, and he's only interesting because he's a badass. His daughter gets killed, he becomes Broody McShankshit, and we're supposed to appreciate his character? What character? You mean Mad Max's character? Well, that's all well and good, but what happened to the fun accent and interesting universe surrounding him? Oh, wait, this game isn't about Mad Max, it's about fucking popcorn monsters and fucking cannibals.

6. Well, that's great, but Mad Max, Batman, Every Noir Movie, etc. did the same thing, and that was at least entertaining.

7. Yeah, but we're expected to empathize with them. That was what MADE the ending. Since I don't empathize with them, the ending is broken.

8. Don't really care, it's a shitty game. Am I supposed to remember who said what in other shitty games? If so, then I should study up on my Warcraft references too, since I always thought "LEROY JENKINS!" was King Varian's line.

9. That's exactly what a person who thinks it's a shitty game would do, actually. I mean, if you spent that much unnecessary money to get it. Ever heard that story about the fox who lost his tail? Luckily, as a Brave of the PC Master Race, I don't have the problem that an overspending Console scullion like you has. But that's another argument entirely.

10. How lucky! I'm a Wisconsinite too! Now, believe me, I'd love to choke you with a toilet plunger handle just as much as the next person with actual taste and a similar temper, but this is clearly a matter of intelligence, and no amount of murder can really change a wrong opinion, as Martin Luther King has said over and over again. And I'm sure "billions" of people love it, but, again, I'm going to paraphrase ANOTHER smart person, so get your search engine ready:

Plato, in his book "The Republic" basically says that the majority are often very stupid. The reason they make the right choice is because a smarter person got them to jump on the bandwagon. This game wouldn't nearly have gotten the same hype if the pretentious side of the Game Journalism community hadn't caught onto this and started giving it verbal BJs, giving everyone rose-tinted glasses to see it through.

P.S. If you have to use that many "Many"s to describe a group of people, they aren't very few now, are they?

P.P.S. Dead or Alive IS better!

Do the research, I am doing this for my project, and I can tell you from the research that half the people on Earth are infected with this disease, and it also spreads through the air. It just can't take over a human mind. What I can tell you for the AI, I don't know about you, but mine doesn't do that. It must have been updated, because they don't lock up, I get seen a mile away (which I can't say is an improvement, drives me crazy.) if I kick anything on the ground, and they are any where near it they hear it. I still get charged at by melee guys, but the ones with guns are accurate, and jump out of corners, or at least for me. And for number five... wow, go to hell. I don't know your age, if you are older, or if you under eighteen, if you lost your daughter, you will never be able to shake that off, unless you are some god awful person. Yes, it is a damn video game, but what the hell was that? He lost his daughter, so put this into reality how would someone take that. Not like you, not at all.

This is the only thing that can make me laugh at the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA7YR0qnwn0

Research? Riiiiight. Where's your proof that half the people on the fucking panet have popcorn fungus in their brains? Or that they patched their unbelievably shitty AI? Sources? Footage? Or are you running on Pope Urban logic here? "I've done the reserchzzz! The Muslims over there are raping everything! Even the cactusses! Trust me and do a crusade for my homeboy Alexius!" It seems you're pulling shit out of your ass just so you don't lose the argument. I can admire your tenacity, but that's about it.

And I know that people never get over the loss of their loved ones! Believe it or not, I am a human being with human family members, and I still haven't gotten over having lost some of them. Because no one ever fucking does. My uncle lost his son in a car crash. Does he kill people? No. Would he kill people in this situation? Maybe, but he wouldn't act like the goddamn terminator. The important question, though, is does he still have a functioning personality? Yes, he does as a matter of fact. Joel doesn't, he's merely become the blankest, most angsty excuse for a Batman clone that's ever been. He might not have gotten over it, but people don't become grumbly pragmatists when they're grieving, if anything, that comes afterward, and it certainly isn't as boring as the way it's portrayed with Joel. It doesn't even cover his grieving process. There's not even any attempt from the writers to give him a chance of coming to terms with his pain either, but I guess that's because if he isn't a wounded, stoic Byron, then he's lost his one and only personality trait and has no angst to justify his constant murder other than "HURR SURVIVAL", which would make him fall from "Shitty Batman and Idealist Robin" all the way down to "Senseless animal with a tagalong girl". Take away Ellie, and then suddenly you're left with a Jack Reacher villain who tests people's loyalty by making them chew their fingers off, because survival is the only thing that matters to him and such. And at least THAT'S more interesting than the first two, as long as they don't try and scream "EMPATHIZE WITH ME, DAMMIT!" every time you turn a damn corner.

He does start to come to terms with his loss, it comes closer to the end of the game, when Ellie starts bringing up Sarah. And if you wanted me to prove it then I guess I could record my gameplay for you, if you really wanted. But I assume you don't, and Joel does what he has to survive. The director was even talking about that if you had the commentary on when they were play cinematic scenes. He said something like, "We wanted to show them how far he has come. From living day to day, and now he is basically killing people over guns." or something along those lines. Also here is the website,

http://www.viralnova.com/real-zombie-apocolypse/ 

What I am more interested in though is the  Toxoplasma gondii, I suppose that is what has half the people infected. Interesting, isn't it? Making the infected rat go searching for cats.

Really? Because it felt to me like he was killing everyone because they posed a minor threat and/or charged after him like goddamn rhinos from beginning to end, and the character development was an afterthought. And yes, I do care whether you upload your gaeplay or not, because if I have proof behind my points and you don't, then that means that TLOU is indeed shit, and if they actually did fix their AI, then you can get right to work on countering the other arguments I made that you haven't satisfactorily answered.

Second, if toxoplasma gondii (or any "zombie fungus" for that matter) really dies turn us all into popcorn zombies, we're not going to be running around biting people. The point of the fungus' niche is that it causes detritivores to seek out things that like to eat them, and then it travels to new shit-eating hosts that eat the infected turds. Now, I'm not sure about you, but I generally avoid people who eat shit, and I highly doubt anyone's subconscious brain really knows what animals like to eat humans, let alone what they smell like. Even then, even a defenseless human isn't exactly a high priority target for animal predators. On the off chance this shit actually gets past a big animal's immune system, we're far more likely to have harmful epidemics of zombie buffalo, which sniff out bears and then just stand in their general vicinity until the bear decides to kill them.

Do you know how unlikely it is that a fungus that survives this long with an animal without having to do drastic things like alter their brain, would suddenly evolve to do just that, just because? Yes, virusses turn volatile all the time, because the only thing a virus can do to reproduce is use other cells, and sometimes it destroys cells, and then that reproduces and creates a disease. That's why we have so many kinds of the same virus. The thing about fungi, though, is that they don't spontaneously mutate as much, they just do what gets them by like most shit in nature, and whatever does shit that get's them by the best gets to reproduce. I'm not exactly sure if you know the finer points of how evolution works, but the very motto of Nature is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And if it is, wait at least a few centuries so I can run diagnostics or some shit." And if the fungus that only makes rats into zombies and hides from any other immune system is the most successful, which it is, that's going to be the one that continues to survive in nature.