My PS4 makes bleeping noises during some games (it may occur in all games and I've not noticed?)
It's 3 fast bleeps, then silence for anything between 5 and 30 secoonds.
There's no indication of anything happening on screen, or in any menus.
Any idea what it is? From reading online I've seen e...
> A mentioned above, we were in the unique position of actually needing to put a blonde white guy in our video game for diversity reasons, so we went for the full Northern European royalty look just to seal the deal. He also takes the lead in terms of most formal outfit, with white tie and tails. We wanted somebody in white tie for sartorial diversity, but we also needed a bit more blue at the party so we put the sash on him and he instantly stepped up the class hierarchy a notch or two.
Yeah but only to make the game last longer because they couldn't fit much game into the game. These days there's just more content so they don't need to make you play the same bit over and over
@Ronan I see your point on the Dark Souls thing, but that, as far as I know, is one of the few challenging games I know of. Fallout 3 was hard for me, mainly because guns suck, and there is little point in describing Skyrim's lack of challenges.
@TheMattbat999 back in the NES times, not all games were hard, there were just a lot of really badly designed games
many of them were hard not because they were intended to be hard, but because of things like bad controls, unfair enemies, glitches and all kinds of things that wouldn't be tolerated today
@murgatroid99 can confirm - I recently played Donkey Kong Jr on NES, which I enjoyed a lot back in the day, but could barely beat it. This time I beat it without losing once on first try, it was so easy
I attempted to use playstation now recently (playstation's streaming service for ps3 games on a ps4) and the performance was extremely poor. Aside from the video rendering at 720p, the input lag made games unplayable. Is there anything I can do to optimize my connection speed? I want the service ...
Re game difficulty over time -- I think that games are easier on average now -- there are a lot of childhood games I remember being brutally hard that, when I revisit, are still brutally hard.
@ToxicFrog also, a lot of games have added a lot of convenience features which have made the games somewhat easier. Like infinite lives and save points
Difficulty is, for the most part, no longer something that happens by accident, because the UI was terrible or the game was balanced for the arcade or something
and really, the whole thing about games being balanced around having microtransactions these days, and everyone complaining about it - that's literally how arcades worked
I would just argue that the arcade game days were the bad old days before the good old days of early console games that don't try to take all of your money
If you accept this framing (which I don't; there are still lots of good games coming out today that don't use MTs), the "good old days" were the post-arcade, pre-microtransaction days and what's happening now is a regression to the "bad old days" that predated them.
On the subject of good games that do not involve microtransactions, but which nonetheless are hard, I just finished Cryptark and started Salt & Sanctuary
@Maximillian I think it's OK, but not great. As Yahtzee points out, the brutal difficulty of Dark Souls doesn't really mix that well with the permadeath of a roguelite
My PS4 makes bleeping noises during some games (it may occur in all games and I've not noticed?)
It's 3 fast bleeps, then silence for anything between 5 and 30 secoonds.
There's no indication of anything happening on screen, or in any menus.
Any idea what it is? From reading online I've seen e...
