OUTLAST on PS4
I have just completed OUTLAST on the PS4.
It is without doubt the scariest game I have ever played. The sheer feeling of dread and terror whilst walking down corridors looking through your video camera in Night Vision mode is just terrifying. There are a few frustrating moment where you can get lost whilst running away from the main nasty bloke, but, apart from that it's a brilliant game. The fact that you have no weapons at all and can't fight anything also adds to the tension!
I actually found that I could only play it in short sessions at a time as I could actually feel my blood pressure rising and genuinely feeling scared.
In a way it reminded me of Fatal Frame on the PS2, with regards to jumps and shock value, combined with some of the scarier bits from the Resi series.
Fans of Survival Horror should definitely get it, but, remember to get a change of pants.
It is without doubt the scariest game I have ever played. The sheer feeling of dread and terror whilst walking down corridors looking through your video camera in Night Vision mode is just terrifying. There are a few frustrating moment where you can get lost whilst running away from the main nasty bloke, but, apart from that it's a brilliant game. The fact that you have no weapons at all and can't fight anything also adds to the tension!
I actually found that I could only play it in short sessions at a time as I could actually feel my blood pressure rising and genuinely feeling scared.
In a way it reminded me of Fatal Frame on the PS2, with regards to jumps and shock value, combined with some of the scarier bits from the Resi series.
Fans of Survival Horror should definitely get it, but, remember to get a change of pants.
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I do all my gaming through cans these days, unless I'm playing with mates and wearing a headset.
I just bought myself a pair of Turtle Beach X12 headphones with ?40 Birthday cash! Works as a headset but also plays the game sounds too..with individual volume controls for each and a bass boost control for added oomph! Pretty groovy..hearing sounds I didn't know existed in games! Looking forward to playing Dead Space again with these! Skyrim is great with them on and it helps me locate enemies a lot better.. :D
Loads o' cables though..and I'll probably still not use the mic, as I'm that used to being quiet now...and it plays your voice back as you speak with these which is a bit distracting. Sure you'd get used to it like, but I never like hearing my own voice on things!
I had been toying with the idea of getting a set a while back actually, but the whole hearing-your-own-voice thing will do my head in (it does already when it happens on the regular headset from time to time), and a mate of mine has a set, and he's forever buzzing and cutting in and out when chatting to us, so I'll probably end up just using them as a regular set of cans, and mine already do a good enough job of that. To be honest, I use Koss PortaPro headphones, which aren't really "cans" as much as really old, 80s walkman headphones. I think they sound fantastic, and they've really stuck with me through the years. I'm sure I'm just stubbornly stuck in the 80s, but I swear by them. Cheap too... :)
Even just playing Minecraft and listening for dungeons/lava/water is so much better. But yeah, playing Dead Space on them is absolutely brilliant. Even playing Halo Reach with them is great. You can really pinpoint where the grunts/brutes are by the sound alone.
You'll probably never go back to the telly for sound now :D
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Although mine might be a slightly different model as I don't hear my own voice, but it does generate a buzz when I've got the mic attached while charging the controller.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
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The PS4/Dualshock 4 has a brilliant feature in that you can output all sound through the headphone socket of the DS4. It effectively makes the a wireless headphone set and it works with games and DVD's/Blurays. LOTR and Dark Knight bluray through my Jack Jones headphones is incredible.