The PS4 thread

[John Stones' Paint Trophy]

Spotify playing in the background while gaming is pretty cool. Something I as a consumer should have picked up on is that while there isn't an arms race going on hardware-wise, there is a race to utilize what each system can do with the power it has. Feels more like a feature race.

Any idea if there is a quicker way to skip songs or get to the spotify menu without suspending your game? I remember the music unlimited had something like that when I did the free trial when it first came out.

Press the PS button and there should be some Spotify controls at the top. Think it's play/pause, skip and volume control.

Axiom Verge is great but the third boss is kicking my tits in. I don't THINK I've missed anything so far since I've been pretty thorough with the searching but I can already tell that this is going to be a game with some wild business in it.

[Draevyn]

If you could only buy one game between Bloodbourne or MLB The Show, which one would you go for?

[Maxx]

Have you played the other games in the Souls series?

[Draevyn]

I have not. My buddy keeps telling me to buy it so we can play online but he's had way more experience. I also have last years The Show as well if that means anything to the suggestions.

[Maxx]

Its not as easy to play online together as a shooter, per se. There's a whole bunch of steps that have to be done to maybe get in together. How do you feel about hard games? Its incredibly unforgiving and can be very frustrating. I mean, I love it to death and it was an easy choice to buy it over The Show (which I still plan on picking up) but its definitely not a game for everyone.

[Draevyn]

I feel like MLB is probably the best for me. Haha. Is there anything else new out that anyone would recommend? I don't keep up well on what's out.

[Your Mom]

This may be a dumb question but is streaming yourself based on the speed of your internet connection? And if so how fast does it need to be? As a gift to the fine folk of EWB I have strongly considered renting Bloodborne and streaming the results

[ZJ Penn]

Yeah I think it's related to your upload speed. I can't use Shareplay even though my download speed is probably above average for the area.

Edited April 5, 2015 by Captain New JaPenn

[Maxx]

This may be a dumb question but is streaming yourself based on the speed of your internet connection? And if so how fast does it need to be? As a gift to the fine folk of EWB I have strongly considered renting Bloodborne and streaming the results

[Draevyn]

This may be a dumb question but is streaming yourself based on the speed of your internet connection? And if so how fast does it need to be? As a gift to the fine folk of EWB I have strongly considered renting Bloodborne and streaming the results

This would go a long way into telling me whether I want to buy it. I'm pretty sure we both have the same opinion on difficulties with games.

[probablyoliver]

This may be a dumb question but is streaming yourself based on the speed of your internet connection? And if so how fast does it need to be? As a gift to the fine folk of EWB I have strongly considered renting Bloodborne and streaming the results

Do it! Do it! Do it!

[Your Mom]

How would I go about testing if this would even work?

[MalaCloudy Black]

Go to speedtest.net and click "Begin Test". Streaming is dependent on your upload speed, but it will test both upload and download speeds.

[Your Mom]

Wow it is bad. Very bad. At least I think it's bad. Is below 10 bad?

[MalaCloudy Black]

I mean, I guess it depends on how low "below 10" is? My upload speed is 0.62 kbps because I live in the middle of nowhere and my provider is bad (and the only game in town). I've read streaming guides before that say anything higher than 1 Mbps should be okay for streaming, but ideally the higher the better. So if you're getting results like a 3 Mbps upload speed, 4 Mbps, etc. you shouldn't have any problems streaming I would think.

[Your Mom]

Oh cool! Mine was like 6. I don't understand these things

[MalaCloudy Black]

That should be perfectly okay for streaming, I think.

[Maxx]

Why not just stream a game you've already got, then a few of us can watch on twitch and see how it is?

[ZJ Penn]

Yeah I think Shareplay recommends 4 and I imagine it's fairly similar.

[Draevyn]

So I settled on MLB for yesterday, but Bloodborne is still coming on next week...and then I think Batman in June is the last game this year that I'm excited for.