PlayStation 4 Chat III: You've Never Seen Chat Like It

Jenuall wrote:Anyone else find the optical drive on this thing really bloody loud? I know it's only really used when installing games and then verifying the disc on loading a game but my word does it make a racket!...

Yeah, I'm kinda surprised that game disc drives are so loud. It's one of the factors that have pushed me towards digital purchases.

The extra noise is so you know it's loading more stuff .

Next gen consoles will come with earplugs as standard and a warning sticker.

Funny thing is, of you still have a wii, pop a disc in that drive and see how amazing it is compared to the shite that's in the ps4. It slides in there like butter (context)

Whenever I play Red Dead Redemption, my PlayStation sounds like the XH558 Vulcan doing an aerobatics display.

strawberry floating annoying.
But thank strawberry float for the Super duper PlayStation headphones

Is there a way to see stats about games you have played from the PSN website - play times, trophies that kind of thing? Or can you only access that sort of stuff from the console itself?

Jenuall wrote:Is there a way to see stats about games you have played from the PSN website - play times, trophies that kind of thing? Or can you only access that sort of stuff from the console itself?

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't even think you can access play times through the console can you?

Tomous wrote:

Jenuall wrote:Is there a way to see stats about games you have played from the PSN website - play times, trophies that kind of thing? Or can you only access that sort of stuff from the console itself?

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't even think you can access play times through the console can you?

Oh really, wow that's a bit of a let down! And I thought the Switch was bad in this regard with its "Played for at least 5 hours" vagueness!

I guess some games with have their own internal timers which you can check. Would have been nice to be able to look at that sort of thing.

Jenuall wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Jenuall wrote:Is there a way to see stats about games you have played from the PSN website - play times, trophies that kind of thing? Or can you only access that sort of stuff from the console itself?

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't even think you can access play times through the console can you?

Oh really, wow that's a bit of a let down! And I thought the Switch was bad in this regard with its "Played for at least 5 hours" vagueness!

I guess some games with have their own internal timers which you can check. Would have been nice to be able to look at that sort of thing.

Old posts on Quora say there is a way via your PSN profile on the website, but I'm not seeing it. Another way is apparently if you sign up to monthly updates, your total PSN play time, not just PS4, will appear in that. I dunno if that's such a good idea anyway - I got a MyPS4Life email toward the end of last year and... ****ing hell Talk about an eye-opener. (No one should ever play Dragon Age: Inquisition for *that* long!)

Saint of Killers wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Jenuall wrote:Is there a way to see stats about games you have played from the PSN website - play times, trophies that kind of thing? Or can you only access that sort of stuff from the console itself?

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't even think you can access play times through the console can you?

Oh really, wow that's a bit of a let down! And I thought the Switch was bad in this regard with its "Played for at least 5 hours" vagueness!

I guess some games with have their own internal timers which you can check. Would have been nice to be able to look at that sort of thing.

Old posts on Quora say there is a way via your PSN profile on the website, but I'm not seeing it. Another way is apparently if you sign up to monthly updates, your total PSN play time, not just PS4, will appear in that. I dunno if that's such a good idea anyway - I got a MyPS4Life email toward the end of last year and... ****ing hell Talk about an eye-opener. (No one should ever play Dragon Age: Inquisition for *that* long!)

Yeah I've seen a few things from a google search that have led to dead ends. The MyPS4Life thing seems to have been a limited time option as well - doesn't look like you can do that any more sadly.

Myps4life never worked for me at all. It was poop.

Pedz wrote:Myps4life never worked for me at all. It was poop.

You're just not a pro gamer

Ad7 wrote:

Pedz wrote:Myps4life never worked for me at all. It was poop.

You're just not a pro gamer

This is true

Just tried to play a couple of games on my PS4 for the first time in a while, and on both of them it wouldn't let me play because it hadn't finished installing (even though they're both installed), and nowhere could I see any install progress or download notification - anyone else have this? Literally can't tell how long I might have to wait before these games are ready to play

Preezy wrote:Just tried to play a couple of games on my PS4 for the first time in a while, and on both of them it wouldn't let me play because it hadn't finished installing (even though they're both installed), and nowhere could I see any install progress or download notification...

Seems unusual, Preezy - I guess you checked in notifications / downloads? If there's nothing there, you could go into settings / storage and see if the two games are listed there.

jawafour wrote:

Preezy wrote:Just tried to play a couple of games on my PS4 for the first time in a while, and on both of them it wouldn't let me play because it hadn't finished installing (even though they're both installed), and nowhere could I see any install progress or download notification...

Seems unusual, Preezy - I guess you checked in notifications / downloads? If there's nothing there, you could go into settings / storage and see if the two games are listed there.

Yeah nothing in downloads/notifications, but I'll check the storage settings and see what's there. Cheers jawa

If I was to buy a digital copy of a game that I have already played the disc version to (such as Spyro the Dragon) does the save and achievement file carry over?

KK wrote:If I was to buy a digital copy of a game that I have already played the disc version to (such as Spyro the Dragon) does the save and achievement file carry over?

Yes for both but you will have to download the game again AFAIK, unlike on Xbone which doesn't require downloading if installed form disc but switching to digital.

Some games don’t do that annoying enough. I got the three uncharted games on their own not part of the collection and the saves aren’t compatible.

Trophy wise it’s still the same, thankfully.

And I have two Bloodborne games in my PS4 library as I got the GOTY edition and PS plus copy which isn’t GOTY and both were digital. Saving is affected.

Preezy wrote:

jawafour wrote:

Preezy wrote:Just tried to play a couple of games on my PS4 for the first time in a while, and on both of them it wouldn't let me play because it hadn't finished installing (even though they're both installed), and nowhere could I see any install progress or download notification...

Seems unusual, Preezy - I guess you checked in notifications / downloads? If there's nothing there, you could go into settings / storage and see if the two games are listed there.

Yeah nothing in downloads/notifications, but I'll check the storage settings and see what's there. Cheers jawa

There was nothing in storage settings that alluded to any issue, so I deleted and reinstalled the game and still got the same issue. No idea what to do.

Which 2 games?