Article or Blog 10 Near-Perfect PS4 Games Nobody Played
https://www.polygon.com/underrated-ps4-games/110
u/LaughterCo 5d ago edited 5d ago
Infamous Second Son was or at least felt like it was huge at the time. It was one of the first games i got with the ps4. I remember there being lots of marketing for it and it was probably one of the first games to be bundled with the system.
It could be said that it's been under talked about and underrated since then. Given that it was overshadowed by the later heavy hitters for the system.
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u/SawkyScribe 5d ago
InFamous Second Son really feels like the last of an era. All of the reckless abandon and chaos of a PS3 title with all of the graphical polish and flare of a PS4 game.
There was something so meditative about the traversal. The way you'd dip up and down like a sine wave dashing across roof tops felt really good
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u/hypespud 4d ago
I thought it was amazing too, idk why people are hating on it in here, it's extremely polished and well done, and an amazing open world for PS4 pre-Spider-Man and stuff
I've only played a few on here, but I wouldn't call them near-perfect, but I would call them all underrated and deserving of more praise for sure
Gravity Rush 2 - this is a no-brainer one, absolutely gorgeous universe, GR1 remastered is also on PS4, and GR2 is absolutely just wonderful
Infamous Second Son - this game gets weirdly criticized I guess for changing the MC, but it's super, super underrated imo, I think it was the best playing Infamous game and I loved the beautiful world, super underrated, the spinoff title First Light is awesome too
DriveClub - this is the weakest one here, but it's still overlooked for sure, and it's great looking and fun, wish it got a PS4 Pro patch
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u/Seanspeed 4d ago
Driveclub is the best game of the bunch for me here. Was especially great since PGR never returned, and this slotted in right where PGR sat, in terms of semi-realistic physics, amazing presentation values, and thrilling racing.
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u/Theguest217 5d ago
I didn't enjoy it much. It's one of those open world games plastered with repetitive activities, except if I remember correctly you had to actually do most of them to progress the story. There were some neat ideas in there and some of the special abilities you unlocked were cool but it felt like it wasted my time a lot.
It was like all the bad repetitive parts of Spiderman without the amazing story driven missions.
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u/LaughterCo 4d ago
I remember also being underwhelmed by it at the time. I still enjoyed it but I found the main villain to be lacking.
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u/foxyt0cin 5d ago
That neon-powered sprinting sound from Infamous Second Son lives in my soul
ffzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwweeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww
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u/HowlingStrike 5d ago
I loved driveclub because i could do a race, then that time was there for a week for my mates to beat. Felt like a cool way to play multiplayer without playing multiplayer
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u/ashmaht HwTi3 5d ago
Infamous Second Son is one of my favorite games of the PS4 generation. I have yet to experience better traversal mechanics in any other game. Spider-Man 2 came close, but Infamous Second Son still clears easy.
As for the rest of the list, I can't say I really enjoyed my time with Erica (there was barely any gameplay) or Concrete Genie (beautiful art style, but really dull gameplay) nearly as much.
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u/majestic7 5d ago
Erica is a narrative game, the story is the game. You're of course free to not like it, but describing it as having barely any gameplay comes down to just not liking the genre imo, which once again is fine but it's also somewhat missing the point. But it's definitely closer to an interactive movie than to a game in many ways.
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u/moogle322000 5d ago
I really loved concrete genie. One of the few games I played from start to finish without switching between others.
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u/Jonaskin83 4d ago
Different genre (2D Platformer) - but The Artful Escape hit all of those same spots for me as Concrete Genie did. I’d recommend it highly if you haven’t checked it out.
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u/ImOctavius 5d ago
They are fun games, but the only one I'd say is near-perfect is Gravity Rush 2.
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u/Fuckyounadia 5d ago
Dang, I tried it and traversal was so much fun. But the combat made me feel kinda brain dead. Plus I ran into a bug that wouldn’t let me finish a mission I spent so long on that I thought “fuck it I’m done”
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u/Rate_Ur_Smile 4d ago
IMHO the problem is that your main attack is to fly directly at the center of the screen, which means you can't really tell what your target is actually doing. For me, combat was like "mash mash mash" and then either I won or I'm dead, and if I'm dead, I didn't really l learn anything about what to do differently next time.
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u/SawkyScribe 5d ago
I replayed the game last week and it's an incredible game but flawed in so many ways. The camera is the worst I've seen in a modern game, it seriously feels like something out of a licensed PS2 game.
The combat and traversal while fun and unique lack a lot of sauce or ways to be cool and expressive.
The real killer for me was the mission design. The amount of main and side missions that are insta-fail stealth segments baffled me. You are an unwieldy superhero who's main form of locomotion is falling through the air and yet so many times you are asked to carefully duck around corners to avoid detection
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u/Maso_TGN 5d ago edited 5d ago
Calling Exist Archive "near-perfect" is a really big stretch. I hoped in looking towards a Valkyrie Profile successor, but game is boring af 👎
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u/Rider-VPG 4d ago
Concrete Genie was such a snooze fest. Played it when it was given out on PS+ and I still felt scammed.
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u/juicyman69 5d ago
Erica shoutout. Deep cut.
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u/ATXDefenseAttorney Sonic Sleuth 5d ago
Yeah, but calling it "near perfect" in the title is a massive overstatement. It was perfectly fine if you're in the mood for that kind of game, and that's okay.
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u/piat17 5d ago
The Tomorrow Children was really an unique game for many reasons, nothing has come close to it in terms of both gameplay and atmosphere (even games that have comparable systems of base building or resource gathering). I played the original free to play version and was super happy when Phoenix Edition came out; however, I ended up not playing much for two reasons: (1) playing single player is not very good due to certain features that target online multiplayer still being present, the most blatant one being that time passes even for single player saves so if you don't play for a while you come back to see your progression reset back (due to things like attacks on your town, lack of resources such as food which gets consumed regularly, and other things that the game simulates based on the time elapsed), and (2) the game requires PS Plus to play online unlike the original, and it's been years since I last purchased a subscription.
My biggest hope was for the game to come to PC, such that online multiplayer would've become possible without paying for a subscription, or (secondly) just give us an option to play single player saves that can be frozen until loading them, but unfortunately that has not happened and the devs have moved on to other projects :(
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u/Johnnybats330 5d ago
This is not a 10/10 but ai have never heard anyone talk about Echo. It is such an underrated game.
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u/DestrixGunnar 5d ago
13 Sentinels is so overlooked, a list about games nobody played didn't even bother including it 🫠
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u/csvega84 4d ago
Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen
Its such a hidden gem I cant believe no one I know has played it.
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u/Unfair_Pangolin_8599 4d ago
Wipeout Omega Collection. Enough said.
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u/raymate 2d ago
This.
I purchased all PlayStations (consoles and handhelds) just for this franchise
So pleased this was a launch title in the PS1. Launch console purchased with wipEout, Ridge Racer and Tekken.
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u/Unfair_Pangolin_8599 2d ago
I'm looking forward to Galactic Racer I'm hoping it will be our new Wipeout.
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u/bradleywardamn 5d ago
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
I was hoping to see it. I would recommend it to anyone.
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u/TheHooDooer ReDRuM1245 3d ago
Infamous Second Son
Infamous First Light. One of my favourite performances by Laura Bailey.
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u/checkdanews 3d ago
Why are the die-hard Sony fans so friggin miserable on this sub? I hope its just bots designed to agitate and cause conflict because some of y'all are irrationally angry and off-putting.
Edit: Didnt realize I was sorting comments by new, all the top comments are quality. I guess its just the newer comments that are negative.
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u/kubroweggs 2d ago
This sub was always weird, even in the ps4 prime most comments were negative. I remember some specific ones like people in this sub mad at threads that praised the first party games, saying they were promoted or complaining that sony was not making online games like xbox. Then Sony went that route in the ps5 and it ended horribly...
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u/todreamofspace 2d ago
I have Gravity Rush 2 & Erica on an extensive backlog list. How many hours to complete either game?
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u/kubroweggs 2d ago
I Didn't knew that the same team that made summon night 6 also made digimon time stranger, interesting.
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u/Izikiel23 Izikiel23 5d ago
Only played infamous and gravity rush, never heard of the others
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u/Fuckyounadia 5d ago
What was the point of this comment?
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u/Izikiel23 Izikiel23 5d ago
Point being, how great are the others if only 2 are known?
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u/SawkyScribe 5d ago
Anecdotal evidence is not always good evidence. In a time when games really have to fight to be noticed and gems slip through the cracks all the time, saying "I never heard of it so it can't be that good" feels a little ignorant.
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u/Izikiel23 Izikiel23 5d ago
Such is life unfortunately. I loved Lies of P recently, and getting it through PS+ was a god send, but the sad reality today is in my case the constraint isn't money to play games, it's time.
I realized I don't play a lot of games per year, but the ones I play I spent at least 50h each (Lies of P 77h with the expansion, which I got after beating the base game, totally worth it).
So yes, discoverability is a problem, unfortunately I don't have a lot of time to spend on games to try them and see if they are worth my money. I still have death stranding 2 (I loved the first one) in the backlog, same with metaphor re fantazio, spider man 2, Alan Wake 1&2, and I want to buy control resonant (I loved the previous installment).
I lack time.
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u/SirWalrusVII xShareem 5d ago
I remember trying to get into the Tomorrow Children when I was in Highschool, It was such a weird experience I did not understand what to do
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u/Bahlegdeh 5d ago
None of the games there are near perfect and many of them had huge audiences (Concrete Genie and Infamous are within the range of top 1% of played games). Bound for example was interesting, sure, but it was buggy and janky.
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u/absolutehopebirthday 5d ago
I played Zanki Zero and I don’t know if I would recommend it; it’s very grindy and the darkness of the story just comes across as silly after a while.
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u/Kazaloogamergal 5d ago
I own a physical copy of Concrete Genie but I've only played a little bit of it. I have a huge backlog.
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u/silverhandguild 4d ago
Gravity Rush 2 is one of my favorite games. I played it. This article is a liar.
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u/_Polymath99_ 4d ago
Infamous: Second Son is such a weird shout for this list. It's among the best-selling games on PS4 and was the first big exclusive that millions of people bought the console for. It's also mid as fuck, so "near-perfect" is a maaassive reach lmao
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u/cold-vein 4d ago
All flawed games that had something that made them fun or playable regardless. So not near perfect, they were ignored for good reason.
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u/ThamusWitwill 4d ago
Bound was visually incredible but as a game, it was a sub par platformer with a dance button.
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u/gladwinorino 4d ago
Second son was not a game that nobody played was it?? I played it through at least 6 times. Probably more.
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u/costapasta27 10m ago
I played Zanki Zero and it was very unique. I been wanting to get back into it. I got lost during the ship and just never came back 😅
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u/xRagingRussianx RagingRussian 3d ago
Infamous Second Son was in every bundle. Nobody played? L take.
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u/MisanthropicAtheist 4d ago
Ah yes, the hidden underground games Infamous, Gravity Rush and Drive Club. Not to mention concrete genie was literally a ps+ games.
This list must have been made by a 14 year old.
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u/The_Lawler 5d ago
Infamous: Second Son
Gravity Rush 2
Summon Night 6: Lost Borders
Erica
Driveclub
Zanki Zero: Last Beginning
The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition
Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky
Bound
Concrete Genie