PS4 Pro Online Gaming Recommendations

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Ok, full disclosure. I do semi hate online gaming.

A lot.

But I just got my PS4 Pro two months ago. And I got Plus for the deals. So I was thinking I might as well use it since I paid for the year.

I mainly like co-op stuff. I had fun with Splatoon 2 because I like working with a team. I'm really not a Lone Wolf type of player. When I played some MMOs, I tended to the roles of Support and Healer. Those who played Overwatch when we had those few weeks of Forum gaming knows I love Lucio and how using him helped the team.

So, do you have any suggestions that might sate a gamer such as me? Or am I regulated to Battle Royales if I want to do modern day Online Gaming?

 

[skywolfblue]

The Division - The single player is extremely repetitive, "You just did -x-, now go do it 100 more times.". Yet the game has solid co-op instances. The classes and gunplay are well-designed, with great synergy, it feels great as a medic when you place a medkit down and have it revive and heal everyone. I hated the dark zones though.

Anthem - Whenever it comes out, looks like "Destiny, but better".

 

[sXeth]

Monster Hunter World. It takes a bit to open build wise, but you can become a pretty support focused build in it (The Hunting Horn or Bowgun takes that the farthest)

Warframe. Although there's a certain shortage of content that actually requires co-op at the moment. Its free-to-play (and far far less scummy then most, with earning things in the game being a legitimate option for normal people).

Portal Knights (one of the freebies this month on Plus) is solid enough. Not sure if it gets a bit meatier in the tactics, only just got past the first boss with my buds.


With the slight asterisk that official servers suck, so you need to find a decent group or ideally an unofficial server to go on. Ark and Conan Exiles are both pretty solid fun in the survival genre. If you're PvPing, take note that Ark does give some advantage to being able to get on the DLC maps, as rare resources and some power creep additions can be grabbed by folks and ported back onto the vanilla map servers.


Destiny - It doesn't have the greatest rep, but it is a pretty fun shooter. D1 is still fairly active as a likely cheap option. Sentinel Titans (D1) and Nightstalker Hunters being the main support options (unless you go full on and get D2+Forsaken, which adds a much improved pallette of support options).


Shadow Warrior 2 - Another one that doesn't have a great support niche (you can do it, but its not really a primary focus),. I don't believe it has any kind of random/on the fly matchmaking though.


Fallout 76 - Its co-op Fallout. The PS4 version isn't prone to nearly as many technical issues as the PC one. The story is a different style to 3/NV/4, but there is a story that makes for a decent co-op run through. And you can even run a support build (which kind of brokenly can completely nullify a targets damage. As I had fun doing to a would-be griefer once, lol).



One to avoid, No Mans Sky. While I'd defend the base quality of the game nowadays (if not the marketing practices around its release). The co-op aspect just isn't implemented in a particularly functional way. You can kind of fidget around with it. But its nigh impossible to actually get people onto the same page, and its mostly just useful if you want to build a base together rather then engage with any of the progression missions.


There's always the old standbys of Minecraft (although unmodded Minecraft is not that great of an overall experience) and Terrarria as well.

 

[sXeth]

Anthem - Whenever it comes out, looks like "Destiny, but better".

Well, I'm about 45 minutes into the demo (the perks of having friends who pre-order everything) on PS4.

About 5 minutes of that was talking to a guy. About 90 seconds of customizing my Javelin (which seemed to disconnect me into a loading screen that froze). And the rest has been staring at loading screens, including 2 restarts.


Still haven't managed to go out into the actual mission.


EDIT - In further updates, the 5th closing out of the broken loading screen crashed the entire PS4 immediately into requiring a safe mode reboot to get back on again. Yeah, avoid this one like the damn plague.

The gameplay isn't exactly rocking anything exciting either, unless you're really an incredible fan of jetpacking about (and even that has incessant overheating meters on it). The shooting is on a terribly basic level with stuff like Defiance. It doesn't even do as well as Andromeda did.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

Dragon's Crown pro is the best co-op experience ever for the system imo. Beautiful art and really fun combat and the loot keeps on coming.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Battlefield series is alright. I do enjoy a bit of support classery. Jumping into the middle of a pile of recently peppered wailing bodies shrouded by smoke with my arms full of loving medipacks then leaping back out as if the opposing team's bullets were made out of nothing but childish hopes and dreams never tires the same way as merely shooting assholes does.

*Cough* Umm...Onrush? *Nervous cough*