I’m not much of a gamer, I stopped playing a lot years ago, but I recently got a PS4 to play games with my daughter. We’re having a hard time trying to find games we can play that aren’t too hard and not a lot of fighting.
Right now we have Rayman Legends that we like, but we’ve gotten to the point where we can’t really go any further even though there are a few levels to finish. We can’t seem to either get the “lucky” tickets to open them or get past a level. Plus there are a lot of timed levels we haven’t really enjoyed.
Some of the games that I’ve liked in the past, Original Tomb Raider, Original Prince of Persia, Indiana Jones and Star Wars Lego.
I’m not much in to just fight all the time games, I kind of liked the original God of War, but the fighting over and over got old after awhile. I’m horrible at shooting games, as in I go the original Uncharted game, got through about 5 minutes and go to a part where you had to hid behind a rock and shoot someone. I never got past that, even on easy mode after hours of trying. I gave up getting games after that, so it’s been 12-13 years.
We’ve tried asking at the Game Stop but they haven’t really been much help. I guess we’re looking for something like Rayman, or something like a Lego game where if you die you don’t go too far back, something somewhat silly, but with out a whole lot of parkour type jumping or levels that you have to be almost perfect to get through. My daughter was talking about finding a scary game yesterday, but we wouldn’t know where to go on that one.
Last of Us is a Playstation classic. It’s a horror survival game, so definitely scary. There’s combat, but it’s almost all stealth based, where if you try to run around going blam-blam you get swarmed and die. With a few exceptions, you basically have to solve the layout of the enemies like a puzzle, and then carefully take them out one by one.
And the story of the game would be a good one for a father and daughter to experience together. My own older daughter is currently 14, so a little young for what this game offers, but I’m looking forward to sharing it with her when she’s your daughter’s age.
(I also think the sequel is a masterpiece, but it’s much more emotionally complex and challenging, and it’s also very divisive for fans, so ymmv. But you can’t go wrong with the first one.)
Is it a two player game though? We like playing together and I thought we had looked at that one and it was one player only. I will look in to it though. Sweet, I just looked and it is multiplayer. I remember we looked at it when we first got the PS4 but didn’t pick it up for some reason.
Consider It Takes Two. A fun puzzle platformer that requires two players. You will likely die a lot, but you typically don’t get kicked all that far back, and boss fights have stages so that once you complete a stage you don’t have to repeat it should you die.
It’s one of the best two-player gameplays out there. I will say, however, that the protagonists (a married couple who are considering separation) are in some ways horrible people.
Like, divorce is never the children’s fault, but in this game, the reason they are separating is kind of because their daughter. (Though, that’s because the parents are just bad parents, not that the child herself did anything wrong.)
Also, the scene with the stuffed elephant toy. 'Nuff said. (If you know, you know.)
Additionally, the character that is tasked with getting the parents back together is somewhat of an ethnic stereotype.
But, if you can put all that aside, the gameplay is great and both characters are equally important in solving the puzzles. And the interplay between the different mechanics each wields is brilliant.
I’d definitely recommend Overcooked and its sequel, plus Moving Out (haven’t played its sequel) as fun, casual co-operative games. They’re also often cheap.
Sackboy: a Big Adventure is also lovely 3D platforming, with a fun soundtrack, if slightly sluggish loading times on the PS4.
And Nom Nom Galaxy - probably as cheap as chips now, a horribly-named, highly-underrated game about building soup factories on hostile planets, with split-screen co-op.
Yeah, sorry, that was me just saying the types of games that I did like. Mostly because of the lack of fighting and the ability to go in to God Mode and blow stuff up.
We saw this one, but her mother and I are divorced and she didn’t much like the idea of the game. Maybe we can take another look.
I will take a look at these games, I’ve not heard of them.