What PlayStation games are you playing ?

JimBurnley

Forgotten City. A mystery timeloop adventure game set in Roman times. Very well executed, I'm about 6 hours in and have no idea if I'm near the end or just scratching the surface. Each dialogue or exploration of a new area has the possibility of opening up new routes to explore or twists in the tale. I've no doubt this will be on my mind until I get chance to return to it tomorrow evening - always the sign of a good game

Dazler97

Call of duty, Warzone on playstation 4 and also playing the original spyro on ps1

scottygee

I'm way behind but I just bought COD BlackOps LOL

it was on sale :)

Xofpod

Went on to Far Cry 5 after finishing the Horizon Zero Dawn DLC. Enjoying the reasonably relaxed mayhem. Awful lot of hipsters for a hillbilly cult though....

Xofpod

Also playing a bit of Inside, picked up fairly cheap in a deal with Limbo. Basic gameplay but they really nail the mood and atmosphere. That section with the submarine is lovely.

bmorrissey

Just finished Far Cry 5, stopped playing horizon for now so now im gonna start kingdom hearts 2 and slip in a little PGA 2K21 also

Penn

I tried PGA 2K21 for about 20 minutes and deleted it. Every single fibre of it just felt tedious to me.

Started Life Is Strange True Colours last night. Didn't get too far I don't think, but seems okay. Goes overboard on the haptics though. The controller doesn't need to rumble like Psycho Mantis is trying to move it with his mind every time Alex shakes hands with someone.

lertsnim

Working through Horizon Zero Dawn at the moment. Enjoyable enough. Far Cry 6 will be next.

petes

Dying Light currently, played before but never finished it and picked it up with all dlc on the store for 25 quid I think.

The Medium, liking it a lot.

Gave Kentucky Route Zero a spin earlier, not sure on it yet.

Also started The Sinking City, will probably like the story as enjoyed Call of Cthulhu.

Eh, have to play Deathloop, only put an hour in the other week.

Alan Wake, will probably enjoy that, played the first chapter earlier.

Couple of others I need to start or get back to and to stay off the ps store 😂

puzl

Finished Kena. I really enjoyed it and found it much more difficult than I expected... not quite a souls game but definitely not a kids game.

Gave the PGA Tour game a lash for an hour or two.. good fun for a golf game but not my thing

Now I'm restarting spiderman.. having bought it to play on my PS4/Jet Engine I'm trying again at 60fps on my PS5....much much better.. 30fps gives me eyestrain and I find timing stuff like perfect dodges much much easier at 60fps.

J Mysterio

Completed Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden last week, and then got the DLC, which I havent since had a chance to play much.

Had MYZ there in the back catalogue for over a year before giving it a fair crack. It was really very good, very enjoyable.

If you like X-COM (one of my favourite games ever), you will like this game. And as there are very few actually decent TBS games to be found, this would be a must play.

Penn

Started Batman Return to Arkham City last night, given that it's the 10th anniversary of the original (and my favourite of the series).

Man, I am struggling to get used to the controls. No button seems to do what I naturally assume it'll do. We've been too spoiled by control layouts becoming so homogenised over the last 10 years.

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118050809#Comment_118050809

Finished City and jumped into Arkham Knight (which I tried to get back into last year but gave up). Powered through, and a lot of it is really fantastic, particularly new enemy types and abilities which really make the stealth/predator sections more interesting, having mastered them from previous games. But f*ck me, those Batmobile battles are just horrendous, plus how it's shoehorned into several main missions where you need to remote control it to do something, then back to Batman, then back to the Batmobile, then back to Batman....

The story is great though. I went back to it because it was the only Rocksteady one I've only played once and couldn't remember a lot of the story, but it really works so well. A great ending to the series, with absolutely sublime performances as ever from Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy, as well as John Noble who did fantastic.

Spoiler Warning

I mean, the story isn't perfect by any stretch Obviously Arkham Knight was going to be Jason. Absolutely everyone knew that from the very start. They dragged out the reveal that everyone knew way too long, and it didn't take the World's Greatest Detective to figure out. And Batman is the World's Greatest Detective.

Now, onto Guardians of the Galaxy.

petes

Finished Dying Light's DLC The Following over the weekend, was great, thoroughly enjoyed the game overall!

Kingp35

I'm playing The Last of Us Part 2. I'm pretty underwhelmed so far. I'm enjoying the brutality and violence of the game but the story is your bog standard B-Movie revenge plot and the it is far too long, it seems as if the game will never end! I'm near the end now but it should have ended 5 hours ago. The combat is incredibly repetitive so far too with very few standout set pieces.

H3llR4iser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118079597#Comment_118079597

Yup, way way way too long - although the real problem, likely, is that the story is boring / predictable; especially if, like me, you didn't play the first game and don't give a sh!te about the characters. Found myself sorta drifting to sleep during the overly long cutscenes.

Got a PS5 some months ago, it's unbelievably underwhelming. I've been following a bunch of console launches since the NES, but outside of the abject failures (cough Jaguar cough...), I can't remember another launch that was so devoid of actual games. Neither "new" platforms have anything that's a "killer app", most are slightly updated PS4/Xbox one games. Why the consoles are selling to well is beyond me - power of the marketing and people wanting shiny stuff, I guess...then again, I got one myself, so there's the issue, probably 🤣.

That said, on PS5 I'm currently enjoying Yakuza: Like a Dragon a lot, it's the old Yakuza formula but with a new take - gotta say I didn't expect to like the "RPG" turn-style combat much but I ended up enjoying it even better than the old system. Got Fifa 22 a few days ago since I usually play online with my brother, but damn, there should be a law against selling the exact same game year after year.

bmwfan

Is call of duty available already I’ve noticed people playing it this evening

Potential-Monke

Started Mafia Definitive edition. Wouldn't have played it since back in the day, and tbh, this is the level of remake I was expecting from GTA. Gonna make GTA a hard pill to swallow I reckon. Stunning looking game.

The Phantom Pain

Suffering from choice paralysis at the moment. So many games in the backlog and I just want to play them all at once...Thinking of finally getting started on the Horizon Zero Dawn DLC after years of owning it in prep for the sequel next year or maybe the Outer Worlds DLCs.

I've got LA Noire in the backlog but then I want to buy Sherlock Holmes: chapter 1. Reviews have not been kind to it but then reviews for the Sherlock games have never been great due to the mini games. Delighted it wasn't pushed back as I initially predicted, although judging by what ACG says about the framerate maybe it should have been...

Anyway, first world problems aside, I played through Battlefield 1 DLCs which was so much fun and got all remaining trophies bringing it to 100%. I just prefer the world war setting to the modern ones. Also platinumed Scarlet Nexus which was...interesting.

JimBurnley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118123115#Comment_118123115

Mafia 1 is a class game, really enjoyed it when they first released the remake last year. Gave it another go in last few nights since its on PSNow, trying it on classic diffulculty. Most of it isn't too bad but not sure I'll make it through the race, the handling is ridculously tough.

Also started Alan Wake. Love the story and atmosphere, and didn't mind the gamplay in the first chapter or so. But the combat is becoming unbelieveabley tedious now (on chapter 3) thats its sucking out the enjoyment completely - does anyone know if it gets any better? cos if not i've no interest in slogging through if its gonne be the same flashlight/shoot/run combination with the same enemies (just a few more each time) and no fun for the rest of the game.

bmorrissey

Anyone know if the Kingdom Come : Deliverance DLC is worth it?

Fat_Fingers

InFamous Second Son and Sackboy: A Big Adventure

The Phantom Pain

So between Horizon Zero Dawn and Outer Worlds DLCs I decided to go with...Outer Wilds instead but dropped it due to poor accessibility options for the visually handicapped. Will have to re-try when I get home on my 50 inch.

Booted up Vice City (the original, not remaster) and it's still ****. "bUt iT wAs a CLaSsIC 4 iTs tImE." Nah, it's ****. Has always been **** and always will be ****. Just like all the old GTA games. A part of me wants to platinum it for hatefuck purposes.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint, however, is really good. I didn't play at launch so didn't encounter any of the problems but right now it's a lot of fun. Scratching my MGS itch, I think.

Penn

Started another playthrough of Sekiro, having not played it in over a year. Muscle memory came back within an hour and I'm cruising through it. Goddamn this has to be one of my top 10 of all time. The gameplay is just so f*cking good, and nearly every miniboss/boss, rather than depending on your build or items like other Soulsborne games, mostly just comes down to pure skill. A proper clash of steel, deflecting and parrying, waiting for a chance to hit, building up their posture damage rather than chipping down their health. Such a great game. And the update that came last year to allow for fighting the main bosses again is so much fun.

Potential-Monke

Picked up Pine and Risk of Rain 2 the other day. Played a bit of Pine, and it seems like a grand ARPG survival town building kinda game, but the framerate (I think) is bad that with motion blur off it makes me nauseous. With it on it's kinda painful to look at. So I had to stop.

Risk of Rain 2 is good craic. Thought it was quite hard, but also unaware of the systems and literally no help other than look it up in the log. Took a while to get used to things, and then realised I can play it on easy so threw that on and got near the end (I think). Have gotten very close twice, once running out of time at what I believe is the last step/charge. Will keep at it for another while. My nearly at the end 1 hour game turned into a 110 minute bullet hell after I got teleported back to the first stage again... By the time I got to the 5th stage a second time, I wasn't even doing damage to enemies anymore... Crazy game. Quite fun in fairness.

brady12

finished horizon zero dawn start july . said i would leave frozen wilds until closer to release date of forbidden west . started frozen wilds tonight and getting my ass kicked 😅and i'm like level 40

Xofpod

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118203877#Comment_118203877

Yep, whole ramp-up in terms of opponent toughness. Absolutely necessary to keep a level of challenge in the game though. No spoilers but there's a couple of weapon upgrades - one up around the top of the map if I remember - that help a bit

KH25

About 98 hours into Assassins Creed Odyssey. Really enjoying it and graphically it still looks stunning. I've yet to complete the main story, but picked up the DLCs at the weekend so I'll be at it for another while yet!

The Phantom Pain

Picked up Tales from the Borderlands on the BF sale. Had no idea it was relisted on PS so was delighted as it's been on my wishlist for some time. Thought it was bloody brilliant and the best Telltale game by far. I think I may like it even more than some of the Borderlands games tbh! They really combined the best of both worlds, as in it feels exactly as what it is - A Borderlands game repurposed as a Telltale one. It doesn't feel held back or compromised like you'd expect from a smaller developer or as a more linear experience - You feel like you're in the world of Pandora due to the HUD and visual references.

Also picked up Far Cry 3 Classic on the BF sale and have been plugging away at that. Within an hour of playing it I was reminded of exactly why I prefer this series from Primal onwards. Despite being an open world, progression is linear with the game blatantly throttling what you can upgrade early on for fear that you may get OP too soon if you're mad like me and like to do all the grinding before main missions. Animals refusing to spawn until you've hit certain story beats being the most egregious. Forgot how cheesy and loud the music was - really laying it on thick with the whole jungle warrior theme. It's also really douchey and bro-y which thankfully they toned down in latter instalments - Jason and his friends are as unlikeable as ever and it's hard to feel sorry for them. Tomb Raider 2013 borrowed a lot of its mechanics and did it way better imo.

On the plus side, I forgot how lethal enemies were here. It's definitely harder than the standard normal difficulty of the newer games and you really do feel like you're an outnumbered little lamb at first. The graphics have aged extremely well. I think they may have taken out some of the animations as I recall in the OG version they were drawn out (or maybe I'm confusing that with FC 4)

mondeo

I'm playing GTA, I think it's the only game I have been playing since 2015. Looking forward to the updated content for the PS5 version.