What PlayStation games are you playing ?

Tried COD Cold War campaign a go. Finished it over a few nights and I loved it. Stunning story and characters. Probably the best campaign of all the COD's. Ridiculous download size meant I had to delete a few things to play it. Haven't tried multiplayer yet.

Having played Cold War, I got a CoD itch, so decided to give MW2019 a go. At least this one lets you decide what you want to download, and was only interested in multiplayer, so picked the base game and 5 extras (MP pack 1, 2, 3, and 2 compatability packs). All downloaded, started up the game. After a few logos, you get the online connecting screen, which is for Warzone Caldera. It's about 2 minutes (if you don't skip) before you see the first mention of the words Modern Warfare. And even then, it's a split screen with Warzone 2/MW2 automatically selected, and on the right is Warzone/MW. Picked multiplayer, but said I was missing packs, so had to download MP pack 2 and 3 again, and both compatability packs, but worked this time.

It's better than Cold War at least, not as full of long term players, but still has a fair share. I'd imagine most are playing MW2, I bought physical and traded soon after as my predictions were true that they basically ignored multiplayer again in favour of Warzone 2. Saying that, it said I was level 38, not prestiged, but I had gold camos for LMGs and rifles... It seems to have reset my prestige maybe? Whatever, I gave up after a game where I was being blindsided by a double shotty dead silence ninja constantly.

It's the perks that have ruined the series. I think people would get over the bright colours and stupid crossover skins if the perks weren't so annoying. There should be NOTHING that makes your movement silent, unless you're literally crawling at a snails pace. Dead Silence/Ninja ruin the game. What's the point of directional audio if you're just going to silence the main reason for it... If they got rid of anything that makes your movement silent, it would improve the game tenfold. Get rid of double shotguns, or at the very least make the reload realistically long for double shotguns, along with the kickback. CoD is catering to a very specific crowd who spend too much time playing the same weapons/classes over and over just because it looks cool. I don't have much hope for MW3, but maybe it'll be "free" on Gamepass so I won't have to pay for it at least. Will still cost me money, I'll have to buy that 8BitDo controller.

As an aside, I saw the real value of Gb broadband last night. Downloading about 5Gb a minute made the overall ordeal not as bad!

Tried Alan Wake and the controls are rubbish. Gave it an hour and gave up. Tried Sniper Elite 5 and it's the exact same as the last one. Less sniping involved in the early stages and the enemies are a little smarter but ultimately it got boring.

Debating pulling the trigger on Calisto Protocol but its a little pricey on the PS store. Anyone recommend it as a single player campaign ?

Was playing Pathfinder: kingmaker. for a while, on and off. Over 100+ hours in so more than a while.

There's a good, possibly great, game in there. It's an isometric CRPG, akin to the orignal baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Pillars of Eternity and the larian Divitys, based on first ediiton apthfinder (which is based on 3.5 D&D). turn based or real time at a click of abutton.

The story is based on a six part campaign for the original, and it is quite faithful to teh original ruleset (which can be both good and bad - the binary fail / pass of the saving throw systems can make some spells very powerful but unreliable.)

However, the PS4 port is poor. It's buggy, unstable, load times noticably degrade as the game progresses. There's also save game issues - corrruptions and interfering with the underlying OS - especially if you use PS+ cloud saves. I want to play more, but it became too frustrating to play - I had to stop.

Fortuantely, it's succesor - Wrath of the Righteous, is more stable.

Playing GT7 mostly. I got Fruit Ninja VR a few months back, so I will probably play that next.

I'm liking it.

I know there were loads of comparisons to Breath of the Wild, but there are worse games to take ideas from.

But I wouldn't say it rips it off. Weapons don't break, can get your horse from anywhere, plenty of powers.

Think I'm about halfway through and have the DLC ready to go as well. Have been doing a lot of side stuff and the vaults (its version of shrines, I guess) are usually bigger than shrines and boss areas are more like dungeons than the Divine Beasts.

The bird is great in it. Especially when you increase the abilities. At the moment it generates a shockwave while also recovering 1 piece of energy with each hit. Handy for crowd control, especially when low on health.

On a playstation related theme. Just out of Gran Turismo the movie. Watchable car porn but leave your brain outside. Not a bad nod to the game.

Just checked a video there, bizarre decision, makes it look like a mobile game now

I played call of duty cold war campaign and enjoyed it the other day. Any more call of duty campaigns availabe on playstation plus?

Picked up Immortals of Aveum the other day, played a good bit of it last night. It's Call of Duty Magic and quite fun. After the tutorial, you basically have 3 types, green for multishot/LMG type, red for scatter/Shotgun and blue for single/rifle type. Each of them then has different variations then, ie: instead of scatter you have explode. And you have a manual shield and a dodge.

Fun enough to play, if you can get over the explosion of colours. Initially the play was linear but I think it's open world as there's lots of fast travel portals I've to unlock yet. I'm basically only passed the tutorial and getting into it now. It has dialogue interactions which apparently has consequences and timed answers. But it's done well, the character says additional stuff while waiting for your reply and it feels very genuine.

Story is there. Humans fighting each other over control of magic while something big is happening that'll kill everyone that no one is paying attention to, until you. Its enough to keep me going forward for now at least. Voice acting is quite good, and it's not gonna win any Oscars but it's pretty decent all the same. Visually quite impressive, but the frame rate drops are noticeable. Targets 60 but does drop a but during busy scenes. Better than Starfield though...

Looking forward to more of it. Reminds me of a mix between Ghostwire Tokyo and Call of Duty. And it's something fresh-ish.

I'll probably play it at some point, but doesn't seem like a game worth the full price. Will pick it up on sale.

Have to say, I'm really getting into Immortals. Map has opened up so it's large areas with their own maps and loading to get from 1 to the other. Which is quick and rare.

Its not slow at throwing abilities and spells at you, I feel I've only 1 or 2 abilities left to get. 3 main spell weapons, with each having 3 variants. Then you have 3 abilities, a lash, slow down blobs and a stun, plus a shield and dodge. Some enemies can only be damaged by one type, or are shielded so need a specific type of damage to the shield before changing back to the best type of damage then. Makes for some hectic fights. Died a good few times but its quick reload.

I've warmed to the characters. It's light hearted and does the buddy chat thing, but uses its sparingly so its effective. Overall story isn't bad, but one can more or less guess what's happening. Enough to keep moving forward at least.

Collectibles are for upgrade materials mostly, sometimes new gear. Gear is levelled, and I can't make head nor tail of it. I'm Magus level 37 or something, but my most powerful gear is 20, and the enemies don't have level indicators so it's a bit all over the place. I'm just using the strongest I have of everything. And everything is upgradeable. Its simple and straight forward. Like God of War to a degree.

Still wish it performed a bit better, but its grand as it is. I'm only on purple level weapons so I'm assuming I've a bit to go yet.

FW is such a massive game that it did require a couple of short breaks during my second attempt and full playthrough. No interest in the DLC tbh, I'd done enough. Great game, and still some of the best character interaction animations in any game, felt so natural. Albeit, Immortals of Aveum is giving it a run for it's money. Not as polished, but feels more realistic with the way they've done the conversations. Maybe that's just me though.

Calisto protocol and it's one of my favourites for the year. Love the atmosphere of it.

Yep, but you can't play it even though it resides on your drive

Yep

Have to admit, a lot of meetings due today were pushed to next week

Started my 2nd playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077 with the 2.0 update. I love this game.

Bought the DLC last night. Did most of the first mission, really good fun so far. Looking forward to getting through the rest.

The problem with Changing Tides is that it's a direct sequel to Far: Lone Sails. I was the same when I first played it but its still a great little game.

Started Battle Chasers Night War last night.

Love it. Its a turn based RPG but not in the vein of final fantasy et al. Beautiful to look at and the combat is fun.

Spiderman 2 is not getting as much playtime as I expected due to the non-Spiderman side missions ruining the experience... but I'll get there, because the actual Spiderman missions and side missions are great. Now excuse me from trying to stop a vicious hunter from killing everyone while I set up a date between these dudes and cycle a bike around a park.