What PlayStation games are you playing ?

Cienciano · 25-02-2021 5:10pm

I can't get into a lot of games these days, I think for the first time ever I'm going to go back and replay God Of War.

Oymyakon · 25-02-2021 10:00pm

Finally got the Borderlands 3 platinum after 1 year and 5 months! Maybe if the DLCs go on sale I will try to for the 100%. I think I’ll try FFVII Remake next.

murphyebass · 26-02-2021 8:49am

Mobile Suit Gundam EXTREME VS. Maxi Boost ON

Got it for €38 in a psn sale.

It feels like a mix of a fighting game and shmup.

And also feels a bit like playing as Godzilla!

It definitely has a learning curve but I’m enjoying it.

It’s different which is refreshing in an age of polished yet homogenous games.

nedd · 26-02-2021 9:22am

Finished Jedi Fallen Order. Got EA Play for 99c. Good game and well worth that price ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚

Playing Fallout New Vegas on PS Now. Looks about the same as Outer Worlds on the Switch. Never played New Vegas so looking forward to getting into it.

lemonkey · 26-02-2021 10:40am

joficeduns1 wrote: »

That's funny, I'm loving God of War. Yeah there's repetition but I do enjoy the combat. Just got the second weapon so that's providing some variety. I'm really invested in the mythology too so that's helping with the story interest.

Turns out I was wrong about the whole ''underwhelmed'' part. I obviously hadn't got that far into the game when I made that post.

Just completed the main story and the game turned out to be amazing! Easily up there with the best single player games I've played. Can't wait for the new one on the ps5. I still have more to explore and a Valkyrie queen (who's kicked my arse several time) to kill so looking forward to that.

On to The Last Of Us next. Hopefully it's as brilliant as it's made out to be.

joficeduns1 · 26-02-2021 10:46am

lemonkey wrote: »

Turns out I was wrong about the whole ''underwhelmed'' part. I obviously hadn't got that far into the game when I made that post.

Just completed the main story and the game turned out to be amazing! Easily up there with the best single player games I've played. Can't wait for the new one on the ps5. I still have more to explore and a Valkyrie queen (who's kicked my arse several time) to kill so looking forward to that.

On to The Last Of Us next. Hopefully it's as brilliant as it's made out to be.

Good to hear it made come around! I tried one Valkyrie mid-campaign (knowing what they were) for the laugh and got my ass kicked. Giving myself a break with Control before going back to platinum, maybe a NG+ before the sequel launches.

TLOU is a change of pace, I kinda butchered my playthrough but have fun with it.

lemonkey · 26-02-2021 11:23am

joficeduns1 wrote: »

Good to hear it made come around! I tried one Valkyrie mid-campaign (knowing what they were) for the laugh and got my ass kicked. Giving myself a break with Control before going back to platinum, maybe a NG+ before the sequel launches.

TLOU is a change of pace, I kinda butchered my playthrough but have fun with it.

Admittedly I had to watch Youtube videos to kill 3 of the Valkyries. Found the key was having full rage going into the battle and having the rage resurrection stone ready. The last 4 you kill drop sick legendary armor. The queen is literally impossible, though.*

Change of pace might not be too bad on TLOU. One of my mates said I dare you to play it with headphones and in a dark room so I'm guessing it's gonna be a jumpy game :pac: . Is it worth the hype in your opinion?

*Disclaimer for anyone who hasn't played GOW; the above is not a spoiler. It's a side quest with no bearing on the games main story.

joficeduns1 · 26-02-2021 11:30am

lemonkey wrote: »

Change of pace might not be too bad on TLOU. One of my mates said I dare you to play it with headphones and in a dark room so I'm guessing it's gonna be a jumpy game :pac: . Is it worth the hype in your opinion?

In my opinion, no not really. It's a beautiful game, an interesting story (with loose parallels to GOW), and has great cinematic qualities. I felt it lacked a bit in combat scenarios which was disappointing.

It absolutely creates great atmospheres though, and there would be good times to have the headphones on and immerse yourself. It's important to remember that the game is about 7-8 years old now though, so certain aspects can be forgiven.

It'll be interesting to hear your opinion on it after though.

bmorrissey · 26-02-2021 11:54am

Playing some old PS2 games, nothing really catching me on PS4 at the moment.
mainly playing Smackdown here comes the pain, tony hawks underground and tekken tag tournament. Great stuff, might even pick some more PS2 games online in the next few days

Penn · 26-02-2021 12:03pm

Started Hollow Knight last night. Seems okay. Not really grabbing me so far though.

CastorTroy · 09-03-2021 12:02am

Control. Not too far in yet.
One wee thing I dislike is picking up something and it says to push the touchpad to view, but when you do you still need to navigate to it. I'm just used to pressing the button and it opening on the item I just picked up.

Penn · 09-03-2021 9:34am

Wanted something easy to play without having to think too much, so said I'd try Ratchet & Clank (had it from PS+ before the Play For Life thing where its currently available too).

It's okay. It fits what I was looking for anyway. Running out of ammo and switching weapons can be a nightmare though, especially during a boss battle. The weapons I have assigned to the dpad keep randomly switching around too.

mrcheez · 09-03-2021 11:28am

Penn wrote: »

Wanted something easy to play without having to think too much, so said I'd try Ratchet & Clank (had it from PS+ before the Play For Life thing where its currently available too).

It's okay. It fits what I was looking for anyway. Running out of ammo and switching weapons can be a nightmare though, especially during a boss battle. The weapons I have assigned to the dpad keep randomly switching around too.

yeah I tried Ratchet and Clank yesterday. Knew nothing about it, but it's like an interactive Pixar movie... I suppose that's what they were going for?

Very pretty and nice gameplay mechanics.

Markitron · 09-03-2021 12:14pm

CastorTroy wrote: »

Control. Not too far in yet.
One wee thing I dislike is picking up something and it says to push the touchpad to view, but when you do you still need to navigate to it. I'm just used to pressing the button and it opening on the item I just picked up.

That game has about 250 collectables and most of them are put directly in your path, you will be playing it all year if you stop and view/read all of them.

Just read the ones that you find in plot-important locations and ignore the rest.

CastorTroy · 09-03-2021 8:22pm

I don't usually read all collectibles but notification comes up, I open and see it's nothing important and close. For this have to open and navigate to any marked documents/items before can tell if it's anything of interest.

B.A._Baracus · 09-03-2021 8:28pm

Call of Duty Black Ops 3 off ps now.
First COD game I've played in years (think since black ops 1)

Not a bad shooter but the story is ... Well I don't know what's going on half the time lol. Just me?

Markitron · 10-03-2021 8:12am

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Call of Duty Black Ops 3 off ps now.
First COD game I've played in years (think since black ops 1)

Not a bad shooter but the story is ... Well I don't know what's going on half the time lol. Just me?

No the story is ****ing awful. The end of the game is notable for being both utterly ridiculous and mind-numbingly boring.

B.A._Baracus · 10-03-2021 11:49am

Not just me so haha.

Cheers.

Markitron · 10-03-2021 11:56am

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Not just me so haha.

Cheers.

To give you an idea of how stupid this game is, this is what happens in the finale:

You stop a global catastrophe by invading a robot's dream

Greyfox · 11-03-2021 1:23am

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Not a bad shooter but the story is ... Well I don't know what's going on half the time lol. Just me?

Yeah the story is garbage but zombies is good fun

Glico Man · 11-03-2021 3:50am

Finished Persona 5 Royal after 120 odd hours and got the Platinum trophy in one run. Thank christ too. As much as I absolutely loved every minute of the game (outside mementos) I couldn't face a NG+ run right away.

Not sure what's next but I picked up P5 Strikers during the week. Still have to give Hitman 2 a bash as well.

Potential-Monke · 12-03-2021 10:27pm

Moonlighter: It initially had that Stardew Valley "just 2 more minutes" loop, but after the second dungeon I'm kinda sick of it. It's not adding anything new, only making what you have better, which isn't enough to hold my attention. The story seems alright, but it's a bit too grindy and slightly frustrating when you lose all your loot. Don't think I'll be finishing it tbh.

Dying Light: Just finished the main game end mission, still an excellent game but I'll probably move on instead of going into the Following DLC again.

Subnautica: I reckon I'm in the last third of the game, but I lost a couple of hours progress 2 nights ago due to a corrupt save and I couldn't do it all again (it was mostly searching for resources to improve the Cyclops, and I can't do it all again right now!). Still a great game, and definitely one of the best worlds out there to explore.

Rocket League: Playing a hape of this lately, and I smiled a little when I got to break the news of the "new" XP level system, he was rightly miffed when I hit Level 100 (Rocketeer) with less than 2 days of play time (basically double XP with the Rocket Pass). He has over 2 solid months of playtime to get near that!

Ravenholm · 15-03-2021 11:08am

Days Gone, on the PS5.

Free on PS5, looks and runs fantastic and is really enjoyable.

Not sure why this doesn't get more plaudits. Maybe it was buggy when it first released last gen but I've sunk countless hours into it since i picked up the PS5.

coolisin · 15-03-2021 11:20am

Ravenholm wrote: »

Days Gone, on the PS5.

Free on PS5, looks and runs fantastic and is really enjoyable.

Not sure why this doesn't get more plaudits. Maybe it was buggy when it first released last gen but I've sunk countless hours into it since i picked up the PS5.

This was one I was constantly putting on the back burner.
Its great, i've only played about 10hours.

Its one that suffered due to bad press really and silly bugs at the start.

Markitron · 15-03-2021 11:22am

Ravenholm wrote: »

Days Gone, on the PS5.

Free on PS5, looks and runs fantastic and is really enjoyable.

Not sure why this doesn't get more plaudits. Maybe it was buggy when it first released last gen but I've sunk countless hours into it since i picked up the PS5.

It was kinda buggy at launch, but even then the general audience reception was far better than the critical reception.

melekalikimaka · 15-03-2021 11:24am

coolisin wrote: »

This was one I was constantly putting on the back burner.
Its great, i've only played about 10hours.

Its one that suffered due to bad press really and silly bugs at the start.

I played it when it came onto PS Now a while back.

Its amazing but when you look back on it, theres pacing issues with the game and it came out at a bit of a saturattion point with zombies in peoples minds IMO.

Brilliant game... if they dont sequel after the ending I will change my opinion

ronano · 15-03-2021 11:41am

Little nightmares 2 - brilliant, creepy, unsettling and looks fantastic. It's a weird one for me because the 1st i found underwhelming but they knocked it out of the park for the second so far

Graham_B18C · 15-03-2021 12:32pm

It's been mentioned loads of times but I've been flat out on God of War the last couple of weeks. I bought it at launch but could never get into it. Went back to it after the PS5 update. I'm very glad I did now.. Haven't been this hooked on a game in years. Working my way through the Valkyries now. The last two I've to get take a lot more work than the rest so I dunno of I'll have the persistence to get them

Dying for the new one now

Markitron · 15-03-2021 12:46pm

Graham_B18C wrote: »

It's been mentioned loads of times but I've been flat out on God of War the last couple of weeks. I bought it at launch but could never get into it. Went back to it after the PS5 update. I'm very glad I did now.. Haven't been this hooked on a game in years. Working my way through the Valkyries now. The last two I've to get take a lot more work than the rest so I dunno of I'll have the persistence to get them

Dying for the new one now

Key to beating the final Valkyrie is to interrupt her with Atreus when she is charging for her ultra attack.

sinnerboy0 · 15-03-2021 12:46pm

Got the platinum in Spiderman Remastered and finished the DLC. Going to platinum Miles Morales now and have just started new game plus.

duploelabs · 15-03-2021 12:51pm

Markitron wrote: »

Key to beating the final Valkyrie is to interrupt her with Atreus when she is charging for her ultra attack.

UNWORTHY UNWORTHY!!

F1ngers · 15-03-2021 1:47pm

Markitron wrote: »

Key to beating the final Valkyrie is to interrupt her with Atreus when she is charging for her ultra attack.

Just need to beat her for the plat., gave up a few months ago without any success.
I'd say I've lost muscle memory on that game to be bothered going back.

Markitron · 15-03-2021 2:00pm

F1ngers wrote: »

Just need to beat her for the plat., gave up a few months ago without any success.
I'd say I've lost muscle memory on that game to be bothered going back.

You can lower the difficulty down to easy and it won't affect trophies. I beat her on normal but it took so many tries and caused me so much frustration that I regretted not just lowering it to easy in the first place.

There are also certain gear builds that make it a lot easier.

Graham_B18C · 15-03-2021 2:03pm

Markitron wrote: »

Key to beating the final Valkyrie is to interrupt her with Atreus when she is charging for her ultra attack.

When I say 2 more, I've 2 more then the queen or whoever she is. I've to get to the top of that lava mountain for one of them, I'm on the 4th challenge where I've to beat 100 bad guys, got to 86 yesterday and nearly broke my controller when I died! Then the other one is in that poison maze place.

I doubt I'll ever get the last trophy on it though, I assume you've to find all the crows and all that for it and there's no way I'm going to bother with that!

duploelabs · 15-03-2021 2:33pm

Graham_B18C wrote: »

When I say 2 more, I've 2 more then the queen or whoever she is. I've to get to the top of that lava mountain for one of them, I'm on the 4th challenge where I've to beat 100 bad guys, got to 86 yesterday and nearly broke my controller when I died! Then the other one is in that poison maze place.

I doubt I'll ever get the last trophy on it though, I assume you've to find all the crows and all that for it and there's no way I'm going to bother with that!

The poison maze one is fairly easy once you've collected all the armour pieces that protects you from the environment

madmoe · 15-03-2021 3:56pm

sinnerboy0 wrote: »

Got the platinum in Spiderman Remastered and finished the DLC. Going to platinum Miles Morales now and have just started new game plus.

Can someone explain what a new game plus is? All new to me, didn't have a PS4 at all but loving my PS5!

Markitron · 15-03-2021 4:16pm

madmoe wrote: »

Can someone explain what a new game plus is? All new to me, didn't have a PS4 at all but loving my PS5!

Its a general phrase that means starting a game again with all the upgrades and items you earned in a previous playthrough.

CastorTroy · 15-03-2021 7:24pm

I was wondering that myself before so looked it up as I was sure it was a harder version of the game as well to match you starting with powers. I really must try it in a game sometime

Penn · 15-03-2021 7:30pm

CastorTroy wrote: »

I was wondering that myself before so looked it up as I was sure it was a harder version of the game as well to match you starting with powers. I really must try it in a game sometime

Usually it just means you start the game again with all your powers, abilities etc, and you play through again in order to reset everything. Though sometimes it does mean the game is harder too, especially SoulsBorne games (where you can New Game + several times and it gets harder each time). In those cases you can also usually continue to level up and get stronger to compensate.

Potential-Monke · 15-03-2021 10:01pm

Picked up Astroneer last night, few hours put into it. Fun little relaxing take on the survival crafting genre. Good ideas, colourful, no time limits (so far) and even though it's taking a while to get used to the controls, especially the camera, I can see myself putting a lot of time into this. Hopefully I don't get bored like most games make me feel these days.

mrcheez · 16-03-2021 7:15pm

'bout time I get into The Last of Us Part 2... need to get a quick refresher of the prev story on the interwebs first I reckon

El Gato De Negocios · 16-03-2021 8:56pm

Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Enjoying it, bit too much filler / collectable side quests for my liking but still good fun and it looks gorgeous.

ExMachina1000 · 16-03-2021 8:59pm

Hitman 2.

Sorry I bought it though. Find it very boring and monotonous.

JimBurnley · 17-03-2021 2:00am

Nier Automata. I'd seen bits of good praise for it, but having played a decent bit in last few days I'm surprised it doesn't get talked about more. Really enjoying it, the graphical style and music mix in with the gameplay and location settings brilliantly. A stylish action RPG with substance

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 17-03-2021 6:03pm

Playing away at Samurai Warriors 4-II.

Been playing these games since the age of 12 and they never cease to give me immense satisfaction. I love Musō games

nedd · 19-03-2021 1:33pm

My brother and I have been playing The Division 2 over the last few nights. It was a tenner and the Co-op is very good. Probably not the best single player game but for co-op it is a lot of fun.

Other than that I was playing Fallout: New Vegas on PSNow. Great Fallout game. I accidently killed 1 or 2 characters and that failed a load of missions on me or lock me out of some. Kind of ruined the end of the game on me.

I will probably start Control or FFVII Remake next.

murphyebass · 21-03-2021 1:31pm

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Hitman 2.

Sorry I bought it though. Find it very boring and monotonous.

I’d love to enjoy the Hitman games but the AI is just so bad it kills the immersion.

You get spotted way to easily. Often thinking how’d he’d know.

Or the other way around you’re certain you’d been spotted but nope.

It’s a shame cause I love the idea of them.

Back on topic I’ve been playing the hell out of the Outriders demo. Roll on April 1st.

ExMachina1000 · 21-03-2021 10:56pm

murphyebass wrote: »

I’d love to enjoy the Hitman games but the AI is just so bad it kills the immersion.

You get spotted way to easily. Often thinking how’d he’d know.

Or the other way around you’re certain you’d been spotted but nope.

It’s a shame cause I love the idea of them.

Back on topic I’ve been playing the hell out of the Outriders demo. Roll on April 1st.

Half an hour into it I knew I wouldn't like it. Struggled on for a but then switched it off.

Back playing Wolfenstein 2 again. Love it

Potential-Monke · 22-03-2021 10:27pm

Fourth attempt to get into Doom (2016) and I still can't. I don't know what it is, but it's just very meh to me. Every time I've tried, I'd get a few levels in and just stop. Ah well, can't say I didn't try (4 times). Now back to the simple and monotonous routine of building bases and flying between planets in Astroneer.

Cienciano · 22-03-2021 10:42pm

JimBurnley wrote: »

Nier Automata. I'd seen bits of good praise for it, but having played a decent bit in last few days I'm surprised it doesn't get talked about more. Really enjoying it, the graphical style and music mix in with the gameplay and location settings brilliantly. A stylish action RPG with substance

I played it recently, loved it for the first few nights playing it. Amazing music along with everything else you mentioned but but I just got bored doing fetch missions and stopped playing

What PlayStation games are you playing ?

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