Topic: What (Non-PS4) game are you playing??

@BeerIsAwesome Belated congratulations on your impressive milestone, both in terms of platinum trophies and the Sonic series. Really hope you enjoyed the endeavour. Here's to Sonic X Shadow in a few months, and what'll hopefully be another 33 years of going fast.

@RogerRoger Thanks muchly, and I'm technically now on 102, thanks to Unpacking and Arcade Paradise. 😎 I would have two more were it not for glitched trophies.

As for right now, I'm just going to enjoy the next game in my backlog and play what remaining Sonic games I have casually. Not even sure the Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games games can be played any way but casually.

Started playing Life is Strange: Before the Storm on Series X. After wrapping up The Last of Us Part II today, I'm now in the mood for more story-driven games and so I figured this would be a fitting game to play. I can't remember when I played the first Life is Strange, it must've been like 8 years or so ago. I don't remember a thing about the first game's story, so I'm sure this is going to go well lol.

But I'm enjoying it so far. It's nice to play a simple and relaxing game every now and then.

@LtSarge I played the spin-off as well never having actually finished the original game and remember having a good time with it, so I'm sure you won't go wrong with that if you're into the general vibe of it. I do think it's overall one of the more forgettable games within that specific genre that I've played, but it's completely inoffensive. Like you said, a nice and simple game to just pick up and play a bit off until you get to the end (which if I remember correctly... doesn't take that long here). I definitely recommend picking up Life Is Strange 2 afterwards if you haven't played it already, because I think it's by far the strongest of that series and personally one of my favourites of the whole genre.

@Tjuz I'm definitely liking the characters so far, so that's good. The "challenge conversation" mechanic is also really cool as it adds more tension to your choices.

That's a lot of praise for Life is Strange 2 as I've heard that people don't like it as much as the first game. I'll definitely check it out eventually, if it's anything like the previous games then I'll enjoy it as well.

With the show being out I thought I would finally try Fallout 76 - the only Fallout game (even including the old original PC ones) I haven't played except Shelter. I am playing solo and... first impressions are... okay. I guess. I think the game looks nicer in person than how it shows up on a lot of video content. But I dunno, so far... it just feels like a Fallout game only with a minimal amount of narrative dressing. Like I've done a lot of walking through mostly empty space, and a lot of shooting random enemies and that is kinda it so far? I only have some vague narrative push to find the Overseer or whatever, and I get that is how all Fallout games start, but usually you wander straight from the vault into a place with NPCs and start picking up quests, this world is mostly empty so far except for enemies and even those seem to come in clumps and are far spread.

Started up Trails from Zero on Switch yesterday. I haven't used my Switch in a long time and it's been a while since I played a JRPG so I felt now would be a good time to start up a new one.

I've played it for about an hour but it's worth mentioning that I also played it for a bit back when it came out on Switch. Back then I played it on Normal and didn't like how regular battles dragged on or were too challenging when I'm still in the beginning of the game. You also can't change the difficulty during a playthrough. So I decided to start a new game on Easy and just enjoy the story. Not to mention that I don't need to worry for any potential difficulty spikes later on. It would suck if I was 40 hours into the game and couldn't progress because of a boss fight á la Final Fantasy.

But yeah, I'm liking the game so far. It's been a long time since I played an entry from this series so I'm looking forward to delving into it.

Just started up Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on Series X. I've had it on my watchlist since it came out and when I read that it's been added to EA Play, I just had to play it now. Still crazy to me that I can play a game like this for only €6. One month should be enough to finish it. I also decided to play it on Xbox just in case I decide to play the Rising Tide DLC for Final Fantasy XVI now on PS5 so that I won't have to switch between two games on the same system. I also played the first game on Xbox, so I figured why not play this one there as well.

Anyway, the game is really fun so far and it feels like more of the same from the first title, which is a positive thing. I loved the gameplay in the first game and it's been a long time since I played it, so it feels refreshing to play the sequel now. I'm also glad that I waited to play it because I heard that it didn't run well at launch. Fortunately, performance mode with its 60 FPS feels incredible and I haven't run into any issues thus far.

On a side note, I've been really spoiled by games lately as so many offer 60 FPS, such as The Last of Us Part II and Control. I grew up with 30 FPS and it feels so weird to experience games like that now. I can't believe I was used to that before, the difference between 30 and 60 FPS is huge. I find that one of the major advantages with current-gen consoles is the fact that 60 FPS has become more common in games than in previous generations. And I love that!

For me I’ve been recently playing the RE4 remake. Right after I beat metal gear solid 3. After this, probably a replay of devil may cry 4. I’m playing multiple short games in a “non committal” way because earlier this year I begun playing a bunch of Pokémon and could not put the games down for several months. Made it really hard to work through my backlog and finish a variety of games. Not anymore though.

@LtSarge I’ll be interested to hear how you get along with Jedi Survivor. I really enjoyed it. It’s quite a bit bigger than Fallen Order and when you get to the first big open area you’ll see what I mean. It’s quite huge with a lot of little secret areas and places you’ll have to continually return to access. I think I spent close to 80 hrs on it, but it was well worth it and I enjoyed it more than the first game in many ways. I do think the storyline is a little weaker, or at least less novel than the first.

How are you finding the performance on Series X? One of the biggest criticisms for the game on PS5 was the unstable frame rate, which has been patched a couple times. I ended up playing the whole game in fidelity mode at 30 fps, and I really felt like the outcry about the performance was overblown.