Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 490

Playing Elden Ring, beat bloodhound knight darriwil (cool title btw), erdtree burial watchdog (watchcat?), grave warden duelist, night cavalry and flying dragon agheel (f yeah!). Even though they looks similar, night cavalry is easier than tree sentinel, maybe because night cavalry can fall from the horse, and at point I just whack'em from my horse until he died. Bloodhound knight fight is the exact opposite of tree sentinel fight, it's more brutal, in just less than 10 second I can damage him about half of his health and in the next 10 second he beat me 100% (🤣), in the end I beat him using the safer way, by waiting for his attack and jump + strong attack him and backing away until he attack again. Flying dragon agheel is scary lol, my summon is quickly defeated, in the end I just whack the dragon and running around with my horse 😂

I want to get nagakiba but realize I already meet the quest giver (yura), after he helped me beating bloody finger nerijus (I mostly attack nerijus when they fight each other or when nerijus heals, yura is the hero in this fight lol). I didn't know I should get back to murkwater to meet him again. I don't have problem with this since it's cool to have mystery, especially when you accidentally find a quest (like when I hear wolf howl in forest, and when I talk to some merchant he told me it's actually a person and gave me the gestures to contact him), but it's not so great when I found out on a guide that you can failed a quest by continuing the game, now I'm afraid to play forward because I want to finish a quest and don't want it to fail accidentally.

Also at this point I'm beginning to think that summoning is kind of cheat in elden ring, it can make boss fight way easier lol. It's cool that you can't summon in some boss fight though, like darriwil fight, and I gues summon are kind of useless when fighting flying dragon.

ps. Unsheathe skill is so fun and op, I can't believe I use storm stomp on my unchigatana for a couple of hours when I first find the ash of war, I don't even know my uchigatana already has skill 😂. Using L2 + longbow is great too, especially against that big crab near the river.

PS5 - Quake 2
Switch - Vampire Survivors

Needed some escapism and dug out The Division (I've sunk maybe 200 hrs into Div 2 but never played the first one). There's a lot to like here. And I still find it weird how Ubisoft dropped the ball on this series.

Also enjoying Death's Door.

Tunic is great! Got the physical version with manual, maps and all, really nice.

Got pixel ripped 1978, and it’s lots of fun. Should really carry on with the plat for Ishin, but it’s the only one I don’t find fun 😕

I will continue to play Baldurs Gate 3...finally got to Act 2 after 41hs

On Ps5 Final Fantasy XVI, Remnant 2 and Mortal Kombat 11. On Series X Quake 2, Everspace 2. On Switch Ghost Trick, Rain Code and really considering to get Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Diablo 4 and i snagged quake 2 as well. Sat in the vets at the moment with my little monster to check he is ok. Have a great weekend everybody 👍

Should be finishing up Jedi Survivor. It's alright, just more of the same. Would have preferred more planets even if there's less to explore. Not a fan of some of the story beats either but overall the game is decent!

I am gonna fire up GT on psvr2!!!

Still collecting cars.

I am at the finale of ffxvi. I will uninstall and never play it again when I'm done. Other than that I will continue bg3 and play some tekken with friends.

This weekend I will mostly be playing Arcade Paradise. Actually loving this at the moment. If you're old enough to grown up with coin-op arcade machines then check it out, it may be for you too.

Have a good one peeps.

Still sailing around in Spiritfarer, unfortunately I’m left with some unlikeable characters who don’t want to leave 😂

Trying to get through Hogwarts Legacy. I love Harry Potter and the game is technically great, but I’m just not finding it that fun??

RE: Village on PS5 looks amazing. Destroy all humans 2 on plus is a fun dip in and out game too

Just bought RE4 remake off a friend so a bit late to the party but really enjoying it so far.

Continuing with the utterly brilliant Baldurs Gate 3 on Steam Deck. This game has such breadth, depth and complexity to it, it boggles the mind. So many systems working underneath it, it really is a work of genius. Even after a year with TOTK Diablo 4 among others, this is GOTY ( with Zelda ) for me
Will break up play with more Gran Turismo 7 which has its claws in me again
Have a great weekend guys and gals ❤️

Still trying to improve my skills in Tekken 7 online. I also recently picked up Demon's souls so I might play that as well. Have a great weekend folks 😄🤘

After almost 300 hours and three months of playing nothing but this one game, I finally beat Tears of the Kingdom on Switch yesterday, which means I can go back and finish the wonderful Resident Evil 4 remake. I’ve also got Final Fantasy XVI still sitting in its shrink wrap, begging to be set free!

I've just finished Hogwarts Legacy and... what a game! Extremely fun from start to finish, a real delight!

Now I'm playing A Plague Tale : Requiem, and enjoying it a lot, as much as the first one. We really need more of these very polished AA games...

Started playing Ghost Recon Breakpoint again with a fresh Nomad. The game is so much better now than it was years ago. Also continuing my Career in PGA 2K23.

@KaijuKaiser yea it is bizarre. It feels like a chore to play but I've been collecting and playing FF for more than a decade now and I beat almost every game in the series. FF means a lot to me it is my getaway and I felt like I had to beat the new mainline game.

@Zuljaras Your game looks good! What are you using to make it? It's been ages since I've worked on any of my games. I started way back in the 90s writing Assembly code to push pixels, used XNA, wrote my own engine and these days I just use GameMaker Studio 2. GMS has its quirks but is pretty good for 2D games. Most of what you need is included in the box.

As for this weekend's gaming, I've finished my first Trails game with Sky FC! Now on to SC.

I best Final Fantasy XVI a few days ago and now I have been feeling totally lost.Whatever game I tried was just not doing it for me but decided to try Snowrunner which although I couldn't get into Mudrunner I still had wanted to try this one.I've played roughly two hours and despite hardly getting anywhere and it's the most challenging game I think I've played I'm kind of hooked!Whether I carry on or the difficulty will wear me down.we shall see!
Other games I'm playing..
Dodgeball Academia (Day 4)
Tears of The Kingdom (145 hours)

Enjoy your weekend all

So on my 1st run of Sekiro, 2nd run of Elden Ring, 4th run of Bloodborne, I still believe Elden Ring tops them all, it's simply the best From Software game period. Still more Monster Hunter World Iceborne, another game you just can't stop, funny how I found it hard getting into the game in the past and now I love it so much.

@wiiware it's easily understandable why you love Elden Ring but can't get into the others. Yeah again, it's the freedom and open world. I feel if FromSoft maintains that, their open worlds would always be sitting at 96-97 on MC like the GTAs, RDRs and Zeldas.

Back in the Playstation world lol. My weekend looks as follows:
PC- Baldur's Gate 3- game is gorgeous, deep and absolutely overwhelming to a crpg noob like me. Still, I feel it's worth the time investment.
PS5- TLoU and GT7. TLoU works and looks so much better on PS5 than on PC that it boggles the mind how they could have screwed up the port this bad (yes, it still stutters on an RTX 3070 with DLSS on lol)
PS3- nothing atm.
Have a good one and may the cold beer be by your side as it's boiling here where I live (Poland).

@Max_the_German I'm not one for gaming merch but the physical manual for that game might be one of the few things I would want! Enjoy, hell of a game.

Started Dying Light 2 the other day so I'll try and continue with that but I'm really not feeling it loved the first game but something about this isn't doing it for me.

Some more totk, I think I might be closing in on the end but I'm not sure I want to finish it yet! Might be favourite game of all time, just so much pure fun and discovery.

Im playing the amazing 🕷 spiderman.the fantastic the last of us part 2.the wonderful red dead redemption 2.the incredible middle earth shadow of mordor game of the year edition.and the excellent sekiro shadows die twice.i will be watching legendary sitcoms tv 📺 comedy shows in Sanford and son and saved by the bell.word up son

@Zuljaras It's great fun! I often feel making games is more fun than playing them!

I do like the fact that GML has been massively improved over the last few years. Coming from other languages like C++ it felt like a lot was missing before. Stick at the coding and I promise it will get easier in time!

I'm not much of an artist but I really try with my graphics. Sometimes I surprise myself but I have a long way to go to improve.

Genshin Impact mainly, haven't really played for a while so I have a mission or two to finish in the final Sumeru area and then I'll head to Fontaine. I managed to get my Kazuha to c2 on his last banner so I'm looking forward to giving him a run out.

Besides that I'm still on the horrendous collectible hunt in Hogwarts Legacy, a great game that's absolutely ruined by the wholly unnecessary padding of picking up pointless stuff.

Have a good weekend all!

@sorteddan Brilliant game mate. I trust you are using the Konami code for extra cash. Some of the arcade games are cool, I really enjoyed Woodgal, Attack Vector and Racer Chaser but Zombat was probably my favourite, some good tunes in there too from the games and he duke box.

@Zuljaras I am very impressed you make you own games, looks really good. I have many ideas but wouldn't know where to start on what software of anything so kudos to you buddy 👍

Gotham Knights for me, picked it up for £12 and it is worth that so far, playing as Batgirl as she plays mostly like Batman - naturally.

Happy gaming folks.

Me and Jim Sakai. Kicking mongol butt off of Tsushima. Bring. It. On. 👍🏻

Gave a huge push on the collectives hunting in Ghostwire Tokyo yesterday, so next I will play more of the AMAZING Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and the very fun Marvel's Guardians of The Galaxy. This last AC is so immersive, I really feel the Viking vibe as I play. I'm impressed. And GoTG have very strong writing, the combat is engaging. A great weekend awaits!!

I'll be escorting Ellie in the Last of Us Part I.

I'm still messing about with Anno 1800, will tide me over to BG3 in a couple of weeks.

I continue to work on Remnant 2. What a game filled with secrets and reasons to keep playing. Lore is much deeper this time around or at least easier to find. I’m loving it even more than the first.

Otherwise I have some indies I’d like to start and get through. Gal Guardians Demon Purge or others

I may also give Tower of Fantasy another go. It’s free gacha garbage but I really enjoyed Genshin for awhile so I’m curious to put hours into Tower.

I beat Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective on Switch a few days ago and it was amazing, cried a bit at the end. I’m currently playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney which is great too, just started the 4th episode.

Pre installed Starfield on my Xbox Series X which I finally found my cautious hype for again. Don’t trust Microsoft anymore TBH but I still really hope Starfield and Forza Motorsport 8 will hit it out of the ballpark.

On Ps5 it’s just Fortnite this week, finishing up some quests before the next season releases on friday. Although I’m strongly debating on starting Horizon: Forbidden West.

The Order: 1866

Started it a couple of days ago and have been loving it so far. It's a shame it had to bomb when it came out 8 years ago.

Baldur's Gate 3 for me. Both my PS5 and my Series X have had to take a seat on the side-lines whilst I play this absolutely stunning game...

TotK is absorbing my every waking hour, I think I could end up playing it for months, but I really want to finish before Baldur’s Gate comes out

@wiiware if you’re a fan of unsheathe and bleed, wait until you find the Rivers of Blood katana.

And while I agree with you for most bosses that summoning is more or less the easy way out, Malenia will change your mind probably. She’s a beast.

I purchased Aliens: Dark Descent back when it released and didn’t get around to playing it until yesterday. I was instantly hooked. I had to force myself to not boot it up again after we came back from grocery shopping bc I knew I’d spoil my nights sleep (I have to work this Saturday).
Even on Story Difficulty I’m having a tough time and I love it. The game is dark and gloomy and Xenos will try to drag your crew members away!
It captures the atmosphere of an Alien game quite well. Haven’t felt this on-edge versus xenos since Isolation.

Started playing RDR2 until BG3 out next month!

This weekend I’m chipping away at the Uncharted Golden Abyss platinum trophy. I did my first play through without a guide and managed to get all weapon related trophies, and half of the treasures. I’m now going to focus on mopping up the rest of what I’ve missed via a guide and complete the game on crushing mode.

The main game I’m playing, however, is Unit 13 on the Vita. It’s the perfect pick up and play type of game, especially when portable. Missions are only a few minutes long, so you always feel like you’re accomplishing something. There’s a ton of replay value too — getting better rankings, unlocking new weapons and attachments, and there is variety between missions. I’ve been playing the game when on my fifteen minute break or my lunch. It’s very addicting.

I’m now eagerly waiting for Blasphemous 2 and Sea of Stars. I don’t know about anyone else - but I’m going to be eating quite well for the next couple of months!

@kyleforrester87 I played Vagrant Story many moons ago. I think it was quite good, but I didn’t finish it either. I remember the rhythm and timing part of combat took a lot to get used to. I was a big fan of Parasite Eve and FF7-9 back then so Vagrant Story was a really great mixture of mechanics. Not sure why I never finished but I’m sure it had to do with some other game lulling me away. I intended to go back for the longest time, but I don’t know if I’d get along with the game nowadays

On holidays for the next week so I'll be on a PlayStation detox. So it's Switch and xCloud for the next while.

A bit of Sniper Elite 5 from Extra and slowly chipping away at the Grid Legends plat from Essential. Taken me about 10 hours to get the first two main mission maps done in SE5 because following a guide for all collectables, and just messing around on its maps looking for inventive ways to kill as many as possible undetected

Thought I would start Chicory before it leaves the subscription service next month. Also, my son got the platinum on Undertale and has challenged me to do the same. He somehow thinks I won’t be able to make it through some of the bullet hell levels and harder boss fights. I’ll show him.

I'm neck deep in Genshin Impact's latest update. Fontaine is something else; all the new plants, enemies and underwater gameplay is getting me excited for this game again and it feels great.

Killzone: Mercenary (Vita) - Playing Botzone and campaign again.

Forza Street (Android) - Managed a few races.

Imperia Online (Windows Phone) - Finally in the final mission now.

More Octopath Traveler 2 while I give XVI a break before starting Fin Fantasy mode.

Nearing the end of Final Fantasy XVI (86%), just in time for Starfield. Not disliking it anymore, but it’s definitely disappointing after having loved many entries.

@kyleforrester87 yeah I played it back on the original PlayStation I never managed to finish it I would like to see square remaster it with some quality of life features

I can't stop playing SF6. Help!

Petting all the cats on my journey to the platinum trophy in Forspoken

Other then the usual Splatoon playing, i've been meaning to beat Hi-Fi Rush for a while now so I may see how much progress I can make when I have time.

Really would like to finally start playing Like a Dragon Ishin one day. It's been sitting on my shelf since release and I've been putting it off.

Deliver us Mars – since last week I´ve finished and platinumed it. Great story imo, despite some technical issues and janky controls I really enjoyed it a lot.

PSVR 2 - finally reunited with my PSVR 2. Been playing some GT 7 and other games, but also picked up Hubris. It looks really good, controls could be a bit better but Im enjoying it.

Everspace 2 – gave it a whirl but the stutter was to much. Havent tried it after the patch but heard it got fixed so will go back.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 – so I started the campaign on the Series S while waiting for downloads to complete. Been wanting to replay it for some time, it still looks really good and its still fun.

Also, been playing the make space for Starfield on my series S internal drive game. Very difficult and not very fun game that, can not recommend.

Fallout New Vegas on Steam Deck. Never actually completed it

@deathaxe No they are still very, very overpriced imo. They need to drop at least 50 percent before I’ll even consider buying one.

Wanderer: Awesome VR game! Originally a PSVR game but I played it on PCVR. Apparently its coming to PSVR2 next year and I heartily recommend it.

It's a time-travelling adventure game that takes the form of a bunch of escape room-like puzzles set in very diverse locations. As you can see on the picture I used chalk on the blackboard to solve a puzzle with my horrible handwriting.

Pikmin 4 and Final Fantasy XVI

@playthedangame
I finished it the other day. I enjoyed it like it did the first one. Just wish, like the first one, that they polished up the graphical issues more. Last chapter was wild though so I'm definitely intrigued to see where it goes with the final game in the trilogy

I'm grinding trophies for the Remnant 2 platinum as often as I can find time for.

@PixelDragon hi Pixel! I’m not as active commenting here as on EG but its very nice to see you here 🙂

WWE2K23 and Final Fantasy VII Remake.

@PixelDragon Been a lot of bans on EG sadly. But hey, at least he is not on this site and I agree it is nice here 😁

AC2 and Days Gone

The Evil Within platinum.
Speedrun and Akumu.

I don't think this is THE weekend, but i'll be one step closer.

Final Fantasy XIV as I just started Shadowbringers and it already seems more interesting than Stormblood, which was a slog to get through. I'm also working my way through Crisis Core FF7 Reunion. I hadn't played it since 2007 on PSP and it's nice to go back to while waiting for Rebirth.

After Sony got New Light and Wtich Queen expansions into PS+ i bought Lightfall and am playing that. Love it for now

@Stevemalkpus Undertale was my first ever platinum! I had a blast and it wasn’t too difficult.
I wanted to give Chicory a go but it seems it’s not available in my country at all

Fear 1 on PC for the first time. It's fantastic

Series X- Psychonauts 2, Grounded, Sea of Thieves

PS5- Diablo 4, Rocket League, Ghostbusters

I've been playing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre game that came out a few days ago with a few friends and it's been a blast. For anyone that enjoyed Gun Media's "Friday 13th" game this one is them very much back to form. It's a 4 victim vs 3 killer asymmetric format and its nailed the TCM aesthetic.

Hi gamers! 1st time commenting here, like this website and this forum - find it very interesting and inspiring...

I returned back to Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart after few weeks, I'd like to finish it before my ps5 copy of Elden Ring comes - finally found courage to visit The Lands between

@HeavymetalGordon Welcome, hope you enjoy your time here. Rift Apart is great, I need to jump back into Elden Ring myself as I started it but got distracted by other things.

I have been spending time with my family and the In-laws as it's my other half's 40th today. If I do get a bit of time later I might play some Judg(e)ment as I recently started that!

I can't wait Oxenfree 2 become part as PS extra library/collection, usually I'm not a fan for games with lower graphics (no offense) but I tried the first game when it was free (I think on Epic ???) and I loved it. It might take a year but I definitely play it when it happens.
Right now I started Tower of Fantasy that gatcha game, totally as f2p and I like it much more than Genshin. I will go trough story, quite nice game I can recommend especially graphics wise. UI a bit strange to use with controller it took me like 15 hours to get used to it, but for now much better, still reaching some some menus/options are miserable Not to mention handling and learning million kind of items in game. This is the game I can't explain why but I love it

@IndoorEnthusiast what did you think if forspoken? I would imagine you liked it if going for the platinum.

I felt it was unduly disliked and even though it was flawed I found it fun and I wanted to beat the campaign. I quite enjoyed the story too

@Stevemalkpus I've tried chicory twice but could never get into it unfortunately

Ghost Recon Breakpoint, less exploring now, back onto the faction and main missions

Got the platinum in Ghost of Tsushima DC, now playing Iki Island. This is my favorite PS 1st party game. So, so good.

I’m playing Thymesia at the moment while I’m looking for partners to do the Survival mode in REMNANT: From The Ashes.

Well another week of excellent gaming gone by. Found my love for Octopath 2 again and absolutely excellent sessions of Pikmin 4 and Trails To Azure and FFXVI. This weekend tho the plans are pretty simple. Work has moved my early shifts back just a little which now makes it so night gaming is back on the menu baby. So I’m thinking it’s finally time to beat Ghost Trick and also get back to SpongeBob The Cosmic Shake. Definitely wanna start knocking out more of my backlog and streamline a lot of my GOTY Games like ditching Trails To Azure to focus on trying to beat Octopath 2 by the end of the year. Besides the fact that as long as a SpongeBob is still in the backlog it makes it harder to keep up with new games like a Armored Core or Alan Wake. Speaking of that’s the big hype of this week. Picking up Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon on 08/25 or Friday. Also working my way through RE6 which is absolutely mid but honestly extraordinarily enlightening having worked my way through the whole series before it. As for anime of the week same as usual, Atelier Ryza, My Tiny Senpai, Ayaka, Zom 100, Liar Liar and Bungo Stray Dogs. That last one I’m almost caught up on and y’all please watch it it’s absolutely the best show I’ve seen in years. Also check out The Diplomat on Netflix it’s pretty good. Podcasts of the week are Remap Radio, Castle Superbeast, RPGcast from RPGsite, Into the Aether and Fire Escape. Hope everyone has a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.

Replaying both Ghost of Tsushima (PS5 version) & FFXV Royal (EU Trophy List). Having a good time switching back and forth.

@Dusk_Actual I'm actually more interested in nagakiba since it's longer and I can hit enemy with more distance with unsheathe, but it seems fun to try rivers of blood in left hand and use it for it skill (corpse piller) or double wielding it.

@TheArt Can you imagine elden ring but with normal town and quest like skyrim? Man, that game will be the next cultural impact games from fromsoftware I think 😃

@wiiware Yep that'll be interesting but I think part of their charm is when you know everything and everyone is an enemy so there's this sense of relief and discovery when you find 1 person who's y'know human or non-hostile being.