Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 537

Starting kingdom come deliverance and continuing football manager 2024 I think.

Little bit of Concord and Sly Cooper.

Just finished Steel Rising...an enjoyable souls like but way too easy and lightweight with a good story
Gonna do another run through of Hellblade 2 which is fantastic though I fully understand it's criticisms but overall it's a stunner but not quite as good as the first game.
More GT7 which just gets better and better
Have a great weekend guys and gals ❤️

I think I’ll jump back on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Play some Street Fighter 6 as well.

Just finished the excellent Still Wakes the Deep. Now not 100% sure what to play

@KingPev I loved the first Hell Blade. Hoping it's one of Microsofts exclusives that makes it's way to PS5 at some point

Luigi's Mansion 2: Ah, the old familiar places. Playing this calls to mind memories of my time with it on the 3DS, but truth be told it may as well be a new game entirely.

Sure, the mission structure is there, E. Gadd still calls you up way too often, and the ghosts are still as goofy as ever, but the graphical overhaul and fluidity of controls make all the difference in the world. This is Dark Moon not as you remember it, but as you would like it to have been, and it's spooktacular fun.

Plus Polterpup is as adorable as ever.

Rise of the ronin on ps5, driver on duckstation and half life 2 on my gaming lappytop.

Rise of the Ronin - So I´ve finally petted all the f-n cats 😅 I have some missions left and some cleaning up for the platinum, so I´ll probably give my final thoughts next week. Still fun to play, but the game is a bit too long and bloated imo. I´m normally immune to open world fatigue and long games, but this one is pushing me a bit. Still, breaking it up with other games helps 😊

Still wakes the deep - Finished it last weekend. Really enjoyed it, especially the voice acting which was top notch. The story was good but a bit predictable, the performance on my series S wasn’t great but still, very good game!

The First Descendant - This game really isn’t very good, but it has that little something that makes me keep playing it 🙂 Missions are very repetitive, but that means I can turn my brain off and just cruise around for some shooting and looting. There is a story, it looks decent, and gameplay is ok. Its really a mixed bag of games you´ve played before, but not necessarily better than any of them. So, again, not very good but pretty fun to play when I´m in that mood and its free. Just don’t blame me if you try it and hate it, I´ve warned you twice now its not very good 🫣😅

I've been going full retro recently so I'll be playing Pokemon Pinball and Pokemon Crystal on the Game Boy Color. Also picked up Professor Layton and the Lost Future and Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword on the DS. As for PlayStation I may continue the ever-bizarre Final Fantasy 8 or start Alone in the Dark (2001). Happy weekend all and of course - it's coming home ⚽️ 😎

Trails through Daybreak for me - and I'm also starting up Skyrim again for what feels like the millionth time haha. Might actually play as one of the elves, as I've never done that before.
Happy weekend everyone!

Immersing myself in the world of Sandland, what a wonderful game. Then a little bit of Diablo 2.

I'll be continuing with The First Descendents, it's not a good game but it's scratching an itch I didn't know I had; that for early Warframe before it became an unmanageable mess.

I'm also going to give Concord a fair shake, I kinda dig the off-brand GoTG vibe

Shadow of The Erdtree final boss time. Just picked up Granblue Fantasy Relink so giving that a go

Since I heard the sequel is coming, I started last week and I'm continuing Life is Strange Remastered. I aim to platinum it, like the rest of the installments.
Other than that, there's not much else that interests me at the moment. Maybe Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, which is coming out next week, but I'll wait for the reviews on that one.

Ive started dipping my toe in to visual novels on the switch and have played a few demos. Still not sure they are for me or not. I prefer a VN with some slight gameplay element so ive started playing Dangonrompa trigger happy and finally got Famicom detective club after it never going on sale in the past few years. On PS5 ive started playing the Witcher 3 and am loving it so far. Cant play in graphics mode tho for some reason as i get a black flicking shadow all around the horizon.

I'm back on DA Inquisition after finishing DA2. The inquisitor isn't a patch on Hawke.

Also hoping to see this on Sunday night
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One-armed for a wee-while after having surgery yesterday, so gonna try Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars as I reckon it’ll be doable in my current state 🤕

@Kidfunkadelic83 I also enjoy a gameplay element in visual novels on Switch. My favourites are AI the somnium files series, Ace Attorney series, Rain Code and Death Mark

@ApostateMage i pulled Spain out of the hat at work and im set to win a £100 if they win so as a non major football fan im quietly hoping that spain win 😂

Trails through Daybreak! There's also the small matter of it coming home.

@rusty82 ...Yeah loved the first one too. The 2nd is so cinematic and immersive and the combat is really hefty and visceral. Here's hoping it comes to PS5

@Bentleyma damn, that PS2 looks crispy!

@Tsushima ive got Ace and AI was one of the demo's i tried and quite enjoyed. Ive added alot to the watch list so i can pick them up in sales as some are quite expensive. I tried Witch in the holy night demo too but its more of a traditional visual novel and it didnt grip as much as the interactive ones do.

I finally started Trails Of Cold Steel 3,about 4 years after finishing CS2.I'm about 14 hours into it so far and quite enjoying it.

I’m currently in the process of starting chained echoes whilst wishing for success for Spain. Sorry England, can’t support. 😂 (Signed proud Welshwoman)

Never a pen.

The Dutch were robbed. Southgate is the luckiest boy on this planet. Also, I'm playing Kingdom Come

Finished Eiyuden Chronicles, it’s got its flaws, but I ended up liking it more than Octopath 2. Going to sink some more into Elden Ring until FF7 Rebirth comes tomorrow. Have a great weekend folks!

Erdtree, Shadow of the
Soccer, Pro Evolution

On PS5 i will be playing some more of the Concord Beta, been having fun with it so far. I will also be playing Trails Through Daybreak and Tunic.

On Switch I will be playing Splatoon 3 as I usually do on Splatfest weekends, pretty much the only time I play the game now. I will also be playing Luigis Mansion 2 HD and Spy X Anya.

On 3DS I will be continuing with Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright.

Scars Above 😐 , Don't ALL Shout At Me lol

I will be playing the amazing watch dogs 2.marcus Holloway is a cool protagonist.one of the best i ever play as.the graphics.the gameplay.the story.the soundtract.and the gameplay is phenomenal.i will continue playing the awsome just cause 3.i will continue playing the incredible doom 2016.and i will continue playing the excellent prey.i will be watching legendary sitcoms tv 📺 comedy shows in good times.the Jeffersons.sanford and son and saved by the bell.word up son

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare campaign, and Everybody's Gone To The Rapture. Enjoying both!

Continuing to embrace the weirdness that is Death Stranding on the PS5. Just made it to Chapter 6 so roughly half way through. Have a good weekend all, happy gaming and Come on England!

Nothing rewatching BLEACH

Gt7 and EA sports wrc and I've been playing an hour or 2 of the first descendant to break the petrol fumes up..have a brilliant weekend everybody 👍

batman arkham knight and all DLC was on sale for PC for only $1.99!!! You’d have to be a fool to resist that; I bought it even though i already own it on playstation and 100%’d it twice . It plays and looks so good on PC , almost as if it’s a different game! but the problem is that i’ve already played it so much so i don’t want to waste my time 😭

illl just play American Truck Simulator that was also dirt cheap. I’m honestly hyped about playing it since i always thought the trucker life was dope

Ys Memories of Celceta for me. I became a massive fan of the Ys games after picking up Oath of Felghana a few years ago on PSP. They're the sort of games that just remind me why I love videogames. Sure, the game engine may be dated and it looks like a PS2 game, but it's made with such love and charm that it's difficult to resist.

Still intending to start Falcom's Trails games at some point - they're on my list!

Also finished Tomb Raider Underworld and Planet of Lana this last week. Both enjoyable. My 12 year old daughter is playing Planet of Lana now and having a blast with it.

I will finish Jusant this weekend, very chill and just a lovely change of pace for me.

And maybe play/finish off AC Mirage if I get time and the urge to do so.

Then I can get back to Starfield next week, which i've decided to play a "chapter" at a time with other games to break it up a bit, a chapter being a faction or planet based quest chain, as I'm not pushing further into the main quest, as such.

FUS-RO-STARRRR

@rusty82 yeah crazy to think it initially was a PS4 exclusive even, and now it's Xbox owned. I can imagine it coming to other platforms though, as it was expensive to make and wasn't a commercial hit on limited platforms, seems like a logical fit to go multiplat.

Started Borderlands 3 this week, love this franchise. I will play more Final Fantasy XVI, some Uncharted 2 and Dave The Diver. Preparing some free time and hard drive space for new games, soon, finally haha!!

Went back to Rebirth. It was just too much and too long for my taste, but now I’ve been away I’m ready to finish up the last three chapters.

Otherwise it is the usual: More wandering in Rise of the Ronin, seasons in MLB the Show 24, and Zenless Zen Zero with maybe some First Descendant in there.

I love ZZZ but Descendant is easily more my style of sci fi space shooter.ZZZ is definitely a great mix of action and Persona too.

Overall lots to play! Oh and Shadow of the Erdtree too!!

"It's coming home?" Yep.

Still Shadow of the Erdtree.

On my Xbox I'm playing Aliens Fireteam with a mate, and when I get a chance, I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3 doing a Dark Urge run on Tactician difficulty (though truthfully, I'm struggling to do anything evil. It's just not in my nature! 😂).

On my PC, I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3 with a mate in a duo run, and also have a trio run ongoing with yet another mate. So in all, I have three different games of BG3 on the go.

Both my PS5 and Switch are sat idle at the moment.

Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty much still taking up all my game time, and I love it...

@mac_da_man I feel the same way about First Descendant. It does nothing that Warframe didn’t already do, but it’s like a good popcorn flick. I can game, podcast listen, and let my monkey brain enjoy the simplicity of it all.

Thing is, @Specky, I agree it was a soft penalty, but both the pundits, and a professional referee friend of mine, have said that it would have been a classed as a foul, and thus a free-kick, anywhere else on the pitch, and therefore it follows that it would be a penalty if it occurred in the box.

Soft, yes, but still a penalty in todays game...

Halfway through The Callisto Protocol. It's been really fun so far.

Finished:

• Ruiner (PS4) / Hard difficulty. I never get bored with this game and i wish they make a sequel because there's more potential with the story, especially with the "female hacker" and the MC.
• Gungrave G.O.R.E (PS4) / Normal difficulty. Despite some flaws like tech issues (got 2 crash in the middle of boss fight, the lip sync, some cutscenes had a weird pause which i thought was a crash, and a couple of bad frame drop when there's too many enemies & sfx in the screen) and needs a bit more enemy variety, this game is really a fun and solid 3D action-TPS with arcade style that became more and more rare nowadays. I gave it an 8/10. I wish this game has more contents like Gallery mode where i can view the characters and enemy model / artworks or Arena or Boss Rush mode. Oh and anyone who interested to play this game, right now it has a big sale on PSN like 5 or 6 bucks.

Playing:

• Metro: Last Light Redux (PS4). I forgot why i stopped playing this game for a year or more. Now i'm continue my playthrough again after Artyom saved Anna.
• Blazing Chrome (PS4) - Hardcore difficulty. I try to platinum this game but this difficulty is quite brutal lol.
• Rollerdrome (PS4). I like challenges but the "you need to completed at least x challenge" as a requirement to unlocked next stage are kinda annoying. Imagine if Contra or Metal Slug has a requirement where players can't die at all or they can't access the next stage lol.
• Rogue Galaxy (PS4). This game is on my backlog for so long and now i will finished it.

Classified France '44 and Grid Legends.

Trails through Daybreak primarily. That game has been really fantastic so far. Falcom doesn't miss!

I'm also playing the Concord beta. It's an interesting one. I'm very much in the middle on it. I don't hate it but I'm also not fully on board either. The gameplay is solid. The characters are varied but I got to say the only one I kinda like is the guy with the hat that heals. Javaldi or something? Can't remember his name but he's cool. The rest of the cast is just kind of whatever.

I'll keep playing the beta for the weekend but at the moment it's a "I like it but I don't think I'd buy it" sort of game.

@Fiendish-Beaver
Saka passed the ball to Kane with his hands... Besides that it was the softest pen ever. Gary Neville called it a disgrace and other pundits agree so...

Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok

Making my way through the game's DLC that I bought but never played. Now onto Dawn of Ragnarok, which I started early in the week, so I'm not that far along yet. I'm enjoying it so far. I like how each dwarf shelter has it's own little story arc attached to it.

@Specky soft pen for sure but the better team still won...

I'm playing through The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The 3D Zelda games are mostly great, and this one is no exception.

I also picked up Forza Horizon 4 in a recent sale. That's being delisted near the end of this year due to licensing issues, so now seemed like as good a time as any for me to finally get it. Plus, I was in the mood for some racing anyway.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak. I’m 25 hours deep and it’s excellent. Van is the best protagonist this series has ever had. I’m looking forward to diving deeper into it once I get more free time.

Finished Sea of Stars yesterday. I'm glad I played it & had a nice time with it, but for me, it falls into the "Games I've finished once & will never play again" category. Which is better than "Games I regret purchasing"!

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (3DS) - I rage quit this back in the day. I'm determined to get through it this time.

Uncharted: Golden Abyss (Vita) - Made it to chapter three, making slow and steady progress.

Microsoft Bingo (Windows Phone) - Plodding away with this still...

Spider-man Remastered and GT7 on my PS5 (both are a treat for the eyes). On ROG Ally: Burnout Revenge and Persona 3 FES. Also, I bought the PSPlay app for my Ally and can use it as a better version of the PS Portal. Great time to be a gamer, I tell ya. Go England and go Argentina!

Almost done with Resident Evil Village. Reeeally enjoyed my time playing. Will also play some Street Fighter 6 in the battle hub

@Deljo
Dutch scored first half and were better second half. English the opposite, so I'd say it was even

Still have a ton of work to do on the house. I don't know if I'll get any opportunities to play. If I do, it'll be Stellar Blade and the demo for Dragon's Dogma II.

Elden Ring, Sifu, Animal Well and WRC, which I bought this week. So Eiyuden Chronicle is on hold apparently.

Haven’t been able to play as much this week as have had other events on and just about to start a new job:

Switch: The Messenger - at the most frustrating point of any Metroidvania - I’m out of available roots, so just backtracking through them all again to see what I’ve missed. Trying to do it without using the hints system

PS5: Sifu - really gotten into the combat system now - got to the CEO and played through the levels again to reduce my age. Anyone know if Sekiro would be a good game to play next as in this combats mood

Trying to finish up Robocop.
Picked up Avatar on sale and might try Concord

Definitely trying to make some progress in Rebirth this weekend. Looking at Dragonquest 3 Remake footage has me slightly disappointed with it but also wanting to play it so I might jump back into Star Ocean 2 Remake instead 😅

Have a good weekend yall!

Giving Concord a go and actually surprisingly enjoying it

As I said, it was soft, @Specky. However, even Neville contradicted himself because he said it would have been a foul (and a freekick) outside the box. It cannot possibly be a foul in one part of the pitch, but not the other.

The way I look at it is would the English have felt aggrieved if this had been awarded against them? Absolutely they would. However, would the Dutch have felt it was a penalty had it happened to them in our penalty box? Yes, they would! It was one of those decisions that was going to divide fans along Country lines. Yes, it was soft, and I'm glad I was not the one making the decision. In all honesty, I thought it was harsh because the Dutch player raised his leg to block the shot, and Kane kicked his studs. So I didn't think it was a foul. However, my friend (who was a professional referee) explained why it was a penalty, and I have to accept his interpretation of the rules as he is an expert, whereas I am but a numpty...

Still roaming around Ancient Greece in ASSASSIN’S CREED : Odyssey. Pretty close to the platinum for it but still have about half the DLC’s to do yet.

@nomither6 finished all the batman trilogy on ps4 long time ago. And I bought all the collection again for my steam deck. This game never get old. And it’s look so good on deck oled. Arkham origins kinda nice too(really love deathstroke boss fight)

@SolarSpirit86 Hahahaha I played that game around its launch. I enjoyed it for the first few hours but it quickly became stale and showed how low budget it really was. Not a good game by any means but nowhere nearly as bad as Quantum Error. Now THAT is a terrible game and one to be avoided at all costs!!!

Mainly P3 Reload and Ghost of Tsushima.
With a bit of Cult of the Lamb, Dark Cloud, Dragon’s Dogma and Returnal

Still plugging away at Shin Megami Tensei V's platinum. Supplementing with some Concord, NHL 24, and Zenless

@DETfaninATL agreed

I’m on a kickboxing coaching course this weekend. 2 x 8 hour days so that will leave very little time for any gaming. If I do get a bit of time, it’ll be spent on shadow of the erdtree.

@Fiendish-Beaver don’t think it should have been a foul anywhere on the pitch. Football really is poor these days. BUT that’s the rules now so it is what it is.
I’ll be playing a bit of concord, f1 2024, gt7 and some ff rebirth.

Baldur’s Gate 3 & Astro’s Playroom on the PS5 and The Witcher 3 on the Switch

@amatmulisha how many times have you beat them all?

also origins is my favorite

Alone in the Dark only a few hours in and It's pretty good not very scary but still enjoyable.

Just finished up Cyberpunk and Phantom Liberty after starting that game about 2 and a half years ago. Glad I played it but happy to have it crossed off my backlog. I’ve entered the final chapter in Jedi Survivor today so I’ll be finishing that up this weekend. Next week I’ll be focusing on making some progress in Yakuza 3 and recently picked up MW3 (2023) so I could play the OG MW2 maps again. Nostalgia got me on this one. I really prefer the gunplay in CoD over XDefiant but I prefer the movement and color palette of XDefiant. Guess I’ll be playing both for awhile for my FPS fix.

Good morning. ☺
I played PS3 Move games this morning, for machine maintenance.
1. PlayStation Move Heroes
2. Fit In Six

@nomither6 maybe twice for arkham city and knight. I bought the dlc cold cold heart for origins but haven’t play yet

@Bentleyma nothing wrong w that. Sounds wonderful.

Hello there fellow gamers.
Having finished the amazing Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC on my PS5, now I´m back at playing Assassins Creed Odissey on my Series X.
I´m pretty late to the party with AC Odissey and I don´t see why the game got so much flak. It is pretty great in my opinion.
I´ve been pleasently surprised by the narrative and beautiful Greek landscapes. It is a BIG game, that´s for sure.
Cheers and happy gaming weekend to us all

I’m still working my way through Shadow of the Erdtree, but because I hate myself, I’m also playing Sekiro on Steam Deck.

Well here we go with another excellent WAYP. Been a weird week around here. Still feeling kinda depressed but also the depression breaking a little I guess? Weekends been mostly busy with work tho I did get two nice Summer Nights Splatfest days in Splatoon 3. Beautiful colors the whole time and honestly winning or losing I genuinely had a good time regardless with it so that was awesome. Also tried out the Concord beta on PS5 and honestly while I was a little eh on it at first once I played a couple matches I enjoyed it. Thought I wouldn’t be able to play my “waifu” character Haymar but then I realized the optimal way to play her and it was loads of fun. And having those live service goals that get paid out like job tickets getting the bottom part torn off upon completion? Crazy satisfying. Looking forward to the full game. Thinking the rest of the weekend will just be a Persona 3 Reload weekend or FFXIV Dawntrail. Again it really comes down to just how I feel and what I want of my games. The rest of the week is honestly gonna reflect the rest of the summer minus the addition of games like Kunitsu Gami or maybe a preorder of Star Wars Outlaws or this years EVO where we’ll most likely get fighting game DLC. And that’s me mostly wanting to knock out all the cool games of the first half of the year. On the switch we’re talking Paper Mario, Luigi’s Mansion 2, Monkey Ball, Monster Hunter Stories and of course my lovely Trails Through Daybreak. Got to play that on my day off and it was just absolutely lovely amd everything I wanted and more. And over on PS5 that means games like Persona 3 Reload, FFXIV Dawntrail, Stellar Blade, Sand Land, FFVII Rebirth, Rise of the Ronin, WWE 2K24 and Dragons Dogma 2. Wanna knock most of these out by the last week of August which I consider to be the start of the second half of games where they just start coming out one week after the other rapidfire. I may also wanna dabble in some Theatrhythm Final Bar Line. Played it a little when it came out and honestly I really love the gameplay loop of those games, a craving I guess ahahaha. Also may want to check out the Starfy games. Starfy is so cute and awesome and honestly the fact they put them on NSO like they did is really interesting. Anime of the week gotta go to Kaiju No.8, Oshi No Ko, Delicious in Dungeon and Urusei Yatsura of course. Oshi No Ko specifically is incredibly amazing honestly. That show has not missed yet. Podcasts of this week gotta go to Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into The Aether, RPGsites Tetracast,Minnmax, Jeff Gerstmann, Kit and Krysta, Last Stand Media, Easy Allies, Second Wind, Nextlander, Cultaholic Wrestling, Let’s Anime and Remap Radio. And yet we wouldn’t be done without a incredible huge lovely superb wonderful shoutout to my dear friend over at twitch.tv/akibread and their wonderful streams please give them a look. As always yall stay safe, stay cool and refreshed and be incredible to each other. Have an excellent weekend and of course Happy Gaming.

@get2sammyb
PlayStay Move Heroes was not really bad actually.
I got Gold Medals oftenly from the Challenges so far.
The only my complaint was the camera angle that sometimes I have difficulty to turn around my characters when walking through the stages.

Fit In Six....
It was like time waster exercise game that I can play by sitting down on the couch while moving the PS3 move according to the exercise movement.
I called it "cheating", because I don't sweat. 😁

@Bentleyma Nice! That console has a legendary library. Just the RPGs alone. I'm also a huge R&C/J&D fan. Honestly, if they just started making PS2s and printing discs again, I'd be all over it.

England are quiet!?…lol…