Topic: What PS3 game(s) are you currently playing?

@colonelkilgore Ah, sage direction, colonel, as always. 🍻

I probably spent around 10 hours…(maybe?, it’s been a while) with Immortals Fenyx Rising. It felt like I was probably about 30% complete when I fell off it. I was enjoying it though and so you should definitely still keep it in consideration if you are ever wanting more Greek mythology based open worlding. The campy and humorous tone put a lot of people off, but I actually found it a refreshing change of pace from the super-seriousness of most of these open world action games.

But yeah… you mention another sore spot for me — Days Gone. Still sitting in my pile of shame. It was one of those ten open-world games that were off the top of my head. Like AC Odyssey, I’ve been meaning to play Days Gone for years. Perhaps the DG Remake rumors will be enough to make it rise to the top of my list, especially if it ends up being either free or $10 upgrade only.

But man, AC Odyssey, DG, GTA5, Witcher 3 (I feel like I need to give that another chance), Kingdom Come Deliverance, Baldur’s Gate 3, FF7 Rebirth, Dark Souls 3, Elden Ring…. Heck, even GoW Ragnarok is still in the backlog (mercifully not quite over that 40 hr investment and not a true open world I guess). To say nothing of Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Yotei in 2025 which will certainly be games to include in the ‘large open world’ category and could be of enough interest to force themselves in line ahead of some of the backlog. And here’s hoping that Dragon Age Veilguard gets middling reviews. I can’t handle it if it launches into ‘must-play’ levels of reviews. I am actually grateful that Star Wars Outlaws has had middling reception. For now I feel inclined to skip it. 😄

At the end of the day, backlog management is tough and it’s an individual endeavor. But I definitely appreciate advice to steer me when I get lost at sea.

@Th3solution 🍻 indeed mate any time, I love a backlog chat tbh. And thanks for reminding me of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth… the mere thought of its 200 hour, 8/10 difficulty platinum makes me a bit 🤢🤮

@colonelkilgore Even just a thorough playthrough is supposed to be around 90 hours. I think the one main complaint (well I guess the performance mode woes was another grumble) about it was that it dragged a little too long. I believe there’s a lot of mini-games, from the sound of it. Which might be akin to Yakuza, where the sheer weight of side fluff was enough to discourage me. But with Rebirth, I’m already invested this deep, I have to see it through. 😅 But first I need to play Crisis Core.

@Th3solution same, I want to play Crisis Core before Rebirth too. I’ve committed to playing two FF’s per year moving forwards (1 pixel-remaster and 1 post VII) and VII Rebirth is probably behind all of those in terms of my intended playing order. So, between the time it’ll take me to get to it and the platinum requirements (making it almost mythic amongst trophy hunters) I might save it for #500… which if you have any idea how long it’ll take me to get to 500 plats is frikkin’ hilarious 🤣

@colonelkilgore We’ll probably have Final Fantasy 7: Reconnaissance by then. Or whether it’s going to be called. 😄

@Th3solution … Final Fantasy VII: Retromingent maybe 🤔 (Google it 😉)

@colonelkilgore 🤣 Awesome. First of all, I didn’t know they had a word for that. And second of all, yes absolutely it needs to be called that! 😂 Although maybe it would be a better name for Death Stranding 3. Having mushrooms grown behind you could somehow be core to the gameplay experience.

@Th3solution 😅 yeah it would actually fit the Death Stranding games better… back to the drawing board 🤭

Brutal Legend is next up, just scrolling through the trophy guide and… the trophy for 100% - Metal God is so glitched that it glitches out for every single player after their progression reaches 78% completion and they close the game. Therefore the only way that the platinum is possible is through careful planning to get your game to 77%, make a manual save and then try and get the remaining 23% in one sitting. Awe ****, here we go again! 😅

So after a day and a half of grinding out multiplayer trophies, I’m finally starting the single player story on Brutal Legend… looks pretty cool so far tbh.

Yeah Brutal Legend is a really cool forgotten gem fair play. I’m about halfway through the main story after today’s session and while the game play (protagonist control) is average at best, the art design, creativity, soundtrack and voice cast are very good. The RTS element is interesting too… if a little janky.

It’s like some crazy combination of GTA, Kingdom of Amalur, Warcraft and Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. I love Jack Black from that School of Rock era and he’s bang on form here.

Binary Domain and Tales of Xillia and wwe 2k17

Started the Final Fantasy XIII Trapezohedron farm this afternoon and… this is gonna take some time. Then once I’ve farmed 5 of them (I currently have zero!) I’ll have to farm 6 Dark Matters… which are even harder to farm! 😅

@colonelkilgore
You’re gonna really enjoy Kingdom come deliverance when you finally get round to playing it, circa 2028.
Really difficult to start with and I still get murdered when I’m ambushed by lots of enemies but one on one combat is great fun.

Just finished another replay of Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time, my favorite R&C game so far

Well after a 8 days of farming trapezohedrons on FFXIII, my second one just dropped… just another 3 to go 🫠

I'm playing Dragon Age Origins, on PC, but close enough lol. It really is a great RPG, I see why it's so beloved. I want to play DA2 afterwards. The choice in Redcliffe was absolutely insane. One of the grimiest things I've ever seen in a game.

3 trapezohedrons down, two to go 🙏🙏

Holy **** the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Kleidos Challenges on Prince of Darkness difficulty are tough! 😰

@BeyondKnight hopefully it’s better than ToD , because i’m bored to tears with my playthrough of ToD again. it’s not as good as i remember it being, especially since im playing right after replaying through the ps2 trilogy.