Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@RogerRoger It does seem strange at times that people can call themselves fans of FF as a series because, like you point out, the story, cast, and mechanics are so different game to game that there is almost nothing (other than an obligatory Sid/Cid character) that ties them together.

Myself, I've played VI, VII, VIII and then the remake but nothing else!

And yes, I do enjoy a good tonal shift between my games so I don't get fatigued with the same game type. This is certainly one of the more extreme shifts I admit

@Th3solution XII has a fairly bad and nonsensical plot but the gameplay is just so good. Especially with the high speed option in the remake. Plus Fran and Balthier are two of the best characters in the series, love them. It always irritated me that the names almost all rhymed, Vaan and Fran, Basch and Ashe, Penelo and... Balthier. I can’t decide whether Benny Low or Paul Tier sounds better.

@nessisonett Never really thought about the rhyming. Perhaps the names don’t rhyme in Japanese. And if we get a Final Fantasy game with characters Benny and Paul, I think it’s officially jumped the shark.

@Bentleyma- I really like the array of starting options you get with DOOM Eternal too, and the removal of condescending difficulty names/descriptions.

I decided to play with the old school system of having finite lives but on the standard difficulty.

I did, however, dislike having to sign in to a Bethesda account to simply play the campaign. That said, it doesn’t need to be verified so apologies to [email protected] for receiving the verification link.

Well done on finally beating Final Fantasy VII @RogerRoger!

I know most sonic games are on the short side of things but it's still quite impressive you got through 11 sonic games on the side whilst trying to beat it 😅

Good to see you ended up with some good thoughts about FFVII too by the end!

I ended up doing both @Draco_V_Ecliptic. I went for New Londo first and opened the floodgates.

I was a bit too weak to be taking on the Darkwraiths (And the quick go I had at the four kings fight went very badly) so I left to do Ash Lake before venturing into Sen's Fortress.

I'm level 57 or so now (30 Vitality, 20 endurance and 30 dexterity being the main improved stats) with a +15 Scimitar. Didn't mean to have a fully upgraded weapon yet I just got really lucky with the drops on the titanite chunks from the Darkwraiths and I already had a titanite slab

I haven't played the dlc before. I only had the vanilla version of the game on ps3 and never bought the dlc for it... so this will be the first time I have it and I'll be sure to play it.

Ha you're more then welcome Rog! I'm in a similar position in being somewhat gratified though a little disappointed you didn't enjoy it more so then myself (My reaction to big plot developments was more "That was it?" I believe... Though the Slap fight with Tifa and the Shinra lady was just a full on wtf moment that completely took me out the game 😅)

There is a demo still up on the ps3 psn store I believe for lightning returns @RogerRoger if you wanna give it a go. I will say that one of the main protagonists of Snow in the XIII trilogy is voiced by Troy Baker so your mileage on that series may vary (And not many people like Snow as a character anyway... )

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Urgh, Snow. Urgh, Hope. Urgh, Vanille. Ok, pretty much the entire cast of XIII. I did like the sequel though, it was silly but fixed some of the issues with the first one.

@RogerRoger Do you plan on picking up FF7-R at any point?

@RogerRoger After trudging about a mishmash of reactor textures for what felt like the 14th time, I decided to put the Remake down. I’d totally play the second one cause it covers parts of the original I prefer, although the plot changes are Kingdom Hearts levels of absolute nonsense.

@RogerRoger I can appreciate what it did right, but for a game so heavily hyped and one that seems almost drawn out artificially, it just did my head in on too many occasions for me to not feel totally bummed while playing it. And that’s why I barely buy games on release!

@RogerRoger No, I never played Lightning Returns but I did play XIII-2 although I never quite completed it.

Lightning Returns was an unfortunate victim of its release timing. Coming out at the bitter end of the PS3 era, I moved on to PS4 and never looked back. If a remaster came to PS4 I probably would have played it though because it did look really good.

As for the gambit programming system of XII, it’s probably not for everyone but all it’s really doing is making the mundane decisions you would normally make into automated AI decisions. It’s a nice compromise between the satisfying feeling of total control over every party member during a fight (which runs the risk of feeling tedious) and the convenience of an AI controlled set of companions (which inevitably costs several victories that are due to party members doing inexplicable random actions during a fight). Giving a set of prioritized instructions like “if HP < 30% then heal”, “if poisoned use an antidote”, “if enemy then guard”, “if Foe flying then cast wind magic”... etc. So it’s fun to strategize the party to be ready for any scenario and for some reason I was really good at it. It felt like doing geometry proofs.
And if you did make an error in your program logic I think you could regain control of the characters and jump in to save the day, but I might be misremembering. It’s been a while.

@Arugula Which do you think you will receive first, PS5 or the games you are downloading?

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy It seems like you have a bit more leveling up to do. When I last left Dark Souls my stats were: 50 Vitality, 40 Endurance, 40 Strength, 40 Dexterity, out of the ones I leveled up, and I moved from a Guts build to a GiantDad one.

@Th3solution @nessisonett I just completed Zeffo 2, in Jedi Fallen Order, where I got out of the prison after BD-1 & I were captured by the bounty hunter. About how far through the game am I?

The Sims 4 PS4
Override : Mech City Brawl

@Kidfried
I have bought Island Living bundle in disc and some Expansion packs + Game packs from PSN
Get to Work, Dine Out, Vampires (i hate this add on but i bought it from 3 in 1 pack), Kitchen Stuffs.

Recommended:
All the main Expansion Packs as they are really important.
For Game Packs, i want to take all of them except Star Wars stuff as i really dislike Star Wars and almost Western franchises & superheroes.

@Kidfried The Sims expansions are a nightmare. All the main ones are totally needed like @Anti-Matter says but then there’s loads of smaller ones. It’s not even a new thing for EA, my house is filled with discs for IKEA items in Sims 2 or Diesel clothes in Sims 3.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic it’s been a while since I played but I’d guess you still have like 30-40% of the game left, including the toughest boss. You’re pretty far along though.

@Th3solution I'm assuming that it's toughest boss is the final boss in the game? I really liked that gauntlet of enemies that you had to face before leaving the prison, reminded me of similarly themed events in Fable and God of War |Champion's Arena, Gauntlet of the realms) do you know what I mean?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Never played Fable nor God of War. I really need to get to GoW though. I’ve had it in my backlog for several months now after I bought it on sale, but just haven’t taken the time to play it yet. As for Fable, it is actually one of the game series on Xbox that I’d like to play. Unfortunately I hear the latter sequels have been poorly received so it hasn’t been enough to push me to buy the console.

As for Fallen Order, personally I had the biggest issue with another boss outside of the final one. But there are a couple tough ones coming up for you. Similarly to Soulsborne bosses, some players struggle with certain bosses more than others. I came close to decreasing the difficulty level at one point, but I persevered and finally got past it.