Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

That's fair enough @SweetSummerShunv

I guess I'd say you're honestly pretty safe I'd say in skipping it? If you already have it wouldn't hurt to give it a look but otherwise I think you know most of what goes on (especially if you've looked stuff up/accidently got some spoilers via wiki's) so it'd mostly just be for the characters, their interactions and some of the trial results really... Bit hard to recommend given the situation?

I've actually played some of V3 so I'm familar with Miu Iruma (I quite liked Himiko myself but Miu was kinda interesting). I got to chapter 4 so just over halfway. But I might actually go back and play Ultra Despair Girls first and maybe restart V3 from the beginning? Not quite sure yet really.

Yeah I totally agree on the final section being a bit much in the Cathedral @nessisonett.

Seeing as you've mainly stuck with Yakumo as your partner for the game ... I bet it was a bit weird for you being lumped with Jack for a while huh?

I'm using Io as my partner now and she's kinda a jack of all trades with some good spells, decent weapon damage and I think she uses the stronger revival gift you get with her Blood Code too... She's really quite versatile.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I’ve used Louis a bit as well but it was quite cool having someone else along for the ride. Honestly all the companions are good in their own right but Yakumo is probably my favourite. He’s a total tank.

I am playing The Council, such a great game.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yes I do plan on playing the very first Danganronpa on my phone and tablet eventually because I feel like using monster hardware to play legacy generation games is a bit of a waste, but yes I'm overall keen on exploring the first game at some stage, possibly during one of my upcoming long train trips which I have to take back home. As for Miu, I won't spoil too much on what's going to become of her given the stage you're at in your progression in V3, other than that her gadgets will play a huge role throughout the rest of the story, which will rapidly become darker and darker after this point, and then to another form of darkness altogether.

@SweetSummerShunv I played Dangaronpa on my tablet and loved it. It’s a great experience. Pretty much the same game I played on my PSVITA, but my tablets larger screen made it a better play.

Well I hope you enjoy the first Danganronpa @SweetSummerShunv whenever you get round to playing it! I'll let you know whenever I get round to Danganronpa V3 and give my thoughts on Mui if you like

Seeing as it's the 24th... Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays too!

@PSVR_lover Awesome! I have a 30+ hour train trip waiting for me in a month or so, so that would be a great way to spend the time! I still have an old iPad Pro so I can perhaps make use of that.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Great! I hope you enjoy the rest of V3! And Merry Xmas/Yuletide to you and everyone else here too!

Just Platinumed FFXV. Great game. Story is a little shallow but it was fun enough. I'll have a look at the "episodes" and it'll be back to NG+ of Tsushima. As always, just biding my time until Hitman 3.

I'm still currently replaying Dark Souls 3 with my Kratos build, it's great fun, grinding and leveling up. That's all I'm doing at the moment, gaming-wise.

Got bugsnax for PlayStation 4 so playing that for Christmas

Got Dirt 5 and Miles Morales for Christmas, but I've hardly touched them because we also got Minecraft Dungeons for the kids and damn this game is awesome. Completely derivative of Diablo obviously, but a hoot nonetheless. It's a fair challenge too, unless all the rum I've drunk in the last 48 hours has dampened my reflexes

I forgot how absolutely nuts the FFXV crossover is in Assassin’s Creed Origins. The one in FFXV is also brilliant. It’s such a strange thing for games from totally different developers to crossover in that way but it weirdly works. I wish more devs would do this sort of thing.

@nessisonett I had totally forgot about it when I was playing it and genuinely had no idea wtf was going on. 😂 I loved riding around on my Chocobo-camel. The sword and shield are pretty decent too.

@JohnnyShoulder The shield is brilliant because you don’t really come across that many legendary shields in the base game. I had the one but this is just a straight upgrade. The sword is pretty good but I have a cursed spear that murders everyone while permanently reducing me to one health bar. It makes combat a whole lot more tense and honestly makes it more fun. The chocobo-camel thingy is great fun though, it looks silly but is exactly what these sorts of games need more of.

I'm plodding through Crash 4 still and they've gone a bit silly with quite how much there is to do.

Each level has 6 gems to achieve; 3 for getting a number of wumpa fruit in a level, one for getting all crates, one for completing in less than 3 lives, and a hidden gem. So that means each level takes a few runs (especially with some fiendishly hidden crates), often with one run to get all crates and another to go with as few deaths as possible.

Then there are time trials. And later on achievements for getting all crates AND not dying in a run. And then the "N. Verted" levels which then have ANOTHER six gems and are mirrored versions of the original levels but in a migraine inducing colour scheme (that looks like one of the accessibility modes TLOU2 has) with enemies, crates, platforms etc all brightly coloured. Oh, and the screen sort of pulses with light so you can't see everything all the time.

I'm sure it means some people are getting their moneys worth but it seems a bit overkill!

So a bit of PS3 and PS4 for me today (simultaneously). I’ve got a Death Match cycling an infinite (well until I stop it) loop on MGS: Peace Walker on the PS3 and as I don’t have to actively do anything while this churns away for the most grindy online trophy (Vic Voss), I thought... well I could chip away at the PS4 backlog at the same time. So I’ve reinstalled Sekiro.

I’ve got three of the four endings (will need the Shura ending this time), the only boss I have left to beat during what will be ng+++ is Isshin Ashina and need to fully upgrade all prosthetics and acquire all skills.

Haven’t played it since around June 2019 and wow, I’m struggling to get back into it... I forgot how difficult the game is.

All I need now, is a way to set up this on a constant grind for the upgrade materials I need... and then I can switch on the PS5 and chip away on a game on that too 🤣.

@colonelkilgore Lol, that’s awesome. Gaming on 3 systems at once is so epic. I remember as a lad doing some kind of trick with running my game console overnight with one of the buttons taped down to grind something. This was before trophies and for the life of me I can’t remember what game it was, but it was probably to get enough in-game currency or XP to purchase a max-tier item. 😂

@Th3solution

Nice dude, it’s a little like the gaming equivalent of that 90’s Michael Keaton movie Multiplicity... it just feels ‘so’ efficient.

@Th3solution @colonelkilgore It just reminds me of the GTA5 missions for the Epsilon (?) cult where Michael has to run around the desert for so long.

I think I managed to rest a particularly heavy book against the left joystick in such a way that he ran round in circles while I got on with other things for a while.

@Thrillho

Ha yeah that’s right... it also reminded me of how I got my ‘sneak’ up in Oblivion. Just rubber-banded the R3 against a wall with a guard the other side. I mean it’s not strictly ‘gaming’ but it is satisfying.