Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@Elodin

Glad your’e enjoying. I liked it but I’m yet to play a Souls-like I don’t like in fairness... having said that, I’d personally rate it somewhere in the lower half of all the Souls-likes available. The last boss (only spawns depending on certain actions you may have taken during your run) is a doozey though.

Think it was probably the Tower of Trials on top of all the multiple runs to obtain the various endings that soured the experience a little in the end.

Ha ha I haven't even done the normal Grim fight, the true final boss or the path of pain so there's no way in hell I'd ever attempt the platinum @Rudy_Manchego. The pantheons are pretty cool though.

Really need to replay Hollow Knight sometime. And you lucky duck getting to play a SilkSong demo!

Nah I don't think I'll be trying the third @colonelkilgore.

Mafia III was actually the first time I'd heard of the series and I remember most of the reviews at the time saying that it felt a bit bloated with a load of similarish objectives to take down a district or something along the lines?

I won't say I'll never play it... But even with the chance to play it for free at the moment I'm all Mafia'd out for the time being.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy

Fair enough, I’m actually looking forward to playing 3 more than 2 but when I’ll start either I have no idea.

@Rudy_Manchego @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy You get NOTHING for the Path of Pain, other than a warm glow inside for doing it (and an incredibly short cutscene which you could just find on YouTube).

The “real” final boss isn’t too difficult and doesn’t take much to get to (excluding the ultra version at the end of the pantheons). Nightmare King Grimm I’ve spoken about plenty of times before on here!

I'm back playing Code Vein after... 3 weeks or so?

Beat the Guilded Hunter. I tried a few times but I simply couldn't last long enough at lvl 10 in his second phase so I ended up bumping my character up to lvl 25 and switched to the "hedgehog" coat to deal more magic damage and finally got rid of him.

The next area The City Of Flames wasn't particularly fun... Quite annoying actually to navigate due to the hazards it had and one specific enemy that popped up here that was getting on my nerves 😅

I only lost to the next boss The Successor Of The Claw once though... Quite a fun one I thought. You'd think the teleporting attacks would get obnoxious but once you know the tell for it I actually find it quite fun (Like the Queen's Knight fight)

Also Yakuza 0 arrved today so I gave it a little go for an hour or so.

That combat system is really quite fun and I ended up doing six battles. The two scripted ones before Karaoke, the scripted fight to getting the second fighting style and then 3 random fights around Kamurocho.

Karaoke was a fun activity and I was intrigued by the main story set up so far too.

I look forward to playing it properly in a month or so's time!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I really should get back to Code Vein but I’ve gotten seriously sucked into Dragon Quest XI S. I think the Gilded Hunter is the next boss for me though.

Ha ha I was more listing the Path Of Pain as one of the many things in the Hollow Knight that I couldn't do and how 112% is waaaaaay beneath me @Thrillho

But good to know none the less!

Having got back to it today I realised I was still actually ahead of you in Code Vein @nessisonett and that when you said you'd beaten the Successor Of The Breath in your last post I forgot that meant you'd only just beaten Nicola! (Who I think is absolutely precious) 😅

I've only played Dragon Quest VIII myself and... It was ok I guess? Yungus was the best thing about it I think

I'd say just ride out the DQ XI S train if you're that absorbed by it!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I just went back to it there and somehow beat Gilded Hunter first time so very happy right now! Shouldn’t be that far behind you now.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Most people seem to LOVE VIII, but I had a really difficult time getting into it. I didn't like the world design, to be honest. DQXI is more linear, but it flows so much more nicely.

Although I do kind of miss the tension system from VIII.

I really need to complete XI S' post-game. It's been a year or more now since I stopped playing.

@Ralizah I started VIII but could never really get into it. I also got about halfway through VI on DS and bounced off. VII is another one that’s a bit weird and massively obtuse and that’s the 3DS remake which I’ve played so I dread to think what the original is like. IX is the best RPG on DS though, hands down. It’s right up there with the best RPGs ever to be honest, tons of content and a story that hits hard, even with characters you create yourself.

@nessisonett Interesting. I've always been under the impression that IX was the weird pure gameplay one that wasn't the best place to go if you wanted a decent story, which is why I always avoided it.

@Ralizah I can see why someone might think that given that your playable characters don’t speak at all but it more than makes up for it with the individual stories of each town and the way those characters interact with your party, which are better than even DQXI, at least of the 25 hours I’ve played. There are a whole lot more sidequests as well and a great class system. There are a few specific towns and their stories which still stay with me even 10 years after I got the game. It also essentially invented the StreetPass mechanics with treasure maps you could exchange with people, which totally blew up in Japan. It’s a strange game but one I’d recommend to as many people as possible and it definitely beats out the Final Fantasy games on DS even if it was perhaps a bit overshadowed.

@colonelkilgore Hopefully I'll miss that frustrating boss. The hardest boss for me so far, I'm very early in, was the Argent wolf berserker. He himself wasn't too bad, but the run to get there through teleporting enemies made it rough after multiple deaths.

@Elodin

Yeah that whole area, Cathedral of Blood(?) was a bit annoying in general really. Maybe the biggest area in the game and very little to distinguish one section of it to the other, remember I got lost quite a bit there... particularly the section directly after the Argent Wolf mini boss.

I suppose the final boss I mention earlier was a bit frustrating at first but looking back (I had to beat it a few times for the various endings) it (The Virgin Born) is probably my favourite boss in the game. It’s definitely the most difficult but it’s also the most unique (I did find that most CV bosses were just bi-pedal 8-footers of varying elemental powers), the Virgin Born is on four legs and about the size of Sif from Dark Souls, with all types of attacks.

@colonelkilgore ahh nice, looking forward to that boss. This game definitely scratches the souls itch. It helps as I search unsuccessfully for a ps5 to purchase and then buy Demon souls.

I've always meant to replay DQVIII at some time to see if I think any differently of it @Ralizah as I don't quite remember... Well... Any of it to be perfectly honest aside from Yungus and him calling everyone Guv.

I know I didn't like it that much but I can't really recall why. At least with it being cel shaded it'll still look really nice compared to most ps2 games.

@Elodin

Good luck with your continued search for a PS5.

1. LEGO CITY Undercover
2. Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

@RogerRoger
I only play LEGO CITY Undercover as i never like Western superheroes, Star Wars, any Western licensed (Harry Potter, Jurrasic Park, Movie, etc)
I triple dipped LEGO CITY Undercover (Wii U, Switch, PS4) because that was the only LEGO games without Western Super heroes and any Western licensed franchised. I don't like at all their costumes, looking, storyline and the popularity. I prefer something Normal, without any horrendous looking outfits. For me, Normal looking peoples such as Police, Firefighter, Miner, Construction Worker, Astronout, etc are the Real Super heroes in real world.

Just completed Knack 2. Was a fun game to play!