Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@lolwhatno Oooohhhh, I see it now! It’s a side profile of him, with a headband and also a colored scarf or something under his face too. 😂 It’s like one of those perspective puzzle things.

@Th3solution nice dude, it's such a different feel to the rest of the game there... much more classical horror than the rest of the game

@RogerRoger

Your very welcome, I still prefer phyical copies of games over the digital!

@RKBronuts Great game! I replayed the first game last year and it does still hold up really well. The standalone story DLC that's included is really good too and not too long.

And then the second game is even better still!

@RKBronuts personally, I'd temper your expectations just a wee bit... I'm in the minority but while it's an absolutely great narrative and overall package, the gameplay is quite average. Still, I hope you enjoy it all the same.

@colonelkilgore I feel the opposite. Found the story painfully middle of the road. Loved the gameplay loop.

@RKBronuts oh I definitely think it’s worth playing, just to experience it... in fact I plan on returning to it this year to refresh myself with the story before I play part 2 in October. As far as trying the exclusives... deffo, try them all. Bloodborne and God of War are two of my favourite games of all time, and I thoroughly enjoyed Horizon: Zero Dawn, Days Gone, Spider-man, Death Stranding, Nioh... the list goes on.

@nessisonett and that is why the world is such a wonderful place 🖖

@RogerRoger I just had to do the fake disk-swap on MGS as it goes 😎

@RogerRoger @colonelkilgore Disc swaps felt like magic when I was younger. The GameCube had a few of them due to the dinky size so games like Tiger Woods and GoldenEye Rogue Agent had that whole ‘swap disc’ screen. I always associated removing the disc with the very world exploding as the game strictly warned you not to. So naturally I tried putting different discs like Simpsons Hit & Run in during the disc swap only for it to not work at all.

@nessisonett you tempt the very fates themselves with such skull-discery... I’m here all week 🥳

@colonelkilgore Now that pun was just disc-usting.

@nessisonett “Huh, you’re pretty good!”... been playing a LOT of Metal Gear Solid lately

@RogerRoger @nessisonett I’m out for an hour or two but please continue the disc-ussion amongst yourselves 🤢🤮

I remember back when I played Final Fantasy VII for the first time. I was using a guide and when Cloud left Midgar the guide said I was on part 2 of the game. Me being the dumb kid that I was thought that meant I had to change to disc 2, so I just did it without a prompt from the game while Cloud was standing on the world map. You’ll all be surprised to hear that the game didn’t like that!

Anyway, I am currently playing the Guilty Gear
-Strive- Open Beta. It’s insane how close to hand drawn animation the game looks.

Ya know I completely forgot that this was even coming out, and had gone back to thinking it was just another rumour that it was happening, til I saw you were playing it earlier @RogerRoger!

Still trucking along with God Eater: Resurrection on my end.

... I think the gameloop of the monster hunting genre has sunk it's claws into me. I've now sunk over 12 hours into it over the past week and I've completely abandoned FFXIV! Oh dear! 😅

The story that the game has so far though? Not that good at all. Some good voice actors are here (Yuri Lowenthal, Michelle Ruff, Patrick Seitz) but... the writing's pretty bad and some of the acting can come off a rather hokey at times (Like Alisa and her... moments)

Plus I don't think it really fits with the hunting gameplay... Like at all.

In an actual action rpg I'd think it'd fit just fine but the whole goverment conspiracy stuff with Alisa being brainwashed to kill Lindow? when you're just off killing a big ol' mutant gorilla or some skeleton faced tank thing?

Utter hogwash

@RogerRoger enjoy bud, I loved the first 2 back in the day, never got around to finishing 3 for some reason. I’ll deffo see the trilogy through with the Legendary Edition though. All the buzz has actually got me quite excited to return to the series.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy good to know you’re enjoying God Eater. I picked up the trilogy on sale in the store recently, must’ve had all three for around £15. Have always been tempted to give Monster Hunter World a serious go (I gave it like 5 or 6 hours back at its release but wasn’t hooked and started something else) but the 300 hours play time has put me off a little. I figured God Eater would be a good test to see whether the gameplay loop would reel me in enough to return to MHW.

Yeah I got the God Eater 1 & 2 bundle for like £6.67 or something off the psn store @colonelkilgore a few months back myself and I've been eyeing up a physical copy of GE3 for a tenner..

This is actually my first time with the monster hunter style of gameplay... after having got past the weirdly ridiculously short starting missions of GE:R it's been quite fun for me.

Missions do seem to be a bit on the shorter side compared to MH from my understanding?

You can tell it's based off a psp/vita game as the arena's/levels can be painfully tiny (Though I tried the God Eater 3 demo and the areas in that are thankfully much more expansive (though nowhere near what MH:W has))

Story's complete and utter guff though (even for anime standards) so far and feels rather out of place to the gameplay 😅

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy do you think you’ll be tempted to play MHW after playing through GE (& its sequels)?

Quite possibly @colonelkilgore as what sparked me trying God Eater the other day was watching some gameplay vids on Monster Hunter Rise on switch and liking what I saw.

Only thing about the MH games is they don't have any AI companions right? It seems like having other players is much more valuable in MH and I don't have PS+... Not that I feel the AI companions are incredibly useful in God Eater

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy yeah you may be right... maybe it would be worth your while to sign up to PS+ for a month if and when you get around to starting MHW.