Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

Although I did get the mp trophies a couple of years back, I never really played The Crew 2 at the time, if you get me. Never really been in to racing games neither but fancied something a bit different today, so went back to it to start the campaign in earnest. Quite enjoying it too. Very arcadey, which is fine by me but I imagine it annoys some… I like the variety in particular though. Land, sea and air races and challenges, a big open world/map… feels a bit like a chilled and crime-free GTA.

@graymamba I really enjoyed the first The Crew but the second game I never liked the whole influencer/social media angle it was going for, and did not last long with it. The Crew Motorfest is similar too, but not as egregious. I only played the trial though, and don't think I'll go back to it.

@JohnnyShoulder yeah I could definitely do without the influencer angle myself 😏

Made a start on my next AC game today, Assassins Creed Liberation: Remastered. As with most remasters of old PSVita games it’s pretty bare-bones but a nice flashback to AC3/Black Flag era AC.

The real annoyance is the amount of crashes I’ve had though. In two and a half hours, I’ve had four crashes, which is a bit strange. Thankfully it’s meant to be pretty short, so I won’t have to deal with too many more 🤞

The Sims 4
Blast from Past event.

2 hours ago tonight i was playing a little bit of Resident Evil Village. Fought and defeated the first vampire daughter character. then got chased around by one of the others but the game didnt give me a hint as to run away from them or what.

then I had to use the courtyard key to get out and then wander around to snoop in on the giant Lady character talking to someone on her phone. How did she not notice Ethan hiding outside the window?

Prison Architect, it's been years and was either this or Rimworld. The latter being a lot more punishing to your playthrough and your sanity.

Edit: I tried Rimworld instead and my colony got wiped in less than an hour by an army of man eating house cats.

So in news to absolutely nobody, Uncharted 2 is still a 10/10! It’s took a while for me to fully embrace the adventures of Nathan Drake (it was definitely more of a ‘me’-problem than the games themselves) but I’d say I’m pretty much all-in on them now.

Just gone into the ice-caverns with Tenzin, so ****’s about to take a turn for the supernatural which I’m always down for. The Crushing difficulty has had some spikes but hasn’t been too bad for the most part. I booted the game up about 9am and I should get through another chapter or two before logging off for the day, leaving me the final few Chapters to savour in the build up to the weekend. Still golden.

Playing Mad Max and having fun with it

So called it a day on Uncharted 2 having just made it to the monastery. Pretty happy with that considering my late start to the morning.

@BeyondKnight yeah Mad Max is great fun!

@Hapless yeah I played through 1 & 2 back in 2009, then played through them again together with 3 in 2019. Then I got the plat on 1 a couple of years ago.

@Hapless @graymamba I think I’ve mentioned this before but I don’t have any Uncharted platinums and have always been scared away from playing on Crushing. Perhaps I need to try it. I have UC2 on my list for this year and will probably get to it in the next few months, depending. My intricate schedule that I created for myself in January has already gotten off course. 😅

@Hapless never too proud to ignore advice, I can assure you 😉

@Th3solution I say go for it bud, what’s the worst that can happen? You’re gonna be playing it anyway, at least take it out on Crushing for a test-drive. Personally, I think it improves the game a fair bit… and is still pretty fair.

edit. You know I’m a sucker for schedule-news… what’s happened? 🫣

@graymamba I’ll apologize in advance for this boring post, but you asked… 😛

As far as scheduling, I looked at the backlog and made my 2025 goals and then created a schedule that would fit those goals. My approach had been to try to balance one big AAA game at a time with one or two smaller games on the side, …which honestly is the approach I’ve been happy with for quite a while now. It seems to keep the big AAA game (which tend to be long) from getting too tedious and has kept me really well-rounded, I feel. Also I wanted to alternate older games with more recent ones, when possible.

My year got off to a good start but I was supposed to have finished Crisis Core and Delivers Us the Moon in Jan so I could start Witcher 3 in Feb. I stumbled with Crisis Core and fell off for a little while (still haven’t finished it), but did get started on RE4 as soon as I finished DUtM and the little weekend game The Gardens Between. RE4 was supposed to be played in tandem with Witcher 3 for Feb, but I underestimated how big of a game RE4 is — seems to be about twice as long as RE1, RE2, and probably three or four times the length of RE3. So it looks like it is going to be my main game for Feb and so then I added Gris for my Portal side game in bed, and then to make matters worse a mate came over and wanted to play something and we started It Takes Two. 😅 Which is a great game but it’s got me even more off schedule. I had planned my main big game to be Witcher 3 for Feb and March and am scheduled for Baldur’s Gate 3 starting in April and have it be my main through July (I know how huge it is), but now I’m wondering if I skip W3 (there’s no way I can finish it in one month) or should I replace it with a less demanding 50 hour game (like maybe SW Outlaws or GoW Ragnarok) that could be done in one month or do I just move BG3 up or maybe move it back a month. If I push it another month back it will eat into either Days Gone or Dark Souls 3, which are ‘’mains” at the end of the year.

The only other “main” that was on schedule for the year is HFW, and then I wanted a little wiggle room to squeeze in either Death Stranding 2 or Ghost of Yotei, depending on reviews.

The big main games are the ones that are hard to schedule in, the little games (anything less than 20 hrs or so) are easy to fill in randomly.

Incidentally UC2 is currently scheduled to do as my side game with BG3 in April.

@Th3solution I feel your pain buddy 😅… my trouble is that I keep trying to squeeze extra games in. I get a little bit ahead progress-wise and think “ooh, I’ll chuck a Yakuza game in here… or a live-action co-op looter-shooter… “ and I’m back behind the 8-ball before I know it.

Last year I planned to get 40 plats to take me to an overall 200 but around September I started thinking I could fit a bit more in during these last 4 months and initially added another 5… and then another 5! Needless to say I was a bit over ambitious and ended up on 45 & 205, having to carry over 5 into 2025 (that’s a lot of numbers ending in 5!). Which meant I was right up against it these first couple of months, as I still wanted to get the games I’d scheduled for January and February done. I somehow managed to get back on track but sure I’ll end up doing exactly the same thing once I get a little bit ahead of myself 🤣

@graymamba Yeah, and real-life variance has a large role also. Sometimes it’s just not predictable, at least for me.

I designed one my goals for the year with that “hey, I think I might want to squeeze in this game here that I hadn’t planned on” approach in mind. It was to: “Embrace a little impulsivity - Play 2 games that I currently don’t have plans to play” and I’ve already easily accomplished that, having added three games into the schedule. 😅

I think you and I are among the few ‘schedulers’ for our games, but I think you’re probably a lot better at keeping yours. I’m trying to be more like you but so far I haven’t got it down yet. 😄

@Th3solution 🤣 I’m not sure anyone should be following my lead tbh… I probably cause myself a fair bit more stress than my scheduling actually saves 😅.

I think a bit of pro-active scheduling is definitely worthwhile when backlogs are the way that they are though… but it’s all about trying to consciously prevent it from weighing on you too much if expected ‘deadlines’ are not met. I’m a fine one to talk in that regard but I do try at least.

I’ve also found that it’s a skill that develops the more you use it. My first attempts at schedules back in 2019 are schoolboy-like compared to the PowerPoint-like presentation I’m working with these days 😁.

@graymamba 😂 I do have a way to go before getting to your level! My schedule is limited to my notes app on my phone.

But I do think there’s value in a little advanced planning, even when plans go awry. Mainly because it’s so easy to forget about games you want to play because they get buried in other games quickly in today’s environment of voluminous releases. A prime example for me is Days Gone, which I brushed under the rug back in 2019 but has since then come back to my mind many times, only to get buried again. So putting on my schedule will hopefully nudge me to get it played this year.

That’s Crushing negotiated on Uncharted 2. Still a few miscellaneous trophies to mop up but that’s the hard part done. Still an incredible game to this day… just wish it were longer!

@graymamba
Nice but it is Brutal that separates the hardcore gamers from the casuals.
Just been watching the latest Friday Access video and they show a board meeting at Naughty Dog, someone should really inform them that Bluepoint added the Brutal shizzle.
PS. In the same video they go on about hardcore in Kingdom come deliverance, don’t worry about it as it isn’t that difficult.