Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@Kidfried It Takes Two does get better as you go. I personally loved that it was a true coop game needing both players to complete the puzzles and that some of them really are quite clever. The environments are really fun to explore as well and a lot of the trophies hang off of just doing random things that aren’t part of the story which I thought was fun.

It really does bring some nice ideas to the table and is easily in my top 10 of games released this year, but wouldn’t be my GotY.

@Kidfried I’ll back @render up here… it’s so creative and just bring the missus and I to tears of laughter while we co-op. It’s so much fun.

@Col_McCafferty Pretty much summed up my opinions of A Plague Tale: Innocence that I posted somewhere on here earlier in the year. The already mentioned final boss was a pain, but the cart sequence is what pretty much broke me. I finished the game not out of the usual desire to because you want to see how it ends. I finished it because I knew I spent hours playing it up until that point and didn't want it to go to waste. A shame really as the game was great up until then, but hopefully they learned that you don't need to make the final part of the game have an insane difficulty spike.

That's not the proper way to finish a game, but I'd still recommend the game regardless as it was still a pretty good experience without the final portion of the game, and some people might be able to get through it easier. Also, the use of the DualSense was great. I'm actually surprised a smaller studio managed to use the controller's features better than most developers imo, especially one you would associate them with Microsoft more than Sony since they developed the new Flight Simulator and the sequel to this is coming to Game Pass. Instead of making the adaptive triggers annoying and restrictive, they basically combined both the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback so you felt things in the triggers along with the controller itself instead of just having the triggers difficult to press. That was nice and I hope more games can do that going forward.

Currently playing Guardians of the Galaxy (PS5). I just finished the 3rd chapter. It's pretty good so far.

Just started F.IS.T tonight played for a couple of hours. First impressions is awesome!

@Kidfried I look forward to hearing how you get along with Death Stranding. My love of the game is well documented, so I shan’t gush about it further, but it’s a game that is fun to discuss and recollect upon. I’ll probably replay the Director’s Cut eventually, but I have too many other games at the moment.

Keep on keepin’ on!

@Kidfried Hopefully you do, and you also waited until the best version of it is out, so there's that too.

I'm technically going to be even later to the party as I still have the Director's Cut sitting there waiting to be played from when I got it from Sony Rewards a few months ago. I will definitely try it at some point after I'm done with Horizon Forbidden West. I'm replaying Zero Dawn now, and then I'll probably be able to squeeze in another game before Forbidden West comes out, but obviously not Death Stranding. I never played it on the PS4 because I wasn't sure I'd like it, but I still want to give it the time it deserves, so it will have to wait a while longer.

@Kidfried Enjoy! I only finished and platinumed it a month or so ago and thought it was fantastic.

The first area is beautiful and I loved the music for the game as well. The story is top notch but has some odd pacing.

If you do go for the platinum then my advice is not to 5* every facility as soon as possible as there will be lots of opportunities too. Also, you’ll need to bump the difficulty up to at least legend (one higher than normal) which you need for some deliveries and it makes no difference to the majority of the game, just combat (so you can knock it down if needed for combat sections anyway).

I look forward to your thoughts! I used the game’s thread when I played through it and the final page is spoiler free if you decide to use it.

@Kidfried Never really thought of the abbreviation, but that is true.

It was to re-experience the story, but also because I skipped several side missions the first time around even though it was one of my favorite PS4 games. I figured I might as well give it an even more thorough playthrough that the game deserves before Forbidden West (on Easy to experience it all without frustration), although I likely won't play The Frozen Wilds again as I want to cleanse the pallet a bit before I play Forbidden West.

@Kidfried I wasn't yet, but since you brought it up... 47 days.

@KilloWertz @Kidfried

Hello.

Just popped in to say how much I'm enjoying beating @Quintumply 's speedrun records on Astro's Playroom.

That'll be all. As you were everyone.

@Gremio108 I've been getting a bunch of notifications about Astro times Glad you're enjoying. What a great little game.

@Gremio108 @Quintumply Ha, I've also been getting regular notifications of my not-so-amazing times being smashed by you too

I just got started with Judgment and am enjoying it so far. It feels weird being in Kamurocho without my man Kiryu though.

The little changes so far make it feel distinct enough although I’m really not a fan of the not-so mini map and the fact I randomly can’t choose to have it spin round to match to the direction I’m facing.

I certainly won’t be getting the platinum on this one..

@Thrillho I bought Judgement the other day, a physical copy for under £20. It's going to be my first game of it's type. The Yakuza series seems like a bit of a minefield for a newcomer so thought it best to go with the series that has only two entries.

😝

On Day 2 with Ellie in TLoU 2, one of the key flashback scenes. It's such a great game, still can't understand why it was so divisive.

@Col_McCafferty I picked up the sequel in a recent sale so I’ll get to that at some point in 2022… and maybe Yakuza: Like a Dragon too!

I enjoyed the main series but played the games steadily over nearly three years. They felt a little dated even then so playing some of them now might be even more jarring. The fact the Judgment games also have PS5 upgrades is really handy too.

Just about to finish A Plague Tale: Innocence

i'm having to get in to obscure titles now as i have gamed way too much over the last 2 years and finished with all the obvious great games. i just replayed Death stranding on PS5 because i had nothing else to play, my memory is crap so it was pretty good again the second time because you make your self little challenges as its way too easy the second time, especially with the new weapons but i got over it about 3/4 of the way even though i did push through to the end again. i had forgot how rubbish the end was it needed something else like seeing him go away with fragile and make a better world or something.

Found an area on the Isle of Skye called ‘Iron-Brew Mines’ in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Brilliant.