Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@Kraven I'd try not to worry about missing out on anything if I were you. From what I've played so far the game gives you more than enough time to finish requests, do the bounties, socialise with the various characters and raise your stats. I'm pretty sure non of it can be missed as you get a fast travel option fairly early on.

I've been having some serious "games with swords" withdrawal symtpoms so I'm going to play some Ghost of Tsushima and Witcher 3 in the coming weeks and probably bench Yakuza LAD, even though it's mildly entertaining. And the fact it's playing off Ichiban's love of RPGs just makes me want to play some fantasy RPGs instead, so my Baldurs Gate 3 dark urge run is always lurking, too.

TLoU, Hogwarts Legacy, TW3, Ghost, BG3 should be a decent mix of winter titles for the PS5 Pro. But it will mostly be TLoU that I commit to playing consistently. I do want something new I've not yet played to draw me in at some point, as I feel i'm bouncing around titles waiting for something special to come along. And I'm not so sure Dragon Age will be that, for me. I swear they said the Gothic remake would be out this year, but I don't know if that is still likely to happen, considering it didn't get dated.

@Bentleyma that screenshot does make it look kind of cool. Almost like Nintendo decided to make decent hardware so they could make a full on 3D Pokemon RPG in the style of AAA fantasy games 😅 and, actually, if that game existed with a solo campaign that would legit make me buy the next bit of Nintendo hardware.

Imagine if Guerilla or Insomniac were allowed to use the Pokemon license for a AAA release 😅

Things that will never happen in gaming 😭

@Ravix Hopefully Nintendo will do a new Pokémon Legends game that'll be exclusive to Switch 2 and look miles better than any Pokémon game currently on Switch.

After putting aside Metaphor ReFantazio (I like the game, but I’ve concluded I’m not in the right headspace for a meaty RPG), I decided to try out Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. So far, I’m only a couple of hours in, but it’s pretty great.

@Kraven How would you compare Kunitsu-Gami with, as I just finished Control and both dlc expansions and was curious about it?

Road 96 - just finished it. Awesome game.

@BeyondKnight They are two totally different games and genres, so if you pick up the game and expect it to, sorry for the pun, control the same way or as fluid as it, I think you’ll be disappointed. Kunitsu is more a tower defense game, with Jack and slash elements. It’s more akin to a Musuo game, with defensive elements involved.

So After beating DAI before the Veilguard. I guess I'll start a new era in my gaming life. Normally I was getting excited about new games and because of that I was rushing in a lot of my playthroughs which I didn't enjoy and didn't do justice for a lot of great games I've played before. So instead of doing that I decided to revisit or even start some blockbusters I've missed after finishing the Veilguard but at the same time I'll still get some new games upon release which I can't wait to play and there's no other game on my backlog that can beat my interest in it.

That being said I'm currently playing The Crew Motorfest and Destiny 2 as my ongoing titles and hopefully this weekend I'll be able to start Dragon Age The Veilguard.

@Kraven I know both games are different, I just wanted to know how did Kunitsu played like, and you told me, thank you mate

@Jimmer-jammer Did a lot of exploring today and the day before in Elden Ring. Discovered the Dectus Medallion halves and the Grand Dectus Lift, took it to Altus Plateu and acquired the materials (and purchased the materials they unlock) after some heavy farming - to upgrade my Greatsword to +12 ! Also got 7 Estus Flask (or the ER equivalent) refills per bonfire now. Happy days!

Edit: And, no, still haven't done Stormveil! Planning to do the Lion Guardian Boss in Fort Gael first to get a specific AoW.

Edit II And that should be after getting Vig to 60, End to 50 and Str to 80! Gonna be a beast!

Edit III Defeated that boss with the invaluable assistance of some Jellyfish Spirit Ashes. Got the AoW! Now just got to do some all-important levelling to complete my build.

@JohnnyShoulder @colonelkilgore I thought the post above also might be of interest to you two, as fellow Souls players.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Sounds like you have made some really good progress. With those kinds of stats you should be OK for most of the game. Is it scratching a similar itch to FromSoftware's previous games you've played?

Vampire survivors..I bought it on Saturday morning and I've sunk almost 40 hours into the bloody thing over the weekend according to my gameplay stat on my dashboard. It's the crack cocaine of games.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN sounds like your motoring through it now mate… with a build like that I might well be summoning you when I go back to play the ps5 version 😉

@JohnnyShoulder Definitely yeah, despite the high-fantasy aesthetic that predominates in most areas, save Caelid etc., for example Limgrave suggests Spring and Altus Plateau is very Autumnal, but I think it kind of works in the sense that the combat is still absolutely brutal, it's 'Light Souls' rather than 'Dark Souls' really, a bit like what Enotria: The Last Song was going for I think.

@colonelkilgore Haha! thanks. I'm actually playing the ps4 version on ps5 b/c I read that the ps5 has significant frame-rate issues, whereas the ps4 version runs fine. I've had no issues with it, so far. 🤞

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN yeah that’s how I played it at release. I picked up the ps5 version too though, as I knew I’d want to plat that one too eventually 😉

Finally bought Helldivers 2 and have been sucked in now. I haven't played shooters of this type in awhile. I can see myself being a recurring player. I finally got pulled away from GTA online. I also am currently still steadily pacing myself through The Last of Us 2.

@FuriousMachine how is the witcher 3 playthrough going? I noticed you mentioned in the DA:V thread it's 6 months now, and you've managed to reprogramme yourself to not necessarily try to clear everything/tackle every question mark. (Contract boards are way better than question marks, anyway tbh) so thought I'd ask in the "currently playing" thread.

I'm still super annoyed I missed out on the Rock Troll statues from Dark Horse, too 😫 they are one of the many high points in the game, and always make me smile, so having one of those fellas sat on a cabinet would have brought me such joy 😅 ahhhh