Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@KilloWertz Fair enough - so just so you know what you'll be missing: hard mode changes 2 things in the game: you can't use items at all and your MP don't regenerate when you rest. This means you have to manage your loadouts to rely more on abilities that don't use MP, have abilities that allow you to regenerate MP if possible, and always have healing spells equipped. Enemies are also stronger (but you keep all your upgrades from the first playthrough) so you'll often need to have to change loadouts for specific fights - to get protected from a specific element and/or exploit enemy weaknesses.
It made the game even more engaging for me - but I get that it's not for everyone

@KilloWertz In addition to the above, I also found you could get through most of normal difficulty without having to change characters too much but hard mode really forces you to do so and get the most out of their attacks/limit breaks.

@Kidfried It’s cool to hear someone actually playing it! I saw Shuhei Yoshida posting loads of stuff about it on Twitter and it didn’t quite look like my thing but seemed quite neat.

@Kidfried I definitely need to play Chicory but lately whenever I power up the PS5, I just go straight to Guilty Gear so I refrained from buying any games for the moment
It'll probably stay that way at least until Hades.

Currently going through 1-up mode on Doom Eternal (PS5 version) as I already have the platinum for the PS4 version. Next up, Resident Evil 3 Remake (which I suppose qualifies more so as a PS4 game?)

@Thrillho But, maybe that's too much work for me.

In all seriousness, and this isn't knocking people who like to play hard modes and/or really hard games, but that's not for me. I prefer just to sit back and enjoy the game/story rather than worry about a big challenge or platinum trophies.

That is a big reason why I actually played a decent portion of the remake the first time on Easy. Well, once I reached the Hell House (I think that's it) part of the game and then on. It'd did make the combat too easy eventually, but I left it just to enjoy the story. I plan on leaving it on Normal this time through though besides beating Hell House.

Started chapter 8 of FF7. Wow, last two chapters have been very action-packed and the difficulty has definitely increased.

I think the experience I had last year with Persona 5 has helped, overall I think that game is harder than FF7.

... the end of Chapter 9 is a spike in difficulty iirc.

Just adding another another glowing endorsement of The Pedestrian. I’m in the final section and it’s been a really great puzzle game, though the rooftops section with the paint had me pulling my hair out a bit.

@Jimmer-jammer Welcome to the club!

@Thrillho I’m still not sure if I completely understand how the paint works...like I was able to figure out the puzzles through some frustrating trial and error eventually but I don’t think I could effectively explain to someone how to do it.

@colonelkilgore Agreed. Not really a spoiler, but Hell House was a giant pain when I played the game the first time. I guess I'm doing things a lot better this time around as I beat it on the first try today.

@KilloWertz I certainly didn’t beat it first time on my subsequent (hard) playthrough… and had issues with pretty much every boss thereafter. That hard playthrough seriously came close to breaking me… well I thought it did at the time, now having played through Ashen on Children of Sissna (it’s very own unlockable hard mode) it was probably a walk in the park in comparison.

@KilloWertz @colonelkilgore Hell House was quite the step up in difficulty as a boss fight! I loved it for how bonkers it was though.

The only other one I struggled with on both difficulties was the boss at the beginning of the sewer section. I don’t know why it took me so many goes but it caused a bit of a headache for me.

@Thrillho same about the sewer boss. I also struggled with all the end bosses... the three you fight together and the guy straight after.

I'm currently playing Resident Evil 3 Remake on my PS5. I also just got the platinum trophy in Astro's Playroom. What an amazing game that is.

@RogerRoger It's nice to hear that we're going get a sequel. It would be wonderful if it was larger in budget and spectacle.

@Vertpin Nothing has been announced that I know of...

@KilloWertz I was just basing it off of the end message from when you beat Astro's Playroom, as well as some developer communication thats online. I fully expect to see a sequel of some sorts.

@RogerRoger I feel the same. I’ve yet to play the Hitman III levels properly but playing the first two games in the Hitman III package, I noticed more glitches than I ever had. Perhaps they’re just focusing fully on Bond.