Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 64

after watching that EPIC trailer for the Force Awakens I've gone full on Star Wars mode and am playing Knights of the Old Republic on XBOX and Battlefront II on PS2

Aaru's Awakening from Plus and Pokémon Rumble World for 3DS.

I want to play dying light or borderland but
my kids is not supposed to see that so it will be Fifa 15......again

Trying to get my last Mortal Kombat trophies with smal breaks for Rayman Legends, mainly when the kids want to sit with me.

Pokemon Trading Card Game. Gotta card 'em all! — 7 Eleven Guy

Also gonna try to play some Dust: An Elysian Tail if I have time.

Diablo 3 on PS4, so close to the platinum, and MonsterBag on vita. Trophy hunting weekend.

Mortal Kombat X! First order of business...downloading the iPhone app and jumping through some hoops to get the mime costume for Johnny Cage.

Playing Arkham Asylum on hard mode. I have two more trophies to get then it's a platinum.

Depending on my mood I might play either MGS 3 or FFVIII.

Bloodborne, I'm straight up hooked.
Just hit Old Yharnam and have Cleric Beast and Father Gascgoine as notches on my Threaded Cane!

Mortal Kombat X. That will probably get the most play time until The Witcher 3.

Just got my plat on borderlands pre sequel so back to plants vs zombies gw for me

MH4U aiming to get to rank G2 also learning Mewtwo in Sm4sh and general practice for a small tournament I'm going to.

Got my bloodborne plat now so finally going to jump into far cry 4

Resident Evil Revelations 2, Assassins Creed Unity, ..

I'm downloading Lords of the Fallen off the flash sale so will be checking that out soonish.

I need something to play while I impatiently wait for The Witcher to come out.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 on DS
Destiny of Spirits on Vita
and Battlefield 1943 on PS3

@FullbringIchigo @Tasuki I am jealous, PGR followed by KOTOR followed by SOR2 followed by Battlefront 2 bosssss. Been looking into purchasing a snes as the retro gaming bug has hit me hard since a game on shining force 2 but it £400 for a decent console. The game im playing this weekend is fez.

Same game I play every weekend & everyday. Minecraft lol. I've also become pretty beastly at Last of Us

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Xenoblade Chronicles. Probably every weekend for the next 6 months judging by how fast I'm playing and how long the game is.

And Last of Us, which I should finish up next weekend, entered the woods last night about 2AM, about 2 hours past my bedtime. Woods was the only good place to stop in over 3 hours of gameplay. Well 3 hours for me which was probably only 1 hour of gameplay. I so hate killing 3 clickers only to have the 4th kill me and having to play the entire section over again, items and all. If they're going to have a game mode called "Easy" it should be easy. 1 bite kills should not ever be considered easy.

I got my butt handed to me online, so I will spend the weekend honing my skills.

Playing Bloodborne, had it now for 2 weeks and have just killed the cleric beast, so by reckoning ill complete it in time for uncharted 5 , see what I did there 😉

Trying a few of the demos and PS plus games on ps4 as well as Arkham City and Dead Space 3 on PS Now Beta.

Been playing SF all evening long. I wanna be prepared when it hits the digital shelves this may. Now it's up to Capcom to announce ps3 arcade stick compatibility, else all my training will be futile!

@Bad-MuthaAdebisi what you think of ps now? Seems to be running really smoothly

Bloodborne for me. The blood starved beast has got me. That one move where he takes like 90% of your health is crazy.

Dying light for me after getting beaten to a pulp on bloodbourne and gettibg pissed off with it.... Time for a break methinks

just got metro 2033 redux for like 15euro. Started playing in the afternoon and didnt stop untill 1:30AM. This game really reminds me of both halflife 1 and fallout 3, which are quite possibly my favourite games ever

@Flurpsel i was going to pick this up when it was in the sale but missed it. Worth a play then?

@rjejr
Haha, complaining about difficulty again are we?

Excellent choices there. I really enjoyed TLoU- beat the game and the DLC I liked it so much, and Xenoblade, well, it's one of the best games ever made. You playing the new 3DS version or the Wii version? I started a game on the new 3DS but Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate still has it's claws in me.

I broke 300 hours today actually.

MLB 15: The Show .... Addicted. They tweaked just enough this year and the trophies are fun to go for - take note other sports games!

@Mrskinner I've only played a couple of smaller games and they seemed to be fine, I tried out red faction and the audio was a bit iffy didn't feel completely smooth but that might just be the crumby game itself. I'm gonna try arkham city and dead space later today

@themcnoisy I still have my SNES, works perfectly too

I never get rid of my consoles, I still have all my consoles from NES to current systems

@FullbringIchigo I had to ditch everything when I joined the navy. I had an Atari 2600, amstrad cpc6128, master system, Amiga 500, mega drive, ps1 with a dodgy disc drive a gamecube, game gear and an Atari lynx. The only systems I kept hold of was the original game boy and xbox. Lost the gameboy at sea and when I got back my xbox was missing.

@Mrskinner I started arkham city, it broke straight away, fun

@themcnoisy did you ever think of getting a RetroN5 it plays NES, SNES, MegaDrive and GameBoy games

yrah it's a emulation machine but you still need to use official games

@FullbringIchigo yes but the pal nes and snes games run at the wrong speed, the genesis/megad hz switch can be changed so the only benefit is pumping the Sega games to 700p. I would have to seek out American carts for the Nintendo stuff. That said its a better deal than purchasing a yellow snes for £400. I'm really interested in getting a mame coffee table or revamped candy cab but the prices are over a grand for a good quality stable machine. So I may treat myself to the retron as even if its not great its only £100.

@Mrskinner if you like the atmosphere in halflife and fallout 3 then youll probably like metro as well. And on hard mode its very tough (which I like). It isnt an incredibly fast and slick shooter like CoD though, so if you're expecting that you might be disappointed.

Playing some more MKX, maybe a little Toukiden or Lego Hobbit since I still haven't finished the plat yet.

Revising for exams 😭😭😭 (off-topic but do you reckon ps4 will get a price cut during e3?)

@JaxonH - I'm playing the Wii version on my Wii U. Besides complaining about difficulty another of my fine attributes is doing things the odd way.

How much of that 300 hours is storyline and how much is on line multiplayer? I know there is a lot of content but I can't imagine the storyline is 300 hours. Did they even bother putting end credits in the game?

@rjejr
I'd say about 120 hours was the offline, single player campaign, and yes there are ending credits once you fend off the Rusted Kushala Daora in the Battlequarters and save Dundorma village. Others have spent upwards of 200 hours offline in the village quests- but me- I like to graduate to G rank ASAP because then you're not working toward armor and talismans that will be outclassed later.

If you only played every village quest once, an just did the KEY village quests that are tied to the story and required for progression, it would probably take about 75 hours to finish the story. But that'll never happen because you have to make better armor and weapons along the way, which means grinding an armor set periodically.

I made a Great Jaggi set in low rank right off the bat to get me started, then a Testsucabra set to finish out low rank and get me into high rank. I upgraded it quite a bit and made it last until I could craft a Najarala armor set in high rank. And I made that set last all of high rank and all the way through the G1 quests until I could craft my G rank starter set from Seregios. Then I used that to climb my way to the end of G rank where I made my final end game armor set.

If course, I made several other G rank armor sets since then, just because I like variety, but point being you can make it through all of low rank making just 2 armor sets, then 1 to get through high rank and 1 to get through G (and optionally a 2nd G rank set at the end if you plan to take on the uber-tough quests). Of course, you'll need to upgrade those sets along the way to keep your defense relevant, otherwise you'd need to craft WAY too many armor sets toget through the game.

@JaxonH - I'm going to start calling you Dr. Jax, you have an honorary Ph.D. in Monster Hunter.

@Tasuki I never saw the point in getting rid of my old systems, probably because I grew up with cart based systems like NES and you could never use your old games on new systems, so I kept them to continue playing the games I liked

@rjejr Nice, Xenoblade Chronicles is probably my favorite Nintendo game ever. Monolithsoft definitely made something very special, that's for sure. Probably my favorite story in gaming ever.

Possibly Smash Bros, Bloodborne on new game +, Majora's Mask 3D, or new game + on Xenoblade Chronicles on Wii. More than likely though it'll just be a day of Borderlands Pre-Sequel on PS4.

Finally got father Gascoigne down after the 11th or so attempt, I immediately punched the air as if I was ryu and was doing a dragon punch and ran around the room as if I had scored in the world cup final.

The wife thought I was sad but I was so relieved and didn't care 😊

Do you/have you guys had the same feeling whilst playing bloodborne or any other game and what's ur gaming celebration 😊 ????

Barney: Hide and Seek, Maximum Carnage

@marston1983 haha i virtually had the sane reacrion to every boss in any FROM software game lol

@Mrskinner phew that's good to hear, i thought I was just bad a the game 😊