Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 269

Days Gone. I'm enjoying it so far. I don't understand the hate? I don't think it will win many awards but it's a solid game.

Hmm going to try and finish off Shadow of the Tomb Raider before focusing on Sekiro again. I really need to find time to get in with Dreams though...

After a few hours into Days Gone, the score of 7 seems fair. The game shines at some moments, falls flat during others. Maybe some Monster Hunter World Spring festival sprinkled in as well.

I finally got the plat for the excellent Assassins Creed Origins!I thought I would of had enough by now but I'm already busy into The Hidden Ones dlc
Far Cry New Dawn has slowly been losing my attention but I may have a go at it later,although I'll more than likely end up running through Yoshis Crafted World on Switch trying to 100 per cent all worlds.

Days gone and enjoying it immensely. Great graphics on the pro and satisfying meaty combat. Love it.

I've started playing Horizon Zero Dawn from the very beginning again. It's still a stunning game.

Days Gone for me. About an hour in and really enjoying it.

I'm having a weekend of Playstation exclusives, so it's a mixture of God of War, Spiderman, Horizon and The Last of Us with maybe a sprinkling of Ratchet of I get time. All brilliant games and I'll be keeping an eye on comments here about Days Gone as I'm on the fence but leaning towards getting it

Im playing Gang Beasts.

Another Days Gone gamer here. Enjoying it a lot so far, still getting the hang of the riding. Not died yet but I’ve come very close after stumbling into my first horde.

Will probably try and reach the endgame on Division 2 also.

Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition on PS4. Around 50 hours in.

Just finished off Shadow of the Tomb Raider and will go back to the division.

@Splat is the gameplay good? Not expecting much from the story but I think some of the reviewers are expecting the likes of God of War or TLOU

Days Gone also, still enjoying it a lot.

Tonight I’ll grab a few beers and play some MK11 with some old friends... should be fun!

Some VR games if I find the time.

Thinking about changing for a PS4 Pro... I wonder if a Days Of Play 2019 will happen considering Sony won’t be at E3.

the surge.mutant year zero road to Eden. hard reset redux.3 underrated great games.word up son

Still playing Aqua's story in Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep.

Dangerous Driving, Final Fantasy 12 and Dreams, there is good stuff in dreams it’s just a matter of finding it.

Somewhat of a busy weekend for me, with work on top of that. But I’m still at it with Ace Attorney Trilogy, trying to platinum it. Gotta make time for Shadow of the Tomb Raider DLC. And the Dead or Alive 6 will be my fighting game. And I’ll play something on Switch.

Days Gone. I do NOT get the hate. I know some was for PC nonsense but the game is beautiful and is playing well so far for me

Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko's Hysteric Birthday Bash on PC and Advance Wars: Days of Ruin on my 3DS.

Borderlands 2, just finished my Axton UVHM run and about to start on the OP levels.

@carlos82 Its fun so far. And beautiful

More deus ex and metro exodus

A little bit of New Game + on Spider-Man and maybe one of my many Lego games

Hitman GO: Definitive Edition (Vita) - Really enjoying this so far!

Zombies!!! (Windows Store) - Meh...

Bubble Guriko (Windows Phone) - Still great for time wasting.

NOT Days Gone.
Thanks a lot, Yodel!

@Nyne11Tyme
The reviews are nothing. After all, from my point of view, reviewers are usually out of touch with most gamers. Im actually cool with poor reviews because it confirms my opinion of the gaming press anyway. Thats all fair though.
Whats crap is all the hate opinion pieces about random stuff in the game. You know what I mean. Fake outrage about violence or silliness or random sjw.

Days Gone. I'm not really caring for it so far, but I paid $60 for it so I'm gonna keep playing.

There's nothing in particular that I'm craving to play this weekend, so I'm going to play some older games that's been near the top of my backlog for too long. So going to play some Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask 3D and F-Zero, and maybe I'll start something else as well.

MK11, NBA 2k19 & might finally start AC: Odyssey.

Some mass effect 3 still. When will the geth learn to build windows in their ships?! Playing okami as well. Some of the dungeons in okami are bloody brilliant!!

@Frigate I'm about 12 hours in, but my biggest negatives so far are the irritating survival elements, a lack of polish to the gameplay (the shooting and driving needed more fine-tuning), and the inescapable feeling that I've played this kind of open world game many times over the years and it doesn't have anything that's making it stand apart from the others. Instead of having fun surviving in a hostile world (RDR2 comes to mind), I'm just doing time-wasting busywork.

I think Days Gone would have been much better as a story game divided into linear levels. There's a decent 12 hour campaign lost among the hours of generic open world bloat.

And I've never driven a motorcycle in real life, but I'm pretty sure they aren't absolute gas guzzlers like the one Deacon rides.

I’m playing Cuphead. Very solid run and gun game. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy this style of gameplay. I think they kind of ruined it in recent years by making them into rogue lites. Microsoft got this one spot on, though.

The Division 2, dragon's Dogma and some races in GTsport and Dirt 4.

I played Agents of Mayhem last night. Picked it up for £3.99 and, at that price, I have to say I think it's pretty decent so far. For less than a pint I've probably already got my monies worth and Ive only played it for about an hour!

days gone fishing sim world

Days Gone. Too early on still to have any real opinion yet but I like what I've played.

My interest in AC Odyssey is back in full swing. I hoped to have been playing DaysGone but we know the story - it's 2019, not being able to change clothes and just one bike is no excuse in an open world. Y'know, most of these open worlds just keep reminding me how Rockstar are leagues ahead in terms of open world design. I mean a 2013 GTAV has a stock market that reflects happenings in the world, its FB and Twitter plus the whole internet, ATV/Jetski racing etc etc etc all the while doing missions. And Days Gone says you can't change clothes in 2019...come now! Even AC Odyssey with all its content stands at 83 on MC, what were Bend thinking.

Mlb 19 the show and katana zero

Days gone, enjoying it so far and don't understand the hate.

MK11 and Sekiro.

Final Fantasy XIV and Poochy and Yoshi's Wooly World

I decided to start Yakuza Kiwami. Not sure why, but I'm glad I did.

Days Gone all the way!

@JJ2 So do you believe that video game reviews are unnecessary in your opinion?

@Gremio108 I got that game and I wanted to get Yakuza 0 before diving into Kiwami.

@Custom1991 Yeah that was my plan originally too. But I decided to bump Kiwami up the list. Guess I'll play Zero last...?

@Gremio108 Don't. Zero is the prequel to Kiwami and the entire Yakuza series. Play Yakuza 6 last since it is the final chapter of Kazuma Kiryu's story.

First time in a very long time I’ve pre-ordered a game, so I’m continuing enjoying my Days Gone experience this weekend

Some F1 2018 on the PS4. Things are going quite well for me with Williams, unlike the real-life Williams team unfortunately. I don't really get the game's reputation system though, even though I think I'm saying something non-negative it ends up being perceived negatively by my team. The game is a bit too obscure about these thing, the same goes for the Sportsmanship vs Showmanship system.

Some Tyranny, Frostpunk and Stellaris on PC.

Finished Bioshock Inifinite just yesterday, and finally completed The Binding of Isaac to 100% after playing it off and on for over 4 years.

Since those two are clear, I'm going back to Uncharted 3 Remastered and trying to beat Brutal mode. Currently on chapter 16.

Pikmin 2 and Shenmue 2 for me!

While waiting for Ni No Kuni 2 razzle dazzle ultimate forever edition to download, I started Daggerhood. Maybe I'll take a crack at sr for this one, it's pretty solid overall. And a nice visible timer {heart*heart}

Ng+ dark souls remastered, dark souls 2 and mostly dark souls 3. Really dont like how much they changed ds2 from ds1, but ds3 makes me feel right at home.

Been playing cannon fodder on a wee megadrive plug and play i got years ago because im working away staying in digs and wont be home to get my copy of days gone until thursday. The mega drive also includes sensible soccer so will be having a tournament on that later

Days gone... great game. I think it's underappreciated for what it brings. And some MK11, and Senran kagura Burst Re: newal

Days Gone is a ubisoft cookie cutter game with a Sony logo slapped on it, thus it will get a pass@RBMango

I just launched Kingdom Hearts : the story so far in order to play all the games before KH III. Yup, I'm late, I know.

Borderlands 2 VR, and just started Days Gone. Only played up to the first bit of clearing/staking out a petrol station after Boozer distracts most of the horde out on his bike. So far, so great...although the blank screens between cut scenes and gameplay is a tiddly bit frustrating.
Boozer’s swole 💪! Wonder when he finds time to workout?

@Custom1991
No. Of course they are necessary. Especially for VR. The only way to get an idea before buying a VR game is with someone s first hand impression. I do think scores are unnecessary and even get in the way of an informative review.
Reviews just need to have a more informative approach instead of being some sort of essay trying to justify a random subjective score.

I'm back into cyberpunk again so as well as reading Neuromancer, I'm playing Detroit Become Human, plus Technobabylon and Whispers from a Machine on PC. They're both classic-style point-and-click adventure games.

Really enjoying Detroit, though it's massively anxiety-inducing. So much pressure to make the right choices - I don't want any of the protags to die!

I started playing Whispers from a Machine last week. I think it introduces some really interesting and unique mechanics into the genre, something you don't really see in other games, like the different tech-gadgets you can use.

In my first playthrough of Detroit I picked the "gentle" mode, where the protagonists have a higher chance of surviving, they are all likeable so I didn't want any of them to die. Yet even this mode was rather stressful lol.

@youreyesonly00 That's exactly what it is.

Wait till you heat this for a laugh. Gears of war 2 for the first time on 360. When that's finished I'll get back to something juicy on the PS4.

@Custom1991 I know, but I've started now. My reasoning was that if I played the more polished Yakuza 0, I'd have no appetite for a shoddier game based on PS2 architecture.

You're right though, I've messed the chronology up a bit.

Tekken 7 and Monster Hunter World

@Oldiebutnoobie I feel sorry for anyone who's only experience of Sensi and Cannon Fodder was on console. The only place to play those two was the Amiga back in the day. I wonder if we will ever get a mini Amiga, or if it's too niche?! SWOS is still the best footy game ever!

@tomassi your right was deffo the best way to play them! I just couldent resist having them so i could take them anywhere with me lol

@Oldiebutnoobie Yeah I know what you mean, that's why I would love a mini Amiga of some sort! SWOS, Cannon Fodder, Super Skidmarks, Superfrog, Championship Manager. I loved the Amiga!