Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 306

@Sammy, I'd go for Control or Judgment out of that bunch. As for me it's backlog time, I finally got around to the Sleeping Dogs plat, a game I started almost 6 years ago so I'll mop up the DLC for the 100% and I'm about halfway through Far Cry 3 Classic Edition so I'll get to finishing that off. The game has aged like milk but it still has it's moments.

Finally finished the main campaign in Borderlands and hopefully will complete Assassin's Creed 2 over this weekend.

Drake's Fortune from the Nathan Drake Collection 😊

Still on my adventure in Tales of Vesperia must be about halfway through as I'm 30 hours in and just back from crossing the desert, also Hotline Miami great little game. Heading out tonight to see 1917 and get some nice grub. Have a great weekend everyone.

Just like last week and probably for a few more weekends to come I'll purely be playing Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition for PS4.

I've been reeled in hook, line and sinker now after spreading my attention out over three or four games the past month or so.

60 hours in and the end is currently nowhere in sight. Loving it!

Carrying on delivering in Death Stranding. In chapter 3. Also mopping up last few trophies in AC Odyssey before starting the DLC.

Finally defeated that Anjanath in MHWorld, it's a real fun game. And then not rushing through the Epilogue this time round on my 2nd playthrough in RDR2 because of internet spoilers. Still amazed at the unique graphic style of this western, I think it's that ambient occlusion and overall lighting. Plus FIFA 20 probably.

Don't envy you Sammy. That's why I never play more than one game at a time, with the exception of racing games. Speaking of, I'm still in chapter 2 of RDR2 and taking my time with it. Also putting in time in Dirt Rally 2.0, which looks astonishing on a PRO with HDR enabled. Happy gaming guys!

More Resident Evil, just finished the first remake in 2 hours 36 mins which wasn't bad given that I haven't played it in 10 years. Now onto the extra modes and Resident Evil 0 in which I've just done the train so far but can't really remember much about the Mansion

Ruiner and Shenmue 3. Really want Ape Out but juggling more than 1 twitchy top down murderfest is stressful lol

I just bought RE2 for 20 pounds but it will probably end up in the backlog. Definitely continuing my collectable run in Beyond 2 Souls and may start the duo mode playthrough for my platinum trophy. Then maybe more Witcher 3 dlc.

Playing through the Witcher 3 expansions along with Days Gone. Also mix in some AC Odyssey in between. All very enjoyable & worthwhile for the very limited gaming time of mine.

Death Stranding getting 5 stars with everyone is taking a long time.

@carlos82 I just beat it for the first time ever last weekend and it took me about 14 hours. You must really know that game well.

@JohnKarnes large quantity timed deliveries worked well for boosting star ratings with my playthrough, or load up a van with as many orders for one person to really boost those ratings!

Well seeing as I just started working with someone who worked on Tearaway on Vita, going to try and finish that and then finish Neocab which is a cool little visual novel. Then i might start a game on PS4!

I’ll be continuing my adventures in Red Dead Redemption 2, after getting back into it about 10 days ago. Don’t know how close to the end I am, but I’m currently stranded on a island. I was going to take a self-imposed break from Borderlands 3...but that didn’t last! After about a week I’m back on it. On Switch I’m playing Steamworld Quest.

Currently down with a cold but I'm enjoying my time swinging around with Spiderman, after 100% everything in AC:Odyssey and said a fond farewell to Kass. I'm focusing on completing some of my backlog before Cyberpunk comes out.

I feel dirty, I'm back playing World of Warcraft (World of Warcrack to me)!!!

I've been replaying Uncharted 2 and God of War with new game plus. Uncharted 2 still holds up remarkably well after all this time.
On my switch I'll be continuing the adventure in Pokemon Sword. Have a great weekend everyone

@MightyDemon82 it's one of my favourite games, I can't remember how many times I played the PS1 original and the remake on Gamecube, though strangely I never played much as Chris and I'm surprised how much I remembered. Biggest tip to save time would be don't bother with the Magnum and ignore the blue and yellow gems, it saves a bunch of time and you can just take Barry's which can one shot the Tyrant 😁

If you do it in under 3 hours you get an Infinite ammo Rocket Launcher 😉

Done with death stranding, the outer worlds, closer to the sun. I might start control!

ive been waiting two years for the price to go down on ni no kuni 2 collectors edition and i finally got it so im playing cod, platinum and beating control and playing ni no kuni 2 this weekend.

Astrobot. Started last night. I forgot how good that demo was. Played 3 levels. After stopping the real world feels so 2D, and I miss my little robot friend.

Too bad moving forward like that makes me nausea after 30 minutes or I'd play it a lot more.

I’ll be working most of the weekend but if I can find the time I’m going to be playing Judgment. I just finished the first chapter last night and it was awesome. I also decided to buy an old PS3 the other day for really cheap, with a ton of games, so I might boot up Batman Arkham Asylum. It’s been years since I’ve played it.

Xeno Crisis on the Megadrive hopefully, if I get the time.

I'm still deep into Days Gone...can't get enough of this game!
On Switch I'll play some more of Asphalt 9 and Luigi Mansion 3

I feel like Sammy in my decision making paralysis because of so many gems to choose from. A couple partially finished games might get my attention The Last Guardian first among them. Then Assassins Creed Origins might get some time since I’m probably 1/3 of the way through that. But then I am debating starting some of the more recent games Jedi Fallen Order and Death Stranding. I’ve been wanting to get back into Trails of Cold Steel too. I’m a mess.
I’ll probably end up doing nothing except sitting staring dumbly at my games and then just watch The Witcher on Netflix.

35 hours into Persona 5 and this train isn't stopping anytime soon.

I sent the calling card for the third palace so I plan on finishing that up and working on Mementos, stat building and confidant relationships.

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate is sucking a lot of my playtime. Dauntless was fun but man, do the behemoths later on become such trolls, and not in a good way lol (looking at you, Valomyr and Riftsalker). Might come back soon but right now? MHGUltimate it is.

Just started “Remnant: From the Ashes”. Hadn’t heard of it til Twitter this week, but it’s supposed to be a dark souls type that’s more of a co-op shooter. Fun so far playing with one other person.

Beat saber

Game of the (almost decade) for me. No other experience comes anywhere near close to the fun I'm having with it. It's also the first VR game that doesn't cause me any dizziness.

@Bahamut-Zero hope you enjoy Nino kuni II. I wasn't a huge fan the first hour of gameplay, but the game sure grew on me after I paid attention to the things that I did like.

So after Shenmue 3 i need some help. Days Gone, Death Stranding, RDR2? All on the shelf...i need to pick one

Just one though! Lol i cant juggle 2 helpings of meat and taterz like that

@naruball love it had put it off until i was able to get the ce. i love that its not hard for hard sake and actually just challenging in a fair way.

@rjejr Astrobot is one of my favourite ever games, some of the later levels are truly spectacular in VR amd the game really makes you feel that you're going on adventure with the little fella

Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition (Vita) - Literally just started this up and it seems ok so far.

Cut the Rope (Android) - Slowly moving through the first season with my daughter. On Foil Box now.

Hexic (Android) - Playing random puzzles.

Sekiro - really getting stuck in to it now but Im still not really sure where to go

Cuphead - finished it on Switch last night, its fine

Just finished Jedi Fallen Order last night—wow, what an ending! Now time to finish Death Stranding after a short break 40 hours in. Can’t wait to see how Sam’s crazy adventure ends!

Shenmue III, finally found the last herb in Bailu, I plan to celebrate by blowing all my money on capsule toys.

I'll be jumping between Monster Hunter World Iceborne, Splatoon 2, and Super Mario Maker 2.

Ring Fit Adventure every day, and then sessions of various other games, such as Dragon Quest II (mobile), DOOM (Switch), Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (Switch), and The Witcher 3 (PC).

NFL divisional round starts later this afternoon. Finally, finally I can enjoy the playoffs knowing the damn Patriots can't make it to the Superbowl. Derrick Henry ran through them single handedly last weekend! Hahaha love it. Gonna enjoy every game as I think any combination of the eight remaining teams will make a great Superbowl in February!

Anyway, had to take a break from medievil. I just wasn't enjoying it, and idk why, as I loved it back on the PS1 days. I beat uncharted 1 last night. I wasn't even rushing and beat the game in 6 hours 15 minutes. Idk how long the game is supposed to be, but that seems awfully fast. Enjoyed it none the less. Will sneak in a little uncharted 2 before football (ahem, NFL) starts.

@Bahamut-Zero agreed. I read several times that it's way too easy and I still don't get why. Perhaps it was patched by the time I played it.

@Nyne11Tyme I'd go with Days Gone, if I were you. Let's see what others have to say.

@naruball i was thinking the same. Thanks!

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L

Oh man, such an unpredictable season!

If I have to pick I'm gonna say next week comes down to KC vs Baltimore on AFC side. And SF vs GB on the NFC side. That's as far as I can dare to narrow it down!

You may be a Pittsburgh fan, but you gotta hand it to Lamar Jackson! He is a completely different type of animal! Definitely deserves MVP this season

I’m close to beating Claire’s Story in Resident Evil 2. Then I’ll play some Crash Team Racing and Control.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Same. Seasonn ticket holder since 07. Im just glad Tomlin didnt finally have a losing season. If Ben comes back strong we are real contenders with our D situation. If Ben is done go get me Eli for 2 years and make a run. Or if Brady is out make that happen. Duck and Rudolph arent the future.

Divinity original sin enhanced edition.word ☝ up son

The original FFVII. Feeling that hype for Remake!

@naruball they added hard and expert mode. im playing it on hard thinking about playing it on expert. The harder the difficulty the better rewards you get for beating monsters. These are like purple or orange rarity even early game.

Eso and the undaunted event

Just finished playing through the SoulCalibre 6’s second Season Pass. Really enjoyed it. I will be moving onto Atelier Ryza.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L lol. Sorry your so far! Im 3 hrs from Pittsburgh. And that organization will never play over there (which im happy about but also think is bs at the same time lol) so you'll have to come stateside to see them live. I only say Eli because he is the GOAT killer lol not once but twice. And dealing with the horrible O line Eli endured through much of his career the INT/Fetal position move was about his only option lol. You make it stateside lets go!! Got 4 section 227 27,28,29,30

After finishing fallen order on thursday night which i thoroughly enjoyed, i downloaded witcher 3 last night on my dads advice gave it a couple of hours this morning, itching to get my teeth into it.
Happy gaming folks 😊

Just beat CONTROL a couple days ago..so I'll probably jump back on the first Trails of Cold Steel. Near the end of that game anyway.

Valkyria Chronicles 4, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales and Red Dead Online.

No you arent. I love his current career assassination lol. You make the trip the ticket is on me. No bullsh*t. That kind of dedication should be rewarded!! And South Side Pittsburgh wont be ready when we get there. About time for the first pint. Happy Footballin today. Cheers

I've heard the save game option in Control is a bit ropey, which has actually stopped me from purchasing it. Any truth to this, guys?

@Arugula Thanks for the reply. I heard that when you die, the save takes you waaaaay back. But looks like that was rubbish.
Think I'll pick it up now 😁

I'm hoping the Chiefs or Ravens go all the way. My team (Saints) at out so don't want to see a NFC side win it now.

As for gaming, just finished the main story of Rise of the Tomb Raider (excellent game) so will go back to Days Gone after playing it for a few hours last week. So far I'm really enjoying it.

Currently playing Far Cry New Dawn on PS4. And going through Cod Black Ops 1 & 2 on Xbox.

Experienced the good and bad of nintendo this week. Played some mario party with mates last night and even after a few beers, it was pretty dreadful tbh! I'm away to CEX to swap for astral chains. Built some labo with my daughter earlier, stuff the po-faced serious gamers moaning about cardboard, we had loads of fun making it! Proper quality time. Played some skyrim for the first ever, made it to whiterun and trying to remain calm about how big my quest log is growing. Some yakuza 0 too, just played some majima in Osaka, top man

@Nightcrawler71 you've still got a lloooonnnnggg way to go but it's all great 👍

Just finished Astrobot VR and collected all the toys! Amazing platform game. Can't wait for sequel! Onto Moss VR and Witcher 3 for rest of week.

Dragon quest heroes and maybe some walking dead definitive edition, four episodes into the walking dead and I'm not enjoying it, but not disliking it either, guess it's OK.

@Arugula Thank you for your input. I'm definitely picking it up now. 😁

Dirt Rally 2.0 - my goal is merely to not suck

Wasteland 2: Director's Cut. it's very good, happy I got around to starting this.

I'm still slogging through The Witcher 3, trying to find something good to say about it. I'm almost done, that'll have to do. Also grinding out Gears 5 with the wife to hit General yet again. Might hit some Borderlands 3 with her, or take a stroll through Octopath Traveler.

@Shigurui lol yeah I got FC3 Classic as well and had a hard time getting through it. I just redownloaded it last night and will give it another go soon because I have such fond memories of it. The start of the game is a bit slow so maybe that was what put me off.

Almost ashamed to admit, but after finishing up Days Gone and AC:Odyssey, i went back to God Of War again....accumulating well over 500 hours on it...just love that game too much.

Crash 3, Donkey Kong Country 2.

@Nyne11Tyme That is my problem so many where do i start. Being a kid was way more easy enough money for one game. 😆

@rjejr Count yourself lucky — I get nauseous in less than 3 seconds.

@gamiller1978 The first Dragon Quest Heroes or the second i liked the first one a lot more. I thought the second game would be way better. But somehow they kept the annoying parts in and removed nice little quirks. You would think it should be easy too make it more fun with the choice of ao many fun DQH characters. The second one was good with some great characters. But come that grind for special weapons i wouls think too the could make character specific quests for that but no lets make it a unending grind of the same dungeons. 😢

I need to finish up two spotlight series on NBA 2K20 so that's what I am working on this weekend.

@Bahamut-Zero I think I played on normal and it seems fine to me for the most part. Perhaps because I always fought monsters much stronger than me as a challenge. The last couple of trophies for the DLC are brutally difficult to get.

@Flaming_Kaiser The first one, I own the second, but just haven't started yet. Have not found the game to much of a grind, I think it's helped I've not played game permanently, normally if I stop playing a game I don't go back to it, but I keep coming back to this one after finishing other games. I've played the main story multiple time's to get the flying start bonuses, have now maxed out all skills, so I'm now looking to 100% all records.

Resident Evil 6, YEAH i said 6 i like it so there

@KingPev I’m still thoroughly enjoying it so long is good! 👍

@gamiller1978 I played for 200 hours i still need too get a few more weapons. And max out some vocations.

The different monsters are mostly recolors.
And the AI of the helpers is horrible with harder bosses. (always nice when the healer disides nah i dont want to heal anymore.)

The spoken lines are annoying if you go too the merchants every time the same annoying response.

@Flurpsel - Yeah I loved it back in the day too. I decided to play it because I have FC5 on my backlog also and knew I'd never be able to go backwards due to how badly FC3 has aged so thought I'd play it first. I'm almost finished now and it's still a great game and Vaas will always be a fantastic foe but mechanically it's definitely showing its years.

@FullbringIchigo

@doctommaso I'm ok with PSVR except for the motion. There was a racing game - Micro Cars - or something like that I only lasted about 3 seconds in. Everything else is about 30 minutes before I Wanna barf. Though Rush of Blood I was good for awhile in, my brain accepted that I was moving in a train and I seemed fine. Batman didn't have much motion in it either so I was good in that.

Sorry you can't take it, some of it is fun. It's never replacing normal gaming though, it's still weird, more of an experience than playing a game.

@carlos82 "with the little fella"

That's it!! I've never before talked to character in a video game as much as I do to the little robot you control. And I do so w/ a voice not my own but I couldn't figure out who's voice I was using. But that's the voice, Ellen DeGeneres in Finding Nemo.

Still haven't played a level since that Pikmin like level but if you're telling me it gets better, whoa.
Kinda busy the next few nights, probably get back to it next weekend. So much football, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Dr. Who and American Gods. Video games are kinda my side hobby these days.

@Shigurui I played 5 allready and it's a lot of fun too. Cool story, some great antagonists, nice weapons, and just very easy to pick and play in any style you want to. There were a bit too many random encounters happening though, it would sometimes get annoying. Other than that, great game. Definitely up there with 3.

@Flurpsel - I'm looking forward to playing FC5 but I hope your character is tougher than wet paper. I forgot how utterly weak Jason Brody is, he drops dead from 3 foot falls, I've seen toddlers fall further without getting a scratch. The guy is pathetic lol.

@Shigurui I dont specifically remember him being very weak. I think you can drop from a reasonable height if I remember correctly, like a 1st story floor or something.

I played some FC3 last night, the hunting animals and climbing towers feels absolutely archeic. Silently murdering a bandit camp with nothing but a bow and your knife never gets old though. Especially when you get some of the more advanced perks like chain kills and knife throwing. I think Ill have fun with it at least untill the 2nd island which in my first playthrough was allready pretty boring.