Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 379

This weekend, I have been still mostly eating... Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries.

Playing Judgment PS4. Not as good as the Yakuza games, but still very good. Got the Drone challenges and Puyo Puyo out the way so I have a pretty clear run to the plat too.

Miles morales for me.
Then of course Ratchet and Clank Friday.
Might buy Returnal, any opinions on here from someone that has it?

A ton of FFXIV and getting all my materia in FF7R ready for my hard playthrough next week!

Happy gaming yall!

just beat re village and i have to say this and returnal's bosses were a treat. It was just so satisfying to beat them. Will play ps plus games later and preload chivalry 2 for next week!

ME2 - Managed to get my whole crew through the suicide mission alive. My pet fish weren’t so lucky unfortunately 🥲 Just a bit of tidying up to do now before moving onto ME3.

Almost at the end of Palace 5 in Persona 5 and still enjoying it immensely Some Battlefield 5 multiplayer on the side with my pals.

Trying to trigger sexy time with yeoman chambers in legendary edition: Mass Effect 2, once that is complete I’ll move on to legendary edition: Mass Effect 3.

I will mainly be missing my PS5 this week as I’m away. I will carry on my playthrough of Dark Souls on Switch.

I’ve been replaying bloodborne on PS5 and loving it just as much second time round. I wish they would bring out a 60fps patch for it though.

@Dezzy70 Personally I think Returnal is a pretty solid game, you just have to know what you're getting yourself into. It's tough, I'd say watch SkillUp's review. Figure out much mileage you'd get out of it and decide if wanna get it on sale or not.

God of war the g.o.a.t 👑.and 👻 ghost of tshushima goty 2020.and watching the nba playoffs.word life.word is bond.word to your mother.word ☝ up son

That Returnal platinum trophy is pointing at me and laughing…

Replaying the dlc on Spiderman remastered & also playing call of duty 3 on Xbox one s.

@Dezzy70 Returnal is my game of the year so far. I’d describe it as a Metroid game that was born from a cross between a soulslike and hades. The game is brilliant. And brutally punishing. Be prepared to die. A lot.

@Daleaf it’s probably the one from using the Reconstructor. You have to pay six ether on the first one. Die somewhere in the first biome. Regenerate at the reconstructor, then die again. When you reach the reconstructor on your next run: taa dah: audio tape.

I have the week off work and a house to myself for that time, so I may finally get around to play TLOUP2, so no one can hear me crying and cheering for hitting people with bottles whilst I kill them brutally. 😂😂😂

Continuing with Mass Effect legendary edition and loving every minute of it. Just got the plat for the first Mass effect game. Will be moving onto Mass Effect 2 this weekend.

Home front the revolution. Not a bad game for an oldie (from last gen anyway). Enjoying it. 7/10, but if you love the genre that almost makes it an 8

Nier automata (ps4/ps5) - bought it last year with a local store summer sale and finally got around to playing it. It’s great so far.

The bureau: xcom declassified (ps3) - paused it for now as I liked it but didn’t love it.

Hades (NS) - beat this game the week I bought it, currently trying to get the true true ending by doing all god bonds.

Super princess peach (DS) - did a big haul yesterday and SPP was part of it, wanted to play this since it came out.

"Fuel" by Codies.

No Man's Sky all weekend long baby!!

Playing the "broken mess" that is necromunda hired gun and loving the heck out of the over the top action..also nfs hot pursuit remastered in between playing a spot of that other broken,unplayable mess cyberpunk..game on 🤘

Still doing Wresckfest (PS5). Completed it Thursday. I have 64 cars and have 6 left to buy. Hopefeully I will get them this weekend. Also Genshin Impact (PS5) and Dirt 5 (PS5).

Still on my 3rd run of legendary HZD. Guerrilla is incredibly skilled! Got Disco Elysium on PC but haven't played enough yet, it's a lot of text and walking, and maybe because PCs just look like machines for work and not games (there's something about a games console that makes you feel like you're actually gaming I dunno). Plus it's more of the classic Far Cry 3, some GTAV, MHWorld and anything else.

Probably a couple of matches in Hood: Outlaws and Legends, and jumping into The Surge for some body part chopping action!

@Shepherd_Tallon Plat was really simple. Far easier than the original one. I did everything in one playthrough and insanity didn’t really hinder me. 2 and 3 on the other hand.. I wouldn’t dare go for the plat in either of those on one run against insanity. Remember them being a nightmare back in the day on insanity.

Bully this week (it's a bit cringe having to kiss school girls for extra health, but you do what you've got to do to survive). Maybe control if i fancy some 60fps action.

More Returnal for me this weekend. I’m four hours in and I’m… RUBBISH at it. Still, I’m loving the environment, presentation and gunplay. Just gotta get gud, I guess!

Switch - Starting Dragon Quest XI!

PS4 - GTA Online with friends and also starting Ghost of Tsushima!

PC - Minecraft Dungeons via Game Pass!

Have a good weekend everyone.

Get my arse handed to me by Returnal again, you know I STILL haven't got the sword yet, let alone the first boss. Great game though.
Then once had enough of that I must beat those bloody Man-eaters on Demon's Souls.
A weekend of frustration beckons.

Hoping to get a bit more Subnautica played. Also doing some more Monster Hunter Rise, and should be able to get to the end of Man of Medan.

Finished inFAMOUS Second Son last night. A good game it was too. Obviously a bit dated but I still had fun with it and there are a few similarities between it and SP's follow-up Ghost of Tsushima including the use of short animations to tell a story and really the main story itself. I liked Delsin and enjoyed using many of the powers. Neon probably my favourite. If I'd played it a few years earlier I reckon I would've been more impressed than I was but I'm very glad I gave it a chance albeit a belated one.

7/10

Need a new 'main' now and have one already waiting in the wings and it's an even older game and more dated. Of course I'm talking about Mass Effect. I'm not far in but I think it's pretty good so far although the combat is, let's be honest, pretty bad. I imagine even back it when it was first released (2007?) this wasn't one of its strengths. Going to persevere though as I really dig the sci-fi setting and at times it makes me laugh.

Will also be dipping in and out of Battlefield V. Still bad at it, still dying a lot and quick but I needed a MP and this is scratching that itch.

Enjoy your gaming weekend, guys and gals.

More Mass Effect. First 2 games are done so onto 3. Picked up The Pathless in the sale so I'll give that a go tomorrow. Have a good weekend all!

@gollumb82 Glad you're enjoying still! For me palace 5 was the lowest point of the game and the story picks up SIGNIFICANTLY after this palace. It gets so good.

NG+ on Dark Souls Remastered, and Last Campfire, which I bought on Indie sale, completed the forest campfire, decent little game. Probably some Sonic Team Racing as well.

Playing the surprisingly excellent A Plague Tale: Innocence. I’m enjoying it much more than I expected.
Also playing Subnautica in spells. Beyond that, I’ll just see where the my mood takes me.

@TraCuz-
I am quite surprised to find Palace 5 just as enjoyable as the previous ones To think I put off my favourite games ever (Mass Effect) on hold to finish this beauty... Persona 5 really is a special game!

@gollumb82 I'm telling you friend, by the time you're finished it might end up one your favorites of all time.

I'll mostly be spending the weekend getting my arse kicked by Returnal, which is still great. Enjoying exploring new areas I got to recently, and working on unlocking more weapon traits.

Besides that, a weekly dose of Rock Band Rivals and maybe a little No Man's Sky.

Working on my resident evil village platinum just unlocked my infinite ammo Stake and about to start my village of the damned playthrough

I've finished the excellent Mass Effect trilogy but I'm itching for some more so I'll be seeing how far I get into Andromeda before the awful writing takes its toll.

Mr. Barker’s post got me thinking of Assassins Creed: Valhalla. It is a good game, it really is. Well worth playing, and raiding as a Viking is fantastic fun.

But: I don’t think I have ever been more ready for a game to end than I reached the conclusion. Even just the main story is utterly endless-not to mention the side content. May be the first game where I ever said to myself “this needs to be cut way down”.

I am still punching my way through Yakuza 3. 25ish hours in and this is my weakest game in the series so far. Story is just not grabbing me. But a weaker Yakuza game is still a good game!

Just beat yakuza. Don’t feel like grinding for the platinum. So I’ll be looking into my backlog, all while still playing mlb 21 the show.

@Dezzy70 returnal is my GOTY

@Loftimus love bully! May be my next game I pickup , believe it’s on sale too

@Dezzy70 I’ll chime in with all of the other guys on here singing Returnals praises. It’s an amazing game and much more than that, an experience. I’m one item away from the platinum and I’m going to be disappointed that I’ve done everything. I’m definitely a below average gamer so it’s been a challenge but it makes every hard earned victory so much sweeter.

My wife got into it too and now is so committed that even though she’s still struggling through the 3rd biome she can’t give it up.

@ApostateMage As a big Mass Effect fan, I have some friendly advice for you: ME:A has a pretty good game in there hidden under a lot of crap. For some reason, BioWare made the odd decision of absolutely littering the game with side quests and then making a large chunk of them tedious fetch quests. It is one of the more ridiculous development choices I have ever seen.

The story is decent, and I think the combat is the best in any ME game. And there are side quests worth doing-all the ones pairing you with a ship companion are good, and there are decent side stories to be found.

But if an NPC wants you to collect parts of a ship, or herbs, or minerals, or medical supplies from different outposts, you should leave those unfinished in the quest log and just keep moving. This was a hard adjustment for me, since I tend to want to do all the side content in a game. But I was much happier in ME:A when I realized many of the obvious slog quests could be safely ignored. Why BioWare chose to bury a good game under hours of tedium, I have no idea. People talk about graphics and such when criticizing the game, but the main problem is you have to navigate a lot of crap to get to the good stuff.

Just my experience of course. Hope you enjoy the game!

Continuing my NG+ Hardcore run in RE Village. I wasn’t totally sold on the game the first time through, but the ending was fantastic, and replaying on NG+ and a harder difficulty has really made me fall in love with Village. 9/10 for sure.

Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Shodown. Got in some rank matches.

Finished off darksiders 3, now will focus on ff7r as on chapter 13. Will also play some Apex Legends as just got horizon. The new Arenas mode is excellent for getting level up rewards for those still on the fence about it. Its also a great chance to try out weapons you have to scavenge in the normal mode. Would be nice if they added a cod style custom weapon drop with lifelines ult.

Obviously still playing the fantastic Persona 5 Royal,this game is so crazy good surely it's illegal
Seeing as I'm now done with the fantastic Resident Evil Village I've recently started Control on Ps5.Gave up to begin with as I was finding it really tough but I've had another go since and really enjoying it.
On Switch Miitopia is ruling over everything else!

Borderlands 3 and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood on ps4

Finished rondo of blood in the castlevania requiem collection. I enjoyed it but man were some of the stages extremely tedious especially with the enemy placement. The music was great and i really liked the cutscenes which look so bad now xD

Also started up Resident Evil 4, and it's been pretty fun so far and i think I'm actually almost done with it but the controls are abysmal. It's absolutely in need of a remake

Doodle God (Windows Phone) - Never tried one of these games before, I enjoy it so far.

Battleship (Windows Phone) - Also enjoying this, used to play the board game loads when I was young.

Lines: The Game (Windows Phone) - This is also getting playtime here and there.

@Westernwolf4 I actually platinumed the game years ago but I agree with what you say and will be ignoring most of the clutter missions. The dialogue at times is absolutely dreadful but I actually kind of liked Sara Ryder by the end of the game. The combat is indeed the best of the series, so enjoyable. And, no Cerberus anywhere is a huge plus point.

@Mgene15 yeah, £7.19 i payed. Bargain!

@ApostateMage sorry I wrote a wall of text about a game you already finished-you already handled the game a lot better than I did! 😃It took me a long time to stop worrying about those quests........

Budokai HD Collection - Budokai 3 Cell games. kill me now

Way of the Samurai 4 - very interesting and quite difficult

Asuras Wrath - remember the demo being pretty fun! excited to have a japan copy in my collection

@Futureshark "you know I STILL haven't got the sword yet, let alone the first boss".

Exactly the same here, and I’m FOUR hours in! You’re absolutely right though, Returnal is a great game.

A very smoll amount of Doom and Seasons After Fall. Complete opposites really. Have my little one over the whole weekend as his mother seems to have increasingly less time for him right now. Not that I mind, but I do have some sound stuff to do for some game projects and such. So, basically an hour a night of each game xD

I think I'm almost done with RE8 but I'm having a ton of fun with it.

@adrianthealchemist I’ve been playing for four hours and I still don’t understand all the mechanics. Or should that be, any of them! 😂 Maybe I should try and find a beginners guide on YouTube or something?

I love the gameplay (shooting, dodging and exploration, etc), but I just don’t really know what I’m doing 😢

Still making my way through Nier Automata. Getting quite far through my third run now. Reckon I'll be done by this time next week.

@adrianthealchemist Wow, thank you, man. That’s so helpful. It’s really helped me to understand certain things. I’ll definitely be checking out those links. And once again, thanks so much for taking the time to explain all this, I really appreciate it. Despite absolutely sucking at it, I’m super enjoying Returnal. It’s absolutely gorgeous and a ton of fun. Enjoy the rest of your weekend! ☺️

Thanks everyone for the Returnal feed back.
Will go for it after Ratchet and Clank.

@TraCuz-
Thanks mate. I can see this happening I'm already at the stage of not wanting it to end and I still have a long way to go 😂

Finally started Dying Light for the first time after buying the platinum edition on sale over the weekend. I don't like zombie games, but the world, parkour, and crafting are keeping me hooked.

Trying to find the last sunface in Returnal... it's been quite the frustrating experience. Determined to see it through and not just give up and watch a YouTube vid. We'll see how that goes

Finished Spiderman Miles Morales earlier today. Can't wait to see what Spiderman 2 will bring! Had an absolute blast!

Redowloaded FFXIV and got back on my black mage! Having fun so far... and some Godfall in between moments.

Good weekend all!

It’s a great game, @Dezzy70. I highly recommend Returnal, just make sure you’re feeling up for a proper challenge! 😉

@Nilexson Me too! I finished Miles Morales on Thursday, I think. What a game. My PS5 says I’ve played it for 12 hours. But what a 12 hours it was. Loved the ending, too.

Returned to Returnal after taking a break as it was destroying me.

UPDATE: Still destroying me.

Hey and welcome to the bottom of the comment section! I’m a bit late today, been working this Saturday, however I decided to finally do my Evil Karma Expert play through on Infamous Second Son. It’s a real treat to play in 60FPS on PS5!

1) Persona 5 Strikers!
2) maybe dust off the VITA and continue my Ys Seven playthrough.
3) Have a nice weekend to all!

@Slippship love first watch dogs. the dark gritty Chicago setting was welcomed

After finishing RE8 then RE4 I'm once again attempting to play RE6 and wow it's just as bad as I remember. Started with Leons campaign and it's been a roundhouse fest so far. Have been a huge RE fan since the first game and this is the only main entry I haven't finished. I'm gonna try my best to finally suffer through it

@adrianthealchemist Yes it’s those friendly drones. Using all the things that worked for me i.e. void beam and barrier shields etc she was still hitting a wall with them. Funnily enough though she happened upon exactly the strategy that you’ve suggested and made some progress. She was using the lobber and running into a nearby room and taking them out one or two at a time where you would normally get swamped by them. All good tips 👍.

@adrianthealchemist Just to follow that up wife’s only gone and done it...cleared biome 3 and beat the boss!!! She did the boss on only her second go as well. I think I might have taken 3.

Great write up in the subject as well 👍. Definitely a good place to start for anyone thinking of getting into Returnal.

@huntbearpig enjoy!! It’s an incredible game and heaps of fun in co op! Been hoping for a 60FPS patch for PS5 but no joy yet! December 7th (or 8th?) for the release of the second one!

@adrianthealchemist She says that’s really nice and thanks 👏😀.

She’s getting on with b4 now so guess I’ll be trying to find my last item for the platinum another night 🤣.

I'm still neck deep in the Mass Effect legendary edition. Just started ME3 after platting ME2 and ME1. Finished both the Return to Omega and Leviathan. Found Omega to be a bit of a let down. I loved Leviathan tho! But I still think the Overload from ME2 is the best of all of them.

Ive been delaying, but im currently playing "A PLAGUE TALE: INNOCENCE, im surprise for it to be such a linear simple game, it is actually SURPRISINGLY fun...Now I see why it was praised when it was praised...

@Bentleyma- I have ME2 on my PS3, I skipped ME, and ME3 just because I heard that they werent even worth the bother, so the thought of the trilogy (albeit a visual upgrade), was just not something I really wanted to invest it.. If the story remains the same, an upgraded visual with the same story just isn't a selling point for this gamer...

@mcdreamer im a major trophy hunter, and im trying to flesh out my NieR experience, I just wish the game had a 'warp to found save points" options..

@crimsontadpoles Man of Medan was pretty good, the missables and immediate changing stories, if you do one QTE wrong or miss a dialogue, is pretty self defeating. ive been trying to get the plat, but even that is meticulous...

Days Gone, really deep into it now, really enjoying it. i completely agree on the AC Valhalla points, the cut scenes were all way too drawn out, the prologue too long and the game too long, although it didn't get me to the point of swearing at the screen like the ultra PC last Uncharted game did. Waiting an age for some pointless dialogue scene to load is painful, and with Uncharted, for it then to be some kitchen sink drama excrement, it turned me off Naughty Dog games for good.

I completed Resident Evil 8 and jumped into Days Gone and have already put almost 50 hrs into it.
Days Gone is a much better game than the mainstream reviews it got. much better than the @#@)@#*$# Cyberpunk 2077 in my opinion.

Finally, I got my hands on RE8 and it's fantastic so far.
Around 3-4 hours in.

Also finished Control ultimate edition ps5 this friday. Best game psplus has thrown at me so far.
It was way better, than I expected.

PS5 - Resident Evil: Village
PS4 - Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown

Online Bomberman on PS4.
It have a bug where sometimes the interface breaks and extrapolates the screen borders, by the way.
The 64 players matches are very fun, thought. And quite nostalgic.

Been playing returnal just defeated phrike, then i thought yakuza like a dragon would be something more easy going for a little while and virtua fighter 5 ultimate showdown every so often

@The_Pixel_King The only thing that might help is turning up the auto aim.

@JohnnyShoulder Auto aim.

As a result of plating Returnal I have now purchased Hades on my Switch.
Ploughed quite a few hours in to it now abs got to say it’s very very good.

Recently got banned by Sony so nothing atm.. never going to buy digital games ever again cause Sony likes to steal it from me. I'll never get my 6 yrs of ps plusback either

@Shepherd_Tallon Difficulty doesn't matter for the Plats in the LE versions. Making them a cake-walk.

played a bit of HZD, I have like 5 missions left, then turning to Last of Us Part 2 and P5R. Super excited. Also... if I'm honest, I'll be digging into the Yuffie DLC for FF7R on Sunday next week.