Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

I tried some Crusader Kings 3 last night. And apart from the tutorial being an info dump greater than all info dumps in games put together, it is a pretty cool game. Bad for the eye balls, but good for the brain.

My tutorial King died during the tutorial too 😂😂 as I didn't quite understand how the siege mechanics worked and didnt make a save, so the army got melted as it fast forward time. But his idiot son and his allies are doing fairly well taking parts of southern Ireland through force, deciet and now planning ahead for peaceful seizure of lands. But a holy war is on the horizon, so that may or may not be my current kings last hurrah before his son, or his son's uncle, who is also being raised alongside him (ah, history) 😂😂😂 takes the reigns.

I have no idea how long a holy war will last or how many other counties take part, so it will all be a learning curve.

Arise, Brian, mac Brian Briain whose son shall also be called Brian 😅

I’m still playing Ys IX, and I think it’s a modern RPG masterpiece. Everything from the characters, story, dungeon design, and fascinating world building is top tier. And the side quests are typically meaningful, that provides surprising character development.

King the II's third child is an albino so I'm looking to find a spouse that passes down other traits to have myself a dynasty of supremely intelligent or robust, psychopathic Irish albino warlords 😅

@Ravix it was only a matter of time before youd sell your soul to CKIII

@Yousef- 😅

Is it a game you're familiar with?

I honestly didn't expect so much depth, like it's actually insane, and on top of that, so much scope to make your own random stories within. A proper sandbox feeling strategy game.

I got to a point where I'm not really sure how things will unfold for the Briain dynasty, but uncle of B-II's son, that he raised, is married to someone who may have claims on the rest of Ireland that I've not yet conquered 😛 I'm kind of expecting a plot at some point, but by chance the son of the original king that I messed up with, could maybe go on to be King of all Ireland within one generation, I don't know if I'll have control of him or not 🫨 but it'd be a cool end to that story if it happened.

basically I kept one segment of the country as my allies through that betrothal as I took the areas around them, just incase I wanted to, err... move in, later on. But maybe I will be able to inherit their lands by default either if they die mysteriously, or the daughter goes on to inherit them.

But for now the main focus is definitely going to be albino giants through matrilineal marriage 😁😁 and slowly making Dublin my house seat for the next generation.

Will it get to a point where Albinos can invade Wales, France or Scotland, who knows 😆

Prince Of Persia The Lost Crown

Its great that this franchise is back with a bang after a long hiatus. Great platforming and combat. Changed the audio language to Persian with English subtitles to correspond with its setting. Usually do that with certain titles.

@Ravix AoE2 is better 😂😂😂 /j

Wukong is getting ridiculously easy in chapter 5. Yesterday I beat 11 bosses in one sitting - 10 of them at my first attempt, and one at second try. Today I breezed through another 4 bosses. I hope the final ones are more of a challenge.

EDIT: No, they weren't, not really. The final boss from the secret area was pretty cool and actually forced me to respec my sparks but he fell after just three attempts (which still made him the biggest challenge of the chapter). The final boss of the chapter, though, was a complete push-over. On to chapter 6.

Currently put Visions of Mana on hold while I play through The Plucky Squire. It's such an original concept and I love how it's executed. Should have it finished by the end of the day.

@Kraven Do you prefer IX over VIII? They're both really good, but I found that there's something special about VIII that IX can't top. I'm really looking forward to playing X next month!

@Bentleyma I love VIII and got the platinum trophy for it. I understand your sentiment — it’s hard to top. I think there is this cozy charm about it that makes it hard to resist. With that said, I am enjoying IX more because I’m engaged with the story and characters. And I think the dungeon design is amazing. But yeah, I can’t for X next month!

Just got the plat for Astro Bot, gonna dive into Plucky Squire next!

CK3 update 😛

I was just messing around to see what I wanted to do next, I have enough to make Ireland the Kingdom of Briain, but I thought i'd leave it until i'd made a really nice base off operations having still not decided between Munster or the Dublin area. So I was just skipping time, gathering funds, doing regular non war stuff like letting a Vassal, that has annoyed me from day one, eat corriander at a feast while i laighed at his allergy, and thus he became KBII's rival hahaha. But I only threw the feast as the Pope decided it'd be fun to do a crusade, and it was a farewell feast for RP purposes, as KBII is getting older and I didn't think he'd survive an all out holy war.

Long story short, the Albino super daughter is now a fully fledged Queen 😅😅😅 and I have the option to take over as her now. (I might experiment and see if KBII can denounce his son so she can go on to be queen of Ireland and Maldavia) or just choose her and go back to Ireland if I have a claim at any point.

Can't believe how well we did in the Holy war. I think we took 5 or 6 counties and castles due to nifty routes I stumbled across that meant we could ford rivers and avoid freezing to death and sneak in away from the main war area 😛

@Ravix this’ll become 2 ez 2 fast 😂

@Yousef- Albino Empire Incoming