Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 504

Might buy a physical copy of Dying light 2 for 14£ and try that.
Heard alot of mixed things about it.

Playing final fight and r-type on my evercade exp, and street fighter alpha 2 on my analogue pocket, and finally playing star ocean 2nd story r demo, the game is a bit easy on normal mode, I think the original psone game is harder. The game is good though, I'll try playing it at hard difficulty.

I beat Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge recently which was disappointing.

Currently playing Powerwash Simulator which is amazing, Persona 5 Tactica which is quite fun and playing a lot of Fortnite OG with friends which has been a blast.

Playing the fantastic Talos Principal 2, it’s made me want to go back and play the first game even though I’ve platinumed it. Might be game of the year for me (BG3 an extreme close second). I’m half way through without cheating which makes me suitably smug (I think it’s a bit easier that the first (so far at least)). And it’s only £24.99! Have a good weekend folks!

cuphead on pc
mk1 on ps5

STILL WAITING FOR NEW GAME + IN SM2

This morning it’ll be as much Cyberpunk 2077 as I can fit in then it’s off in town for beer, football and a vindaloo.

Just got the plat on my Time at Sandrock after 100 hours and I’ll be finishing off the story now. Then I’m gonna play Forespoken which I got for £10 in a Black Friday deal. I’ve heard mixed opinions on the game but you can’t go wrong for that price!

Just got back in from walking the dog and its colder than a witches tit out there..cup of tea,do the dishes and vacum up then its lords of the fallen for me..have a good weekend folks 👍

I'm five hours into Assassins Creed Mirage which I was given for my birthday alongside Persona Tactica and gotta say I'm really impressed with it.Feels like a cross between a remake of the original and Origins.
Also I'm playing Pikmin 4 while the adverts are on for I'm A Celebrity.35 hours into it (the game) and can't get enough.

Watch Liverpool v man City then play ff16 ...

If you told me in the past I would be a big Monster Hunter fan I probably wouldn't believe, but it is what it is after our on and off relationship since 2019. Heading to 700hrs cumulative time across 3 saves, no exaggeration. I'm playing this game as much as I've played Rockstar, FromSoftware or Bethesda games. It's more MH World Iceborne for me this weekend plus any other games on the side.

Star Ocean The Second Story R and Persona 5 Tactica

Wrapped up the AW2 platinum this week so I'm now turning my attention towards Hogwarts Legacy. I've had it since release but left off playing it as the platinum is supposedly a real slogg. Started it last night and I'm really impressed with what I've seen so far. #SlytherinForever

A got a couple of black friday deals, 1tb ssd for my Ps5 and Immortals of Aveum. On Game pass still playing Like A Dragon Gaiden

still Elden Ring! on my way to meet Malenia, Blade of Miquella...playing ER for more than 140h now made me want to start Bloodborne. During my first playthrough 3 years ago I missed some boss fights and the other endings so will now try to finish properly this time and I missed DLC too, that will be real challenge!!!

Today watching ManCity vs Liv, hope Liv will not lose at least

Have a great weekend ya'll!

Star ocean 2 and kingdom hearts 1

I beat Super Mario RPG on switch this week, so will play some wwe 2k23 before I start the latest star ocean.

Out with the boys for some day drinking today. If I’m not too hungover tomorrow it will be some BG3 and I am going to get Dave the Diver on switch.

Bit more Far Cry 6 ,it really wants to be everything. I expect the series needs a ‘Mirage’ moment now. Still enjoying it mind you.

Happy gaming everyone! 👍

Finally finished BG3 this week and was excited to move on to RE4 remake or one of the other smaller games I bought in the Black Friday sale…

What actually happened is I created a new character and started BG3 again from the beginning. I’m now 9 hours in to a second playthrough and so far everything has been completely different. Such a great game.

@marquez, Tunic and Deaths door are excellent Christmas games, you’ll get through Deaths Door pretty quickly, Tunic takes a bit longer. They’re both on my replay list for next month (and Lumo which I love because of the nostalgia for isometric 3d platformers on the ZX spectrum).

@AgentCooper you get a thumbs up for that Miyazaki/Lynchian crossover avatar😄

Finishing off Alan Wake II, which has been incredible so far. A rarity in this year's roster in that my overall enjoyment has gone up the more I play (looking at you FFXVI...). Such a weird and wonderful concept, especially the connectivity with the FBC and Control (which I'll probably play again after this).

Robocop will definitely see some playtime. What a game, eh? Pure, nostalgic fun.

There's also Baldur's Gate III that I need to keep up with. GOTY for sure but it's so large that I need to find the time to allow myself to be sucked in proper. I need a nice bowl of smoke to do that

Edit: smoke achieved. Locked in and ready to Baldur's some Gate 🤣

@PenguinLtd Disco Elysium is one of the best games I've played to date. A proper RPG like Baldur's Gate - the closest we've got to a vast, tabletop experience on screen. Enjoy!

@DrVenture69 Haha why thank you, friend 👍 It’s what happens when you ask Chatgpt to illustrate two of your favourite things. Some of the other versions were nightmare fuel 😂

Been playing Subnautica in VR on PC with the Submersed mod that gives the game full motion controls.

It's amazing to go below the waves in VR, but also pretty frightening in the dark caves far below. Steadily making progress though.

You PSVR2 folks should make a push to get this game to the platform as I have no doubt it would look great on those OLED screens. C'mon Sony!

@Onearmbandit ....that's one quality Saturday! Enjoy

Grinding out the last few trophies in Teardown. After that’s complete I’m going to be disappointed in whatever I play next.

Playing everything possible for 5 minutes then moving in to the next on my steam deck oled. It's sooooo pretty.

@Member_the_game....curious, how do you play an XBox ??

On PS5 still trying to finish Alan Wake 2 and I've just started Plague Tale Requim and Crisis Core plenty to keep me busy. Maybe some Pokemon diamond on Switch if I've got time.

Got bored with the repetitive campaign missions in Aliens: Fireteam Elite so it's back to AC Valhalla.

@KingPev Cheers!

It's all about fixers, street shredders and iron for me in Cyberpunk 2077.

@KingPev

Just a hunch but maybe the same way you would play on a PS5??

Will tend to some hangovers from Christmas party and watch Liverpool-City. Then later will start Trails of Cold Steel 3.

sn(e)aking my way in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

@Member_the_game ...its all about the games dude, not the consoles. The XBX is a great console, just like the PS5.....unless you're a raging fan boy

I have fallen heads first into Ys:Lacrimosa of Dana and I am having the best time. Trying to take my time building up items before I progress and I feel like I’ve been playing for 100 hours, but I’ve only just started chapter 3. 😂😁

Im playing the amazing monster hunter world iceborne master edition.im playing the fantastic weird west definitive edition.and the excellent ni no kuni wrath of the white witch remastered.im going to watch my boston Celtics 💚🖤 play.im also going to watch my Pittsburgh Steelers 💛🖤 play.and i will be watching legendary sitcoms comedy tv 📺 shows in Sanford and son.good times.and saved by the bell.word up son

Playing Robocop Rogue City. Really enjoying it so far-I’m a big fan of the film & the game has a great nostalgic feeling to it. Bit janky in places, but fun.

@KingPev

In the case of Xbox its the lack of games that's the issue.

I'm not a Sony fan boy, most of what I say about Xbox is just said in Jest to be fair.

Up until recently I owed all 3 of the Big Consoles and I subscribed to all 3 online services but I found with My series X, once I'd got fed up of playing Forza horizon I just didn't use it, rather than it gathering dust I sold it to a Friend.

I don't know exactly why, but I found that any multiplatform games I wanted I was always drawn to the PS5 version

Jaime Ditchfield and I are in the same situation. Travel isn’t leaving much time for gaming this week(end). But at the end of it when I do have an hour or two, I hope to finish a special Remedy title. The difference: I need to finish Alan Wake Remastered so I can eventually play Part 2!

More Robocop for me, real nostalgia trip, gutted to hear Flashback 2 is a mess was gonna give it a go but perhaps I will get on to Mario Wonder instead, plenty of robo killing first though

Happy gaming folks!

Just finished High on Life. Picked it up on sale for a more palatable price of £22. Loved it. It won't be for everyone but I thought it was good dumb fun with decent gameplay.

Got Tinykin to start. Love 3d platform games

@Mostik I never held out much hope for Flashback 2 but didn't think they would botch it as much as they ended up doing. It's a shame as the original was unreal at the time of release

More GT7 Sport mode, trying to get my Driver Ranking up! Bought Madden 24 on Black Friday, impressed after a few games even though it doesn't reinvent the wheel. Scratched the surface of Bloodborne last couple of weeks so will also be collecting blood echoes where I can!

@DrVenture69 I found deaths door annoying. That being the case reckon I may have same issue with Tunic? It's something I keep waiting for a price drop on but may not bother if it's very similar to deaths door (or maybe I'll have to re-try deaths door)

Playing through FFXVI, which is excellent. Also got PS Premium in the Black Friday sale (mine lapsed, so I made the most of getting the 30-% off, plus the few quid worth of stars for doing so), so have a few atelier games to stream

Trine 5 – finished and platinumed. I liked it a lot, it looks great, fun puzzles, nice variation to the different levels and its couch co-op if you want to.

AC Mirage – nice to play a smaller and more focused AC again, after the great but big installments we´ve had. Baghdad makes for a nice setting, really interesting historically and I´ve read many of the games codex entries. It looks good enough but not great, its a cross-gen game after all. Gameplay and mechanics are good but not great due to some jankiness and some very minor bugs and getting stuck on things, Ubi should improve these imo. The story is entertaining enough, laid out over different cases to solve. I´ve about halfway through I think and so far its good. I think I liked AC Unity and Syndicate a bit more but we´ll see in the end. Either way nice to have a real AC game again, and hoping Ubi can make the big games a new IP instead and not call them AC.

@PixelDragon how do you like Gotham Knights? I really want to like it, but after trying twice I gave up after a couple of hours both times. Maybe Im not doing it any favours comparing it to the Arkham games, or playing it solo…

At this point I practically live in Night City. Finishing my 6th playthrough and the excellent Phantom Liberty. Up next: Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Happy gaming everyone!

Continuing my 2nd playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077. Loving it all over again as a Female Streetkid this time.

IF I get to even turn on the PS5 this weekend I'll be playing Star Ocean 2 Remake but I'm drowning in work so it's not looking good. Hope you all have a better time than I!

Platinum all wrapped up on Lies of P so this weekend is all about….

1. Alan Wake 2 and it’s platinum
2. Lords of the Fallen progress
3. Diving back into Baldurs Gate 3

Most likely Lies of P and if it arrives today I'll play Immortals of Aveum. I liked the demo very much and so I accepted the black friday offer (28eur via amazon).

This weekend I’m still playing the brilliant Lies of P. I’m going to challenge myself and get the platinum trophy. If I had to give an estimate, I’d say 90% through the game. So far, I’ve completed all available side quests, hunted down all trinity key(s) and locations, as well as the collectibles.

To be honest, I might even consider this an “all-timer” — even going so far as having it stand shoulder to shoulder to Bloodborne. It takes the best elements from Bloodborne and Sekiro, and creates its own identity. Sure, FromSoftware might have invented, or at least perfected the genre, particularly with its gameplay that feels tightly focused, but Lies of P has the best of both worlds.

Meanwhile, it tells a coherent story that’s full of intrigue, but not obscure. To tell a lie or truth to certain characters really add a fascinating depth to its overall narrative. And with its story, there’s a fully rich world that’s interconnected similarly to its admirations, and it’s executed very well.

This game is just exceptional. The 1 million copies sold is well deserved, too. I know I’m not finished with it, but I’m already excited for its upcoming DLC. And I don’t typically do NG+, but I simply need more of this game.

Not in the mood to play games at all. Gonna do some hiking, biking and home work chores

@get2sammyb Props for the Speedstorm pic. 75 comments and not a peep, I was expecting criticism. 😂 I'm about 77 hours in, just started when it went free a month or so ago. Hit me up w/ any questions, there's some heads up I can give you as there's a bit of a learning curve. Not w/ racing it's just Mario Kart, but w/ the 3 different "currencies" and numerous leveling up items. The rare ones are indeed rare. On the bright side I have about 18 characters leveled up 15-30 and haven't spent any $, so I am WAY more than getting my money's worth.😂 Only about 10 tracks but 3 versions of each gives it some diversity. Though I do walk around the house singing "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan all the time now. 😩 Next week starts "Frozen" season so I'm expecting a lot of "Let it Go". Dreading it already. 😛

@rusty82, I think Tunic’s more polished and has a bit more depth to it than Death’s Door, but you know what it’s like sometimes a game just doesn’t click for you, and that’s fine, you can always give it another shot if your in the mood. I had that with Nioh

Yup, more WRC23 and Aliens: Dark Descent. Aliens is pretty tough at the beginning, but at least you can pause the game when giving orders, I think you couldn't when it first came out. Medium difficulty is no joke. The game only autosaves and that's usually after a major objective is completed or right before a tough fight. You can also weld the doors in some rooms to make a shelter where you can lower stress levels and that will save the game as well, also by just riding in the elevator to a different floor triggers the save too. I'm only on the 2nd mission after 9 hours. This game can really piss me off sometimes but I just can't stay mad and retry in an hour or so, lol.

This weekend I will play Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Disco Elysium, and Uncharted 1 Remastered, as I felt an itch to play the series after watching the movie. The gameplay is so straight and engaging!! I will replay the 5 games in their remastered forms.

I got the platinum in Alan Wake 2 earlier in the week (number 124 bay-bay!) so I’ve been at a loss of what to play next. I bought Lies of P from the current PSN sale, rolled a new Necromancer in Diablo 4, and started Mega Man X2 again so that should keep me busy for the time being. At this point, whatever I’m playing is just me killing time until Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Happy weekend, everyone!

Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition (Vita) - Was a craving a few rounds of tennis, this will fit the bill nicely.

Chickens Can't Fly (Windows Phone) - Back to finish this one off.

Doodle God Blitz (Windows Phone) - Finally near the endgame now.

Trails of Cold Steel 4.

Got a sweet deal on a Logitech G923 wheel. Playing some GT7 and F1 23. Hell I might reactivate my iRacing account Black Friday special.

Disney Dreamlight Valley - Lots of fun as always and excited for all the new updates, best cozy game ever, especially going into Winter. Time to get all my holiday decorations up.
Coral Island - Already 5 hours in, so much to do and love the art style. Some of the details in the interior buildings and landscapes are amazing. Not a lot of hand-holding so I have to dip into the web for a few things, but most is easy to figure out. I see me spending way too many hours with this game!
Borderlands 3 - Hundreds of hours in and running Joey’s Villa level just never gets old.
Cyberpunk 2077 - Addicted to Airdrops.

Dark Souls 3! And after that (or maybe concurrently) Remnant: From The Ashes, Remnant 2…I might reinstall the ps4 version of Elden Ring and go through that for fresh trophies….then DS2.

@Member_the_game ....yeah I know what you mean, wasn't having a dig. I own an XBX but use it mainly for their exclusives like Halo, Gears, Forza and some great strategy titles. etc I think it's a shame for gamers to miss out on them. My XBX is used mainly because I can't get all the games I want installed on PS5 due to hard drive space, so I use it like 'another hard drive' if you catch my drift. But performance wise I think XBX is fantastic...but like you, my heart belongs to PS and Sony
Have a good one !

@PixelDragon Always nice when a game clicks. Thought it would for me but no… Im going to try Forspoken someday, it should be pretty much what I like in a game but we’ll see. Waiting for it to be ”free” on plus 🤓

Just finished my second play through on lords of the fallen. Probably will put that down for a while. Alan Wake 2 is far and away my game of the year, but lords of the the fallen was definitely a sleeper hit and probably my second choice. I did not expect to love it as much as I did, even with some of the issues it has.

So I had a go at teardown and that's a weirdly additive wee game... can't remember how many times I played that level with the 3 timed alarms but I knew I had to finish it 😁

I am still trundling merrily through Baldur's Gate 3, reached act 3 after 105hrs and still loving it even if the crashes and cutscene hangs have been piling up. I wish the whole thing was as polished as act 1 and can't help wondering if it needed and 6 months if testing and polish... All that being said I do look forward to some Dark Urge fun times in playthrough 2!

Sekiro at first but my Like A Dragon: Gaiden copy came from PlayAsia today. So, my attention shifted. Gaiden will be my main focus. Cannot wait to start/continue tonight my boy Kiryu’s journey before Infinite Wealth

Anyways: Got stuck on the Demon of Hatred in Sekiro. I don’t want to cheese him. If anyone has any tips, hit a brother up. I’ll get him eventually but it was pretty frustrating

Sports titles take up most of my gaming time. 162-game seasons alone in MLB can quite monopolize.

No exception this weekend.

Also just paid to upgrade my Spiderman 1 PS4 to PS5 (and oddly a smaller file size). Playing a little of that as well.

PS5 - Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name

Switch - Super Mario RPG

Armored Core 6
Alan Wake 2
Diablo 4
2nd run of Cyberpunk 2077
Cocoon
FF16

I'm playing Weird West on my PS Portal while catching up on some shows on my TV. Life is good.

MW3 although I've hit level 55 so have to wait for the next season now 👀. Just finished of AC mirage which was great and now finishing a hard run with no vita chambers and getting a few other things in bioshock

I jumped back into Monster Hunter Rise (Sunbreak).
Must say I love it more now than I did earlier this year. Right now I'm in mid Master Rank.

There is something magical about seeing your build slowly coming together as you grind your way through the roster.

I picked up Suoer Mario RPG on Friday and it’s mostly what I’ve been playing! Took a few breaks for Civ6 on my PlayStation Portal!

Alan wake 2 oh hells yeah and robocop with the bestest ever nonsense 🤦 I liked the character Anne Lewis in the 80s this updated one one she's annoying 🤣
We had aliens Ripley she wasn't annoying and charly in long kiss goodnight geez this new generation of writers mustn't like fun🤦

Wrapped up Spidey, messed around on EAFC.

I'll probably not play much other than some Motorfest/GT7/EAFC for the next few weeks until I come work, then I am going back to BG3, gonna abandon my save and start over.

Tempted to pick up AC Mirage but I'm on the fence

@Mintie Oddly for me I got a more bugs in act 2 than in act 3. After I reached Baldurs Gate itself the bugs seemed to largely disappear. I'll be playing it this weekend, the end is in sight... I think.

Alrighty we got a kinda interesting week this week. First off I hope everyone had a excellent holiday. Next Persona 5 Tactica and Sea Of Stars yesterday was a interesting combo. A genuinely terrific game is what Persona 5 Tactica is so far I won’t lie there. Was genuinely shocked when I got into gameplay within like 20 minutes of starting. Snagged two new amiibos this weekend too Shiver and Frye from Splatoon. As for tonight well a good online buddy of mine (shoutout Champ.) has offered to help me with the final boss of Sonic Superstars so I’ll go for the same Sega Sunday as last week. Some Sonic and Like a Dragon Gaiden. As for the rest of the week the plan is it’s business as usual with the GOTY work. Pretty close to the end of Super Mario Wonder. Same with Spider-Man 2 as well. Alan Wake II is a little hard to judge where I’m at. But also the big news of the week is I feel Baldurs Gate 3 clicks now so I’m excited to jump back into that one too. Other games I’m probably close to the end of would be Pikmin 4 and The Teal Mask DLC for Pokemon Scarlet and maybe FFXVI? I wanna do The Teal Mask and the Indigo Disk before the end of the year. I finished off the Fell Xenologue for Fire Emblem Engage this week so now with all of Engage done I feel very strongly on Engage as a whole. Hoping the same can happen to Pokémon Scarlet. As for anime of the week y’all already know we basically listing the new Big 3 at this point. Jujutsu Kaisen, Spy X Family and Eminence in Shadow. Just the best as always. Tho special shout-out to Shangri La Frontier and 100 Girlfriends as well for being equally as awesome. Podcasts of the week are the usual ya know Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Minnmax, Remap Radio, RPGsites Tetracast. However until the whole Jirard the Completionist situation gets resolved I can’t I’m good faith endorse the Friends Per Second podcast and for now gotta say I’m gonna sub it in for and shoutout the Nextlander podcast. As always yall have a excellent rest of the weekend, a excellent week and Happy Gaming.

@GuttyYZ It got much much worse since I posted my original post... Rivington and the Lower City are actually unplayable, looking at the forums it seems a common issue and weirdly Larian are being very quiet instead of their usual transparent selves. I'll probably have to put it aside for now and play something else.

@CWill97 DoH was a strange thing to fight

• When he jumps, run away and grapple back to him when he belly flops the ground
• Stay on his ass and keep slapping it, you can parry the stomps but I always blocked and moved away
• During the phase transitions just run the heck away
• Use the whistle ring tool thingy in phase 3, it works three times in a row
• You can jump over his running arm out clothesline attacks
• When he does the mult-fireballs you can dodge them by sprinting to the side
  • When he does the big line of fire slams you can jump to the side and grapple to him to dodge them.

Here's my first successful run of him from... FOUR YEARS AGO!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYAjGxai38

Playing RDR2 for the first time and will be playing for the foreseeable future

@PixelDragon I liked it and at that price can't be argued with really lol

I actually spent a bit of time playing Disney Speedstorm and Super Luigi. Also planning to complete more missions in Modern Warfare Zombies and seasonal content in Diablo IV. Really looking for a new co-op experience until the cross-save functions of Warframe releasing next month.

@Mintie thank you so much for the detailed response!! I screenshotted your tips and will check the video out before the next time I fight him. He’s just a completely different type of boss than the rest so far. I have all the prayer beads and completed as many bosses as possible up to this point with only a couple causing real frustration. But this guy takes it to a new level ATM 😂😂😂

@CWill97 he moves and plays more like a Dark Souls/Bloodborne boss (He has the same animation rig as the Cleric Beast), which up until that point you had spent the whole game unlearning normal souls stuff.

My fave fight in the whole of Sekiro remains the second Owl fight, it was just so satisfying.