Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 623

Unfortunately I’ve had a family friend stayingover last night and family member so gaming will be limited 😢.

RE9 will have to wait til Sunday now and I’m gutted as I’m playing as Leon and in a familiar place so I’m eager to jump back in.

I’ve done a big quest line in KCD but unfortunately on stupidly low health against a certain black knight so had to restart to the beginning of the quest and go back to combat training, small tasks and activities.

I’ll probably end up playing Slay the Spire and a little Minecraft with my son till Sunday.

Football with a slice of Beer and a dash of Heavy Metal as always 🤘👍

Have a great gaming weekend Pushsquarians! 🍻

I’ll sound like a broken record this week. Still working through Romeo is a Dead Man and loving it. I’m also slowly working my way through RE Requiem and I must say, this will be a top 3 game for me this year. Otherwise Art of Rally as I work on the platinum, and I may add Minishoot Adventures in there as I’ve waited a long time for it to come to console. Enjoy the weekend all!

So here I am,
Doing everything I can,
Holding on to what I am,
Comboing 10 million like a superman.

Greetings fellow video game enthusiasts. Im currently playing Final Fantasy XVI and will later play Mario Kart World while watching sportsball. It is sure to be a weekend.

This weekend I'm playing one of my favourite games of all time - Alan Wake. I've played it many times, and every single time it has me on the edge of my seat. It's so packed with atmosphere that I find even just the action of running around and shining your torch on the scenery to be incredibly tactile and satisfying. I love everything about it, (deliberately) hokey storytelling and all.

I'm giving it another run through in preparation for playing the sequel, which I'm hoping to start on my shiny new PS5 next weekend 😃

On the side, hopefully will be playing some Patapon this weekend as well.

Have a good one, folks.

Good morning everyone 🙂

I'm playing with great satisfaction Hell is Us on my Pro.
I suggest this game to every fellow gamers, even considering the problems Nacon (the publisher) is facing.
The Deluxe Edition is on sale on the European PSstore at the moment.

I wish you all a weekend full of games and serenity 💙

A leisurely farewell cruise around Empire City collecting all the Wanted posters in Mafia 2 - Definitive Edition.

Pokémon Legends Z-A: I'm not the biggest fan of handholding, but it only lasts the first hour or so, and being free to explore Lumiose City is great. There are a lot of little challenges disguised as sidequests or Wild Zones which serve as great opportunities to expand your Pokédex. Of course the star of the show is the combat: it took me a few battles to figure out how to position my team and whereas before I would typically just go all-out offensive I have now discovered that status effects can really change the tide. It's not as fun as its predecessor, but I can confidently say I'll be enjoying Z-A for many hours to come.

Halls of Torment. This game will be the death of me...

Going for the platinum and it's taking forever

Edit: Almost forgot! Also playing Spider-man Remastered. I beat the main game again just so that I can experience the DLC and I finally get the criticism it received of being more of the same. Having said that, I found the second DLC much darker than the main game and quite impactful. Haven't started the third DLC yet, but I'm really looking forward to it.

I wonder if anyone else enjoyed the DLC.

@Czar_Khastik "Content not viewable in your region"

Damn you, UK Online Safety Act.

After finishing the insane Night Springs Dlc, I am on to the Lake House dlc in Alan Wake 2.
Might get a bit of coop in Little Nightmares 3.
Enjoy the weekend everyone

@TimeDelayedGamer loved the first game and the second game is even better.
Send Barry Wheeler my regards:)

@themightyant plenty! What kind of genres are you mostly interested in experiencing?

@TimeDelayedGamer

Hi! I do agree: Alan Wake is a superb game. I remember unlocking all the achievements on the Xbox 360 many years ago, a performance I do rarely.
I also bought the Remastered but not played yet!

Have fun!

Marathon mainly ♥️ with the boys (Northern munkey among others)

Deep into my second Elden Ring run. Wielding a blasphemous blade this time plus mimic +10 - I feel so powerful right now!

Trying to unlock unlimited ammo in RE9 so that i can play the hard mode.
Then a but of Dragon Quest 7 prolly.

red dead redemption, going for the platinum. got most of the grindy sh*t out of the way today. so it’s 15 story mission and undead left.

Going to be a lot of MH Wilds for me this weekend. Didn't realise there are a lot wonderfully crafted realistic diverse monsters in the end game. That's a lot of content more than World for the base game. Oh and those animations, those animations...Capcom's RE engine graphics is just crazy! Plus some KCD2 also, Henry's adventures is still not done because he's busy with interesting side quests.

I'm in the second region of Nioh 3 and the game is getting noticably tougher. My response? Imbue the tonfa with paralysis and stunlock everyone into submission. Ha.

Got the platinum for Yotei during the week really enjoyed it. I've now started Avowed but I'm only 7 hours in and it's crashed 3 times it's doing my head in. I also downloaded AC Unity to give the 60fps update a try.

Pokopia and finishing up RE Requiem.

Mostly marathon but there are the rally challenges I have to do as well. Have a great weekend folks 👍

Demons Souls on PS5 which im completely addicted to, im gonna run through this game with every class eventually. Top 5 of all time.
The Outer Worlds 2 on XBX which is growing on me slightly, but one ill never play again.
Currently downloading Marathon which ill play all day tmrw, purely on a recommendation from @northern_munkey 😅 looking forward to.it, love Bungies shooters.
Have a great weekend guys and gals ❤️

Was playing The Last of Us Part II Remastered yesterday, a game I got the PS4 plat in 2020, and was surprised by a certain event. Funny how much time passed since that game launched. Still a amazing one, even better thar Part I.

I'm playing Marvel's Spider-Man 2 as well. Incredible showcase of the PS5 technical capabilities. The fidelity mode runs really well, the game is a blast.

Making good progress in Assassin's Creed Shadows too, and in Judgment got my first girlfriend haha

Have a great weekend guys!!

Playing:
Suikoden I (Vita)

Finally got my own castle and staff for storing items, inn, weapons etc. Ngl, the item management in this game is a big headache. And the lack for in-game tutorial also quite annoying, especially about how Rune and status effect works. I wonder if the remaster fixed these problems. Nonetheless it's a pretty fun game.

Outside games, i'm watching Trigun Stargaze catching up to eps 8. The anime is pretty good and makes me forget a bit of recent orange man & bibi madness 😮‍💨

Hope y'all have a nice weekend 🍻

Star wars battlefront II.. 2017

Asphalt Overdrive (Windows Phone) - Just focusing on this, this weekend.

Continuing to check peeps off Naoe and Yasuke's murder list in AC Shadows.
I've also started a new game of Fallout 4 for the umpteenth time.

The Sword of Ianna and maybe a bit of Sea of Thieves.

After the 60fps patch released i bought AC Unity on sale and after a few hours I'm starting to have some fun with it! I'll keep playing it to provide some variety from Octopath Traveler 0 which I'm 113hrs into.

Have a great gaming weekend everyone!

@KingPev Hi Pev, can I add you on PSN? (For marathon) 😁

I will continued play fan favorite the incredible ace combat 7 skies unknown I will also be continued playing one of the best video games ever made in the excellent resident evil village gold edition.i will also continued be playing fan favorite the amazing doom eternal deluxe edition. And I will continued be playing the underrated fps the wonderful shadow warrior 3 definitive edition. I will also be watching my boston celtics 💚🖤 play.and I will be watching my michigan wolverines 💛 💙 basketball play.i will be watching legendary sitcoms TV 📺 comedy shows in family matters.good times.the Jeffersons.sanford and son.different strokes.martin.the wayans brothers and saved by the bell.word up son

I started Absolum last night, and I’m hooked.

RE9 this weekend and maybe some GOY or ACS.

We'ev been on a skiing trip for most of the week, I brought the Portal so I managed to play a little at least while away and decided to pick up Thief VR yesterday 🙂

First though, I must yet again say that the Portal is amazing and the choice between connecting to your PS5 or play plus games via Cloud is great and both work very well given you have a stable connection. Played some favorite games for a bit and I’m still impressed at how well they run and look on the Portal, but I also played:

Mindseye trial - I've been curious about how bad this game can be, and after about 45 min of the trial I can say its very bad. Mostly because it was marketed as a AAA game but its more like an indie A game. Very generous of the developer to let us try their disastrous game without any extra cost (on ps plus). Try it for yourselves 😅

Thief VR I got this yesterday so I've only played the first two missions but I really like it, it looks and plays good and that thief-feeling is very cool in VR. What I would have liked is some more narrative and cutscenes or something binding the missions together a bit better, now its like they are instances with some chatter between your character and an NPC but I guess thats because its built so you can easily replay the missions when done and get rankings and fulfill objectives etc but I would have loved for it to be more... like a normal single player game I guess. You could have replayability of the missions anyway. Still, I like what I've played and I'm looking forward to more 🙂

Have a great weekend!

Taking my time on my first play through of Resident Evil Requiem. Loving it so far. So atmospheric. Looks & runs amazing too on base PS5

Have had AC Unity sitting in the backlog for about seven years. So with the 4K/60FPS patch I've noodled about a bit with it. Only in the starting area still and will park it once I reach the game proper (due to not wanting two third person open world games on go at once), but one thing that has struck me is what were Ubi smoking thinking the PS4/Xbox One could handle this many NPCs on screen at once? Once section has to be the most NPC-dense area of any videogame I've ever seen.

Hooked on Death Stranding 2 again. Just reached the bit where Higgs ambushes you in the abandoned factory. This is the most Kojima thing I've ever seen in my life. I was never a big MGS fan, but with Death Stranding (and its sequel), I finally "get" it. I've over 50 hours played so far, yet I'm only in Chapter 8 of 22 (or so). Four to five starring most of the people I meet, because I gotta get those juicy unlocks. And likes. Don't forget the likes.

After finally finishing Dark Souls III, I've picked up Elden Ring again as I never finished Shadow of the Erdtree. I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing or where I'm going. Oh dear.

Took a notion and picked up my save from Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered. Am close to finishing it 100%. This is the first of Criterion's NFS games, and probably my second-favourite overall (with their own Most Wanted 2012 being my favourite - would absolutely love for a similar remaster of that).

I started AC Shadows and I am having a really good time so far being a sneaky Shinobi... I'm 12hrs in and Yasuke hasn't reappeared yet. I'm looking forward to being a tank, but man this game feels like it should've been Naoe's a lone.

After losing all my save files when I got my pro (🤬) I’ve wanted to replay Astrobot which I’m doing this weekend.

It’s as good as I remember and looks absolutely stunning on the pro!

I’m hoping to wrap up Spider man 2 this weekend, the fights will just not stop. Im also eyeing up a return to Dragons Dogma as I’m in the mood for some janky fun.

On PS5 i will be playing Echoes of the End, Okami HD, Inazuma Eleven and jump into some Marathon in between.

On Switch 2 I will be mainly focussing on Pokopia, but I also want to finish Resident Evil Requiem and Mario Tennis Fever this weekend.

@TimeDelayedGamer Mate, that's insane. I didn't know imgur is not serving their content to UK.

Arcraiders. I’m crap at these types of games, but I’m loving it

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, first time I’m using my Ps5 since I beat Uncharted Lost Legacy January 2026.

Besides that I just beat Azure Striker Gunvolt Enhanced Edition and Yakuza Dark Ties on my Switch 2.

I might also start Resident Evil Village or Street Fighter 6’s World Tour Mode.

Finishing resi requiem (which is incredible so far)

PS+ tiles mainly.
Alan Wake 2 current section Local Girl at the Biker Garage
Also playing Cocoon, may start Season A letter to the future.
The Last Stand Aftermath got for under £5 twin stick rogue/zombie thing definitely worth the price I paid for it.

All about Requiem for me. Decided to leave it for the weekend so I could play through the whole thing without interruptions.

@datamonkey why didn't transfer all your data over like it did or download from cloud?

I had a week of forced rest which meant a lot of gaming (more important) First was Spiderman 2, I played all three in a row. It was the easiest to platinum but had the worst side content (dire) the last half of the story was raw and very true to the graphic novels. Seeing Insomniac take the training wheels off makes me want to play Wolverine.

Next up was a cooking Indie called Venba. It's about an Indian couple who move to Canada in the 1980s. They have a child and fear they are losing him to Westernization, his Mum then uses cooking to teach him about his culture and to reach him. It was a really humble game, short and thoughtful. After that was Neva. A very moving platformer with light combat, beautiful hand-drawn art and equally beautiful music.

Last night I started Control and after an hour I had to stop to check something. It turns out that the game is heavily inspired by my favorite novel 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z. Danielewski. The feel of the game, the theme, tones and narrative structure all felt so familiar, now I know why. I found the novel through my favorite song 'Haunted' by Poe, both the singer and the author are siblings. It's all come full circle and I can't wait to really get into the game and to start exploring the world and it's narrative. Hopefully the novel hasn't spoiled too much. Happy gaming weekend Folks. Enjoy your Marathons and your Snickers 🎮

@themightyant You have got some good games there to get you started but I would also recommend Blood & Truth, probably my favourite FPS for the VR if you don't mind cockney geezers
I thought squadrons was awesome too, childhood dream!

Enjoy 👍

Got my 3 bolts in Borderlands 4 so just cleaning up side content before finishing it off, no platinum here though, just good goofy shooting fun!
Also started Lumines on the Vita which is tougher than expected but very cool.

Happy gaming folks

I’m playing Resident Evil 9: Requiem. I don’t get scared often, but this game has been anxiety inducing. There have been moments where I had to pause the game just to breathe. The last (horror) game to evoke these emotions was Alien: Isolation. It’s been a fantastic experience. And just when I thought my arachnophobia couldn’t get any worse … oh, boy.

@Boomers-r-us ah is my fault really. I stopped subbing to ps+ but didn’t know the only way to transfer save files on ps5 was through the cloud. Thought you could do it via usb stick like I did on my ps4 but no…

Sucks Sony put save file transfers behind a paywall.

Spider Man 2 fort me this weekend. It's maybe not quite as good as the original, but it's still very good. I think the only part that tipped them original was that the villain roster was excellent. Kraven is good but he was always a bit B tier for me personally.

Black Skylands

A top-down steampunk adventure that feels like a mix of Hotline Miami and Bioshock Infinite. Good stuff.

After almost 80 hours, I finished Horizon Forbidden West last weekend. I absolutely loved my time with it, and I'm looking forward to playing The Burning Shores soon.

But I need to play something else as a refresher. I picked up the physical version of Lil Gator Game this week, and I've started the Into the Dark DLC. It's just as charming as the original game, and Im looking forward to getting lost in the depths this weekend. My wife and I also played some more Borderlands 4, and I picked up Dispatch yesterday, so I'm going to be firing that up real soon as well.

@themightyant Blood and Truth is very good, especially if you're new to VR. It's a game I wish was available on PCVR as it would be perfect to show friends what VR can do. It's more like a lightgun game where you move node to node, with very impressive shootouts and scenery.

PSVR Without Parole (youtube) is a very good source for PSVR best-of lists of games. You'd have to watch some older best-of lists before PSVR2 came out, though.

Making my way to the final field studies in Trails of Cold Steel. Must admit that I haven't had as much issues with connecting with the main cast like a lot of people seem to have.

Can't wait to see where this journey leads, because the story has just really kicked into gear!

Have a great weekend everyone.

@datamonkey I'm pretty sure you can transfer everything from ps5 to ps5 pro while in the setup process including save files but I was subscribed to ps+ so can't comment on not being subscribed to ps+ but being unable to do so would be extremely egregious

Nothing. I finished LaD: Infinite Wealth a few weeks ago (loved it despite a pretty bad story, albeit with some great moments) then got Avowed. It crashes numerous times every time I play and is generally quite lacklustre and underwhelming. I can cross a point of no return and enter the final dungeon but I'm not really feeling it. Probably just go for some runs and watch some films (not at the same time.)

@Nilexson I won't spoil anything, but be sure to have Trails of Cold Steel II ready to go - I think you will want to jump in immediately!

I'm three runs through Requiem at this point (only because I failed my first attempt at Speed Demon at 4:06 - the second was 2:45). I would still like to do another very slow, ponderous run on Insanity mode this time to get everything else wrapped up, but it may be time for a break.

I think I may end up back into Trails in the Sky FC. I'd like to finish it before I finally start on the Calvard games.

Have a great weekend, everybody!