Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

One year later my first run, I started a second playthrough of Prey. This time I've decided to use only human powers, lowering down the difficulty level so I can focus on collectibles and on the story. The first time I played it on Hard and with Survivor mode on: 39 hours of pure Arkane Studios!

Had another go of the Code Vein Demo.

Whilst the menu stuff is still a bit cumbersome It's finally started to gel with me and I got a code that I quite like along with some gifts.

I'd be a touch disappointed if there's only Broadswords, Greatswords, Axes & Hammers, Bardiches & Bayonets for weapons though (Dark Souls has spoiled me lol) as I only really like the Broadsword's moveset.

Though the multitude of Gifts/spells is pretty nice with the buffs and the likes.

I think the people who worked on this also worked on the God Eater series which is anime Monster Hunter or so I'm told...

That might explain the vaster menu and the more faster paced combat it has too.

Also just a small detail but there was one comment that the AI partner said that stuck with me of her asking if I remembered who she was after she revived me (As insinuated in Dark Souls and this you lose memories each time you die) which was a nice little touch.

They genuinely say useful information too like if you're running out of healing and the likes...

I'm definitely going to keep playing the demo especially with that update coming sometime soon!

Also had a go of Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet ae it turns out there's a free trial/demo for it

... It's ok I guess?

I thought it might not actually have the protag in from the series seeing as you make your own character but he's been shoved into the narrative like I don't know what... 😅

The combats a bit eh and there's waaaaaay too much gabbing on even for my tastes. Plus the Japan only voicework grates on my nerves as well!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I completely forgot Code Vein was a thing. Might need to try that.

Of course they muscled Kirito into Fatal Bullet. Kirito is a Mary Sue who gets shoved into everything SAO related.

Well my impressions are on this and the previous page @Ralizah if you'd wanna take a look

I'd also have screenshots up in the screenshotty thread with that wonderful chaarcter creator but alas creating a twitter account just so I can easily upload screenshots from the PS4 to then show on here in that thread has gone pear shaped to say the least 😅

I saw the first season... the one actually in Sword Art Online on Netflix like two years ago for the first time (It was the... third anime I'd ever watched?)

I really wanted to like the premise (Even if .hack games had done the basic premise of death in a video game means death in real life earlier) but I didn't like Kirito in the slightest...

I wouldn't mind him being in Fatal Bullet as a NPC or something... But he (And the whole group even) has been shoved down my throat non stop and I can't get rid of them! 😂

Had a rather nice blast on Jedi Starfighter last night as I haven't really done much with it since picking up the PS4 version.

Had a lovely time (right up until the blockade mission that always used to knacker me up!)
Totally need more straight up space shooters.

@RogerRoger I think it's in the later part of Act II - TF and Sabaoth Frigates, defense and gun orbital platforms - Jango shows up. I had it down-pat back in the old days, but properly forgot the sequence to assigning targets and taking them out myself that I'd found worked. As opposed to the 'shoot everything!' approach I went in with last night... it was late.

@RogerRoger It's just on medium for now. I'll crack it! Again! 😋

I started afresh this evening for the Code Vein demo

Everything just clicked today as I played through it once again and I thoroughly enjoyed myself this time around!

I think it's partially because I haven't actually played any of the Dark Souls imitators (Or even Sekiro) so I was admittedly going on muscle memory and unfairly going but this is what souls does.

Whilst Code Vein has plenty of the "Souls" systems in (The Bonfires, Souls, the challenge of it all, enemy respawns etc) Code Vein to me has more of an actiony game type feel to it in it's core design as well as the heavy anime tone to differentiate itself.

The fact that you get Ichor/MP back just from attacking (aside from when you use the heavy attack with the bayonet to fire a bullet) is very nice. Plus the drain move is quite useful to increase your total ichor as well as it can go up a whopping 55 (from 30) or so with the mage like Code/Class!

The fact that you can change Codes/Classes by simply going to the inventory is pretty useful and makes the game a bit more friendly on switching your playstyle up compared to the From games.

Plus with all the various gifts/spells & skills you can have, the fact you can transfer them (with some stat restrictions depending the class) between the various Codes once you've mastered a Gift is extremely useful! (Especially the def up buff you can get from the boss' Code!)

I also got to grips with the bayonet weapon and found it quite fun to use, especially when you have the scorpion tail jacket to drain enemies from a decent distance aways and the ranger or mage Classes for huge amounts of ichor to just pelt enemies with bullets, magic and even fireballs!

The menu for stats and your equipment and the likes is still a bit bleh and quite cluttered but I've got what it's displaying now.

Looking forward to the update to add another area and gonna go through the extra area already here! Looking forward to the official release!

Might upload some vids to my youtube too!

@RogerRoger I'll having a go again tonight probably. That said, the ebay PS2 purchases are awaiting collection...

I had the same thing when I played The Surge @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy, as soon as I stopped comparing it to the Souls games and nitpicking all the little differences, I started to enjoy it a lot more.

Wednesday I accidentally stomped on the retail copy on Infamous: Second Son I forgot I bought months ago since it was just € 8. Put some hours in it and I wonder why people are hyped for the new game by the same studio...
It's the very same mechanic repeated for every city zone. Even at the highest difficulty, one can easily breeze through the game and I already have almost every perk on the menu. Stats say I'm 34% so I hope the best is yet to come, but since now I have that strange feeling like watching a kids TV channel during a Sunday morning hangover.

Started Borderlands 3 last night. Only played about an hour cause I have work this morning so far I am enjoying it. There's a few QoL improvements that can be made that hopefully will be patched later on, but overall it's great.

@andreoni79 I wouldn't recommend you get Spider-Man then ;-p

@KALofKRYPTON I'm not interested in superheroes at all, but if a game is perfectly crafted I have no problems in wearing embarrassing costumes (for example I loved Batman Arkham Asylum). When I discovered that the Spiderman Goty edition was just the vanilla disc + vouchers + patches I lost every interest in it.
I'm surely gonna finish Infamous SS to see if it opens up somehow, but I just can't believe how elementary this game is...

@andreoni79 Seriously, don't buy Spider-Man. If the Infamous: Second Son gameplay loop annoys you a third of the way in - then Spider-Man will annoy you just as much.

I had Second Son on release and got First Light on release too and loved getting the plat's for them. After the hype died down a touch I got Spider-Man, which plays pretty much the same as The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

While beautifully put together, Spider-Man is essentially just Infamous mashed with most post 6th gen Spider-Man game with better traversal presentation. With no particular interest in the character to motivate you, may as well not bother with it.

@KALofKRYPTON Thanks for the advice!
Another thing that surely makes the game look dumb is the city itself: populated only by people in their thirties, with nothing to do except walking around with an umbrella under their arm and a smartphone in the other until they start yelling at me or collapsing around like kids crying for attention... It's so bad it's almost funny!

Did you literally stomp on the disc? I'm surprised it still works!

Sucker Punch's next game, Ghosts of Tsushima looks a lot different to their previous games. And a load of people actually enjoyed Second Son, which is is why some are hyped to see how it turns out. Whenever that will be. 🤷‍♂️

Taken a break from DQXI and and gone back to Ghost Recon Wildlands, I played it briefly for a few hours before DQXI. Am enjoying it so far, I like the emergent gameplay and it can go tits up fairly quickly if your not careful. I found it really accessible and within my first hour or so I was causing mayhem with a chopper. It is not as chaotic as say a Just Cause or Farcry game, but you are still free pretty much to lark about if you don't wanna do any other the missions. Been playing solo and don't feel at a disadvantage so far, your team AI is fairly good with only a couple of times them not being able to lock on to a target. Also take note Monster Hunter World, you can pause the game in this!

Also, the fact that you can save at any time now from the pause menu is such a nice thing.

Hallelujah!

I have quite the Yakzua backlog to get through now I own Kiwami 2 through to 6 but will spread them out like you say.

Funny about all this Yakuza talk, I started 0 this week. I haven't finished Horizon yet, but I was tired of it just sitting not being played.

Only on Chapter 4, and it's awesome that you also get to play as Majima. So far, the game feels just like Kiwami (I don't know why I expected different), so I'm accommodated well enough to it already.