Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

JUST BEAT ORPHAN OF KOS!!! Oh man, my heart is racing so fast, what an adrenaline rush. I genuinely am not even a big fan of BB compared to DS but hoooooly crap, that is one of my proudest moments gaming ever. This DLC is absolutely fantastic, so much better than the main game. Just got the last section now and I got the cords. BUZZING!!

And there we go, game beat. That did not take long at all to do both the final boss, which was pretty good, and the super final boss, which was not very good at all. I’d probably give Bloodborne a 6, decent mechanics but just so many areas that I disliked and there weren’t many great bosses after Gascoigne. The Old Hunters on the other hand, despite hating the general area, I’d give a 9. Those bosses were fantastic. Ah well, that’s another game to tick off the to do list!

We need to talk about Shenmue III's QTEs. By 'we' I mean I need to rant to myself for a minute like the guy at the back of the bus.

Although I've never been a fan of QTEs, nor have I ever been great at them, I've always got through them okay. But Shenmue III's are impossible to me. The window of time you are given to perform them is ridiculous, basically just enough time for your brain to register what the game wants you to press and your finger to wake up. By the time your digit gets to the button, Ryo is being put on his bony arse by a backhander from some two-bit thug, or has stumbled over like the gormless fool that he is, while the chicken he was trying to pick up has waddled off, laughing. If chickens can even laugh. Who knows?

While it never ceases being funny watching Ryo make an absolute boob of himself, the only way I can get through cut-scenes is to memorise each QTE prompt, or even write the sequence down on a sort of QTE cheat sheet. Has anyone else had this problem with Shenmue III's QTEs, or are my reflexes finally abandoning me in my old age?

Divinity Original Sin II sound bonkers @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy! 😂 I have to say I may be sold at helping a turtle find true love with a rat. Kinda reminds me of the love my sister's turtle has for her catfish (she named them Alfred and Bertha).

Started my 4th play through of The Witcher 3 “NG+“
Other than that finally decided to clear off my backlog a little s for I spent a little too much money on the Christmas sale

Resident Evil 2 - bought it on Black Friday sale but couldn’t really get around it. Started it yesterday, on my 3rd or 4th hour and oh boy what a game it is. Best Remake ever made

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden - not quite what I expected from this game butI guess I just need to give it a little more time

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI - Amazing game. Wasn’t into strategies at all before but this game changed my mind about that. Sinking hours and hours into the game without even noticing...

@ZeroOverOne “Just one more turn” is definitely the unofficial slogan for the Civ games!

And Mutant Year Zero is a weird one. The premise is cool and the roster of characters is good fun. But I found the combat got quite repetitive and the game ends quite abruptly too. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on it if/when you finish it.

@Thrillho That’s why we love the civ games for right?

Exactly that’s my biggest problem with the game. Combat feels a bit out of place but the idea of adding animal like mutants as main characters is pretty neat.

Yikes that evil elf story sounds really quite creepy @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy! I do scare quite easily. 😂 Aww Betty is cute. The Pet Pal talent sounds rather random; are many quests tied to certain skills? The eccentric humour of the game definitely sounds appealing, so the game is now on my list.

I'm currently a good chunk of time into Yakuza 3 and having fun but you can tell this isn't a Kiwami remake but just an update as there are so many little things that Zero and the Kiwami games had that are missing here.

Without going on too much, it seems mad that they removed the ability to save anywhere after putting it into YK2. Weirdly, the map is no longer.... mapped to the touchpad but accessed through the menu screen and is much less user friendly than before. The combat and upgrade system also feels the worst yet.

But despite that (and many other things I will no doubt mention in a proper review) it is still a Yakuza game and still great fun to play, even if I have spent hours playing daddy daycare as one of the most feared Yakuza of all time

@RogerRoger By god you're right. When you put it like that it's so obvious. I bet those chickens are having a good laugh at my stupidity right now.

@KratosMD Yeah, it was only in YK2 but that it makes it feel more jarring that it’s gone again. Like I say, it’s good fun still but lots of little things make it feel a bit more “fiddly” than before.

Mad Max, been at it for weeks. Trying to platinum it or at least come as close to as possible. I currently have about 65% of the trophies.

After completing HZD and loving it I thought to take a break from starting Frozen Wilds and playing my newly purchased Metro Exodus.

My god is it bad.

I adored the first two Metro games for context and this was a game I was extremely looking forward to, and the elements such as the sandbox levels actually were something that intrigued me.

But this game has such bad technical issues and weird functionality choices I just cannot look past, firstly the controls feel so clunky and unresponsive, aiming is quite literally a chore and walking around you move as slow as anything which doesn't add to the immersion but takes away from it.

Enemy AI is quite easily the worst I have ever seen in a big title like this, with enemies from a few metres ahead of you looking right at you not noticing you, then noticing you when you are behind cover 100 metres away instead.

The environments feel lazy and the tension that makes Metro so good is gone here for the most part, it really feels more like Russian COD than Metro.

Then you have the voice acting, my god the English dub is cringe inducing, it is like Tommy Wiseau decided to voice every character, the Russian dub was far better but still not good enough for a game of this standard.

Then you have lighting bugs, texture pop in, frame drops, unresponsive lag, sound cuts and the slowest loading times known to man (And I use an SSD), this all creates an experience I was quick to want to stop.

So now I have deleted Metro Exodus and am selling it this week in my local Cex and am going to get Judgement instead, as someone who has never tried a Yakuza but wants to badly, this game looks like the perfect entry point.

@KratosMD I am aware it isn't a Yakuza game lol it is a spinoff that has been described as perfect for newcomers to learn about the world of the games before playing the main series.

Judgement is a game I really want to try as it takes parts of the Yakuza games that intrigue me and parts of games like Sleeping Dogs that I adore.

I will probably try Judgement and if I enjoy it, then I will try Yakuza 0.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I did indeed as I loved it so much! Started it on Friday evening around half 5 and was in love with the world, the story and the characters, Aloy is an amazing protagonist and her development really kept me invested aswell as the addictive gameplay.

I had finished the main quest at around 23 hours played on Sunday evening and am raring to go back in to explore every nook and cranny aswell as take on the Frozen Wilds DLC.

And I agree there is a big leap between the two in that regard but I was expecting that but there was just so much that just didn't feel like a Metro game it really threw me off, maybe it was just a dodgy disc I have no clue but I was getting some really weird pop ins and the AI was just so bad for me, and I never even noticed that about Rost being in this, that is why voice actors get the gigs though I guess!

And I wanted to love this game so much so it hurts that I am just not loving it, I still have Nier Automata to play though too aswell as Arkham Knight, Dragon Age Inquisition and Frozen Wilds!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I plan on taking on loads of side quests and getting Aloy to Level 60 aswell as wanting to do a NG+ save.

I don't know what game to tackle after however as I still want to purchase Control, Judgement and TOW. And this is before the games start coming in this year!

@DonJorginho @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah, that’s true — I’ve noticed that the game I played immediately before something will often affect my enjoyment of the follow up game. Nevertheless, I think you’re not alone in having technical issues with Metro Exodus. The game seems to have disappointed critically and commercially.
If you long for silky smooth combat, you’re in for a treat with Nier Automata. 2B is up there with Spider-Man and Aloy as the characters who feel the best to play as this gen, as far just easy to pick up and play and fun to control. Her movement and input response is great, just like Aloy. Of course the game plays very differently and is even more kinetic than HZD and less tactical, but the narrative is oh, so, so good.
I’ve no experience with Judgement, but I did play Yakuza 0 (although I never finished it) and it is quite fun and engaging. If the combat, movement, and technical performance is like Y0 then you should enjoy it fine. And I believe that although Judgment is unique in the series because it has English dub dialogue, which the others don’t, I hear it’s well done. I don’t know though — although I typically prefer English dubbed VA over reading the dialogue, there’s something effective about how the Japanese inflections really get across some of the humor. I chuckle everytime Kiryu exclaims, “Nani?!” with that bewildered look on his face. 😂 Pure gold.

@Th3solution I think Nier will be my next pick for sure as I liked the look of it already but the video that Skill Up posted made me want the game even more.

And I have been told by @KratosMD that Yakuza 0 is a better start point so maybe I will try that first who knows?

And Nani is iconic, the purest of all gold.

@DonJorginho The nice thing about Judgment is that it is apparently self contained, being an off-shoot, so if the game doesn’t grab you then it’s just one game. The Yakuza series is enormous, and although each game’s story is apparently self contained, the overall thread of the main characters is consistent so I feel a bit overwhelmed by it all, and that may be part of what burned me out on the game. But if you want a series that you can easily sink 500+ hours into, then Yakuza is the way to go. 😄
Maybe someone who knows the series well can speak to how much Judgement relies on prior knowledge of Yakuza.

@Th3solution They did do voiceovers for the original Yakuza game with Michael Madsen and Mark Hamill (the latter as Majima!)