Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@nessisonett Yeah, the combat does seem pretty easy, although I expect it to get harder later on? What are the molded like to take on? I've read about them, as in, I know they are non-human, but don't tell me anything more about them please. I take it you get special tools to take them out?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic All I can really tell you is shoot them in the face. There are guns you’ll get along the way but make sure to only use your ammo hitting them in the face because it’s the only way to kill them consistently.

Well that's the credits rolled on Hyper Light Drifter, fantastic game. Still plenty to do and some bosses to find though!

@Kidfried the combat is really rewarding, as you said you naturally get better and better (as one would expect) but you do feel like a bit of a bad ass when you take out a big mob with a combination of sword and gun strikes without taking a hit. I rarely replay games but I completed NG+ which gets really tough with bosses more or less one shotting you 100% of the time and having more health, but my skills were so sharp by the end of that experience. Good luck with the 800 dash and no death run trophies lol

@Kidfried yes it saves just before the final boss, I'll do some backtracking as I now have enough keys for certain doors!

@kyleforrester87 finish the game without dying😥. That sounds intense.

@MightyDemon82 My best is 7 deaths lol. The thing I struggle most with is those moving blocks in the north zone, it's really easy to get killed by them. It's best to attempt this after your NG+ run as you'll be absolutely solid and have all the bosses down, so it's really not so hard with all the extra health you have available on a standard difficulty run... but those pesky blocks man.

My Borderlands 3 copy arrives tomorrow, so today it will be either Transistor or Inside.

Most likely Inside as I can beat that and move straight on to Borderlands tomorrow!

@KratosMD Don’t let Ventus’ story put you off, Aqua’s is a whole lot better and she’s y’know actually decent to play as. Ventus’ whole ‘master of none’ style just meant I spammed Mini the whole time. Thinking about that Deep Space boss on Critical is making me want to cry in a corner 😂

@KratosMD I do like BBS but I think Critical mode exposes some of the clunkier PSP mechanics. It’s still a great game with some rather poor design choices and some extremely frustrating bosses. I swear Terra’s final boss and the final final (not secret) boss literally gave me more difficulty than Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne. Have fun with Stick it to the Man though, I’ve heard good things!

I took a mini break from Jedi: Fallen Order and went back to my stalled playthrough of Assassin’s Creed Origins tonight. I’m not sure why, since I have not grown bored of Fallen Order, but I’m in a weird mood today. That, and I think in my mind I saw AC:O there and asked myself “I wonder if I even still remember the controls and how to play this game. Maybe I need a refresher so I don’t completely lose my place in it.” Well, turns out I didn’t (remember how to play it) and I did (need a refresher). It had been several weeks, maybe a month since I played AC:O and I was pretty rusty. The dodge and attack buttons are completely different from J:FO. I came close to shutting it off and admitting defeat and then it started clicking after about an hour. I was pretty surprised. It’s a a fun game. I think I’ll just wrap up a story section, maybe kill one of the boss assassination targets and then put it back on the shelf until I finish Jedi. Of the two, Cal’s adventure is more demanding skill-wise than Bayek’s, and my muscle memory for it needs to be more acutely kept up. Best to polish it off quicker and not let it sit too long.

@KratosMD That’s pretty neat that they’ve integrated touchpad and the controller speaker functionality seeing as the game came out in the PS3 era.

I wonder if you’ll still consider it relaxing once you get to some of the more cryptic puzzles.

@Thrillho I reckon they took some of the functionality from the Wii U version when porting it to PS4. Stick It had some pretty cool concepts with the gamepad.

@KratosMD I used to totally be terrified to even touch a horror game for Yeats, due to my deep rooted fear of Luigi’s Mansion as a child (I still maintain some ghosts are rather creepy). Now, I’ve managed to even beat Resi 7, which was bloody terrifying at times but a totally different experience from the usual games I play. I understand we all have tastes but it’s sometimes nice to get out our comfort zones!

After finishing Divinity I've been a bit absent mindedly playing a few things this evening as I couldn't quite decide what to pick and didn't want to rush into something big and get burnt out.

So I played The Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair demo, The Shining Resonance Refrain demo & AI the somnium files demo.

The AI demo was literally five minutes long so I didn't get to experience much. Seemed interesting but it was a bit disappointing compared the Zanki Zero demo that I got to play for a good few hours. Seemed a bit tonally inconsistant from that little slice too.

Yooka Laylee... was ok. I guess. Something about it didn't quite sit right with me whilst playing it though. I'll give it another look over tomorrow... maybe start it over again too.

Shining Resonance Refrain was probably the best... Was a bit of a short demo but there was a bit more going on at least then the AI demo and I'd be interested in seeing more maybe. It reminded me a bit of a Tales game (though I've only played Xillia)

I've got deltarune's chapter 1 redownloaded to playthrough again and the first Episode of Life Is Strange 1 to give a try of tomorrow too.

I suppose I'll cheekily mention I found out my PS1 and have it ready to set up with DOOM just in case I can't really decide on anything proper to play then either...

... I feel I'm gonna be a bit side tracked and a bit awkward playing games the next few days though...

RAD. That is the name of the game, not me going all Bill and Ted on y'all. It's a rogue like innit. The USP here is that you will mutate and gain abilities. You can get still like being able to throw your head at enemies which explodes and grows back, a teenager which grows out your arm and goes nuts when activated. You also get stuff like being able to walk on fire and be immune to electric shocks.

It is ok so far, I needed something to play that wasn't Assassin's Creed Origins and didn't have to think too much. Gameplay wise your are going round killing enemies make the environment all lush and green again as you go (some kind of apocalyptic events happened making most of the world uninhabitable), your main aim is to activate the totems which will open the way to the boss. Which i did for the first level but I don't know how get back to the hub area so I can bank my cash. It doesn't explain things very well. So off to read a guide online to find exactly what I'm supposed to be doing.

Honestly for a low budget game @KratosMD Shining Resonance Refrain actually looks fairly nice graphically... Not too shabby at all especially as it was a PS3 game too.

I've seen it go quite cheap for a copy (£15 and apparently the launch edition version too)... I may end up picking it up at some point in the future.

I tried some more of the Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair demo. I'm not sure whether it's just me but... I can't get on with it at all.

Laylee is probably the worst bit about it to me as she seems pretty pointless mechanically aside from being a bat meatshield and the groundy pound attack. Honestly I just forgot about her if I ever got hit it as annoyed me that much trying to get her back and that was only in a demo with five levels!

And then I tried Life Is Strange Chapter 1.

Good gravy that dialogue!

It's hella bad, y' hella get me? I totes couldn't stop cringing at that anythin' but sound setup either for them freaky deaky time travel powers dawg...

... I'm gonna stop with the mick take cus that's backfired and it's making me cringe even more 😂

I might try and attempt it again at some point... But looks like I'm better off maybe not playing games for the next few days really.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Everyone hates on the dialogue in LiS but there were far more prevalent problems in the game. For one, Warren and Chloe are my two least favourite characters in any game ever. That’s including people like Amy from Sonic and Cait Sith from FF7. I actually never finished the game, I beat the second last episode having already been spoiled by my friends as to what happened in the last one so just decided to never ever play the final episode and instead leave my memories of the game intact.

Oh I know @KratosMD but it's what? Written by a 30 something year old french dude trying to sound like an eighteen year old american teenager?

It's like me listening to my seventeen year old self trying to sound cool (and she was never cool) ... Quite embarassing 😂

At least with the overly mature dialogue I can stand listening to it.

Oh and congratulations on your test results by the way! Well done you!

I dunno if it's maybe something that happrned from moving it over from PS3 to PS4 @nessisonett (and I'm really not that big of a graphics person either) but I couldn't get over a lot of the texture work too and thinking how muddy some of the surfaces looked

Also I've never got the Cait Sith hate... Amy isn't too bad either 😅

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Going back to old accounts on fan-fiction sites and reading stuff I posted on them when I was 14 was basically the worst thing ever. It's an almost physically painful experience.

I can't believe that faux-edgy tryhard was the same person as me.

Over the weekend I ended up playing Days Gone which I'm really enjoying, still waiting for Boozers arm to heal up and have been playing for quite a few hours now. Also off to Hell in Guacamelee 2 which is just a fabulous game, plus CTR :NF almost tempted to throw my Dualshock whilst racing against Pin Stripe. Must have attempted that race a good 20 times before it landed in my favour, his spamming of the bombs was infuriating!