Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

After finishing ng+ on Tlou2 I needed something else to go alongside bloodstained game club. So thought I'd try Shadow of the tomb Raider. I know it gets slated for the story, but I thought the story in Rise was toss so how much worse can it be.

Then the opening cozumel section happens, you're squeezing through a small tunnel, then taking on a huge overhang with your ice axes. Finally you get to the tomb room... Then your mate Jonah just waltzes in to join you. Where did he come from?! And why didn't Lara go that way?!

Lol, at least it should be good for a laugh.

After @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy recently posted about her run through Oddworld, I've decided to fire up New 'n' Tasty again (five and a half years has to be my record gap between trophies for a game).

I'm enjoying it so far and just got through the Stockyards. It's weird though that for a game I must have last played on PSone 20 years ago (...good lord) I still keep pressing the buttons corresponding to the original scheme you can't use.

The game is so much more generous with grabbing ledges and going through doors though; the original was brutal that if you didn't hit it perfectly then you were done. I'm also playing on normal difficulty and it's weird for it not to be an insta-kill for pretty much anything. Instead, you can take a few hits and regain health when you rescue a mudokon.

There are also SO many hidden areas compared to the original that it gets almost annoying.

Onto Winter now in TLOU, playing as Ellie running around with Nolan Nonce. He delivers his lines like a mischievous goblin, all “hee hee hoo hoo get me that ladder or I’ll eat you”.

There's a health system in new and tasty @Thrillho?! Good lord that would've helped out so much during Abe's Oddysee.

I'd also take a ridiculous amount of hidden areas over the no quicksaving!

I got to the Scarabonia temple myself in the original before having to put it down for a bit out of frustration (and refusing to look at a walkthrough for the one bit I got stuck on). I'll be going back to it soon enough though to finish it off

I am playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey. If you can get past the garbageland combat and the fact that there is way too much stuff to do in a game that can't really support it, it's pretty great.

@johncalmc It’s no surprise that the AC Valhalla preview footage focused on the ‘new and more varied combat’ as well as it looks like the side quest type activities are more akin to fewer but longer and more meaningful content. I haven’t played Odyssey yet, but Origins was weighed down with probably too much bloat as well. Yet I still really liked the game.
Reckon you’ll put in the hours to get the Odyssey platinum? Wait, what am I asking... of course you will. 😄

@Th3solution I'm nearly there :') the time-sink for the platinum on Odyssey is WILDLY overstated. I heard talk of it taking like 100-150 hours and stuff. I don't know how long I've been playing it but it can't be any more than like... 50 hours? And I don't have much to do for the platinum.

If you liked Origins you'll like Odyssey. They're basically the same except a) Odyssey is funnier, and b) Odyssey has even more pointless stuff crammed into it to pad it out.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah, the health system certainly helps if you take a stray bullet as you leap off a ledge for instance. Quick saving is an utter godsend though, especially with so many of these tougher hidden areas! To give it some context, I’ve rescued about 100 mudokons already!

Some of the hidden areas are ones from the original but some are new. Lots in Rupture Farm are either through hidden hatches are jumping down trapdoors that would have killed you in the original.

It’s good fun though with a massive nostalgia hit for me as well.

You've only just left Rupture farms and you've got a 100 mudokons already @Thrillho?! Wow that's kinda ridiculous... I can see why you said it was a touch annoying!

Sounds rather good though. I'll be sure to pick that up at some point

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Thanks for the elaborate breakdown. I'm thinking that, regardless of how quickly the plot moves in this, the calendar system probably helps it feel like you're consistently achieving things in-game, rather like Persona 5 or the recent Fire Emblem.

It definitely sounds like you're enjoying the game thus far!

Got Streets of Rage 4 recently. Giving that a run.

Heh we'll see... Maybe she'll become more interesting down the line @KratosMD.

And cheers for the note about the scope of the first game... I figured it was sorta setting itself up for a more bombastic sequel but good to know none the less

You're welcome @Ralizah

The military academy setting has lent itself to the world building fairly naturally I thought and the fact that all the quests are tied to the academy with the end of the chapter framing everything I'd done like a report card is a neat little touch.

I got an A for chapter 1

And yeah whilst it's not like Persona where you play every single day, the passage of time is fairly notable none the less... Hopefully it should feel like you're making progress should you get round to it.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah, and they’ve all been from Rupture Farm. I’ve done 4/6 rooms in the paramite temple and not rescued one since leaving.

The game feels like such a breeze now though. Not having each screen load separately means you can see danger coming more easily (especially on Elum) and the health mechanic stops annoying deaths from bats in particular.

@Kidfried Whereabouts are you in the game? There were only a couple of places I found it really tough, the main one being the ants nest (which you can go back to later with much better weapons).

@Kidfried I somehow managed to do the ant nest after a LONG time when you first encounter it but it’s much easier to go back with the ranged weapons you acquire later on.

It is a fun game but the flaws are certainly those from the original, particularly the horrible camera! I still enjoyed it though and it’s a very do-able platinum if that’s your thing.

I played the first few hours of Control. The combat’s almost fun, I expect it to be better once I unlock more abilities though. The frame rate is god-awful but I think it’s coming to PS5 so that would probably sort it. I like the aesthetic, very Cold War-esque but something about the visuals or camera makes my head hurt really badly, I can only play it for an hour or two at a time.

Playing Everybodies Golf VR, I am enjoying it, love the caddies.

... I totally haven't been playing Trails of Cold Steel every evening and I certainly haven't nearly finished the second chapter having stopped right before (what I assume) is the last part of the chapter By going under the waterway😅

So I'm still enjoying it at the moment thankfully! I wish I could change the difficulty during the game because I am finding the standard battles fairly easy at times... Bosses and the mini bosses are usually a challenge though so it kinda balances itself out

I finished Oddworld New ‘n’ Tasty earlier and missed one mudokon.. Luckily the chapter select function lets you replay the section so I can go back and snag the last bugger (and get my gold trophy).