Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@Ralizah FC is pretty easy but SC was brutal on Normal towards the end. I had to retry battles a few times and eventually drop to easy. At least you gain levels easily with the XP scaling with your level.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy @nessisonett It sounds like their Trails games have a pattern of becoming harder with their second entries. Which makes sense if you consider that they're building off the first games in their respective sub-series.

Character level inflation always freaks me out. It's probably one of the reasons I never could get too much into the Disgaea games.

@Arugula Welcome back and glad you enjoyed your break! Will be interesting to see if you like Subnautica. With your history, I'm not sure that you will.

Well I managed to get past that particular boss in Trails Of Cold Steel II.

Then I had to retry a couple of times against the next boss whom was just as painful.

Thank goodness it lets you save before the final boss cus that was a right piece of work and I was not going to through all that again if there wasn't.

Did it though. Just.

The finale of Cold Steel 2 is done and dusted.

The second Cold Steel really is bringing in a lot of stuff from the Crossbell games and Trails in the Sky.

I can sorta see why people say you should play the others...

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Hahaha finally I have clarity that I made the right choice playing the others! Good to see you enjoyed the Cold Steel games enough to binge them that quickly though, that’s pretty crazy how fast you’ve done that.

I'm not entirely proud of myself @nessisonett bingeing through that and the first the past two and a half months. I'm gonna be quite busy though when I get back to work come Wednesday so it was best to get it out the way while I could through the summer hols! 😂

I'm not technically done with the second yet but it's come to a point where I think it's best I leave it alone for a week or two.

I will say for me personally I think the first was better. I've had some issues with how the second's been paced and with some of the execution of the story too.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Are you moving on to Cold Steel 3 now? I hear the Liberl/Crossbell connections are even more pronounced in that one.

@Ralizah Given I know for a fact that Agate and Tita turn up in that one, I think it would lose a lot of impact without having played Sky.

Unless Falcom say here's the Liberl/Crossbell games in a neat little bundle for PS4 in the next few months I think I will be just moving on to Cold Steel 3 @Ralizah @nessisonett.

I'm not getting a vita/psp to play them. Hopefully whatever backstory option Cold Steel 3 has to read will fill me in (Though maybe I'll check out a youtube vid or two for more info if need be when the time comes)

Defintely not gonna get the third for a good while though, I'm a little burnt out on rpgs at the moment now. 😅

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy That’s fair enough, they really don’t make it easy to catch up on the series.

Thought I’d try playing Sekiro again. Bounced right off it first time, wasn’t a fan at all. Might as well give it another go.

Hope it clicks with you this time @nessisonett. Personally I think technically it has the best combat in any game this gen that I've played. From memory only Nioh comes close. Those last bosses though, damn those are tough mo fo's.

@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, I do like the Souls games and Nioh but I got to Headless Ape last time and just didn’t feel the urge to succeed. It’s silly to go straight back to that file so I’m just starting again and seeing if I can appreciate it more, now that I’ve played everything except Demon’s Souls. For whatever reason, I still can’t hear voices though after checking loads of different settings. I’m beginning to think I have a dodgy disc but that’s fine, I have subtitles anyway.

Started Yakuza 0. I've not done much with it, just roughed up some people and did some karaoke, but I'm really liking what I'm seeing of it so far.

@crimsontadpoles Roughing up people on the streets and singing karaoke is only the half of it lol

Wait until you get to the phone sex minigames or collecting the trading cards that unlock softcore porn videos

Beat horse man on my first try in Sekiro. His attacks were a bit odd and completely missed me most of the time and the firecracker was hugely useful. I had more trouble on the giant thingy and bigger samurai earlier. Now I’m not sure whether to push ahead or attempt to get a bit further in the estate place. Still not sure I particularly enjoy the gameplay and it does seem to be missing a soul (ha ha).

@TheFrenchiestFry Lol. I can't not collect any trading cards in games, so guess I'm getting those videos then.

Yakuza 6, Mafia 2 and 3

@crimsontadpoles Enjoy! It’s a bit heavy on that story in those first couple of chapters but opens out quickly. Are you a newbie to the series? It’s where I started with the games and it’s certainly a great starting point.

@Thrillho Yes I'm new to the series, but eager to play more of it.