Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy @nessisonett I’ve been wanting to play Code Vein for a while, but I got a little put off by the demo. It seemed a little confusing to me, but I know that this happens frequently with demos that the tutorials are much better fleshed out in the actual game. If you both get along well with it I’d probably jump on board. There just has been surprisingly little chatter about it. HavIng a photo mode is a nice start. Tag me if either of you start it up and have thoughts.

Final Fantasy VII Remake.
Well, it looks bad indeed. I mean, Fallout 4 it's an old and huge open world game but it looks better to me than FFVIIR, which being a linear game with no day and night cycle nor weather conditions should have been way more beautiful. 🙈

@andreoni79 It’s mostly the strange texture issues. The environments look pretty, just don’t look at anything close up!

Bought Horizon Zero Dawn last Black Friday and it sat unopened until now. Played through the first hour and wasn't impressed, though I understand it takes a little while for the game to open up, so I'm willing to keep giving it a shot.

@nessisonett It's not just a matter of textures. I'm in chapter 9 now and it feels they stopped working on graphics after chapter 2. The frozen NPCs start acting too late when you enter an area; 95% of the setting you move through is non interactive but it is still made of a bunch of polygons; the backdrop is just a bad quality flat image...
If compared to Resident Evil 2 Remake, the game feels like a budget game from a small sofware house.

Ni No Kuni 2. It's not a patch on the first game from what I've played so far. I think the fact that there's only the occasional voice overs makes it lose a lot of its charm and the speech text whilst wandering around is tiny and disappears far too quickly before you can finish reading it. Very peculiar. I much prefer the turn based combat from the first game, too.

@andreoni79 Hopefully you’re enjoying the game itself though! I didn’t really appreciate the nuance of the combat until the second run on hard mode which was great fun but took quite a bit of time to prep for.

@Thrillho Combat is fun and quite challenging even on Normal while the secondary missions are interesting, but technically... man, it's a continuos head shaking.

@andreoni79 This was still the funniest moment for me;

@Thrillho Oh man yes, I think I pointed out that exact NPC when the game first came out!

I got my first hard crash in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate today! To be fair though, I haven’t quit the game since starting it and I’m on 27% already. I’m sorta enjoying it, the smaller scale hurts it a bit coming off fixed Unity though. The soundtrack is utterly fantastic though, which is no surprise as it’s Austin Wintory. London is fun to explore with less checklist collectibles and more instanced tasks which I personally prefer. Carriages are proper good fun to drive, especially as I’m chasing the platinum so have to drive into as many obstacles as possible for a trophy. I really like the time period as it means there are loads of interesting historical figures to interact with. We’ll see how I feel about it as I get further in!

@Arugula Yeah, the two protagonists are surprisingly fleshed out, I expected them to be a bit less developed since there are two of them. Kinda funny Evie shares quite a few animations with Arno from Unity though, considering the excuses Ubisoft gave against having female multiplayer characters in Unity and the issues they apparently had making female animations.

@Arugula The grapple gun thing’s kinda fiddly, that’s my only main complaint. It’s like a less helpful version of the Grapnel Gun from the Arkham games.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy ....you mean the Howling Executioner isn’t the second boss? I think I may have made a wrong turn since I’m stuck on that boss and I’ve only beaten Oliver so far 😅

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I’m actually enjoying it quite a bit, despite seemingly going completely the wrong way and clearing out Howling Pit first. The combat does feel a little bit imprecise and attacks lack a bit of weight compared to Nioh and Souls but it’s a lot easier to compensate. I’ve mostly been using the Prometheus blood thingy with the Bardiche. I did find every single Atlas and Assassin vestige thing though so I’ve cleared Yakumo’s memories. It’s been good fun though! Glad to see you’re enjoying it too.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah, I haven’t played around with elemental weaknesses or debuffs yet but she seems to take more damage from crush damage too from what I’ve seen. I might try using Atlas and the big hammer thing.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I’ve had Yakumo with me since the parking garage the first time! I’ve been going back to the base every so often though. He’s just the best companion by a mile, he does loads of damage and is a massive tank.

That’s me just beaten the butterfly, wasn’t too bad even if it was a bit close for comfort with the venom debuff.

Put a fair amount of time into Cyberpunk over the weekend but despite the solid gameplay and great world design the constant pop in, bugs and dreadful blurry screen kills my immersion and enjoyment, hopefully they can fix things but i feel its root deep the issues on base console.

Did go back to Avengers yesterday as i remembered Kate Bishop was added and despite not knowing much about her beyond the basics i'm loving her inclusion, Ashly Burch as always does a great performance and she's huge fun to play as. Honestly i think she may be one of the best characters to play as in the game and even the skin list ain't too bad with her best skin being free and not locked behind MTX, if future added characters are this fun and they can continue adding content they may be able to turn things around.

@WallyWest I have a friend who has gone back to Avengers and says it’s still great fun to play. The problem for them is if people haven’t got onboard at the start, it’s hard to get people playing unless it goes free to play/PS+ and they make their money in game.

I just have no interest in that sort of game though, particularly as my broadband seems to get upset when it rains which is not great in the UK.

I'm currently playing Dark Souls III for the third time. Doing a Kratos build, which is great, I just need the warden twin blades from Cathedral of the Deep, outside the Cleansing Chapel, have to farm for them. I started off a few minutes ago, so I am fairly early on, but was pleased to beat Iudex Gundyr on my first try, which is something I had never done before. I chose the Life Ring as my starting gift, which may have had something to do with it as it boosts max HP. Also, I intend on getting an early Claymore from near the dragons, which should enhance my chances, but yeah, it's a good game, and a good build, should be a fun run. The Claymore should be a good parallel to the sword you pick up in Hades - that or the Moonlight Greatsword perhaps, a parallel to the sword you pick up in Hades in GoW III (original trilogy).