Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

Ha well I hope you end up enjoying it whenever you get round to watching them @RogerRoger! 😄

I forgot to ask last time but the star trek board game thing you mentioned... Was it an assortment of the various Stark trek cast's or were they all from one specific series? And what board game?

If it's Patrick Stewart pkaying Buckaroo or something I'm in lol

As for the Troy Baker voicework... I totally get where you're coming from after having seen some of Retro Replay. Though I can thankfully still seperate the art from artist so to speak.

His work as Kanji Tatsumi from Persona 4 (The original game only I think?) is pretty darn good if I do say so myself. Definitely not the kinda role of what he's known for now.

It is from 2008/2009 so it's not quite as deftly done as it could/would be now (Trying to be vague here)... But he's honestly one of my favourite character's of the cast.

@TheBrandedSwordsman
Finished Witcher 3 last night, found it to be an amazing game. Probably the best game I've ever played.
I'd never played an RPG before I played FF7 last year, as my "return to gaming" game, never thought they'd be my thing but now they are my 2 favourite games.
Started playing RE remastered today. I'm making my way through the years, so still on 2015.

@bluedex Excellent, congrats on beating the game. What did you think of the ending? I am considering playing RE4 again but I keep changing my mind. Have you played that one?

I had a hankering for a little indie time today, so finally booted up Bound, aka “Cirque Du Soleil: The Game”.

I only have about 2 hours invested, but I’m quite impressed. I just love the movement and artistic feel. Such a wonderful unique move set. I’m not a dancer or an acrobat, but I’ve always been in awe of what they can do. The mesmerizing marriage of athleticism and grace; there’s nothing more enchanting than a professional ballet performance and I’d never considered what it might be like to play as a ballerina. Playing video games is all about playing as a character who can do things you could never do in real life. Whether it be shooting webs from your wrist and swinging across a skyscraper, slaying aliens as a space marine, or wielding a lightsaber as a Jedi — we love this hobby because of how we can be something or someone that we can’t be in the flesh. I never would have known how satisfying it would be to be a dancer and platforming my way around an abstract environment, avoiding an evil monster.

The game has its issues, sure. Most have to do with the rather mundane scenery and lack of gameplay variety. Like other ‘artistic’ games (aren’t all games though?) such as Flower, Abzu, or Journey, the game won’t be for everyone. If you don’t appreciate the fine art of dance or acrobatics, then it will likely be boring for you.

Other complaints might be the difficulty of the trophies. It’s crazy that the platinum is at 0.1%. So probably just a handful of people in the world even have it. It looks to require multiple playthroughs and includes speed runs, which I hate anyways.

I am probably only about half way through, so I’ll post more if my thoughts change or evolve. But so far so good. I know it’s really intended to be played in one sitting, but I had to step away mid game.

Tagging @Rudy_Manchego and @Thrillho .... because I can’t remember who I was talking to about this game a few weeks ago but maybe one of you guys? Was it one of you who had it in your top 5 games on PS4?

@Th3solution Never heard of it!

@bluedex Did you play the DLC too? They’re quite meaty affairs but both excellent, particularly Blood and Wine.

@TheBrandedSwordsman I quite liked the ending, I had smile on my face. Haven't played RE4 yet, no. It's in the 2016 batch, so coming up soon enough. After I finish RE remastered, I have Until Dawn to round off 2015, then Rise of the Tomb Raider to start 2016 and break the horror theme, then it's RE4! 😁
@Thrillho No I'm saving the DLCs for the future, so I still have some Witcher to play, I know I'll miss it. Heard good things about them though.

@bluedex Tag me when you're playing RE4, and I'll try and pick it up around the same time as you.

@TheBrandedSwordsman Great yeah will do. Had over 200 hours on Witcher, I'm assuming the next 2 games combined won't get anywhere near that!

I’ve finally made a start on Ghost of Tsushima on my PS5.

What a gorgeous game this is! I can still choose between resolution or frame rate via the PS4 Pro settings but it seems it doesn’t make too much difference on PS5.

I was also pleased to see headphones with 3D audio was a setting too and it sounds fantastic on the Pulse headset (for me, even better than Returnal which is supposed to be the gold standard for the 3D audio).

Combat feels great so far and I’ve just got to the open world part.

Oh, and Japanese voice acting with subtitles obviously

@Thrillho Good to see you’re enjoying it. It really is a beautiful game. Probably a nice one to play after Returnal since the options for stealth mix things up and there is a lot of time spent serenely wandering around in a peaceful bright environment.

The game does have its dark moments though, for sure.

As soon as you mentioned Wil Wheaton I knew exactly where that link was going @RogerRoger... That's the channel that Critical Role came from 😁

Geek & Sundry is/was a Twitch & Youtube channel run by actress Felicia Day (... I don't know what she's in though myself aside from a handful of episodes of Supernatural). I think Critical Role was THE breakout show though? They eventually left G&S sometime in 2019 to form their own channel.

The channel had all kinds of shows with a bunch of different people (Though I admitedly never watched any of them aside from CR) and I recall that Wil Wheaton show getting mentioned/advertised a LOT when watching some of the Critical Role episodes. I think the Will Wheaton table top game series on G&S finished too?

He's actually in a couple of episodes of the first Critical Role campaign (The party was split into two for some reason I don't remember and they had some guest players join in... There's probably some episodes of Will's show with people from CR too) and he was really quite good in it from what I remember 😄

... And dammit... Seeing how Patrick Stewart is pretty much up for anything these days (Like his work with Seth Macfarlane) I was wishing him playing Buckaroo would be a thing... Oh well

And to actually bring this back to The PS4 Games you're playing thread (my bad!)... I'm still trucking along with God Eater: Resurrection.

Got up to difficulty six and have just managed to avenge Lindow. Which was a rather lousy and cheap fight I thought...

Because GE 1 was originally released on PSP, had an updated/expanded re-release with an extra storyline and THEN was remade on Vita/PS4 with another new storyline added on of that... I'm apparently nearing the end of the original PSP version's storyline?

I think that's where I'll cut off from GE for the time being.

Just because if I don't now I don't know when I will if I allow it to continue. Plus I fear I'll lose far too many brain cells if I keep watching the storyline cutscenes go on.

... Not even Patrick Stewart could save this

@Th3solution It was more than likely me! Glad you liked it. All your comments are pretty much spot to be honest. I played in VR on PSVR and it was quite breathtaking. However, yeah... the trophies are... well actually really hard. Multiple playthroughs, zero mistakes (i.e. don't fall off things), finding multiple routes through. However, as an experience (alongside a great soundtrack), I think it is really underrated. Probably the impact of being a PS exclusive that wasn't really well marketed etc.

Well I've been in a bit of a gaming funk recently, and not in a boogietastic 70s sort of way. Thankfully I'm being dragged out of it by Detroit: Become Human of all things. I'll post my thoughts when I reach the end but I'm enjoying this game way more than I thought I would. I've put poor Connor through the mill, bless him.

@Rudy_Manchego Ah, whew! I was starting to think I had lost my marbles. I knew someone had recommended it! 😄

I’ll champion the game for those who are on the fence to try it. I think there’s a place for it in the gaming stratosphere. It’s too bad that the trophies aren’t any easier because that sometimes entices the fence sitting crowd to take a chance on a unique game like this.

Ha ha oops I didn't mean to make that sound so negative @RogerRoger! Still enjoying the gameplay, monster hunting aspect, very much. Just like I said the other few posts about the story utter tosh and if anything has got even stupider 😄

I'm actually stopping God Eater: Resurrection now mainly because we're going to be Subnautica next for the game club and I haven't got enough time to focus on more then one game at the moment. Plus where I'm at in GE:R is pretty much the perfect time to stop it too!

I'll most likely be heading back in probably after Subnautica is done and dusted!

And you're welcome in regards to the whole Wil Wheaton, Critical Role stuff... Even when I'm here I can't help but teach it seems

@Th3solution Absolutely - the trophies are bizarre. I feel that they were made difficult to get some replayability out of the game but it really isn't necessary.

I decided to switch from Resident Evil Village to Resident Evil 4 as the latter seems to be a more accessible and better game overall - ammo is in plentiful supply, and I don't remember having to resort to using a guide once in order to complete it when I played it about six-eight years ago. I was ust looking for an easy to play game and this seemed to fit the bill as it appears to be high quality as well, despite ageing somewhat over the years obvs, I also intend to pick up Biomutant at a later date @bluedex sorry for picking this up early, but I couldn't think of anything else to get - I'll keep you updated about my progress but make sure to spoiler tag any spoilers I come across.

@TheBrandedSwordsman @bluedex
I also am planning to play RE4 at some point this year. I want to play RE3 first though. I’ve never played either of them and I really enjoyed the first two game’s remakes last year. Good to see RE4 mostly holds up. People have said they don’t really think the game needs a remake, but I guess we’re getting one next year.

@TheBrandedSwordsman Hey no worries, go for it! It might be a while before I get to it anyway. As well as my backlog games I also received Everybody's Golf in the post today, bought the disk version on a whim a couple of nights ago for €10. I played it on PSP many moons ago and remember enjoying it, so thought I'd give it a go as a "side game".