Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@JohnnyShoulder yeah, the only looter-shooter I’ve played prior to this was Remnant from the Ashes, which my mate and I loved. I’m gonna keep playing it as in fairness the gun-play is pretty good… and I’m starting to play around with the builds etc.

@colonelkilgore Yeah the rpg systems you can get pretty deep with, especially with the different loadouts you can get. Certain events happen in the game which help to spice things up a bit.

I remember playing the first one with a mate, and there was always a period of silence while we checked all our gear after beating a mission. Only broken by something like 'Oooooh, I've got a nice pair of gloves I needed'. 😂

I would offer to jump in with you, but I'm not sure how levelling works in the game and I'm a quite a high level.

@JohnnyShoulder cheers dude but it’s all good, I’m gonna keep pestering my buddy until he gives in… he’s never minded using that tactic on me so it’s about time I repaid the favour.

Love the story about the silence between you and your mate while checking through your loot… so true 🤣.

@colonelkilgore Have you not ever played any of the Borderlands games? Not sure if “looter-shooter” fits for what it is but in my mind that descriptor seems to fit and I thought I recall the term was coined to describe Borderlands. BL1 & 2 were really enjoyable for me, especially 2. I played them in co-op a little with a friend but mostly by myself.

As far as The Division, I liked what I played of the first game, but it wasn’t enough to hold my attention, for some reason. I think maybe I just don’t do well with military style shooters; I’m not sure why.

@Th3solution yeah I played Borderlands and started Borderlands 2 on PS3 (started the sequel straight after the original and got burned out, so moved on to something else). I quite liked them and have rebought them again (as well as the third) on PS4 as it goes so I may well give them another go. Always prefer third-person viewpoint though if I’m honest. I’ll plough on with The Division 2 though… I seem to be syncing with the loop and it’s alright. Think I was just expecting to enjoy it as much as Remnant, which at least right now isn’t the case.

@Th3solution I very much so agree about the epilogue it was a shame since I welcomed the fan-service at first but pretty quickly lost that excitement. Especially when there wasn't much to do once you finished everything

The Remake is absolutely amazing(to me), revitalized my love for the series and easily one of most anticipated in the coming years. You're going to love it, especially the first time you control Tifa. Personally I enjoyed the Yuffie DLC, I liked how they expanded her character since she was honestly pretty inconsequential in the first game. The story is ok but nothing to go crazy about, but the gameplay... The gameplay.. Yuffie is soo fun to control and as a ninja main in FFXIV it was very touching to see her have similar attacks and visual fx. Synergizing attacks with Sonon is amazing and I can't wait to see how they evolve it.

@Jimmer-jammer I am taking a break from it at the moment and just watching the cricket, I played some GoT myself, got about halfway/three-quarters through the first act of the game before giving up, came across a really tough rescue mission and kept getting killed. Glad you appear to be enjoying your time with the game though.

@colonelkilgore To an extent, I think Borderlands is a victim of its own success. Borderlands 2 was such a huge game and really well done with a “gazillion” different guns and loads of content, especially with the DLC, that it made the sequels somewhat redundant I think. Speaking from personal opinion, I also got my fill by the time I made it to the end of BL2 so haven’t gone back to the series. I tried returning to play the DLC a couple years ago leading up to BL3’s release and was planning to play the Pre-sequel and BL3 but even the just the BL2 DLC was enough to satisfy my appetite for the genre. I still have the Handsome Collection via PS+ so maybe I’ll go back to the rest of the BL2 DLC and to the Pre-sequel one day. And BL3 has been in steep discounts really often (I think I’ve seen it for as low as $5 physical), so perhaps I’ll try it one day.
But yeah, it’s one of the few FPS that I have played a lot of, having a third person preference also.

@TraCuz- I’ll definitely drop impressions when I get around to it. Your praise has me excited to see it in action. I did play the demo way back prior to release and I liked it fairly well, but I’m not sure it gave me the full effect of what the game offers.

@Jimmer-jammer @TraCuz- @Th3solution Played through some more of RDR2, Paying a Social Call, this morning, it was another shootout with the O'Driscolls, got a double-barreled shotgun (a pretty tidy looking piece of kit, as guns go) and $600 from the fireplace, of which my cut is $110, all this tithe stuff breaks the bank a bit, but still, gotta contribute to the gang's funds! N.B Also,the O'Driscoll we kidnapped earlier is now a member of our gang! I'll be sure to keep my eye on him!

I'm currently playing Saints Row The Third. I started it once years ago and gave up after like three hours so I'm back by popular demand of my girlfriend who wants me to play it. Anyway, I was sour playing it, but then I turned the volume down so I couldn't hear the characters any more and now I like it loads more. Just bombing around the city blowing things up. It's a bit like when you can't be bothered to play the story missions on Grand Theft Auto and you just go on a rampage around the city for a laugh.

@johncalmc Is that the one with you can use a purple dildo as a weapon? If so, that is the one I played and similarly bounced off it when I played it.

@JohnnyShoulder I dunno. Probably. I didn't get that far. It's just not my typa lol funny. I just find the characters really grating. It's like what I always assumed Sunset Overdrive was like.

@johncalmc Yeah it was pretty annoying and I quickly become bored of most of the stuff you did in the game after the humour out stayed its welcome.

@johncalmc @JohnnyShoulder I find your comments interesting because so many people have been hating on the Saints Row reboot because "it's not like the older SR games" but this is exactly how the games were, at least from Saints Row 3 and onward. I just find it funny how all these people who only played the first two Saints Row games have come out of hiding and are now complaining that the series has lost its touch. It's been like this for a long time!

It's fine to not like these games because the humour doesn't appeal to you, but to say that the reboot has ruined the franchise is so off the mark (I'm not saying this to you guys, I'm just generally speaking).

@LtSarge Yeah totally, I get what you are saying. I've not even seen anything from the new game as I'm not interested in it and I'm not gonna complain that the developers change it just for me. Not every game is for everyone, and you are never gonna please everyone all of the time.

I suppose if Elden Ring turned out to be a visual novel or something I would be proper bummed, annoyed and stuff. Doubt I would do anything like start or sign a petition though. Maybe in my younger years, but these days there are so many games out there, I can just move onto something else.

My younger brother and I have been playing Borderlands 2 in split-screen the past few days. Basically everything about it is proper cringe but the gunplay’s decent and the structure’s fun so we’ll probably stick at it. It’s something to actually play in split-screen at least.

Not Elden Ring but a new souls-like… and one that at least tries to add new features to the genre… gunplay balanced with the deliberate melee of souls. Yes Immortal: Unchained was a souls-like shooter but at the expense of melee being not worthwhile at all:

I’ll be interested to find out whether they can find the right equilibrium here, one that has a right time for guns and a right time for melee.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Thanks for the info Foxy! I'm gonna look into Divinity impressions and stuff on YouTube, gonna get a glance and see if I find the gameplay enjoyable.

Btw I was thinking of putting my thoughts on FFXIV on the user impressions thread, is it easy to put photos in threads?

Yeah that was one of my first CRPG's @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy, think I played Torment on PS4 a few back but only briefly.

I've not played it for a few weeks, not sure exactly why but was playing a couple of other games at the same time and drifted away from it. Was enjoying it though and do plan to go back to it at some point.

Don't think I had any problems getting into it and used to all systems. It did a good job of teaching with the pop up tutorials that came up. My main issue was the slow movement of the characters which made getting around a bit of a chore.

I’ve persevered with The Division 2 over the course of the week and it’s a strange one for me. I still wouldn’t say that I ‘particularly’ like it but I am now feeling the draw to boot it up, which I definitely wasn’t during my first two or three sessions.

It’s still repetitive but have now found a level of ‘comfort’ in the repetition and I definitely want to see it through to the end.