Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

So finally managed to log into the Square Enix Just Cause 3 servers after getting my friend-list down to 99. Last played it in around 2017… and wow that frame-rate, I might well play it on the PS5 as it is stuttery-as-all-hell on the PS4. Still fun though… the perfect tonic of mindless-abandon sandwiched between the two The Last of Us games.

@RogerRoger to be fair, I don’t recall thinking there was an issue when I played it a few years go… but it actually hurt my eyes and started to give me a headache this evening. It might have just been a period of acclimatisation though as it didn’t seem so bad by the time I logged off.

Was really enjoying it once I mastered the wing-suit again, quite surprised that I broke my old record too… over 8 minutes!

@colonelkilgore the infamous framerate was why I never gave it a try! I might give it a go this weekend actually, I'd forgotten it was free ages ago.

@BowTiesAreCool mate, I’ve gotten used to it now and just really enjoying it. I was a massive fan of Just Cause 2 on the PS3 but the wing-suit in 3 (& 4, although I’m yet to play 4) just elevates the whole experience. I didn’t realise quite how much of 3 that I must’ve got done a few years ago… only got a couple of missions left but leaving them for the time being and just taking over the map… so much fun.

@Th3solution How is A Plague Tale going? @Jimmer-jammer How is The Pathless going? In RDR2 I just completed the train robbery mission and now I'm in the heartlands, ready to explore the nearby town at the earliest opportunity, the train robbery mission was quite fast-paced and frenetic and thoroughly enjoyable

@RogerRoger yeah it is a really great game… one I feel deserves more attention from the masses. As it’s rekindled my love of the Just Cause games (well 2 & 3) I’ve looked a bit further into 4, which is buried deep in the backlog. It seems Avalanche has gotten rid of the location-liberation element for 4… wtf were they thinking!?!?

@RogerRoger awesome 😅

@TheBrandedSwordsman I’m knee deep in other things so I haven’t had time to get any more gaming in.
It’s been a while since I played RDR2, but I remember the part you’re currently playing. Are you enjoying the sandbox elements and the life sim aspects?

Been sent home from the office as a colleague has got covid… got my test booked for later this afternoon but in the meantime let’s try and get a little ahead of schedule on that backlog…

@RogerRoger cheers bud 👍… just re-ordered Just Cause 2 btw on PS3.

@colonelkilgore @RogerRoger I've said this before about the Just Cause games, I've never finished one as I always ended getting a bit bored of doing the same few things over and over. A game which has a lot of explosions and CHAOS, I should find endlessly fun.

@JohnnyShoulder You're not alone. I played through Just Cause 2 this past Spring and I was going in expecting a long story. But it was really short and the focus is more on the sandbox experience and causing mayhem in creative ways. It succeeds in that regard, it's just not my cup of tea, even though I managed to finish it. I enjoyed it overall, but the focus on doing repetitive side missions isn't exactly my idea of fun in an open world game.

I played Far Cry 3 right before JC2 and that game was much more to my liking in terms of an open world experience. Great story, fun missions and there were plenty of things to do in the open world.

@JohnnyShoulder @LtSarge I get you both, what’s worked for me in my situation is though, I did a massive chunk of 3 back in 2017, before moving on to something else… so now I have most of the story done but over half of the map to liberate. So it might be that it’s the perfect game to have a month on, take a break for a year (or 4) and then come back and continue from your save.

@Th3solution Eating and sleeping are going to be major parts of this gaming experience, I can already tell, I have already had to eat a fair deal to keep myself alive, always on the lookout for supplies for that, as for the sandbox elements, I haven't had much of a chance to explore the open world as of yet, but I am expecting that to change now.

@Th3solution Without wanting to sound too nosy, what are the other things you are "knee deep" in?

@colonelkilgore Don't think I've ever gone back to a game after that long away. If I've stopped playing cos I wasn't enjoying it, I'm most likely not even of thinking about the game after that long. And if it it is on disk, I've probably traded it in by then. The longest I've left it is probably about just short of a year with Assassin's Creed Origins, and I stopped playing that because I got distracted by other games at the time. I'm generally trying not to that so much these days.

@LtSarge Good point, I've enjoyed the Far Cry games a lot more and managed to complete more of the games than the Just Cause ones. They do tend to suffer a bit from the so called Ubisoft formula, but I've never found that as I always space them out to stop them from feeling as stale.

@JohnnyShoulder fair enough… we are free to game in whatever way feels right for us.

I remember that I really enjoyed playing Just Cause 3 back in the day but after liberating the first two ‘insulas’ (major areas) that I wasn’t up for liberating the third (& much larger insula) at the time. I was always planning on returning to it… though not 4 years later! Other games got in the way as is always the case and I may never have ended up returning to it if it wasn’t for a mate who needed a hand with one of the few online (though not multiplayer) trophies.

Glad I did though as after all that time off it feels as fresh as I’d did the first time and is an absolute joy.

@RogerRoger lol Just Cause 2 was probably up there with Oblivion and Skyrim as the most hours logged on my PS3. Cleared the entire map first time out, then a few years later I pretty much cleared the map again on a subsequent playthrough.

All being well, I’ll plat Just Cause 3 at this second bite of the cherry… and I’ll then come back for Just Cause 4 in a year or two.

@colonelkilgore I really enjoyed JC3 when I played it a few years ago but I also got nowhere near 100%. Getting full rating on every challenge was also ludicrous and one of my biggest criticisms of the game was how incredibly slow the game was at loading, especially if you wanted to retry a challenge and then had to sit there for 30s to a minute while the game reloaded it.

@Thrillho @RogerRoger yeah 5 gears on every challenge will be the decider no doubt.