Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@Jimmer-jammer … and I did find that the most difficult of the From Soft games in fairness, so yeah… maybe I just got no rhythm *insert rhythmless Steve Martin in The Jerk gif

Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep

After not enjoying it at first before changing the controls as I'm not sure why Gearbox thinks using the bumpers for aiming and shooting were a good idea, I'm having a good time with it after a few hours. I've never played a Borderlands game before, but I'm assuming the controls are the same. Again, not sure why, but at least you can change them to normal FPS controls.

I guess I'm an Ashly Burch fan since I'm playing this right after Horizon Zero Dawn. The whole cast does solid work, but she's great as Tiny Tina. You would have no idea it's the same person that voiced Aloy or Chloe Price, or even somebody in their 30's.

@colonelkilgore @Jimmer-jammer I returned to my second playthrough of Dark Souls Remastered this morning, I had previously been struggling with the invisible walkways in Crystal Cave, I made it to Seath, but loads of those clam monsters had gotten sucked into the fight with me, anyway, I got Seath down to a sliver of his health, got cursed and died. Did some farming in Undead Parish to buy a Purging Stone and then went back (with my Havel's gear on) to Crystal Cave, no clam monsters got sucked into the fight and I demolished Seath, it's great to be back in the saddle again!

@KilloWertz Did you know she also voices a robot and the maker of that robot

@TheBrandedSwordsman good to hear that you’re enjoying your return to the franchise. How was Kena… after?

Karaoke and mahjong are now done on Yakuza Kiwami… which left a surprisingly grindy few hours to get 100 weapons and 70 gear items. So the Completion List is now 100% done!

@Thrillho yeah the Karaoke wasn’t actually ‘that’ bad once I concentrated on it, 950 on Onimetal took a fair few attempts though in fairness but I got all the others done quickly… and mahjong was really fun, I’m thinking about installing Yakuza Zero, so I can slowly chip away at its 10,000,000 mahjong requirement (play the odd game whenever I have a spare 5 minutes) over the next few years until I actually start playing it properly. I’m about halfway through the Climax Battles now, which once done will just leave the Legendary difficulty playthrough for the plat.

@JosephTheSheik Nope, can't say I knew that.

After playing Assault on Dragon Keep some more, one thing that is getting on my nerves is her really loud screaming anytime my character gets electrocuted or set on fire. It wouldn't be so bad if there weren't a good amount of the skeletons that do that to you.

@colonelkilgore Good work. Do you understand mahjong or was it just playing lots of it to get the points? (or somewhere between the two?)

Good luck with legendary play through too. I can imagine different games being more/less tricky at that difficulty as some games have much harder bosses than others. YK1 is the only game to have the stupid mechanic of bosses recovering health though.

@Thrillho I’d say somewhere in-between (maybe slightly skewed towards understanding)… quite often a game will play out as I’m expecting as I build my hand… but there are occasions where I have no idea why it won’t allow me to call riichi.

These Climax Battles are a lot more difficult than I was expecting. I guess I got so used to the skills that I unlocked in the main game that when they’re stripped away it’s tough to go back. Good to know about this one being the only game with the Boss health recover mechanic too… it is annoying.

That’s the Yakuza Kiwami Climax Battles complete… wow I found them tough eh, I hope a fully skilled and upgraded Kiryu won’t have half as difficult a time running through Legendary!

@colonelkilgore I don't think I every bothered much with climax battles myself as they sort of felt like something you'd only really end up doing as another hoop towards the platinum.

And the health recovery thing always seemed particularly odd as so much of the time you didn't even have the ability to counter it any way. The ridiculous health bars for some of the bosses just made things more of a chore than they needed to be most of the time, rather than making the fight more fun.

@Thrillho the health recovery thing wasn’t ‘too’ annoying for me as I spent a good half hour going through the skill trees early game, so after the first boss that recovered health I put every skill point into the path towards the various ‘Essence’ skills that allow you to interrupt it. Still, while I got the Brawler, Beast and Rush interrupts relatively early… it was an absolute age before I unlocked the Dragon one.

Managed to make good progress through my Legendary run, started it around 2:30pm and just logged off on Chapter 9.

Well the car chase in Chapter 9 of Yakuza Kiwami on Legendary difficulty is an absolute delight 😤

@Kidfried is 3 realy that dated?

@Kidfried after around 6 attempts (and as it’s on Legendary, you can’t just continue… you have to go through the whole level and boss fight etc just to get to the car chase) I’ve called it a day and started Assassins Creed 2. I will return to it and keep trying but I’m done for today!

@colonelkilgore I left Kena to return to the franchise. How is your current game or how are your current games going?

@jdv95 Y3-5 were pretty much just ports of the old games so they look a bit rough but were serviceable enough when I played through them (although going to them now I'm used to 60fps PS5 game might have been even tougher!).

The Kiwami games were more remasters putting the games into the engine used for Zero so they looked and felt much smoother. There were also a few changes in the first game to link in events of Zero for those of us who played it first.

I was pretty pleased to see 3-5 come to PS4 though as I hadn't long completed YK2 and was wondering if I'd have to dig out my PS3 and find the games on eBay or something.

@TheBrandedSwordsman not bad dude, have hit a couple of walls on Rise of the Tomb Raider & Yakuza Kiwami though… think I’m 3 trophies off the platinum on the former and 1 off the latter but I just feel a bit burned out. Just started Assassins Creed 2.

@colonelkilgore It’ll be interesting to see how you take to Assassin’s Creed 2. My mum’s been loving it despite the admittedly dated controls resulting in a lot of death by falling from great heights!

@nessisonett I’ve quite enjoyed it for the most part. Like the setting and Ezio etc… but the combat is so bad no the parkour is noticeably worse than the later instalments that I’ve played also. I get it though, it’s understandable what with how old it is 🤷‍♂️