Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

Perfectly put, as is pretty often the case with your observations bud. Yeah, having now played around a bit in the sandbox, I’d definitely make one of the Yakuza series a desert island game of mine. I’ve heard Zero and 5 have the most content so probably one of those.

Also, I’ve been loving your Demons Souls updates. Sounds like you had a little difficulty in 3-1… but I know you expected some of that going in, and hopefully the fun will far outweigh the frustration. There are some tougher stages (& bosses) to come but just concentrate on incremental progress.

Also, if you don’t have it yet, the Talisman of Beasts could be a big item for your build (you may already know this though).

@colonelkilgore Thanks, colonel. Incidentally, one of my other desert island games would be Bloodborne, and Demon’s Souls is right behind it as a possibility. There’s near infinite replayability for these games with the different builds and weapons one can utilize.

I’ll keep my eyes peeled for the Talisman of Beasts, for sure!

@Th3solution basically, it’s the one item in the game that allows you to cast both spells and miracles. All other catalysts and talismans only allow you to cast spells and miracles respectively. It doesn’t scale as high as the best catalyst or talisman… but does double your ‘armoury’.

@Bentleyma I’ve been really enjoying my time with Dirt 5 as well. I was thinking about buying this earlier in the year but then we got Wreckfest on PS+ so played that instead. Great to be able to have a look at this without paying anymore out for it though.

Portal Knights

@Keith_Zissou yeah I’ve made solid progress on Yakuza Kiwami dude… basically completed all of the requirements apart from Karaoke and Mahjong (which judging from the little nibble I’ve had of each, I’ll find the most difficult). The various things I’ve had to learn and master (well… master is a strong word… but reach a certain level of proficiency at) the last two days is insane. Never been much of a gambler… but I’ve had a crash course in both western and eastern gamblings’ greatest hits (& quite enjoyed the process too).

Although I’ll need to do a Legendary difficulty playthrough, it’s more like an ng+ so I’ll be maxed out with all my top gear and stuff, so that shouldn’t be a problem. It’s just learning mahjong (which is a frikkin’ mystery) and learning the various button combos on Karaoke (easier said than done though).

@colonelkilgore Are rhythm games something you normally struggle with then? Like I said before, I found karaoke quite easy but those sorts of games don't normally cause me problems.

@Thrillho the only games involving a rhythm mechanic that I ever played were Guitar Hero and DJ Hero… I was ‘okay’ at them I guess but didn’t really play much of either. Tbh though, the issue I was having with the Karaoke mini game was pressing an incorrect button rather than at the correct time… also, during the little session I tried on it, I was finding that sometimes I was getting a ‘miss’ even though I pressed the button. I haven’t put much time into it yet though, so hopefully with a little more time and effort it’ll be fine. I’m gonna concentrate on mahjong first though.

@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.