Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@LtSarge Judgment has the least amount of interesting side content of the yakuza games imo. Next to the standard darts, baseball and Sega minigames, there is drone racing and a in game vr board game type game called paradise vr. Sadly no karaoke or management sim games like on the mainline games. I still enjoyed the game very much mainly because it was so different from the mainline games but still felt like the same world, so still had the same feel for me. Lost Judgment does a lot better on the side content, has the same options as judgment and a few more, but also no karaoke sadly. For a new batch of karaoke I guess we have to wait for yakuza 8

@Lavalera Ah thanks for confirming that just so that I'll keep my expectations low for the remainder of my playthrough. It seems that the focus is mainly on the story, which is fine since I tend to skip most side stuff but I still enjoyed the occasional karaoke from time to time. It's good to know though that Like a Dragon seems to preserve side activities like karaoke, so at least I'll have that game to look forward to.

@LtSarge I played Judg(e)meant earlier in the year and really enjoyed it. I still thought there was enough to do and the variety of friend making mechanics is fun, I really liked the side cases in place of the sub stories, and the overall story was one of the best in the series for me.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

@Thrillho Yeah, I think I just need to play more for it to open up with more side cases because one of the things I love about the Yakuza games is the sub stories. So I'm definitely looking forward to those as I believe there are 50 of them in the game.

@LtSarge They unlock steadily through the game and they pretty much all have some story to them, whereas some substories could be quite forgettable.

Epic Chef

And I have cooked a recipe from a whole Rat. 🤢

Spyro the Dragon. I didn't realize this was made by Insomniac until I looked it up after I started playing it, mainly because Activision gives them 0 credit since it's technically a remake. That would explain why the beginning of the game reminded me of a Ratchet & Clank game though. I'll also state the obvious and say I never played any of the series before.

Just finishing up the last few trophies on Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottle, I've enjoyed this alot more than I thought I would of and you get most trophies by just playing the game so doesn't seem to much of a chore to stick around for the last few.

Also still playing through Mass Effect 3, done the Omega DLC for the first Time as I never did any back when the games first released.

Rayman Legends. I'll be playing online challenges every day until I get the platinum trophy. It'll take at least a few months, but I'll get there.

Epic Chef
Have accumulated more than 20 hours gameplay.
I enjoyed the game so far as the calculating numbers of Vigor, Spirit and Sophistication points +Judge's Taste + Aroma point will determine who win who lose. I quickly understand how to make (bizarre) dishes with very high point on either Sophistication or Spirit as dishes with high Spirit or Sophistication points were easier to be made than high Vigor point dishes. The key is determining which ingredients should be put first then 2nd ingredients and 3rd ingredients. Sauce for finishing touch to add more points of specific attributes or will plus / minus the points during judging. Also, I enjoyed the storyline despite there were quite a lot rude dialogues and hilarious moments.

Playing Okami HD for PS4. The main character is totally a good girl: with smooth controls and an interesting way of story-telling, the game deserves to be loved for how good it is (so far). Still, using the spiritual paint brush to progress feels kind of awkward, or maybe its just me?
Also, I would have liked if they had included mapping the controls, as more often than not I end up doing a missinput on combat sequences.

Literally just kicked off Horizon Zero Dawn... ahead of playing Forbidden West later this year!

Impressions so far seem great, and the narrative/cinematics are very impressive.

I've picked 'very hard' difficulty, and will see how I get on with this. I played Ghost-of-T recently on 'Lethal' and felt this was a nice mix of challenge/reward,

Looking forward to diving in!

@CJD87 I recently replayed HZD on PS5 and I thought it still help up really well. The combat takes some getting used to but is really satisfying when you get to grips with all the different weapons.

I hope you enjoy it too!

@Thrillho Cheers man, really looking forward to getting stuck in tonight!

Out of interest, what difficulty did you play on? I've started to become slightly masochistic with my gameplay tastes, with Returnal being my personal GOTY from 2021...

I do love a good story also though, and was blown away by Ghost.

Originally I'd planned to blitz this on 'easy' and just use HZD as a gateway to playing FW. But so many people have told me HZD still stands up today, so I plan to take my time with the opening hours and then potentially decide to platinum..!

@CJD87 great games the both of them. I played both on normal and found that they both felt a little easy by the time I got over halfway through… the initial parts still felt quite challenging though. Good luck on very hard, it could be real tough until you start to get to grips with everything and begin to level up.

@CJD87 Hope you really enjoy the game as much as I did. My wife recently played it through and reminded me just how good the story was and how good the game looks at 60fps on PS5. Makes you realise what good a job they did getting a game to look this good on a PS4.

@colonelkilgore Oh wow you’ve scared me mate, I might dial it down to regular ‘hard’ and see how I get on! I’m looking forward to hopefully soon hearing your thoughts on both Returnal and Hades, honestly think you will adore them

@render @render Oh for sure man, the graphics really hold up in 2022 - this game must have blown minds upon release. Shame it got overshadowed by BOTW…. Similar I guess to Elden Ring taking the thunder from HFW. All great games!

@CJD87 Yeah all good games. Seems that there always has to be a competition to decide a winner but that doesn’t have to be the case. They can all be enjoyed and all have positive and negative points. Good luck with ZD anyway 👍

@CJD87 I just went with standard difficulty.

The difficulty does spike in places; some machines are absolutely brutal but human encounters can be a bit awkward and difficult when they shouldn’t be.

The platinum isn’t a difficult one either. Most of the stuff will come fairly naturally if you’re a completionist like me, it just takes a little extra effort for some of the collectibles.

And yeah, the game still looks amazing! The 60fps patch definitely helps though

Still playing Epic Chef and I have unlocked Pangu bird, that freaky Bird which made a loud scream in the morning and Zest was really hate that. Basically Pangu is a chicken in Epic Chef.
I have expanded my farm size so I can get more money by planting more Potatoes and Evil Mandragora plants to make Ghostatoes by Mixer gadget with selling price 250 Escudos for each.