Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@HallowMoonshadow I have to admit that I mostly ignore the XBox (and Nintendo) events and announcements. But now that I look at it, I do remember a buzz about whether it would be XBox exclusive as the trailer suggests, until it leaked that it was slated for PlayStation as well.

The trailer looks good and sure does look like it could even be called “Persona 6”. It probably coming late next year so maybe by then I’ll be back in the mood for something in that genre

I'm excited for Metaphor: ReFantazio. A brand new, big-budget Atlus JRPG IP? Sign me up. Those don't come out too often.

@HallowMoonshadow Difficulty balancing is an issue with recent Persona games. P5 was ridiculously easy on the highest difficulty setting, and the same is truer of P5R. Which is too bad, because, unlike you, I consider it to be one of the best JRPGs ever made otherwise. Top three game from Atlus.

My ideal is P5R, but with SMT V difficulty balancing, where it's very challenging on the hardest difficulty, but not complete BS like Nocturne was.

Oh god, I love Gravity Rush. It was one of my primary reasons for getting a PS Vita. It's obviously not as impressive on a PS4 as it was on a Vita, but the heady rush of excitement I get from the game's gravity shifting antics and wild mid-air combat encounters is still there. And the gorgeous music, and the neat, surrealistic environments, and the cool motion comic-esque cutscenes... it's still magic.

I maintain my previous position that, no matter how few people played their games, Japan Studio was, far and away, Sony's most exciting first-party developer, and so much of my interest in the brand is gone now that they've been scrubbed from the Earth.

I actually looked at the trophy list before buying Theatrhythm. I suck at rhythm games (despite enjoying them), so I needed to know the plat was achievable for me. There's a few trophies that might take some time, but they all seem doable.

@Ralizah you’re bang on regarding Japan Studio, they were a big part of the PlayStation identity, it’s a huge loss, especially combined with Sony’s vanilla focus on the increasingly played out AAA third person action adventure.

@kyleforrester87 Totally agree. Japan Studio was putting out games that felt like classic Playstation, even as all of their other studios became increasingly Naughty Dog-ized. They added much needed diversity to their exclusives output.

Clearly Sony is very good at the particular type of game their studios now specialize in making, but it's depressing for those of us who enjoyed offerings that weren't photo-realistic movie games.

@HallowMoonshadow Great minds indeed! Funnily enough though, I've stopped playing it. I had last week off work so I managed to play a good few hours of it, but time has been short then. I'll definitely pick it up again at some point though, it's a lot of fun

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RE Soul Hackers 2: I tried Soul Hackers 2 for a few hours on Game Pass. It's alright so far. I get the sense I'll like it if I ever properly get into it. It should have been a new IP, tbh, since it feels nothing like the original Soul Hackers in terms of gameplay or tone. Then I wouldn't need to make direct comparisons, which almost never flatter SH2.

Sort of like that team's previous game, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, I feel like it's probably a fundamentally decent game that just does a terrible job of selling itself.

I will say I'd like the game way more if it styled itself more after SMT and put more of a focus on the demons in battle. but alas.

And yeah, Ringo's snark seems to be everyone's favorite aspect of the game.

I'll probably play it on the Steam Deck OLED once I get that. I may not be able to have a Switch version, but I'm intent on playing it on a handheld!

RE Raidou: Nope! If I can get some PS2 action going smoothly on the Deck, though, I'll probably be tempted to give at least the first one a go.

RE P5R: IMO the new story elements add a LOT to the game. The third semester expansion gives it a VASTLY better final act, for one thing, with the new villain arguably being the best one I've encountered in an Atlus game to date.

It also allows you to plat the game in one complete playthrough, which I appreciate so much, considering how annoying the trophy lists usually are for Atlus JRPGs, and especially for the original release of P5.

Persona 5/Royal's soundtrack is a top three gaming soundtrack for me, so I couldn't disagree more with your assessment. But I also thought most of the tunes in Persona 3 were mediocre to borderline unlistenable, so that's where I'm coming from.

currently playing Kombat League for Mortal Kombat 11. Today Im doing ok but jeez some other players are being total psychos where one person was playing as Jax and kept doing punch dashes at me pushing me into a frikkin corner and kept doing gotcha grabs on me which was ticking me off.

then there's those playersr who lose one match and then they just have to choose Scorpion or Saibot and spam teleport moves on me which gets real annoying.

Those players really need to stick with the fighter that they had in the first place instead of resort to spam fests

So I have a quite nice time replying the Last of Us 2 atm (could not really wait for the remaster/remake hehe).

Started up DOOM 3 again. I'm still craving more horror shooters after playing through Dead Space (2023). Such a fun game with elaborately and frequently placed jump-scares. One guy could be hiding in a corner where there's no light, another could be hiding behind a wall with health items in front so that you won't suspect a thing. I'm absolutely loving it, although the gameplay feels a bit dated and the guns don't quite pack the same punch as in the older DOOM games. But man, I didn't know I needed horror in my DOOM game. It's just so fitting for the series.

@LtSarge Yeah Doom 3 is great and it is a shame that it received a poor reception on its initial launch.
I played it a few years back on the PS4 and recently the PSVR version which is quite scary, not least the tiny heads on the NPCs (yes there are a few issues but it plays well).

@RogerRoger @AgentCooper @CaptD It's crazy to me that the game had a poor initial reception. This seems like one of those games, like Halo: CE and Half-Life, that pushed the FPS genre forward. And in terms of the horror aspect, I feel like some horror series were inspired by DOOM 3, such as the FEAR series.

Granted, when I started playing the game, it didn't feel much like DOOM. But the more you play, the more it'll feel like it. I now have a wide arsenal of weapons, including the chainsaw, and I'm having a blast mowing down enemies, just like in the previous entries. It's so much fun!

sort of playing Kombat league for Mortal Kombat 11 since today is the last day for the Kombat League Reptile skin going on. My points were decaying a little bit so had to do 2 or 3 kombat sets to raise them back up a little bit but not much. I only had to play through the stupid kombat league previously this month for the Reptile skin for Scorpion. the other rewards i dont care for too much

I've been back on Bloodborne for a week or so (first time since 2015), and things were going smoothly, but Old Yharnam has proven to be a barrier yet again. Slogged through the Hunter gunner, now I'm back to Blood-Starved Beast kicking my butt again, despite having little issue with the first two bosses or almost any of the major bosses in Elden Ring and Dark Souls lol.

Which is funny, considering his counter windows are pretty generous with one of his attacks.

Still not a huge fan of this game, despite having a renewed appreciation for this developer's work.

I'm currently taking a break from Baldurs Gate III (in Act 3) to replay Bloodborne. Playing around with arcane this time, and went for the hunters axe for my starter weapon for the first time.

I lost a lot of time on ps4 in witcher 3, I really wish I had cs on ps watching the pros play this game https://bo3.gg/tools/compare/players

Alright. BSB is dusted. So is Vicar Amelia. Also gained access to the Hypogean Gaol. The boars there are amazing for farming blood vials. Now it's off to fight the witches.

Right so I have finally after some years begun to play God of War 3. It feels as such a cool and interesting game. Now as usual as is the case with me I dont expect to beat the game in a day or two as many of you here manage do to. It usually takes a little bit longer for me to finish a game. That dos however not mean that dont have a great time with the game (I really have). It feels so cool to finally play a God of War game again (a franchise which I have very found memories of playing some years ago). I really try to think and analyze things as I play and yeah might come back with a more proper review later but I can state Iam impressed with the game so far.

@LtStrage Its cool that you found Doom 3 to be good. I think I will pick up a copy of the game myself soon. That being said, I feel like Wolfenstein deserves some attention as well. I mean it often feels like people tend to focus more on Doom and forgot about the Wolfenstein franchise these days. Not sure if it is because of the 30 years anniversary that Doom and not Wolfenstein have gotten so much attention as of late. I do think in retrospect that Wolfenstein must also have been an influential franchise. Its a franchise which I think are cool at least and somewhat unique.

Went back to Bloodborne today and have played a good deal. No idea how far in I am.

I don't know who Mergo is, but her Wet Nurse can bite me. I lost 30,000 souls to that thing. Although at least it's a real boss fight. That Micolash one was just pathetic. Weird ninny with a cage on his head runs around howling, and it seems random as to when he decides to run toward the room in that first area.

Still my least favorite Soulslike game from From Software to date.

edit: Wait... it's over?

That was anti-climactic.

Not as bad as the last bit of Elden Ring, at least. From Software can't end a game to save its life.

Couldn't have uninstalled it faster if I tried.

@HallowMoonshadow The old dude decapitated me in the garden, and I woke up in town again. So... happy... ending...?

Yeah, I'm sure there's more content, but are all the endings just sort of abrupt like this? That's been my experience with all From Software games to date.

Oh, good, so I'm not the only one.

Boring environments. Limited customization. Way too many things that exist just to be a nuisance (like the gunner in Old Yharnam, or that building that kept shooting spikes at me in the Nightmare of Mensis). The game has decent music during some boss fights, but there's almost nothing otherwise musically.

I'm better at it in the sense that I wasn't continually getting lost like I did the first time, but it's still not particularly fun.

Performance and image quality are terrible. Dark Souls Remastered on Switch, of all things, looked so much better than this.

Like Super Mario 64 and the original Xenoblade Chronicles, I'm glad I finally beat it. But also like those games, I never want to play it again.