Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@oliverp It is liked by a lot more people than you think. Especially the last few years after the release of Yakuza 0 and it being added to gamepass and ps plus did a lot for the popularity in the west. I started my Yakuza journey with the release of Like a Dragon and been a huge fan ever since i played that game. Played every game in the series including the spinoffs. Like a Dragon Ishin coming in february is already pre ordered and cant wait for Like a Dragon 8 and the prequel releasing next year.

@Thrillho I never did actually, play Peace Walker. Now that I’m done with The Phantom Pain I think I’ll watch the Peace Walker “film” on Youtube. 😅

Made a start on my Shura run on Sekiro this afternoon. Well… a bit of a rude awakening after having not played it since 2019 (apart from a brief material farm in late 2020). I hit a wall with the manacled-ogre initially… but it did serve to re-familiarise myself with the mechanics and I’ve made decent progress since as a result.

Loving getting back into it, great game fair play.

@colonelkilgore Is Sekiro still unplatinum’d? Or is it just a replay for replay’s sake?

@Th3solution yeah it’s the one From Software soulsbourne game that I’m yet to platinum. It has 4 endings that you need to achieve and although I save-scummed 3 of them during my initial playthrough in 2019, I left my second playthrough to get the Shura ending (the bad ending essentially) for another time. Didn’t think it would take me 3 and a half years to get back to it but it’s all good.

I like to play two souls-likes a year and having played Elden Ring back in March, life is pretty good when Sekiro will be my second. I know your currently working through Souls on your way to playing Elden Ring… are you thinking about playing Sekiro too?

Doraemon: Story of Seasons
Have accumulated 36+ hours gameplay, in Winter season, start to exploit money maker from selling bread by making from flour + rolling pin

@colonelkilgore The more FromSoft experience I get under my belt, the more comfortable I get with playing the whole catalogue, including Sekiro. I’ve always maintained that I was going to fast-track from DS3 to Elden Ring and then be done (until their next release or maybe the BB Remake) but after being convinced to try DS1, I’m having a good enough time that I am considering just making a clean sweep of all the games. Nevertheless, Sekiro will probably end up being the last to play, given it’s reputation for requiring a different play style and having to relearn a new set of skills. We’ll see.

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On the subject of my DS1 run and since we’re speaking of trophies, I have a trophy question for you or others who plat’d DS1— …So I noticed that a big chunk of the DS1 list is made up of joining all the covenants. Did you do all those in the same run? I’ve read that it can make life difficult when you join a covenant and then drop out as you can become a target for invasion, it can hinder your ability to use some NPC merchants, etc. I met the NPC at the base of the bell tower who houses the list of sinners (or whatever it’s called) and I think he has a method you can use to expunge yourself, but it all seems like a pain in the neck to do. So far I’m in my first covenant and haven’t changed yet. I have no real plans to engage in the online shenanigans of PvP.

Also another big portion of the trophy list is devoted to acquiring the best weapon through all the various reinforcements. It seems like an absolute grind. Is this achievable in a single run also?

I’ve not come close to platinum on either BB or DeS, I think I ended both at around 50-70% completion. And actually I’m satisfied with that. I’m more of a “enjoy getting the platinum if it’s not too inconvenient and I’m enjoying the game” type of guy. I’ll grind or do a little extra work for a plat if it involves like just a few trophies that are left after a thorough playthrough, like maybe 3-4 at the most. Once I see a list of more than 4 trophies left over then I usually dismiss it. Or even if there’s just one trophy left but it require me a complete playthrough or an impossible task (looking at you, Kena) then I’ll also not even try. Anyway, so I have no delusions of going for the DS1 plat, but I’m curious how hard it is to do all the covenants and weapons.

@Th3solution so iirc, you need to do a partial ng+ run at the very least… it might even be more but it’s just been too long to remember the specifics. I’m pretty sure the ng+ run is to do with levelling up the special weapons as there just isn’t enough mats during the one run.

In regards to the covenants, again I could be wrong but I think you can join them all at the same time, so there should be any need to join one, achieve the necessaries, then ditch it and join another. I’m pretty sure that a lot of the covenant requirements can be farmed offline if you’d rather that. There might be one or two that absolutely requires online though.

Hopefully someone else will be able to fill in the blanks or provide any necessary corrections to the above if needed.

Edit. So I just did a bit of googling and all trophies can be achieved offline and a minimum of 2.5 playthroughs are required 👍

@colonelkilgore Thanks, for the info. 2.5 playthroughs is quite a bit. But if I can just knock out all the covenants then I might try that just to get all those bronzes and be able to finish at a better completion percentage.

I’m kinda put off by the fact that I don’t get a trophy for each boss like the other two From games I’ve played. I’m four bosses in so far and none of them gave me a trophy for defeating. That’s why I started scouring the list and see what they grant trophies for in this game. Boss trophies were also a nice checklist to follow and mark progress through the game via boss checkpoints. DS1 is a little more willy-nilly in its progress organization. So the fact I felled Stray Demon, for example, says very little about where I am in the game. Apparently many people don’t do it ‘til towards the end and he (she?) was my second boss fight.

Edit: ooops… for some reason I thought we were in the trophy discussion thread this whole time. Ah well. Apologies, Push Square admin and community. 😅

@Th3solution

I really enjoy playing Doraemon: Story of Seasons PS4 recently.
So far I have accumulated 42+ hours gameplay, have reached Winter season and have exploited money maker from selling bread by making from flour (flour bought from Cafe Delish), that means the more money I got the more bread I can make and even more money I got from selling the breads in shipping bin.

I was wondering, man... Nobita was really busy to make thousand of breads everyday and Doraemon as the courier have to take all the thousand of breads from shipping bin to be delivered to Mayor Ryam and couldn't imagine the complaint from Mayor Ryam and Doraemon to see Nobita keep making thousand of breads and who will buy and eat those thousand of breads. 😆

And making thousand of breads was easy peasy lemon squishy as it only take a minute to transform the thousand of flour sacks (bought from Cafe Delish and I was wondering if Cafet as the Cafe Delish owner has infinite stocks of his products) into thousand of breads with 2.5 stars quality.

@JohnnyShoulder

@RogerRoger
Since I could exploit easy money from making bread in Doraemon Story of Seasons, I was thinking Nobita have a new job as baker and he could produce thousand of breads from unlimited supply of flour from Cafe Delish (Dang, where was the infinite flour come from ? From photocopy machine ?) 😆

And I was wondering who is gonna eat those thousand of breads from Nobita when there are only 25 villagers in the game ? 🤣

@Kidfried Thanks for the reminder. I've been wanting to buy it and put it in the backlog for a while now.

Finally got the Legendary Climber trophy in Catherine: Full Body. Spent hours failing in single mode, grabbed a second controller and did it in three tries in dual player mode... ******* ****
All that's left for that platinum now is gold on all stages.

@Kidfried I’m another one who needs to get around to Nier Replicant. I think subconsciously I’m worried it just won’t live up to Automata. Nevertheless, even if it’s only half as good as Automata, that’s still a pretty darn good game! 😄

I don’t have any Zelda experience, so can’t relate to your comparison, but I’m glad to see it’s resonating well with you. And it’s interesting to hear you say it has a “lightness” about it, because the post-apocalyptic world of NA is quite dreary and the story is really tragic and melancholy.
Does Replicant have as much by way of philosophy, symbolism, and social commentary like Automata?

Doraemon: Story of Seasons.
I keep exploiting easy money from making thousand of breads to become Next Top Baker, not Next Top Farmer. 😆
Thousand breads, thousand breads, who want to eat thousand breads ?

Well after getting destroyed more times than I’d like to admit today… I finally beat the ****! I knew that getting my technique back in to a decent enough place to be able to beat Genichiro on ng+ after over 3 years off was gonna be the make-or-break in regards to whether I can pop this Sekiro platinum. Well it should be all plain sailing from here I reckon 😅

Doraemon: Story of Seasons.
I have successfully ordered greenhouse from carpentery after collecting 12 Diamonds, 36 Gold ores and have tons of money to buy the wood logs for building material.
It will take 7 days in game to finish, then I can plant any crops from any season inside with seasons can, but only one season that you can choose.

@Kidfried Sounds great. Some of what you describe can apply to Automata (existentialist themes, wonderful music) but it sounds like Replicant has maybe a little more light-heartedness. Or perhaps it’s dependent on my mood at the time.

I forgot that you hadn’t played Automata (yet). Given your positive response so far, methinks you’ll probably want to after finishing Replicant. If you think of it, let me know how it ends up. The [true] ending was probably my favorite part of Automata.

I am playing it on a PS5, but I'm still going with Red Dead Redemption 2. Had it since release and have gone through phases with it over that time so have only just got (I would guess) around halfway through Chapter 6. I can see what's coming so I'm starting to get sad.

For me it's the best game ever made. I love everything about it.