Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@LN78 be careful dude, even with your laissez faire attitude to gaming, that first platinum could change you at the core level. Before you know it, you’ll be drafting 3 year schedules 🤣

@RogerRoger oh I’ll look forward to dealing with that when I play it later this year then 😅.

@LN78 it was indeed… but I’m making an effort to be less of a dweeb and up my coolness rating a la @JohnnyShoulder (he’s an inspiration)

@LN78 Think the world would be in all time low place for me to considered a role model in any shape or form!

@JohnnyShoulder That's only partially true. We'd all make horrible role models.

Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town

Entering Winter season year 2, still working my butt to get level 8 fishing skill in order to get guardian bait recipe. Still working my butt for getting at least 5 rare crops for Spirit Request.

@KilloWertz I feel sorry for the kids. That generation is totally screwed.

I've finally reached 2017 in going through my chronological games list, playing HZD. Really enjoying it and I'm going to take my time on it. Yakuza 0 was my previous game, good game but man the cut scenes are looooong.
I recently got Dishonored Definitive Edition and Dishonored 2 dirt cheap in the PS store so I'm gonna have to break my forward chronological progress and go back to 2015 for the first Dishonored. Anyone else played them? Any opinions?

@bluedex Unfortunately I wasn’t much of a fan of Dishonored, but I’m in the minority. Most people really liked it. I was recently commenting how first-person perspective often ruins games for me and that’s where I’m coming from, so take my experience with a grain of salt. The game’s interactive nature and how your approach to the game changes things about the world is a pretty cool idea. Good luck with them and hopefully you find some fun there!

@Th3solution Add this to the list of times I've had to ask you, but who is your new avatar? It's impressive, but I couldn't tell you what it's from.

Some people can stick to one avatar, as I've had the same one since I joined.

Finally looped back around to Mad Max for an hour last night… and it took a wee while to get my head around the survival/resource management system prevalent. Totally forgot that your car needed fuel and that Max needed water. I managed to locate some of each before I logged off though 😅.

It’s a really good open-world interpretation of the movies tbh, the driving feels solid and there appears to be a pretty comprehensive upgrade system available for the car itself and a lesser one for Max. Combat isn’t my favourite, it being a Arkham free form variant. The controls take a little getting used to too, with odd button choices for certain actions but I’m sure I’ll get used to it. The game looks decent but the frame rate is pretty choppy when tearing across the radioactive wastelands… the growling engine sound effects soften the blow somewhat though.

To top it off (the ‘make’ for me but the ‘break’ for many) it’s pretty much a Ubisoft cookie-cutter Mad Max game (though not made by Ubisoft). Think I’m gonna enjoy it.

@colonelkilgore I always had soft plans to play Mad Max , but never got around to it. There’s near universal “hey this game is actually pretty good” types of impressions about it. Rarely have I ever heard that someone hated it.

I’m just a casual fan of the franchise though, so there was never enough pull to get me to try it. Glad that it’s turning out to be fun for you!

@KilloWertz Honestly, I don’t know who it is. I came across it randomly on a gif search engine and liked it so much I used it. I have a feeling that it’s just a random internet person who puts their videos online just on a lark. I figured she wouldn’t care if I grabbed it since it was out there for public display.

Usually I change out the avatar about once every couple months, just for my own kicks. I respect those who stick with one permanently though. There is a certain convenience to being able to see the familiar profile pic or gif and knowing the user at a glance.

Usually I select an image or gif that encompasses something that I’m doing currently, so it’s usually something from the main game I’m playing or the main TV show I’m watching if I’m hyped about it. Since Christmas I’ve not done much gaming and I haven’t been obsessed with any of the TV shows I’ve watched lately. So “random girl acrobatically spinning a katana” seemed as cool and unique as I could muster. And sweet abs too.

@Th3solution that’s fair mate… I’m not a huge fan of the film series myself (though I am a huge fan of Mad Max 2: Road Warrior specifically). What I would say is that if you ever see it real cheap… like £5/$5 it might be worth picking up for a rainy day.

@LN78 yeah that’s a good comparison actually… and those Shadow of… games were decent fair play. It’s not to say I didn’t like the Arkham games either (I rate Arkham Asylum very highly) I’m just not a huge fan of the free flow combat system is all.

So I’ve played Arkham Asylum and Arkham City but not plat’d either. I am considering going back to try for the plats though… but I’m aware that getting the gold awards in the combat challenges are meant to be tricky. Can’t remember the Riddler challenges specifically but I’m sure that you’re right about them.

I had only popped a few platinums by the last time that I played them so I was happy (at the time) just to finish the main game… things have changed since then though and these days I’m constantly weighing up whether I go back and attempt the platinum on unfinished trophy lists on my profile.

@Th3solution It's actually more of a "shock" when somebody who has had the same avatar for a long time all of a sudden changes their's, or has always had the same username and then changes it. I think we've all gotten used to you changing your's every couple of months. It can be turned into a game of guess the new avatar. Obviously this one was impossible since it's obviously just something random.

Yeah, she's definitely impressive on multiple levels. Just hopefully she's not lurking around and gets the wrong idea from your compliment.

@LN78 ahh fair enough… I’ve plat’d a few games where the grind can get too much in fairness. I’ll keep that in mind though and if I ever do decide to Return to Arkham 😉 as it were… I’ll try and slot it in amongst some light & fluffies 🤣

@bluedex I always felt the Dishonored games were a bit of a missed opportunity.

The world the games are set in are excellent and one of the best parts of the games. The level design is also really cool so there are normally loads of different ways to approach a level. The Clockwork Mansion in the second game is a particular highlight!

The combat is also great fun with so many abilities to unlock but the biggest problem with the games is that killing people is the “wrong” way to play so the game gives you all these abilities and then essentially punishes you for using them.

The flip side to that is that the non-lethal takedowns of the main enemy in the regions is almost always the more interesting thing to do with some quite clever and twisted ways to do so.

I seem to remember the games being very generous with quick save/load abilities so if you want to try and do completely stealthy runs it’s easy to “rewind” slightly and try again but I’m sure doing so made my run through as about three times longer

@Thrillho Have you played (and if so, how do you feel about) Deathloop and Prey?

As I said above, I don’t usually like first person games and I didn’t quite click with Dishonored, so I’ve ruled out the other Arcane games. But both are up for grabs for “free” on PS+ Extra and I’ve pondered whether to put them on my “might play one day” list. Chris on Sacred Symbols gushed with praise about Prey and Colin gushed with praise about Deathloop and interestingly both of them didn’t get along with those games in their first attempt and it was after going back to it months later that they really appreciated it. So I am wondering if Arcane games are just like that. Perhaps they don’t give very good first impressions and require a little getting used to.

@KilloWertz With the katana skills and washboard abs like that, I definitely don’t want to give her the wrong idea. If she tells me to take her gif down, I will meekly and obediently comply.

@Th3solution Until then, enjoy.

@Th3solution I haven’t played either of those. Prey just never came around at the right time and the Deathloop core game mechanic just sounds kind of annoying to me!

But I know you mean with those other comments about the games because despite all the negative things I said about Dishonored, I still really liked the games. It just always felt as though there was something I couldn’t quite put my finger on that stopped them being classics.