Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@CaptD well I think there’s a bit of mp in there, so if the servers are still up when that eventually happens, I’ll see you there 🫡

Started Assassins Creed: Rogue this morning and really impressed with it considering it’s one of the more obscure AC titles. As far as the games nuts-and-bolts goes, it’s basically Black Flag but with a different protagonist and narrative. I’m already thinking that it’s a bit of a hidden gem.

@graymamba
Perhaps I should give that a go as well.

@CaptD well if you liked Black Flag I definitely think that you should. I’m about 4 hours in and it’s been great! A really nice surprise as I wasn’t expecting a great big open-ocean to explore… I thought that Black Flag and Odyssey were the only ones that did that for some reason.

So I still have Syndicate, Valhalla, Mirage and Shadows left to play but Rogue is firmly in my top 5 AC games of the ones that I’ve played. Had an absolute ball with it today fair play!

@graymamba where does Black Flag fall in that AC ranking?

@Th3solution it would probably be joint with (or just behind) Rogue as they’re just so similar. The funny thing is that I was actually a bit disappointed in Black Flag as the general consensus is that it’s incredible… and my expectations were off the chart. I did end up thoroughly enjoying it in fairness but I was expecting a bit more I guess. With Rogue though, I had no expectations at all so it’s been the opposite.

Personally I’d probably go:

1. Odyssey
2. Unity
3. Origins
4. Rogue
5. Black Flag
6. Assassins Creed 3
7. Revelations
8. Brotherhood
9. Assassins Creed 2
10. Liberation
11. Assassins Creed

@graymamba ok, that’s what I figured. I do know we have had a few discussions about the AC games before and I distinctly remembered your love for Odyssey, but I couldn’t exactly recall how well you got along with BF. It is true that expectations have a lot to do with perception and so it makes sense that BF disappointed you but yet is top 5 in the series.

I didn’t get along with BF, as you might recall, and so I was curious if Rogue would end up any better. Going in without any expectations could make it click for me, but I definitely need to prioritize Odyssey first for when/if I return to the series.

@Th3solution yeah I think my initial disappointment with Black Flag also stemmed from when I played it in terms of the overall series. It was the third one that I played after really enjoying Odyssey and then Origins. So I was really riding high on the series at the time and had heard that the new (at the time) open-world action rpg Creeds weren’t a patch on the older format… and that Black Flag would blow them out of the water for me.

So at the time I was thinking… hmmm, for me it’s the worst one that I’ve played (even though I enjoyed it). But having since gone back to the beginning and working my way through them all (bar the ones that I mentioned in an earlier post) it really was one of the better games in the series.

Having said all that, as per your experience with it, it’s not for everyone and I wouldn’t recommend Rogue to you as it’s just so similar. Will be super interested to hear what you make of Odyssey when you eventually get around to it though.

@graymamba My experience came from the opposite direction — I played the older ones first, basically in release order (except that I played AC1 after AC 2) so when I got to BF I had finished the Desmond arc and so I think part of my disappointment was the change in storyline and main character. I didn’t click with the Templar background as much as the Assassins. Also the gameplay with the nautical elements grew tiresome for me. I remember just wanting to get to my next island to explore and being really annoyed at the rush of enemy ships that constantly harassed me.

Furthermore, the game came out cross generational (one of my first PS4 experiences) and at an inconvenient time for me personally, so I ended up dropping off the game fairly early. Not to mention it released right at the beginning of the AC avalanche and so it was quickly buried by Liberation, Freedom Cry, Rogue, Unity, and Syndicate, all of which released within two years of BF (!) … which is absolutely crazy to think about now when even sequels and remasters take 4-5 years between releases. But the over-saturation of the AC IP had a lot to do with the extinguishment of my interest. It wasn’t until Origins that I rekindled any curiosity for the series.

Since a lot this this was ‘time and place’ issues, Black Flag was on my list of games to revisit for a long time but at this point, (pardon the pun) that ship has sailed. Rogue might be a good experimental test to see if the timing and interest would be there for that whole style of game. But as mentioned, I think Odyssey will be better for me. It’ll still reintroduce me to the ship gameplay and see if it clicks better this time, and yet have the modern style of storytelling and combat. It just keeps getting pushed down the list by other games 😅

It seems like everyone has their favorite Assassin's Creed, because I tend to favor other games too. I always liked Syndicate, because it features in my opinion the perfected formula of the original game concept. And I think the music is the best of the series and London the most fun city to explore.

Revelations I think was just very good at handling the time machine aspect of those first games in the series. I think it did something very smart in connecting the stories of multiple games to each other in a satisfying way. Which is something they completely fumbled in the following games, upon which they decided to drop that whole angle.

Assassin's Creed 2 is still the game that turned the series from awful into promising.

And I think Black Flag and Unity are both good, because they are both very much games with a distinct character, direction and their own innocations, which I really liked. I never really understood why Unity was hated that much, and Black Flag praised that much, because to me I always kind of held them in similar regard.

Brotherhood and Origins were fine and also totally forgettable, while the other games were in my opinion just not good at all. But I believe many like those, so different strokes for different folks. (I disliked Valhalla so much that I never played any of the subsequent games in the series)

Syndicate
Revelations
Assassin's Creed 2
Black Flag
Unity
Brotherhood
Origins
Odyssey
Assassin's Creed 3
Assassin's Creed

@Herculean That’s interesting and you bring up a good point about Unity. It seems clear that Unity’s horrible launch left a stink on the game that has faded but never fully gone, even after all these years. I’ve seen many other people compliment the game too and I think I would really like the French Revolution setting. The bad press when it released was so pervasive that I avoided it and it led to my wandering away from the series at that point.

If I made my own list of the games I’ve played, it would be:
AC2
Brotherhood
Origins
AC3
Revelations
Black Flag
AC1

So if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that the first game was the worst! 😂

@graymamba
Really enjoying AC Rogue, it came at the right time as I was in the mood for an AC game.
Whale hunting is good fun, very Ressie Evil 4.

@CaptD glad you’re enjoying it mate, I’m still really into it myself. I haven’t really done any side stuff like whale hunting etc. yet but looking forward to trying it all. I’ve just been mainlining the campaign with 100% sync atm. So I just got to the sequence 6 last night, which is the last one I believe, so hopefully I’ll finish that off tomorrow or Monday and then start cleaning up everything else.

@graymamba
I’ve been doing quite a bit of side content, naval battles, hunting mainly for the upgrades.
I have been trying to get 100% on the missions, mostly succeeding but failed on the odd one and it is always the long tedious missions which I fail to get 100% on.

@CaptD yeah I failed one and did intend to not continue until I got 100% but I was a bit ****ed off as I felt I’d met the criteria and didn’t want to waste any further time if it was gonna do me over. Hopefully I’ll make it through to the end now without messing up and then I’ll just have the one to redo 🤞

@graymamba
I did read that you can use the cheats for the 100% sync so I was going to do everything except the cheat trophies and the 100%. Apparently using the cheats may break one of the trophies so I’m avoiding the cheats until then.

@CaptD yeah I heard that too so avoiding them at all costs until I do the cheat-specific trophies.

The Sims 4

Just about to start Resident Evil: Revelations today. I’d checked the trophy guide a while back when pencilling the game into my schedule and even then realised it wasn’t going to be a cake walk (PSN Profiles have it as a 7/10 difficulty and 75 hours to plat) but having done a bit more research last night this is actually gonna be a nightmare. Almost every vid I watched in terms of the platinum journey have it at at least 125 hours and the most difficult of all Resi plats. This one’s gonna be emotional!