Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@Kidfried Oh yeah. I find that the entire arsenal has some utility. Blast wires are great for both offensive (traps) and defensive (spacing, especially when you string them along choke points) purposes. The elemental sling is OK when I want to freeze or shock an enemy. I don't see much use for shock or frost arrows when I can just use the vastly superior slings, but fire arrows are amazing. Put a few 40%+ fire element mods on your bow and you can set pretty much anything on fire quickly. It's amazing for tough human enemies.

Even the piddly spear has its uses, as running up and stabbing an enemy when they've fallen is an amazing way of inflicting damage.

@RogerRoger
In fairness, it took me 40 hours or so to plat Lego Batman 3 - I was not having fun by the end of it really. Anything to cut a couple of corners is perfectly valid for those games!

@RogerRoger Ha!

It was the Duck Dodgers Green Loontern missions that did for my enjoyment of Lego Batman 3 i think. It was quite fun other than that!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy lol

What do you think of it so far?

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah. I believe you don't even unlock hard difficulty until you play it on normal the first time.

Also consider that Jill is kind of "easy mode" anyway thanks to her better starting gear. She's my preferred character, though. There's a limit to how often I want my teeth to be kicked in.

If you complete it on normal or hard with both characters, you can unlock a mode that makes the enemies invisible. Y'know, if the game wasn't already brutal enough.

It's a beautiful, atmospheric, and sometimes harrowing experience. And so, so different from the PS1 original tonally.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy It's optional in the sense that you can choose not to play the invisible enemies mode.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy There's a trophy tied to it, I believe. RE games always seem to have really hardcore trophy requirements.

Battle Chasers and really enjoying it. I'm normally not a big turnbased guy but it has it's hooks in me.

@Splat nice! I was about to buy it then saw that it is coming to android soon for $10. I think it will play well on my phone.

I've actually recently started up Knack, which I got on sale for $4 months ago.

I'm actually finding it to be a pretty nice time so far. It's no God of War or Spider-Man, but it's not a bad game, IMO. It looks pretty nice, and gameplay, while simple, is responsive & solid. If I had any complaints, it's that I think Knack's design is a bit ugly, and the medieval troll civilization doesn't fit the rest of the world, which has more of a sci-fi vibe (almost like they're leftovers from a time when the game could have had a different theme).

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I'm looking forward to your thoughts.

Am I correct in remembering that you never actually beat the original RE1?

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Bosses weren't really RE1's forte, and that carries over to the remake.

Although I think the shark and snake are cooler bosses than the more elaborate foes you fight in later games, if only because of how different they are.

You have to shoot Birkin's eye so much in REmake 2 that he started feeling like a Zelda boss.

I'm definitely a little late to the party but I'm currently playing Spider-man. About 30% into the campaign and things seem to be really heating up!

On the heels of seeing Spider-Man: Far From Home I thought no better time than the present to finally play Marvel’s Spider-Man. I’m only just an hour into it, but first impressions are favorable. The game has been discussed ad nauseam so I won’t belabor, only to say it’s true how everyone says it feels very ... familiar. Like Batman from the Arkham series except quicker and nimbler. Maybe like Devil May Cry meets Batman Arkham City. We’ll see if it grabs me strongly, but it’s decent fun so far.

Peter Parker’s voice sounded so familiar and it kept bothering that I couldn’t place it, so I had to google it. Turns out it’s Yuri Lowenthal is the voice actor. He is great in the role so far with the recurrent funny quips and youthful exuberance to his performance. And he sounds so familiar because he also is the voice of Persona 4’s Yosuke Hanamura! Such a perfect voice casting. He nails the goofy, funny teenager really well.
As a side note, looking at Lowenthal’s resume’ I didn’t realize how prolific he is as a VA, with roles in Prince of Persia, Fire Emblem, Saints Row, Castlevania, etc.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah, I didn’t realize who he was until now. A lot of his work is Japanese games and anime which I don’t know as well.

I'm sure he plays random npcs in GTAV. Immediately recognised Yosuke from P4G when I heard a conversation between pedestrians.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy How is Shadow of War? That’s a game that fell off the face of the earth pretty quickly. Supposedly a really good game but I think it was killed by the bad press from microtransactions. I saw a pre-owned copy at GameStop yesterday going for $9 and thought that was amazingly cheap for such a high profile that’s not even 2 years old yet. I didn’t buy though. The first game was good, not great, so I’ve not felt it quite worth my time despite it being supposed better than the first one by a significant margin.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Thanks for the early impressions! It sounds about like I expected. Maybe it’ll be something to consider if the mood strikes.

@Kidfried Yeah it does sound a little disappointing. Probably a skip for me. So not even as good as the arcade mini game Outrun in Yakuza? 😛

How’s AC Origins treating you?

@Kidfried Yeah, have to agree with your goods and bads here. It's knockabout fun for a while. Was playing it in four-player the other day and it was pretty funny trying to ram each other off the track. There's a lot of comedy value in attempting to mess up the race for your co-op partner.