Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

I just spent about 3 hours making a single checkpoint worth of progress in Stranger of Paradise, in what I believe is the penultimate story mission, still playing on hard mode.
You’re forced to go this one alone (without the other 2 party members) so it took that long to find a build and a tactic that actually worked, after a long time trying things that almost worked
I guess it’s a good thing I’m a calm and patient person

1. Returnal: Trying to get the last piece of sun fragment, get the trophy for Act 3, and then start more runs in the Tower of Sissphus.

2. Horizon FW: Finishing up a few odds and ends. Going for the Plat. But it’s a bit on the back burner since Returnal is consuming my life again, just like it did last summer.

3. Dead or Alive 6: Comfort food basically. Doing the DOA Quests.

4. Fortnite. Get the weekly challenges.

Started SpongeBob for a laugh and now have 71 golden spatulas may as well get the 100 and find all Patrick's socks for the plat.

Still to finish up the last 8% of HFW so probably get that done over the weekend, will no doubt go on a photoshoot whilst playing!

What should I play next? I have Death's Door and Indivisable lined up for smaller games before I maybe tackle GotG, Yakuza 5. Might need to get into the scheduling malarky 😂

@MightyDemon82 So is SpongeBob worth playing? I think @Voltan mentioned that it wasn't that great but he didn't mention golden spatulas, now I'm intrigued!

I can give a nod to Death's Door and GotG, both of which I really enjoyed and would happily play again. They would be a totally different experience to Horizon and no doubt SpongeBob as well 😆

@render It's nothing special but it's not the worst game ever. If your looking for a 3D platformer it's good for what it is, being an older game though it has the usual suspects like annoying camera angles, finicky platforming but I'm enjoying it for the silly SpongeBob humour and it's not a big game as it hasn't taken me that long to get through it.

@render I mean, it seems OK, I guess - but it's definitely no Spyro The Dragon

@Voltan I don't really rate Spyro that high myself, it's ok. Like SpongeBob they were older games just given a new coat of paint. Still need to get the platinums for 2-3 since I've got the bug now.

Astro's Playroom and Astrobot Rescue Mission are the new gold standard in platformers and they are playstation games which is a great achievement.

@MightyDemon82 @Voltan It's the sort of game I know the kids would like to play through with me so always good to know if something is totally awful before we start it. I don't want to commit myself to something that I would hate but have no choice to play it because they like it 😉

@MightyDemon82 I really liked Spyro (the remakes anyway) myself. I think it's the fact than he runs around kinda fast
Astro is of course brilliant and so is Sackboy

Btw I also tried Slay The Spire (still in my first run) and liked it a lot but it definitely seems made for small scale handheld gaming. It's on iOS too so maybe I'll get it there.

Edit: I did get it on iOS... let's see how much I'll actually play it

@render Your kids would love it. Just turned 40 and I myself have been laughing at times with the Humour!

@Voltan ooh I need to play Sackboy.

@MightyDemon82 Happy belated 40th to you. I'm 44 now and still enjoy a lot of childish humour in things. I know it's coming but one day the kids will be rolling their eyes rather than laughing along with me. You do need to play Sackboy, it's an excellent game. I was hoping one day to get the platinum but the last challenge for that is actually really difficult, much like a lot of the optional content in the game.

@MightyDemon82 Happy Belated 40th as well...

As for the games, I'd recommend Guardians of the Galaxy and then Sackboy. GotG was at worst my 2nd favorite game from last year (between that or Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart). I haven't played Sackboy yet either, but I want to at some point as well. The only reason I didn't mention Death's Door is because I tend to pass on the Souls-like difficulty games, but it's obviously really good if you don't mind games with that kind of difficulty.

@render Thanks, It's good to not fully grow up, I get that from my niece's and nephews. My dad even at 65 has discovered a love for the minions through my niece's and nephews, something I never saw coming 😂.

Slowly getting my other half into gaming, I have It takes two ready to go soon and Sackboy is definitely a great shout if I can tear her away from Mario Kart and Animal Crossing!

@KilloWertz Thanks, I don't mind a challenge but my Mrs doesn't like my potty mouth when things aren't going so well 😂

@MightyDemon82 Usually she doesn't say anything but having told missus render that I did enjoy my time with Elden Ring today she said she'd never heard me swear so much and that perhaps I should give up gaming. I quipped that she'd just said that so she could spend more time on the PS5 herself and even though she didn't confirm that I'm sure that's what she was angling at 😂

I'm sure you will both really love It Takes Two as we both enjoyed it. We started playing A Way Out but my wife did not connect with that in the same way so we haven't finished it. She's hooked on to loads of games that I originally liked but she wasn't too keen on such as Hollow Knight, Returnal and Hades. In fact in the case of HK and Hades she's actually put way more hours into those games than I ever did and started over from scratch once she'd finished both just to experience them from the beginning again.

@render My Mrs says similar things to me when I'm playing games that make me swear, maybe your onto something. You don't want her getting into too many games or you'll never get a go 😉

@render @MightyDemon82 @KilloWertz @Voltan After playing through Sackboy I realised I suck at 3D platform games! It is a good game overall, but I found it a bit too tricky in the later stages. I ended up just scraping through the levels and ignoring all the optional objectives and challenge levels.

Still wanna give the Spyro collection a go as that is supposed to be not that difficult.

@JohnnyShoulder The thing about Spyro is that the majority of the things to do in the game is optional and it's extremely easy if you just want to get through to the next level - but not so much if you want to get 100%

Still on Elden Ring, lagging way behind pretty much everyone else. Getting there!

@LieutenantFatman No big deal. I'm the same, just with Horizon Forbidden West instead. Most people here have finished it, but I'm still going at close to 90 hours and it'll still be a while.