Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

Enjoying Stray. Also fun to watch my daughter play it as well. She hands the controller off to me for the challenging zurk parts.
Side question: for premium game trials, do they start as soon as download or when you start playing the game?

So I probably got around 5 hours in on Paradise Killer and… it’s great!

It’s like some kind of hyper-stylised neo-noir detective tale with heavy theological overtones… and it works beautifully. As someone who generally prefers games of the action-oriented variety, I was looking for something a bit more chill today and after initially settling on the brilliant if short-lived The Artful Escape, I decided to try this. I actually like this more! Great characters, awesome exploration… and just oozes style by fusing various visual and audio styles.

@Jimmer-jammer well I hope that I haven’t over-sold it 😅

Stray is very nice so far

@colonelkilgore @Jimmer-jammer I also have never heard of Paradise Killer and it piqued my interest enough to search for it.

And may I say — the PlayStation Store search function is stupid. I typed in the full name of the game and it was like the 15th result, way down the list, after unrelated results like “Squad Killer”, “Burnout Paradise Remastered”, “Pipe Push Paradise”, “Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle”, Buffet’s “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and Queen’s “Killer Queen” for Rockband, “LBP3 Tiki Paradise Asset Pack”, etc, etc.
You literally can’t type in the entire title and go straight to the game. It’s ridiculous. The search logic for the store is just flat broken.

Anyways, rant over — as far as Paradise Killer goes, I’ve read the description and watched the trailer and I’m still not sure what the game is. 😅

@colonelkilgore I had it down between Paradise Killer and Beyond: Two Souls as my next game. I ended up going with the latter, but I've been looking forward to playing Paradise Killer for a while now. Even though I don't use it anymore, I actually discovered the game because of Xbox and Game Pass (I will be playing it on my PS5 still). It will likely be my next game after Beyond: Two Souls.

@Th3solution The store on the PS5 is pretty bad overall. I get around the idiotic things about it, but examples like what you said are all too common. You are better off only typing in half of the game's title rather than the whole thing. The file size is way off because it likely combines both versions of a game, and so is the Friends Who Played counter. Nothing that would get me to switch platforms obviously, but they are still annoying things that chip away at what things could be at times.

I guess people got what they wished for though. Plenty of people wanted a complete overhaul of everything because the PS4's UI was old and the store was too cluttered. I'd take cluttered over just pretty on the outside.

As for Paradise Killer, it is supposed to be a pretty odd game character wise, but it got pretty good reviews overall. It's next on my list of games to play.

@Th3solution well… it’s a “…hyper-stylised neo-noir detective tale with heavy theological overtones…” innit 😉. Nah just joking… it’s a first person detective game that is heavy on exploration. Thematically, it’s quite difficult to pin down but… it’s set on what seems to be the equivalent of a Caribbean archipelago and the characters are totally original but heavily influenced by various pagan historical beliefs. It’s very unique and gripped me within the first 15 minutes.

@KilloWertz so I haven’t played Beyond: Two Souls so I couldn’t comment on whether you’ve made the right decision. This is class though… I’m back at work this morning and all I wanna be doing is getting my ascended-gumshoe on! 😅

@KilloWertz Yeah, I’ve complained about the store before so I’ll try not to sound like a broken record, but in the arena of finding what I’m looking for, it lags way behind storefronts like Amazon or Apple App Store; those stores seem to almost read my mind and knows what I’m looking for before I even know myself. I’ve never even owned a Rockband game (not to mention the game has been completely dead for years) and for some reason Sony wants to sell me tracks for it all the time. It also pulls to the top things like LBP DLC and in-game currency for random games I’ve never even heard of. I’ve never once seen Paradise Killer pop up, and I realize that the game is probably a small indie that won’t get much promotion, but you’d think if I typed in the name of the game it would pop up in the first 5-10 results.

Every major search engine or storefront that I know of has a combination of 1) relevancy AI to show consumers what they are likely to buy, and 2) premium sponsorship that pulls certain items to the top for added screen time in front of the customer. The PS Store seems to have neither very consistently.

@colonelkilgore Thanks, mate. I’m curious if the game will hold up for you. It definitely sounds unique!

Yeah me too actually. As it stands I reckon I must be a good chunk of the way through… maybe halfway (there or thereabouts) and today I’m itching to play it which is obviously a good sign.

One thing, I do think I cottoned on to who the killer is pretty quick… though I could turn out to be wrong. Even if I’m right though, the intrigue is more to do with the characters involved and the dynamics and politics between them. Hopefully they’ll land the ending though.

@colonelkilgore It would have been quite a funny coincidence to have started Paradise Killer at around the same time as you did since it would have been completely random, but I can join the conversation about it eventually since Beyond: Two Souls isn't that long of course. It's around 12 hours. I'm enjoying it so far, but that's not totally surprising since I loved both Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human. I'm glad Paradise Killer is getting some love too though.

@Th3solution You're definitely not wrong on what the search function of their store should be. It does pop up sometimes, but yeah, way too often are you better off typing in half of the name. Makes no sense as it's not like PlayStation isn't a huge brand. Obviously not as big as Amazon or Apple, but it's almost as if they hired a bunch of people that are still in school learning how to do their job rather than a group of people I had faith in to make system software that works as expected 99.9% of the time like with the PS4.

@Jimmer-jammer … so Mr Jammer, in the gaming room… with a dual-sense! 🧐

@Jimmer-jammer ‘common’ dual-sense… how very dare you!

Still, if someone can play any games, let alone From Soft games with a banana (or two)… I guess ‘common’ is right.

Read all the comments on this and the preceding page and I haven't got a clue what most of you are going on about.

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Anyway, Stray, what a delightful little game. Gives me some serious The Last of Us vibes, in terms of atmosphere and seeing a city being corrupted by organic creatures, and in other ways as well. It's a tad confusing at times but I guess that's what it must be like being a cat!

It's visually one of the most impressive games I've played on the PS5 and hearing and feeling one's controller purr really is the cat's pyjamas. I'm mainly playing this now, with some GotG (fun game) and GT 7 on the side.

If you have Extra or Platinum, then no excuse. Play it. Now.

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Wait, what?! I had not planned on going back to this game, but that sounds game plan changer to me!

Currently playing BRIGHT MEMORY: Infinite.Really good FPS and especially considering it was made by one person. Just got done with RAJI: An Acient Epic. I was also really quite impressed with that as well. I'd recommend both to fans of either type of game.

Anyone play dungeon of naheulbeuk or spell force 3? im deciding between the 2 to pick up on sale.

@RogerRoger NG+ is on my 'to-do' list, and I might actually give it a go after R3Make. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, GoT is truly an awesome game

@RogerRoger That sounds like a very fun way of a NG+ implementation. I just finished the game about 4 months ago, so still to fresh to replay it, but this makes me enthusiastic about replaying it through NG+ some day. That game is by far my most favorite game i played this year. Every moment i played i actually felt like i was Jin and not someone playing it, i got so hooked up in the story. Sure at the start i had to get used to the combat, but once i did, the experience was awesome. I hope when i replay it i get the same feeling again

Paradise Killer

The reviews saying that the first hour or so is a bit overwhelming weren't wrong, but now that I seem to have gotten passed that and am actually going through the investigation, things are going a lot more like I had thought they would. I'm hoping it sticks the landing.