Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

Feeling a little worse for wear today due to overdoing the work Xmas do yesterday I felt I lacked the mental facilities for anything taxing today so was gonna avoid gaming. Decided to boot up the new (free) PS5 upgrade of Gris and so glad I did.

A puzzle platformer that is fairly light on gameplay but blimey this thing is still stunning and the perfect serene experience I needed. Graphics and soundtrack combine to create a wonderfully emotive journey which doesn't really explain itself but leads you to explore with little hand holding. Played a couple of hours and think I'm probably about half way through.

I only bother to write this in the hope that one or two people who may be unaware of its existence read my words and go check out some reviews or vids. It is one of those games that makes me question whether or not it can actually be considered as art, it is just beautiful.

@Dusk_Actual
Yeah Spider-Man was awesome but you should definitely get to MM as well. It's a MUCH shorter, streamlined experience and I really appreciated the fact they had removed the stealth bits.

Looking forward to whenever the sequel turns up.

@MaulTsir Yeah, the grenade one is a pain, particularly as you need to do it with a revolver which was a weapon I wasn’t using regularly.

Again, it’s way easier with an augment to slow time. Just find a group on a scanner mission, whittle it down to one or two and keep as much distance from them.

It feels like no one throws grenades when you’re actively trying to get the trophy and then they’ll be relentless once you’ve got it

Wreckfest for my racing fix and Inscryption for my non-racing fix. The latter took me awhile to get into it and a lot of it is in the luck of the draw, but I like how you can almost break the game with making a super card. Lots of twists which subverts expectations, and anyone that in interested in the game I really do urge going in as blind as possible.

The former is fun racing game with added destruction. Nothing spectacular, but is what I needed at the mo.

@MaulTsir I really hope there’s a Carnage/Morbius dlc for Halloween for the next Spidey game. Love that stuff!

@sorteddan I downloaded Miles Morales earlier today, will probably get down with it this next week. I keep trying to get in the mood to play a new game but I’m feeling compelled to unlock all the stuff in SpiderMan and maybe do the dlc. Is the dlc good?

@Dusk_Actual
I found the DLC for the main Spider-Man game to be more of a challenge than anything in the main campaign! I think they introduced some new enemy types which took me a while to adapt to. But if you enjoyed trying to 100% everything as much as I did then I would say you should definitely complete them as well, just so you know that you have and that there was nothing remaining you could have done.

@Dusk_Actual I found the DLC a bit unnecessary and a bit of a grind going straight into it from the main game.

Miles Morales is great though! A much tighter narrative, some new combat abilities, and a cool cast make it feel really fresh.

Think it is really unfair to call Miles Morales dlc and a bit lazy tbh. I enjoyed it more than the first game, with a shorter and tighter experience, with the new powers introduced more fun to use too.

@Jimmer-jammer appreciate the tags, cheers buddy 👍. Glad you’re enjoying Steel Rising… and yeah it’s definitely one that I have on my radar. I’ve been monitoring amazon pretty much daily since it released hoping to catch it on a daily reduction but it never seems to go on sale sadly. I’m in no rush though, I have my souls-likes planned for 2023 (The Surge 2 and Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin… though the latter might not be a souls-like in the strictest sense) but will be even more inclined to pull the trigger on Steel Rising off of the back of your recommendation.

@Jimmer-jammer The Surge was definitely one for the purists. Slow methodical combat, in much the same way the early From Soft souls games played. Build diversity is as good as any souls-likes for me as there is an interchangeable chip system that is very mix-and-match as per personal preference. And while boss diversity was fairly average, mob combat was very good. From what I gather The Surge 2 improves on all fronts, so really excited to finally try it.

As far as Steel Rising is concerned, I love the setting from what I’ve seen. That baroque/belle epoque world is very appealing to me. Also, as you mentioned in regards to level design, I’ve heard that aspect is very good… with the metroidvania inspired aspects especially well implemented. Out of interest, does it run at 60fps on PS5?

@Bentleyma Yeah, it’s a great game. I played it about a year ago and thought it was incredible.

It gets even better once you get to the “main” map too but the first area is gorgeous.

@Bentleyma yeah, time has been real kind to Death Stranding with many of the gamers who were originally put off by the ‘parcel-delivery’ gameplay-loop actually really enjoying it once they give it a go. Such a haunting and atmospheric game… I often reflect on my time with it, even though it’s been about 3 years since I played it.

Internet went down yesterday, so had a look at Death's Door and ended up playing about 3 hours of it! It really pulled me in. I'll be back at Cyberpunk later tonight but I'll definitely be jumping on to this game after I've finished Cyberpunk and then Ragnarok, it will definitely break up my big rpg games I've been playing lately

I started Midnight Suns today, after waffling about whether to mop up some trophies in Spiderman or begin Miles Morales. I’m no trophy hunter, unless it’s easy trophies.
Midnight Suns is pretty good thus far. I’ve not read much of the comics, almost all my marvel experience is via the movies and ComicsXplain on YouTube, so I don’t know how much the characters resemble their comic book counterparts. Iron Man seems pretty close to the Downey Jr Iron Man from the movies though.

@KAIRU oh I'm prepared 🤣 recent playthroughs of Bloodborne and Demon's Soul's have given me extra xp in patience

Currently playing through Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

Really enjoying the story, however just purchased Elden Ring, so not sure how much time will get put into it now...

Mount and Blade 2 is as good as I’d hoped. Modernises while keeping the janky essence of the series. Nice to hear some of the old music too!

I bought a couple of the PSN store sale items, and I’ve been playing a little of this, a little of that, emphasis on the lat. Specifically,
—Biomutant. It’s a gorgeous game, and it’s been keeping my interest pretty well.
—Nobody Rules the World. I introduced it to my nephews today, and they sat around the tv playing it in couch co-op mode for several hours.
—Videokid. It’s a fun retro remake of Paperboy with blocky, Minecrafty graphics and loads of 1980s tv, movie, and pop culture references.
—Leap of Fate. A PS4 roguelite gem that’s worth a look if you like arcadey, twin stick action and low prices.
—Silver Chains. A PS4 survival horror game that’s got a bunch of puzzling situations that you have to work your way through. Is it scary? Not really, but it’s a good few hours of entertainment at a low sale price.

@jgrangervikings1 Having completed Biomutant a couple of months ago I’d advise you to ignore lots of side content otherwise you’ll get burnt out as there’s just too much.

You can also tinker with settings to turn the frequency of the narrator right down so you don’t hear the same lines over and over and over from him. Turning off the chatter from NPCs also helps as that got on my nerves after a while.

Make use of the crafting mechanics too as a lot of the best weapons I had in the game were ones I made. Saving the best gear for a 7* weapon is definitely worth it though!