Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

Fairly impressed with FIFA 23 so far. The single player career mode is pretty good, just in pre-season with Fulham. The soundtrack being filled with classic tunes from across the series is a great move too, such a good send off for the FIFA brand. Just hearing Jerk It Out from FIFA 2004 is an instant nostalgia hit for me! And obviously Song 2 being in there is essential.

@nessisonett Yeah the Fifa 23 game seems really impressive to me. Would it have been cheaper there is a slight possibility that I would pick up the game (have been very impressed from what I have seen from the game) Looks so nice!

@LN78 Hahaha, I had an interview at 5AM because of the time difference in the States!

@nessisonett Nice! Are you considering taking a job over here? Come and join all the fun on this side of the Atlantic!

@Th3solution I’m mostly hoping for something that can be done remotely but who knows!

Just started midnight suns. I'm surprised how much i like the combat. Also liking the abbey aspect so far.

2 tough boss fights away from Platinum on GOTY '22 - GOD OF WAR: Ragnarok!!! What an absolutely incredible, awesome, fun game!!!

I think eFootball has realised that I now own FIFA because the free player I got today was Peter Schmeichel.

Right now, after having completed the remastered version of the Last of Us for the first time I'm quite excited to have begun playing the Resident Evil 2 remake (a game I that have been really looking forward to play). Now I must state that I find the game quite fun and beautiful so far. It's honestly a bit challenging at times so I guess it may take me a while before I beat the game.. Now that might not be as big of a problem because I have kind of made it one of my goals this year to not to feel so pressured to beat as many games as I can but rather take some time and enjoy the games I decide to play. I already have quite fun just exploring the Police Station..

With that said I already looking forward towards playing the next game in the backlog hehe.

I must state that Im a bit curious that given how many copies of RE2 that was sold how many people actually manged to beat the game.

@Jimmer-jammer Forbidden West was my game of the year last year, so I'm glad it finally really clicked for you as well. The side content is one of the game's biggest strengths, as it's usually more interesting than not given that they are stories specific to that particular area rather than just random quests. I really don't think the game got enough credit for that.

I do hope that your next 50 with it goes good too. It should as I thought the Las Vegas portions of the game were quite enjoyable as well, with some really good and also comical character interactions.

@Jimmer-jammer You're welcome, and the gear from that set of side quests is definitely awesome. Finally being able to swim underwater for as long as you want to was great.

It's a real shame it got overlooked for basically every game award it could have won, but us loving the game is more important obviously.

Marvels Midnight Suns. The funny thing is, before the game came out, it wasn't really on my radar. Never been a big strategy RPG fan and the only card game i played was Magic the Gathering, but that's totally different. When i was looking for a Christmas present for myself i decided to read a bit more into this game because it got some pretty good reviews (83 and 90% recommendation on Opencritic).

I gotta say this game surprised me in every possible way. It is basically a mixture between a social sim and something like Xcom. It has a day/night cycle like Persona. During the day you work on friendships with the other heroes. You do this by talking to heroes, spar with them or join a hangout. With these hangouts you can chose dialogue options which can increase or decrease the frienship as well as your light and dark balance. So dialogue option do matter even though it is just a little bit. The hangout events include several things. One moment you're painting with Blade and the next one you're hanging by the pool with Captain Marvel.

The game also has a lot of RPG elements. It mostly is upgrading buildings, improve cards or even create cards for the heroes, which can make them stronger. You can also opt to use specific resources to change the outfits of heroes of the room where the main character the Hunter stays, but it is truly optional and doesn't take resources away from the important parts.

The best part of the game are the missions. You can do 1 mission a day which can be either a story mission or a side mission to get materials for research, making and upgrading cards etc. Each mission has goal and if you complete that goal you will be rewarded. Difficulty and how fast you do a mission will affect the amount of resources you get at the end. There are 8 difficulty levels, from story mode to super difficult. Each turn you start with 8 cards and the cards you didn't use will stay in your hand on the next turn. There are basically 2 types of cards: normal and heroic. Normal cards generate heroic points. Heroic points can be used on heroic cards or be used to use certain "elemental" attacks, like exploding barrels. It requires some tactics to decide which cards are best to play in which situation.
The game definitely flew under the radar of a lot of people while it is such a good game. It isn't a short game, i am a pretty slow game and currently clocking at 60 hours and am at 2/3 of the story. Length can vary based on how many side missions you do. If you don't mind longer games, social sim elements and like strategic battles, i would highly recommend this game.

@sorteddan i promised to tag you in when i would share my impressions so hereby

@Lavalera
Thanks for remembering. I imagine I will definitely get to it somewhere down the line and have little doubt I will enjoy the battle system. I'm still more concerned at the 'social' side as that's honestly the main reason I've never bothered with Persona 5 despite all the hype. Who knows though, I may enjoy painting with Blade?!

Glad you're enjoying it though, hope it continues for the final third.

@Lavalera Thanks for your thoughts on the game! It’s one I’ve got on my wish list for some point in the future but it’s cool to hear someone actually playing/enjoying it.

@sorteddan Same here with the social stuff, but the glowing report from @Lavalera has piqued my interest.

@Lavalera Glad to see that you highly enjoyed Midnight Suns despite not being a huge fan of the genre. I plan on getting it at some point. I probably would have gotten it now that it's on sale for $50, but I already committed to buying Forspoken a while back, so definitely when things settle down this will be high on my priority list.

About 2 hours in on Biomutant. I'm having a great time. There is a lot of talking, but I skip through most of it. The combat is fun and varied enough so far. I also like the weapon and gear modifications. Hopefully it holds up the rest of the game.

@Jimmer-jammer Yeah, it pretty much is a replay of Zero Dawn in that it has gotten overlooked for things like awards but still ends up being pretty successful sales wise. Maybe luck will be there for Horizon 3, but in the end as long as Guerrilla sticks the landing for the end of the trilogy, that's what really matters in the end.

Yeah, it does allow you to finally complete a few quests. I tried one of them beforehand not knowing, but obviously was never able to complete it until I got the gear to make it much easier.

Talking about Forbidden West again is making me really look forward to diving back in with he DLC (Burning Shores).

@Elodin It didn’t hold up for me sadly as it gets very repetitive. Two big pieces of advice would be not to worry about doing everything possible on the map as you don’t need to and will probably drive yourself insane, and turn the narrator’s input down to zero in the settings so you don’t hear the same lines from him over and over again.

You can also turn off the chattering from characters too so you can get through the mostly pointless dialogue quicker too!