Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

Returned to playing Death's Door, great little Indie game, going to play through this before starting my Elden Ring journey.

@MaulTsir Congrats on dusting off GoW Ragnarok, by the way and good luck with Death’s Door.
I’ll be really interested in how you get along with Elden Ring.

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

First time ever playing it. I'm roughly 4 hours in and loving it so far. I do wish more of the dialogue was recorded so there wouldn't be conversations where a part of it is voiced and then all of a sudden it's just text, but I'm guessing that's because it was originally a handheld title. I also had to turn off L3 enlarging the mini-map since I was constantly having the min-map enlarged on the screen during combat. The soundtrack is amazing.

FIFA 23 online kinda reminds me why I don’t bother playing most games online. People rage quit at the drop of a hat so you very rarely actually get a full game. Have to admit it was pretty funny seeing somebody instantly quit the game after I made Alan Shearer do the worm though.

I should finish my Crisis Core platinum tonight so a question arises: what's next?

My options include (but aren't limited to):

• Ghostwire Tokyo, which I borrowed from a guy at work many months ago and played for like 10 minutes
• Gotham Knights
• Literally anything on PS Plus

I should probably just play Ghostwire without bothering with trophies and give it back

@LN78 I'm not gonna watch that. I played the trial and thought it seemed like an ok game in a setting I like. I came across a 2nd hand copy of the special edition (nice steelbox) at half price of the regular edition and thought that was a fair price so I bought it and intend to play it eventually
I probably won't bother with getting 100% / platinum unless I end up really liking it.
I got my mind half-set on playing Ghostwire first though.

@LN78 Worst case scenario: I'll play a bit and decide I don't wanna play it anymore. It happened before and it's not a big deal

@RogerRoger We just sometimes bring games we finished to the office and see if the other guy wants to play it. I figured I could check it out but I was actually playing something else at the time and then another "priority game" came out, and so on.
Basically I just launched it to see how it looked and figured I'd play it later.

@Voltan Ghostwire Tokyo was one of my favorite games of last year. Top 5 of released games last year for sure. I found the game to be very relaxing and took my time with it exploring the world and learning a lot of stuff about Japanese mythology in the mean time. The game is basically a mix of Folklore/Mythology/Ghost stories in a modern Tokyo setting. The action is fun enough to keep you engaged through the whole game.
So I'll hope you'll enjoy that as much as I did.

@Th3solution Thanks! Do you have any plans to play GoW:Ragnarok any time soon?

I'll definitely let you know how frustrating I find Elden Ring for the first 20 hours before my enjoyment starts 🤣, if its as good Bloodborne and Demon's Soul's like people say I'm sure ill become quickly addicted and also an Elden Lord Professional by next week!!

@MaulTsir I’m undecided on how highly to prioritize GoW Ragnarok. I haven’t bought it yet. Some of that is because of other gaming projects going on, and honestly some of it is because I seem to have missed the biggest part of the launch hype so I’m in that strange time period where I’ve lost the early adopter zeitgeist but yet the game is still full price. So I will probably take the approach I did with the 2018 game and play it after the hype dies down a little more and the game starts dropping in price. It worked with me for GoW 2018, I loved the game!

After thoroughly playing through Dark Souls Remastered I’m taking a break from Souls-likes for a while (not to imply GoW is at all similar, but more in relation to tackling ER), holding while I’m ahead before potential burn out could kick in. Gotta keep the palate cleansed. But I eagerly anticipate my next one (which will be either DS2 if I can find a cheap copy, or DS3 which I already picked up) and ultimately the crown jewel of Elden Ring. If it’s half a good as Demon’s Souls, Bloodborne, and Dark Souls then it’ll be a treat for you indeed. It’s so true though about the first 20 hours, though. 😂 One of the best things I did with DS Remastered was to do a little research on good early builds and weapons, because the “hard” part of the From games is definitely the early hours when your so weak and clueless wandering around the world. By hour 20 or so you have a good foothold on enemies and you’ve leveled up enough to have a semblance of advantage against most of your foes.

@MaulTsir The hardest part of early Elden Ring is knowing where to go. It kind of sucks when you’re low level and most enemies can wipe you out easily, particularly as there are mini-bosses roaming around who you’re not supposed to be able to beat early on.

Most people loved the open world nature of the game and while I thought it was amazing to have such freedom, I would actually have preferred a bit more direction.

Good luck though! A very achievable platinum for a From game too if you’re into that sort of thing.

@nessisonett When I was playing efootball, now and again I would get a batch of games people would rage quit. One time when it was 2-2, and I got awarded a penalty, they quit before I even took the penalty! 😂

@JohnnyShoulder There’s nothing worse! At least this new FIFA doesn’t let you pause the game before the penalty is taken, it stops people pausing on purpose to try to throw you off. I think I prefer the single player stuff though, the input lag is awful online.

Yeah, so went back to Ghostwire - last time I didn't have my 120Hz VRR screen yet so now I switched it to the "HFR Quality mode with VSync" and it runs really well with ray tracing and all

@Jimmer-jammer I did notice some bits when the frame rate dipped significantly. It’s not perfect but it’s fine most of the time so I’ll keep playing it like this.
It’s the right kind of spooky for me too, as I’m not really into proper horror games.

@Jimmer-jammer That was exactly the mistake i made during my Plat run, missing the parade. So had to keep running in circles trying to force it to spawn.

But the way you describe the game was also why i liked it. It was also very relaxing in some way to run around and collect the spirits. I still think a lot of people misunderstood the game and just treated it like some linear action game or Far Cry in Tokyo, while its so much more than that.

@Jimmer-jammer @Lavalera Glad to hear you liked it. I probably shouldn't try to platinum this one because I simply have to many games to play and I've had this copy of GT (which is not mine) since June, so I should probably give it back sooner than later
Unfortunately so far I'm finding myself checking every rooftop and doing every side mission like in every other open world game, so we'll see about that

Started Elden Ring, done about 2 hours, just getting a feel for the game but man you can just tell when you start a game how much to expect from it and already this game has got me excited to play more!!

There, fixed.