Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@Elodin Oh yeah I have heard of banner lord? Have you played it before? Apparently there is some decent Greatsword gameplay to be found in that game.

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN I have not played Bannerlords before, but youtuber I follow "Pretorian HiJynx" recently played it and it looked fun. Basically you make your character and rise up through the medieval ranks either as a trader, mercenary, or both. I was going to buy it on sale and then this months extra got announced. Lucky me.

I am making my way through Resident Evil 2: REmake with my infinite ammo sub-machine gun, but, yeah, so far the zombie hordes in the section I just played through haven't really posed a threat, just need a guide to look up the codes to open various safes/locked bureaus in order to progress!

I’m still making my way through The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak. It’s quite a long game. I’m also looking forward to Flintlock — hopefully, the reviews are good. But Jeanne D’Arc is coming out soon and I’ll be all over that.

Got a bit further in Resident Evil 2 REmake - solved a couple of puzzles and killed a few more zombies - making good progress! (I hope).

Edit: Well I've done most of the RPD section of the game and apparently that section constitutes about 60-75% of one character's playthrough.

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN you likely are. It’s not a long adventure. Designed with multiple playthroughs in mind.

Tempted to jump in to Star Wars - Jedi: Survivor to get myself nice and ready for the next big Star Wars adventure that I'm looking forward to.

But also thinking of trying Flintlock when it's out to fill the gap left by AC Mirage. Something to just work my way through at a leisurely pace, if it grabs me.

Anyone know when the Flintlock reviews hit?

(Since I feel I’m already clogging your feed with pings this’ll be a pingless message) hope you enjoy playroom : DDD it’s one of Japan Studio’s last games before going defunct in 2021 and merging with Team Asobi.

@HallowMoonshadow Glad that it’s living up to the lofty expectations! Some consider it PS5’s best game, so unfortunately it might be downhill from here. 😅
Certainly with regard to the DualSense it’s definitely the best use of it. Other games have done a good job with the tech (Returnal comes to mind, among others) but nothing has reached the level of Astro’s Playroom

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Quite good so far having played for a bit. Landing at the first planet and it feels bigger in scale right away, and then more of the same gameplay wise.

I'm still not fully in to the fact it's a souls like/lite or whatever. Having to go back to a certain spot and kneeling to meditate to just make a quick save is always a bit annoying, and resting and respawning the same enemies in the same positions just doesn't feel right with Star Wars, imo, it doesn't fit the narrative or logic of the universe and it is solely for the game itself, making it a bit immersion breaking for me. Handy to farm big monsters to top up your xp though 😁

I am playing Jeanne D’Arc in short bursts and still making my way through Trails through Daybreak, which I think might be the most organically long game I’ve ever played. There are supposedly six chapters and I’ve just reached the beginning of the third at the 60-hour mark.

Zenless Zone Zero and College Football 25.

In terms of ZZZ, I really didn't expect to fall head over heels for this like I have done and so I'm scared of my wallets future, but at least right now this might be one of my favourite games of the year so far? Gorgeous visuals, excellent pacing, wonderful vibes and some of the best combat I've experienced in a game, its just all rather delightful. I guess I keep riding this until I go bankrupt. Its been pretty chill about monetisation so far, but I'm just sorta waiting for the shoe to drop.

College Football 25 I am having less fun with, if I am being honest. Maybe its cause I've not played a Madden game for more than like an hour in years, but this feels like one of the hardest games I've ever played. I wonder if some of it is intended to capture the lopsided nature of college football, with guys who have got futures in the NFL on the field with guys who are gonna end up working at Walmart, but the way its currently balanced is in my opinion not fun. A bit of dynamic chaos is fine, not being able to complete a single pass though is not fun.

On the lowest difficulty the game isn't fun for the opposite reasons cause you can easily blow teams out by like 80+ points and you basically have to put the controller down and walk if if you want the CPU to score and make it seem competitive. You turn it up just one notch to normal and its like they accidentally just coded normal as the highest difficulty cause you go from being so unstoppable its boring, to not being able to complete a single pass. Take more than a microsecond to let a play develop and you're sacked and WRs just seem completely incapable of catching long balls so they all end up as drops and interceptions.

The game has custom sliders, but I have not been able to find a sweet spot with these yet. I'm still either getting picked off every other throw or I'm up six scores by half time, with no in between even as I tweak the sliders a couple of points in either direction at a time. I really hope they introduce a massive balance sweep through the whole game, but I dunno how realistic that is.

Jedi Survivor. I'm now far enough to realise the game is completely broken. The graphics and textures are woeful. Textures don't load and the graphics and lighting are just BAD.

How can this be? I know the first game was a struggle until some updates, but I found it playable when I played it a year or whatever after release.

This game is painfully bad visually. How has anyone got beyond any built up areas in the game? It looks so baaaad 💀💀💀

@Ravix
That is a shame, I heard it had its issues although I thought these were more on the PC side.
I reckon the Devs have probably moved on by now.

@Ravix I played through the game a few months ago on Series X and didn't encounter issues that serious. I only experienced some bugs. I wonder if the PS5 version is just scuffed.

@LtSarge I'm actually playing it on gamepass, so it's the series x version 😅 it's properly immersion breaking. I thought maybe it's an issue with graphics mode, but I'd been switching between both options anyway. First section of the game is completely fine, but as soon as you arrive at that first settlement it is just bad, bad, bad.

@CaptD yeah. It stood out that much I was instantly googling and saw a lot of issues on PC, but then some console with HDR. I think I had it on dolby vision though, so maybe I'll switch that off and see next time. But can't see how that would help the pop in and textures not loading. It just seems like they gave up instead of working to fix some stuff like they did first time 🙃

Edit: I think it fixed itself after I closed the game and went on it the next time 🤷 so who knows.

Still playing through Resident Evil 2 REmake, made some decent progres this morning, with particular regard to solving some environmental puzzles that had me scratching my head for a minute, thoroughly enjoying the sense of tension and release that you get from playing the game. Shooting zombies is always a blast (no pun intended) too.

Mentioning @Th3solution as he was interested in my progress with the game. And I will respond in kind by asking how DS2 is going for you Sol? What's the latest news?

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN Cool. I honestly dont think games get much better then this in imo. Its one of the best around imo so its cool that you are playing it now.

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN Awesome. I have some really good memories of RE2, and I probably am due for a replay. But as I mentioned, I want to give RE4 one more try, this time through the Remake, and see if it sticks this time.

I left a few little comments on DS2 over on the Souls thread just now. But suffice it to say I’m making good and gradual progress. I’m really over-leveled and have probably farmed souls way too much. After last night’s run I’m around Soul level 130 and i have my basic build mostly done. The game is addicting and satisfying, as these games tend to be, but I do think it’s still not quite reached the level of its predecessor in my mind. I still have half the game to go though, so my opinion might change.

@Jimmer-jammer In addition to the info above, I will just say that I have just done the section after the helicopter crash and apparently will be having my first boss fight with William Birkin fairly soon although I still have to finish off the remainder of the RPD section of the game before that can occur. Have you made it to Erdtree's final boss fight yet? If so, how is it going for you?