Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

I don't agree on that at all

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I’m glad you’re enjoying Elden Ring. It sounds like I’m really going to like also, so I look forward to it.

I’ve been progressing well with DS2, and just killed the optional boss King Vendrick. Probably going to start the DLC now.

I’m still playing Metaphor ReFantazio. I’m in the second main area, and I’m not sure how to feel about this game anymore. Everything is top tier — the writing, gameplay, characters, combat, and aesthetics — but it’s not gripping me. It’s strange, too, because P4G is my favorite RPG of all time, and I enjoyed P5R immensely, so I’m accustomed to how Atlus games are, but I just get the sense that I’m missing too much content due to the calendar cycle and it’s really bothering me. Maybe I’m not in the right headspace at the moment. I think I’m going to put this game to the side for now.

@Bentleyma I just feel like I’m never choosing the right activity in any given day, and whichever one I do pick, I’m ultimately leaving something out. I know you can view an option detailing what percentage of people chose to do on that day and that’s how the game is designed and I usually love it (P4G and P5), but it just isn’t clicking the same way as in those games. And especially with certain responses to side quests being blocked by lower virtues.

I've been having some serious "games with swords" withdrawal symtpoms so I'm going to play some Ghost of Tsushima and Witcher 3 in the coming weeks and probably bench Yakuza LAD, even though it's mildly entertaining. And the fact it's playing off Ichiban's love of RPGs just makes me want to play some fantasy RPGs instead, so my Baldurs Gate 3 dark urge run is always lurking, too.

TLoU, Hogwarts Legacy, TW3, Ghost, BG3 should be a decent mix of winter titles for the PS5 Pro. But it will mostly be TLoU that I commit to playing consistently. I do want something new I've not yet played to draw me in at some point, as I feel i'm bouncing around titles waiting for something special to come along. And I'm not so sure Dragon Age will be that, for me. I swear they said the Gothic remake would be out this year, but I don't know if that is still likely to happen, considering it didn't get dated.

@Bentleyma that screenshot does make it look kind of cool. Almost like Nintendo decided to make decent hardware so they could make a full on 3D Pokemon RPG in the style of AAA fantasy games 😅 and, actually, if that game existed with a solo campaign that would legit make me buy the next bit of Nintendo hardware.

Imagine if Guerilla or Insomniac were allowed to use the Pokemon license for a AAA release 😅

Things that will never happen in gaming 😭

After putting aside Metaphor ReFantazio (I like the game, but I’ve concluded I’m not in the right headspace for a meaty RPG), I decided to try out Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. So far, I’m only a couple of hours in, but it’s pretty great.

@Kraven How would you compare Kunitsu-Gami with, as I just finished Control and both dlc expansions and was curious about it?

Road 96 - just finished it. Awesome game.

@BeyondKnight They are two totally different games and genres, so if you pick up the game and expect it to, sorry for the pun, control the same way or as fluid as it, I think you’ll be disappointed. Kunitsu is more a tower defense game, with Jack and slash elements. It’s more akin to a Musuo game, with defensive elements involved.

So After beating DAI before the Veilguard. I guess I'll start a new era in my gaming life. Normally I was getting excited about new games and because of that I was rushing in a lot of my playthroughs which I didn't enjoy and didn't do justice for a lot of great games I've played before. So instead of doing that I decided to revisit or even start some blockbusters I've missed after finishing the Veilguard but at the same time I'll still get some new games upon release which I can't wait to play and there's no other game on my backlog that can beat my interest in it.

That being said I'm currently playing The Crew Motorfest and Destiny 2 as my ongoing titles and hopefully this weekend I'll be able to start Dragon Age The Veilguard.

@Kraven I know both games are different, I just wanted to know how did Kunitsu played like, and you told me, thank you mate

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Sounds like you have made some really good progress. With those kinds of stats you should be OK for most of the game. Is it scratching a similar itch to FromSoftware's previous games you've played?

Vampire survivors..I bought it on Saturday morning and I've sunk almost 40 hours into the bloody thing over the weekend according to my gameplay stat on my dashboard. It's the crack cocaine of games.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN sounds like your motoring through it now mate… with a build like that I might well be summoning you when I go back to play the ps5 version 😉

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN yeah that’s how I played it at release. I picked up the ps5 version too though, as I knew I’d want to plat that one too eventually 😉

Finally bought Helldivers 2 and have been sucked in now. I haven't played shooters of this type in awhile. I can see myself being a recurring player. I finally got pulled away from GTA online. I also am currently still steadily pacing myself through The Last of Us 2.

@FuriousMachine how is the witcher 3 playthrough going? I noticed you mentioned in the DA:V thread it's 6 months now, and you've managed to reprogramme yourself to not necessarily try to clear everything/tackle every question mark. (Contract boards are way better than question marks, anyway tbh) so thought I'd ask in the "currently playing" thread.

I'm still super annoyed I missed out on the Rock Troll statues from Dark Horse, too 😫 they are one of the many high points in the game, and always make me smile, so having one of those fellas sat on a cabinet would have brought me such joy 😅 ahhhh

@Ravix I'm done, played it through with both DLCs As I got into the DLC I started ignoring many of the question marks that didn't correspond to quests or contracts I picked up through notice boards or elsewhere. Also, well into Blood & Wine I also started ignoring the gear collection quests I hadn't done, unless I actually stumbled upon their locations in the wild.

Loved the entire experience, but fatigue was beginning to set in at the end. Still, a lesser game would have had me burnt out many, many, many hours earlier.

Blood & Wine is probably one of the best DLC expansions I've ever played, but even so I think I would have loved it even more if I didn't have so, so, so many hours under my belt already. At that point I was also a bit tired of questing for better gear, so once I got the grandmaster versions of the Ursine set, I was satisfied. Also dropped down the difficulty to make things go a little smoother.

Now I'm currently playing Banishers which is a very good game, but it pales in comparison with Witcher 3 (as most games of the genre will). An unfortunate side effect of playing this as my next game is that the light attack button is R1, while muscle memory from six months of Witcher 3 is square. This is unfortunate, as square in Banishers is "drink health potion", of which one has a finite amount and Banishers is a game that will happily let you drink all your potions even if you have maximum health... this has created quite a few annoying situations

@FuriousMachine hahah, I'm very much the same when I switch games and the buttons are completely different. Square to drink a potion seems almost egregious though, have they not heard of... the D Pad 😅

Glad to hear, and I kind of get the burn out thing. Luckily I ended up playing the DLC seperate from the full main game, as even though I really liked the main game on my second attempt, I didn't truly love and appreciate it until I was playing the DLCs. And by the time the Blood and Wine credits rolled I was very much of the mind that: "damn, that's how all games should be." It's also a great time to start the short stories and novels to fill that Geralt and company gap And in fact, reading the books then made me love the game even more and actually morphed my memories of it to be even more positive than they already were because you got to see just how much they respected and loved the work. It kind of shined a new light on it and expanded the characters and my understanding of everything.

Banishers always looked interesting to me, but falls in to the category of, when the heck am I even going to play it, as I mostly limit myself to long playthroughs of great games, games I want day one, and the odd shorter Indy title.

I think a few fantasy titles without sidequsts would be an interesting niche to fill right now, and could help some devs woth releases. And possibly why I might try out Hellblade in the coming months, as I think it's a very point a to point b title, but still with a setting that appeals.