Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

I gave into the hype and bought Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 despite not playing the first game. Thankfully, Warhorse posted a ten minute video on their YouTube channel divulging the story so far.

I booted the game up this morning before work — only playing for an hour — but I can tell this game will be special. The characters and their banter are fantastic. The game runs very smoothly in performance mode. Combat is pretty solid too. I’m also already invested in the story which doesn’t happen often right off the bat.

Meanwhile, I’m slowly chipping away at Mafia: Definitive Edition on classic difficulty. I’ll probably have that game finished by next week, currently on chapter 12 out of 20. I’ll be going for the platinum trophy. With that said, I do not like the collectible system in this game, particularly because the mission structure is incredibly linear, in an open world setting, and yet the game wants to you “explore” areas but not really provide an incentive to do so. And some of the collectibles that are story related, while easy to find, some are inexplicably in obscure places that really don’t make sense to search for because of the mission design.

@Jimmer-jammer @kraven

Jesus Christ be praised. RPG's are back big time.

Good descriptions, both. And falling into the Teresa DLC trap is a good way to make it as hard as possible for yourself to stick to with, so you're doing well 😂

I can't praise the second outing enough, either. I kind of want to start a full KCD thread here, but I don't think I'd be able to stop chatting about it if I do.

It really is everything the first game did, but improved and expanded upon, and made to look high end AAA for the most part.

And Kraven, it appears you've gone for the Daniel Vavra double pack with those two titles. He writes a good game, it has to be said.

KCD2 is absolutely killing me, though. Some of the dialogue options you can choose, and some of the completely batsh*t crazy moments are making it such a wild ride. It is maybe 10x more brutal and 20x funnier than the first game.

Enjoy

@HallowMoonshadow Ah, I’m glad to see you have enjoyed ME2 for the most part. I figured it would click for you. But yeah — I played ME2 first, then ME3, then went back to ME1 years later and so my interpretation of the overarching storyline is skewed from the traditional path.

I also did not play the DLC so I need to get back to do a replay and pick all the content up. I’m something of a Liara fan so I should get some enjoyment from it.

The Illusive Man is one of the great forgotten characters in video games. Top notch voice acting there from Sheen.

Just got the platinum for Streets Of Rage 4. Still playing ESO like it's new. And moving toward platinum for Ragnarok.

Baldur's Gate 3

I have finally entered the Baldur's Gate 3 vortex, only a couple of years late. After a few hours, I am enjoying it so far even if I'm not very good at it yet.

I remembered to let you know when I finally opened my Collector's Edition and started playing it, @HallowMoonshadow.

@HallowMoonshadow ME2 is an absolute GOAT and still held up when I played it through for the fourth or fifth time when I went through the Legendary Edition last year. The interactive comic they had with the PS3 release to let you recap the ME1 story and make the main choices was a clever addition.

I only played ME1 for the first time in the Legendary Edition and I can see how it was so impressive at the time but it has not held up brilliantly. The story and world is still great but combat is proper clunky and loads of the side content feels a bit "cheap" with loads of reused assets for areas and then missions just ending with a little blurb of text explaining what happened next. Plus, that Mako buggy is an absolute dog to drive!

ME3 is fantastic as well with the opening sequence being one of the best of any game for me. It's one of the few games I've ever bought the Collector's Edition for (a slightly ironic name given ME2...)

I have been trying to get along with Metaphor in the past week but having no luck with it clicking. I love the Persona games and thought this would be perfect but I just cannot get along with it.
I think I am not getting on with the class system and I personally don't think the calendar suits this game.

I think I will just go and replay GoW:R until Avowed comes out

Must at the behest of @CaptD, I made a start on Dead Island 2 this morning. Wasn’t massively keen as I’ve never liked first-person melee and not as into zombies as most people seem to be.

Having said all that though, it’s great! Another great undead suggestion from the captain, following on from Zombie Army 4 a couple of years back. I think I’m gonna enjoy this one.

@graymamba That is a bit too recent for you, eh?

I enjoyed my time with it when I played it a few months back. It did drag on a couple of sections but it managed to introduce new enemies and stuff just as I was beginning to feel fed up with it.

@JohnnyShoulder yeah I wouldn’t ordinarily be anywhere near playing this yet but there’s a few of us involved and I don’t wanna miss the boat.

It’s also playing hell with my ocd that I haven’t played the original Dead Island yet but hopefully we’ll be remedying that later this year.

@graymamba
Shirley the fact that it is called Dead ISLAND is stressing your ocd levels more.

@graymamba I don't think you are missing anything special by not playing the first game. It is not like the games are massilvely interconnected like the Mass Effect games or something.

@CaptD 🤣 ikr, I take it the first one was actually on an island. And don’t call me Shirley!

@JohnnyShoulder it’s not really the interconnectivity bud… more the fact that there’ll be a plat for Dead Island 2 but not 1 on my trophy list 😅

@PeaceSalad sounds like a plan mate, it’s not an overly long main story campaign afaik so should get through it by Avowed if you mainline it.

@graymamba
@PeaceSalad
Apparently there is a challenge (required for a trophy) which requires you to have one million dollars. Therefore I will be relying on you lot to splash the cash and give me any spare change plus your most expensive weapons.

@CaptD 🤣 yeah I’m only on about $35k so far but haven’t actually sold anything yet, just been putting them in my locker.

Another one to work on from the start is the Batter Up! challenge, which involves kills with thrown weapons. I think you need 200 total… I’m on about 115 after todays sesh.

@graymamba
It shouldn’t be a problem as it is one million cumulative so we can just do a cloud save, drop our expensive weapons then restore save thus duplicating them.
But yeah gotta remember that batter up one.

@graymamba
I think you (or me) might have that challenge slightly wrong. You only need to complete tier 1 of the challenge (so akin to Borderlands 2 challenge trophy). Batter up tier 1 is 50 kills.
So well done, you can stop now.

@CaptD no way! Well that’s cool I guess. Thing is I have this awesome electrified shuriken that I’m gonna want to keep using 🤔.

edit. and I like your plan for the $1,000,000

@HallowMoonshadow I went with a Male Half-Elf Paladin. I'm trying to be good for the most part. Sometimes Lae'zel and Astarion don't like it, but they'll still stick around. There's the rare occasion I act mean to make them feel better.

@Ravix So, after restarting the game, I’m now 25 hours into a new playthrough (I literally spent all day playing this game), and it is absolutely phenomenal. Now that’s I have my bearings, and I understand how the game works, I can’t get enough of it. I’ve done so many side quests that feel integral to the main story and I’ve yet to even smell getting to the wedding, ha. What is even better is how you can see and feel your character getting stronger, better, and even more confident.