Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@JohnnyShoulder I think you’re in for a treat. The games get pretty ‘grindey’, generally speaking, as many RPGs can do. The balance between social sim, story beats, combat, and dungeon crawling is usually fairly well done though. Usually it’s the dungeons that can potentially drag, at least that’s my experience with P4 and P5, but it being your first foray into the nuanced turn-based combat then it’s sure to feel fresh throughout. I hear that for Metaphor they’ve changed up quite a bit about how the combat works, with this being more ‘Persona adjacent’ than an actual sequel, so it may even feel fresh for someone like me.

I’ll be curious to hear how you get along with it and whether it inspires you to play other Atlas titles.

Started Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League this morning and 🤔… surprisingly decent so far. Under no illusions that it’ll become boring and grindy at some point but right now it’s playing nicely, looks frikkin’ beautiful and feels pretty well produced overall.

Trying to get the platinum before it goes offline, so hoping I can blitz through it relatively quickly🤞

@LN78 yeah the character design and performances are great tbh. Shame they went the live service model as I get the impression it could’ve been a very good single player game if designed that way from the start.

@LN78 dunno mate, the trophy guide suggests 4/5 outta 10 difficulty and some guy over on todays article reckons it’s fairly easy. I do have one co-op partner for the Mastery levels, so hopefully we’ll manage it okay but we’ll see I suppose.

Dug hard into my backlog and found Shadowrun Returns, an RPG that seems designed with me in mind. However, after just a couple of hours I ran into my first game-breaking bug, of which there supposedly are many, so we'll see how far I'll get with it. This bug occurred early enough (The Royal Apartments) that I'll start over and build a new character that targets a different way to complete that side objective (basically: entering combat crashes the game, but can be bypassed in conversation with a high charisma score).
It's also a reminder to save often in games like these, so hopefully that will help me get through the game without bugs killing the experience completely.

Edit: Realised that this thread is specifically about PS5 games, but I'm playing it on the PS5.... does that count?

@FuriousMachine I've been discussing playing Sekiro, a PS4 game, which I'm playing on PS5, on here, so I guess it's okay. 😃

@FuriousMachine totally unacceptable mate, I’ve seen people banned for less! 🤨

I’m nearing the end of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. I’m trying to mop up a few last side quests — I only have two left — and then I’ll beat the game. It’s been an incredible experience so far. I’m not sure what is next up for me after Indiana, but I am considering Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order or The Outer Worlds Spacer’s Choice edition.

@colonelkilgore I've been hiding under my bed all day, praying that the Internet Police won't find me, but seeing as @BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN just admitted to discussing a PS4 game before I did and they're still here, maybe I am safe as well?
I'll stay under the bed another week, just to be safe, though

@FuriousMachine that should do it mate, the internet police are notoriously under-the-bed-phobic 😉

@FuriousMachine I'll be joining you in the dock, as I've been playing the PS4 demo of Metaphor: Refantazio on my PS5 and discussing it here.

So after getting the platinum for GTA III Definitive Edition on the weekend (Great game btw). I couldn't control my hype for Witcher 4 and decided to finally play my 2nd playthrough in Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. It's the first time for me to play the PS5 version and it looks and runs great so far.

Just beat The Flash in Suicide Squad and was a really cool boss fight actually. It may be live-service and it may have scored terribly in regards to reviews… but I’m having a fair amount of fun with it!

@Khwarezm89 oh, the PS5 version is stunning. For me, the RT mode made it feel like a completely new world so make sure to try that one if you haven't yet, as the world has a lot of locations where the lighting really benefits from it. I got stuck in the photomode at every location, and for every character because of it 😁

I left my save kind of before the story picks up towards the final act, I think, and I keep getting tempted to go and finish that so I can play the DLC's again too 😅

@colonelkilgore when they shut it down and it becomes a single player game will anything fundamentally change with how it works currently? I never understood what the live service parts were, and what they added to it. I remember being pretty hyped for the game and just assuming it would be a single player narrative Rocksteady game and then it looking like a saints row style bubble popping sidequest with talk of live service this and that and it just killed all desire to play it for a very long time. But the high quality cutsenes still remained which made it feel even weirder

@Ravix yeah the fact they’ve made an offline mode proves there was no need for the live service element.

Having played it a little the only thing I can see that relates specifically to the live service is the seasons. They add more story missions that… should’ve been in the game from the start tbh.

@colonelkilgore And are those added story missions any good or are they just cookie cutter filler/time wasters?

I tried playing Marvel's Avengers single player and I emjoyed the story beats, characters and the cut-scenes, but the gameplay was so soul-suckingly dull and repetitive due the live service nature of the game that I gave up fairly quickly. I worry that Suicide Squad is the same thing, but if the gameplay loop is fun and at least a little bit varied, I may give it a go one fine day (unless it's delisted by then, of course)

@FuriousMachine I dunno for sure as haven’t gotten to them yet but from what I’ve read they’re genuine story chapters. It seems like you don’t have to buy the battle passes to play them either.

@colonelkilgore Right. I'm still skeptical, but also a bit curious now. If I come across it dirt cheap, I'll probably pull the trigger.

@FuriousMachine yeah I had it for £15 and it’s worth at least that imo… probably a bit more tbh. I think with the extra story missions from the 4 seasons it’s a decent chunk of main content.

@colonelkilgore It was actually heavily discounted in the current PS Store sale and the price was low enough for me to move it onto my backlog (where it probably will languish for eons and eons )