Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@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.

@Kraven haha one of us! You'd better not be yanking my pizzle!

The best thing is it will sense that you have started to feel a new confidence and will seek to give you a good hard slap down to earth at some point, such is life... but now you know the bounties it offers so it might not wound you as severely 😁

that's a pretty good turn around, anyway. Jesus Christ Be Praised.

I made progress in Sekiro, almost defeated that pesky miniboss that had been giving me some trouble, got him down to the nth degree of his second life before I failed. Anyway "Hesitation is defeat". Back on it tomorrow.

Defeated the miniboss samurai that guards Ashina Castle in Sekiro this morning, feeling chuffed, essential training for the later bosses of the game imo, now onto Hirata Estate and more minibosses, next gaming session.

@HallowMoonshadow Yeah, I'm off the beach. I'm not quite that bad at the game to still be at the crash site 15 hours later.

I'm currently working on killing all 3 of the Goblin leaders the "easy way". Ragzlin is proving to be an issue even when you go invisible and shove him to his death, so I might have to wait to kill him if I keep failing to be able to get away afterwards.

The urge to progress my Illithid powers by absorbing more tadpoles seems to clash with the rest of the game though.

@Bentleyma Yeah Eiyuden was good wasn't it? I felt it was a worthy successor to Suikoden and I'd play a sequel. The story sagged a little in the middle for me, but the way everything came together in the last 20 hours was sensational.

Still playing Jedi Survivor, I'm about 30 hours in and trying to do everything in the game

@Bentleyma Yeah you'll love Suikoden II. The first one isn't as deep but still a great game with some brilliant characters. I'm sure nostalgia plays a huge part, so it'll be interesting to see what you think of them after playing Eiyuden Chronicle. Keep me posted!

Started Alan Wake 2 last night, only played for a little bit.
Wow, it's a completely different game from the 1st one. Very creepy in all the good ways.
Runs and looks great on PS5 Pro (I'm running it in the new 40fps balanced mode).
Very much looking forward to playing more.

Finished Jedi Survivor and clocked in at about 43 hours, and did almost everything. Also playing It Takes Two for the first time with one of my siblings and having a blast with it

Defeated General Tenzen Yamauchi in Sekiro, this morning. I cleared out all the soldiers first, then snuck up for the first deathblow, the rest followed suit and was easy. The combat may really be clicking for me, or he was just a much easier miniboss than the later General that guards Ashina Castle, whom I defeated last week. Either way, I got Yamauchi on my first try, so was chuffed!

@Hapless Perhaps we were separated at birth! 😂 Thanks, man, I am currently collecting Prayer Beads, so going to Hirata Estate, next. How is whatever game you're currently playing going?

@Hapless The game is pretty darn good. I got the platinum for it. If you attempt to do everything it can wear out its welcome, particularly in its third act, but it is still a fun time. For a tip, I’ll say watch out for trees that have markings on them of some sort.

I'm fighting through the Yakuza series.

I've finished Zero, Kiwami 1, Kiwami 2, three and four. I'm on 5 right now and I'm on the Akiyama story chapter after finishing the Kiryu taxi story which was great.

Unlocking the Daytona USA music while speeding on the Tokyo highway was a blast!

@dodgykebaab I found 5 a bit of a slog and I hope you’re good at music rhythm games!

6 is a bit divisive in places but I liked the more focused storyline the game provided after the bloat of 5.

I played KCD2 quite a lot this last weekend and I've still not visited Kuttenberg. I have seen it in the distance however, so at any moment I could head there if I choose.

But i'm taking every chance where there is nothing urgent happening to explore and side quest in the new area as I still run that I left one or two little side bits early and got locked in to the main quest, instead of spending more time at Trosky. And, as the quest log says:

I'm taking that as my cue to take my sweet time assembling my devilish crew. A couple of in-game weeks seems a good enough time for them to do that and do some snooping. So rather than fly from a to b to c to assemble tbe crew, I'm stumbling on things more naturally once more, as I travel town to town. The pinnacle of which was literally stumbling down a hole to start an unmarked quest, that I've since found out there was someone you can pick it up from to investigate "something"... But I literally fell head first into it unaware, and it was a freaking awesome way to find a quest, much better than if I had been looking for something already.

There is also rumblings of the devs wanting to make the game harder (it is a bit easy) but not wanting to do it mid first playthrough for people. Although I'd welcome it, as my natural explore, RP and talk to NPC style has meant I can absolutely batter people in duels as I'm levelling up so fast just by playing it. I also have a chest full of armour I can't sell to peasant traders so when I get to Kuttenberg I'm going to be quite rich, but because the price of armour you can sell stays really, really high I might just keep what I like the look of and bin everything else to avoid that, as I've enjoyed being a poor peasant again, who only occasionally upgrades his gear because he killed the right enemy and washed any trace of their insides off of that gear and mended it so it is as good as new 🙈

This game is such a triumph of an RPG.