Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@graymamba Thanks! I think DS3 may be the best of the series for me so far. It's very streamlined and being able to "sell" extra equipment in your inventory definitely helps as well.

I booted up Mafia The Old Country this morning before work. I’m about an hour into it, but it’s pretty solid. The story is already gripping which is what really drives the Mafia games in general. I’m looking forward to seeing how things unfold.

Been playing Lies of P since it dropped onto PS Plus. Enjoying it so far, combat feels like Bloodborne the most. you can regain health by attacking enemies after you get hit, and if you run out of health pulses you can regain one by hitting enemies.

I'm not too fussed on most of the enemy designs and graphically it is only ok so far. I'm playing in quality mode with the higher frame rate options, so feels really good when playing.

It has a nice soundtrack, and you can collect vinly records to play on a gramaphone back at base. The defalault song that plays is my fave classical song which gives me goosebumbs sometimes.

Playing on the default hardest difficulty and I have not find it too bad. You can use NPC summons for boss fights, which I won't use unless I'm really struggling.

Fantasy Life I

I have reached Chapter 7 and in the mission to collect 5 Eternian stuffs to craft Interfere Cogs to stop the Cog Gear movement.
The storyline of this Fantasy Life is intriguing as it used Mayan civilization and the Mayan prophecy as the storyline theme.

Just started Lies of P. Whipped the first boss but I am playing on the easiest difficulty (I’m too old for difficult games ).
Enjoying it so far and it certainly feels like a Bloodborne knock-off which is fine by me.

Gonna start Bomb rush cyberpunk later to hopefully let my puppet wind down.

@JohnnyShoulder @CaptD I'm on Lies of P too. Struggled with the first boss until I got the hang of things, now I'm away.

The opening area felt a bit like a low-budget Bloodborne but as the game goes on, it's developing an identity all of its own. I've been using that glaive that appeared in my inventory as some sort of free reward item...? Anyone else get that?

@Gremio108
Is that the glaive that is sort of a lasso? I’m using that, it doesn’t have high physical damage compared to the other one but then I’m finding that I tend to go around slicing and dicing rather than punching so damage isn’t too important. All a bit confusing at the moment as I’m picking up lots of stuff and the item descriptions are vague as with Fromsoft games, too many unknowns can get quite annoying though especially with consumables.

@CaptD Unless it's got a special attack that I haven't found, it doesn't seem to work as a lasso. It's more of a giant axe on a stick

Item descriptions can be very ambiguous. Best way to work out what something does is just use it. I've wasted quite a few items that way!

@Gremio108 @CaptD Yeah i got the glaive too. I not used it yet as i thought you needed a handle to use weapons lol.

I beat the third main boss (maybe fourth as there was another one in the level, but it was so easy I've not counted it as a main boss), which is by far the most difficult one I've encountered so far. I did have to summon in the end, as the the final phase was doing my head in.

Pro tip: buy the electric coil from the merchant, who is in a bulidng next to a lift you unlock and a star gazer. Electric is good against puppets and fire is good against human enemies. I'm kicking myself as I didn't buy it until just know. I've also picked up a knife which has fire damage and confusingly a fire axe which is a normal fireman's axe. The axe is a bit more powerful than my other weapons and has a good lunge with R2.

Parrying is quite tricky to time right in the game, and is confusing my Sekiro trained brain. From what I've seen online you need to hold L1 to parry. I found the info on the following steam community page useful.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1627720/discussions/0/38737175...

@JohnnyShoulder Cheers for that link, I've been really struggling to get my head around the parry system, and I'm usually awful at parrying anyway. I'm off to buy that electric coil, I know the guy you mean. I think I'm up to roughly the same point as you, I've just beat a boss who was a bit fiery, and I'm in the village after that

That glaive seems to exist outside the rules for the game's weapons. You can't separate the blade from the handle like the rest of them. It feels like this weapon accidentally fell out of my Elden Ring save and landed in this game

@JohnnyShoulder
Just opened that lift shortcut and bought the electric coil, I shall give it a whirl.

@Gremio108 Yes, we are in the same place! For some reason I struggled in the area after the boss, so progress has been slow today so far.

I'll have to see if the glaive is light enough for my build, I think I should be ok. I just picked an upgrade thingy for it, so might be a good time to try it out.

@CaptD Good luck, hope it helps.

Currently doing 197 damage with my +3 Uchigatana in Elden Ring (Ik, Dex is about 60 plus something)😂
God knows how much damage my fully-upgraded Nagakiba will do, when I get it and upgrade it to +24 (Everyone kniows +25 is a reduction is damage from +24 due to some weird bug..), plus leveling Dex to 80 and applying a 'Keen' affinity to it with the Iron Whetblade and the appropriate AoW.

More Lies of P. Only disappointment is that I expected my nose to get bigger.
The equivalent of Frenzy got me although it is way less annoying than in Bloodborne, I still have nightmares of that enemy and their singing.

@CaptD Where are you in the game and how are you finding the difficulty?

I've just beaten the Bunny Bros. I so wanted to break Big Bro's weapon, but didn't quite get there. I did stagger him though, after that it was game over for them.

I've gained a few special weapons from trading in ergo from beating bosses. The umbrella is surprisingly awesome, and is the only special weapon I'm upgrading at the moment.

@JohnnyShoulder
I think I’ve beaten the Bunny Bros (Black rabbit brotherhood?) and the King of Puppets. A few boss fights you think wow that was easy only to find stage two.
I’m using the Holy sword of something atm, it is a great sword which isn’t usually my style as I prefer faster weapons but I needed something with decent damage output and that was the only sword in my bag that was good enough, the electic coil served very well and is still useful when a faster weapon is required especially when I’m chasing butterflies whilst surrounded by enemies.

I’m finding the difficulty okay but then I am playing on Easy, I think if I was playing on a higher difficulty then the Holy sword would be a problem with the faster enemies....but it does have great block damage reduction.

Also has anyone noticed (I’m sure you have) that extra Pulse charges are hidden in the list of Node improvement option lists (the lists that contain things like “More Atk when out of Pulse charges” etc..) ?

Finally started Aliens: Fireteam Elite today, after initially intending to play it back at the start of the year. I’d imagine it’s probably a little boring solo but was a good time in co-op. Cheers to @CaptD for showing me the ropes… probably saved me 10’s of hours in regards to that plat-pursuit! 🍻

@graymamba
Well I’m not sure about the 10’s of hours bit but it was good fun and thankfully not too many instances of “game over man”.