Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@Thrillho I love exploring Pharloom.

@Zuljaras I think the game was written in such a way that because Miles Morales is younger and less experienced, his world is smaller too. Peter has become more like a citywide icon, whereas Miles is still somewhat more centered on balancing his personal with his superhero life. Therfore he is more focused on the place he grew up in Harlem.

I don't think the ethnic comment is necessary.

@Herculean It just feels really forced. Just like the dumb MJ missions

@Kairuuu @Thrillho I finally beat him woo-hoo. I also did another much easier boss in the Citadel and more exploring. I can put the dualsense down for the evening but I have several bosses & a gauntlet waiting for me the next time I play!

Playing now Visions of Mana, I am about 3 hours in and enjoying my time with it, the dialogue is funny at times and the scenery is beautiful

Spider-Man 2. Good fun so far. Looks great and plays super smooth thanks to the VRR mode.

I finally got around to playing Resident Evil 2 Remake over the weekend and blasted through both Leon and Claire's campaign. I had to put the difficulty at "baby's first horror game," but I had a fantastic time! As soon as I got the "real" ending in RE2, I immediately bought RE3 and 4 and started up RE3 yesterday.

I'll probably go back to RE2 once I've beaten 3 and 4 to see if I have the stomach for the Normal difficulty, but there ain't no way I'm doing Hardcore or going for the Platinums. No storage box or healing? Hard pass, bruh.

Seriously though, what spectacular games so far. I literally laughed out loud when Leon (a cop) looked at blood splatters all over the ground and an empty cop car and says, "That's weird..."

@wildcat_kickz that’s quite the coincidence, as I actually went back to RE2 Remake these last couple of days, after a 5 year break to finish off the trophy list. Don’t let the platinum requirements put you off bud, there are strategies and tools available for all of the necessary playthroughs, if it was something that you fancied doing.

@graymamba Oh nice! Hope you got that plat (and congrats, if so). Yeah I might go back eventually, but right now I just want to see the campaigns through, since I've always heard such great things. I'd seen bits and pieces of the series when friends played and I played a little of Veronica back in the day on Dreamcast, but the only one I had finished up until this past weekend was RE7. RE2 really blew me away with the fidelity, vibes, and pacing. RE3 so far has been a lot more action packed, but I've really been enjoying it.

@wildcat_kickz nice dude! I’m trying to get through the whole series myself… although at a far more leisurely pace (I’m trying to fit 2 or 3 in per year 😅). This year I’ve done 1 and 2 so far… and am working my way towards Resident Evil: Revelations’s plat too.

@wildcat_kickz For me, the RE games are most enjoyable on easier modes. I’m a very average gamer and my usual approach is playing on normal difficulty for most games, but I don’t necessarily shy away from high difficulty experiences; I’ve beaten several Souls games, Returnal (before it was patched to be easier), various optional high difficulty bosses in games (ex. Valkyrie Queen in GoW, etc), but the RE games are just not as fun for me on normal difficulty. I really enjoy them more on easy.

I’ll be curious to hear how you get along with the other games. I’ve played RE1-4 over the last few years, I’m doing about one a year. Recently finished RE4 Remake about 6 months ago and really loved it. It’s not quite overtaken RE2 as my favorite of the series, but it came close. RE3 is great too, and although probably the weakest of the four, it’s still a top tier game.

Do you think you’ll continue the mainline games, beyond 4, or play some of the spin-offs, or just jump to the newer games 7 & 8? My original plan was to play all the numbered games in order but I think I might end up skipping 5&6 and just play 7 next. We’ll see. I haven’t firmly committed to what spooky October game(s) I try to play this month.

Started Across the Obelisk. I'm a big fan of deck building games and this was on many top 10 lists. Im really enjoying it. It leans heavy into an rpg style game and that fits what I like as well. I'd recommend it to deck building fans.

@Th3solution I'm in a similar boat. There are definitely some games I insist on playing on the hardest difficulty (like the Witcher 3), but I tense up pretty badly when I play survival horror games, so I typically drop the difficulty down with the hopes that it parallels my blood pressure.

Regarding future RE games, I honestly haven't decided yet, but I probably won't go back to any really old ones. The fixed cameras and tank controls just aren't for me. I know they abandoned that quite a while ago, but I'm leaning towards just playing the newer entries and hoping that a remake of Veronica or Zero is on the horizon.

I might pause the endeavor to give Alan Wake 2 a go this month, but it'll depend on how engrossed I am in RE.

@wildcat_kickz We are definitely in the same boat. I had Alan Wake on the list to try for October. I’ve yet to play the first one. As long as I don’t hate it then I would proceed to AW2.

Other candidates for my spooky game(s) this season were the Dark Pictures Anthology games, which just saw are leaving PS+ this month so I might try to squeeze in on of those. Another game on the short list to play is Dead Space, as far as horror goes. And also Days Gone, which is not really horror as much as it’s just zombie themed. There’s not enough time to play all those, and maybe not even one of them, but I want to try for something horror-y this season. Preferably something short that would be easy to fit in.

@Th3solution I'd probably skip Days Gone if you're short on time, haha. It's a great game mechanically, but I found the story/characters kinda boring.

For Alan Wake, it was the opposite. The story is excellent, but I found the gameplay lacking, mostly because it just feels a bit dated. Totally serviceable, but I didn't find it "fun," if that makes sense. The second game looks more like a typical over-the-shoulder survival horror game, though.

Dead Space is definitely on my short list too! Too many scary games to fit into one month. It's a great problem to have. 😊

@wildcat_kickz Yeah, the horror genre has really been exploding lately. I’ve a few others that are further down the list like Callisto Protocol, Little Nightmares 2, Silent Hill 2, Hellblade 2, etc that I either have or want to get eventually. It’s not my preferred genre but it’s fun to take a dip into it from time to time.

Alan Wake, RE5, RE7, Dead Space are only about 15 hrs each, so any of those would fit in easier to my schedule.

@wildcat_kickz Resident Evil 2 Remake is one of the best gaming experiences I've had I even went through it in VR and it was terrifyingly amazing!!!

Can't wait to start Ghost of Yotei tomorrow
Unfortunately I'll only have time for it tomorrow and maybe a couple hours next week - most of the game will have to wait until the 13th

Playing MindsEye and loving it so far. Really cool story so far, some cool things to do like drone surveillance and a CPR minigame, and the acting and cinematics are fantastic!

@ButterySmooth30FPS Wow, I wasn’t expecting that. Isn’t this the game that was a 3/10 Push Square review 😅. Either they’ve patched the game nicely or it a real marmite game. Glad you’re enjoying though, either way!