Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

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@Ravix i'm so very tempted to say 'you did good' and pat you on the head 😬 but, that is definitely not my role here, and hopefully you already got your reward. It does look cool, though. I've never been into Lego, but I can imagine it suits your desire to build and create things 😄 was it fun, or more just meditative, a task to be done?

• It's hard to explain how I even have Legos, I haven't been buying them. There's a Lady who when she visits brings Legos, clothes, cosmetics, candy etc. She has no children, it's not ethical for Adults to live this kind of life and have children. It's too involved and I give one hundred and ten percent to one Person. It's similar for her and other Women. She's supposed to be seen as tough/emotionless with a palm of steel etc, there's always a kind of scrutiny/perfection. They do it to themselves.

I'm her down-time/after-care. I think Women have a natural something inside to nurture, that's her way of making up for missing that part. I'll use what you said about a head pat, if she did that to a cat it would be seen as 'she's too soft' but with me 'that's fine, quite normal'. Both might go meow if you get my drift. What you called intense before, it goes both ways, pressure to fit the role/mold and it's 24/7 for both parties. They don't game, nor have hobbies, but they are human and need a distraction from that mindset.

She's always late for dinner, busy out shopping for gifts. Last evening I wasn't the only one who noticed she'd brought the same set twice and I hadn't even made an effort to build it. Which is like if someone does something nice for you and then you leave it aside, that's rude. I've built some cats and flowers, also from her. Technically she shouldn't be spoiling me, it's breaking protocol but she's stubborn and it's interesting to watch both go head to head. Either way I except the gifts, candy etc. You would too, most would. You have those rabbit ears so you are off to a good start, never say never.

I don't unbox my games though, if I buy something physical it stays sealed and I play a digital double. That mentality made it across to that set, I wanted to leave it sealed. It was meditative building it (after about the first hour) but opening the box was brutal. I stared at the box for maybe twenty minutes trying to figure out how to carefully open it without damaging the seal too much then he walked in with a big knife, opened it himself and gave me that ultimatum. I probably would have stared at it all night without that ignition.

I saw this today it was almost a thing and Lego never ran with it. 'They have taken their attention to detail to an impressive level, transforming a simple LEGO construction into a veritable object of admiration. The DualShock 2 is accurately reproduced, as are the memory cards. The disc drive is functional and removable, with a movable lens. The inside of the console reveals the electronic circuits, right down to the lithium battery that powers the internal clock'. That's real dedication.

And yeah, as a summary for what KCD is you can kind of read what I said to Kraven, but it is a bit of a mess, so... freshly for you...

• Thanks, I did read that but thought it must have been too late in the morning, I wasn't following. I think what happened with Kingdom Come is that we talked about the history and about the Hussites for hours one night and that reinforced my thinking of it being one big historical simulator. It says a lot about the game when it does have all of those elements (which I've only seen you mention) and still manages to retain that sense of high quality, at least when it comes to my curiosity. It feels like sandbox open-world games aren't that much of a focus anymore. Or they are being advertised differently and they are bypassing my radar completely. Crimson Desert almost did, then I saw the recent trailer, that game world and now I'll most likely play it at launch.

That shot above sold me on Crimson Desert. Every other trailer/article made me think it was an online game. It seemed to have too many features to be a single player game and I probably confused it with Black Desert Online but now I want to play it. Maybe it's similar to Kingdom Come. I hope Fable does it right, I've played it on Xbox and really enjoyed the world and character design.

I don't think I've played many Mafiya games, they are kind of stereotype heavy and I try to avoid stereotypes about certain subjects, lifestyles etc. I remember the last one had the old school racing and I couldn't do it. I was watching a guy on Youtube doing it over and over again and making it look easy, it wasn't. I deleted the game. The new one has x-ray vision, yikes and why? I didn't like when Hitman Absolution did that, almost everything that game did was wrong for the series and almost tanked the entire franchise. That's why World of Assassination went episodic, investors were losing confidence in the brand. I would be too, Absolution felt so generic and was definitely a product of it's time.

I did like The Godfather, that mechanic of throwing people through windows, I did that over and over again. Someone walked into the room asking what I was doing, they kept hearing constant smashing over and over again. It must have sounded that realistic and they expected to see glass I suppose. I never tried the last Saints Row either, it looked really bad. The first two were great, the soundtracks too. I should care a lot more about the Elder Scrolls 6, they just haven't given a lot to go on and Starfield was and still is rough. I want to trust Bethesda, that's hard when I've tried Starfield on and off over a year and it's not very polished or intuitive. It will land on PS5 eventually and people will (or won't) see for themselves. They should have cancelled the game and put all of their resources in Elder Scrolls, maybe by now we'd see some footage or hints of gameplay. Maybe in another decade.

About time you played Kingdom Come: Deliverance, isn't it? Thought so.

• Maybe I bought a copy already and it's sitting idly by somewhere, but Crimson Desert definitely has my eye, if everything it's advertising is really going to be there and functioning. I stopped pre-ordering games after Civilization 7, that was a bad day and there was a strong lesson there. Crimson Desert seems to have a lot going for it, I've seen games like that on PC and some of them landed flat on their backs. Except Enshrouded and Valheim. My next sandbox will probably be Spiderman, I did download it and I need to try a big name Sony title. He's also a super-hero I know nothing about other than how he gets those web shooting powers. The rest is a mystery.

My ideal Marvel game would be a city building/management game where you play as Wilson Fisk, it will never happen. I watched DareDevil for him, he's such a gentleman and he could probably snap Spiderman in half which is a bonus. I'm not going over to the other side per-say, team Fisk all the way but I probably will try the game today. That's also why I like Batman, he's doing the right thing (technically) but he's not fully on that one side either, he's no cop and knows how to get his hands dirty. I don't know many other superheroes, maybe Blade and Spawn and they too do their own thing which I respect. I don't know what Superman does? I haven't watched any of that material or Iron Man or the others. I was told Superman was 'too Western', he's from Space? so that logic doesn't (no pun intended) fly, maybe eventually I'll watch a movie. The Punisher obviously, I really like him but only have that PS2 game (which is really good) and The Crow would be fantastic if they turned it into a good game. I did play the InFamous games and Prototype. If Spiderman goes well I'll look a little closer at Uncharted, Last of Us etc. Control too and possibly Alan Wake. If not I'll burn through every walking simulator available in a couple of weeks and then be back to looking for new genres.