Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

I've been playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla for 87 years now. I think I'm somewhere near the end. Honestly I like it quite a lot. The enemies die quickly which I appreciate. It probably doesn't need to be this long though.

I'm about 15 hours in with Horizon Zero Dawn. After all the quick, pick-up-and-go games here and there, and finishing R&C: Rift Apart for the 2nd time, I'm finally diving into Horizon. And holy crap is it ever good! Definitely lives up to the hype.
Side note: I hate glint hawks.

@johncalmc I would push on until you get to at least 90 years.

@johncalmc just wait until Crusader Kings 3 comes out, then you can truly conquer England or at least your heir could or maybe his heir...

Played through the first chapter of ‘It Takes Two’ with the missus. It’s pretty great fair play, I really enjoyed it. The missus did find it really stressful though, she has a phobia about jumping (and even worse double-jumping) in video-games and wouldn’t you just know it... May (the wife character) has to do a helluva lot of platforming. She did really well tbh but she found the whole session anxiety-inducing.

I’m hoping that it’ll subside and she’ll start to realise that she enjoyed it a bit... but I’m not gonna push it for us to play chapter 2, I’m gonna let her bring it up I think.

Completed Resident Evil Village the other day, that was fun. Playing through Demon's Souls now, what an experience. Usually I summon assistance here and there in Souls games but I'm doing everything solo for this one.

With magic being so powerful, I've not struggled with anything so far. Really interesting to see the game that started it all and now with the best graphics.

Lol... looks like the anxiety might’ve already started to subside. The missus just casually mentioned “I don’t know if we shouldn’t try chapter 2...”. That’s my girl!

I think I’m getting near the end of Tales of Arise… which stresses me out a bit because I’m nowhere near the end of its trophy list 😂

@LieutenantFatman Glad you enjoying Demon's Souls. I hear magic is OP in this game, so interesting to hear from someone that uses it. Not that I played the original game, but having a steady 60fps really makes a difference. I still think it is one of the best looking games I've played, but I've yet to play Ratchet and Clank, so that may change.

Are you you looking forward to Elden Ring?

I've been playing Tales of Arise all weekend... almost 70 hours in, I think I've done everything I could (except a couple sidequests that can apparently only be done in the post-game) and I'm where the game warns me about it being "the point of no return".
Having beaten all the optional side quest bosses (who really required some leveling up and still gave me trouble), I suppose the final boss shouldn't be too hard.
However, at this point my characters are lvl 60 and one of the trophies requires leveling up to level 100, which sounds like a serious grind :/ (there's also another one for beating a challenge that has a recommended level of 99). Looks like I'm looking at several hours of mindless grinding for trophies again (Scarlet Nexus did the same thing)...

@Voltan i have heard there is quite a bit of end game content so maybe the grind should not be that boring?

@jdv95 I hope you're right and it doesn't just mean the stuff I've already done I didn't look up anything except the list of subquests (as the game tells me there are 3 more but I wasn't able to find them) so I guess I'll find out tonight.
There's also a NG+ but that doesn't sound like a faster way to level up

@Voltan sounds a bit like my experience with Final Fantasy 15… on that I had a couple of missions that had level requirements far higher than what I had at beating the game. It does suck tbh… apart from that though, how did you find the game overall?

@Voltan Sounds like a lot of work ahead! That’s usually where I jump off and abandon all hope of getting a game’s platinum. Even if I am absolutely enjoying a game, I rarely put myself through a heavy endgame grind if the final trophies require that. Respect for those that do it, though.

Nevertheless, it sounds like Tales of Arise is a really good game. I forget, is this your first ‘Tales’ game? If so, did you find it to be welcoming as a newcomer to the series?

Main game with 20+ hrs: Prey
Secondary with 2 hrs Nier: Replicant.

That's right, it runs at 30 (don't bothers me even I said I was never going back to 30), I've only experienced a major nasty bug that crashes the game (I avoid doing that pattern) and overall I have small but constant issues with my dual sense (lag when my control has low battery) also obviously long waits between stages or maps and not optimised image but since this is my very first time with this game and I'm not a picky player I don't care since I found this is a GEM of a game.

@Qu1n0n3z for future reference, would you suggest I play this on PS4 then instead of PS5?

@Th3solution @colonelkilgore Yeah, it's my first Tales game. I'd say it's a game that does everything just right for its genre but it's nowhere near the good Final Fantasy levels of story, characters and overall epicness.
Combat is fun (even more action oriented than FF7 Remake) and it looks very nice.
If I had to complain about something - technically you can control any of the characters during combat and the all play differently but there's very little reason to switch at any time. There's also little reason to change equipment loadouts depending on the situation. Even though some weapons strengthen your elemental magic (for a particular element) it seems like just going with your strongest one is the best route anyway.

But yeah, I'm definitely enjoying it, it's a good game - and a pretty long one as you can see (although definitely not this long if you don't care about the high level subquests or catching all the fish )

@colonelkilgore I believe so, yes! I don't think Prey for PS5 will ever happen or maybe when they release Prey 2 (I'm PREYing they do the optimisation).

@Qu1n0n3z Prey 2 will probably be Xbox exclusive if it happens, unfortunately. It's Bethesda.