Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 394

COD Vanguard open beta (PS5) and Dirt 5 (PS5).
Super Metroid (SNES).

Deathloop.
And Metroid Prime in prep for Dread.

Finishing scarlet nexus and tales of arise demo on ps5, playing blasphemous on switch, and playing quake 1 remaster on pc steam.

I just found out that I already have the old quake 1 (and quake 2) on steam and it's developers generously update quake 1 with the new remaster version. Add the fact that psyconauts 2 price is just $17 in my country steam (regional price on steam are great, lol), it seems gamepass is not a good value here in asia, unless microsoft bring it to asia with regional price.

Tales of Arise. I want to make some time for Assassin's Creed Valhalla and CoD Vanguard beta too. Not sure if I'd get playing those much as I'm really into Tales of Arise at the moment

The PS4 version of Grand theft auto San Andreas on PS5!! Not the best way to play because the 5 adds stutter but I’m not bothered by it. Also some deathloop.

Sold my digital ps5 and bought a disk version and rented Demon souls, Returnal, Godfall and it takes two so il going to be mega busy this weekend, plus I've still got tales of Arise to play

Still FARCRY5, it's hard to put down when you start that game. Just realized hats like the Goat Flop Hat bounces different when riding a horse, some subtle incredible details in the masterpiece RDRII. Plus some laps in GTSport.

Forgot Psychonauts 2 too !

Mafia definitive edition and final fantasy 7 remake.2 of the best remakes i ever play.graphics.stories and gameplay is top notch.watching good times. The Jeffersons.saved by the bell and Sanford and sons.and watching my Pittsburgh Steelers beat the raiders tomorrow.lets go Steelers.here we go Steelers here we go.word is bond.word life.word to god.word to your mother.word ☝ up son

@LiamCroft None of the Liams playing Kena this weekend? Someone else reviewing this?

Hoping to finish the main story of HZD this weekend, so i can finally start Frozen Wilds.

@hypnotoad Can't wait for Dread

Assassins creed valhalla waiting for Death standing

Mahjong by Microsoft (Android) - This is my most played daily game nowadays. Playing the daily challenges and also chipping away at the puzzle packs as well.

Equalicious (Windows Phone) - I haven't played since last weekend and need to make time for it this weekend.

Rayman Fiesta Run (Windows Phone) - Still a blast to play in bursts.

Crusi'n Blast mainly, its just such a fun arcade racer.

@GoodGame Not much longer mate,

'Fashionably' late (like real LATE)... I guess 'I kept him waiting' but Metal Gear Solid 2 HD Remake.

@hypnotoad I'm 55 and like a little kid lol.
Super Metroid is my fave game of all time. Dread will be a killer too

Picked up Narita Boy on sale after watching SkillUp's review on YouTube and I've had a fun first hour or so with it. The pixel art is gorgeous and the music is sensational. Dollars well spent. The rest of the weekend I'll be doing my level best to tamp down my excitement about Kena: Bridge of Spirits releasing on Tuesday. I can't take another Biomutant-level disappointment!

@GoodGame I'm in my 50's too and I'm the same.
We're vets.

Just completed Deathloop. Got Lost Judgement coming hopefully next friday. In the meantime is Tales of Arise worth getting?

Tales of Arise - hoping to finish it up. Been loving every minute of it, like with most Tales games (just not Zestiria).

Also picked up NEO: The World Ends with You, so hopefully be able to get started on that. Heard it was good, even though it flopped in sales.

I'm feeling I'm very close to the end of psychonauts 2 and despite having no history with the series, it's been brilliant! The writing has been surprisingly good, the potential to go very wrong given the subject matter is real high but they nail both humour and sensitivity. The graphics are lovely too, great example of what you can do when not focussed on photo-realism. Havent smiled so much at a game since astrobot. Some more red dead online for the last of the story missions and don't know whether to start nier automata, yakuza 2 or night in the woods before it leaves gamepass. Have a great weekend folks

Hoping to finish it takes two with my son absolutely loving it! Possibly finish Iki island later as well. Does anyone know if cyberpunk is stable now on ps5? Looking to finally start it seeing as the native version is probably some way off

Doing that endgame grind for Yakuza: Like a Dragon. It's not taking as long s I thought. Should be finished it sometime this weekend.

Then possibly onto Bloodborne maybe. Not decided yet.

Continuing my journey through the massive world of Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

I also have intentions to try out Aragami 2.

Yesterday I finished up Horizon Zero Dawn including the DLC. Fantastic game, looking forward to Forbidden West now.

@WizzNL We don't have code yet, unfortunately!

Finished the main story of Miles Morales so just doing some clean-up tasks before ending my time with it. Fun game but if I hear about another out of control helicopter, I swear...

Playing Control as well, this is set to become my 'main' and only game as I can't decide what to start next. I am enjoying Control, weird as it is, so maybe I should give it a spell in the box seat.

Enjoy whatever you play this weekend or just your weekend in general.

Switch - Starting Skyward Sword HD!

PS5 - We Happy Few second playthrough!

PC - Might try out Morrowind. Also Gmod with friends!

Have a good weekend everyone!

I am hoping to finish off Judgement, still on chapter 12 but feel close to the end. Such a cool game but I will take a break before Lost Judgement, Yagami is cool and a proper ladies man he has 4 girlfriends but still hits on a girl in the casino 😂

Playing Tales of Arise. Looking quite good. I dont quite like some of the respective dialogue such as when finding a certain type of bird buts that is minor to me.

Gave Deathloop a try by my friends house and while it's decent, I'm not feeling the 10/10 sentiments that many reviewers have. It just doesn't give me the same feeling as games like TLOU, GOW, RDR2, Zelda BOW or Persona 5 Royal. I personally feel it's a solid 8.5.

Captain Tsubasa and going to give Resident Evil 2 remake another go.

Grinding out a few more runs of Hades on Xbox, just need to max out 3 keepsakes for the last achievement then I'll be starting the Dead Kings DLC in AC Unity on PS4 and playing some NG+ Miles Morales tomorrow. Have a good weekend all!

I've finished the main story of Tales of arise, so this weekend I'm wrapping up some trophies whilst grinding my way to lv 100.

Wrap up Mass Effect 2 as I only have the suicide mission left and then possibly jump over to my Series X and play The Artful Escape.

I'm playing Modern Warfare 2 Remastered for the first time and that 'No Russian' controversy is no joke. Great game so far.
Some GT Sport and Little Big Planet 3 with my daughter on the side.
Happy gaming all!

Just got the Plat for 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. Now I'm playing Ever Oasis on 3DS.

Replaying through Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and then I'm gonna start Life is Strange True Colors, and I might try and squeeze in a replay of the Destroy All Humans Remake.

= Tales of Arise!

• also I love Soul Calibur! it's my favorite fighting game series.
  Way to go Pushsquare for supporting BamCo : )

Still been living in FFXIV having a great time, and even picked up Genshin Impact on the side.

After the Live Letter yesterday I'm super hype for Endwalker!! Long Live Yoshi-P!

Almost finished with the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. I want to try to play Control as well.

Project Cars 3, it's a bit grindy, but the track variety is good, better than the latest Grid. I lasted 2 hours on God of War, but I think Project Cars will keep me going until Far Cry 6...not long now

Be playing some more GoT Iki and trying to get some more escape attempts in on Hades. So pretty much the same as last weekend then 😆

Very relaxing weekend ahead with Tales of Arise!

@KilloWertz - The Artful Escape is absolutely brilliant. Enjoy!

Still working my way through CrossCode, mixed with a little Rocket League and an some retro gaming on my Pi.

I’m stuck in the loop, can’t get enough of Deathloop right now.

Deathloop and madden 25. With a little DS2!

I’m playing Deathloop, which I’m still undecided on! Also playing Godfall (PS5) which I only bought a few weeks ago, but am really enjoying it. Also playing some Red Dead Online and Driveclub. Looking forward to next week’s releases - Kena Bridge of Spirits and Diablo 2 Resurrected.

I'm almost finished with Tokyo Xanadu so I hope to finish that up this weekend. Once I do then it's just COD beta, Everybody's Golf, and DMC5SE to pass the time until Kena comes around.

On holidays so no Tales of Arise for me. Will be playing some Hearthstone (a card game) on my laptop.

I'm finally going to start Tales this weekend, now that I've finished Life Is Strange: True Colours. And I have to say, you guys were bang on with your 6/10 review. Great characters, but a story which goes nowhere & fizzles out so hard in the last 2 chapters it's almost comedic seeing all those 9/10 reviews out there.

I'm having a blast with Psychonauts 2.
I can really tell Double Fine poured their heart into this game.

PS5 - The Medium

Switch - No More Heroes III

Addicted to Art of Rally which is getting most of my love this weekend. And a bit of Psychonauts 2.

I just finished the first episode of Life Is Strange True Colours and I loved it.

It was a little cheesy at first and I wondered if I was actually going to like it. But after a while something just clicked and I really started to enjoy it.

The first episode is quite slow-going as it introduces you to all the different characters and the town of Haven. It pays off though because by the end of the episode I had grown quite attached to all of them.

Alex is such a great character. The voice acting is brilliant and her facial animations are more realistic and expressive than previous LiS games. She feels like a real person.

One thing I was kinda gutted about was that the ending stats didn’t have any percentages. It’s one of the things I enjoy most about the LiS games and I was pretty disappointed that they weren’t there. I don’t know if it’s a bug or what but hopefully they’re working on a fix.

Other than that one thing though I’m really enjoying it and can’t wait to see what happens next.

Mass Effect 2

Cyberpunk. 100 hours in. Loving it!!

I've been playing Tales of Arise. I think this might be the first Tales game I see through to the end. Perhaps it's just because I'm building on my previous attempts with Berseria and Vesperia, but the combat makes more sense this time. The story, world and characters are also playing a big part too. Looking forward to seeing what's next beyond the few hours I've played.

Tales of Arise. Its good and ive plugged about 7 hours so far but im not feeling the combat as much. I suppose id better spend so cp and get myself some new artes as im still running more or less on the starting ones.

Going for the platinum on Resident Evil 3 remake. The game is a lot of fun even playing it repeatedly for the trophies

Pathfinder Wrath of the Rightous. (PC)
Tales of Arise (PS5)

Still slowly working my way through P5 Royal. Really liking Maruki's character and the new additions to palaces just make them feel more complete

I just started Lost in Random, and am working on my second playthrough of FF7 Remake, PS5 version this time. On the board game side, I'm wrapping up my first campaign of Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth.

I'll be playing the Iki expansion in Ghost Of Tsushima.Finished the main game 100 per cent for second time and I STILL failed to obtain the Plat as one trophy is obviously glitched.
Finished Life Is Strange True Colours which I loved..for the first three episodes and then it all went downhill from there.And only ten hours to complete and Plat??I'm pleased with my steelbook but not worth the money.
Started Tales Of Arise which I'm really enjoying..

Tales of Arise, Breath of the Wild, Skyward Sword, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Professor Layton 3... I think that's it. Tales of Arise and BotW are terrible games to play at same time since once you start playing one of them, that's it for the day.

All Gran Turismo Sport this weekend. Im like 80 hours into that game. Still working through the campaign races. And dabbling in online. It’s so good and my go to game for when I’m between games. Have a great weekend everyone!

I'll be playing some Ni No Kuni Remastered on PS4. I WISH I was playing Tales of Arise but hopefully I'll get it in the next 2 weeks

Borderlands 3

@Matroska What is your Secret???? I cant manage 2 games in the same week without getting completely confused by the controls 🥴

Tales of Arise (PS5)

I'm playing 'Days Gone' on my PS5, and it sure does look pretty. But after that first cutscene that sets up the game, I feel it should be called 'Divorce.'

Tales on PS5 and Fallout 3 on PS3. Oh, and a spot of Lma Manager on PS2. Wish they'd bring out another LMA!

@Steelhead
13 Sentinels is such a good game.
I enjoyed my time with it too.

Deltarune Chapter 2 now that's been released. Also continuing on with Zanki Zero: Last Beginning, Persona 3 Portable, and Professor Layton and Pandora's Box.

Finally about to start Life is Strange: True Colors!
Btw Metacritic score 81% is quite impressive. Yeah I'm looking at you PushSquare hehe

Playing Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart. Finished A Plague Tale recently. Like the game but not the stealth part and the combat. Rift Apart is a gorgeous game!

“This month's WAYP serves as a reminder that everyone's name is Liam these days. Are you also called Liam? Let us know in the comments section below”.

If there was no humour on this site I doubt I would frequent it.

I have too many games and I can’t decide.

“Oh the pain, the pain!”

Same as last week with FF7R and Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight on the side. P5 DIS is a bitter sweet game though because I love the addictive gameplay loop, the great music, and social elements yet I’m sad that once I complete and platinum it (possibly this weekend) then I’ll have no more Persona dancing games left to play. 😕

Playing NeverDead, project PS3 cleanup continues.

Ratchet & Clank (ps4) on ps5. After beating the marvelous Rift Apart, I fell in love with the franchise. Currently going for the platinum, though that 1:35 race is killing me :/

@GoodGame Man.. you're making me want to play some Super Metroid!

What I have been playing.

Dark Souls III [Season Pass] - (PC),
Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation 2 (PS4),
Chrono Trigger (SNES).

Jedi Fallen order, out of nowhere the story has grabbed me and I'm now fully invested in Cal and BD-1's journey.

Life is Strange: True Colours. I absolutely love it. Just starting chapter 4. A massive improvement from LiS2 in my opinion - but i can tell it is going to be a little on the short side. Chapter 3 was one of the best chapters in the whole series.

Already upgraded my version to the deluxe edition to ensure i get the dlc on 30 September

@3Above Oh that definitely still happens to me. In Skyward Sword the right stick swings the sword - to move the camera you have to hold L1 and move the right stick. So now in Breath of the Wild I keep taking out bombs when I want to turn the camera. The worst was when I was playing Dark Souls at the same time as Arkham Asylum. Square attacks in AA but drinks an Estus flask in DS - a limited resource accompanied by a fairly long animation; the last thing you want to do accidentally in the middle of a boss fight. 😭

@YourNameHere

Such a great "problem" to have - good times! 😀

Still Hades.

Netflix and Hades.

I keep starting other games, then returning to Netflix and Hades

This morning: Paw Patrol Mighty Pups Save Adventure Bay (with my 3 and a half year old)

This evening: Horizon Zero Dawn to prep for the sequel and to also wipe my memory of the mornings “game”….

Not Deathloop. Not a 10/10. FAKE NEWS

I just started playing through the Guacamelee games. Those games are a delight.

Just finished No Mans Sky Expedition 3 for the rewards. Guess I will return to Diablo 3 Season 24 for the last 2 season items I need to finish for the pet reward.

Hi there fellow gamers.
This is going to be another Tales of Arise weekend for me.
25 hours in, full party, six artes ready to use in battle and the companions are becoming a family, little by little.
Suffice to say, I´m really enjoying the game.
Altough, I kinda want to "return" to Returnal for the Platinum trophy, since I already saw the True Ending of the game.
Still trying to piece things together, but I think I have a pretty good idea of what the story is all about. It´s kinda brilliant.
Cheers, stay safe, stay well and happy gaming weekend to us all

@The_New_Butler Hi there friend.
Good on you, taking Demon´s Souls for a spin.
Keep it up, Slayer of Demons. You´ll get good.
We all do....... Eventually 😉
Cheers, stay safe and have a good one

@B_Lindz Hi there friend.
If you like metroidVania type games, you´re gonna love those games.
They are super fun, colorful, vibrant and don´t take things seriously.
Just wait until you get one of the final upgrades.
It´s kinda like cheating and the game knows it 😜
Cheers, stay safe and have a good one

It's a Sekiro kinda weekend here.

@KidBoruto yeah u r really close to the end. It’s a good story though. Specially in 60fps.

Yes I'm also called Liam. Haha I'm still smashing through Ghost, now on Iki island after platting the main game.

Got some Metroid Prime 3 going on Dolphin.

Shout out to everyone who had to work all weekend

I'm playing an old school type of RPG called Ara Fell, and it's really good so far.

Finishing up my 5th playthrough of Horizon Zero Dawn! This game just doesn't get old!

After that I'll start a nightmare playthrough of Alien Isolation. Alien Isolation was my first Platinum but I never cleared the game on nightmare difficulty. I'll also play the DLC missions as I haven't touched any of them.

Change of plans. I said earlier I'd play The Artful Escape, but I got done with Mass Effect 2 quicker than I expected to, so now I'm playing Uncharted 3 instead. More time than I thought I would have before Kena comes out, and I never did finish up The Nathan Drake Collection (yes, I played Uncharted 3 before on the PS3).

Got Life if Strange : True Colors for my PS5. My first time with a LiS entry and had blast with that game so far.

I've been playing Yoku's Island Express. I'd heard good things about it, but... wow! It's just awesome.

In short, it's a metroidvania with pinball mechanics, with an art style and music that closely resembles Rayman Origins/Legends.

That may sound strange but it works very well. Can't recommend this one enough!

I just platinum’ed Bloodborne last night so I’m going for a “lighter” game like starting Sakura Wars or finishing up another plat stack of Persona 5.

Tales if Arise on PS5. I'm about 20 hours in and just got Kisara and Dohalim in my party. I'm very impressed with this Tales game. I was getting a bit bored with jrps but I'm loving Arise so far.

Ghost of Tsushima First time on the ps5.

@kyleforrester87
Had pillars 2 on my wish list for ages but have held off on buying because I read the load times absolutely stink. Have they been improved since launch?

I was playing NEO : World Ends With You all weekend

WRC 10 and Huntdown.

@Matt_Berial Do it lol

Still Returnal.. finally got to boss of biome 3 and almost beat him. It’s a savage game.

@hypnotoad @GoodGame.
50? 55? Pah! you youngsters haven't lived.

Oh you know, the usual.

@nathanSF Someone older than me into gaming ???
Wow lol.

@Daleaf Yeah gotta say I was stuck in that one for a bit too the first time I played it.But unfortunately it's not that one it's the 'Every Trick In The Book' trophy where you have to obtain all the throwable techniques.Which I have done,I'm totally levelled up now and no trophy.Extremely frustrating as I'm sure if I'd of kept more than one save file I may of been able to get it to pop but alas..
Cheers for your help though

Took a break from Mass Effect to play Tales of Arise. What a wonderful game. Hate to see the DLC packs, though. +5 lvls, +10 lvls, 100.000 Gald, items to make the game easier, ... I mean, come on. What do we play JRPG's for, then?

Zombie Army 4.
Age 50.
Age seems to be the secondary topic on here 🙂

Forza Horizon 4

🤭

@kyleforrester87
Thanks for the reply. Somehow managed to put up with the load times on P1. However, I’ll just download both to the PS5 (never got round to finishing P1 even though I enjoyed it loads).Going through a CRPG binge playing the likes of Wasteland 2 and 3 and going through Divinity 2 again.

Playing Terminator Resistance on ps5. R.I.P John Challis, who played the brilliant Boycie. What an amazing actor.

Currently in the final hours of Persona 5 Royal, 163 hours down so far 😭. Worth every minute though. Playing Ys Origin with the kids, second run. Moving on to Yakuza 0 next, played a little bit and it's magnificent so far. Also Trails SC on the PC.

@Iroha
Tried that for a bit myself. I think I’ve levelled sufficiently but the last dungeon takes ages. Had to quite out on the 3rd or 4th floor as there are no save points.

Platinum 81 it takes two, possibly my game of the year

I was waiting to play Surgeon Simulator 2 but the controls are messed up for me so playing aragomi 2 instead for the dishonoured feel

I'm still trying to finish AC Valhalla. The game is really long.

Playing Deathloop on PS5 and Dead Space 2 on Series X. Getting back into GT Sport until GT7 come out.

@Matroska I had that same Problem playing Salt and Sanctuary and Gravity Rush 2. And I made the mistake of playing GoW 3 Remastered the week before Spiderman PS4 came out. It took me 2hrs to get past the opening 30 mins of the game...

No Man's Sky. Hollow Knight

later this week Diablo II!

I'm spending so much time playing Fenyx Rising - just bought the DLC Season Pass in the sale so I'm set for quite a while.

@GoodGame Going to play it tonight! I'm going to be so bad though haha.