I'm about 15 hours into octopath traveler 2. its been a long time since i've played a JRPG like this one. the story and design are great so far. Getting a little bored with the grindiness of dungeons but that's the nature of things in this type of game. The amount of choices you can make as any character with their battles at any time is mind boggling, which makes boss fights really strategic but a regular fight against grunts can be tedious.
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Beat Saber. It's a fun workout. Trying to play almost every track I have, both base and DLC.
That's a lot of songs! You'll have to play a Jedi game next I bet
I actually do have Fallen Order, still gotta complete that. My gaming sessions come in waves lol. I recently finished the main story of Watch Dogs Legion on PC so I should go and complete Fallen Order's.
Finishing up FF16. I’m on mission 44 of 49 but they throw 10+ side missions at you in between each main mission so it’s probably going to be a while before I wrap everything up.
Yeah, I've heard about that being an issue for others. Do you have to beat them to progress? Or you just going for the 100%?
You don’t have to beat them but you can miss equipment etc. The side missions are so hit or miss that you can do one that’s multi-tier and longer than a main mission and just get material or something that could have been bought from a vendor for 100 Gil. Then sometimes the side mission could be 10 minutes long and you’ll get a special weapon or equipment that’s more powerful than what you have and can get for about 10 main missions later.
That...kinda suck tbh
It’s making the game tedious for me but I’m so far into it I might as well power through at this point. Especially when those drawn out side missions branch out into multiple paths that are just walking to a location and killing random enemies. I’m passing on the next Final Fantasy because of this one.
I felt the same way toward the end of Horizon Forbidden west to be honest. I just stopped caring about the side missions and went back to the main ones and it was all good.
Same. Also Gow Ragnarok. I came up with a term called “And then” gaming for it. “Go way out of the way to get a magical cup for me”, AND THEN go slay this boss, AND THEN, ad nauseum until you’re 3 hours deep into a multi branching side quest that you don’t even care about anything anymore. I couldn’t play the first GOW without my wife watching or it would be a fight but in Ragnarok the endless AND THEN side quests had her scrolling on her phone instead. We didn’t start enjoying the game until I just stopped playing the side stuff. I don’t know why 1st party Sony stuff is doing AND THEN missions to pad the game out but they need to stop.
Heavy "Dude, Where's my Car?" vibes from this comment lol. (I suspect you get the reference). My wife doesnt really like story driven games anyway. Tetris, Pacman, 2D mario are her jam. recently she likes Overcooked and a bit of sackboy. Her first dabble in a real story driven game has been Hogwarts, but since I'm not playing it without her, it's been a slow go.
Lmao, YES! That’s exactly what it feels like.
"NO AND THEN!"
I'll try to finish Death Stranding.
A whole weekend might get me through two, maybe even three cutscenes.
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More Diablo IV, with my wife. We don’t really understand the “hearts” system in the new season—we know how to get and use them, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to upgrade them or get anything other than the same few over and over again. But we’ll figure it out. (It’s my first time playing a Diablo game online, and I am highly resistant to looking this sort of thing up.)
Final Fantasy 16! Trying to savor it as it feels like an event that only comes once a decade now.
I'm just loving the epic-ness of the boss fights. Not sure how far through I am, but will be sad when it's over
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So I have Diablo 4 and FFXVI with about 20 hours each…
And here I am playing the FFX/X-2 remaster for the nostalgia. I’m probably gonna return to FFXVI sooner but man the mid-game death of my favorite character made me take a pause.
Assassins Creed Valhalla!
I wanted to play that one as well, but saw Odyssey on sale so started with that yesterday. Will save Valhalla for later this year.
Two such huge AC games in one year? I don't think I can do that. 😀
Haha, maybe I'm being overambitious! I'll definitely will pick up Valhalla around the Black Friday sales period and at least start playing it this year 😁
Haha, sounds good, good luck!
I started that too…. But then I started with this. I’ll be going back to that though once I’ve finished this.
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Just downloaded Dysmantle, as I heard good things about it, looking forward to trying it out over the weekend.
Been playing this as well. Not the most impressive looking game but very fun and a big time sink with its core mechanics
I started playing Alan Wake and so far it's interesting and it looks pretty good. I've had my eye on Exoprimal. Might wait for a sale tho $60 seems a little steep for a multiplayer.
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Jedi Survivor. It’s buggy and glitchy and not a world beater game but I can wield a lightsaber. A woman of simple pleasures.
I am still waiting on performance improvements before I pick this up. I loved FO!
ff16
How's it treating you?
I'm really enjoying it, I think I'm around half way through. The combat is really fun, I just wish the performance was a little better.
Making my way through FF16. According to the PS5 dashboard completion percentage I'm at about 70% complete right now. So I might be able to finish over the weekend, but having a six-year-old at home might make that harder to accomplish.
Either way, I'm really enjoying it despite it being absolutely archaic in terms of its actual game design. It's really carried by its presentation, soundtrack, and decent story. They've arguably stripped away too much of what typically defines a Final Fantasy game here, but I'm still having a great time by just choosing to appreciate what it does do well.
That's great! Glad you're having a good time.
The Witcher 3 mostly. And a bit of Street Fighter. Maybe some Rocket League.
Just reinstalled witcher 3 recently. I never finished it. Did they ever add PC/PS5 cross progression?
Hi! I'm currently on my second playthrough of The Last of Us: Part 2. The first time around, the PS5 patch was released a week after I completed the game, so now I'm enjoying the 60FPS upgrade. I have a stack of games to get through and as a parent, my time is limited. I have Death Stranding, Skywalker Saga, Cyberpunk 2077 and probably a few more I'm forgetting. :-)
As a parent myself, I wont even post my backlog here. It's soooo long
I don't normally play games through twice but after the excellent HBO adaptation, I wanted to play the games again. So it was my third time on the original game using the PS4 remastered version for the second time and the second time with the PS5.
I never played both games one after the other like this, so now the storyline makes more sense and I'm enjoying it a lot more than the first time. I have such a bad memory.
A bit of Battlefield 1 the best online shooter I've had the pleasure to experience and South Park The Fractured But Whole a pretty fun RPG that feels just like you're playing an episode from the show.
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