What Are You Playing Right Now?

[Johnic]

The second part of the FF7 remake. This game has no right to be this good. After FF7 remake and XVI, my hopes for the series was VERY low. If the next game is as good as this, the series will grow even more.

I'm VERY critical of the new direction the series took but this game is great. If this released first instead of the lower quality first part, I'd have been more optimistic. I just won the card tournament on the ship out of Junon but so far they took great care with the game. Locations are expanded, minigames included,even the dumb little things from the original are included. Things you;d never expect to be included.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

The second part of the FF7 remake. This game has no right to be this good. After FF7 remake and XVI, my hopes for the series was VERY low. If the next game is as good as this, the series will grow even more.

I'm VERY critical of the new direction the series took but this game is great. If this released first instead of the lower quality first part, I'd have been more optimistic. I just won the card tournament on the ship out of Junon but so far they took great care with the game. Locations are expanded, minigames included,even the dumb little things from the original are included. Things you;d never expect to be included.

If it wasn't for the new direction it took I'd have no interest in it & wouldn't have bought FF 16 the only game I like where there's a turn based battle system is Pokémon

 

[Would_you_kindly]

If it wasn't for the new direction it took I'd have no interest in it & wouldn't have bought FF 16 the only game I like where there's a turn based battle system is Pokémon

Actually I like yu gi oh aswell but it's gotten way too complicated for me with all the different types they introduced

 

[Yuniac]

Still playing metro exodus , this game is really under rated great graphics great gameplay (although you die too easily) just really well put together which I wasn't expecting with how cheap it was

Metro games are amazing.

 

[Systemshock2023]

Industria: boring but it had good ideas and visuals. Hopefully the sequel is much better.

Axiom Verge: Pretty good so far, excellent music. Should have included a scanlines/CRT filter from the get go. You have to use reshade.

 

[Yuniac]

Industria: boring but it had good ideas and visuals. Hopefully the sequel is much better.

Axiom Verge: Pretty good so far, excellent music. Should have included a scanlines/CRT filter from the get go. You have to use reshade.

Axiom Verge is supposedly good, I have it on my wishlist. By the way, there's a 2nd game too if you didn't know.

 

[voke]

Man I was not prepared for Stellar Blade to be this incredible.

 

[peter42O]

40+ hours into Stellar Blade. Absolutely loving this game. From the visuals to the audio to the combat/gameplay to the exploration to the game and level design. Just loving the game overall and going for 100% completion which I rarely do in games.

 

[KvallyX]

Stellar Blade. I’m loving it!

Right now it’s my Game of the Year. My GOTY games are ones I find addictive and can’t put down. And I enjoy looting and the skill tree and the menu items for inventory and upgrades are super easy to use. I do wish we had an option for a mini map though instead of swiping up for the full map. However I am fine with the directional compass on top of the screen displaying the objective.

 

[Entropi]

Right now it’s my Game of the Year. My GOTY games are ones I find addictive and can’t put down. And I enjoy looting and the skill tree and the menu items for inventory and upgrades are super easy to use. I do wish we had an option for a mini map though instead of swiping up for the full map. However I am fine with the directional compass on top of the screen displaying the objective.

I’d love a mini-map too, but I managed with the compass. I’m one trophy short of the platinum and as you said, I couldn’t put it down. I feel sorry for the people who were baited into the false narratives and couldn't enjoy this masterpiece, every game that is exclusive to PS5 will catch fire by one way or the other.

 

[voke]

40+ hours into Stellar Blade. Absolutely loving this game. From the visuals to the audio to the combat/gameplay to the exploration to the game and level design. Just loving the game overall and going for 100% completion which I rarely do in games.

Yeah, this game has had me in awe for the 30 hours i've spent so far. I actually find it hilarious how this game is nothing like a lot of the narratives around it, to the point where I can tell who has actually played it. The sexualization isn't really as in your face as people would have you think, it doesn't go any farther than games like Nier, or hell even older FFs like X-2. Speaking of X-2, I find this game to be girly as hell, (in a cool way) so "misogynist" accusations fall incredibly flat, and ironically enough I could see why this game appeals to women a lot too.

I think this has cult classic written all over it, gorgeous visuals and music, addictive gameplay, intriguing story. Personal favorite tracks has to be the second camp song, the xion track with the shoegazed guitar, eidos 7, Tachy's theme.... man pretty much the whole thing is unreasonably good. Hot take but I prefer this game to Sekiro, the countering looks amazing (counter chain 1 +2 are immensely satisfying) and feels a generation above it. Tracker says i'm 60% and I've heard very positive things about the late end of the game. Incredibly excited!

 

[Systemshock2023]

Added Shadow warrior 2 alongside Axiom verge, great game but there's too much backtracking.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Just rolled credits on metro exodus really emotional & great game , now going to do the dlc & then on to stellar blade

 

[peter42O]

Yeah, this game has had me in awe for the 30 hours i've spent so far. I actually find it hilarious how this game is nothing like a lot of the narratives around it, to the point where I can tell who has actually played it. The sexualization isn't really as in your face as people would have you think, it doesn't go any farther than games like Nier, or hell even older FFs like X-2. Speaking of X-2, I find this game to be girly as hell, (in a cool way) so "misogynist" accusations fall incredibly flat, and ironically enough I could see why this game appeals to women a lot too.

I think this has cult classic written all over it, gorgeous visuals and music, addictive gameplay, intriguing story. Personal favorite tracks has to be the second camp song, the xion track with the shoegazed guitar, eidos 7, Tachy's theme.... man pretty much the whole thing is unreasonably good. Hot take but I prefer this game to Sekiro, the countering looks amazing (counter chain 1 +2 are immensely satisfying) and feels a generation above it. Tracker says i'm 60% and I've heard very positive things about the late end of the game. Incredibly excited!

Yeah, the sexual stuff is pretty much non-existent. Suggestive? Sure but that's as far as it goes.

Overall, im loving the game. A few minor nitpicks but otherwise, no major issues or complaints. Love all the areas and that they mix up the open areas with linear sections in between and an action sequence set piece here and there. I only played the beginning of Sekiro and wasn't for me but im not a From Software or souls guy. I agree with the countering and the dodging is really good too. I have all the stuff for the first three areas 100% but im two thirds through the story so as im progressing, im trying to knock it all out.

I am playing on story mode since im not good at parrying and countering and I was expecting the game to be harder than what it is but I have only died 5 times and 2 or 3 of them were due to missed jumps.

Here's a hot take of my own - I rated Rebirth a 9.0/10 overall and Stellar Blade is on track to also be a 9.0/10 for me and if that happens, I will have it ranked above Rebirth.

 

[Nomen_Nescio]

Been playing Dave the diver for the past few days, a neat indie game about hunting fish and working in a sushi joint.

 

[Gediminas]

Been playing Dave the diver for the past few days, a neat indie game about hunting fish and working in a sushi joint.

Destroy @Sircaw

 

[Nomen_Nescio]

Destroy @Sircaw

Been there, done that.

 

[Sircaw]

Destroy @Sircaw

Been there, done that.

 

[anonpuffs]

Dave the diver has been consuming 75% of my free time, i can feel things wrapping up soon though so I'll be able to get back to stellar blade

 

[Nomen_Nescio]

Dave the diver has been consuming 75% of my free time, i can feel things wrapping up soon though so I'll be able to get back to stellar blade

It is becoming more of a chore for me, and the game often limits your progress per day. Still enjoyable, might take a bit of a break from it.