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What are you playing this weekend? 2024-08-16 (self.playstation)
submitted 4 months ago by slimerancher to c/playstation
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Still playing Borderlands 3 as my main PS game. 2 vaults down, don't know how many more left.

ATOM RPG is hard! I don't recall having such trouble with Fallout 1 and 2. Either they weren't this hard or I have become used to easier games. I think my problem is how I distributed my stats, giving me a very intelligent but a weak character, that keeps dying in actual fights.

Read up a bit on it about character stats, and thinking about starting a new game with new character.

While I kept dying in ATOM RPG, I looked through my backlog and started Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All. I loved the first one, but took a break before diving deep in the next one. So, playing through that now. Still a great game, might even be better than the first one. I'll probably finish this before I go back to ATOM.

Also started Trails in the Sky: Second Chapter on PC. Prologue was very interesting, just started Chapter 1. Playing it slowly on the side, when I generally don't have access to PS and Switch, not cause the game isn't fun, but because I don't enjoy playing on PC much. Fortunately only Trails in the Sky is left on PC, and all other games are available on console, so shouldn't be too much of a trouble.

What about all of you? What have you been playing?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure. Finally beat Trails from Zero yesterday, so i guess i start the next one.

[–] slimerancher 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nice. How did you like it? Compared to other Trails games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's better than trails of cold steel 1, but that's not really hard i guess. I would say it's probably a nice start to play the better Trails to Azure (at least some of you say it's better), but i wouldn't say it's the best. The first half feels more like doing a lot of side quests, while the second half is more exiting. So far Trails of Cold Steel 3&4 are my favorite, it's not on that level. I don't know about the Trails of the sky games in comparison that well anymore. But i would rank it about Trails of Cold steel 2. While it's kinda nice how the Story envolved in Crossbell, you do a lot Backtracking and visit always the same places. But things that go for it, it has a simple graphic with a lot 2D sprites in a cheap looking 3D world, but some of the presentation is kinda charming. I like how the manage to do the Arc en Ciel part for example.

[–] slimerancher 1 points 4 months ago

Ahan. Thanks for the info.

[–] Katana314 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I absolutely cannot stomach the newer Trails games; it feels like they fully leaned in to every anime trope hitting the millennium. But Trails in the Sky 1 and 2 are some of my favorite JRPGs, and I played them well past the age they came out in.

Something about the sense of adventure, the heart-wrenching emotional faults of the leads, as well as the maturity they take towards roles of leadership and governance, made it especially memorable to me.

Going from the next game on, they start repeating a lot of unnecessary patterns and get into Dragonball style “power escalations” that get really tiring. While the trope of getting an early forced loss to a powerful big bad is a common one, they start doing it multiple times in one game and it gets very annoying.

[–] slimerancher 1 points 3 months ago

Hmm... well I haven't played the newer ones yet, but from what I have seen, most people who have played all the games rate Cold Steel below other games in series. Though people liked the latest one, Daybreak, I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gonna do some QTEing with Zenless Zone Zero. Gonna do some detective-izing with Nobody Wants to Die. Gonna do some couch co-oping with Cat Quest 3.

[–] slimerancher 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How are you liking ZZZ? I liked the original trailer, but am not a fan of free-to-play games.

Nobody Wants to Die is pretty short, you should be able to finish it over the weekend. Would look forward to your review.

Cat Quest is purr-fect for playing co-op! Have pun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Really liking ZZZ for what it is. Comic book story telling with some fun action. The UI and vibe appeals to me. And as it is free like you said, it’s worth kicking the tires for a few hours.

[–] slimerancher 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. How is it with respecting your time? Can I just put 20, 30 or 40 hours and be done with it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well it’s been out for just a few weeks and the story is going to evolve over time like Genshin Impact before it. No harm trying it and bouncing off its not your cup of tea. Or avoid if you have things going on 🤓

[–] slimerancher 1 points 4 months ago

Heh. True.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Madden just came out. I wasn't going to bother right away (even though I'd buy way before it's discounted), but seeing flashes of polish from our rookie QB in preseason games got me back in football mode. Annoyingly, custom playbooks don't work online, and the play art in the new version is really goofy, but it plays fast and there's a big gap between making the right decision or not.

I was playing blasphemous 2 before that. It has a lot of the similar feel. I don't really like the thorns building up on multiple deaths, though. I'm buried in the currency, so it's more just an inconvenience to go all the way back to fix it than an actual "cost" of sloppiness.

[–] Lautaro 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Starting Ghost of Tsushima, got it on sale!

[–] slimerancher 2 points 4 months ago

Enjoy the hot springs!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bought Baldur's Gate 3 when it was recently on sale. I imagine that's going to keep me busy for quite some time!

[–] slimerancher 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good luck! What race/class are you going with?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm doing Dragonborne Barbarian this playthrough. Have you played? What did you go with?

[–] slimerancher 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, I have played the first two BG long time ago, but haven't played 3rd yet. Want to play both Divintiy: Original Sin games before that, so it's going to be a while before I get around to it.

I do like to see what others are playing though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I never played the first Divinity Original Sin. I'm not sure how well it would hold up but I've done 2 playthroughs of Divinity Original Sin 2. Highly recommend.

[–] slimerancher 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have a thing about playing from the oldest version possible (which is easily accessible in modern systems). So, at least going to give the first one a try, if I feel like it's too much of a chore, will just leave it and skip to the second one.

That being said, I am mostly a patient gamer, currently playing games from 2002, 2004, 2018 and 2019, so it shouldn't feel too dated to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Okay then yeah, shouldn't be an issue for you :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wz2100, wow, gitlab.

[–] slimerancher 1 points 4 months ago

I was just talking about this a few days ago. A friend mentioned Warzone, and I got excited that he knows about this, but then it turned out he was talking about Call of Duty. 😀

It has been years since I last played it though. How does it hold up now