Man, I have to be honest, I haven’t been playing too much recently. Seems like my life has just been super busy with stuff that isn’t games. What have I been playing when I can grab a sec? Mainly Dragon Age: Inquisition, which I’m not really sure I like and Mario Kart 8. What are you guys playing this weekend?
It’s been strange. I’ve found myself really going off these big, grand video games like Inquisition. I also recently started Far Cry 4 and was really struggling to motivate myself to play through these big, grand experiences. Nothing to do with the quality of either game. I think these things just tend to go in cycles. Right now I think I want something a little more digestible, something I can play in short bursts. Maybe I’ll come back to these big ‘uns during the Christmas holidays.
I’m also on the lookout for something to play on either the Vita or the 3DS. Plenty of folks have recommended the new Persona game for the 3DS. I’m feeling like that might be worth a shot. I’m new to the series, but I feel like playing a handheld game for some reason.
What are you guys and girls playing?
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52 responses to “What Are You Playing This Weekend?”
Yakuza 4
Beyond Two Souls
& Inquisition multi if anyone would like to invite me along
PSN – Jimu_Hsien
Mark, please try Persona 4 Golden on Vita instead. I’m sure Q is great, but it will give the wrong impression
@markserrels
I’d recommend Etrian Odyssey Untold over Persona Q if you wanted to play that style of game, but if you’re playing because it’s Persona, then yeah, Golden on Vita would be better.
I’m enjoying persona q, but i think only because i love the p4 characters. I never played p3, and I’m finding I just don’t care about those guys. I’m considering stopping q, grabbing p3p, then coming back to it.
@markserrels Yeah play P4G first.
PQ is great but they go straight to the gameplay and assume you already know the characters and what they have been through so far as it is set in the middle of Persona 4’s story and Persona 3’s story as well.
Yeah, Persona Q is a Persona & Etrian Odyssey mashup. It’s a wizardry-style Dungeon Crawler. If that’s what you want to play then it certainly isn’t a bad thing, but you won’t get the characters or anything. Better to do Persona 4 first.
Or if you really want a pure oldschool dungeon crawler, just try Etrian Odyssey IV or Shin Megami Tensei IV.
Oh man, SMT IV is so good & only $25!
I’m crying about how bad I am in Ultra Street Fighter 4 on steam.
You know how there are 2 kinds of noobs, there are those who are bad at the game because they have absoloutley no idea what they are doing, and then there are those that know enough about the game that they realise how unskilled they are.
I’m the latter and its a punch in the face to Me and Makoto. We are currently at 3 wins and 48 losses… I won’t give up because she wouldn’t either.
I Highly HIGHLY recommend playing persona 4 golden as the gateway into the series, its a little easier than Persona 3 FES, And shows what the main games are all about. I loved the characters (Naoto <3 my Waifu) I must of dropped over 200 hours into whats really at most a 120hr game. Maybe . Persona Q and the Arena fighting games are more enjoyable after you have played P3 and P4G.
Man, I know that feeling with USFIV… I was in the same boat for a long time on PS3. Eventually you learn your bread’n’butter combos and see opportunities to punish and that’s quite often enough. It’s actually a very defensive game.
Dungeon of the Endless. Really surprised this Frankenstein of a game works. Got to the second last level last night. So close.
May get the Telltale Game of Thrones game.
If my nephews drop in, add Lego games to the mix.
I’ve been in a bit of a Batman mood lately so have been replaying Arkham Asylum. Might play through the other games next.
Was hoping to train up a Captain Falcon and Little Mac Amiibo this weekend.
Don’t think it’s gonna happen now ;_;
World of war… ahh you know what im playing it never changes.
Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed….don’t laugh….I’m playing it for the Plot!
Dragon Age Inquisition, GTAV and some Lego Batman 3.
Possibly some Runaway and Broken Sword on the PC if my girlfriend wants to hog the TV.
I’ll be heading to Open Day!
and working on my next review, I hit a good stride this week.
For games, I don’t know, Borderlands, maybe Red Dead Redemption. Phoenix Wright Dual Destinies. Or maybe put some time towards Halo: Reach to get the awful taste of recent 343i news out of my mouth.
Dragon Age Inquisition. I want to get out of the Hinterlands but I’m playing it on Nightmare and get my backside handed to me almost every single time. So grinding in the Hinterlands. (Not really in the spirit of the game I know)
No time to play anything this weekend, got our church’s Christmas production on.
Speaking of Christmas production, if anyone is in the Narre Warren over the weekend, we have our Christmas Production on (was that a subtle enough segue?).
Full details available at http://nwbc.net.au/toms-diner/
Pesrona 4 Golden and Pokemon. My sister and her fiance brought a house so I’m helping them move in to that. Lots of driving between the storage unit she left here with all her stuff and the middle of nowhere where her new house is. If the other dozen times I’ve helped her move are any indication there will also be a lot of sitting around waiting.
Finishing my Far Cry 4 platinum and continuing on with Earthbound!
Persona Q is great, but I agree with the others here, Persona 4 Golden is the best place to start. It’s great for public transport because the game offers enough activities to ensure that you’re always achieving something meaningful in the grand scheme of things (social links, progressing through dungeons, taking the aiya big bowl challenge and increasing your social qualities). Plus you can just turn off the vita when you’ve reached your destination and resume right where you left off when you have spare time again. IT’S GREAT!
Trying to beat the Dark Below raid on Destiny, hopefully lfg.com gives me some good parties. If that all goes well Far Cry 4 or starting up a second Dragon Age: Inquisition character.
Still trying to drag my ass through Dragon Age, but it’s like having teeth pulled. Compared to Origins (and hell, even DA2), the combat is so boring.
Dragon Age Inquisition and a Normal Difficulty, super-fun run of The Last Of Us and Left Behind Remastered.
God I love LOU 🙂
TLoU is almost as fantastic on the tenth run as the first. If you want an amazing perspective on the game, and what it means, watch this video – https://youtube.com/watch?v=sycoOjAT3G4
Cool! Will watch it when I emerge from work.
Literally the ONLY part in LOU I dread is the flooded basement of the hotel in Pittsburgh. Man oh man, that keycard/generator/bloater section gives me tremors every time!
Completed that part last night, so smooth sailing through to the final credits 🙂
I was just tooling around on Casual difficulty the other day, and I discovered that there is no Bloater in that area on that difficulty. It made that scene totally underwhelming.
That’s just not right. The whole section gives me hives, but without the bloater it’s just a crap-shoot.
I’d believe the tenth run is as “fantastic” as the first – i.e. it’s a painful slog of boredom dragged out for at least three times longer than it needs to be. I found The Last of Us to suffer from one of the most egregious cases of filler-content this side of an MMORPG, and in no way whatsoever did I feel it lived up to the hype. I don’t understand how it could win game of the year because by and large its game mechanics were just downright mediocre. It could have a made a vaguely interesting zombie movie or mini-series, but the story wasn’t anywhere engaging enough to justify its runtime.
I’ll be playing Gauntlet, Hand of Fate, Mark of the Ninja… at least when I’m not working towards finishing my Dragon Age mod…
The same thing I’ve been playing every night for the past two weeks: Smash Bros Wii U 😀
Drunken Robot Pornography, because of the name!!
I’ll be playing some Diablo 3 with friends and then some Drakengard 3. I’ll probably also be sneaking in some Etrian Odyssey IV and Disgaea 4 in the down times.
planning to start on mordor.
Picking up a GTX970 on the weekend so I’ll be playing everything with a benchmark this weekend 😉 Also Dragon Age Inquisition and Persona Q on portable.
I didn’t know Persona Q was out so soon, I’ve never played a Persona game but funnily enough I just finished Persona 4 The Animation last night and got about half way through Persona 4 The Golden Animation. If anything, I’ll be playing Pokemon though.
Rune Factory 4 is on the eShop for AU gamers who didn’t know (and care)! Great surprise for me this morning. Plus finally getting Dragon Age Inquisition.
I bought my PS4 with BF4 and GTAV. Spent a bit of time playing BF4 multiplayer which has been great, but something else on PS+ has taken more of my time than anything else….
The Binding of Isaac – Rebirth.
Mark, if you want a more digestible game I can’t think of anything else that suits quite so well. This game is the definition of addictive. I have these big AAA releases to play and I can’t get away from this game. If you haven’t already, DO IT.
I’ve been doing this a bit too – though if you go well play sessions can last ages!
Destiny and GTAV on PS4.
I think I’m going to try and recruit a friend to jump back into Destiny for the new content (We both got the Limited Edition with DLC 1 & 2)
Destiny. Hoping Xur will have an upgrade for one of my helms, to get me to 31 for our next bash at the new raid. Knowing my luck, I’ll have to choose between finally getting Praxic Fire, and upgrading one of my helms/weapons.
Barring that, gathering as many ascendant shards as I can, ranking Crota’s Bane as much as possible so I can convert raid mats soon, then trying to get vanguard rank for commendations. Hopefully getting to run the weekly strike a couple of times, too, for a bit more flexibility with Xur…
Might dig into more shovel knight on the 3ds now it’s available.
I should also play a bit more volgarr the viking and try to beat the first level … it’s kind of frustrating, but I’ve only got myself to blame for the failures. Other than that I think It’ll be a chill weekend lamenting the loss of my doom beta key and recovering from a christmas party while putting together furniture
I’m playing Christmas shopping!
I’ll also be picking up Persona Q, likely Rune Factory 4, and Smash Wii U.
I finally got my fixed wireless NBN connection and… Online MK8 and Smash don’t work with Telstra’s router… I’ll still be picking up Smash Wii U, though.
Anyway… Actual playing?
If I have time to play, I’ll finish Tomb Raider, and maybe Smash a little.
Just built myself a new PC so will be putting it to the test with Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age @ 4k res.
But mostly WoW, so much WoW…
System specs if anyone is curious:
Mainboard: Gigabyte Z97X-GAMING GT
Case: NZXT H440 Mid Tower
Processor: i7-4790K @ 4.6 GHZ
SSD: Samsung 850 250GB
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 16GB (2x8GB)
PSU: Corsair 850W RM-850 ATX
Cooling: NZXT Kraken X61 Water cooler
GPU: 2x Gigabyte GTX 980 G1 Gaming
I have too many games on the go at the moment. I would like to try and finish Far Cry this weekend so I can really get into Dragon Age. Will sprinkle some Isaac and Pro Evo in between these.
@markserrels: I think you’re probably not burned out on big, grand games, you’re burned out on games that have massive open worlds filled with time-wasting fluff content. There’s a whole ton of them out at once. It seems like next-gen hit and everyone started making that sort of game because they can and the market’s been flooded with them
Have you played a well-made linear AAA game recently? If you haven’t, might I recommend Wolfenstein: New Order if you didn’t play it already? It’s really good, one of the best games this year, and it’s a decent length but it’s very tightly designed and respects your time. Also has really good writing, surprisingly so.
Framed, and some Zen Pinball. I’m also a bit over the big deep grand games at the moment. Framed is great, and Zen Pinball on the cab is perfect for a short burst of fun.
Skyrim! My favourite game of all time.
I just loaded up a whole new set of mods. Here I go!
CODAW so addictive…
MGS2 or maybe 3 or even PW
Gonna try my hardest to finally finish friggen Mario and Luigi Dream Team. I’ve been sitting on it since the start of the year, slowly whittling away at it. Almost there… I think.
PS4 – maybe some GTAV if I get around to it…
PS3 – Borderlands 2 Tiny Tina – such a fantastic DLC, also the last stop on my BL2 + all DLC Axton playthrough
Vita – Hyperdimension Neptunia Producing Perfection – going for that platinum and got the bit between my teeth now. The game is seriously a 5 out of 10 but somehow strangely endearing despite its mediocrity.
2DS – maybe some Kirby Triple Deluxe.
Mark, check out Frozen Synapse Prime on Vita if you can. If you haven’t played P4G then I’d definitely go with that if you are after an 80-hour JRPG feast.