Oh look, I’m just going to come clean and say it. I am playing Dark Souls III. I can’t say much else because I’m under embargo, but yes. I am playing it.
What are you playing this weekend?
There’s a lot out there. I get the sense everyone is still playing The Division.
Am I right?
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72 responses to “What Are You Playing This Weekend”
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture: Up to what I assume is the last area. Enjoyable, but so. damn. slow. to get anywhere. You know, I think something weird happened in that valley…
Pokken tournament: Will play against my 5yo son. Totally kid friendly because it’s a pokemon game, not a fighting game.
The Witcher 3: I borrowed this from work a few months back and should probably get started. I figure I’ll have completed it by Monday, right?
I am also playing pokken, but because I’m a man child.
I got absolutely wrecked by a Japanese chandelure last night. We fought five times in a row and I allllmost won the last two. Appalling performance from me, but that pokemon looks like awesome fun.
Lololol. Yep, you’ll finish Witcher 3 by Monday (if you don’t sleep – or if you don’t do any side quests).
Rapture is surprisingly good. The devs had a really difficult choice. The slowness builds the tension and allows time to absorb the emptiness, but damn does it get frustrating sometimes (when you have to backtrack to get trophies…lol)
I agree with their goals but also agree about the frustration. I’ve felt the speed as a disincentive to exploration on many occasions. I even rigged up a rubber band to walk back along a stretch of road last night while I ducked off to the bathroom.
One thing that *would* be really good would be the ability to play as the ball of light, like a cross with Flower. Especially after the end (though, having not finished, I don’t know how applicable that would be). It would be really liberating to go swooping through the streets and houses like the ball does, with the orchestral music playing in the background, and a nice counter-point to the earlier plodding exploration.
I kind of gave up on Rapture – didnt feel like it was going anywhere after a couple of hours…
Maybe i should get back into it but I fear ive got no idea where i was up to!!!
Working towards finishing Witch and the Hundred Knight: Revival Edition mainly, though there’ll be some Bravely Second in there too. I’m kind of keen to try out Hyperlight Drifter too so I may end up playing that.
So i played Hyper Light Drifter loads over the weekend and it is brilliant. There is very little coverage from Kotaku about it though which is a shame
Picked up Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition for $10 last week and am thoroughly enjoying replaying the best game of 2012. A few rough edges remain but it’s still as fun to play as ever and the added touches from all the micro-DLC I couldn’t be bothered to buy before are nice.
Will continue with this. Based on what I remember I’m probably about 3/4 of the way through the story but I’m about to go on a collectible-hunting/sidequest tear so I’ve got more than enough to keep me occupied.
Go for the platinum!
Be warned though, a couple of the street races can be annoyingly difficult due to insane AI behaviour / rubber-banding. Just got to be patient with those and eventually you’ll win through.
Got it on Xbone but I take your meaning. 😛
There’s one bike race I’ve encountered so far called Enduro where the other bikes seem to outpace me no matter what I do, and I always stack it on the last corner. 🙁
I think last time I missed out on the achievement for buying all the vehicles since there just wasn’t enough money in the game without grinding armored trucks. The extra races and cop missions the micro-DLC has added seems to have been a bit more generous with the cash, plus there’s these red envelopes I need to track down (I’ve only found 3 so far so I might need a guide).
But I’m working on it.
I found the definitive edition on PS4 so much easier than the vanilla version on the PS3. I’m very glad I came back to it and I managed to get the platinum!!
I did find it hard to get enough cash at first but chug along with the side missions and also the chop shop missions, they can rake in some good cash.
I don’t think I’ve done any chop shop missions since the initial one where it unlocks after you meet Uncle Po for the first time. I remember doing them last time but not this time, guess I’m just skimming over them on my map or something!
At first they don’t seem really worth it cause you’re stealing cheap cars for low reward. But by the time you get to the end (after 20 or so I think), you’ve built up to luxury cars worth a couple of hundred thousand.
Edit: I’ve just realised I meant to say you get the missions from calling Tran on the phone.
Thanks for letting me know, I’d forgotten all about that!
There is nothing to play til Dark Souls 3.
Damn you!
I’m just going to come clean and say it.
YOU LUCKY BASTARD MARK.
Black desert and all the new VR stuff
About 20 hours into TitS:SC and liking it a lot so far.
Also enjoying some Miku PDF2nd on Vita and PS3 (got my PS3 calibration just right finally!)
PS4 doing some Broken Age (eh) and PS3 doing some Ass Creed Rogue (eh).
What do you think of broken age?! It was kind of comical but i deleted it just the other day… Felt like a waste of time! lol
I’m enjoying it but boy oh boy does it bring back memories of the old point and click days where you move the mouse around the screen searching for stuff to click on and trying to combine different items etc. Story is pretty cool so far (I’m about half-way through).
Maybe ill give it another go but its hard to spend so much time on these little games when im not even finishing AAA titles lol
Really want to get day of the tenticle for the reasons you mentioned though! Loved that!!!
We all chose the wrong profession.
Myself – Bravely Second gotta try my best to finish it before too long.
Counter Strike: Source, Rainbow 6: Siege and just to mix it up Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble. I have my SNES on stand by when I die during CS:S and R6:S
Kind of feeling a bit “meh” on a lot of my games at the moment.
Possibly some Xenoblade Chronicals X or Bravely Default. Haven’t touched either of those in a while.
Might spend most of the weekend watching horror movies. Netflix recently added a bunch I’m interested in.
What are you planning to watch?
Probably He Never Died, Mirrors, Wake Wood, Hellraiser: Revelations and It Follows (which has been on there for ages but I haven’t gotten around to watching it yet).
Well I’ll be playing the original dark souls now that I’m finally past the roadblock that made me rage quit
Of course I’m up to a new roadblock now but that is souls for you
The division still, waiting until a couple mates hit lvl 30 then get ready for April’s update!
Still need a few people to run the DZ with
Probably the division.
A mix of The Division and Salt & Sanctuary, loving S&S, go play it if you’re hanging out for DS3.
After finishing Wind Waker HD last weekend and my first play through of Until Dawn I will be looking for more shame pile reducing.
I think I’m going to go something older – say Gamecube. I’ve got Rogue Squadron II or Luigi’s Mansion I want to look at. Otherwise I’ll get back to Transformers Devastation.
I can’t keep up with all these games, let alone all the new stuff to come. There’s a lot of new stuff coming and recent stuff I want to play but I can’t justify getting any of that yet as I have plenty of games to play that I don’t have time for!
A good problem to have I guess.
Too poor at the moment to get into in any relatively new releases (and my poor ol’ unit can’t take games the like the Witcher 3 with any decent fidelity) so it’s through the Steam pile’o’shame for me. Deus Ex: Human Rev and a few indies will see me through for a while!
Black Desert, The Division, Warframe and League. Grind city.
lol that is some hard core grinding :O
I have been saying this for weeks, but Bloodborne (if I get time on Sunday). Up to the final part of the DLC, then I need to tackle Mergo’s Loft post-Micolash.
Determined to have this done before Dark SOuls 3 comes out.
Rise of the Tomb Raider – gonna dive back in for the DLC.
And then… go on. Guess… no? ELITE!!! 😀
Might take a break from The Division and work through my increasing pile of games. Almost finished Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture, which is beautiful but can be a bit tiresome. Afterwards, maybe starting Life Is Strange or State of Decay. And a friend wants to play Bloodborne, which I never finished, so…
Killer Instinct on PC for me, and possibly some more Twilight Princess.
Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley for best valley.
Been wondering whether to get this.
Don’t get it.
I’ve racked up about 30 hours in the last 4 nights.
Project Cars with the G29 again
UFC 2 ultimate team
Every weekend i think im going to get back into either Witcher 3(3rd act), Fallout 4(10 hours in), or Farcry Primal(15 hours in)…
I stopped playing fallout 4 shortly after it came out as i wanted to finish the witcher 3… Then farcry primal came out… and I was playing just cause 3 sometimes too…. I spread myself too thin now i have no focus!!!!!
It all seems like too much effort so i just have a few races or a few fights!!!
Demon’s Souls, currently my choices for progress are Flamelurker or Valley of Defilement 5-2 🙁
Flamelurker I beat on my first go. No joke. Just don’t get panicky, don’t hesitate/drag the fight out and follow his flow.
So I ended up doing the same thing, I finished the game on Saturday and I must say that while I probably rushed a little, I’m a bit disappointed with how easy the Demon’s Souls bosses were. I one shot every boss except Armor Spider, Adjudicator, Dirty Colossus and the False King, all of which I beat on second tries.. And I struggled with a lot of Bloodborne’s bosses.
VoD 5-2 is easily the worst level in the entire Souls series though!
When you say one shot you mean first go right? There is no way you can get level enough to one shot Phalanx.
VoD is just, gah. But it is done like that on purpose. The Maiden at the end of VOD, what you do with her?
Yeah sorry, I mean first go. I killed the Maidens bodyguard and then when I spoke to her she killed herself, was there a possible fight with her there?
I am gonna finish Life is Strange episode 3 and start on episode 4, with a bit of Rocket League and Metro 2033 in between.
I’m at a loss. Will probably run the dailies in the Division, but more generally… not sure. I’m in a general rut – only games I feel like playing are Witcher 3 or PoE, neigther of which I really want to get into two weeks before DS3… Screw it, Witcher 3 it is. I’ll try to make some progress, if nothing else.
Pretty busy weekend for me but I hope to squeeze in some Hyper Light Drifter. It is pretty rad based off what I have played so far. Gearing me up for Enter the Gungeon next week and the biggie, Dark Souls 3 the week after.
I’ve surprised myself by spending some time on the PS3 instead of the PS4.
Started Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel and I’ve been really loving it.
Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Nintendo gamecube. Mostly by myself, trying to master frame perfect tech.
Im going to keep enjoying Dark Souls 3 this weekend.
Thank you Japan xbox store.
Hyper light Drifter: up to the first dungeon, seems very cool and has a consistent design aspect throughout.
Salt and Sanctuary: I’d really like to play this on Vita, but I’m enjoying it on the TV. Still undecided on whether to keep going or wait till Vita release.
The Deadly tower of monsters – just a fun game, it’s a bit repetitive but you can really tell they had fun designing the tower and the humor in the game is actually amusing.
Salt and Sanctuary. I cannot get enough. I am level 55 now and have loved every brutal moment.
I’ll be finishing Bloodborne, up to the last DLC boss and the last main game boss, I’m glad I bought a ps4 for this amazing game
I’ll probably try to squeeze in other games I haven’t finished like Lords of the Fallen, Wasteland 2 and The Last of Us
Having an xbox one and ps4 makes it hard to decide on what to play next XD
Probably just end up finishing the story missions in Arkham Knight. Tempted to start Beyond Two Souls, but I’m kinda burnt out by the weirdness that was Heavy Rain. Was enjoying The Witcher 3 DLC until it forced me to spend 20 minutes trying to herd pigs… looked up what I was doing wrong, but the damage is done.
I’m really just biding my time until Quantum Break and Uncharted 4 come out…
Still tapping into Smite on PS4. Seems like more Australian players are joining. Still have an extra code for anybody interested.
I finished Dead Space 3 and going to look into more backlog. Probably Rage, or Lost Planet 3. Can also keep playing Salt and Sanctuary. I’m also almost done playing Links Awakening.
Speaking of Dead Space,
if anybody ever tries to tell you that microtransactions aren’t that big of a deal then you guide them to this game. This is one of the most depressing forms of nickle and diming I have ever seen. The game is designed to be miserable until you spend real money buying resources to make fights end faster.Remember how before enemies wouldn’t run at you until you shot them in the head? Well now that doesn’t matter since they all rush you down. There’s really no need of ‘strategic dismemberment’ and it’s better to fire as much bullets as you can.
The game is obviously designed for co-op. Enemies are bullet sponges and I regularly felt like I needed a second gun firing with me to end them quickly. Also, I can rarely think of an encounter in which an enemy didn’t spawn in behind me. Pretty much every fight involved me finding the one corner with no vents and tunneling all enemies into a spinning sawblade. I wouldn’t need to do this if a second player was behind me.
Oh yeah, remember how people joked about the vents being too obvious? You’d think they’d ease off on that, but instead they doubled down. Not only are there vents enemies jump out of, there’s rock vents in rocky areas, there’s ice vents in snowy areas, in space there are space vents. But the most egregious one is when you’re forced to go inside the body of a huge dead necromorph. Guess what, there’s MEAT vents for enemies to spawn in from!
When people try to defend the game by saying you can find all resources, you still have to spend real money. Early on I came across an area I couldn’t access because I needed an item, an item you can only create with resources. I didn’t have the resources, so I came back later when I did. But the entire area was locked out. As punishment for refusing to pay EA for resources.
When I do manage to find resources, I get these tokens I can spend on resources. You’re searching for resources that allow you to buy resources.
People say you can play it by yourself. While true, you’re locked out of many areas and fights last much longer and are more annoying to deal with.
All this complaining and I haven’t even touched on the characters and story. Which somehow also got worse as they hired the most amateur writer to finish the story. Everything turned into a cliche mess you’d only see from a Battlefield campaign mode. Then it all ends with you firing giant rocks into the eyeballs of the moon. Oh yeah, that’s the whole secret behind the franchise. It was the moon all along! Fuck this game.
I actually feel like doing a review video on why this game is so shit.
Oh please do. I concur on EVERY CRITICAL SCERIC you’ve discussed.
Number 3 is easily the worst in the series, DS2 was DS1 with a few slight differences (you even go on the original ship for gods sake) but DS3 was really quite a change in focus and it made the game really suck in my opinion. I’m a massive fan of the Dead Space games but I picked up a lot of the same vibes you did.
Lets not even speak about the ludicrousness of the final boss fight.
That final boss fight didn’t even need to happen. You don’t even fight the boss, you just do enough damage to get to the freeze ray switch. But what makes that stupid beyond all reason is that the switch should never have been turned off. I know they go with the cliche of ‘Give me the McGuffin or your girlfriend dies!’ trope, which in any real scenario would have result in him getting shot 50 times in the face. But after he activates it there’s like, 30 seconds of nothing happening where Carver or Isaac could have easily shot him in the face and then turn it back on. Instead they stand around 5 feet away from the switch talking about sacrifice and stuff until the moon just grabs the freeze ray and goes away.
Chipping away at the platinum for The Division. Kill 20 rogues (19 to go), extract from every DZ point (think 4 to go) and complete every mission on hard (maybe 3 or 4 to go)… possible this w/e but doubtful.
(btw was going to cheese the 20 rogues one)
I’ve been bored as hell lately playing games. I blame Dark Souls. I played Dark Souls 1 at the end of last year and Dark Souls 2 SOTFS about a month ago. Dark Souls is easily my top 3 favourite games of all time now. Problem is, nothing else feels satisfying to play now. I tried Grim Dawn, got bored after 20 hours since combat felt very samey and the story wasn’t very interesting. Tried Shadow Warrior, Hacknet, Dirty Bomb, Darksiders 2 and got bored of all of them. I just need something to tide me over until DS3 is released!! Is Warframe worth playing?
Having a weekend of old and new games!
Downloaded Manhunt from Canadian PSN for $18 since I loved it
Got Automatron dlc fof FO4
Arkham City on PS3 (loving it) for $30
Borderlands Hansom Collection from CAN PSN again for only $30
Far Cry Primal
MKX XL
Gonna be very busy
I am going to play the lets be envious of everyone with a press pass/Japanese Xbone account whilst shaking my fist ineffectually at Namco
Also I’ll be playing Dark Souls II because I finally saw off those two ass-clowns in Black Gulch (they’ve added a tonne of delightful fake invaders to Scholar of the First Sin) and now I just have to dispatch the Rotten.
For some reason (namely to do with the upcoming title) I felt like playing through all the old Doom games, so I fired up the ol’ PS3 with the ultimate edition. Just burn through all the old stages for kicks.
Apart from that I still toy with WoW and the Division with a few friends, the sorts of games that can provide bursts of fun before frustrations arrive. Considering giving Destiny another go, -maybe-.
Probably more Division with my partner and some of the multiplayer DOOM beta. And, inevitably, turns of Endless Space.
I’ve heard bad things about DOOM. I hope that doesn’t turn out to be the case.
Did you ever pick up Baldurs Gate? Was it you on the fence?
I’ve got the Enhanced Editions on PC, and the original Enhanced Edition on Android.
It’s borderline unplayable on Android for me; the interface hasn’t aged well at all, and even playing on a standard desktop monitor has its frustrations. Honestly, I think I’ve waited too long to be able to enjoy it now.
Fair enough.
Yakuxa 5. Want it done before DS3.
Oh and some Division cause I got it for free…