It’s been a busy old week – especially last night as Nacon and Ubisoft both decided to host game reveal streams at the same time – but we’re pretty much at the end of it now, and so it’s time to look back on what games we’ve all been playing over the past seven days.
Over last weekend and into the start of this week, I was playing through the new Outriders Worldslayer expansion. It’s a good, solid third person looter shooter in a lot of ways, and you can find some really fun ability combos to use through the various combat scenarios, but there’s still just something missing from it. It needs a bit more refinement as narrative arcs have been set up to explore for further expansions in years to come, and it certainly needs to reduce those daft mini loading cutscenes, somehow.
Aside form that, I’ve been playing the “Downwell but going up” of Poinpy, which is one of those Netflix games, and the daft Chess-like Really Bad Chess on Apple Arcade. I also finished watching Severance on Apple TV, and that was a really good TV show!
Forgetting that he played Outriders with me – I guess it just didn’t stick with him quite so well – Tuffcub stated that he played Destiny 2, and that he really needs new games. Again, we just played Outriders together…
Also needing new games was Nick P, who played more of his go-to game Dead by Daylight, but Gamoc found a wealth of new stuff to play after upselling himself to PS Plus Extra. He cleared 335GB of space on his PS5 and immediately filled it with 15 new game downloads. So far he’s played about an hour of John Wick Hex and raced through the first half of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, “which is pretty good.”
Aran has been playing more Horizon Forbidden West, exploring all of the map and completing challenges as he comes to them. Alongside that he played a bit of Chorus and has enjoyed it enough that he’s going to carry on with the shooty spacey action.
Steve’s totally hooked on Cuphead, enjoying the new character and DLC on his way to completing our review. Aside from that he’s been “enduring” the similarly punishing Souldiers, which is also for review, and started Cris Tales as it’s leaving Game Pass, but wasn’t really grabbed by it. Then he remembered that he’s got it free through Epic Games Store, so he might try it again without the time pressure.
Ade took Jim’s advice and tried out For Honor. “It’s really good!” he said, “I was concerned that coming to an online game years later would mean I wouldn’t have a clue what was going on and would get murdered all the time. Thankfully it’s got some brilliant tutorials and I’ve been able to pick things up pretty quickly and even – gasp! – win a few matches!”
Stick with For Honor, Jim’s been playing as the Jormungandr, “tripping opponents before slamming them with a gnarly-looking hammer” despite them being one of the weaker heroes in the current game balance. He’s also been playing the PT-like MADiSON, and says that “So far it’s wonderfully creepy though some of the puzzles have been a bit obtuse.”
And Miguel’s been getting through AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES – nirvanA Initiative and digging into Monster Hunter: Rise. The Sunbreak DLC has really hyped him up for playing Monster Hunter for the first time in a while. This has all been joined by the usual Apex legends, and revisiting some games on PS Plus Premium like Asura’s Wrath, Tokyo Jungle and The Witch And the Hundred Knight.
Now then, what have you played?
MrYd
Finished off Guardians of the Galaxy. Which was lots of fun.
Then sliced half my left thumb off in a cooking incident. Always sharpen your kitchen knives so they don’t slip. So that made gaming difficult.
So mostly some stuff that doesn’t involve too much use of that left thumb. Or what’s left of it.
Finished my first attempt at Man of Medan. Which I enjoyed. Someone might even have survived. Must didn’t. I’ll give it another go before moving on to the next game. More Pip Torrens is always good.
Then while looking through the hundreds of PS+ things, Zanki Zero caught my attention. Weird mix of visual novel, old school dungeon exploring (90 degree turning your thing), survival thing with gathering stuff for cooking and building a base, and rogue-like stuff. With some very dark stories. Enjoying it so far. Better than the sun of it’s various fairly simple parts.
And because it seems to be compulsory for the new PS+, Lawn Mowing Simulator. Which is strangely relaxing and addictive. But I am old enough to remember the original Advanced Lawnmower Simulator April fool’s joke from whichever 80s magazine it was.
Oh, and Arcadegeddon is quite fun as well. Except when you’ve got a group of 4 doing so well together, start a boss fight, and the boss forgets to turn up. Mostly you can just all kill yourselves and get all the XP you’ve earned. But on 1 map, you can’t. Nothing to kill yourself with. And quitting loses all your progress. Annoying.
willbuchanan
Ouch! Hope your thumb is ok and not too much damage done!
MrYd
It’s ok. I’ve got another one.
willbuchanan
I continued with Lego Star Wars 3 Clone Wars on PS3 and Everybody’s Golf on PS4. I also picked up and platinumed a couple of games from the current PSN sale – A Sketchbook About Her Sun and also Disco Cannon Airlines. The latter I bought partly because it was something like 49p but mostly because it has the best name I’ve ever seen for anything, ever. It did not disappoint!