Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 27-28)

On PS5 I've been playing the closed beta for New World Aeternum and I'm surprised to say I'm quite enjoying it so far. Also working my way through Outcast New Beginning but it's one of the most glitchy games I've ever played which is a shame as it's actually quite fun. On Xbox I've just started Kona.

Wouldn't mind playing the Olympics games either but London 2012 isn't backwards compatible and the toyko one is forty quid no thanks!! I'll probably just play some elden ring I'm very close to the base games end now with the dlc ready to play and I'll jump on mafia 3 and some Lego racing 2k or whatever it's called with my daughter 🤌

I'm close to finishing Far Cry 6, so I'll be playing that. If I do, I'll still have the DLCs. And Primal.
Really enjoyed it so far.

Nothing! Game Pass subscription service has major outage! My auto renewal is pending 🤷🏻‍♂️
Why hasn’t this been reported at purexbox? Been down for more than 24hours!

MWiii, Exhumed and FH4 all on Series X.

After finishing Rise of the Ronin I felt I needed a bit of a break before playing the next "big" game which I think will be Stellar Blade but No one wants to die might slip in between. Will decide today or tomorrow 🙂 Anyways, I've been playing:

The first Descendant and Asphalt Legends Unite - both free to play, not the best games ever but suites my gaming mood for now.

Dungeons of Hinterberg - I've played for about an hour but its not what I hoped it would be. Might give it some more time but will likely drop it.

CoD MW 3 campaign - So yeah, MS finally drops a CoD on gp and its the worst game in the series 😒 The opening mission in the campaign is pretty good, its CoD as it should be, but then the open world missions that follows are not good at all and not what I want from a CoD game. Such a shame, would have been better to not have a campaign than this ***** imo. And ffs MS, release the older CoDs on gp already!

Gamepass - MW3, those who remain
Nintendo - Kirby return to dreamland
Pc - borderlands 2, humankind

You've put me in an olympics mood so playing mario vs sonic on the wii (through steam deck) 😁

Playing Immortals of Aveum, I'm quite enjoying it, feel it's very underrated based on metacritic and so on. Then, possibly a bit of Mario Rabbids 2 too. Have a good.one folks.

MW III for me. I've been wanting to play a multiplayer shooter for a while and it's nice to just play a few matches and be done for a bit. I think I was getting open world fatigue and needed something different for a while.

I started Dungeons of Hinterburg a couple days ago and I'm really enjoying it so far. I'll mostly just play more of that this weekend.

I've also been playing through the Halo campaigns and have just a couple levels left on Halo 2. I guess that will have to wait for now.

Playing the new league in Path of Exile that started last night.

It's been a while since I put time into PoE so it a bit slow going but I am enjoying it.

Much to my surprise, Diablo 4 is getting played. Its ok, but nowhere near as different to its predecessors as I expected.
Also still finishing a career in the latest wrc rally game and codemasters have proven their worth on that one. Its not above critiscm, but its a great rally game..
Ive bought no one wants to die - I hope I play some of that.

Whatever you are playing, have a great weekend.

Suicide Squad. It's not good. I knew it would be bad, but it still sucks to see it happen. A real shame and a waste.

Apart from my staple racing games - Forza Motorsport and EA WRC - I seem to be in something of a gaming rut at the moment. Recently tried Flintlock Seige of dawn and Kunitsu-gami path of the goddess, but just couldn’t get into either. Have now downloaded Lies of P and Callisto protocol, and will see how I get on with them. That’s one of the great things about GP - being able to just try out different games and see what clicks.

I'm still playing Cyberpunk 2077. Usually I'm a 'Main Quest Player', but this game made me stray a little bit and play the secondary ones.
During the weekend I'm giving COD MW III a chance too. Haven't played a COD game since a long time ago and I'm having a good time with it.

On Xbox this weekend: Hitman: World of Assassination after having beaten Hitman: Absolution yesterday(would give it a 7 out 10) and possibly more Dungeons of Hinterberg.
On Switch: Trails of Cold Steel IV
On PS5: Still nothing but that's fine, I'm clearly in a Xbox+Switch period currently.

@JonBoyJ What? I didn't know this. It was just down a few weeks ago.

I finished Tchia on Game Pass. I enjoyed playing it, but I thought the ending was a bit abrupt and I was expecting more story. I’d say it was worth a look if you want a Zelda-ish game.

I'm in a looter-shooter mood, picked up Borderlands 3 on a deep sale and looking forward to diving into that and just being silly with guns and turning off my brain.

I fired up my PS5 to resume Final Fantasy 7 Remake, which I’m loving. I had put it aside for a few years lol.

When I can, I’ll check out Dungeons of Hinterberg on Game Pass.

@Romans12
https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-live-status

I've putted all my games away to fully focus on BG3 until I've finished it.

Nintendo World Championship, and Live a Live. I think I'm going to fire up the ol wii u and play Wind Waker tonight. On xbox, I'm kind of at a standstill as I haven't decided what to play yet

@Old_Man_Harper I'm partway through playing this. I like the gentle exploration. I don't like attacks by fabric men as much. 😀 But I'm enjoying it for the most part.

Attempting to beat the silverback in dead ops arcade 2 (Black Ops 3)

Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate (3DS) - In the mood for a decent metroidvania and this will somewhat fit the bill.

Uncharted: Golden Abyss (Vita) - Onto chapter 7 in my Hard playthrough.

NBA Jam (Windows Phone) - Still playing a few games of this a week as well.

Playing

• Baba is You (Switch)
• Divinity: Original Sin (XSX)
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PS5)

Paused

• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)
• Yakuza: Like A Dragon (PS5)

Backlog

• Days Gone
• F1 23
• Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
• Persona 3: Reload
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Most likely playing cfb 25 gems of war power wash simulator also playing peggle

Does anybody know why there’s no proper game for the Olympics this year like there has been before?

Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6

I have watched the Olympic Games here and there in which the Netherlands participated, sports that I never watch, such as women's water polo, but this weekend I played for FC 24 and started again with the Mass Effect Games this weekend and i played Dungeons of Hinterberg so far a fun game

I'm playing luigi's mansion 2 cyberpunk on xbox and stellar blade on ps5 that Olympics game looks OK I remember the days of international track and field on PlayStation you knew you'd played that game having massive blisters on your hand for days on end that was the ultimate button bashing game lol

Well here we go with another awesome WAYP. Been a cool week around here. Just been doing more work on the games of the summer. Got to try Arranger thanks to Netflix tho and that game is amazing and adorable I see it’s only like 5 hours long and that may be like the first game I play fully on my phone. Dabbled in some Under Night In Birth 2 Sys: Celes and the new character Uzuki and she’s so fun and that game is definitely on GOTY contender lists. Did some more Dawntrail and I gotta say that expansion is finally clicking. Don’t get why people hate it I really don’t. The rest of the weekend will just be a Persona 3 Reload weekend I think. We’re finally in November so all that leaves is December and January. Snagged all those things I talked about in the last WAYP like the Tekken 8 season pass and the Guilty Gear Strive Season 4 Season Pass. And the previously mentioned UNIST 2 Season Pass too. And a copy of Star Wars Outlaws. Got to play some Lidia Sobieska for Tekken and honestly she’s so much fun it’s great they added her in 8 after she was so forgotten in 7. Picked up another pack of PSN cards this week tho and that bundle is gonna go to probably my last digital preorders for now which will be the Deluxe Edition of Dragon Ball Sparking Zero and Shadows of the Damned Hella Remastered. Think I may also make a attempt to pick up a copy of Tokyo Xanadu Ex+ too. Very excited about that Dragon Ball tho it gets 3 day early access AND the season pass for that game. Otherwise I’m thinking this week is mostly gonna consist of some Paper Mario, more P3R and some Stellar Blade, Monster Hunter Stories, Trails Through Daybreak, Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, FFVII Rebirth, Kunitsu Gami and countless others I’m probably missing ahahaha. Goal is same as before just clear out most or all of the first half of years of games before the second half really kicks off. Definitely gotta think about how to tackle games like Dragons Dogma 2 or Rise of the Ronin. Still incredibly hype for WWE Summerslam too that’s gonna be so hype on Saturday I seriously can’t wait for Solo Vs Cody, Rhea Vs Liv, LA Knight Vs Logan Paul, CM Punk Vs Drew McIntyre with Special Guest Referee Seth Freaking Rollins and so many more seriously it’s like 10 matches so far. Excited to see more Jacob Fatu in action and maybe the Return of Roman Reigns and maybe just maybe some Wyatt Sicks spookiness? Anime of the week gotta go to Kaiju No.8, Oshi No Ko, Delicious in Dungeon, Plus Sized Elf and Urusei Yatsura of course. Plus Sized Elf is wonderfully perfectly silly and I recommend it highly. Finished off Kaiju No 8 and Urusei Yatsura and I’ll just say this Kaiju No 8 was pretty good and had some cool things going down in it but Urusei Yatsura? A genuine work of art that was absolutely beautiful and I think everyone should check out and I hope to one day proudly own all of it. Podcasts of this week gotta go to Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into The Aether, RPGsites Tetracast, Minnmax, Jeff Gerstmann, Kit and Krysta, Last Stand Media, Easy Allies, Second Wind, Nextlander, Cultaholic Wrestling, Aetheryte Radio and Remap Radio. Think I’ll try to enjoy some of the Olympics that are on and I hope all of yall do too. Rooting for Team USA Basketball, Skateboarding and Swimming baby. Bring home the Gold everyone. As always yall stay safe, be incredible to each other. Have a terrific weekend and of course Happy Gaming.

I’m on vacation but I’m squeezing in Sekiro when I’m inevitably not sleeping. I finally beat Genichiro after an embarrassing amount of attempts.

Nothing ha, I've spent the last 6 hours trying to figure out how I've misplaced my application file on my steamdeck😡🤬
Can't figure out how to install Greenlight without it and Linux is NOT playing nice

Having picked up a bit of a buzz about the 1.0 version, I bought 7 Days to Die. Really enjoying it! I can see myself sinking hours into this one. I did my usual thing for this sort of game - played until I knew what I was doing and then restarted for a proper run. Great fun if you enjoyed things like Grounded or The Long Dark.

Was moving house over the weekend (not actually moving a house) so not been playing anything... internet getting installed tomorrow... having withdrawal symptoms 😫