Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (Nov 21st)

I have been playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla on Xbox One X, and Apex Legends on PC, which is fun some days and frustrating on others due to what I suspect is other players hacking (or it could be my poor aim!).

Also, if you like sidescrollers you guys should definitely check out River City Girls. Played it on Steam when it released a year ago. It's very good!

Playing RE7 for the monthly gamepass club game, it's a lot different than i expected. I'll continue with Battlefront II, tried some hotshots racing and perhaps some doom for the weekly quest. Just realized last night that my Gears UE progress from PC didn't carry over to the series x so I'll have to restart that... not sure if I'll do that this weekend or not.

Sekiro, Yakuza 7, Cuphead

Yakuza Like a Dragon, Tetris Effect Connected, and hitting up Doom Eternal finally. Had to pause on Planet Coaster after bingeing like 12 hours play time on that alone haha

Forza Horizon 4, which only really clicked for me thanks to the 4K60 setup of the Series X version. Downloaded Fortune Island and the Lego expansion this morning, having a blast so far. ^^

Then there's Borderlands 3 with a buddy of mine (bought a second hand copy for 9.99, which automatically downloads the Series X assets!) and some Tetris Effect in between. Can't seem to get past 80-85 of the needed 90 lines in the final level on Normal. :')

Loving Yakuza still! Also having fun with Dirt 5 and SSX 3

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) - Finally arrived at the Shadow Temple.

Halo: Spartan Assault (Windows Phone) - Halfway through the game now.

AlphaJax (Windows Phone) - This is broken now...

Nothing!!!
I have to send my series x to repair because it couldn't get any WiFi connection 😒
Still got my og xbox but its like running to an ex lover...sight

I'm splitting my time between Silent Hill 2 and Forza Horizon 4. To all those wondering: no, Silent Hill 2 isn't even remotely as broken as some suggest. Actually, I like the new voices more than the original ones. Enjoy your weekend everyone!

RE7, Gears 1 Ultimate Edition, Walking Dead Season 1, and maybe a bit of FIFA. RE7 is quite interesting so far, I'll save my thoughts for when I've had more time with it and post that in our Pure Xbox game pass club thread. Playing through Gears 1 again just because I hadn't played the Ultimate edition yet. Walking Dead is awesome so far! Didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I am, especially since I've never watched a single episode of the actual show but I got into Tell Tale games after playing through The Wolf Among Us.

Just started playing Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, So far i'm really enjoying this game, I see now why it sold so well.. I'm also playing Call Of Duty Black Ops Cold War multiplayer, Really enjoying the MP..

No kidding : I'm playing Dead or Alive 6.
I've missed this one on Xbox One for obvious reasons, but the Series X combo "HDR - 4K - 60 fps" made me give it a try.

And this is a blast, really. This game, in this version, is just fantastic. This is next-gen fighting at its best. With a two-years old game.

I love it. I love how the Series X naturraly improve some games from the previous generations. It's just brillant.

Switching between Gears Tactics and Yakuza. Really enjoying them both. Yakuza is nuts.

Playing AC Valhalla and Diablo 3, not had an Xbox since 2017 so having great fun 😁

Bioshock and Castlevania: SotN - trying to clear out some backlog starting with "the best"

Still playing through Valhalla. Sadly no quick resume on that title means I'm less likely to be hopping between games. I kinda was hoping to a few rounds of Tetris Connected.

I know almost certainly I wont be done this weekend, but once I am, think Yakuza Like a Dragon is next.

@AJDarkstar Unfortunately, no - I’m playing it on PS3 - I bought it ages ago and never got around to it until now hahaha 😅

I am still playing Mass Effect Andromeda. Already like 70 hours in & no end in sight. Lol.

Yakuza for me. It needs more love here, absolutely fantastic jrpg.... As an xbox launch game no less!

Also, pretty cool that no one game is dominating the poll. Lots of variety on xb. The push square poll is skewed to mostly 2 or 3 games.

@KelticDevil Why you playing that game? Internetz said its bad, so no one is allowed to have fun with it! 🙃

@KelticDevil I've only played like 2 hours of it a year ago, but i liked what i played... Never understood the hate for it, though i hear it was just a broken mess at launch.

I started off playing Watch Dogs Legion but the progress saving bug got me a couple of times so I've switched to Yakuza Like a Dragon. What an amazing game! Also Forza Horizon 4, which looks like a brand new game on the XSX

@NEStalgia Hell yes, absolutely loving this! Good to see the love for it!

@Tharsman

Haha! This is why we should never listen to the internet.

@NEStalgia

It’s really good. It’s not on the level of the original trilogy, obviously. But not much is.

I can’t speak for how it played at launch, but it still has some bugs & glitches. EA abandoned it after they patched it. It’s a shame we never got the planned DLC.

@KelticDevil at least they quietly made an x1x patch summer 2018. It ran terrible and looked ugly one day and then a week later i ran it and it was beautiful. Sure enough they patched it for 1x and told no one

I’m playing Like A Dragon and a little Forza Horizon 4. I love the Series X

@NEStalgia

Well, it is EA. 😉

But yea, I think EA wants to forget the game ever existed.

@NEStalgia

That’s probably because Sony fans flock to Spider-Man DLC, Demon’s Souls (a PS3 remaster) & probably Sackboy?

I still find it funny that buffoon Jim Ryan says “nobody plays old games”, but they also slap a nice, shiny coat of new paint on a PS3 game & sell it to you for $70. 🤣

@KelticDevil To be fair, I'm just as bad regarding sackboy and miles, but that's because i get everything else on xb and only buy the ps for the exclusives..... But most in the poll are only playing ps, so not the other games at all

And demons souls can suck an egg..... Fantastic looking remake of an otherwise terrible game that the obsessive fans treat as the best thing since pong . But I do think it's hysterical how worked up people are for a game that went out of it's way too be exactly like the 13 year old game but much prettier. Why is that not a new From Soft game instead? Not that I'd like a new one any better than the old ones.

As an Xbox fan, I can't stand Jim Ryan. As a PlayStation fan, I can stand Jim Ryan even less....

I finished up The Messenger this morning- it was a great little game! If you haven’t played it I would heartily recommend. I started playing Kona but I’m not sure how I feel about it yet.
Have a great weekend everyone!

@NEStalgia

I hear ya. I hated Demon’s Souls when I had a PS3. It turned me off the the whole Souls series, in general. It was brutally difficult, clunky, & just beyond annoying. It had almost no story to it either, which surprised me at the time. I just remember that was the one PS3 game I wanted to bring outside & smash the disc on the sidewalk. Thankfully, I just sold it back to GameStop & moved on. Lol.

To be fair, I am sure the Dark Souls series of games cleaned a lot of that crap up. I’ll never know, though. I was done with the series at that point.

@AJDarkstar Thanks! I’m about halfway through and really liking it so far - I’m glad I finally gave it a shot - although it’d be nice to see it in 4k/60 hopefully without those stuttering issues! Considering picking up the collection since it’s on sale, but then that sort of defeats the purpose of working on my backlog.. Would you recommend 2 and Infinite?

@KelticDevil i found this hilarious myself with the whole old games comments...yet they all have a top 10 wanted remasters list at the ready. A great game is a great game almost forever. With auto enchantments there's no need for a "new" game to be bought.

@Krzzystuff

Exactly!

@KelticDevil sadly it didn't. Dark souls is just more demons souls with more intricate "metroidvania" type maps. Bloodborne is an uglier demons souls with worse performance, a new environment, and supposedly more aggressive combat. Nioh is superior, though i don't love the genre as a whole, since it adds a little more Ninja gaiden flair and aggressiveness. Sekiro is probably FromSofts most interesting outing... But it can't help falling into the same traps.

I dunno, people that love FromSoft games are obsessed with them. Ive never seen the appeal. And all their games are more of the same. Even when they say they're trying to do something different (sekiro is supposed to to be tenchu inspired.... Didn't play like it.)

In not sure why Sony put so much into remaking that game... But then the fans seem to love it, they're buying it in droves!

@NEStalgia

They are buying it in droves because it is a PS5 launch exclusive. And if you utter the word “exclusive” to a PlayStation fan, they lose their minds, rip out their wallets, start pumping off, & just feed Sony any $ they want.

And since it is a launch game & PS5 has not much going on in the big games department (apparently, the only thing Sony fans care about. Indies are what? Lol) other than Spider-Man DLC, then it’s gonna sell big.

And PlayStation fans will act like they love it because it’s an exclusive. Even though Demon’s Souls on PS3 was a very niche game that sold so bad that Sony didn’t even want to fund the Souls series going forward.

Smart move by them, as usual. 👍🏻 Lol.

My point is.....if Microsoft remastered Halo 3 for XSX, is that really a “new, next-gen exclusive”? Nope. I would say the same thing, even though I am a huge Xbox fan.

@KelticDevil lol, I'm laughing, but it's true!

Still souls goes beyond Sony exclusive obsession and is its own obsession. It started as that with ps3 but became it's own toxic pokesmash thing. People that do love it love it more then anyanyone loves any game other than undertale

Yeah, just yesterday people were saying that ms first party hasnt had much aaa and has mostly just "b tier" (aa) titles... And I'm thinking "so? Aa is usually the best games.... Heck monolith self described xenoblade as "not really aaa, more aa"... I'll take that over an aaa Blockbuster any day.

Sadly, like @mousieone and i were talking about yesterday, there were those at ps who interstood that. Shaun Layden said years ago Sony needed more smaller titles, not everything can be aaa with rising budgets. Jimbo forced those voices out and decided ps should run like Sony Pictures. (Hacking scandal sold separately.)

Souls, though, is a state of mind. I'd be curious the sales numbers of all From games on ps vs xb and switch. If it skews heavily to ps, it probably add descends down to ps3 exclusive demons souls.

I'm hoping yakuza is doing well on xb. Id love to see Sega and atlus go all in on XB.

@NEStalgia

I completely agree!

Tekken 7 because I always play Tekken when I’m upset great stress relief.

@KelticDevil @NEStalgia yeah well it’s definitely not the same company. 😿 I could take all that if it wasn’t for Ryan ._. But o don’t let that cloud my judgement by any means. Fortunately, there are a few shiny spots (Astro’s Playroom but I’m not spending 500 dollars on a toddler size console for that) but these days I can get a lot of smaller and indie games on the Switch/Xbox. Hopefully, some more stuff like the aforementioned Playroom gets added and it might entice me.

@mousieone souls to create stress, tekken to remove it. It's a sound business plan!

Yeah the thing that worries me about Sony under Ryan, beyond his smarmy flippancy against customers, is we haven't seen too much of what his PlayStation looks like. All the games people celebrate are left overs from house and layden. We don't know what Ryans idea of games look like. So far ea/ubi style sequels seems his thing, and even those are leftovers from the old guard. He seems like an ea style franchises to milk guy. Fun experiments like vr? "I believe someday someone else will make it worthwhile". I miss the Japanese games he's clearly mostly abandoning.

It would be truly amazing with how Phil is courting japanese devs if Ryans westernization of PlayStation opened the door for Microsoft, and better, the Microsoft-Nintendo relationship to open the door to the Japanese games that used to go PlayStation to move to xbox. I mean we're launching with the better version of yakuza and have exclusivity for pso2..... Persona 6 launching on game pass? At this point it's not impossible.

Playing flying and racing games. DCL the game ( good but to easy) & The drone racing league sim (very hard game to get used with the controls)

WRC 9 Xbox Series X runs like a dream and see Gears 5 & Modern Warfare.

@NEStalgia I refuse to go near that modern day torture that you refer to as a “souls”. They may have convinced you all that’s a game. It’s part of their grand sadistic plan.I’m not failing for it. No way.

@mousieone same! Read above for my opinion on souls