Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 21-22)

Playing Quake and loving it. I fully expected it to feel dated but it just doesn’t. I hope they give it the Doom treatment or release a new game. Also getting back into Battlefield V.

Switch - WarioWare demo, and trying out Pokemon Unite!

PS5 - Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut!

PC - Team Fortress 2 with friends!

Have a good weekend everyone.

I'm playing Hades. Just got up to the Hydra boss. This is the furthest I've gotten. 13 attempts. Very difficult but very good game.

Mainly ESO with some Hades thrown in

Daytona USA, Hades, RE8 and some retro stuff for sure.

I'm hooked on Hades. I've escaped twice, both using the shield (aspect of chaos). Now I'm trying to beat it with the other weapons.

Achievements are still kind of broken in this game, though. I only unlocked the cheevo for beating the game after my second successful run, even after quitting quick resume and powering down my xbox.

Will be playing Resident Evil 0 on PS4, Forza Motorsport 5 on Xbox One and Remember Me on PS3.

I feel like I'm really starting to get into the Resi games now. I'm actually enjoying RE0 a lot and it's such a fun game. On the side though, I've been listening to the Rooster Teeth podcast and so the Forza Motorsport games have been very fitting titles to play while I'm listening to the podcast since they're so relaxing to play. I'm also trying to finish up Remember Me and so far it's been a fairly mixed experience. Sometimes I'm enjoying the game, sometimes it's just frustrating. But overall, it's a decent title and I hope I can finish it during the coming days.

Might also check out some games on Game Pass considering so many have been added the past few weeks that I'm interested in. Would love to try out Quake for example, I've never played that series before.

Xbox Series X: Splitgate, Quake, Doom Eternal, Bug Fables

PC: Cyberpunk 2077

I started chipping away at Quake 2 RTX a couple weeks ago, but I might try to finish the original before I go back to it since I have that now too. I played a bit of it last night, and was having some fun with it. So far the level design is a lot less complex compared to Q2, but the brevity of the missions makes the game feel even more fast paced.

Doom Eternal is very fun, but so intense I have to play other games in-between missions. Last week was Hades, but I've since beaten it (20th attempt). Also, I'm considering 1st time through "beating the game." Doing it 9 more times just to roll credits is ridiculous. The real "true ending" is that I'm moving on because I beat the game. This week it's Cyberpunk 2077 which I've only played for about an hour. It's fine so far. I'm playing the corpo route, and yeah, the narrative/storytelling is honestly pretty poor so far.

Played Splitgate with the guys last night, which was a total blast. Love all the different games modes.

Then finally I'm also chipping away at Bug Fables. It's decent, and very Paper Mario, but without the equivalent of all the cool paper mechanics, it ends up feeling a little basic and hollow - like that "special something" is missing.

@Xenomorph_79 I’m not a big fan of Rogue Lites/Likes, but I did enjoy Hades, even that lost me though. I see why people love it so much, I just, like you, get sick of doing the same runs over and over again. If it had that same gameplay without the Rogue elements it’d be the perfect game to me.

I never finished Outer Worlds, I got to the final mission yesterday, so I’m going to play the DLC then finish that up.

Yesterday I finished the main campaign in The Ascent, so will be mopping up the side missions this weekend. Also playing Art of Rally, and F1 2021. On my PS5 I’m playing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Spider-man Miles Morales.
Re Daytona USA; every time I try to buy it on the Xbox store it says “not currently available” - is this just in the UK?

@WCB Xenoblade 2 is one of my all time faves. Enjoy!

Series S: This weekend is all about 12 Minutes and Flight Simulator.

Tried Hades but realized I would rather play it on the Switch.

Have a good weekend!

@Odium @Xenomorph_79
That makes three of us. I like Hades, but it's just boring starting over and over again. It does work great on xCloud, though.

I'm playing Mass Effect 3 on PS5 (just the last mission and I can move on to a new game, once I've cried enough over the ending. Again.
On Series S: Yooka Laylee with my daughter.
Have a good weekend everyone!

I'm playing Yoku's island express, It's a pretty fun game, really enjoying it so far..

Did a bit of Quake as it is probably my favourite FPS and it was fun to see that I still remember the secrets in the first levels but I don't feel I will go back as I fell from FPS a long time ago.

Have been playing 12 minutes a lot and living it (even though I has quite some jank). Did quite a few loops trying to solve it but after a while decided to get some hints online. I feel I will do all endings and achievements as it is only 12.

I have also been playing bravely default on 3ds and 20h in i prefer the sequel on Switch but it would s a good JRPG

Angry Birds Star Wars (Windows Phone) - Nearly 2/3 the way through the game now.

Equalicious (Windows Phone) - Still playing here and there.

Bug Village (Windows Phone) - My village is nearly complete.

@Bmartin001 I enjoyed playing Yoku’s! I thought it fun to play/ explore and the mechanics were interesting. Have a good time!

Axiom Verge 2 maybe. Maybe Astral Chain. Not sure…my attention span hasn’t been all too good the past few days. Might end up settling for some black ops mp.

Switch: In the sandship dungeon now in skyward sword and the warioware demo.

Xbox: Maybe Fifa 21with my brother.

I’ve been clearing up my hard drive and started Mafia 3 DE.. I wasn’t feeling it at first but I’m glad I continued until the game took off. So far there are things I like about the game but can still easily say that Mafia DE is still my favorite. I’ll see how this stacks up with Mafia 2 the further along I get but right now it’s not as good as Mafia 2 which I had quite a few qualms with also. Still the story is interesting at least.
Also playing Wild at Heart via Xcloud and it’s a pretty decent game so far. If you like Pikmin you may want to give it a try!

@gollumb82 there’s too many games I want to play to waste my time dying over and over

If I had never played breath of the wild, Immortals feynx rising would have been one of the most amazing games I have ever played in stead of just meh. I’m playing Xenoblade chronicles 2 and Forza 4.

Fuga, Tales of Arise demo

I'll be playing Rush Rally Origins, Art of Rally & Bioshock on my Switch.
F1 2021, WRC 9 on my Series X.

Crash Drive 3. I bought on sale recently. A lot more fun then I expected

Hades. It took me 50 attempts to get my first clear, I sucked badly until I played with the spear, now I'm on a 10 clear streak. Absolutely love this game!