Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

Did some 2 player couch co-op yesterday. Finally finished the broforce campaign, great game.
Then moved onto Warhammer Chaosbane, a top down hack & slash game. It has satisfying combat, but as is common with these games, the story and characters are very forgettable. A shame but still fun to team up with a friend against the hordes.

Since finishing the Elden Ring DLC I have been playing Doom Eternal, which was actually one of the first games I bought for the PS5 when I got it at the end of 2021. At that time I was pretty new back to gaming , having got back into it after we got a Switch for the kids at the start of the pandemic, and I got stuck early on ([spoilers] at the first mancubus in the cultist base [/spoilers]). I just could not get the hang of it - it was a while ago now but I'm pretty sure I must have tried lowering the difficulty (from Hurt Me Plenty) to no avail. I could barely remember what all the buttons did, and if I did remember it took me about 30 seconds to look down at the controller and find the button I needed, let alone use anything strategically during combat! I came to the conclusion that returning to gaming in my mid-40's this game and games like it were just beyond me.

Now, playing on Ultraviolence (?), I'm past the point I was stuck at ([spoilers] beat the cultists base and on the Doom Slayer level [/spoilers] and having so much fun! There were a few encounters later in that level that I thought I had reached my limit and was considering turning the difficulty down, but made it through before I cracked.

I have also been playing Cult of the Lamb on PS+ to wind down.

One aspect that I thought was pretty cool for Chaos Bane was if one person is going through their skills or equipment to make some changes / upgrades, the other can still run to the next area and everyone will tag along automatically and you won't be forced to simply wait.
Considering most developers have thrown couch co-op in the bin, it's very refreshing to see someone trying to improve the experience.

Still at Star Wars: Jedi Survivor. I definitely don't like it enough to play it consistently, it seems, as I keep having long periods not playing it. But at times I do like playing it for a while. It's a weird one. I feel like I'm nearing the end, at least I hope I am. Side stuff has become pointless as I don't want to collect anything or take bounties to unlock stuff I won't use as soon as I'm done with the story anyway. But overall I've liked the game, I guess?

Combat just feels off to me, though. It is like there's button lag, yet it's still easy enough to win fights anyway, I'm just not doing it as stylishly as I'd anticipated, and I barely ever perfect dodge at all, I just dodge and still get hit, or dodge far enough to be fine anyway nearly every damn time, and it's boring 😅 and I don't think it's a case of "I'm getting too old for this s***" something just isn't clicking with me in this game and I can't get it to flow. I will beat a big bunch of enemies and then be thinking "hope there's a meditation point because I just can't be arsed to do that again, ever" whether I rest or not, I'm just happy to be past segments so I can move on.

There's also soooo many skills, too many, I'd say. I've barely used slowdown through the whole game, and now I'm just adding spare points I've accumulated to it and forcing myself to try and remember to bother. Same with quick draw. Same with jedi super auto dodge. I'm just never using the tools it's giving me, because it never feels situationally right, or a cool enough moment somehow. Not wasting special abilities on a bunch of repeated enemies, and by the time I'm at a boss I've just carried on in the style that got me there forgetting to use any of those, quite clearly, not required tools for survival 🫠

I dont know... Unintended vent over, I guess 😅

@Th3solution Thanks man! Yeah tried to mix it up a bit in terms of gameplay and genre so games didn't feel stale whilst working on the backlog lol

Yeah I don't know if it's just me but everything was there for me to really love hogwarts and like I say for the first 15 hours or so I was really enjoying it but as it went on the game just became abit stale in my mind and then I was just rushing through the story which like I say didn't feel that great to me in the end. Combat was really good though and I enjoyed using the spells but just hated the dialogue and the characters by the end of it.

Remnant 2 is fantastic, it's strange because Soul's like is the way to explain it but really it doesn't do it justice because it's really it's own game and genre, just has some soul elements, like resetting to last save point on death. The way they did then Worlds and the story is really interesting, each world has 2 story's and the levels are generated so can be different.

Difficulty is similar to Soul's as in depending on how much you grind and level up will depend on how easy/hard you make it for yourself, which answers your question about levelling up 😂, there's alot of variety on builds and the secret stuff is as obscure as the Soul's games.

Boss fights are good and great when you finally get through them, it's co op up to 3 players as well and I did abit with friends which is really fun. I would definitely recommend it, I picked it up when on sale with all DLCs for £22 around $26 I guess and it's well worth it for that price