What are you playing this weekend, SW?

I will be finishing up Metal Gear Solid 3 delta, hopefully. I probably have about 4-5 hours left. Other than that, maybe I will finally go back to Expedition 33! Need something before Silent Hill f comes out in a couple weeks. How about you, SW? What are you playing this weekend?

Clive Barker's Undying

Astro Bot, I love Playstation. Good to hear you are enjoying JRPGs again.

Glad to see you are loving Astro Bot!

Finished Shinobi Art of Vengeance, and started Hollow Knight today. Only got to the first Hornet fight first time playing HK, so gonna try and actually play to completion.

Still playing Hollow Knight: Silksong, so I'll be playing more of that this weekend. Also reinstall Sonic Adventure PC as it's both The Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure 26 anniversary.

Star Citizen

Sekiro

Mainly Bakeru on Switch 2. Underrated game this.

Borderlands 4 and Shinobi

Been playing through Metal Gear Solid: The Master Collection Vol. 1. Am currently on Metal Gear Solid and should be finishing it soon. Then it’ll be onto MGS 2.

Doom: The Dark Ages and Warhammer Space Marine 2

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds - Playing with a mod called Expanding Fronts

Heretic

Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar. A lot of people complain about the fishing mini game, but I like it. It's better than Animal Crossing's fishing.

I started Assassin's Creed Mirage a few weeks ago (thank you Game Pass) but I'm finding it a bit of a bore. I'm thinking I'll dive into GoW Ragnarok or Indiana Jones. Coin flip time.

Hollow Knight

Helldivers 2

Resident Evil 8 dlc

Almost finished with Silksong. Then I guess I'll go back and get the last ending for Nier Replicant?

After that...I could finally start the Xenoblade X remaster, or maybe pick up Cronos.

Dragon Age 2. Definitely weaker than the first one. Terribly casualized, but that's not the worst. Feels more like an MMO where you just run around the main hub like some ff14 erp'er.

It's not all bad. The writing and cast are still fine. It just feels unrealized or rushed.

Oh new thread. I thought last weeks one was being re-used.

Finished FF7 Rebirth. Great game gameplay wise but still have big concerns around the story and how it's being presented. Hopefully it all comes together well in the 3rd part.

Just starting into Expedition 33 now. Impressed so far, but I'm not very far into it. The story has been good. The combat is good (though thankfully there is story mode. I cannot parry 😅.). The art direction is also great and the Soundtrack is nice so far.

Ps5: dirt 5 and kingdoms of amalur re Reckoning.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

Everybody’s Golf Hot Shots which I love on PS5. It looks better and runs, fps increase, better than past iterations.

Madden 26

Forgot I bought Silksong, might check it out this weekend!

Donkey Kong Bananza DLC and Borderlands 4!

Bought the Donkey Kong Bananza dlc so will be playing some of that this weekend.

@aidenborne: Did you like the first one?

Time Crisis.

donkey kong bananza

I am replaying Arkham Asylum to better inform my opinion that the trilogy sucks and Batman deserves better.

Batman has a second bat cave under Arkham Asylum. He tells Oracle that he built it for just this kind of emergency. The cave is huge. As big as his main cave should be. First I have to ask how common these caves are, that he can just FIND one at his convenience. The cave under his mansion makes sense because without the bats that had such an impression on him he would not have chosen them as his symbol. But this second cave... No, it's far too convenient, so I have to conclude that he tore the earth apart, solid bedrock, without Arkham Asylum hearing the massive explosions and drilling. If the developers wanted so badly to feature the bat cave for that precious fanservice, but found themselves in this conundrum of HOW when the asylum is so far away, all they had to do was make it a flashback. Hell, they could have given us the whole mansion in that flashback as well, not entirely unlike fooling around and learning the mechanics in Lara Croft's home. Would have been cozy.

The design of the asylum, likewise, relishes in excess. The floor plan is so weird and many of the rooms so huge (with too many bland hallways in between) that it doesn't even look like a prison or asylum, supporting my point that each of these games with too many villains to tell an interesting story would have worked better as loosely connected episodes. A smaller asylum for a shorter story.

Amazing game

Just finished Metal Gear Solid and it’s still such a great game but man, are those PS1 graphics ever rough now. Could also really use some QoL improvements. Would love to see them do a remake of this like they did for MGS3. Fingers crossed.

Just banging through Gears Reloaded again on the X graphics are slick and just waiting for BF6 and Arc Raiders coming out mid and late Oct

Gonna try some indies in Jack Move and Valiant Hearts Coming Home.

Still Ninja Gaiden II Black for the most part though as a pace breaker I've been playing a game called Peak with a friend, we're not very successful at this game but sunk a lot of hours into it, mostly dying and talking about MH upcoming updates and eventual expansion. Speaking of friends & MH more Monster Hunter too, a lot of that was Sunbreak on my Switch 2.

However on that note I've installed Wilds on P.C. to see what all the fuss was about and by no surprise so far not really having issues (worth noting the big Wilds update is in October). Blitzed though Low Rank in an afternoon. Only sitting here with a Ryzen 5 3600 & 20 GB of RAM, so if anyone else has weaker hardware that's the issue, you're trying to play a 2025 MH game with a potato. Just sayin, get a job.

Once October hits I'll take a month break from Slashers and MH to play Survival Horror games (will probably still play Peak). Sadly a few was excited for are now pushed to 2026 but that's just how development goes. will be playing Crono on P.C., Tormented Souls 2 & Silent Hill F on PS5.

I'm on NG+ with Cronos: The New Dawn, and made a little more progress with Helldivers 2.

I was playing some of Sniper Elite V2 Remastered. It's quite good, I was looking for a new shooter to play. I made an eye pop in the X-ray kill cam and it was immensely satisfying.

Dragon age valgard..... Gamepass......Ms rewards

#winning

Combat is still too automated and bad, but I noticed counters have to be timed more precisely in Arkham Asylum than in the sequels. In City you can just tap the right mouse button rapidly until the enemies hits, but in Asylum that makes you miss and get hit.

Continuing with my ps5 play through on red dead 2 and finishing up mafia 3.

I'm on the last mission of GTA V and been kind of itching to try Hollow Knight and/or Red Dead Redemption 2 next

@freedomfreak said:

Dragon Age 2. Definitely weaker than the first one. Terribly casualized, but that's not the worst. Feels more like an MMO where you just run around the main hub like some ff14 erp'er.

It's not all bad. The writing and cast are still fine. It just feels unrealized or rushed.

You are right in everything you wrote. But there is still a lot of enjoyment to be had from DA2. Just try to pretend it isn't the sequel to the mighty Origins.

Really outdated graphics, but the PS1 game is still the best Metal Gear game ever made, if you ask me.

I am a couple of hours in, and so far the game is much better than I had feared. I would have prefered slow paced combat similar to Origins, but the action oriented combat is rather satisfying too.

What do you think of the game?

Not much. Just been mostly sleeping and chilling, waiting for my left foot to heal.

I did have a go at the demo for that Digimon game, though. Actually quite impressed. Might buy the game, depending on reviews.

@madrocketeer: Wishing you a speedy gaming recovery. As for Digimon Story Time Stranger, I totally forgot it was coming out soon as it's also on the same day as Ghost of Yotei's releasing. I'll probably will purchase Digimon Story Time Stranger as I'm waiting for Yotei to be available on PC.

@pmanden: It’s a toss up between MGS3 and MGS4 for me. Am really hoping that they release MGS4 from its PS3 prison and bring it to current systems. Perhaps Master Collection Vol. 2.

Many games have been played this weekend, by yours truly.

Going to be playing Dying Light: The Beast.

Hoping it’s good?