Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 20th)

Finished Just Cause 2 and right now I'm taking a break from Persona 5 Royal, so the one game I will be mostly focusing on this weekend is Luigi's Mansion 2. I'm currently on the last mansion so I'm hoping to get this game done this weekend!

I might also start up some new games to add to my rotation. Right now I'm considering Mafia: Definitive Edition on Xbox One, Ghost Recon Future Soldier on PS3, Sonic Lost World on Wii U and/or Firewatch on PS4.

I'm trying to finish Journey to the Savage Planet before it leaves gamepass. I'm about halfway through it and it's really good. Gives me Boarderlands vibes with the humour and the AI assistant is similar to claptrap. Really enjoying myself with this one. I might jump into sea of Thieves for the swag and maybe try it out for once but I'm scared I'll get sucked into another game and further complicate my life.

I'm taking a break from Red Dead Redemption as boredom has set in at the midway point (same thing happened to me on my first playthrough) so I'm playing Fallout 76 and Forza Motorsport 6. Enjoying both, which is a surprise to me as far as Fallout goes. Happy gaming everyone!

Just started Squadrons, which is great. Going to get into empire of sin and of course lots more of the new season of Fortnite.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla and then probably some more Veteran missions on Gears Tactics.

Still Cyber Shadow , 22 hours in now and I'm just on the section before the final boss battle. Ready to start something else now and I've thought of quitting but no, the mission continues ! Really enjoyable though!

Ninja Gaiden Black or Fallout 76 lined up next

Assassins creed Valhalla, been getting into it a lot lately.

Dishonored to begin with. Never played it before, enjoying myself so far. I hope Dishonored 2 will get same FPS Boost treatment by the time I finish the Definitive Edition.

Prey and The Outer Worlds’ DLCs are next up.

For me this weekend is a all assassins creed weekend on ps4. I wanna continue my playthrough of both Assassins Creed Valhalla and Assassins Creed 2 via the Assassins creed ezio collection

Great to see so many people are playing Prey! I'm one of the many who tried playing it before the FPS boost and just couldn't get on with it, but now it's like a whole new game.

Finished MGS2 earlier this week, great game and can't believe its taken this long to get to! Now though, its time to end Kiryu's story in Yakuza 6!

For xbox i'm going to continue with wolfenstein youngblud and try some more bleeding edge, just wish there was more players online.

On ps4 I will continue with persona 5 strikers and trials of mana, and play some more bravely default 2 on switch

@UltimateOtaku91 Ahhh, the weekend gaming ambition of someone who I'm guessing doesn't have kids! I do miss those days sometimes...

@Spaceman-Spiff haha yeah got to make the most of it before than time happens, I work 5 days a week so I make sure to go all out on weekends

Still trying to beat last part of Dark Crystal AOR Tactics, Also will be playing more Fallout 76 with a mate. And still trying to find time to play through Prey, Dishonored, Wolfenstien etc too many games and started playing Skyrim again because of the FPS Boost

@GateCrasherUK
I've only just started Fallout 76. How is the online experience? Should I avoid other players and just assume they are hostiles? I'm an easy target as a beginner.

Ps5 - Crash Ps5 and a spot of GoT. Waiting for Tony Hawk upgrade next week!

XSX - Continuing The Medium and more Forza Horizon 4

Switch - Mario 3D world.

Stacked weekend!

Anyone know what Sea of Thieves is like single player? Curious to check it out but I am very much a solo gamer.

@GunValkyrie thought it may be not a game that could be tackled solo sadly.

@gollumb82 Not had anyone attack me yet even just going about by myself am only level 55 and there are alot of people now that have hundreds of levels so I would be easy to kill I assume, I think most of the players are not overly interested in PVP or Ganking which is good either that or I have just been lucky so far

Switch - Smash Ultimate, practicing with my main man Mario, and Crash 4!

PS4 - Weekly GTA Online session with friends and Borderlands 3.

PC - Skyrim Special Edition on Game Pass for mod support!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

PS5 - Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Pokémon Blue Version (GB) - Found the basement in Rocket Game Corner, clearing it out now.

Angry Birds Stella (Windows Phone) - Going back to 100% all of the levels now.

Gerbil Physics (Windows Phone) - Also just starting this as well.

@Insightful
+1 for Arkham Knight. Great game. As for my gt it actually is gollumb82
@Medic_Alert
Thanks for the info. I didn't know that. One more question if I may: do you lose all your equipment if you get killed? I suppose players can loot whoever they kill.

Cp2077 and the division 2, on xbo
Some GoTsushi, on ps4
Dark souls remastered, on switch

@Jaxx420 I wouldn't recommend Sea of Thieves single-player, but I suppose it depends on what you're trying to get out of the game.

You could probably have a bit of fun single-player just messing around fishing, or grabbing treasure from sunken ships or whatever. There's not really a campaign mode or anything, so it would have a limited appeal at the very least. If you like playing GTA just to mess around, you might have fun in SoT doing something vaguely similar.

There are missions, and several mission types, but it's typically difficult to complete them solo as they are pretty much designed in a way that assumes you are playing with other people - it would just be a LOT of multitasking to the point where it may not be possible or at least very difficult to complete the missions. Enemies are also much more difficult without the help of other people, plus, other players might just attack you and steal all your stuff even if you did manage to get some treasure.

You could go in the game not trying to collect anything, and go on the offensive and just try to mess up other people's day I suppose.

If like playing games you "beat" this game will probably not do it for you at all. It's more about collecting treasure, and using it to buy cosmetics. There are no RPG elements or anything either. It's truly just a big watery sandbox to play around in.

If you really want to try it, you can play with randoms, and while I've never actually tried that, I can't imagine it being nearly as much fun as playing with a buddy or two.

Last night I finished Titanfall 2 - That campaign was seriously awesome. Highly recommend for a short and sweet FPS experience - super tight controls, fast pace, interesting mechanics, cool story, and most importantly, it's just plain fun. Played on Series X with the FOV pulled all the way back, and it was beautiful, smooth, and glorious.

Tonight, looking forward to trying out Vermintide 2 with my friends.

Tomorrow, hoping to complete another mission in Thief Gold (yes, with Tfix 🤓), and maybe whittle a little more off of God of War: Ascension.

@Medic_Alert
Thanks anyway. Now that I've played it a bit more I'm probably going to go back to Fallout 4. F76 feels like its single player portion is tacked on and I prefer single player games anyway.

Undertale - never tried it, thankyou Gamepass.
Life is strange - another one I've never tried.

Carry on with crosscode, really enjoying that.

Last try at Marvel's Avengers after the update. Not played since last November, but want to give it every chance since it was a pre-order I was really excited about once upon a time!

Still playing Luigi's Mansion 3, I also just finished Donut County, It's actually a pretty good game that i enjoyed... Also playing JuJu it's a cute little 2d platformer that im currently enjoying.. I also plan on playing Carrion on gamepass soon.. Happy gaming everyone..

@everynowandben sound advice cheers. Love the pirate stuff but co op games not my cup of tea, unfortunately.

@playthedangame FISSION MAILED

@gollumb82 @gollumb82 Fallout 76 is a great single player experience if you do the following:

• activate passive mode as mentioned above. That way you won’t accidentally shoot someone during an event
• you only drop junk when you die so no worries about dropping weapons and such. Always drop off junk and loot at your camp to avoid losing precious materials early on.
• join a casual team for a boost to intelligence stat (helps you level faster) you don’t have to actually play with them but help to have people for events
• the community is one the best of any online game I’ve ever played. Level 330 and never been attacked by an online player. High levels coming up to you probably means they want to help you by giving you items. Don’t trade with randoms. Look on the online trade sites if you want to do that.

@Nugziam
Thanks a lot! Good tips. I will try to use those and see if I find it closer to the single player experience of Fallout 4. Cheers!

A little bit of Nba 2k21

I was going to play The Ancient Gods part 1, but I haven’t played Doom Eternal for so long that I’m getting my butt kicked, so I’m probably going to replay Doom Eternal just to get a hang of the controls and frantic combat again. I need to feel at least semi-confident when playing the DLC. Haha.

I’m going to work on finishing up Max and the Cursed Brotherhood. I’m getting close- I just found the brother. I’m enjoying my play through immensely. After I finish up with that I’ll be starting Journey to the Savage Planet- hopefully I can finish that up before it leaves GP.
Also the odd bit of time playing Cat Mario- just unlocked Crown World!

I wanna start watch dogs legeon I got the gold edition for cheap and destiny 2 because I love being a guardian.

Strikers and SamSho

XSX - still Sekiro
PS5 - if I can wrestle it away from my son (he is addicted to Astro's Playroom!), either Control UE or Watch Dogs Legion
Switch - Hades

In all likelihood though, it will probably just be Sekiro

I'm playing Journey to the Savage Planet before it leaves gamepass and hoping to finish Celeste so I can cross it off my list and move on (don't see why people rave about it tbh)

WRC 9 Series X, absolutely love this version. Believe it or not just got Overwatch heard it had an upgrade on the X. Probably a bit of PVZ on the Switch in-between.

I am still playing Four Kings, but finally getting bored with it. Instead gonna be playing Sky Dive soon

I’m all in on Immortals Fenyx Rising. I had no idea it was such a blatant rip-off of BotW, and I love it. It actually fixes my main complaints about BotW: the weapons don’t break and the story is a bit more interesting to me (that could be due to my love of Greek mythology). I also prefer my protagonist to talk.

@Hypnotoad107 100% agree. As much as I wanted to love BotW it never quite took hold of me, where Fenyx Rising kept me going straight through. It's rare that I play a single game only from start to finish but man, I couldn't quit. I was bummed I had to work and couldn't wait to get back to it.

@swedetrap That’s where I’m at. I’ve been on Spring break (I’m a chemistry teacher), and I’ve put a couple of dozen hours into it. Back to school tomorrow, so my progress is going to slow down. I’ll probably get a dozen hours in or so this week. I just absolutely love the combat in this game as well. So much more going on compared to BotW with the God powers and swordplay.

@GunValkyrie I'm not familiar enough with Transformers to say, but it wouldn't surprise me if OP was an inspiration