Fishysensei

This weekend I'm rotating between Starfield and Nine Sols on Xbox, Bravely Default II on Switch(working on clearing the true ending route before Fantasian drops next week) and then maybe like...Stellar Blade, Silent Hill 2 and Slitterhead on PS5.

Definitely The New Colossus but if we also count old Starbreeze(key staff from there formed MachineGames), I have to say The Darkness from 2007.

This weekend I'm playing Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake on Switch after having beaten Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door earlier this week.
Will also play Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 with a friend tomorrow, on Switch.

I'm just gonna write what I always say:
Reviews are simply someone's opinions in written form or otherwise.
If you are able to, you should ALWAYS try a game for themselves(or watch gameplay if there is any and think of if the game is something that might be for you) and form their own opinion instead of blindly following reviews and take them as fact.

I have followed this principle for over 10 years now and it has never failed me.

@FraserG
That does explain a bunch of stuff, thanks.

Yeah no, I do get that.
Apologies if my comment came across as negative.

Is it just me or has November been unusually thin in terms of Game Pass additions?
As in, if we only look at the amount of added games.

@Kraven
Thanks for writing this.
I was on the fence(for reasons other than the ones most people seem to have) but after that write-up, I honestly might end up getting it.

This weekend I'm continuing to play Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on Switch, I think I'll be able to beat it in just a few more sessions.

I finally beat SMTV: Vengeance(fantastic game, improves on the original in just about every way) on PS5 earlier this week after around 114 hours and am now looking towards what's next on the list.
Right now I think I'll stick to Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on Switch but I am dabbling in other games too until I find what I will be playing for the next few weeks.

Same as last week for me: Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.
Recently passed 90 hours of playtime so it might end up surpassing my playtime of the original SMTV.

I may play a bit of S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chornobyl on the side though, on Switch.

It's a 50/50 between Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2 for me but I went with Dragon Age: Origins.
Both games are masterpieces and nothing that Bioware has made since 2010 has come even close enough to topping them.
Mass Effect 3 was at least pretty good.

On a side-note:
I would love to see Dragon Age: Origins get ported to Switch.
Not 2 or Inquisition, just the first game please.

This weekend, I am still locked into my SMTVV playthrough.
I'm nearing the end of the Canon of Vengeance route though so that's something.
Don't think I'll have time for any other game this weekend but might at least be able to squeeze in some Fear 3 tomorrow when a friend comes over(we started playing it in splitscreen like...two weeks ago).

I don't really see a reason for why I should get this when I already have the original X360 version(which plays like a dream on Series X).
Like...I personally don't care about the Shadow stuff enough to pay full price.
Now, if they had sold the Shadow stuff as a standalone release at half the price, I would have been more inclined to buy that.

I tend to mix my purchases between Switch, PS5 and Xbox but my rule of thumb is usually to buy most JRPG's on both Switch and PS5(it's a case by case basis), most multi-platform games on PS5(with minor exceptions) and on Xbox it's honestly kind of a mix between all genres depending on a multitude of factors.

Will continue with Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance this weekend aswell.

Nothing of interest that I can see.
At least not on Xbox.

I'm gonna continue my playthrough of Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance this weekend.
Nothing else will be played until I beat it, I think.

This weekend is all about continuing Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance on PS5 for me.
Maybe I will continue my replay of SIFU too(played through it back when it first released on PS4 and honestly, the game is just as amazing as it was back then) on Xbox and I may also play more Pizza Tower on Switch.

This weekend I'm playing the prologue demo for Metaphor ReFantazio and System Shock on PS5.
Once I've beaten the Metaphor demo, it's back to either Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance or Trails through Daybreak.

Gotta say Like a Dragon from 2020 simply because I still haven't gotten around to playing Infinite Wealth but honestly it's a 50/50 between it(LaD) and Ishin!, both are ***** amazing.

@ozkrmz
Ah, Code Vein.
Such a good game.
I remember playing it at launch with a buddy and it was such an amazing experience that I took the platinum.
Also, the connection to the God Eater series was pretty unexpected but fun.

I eventually gotta replay that and go for a solo playthrough.
🥰

This weekend I'm continuing my playthrough of Trails through Daybreak(Yes I did take a break from the series...for like a day or so) and this is easily my favorite game in the series by far but only because my journey through the series up until this point has been really rewarding in general.

I'll also be playing the demo version for Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven and more Space Marine 2 this weekend.

This weekend, I'm finally gonna beat Trails into Reverie(on PS5) and after that, I'll take a much-needed break from the series before I continue with Trails through Daybreak.
So...I guess I will continue playing Space Marine 2(also on PS5) once Reverie is beaten.

On Switch, I'll mainly play a bit of Pizza Tower here and there.

On Xbox, I don't actually think I will be playing anything this weekend.

I'm slowly trying to get back to daily life and gaming after having been sick since last sunday(first time being sick since before the pandemic!) so I don't really know what I will be playing this weekend but I guess I'll continue to chip away at Trails into Reverie on PS5, if I get some time over.

This weekend I'll alternate between Trails into Reverie and Rise of the Ronin on PS5 with some Pizza Tower(and possibly Signalis) on Switch on the side.
On Xbox I'll most likely try to get back to INDIKA or something, maybe I'll just continue with Visions of Mana instead.

Having beaten Trails of Cold Steel IV earlier in the week(took me around 83 hours to beat so quite a bit shorter than Trails of Cold Steel III), I finally started Trails into Reverie so that's what I will probably be playing for the foreseeable future.

30 FPS is good enough for gaming as long as it's generally stable but 60 FPS is always a nice bonus to have.
I will never fully understand why people get so incredibly upset whenever it comes to framerate.

Same as last weekend, Trails of Cold Steel IV.
I'm in the final stretch of the game now, finally.

Will play it on PS5, been interested in it ever since I saw the announcement trailer back in 2020 and that's kinda the only one I've seen, I tend to stay away from trailers in general.

I'm happy to hear that it seems to be a more old-fashioned linear action game rather than yet another open-world affair.
Based on Gameranx's Before You Buy video, it really sounds like my kind of game.

Just like last weekend, I'll continue playing Trails of Cold Steel IV.
Will also probably start reading Fate/stay night Remastered on Switch.

Trails of Cold Steel IV and nothing else until I beat it.

On Xbox this weekend: Hitman: World of Assassination after having beaten Hitman: Absolution yesterday(would give it a 7 out 10) and possibly more Dungeons of Hinterberg.
On Switch: Trails of Cold Steel IV
On PS5: Still nothing but that's fine, I'm clearly in a Xbox+Switch period currently.

This weekend I'll be starting Final Fantasy X on Switch after having cleared Tales of Vesperia earlier in the week(a solid 8 out 10 from me, with the combat being the weakest aspect of the game) so that's gonna be nice to finally play through.

I haven't fully decided on what to play on Xbox yet but I did finally install Tales of Arise so maybe I'll start that one too, will probably play Hitman: Absolution too.

As for PS5, I may return to Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout once and for all.

As always, I wish the rest of you a nice weekend.

On Switch: paused my playthrough of Tales of Vesperia due to combat just being an uninteresting slog and game just keeps forcing you to fight so that really killed my enthusiasm for continuing but I think I just need a break from it.
Instead I finally started playing Master Detective Archives: Rain Code and will play it a bit to see if it's what I want to invest in right now.

On Xbox: I don't really have anything planned for my Xbox sessions this weekend but I guess I will slowly make my way through S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl if I do play on it.

On PS5: Pretty much still nothing.

Have a good weekend, people.

I pre-order games pretty often and have been doing so for at least the past 7 years.

These days my pre-orders are very specific though and only for games that I really want on release day.
Plus for a lot of the japanese games I have interest in, the retailers where I live seem to not stock a lot of them, resulting in them getting sold out pretty fast.
The Atelier Ryza games are recent examples of games that are almost impossible to buy physically in Sweden nowadays unless you try to find them pre-owned through auction sites.

Also it should be noted that I never pre-order digital games.

As someone who primarily uses Game Pass in order to play online with friends, I'm pretty indifferent to this price raise.
I was planning on downgrading to Game Pass Core anyway.

I tend to actually buy any game I want to play so missing out on the whole Ultimate library doesn't really mean much to me.

What I would really want personally is the option to only pay for the online play.

This weekend will look largely the same as last week for me:

On Xbox: Ghost Recon: Wildlands
(Unless I grow tired of it yet again, this is one of the few games that has that effect on me)

On Switch: Tales of Vesperia
(Gonna focus on main story until I beat it, combat is fun but gets a bit tiresome for me, but that's like the one aspect I kinda struggle to like with the game)

On PS5: Trails of Cold Steel IV is still prepped and ready to go but my aforementioned Vesperia focus means I probably won't be able to simply swap between them.

Have a nice weekend, everyone!

@Duck_Farmer
I wish you the best of luck. 😁
Also, I apologize if my comment came across as mean-spirited or demoralizing, I promise you that was not my intention.

@Duck_Farmer
I mean, Sekiro's not really a souls-like despite having similar elements.

It's honestly what I would call a Sekiro-like given it has huge focus on deflecting attacks rather than dodging them.
I also would call Sekiro a tougher game in general due to later bosses kinda expecting you to master the deflection mechanic on top you being expected to have a firm grasp on the game's systems and generally knowing what you're doing.
But that's just my personal observations.

Fantastic game though and one I'm glad to see be single-player only.
Really makes you have to earn each victory.

...I say that but still haven't beaten the game to this day, the final boss with it's total of 4 different phases really broke me, I remember that I spent a single 12-hour session on just trying to make it past the first two phases of the fight before I gave up.

After weeks of not knowing what to really focus on, in feels like I've finally settled on one main "project" per console:
On Xbox: Ghost Recon: Wildlands
On Switch: Tales of Vesperia
On PS5: Decided to pause Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance until I feel properly ready to get back into the mindset of SMTV so I guess I will get back to my PS playthrough of Trails of Cold Steel IV once and for all

I wish the rest of you folks a nice weekend.

On Switch, I'll be busy with Trails of Cold Steel IV, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and maybe Knights of the Old Republic.

On PS5, I'll continue Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.

On Xbox, I'll most likely play System Shock, Red Dead Redemption 2 and maybe some Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on the side.

@Fiendish-Beaver

I guess it runs well enough, both in performance mode(60 fps) and in graphics mode(30 fps).
I guess loading times are slightly longer than I think is necessary but at the same time it's not really something I think is annoying.

On Xbox: Baldur's Gate III and Sand Land
On Switch: Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth and Cassette Beasts
On PS5: Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

I see...8 games of interest to me.
2 of them are this year(Avowed and the Indiana Jones game) and the rest are 2025 and beyond.

Definitely getting an F from me.

Except for Star Wars: Outlaws, Ubisoft has nothing these days that piques my interest and that's fine with me.

I guess I'd give it a C, I guess...?

Haven't really gone through any news article yet to read up on what was shown but at least we're getting a new DOOM game so that's something at least.

On Xbox: Red Dead Redemption and Modern Warfare 2 Remastered
On Switch: Cassette Beasts, Trails of Cold Steel IV and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
On PS5: Probably going to play Armored Core VI

Wait, Summer Game Fest has already happened?
Kinda thought it wasn't gonna be until in a couple weeks.

On Xbox: Mainly Red Dead Redemption, I'm getting closer to being done with the Mexico chapter thank god, 99% of it has felt like padding for the sake of padding.

On Switch: I dunno to be honest.

On PS5: I started playing Rise of the Ronin "for real" and man, it feels great.
I'm already liking this one a lot more than Team Ninja's previous games(Nioh 2 still great tho).