I played Athena then because I liked her design and after seeing her in Tales from the Borderlands. If I ever replay the game I would try the more “out there” option like Claptrap.

Honestly now that I wrote it out I remember TPS maps weren’t as fun as BL2’s hence me not replaying the game back then.

Tales from the Borderlands is the best Borderlands game, and it’s a shame that they even screwed that game’s characters up in Borderlands 3

Imma need cross-play before I join the fray. All my friends play the game on PC.

Completed my first playthrough of FF16 last week. Great experience, although not perfect. It’s the opposite of FF15 for me: while 15 gradually narrowed down the openness toward the end to achieve a tight narrative finish, FF16 pacing in the final act really faltered. The penultimate boss is generic religious nutjob spouting generic obedient sentiment compared to the previous personal fights. And they bombarded you with too many side quests right before the final fight, which massacred the pacing. So it’s not perfect pacing-wise, but with excellent gameplay and characters, overall I still really enjoy this.

Meanwhile, just started the Burning Shores expansion of HFW. Love how “good” it is to explore the world on the PS5, excited for the future sequel.

Just bought Burning Shores expansion for Horizon FW. Been waiting for it to go on sale for the first time since buying the PS5. Time to experience the next gen version of the game.

Having followed Kiryu from Yakuza 0, this sure looks to be a sad reunion

I think the current discussions on c/ps5 is about PlayStation in general instead of just console exclusive already, I don’t think keeping it separate from c/Playstation would foster any diverging discussion environments, and as the communities here are still small-scale, conglomeration would generate much livelier climate and new discussions. So, in favor of joining forces

Bought a PS5 and have been waiting for Burning Shores to go on sale

Maybe I’ll install the Dreamcast emulator on Vita and try it out

Yakuza 0 is the pinnacle of the series, you should absolutely try it. Tbh, you can just play 0-Kiwami 1-Kiwami 2, it serves as a great trilogy, with one great game and two good remakes, while the Remastered trilogy (3-4-5) can be skipped if you already experienced them. I personally don’t like 6 that much, but you can go for it for the story.

It’s definitely difficult to go through the entire series consecutively. You can avoid burnout by breaking up your playthroughs with the spin-off. Both Judgment games are amazing and offer a fresh take on the old RGG formula.

Are you playing original XI or the S version? Learning that the battle speed QoL is a S exclusive I can’t imagine playing the original, but with such a good base game ultimately it’s doesn’t affect the experience that much.

I also just plat’d Marvel’s Avengers, which started fine as I enjoyed its single-player campaigns, but the post-game grinds got really monotonous after a while. Had they just focused on making a tight single-player game like GotG I think it would have sold better and not get delisted.

Currently playing Marvel’s GotG (great game), Alan Wake (played on PC, replaying the Remastered on PS5), and Like a Dragon Ishin (more grindy than regular Yakuza games so not as fun for me).

Can Rockstar at least optimize a performance mode for PS4 Pro or am I expecting too much from this company 🙂

For a long time the rumour was that RDR couldn’t be re-released because the code was a spaghetti mess. So if they managed to clean it up for both PS4 and Switch, I hope it means PC port would be possible now

But it was him who defined “Strand”??