Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 25th)

This weekend I try to finish paper Mario,
Bought the touryst so going to give that one a shot as well.
And when Mario is finished I will continue my xenoblade file again.
Ohh and tonight a couple of friends will come over and we are going to do some boardgames.

Happy weekend!!

Finally decided to get the Zelda: BOTW DLC, which - after years of not playing it - has given a new interest in starting a second playthrough. I'm enjoying it thus far. I'll also be playing Animal Crossing a bit, but that goes without saying.

On a separate and mostly unrelated note, is Dom the Editor dead? He hasn't written a review in months and he's evidently not playing any games this weekend.

Final Fantasy 6/3, (my SNES cart still holds saves!) The Outer Worlds on PS4 and Catherine on Switch.

Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus

I gave up on XCOM2 after a few hours. Just too much stuff. Felt like a chore.
But I was hooked on the gameplay, so I got Warhammer instead. My first contact with the franchise. And I really like it. Crazy fascinating world and ideas. And the game had the "one more mission" effect on me right from the start.

@mauhlin12 criminal that FF6 is still not on Switch.

Vampyr is my main game this weekend, but also picked up Dex, Carrion, and Panzer this week so those will be making the rounds as well. Actually started both Carrion and Dex today. Awesome awesome games! So glad I got em.

Playing Spyro on Switch, SpongeBob Rehydrated and Kingdom Hearts on Xbox, and Ratchet and Clank on PS4.

Streets if Rage 4 (Xbox) and some Splatoon 2 Multiplayer for me...

I’ll be on vacation for the next 5 days, starting tomorrow. So I should have plenty of time to catch up on some gaming. I’ll play Rogue Company, Luigi’s Mansion 3, Isle of Armor DLC and some BotW...I got sucked back in again.

My kids have rediscovered their 3DS and just found my old carts for Pokemon Y & Pokemon White 2. So I suspect they’ll play those quite a bit this weekend.

Starlink. Kind of enjoying the busywork although i suspect I'll get bored if it eventually.

Also playing a lot of Slay the Spire on ipad. So addictive, love it.

I've had Xenoblade Chronicles DE and Paper Mario The Origami King on rotation this week and will continue doing so. Loving both. Also dipping into Animal Crossing New Horizons for an hour or two everyday.

@echoplex yeah the pricing on Crysis is really fair compared to almost everything else. Especially considering the quality of the port.

The game itself is pretty meh though imho.

Will be playing these games this weekend Panzer paladin, crysis, carrion, elden, distraint: deluxe edition and distraint 2
Indie all the way:

carrion hits the sweet spot for me, also CrossCode 😘 DEX

@Supadav03 I might be in the minority here, but I really loved Isle of Armor. Way better then the core game. Like a macro MMORPG.

Hoping to finish up my first playthrough of Borderlands 1 campaign today. Will probably take a break before jumping into the DLC to unlock some more characters in Streets of Rage 4 and Crash Team Racing.

@Yanina The great to hear. I’ve had the DLC for a couple weeks but haven’t played it yet. Figured this would be the perfect time to start exploring the Isle.

@Rpg-lover did they change the Carrion icon already?

@Yanina No they've not.. my dirty mind keep seeing same thing as you😁

This week I will be mostly playing

Mario & Rabbids

Animal Crossing New Horizons!

But, after more than 200 hours, I am slowly starting to play other games more. Quell memento, Quell Zen and I just picked up Spyro on sale, so I am looking forward to that.

Happy gaming, everyone!

With Nintendo not putting out much this year;- animal and paper both of which I’ve no interest in. I’m forced to play on my Dreamcast until further notice!

Trails of Cold Steel 3 for me. Been dipping back into Persona 5 too and also want to make some more progress in FE Birthright.

Ghost of Tsushima. Wow! Can't believe the PS4 is soon to be retired. Trying to progress in Titan Quest on Switch, an underrated Diablo style game. Been playing for hours in lock down but realised I have only just got to Act 2 of 4.

Friends of Mineral Town mainly, and a session or two of RFA.

@Yanina Have to agree. I currently working my way through it and the next game should be done like it.

In an effort to clear my backlog I will be finishing off I Am Setsuna. Enjoying it more this time, even if it is a little bland.

The demo of The Touryst left me wanting more, plus it's on offer and was actually on my wishlist so that's very tempting! I'm enjoying Paper Mario though so I'll try and concentrate on that - The Touryst is on offer for a few weeks yet.

Fire Emblem Three Houses and Animal Crossing.

I just finished Steins Gate, getting most of the endings. It was fantastic, a slow start but I’m glad I stuck with it. I played the OG version but I’d recommend Elite for those on the fence as it’s on sale.

After the recent SMT III and V news I’ve just started SMT Soul Hackers (3DS) for when I’m not playing Persona 5 on the TV.

Animal Crossing New Horizons All Day Long. 😀

This weekend i continued my Terraforming project to shape my whole island based on the map i have designed from my laptop. I have applied the land with pavel floor to make it like a small city. I shaped the river, the waterfall, add level 2 surface and planted cedar trees on specific locations.
I will continue again ACNH after dinner time.

Animal Crossing New Horizons was the first Nintendo game i played straightly for 4 weeks since i bought the game on 27 June 2020 and have accumulated 200+ hours gameplay.

Had a great week completed super Mario world. Played sor 2 today and final fight 3. Final fight 2 and super street fighter 2 await. Happy gaming everyone xxx

Continuing the last fortnight's backlog focus, I resumed my Persona endgame the other day. It's been a long playthrough in itself (although I'm highly doubtful about it being the "706 hours" the in-game menu's showing - that would be more than my Dissidia and Warframe time combined!), and the hiatus left me barely remembering what choices I had made throughout, so the "[pen]ultimate" boss fight, the one whereafter you get to pursue the true ending or have to start from scratch, had me nervous for even more reasons than what endgame boss fights may entail. Thankfully, it seems like I pulled through (mostly without a guide way back when, no less) - and then I was even more astonished to learn that I've somehow been playing all of the game... in early equipment with single digit defences? For a moment I was wondering if I was really playing an SMT game. But a couple backtracks and the current two-character limit dungeon later, I'm positive that yes, I really am playing an SMT game after all.😱 Unlike with ToD and 999, I might not finish this one so quickly.😅

What else? I did plan to pause my Zero Escape franchise binge again, but after 999's impact (we could be talking "a video game character who impressed you MOST this year" category, and that's the same year I've been playing Xenoblade 2 and Shadows of Valentia), the VLR temptation got the better of me and I already seem to be finishing the first of many routes therein (which I seasonedly expected to be grim, but holy s- ...). On Switch, the list remains what some could predict from my previous comments, although I've also revisited Rogue Aces and Witch & Hero, plus fresh excursions into Zombie Driver and - hopefully today - into Please the Gods.

But whoever's got nothing more productive to do than read this comment, this time I'll also be wasting your time on a paragraph about a mobile ga- OUCH! No, it's not Raid Shadow Legends, let me finish! Geez... Anyhoo, Tales of Crestoria has had an unsurprisingly rough launch in the CoViD scene, with bugs showing up here and there and a bunch of voiceover lines postponed due to the voice recording schedule challenges, but I was still glad to access (albeit via QooApp yet again, but what's a "belarus" anyway?🙄) a new Tales crossover in English and hoping it will last much longer than the western Symphogear server (and, from what I hear, Bamco's own Tales of the Rays before) is doomed to. And yet, I find myself already getting even more than I bargained for - the combination of characters, plot and themes (the latter not only dealing with the subjects like crime and guilt in sometimes borderline Dostoyevskian tones but recurrently feeling like a commentary on our own world's so-dubbed "cancel culture" as well) have done enough that I have a hard time recalling the last time I was SO drawn into a mobile freemium's primary campaign. Tales series is Tales series.

Carrion. I just received the complementary download code that came with a physical pre-order. Also, Ring Fit in short sessions, as I'm fasting right now, and Steamworld Heist, that I'm playing again and is still an excellent game.
Thinking about getting Darkwood on sale now, but it seems actually stressful and I tend to avoid stress... I do like the art style and all that...

I would have been playing Crysis but they gimped the controls so I bought Astral Chain instead.

I'm getting into Outlast, got it at the nice price, enjoying it so far, never had it first time around. Got a few more banged onto the backlog, Steamworld Heist, Pinstripe, Goblin Sword, Crypt of The Necrodancer, Anodyne, Downwell, maybe a few others, I forget.
My backlog actually excites me and I look upon it with pride. I'll get stuck into those when I finally get back to travelling with work. It's very reassuring to know I have hundreds of hours of entertainment lined up, wherever I go.

Have a fabulous weekend you beautiful people 👍

Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition. I tried it before on the Wii U and just couldn't get into it.

This time around it's really clicked for me. I get the combat system a lot better and the revamped visuals are much more appealing.

Ghosts of tsushima and persona 5 royal are my main games lately with some added mario kart 8 deluxe online

I just bought Wonderful 101 and Crysis, so I should be playing those. But I'm currently hooked on trying to fully complete Hollow Knight.

This weekend I'll be trying to finish up Graceful Explosion Machine. I've only got 4 stages left of the game, so I'll see how that goes. It's incredibly intense. There's so many enemies on the screen that it feels like I never have a moment to breathe. It's an experience that feels like threading a needle, and one small lapse in my concentration could lead to my demise. You would think this sounds frustrating, but it hasnt been so far. I really like it, but my nerves can only handle one or two stages a play session.

I started Katana Zero this week too, so I'll pick that up once I finish GEM. Really good first impressions on that one, but hopefully those eventual stealth sessions wont turn me off the game. I hate stealth.

Other than that, I did beat Donkey Kong Country on NSO last weekend, and it marks itself as my 600th game beaten since the beginning of 2009. I'm really going to slow down my focus on beating games now. I've pretty much cleaned up my backlog, so it feels like a nice point to take things easy.

Current weekend gaming plans include Burnout Paradise on Switch, and if I get around to it, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux on 3DS. Picked it up again the other day after seeing SMT in the Direct Mini.

Hope everyone has a great weekend and have fun gaming.

I'm trying to focus on one game at a time to reduce my backlog (switch only ... steam is a lost cause). So I'm currently playing Wandersong.

I'm playing Ghost of Tsushima. Absolutely fantastic game, and visually one of the best games I've ever played. The combat is fantastic,just wish I were better at it 😄. Seems to be a great send off for the ps4

This weekend I’m having a break from the Witcher. Was meant to start Trials of Mana, but my nephew liked the look of that game, so ☹️

So I’m back on Assassins Creed, and I’m playing through the Freedom Cry DLC.

Fancy a bit of Grid in the lead up to the online coming alive soon...plus I saw my mate who I recommended it to has put in double the amount of hours as me, so I need to play catchup.

Might try and finish Streets of Rage 4 too, to open up the arcade mode. There's no rush.

Only just discovered Mark of the Ninja, but absolutely love it!

@shonenjump86 my exact gaming weekend. ACNH and just started my third run of FE3H as Blue 🦁

Dark Souls II for me

Will be finishing Donkey Kong Country on NSO today, and I have a sudden desire to want to play The Messenger after that (started it in January, but was quickly caught up in backlog after a few days). I might restart that game to get used to the controls again, only played for a few hours anyway.

And also playing more Slay the Spire (as is the norm) and Dead Cells on the side. Still getting used to all the adjustments made in the latter's recent update.

ACNH Just got the loft room installed and doing some Bug Off to pay towards it. Island got rated 4 which is nice. Other than that I unlocked some European forest in Hunting Simulator. Nagging at myself to do some Skyrim as ACNH can get too sickly sweet. Might pick up that Konami Shmup collection on sale.

@Simmo I have completed it years ago on PC. Fantastic game! One of the best indie games that I have ever played! Balanced difficulty, normal hours to complete (not very short, not very long), stealth gameplay at its best and good visuals despite the fact that are 2D, etc. Classic, must buy for me.

Final Fantasy 8 Remastered, Ring Fit Adventure and Cadence Of Hyrule for me this weekend. May also check out the bug off in Animal Crossing.

Paper Mario, Pokemon Sword, VALORANT.

i'm going back and play Shin Megami Tensei IV. now that SMT 5 is coming out next year.
im also playing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (i know, it's a mobile game... ),
and revisiting Animal Crossing on the gamecube.

Goblin Sword
Animal Crossing
And the scariest game ever, Outlast.

@Tourer145 nice, this actually my 5th run for FE.

1. Ghost of Tsushima
2. Paper Mario Origami King
3. F12020

PS4 - The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima

Switch - Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition

@nkarafo oh definitely! I only came across it because a friend had recommended buts it’s so good. Really not rushing it either as I don’t want to end ha

TW101 on switch. Played it in Wii U and I thought it was a decent tie over until Bayonetta 2.

I’m enjoying it a bit more now. Maybe it’s because the lack of a second screen and feeling I need to use touch controls.

The majority of this weekend will be spent playing Pokemon Go due to the Go Fest event. Outside of that, I'll hopefully put some more time into Paper Mario: The Origami King as well.

Since a few days ago, I have been playing Octopath Traveler. I really like the music of this game. Looking forward to see a sequel announcement after Bravely Default 2 is released, which is another game I plan to buy.

Still playing through Ghost of Tsushima and enjoying every minute of it.

Started Paper Mario The Origami King a few days ago and I'm liking it after getting used to the battle system a bit more.

I'll also be playing some Crysis Remastered and starting a new game of Borderlands 1 with a friend today since she picked up the game last night.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Ringfit Adventure. Walmart finally has it in stock in my area. It is really cool if you are on the fence about it. This and Burnout Paridise

Mostly paper mario origami king. I just finished the purple streamer and I have 1 more to go. Other than that,maybe some borderlands again.

Story of Seasons and Animal Crossing. Gotta do the bug off

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle

I’ve started Paper Mario The Origami King and am liking it so far! Have a great weekend everyone!

Still Xenoblade Chronicles on Switch. I didn't have as much time to game as I'd like during this past week, and I'm still working my way through a lot of the side content; plus, some grinding is in order as I've been informed I'm nearly to the final stretch. Besides, I appear to be pretty underleveled for many of these side quests....

I'll fit in a little Pokemon Go, as usual. I'm not participating in Go Fest since I refuse to spend any money on the game ( ), but that still won't prevent me from hatching eggs and catching a few 'Mon while exercising.

Stay safe, happy gaming, and have a great weekend!

I'll be playing Starfox... I mean Starlink! Got it in the eshop for 15,- euros!

This weekend will be all about 1,Ghost Of Tsushima on Ps4 and 2,Paper Mario on Switch..two amazing and completely different games.
Oh and my daily check in with Animal Crossing

Story of Seasons: FoMT
Already put ACNH back in the box
Bought Touryst and Escapists 2 early this week and still have not play them cos FoMT.

Finally gonna finish professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright and I’m gonna start playing burnout on switch

Xenoblade Chronicles:DE
Bioshock Collection
Cave Story
The Outer Worlds

May steal my son’s copy of Paper Mario and start that for a change of pace.

I am jumping between streets of rogue and just started playing yooka laylee and the impossible lair.

It is the worst Nintendo year. There are no new games that interest me..Just Bloodstained and Donkey Kong Country on Switch online SNES app.

Grabbed CRYSIS, but the lack of gyro optioms is ruining it as I play normal gyro and inverted right stick. Bought BURNOUT when it was $40, so probably more of that.

Ghost of Tsushima, Paper Mario and Divinity Original Sin 2.

Im approaching the end of the first Golden Sun, and I’ve finally begun my long-awaited playthrough of Hollow Knight. I’m excited to finally sink some time into that one.

I've been really enjoying Rocket League and Splatoon 2 every day. I've also started Crysis, Ghost of Tsushima, and Paper Mario Origami King. I also keep jumping rope on Switch. As if that isn't enough I keep playing a song or two from Sayonara Wild Hearts pretty often. And I've been enjoying Gun Nac, U.N. Squadron, Parodius (on SNES), Power Strike 2, Overhorizon, and other older awesome classics via emulation.

I need a break from Bug Fables. I beat the game, and I want to finish it, but to be frank, it's just some tedious achievements and probably a few final bosses that are going to be painfully difficult. I'll need to grab a ton of items to properly cheese them.

I planned to grab Paper Mario, but I'm nervous about locking my game up with the bug. I'm sure a fix is coming, so if I grab it, I'll just make sure not to rush to the late game. Otherwise, I kind of want to get into Splatoon 2 again with the Spaltfest happening.

On Switch, bouncing between Splatoon Online and NBA 2K20. But mostly playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey and F1 20 on Stadia lately.

Still gotta finish Xenoblade chronicles, then its Catherine time

I was going to be continuing Origami King but that gamebreaking bug which softlocks your save data is too close for comfort so I'm going back to my XB1.

Fallout 3 (Games For Windows) - Finally finishing up the last bit of DLC.

Angry Birds (Windows Phone) - Just started the other day.

Uno & Friends (Windows Phone) - A time waster like Angry Birds.

Original Doom, Moto GP 20 & the most underrated racing game Rush Rally 3!

@Yanina Yeah I can't believe FF6 isn't on Switch yet either. But Square-Enix have been bringing their old RPGs over, hopefully FF1-6 and Dragon Quest 4-9 will all make it over in some form (not the mobile versions I hope.)

I just finished the story of deadly premonition 2 and I loved it I still got some sidequest to do, I'm also playing origami king and I'm back in mario odyssey trying to found the last moons.

@Orangezap89 Seriously i wonder what the developers were thinking selecting that as an icon for their game. Well maybe dirty sense of humor.

@Orangezap89 lol, looks like that though.

I can't stick with one game, so for my Switch, Sniper Elite III, the 3DS, some Star Fox 64, and might finally delve into Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen on my SNES Classic.

Carrion, and possibly Dex too.

Hollow Knight

I started playing Muramasa: Demon Blade last weekend. I'll be playing that more this weekend.