What are you playing this weekend, SW?

I will be continuing my playthrough of Dragon Quest 11S! I love this game.. I think it might actually might be my favorite 2019 game (sorry RE2 and DMC 5). I think I'm about halfway through (39 hours in), and what impresses me most is that the game always changes things up a bit to make it refreshing. The story, the characters, the battle system, all good here. I think this may be my favorite JRPG of the gen too (but FF7 Remake and Persona 5 Royal might have something to say to that). My only recommendation is that if you decide to play DQ11, get the Switch version. It has very convenient features and is also great to play while you're on the go. Only downside is that graphics were downgraded, but they're still not bad. If they release the S version for PC, I'd be down to double dip lol. It would be awesome if they offered cross save with the PC version.

So how about you, SW? What are you playing on this first weekend of the New Year?

Bought Days Gone, and started playing on survival. Fantastic game so far!

.hack//G.U last recode

SSX Tricky, replaying and finishing up Spiderman.

Cuphead. Currently getting my arse kicked by a clown and some baseballs. I got so very, very close.

Also, Total War: Warhammer II. Now Superman/Geralt approved.

Been playing a lot of COOP Onward doing basic terrorist hunt missions. Reminds me a lot of the original Rainbow 6/Ghost Recon games, been a blast even if the AI is somewhat wonky.

Will probably continue Witcher 3 with some Hunt: Showdown and Overwatch on the side.

@SolidGame_basic: same here. Fantastic game. Outside of DQ11 I may also fire up some TW Warhammer 2 or KOTOR

yes, Rage 2 is a bit boring at first. But trust me, it gets better and it keeps getting better.

What you need to do is first hunt down all the arks (find a map on google with their location). Once you start getting more weapons and more superpowers, the game will give you so many options to dispatch of enemies and it becomes a ton of fun!

I'd also recommend visiting Kvasir soon in the game, because he gives you ways of hunting down the feltrite and money chests, which you'll definitely need.

The game is ace, stick with it ;)

FM 20 probably a bit more Fifa 20 career mode and a touch of gears 5. Really waiting for cyberpunk.

Once you start getting more OP, I turned the game on Hard and it definitely helps. You start getting stronger and the enemies themselves are a ton more fun to fight in creative ways on hard. It forces you to think and stay on your feet.

You start to become such an unstoppable killing machine and that is when the funs begins.

This is the map I followed:

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I just put it on my phone, while playing the game, and crossed them off as I went along.

The only ones I visited later in the game, were the two in The Wilds. You don't really need those two right away. but you will want to do the other ones ;)

Just finished Final Fantasy 8, so I will go back to Forza Horizon 4 and will probably start Project Cars 2 or Hitman.

I'm replaying RE2 Remake cause I'm in the mood, for some Resident Evil gaming all this weekend and will replay RE7 soon.

I just bought Days Gone for $20 on the PlayStation store. I'm looking forward to it.

But first I'm gonna finish up Fallen Order this weekend

Gotta finish Shin Sakura Taisen

The story has its ups and downs, but the mechanics are great. It's probably my favourite zombie game since Left 4 Dead! At least in survival mode, which is challenging but not frustrating....just fair.

I can see it being too easy and boring in any easier difficulty level, which probably explains the average scores it got.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Even at 13 dollars, it doesn't really feel worth it. Really don't understand why this extremely bland new formula is so popular.

Been mainly playing Gears 5 multiplayer and Monster Hunter World: Iceborne lately because they both have had holiday events going on. This weekend will probably be the end of it. Would like to get back to Dragon Quest XI S again.

@PAL360: Interesting.

I'll make sure to start on a tougher difficulty setting.

Just beat Dragon Quest XI and not sure what to play next. Not really having that much fun with God of War; it's not better than God of War 3 in any way, shape, or form imo. I'll probably play a 2nd playthrough of Persona 4 Golden and jump back into Assassin's Creed Odyssey and complete it this time.

Nothing. Storms a coming.

Mysteries of the gen. Heck I like the reboot 1st one more than this game.

Death Stranding and Final Fantasy VIII Remastered, probably. Not too keen on either one yet but I'm not entirely sure what I'd swap them for. Maybe finally get back to Okami, start up KotOR, or go play the Blood & Wine expansion of The Witcher 3.

I plan to be tinkering with a bit of games development on an embedded device for the weekend as far as gaming goes. I got a device called an Arduboy: an open source handheld like another handheld whose name escapes me :p.

A gift from me to me for christmas.

...Well when i say games development i mean more "OOOOOH cool i made a thing move across the screen! Now how to make it go beep too." rather than making an actual game at this point.

Hopefully I can finish my first play through of Fire Emblem 3 Houses. The game is fun, but you have to do a lot of long, tedious bits between all of the fun stuff. It's probably my least favorite of the ones I've played, anyway.

Dang.. I just got the game lol.

Woah.. haven't seen you around in a while.

I just can't imagine you playing a JRPG lol.

Picked up Into the Breach on Switch over the sale and I cant put it down. Switch is a real good fit for this game.

I will also continue on in Disco.

@SolidGame_basic: I still wouldn't call it a bad game. It's just the worst I have played in a very good series.

I don't like "exploring" the monastery because outside of your first time, it isn't really exploration anymore. It's just glorified babysitting to get everyone's motivation maxed and it takes about an hour between visiting the shops, fishing, cooking, finding the lost items, and talking to everyone to figure out who the lost items belong to. A sleek interface that just auto-finds the lost stuff and lets you talk to everyone and perform activities from a menu would be a welcome addition for me.

The gameplay itself is pretty solid, though probably a bit too easy. If it's not your first Fire Emblem game, I would recommend playing on hard.

Probably gonna finish Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries. Probably will start some free game, maybe Into the Breach. Also maybe some DOA6 on the side.

I was gifted CoD Modern Warfare so mainly that, plus a bit of Anno 1800/Astroneer on the side and maybe some other stuff

Funny you say that. I was thinking about playing it on hard actually. So here's my thing with that. I played Fire Emblem Fates on hard, and it was really difficult for me. I made it to the last boss and couldn't finish it so I ended up restarting on normal. Then I got Fire Emblem Echoes, and played that on normal. It was too easy for me. I rocked everything. So now I'm back to hard.

Three Houses has a mechanic that lets you reverse time to redo a bad move in battle. That makes things much, much easier. Plus, I got pretty deep into the game before most of my characters were unable to defeat normal enemies with a single attack. Normal also lets you grind battles so you can over-level if you need to. I am on normal, wishing I were on hard, so I'm not sure how difficult hard is, but I think the main thing is to identify who you want to go with early, start recruiting who you need to, and stick with your main characters. Part of the fun is probably playing around and seeing how characters scale for yourself, but the game is also really long, so if you are like me and don't have that much time, then online guides are nice. Also, the game does have a new game+ that lets you start over on a higher difficulty and keep your professor rank so a lot of the grind, at least hypothetically, shouldn't be that bad on subsequent play throughs.

Still playing the very addicting Slay the Spire. I own this game on my Switch and PS4. Thinking about hitting the platinum on PS4. Otherwise, I'm eyeing BotW or Mario Odyssey. Maybe Life is Strange 2 as my next game.

I'm jumping between a few games... still playing my second play-through of Astral Chain, and also playing a bit of New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe & Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Work tomorrow, but i'll still be plugging away at TW3, and work's slower next week, so I may be able to at least get to the expansions by the end. Other than that, maybe some CoD with the work guys.

Death Stranding and maybe some Spider-Man.

Been thinking about getting back to that. I finished the first game, but haven't played in a while since starting part two.

Awesome games.

If friends are on, it'll be GTAV and Modern Warfare.

If solo, I'll be playing SW: Fallen Order and finishing up RDR2.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Luigi's Mansion 3! I'm going to binge like hell on these last few days of vacation.

I'm kinda sick for some reason and need a break for my eyes so I'm going play a little of Rdr2 online. I have a leaky nose for some reason even though it's cold outside.

Also, I was sick a few weeks ago how I can be sick again? That is some bs.

Well, the flu season is here. Everyone watch out for the flu.

• Void Bastards
• Gris
• River City Girls

Got them before the sales ended.

Get it every year... Just got over it myself. Moving to fucking Australia, cos there are fires all the time

Not much this weekend since I'm currently transitioning from Germany back to US. Headed to Ohio, bought my first OLED (LG C9) and had it sent there. Can't wait to get settled and set up!

Looking forward to playing Witcher 3 GOTY and Red Dead 2 on it. Probably shift from 4k gaming to 1440p 120hz. 4k even with a 2080ti is a waste of GPU power but upscaling on LCDs is terrible that I didn't have much choice. Luckily OLEDs scale better with supported resolutions. Can't wait!

Got the latest Ace Combat on the digital holiday sale, I will be playing more of that, and some more Luigi's Mansion on the Switch.

@SolidGame_basic: What's this JRPG shit? is that what the cool kids call them these days, millennials ugh.

Calling RPG's from Japan is stupid, I wonder who started that stuff? I mean do we call racing games from Japan Jracers? of course not because its stupid, just like the individual(s) who started this JRPG stuff.

I've been playing RPG's since the OG Phantasy Star back on the beast known as the Sega Master System.

And as we all know Skies of Arcadia & Panzer Dragoon Saga are 2 of the best RPG's ever.

But I guess it does seem strange going from racers to rpg's as its very different.

@i_p_daily: We been calling JRPG for decades. We even use WRPG as well.

Ok, but i'll stick to RPG as that's what it is to me, say do you call Mario Kart a Jracing game?

luigi's mansion 3