March 2025 - Yes I am still playing Cyberpunk 2077!

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Cyberpunk 2077 (PS5) 

I have gone past the 100 hour mark in this game now, I have fully decked our Gold Tier Cyber Implants and I still tend to default to using hacking skills and stealth combat, usually by hacking a camera and using that to take out nearby enemies preferably by explosive devices. 

I am focusing on increasing my Solo & Shinobi skills so default to Shotgun/Assault Rifle when required, the other skills are nearly all maxed out. Truthfully combat with guns is way too easy with the Smart Assault Rifle. 

I love exploring and finding side quests or an NPC mission, it is a huge open world.

I started the game at the beginning of the year so it is going to take me a long while yet before I complete it! 

It Takes Two (PS5)

My daughter wanted to try this and it's an enjoyable co-op action platformer with some light puzzle sequences. We played for a few hours and hopefully I can convince her to get back to it so we can complete it.

 

Backlog

On the shelf

Annoyingly, I only lasted 5 weeks into the new year before purchasing a game!

Fist of the North Star (£3.99 in a PSN Sale) released by RGG Studio (Now you can understand my weakness!) for that price it was too good an offer to say no & RGG can do not wrong. 

No idea when I am going to play it because Cyberpunk 2077 is eating up all my gaming time & I have not even got to the Phantom Liberty DLC!

PlayStation Plus (To Play)

Star Wars Jedi Survivor & Dragon Age Veilguard was recently added to PS+ so looking forward to enjoying those games.

 

Want

Nothing, nothing at all, I just need more time to enjoy gaming!

 

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Starting a game, one annoying little gripe with Cyberpunk 2077 on the PS5 is having to press continue four times to load the game, I do wish there was a continue feature on the PS5 dashboard like Infinite Wealth that took me straight into the game from my latest save file.  I do miss the Xbox Quick Resume feature.

 

February 2025 - I'm a netrunner baby!

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Cyberpunk 2077 (PS5) 

It has taken me a while to understand all the systems at play in the game but I finally have my Netrunner V, going in with Contagion & using Overdrive for Synapse Burnout. If all else fails my trust Tier 5 pistol can headshot for 150% damage!

The star of the game is Night City,  just an amazing city to explore and so much to discover from random gang fights to gigs.

I am currently about 75 hours in but I expect I will be playing this game for all of February and maybe even March!

 

Want

I stayed strong and avoided purchasing Star Wars Outlaw, I just need to focus on enjoying what I own.

I have added a few more titles to my shopping list and currently it is quite long but I won't be buying anything for a long while.

Baldurs Gate 3, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Shadow Gambit Cursed Crew, Star Wars Outlaws, Ghost of Yotei, Metal Gear Solid Delta, Death Stranding 2, Like a Dragon Pirate Yakuza, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Mafia The Old Country, The Alters, Clair Obscur Expedition 33, Kriegsfront Tactics, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream & Dispatch.

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Nothing except maybe my lack of gaming time at the moment being limited to a few hours a week.

 

January 2025 - Happy Cyberpunk 2077 New Year

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After completing the Kaito Files DLC for Lost Judgement, I've just been dabbling around trying the odd PS+ title like Forspoken, Nobody Saves the World, My First Gran Turismo etc but nothing really grabbed my attention. 

My daughter is still playing Final Fantasy 7 Remake so the PS5 disc drive slot is full & Spider-Man 2 will have to wait, I purchased Cyberpunk 2077 and the Phantom Liberty DLC in the recent Black Friday sales on digital. The physical release of the game only has a code for the DLC.

Cyberpunk 2077

There are quite a few game mechanics to get your head around and the map opens up very quickly for you to explore. It got me thinking about how a video game introduces a player to the a world and it's mechanics. I think Horizon Zero Dawn did a very good job with only giving the player a small area and introducing each mechanic slowly to ensure the player knew how to control Aloy before opening up the world. Cyberpunk 2077 takes a different approach and throws a lot of mechanics at you almost immediately and opens up the world map for you to explore. Thus I'm taking it a little bit slowly to understand how best to use the hacking skills, combat & all the various different side quests/jobs you can take on before I venture out to explore the world.

Want

I double stacked on PS+ during Black Friday sales so this will be my main source for new titles, I have quite a bit on my backlog that I have purchased either physical or digital & plan to enjoy these before going shopping.

Spider-Man 2 & Shadow Tactics (Physical). Outer Wilds, Empire of the Sin & Front Mission 1st (Digital), Like A Dragon Ishin, Disco Elysium, Sackboy & Bioshock Collection (PS+)

There are quite a few games released (Star Wars Outlaws, Shadow Gambit, Baldurs Gate 3) or coming soon (Like A Dragon Pirate Yakuza) that I want to purchase but nothing that I need now so they can all wait.

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Fortnite - The one game in 2024 that sucked so much of my gaming time.