What We Played #621 – Payday 3, Lies of P & Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

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Autumn has finally arrived in the UK, with blustery winds and heavy downpours washing away a lot of the recent warm weather, doing so just in time for the autumnal equinox this weekend. It’s really been a “stay inside and play games” kind of week, in other words, and we’ve been doing just that!

This was a bumper week for me being able to reveal what I’ve played recently, with hands on time for newly announced 4X strategy game Millennia, for PSVR 2 ghost ’em up Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, and a little bit of time with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s TGS 2023 demos. Most of my gaming time, though, was spent playing Payday 3, the returning co-op heist ’em up series that sent me right back to the shenanigans of the earlier games from the early 2010s.

Let’s start with my heisting crew, as I dragged Jim into his first Payday experience, after he’d bounced off previous games without a solid crew to play with. I also gave Nick P his first Payday time, washing away the bad taste that had been left in his mouth by the Payday-alike Rockay City earlier this year – he joined this with some Mortal Kombat 1, a sprinkling of Street Fighter 6 and a dash of Dead by Daylight.

With the new game’s setting in New York, it was only fitting to grab a local to round out the gang, and Miguel stepped right up to the plate. This was far from his first Payday 3 experience, and he was happily leading the way and getting stuck in with the game’s returning stealthy-shootery shenanigans. Outside of that, there was “lots of Fate: Samurai Remnant for review, some Disgaea 7 for review, a splash of Fortnite, and my Playdate handheld console arrived. I’ve been hoarding games for it and I’m super excited to start playing them!”

Moving on to the law abiding