Anyone here play video games?
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@JoshC Totally agree. Cyberpunk was my most hyped game ever. Thanks to the mis-managed promo and internal conflict (game didn't know what it wanted to be during the dev stage - then ends up being a mess on release thanks to pathetic optimisation). I struggled with it on launch. Waited. They fixed it and patched it and patched it again and again.
It's elite now. Finally getting into Phantom Liberty DLC. So good.
I can wait for GTA.
Death Stranding 2
Ghost of Yōtei
Switch 2There's a few more that will keep me occupied.
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@Chibs From what I've seen it's actually pretty decent. Graphically it's better than the PS4 version (not a hard thing to do considering the last gen mess for this game). Everyone that's played it has been impressed.
Digital Foundry are the chaps to watch if you want the details (closer the time to release).
Switch 2 will run at 40fps.
Think console is probably the best way to play it (if you're without a pc gaming rig).
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@FlavourFade said in Anyone here play video games?:
Another game I loved recently was disco elysium. Never experienced something similar to that masterpiece!
Fantastic that. Did you play The Final Cut version?
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I'm not surprised at all about the GTA delay, I assumed it would be delayed from the moment the date was announced. I'm happy for them to take their time.
I've just finished a long replay of Cyberpunk with the DLC (first time running through Phantom Liberty). PL was excellent DLC, other developers should take note!
Now beginning a re-replay of Uncharted 4. I like my single player narrative games, what can I say.
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I'm not surprised at all about the GTA delay, I assumed it would be delayed from the moment the date was announced. I'm happy for them to take their time.
I've just finished a long replay of Cyberpunk with the DLC (first time running through Phantom Liberty). PL was excellent DLC, other developers should take note!
Now beginning a re-replay of Uncharted 4. I like my single player narrative games, what can I say.
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@Seul I am not sure, it was free2play via ps plus. Amazing Game!! Will do a re-run in winter time
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Just downloaded the doom collection for switch. Currently playing doom 2016 for the first time and it’s great
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Recent games I've been playing and thoughts on them:
Animal Well - Good little Metroidvania, but I find I have to be in the right mood for it. It's mechanically quite difficult (for me at least), and has tonnes of puzzles. If you aren't 'getting it', it can be quite frustrating not being able to figure out what to do. Put it down for now. A shame, really, as I saw nothing but praise for it when I played last year.
Persona 5 Royal - I want to get back to this, I only put it down as I found I wasn't in the mood for a looooong ass game when I picked it back up again last month. Plus a big work project meant that I wasn't in the right headspace to follow its story closely. I'll probably get back to it now that I'm through that.
Robocop: Rogue City - this dropped on PlayStation Plus last month and I thought I'd give it a go. I was pleasantly surprised. It's very, very true to the first Robocop movie, if that's your speed (it is mine!). The gunplay is slow and clunky, which would normally be frustrating but completely fits with you playing as Robocop. You're a complete tank and it's dumb fun to just walk into a room full of enemies and start blasting. Who needs cover when you're a cybernetically enhanced dead man in a suit of armour? Oh, and there's a trophy for shooting a guy in the dick. Wonderful.
Hole Digging Master - This gained some traction with streamers recently and for £4 I thought I'd see what the fuss was about. A satisfying little palette cleanser. You have a garden and you have a shovel, so you dig a hole. In the ground you find ores of increasing value that you can sell so that you can buy upgrades for your shovel, ore-carrying-capacity, energy reserves, etc. It has that satisfying loop where almost every trip back to your hole will give you enough resources to buy an upgrade and get better at digging the hole. Short and simple enough that I got the platinum trophy twice over a weekend.
Balatro - Been getting back into this, and thought it was worth mentioning given that it is available on PlayStation Plus this month. Balatro's amazing, easily the standout game of this month's PS+ drop. It's a solitaire card game where you play poker hands to beat a series of increasingly difficult blinds. You get more points for harder poker hands. Complexity is introduced by Jokers - special cards that modify your point-scoring potential if you can play the right hands - and other modifiers that allow you to shape your deck to make your preferred hands more likely to appear. No knowledge of poker is required, it's just a brilliant little game, if you've got PlayStation Plus you have no excuse not to try it this month.
Art of Rally - A very simplified indie rally racing game I've been enjoying in the evenings lately. The simple visuals and chilled out EDM soundtracks make it a good game to zone out with before bed. A little hard to learn, but once you get the hang of its drifting mechanics (which can be tweaked) you'll enjoy sliding around corners. I think I'll keep it in my rotation until I get the platinum trophy, at least.
Take the dive...
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@EdH I loved animal well. Really easy to get lost in the world (in a good way). Puzzles were hard as hell for me tbh, I think I managed to put 25 hours into it
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So I've been consumed with STARDEW VALLEY... You can not get better value for money... I mean you can get it for a fiver and spend hundreds of hours on it...
It takes some time getting used to the controls (even on a PS5) and holy fucking iceskating jesus is there still a lot for me to discover but it's FUN and laidback af... -
Anyone play Baldur's Gate 3? I played 1 and 2 but this is a different animal, so hard! Would love to team up (cross platform is now possible with the new April patch)
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
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Thanks @Alex!
@scarfmace I haven't played BG3 for over a year - I never quite finished a playthrough, my problem is that I want to explore every nook and cranny and see all the possible permutations of my choices as I go, so I had like 5 characters on the go and got burnt out on it.
Yes, it's hard, there's a lot going on mechanically and it can feel like if you aren't min-maxing your character you're falling behind. I'd say the #1 thing to do is try to take advantage of Advantage (the mechanic) whenever you can, as this makes a huge difference to your attacks actually landing.
If you wanted to try and team up, I'd be game. I usually play from around 9:30-10pm in the evenings (UK time) for a couple of hours, work allowing.
@Alex @AdamJ @SKT I'd be well up for some Helldivers 2 if you wanted to try and get an IH squad going as I haven't checked out yesterday's update to the game yet. I have most things unlocked bar the latest two Warbonds they released.
Take the dive...
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@EdH said in Anyone here play video games?:
@Alex @AdamJ @SKT I'd be well up for some Helldivers 2 if you wanted to try and get an IH squad going as I haven't checked out yesterday's update to the game yet. I have most things unlocked bar the latest two Warbonds they released.
Yeah, sounds good. Shoot me your PSN and I will add you this eve
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@EdH said in Anyone here play video games?:
Balatro - Been getting back into this, and thought it was worth mentioning given that it is available on PlayStation Plus this month. Balatro's amazing, easily the standout game of this month's PS+ drop. It's a solitaire card game where you play poker hands to beat a series of increasingly difficult blinds. You get more points for harder poker hands. Complexity is introduced by Jokers - special cards that modify your point-scoring potential if you can play the right hands - and other modifiers that allow you to shape your deck to make your preferred hands more likely to appear. No knowledge of poker is required, it's just a brilliant little game, if you've got PlayStation Plus you have no excuse not to try it this month.
I have done 149/150 stakes now...
Had to reduce my efforts to one game a day to preserve my sanity but Black Deck/Gold Stake is diabolical
