someone
01.26.23 | I'm currently blasting Subnautica and cannot get enough.
Bought Stray and Journey on sale, will dig in soon when I have more free time |
zakalwe
01.26.23 | Bought Endless Legend and Endless Space 2
Seem decent. |
mrdogthrow
01.26.23 | just bought risk of rain 2 and its a blast |
ffs
01.26.23 | been playing noita a lot, v hard "roguelite" which appears simple but has some crazy complex mechanics. 300ish deaths so far and still hella fun. i wont give up until i win |
Willie
01.26.23 | Got a PS5 over Christmas with the PS+ subscription so making my way through all the Sony games. Finished Horizon Forbidden West and Ratchet & Clank. Now doing the Far Cry games starting with 3. |
Vinnymcscoop
01.26.23 | I have a lot of games on my Switch that I need to beat, but I'm close to beating Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. I just need to beat the final boss, and then I can put it in my cloud storage to save it for later
I'm also really close to beating Doom as well
I'm planning to get Link's Awakening remastered, I was always a sucker for Legend of Zelda games |
SomeCallMeTim
01.26.23 | been playing gta online with a friend and the script kiddies in that game are wild |
protokute
01.26.23 | Not playing so frequently, but I've been coming back and having a lot of fun with Slay The Spire. And I also started Cultic, which is amazing. |
SomeCallMeTim
01.26.23 | lol anybody in here played Cruelty Squad? game is insane |
protokute
01.26.23 | I've seen videos of it, game is mad. But I don't know how much I could enjoy actually playing it. |
MO
01.26.23 | doom eternal it's just too fun |
frozencarl
01.26.23 | raiding Ulduar with my dad guild in WoW classic and having the best of times. slogging through RDR2 on the side along with some Hearthstone BGs |
someone
01.26.23 | one of these days i'll finally sit down and try Doom
i've heard and seen too many good things
anyone tried GTFO? it's like a third person multiplayer Doom |
AsleepInTheBack
01.26.23 | Just finished Doom Eternal (honestly top 10 FPS ever, top 5 in terms of combat crunchiness alone)
Just started Rimworld and am hooked. |
Sinternet
01.26.23 | replaying new vegas for the billionth time and spamming out some fm and vampire survivor sessions in between |
zakalwe
01.26.23 | Yeah, Iām doing New Vegas as well sin.
Absolute classic. |
BaselineOOO
01.26.23 | Sekiro and Overwatch |
DadKungFu
01.26.23 | Played Halo CE recently, haven't played anything in years but me and my brother have been doing co-op and it's been a great nostalgia/bonding experience for us both |
protokute
01.26.23 | ownnn, that's nice!
i wish i had a brother to play games with |
Manatea
01.26.23 | Iāve been going back and forth between Hades and Dead Cells after having recently completed Hyper Light Drifter for the second time. |
Demon of the Fall
01.26.23 | 'Yeah, Iām doing New Vegas as well sin.' (2)
got the urge after seeing it mentioned t' other week. Early days but for the first time ever I've taken the Powder Gangers side over the people of Goodsprings, I've not followed this 'questline path' before, so we'll see what happens.
|
botb
01.26.23 | Just finished the crisis core remaster, shit is sick. Then pubg with the boys sometimes and been playing pathfinder: kingmaker in between |
Sinternet
01.26.23 | based new vegas enjoyers
"I've taken the Powder Gangers side over the people of Goodsprings"
you goddamn traitor leave easy pete alone - next thing you'll be joining the legion |
ConcubinaryCode
01.26.23 | Replaying ffx |
unclereich
01.26.23 | cod ww2 2017 for ps4. best multiplayer cod that is still active |
twlight
01.26.23 | Haven't been gaming at all since I bought a house but I might snag the dead space remake tomorrow because I never played the original |
Hyperion1001
01.26.23 | wrath of the lich king
Ulduar kicks ass so far |
pjquinones747
01.26.23 | recently been back on Oblivion and Skyrim as well as playing Pokemon Scarlet when i'm not doing that. big on my comfort games lol |
frozencarl
01.26.23 | hyperion what faction/ server you play on? |
Gameofmetal
01.26.23 | Been skipping back and forth between Total War: Troy and Dying Light 2. Troy is fine, just not much new from other total war titles. Dying Light is disappointing, feels like there's nothing in it that's an improvement on the first game, which had a generic story but was ultimately still very fun. |
PitchforkArms
01.26.23 | Playing all of the Fallout games for the millionth time. Comfort food type games for me |
Brabiz
01.26.23 | Nioh, and itās pretty awesome actually |
nol
01.26.23 | āReplaying ffxā have you beaten it? Iāve tried twice in recent years and I get pretty far until I hit a particular Seymour boss fight, right after he says he kills kimahriās tribe. Second playthrough I finally beat that boss and 2 seconds later I was in another harder boss fight and I said fuck this shit lol |
nol
01.26.23 | I keep on hopping from game to game I canāt decide. Sorta playing smash, PokĆ©mon ultra moon, crash bandicoot, marvel v Capcom 2, and fire emblem engage |
pjquinones747
01.26.23 | @nol seymour flux is such a bitch. if i remember right you have to make sure you get auron's HP super high so he survives the fuck-you swoopy blade manuever and spam esuna whenever seymour zombies everyone. nowadays when i play FFX im good at manipulating the sphere grid to get yuna and lulu's black magic super powerful and then most of the game is a cinch after that, so my strat assumes you've done a lot of the same stuff i guess. sounds cheap but as long as you use a game guide up to that point you should be able to handle him. |
nol
01.26.23 | I used no game guide lol, but if I recall keeping auron alive was how I got his ass finally. Itās been a little while |
Hyperion1001
01.26.23 | āhyperion what faction/ server you play on?ā
pagle alliance. have a 4200gs hpriest and a 4Kgs hunter. no ulduar loot yet tho. |
pjquinones747
01.26.23 | i am Bad At Video Games but still want to enjoy them so i use guides lmao no shame here. i played final fantasy games throughout my childhood but never came that close to beating one until i swallowed my pride and picked up a guide lol |
nol
01.26.23 | Iāve beaten 7 without a guide thatās it. I think Iād have to use a guide if I actually ever wanted to beat X, but ehhhh thereās things that make me not wanna go back |
ConcubinaryCode
01.26.23 | @nol yeah I've beaten it a few times. I actually got the platinum on ps4. I'm using the expert sphere grid this time because it let's you change characters "roles" way koeasier. You can get tidus in aurons grid, kimahri in rikkus at the start for example. One you get to Seymour Flux it's when the game gets serious about bosses and you gotta work out strategies a bit on the fly. Zanarkand keeper is the boss I'm pretty sure you're referring too and iirc he uses a ton of buffs and debuffs so shit like dispel is what you need to keep him from overwhelming you. Fwiw people have playthroughs without using the sphere grid at all so there's a ton of ways to cheese the game (mostly revolving around using rikkus mix) and I def wouldn't play again without a cutscene skip but that's just on pc for some reason. I'm at the thunder plains now so about halfway through the game atm. |
pjquinones747
01.26.23 | i forgot to mention that i restarted FF8 yesterday as well, only to get immediately discouraged when i was reminded that i'd be spending half of my time drawing for spells again lol |
Drifter
01.26.23 | bone brothers - bone brothers m/ |
ArsMoriendi
01.26.23 | New PokƩmon Snap
It talks down to you a lot, but the actual photo sections are fun |
robertsona
01.26.23 | imagine if pokemon snap were hard
this isnt a dig or anything I'm just imagining. "oh jesus dude GET IT OUT GET THE CAMERA OUT FUUUUUUUCK we missed it |
Purpl3Spartan
01.26.23 | Right now playing RdR2, Witcher 3, BONELAB, MW2, and ready or not. Will also be getting into half life Alyx eventually. Rainbow six siege is also often a main stay with friends |
DungeonBoy
01.26.23 | Ctrl + F "Darkest Dungeon".. welp guess i'm the only masochist in this thread. |
madrigal30
01.26.23 | rn not actually playing anything but the last vidya i really got into was elden ring big time fun |
frozencarl
01.26.23 | "pagle alliance. have a 4200gs hpriest and a 4Kgs hunter. no ulduar loot yet tho."
yo nice dude! idk my gs but i've got a full naxx-bis rogue that ive been playing since day1 of classic vanilla. picked up my first piece of Ulduar loot the other night. super excited to progress through this place, Naxx for the 3rd time was driving me insane |
Trebor.
01.26.23 | I'm playing more Slay the Spire than is healthy |
JayEnder
01.26.23 | Dead Space remake tomorrow fuckers |
Colton
01.26.23 | just beat both The Last of Us games. absolutely amazing series, can't recall a more immersive and engaging game experience in a long time. now I'm playing the Uncharted series |
Colton
01.26.23 | before that I played RDR 2, which was amazing in many ways but the repetitive mission design really started to wear on me by the end of it |
trilo
01.26.23 | WoW Classic on raid nights (helpless fiend since 2005), Super Auto Pets when i need a quick dopamine hit, Slice & Dice and Slay the Spire. may pick up the Dead Space remake, never played the original |
Koris
01.26.23 | Currently revisiting a nostalgic classic with the original Golden Sun. Easily one of the best RPGs of its era, handheld or otherwise |
Hyperion1001
01.26.23 | āNaxx for the 3rd time was driving me insaneā
i quit during live BC back in the day so I never got to do any of the wotlk content, which is why I came back. always heard ulduar was the best raid they made and I have been having an absolute blast so far. naxx was fun too just a bit too easy tbh. |
trilo
01.26.23 | naxx was horrible but trying to improve my parse every week was the motivation i needed to get through it. ulduar has been great tho |
Emim
01.26.23 | Destiny 2 still eats a lot of my time. Recently went back and played some Black Ops 2 zombies with some friends |
FreakMachine
01.26.23 | Recently reinstalled Battlefield 2042 to see how it is now, and I'm surprised how enjoyable it actually is. |
ConcubinaryCode
01.26.23 | @robertsona check out fatal frame. |
Parallels
01.26.23 | I just got a 3070 so I've been binging everything I can with it. I recently beat RE7, and I'm now going in and out of LA Noire, Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3, Horizon Zero Dawn, and RE8.
>recently been back on Oblivion
That game will forever have some of the most entertaining and hilarious quests to me. |
Parallels
01.26.23 | >been playing gta online with a friend and the script kiddies in that game are wild
2 types of hacker players there - You either get to fly through the sky in a car and get bukkaked with cash until the game crashes, or they endlessly enjoy ragdolling your corpse across the map |
someguest
01.26.23 | Euro Truck Sim 2 is my current obsession |
insanedrexl1
01.26.23 | Been playing through all the FromSoft games for the first time. Finished the Dark Souls trilogy not long ago, and is almost done with Bloodborne (as long as Orphan of Kos stops kicking my ass). Sekiro next, then finally Elden Ring. |
DungeonBoy
01.26.23 | Kos, or as some say Kosm? |
insanedrexl1
01.26.23 | Do you hear our prayers? |
swallowtales
01.27.23 | Currently on Shadow Hearts Covenant on PS2, not sure what is next - maybe FF Origins Stranger of Paradise, or Fire Emblem Engage. So many game to play, not enough time.. |
Flugmorph
01.27.23 | I play all games. |
Storm In A Teacup
01.27.23 | Dragon Age Origins |
DungeonBoy
01.27.23 | Shadow Hearts 2 was good but the original still sticks with me. The spinning wheel hit mechanic is one of the best features of any turn based RPGs ever made |
naughtcturnal
01.27.23 | 140-ish hours in Monster Hunter Rise. Been farming Malzeno for its full armor set but I frickin hate that thing. I main the Hammer. If any1 plays this on switch hmu! |
Sharenge
01.27.23 | beat Silent Hill 3 for the first time a week or so back - wanted to like it more than I think I did but I dunno it was pretty good in a lot of ways but not good in others
been fucking around on old vanilla WoW private server a little bit lately even though it's low pop because people would rather pay Blizzard a subscription every month to play 20 year old content
currently have a playthrough of Tomb Raider Legend and Telltale TWD Season 1 going
sometimes play a little bit of old Pokemon on the DS
might give PUBG a revisit here soon |
Wildcardbitchesss
01.27.23 | Finally ready to put down Ragnarok after 68 hours, until a NG+ comes out.
Currently playing Uncharted Legacy of Thieves and MW2 when my friends are all on.
Returnal I tried, but I feel like I wasnāt ready for something like that, Iāll get back to it eventually. |
Avagantamos
01.27.23 | eternally oldschool runescape |
ConcubinaryCode
01.27.23 | I'm curious what you liked and didn't like about sh3 sharenge. At the time people did see it as a step down from sh2 which you liked a bit iirc. I actually think the soundtrack is the games strongest aspect and Heather is also a great protag. |
deathofasalesman
01.27.23 | been playing the first silent hill, gonna try to actually finish it so i can play sh3 proper |
combustion07
01.27.23 | Finished up my first playthrough of Red Dead 2 recently and about to start messing around on online mode for it.
Outside of that I've started playing High on Life and I play Modern Warfare 2 online pretty frequently. About to reinstall Far cry 5 and finish it and hopefully some more Chivalry 2 once I free up space. I need to get an expansion card for my Xbox. I got an eternal hardrive thinking you could play the games you install on it but I was sadly mistaken and honestly bummed I wasted the money lol |
twlight
01.27.23 | just bought god of war ragnarok and already have buyers remorse after about 2 hours of playing. really hope it gets better but it feels almost identical as the last one and i really dont give a shit about any of these characters. |
Purpl3Spartan
01.27.23 | Any Rainbow six siege chads in the house |
Purpl3Spartan
01.27.23 | Also that new game forspoken looks awful lmao |
DDDeftoneDDD
01.27.23 | Eheh AC Valhala and its cooler than I thought it would be. |
protokute
01.27.23 | It's so sad to realize that my GTX 1060 is starting to really struggle with all the new games, even when only playing at 1080p and I don't know when I could get a new GPU...
Would love to play Returnal when it come out, but don't know if it would handle it that well. |
kodama
01.27.23 | I've gotten sucked back into skyrim, but before that happened I was playing Sonic Frontiers and after was going into Horizon Zero Dawn. Some pretty fun stuff. Been enjoying some new pc hardware I picked up. |
kodama
01.27.23 | >It's so sad to realize that my GTX 1060 is starting to really struggle with all the new games, even when only playing at 1080p and I don't know when I could get a new GPU...
I was pretty happy with my 1060 still, I upgraded to a 6700 XT because I run linux and AMD just plain works better with this OS. Like I can actually play Forza now, and never have to worry about drivers breaking my system. I also have a 1440p 144hz monitor and wanted to actually use its potential. The 1060 was still doing decent for what I needed but it was probably time to move on. |
Purpl3Spartan
01.27.23 | bro I wanna get back into it and play with this modlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPHTJo-d2YY&t=648s |
Demon of the Fall
01.27.23 | 'you goddamn traitor leave easy pete alone - next thing you'll be joining the legion'
that's the plan (RIP Pete & co)... honestly played this game multiple times before I even realised the reason I was attacked on sight by the powder gangs was because I helped the people of Goodsprings and killed their comrades. I just thought they were an enemy you couldn't ever avoid / ally with (which makes literally no sense as they're listed as a 'faction' you can have rep with). I even bought the collector's ed guide. Yeah, I'm clearly stupid. |
Wildcardbitchesss
01.27.23 | @twilight
If you donāt at least care for Kratos, Atreus, Mimir, and Freya then just give up lol.
And if I remember right that Thor boss fight is in the first couple hours, that shit is sick |
pjquinones747
01.27.23 | ">recently been back on Oblivion
That game will forever have some of the most entertaining and hilarious quests to me."
that is the beauty of it. and somehow even with its blatant ridiculousness, Oblivion's quests are still better than Skyrim's overall. |
Purpl3Spartan
01.27.23 | Whatās amazing about those two games is that you can play them over and over for years and still find new things |
FreakMachine
01.27.23 | Currently working on all achievements in Vampire Diaries on steam whilst I grind on OSRS. |
twlight
01.27.23 | I accomplished the impossible and got a refund for gow Ragnarok from PlayStation. Really wasn't feeling it. Will pick up when it's half off in a year |
JoyfulPlatypus
01.27.23 | I'm on a rougelite hype right now - been playing the shit out of Dead Cells and Binding of Isaac lately.
Also picked up Steamworld Dig 2 last night, and that's been a good time so far. |
rellik009
01.27.23 | Rain World(Fave of faves, incredibly unique game), Celeste(2nd fave), Inscryption(3rd fave) Dustforce...
oh and league of legends. |
unclereich
01.27.23 | share your ps gamer tags |
BAT
01.27.23 | Got a ps4 back in October but been slow to get into anything, couple of hours into god of war and a bit of Dishonored, picked up a stack of games around Christmas tho but only real multiplayer game I've got for it is mw2 and a buncha fighters(sf5/dbz/etc). ^tags Tabv_v
Annnd I got a fresher ps2 few weeks ago and I'm gearing up to go on a survival horror binge(copped silent hill 2/siren/resident evils and contemplating rebuying clock tower 3 causmy childhood copies nowhere to be found). Atm I've just been playing more re4 lol but I'm doing the god of wars once I get thru gow2018. |
ConcubinaryCode
01.27.23 | @MyOwnKillingMoon psn |
unclereich
01.27.23 | im cinnastix707 btw |
JoyfulPlatypus
01.27.23 | Hit me up on PS yo (even though I rarely ever play anything online): Aw_Nutts |
FreakMachine
01.27.23 | "I accomplished the impossible and got a refund for gow Ragnarok from PlayStation. Really wasn't feeling it. Will pick up when it's half off in a year "
Just torrent it during its inevitable PC release |
FreakMachine
01.27.23 | "but I'm doing the god of wars once I get thru gow2018."
Yeah I just downloaded the PC version of God Of War 2018. Played it until the first dragon fight before, but gonna do it at 8k60 on PC |
Storm In A Teacup
01.27.23 | I can't play skyrim anymore. A year or two ago I realized I need decades to play the mods I had already downloaded so I just give up on Skyrim. |
BAT
01.27.23 | I'll add ya'll later tonight but I usually only play stutf at like graveyardshift/vampire hours.
And lol the ps4 version is probably like a cubic root of 8k60fps, overall I'm digging it but wasn't what I expected coming from the ps2 games, a bit more unchartedy than dmc buuut I do like uncharted
Also I waaanted dead space but my PCs too old and they aren't putting it out on last gen stuff :(, I'll just replay the ogs and wait for rem4ke. I've also been meaning to finaally play thru re6 so if anyone's trying to co-op that hmu on PSN or I've got the steam vers aswell |
DungeonBoy
01.27.23 | "I'll add ya'll later tonight but I usually only play stutf at like graveyardshift/vampire hours."
Username checks.. out? |
FreakMachine
01.27.23 | "Also I waaanted dead space but my PCs too old and they aren't putting it out on last gen stuff :(,"
Out of interest what hardware you running? Because it runs on a 680, at 30fps, so it should run on anything newer |
BAT
01.27.23 | @dungeon lmao, I don't plan any of this out but it's the unfortunate truth
@freak my pal gave me his old CPU/Mobo when he updated sooo I'm running an i7-4790 with a 1050ti and 20gbs of ddr3. It's worked well enough for years that I didn't find it nessisary to start anew but dead space is the first game that's tempted me lol. I did recently get a 4k tv aswell so maybe the stars are aligning. If ds 'gets cracked' or has a demo maybe I'll try it but the 'minimum req' seem past all my specs |
neekafat
01.27.23 | Returnal is so fucking good |
FreakMachine
01.27.23 | "@freak my pal gave me his old CPU/Mobo when he updated but I'm running an i7-4790 with a 1050ti and 20gbs of ddr3. It's worked well enough for years that I didn't find it nessisary to start anew but dead space is the first game that's tempted me lol. I did recently get a 4k tv aswell so maybe the stars are aligning"
Upgrade the ram to DDR4 at least 2800mhz and DS remake will run |
Flugmorph
01.27.23 | started playing disco elysium today. |
BAT
01.27.23 | Wordword I'll look into it, never really looked into my CPUs specs but hopefully it isn't part of that Intel generation that's locked to 3-1600. Might look for a cheap board that allows dd4/oc if that's the case orrrr wait it out. Most new parts I'm seeing in mid range end up near a ps5 price Soo not sure when I'll ultimately take the leap |
Parallels
01.27.23 | @BAT
>i7-4790
That's still a great CPU even today. You'll really only bottleneck in a few CPU intense games, maybe like the loading sequences of No Man's Sky. That can play nearly anything on high/max settings when paired with a 3 series card.
@pjquinones747
Skyrim: Kill 10 Bears
Oblivion: We need you to discover and oust an all-female gang that has been humiliating the men in our village. They tempt them with sex, then lure them up to to the abandoned cottage to strip them naked and then they rob them blind. The men are all too scared to come forward and admit that they tried to cheat on their wives but instead got robbed by a group of ladies. Oh, and if you're a female character yourself then the gang will even try to recruit you too. |
FreakMachine
01.27.23 | @Parallels
"That's still a great CPU even today. You'll really only bottleneck in a few CPU intense games, maybe like the loading sequences of No Man's Sky. That can play nearly anything on high/max settings when paired with a 3 series card."
This shows why people without knowledge shouldn't talk about PC parts. Even at 720p, almost every game today when paired even with a 980 isn't CPU limited. So saying "a 30 series" further reinforces that point. CPU bottlenecks on the low-mid range are a thing of 10 years ago and haven't been an issue for years. EVEN a 3rd Gen i5 is capable of 60fps in most games today. And that cane be shown time and time again online |
BAT
01.27.23 | Yeee never really worried about my cpu until I saw dead spaces reqs, I don't have much interest in other triple a games so wasn't planning to upgrade anytime soon. I've never been worried about resolutions so it's been fine for everything I've thrown at it so far, buuut 60bucks is a bit of a gamble lol. I've got an even older i7-860 and it also runs most moderner stuff fine(aslong as it's got all the nessisary CPU instructions). My whole rational was it's not worth getting a budget CPU/modern i3 because it'd only be like a marginal increase over my current rig. If I did get a new CPU it's prolly be like a 300bux i7/Ryzen. I wiiish I had gotten a 1060 ti instead but I bought the 1050ti when it was 110bux, I was shocked to see it upcharged to 300s a year or two ago, it's an underwhelming card tbh but works well enough. If it's on ea play/gamepass might try launching it as is, my hdds are probably a bigger bottleneck than my cpu tho lol |
protokute
01.27.23 | Disco Elysium is an absolute classic. Hope you have a good time, Flug! |
FreakMachine
01.28.23 | "Yeee never really worried about my cpu until I saw dead spaces reqs, I don't have much interest in other triple a games so wasn't planning to upgrade anytime soon. I've never been worried about resolutions so it's been fine for everything I've thrown at it so far, buuut 60bucks is a bit of a gamble lol. I've got an even older i7-860 and it also runs most moderner stuff fine(aslong as it's got all the nessisary CPU instructions). My whole rational was it's not worth getting a budget CPU/modern i3 because it'd only be like a marginal increase over my current rig. If I did get a new CPU it's prolly be like a 300bux i7/Ryzen. I wiiish I had gotten a 1060 ti instead but I bought the 1050ti when it was 110bux, I was shocked to see it upcharged to 300s a year or two ago, it's an underwhelming card tbh but works well enough. If it's on ea play/gamepass might try launching it as is, my hdds are probably a bigger bottleneck than my cpu tho lol"
You can buy a used 3600 for like 75 quid, that will last you a long time |
FreakMachine
01.28.23 | And nah the 1050ti as a low end 1080p card was excellent and is still viable in most games today. Nvidia haven't done a true 1080p card since, even the 3050 is capable of 1440p gaming using DLSS |
Purpl3Spartan
01.28.23 | LAPTOP GAMERS RISE UP š¤ |
Emim
01.28.23 | I've been playing a lot of Empire at War mods on my laptop lately |
BAT
01.28.23 | I've heard the 1650 was just a rebrand of the 1050 so I feel ya, I initially bought it as an upgrade from a 650ti and aside from more vram/textures I was expecting it to handle extra effects better buuuut stuff like siege wouldn't have much of an advantage fps wise regardless of the vram, had friends that went with the Rx 580 instead with worse CPUs getting better framerates here and there, but I am glad I got the card when I did cause it's lasted me probably around 5 years now with no issue, might 4k CS go but haven't tried it. I did just get doom eternal thru humble and I assume that will be easy to run |
RogueNine
01.28.23 | NFS Unbound with some friends but it's not as good as its predecessor. |
Parallels
01.28.23 | @Freak "This shows why people without knowledge shouldn't talk about PC parts."
Not sure how that is speaking without knowledge, unless I missed something earlier in the conversation. I'm speaking from experience, that specific CPU and older models do have problems with the loading sequences of No Man's Sky, which are CPU rendered, not GPU. There are other games out there that are CPU-intensive during gameplay but they're likely limited to script heavy indie games made in old ass RPG Maker engines. My second comment was to imply exactly your point - that it really doesn't matter, you can use any GPU really to do the heavy lifting in nearly all modern games. |
Purpl3Spartan
01.28.23 | Who got steam? |
Koris
01.28.23 | ^ Me!
I've actually been buying a bunch of games on Steam recently |
Sharenge
01.28.23 | dat steam gotcha |
Sharenge
01.28.23 | gotcha wit dem steam deals |
BAT
01.28.23 | @para think they were mainly concurring with you but i'll admit to being unknowledgeable about dead spaces scalability mainly cause of how new it is. i've seen many cases where the posted minimum requirements are much higher than what i have on paper, but my 'unsupported' cpu or gpu runs them perfectly. now that youtubes got some people testing on my gear i'm a little more interested buut still a bit apprehensive about buying it so soon if it'll end up being janky, i don't even have ssd's and that's listed as a minimal lol. haven't built a computer in forever so don't really know what cards/cpus are the best bang for the buck anymore
and my steams https://steamcommunity.com/id/prollytab/ , added someone while back to play insurgency sandstorm but was too tied up to really get the chance, i'm still working my way back into playing stuff |
someone
01.28.23 | Got Steam so I could buy stuff on sale. Don't remember if I've ever bought a game at full price |
Veks
01.28.23 | Just bought Elden Ring. Kind of ooof starting it cause I know what's coming.
It's the only soulsborne game I haven't played and finished (lie, haven't played Demon Souls). Still, plunging into known suffering takes courage and madness. |
Purpl3Spartan
01.28.23 | The Boys gotta drop their steam @'s
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198133843217/ |
Flugmorph
01.28.23 | thanks protokute i will ā„ļø |
protokute
01.28.23 | https://steamcommunity.com/id/protokute/
;) |
FreakMachine
01.28.23 | I'm on Steam but I mostly only play OSRS and Vampire Survivors at this moment in time, occasionally taking a break to do a Mein Leben run |
someone
01.28.23 | https://steamcommunity.com/id/JustAGuyWithSteam/ |
Flugmorph
01.28.23 | idk how you guys link the ID but here is my profile i guess lol
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197994534477/ |
memnite
01.28.23 | haven't really been digging most single player games lately; mostly been playing apex lol. been vibing with earthbound when the mood hits me tho |
Flugmorph
01.28.23 | apex slaps yeah |
Cimnele
01.28.23 | playing Albion, old dos rpg with characters who are smarter than me |
Brabiz
01.28.23 | Dead Space! Fuck yeah |
twlight
01.28.23 | "Just bought Elden Ring"
get ready for an experience. one of the all time greatest games ever made.
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someone
01.28.23 | @Flug, you have to open your profile in browser |
ffs
01.29.23 | well i did it folks i beat noita thank you all for believing in me |
someone
01.29.23 | Attaboy |
Colton
01.29.23 | so Uncharted 1 hasnāt aged very well but Uncharted 2 is still pretty sick. on to 3 now |
Ryus
01.29.23 | persona 5. first time playing a game like that and not sure how i feel. also slay the spire as always |
Colton
01.29.23 | uninstall immediately that game is a pipeline |
Storm In A Teacup
01.29.23 | Yeah the federal investigation is crazy |
protokute
01.29.23 | came sooooo close to defeating the Heart for the first time in Slay The Spire as the Defect, but I failed. it's just too brutal |
Hyperion1001
01.29.23 | bought vampire survivors last night bout to dive in. |
Effigy
01.29.23 | Dark souls III, nameless king is giving me a hard time atm |
CugnoBrasso
01.29.23 | After loving Dark Souls and Bloodborne, I've been meaning to play Elden Ring for a while but I've been fairly busy lately. I haven't properly played a videogame in ages, but the new Zelda will be likely to change that. |
protokute
01.29.23 | @Hyperion
get ready to get addicted |
Hyperion1001
01.29.23 | thats what my friend said lol. and for $6 for the base game and the dlc you really cant go wrong. |
Sinternet
01.29.23 | yeah vampire survivors is so addicting its unreal
i feel like there was a barrier for me for the first hour or so i played it where i wasn't progressing much and then some of the power up combos clicked and it became this super fun i am a god delete hundreds of enemies every second slaughterfest |
protokute
01.29.23 | As someone who had only briefly read about the praise the game was getting on early access and not watching any gameplay video and decided to buy it, I was very much confused the first time I played it lol
took me a while to get the hang and understand what was going on, but then it was all i could think about for a whole week |
Tundra
01.29.23 | Kingdom hearts III level 1 proud mode |
Koris
01.29.23 | N++. I didn't even know there was a sequel to N+, but this one is just as fun as the original. Lots of fun and tricky puzzles :] |
Colton
01.29.23 | @cugno Elden Ring falls off in the last 1/3 or so, but the first 2/3 are stellar. one of the best open worlds ever that actually feels fun to explore |
Effigy
01.29.23 | ^Agreed hard, not a fan of lategame scaling |
Colton
01.29.23 | the map also just becomes a lot less interesting to explore. like the snow area felt completely unfinished |
Colton
01.29.23 | it peaks when you get to the capitol |
Ryus
01.29.23 | "uninstall immediately that game is a pipeline"
to becoming a weeb? |
CugnoBrasso
01.29.23 | Seems like I'll have to get it then |
Parallels
01.29.23 | >a pipeline to becoming a weeb
I will now play your game. |
protokute
01.29.23 | Agreed, Colton. Unfortunately, the repetitive dungeons and mini bosses, coupled with the lack of more interesting areas, start to drag down the last third of the game. |
Colton
01.29.23 | also recently finished The Last of Us 2. I know it pissed a lot of people off but for me it was one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences I've ever had. so good |
Manatea
01.30.23 | Iām seriously thinking about getting Tunic. Idk how many indie games you guys play but it looks great. Recommended? |
AsleepInTheBack
01.30.23 | criticisms of the late game of elden ring seem to just wave away the fact that miquellas hallaigtree and faram azula are two of the better legacy dungeons with some of the best bosses, and that the final run of bosses is also very good. The open world side of the game takes a dive, for sure, particularly in the tundra areas, but I get the feeling they wanted to make it more linear and direct as part of the urgency / climax of the story after the capital. Like if you were fucking around in side dungeons for 50 more hours after that point the pacing would feel off. |
Parallels
01.30.23 | Regarding Resident Evil 8 (Village), its obvious that they just wanted to make re4 again so badly, they couldnt wait for the actual re4 remake |
Parallels
01.30.23 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXx0qwe0wc |
FreakMachine
01.30.23 | "Regarding Resident Evil 8 (Village), its obvious that they just wanted to make re4 again so badly, they couldnt wait for the actual re4 remake"
I actually completely disagree with this, I don't see too many of the similarities between Village and re4 except that one village siege.
"criticisms of the late game of elden ring seem to just wave away the fact that miquellas hallaigtree and faram azula are two of the better legacy dungeons with some of the best bosses, and that the final run of bosses is also very good. The open world side of the game takes a dive, for sure, particularly in the tundra areas, but I get the feeling they wanted to make it more linear and direct as part of the urgency / climax of the story after the capital. Like if you were fucking around in side dungeons for 50 more hours after that point the pacing would feel off."
I actually felt Elden Ring is good all the way through for the first playthrough, doing all the content, but repeat playthroughs haven't enticed me at all. It's much better with an enemy and item randomizer mod installed. Especially without enemy scaling, I ended up with Radagon instead of Margit and holy heck that was rough..
"also recently finished The Last of Us 2. I know it pissed a lot of people off but for me it was one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences I've ever had. so good"
Amazing game. 10/10.
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DungeonBoy
01.30.23 | RE Village is one of the best RE games ever made, VII was incredible, but I think somehow they made VIII even better.
Elden Ring was a masterpiece, but yeah by end game it gets to be a tad of a slog. I honestly think they could have made the game shorter and more succinct, but it was so fun just to run around and kill stuff and the atmosphere was so incredible, the length (end game) didn't ruin it for me. I do think it's a valid criticism. I think the problem with the length for me was that it turned me off from repeat plays, and I didn't really get that feeling from any previous SoulsBornes.
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AsleepInTheBack
01.30.23 | Elden Ring lacks replay value for sure, at least compared to the other souls games (I could play bloodborne forever honestly), but itās built into the design (same reason I canāt replay breath of the wild and it saddens me so much) |
Parallels
01.30.23 | >I don't see too many of the similarities between Village and re4 except that one village siege.
It literally brings back tetris attache case inventory, has the same currency system, with a mysterious merchant that can also upgrade your gun levels, shooting jewels off ceilings, action-oriented gameplay with enemy loot drops, a non-virus infection that plagues a random obscure European village, key items and treasures in their own slot, using furniture to temporarily barricade, and the entire plot is saving a little girl. |
Parallels
01.30.23 | Oh and theres a castle.
I mean c'mn man, there's dozens of reddit threads complaining and conversely rejoicing about them being very similar in multiple aspects |
FreakMachine
01.30.23 | " I do think it's a valid criticism." Truly hate this phrase. If a person has a genuine from the heart criticism of something, it's valid, regardless of if someone else sees the merit in it. There sort of phrases are literally stock phrases from nerds who don't live in the real world.
"It literally brings back tetris attache case inventory, has the same currency system, with a mysterious merchant that can also upgrade your gun levels, shooting jewels off ceilings, action-oriented gameplay with enemy loot drops, a non-virus infection that plagues a random obscure European village, key items and treasures in their own slot, using furniture to temporarily barricade, and the entire plot is saving a little girl."
Yeah don't get me wrong there's similarities but I definitely don't think it plays anything like it at all. And the plot is literally nothing like re4 |
DungeonBoy
01.30.23 | I'm.. uh.. so sorry to upset you? JFC dude. |
wojodta
01.30.23 | More RE4 isn't a bad thing and so I don't even care if they're similar games. I think it's more of a blend of RE4 + RE7 though. |
Colton
01.30.23 | FreakMachine why are you always so mad |
pizzamachine
01.30.23 | I do think thatās a valid criticism |
frozencarl
01.30.23 | here's a valid criticism for ya you guys are nerds!! get laid u video game dorks lmao |
Colton
01.30.23 | Melodic Death Metal (24%) |
Parallels
01.30.23 | Today I learned
that melodic death metal is a genre |
Colton
01.30.23 | it's not |
naughtcturnal
01.30.23 | it is and it started when cannibal corpse did a collab with dua lupa in 1983 cmon guys do your homework |
Storm In A Teacup
01.30.23 | Well this thread appears to be ruined. |
CugnoBrasso
01.30.23 | Let me put it back on track: my favorite videogame is Deadly Premonition. |
RogueNine
01.31.23 | I do think it's a valid criticism. |
Storm In A Teacup
01.31.23 | Hm, fair point. |
Effigy
01.31.23 | Tried some Enter the Gungeon too but I dont get the appeal of roguelikes at all |
KnickFurey
01.31.23 | Finally started playing Hades, great game. |
ffs
01.31.23 | played darkest dungeon again, managed to kill the last of the "hard" bosses and somehow actually killed the shuffling horror in the first endgame dungeon with a kinda throwaway team. lost 2 guys. better grind some more dudes to level 6... |
protokute
01.31.23 | I love roguelike/lite games and played lots of them, but I couldn't get much into Enter The Gungeon too. |
AsleepInTheBack
01.31.23 | i do think that is not a valid criticism |
Parallels
01.31.23 | uhm, acktshually |
DungeonBoy
01.31.23 | Darkest Dungeon brother in the house. ffs, I just started a couple weeks ago and I'm absolutely loving it. I had avoided playing it for so long because I heard it was "too hard". I definitely struggled to figure out wtf I was doing the first day and kept using wrong classes in wrong positions and really not understanding the mechanics. Even then it was somehow frustrating but also really fun. I've started to experiment more, and I think i'm understanding a little better wtf i'm supposed to be doing. Either way, it's an absolute gem. |
ffs
01.31.23 | its quality, big fan of the art, the narrator and the general vibe. i think playing for hours and hours and making what feels like 0 net progress is the quintessential darkest dungeon noob experience, i did exactly the same. its the kind of game where learning from your fuckups is still fun, i wouldnt call it a hard game exactly but there are a crazy amount of variables to consider and you need to seriously grind to have guys that will stand a chance in later dungeons. it is extremely satisfying when you find good synergies and just crush an enemy or boss who previously wrecked your shit though.
other than familiarising yourself with the classes and enemies i think the biggest hurdle is not getting too attached to your guys, especially for levels like 1-3 you should just dismiss anyone who has really shit quirks/excessive stress because they'll hold you back. save all your gold to upgrade the wagon, guild and blacksmith rather than waste it destressing deadweights. always have a blast playing but i tend to only play in binges, usually i'll lose a legendary hero to some brutal rng or dumb misplay and it puts me off playing for a month or two |
DungeonBoy
01.31.23 | Yeah I have like 4 or 5 members up to level 3, and I'm so afraid of losing them at this point lol. But yeah it's not that it's hard per se, it's that if you make a bad decision you feel the weight of that bad decision and there's no returning from a serious F up. I absolutely love the atmosphere though, the narrator, the music, the art-style, just the absolute oppressive feeling at times. It really is a masterpiece, I've never played anything like it. |
frozencarl
01.31.23 | shoot sorry didnt mean to derail the convo, but just fyi Colton my pie chart is a hit with the ladies (just ask ur mom rofl).
anyways back on track playing Ghost Recon Breakpoint with a friend and thoroughly enjoying it despite its terrible reviews. tbh the terrible reviews are probably cuz the single player just sucks |
gryndstone
01.31.23 | Roblox |
someone
02.02.23 | Excited for the Dead Space remake. |
Demon of the Fall
02.05.23 | Dead Space good
I just purchasedā¦
Pokemon Arceus
Ni No Kuni: White Witch PS4
Tony Hawks 1 & 2 remake PS4
Should be busy for a while (nearly bought NNK for Switch, but way cheaper on PS4 so yeah) |
Dedes
02.05.23 | Bought Diablo III recently
Fuck I loved playing broken monk builds so much
Rn i'm going a necromancer playthrough tho |
Demon of the Fall
02.05.23 | for future ref whatās the most āessentialā Switch exclusiveā RPG?
Xenoblade 3 is on my radar, but I havenāt played any of them before
Nier: Automatica, Dragonquest XI, Persona, Ni No Kuni, Diablo etc. arenāt exclusive |
Sinternet
02.05.23 | wait dragon quest ix is on switch? i thought it was still stuck only on ds - it's the best game in the series anyway |
Demon of the Fall
02.05.23 | Sorry Sint, meant XI
really enjoyed IX on DS though, itās the only one Iāve played! |
eekseeker
02.05.23 | Dying Light 2. Solid game but holy hell those textures are dated |
Hyperion1001
02.05.23 | vampire survivors is so much fun omg. beat the first two levels so far. |
someone
02.06.23 | playing Stray
adorable, even if mildly frustrating |
someone
02.08.23 | will play Limbo later probably |
DungeonBoy
02.08.23 | ooh Limbo is very cool. One of those games that sticks with me to this day |
mkmusic1995
02.08.23 | I'm going back and playing Dishonored for the millionth time. One of my favorite games! |
DungeonBoy
02.08.23 | ya know what they say, find one you like and you'll never play another one again |
someone
02.08.23 | yeah i got a Limbo+Inside combo on sale and am very excited to dig in. seems up my alley, a bit like Little Nightmares |
DavidYowi
02.08.23 | Iāve recently beaten Simpsons Hit and Run after not playing it since I was a child and you know what I still had a lot of fun with it! When I was a kid I didnāt do any of the missions, just drove around the map, and I was shocked how much of the game was etched into my brain. Even though some of the missions are ungodly infuriating I was never really annoyed |
frozencarl
02.08.23 | I'm about due for another Dishonored 1 and 2 playthrough. I cant get enough of Dunwall, its my favorite video game setting. was playing a bit of Deathloop and it seemed like Arkane just reskinned the Dishonored maps |
gryndstone
02.08.23 | Disco Elysium with my boyfriend. I'm letting him pick everything this time. He seems to be enjoying the style |
gryndstone
02.08.23 | Also back on my Pokemon Go grind. monkey brain needs to Collect sometimes |
DungeonBoy
02.08.23 | @someone, it's the OG little nightmares. Inside is a better than Limbo IMO, but if you are going to play them both you'll dig em. |
Colton
02.08.23 | my mom texted me to tell me her coworker has apparently played 22 hours of Hogwarts Legacy already |
deathofasalesman
02.08.23 | finished Silent Hill 1 and got the worst ending possible LOL
really excited for Sons of the Forest early access this month. anyone else down? |
AeniasGaming
02.08.23 | Despite my name I really haven't played much lately (I made this account in high school, if I could get rid of the "gaming" I would). But I got re-addicted to Rainbow Six Siege a few weeks ago |
Slex
02.08.23 | Playing new Dead Space
It scawy |
artificialbox
02.08.23 | where my Path of Exile heads at fr |
Demon of the Fall
02.08.23 | Dead Space was legit scary⦠is this just a standard remake of the first one? |
naughtcturnal
02.08.23 | @demon: from what Iāve seen if the game it is a massive overhaul with nothing but improvements in pretty much every aspect and more story elements and character development |
Slex
02.08.23 | I am genuinely shocked how much of an improvement it is tbh, the story is more fleshed out, the new side quests are fantastic, and the ship being fully open without loading now is a game changer
I was very down on the reveal because Isaac talked so much and that's weird but that's my only complaint |
nol
02.08.23 | i am finally maybe potentially starting to get used to traditional fighting games via Marvel V Capcom 2.. what a classic fuckin game dude
Getting my training in before Street Fighter 6 comes out in a few months, that shit looks pretty incredible |
ConcubinaryCode
02.08.23 | Talk to the mods in the forum Aenias. Many users have gotten their names changed.
I started GoW Ragnarok recently. Shit is legit. I just rescued Tyr |
combustion07
02.08.23 | Just started The Darkness. Seems fun so far although I have yet to get used to the shooting system and have been dying a lot. I enjoy the plot so far though. Also started up a career on UFC 4 recently. I was struggling in the beginning practice matches and even took a loss but once I got into the main mode it's been constant wins and I'm on my 6th match of the UFC contract and even when I'm trying to keep a match going I can't even make it two minutes without getting a walk off knockout lol.
Started Red Dead online a few weeks ago too. Been fun so far although it's slow going getting gold bars.
I'm planning on buying the new Harry Potter game next check also. My coworker has been hyping it up a ton so I'm gonna give it a shot. Haven't played any of the past games and up until a few years back when I binged the series with my ex I'd never even seen any of the movies either. Been meaning to return to Farcry 5 too. I'm still in the first zone when I stopped but I think I'm nearing the end of it |
DocSportello
02.08.23 | I am bouncing between my nth play of ER, Doom 3, and SOMA rn |
combustion07
02.08.23 | I never got to play Doom 3. How is it? I have it installed and been meaning to try it along with Eternal |
DocSportello
02.08.23 | It's fantastic! But about as different from eternal as you can get. I may prefer 3 tbh |
nol
02.09.23 | with todayās Nintendo direct it looking like Iām interested in getting Botw2, Pikmin 4 and the Advanced Wars Reboot (after the price drops when it sells 5 copies). Add on Street Fighter 6 and holy fuck this is gonna be a great year for games |
anarchistfish
02.09.23 | Horizon Forbidden West and Apex Legends |
combustion07
02.09.23 | I need to start playing Apex again. A few years back I got stupid good running with Loba on it but I had to take a step back for awhile lol
And good to hear on the Doom 3. Definitely gonna start playing it. I'll probably give it a go before I dive into Eternal. |
Parallels
02.09.23 | >Horizon Forbidden West
How is that so far? I'm loving the first one on PC and really hoping for the second to get ported too. |
Demon of the Fall
02.09.23 | 'Talk to the mods in the forum Aenias. Many users have gotten their names changed.'
yeah, the forum is completely down and no name changes are possible at present, happened after the outage / issues. That's why Sowing started a 'meds' list topic on the review site, so problems can be reported |
BaselineOOO
02.09.23 | Anyone wanna play Overwatch 2 with me? I main Mercy, DVA and Ana. |
DungeonBoy
02.09.23 | Doom 3 was Doom's attempt at FPS survival horror. It feels drastically different than any other game in the franchise. It's not nearly as fun as the old or new games where you have that rewarding blowing crap up vibe throughout, but it has a certain charm to it worth at least checking out. It's not the best Doom game, but for what they tried to do it's worth checking out if you can get it on a heavy discount. |
Demon of the Fall
02.09.23 | oh yeah, Doom 3 is actually fun for what it is
expecting old school Doom carnage is missing the point, you're playing at a much slower pace
that said, it's not without fault |
frozencarl
02.09.23 | my roommate finally brought up his PS4, any exclusives worth checking out? lifelong pc gamer so i'm thinking Uncharted and Last of Us (which is already hard to find cuz of the show) |
DavidYowi
02.09.23 | Love Doom 3. Great atmosphere and I love how it uses lighting |
artificialbox
02.09.23 | @frozencarl can't go wrong with Uncharted and Last of Us. check Ghost of Tsushima and new God of War also. |
Demon of the Fall
02.09.23 | + Persona 5
+ Ratchet & Clank |
PumpBoffBag
02.09.23 | Just started Disco Elysium Final Cut and I am loving it |
artificialbox
02.09.23 | I think I finished like 90% of the storyline in Disco Elysium and then just stopped. Don't remember why. Amazing game though I might give it another run soon |
PumpBoffBag
02.09.23 | Yeah it really is something special. Been craving a post-Elden Ring gaming experience that I can really sink my teeth into for a while now and itās a perfect fit for me, sooo glad I finally started it |
AeniasGaming
02.11.23 | @Demon thanks, I'll look into that! |
protokute
02.11.23 | Disco Elysium is a masterpiece in gaming.
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twlight
02.11.23 | Playing dead space remake now and it's so great. Love sci Fi horror so this is perfect. Never played the original. |
zaruyache
02.11.23 | still puttering around in elden ring, but i'm looking forward to Atomic Heart and Scars Above, also want to fit in the pc port of Returnal sometime too. |
someone
02.11.23 | Ended up playing Limbo tonight. Felt intrigued by the art style and the simplistic mechanics that rely on your own logical wit, but still came away rather frustrated with the game. Gonna go back to Stray and then return to this and try to finish it. |
combustion07
02.11.23 | My bad thought this was the what are you listening to thread. Edited my nonsense music talk into oblivion |
combustion07
02.11.23 | On topic though I just bought Mars from the Microsoft store on sale for $2. It's an Xbox 360 game that looks pretty solid. RPG that takes place on Mars where water has become an extremely sought after item and it somehow leads to you fighting off wild looking creatures/aliens! I remember seeing this back in the day but never trying it. Love getting these older backwards compatible games though and taking little journeys back in time |
twlight
02.11.23 | anyone who is still putzing around in Elden Ring is cool in my book
i have a real feeling that i need to play Sekiro again, i got fucked up on the last boss in sekiro and gave up, it was so hard |
PumpBoffBag
02.11.23 | Sekiro was great, but probably my least favourite FromSoft after DS2. Still a class game but didnāt grab me like the others |
twlight
02.11.23 | really? why so?
ive only played Sekiro, BB and ER |
PumpBoffBag
02.11.23 | Honestly I think itās just a personal preference. I was inducted with bb and then I went onto the souls games and sekiro seemed really jarring by comparison with the different setting, more vertical gameplay and combat system. I still had a lot of fun with it and it retains the challenge factor so no complaints on that front. For me bb represents the apex of the collection, but thatās probably just because I played it first and the horror aesthetic appeals to me |
Parallels
02.12.23 | >Just started Disco Elysium Final Cut and I am loving it
my coworker hyped that up to me and said it was communist propaganda and now im not sure if he was complimenting it or dissing it |
botb
02.12.23 | Been working my way through the mass effect trilogy remaster but I really wanna play dead space |
teamster
02.12.23 | Destiny 2
QuakeLive
Wonderlands
Doom 3 BFG Edition
Wolfenstein The New Colossus |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.12.23 | It is communist propaganda and thatās a compliment.
And botb, if you never played the ME trilogy just work on that dude, those games are incredible. |
botb
02.12.23 | Have played 1 and 2 but never beat them and never played 3.
2 was my favorite of the 2 I played, but Iām almost through 1 and I loved it this go around |
botb
02.12.23 | Also +1 for disco Elysium, havenāt finished it, but have played it on and off for like a year. Itās incredibly entertaining and narratively batshit insane |
protokute
02.12.23 | and one of the most genuinely humorous games I ever played |
protokute
02.13.23 | finally killed the heart as the silent in Slay The Spire (Ascension 6) |
artificialbox
02.13.23 | brooo I just started playing Slay the Spire again after getting into Dominion (the card game) as they have a lot of similarities. Trying to get better at it but I still struggle to make it thru ascension lvl 3 |
climactic
02.13.23 | just beat sekiro and ds3 ng+, probs get the DeS remaster next |
Minortimbo12
02.13.23 | rocket league :P |
protokute
02.13.23 | man, i never thought I would get this much into a card game, but it certainly has gained the status of one of my favorite games, it's just so fun coming back to it every time I'm free to play something, it never gets tiring. |
Ryus
02.13.23 | "finally killed the heart as the silent in Slay The Spire (Ascension 6)"
hell yeah, nice one. was it your first heart kill? |
Colton
02.13.23 | was recovering from surgery for roughly the past month and in that time I beat The Last Of Us 1 and 2 and Uncharted 1, 2, 3 and 4 it was fun |
Colton
02.13.23 | now I'm playing God of War |
protokute
02.13.23 | yes, Ryus!!!
I got two very interesting relics early on, which kind of synergized very well, Prayer Wheel that gives an additional card reward every combat, which helped me build a nice deck very quick and Snecko Eye, that increased the number of cards I drew on the beginning of a combat, but randomized the cost of them, considering I had a bunch of 2~3 energy cards, sometimes I was able to get 3 energy power cards, or other 2 energy cards for free. I also had a relic that reduced the cost of a random card to 0 every time I used a power card, which helped a lot too. |
DType
02.13.23 | GTA Liberty City Stories |
Spec
02.13.23 | Liberty city stories is fucking awesome. I got a 360 and grabbed it just for fun.
I myself have been playing rocket league and just got Mafia definitive because somebody told me it will scratch the RDR2 itch (doubt it). |
DType
02.14.23 | It's pretty fun yeh, i'm playing it on my PSP, there's an f tone of games i want to beat there |
artificialbox
02.14.23 | Oh PSP how I miss you. Iām considering getting a steam deck soon to fill that handheld void. |
Minortimbo12
02.15.23 | Anyone remember Sword and Poker? |
kevbogz
02.15.23 | been playing me:andromeda the past couple nights. it's okay-ish but pales in comparison to the original trilogy. honestly just makes me wanna try no man's sky when i see it on sale |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.15.23 | Andromeda is literally just a byproduct of that Joss Whedon type of writing that we all got tired of around a decade ago. Like god damn I took days off work and skipped classes to play that game and itās just so fucking mediocre.
Itās a fucking shame honestly, aside from not having any control over your squad mates and no power wheel, itās by far the best of them when it comes to gameplay.
Hopefully this new mass effect plays like andromeda and is actually well written. |
kevbogz
02.15.23 | kek i picked it up on sale for like $10 so i can't complain too hard. the combat is neat and difficult scales well, but the plot is just..... mid. like u said i've played this story idk how many times before in my life |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.15.23 | Itās not really even just the writing the more I think about it.
Like, this is a whole new galaxy youāre discovering. The only thing that felt like it didnāt belong in the milky way is Habitat 7. The rest of the planets couldāve been in the original trilogy and nobody would know the difference. Going to a completely new galaxy shouldāve let them go wild with it, but instead we get a generic desert planet, a generic snow planet, a generic plant planet etc etc. and only one new race? Come on man.
Iām ranting, I just love the original trilogy so much and Andromeda was just such a disappointment. Worth playing, especially for $10, but man, even like 6 years on it still pisses me off. |
botb
02.15.23 | Olli olli world is on ps+ for the Sony boys, super fun laid back experience |
someone
02.26.23 | gonna wait for some paycheck soon-ish and then sweeping that Steam Bioshock Collection deal |
Hyperion1001
02.26.23 | nfs heat
gonna try carx drift racing next. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.26.23 | Youāre in for a treat with Bioshock.
Playing Horizon Zero Dawn rn then gonna buy the new one when the dlc drops.
Got Spider Man Miles Morales, Ratchet and Clank, and The Quarry on the list too. |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | Fire emblem engage and
ā¦ā¦.genshin impact š¬ |
ToSmokMuzyki
02.26.23 | with my wiener |
Hyperion1001
02.26.23 | āā¦ā¦.genshin impact š¬ā
ahh so youāve decided to become a pedophile. |
Demon of the Fall
02.26.23 | Ugh, why canāt you add goals (or even gaps) to parks on the Tony Hawkās Pro Skater 1+2 remakes? It seems like such a basic feature thatās been available on other versions.
Fun game, love the nostalgia, but yeah thatās a sore point |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | ā ahh so youāve decided to become a pedophileā
ššš
Itās actually a lot of fun if you can manage to entirely avoid the degenerate ass community. Ignorance is bliss |
Willie
02.26.23 | Horizon Zero Dawn was awesome. Horizon Forbidden West was near flawless. One of my favorite game franchises.
Mass Effect Andromeda wasn't as bad as people were trying to say, but it wasn't anywhere near the Trilogy. That is my favorite game franchise, right there. I still play the whole thing once a year (with mods now to skip the tedious mini games).
I just finished Far Cry 3 and it wasn't up to the hype. I also finished the Final Fantasy VII remake, and it was actually pretty good (never played the original) |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | I tried really hard to enjoy andromeda. Played well past the exhaustion of my actual enjoyment just hoping something would change. Itās pretty damn bad |
Willie
02.26.23 | Part of it might be my love of the original trilogy, but I powered through it. I've played it three times to get through all the different options (or the majority, anyway). The biggest problem is the open world is empty. |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | That is the biggest problem yeah. The gameplay and mechanics are good itās just not an engaging open world experience and the tasks are too repetitive and thin |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.26.23 | I feel so validated rn.
I want to say the game is straight garbage, but there really are enough good elements there to make a good game. For one, BETTER WRITING. āMy face is tired.ā Like shut the fuck up. The only squad members names I remember are Vetra because sheās cool as fuck and Cora my Ryder smashed.
Thatās it. I donāt even remember the Krogan. The game is aggressively medicocre |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | Yeah characters were a lot more forgettable too. I was actually invested in the dialogue and choice making in the other ones but in this one I could not smash x through dialogue fast enough |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.26.23 | Iām not 100% certain, but I think a lot of it had to do with drew karpyshyn not being involved.
Iām not big reader, I maybe read 2 or 3 books a year, but his Mass Effect novels were phenomenal |
Demon of the Fall
02.26.23 | I didnāt play Andromeda after the disappointment of 3⦠was it that much worse? Wow |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | Much much worse than 3 |
Willie
02.26.23 | Definitely worse than 3. They neutered the Krogan (the fight scene is pathetic), and the dropped the spy-vs-spy intrigue of the Salarian (just made them whiney and sneaky). Also, the protagonist isn't nearly as iconic as FemShep.
I will say that even though the ending is disappointing even after the update on 3, the other 30-40 hours is some of the best. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.26.23 | lol 3 might be my favorite, at least after the extended cut released
SPOILERS FOR MASS EFFECT 3
People shit on the ending but viewing the whole game as the āendingā really changed my perspective on it.
Like thereās so many iconic moments in it. Mordin curing the genophage, Mirandaās whole arc involving her father, that moment on earth with Liara, making peace between the geth and quarians. I love that game. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.26.23 | And ofc everything about Javik and the leviathans was fascinating |
CugnoBrasso
02.26.23 | Haven't properly played a videogame in years.
Just bought Elden Ring on amazon. |
Willie
02.26.23 | @Wildcardbitchesss: Agreed. That's how I've always viewed it, too. Yeah, the Leviathan DLC fleshes out the story so much.
I have Elden Ring, but haven't played it yet. |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | Have you played other fromsoft games willie |
Willie
02.26.23 | I haven't. I can't say I'm a fan of that Soulslike style (or whatever it's called), but I bought into the hype. I've only played Nioh 2 for something similar, and I loved it and hated it at the same time. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.26.23 | As far as souls games go, I really only liked Sekiro and Bloodborne.
The dark souls games just feel like they move too slow, like I get the character is covered in armor but I want a little more mobility. Kinda why Iāve been hesitant on Elden Ring, because Iāve heard itās closer to the souls games than Sekiro or Bloodborne |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | Iāve only played the first Nioh so I can only make an approximated claim but I will say that as much as I did enjoy it as a souls inspired game it doesnāt tick all the boxes. A big part of what makes souls games great is how the world is built and connected and in Nioh you are just playing in isolated maps.
Elden Ring is probably a good starting point but the problem is that if it turns you into a fromsoft simp then it will probably ruin gaming for you
Very little hits the same after you get into dark souls lol. My attention span for new games has been severely crippled. |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | @wildcard you have a lot more freedom over your build in Elden ring than dark souls, you can make a build that is like a bloodborne character and even have the quick step dodge mechanic. But also I think dark souls 3 combat was quickened a lot compared to 1 and 2 and Elden ring is probably even quicker than that. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.26.23 | That really makes me want to try it out when it goes on sale. Dark Souls 3 is the only one I really made a dent in so maybe Iāll give Elden Ring a shot
That being said I have a huge backlog of games and not a lot of time. But I really think I might give it a shot now
Thx Potsy |
Willie
02.26.23 | Yeah, thanks. I did think it was weird that Nioh 2 was essentially just a series of video game levels instead of any kind of connected world. I also didn't like having to go back to previous levels to grind up before doing the next stage. At least Elden Ring is open.
I just finished Far Cry 3 and now I'm starting 4 (got a PS5 and PS+ for Christmas). I also want to try High On Life for Xbox. |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | I actually just played far cry 4 recently, it was a blast. |
Willie
02.26.23 | I'm about 45 minutes into it. |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | Iāve only played a couple of them so I donāt have the best baseline but I thought the villain was really great and it had the perfect amount of busy-work sidequests where you donāt get overwhelmed and bored (it helps that they are fun).
The weapon play is extremely satisfying, especially stealth options like the bow and arrow and sniper, hunting animals is a blast, and it gets really over the top and psychedelic at times. I was really surprised at how much fun I had. |
artiswar
02.26.23 | I'm just finishing up Resident Evil Revelations 2 and I love it, I had more fun with it than the last few mainline REs. Barry is awesome |
Hyperion1001
02.26.23 | tbh open world games are way too overwhelming for me anymore. I spend all day making decisions in a sandbox without ever knowing where Iām actually going, when Iām relaxing playing games I just wanna be told what to do and go do it. |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | I feel the open world fatigue hard. When they are done well, itās my favourite kind of game, but too often they are just littered and overwhelming. Itās funny that when they were becoming a thing, everyone just wanted them to be as MASSIVE as possible, but now that they are so common itās more about paring things back and emphasis on quality over quantity. Thatās why Elden ring and breath of the Wild are peak open world games for me |
PotsyTater
02.26.23 | Also why I think Witcher 3 is severely overrated |
artiswar
02.26.23 | I hate open worlds. Witcher 3 was good but the gameplay sucked so I got bored of it after doing a bunch of side missions. |
Willie
02.26.23 | For me it's the opposite, I want to be able to just meander around the world and maybe do a handful of things before I have to quit. I don't want to have to finish a level or get to a checkpoint or whatever before I can stop. |
Purpl3Spartan
02.26.23 | Sekiro shadows die twice finally clicked for me last night |
PotsyTater
02.27.23 | My least fav fromsoft game purely because Iām old and my reaction times in video games are shit now
Parrying is ahrd |
Purpl3Spartan
02.27.23 | Yeah itās tough as hell for sure lol |
climactic
02.27.23 | If youre struggling you can just parry spam |
climactic
02.27.23 | sekiro might be my favorite from game. or bloodborne |
PotsyTater
02.27.23 | i genuinely wish that it was as simple as just standing there and spamming the parry button but it most certainly is not |
Supercoolguy64
02.27.23 | Bayonetta |
PotsyTater
02.27.23 | ive been hearing kinda shit things about bayonetta 3 which is a shame cuz the first two were a blast |
Dewinged
02.27.23 | Trying to get the dlc trophies for Resogun cause I love pain. Oh and SFVI trials, currently at 77%. |
nol
02.27.23 | Giving Metroid dread a solid try, brother is lending me his switch. Gonna try the Prime Remaster as well but one game from a franchise at a time! |
PotsyTater
02.27.23 | I loved dread! It was really good! I will try Prime remaster at some point as well if not only to prove to myself that I am smarter than I was when I was 10 |
Hendoi
02.27.23 | I'm playing SubLime with Rome |
nol
02.27.23 | have you seen the reviews for prime remastered? not that reviews are the final say but I had to scroll half the page on metacritic to reach a non-perfect score |
PotsyTater
02.27.23 | I didnāt look at reviews but a friend whose taste I trust and respect dearly said it was beautiful and glorious and that was enough to convince me |
JohnnyoftheWell
02.27.23 | "It's something halfway between the all-or-nothing parries from Dark Souls or Elden Ring and the more forgiving perfect blocks from Sekiro. Your requisite Soulslike dodge is a jaunty little dash that, instead of providing precious invincibility frames, has to be timed with enemy attacks to open them up for a counterattack and raise their stagger meter for critical strikes.
It's much easier to pull off than a Fromsoft parry, but a short delay and increase to your own stagger gauge when you dodge without nailing a counter heavily penalizes spamming."
...anyone else hyped for Wo Long next week? won't be able to play til April but mmm gimme those mechs and bosses |
protokute
02.27.23 | I need to give Bayonetta a fair chance again. Have it on steam, and played for I guess the first 3 hours and then I stopped, and never touched it again. |
Demon of the Fall
02.27.23 | 'tbh open world games are way too overwhelming for me anymore. I spend all day making decisions in a sandbox without ever knowing where Iām actually going, when Iām relaxing playing games I just wanna be told what to do and go do it.'
whoa, but open-worlds are MORE relaxing, no pressure to do ANYTHING. EVER. Wander around aimlessly or towards that 'interesting looking thing over there'. Bliss. If anything feeling like you need to complete section a) before doing section b) etc. feels restrictive and sometimes you just want to mess around achieving nothing substantial, or at least not purposefully doing so.
Hmm, just realised why these game speak to me. I'm a lazy procrastinating sod irl as well. |
Demon of the Fall
02.27.23 | I totally get why you'd feel the opposite, because linear progression doesn't give you the option, so there's literally no decision making progress. I just find that less relaxing, as I cannot choose to do something 'less intensive' if I so wish |
someone
03.07.23 | played old N64 games with a friend. really fun stuff turns out
Dr. Mario scratches a very particular autistic itch that very few other games ever have |
DocSportello
03.07.23 | Wo long looks like the be here now of soulslikes js |
CugnoBrasso
03.07.23 | Finally playing Elden Ring. Late to the party, I know. |
Storm In A Teacup
03.07.23 | Walk Astray (live) by boysetsfire |
kevbogz
03.07.23 | glad this got bumped so i can gripe about andromeda. got to the krogan planet (?) and was so bored to tears by the story and having to grudge thru a 3rd desert planet that i hung it up for another time
decided to re pickup ae: odyssey and it's p decent as i remember |
budgie
03.07.23 | found a 15 +3 enchant ormus then sold it for 320 fg
so many trav hork runs but no ber |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.08.23 | yeah fuck it dude the more I think about andromeda just straight up sucks. The gameplay is itās only saving grace and even then itās not nearly good enough for me to put up with the drab open world planets, losing control of your squadmates and power wheel, and most of all, the absolute dogshit writing.
Itās not just bad because it doesnāt live up to the trilogy, itās just bad.
I really hope they donāt drop the ball on ME4 |
Sinternet
03.08.23 | ehh to me andromeda was a 7/10 game that was a 3/10 mass effect game, but i'm also a sucker for any kind of lore/content so take that with a grain of salt
I JUST WANNA KNOW WHO MURDERED JIEN GARSON DAMMIT |
kevbogz
03.08.23 | ill prolly pick it up in a year or so just to finish the story. doing the same with ae:o rn lol. idk if i'm just getting older or disenfranchised hard by gaming, but shit feels more like a chore than anything enjoyable.
i need to play elden ring but i keep missing sales unfort and refuse to buy $60 games because i know there's a high possibility of me not finishing it |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.08.23 | no those games just suck. donāt mean to sound like an ass but I hate the direction Assassins Creed went in. I loved 2, Brotherhood, and Revelations back in the day but anything past that ranges from decent to horrible imo. I didnāt bother with Valhalla.
Havenāt played Elden Ring, and same Iām totally waiting for a sale. Donāt really fuck with the Dark Souls games, but I love Sekiro and Bloodborne, and Iāve heard the Elden Ring is closer to the souls games but Iām still willing to give it a shot for the right price. |
naughtcturnal
03.08.23 | Finished Pokemon Violetās main storyline. It was okay. |
zaruyache
03.08.23 | bleak faith: forsaken comes out friday and I hope it doesn't suck. |
Veldin
03.08.23 | WO LONG |
Demon of the Fall
03.08.23 | I still haven't played Andromeda, don't know if I ever will. Love ME1 & 2. ME3 was disappointing.
and yeah Assassin's Creed was great for a while, but I also lost interest. The last one I played was AC3. The Egypt one was appealing from an aesthetical point of view (is this Odyssey?) but it'd likely disappoint in reality. |
PotsyTater
03.08.23 | I got assassins creed origins a couple years ago on sale out of curiosity because I hadnāt played one of those games since likeā¦. The first one and I love Egyptian shit. Anyways it sucked. |
DavidYowi
03.08.23 | Iāve been replaying The Evil Within b/c I never beat it but never has game enthralled me and pissed me off in the same measure. Often at the same time. Great atmosphere and set pieces but thereās a lot of cheap moments. When I booted it up i started on easy then about 4 hours in I started a new game on normal b/c I didnāt feel like I was getting to the āheartā of the game, so itās doing something right. |
PotsyTater
03.08.23 | I played both evil within games last year, I liked them |
DavidYowi
03.08.23 | Good to know. I played a little bit of The Evil Within 2 and was worried it sanded off the edges that I liked about The Evil Within 1. Am definitely gonna beat TEW2 after I beat 1 |
PotsyTater
03.08.23 | 1 is better imo but 2 is definitely worth playing still, very different experience |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.08.23 | I donāt play a lot of horror games (as in Iām just picky as fuck when it comes to them), but The Evil Within 2 is way better than the first. I still donāt love them, itās really got that Japanese corniness thing going on that a lot of those games do.
Iām usually fine with movies and games being corny, but when Iām shitpants terrified one second because of a good boss fight with great character design, and then just rolling my eyes because of bad writing or some dumb story beat, it just makes the horror aspect less effective imo. |
PotsyTater
03.08.23 | Idk man for me the improved gameplay and well incorporated open world aspects in 2 come with the caveat that the aesthetic choices of 1 that made me like it are not as immersive. So I guess it just depends on what you liked about the series. |
pjquinones747
03.08.23 | Started yet another Elden Ring save. This time to fully commit to a Faith build and try to main spellcasting. Good run so far. Also finally picked up Super Mario Odyssey to give Mario games a try for the first time since SM64 |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.08.23 | I can see that potsy. And maybe itās just the time that I played them (during the first covid shutdown), like the first one just felt so old. Playing the second one, like almost immediately, I was like this is so much better.
But again, they werenāt really my cup of tea. Just bored and had too much time on my hands.
Now horror games I do love, Alien Isolation with the mother VR mod. That was fucking incredible. |
DavidYowi
03.08.23 | That sounds fucking terrifying. I still havenāt played Alien Isolation, which is weird for me considering how much I love the Alien franchise, but would love to play it. Iām getting a gaming pc soon so maybe that will be one of the first games I play on it |
DocSportello
03.08.23 | replaying Control and Alan Wake |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.08.23 | It was and honestly the game holds up.
When you do play it, thereās an early encounter with humans that had me put the game off for months. Fighting humans fucking sucks in that game, but itās few and far between. Itās mostly you vs the alien. And they absolutely nail the aesthetic. It looks like it was ripped straight out of the 80ās. |
PotsyTater
03.08.23 | @wildcard yeah I was forgiving of the āold game jankā because the first game had a lot of pretty evident twin peaks influence and that appeals to me |
BAT
03.08.23 | Started resident evil 6 and so far, it's aight kinda pissed I'd avoided it because of the gamespot 4.5 review. Reviewer just ranted about qte's annd its mostly just a thing when your grabbed by zombies, which is a mechanic that's been in resident evil since the og. Been playing the ps4 vers and so far ran into a couple of random coop partners which is nice cause the ai partners some bullshit. If anyone's interested in co-oping the Chris/Alex? campaigns lemme know. I'm also thinking of going through the revelations games(xbone/steam)/re5(ps4/steam) if anyone's interested. Gonna grab rem4ke in a few weeks |
ConcubinaryCode
03.09.23 | I started the old lotr the third age on ps2 cuz I never got a chance to play it as a kid but loved the hack n slash ones. There's some cool ideas like getting to play as the monsters but it is a very bog standard rpg. Music is banger though. 5/10 |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.18.23 | finished Horizon last night, the endgame was a breeze because I was over leveled.
Started Dead Space remake about an hour ago on hard, and this game is making me realize how much of a pussy I am. This shit is so good. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.18.23 | also the first game that Iāve just let the haptic feedback on the ps5 do itās thing. I turned it off on most games but Iām starting to like it with this. |
budgie
03.18.23 | anyone try d4 does it suck |
DungeonBoy
03.18.23 | Nope, don't really want to shell out $70 for a pre-order. I plan on playing it once the price drops a bit. That being said it looks pretty sweet. Glad they went back to the gothic horror look of D2. |
DungeonBoy
03.18.23 | I just started Tales of Arise this morning. So far I'm very impressed |
BaselineOOO
03.18.23 | I'm playing Wo Long... it sucks coooock! |
DungeonBoy
03.18.23 | That's a bummer. It's Asian soulslike right? I remember seeing a trailer and it looked decent. Why does it suck? |
CugnoBrasso
03.18.23 | I haven't played video games for years (three years maybe) and I just picked up Elden Ring last week. Funny how my Dark Souls muscle memory is still there. |
zakalwe
03.18.23 | Now onto Cyberpunk. 4hrs in and Iām impressed. |
BaselineOOO
03.18.23 | @DungeonBoy: It feels like an unfinished product compared to Nioh 2. Enemy AI is dumb and easily exploitable, difficulty is two steps lower, attack combos are missing, controls feel very clunky. It runs like ass on PC as well. |
DungeonBoy
03.18.23 | damn that sucks, Nioh was great, I figured it would be similar |
zakalwe
03.18.23 | On to Act 2 and Iām bloody impressed. Amazing tbh. |
ConcubinaryCode
03.18.23 | Playing atomic heart right now. Budget Russian bioshock is about right. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.19.23 | you waited the perfect amount of time zak
Game was straight up broken for a while |
zakalwe
03.19.23 | Glad Iāve waited. Gave it a wide berth at release due to the reported issues and Keanu.
Knew it had been improved but knew absolutely nothing about the actual game itself or what it was about.
The world, the story, the characters, the quests. Fucking incredible. |
DungeonBoy
03.19.23 | Everyone was so focused on how poorly the game ran, I never actually heard much about whether it was a good game or not. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.19.23 | Yeah itās good, gonna wait for the expansion to come out and finally replay it |
Pikazilla
03.19.23 | tales of series are great |
Hyperion1001
03.19.23 | grim dawn |
budgie
03.19.23 | yo hyp
arpg bro
im doin last epoch a bit this weekend |
kevbogz
03.19.23 | ur momās choochie |
Hyperion1001
03.19.23 | im playin a necromancer so i get to summon skellingtons its amazing |
budgie
03.19.23 | was there necro in base game? last time i played grim dawn it was with the reign of terror or something mod which added a load of classes |
Hyperion1001
03.19.23 | yeah im running soldier necromancer which is death knight i think?
bone guys and 2 handers |
naughtcturnal
03.19.23 | finally started SMT V after 190+ hours of Monster Hunter Sunbreak |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.21.23 | About half way through Dead Space and Iām taking a fucking break man. Either I was way less of a bitch when I played the original 15 years ago or EA and Motive really knocked it out of the fuckin park with this game. Itās way more intense than I remember.
Playing the new(ish) Ratchet and Clank, Iād never played any of them before but Iām having a great time with this one so far. |
budgie
03.21.23 | d4 open beta is after this week. anyone gonna give it a try
|
DungeonBoy
03.21.23 | I will eventually get D4, but i'm not paying $70 for a beta/pre-order personally. I'll wait for the price to drop |
PitchforkArms
03.21.23 | I've got my gf set up playing Hogwarts on my Steamdeck & PC so that she can play anywhere and psuedo-spend-time with me while I play other things on PC or XBOX. It's great and she loves it. |
Demon of the Fall
03.21.23 | 'I just started Tales of Arise this morning. So far I'm very impressed'
I dig the 'Tales of' series, haven't played this one yet though. Nice. |
kevbogz
03.21.23 | jedi fallen order on sale for $4 iād be stupid to not get it right? |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.21.23 | Totally worth it |
Shemson
03.21.23 | Half way through a second Elden Ring playthrough, just seen Iāve put 150 hours into this character⦠holy crap |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.22.23 | Is there a new game plus or are you saying youāre half way through and itās been 150 hours on this new run?
Because if itās the latter, holy shit that game is huge. |
PunkerBlast
03.22.23 | Demon of the Fall. I am not a Tales of savant heh, but Tales of Berseria rules! I've not tried Arise. I've been playing Ender Lillies. Got it during the spring sale. So far it's a solid dark fantasy style not too punishing metroidvania. There is a limited heal and my deaths have been my fault and not cheap bullshit. |
zaruyache
03.22.23 | never done a roguelike before but I'm trying Returnal now. shooty shooty laser beams |
PunkerBlast
03.22.23 | Returnal was that PS5 exclusive that is on the PC now. I watched a PC review of that. It was more different than I thought it was hah. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.22.23 | games badass honestly. Donāt sleep on the co op if you got a buddy that has it |
PunkerBlast
03.22.23 | I could probably find some ppl online I know even some peeps, but my desktop comp is fucking dead finally and my laptop is decent/good but I am not trying Returnal on it.
Switched to some Steins;Gate now. Even if ut's the silly one, it's the only I haven't tried besides Elite. In a pretty good mood actually. |
Shemson
03.22.23 | NG+ Wildcard but the game is absolutely huge
My first playthrough was just over 100 hours and this playthrough Iāve already found a whole questline taking me to a whole new area and shardbearer boss fight I missed the first time round |
SIMBOLIC
03.22.23 | Iām doing my first oblivion play throughš |
Shemson
03.22.23 | Oblivion was an unbelievable achievement at the time but itās a bit dated now, especially the combat system which gets boring very quickly
Still some great immersive storylines and quests though, if you can get over repetitive boring combat youāll have a lot of fun! |
Demon of the Fall
03.22.23 | 'Demon of the Fall. I am not a Tales of savant heh, but Tales of Berseria rules!'
it certainly does. I've only played that one, Zestiria and parts of Vesperia and Berseria is the one that makes me hope they have another great game in them. I've put a lot of hours into it, did NG+ and explored everything I could. The combat system can be somewhat repetitive but honestly that suited me and you can always mix it up by using a different player-controlled character. |
Demon of the Fall
03.22.23 | I've attempted playing Oblivion twice. The first time was pre-Skyrim (just) as I wanted to try it before the new ES dropped and it felt dated then. Playing it post-Skyrim was actually better (weirdly), even though it had dated further due to playing the next iteration in the series first. By then I'd also accepted that it was going to look / play like shit and I was in it for the lore and exploration. Already having an investment in the series helped massively.
I didn't ever finish it mind. |
Sinternet
03.22.23 | almost finished my rerun of all of nv with dlcs having just started dead money again (worst dlc so left it last but its fine) - save file is now at 130 hours and ive been max level now since 80 hours about, which kinda gets repetitive unfortunately and meant i've been putting it off |
Demon of the Fall
03.22.23 | playing Far Harbour expansion for Fallout 4 like the plebeian casual I truly am
It was suitably atmospheric for a late evening beer + music combo and honestly, that's all I wanted it for. The environment / aesthetic is more appealing than the main game. |
Demon of the Fall
03.22.23 | what sort of build did you do Sint? |
Parallels
03.22.23 | Untitled Goose Game
i untied a kids shoelaces and he tripped, then i took his toy plane and put it in the shop and made the kid have to buy it back from the store. then i stole the gardener's tools and made that guy have to buy his shit back as well. then i stole from the store and dropped it in the back of a garage, and when the shop owner went to retrieve it, I closed the door on them and trapped them inside.
10/10 |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.22.23 | Iāve tried to get into New Vegas because I hear the storyline is so good but the gameplay just feels dated as hell at this point. Even with mods I only made it like maybe 10 hours into it. Iāll have to try it again some time. |
PitchforkArms
03.22.23 | @Demon
I'm definitely sput's resident Fallout stan... FH is a great addition to FO4! Honestly it is (to me) required viewing if FO4 is on the table. Nuka World has some fun locations and ambiance but the core mechanic is very bleh. I tend to like any and all, though, because I get so much enjoyment from the locational lore, exploration, atmosphere, etc.
@sin
The internet fucking lloovveess Dead Money and I think that it is partially interested but entirely too tedious for the intrigue to matter much... Absolutely adore Big MT and the other two are quite fun as well.
@wildcard
yeah the gameplay was dated when it originally came out LOL still love those games, though. |
Demon of the Fall
03.22.23 | yeah, I've shamelessly dumped 400 hours into Fallout 4, yet never touched Far Harbour before. Pleased that I saved it for now in a way though. I'd still say F4 doesn't compare to F3 or FNV, but in reality 3 is actually quite barren from a content perspective. That game is 100% a nostalgia-fuelled engrossing atmospheric setting / world with shoddy gameplay, lol. Technically F4 is much better in that regard and has an absolute ton of (genuine) content, yet loses a lot of points for being more of a shooter than an RPG (no stat points?!)
What I'd give for a proper up-down remake of FNV, that game runs like crap but the factions / decision-making / consequences aspect of that one elevates it over the others in many ways. |
PitchforkArms
03.22.23 | Absolutely - on all points.
My friend and I were actually talking about it, and there is a amount of dollars that I would pay for NV in a better engine and I shamelessly admit that the amount is very very close to 4-figures... |
Demon of the Fall
03.22.23 | my figure depends on 'would the wife know?' but yeah, think I agree, haha |
gschwen
03.22.23 | I only ever have time for pick up-put down iOS games because of the baby so I'm putting in here for Retro Bowl, the gridiron football game/sim because it's addictive as hell. Probably the best iOS football game on the market. I think it's free. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.22.23 | Havenāt really played IOS games since I had my school issued iPad back in high school.
I blame the Infinity Blade games for my shit grades lol. I played those games so fucking much, then and super hexagon, that game is more addictive than crack |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.22.23 | Oh and Plague Inc. shit now Iām thinking of all the dumb games I bought and played during class instead of learning lol |
nol
03.22.23 | Playing Lego Star Wars skywalker saga because I am a fucking gangster |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.22.23 | that actually sounds like a good ass time |
Dewinged
03.22.23 | I hope you all mfs play Resident Evil 4 Remake tomorrow. Been working on that thing for almost 3 years and can't wait to read everyone's thoughts and feels. |
nol
03.22.23 | Dude my high school issued iPadās as well and the Plague Inc. craze hit hard. I remember the boyz huddling around a single iPad in study hall to take turns⦠mems. Then there was the flappy bird epidemic, and the time someone figured out an easy way to get gba emulators working on the school iPads and EVERYONE was playing PokĆ©mon fire red or leaf green. Like you couldnāt use the urinal because someone was just camping out skipping class and playing pocket monsters with dicks out |
Demon of the Fall
03.23.23 | whoa, sounds insane, bound to happen I suppose if you're going to issue iPads etc. haha. There wasn't really much you could do on those old bricks or flip phones, bit of snake and the likes etc. was about it. Sounds like a nightmare for schools now, bet all the kids are on their phones in class.
closest we ever got to that sort of thing was when we installed Unreal Tournament on the desktops in 6th form (that's 17/18 yo, which isn't 'compulsory' in the U.K) and I think that was actually allowed, because we had 'down-time' and were given certain privileges by that point. |
DungeonBoy
03.23.23 | Dewi, can you remind us of your involvement in RE? Do you think it needed a remake? I grew up when RE1 was first released, and I get the quality of life improvements for the RE, RE2, and RE3, remakes to get rid of tank controls and opt for the over the shoulder aspect of.. RE4.. but idk how I feel about there being a remake of it. Like i'm stoked to check it out, but did it really need one in the same way the previous 3 did? Curious what your thoughts are |
nol
03.23.23 | āSounds like a nightmare for schools nowā
You arenāt wrong, I spent 75% of my sophomore thru senior year playing shitty iPad games, and most of the rest of the time eating snaks
plus they forcefeed all the Apple branded apps like pages and keynote which are all objectively worse than the Microsoft office suite. |
budgie
03.23.23 | "Iām doing my first oblivion play throughš"
check out the Tamriel Immersion Experience (T.I.E.) mod
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climactic
03.23.23 | replaying last of us after finishing the show. havent played since the original came out. still rules |
Parallels
03.24.23 | so stoked for RE4 remake
Dewi, can you remind us of your involvement in RE? [2] |
BAT
03.24.23 | re4 remakes pretttty good so far just beat the lake boss. only small gripe i have atm is knifes are pretty easy to break buut guessing there will be a stronger one at some point. |
PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | Battlechasers some indie rpg I decided to try which was based off a early 2000 comic I never heard of.
Oblivion is a lot of fun. It can feel very samey looking but on the PC with some mods you can spruce the locales up and the actual guilds are great. I always play these games first on console for some reason and that was my first experience of Oblivion. Why does Skyrim have to have some nicer more varied locations but then almost all the guilds except for the Dark Brotherhood (I heard that was cool) seem like ass and so short. |
pizzamachine
03.29.23 | I play Oblivion for the jumping. |
PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | I actually installed a mod on the PC where you can have the NPCs not be shoved in your face in all their buttery glory, even with improved faces. Why did they think yeah our face models are so good we want you to see just that and a little neck. Oblivion is fun how you can just do these little things to increase your stats to no end without any effort, like sneaking. I forget it might cap your leveling but it won't cap your skill gain. Oh yeah because as you level the shit around you level so that's why you could find dirty bandits wearing expensive armor. Morrowind was the best haha
Also I have played a little Skyrim Dark Brotherhood I just never got far in it. |
MFPENCIL
03.29.23 | I justttt beat South Park: The Stick of Truth. It was... amusing and a competent RPG, even though the games gets a lot easier once you get Kyle to join you with his barrage of arrow attacks. about to start Signalis next |
PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | I really need to try those South Park games. I like the show enough and I love rpgs, i don't know why I never them. The Fractured But Whole seemed even better. |
Ecnalzen
03.29.23 | I haven't actively watched the show in a while, and I still had a great time with Stick of Truth |
MFPENCIL
03.29.23 | Yeah the south park games go on sale pretty often too, more games need quick time events where you have to avoid getting slapped by your fathers balls |
PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | See I am not easily offended but some of the lewdness may get to me. I heard all about the creation suite in ...... BUT WHOLE and I was like wow that's still very offensive in an era where a team and name so innocuous as the Indians major baseball league team in USA changed their name. The Guardians is bit generic too but tbf that's rad, I loved to guard people once. Guardin.
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RosaParks
03.29.23 | Solo Russian roulette |
Deathconscious
03.29.23 | Everything including the ones on the back burner that i have yet to finish: Dragon Quest XI, Xenoblade Chronicles DE, Metroid Fusion, No Man's Sky, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, Dead Space 3 (after finishing the first two), Call of Duty 2 (yes, the 2005 one), Lost Odyssey, Oblivion, Earthbound. |
PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | Let me dump names in my deathc. I should try Dragon Quest XI S someday. I am really interested in Lost Odyssey but that is a straight up Xbox 360 only. Kinda like how Rockstar is like yea I like we lost the code for RDR1. I have that for my PS3. Earthbound I think like Final Fantasy 4 I am worn out on, but great games. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.29.23 | Dead Space 3 is fine, it got a ton of hate but itās not a bad game at all. Playing it co op was a ton of fun back in the day.
Having said that, the original has better scares and the 2nd has better action. Again, still a good time but the first two are some of the greatest games ever made. And the remake is fucking incredible. There was one part I got stuck on because the objectives list was kind of shit. I was wandering around like a dipshit because my objective marker was turning me in circles. Only time I caved and looked up how to get through it.
Playing Ghost of Tsushima now on PS5. Only a couple of hours in but itās some good shit. Kinda feels like Sekiro lite even on hard but I donāt wanna play something thatās going to kick my ass all of the time.
Next up is gonna be the Miles Morales Spiderman. Then Iāll probably spend a month playing Horizon Forbidden West, Iām trying to time it so I can start that game as the DLC comes out. Mostly because the DLC in Zero Dawn was definitely the best part of the game. |
Deathconscious
03.29.23 | @punker did you play the first edition of DQXI? I ended up going with the original because the graphics took a hit on the S version. Lost Odyssey has awesome turn based combat, but unfortunately the characters and writing are mediocre imo.
@wildcard i loved the first two, but I can see why DS3 is the black sheep, it definitely feels like a downgrade. Not far enough to make a real judgement though. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.29.23 | The main villain kind of sucks, and the love triangle shit between Isaac, Ellie, and whatshisname is kind of stupid.
Aside from that tho, the story is good. Gameplay is great. Itās just more of an action game than a horror game. |
JayEnder
03.29.23 | @Wildcard Ghost of Tsushima is sweet. Easy platinum too. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.29.23 | Yeah Iām having a really good time with it so far. I tried the Japanese with English subtitles but itās so different from movies.
I always choose the original over some shitty English dub but itās too much to focus on not dying while reading the subtitles. I had to switch back to English before I even got finished with the tutorial part. |
PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | Easiest Platinums on PS4. 13:Sentinels: Aegis Rim. You can do this on a straight run blind on normal though one of those fights to get an S is trickier and a jerk but there is literally one fight that is tough.
Steins;Gate 0 is easy too. I played these on PC and I was like wtf I need this. So there was a call you can just turn down, so since I save a lot it took me fiver for that. It was a very particular call. But I don't take care about total completion usually. |
Deathconscious
03.29.23 | "love triangle shit between Isaac, Ellie, and whatshisname is kind of stupid."
Yeah, im sensing cringe already. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.29.23 | It only gets worse brother. Issac, Ellie, and Carver are really the only interesting characters in the game.
And be sure to cop the DLC, I think itās called Awakened. Itās honestly the best part of the game imo |
PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | Bizarre love Triangle!!!!! New Order |
PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T99Jvkn9LEg
I like this one, also I typed in piss off. |
Storm In A Teacup
03.29.23 | I'm playing clean organized and find more stuff for one more garage sale. |
PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | One more sumner song to ohhh. I will never lead you wrong. It's got the Hook bass...but yea now I am am just burning out. |
PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | Ok a true new order live song for the rest of us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_QbBGo1PNQ
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PunkerBlast
03.29.23 | Mr Disco!! |
Sinternet
03.29.23 | "what sort of build did you do Sint?"
started off doing stealth build, has kinda evolved into energy weapons now. once you get to the level 50 cap you can basically max every skill but two anyway. far harbor is a lot of fun and goes a little way to suggesting bethesda could make an actually great fallout game if they wanted/cared
"@sin
The internet fucking lloovveess Dead Money and I think that it is partially interested but entirely too tedious for the intrigue to matter much... Absolutely adore Big MT and the other two are quite fun as well."
i've seen very divisive discussions about it, but i still think it's good fun. the collar mechanicas get very annoying past a certain point though and basically forces you to quicksave every two minutes. the ghosts aren't particularly fun to fight either, especially the spear ones who headshot you and wipe a third of your hp far too regularly for a dlc which strips all your items and has a mass scarcity of healing pickups. but i do like the companions a lot. old world blues would be my favourite but the fucking roboscorpions are annoying as shit and are way too strong. lonesome road is probs my fave, not only does it tie together all the little lore from the other dlcs and the main game, but it's the closest fallout has ever got to an action horror and it suits that aesthetic so well. |
Flugmorph
03.29.23 | playing elden ring again because after 150h mostly shortly after the game released last year i still haven't completed my 100% map exploration run |
pjquinones747
03.29.23 | bloodborne anyone? finally got the hang of this one and it's been sick. |
Deathconscious
03.29.23 | Yep, im actually on the last boss. Amazing game. |
pjquinones747
03.29.23 | i am currently trying to figure out where im supposed to go after witch of hemwick without using a guide lol |
deathofasalesman
03.29.23 | i'm playing the new Resident Evil 4 remake and it's phenomenal. unlike a lot of people i'm playing it very slowly, exploring all the little details. i wanna get my 60 bucks worth and not just blast right through.
the knife parrying takes it to a whole new level. being able to block the axes that constantly get thrown at you feels awesome every time |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.03.23 | lol I remember playing the original on the wii when I was like 10 and getting decapitated by the chainsaw man scared the living shit out of me. Begged my dad to take me back to GameStop so I could return it.
Really been fucking with Ghost of Tsushima. This is literally what the assassins creed series should be. Better swordplay, better stealth, better story, RPG elements that donāt force you to grind the game like itās a full time job. And aside from some character models the game is drop dead gorgeous.
Im glad I waited to play it on PS5, the wait was well worth it |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.03.23 | tho I am sad that it seems like the Infamous series is dead
I liked the first two and Second Son was the first game I played when I got the PS4 10(!) years ago. And that First Light DLC was incredible. I probably put hundreds of hours into those challenge rooms. And thatās not even mentioning that Laura Bailey is one of the best voice actors working rn. |
Drbebop
04.03.23 | I am currently playing Ys 1. My third run through of the game, this one is the Sega Saturn port in the Falcom Classics collection. Shame the translation is as weirdly formatted as it is but itās a beta so you have to make do. Anyway, excellent classic action rpg. I recommend everyone check out this series thatās still going strong to this day |
zakalwe
04.03.23 | I finished Cyberpunk yesterday. Driving off into the storm clouds with Panam.
Absolutely incredible game, possibly the greatest of all time. |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.03.23 | got the same ending.
Also might legitimately be Keanuās best performance out of everything heās been in |
zakalwe
04.03.23 | Iād have to agree there. |
someone
04.10.23 | getting crazy into sudoku |
Slex
04.10.23 | Replaying Xenoblade Chronicles 3 because it's one of the best RPGs ever made, also playing Pokemon Violet, Super Mario Odyssey, and my friend bought the Switch online expansion pack so also Majora's Mask and Metroid Fusion. I always hop between a lot of stuff lol |
RosaParks
04.10.23 | "getting crazy into sudoku"
me after i got sent to the psych hospital when i tried to kill myself in high school |
pjquinones747
04.10.23 | instant goated comment |
RosaParks
04.10.23 | thanks ily |
frozencarl
04.10.23 | just finished Uncharted 4, really enjoyed the cinematic gameplay experience without all the talent trees and whatnot you'd find in, say, Tomb Raider (not a dig at TR at all, just wanted a brain shut off kinda game).
this was my first foray into the Uncharted series so I obviously missed out on all the callbacks, but I think I'm going to pickup the Nathan Drake collection and just play 1-3. hopefully they're not tooooo dated in comparison lol |
MillionDead
04.10.23 | @zak, I was honestly one of those people that was wildly disappointed in Cyberpunk, and I sunk 80 hrs into it. Was seeing the mixed reviews but I had been waiting since it was announced, so I had to see it through. Too many missing features and empty promises around it, in addition to the myriad glitches, shallow open world, etc. Mike Pondsmith's lore is incredible, and the writing is fantastic at points but it was also inconsistent with spotty pacing. I feel like the main narrative was too much of the Johnny Silverhand show sometimes and wished for a greater emphasis on V's journey and character development. Actually wouldn't have minded less Keanu, you could tell they changed a lot of things specifically for his inclusion. The first third definitely could have benefited from way more Jackie. Definitely one the best looking games to come out though from a graphics and art design perspective.
Last thing I really got into was Yakuza 6: Song of Life. I love the Yakuza franchise so damn much. Even when it's antiquated or flawed, it just bleeds charm. Yakuza 0 made me fucking cry. I can't even remember when another videogame has done that. |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.10.23 | good luck carl. 4 makes 1-3 feel fucking ancient |
DavidYowi
04.10.23 | 1 has aged like shit. 2 and 3 are fine but never too big on them. 4 is the only one that really clicked with me |
PotsyTater
04.10.23 | Damn cyberpunk is actually supposed to be good now? |
Storm In A Teacup
04.10.23 | Oblivion. Magic and bow assassin. |
TheTripP
04.10.23 | RE4 Remake, on my second run and missed one treasure so far that drove me insane. Always playing RL, I am Champ 1 Div 4 on Duo's so I want to get that Champ 2, little bit of OW to sprinkle in. I do miss Oblivion though... |
ToSmokMuzyki
04.10.23 | still with my wiener |
ConcubinaryCode
04.10.23 | I missed exactly one treasure from each area too trip. I missed a key in the village, the treasure in the Mines, and the first treasure on the island. I was pissed I had to buy the maps again too, cuz I didn't try to memorize where everything was the first time. Mercenaries is really good too |
BaselineOOO
04.11.23 | Sims 4 - 6/10 - It's Sims 2 but less intuitive and not as charming. Still somewhat enjoyable.
Heroes of Might and Magic III (with the HD mod) - 10/10 - I pity the people who haven't played the greatest game of all time. I play this game once every 6 months extensively just so I can keep my senses sharp.
The Last of Us Part 1 - 5/10 - Boring af. A24-core. Indie nonsense. Absolutely cringe till the very end. Even the gameplay is flat.
Automobilista 2 - 9/10 - I installed this simulator to practice my driving. It's mindblowingly great.
I'm planning to replay the two modern Doom games. My current opinion is that Doom 2016 is vastly superior to Doom Eternal.
Also started playing Thief II: The Metal Age but it seems like it's a very nerdy game and I do not really like it yet. |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.11.23 | Does A24 core generally just mean just well made and well acted
Itās story is as basic as they come, itās just well made. And indie nonsense? Itās a AAA high budget developed by one of the biggest names in the industry and published by Sony. |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.11.23 | And doom eternal shits on doom 2016 |
JayEnder
04.11.23 | Just got the platinum for Resident Evil 2 Remake. What a fucking masterpiece. Easily my fav RE game next to the og RE4.
Very excited to play the RE4 Remake when it goes on sale |
Storm In A Teacup
04.11.23 | The first stage of my new Oblivion playthrough is probably almost done. Im on the 6th drop mission from Lucienne LeChance and once i have fully completed the dark bbrotherhoo arc i will be a free person to discover what the rest of oblivion has to offer. |
Archelirion
04.11.23 | Recently back into Out of the Park Baseball. Let's me go from bad spreadsheet at work, to good spreadsheet at home.
My team sucks but that's the charm |
CugnoBrasso
04.11.23 | Astel Naturalborn of the Void my ass, the Void should have had an abortion |
PunkerBlast
04.13.23 | Ha Archellirion's post is awesome. Kinda surprised ya can deal with spreadsheets at work and at home but at least the ones at home are the good more fun ones.
I am just hopping between so many different games but I've almost completed Tokyo Xanadu Ex+. Including the epilogue, true ending and the after story/party heh. Quite a good action rpg. I really enjoyed it. Despite some early frustration. |
PotsyTater
04.26.23 | Play RE8 right now and my god the basement baby is terrifying |
DungeonBoy
04.26.23 | lol basement baby is pure horror |
PotsyTater
04.26.23 | Definitely one of the scariest moments in any of the resident evil games Iāve played. My god, he was easy enough to evade once I knew thatās what I was supposed to do but when he first came I ran back to the well door and got cornered and had to watch him vore me and I am traumatized |
Parallels
04.27.23 | Agreed that thing was nightmare material perfected
I remember sweating that the baby would see my legs sticking out from under the bed. And then you just sit there waiting, unsure of when hes gonna come back |
DocSportello
04.27.23 | about 14 hours into a rimworld colony. i like management sims now apparently |
MillionDead
04.27.23 | Currently playing the last 3rd of A Plague Tale Requiem |
Deathconscious
04.27.23 | Finally on the last stretch of The Witcher III. I don't want it to end. |
PotsyTater
04.27.23 | Lmao I didnāt even know you could go under the bed, I just hid in the lockers. The whole runs of puzzling and surviving in that, re2 remake, and re7 is like everything I look for in a horror game. I donāt need lots of action, i just need atmosphere and doing puzzles while pissing my pants |
PotsyTater
04.27.23 | How is plague tale requiem !?? I thought the first plague tale was a MASTERPIECE |
ConcubinaryCode
04.27.23 | Ff1-6 came out on ps4 finally and I just started ff6. I'll wait for the others to go on discount before I pick them up. |
PitchforkArms
04.27.23 | The boyz and I have been playing R6S lately. What an autistic game... |
DocSportello
04.27.23 | didn't know u were supposed to hide lol . . . i baited the baby into big room ran in a circle around table and down the hall (it v slow) |
MillionDead
04.27.23 | @Pots: The story is damn near sadistic in how utterly dismal it is, but it fits the tone they've always went for. Like, it's a great story and you feel invested in what happens, but it's also sad as shit basically the entire time. There were a few moments where Amecia felt a tad self righteous as a protag given her actions but I feel like the game is aware of that. Gameplay wise, I feel as though it mostly improves on what came before. The game wants to act like sneaking around guards is equally viable, but I feel like the actual structure really incentivizes you to just kill mfs so you can move/loot freely. The crossbow and knives are a cool addition. The crossbow feels really powerful, especially toward the end. Knives are kind of meh because they're 1 use for kills and also for opening specific locked workbenches. Seeing as the benches felt more important and the knives are really rare anyway, I probably killed less than 5 enemies with knives the whole playthrough. Can't remember exactly how much the checkpoints sucked in Innocence but they're kinda spotty in the sequel also. Couple of moments where I had a stupid death and got sent back kind of far and it annoyed me. Nothing awful though. Probably a 7/10 for me, similar to the first game. |
PotsyTater
04.27.23 | @doc yeah I had to do that in two separate occasions as well, once when I panicked thinking the elevator wouldnāt open fast enough and ran into the study, and another time to get to the elevator to begin with around the save room table
Thanks for the breakdown million |
zaruyache
04.28.23 | can't wait for jedi survivoror to drop and then not work right on PC tmrw!!! :D |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.28.23 | yeah I legit took a little nap after work today just so I could stay up a little later and get a few hours of this game in but it looks like itās not even running well on consoles.
Oh well, I got a few other games I can play in the meantime that I havenāt gotten to yet. |
twlight
04.28.23 | literally just finished Dead Space remake.
Never played the og so i was really impressed.
i'd give it a solid 8, some boss fights are annoying, and the enviornments are very samey.
combat is a blast tho.. innovative and enjoyable blasting demonic alien-human hybrids apart |
twlight
04.28.23 | Plague Tale 1 was a masterpiece indeed.
got about an hour into part 2 and stopped, just didnt like it. more of the same imo |
twlight
04.28.23 | "Damn cyberpunk is actually supposed to be good now?"
cyberpunk is 100% worth a play through now. if you have a high end PC, they are about to drop an insane new ray tracing graphics mode. if you have ps5 or seriesX it is in a great state as well |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.28.23 | Plague Tale one was cool, until that fucking terrible final boss fight |
twlight
04.28.23 | yeah that was lame, i just beat dead space and the final boss was lame too
fromsoft knows how to do bosses |
PotsyTater
04.28.23 | I have seen that the general consensus online was that the final boss fight was a sore spot for the game but I liked rat pillar man, I donāt know what else it could have been really. |
twlight
04.28.23 | lol that's funny
Aparently, (spoiler alert for any EVIL DEAD fans that have not seen the new film.)
at the end of the movie there is a boss battle/rat king (lou2) encounter |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.28.23 | yup, itās great idea, but it just looks kind of awkward. I thought the movie was pretty much perfect aside from that |
twlight
04.28.23 | well i'll watch it later
im playing hogwarts legacy, it's fun and well crafted
but after about 10 hrs.... |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.28.23 | And I donāt mind the final boss fight in Dead Space Remake. That twist beforehand is executed so much more perfectly than the original that I was kinda blindsided by that the whole time.
And giving Isaac a voice and personality was a stroke of genius. |
twlight
04.28.23 | there has to be a part two right?
i really didnt feel any chemistry between isaac and his hologrm/real/video tape wife
life wtf, that was bad writting. the bosses were clishe as fuck
i wish they touched more on a demonic energy that a mining company randomly stumbled across. and the scientists, engineers and civilians trying to survive. that was a good idea
then it turned into some religious thing?
and they had to take the Marker back why? so the big monster doesn't emerge and you have to fight him? |
Wildcardbitchesss
04.28.23 | Yeah I hope they remake part 2, it really does flesh out a lot of the batshit things that happen in the first game.
If not you can go back and play it for yourself. Iād like a Dead Space 2 remake but the first one was really the only one that felt like it really needed it. Dead Space 2 still holds up really well imo |
PotsyTater
04.28.23 | I enjoyed original dead space but donāt remember much at all |
pizzamachine
04.28.23 | Something something creepy aliens |
pjquinones747
04.28.23 | just picked up elden ring on pc so i can do mods but am apparently too computer illiterate to figure out how to get it to properly work even after following the instructions exactly |
PitchforkArms
04.28.23 | PC gaming is such a pain in the dick sometimes. There is definitely something clean and inoffensive about booting up a console and being able to play stuffs with no extra efforts (obviously the tradeoffs are present, but man oh man I sometimes can't motivate myself to tinker with my PC in order to properly run a game and then have to tinker back to play something else...) |
pjquinones747
04.28.23 | i also partially got it to co op with a friend so thats a benefit but IF I COULD FIGURE OUT MODS WE COULD SEAMLESS CO OP but nooooooooooooo |
PitchforkArms
04.28.23 | LOL never never! You are not allowed to have a totally reasonable and seemingly easy to accomplish desire!!!!!!!! |
BAT
04.28.23 | weeeeelp i finally bought deadspace, and a 3060ti. it's workin :) .probably gonna upgrade the cpu/ram next year or so once it hits a decade old but so far i'm back i nthe clear. whats some older games that run well at 4k |
zaruyache
04.29.23 | elden ring ran at 60fps day one even with those frame drops, this jedi game sits at 50 and goes lower in cutscenes lmao this rocks |
frozencarl
05.04.23 | local shop finally had a used copy of Ghost of Tsushima so i started playing that shit last night and got DANG does it look pretty. played about the first hour or so right up to where it gives you access to the open world and it really feels like a Far Cry game. super excited to play through it |
ffs
05.04.23 | i was going to beat blasphemous again to get hyped for the new one coming out but decided to play hollow knight again for now instead. extremely fun blasting through much faster this second time but nothing beats the wonder of exploring everything first time round tbh |
frozencarl
05.04.23 | I havent bought a game day 1 since like Far Cry 4 but I think ima cop Blasphemous 2 the second it drops. so hype for that |
PotsyTater
05.04.23 | Didnāt know they were making a blasphemous sequel, thatās cool.
Iām playing Nioh 2 rn. Itās fun but I will probably permanently drop it once new Zelda comes out because there is not enough to separate it from the first Nioh. Itās hard to tell Iām even playing a different game. |
Mort.
05.04.23 | tryna 112% hollow knight after leaving it at like 108% 3 years ago
nightmare grimm is fucking me up as are the last 2 pantheons |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | So Iām playing Last of Us 2 cuz I want to finish it before season 2 of the show and I know new Zelda and Elden Ring dlc means I wonāt be playing any other games for like a year and honestly
Itās much worse than the first one.
Joel dying is fine, no problem with that being the main catalyst for the events of the game, but holy fuck every single new character is insufferable and designed so fugly. Jesse is a fucking piece of cardboard. I didnāt think they could make Dina any less interesting and then they made her pregnant. And then they were like āhavenāt had enough pregnant? Here is the mopiest goblin turd of a character youāve ever seen and literally all she will ever talk about is being pregnant and you have to travel with herā. Abbeys entire personality is that she likes coins and doesnāt like heights but Iām supposed to Stan because they had the ~bravery~ to have a butch female main character who can bare knuckle brawl zombies (which I do, in fact, stan but i resent the pandering). So much finger wagging for my actions as Ellie but I donāt actually give a fuck about a single person Iāve killed so far. And making one of them preggers isnāt going to tug my heart strings, sorry. Kid was gonna have a TERRIBLE life.
Now I have to play as Abby and I looked up online that thereās about 10 hours of that before I can go back to Ellie and presumably bash Abbyās skull in finally and then be made to feel guilty about it (I wonāt)
Which would be fine if the game play loop wasnāt so terrible outdated. But Iām just not having fun running around putting shit in my pockets, running into locked gates and having to crawl around a building to get to the next locked get while endlessly being funneled through tedium towards the next cutscene. Itās just not fun anymore.
Kind of a shit game I might stop and just watch the rest of the cutscenes on YouTube. |
Demon of the Fall
05.07.23 | never played TLOU2, felt like I was missing out because TLOU1 was enjoyable and 2 is heralded generally š¤ |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | Iāll withhold final judgement to the end but so far I think itās vastly worse than the first one |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | rEvEnGe BaD |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.07.23 | 2 is far and away better imo, and I loved the first one. |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | rEvEnGe BaD pReGnAnT gOoD |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | eLlIe BaD aBbY sTrOnG |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.07.23 | ^most sane gamer |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | Lol |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.07.23 | Srs tho, I felt the same when I first started playing as Abby. āFuck this, I just want her dead.ā, but some point probably about half way through playing as her I started to like her. And kinda wanted them both to just stop fighting.
you can summarize is and call it ārevenge badā, but I think itās much deeper than that and with a little more context you get near the end of the game you might agree.
But if you hate the gameplay loop idk what to tell you. Itās literally just the first game but better in every single way. Probably the best stealth action in game in the last few years honestly. |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | What is better about the gameplay loop? Itās virtually identical. Thereās a silencer now⦠|
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | Thereās no world where the stealth gameplay is anything beyond surface level for even a last gen game let alone current gen |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.07.23 | ⦠way more weapons, more open environments to tackle situations how you want, AI thatās much smarter than most anything Iāve ever played, encounters where you can get infected and other factions to fight each other instead of taking them head on. You can really carve your own way through most encounters despite the game being pretty linear.
Yeah, I got no problem saying itās one of the best stealth games ever. |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.07.23 | Ellie and Abby also just feel much better to play as than Joel. The added dodge button, going prone etc.
It controls way better than the first game. |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.07.23 | Also, I think youāre implying that the message of the game is shallow. With all the ārevenge badā stuff.
How is the first game any different? If you really want to just summarize it that lazily, the first game is just a basic escort mission. Itās about the execution, incredible performances, quality writing and dialogue. |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | Thereās like two more weapons so far
Donāt see anything next level about the AI or the mere ability for other parties to fight each other and I canāt say any of this feels any different than any other recent game with stealth mechanics that Iāve played. It barely feels like a jump from a ps3 to ps4 game.
I remember people saying ghost of Tsushimaās stealth mechanics were rudimentary for a late lifecycle ps4 game and that games stealth mechanics felt WAYYYYYYYYYYY better than this |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | ā Also, I think youāre implying that the message of the game is shallow. With all the ārevenge badā stuff.
How is the first game any different? If you really want to just summarize it that lazily, the first game is just a basic escort mission. Itās about the execution, incredible performances, quality writing and dialogue.ā
Bruh I havenāt even finished the game yet Iām just talking shit from my limited perspective thus far. But nothing in this one has struck a chord the way Henry and samās arch did. Or even bills arch or whatās her face sacrificing herself. Or the segment of Joel nearly dying and Ellie having to figure it out on her own. Let alone the fantastic ending.
Credit where it is due, I felt things when Joel was killed, as I said, I think that was good writing and I think the fact that it was controversial is some next level smooth brained shit - like they wanted walking dead instead of last of us. Iām eager to see how this all wraps up and what the game wants to say hence why Iād still watch the rest of the cut scenes even if I stopped playing. But the gravity of the story telling so far is undermined by the fact that all of the characters suck except Ellie, Abby, and Tommy. And I donāt even know why I like Abby yet, I really donāt have a reason to. |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | And to be Frank, so far the writing doesnāt deserve a less lazy summary
I hope it earns one |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | You said so yourself that I havenāt really reached enough context yet |
Koris
05.07.23 | Currently revisiting the original Naughty Dog-era Crash games. They still hold up for the most part, although getting 105% completion in Warped is way harder than I remember it being. Those gold/platinum relics are an absolute bastard |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | Anyways youāve convinced me to keep trooping through so u canāt be too mad at me |
Mort.
05.07.23 |
i really didnt think the game was shoving a whole 'revenge is bad' idea down your throat tbh. thought the story was just sorta mediocre and forgettable, never found the themes of the first particularly compelling either.
i do love the gameplay (combat specifically) of those games tho. Agree the gameplay loop can be tedious but i like it for shutting off my brain sometimes.
and yeah, old crash bandicoot rules. nearly fully completed those 3, just have 5 or so time trials to complete on each one but they were beating my ass so i dropped em
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DType
05.07.23 | I just finished the first Crash, or got pretty far in regards to beating all levels, but i didn't 100% them, fuck that tbh |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | I feel like this game would probably land better for someone who isnāt also deeply misanthropic tho because the Ellie dilemma is such a non-issue to begin with for me
Iād massacre an entire building to save my fucking CAT if they were going to kill it for a humanity saving vaccine. No question. Fuck yāall. |
DType
05.07.23 | I'm recently planning to do a Castlevania series run for the first time ever, i've only finished Lords of Shadow which is one of my favorite games of all time, gonna start with the og on NES anytime soon |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | And also there is no ādid Abby go to farā dilemma for me either. If you killed my cat because my cat was tryna kill your adoptive daughter to make a humanity saving vaccine Iād do the same. Probably worse. |
Mort.
05.07.23 | personally i loved getting into character as abby and being like 'yeah lets kill these fuckers'
and then i loved getting into character as ellie and being like 'yeah lets kill these fuckers'
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PotsyTater
05.07.23 | I mean Iām down to roleplay murder Jesse and Dina now fuck both those guys and also a pregnant lady for a pregnant lady just seems very eye for an eye |
Mort.
05.07.23 | dina is such a dud of a character |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | The only worse character is the other pregnant one |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.07.23 | I love Dina lol
Idk guys the game is goated imo. RDR2 is the only game that comes close. |
MillionDead
05.07.23 | Yakuza 6 |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | If rdr2 is your all time fav game we arenāt gonna find much common ground lol
It was good but likeā¦. Not even close to my top 10 |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.07.23 | I like a good story. Obv I like good gameplay but I love that some games have finally caught up to film and television. The Last of Us Part 2 and RDR2 are just brilliantly written. |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | Ok I know why I like Abby now
Abby go big smash smash with hammer |
Colton
05.07.23 | I played TLOU2 during the weeks after I got surgery and idk if it was just cause I was on painkillers and edibles but it was one of the most immersive game experiences I've had |
Colton
05.07.23 | i played the ps5 version and it might be the most technically impressive game I've played too |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | Ya I imagine ps5 graphics would elevate this.
The part with Abby getting hung is what I needed to get pulled back in tbh,
When I got to the part where I was going down the rapids as Ellie and having to stop every four minutes to open a gate or restart the engine I was really just getting annoyed with the constant distractions
Didnāt think Iād EVER get to the Ferris wheel
And then you do and itās like lol cliff hanger, you have to be Abby for 10
Hours now |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | Iāve known lev and yara for about 3 seconds and I already like them better than any of Abby or Ellieās friends |
PotsyTater
05.07.23 | Canāt wait to find out which ones pregnant |
PotsyTater
05.08.23 | Lev is the best and Abbyās story is way better than Ellieās up to this point |
Koris
05.08.23 | Update: just got full 105% completion in Crash Bandicoot Warped (the original, not the N. Sane version). Hellyeah! |
Pikazilla
05.08.23 | epic
the remasters are great as well and so is the new sequel |
DType
05.08.23 | Dang, noice |
Shuyin
05.08.23 | I moved out and I'm living with my girl, all we have at our apartment is my old Sega Saturn. She loves Fighters Megamix, and I've been playing some Amok and Soviet Strike. Overwhelming nostalgia |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.08.23 | has anyone 100% Crash 4 lol
I love it but that game is fuckin ridiculous |
Colton
05.08.23 | Lev and Yara are alright but their existence does kind of feel like a quick way to make Abby more sympathetic while also introducing new setpieces around them, which is fine but it didn't feel as organic as it could have |
Colton
05.08.23 | there are two specific setpieces with them that are very cool |
Pikazilla
05.08.23 | "has anyone 100% Crash 4 lol
I love it but that game is fuckin ridiculous"
hello |
PotsyTater
05.08.23 | ā quick way to make Abby more sympatheticā
Very true. But this is a gripe I have with the game at large. Lots of really superficial things added to try and make each character obligatorily sympathetic, rather than earned. But despite Lev being one of the few characters I like in the game the entire story section about him and his sister is very obviously there to 1) ingratiate Abby with the player, and 2) humanize some of the cult folks
But the set pieces, and Abbyās story in general once lev comes in, have changed my tune a bit about the game being to similar to the first one. Love the verticality of the sky bridge section, that felt fresh and fun. And new weapons seem to actually be picking up and such now. |
Tundra
05.08.23 | TLOU2 I played it but I found it oddly really forgettable, ultimately felt like a pointless sidequest to the main plot which was the first game |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.08.23 | Jesus pika really
Iād tear my fucking hair out lol |
Pikazilla
05.08.23 | both TLOU have somewhat questionable writing tbh and generally meh mechanics
I'd much rather play the Res Evil or Silent Hill classics for survival zombie shit |
Pikazilla
05.08.23 | "Jesus pika really"
I grew up playing Crash, so yeah
I didn't however try to beat the dev times, some of those are ridiculous to the point where one half-second hiccup will cost you the run |
Koris
05.08.23 | I genuinely tried to 100% Crash 4, even as someone who grew up with the series, but I honestly couldn't. Shit was so aggravating |
Pikazilla
05.08.23 | I don't think I've raged a single time when going for the plat time trial relics
The motorbike and boat levels in 3 were far, far worse
The controls there were hideous |
Koris
05.08.23 | Yeah, replaying Warped reminded me of just how annoying some of those segments are, especially when trying to get relics. The last few motorbike levels in particular - especially the Area 51 one - were such a pain to complete. Getting the relics in the flying levels wasn't much better
The first game has its share of bullshit too, especially on levels like You Take the High Road |
Scheumke
05.08.23 | Just finished my Elden Ring platinum, now finally coming back to GoW Ragnarok. Pretty sweet so far, some gipes but they are small considering the whole. |
Pikazilla
05.08.23 | Oh, that one is fun!
I think the time trials in the first one are great! And the deathless trophies too! People seem to overstate their difficulty. |
Koris
05.08.23 | While we're on the topic of older games, I'm pretty excited to play the Mega Man Battle Network legacy collection that just came out. I really hope they streamlined and ironed out some of the issues of the series, especially in regards to the confusing level design of BN1 and backtracking of BN4 |
Demon of the Fall
05.08.23 | trying to get into Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (remastered PS4). Not sure so far but itās early days. |
PotsyTater
05.08.23 | I gave up on that game. I really wanted it to be good but it was boring
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MyColdShoulder
05.08.23 | Played the first 10 hours of Xenoblade Chronicles 1 on switch and I'm really feeling it. Music is superb and the world is awesome as hell. Combat ain't too shabby either |
Pikazilla
05.08.23 | Xeno Chronicles is a certified classic |
MyColdShoulder
05.08.23 | I believe it, can't wait to continue. Loving Shulk and Reyn, just total bros |
Demon of the Fall
05.08.23 | Pots, itās started off that way despite the concept / story being endearing so far. Hope it picks up. |
Vinnymcscoop
05.08.23 | Right now getting back into Earthbound, I got pass Nessie and I got a cool bubble monkey. I love this cute game, I hope nothing terrifying happens at the end
š |
PotsyTater
05.08.23 | @demon let me know if it does. I only played a few hours |
Mort.
05.08.23 | bit late but red dead 2 is so fucking boring ive tried that game twice now and just cant get into it
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Wildcardbitchesss
05.08.23 | It takes a little while to get going but chapters 3-6 are so good. |
Purpl3Spartan
05.08.23 | Recently got a game called cruelty squad. what a mind job it is |
Colton
05.08.23 | "both TLOU have somewhat questionable writing tbh and generally meh mechanics"
disagree hard tbh the combat in TLOU is amazing to me |
Colton
05.08.23 | and the dialogue in general is very good and not video gamey at all, with a few exceptions |
Colton
05.08.23 | one thing that really stuck with me is the quality of the facial animations. some of the cutscenes are surreal. there's games with better looking environments and lighting and what not but I don't think any game has come close to that level of facial animations and that goes a long way in a story based game that conveys intense emotions |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.08.23 | Especially on a PS4 game. Naughty Dog squeezed every bit it could out of that machine.
Iām stoked to see what they can do on PS5 |
PotsyTater
05.08.23 | The dialogue and story in both tlou games and rdr2 definitely are definitely a cut above the rest in a more āgood televisionā way than standard āvideo gameā way. Which is very cool for what it is, and I admire the immersion compared to something like Witcher 3 or Skyrim for example where I could not smash my way through the dialogue fast enough, but itās also not my favourite āstyleā of story telling for a video game. I really like the minimalism of Fromsoft games and Zelda games where the story is simple but cryptic and the immersion is rooted in atmosphere, aesthetic and mood/tone. |
Colton
05.08.23 | yeah it's hard to say how they'll approach their first game that's built for the 5 from the ground up. I would like something like Ragnarok or the new Star Wars where it's semi open world but still ultimately linear, with less of a focus on traditional game stuff like map markers and quest menus and what not, but still encouraging exploration |
PotsyTater
05.08.23 | Or something like hyper light drifter that has no dialogue whatsoever but still manages to be immersive and investing |
Colton
05.08.23 | yeah the story in The Witcher was really not enjoyable for me at all. agreed on BOTW's approach. I'm really hyped for TOTK now |
PotsyTater
05.08.23 | My buddy got the leak on an emulator and has been playing for over a week now š”
Heās given me some spoiler free deets and itās sounding very very positive. |
Colton
05.08.23 | yeah they have a perfect foundation in BOTW and they've been working on the follow-up for 6 years without the burden of having to create a whole new world or engine or graphics style, or make it run on a Wii U. I know they're gonna add some awesome shit. I have also heard that the new 1.1 update makes it run a lot smoother than it did in all of those previews that came out |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.09.23 | Staying up entirely too late playing Forbidden West.
Everything I had a problem with in Zero Dawn is made way better here. Iām fifteen hours in and I feel like Iāve barely scratched the surface. The side missions are way more interesting, the characters are way less annoying. And god damn the game is beautiful. I played in 4K for a little while, but the 30 FPS was just too distracting. |
PotsyTater
05.09.23 | Thatās great to hear because I really liked zero dawn |
Deathconscious
05.09.23 | I have Forbidden West, havent gotten to it yet. Been wanting to finish Witcher III first. But i loved Zero Dawn, im looking forward to it. |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.09.23 | Itās really great. hltb says a completionist run is about 88 hours, I could definitely see myself putting in at least 60 plus another 10 for the DLC. Iām not sure if theyāre the main antagonists of the game but theyāre a lot more interesting than those cardboard cut outs in the first one.
And I might finally get around to Witcher 3 after this now that itās got that next gen upgrade. Iāve had the base game and the DLC for years now but never really have given it a shot.
I have so many games in my backlog lol. I wanna get around to the Alan Wake remaster and Control before Alan Wake 2 comes out. I still have to play the DLC for Ghost of Tsushima, and just picked up the Guardians of the Galaxy game on sale. And both Neir Replicant and Automata. Plus me and my friends have been slowly playing The Quarry online, itās just hard for us all to find time where weāre all off or all can stay up late.
Really glad I bought the PS5. Gaming on PC got kinda old and my computer canāt run games like it used to.
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PotsyTater
05.09.23 | Please join the Witcher 3 hater team |
Minortimbo12
05.09.23 | Ive been grinding my mario kart wii online rating B-) |
Mort.
05.09.23 | Witcher 3 is an incredibly mediocre game coasting on the fact that any triple aaa open world rpg is destined for success due to the relatively low amount of them over the years (compared to fps games for example)
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PotsyTater
05.09.23 | Enjoying Witcher 3 is the third closest you can get to larping without publicly humiliating yourself |
Deathconscious
05.09.23 | I think it is overrated and the combat leaves much to be desired. I play it because it immerses me in another world effectively, and the writing is very solid. |
PotsyTater
05.09.23 | Itās a shame said other world is like the edgy snyderverse version of Harry Potter |
Deathconscious
05.09.23 | Big stretch. |
PotsyTater
05.09.23 | Wym Geralt is basically adult Harry Potter heās just a wizard with cat eyes and instead of hogwarts he goes to the alternative education version of hogwarts for goths and kids with behavioural issues |
PotsyTater
05.09.23 | Ron is the ginger chick and herminy is, uh, the swamp hags |
MillionDead
05.09.23 | I'm almost done with Yakuza 6. Trying to figure out if I want to play Like a Dragon since it switches to turn based mechanics. Also want to play Judgement and Lost Judgement but Judgement isn't on Xbox One. Been considering getting a current gen console since I make enough money but not sure yet. Barely any new games out that I feel like I MUST play. Does anyone else feel like AAA games are kind of a wasteland rn? |
someone
05.09.23 | after a couple-month break, i might go back to gaming now. gf's brother is renovating his home, so he won't be using his xbox for a while. therefore we'll play some goodies. previously tried Life is Strange Episode 1 together, so might return to that. |
PotsyTater
05.09.23 | Im annoyed at how many obligations I have on the weekend of new Zelda release and also the following weekend |
Demon of the Fall
05.09.23 | ādemon let me know if it does. I only played a few hoursā
Yeah, Iām only 2.5 hours in or something. I think this is essentially still a tutorial⦠just happens to be the slowest most tedious tutorial of all time 𤣠(hoping this isnāt representative of the whole game anyway). |
Colton
05.11.23 | was expecting positive reception for TOTK but wow⦠by all accounts it sucks your dick and pays off your mortgage |
budgie
05.11.23 | colton wanna play the sims w me and play house |
botb
05.11.23 | Yakuza LAD is the most fun, youāll get lost in the mini games guaranteed. Been finishing out a cult of the lamb playthrough, very very fun game |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Cult of the lamb was cute I enjoyed |
Koris
05.11.23 | Since I just replayed the original Crash trilogy recently, I figured I'd do the same with the Spyro trilogy. The first one still holds up quite well, although the camera is pretty clunky. I really appreciate how detailed and expansive the levels are |
Storm In A Teacup
05.11.23 | Pokemon Diamond. I will probably finish in a couple months im already 100 hours in. After that i need to choose if i will play blue or silver. |
Colton
05.11.23 | how does one play pokemon diamond for 100 hours and then require additional months to finish |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Quintessential Storm moment |
Demon of the Fall
05.11.23 | @Koris: how do they hold up overall? I have major nostalgia⦠especially with Spyro 1, Crash 1 & 3 (Warped?). I reckon those vibes world carry the experience to an extent, but just curious. Iāve not dared to potentially blemish the memories of youth thus far. |
Demon of the Fall
05.11.23 | 60/70 is possible re original gen 4 if you use a zillion Pokes and struggle to decide who to power forward with⦠100 is erm, impressive, yeah |
budgie
05.11.23 | colton you break my heart |
Colton
05.11.23 | what i do |
Storm In A Teacup
05.11.23 | Because i only play 20 minutes at a time on breal from work and just fight pokemon |
Demon of the Fall
05.11.23 | I was assuming 100 hours of game-time, not real time that accumulates while youāre not playing š
Pretty sure I hit 140+ on my first run of Silver, but that was a very different time!
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Storm In A Teacup
05.11.23 | Yeah it is 100 hours of playtime |
Storm In A Teacup
05.11.23 | I have 7 badges and a selection for a team of level 50 pokemon |
Storm In A Teacup
05.11.23 | Basically when one hits 50 its time to hyper train the next. |
Storm In A Teacup
05.11.23 | Unfortunate I cant evolve kadabra or onyx but at this point i would choose to keep my onyx and nwver evolve him. |
Storm In A Teacup
05.11.23 | I mean her. Lol |
Colton
05.11.23 | i am very hyped for zelda after seeing these reviews. had plans tomorrow but my friend just got covid so probably just gonna degen it hard after work tmo |
Storm In A Teacup
05.11.23 | I name them all after variations of our real life dogs. Luna, Lunatic, 'Tic, Bucket, Shorty, Lizzy, Porky, etc etc |
Storm In A Teacup
05.11.23 | Also demon any time the game is on and im not playing its cuz i fell asleep and i lose everything i did that night cuz the ds dies lol |
heyadam
05.11.23 | TEARS OF THE KINGDOM DAY LETSGOOOOO
also playing Honkai Star Rail rn lol |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | I have to go touch grass for my partners birthday tomorrow canāt even start TOTK. Truly devastating. I did tell her that Saturday I will be staying up until 3 am playing tho and not to speak to me.
@heyadam itās ok bro. I have a hoyo guilty pleasure that we will not speak of as well. |
Colton
05.11.23 | about to go finish BOTW for the first time |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | I donāt think Iām gonna finish last of us 2 tonight so looks like I will never know if I get to bash Abbyās skull in |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Is there any hype for Pikmin 4? |
heyadam
05.11.23 | @pots lmaoooo, idk what hoyo put in their water but HSR kinda rips. itās a great time being mostly f2p rn
Downloading TOTK right at 9pm pst and absolutely playing for as long as possible. I have tomorrow off too so it lined up perfectly
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PotsyTater
05.11.23 | @adam yeah Iāve heard they have pretty much alleviated all of the QOL criticisms of another certain game-that-shall-not-be-named and that itās particularly f2p friendly. I will probably try it out when it comes to ps4 next patch. |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Wait totk comes out at 9pst tonight??? BRUH |
Colton
05.11.23 | you can spend $101.69 to preload it now |
Colton
05.11.23 | but yeah for BC ratfucks it's 9 |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Sounds like somebodies responsibilities and loved ones are getting NEGLECTED TONIGGGHY letās GOOO |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Yeah I have it preinstalled already |
heyadam
05.11.23 | @pots I played the game that shall not be named all the way through the third world and dropped it bc of salt, but Iām fond of it tbh. not opening the can of worms about the discussion around the type of game, but hoyo at least clearly puts the money back into their games
but yes, tonight itās Zelda šš |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Haha oh man now youāve got me way too curious what the salt was?
I only started playing late last year so it was already on grass and sand realm, so I only know of previous controversies second hand |
heyadam
05.11.23 | haha it wasnāt anything dramatic ā Iād be playing since launch day and honestly have a pretty stacked account, but after I pulled Ayaka I saved primos for months to pull for her and Ganyuās weapons on separate banners. Basically lost the 50/50 on both of them AND THEN lost it again to the other weapon that the banner was split on. Basically 360 pulls down the drain for some weapons Iāll never use. Havenāt played since, although Iāll probably jump back in at some point this year bc I hear Sumeru is lit |
heyadam
05.11.23 | it was my fault for being baited by the weapons banner, but honestly I have all the characters I need to make like four insane teams so I just wanted their shiny cool weapons : ( |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Ooooooof ya that is pain. I take it that was before the epitomized path for weapons then? Pain.
Ya sumeru is probably the best region and some of the new characters are absolutely cracked. Alfalfa Ham, Nilou, and Nahida particularly all enable the most satisfying teams Iāve played thus far. |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | What are said four teams you were building? |
naughtcturnal
05.11.23 | playing Senren Kampa ( ͔° ĶŹ ͔°) if u know, u know |
Ryus
05.11.23 | i should probably finish BOTW |
heyadam
05.11.23 | @pots main squad was c4 Mona/Ganyu/Ayaka/ c2 Venti
squad 2: c1 Keqing / c6 Fischl / Klee / c6 Barbara
squad 3: c5 Bennet / Shenhe / c2 Qiqi / c4 Diluc
was building the fourth based around Jean and xingqiu when I stopped haha. Damn, might wanna jump back in earlier š lowkey having a ton of fun with HSR tho, might just pop back in and leisurely enjoy the Genshin story once I hit a wall in HSR |
heyadam
05.11.23 | add me on psn homie: mosh2hoobastank
when I jump back on Genshin Iāll send my UID, and if you wanna use my supports when you play HSR I can add you there too. not hype to start up that artifact grind again on Genshin lol |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Will do! Sounds good.
I want Keqing so bad š©
Also was super tempted to pull for Ganyu for my Ayaka team to have something similar to that but with kazuha instead of venti but I donāt actually have kazuha yet and heās coming up so I had to refrain for now lol. But honestly cryo teams have kind of got put on the back burner now that dendro is out. They arenāt useful for abyss right now. Due for a buff. Hyperbloom, aggravate/spread, hyperfridge, and nilous omega bloom or whatever tf itās called teams are currently the OP reactions so the bulk of my built characters are dendro, electro and hydro. Nilous bloom teams are comically over-powered particularly.
And yeah lmao fuck artifacts Jfc |
rabidfish
05.11.23 | bought pizza tower, gonna play at some point... Looks funny as fuck.
Haven't picked up a game in almost a year now. |
Colton
05.11.23 | just beat BOTW for the first time, didnāt think it was nearly as bad as people say |
heyadam
05.11.23 | yeah bro my teams have absolutely been power/metacrept hahaha. honestly have been a Mona main since day one so as long as I can keep nuking shit with her, Iām having fun. Her and Ganyu were unstoppable for the longest time ā heard about the Kazuha rerun! everyone is still crying about no Eula lol.
Dude artifacts was also partially the reason ā I wanted to finish my Venti, and I saved up weeks of fragile resin and after the dust settled I had ONE pretty good piece lmao. HSR has a much more forgiving and not as needed artifact system bc the talents are really what matters on the unit for the majority of the game |
heyadam
05.11.23 | @colton I really only take BOTW slander as trolling at this point lol. Thereās no way someone can objectively be like āthis game blowsā |
Colton
05.11.23 | I meant people say the ending sucks |
heyadam
05.11.23 | yeah it was perfectly fine lol. like the story definitely wasnāt the selling point anyways - def curious to see if they switch that up for this new one bc it looks like they will |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Tbh Mona has been powercrept too but I still use her because sheās so fun in taser teams. Not very useful at all for bloom/hyperbloom teams tho unfortunately, XQ and Yelan work much better for the former and Barbara and kok are apparently best for nilou bloom but I donāt have kok and I refuse to use Barbara in any capacity
And yeah lmao the two current saltiest topics seem to be no Eula rerun (I donāt like her so w/e) and of course how butthurt everyone is about Dehya sucking (I was excited for her but these folks act like hoyo killed their dog and itās hilarious/pathetic) |
heyadam
05.11.23 | dawg Iām only pulling for Candace (lol at the name) when I come back bc we need more brown waifus. Iām not hip to current tea besides Eula, and at this point as long a so can clear story content and just have fun exploring Iām big chillin. Itāll be cool to outfit my faves with perfect artifacts but even that feels like a pipe dream |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Yeah Iām pretty casual so being meta is not very important to me as long as they are fun. 12 starring the abyss is not my main priority and also far from where I have the most fun. That being said Candace does suck unfortunately even in overworld gameplay. And Dehya is the most recent brown character and she also got done hella dirty. |
heyadam
05.11.23 | hard rip š saw her character design and was like damn sheās gonna be lit. yeah, Abyss was never a huge draw for me. what I like about hoyo is that the games are fun for casuals and for tryhards depending on what you want to do. the only crowd it isnāt a lowkey time for are the hilichurls |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Her design is great agreed! I semi-built her becuSe she was one of the first characters I pulled but yeah once I figured out wtf I was doing as far as rotations and synergy went she just really got outmatched fast.
Also hilichurls have received a pretty righteous buff themselves š¤
Thereās a couple new types that are actually somewhat formidable and have amazing designs |
heyadam
05.11.23 | damn bro, if Zelda wasnāt coming out tonight I might have logged on lmao. also they put Dehya in the standard banner?!? thatās actually hilarious and I can def see why people are pissed. Imagine hating her and then getting her on a 50/50.
def gonna jump back in casually once I hit the content wall on HSR |
PotsyTater
05.11.23 | Haha yeah putting her on standard was just adding insult to injury. It was really fun to watch r/dehyamains go through the 7 stages of grief tho. Leading up to release as it became more and more apparent she was definitely going to suck the copium posts and memes were so hilarious and wholesome. And then when she actually was released the sense of humour about it devolved into the most hilarious emotional rollercoaster Iāve ever seen. Like actually unhinged behaviour. They were literally acting like they were starting a revolution against a tyrannical oppressor by spamming hoyo with complaints. Anyone who didnāt have their entire world turned upside down by this became a ābootlickerā. |
heyadam
05.12.23 | Iām going to wait a year and then start a one man yelling petition to make Candace busted and bump her up to a 5*. Fuck hoyo for what theyāve done, itās unforgivable
yeah I canāt imagine watching that unfold in real time, idk how I missed that drama bc I still orbited the community. absolute buckwild times we live in |
PotsyTater
05.12.23 | Lmao a Candace uprising is never too late!!
Sent you a friend request |
heyadam
05.12.23 | went to jump on and fuck around for an hour before totk is unlocked, but the update is gonna take an hour and a half lmao. so much to download |
PotsyTater
05.12.23 | Lmao yeaaa fuck those updates
But amazing first few hours of totk! I did the three tutorial shrines and logged off for the night but man we goin GOOFY goofy with the new mechanics and I am here for it |
PotsyTater
05.12.23 | And GREEEEEEEEEN instead of BLLLLLLEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUE
š„µ |
Colton
05.12.23 | gonna play in like an hour |
heyadam
05.12.23 | yeah itās so good!! Iām here for the cheese too. I swear I spent line ten minutes trying to build this loony tunes ass fan bridge and it didnāt work. love the music so far, just still getting used to the UI again and making shit flowwww |
PotsyTater
05.12.23 | Boys if you find any ridiculously good weapon / arrow fusions etc make sure to share them here. So far a big fan of attaching a bomb plant to my shield and doing a shield surf. Also do love dual wielding boulder shield and boulder stick. |
PotsyTater
05.12.23 | Or maybe someone should make a totk thread |
heyadam
05.12.23 | does it just drop a timed bomb or something when you shield surf? |
PotsyTater
05.12.23 | Hop on and find out bro |
heyadam
05.12.23 | too busy trying to convince myself itās okay not to have a glider. also, Iāll start a TOTK thread in a few lol |
PotsyTater
05.12.23 | Surely we get a glider |
heyadam
05.12.23 | idk dawg I'm at like a 50/50 in believing we won't lol. They might want to really push the *other* tech |
Deathconscious
05.13.23 | Waiting on Red Dead Redemption in the mail. Wanted to try the second one but then heard their stories are linked, so im going for this one first. Mainly looking for a change in scenery from the usual sci fi and fantasy stuff i play. |
Mort.
05.13.23 | playing hollow knight. on 111%. need to complete the last two gauntlets and i will have 112% and all the trophies
also started planescape: torment
loving it |
Ryus
05.13.23 | nice i have 112% but havent finished the pantheon of hallownest. i know i can do it but i just havent taken the time to and probably never will lol. probably my favorite game |
Mort.
05.13.23 | dude im not surprised. that final pantheon sounds like a nightmare.
at the moment i can get to pure vessel in the 4th pantheon but have only beat them once in practice (first fought it like 3 days ago) once i beat them 3 times in a row in practice ill go try the pantheon until i do it.
not very good at this game, metroidvanias arent really a genre im acquainted with. but i will say hollow knight is stone cold classic and an easy 9 or 10/10 |
PotsyTater
05.13.23 | Why are you guys talking about anything other than tears of the kingdom, that time has passed, all other video games are dead |
Storm In A Teacup
05.13.23 | *insert 1990s pokemon game comment* |
Mort.
05.13.23 | i dont have a console to play zelda and ive never played a zelda game and i simply dont care about zelda
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Storm In A Teacup
05.13.23 | Ive never played zelda either, mort. Im syncing up to fully mort! |
Demon of the Fall
05.13.23 | I have no idea what you guys are talking about and this is weirdly reassuring |
PotsyTater
05.13.23 | ā and i simply dont care about zeldaā
This is your worst character trait, I wouldnāt advertise this |
Demon of the Fall
05.13.23 | I just thought Zelda was a ācharmingā action adventure that you wouldnāt ever care about if you hadnāt played the series in your youth |
PotsyTater
05.13.23 | Not having played Zelda in your youth is the worst character trait possible |
Demon of the Fall
05.13.23 | A hazard of never having a Nintendo console Potsy. Amastrad > MegaDrive > PS1 / GameBoy (was there a Zelda on GameBoy?) > PS2
been Xbox / PS since, but I do currently own a Switch so š¤·š»ā¦ could happen |
PotsyTater
05.13.23 | Ur a monster |
heyadam
05.13.23 | In non Zelda news tho...
there isn't any |
PotsyTater
05.13.23 | Facts |
someone
05.14.23 | Let my gf play Stray, now she wants a cat again |
someone
05.14.23 | "and i simply dont care about zelda"
Yeah, I never got into it either |
Wildcardbitchesss
05.31.23 | finally wrapped up Forbidden West yesterday. sucks Lance Reddick died. Sylens is easily the most interesting character in the series and it felt like he got sidelined for a lot of the game. Other than that I loved it. Iām not usually one to max out stats but I loved the gameplay loop so much more than in Zero Dawn. Gonna take a break from it before I tackle the DLC.
Does anyone know of any more games like Norco or Citizen Sleeper? I know Disco Elysium is probably similar but I got few hours into it a couple of months ago and lost my save so I donāt really feel like picking it back up rn |
ToSmokMuzyki
06.01.23 | wiiiiithhhhh maaaaaaaahhhhh baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllzzzzzzzzzz |
sneakers
06.01.23 | Roller coaster tycoon 1. I FUX WID IT |
BaselineOOO
06.01.23 | TimeSplitters 2
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way
Resident Evil 4 Remake
Armored Core: For Answers
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
Mega Man Zero 3
Mega Man X4
Contra: Shattered Soldier
Metroid Prime Remastered |
budgie
06.01.23 | hell yeah RCT1 campaign is still the legitness . never beat it in fact
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BaselineOOO
06.01.23 | Should I download RCT1 or RCT2 if I only intend to play one of them? |
zakalwe
06.01.23 | A third play-through of Witcher III. For what it is, the peak of computer games. |
someone
06.01.23 | finished Stray, loved the game, though i wish there was more to do tbh, it kinda moves puzzle section to puzzle section and the story stales a bit afterwards
finished Alien Isolation again, fucking fantastic, love the dicks out of that game. have not been transported into this discomforting world since the first time i saw the first two films, except this game keeps the awe and the tension going on repeat. love it
started Fallout New Vegas and wuickly dropped it, cannot deal with the wonky look of it. i guess i was just brought up in a different generation. the messy graphics gave me a migraine for real. shame, really. i heard it's a great game.
started Aven Colony cause Sim City is too outdated. an okay timewaster, but im just training for Frost Punk |
frozencarl
06.01.23 | started Far Cry 6, pretty good so far minus the at times cringey dialogue. also decided to pick up Breath of the Wild again cuz of all the TotK hype but still having a hard time getting into it |