Got a new mouse the other day and so figured I should try playing something that actually uses it (still playing Ghost of Tsushima and loving it but I use a controller), so had a quick look at what I had and installed Tiny Tina's Wonderlands as I already owned it. Having never played a borderlands game before I wasn't sure what to expect but enjoying it so far.
Is it anygood, i enjoyed what i played of the 1st but i stopped playing for a week or two then never went back. Just completed ghost of Yotei... and im off all week.
Star Wars Outlaws on the Switch 2 which looks and plays way better than it feels like it should (can barely hear the fan at all) and BL4 on PC. For PC stuff now I have set myself a rule, if I am gaming, that is to say not testing settings etc, then no FPS counter or stats will be running. It's the one thing I have always struggled with on PC vs console where I am just able to "zone out" from any visual or performance issues. Just how my brain is wired I think, on PC I *need* to know the performance so I have been forcing myself not to look at it and I must say it's quite liberating. Also picked back up Destiny 1 on the PS5 Pro. It still runs at 30FPS and looks no different to how I remember but damn I had forgotten how much fun it was. Very rusty but managed to solo this weeks Nightfall on my Warlock (after failing on my Titan). That good old feeling of running out of heavy, special and grenades and taking down the boss with just primary and manic screams....
I simply could not bear the constant dialogue trees. Just let me play the bloody game..tell the story in the game. Same with Mass Effect and Cyberpunk. Feels like replying to emails.
I did enjoy the original Outer Worlds, but I feel like it could have been more. I’ve no great desire to jump into the sequel, I’ll wait until it’s on sale. I mean… they’re all RPGs, dialogue kinda comes with the territory… Sure, they’re third- or first-person “action adventure” RPGs, but they’re RPGs nonetheless. It’s not wrong to not like dialogue-heavy games, but that doesn’t make dialogue-heavy games “bad”.
I didn't say they were 'bad'. it's all about preference of course. I prefer the game to reveal the narrative, like Prey, Half Life etc.
Stalker 2 has gotten a lot of hours lately. Also started playing Arma 3 recently with a new group after an eight year break from it
Just started rise of the ronin.. after playing Ghost of Yotei finding it a little meh! The reviews are mixed but i totally forgot i brought the game last year before i got ill so finally ps5 up n running so going throug back log. Ill see if it gets better. Its by team ninja and ive been warned its not an easy game
Lonely Mountains Snow Riders It's both five minutes of short-burst fun and a simultaneous time sink as you get marginally better with each run. It's a simple, easy, zen-inducing coast through the solitude of the wilds at the same time as being teeth-gnashingly frustrating and rage-inducing. The neighbours probably think I'm arguing with someone ALL the time. Was gutted when the mountain bike one left GP, but this fills the gap nicely. It's not the sort of game I think I'll ever "finish" as such, but it's gorgeous, peaceful (to a degree) and endows a sense of achievement. If they can bring back the daily and weekly challenges (or if I can find them wherever they've been hidden) and if I can get online with some friends or a friendly group, then I fear not much else will get done in the house.
SW Outlaws is next on my PS5 list when I eventually drag myself away from Night city on the pc. Got that bought ages ago but it's not been touched yet. After that for PC it'll be KCD2, Stalker 2 and Starfield. Elden Ring, Claire Obscur and AC Shadows are still on my PS5 to get lost. I always play AC on Playstation, not sure whether to get the others on PC or PS5. Damn got.lots to get through. Oh there's Alan Wake 2 as well I guess.
Space Marine 2 PvE I thought I'd call it a day after completing the main story. I was wrong. Damn well love spending a bit of time at the weekends murdering xeno/traitor scum, and have all the classes up to at least the 2nd level of permanent perks. Got most of the weapons to the last tier too, and just this weekend managed to finish getting all the Relic weapons. I find something fun in all the class play styles, but the Stalker Bolter sucks donkey balls. Especially when you can equip a las fusil that has been upgraded to rapid fire... All missions completed on Ruthless difficulty, some on Lethal. One day, I hope to earn my Big Boi Balls and have a stab at Absolute. Though if Lethal already has you fighting up to three Extremis enemies at the same time, eff knows what Absolute is going to do to my bum hole. Now patch 11 has landed. I needs me that Relic Heavy Bolter. And my Sniper will thank the Emperor for the Relic Heavy Bolt Pistol.
Piled 140-ish hours on Arma 3 since start of September. Rolling around as Combat Barbie, usual roles being markswoman and autorifle. Today's frontline fashion featuring thousand yard stare and 1500 pew pews for the Mk48 Been having a lot of fun even though groups I roll with are PVE. Do miss PVP A2/A3 sniper times
I fired up Keeper the other day. It's a walking simulator (so far) where you're a lighthouse. Occasionally you press a button randomly and something happens apparently regardless of your input. There's a bird, but the boring kind. It's an incredibly good-looking game but I feel it's missed it's window - it seems it should have been one of those launch games that shows off the capabilities of a new machine (from five or so years ago, though, when the newer Xboxes actually launched) rather than an actual challenge you put time into. In its favour though, it scores two points for not having boring collectible goals (not to a terribly distracting degree, at least). But I do prefer puzzles where you have to work out what you need and when and where to get it/use it, rather than "shake this thing three times to get three other things that you put in the same mechanism".
Black Mesa for the umpteenth time, but this time actually playing through xen... my god they've souped that up! its practically longer than the bit in the base!
I recently got 6 months of xbox game pass (after the price hike), friend gave me a dead xbox one, and i picked up the asus rog ally for the kid for xmas, and thought 2 birds one stone, stuff on it we can both play
Trying the where winds meet on ps5 till i get my new lappy. For a free to play game im impressed so far nothing has jumped out to say Buy me..
I managed to get to ante 8 on Balatro for the first time ever this week, before having to face the boss blind that forces you to play a certain card each hand (Cerulean Bell?). In what I would call "suspicious circumstances" it forced me to play the one card from a boosted hand of nine possibles that was giving me my monster scores by holding onto it, when I was halfway to beating the boss with three hands to play. Cross, I was, as Yoda says, he does. I also got an achievement in Total Chaos entirely accidentally by walking away from everything and then got soundly beaten by a golem made of dripping stuff because the game had given me a weapon that broke and nowhere to run. I'll have another look at it, but it didn't seem wholly fair at first go either. EDIT: I did it!
Well my time in where winds meet is already at a end, it has a quest where my relfexs are just not good enough to allow me to continue so i cant continue the quest i am on and i know its a skill issue, not sure if its a the game didnt explain itself itself well but i am 99 sure its me not having the relflexs and had eye skills, such a shame i was enjoying it. Time to find something else i guess... missing my laptop and wow
I don't want to be one of those annoying naysayers that looks like they're just obtusely believing the opposite of whatever is cool or in at the moment, but I've just started on Clair Obscur and I don't get it. The graphics are weirdly jank, with drop-outs and broken transparent characters (although they do look good texture-wise), the supposedly "emotionally tragic" storyline (if I'm at the bit that everyone else is going on about) is the exact plot of the game and therefore was always a given as you could read it on the box, but more than both of those, it's excruciatingly and obscenely inaccessible. I thought it might just be me being a bit 5h1t, but I cannot beat Maelle the second time at the dock. So far I have managed to dodge her attacks once, not even trying to parry yet. Some thread I came across on Reddit said exactly the same - just get better. If I can't dodge a character from the bl00dy introduction level, how the fk am I going to get on against actual baddies in the game? I just cannot seem to time it right but I wouldn't say I'm necessarily a noob at this; not the world's champion twitch killer but in no way am I incapable. Wtf am I missing? What's the trick here? I'm all for a bit of skill being involved instead of button mashing, but it just seems that no matter when I hit the button, the outcome is always a fail.
