What are you playing at the moment?

[UnderOpenSky]

Starter Grim Dawn last night. I'd not heard of it and I've not played a game like it since Diablo 2, but spotted it when browsing something else. It was very cheap. Quite entertaining for an evening, a billion combinations of character classes. Might actually need to make it harder, didn't die at all. This not something I normally need to do as a casual gamer.

 

[Crispy]

I am playing the heck out of Tunic, which is an isometric adventure/action/RPG-lite. It's got the look and feel of Zelda or Hyper Light Drifter, along with fairly Zelda-y equipment and ability scaling. The combat is a mix of Zelda and Souls games. Lots of reading enemy intents, dodging, blocking etc. Souls-like exploration, with all sorts of loopbacks and hidden rooms, mysterious sealed doors that become openable later etc. Souls like healing, with limited "flasks" and "shrine" save points that fully heal you but respawn all enemies. Great sound and music. Beautiful to look at. And then another layer of deciphering the mysterious world, enabled by the scattered pages of the game's manual, which is made up to look like a SNES-era paper booklet, complete with scribblings in the margin by the previous owner.

Only downside is that the bosses are a massive difficulty spike, so I've been turning on the cheat mode when I've had enough hurling myself against them over and over.

Trailer below, but it's a bit spoilery. Watch the first 40-50 seconds or so if you want to discover some fun stuff for yourself

 

[Virtual Blue]

Just been playing COD Vanguard - its messy but fun.

Have 2 incoming games - Cold War and Final Fantasy Remake.

Has anyone played Elden Ring? If so, is it 'too' hard?

 

[Steel Icarus]

Just been playing COD Vanguard - its messy but fun.

Have 2 incoming games - Cold War and Final Fantasy Remake.

Has anyone played Elden Ring? If so, is it 'too' hard?

Elden ring

souls evolution ? tommers

www.urban75.net

 

[Virtual Blue]

Elden ring

souls evolution ? tommers

www.urban75.net

After reading that thread - fuck that!! Elden Ring looks to devour time!

 

[tommers]

After reading that thread - fuck that!! Elden Ring looks to devour time!

it's ridiculous. Like I've been playing it for 150 hours and yesterday I discovered an entire fucking area that I had no idea existed.

Like it's great, but I do feel a bit like I'm in some kind of simulation. "Let's make a game that you play for your whole life". I really want to play Sifu again but I can't until I finish this fucking game.

 

[tommers]

Warhammer 40k Daemon hunter thing. Everybody keeps saying it's XCom but it's Gears Tactics really. It's good, I'm about four or five missions in and everybody is already really injured.

 

[Storm Fox]

Simcity 4k. Rocking it old school.

 

[8ball]

Pancake: God Of War (the new one) - started, then gave up, now have started again and it's so much better now that I have given up on Bloodborne (brilliantly made but too traumatic for my tastes)
VR: Green Hell VR (aka "a million ways to die in the jungle" - I must have peeled two hundred leeches off myself this week)

 

[golightly]

Citizen Sleeper — Fellow Traveller Games

www.fellowtraveller.games

It's a very simple story driven, turn based game with random elements. Quite enjoyable.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Picked up the Mass Effect trilogy remasters, as I never played them back in the day - planning to finish them all back-to-back, hopefully.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I've been playing a lot of Stacklands - it's one of those plate-spinning games where it can get frantic. You start with a few cards including a villager card, then grow or craft cards to make things you can sell so you can buy (in-game) card packs which can contain materials (a rock, a tree), veg items, animals, etc, and you stack cards together to make the cards "do" stuff. So for example you stack a villager card on a tree card to get some wood from which you can also get a twig, stack 1 wood and 2 twig cards together to make a spear, stack that spear card on the villager to make a militia. You can combine different foodstuff cards to make better food. It's easy to play but tricky to juggle everything, especially as every now and then you get enemies arrive. In addition there's a fixed time to do what you need to at the end of which you have to have enough food to feed all your villagers or some might starve to death. And you can only have a limited number of cards on the field of play (unless you make something to raise this number).

It's 4 quid on Steam and is very highly recommended (by players on there, and me)

 

[Chz]

Picked up the Mass Effect trilogy remasters, as I never played them back in the day - planning to finish them all back-to-back, hopefully.

I have fond memories, so I'm curious if they still add up. Though it's stuck in my mind that combat and inventory are very different between the first game and the other two. The first game is a bit more RPG-heavy in the stats sense, and while at first I rebelled against dropping it, it did make for a more streamlined game. Though it's a bit bizarre that when they simplified they game it went from infinite ammo to stacks of ammo. But the stacks of ammo are way less cumbersome than the twenty variants of "Spiffy Armor Mk.IX" you'd have cluttering your inventory.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

After the shit storm that was / is Battlefield 2042 I needed a game to play that was fun. Sure, Gran Turismo 7 is a great game but it's rather serious and complicated.

I'd forgotten that I had Rocket League for free on the PS4, checked to see if it was available on the PS5 and it was.

Downloaded it this morning and have been having a blast playing it - scored four goals in the last match but still didn't get MVP

 

[fucthest8]

Picked up the Mass Effect trilogy remasters, as I never played them back in the day - planning to finish them all back-to-back, hopefully.

That's a fucking load of game time you got there man

 

[Buddy Bradley]

That's a fucking load of game time you got there man

Unfortunately installing Mass Effect (in the EA launcher) reminded me that I hadn't played Apex Legends for ages, so instead I've been playing that all night.

 

[BristolEcho]

I think my HDMI port and my laptop has gone which is annoying as I've spent £50 on Ram and a fair amount on Monitor/table combo!

Tried different cables which didn't work. Tried my work laptop and that worked with the monitor on its own. Tried the laptop on my TV with different HDMI leads and they didn't work when other things do.

Drivers updated but will double check this. I was edging towards a factory reset, but nothing really suggests this would work.

Laptop works fine otherwise.

I've had it for around 4 years and have been holding out upgrading as I don't think I need anything to top of the range. Think I'll try and stick to using it without the external monitor until I figure out if I can squeeze in a proper desktop.

Shame as Detroit Become Human looked amazing on that set up. It'll be hard going to a screen nearly half the size again.

 

[Rikbikboo]

I’m a Warthunder and World of Tanks addict

 

[Chz]

Or a masochist, as we like to call them.

 

[nick]

Not sure if Games I'm about to play at the moment fit in here:?

Just noticed that there is an extended version of Stanley Parable out for console
Will drop 20 notes on it to relive the fun of 9 years ago.

Anyone read anything about whether there are any noticeable differences between the Switch and the PS4 ports (the latter to be played on a PS5)?

 

[Dandred]

Anyone got teh new Far Cry 6 crack to run? I got it all installed but the game just won't start, the file runs and the exe. is in the task manager but just won't launch. Downloading another version now.

 

[Chz]

I was tempted to try it out, but a lot of bad comments on all the torrents I saw. Give them another week to sort it out. Try Silt instead.

 

[Dandred]

I ended up buying it, it was only 24,000W. Runs pretty well on ultra settings even though my PC is seven years old.

 

[BristolEcho]

Ended up getting a new desktop as the Lenovo Legion T5 was on sale and it was getting decent feedback. Had to by a fiber optic HDMI cable to make it work with my set up as my monitor is miles away from the base unit. Working like a dream though.

Still only playing football manager and Civ mind. Though got Detroit Being Human on it and will grab a few more intensive games now I can. Red Dead Redemption 2 being one of them.

 

[Chilli.s]

Red Dead Redemption 2

If youve not played this, and like cowboy stories, youre in for a treat.

 

[The39thStep]

If youve not played this, and like cowboy stories, youre in for a treat.

Its outstanding , head and shoulders above anything that I have played

 

[BristolEcho]

If youve not played this, and like cowboy stories, youre in for a treat.

I played the first one and gave up on it eventually on the PlayStation, but I did like it. I've got a bit more time now so would like to give 2 a spin. Should I watch a YouTube summary of 1 or is the story different?

I held off getting it as although my laptop could have played it with okay settings I think it would have been pushing it.

 

[Chilli.s]

Should I watch a YouTube summary of 1 or is the story different?

Id go in blind as its a prequel, not too important on the order.

And when in the future rockstar remake 1 youll be in the right place to play that as a fresh experience

Go buy it now and well see you in july

 

[Steel Icarus]

RDR2 is a slow burn but by christ when it gets under your skin it gets deep. A phenomenal game.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Had no real time for gaming for months with moving house and other bits, so was quite nice the other night to have some time. Really not inspired to go back to Far Cry so bought God of War. It's quite pretty on GFN at 1440p. As it's a pad type game and my OH was busy last night I thought I'd play it on the screen downstairs.

GFN won't do 4k unless you have a Shield, so I set the laptop to output to 1080p and thought I'd let the TV upscale. it looked awful. Checking settings it was at 1600x900. No idea why it's doing this. Checked display scaling and even outputting to the TV at 4k. Gave up in the end and went upstairs to play on the PC. This is where ruffneck23 tells me I need a Shield, but I'm probably going to dump GFN later this year when the new Nvidia cards come out. Mildly frustrating though.