What are you playing at the moment?
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BristolEcho
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Currently playing a couple of games.
Civ 6 - Got the Gathering Storm expansion and have a peaceful game going with the Cree at the moment. Going to go for a diplomatic or culture win at this rate I think.
PES2020 - Far from perfect on PC but have a ML save on the go. Originally with Palace but got relegated on ten points... Took over Norwich who also got relegated and currently top with 4 wins in 5 so not to bad.
Switch:
Zelda : Got into it now as I found it a bit difficult at the start and the controls were annoying me. Just got to the end of the initial bit. I've never played them properly as I was quite young when OOT was out and I used to just ride the horse round I think.
Snappyclips : Funny little multiplayer game me and my partner played when hammered the other week. Was good fun.
Civ 6 - Got the Gathering Storm expansion and have a peaceful game going with the Cree at the moment. Going to go for a diplomatic or culture win at this rate I think.
PES2020 - Far from perfect on PC but have a ML save on the go. Originally with Palace but got relegated on ten points... Took over Norwich who also got relegated and currently top with 4 wins in 5 so not to bad.
Switch:
Zelda : Got into it now as I found it a bit difficult at the start and the controls were annoying me. Just got to the end of the initial bit. I've never played them properly as I was quite young when OOT was out and I used to just ride the horse round I think.
Snappyclips : Funny little multiplayer game me and my partner played when hammered the other week. Was good fun.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Just finishing off the Arkham trilogy.
Asylum is the most coherent of the lot, due to the smaller, confined nature of it. It feels much more Batman than the others, even if the gameplay isn't as refined.
City is all over the place. I think most of its popularity was due to "More Asylum!" and some refined controls in combat. But the story was a mess, the side missions not compelling, and it really ended far too quickly.
Knight has a horrible reputation because it was shoved out the door half-baked. Going back to it years later with all the patches and DLC; it's far better than City, even if it loses the great atmosphere of Asylum. I actually felt like cleaning up the city after I was done the great main storyline. Naturally I can't possibly make the time to do all the Riddler nonsense. They even joke about it at the end of Catwoman's story - "He can stay down there".
Asylum is the most coherent of the lot, due to the smaller, confined nature of it. It feels much more Batman than the others, even if the gameplay isn't as refined.
City is all over the place. I think most of its popularity was due to "More Asylum!" and some refined controls in combat. But the story was a mess, the side missions not compelling, and it really ended far too quickly.
Knight has a horrible reputation because it was shoved out the door half-baked. Going back to it years later with all the patches and DLC; it's far better than City, even if it loses the great atmosphere of Asylum. I actually felt like cleaning up the city after I was done the great main storyline. Naturally I can't possibly make the time to do all the Riddler nonsense. They even joke about it at the end of Catwoman's story - "He can stay down there".
ruffneck23
front left
bit of a mixed bag this week
Back in to GR Wildlands to try co-op
Mafia 3 as it has a ps pro upgrade
Fifa 20
Spiderman ( again but for the dlc )
All this gaming is making want a new telly, although i only got in March , but want bigger , better gfx. My shadow pc should be getting an upgrade to an RTX Titan in the summer ( not holding too much hold out though )m and ps5 incoming is making me justfy it, also not going to the pub helps saving.
Back in to GR Wildlands to try co-op
Mafia 3 as it has a ps pro upgrade
Fifa 20
Spiderman ( again but for the dlc )
All this gaming is making want a new telly, although i only got in March , but want bigger , better gfx. My shadow pc should be getting an upgrade to an RTX Titan in the summer ( not holding too much hold out though )m and ps5 incoming is making me justfy it, also not going to the pub helps saving.
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
Just played through Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1. You won't find a weirder game this...ever. If you've seen The Norwood Suite or Off-Peak, you'll know what I mean. If not, just know that it's profoundly unsettling and involves making pizza with flamingo meat, feeding living houses, locating eyeballs for space lions, and uncovering some very dodgy flavour experiments on screaming robots who are not pleased.
It's very short but it's six quid and you won't easily forget it
It's very short but it's six quid and you won't easily forget it
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Installed FFXIV on the PS4 since it's a free trial and I've never played a single FF game in my life. It feels like a game that's not really supposed to be on console - the controls are really weirdly set up, and there are about a billion menus to navigate through. Graphics are nice, though.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Stealth Bastard: Tactical Espionage Arsehole. An unforgivingly hard 2d stealth puzzle platformer, fiendish.
Been on a massive mod of new vegas, looks beautiful but I've fucked it somehow because rex is just a red triangle now and the DLC is an unplayable nightmare of conflicting textures. I'll have to try again.
Been on a massive mod of new vegas, looks beautiful but I've fucked it somehow because rex is just a red triangle now and the DLC is an unplayable nightmare of conflicting textures. I'll have to try again.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Thought I would do for Prince of Persia what I did for the Arkham games...
Sands of Time holds up well. Sure, it's low-poly, but there's a design to it that makes it work and it has a certain charm. The combat is less annoying than I remember it, but still annoying in spots. Still, I enjoyed replaying it and I actually finished it this time. First time around in 2003, I gave up on the infamous elevator battle.
Warrior Within has all the bad things about SoT and utterly none of the charm. It's also incredibly unforgiving, even on Easy. I got about a third of the way through and decided to skip it.
I'm going to try the 2008 reboot next and see how that fares. I figured Two Thrones would probably suffer from the same problems as WW.
Sands of Time holds up well. Sure, it's low-poly, but there's a design to it that makes it work and it has a certain charm. The combat is less annoying than I remember it, but still annoying in spots. Still, I enjoyed replaying it and I actually finished it this time. First time around in 2003, I gave up on the infamous elevator battle.
Warrior Within has all the bad things about SoT and utterly none of the charm. It's also incredibly unforgiving, even on Easy. I got about a third of the way through and decided to skip it.
I'm going to try the 2008 reboot next and see how that fares. I figured Two Thrones would probably suffer from the same problems as WW.
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
Still mixing it up between Civ6, PES and Zelda. Got an interesting if slow game with the Cree on Civ 6. Not one single war against me during my whole time and managed to get allies with most that I would want them with. Hoping for a culture/diplomatic win.
Oh yeah Torquay boss on FM touch on the Switch too. Finished South Park stick of truth, bit repetitive towards the end, but decent enough game for a few quid.
Oh yeah Torquay boss on FM touch on the Switch too. Finished South Park stick of truth, bit repetitive towards the end, but decent enough game for a few quid.
golightly
economically inactive
I've just started Observation where you play the AI of a space station, which looks like the ISS as if designed by a hyperactive child. You have to solve lots of puzzles to repair the station, recover your memory and to move the story forward. Reminds me a bit of the Talos Principle, which I really enjoyed but never quite finished. 
cybershot
Well-Known Member
Think I started playing this on Saturday, put in a total of 36 hours in less then a week to finish it. Loved it. Perfect sort of game to beat lockdown boredom where you need to go and look in every nook and cranny to stand any chance of surivial and the enemies aren't ten to the dozen and when one does show up it can scare the crap out of you.
Has put me back in the mood to re-start Dishonored 2 next week, although sadly also back in the spare room doing actual work next week. Might throw Tekken 7 that's been sitting on the pile of shame since Christmas on as some weekend gaming fodder first.
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
Won diplomatic victory with the Cree my first on the Emperor level. Not sure if that's an achievement though as I use a historical speed mod and diplomatic victories were already easy at normal speeds. Playing with China now so we'll see if the game makes it past the industrial era this time otherwise I will have to disable diplomatic victories. Think Civ is going to get a lot of my time at the moment again.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
It's more that City, upon a replay, was actually quite disappointing. And I utterly hated faffing about inside that foundry and the subway. Both of them a nuisance to move about in. It feels rushed. Knight was obviously rushed too, but it had the groundwork in place and just needed debugging. City is just a bit sparse.
ruffneck23
front left
days gone , trying to play only one game this week
dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
I meant to buy another year of PSPlus, but misread it and got PSNow instead. Really glad I did, the streaming works almost perfectly, totally playable if you can ignore the slight graphical glitches due to streaming, you can download some of the games as well, and the selection is not bad. £30 for a year is very good value. I was wanting to play Just Cause 4 as I really enjoyed JC3 but couldn't justify £50 for one game, this is much, much better value, and JC4 is not nearly as bad as people made out when it came out.
souljacker
innit
It's not a bad game, just gets incredibly repetitive whilst also being quite easy. I enjoyed it a lot for the first few hours then stopped playing it when I realised each area was basically the same thing. Sad really as it looks great and the mechanics are excellent.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Been playing Apex Legends quite a bit now I have a PC able to run it at a decent quality. Doesn't make me any less shit at the game, unfortunately.
Kasper Jonran
What is a title anyway?
I've just purchased some really nice old soviet speakers from a second hand shop near my work. I'm playing Gong now and may venture to some Pink Floyd later. They sound great.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Going through the free games from epic launcher giveaway backlog lately.
Just gone through GTAV, was ok but everyone in it's a git. Not touching online with a bargepole. It's freeroaming but it doesn't really feel like there's much to do for yourself, would be nice to be able to arrange your own heists or interact with people beyond mindless slaughter.
Started Kingdom Come Deliverance tonight, this really takes itself very seriously and needs to chill out. And why the hell do games insist on doing crappy lockpicking minigames and hunger mechanics?
Just gone through GTAV, was ok but everyone in it's a git. Not touching online with a bargepole. It's freeroaming but it doesn't really feel like there's much to do for yourself, would be nice to be able to arrange your own heists or interact with people beyond mindless slaughter.
Started Kingdom Come Deliverance tonight, this really takes itself very seriously and needs to chill out. And why the hell do games insist on doing crappy lockpicking minigames and hunger mechanics?
dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
So I quite liked the original Tomb Raider so I thought I'd give Shadow of the Tobm Raider a go. Wow, games have certainly moved on a bit! The graphics are incredible even on a PS4, would love to play this with RTX on a beefy graphics card. I think I have put in about 4-5 hours so far and might be about 3% through the game, think this might keep me busy for a while.
