Garacesh Posted January 13, 2020 Posted January 13, 2020 The Outer Worlds never looked interesting to me. I mean it doesn't look bad but it just looks.. Eh. Now Outer Wilds? With an I? Oh yes. Very much my jam. I'm for the Epic Games bovine excrement to timeout and for it to hit Steam.
CHiLL Posted January 13, 2020 Posted January 13, 2020 Now Outer Wilds? With an I? Oh yes. Very much my jam. I'm for the Epic Games bovine excrement to timeout and for it to hit Steam. I've heard so many good things about that game. I regularly listen to the Giant Bombcast and they spoke highly of it.
foofighterjim Posted February 5, 2020 Posted February 5, 2020 I completely missed this being announced, Two Point hospital is being released for PS4, XBOX and Switch on 25th Feb. 1
sted Posted February 5, 2020 Posted February 5, 2020 finished Tokyo mirage session #fe encore on Sunday. Tried to go back to my heroic run on halo 2 but gave up as my spawn point is awful. played gta online for a bit as theres free money but spent a lot of the cash id been building up over the years. I now have a bunker an arcade and a business (the last one was because it wouldnt let me do owt with the arcade unless i was a vip etc. Meant to go in for 10 mins spent the morning playing just getting the arcade missions done so it has stuff inside and a garage
CHiLL Posted February 5, 2020 Posted February 5, 2020 I've been playing Gears 5 on the PC, hooked up to my TV in glorious 4K ultra settings. It looks amazing. I'm currently stuck at the end of Act II on the boss, it's winding me up.
LeMarchand Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 Just finished Strange Brigade on PS4 (Single Player/Campaign). Fun, but I don't think I'd play it again. Like "Dead Island", this seems to be set up so that the single-player isn't the preferred mode and so dialogue in cut scenes refers to the whole team (though in Dead Island often the whole team were present in the scene - but not when I was getting swarmed). Just started Concrete Genie, which is beautiful. Bit of a moan: Why do all walk-throughs seem to be YouTube videos these days? (Apart from the ability to monetise the stream!) It makes it hard to find an answer if you get stuck/need clarification.
sted Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 Just finished Strange Brigade on PS4 (Single Player/Campaign). Fun, but I don't think I'd play it again. Like "Dead Island", this seems to be set up so that the single-player isn't the preferred mode and so dialogue in cut scenes refers to the whole team (though in Dead Island often the whole team were present in the scene - but not when I was getting swarmed). Just started Concrete Genie, which is beautiful. Bit of a moan: Why do all walk-throughs seem to be YouTube videos these days? (Apart from the ability to monetise the stream!) It makes it hard to find an answer if you get stuck/need clarification. its not too bad IF they put in timecodes Collected 100 statues and 54 playing cards in gta online for no real reason. Tried to do the cards on Sunday and turns out my Xbox live sub had run out so ive signed up for gamepass ultimate and my xbox spent most of yesterday downloading all sorts of stuff. AS it was there completed goose game on the Xbox for the achievements lol
CHiLL Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 Finished Gears 5 over the weekend and enjoyed it. Now I've started We Happy Few, however I'm playing it through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which I got 3 months for £1 back in November...and it expires on Sunday. I don't think I'm going to have time to finish this game.
foofighterjim Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 I've just downloaded We Happy Few, I've always liked the look of it but read so many indifferent reviews, could never justify the price as even when it was reduced it only went as low as £25. I used the game pass workaround over the weekend, where I stacked 2 years of gold (thank you CDKeys) and used my 1 month games pass trial to covert my 2 years subscription to games pass ultimate for £1. Just wish I hadn't wasted money buying Gears 5 outright in December now, the good news is that Two Point Hospital is also coming to Game Pass at the end of the month.
CHiLL Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 I've just downloaded We Happy Few, I've always liked the look of it but read so many indifferent reviews, could never justify the price as even when it was reduced it only went as low as £25. I used the game pass workaround over the weekend, where I stacked 2 years of gold (thank you CDKeys) and used my 1 month games pass trial to covert my 2 years subscription to games pass ultimate for £1. Just wish I hadn't wasted money buying Gears 5 outright in December now, the good news is that Two Point Hospital is also coming to Game Pass at the end of the month. I remember when I saw the trailer for it - it looked so good and had a very Bioshock feel. However when it launced, it was plagued with bugs because they rushed the release. That just caused reviewers rate it poorly and put people off buying it. I'm hoping that they've all been ironed out now. However I have noticed that I'm suffering from a frame rate issue/tearing issue. I have a 1080Ti and I'm hooked up to my 4K TV (which is the same setup I've just been playing Gears 5 at 4K on max settings at 60FPS). I have set the in-game setting to max and specified 30-60FPS for smoothness and VSync is enabled. However it just seems to stutter and tear with the framerate locked at around 30-40FPS. I'm guessing it's just not very well optimised.
LeMarchand Posted February 18, 2020 Posted February 18, 2020 Finished Concrete Genie. I preferred the earlier "wandering around painting" stages, but it was certainly a beautiful game throughout.
ICTDirect_Dave Posted February 18, 2020 Posted February 18, 2020 I saw the intro for the FFVII remake this morning. If the game lives up to this then I'm totally sold!
foofighterjim Posted February 18, 2020 Posted February 18, 2020 I remember when I saw the trailer for it - it looked so good and had a very Bioshock feel. However when it launced, it was plagued with bugs because they rushed the release. That just caused reviewers rate it poorly and put people off buying it. I'm hoping that they've all been ironed out now. However I have noticed that I'm suffering from a frame rate issue/tearing issue. I have a 1080Ti and I'm hooked up to my 4K TV (which is the same setup I've just been playing Gears 5 at 4K on max settings at 60FPS). I have set the in-game setting to max and specified 30-60FPS for smoothness and VSync is enabled. However it just seems to stutter and tear with the framerate locked at around 30-40FPS. I'm guessing it's just not very well optimised. No such issues for me as I'm playing on a Day One Xbox One, so 1080p is the max res for me. I have traditionally avoided first person games as they gave me headaches when I was younger, Skyrim and Bioshock didn't, but I can't seem to play We Happy Few for more than an hour without giving me some degree of room spin. I guess I will try to get through the story and leave it there, might take a long time though only playing an hour at a time!
sted Posted March 2, 2020 Posted March 2, 2020 fwiw the final fantasy 7 remake demo is now up on psn its ~7.6gb 1
sted Posted March 2, 2020 Posted March 2, 2020 well as im not at work today i completed the ff7r demo and its enough to confirm what i feared i wont be playing the full game. if you liked ff15 combat (and i hated that) you might be ok but while its great to look at and the music is good the combat isnt. For non boss fight mash square (sometime press triangle to switch combat styles between light and heavy) and you will win. Bosses are more complex and imo it gave a terrible example of how to use the controls it but that basically boiled down to mash square but target a specific part of the boss occasionally use magic and or items (which you can only use when a bar is full)and dodge with circle. I really have lost faith in square to make good rpgs the last one of theirs i enjoyed was ff13.2 everything since has basically had combat that is either button mash (ff15) or dull (dq11 also on ps4 dire repetitive music)
simpsonj Posted March 4, 2020 Posted March 4, 2020 Played the FFVII Remake demo and loved it. summed it up nicely when he said you can feel the love as they crafted this game. Great graphics, voice acting, interesting tweaks to the story line, and the music, the music is perfect. Yes, the combat isn't perfect, but neither was it in the original. It is much quicker to blast through the grunts though, and the boss battle was much improved over the original game. It seems to be taking some elements of FF13 and FF15, and I see some potential there for a good combat system. 1
Patrick Posted April 2, 2020 Posted April 2, 2020 I don't do much gaming, but installed Call of Duty Warzone. Because i'm bored and it's free. Feels like my graphics card finally wants replacing. CPU: Ryzen 2600X RAM: 16GB GFX: GTX 1050 2GB Weirdly the game runs Ok for a while (settings on low) then after a couple of rounds it starts to get choppy and fps crash. Maybe it's just buggy. Not sure where to go for a graphics card now i'm not up to date at all. I want the 8800GT of today!
ICTDirect_Dave Posted April 2, 2020 Posted April 2, 2020 Most important question... What's your budget?
Patrick Posted April 2, 2020 Posted April 2, 2020 Actually, since posting, A friend of mine has a RX480 4GB and is selling it me for a good price. For the gaming i do, that should tick over ok. I'll sell my 1050 on ebay, if i get £20 for it the RX480 will only cost me £30. I think that'll do ok for now. 1
Garacesh Posted April 2, 2020 Posted April 2, 2020 Actually, since posting, A friend of mine has a RX480 4GB and is selling it me for a good price. For the gaming i do, that should tick over ok. I'll sell my 1050 on ebay, if i get £20 for it the RX480 will only cost me £30. I think that'll do ok for now. Mate if you're selling a 1050 for £20 count me in The Mrs needs a new GPU but her PC is super old. Plan is build her a new one at some point but for now it's just 'keep things ticking' lol
Patrick Posted April 2, 2020 Posted April 2, 2020 Mate if you're selling a 1050 for £20 count me in The Mrs needs a new GPU but her PC is super old. Plan is build her a new one at some point but for now it's just 'keep things ticking' lol Haha i've not looked on ebay to see what they are going for but when i've checked what the going rate is i'll knock a good few quid off and it's yours if you want! Edudiscount ha. 1
Garacesh Posted April 2, 2020 Posted April 2, 2020 Haha i've not looked on ebay to see what they are going for but when i've checked what the going rate is i'll knock a good few quid off and it's yours if you want! Edudiscount ha. Sounds good to me, as long as you promise you haven't been crypto mining with it! Let me know
CHiLL Posted April 4, 2020 Posted April 4, 2020 Finished We Happy Few - I enjoyed the story for the most part, though it became a chore for me to play after a while. A lot of repetition in terms of types of tasks. It is obvious that the game was extremely rushed, with the most obvious being the massive repetition of NPCs. You can be walking down one street with say 20 people on it and there are only four NPC models, so there's multiple of the same old lady, young lady, young man, etc. It's a bit disappointing. I also played and finished Metro Exodus. I quite liked it, however the story was meh. It's the weakest of the three for me and it didn't suit an open world game - it played much better as a linear game. I have Borderlands 3, Control and The Master Chief Collection (so Halo Reach and Halo: Combat Evolved) on my list as next games to play. Other than that, I don't really have any more games. I did think about Doom Eternal, but I've heard so many bad things about it that I don't know if I can be arsed. Maybe if I've played and watched all the TV I have and I'm still in isolation.
flyinghaggis Posted April 5, 2020 Posted April 5, 2020 I don't do much gaming, but installed Call of Duty Warzone. Warzone is the first call of duty game I've played in about a decade and it's really good fun. It's basically PUBG with the most annoying aspects removed, a better combat system, less bugs and a more polished game all round. 150 players on a large map at once as well! Would definitely recommend giving it a try That's not something I thought I'd say about a Call of Duty game. I'm sure Blizzard Activision will be along to ruin it with loot boxes, season pass's and microtransactions before long though! 1
simpsonj Posted April 6, 2020 Posted April 6, 2020 FFVII arrived a week early! But I have a toddler, so TV time is severely limited... Still, very much enjoying the 3-4 hours played so far. And the soundtrack is amazing, glad I bought deluxe version just for that! 1
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