General Gaming thread

stickyfiddle

RaymondLin said:

Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.0.

Anyone tried this yet?  I am not sure i am a true fan of the new skill tree....it seems to be level gated a lot more than before? 

I haven't but am now tempted given it's meant to not be a complete buggy shitshow any more. 

menamestom

Grumpyrocker said:

I'm expecting mine to be Forza Motorsport. I'll be disappointed if it isn't. 

+1.  Early indications look good.  Really looing forward to this, I last had Forza 6 on the Xbox one so expect a big jump.

I've been sim racing a bit on my sons PC (Asseto Corsa and R Factor) and Assetto Corsa Competizione on the Xbox Series X, so hope I've not got too accustomed to pure sims, or to put it another way, I hope Forza Motorsport isn't too far to the simcade side of things.  I doubt it will be as I still enjoy Forza 6.

Planning to get a wheel and cockpit at somepoint also.  

RaymondLin

stickyfiddle said:

RaymondLin said:

Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.0.

Anyone tried this yet?  I am not sure i am a true fan of the new skill tree....it seems to be level gated a lot more than before? 

I haven't but am now tempted given it's meant to not be a complete buggy shitshow any more. 

It’s so much better now, the cops are actually smarter, and it has taken them a while but it is what it meant to be from the start.

There are still some gripes from me on it but it’s an excellent game.  Better than Starfield

CavemanGrogg

RaymondLin said:

stickyfiddle said:

RaymondLin said:

Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.0.

Anyone tried this yet?  I am not sure i am a true fan of the new skill tree....it seems to be level gated a lot more than before? 

I haven't but am now tempted given it's meant to not be a complete buggy shitshow any more. 

It’s so much better now, the cops are actually smarter, and it has taken them a while but it is what it meant to be from the start.

There are still some gripes from me on it but it’s an excellent game.  Better than Starfield

I thought Cyberpunk 2077 was amazing, it's another of the admittingly few games that I've platinumed on the PS4.

RaymondLin

CavemanGrogg said:

RaymondLin said:

stickyfiddle said:

RaymondLin said:

Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.0.

Anyone tried this yet?  I am not sure i am a true fan of the new skill tree....it seems to be level gated a lot more than before? 

I haven't but am now tempted given it's meant to not be a complete buggy shitshow any more. 

It’s so much better now, the cops are actually smarter, and it has taken them a while but it is what it meant to be from the start.

There are still some gripes from me on it but it’s an excellent game.  Better than Starfield

I thought Cyberpunk 2077 was amazing, it's another of the admittingly few games that I've platinumed on the PS4.

I played about 120hrs of it on the base PS4, I enjoy it even with the bugs.

CavemanGrogg

RaymondLin said:

CavemanGrogg said:

RaymondLin said:

stickyfiddle said:

RaymondLin said:

Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.0.

Anyone tried this yet?  I am not sure i am a true fan of the new skill tree....it seems to be level gated a lot more than before? 

I haven't but am now tempted given it's meant to not be a complete buggy shitshow any more. 

It’s so much better now, the cops are actually smarter, and it has taken them a while but it is what it meant to be from the start.

There are still some gripes from me on it but it’s an excellent game.  Better than Starfield

I thought Cyberpunk 2077 was amazing, it's another of the admittingly few games that I've platinumed on the PS4.

I played about 120hrs of it on the base PS4, I enjoy it even with the bugs.

I honestly never experienced any bugs in the game - again I didn't buy it on release day but when the price dropped to around £30, and it must be a few years now since I last played it, I haven't played it since I got the last trophy I needed - the shoot a grenade in the air while using the slow motion power, if I knew how to do it - I'm not used to the PS5 user interface and constantly get lost in it and can't find things, I could tell you the exact date, as that trophy was the hardest one I found to get.

RaymondLin

I played it on release day.  The biggest bug on the base PS4 is the loading of assets, especially if you drive really fast to a place and get out of the car and then walk up to an NPC.  You can see the game loading all the textures in real time due to the PS4 being slow.

A lot of this can be mitigated by just driving slower and walking slower.

Other bugs are mostly funny, like dead NPC floating in the air, or cars got stacked on each other, people standing up in cars.  The only game breaking bug was it used to crash, just throw me out of the game about every 4 or so hours of gameplay. 

westford

I played Unpacking this week, it was short and sweet.

Rkphilpot

Final word on Starfield, after putting 60 hours into it (I work nights so it's good to play in the day between shifts) I'm disappointed.
I don't see 7 years of development. So many outposts and mining sites are identical, even down to where items generate and enemies stand. They are exactly the same, if you've seen one cryo outpost you've seen them all. It's appalling given how many random dungeons Skyrim had.
There is too much time spent fast travelling between planets just to speak to people and toonmuch time spent in menus. It's clunky and you don't get much flowing time in missions. Reading people's comments I think I'm going to retire it and try cyberpunk.

nero1701

I've literally just bought and installed Cyberpunk.

punchesjudy

As a big fan of Bethesda earlier rpgs I ditched off Starfield well quick. Just shite. 

Downloaded Lies of P and loving it. 

stickyfiddle

Turns out Cyberpunk isn't on PS+ as I'd thought it was, so I'll wait till it is

Back on Jedi Survivor. Took a good while to remember how everything works so I put it on the easiest mode and now I'm mowing down baddies just like a Jedi should

Rkphilpot

punchesjudy said:

As a big fan of Bethesda earlier rpgs I ditched off Starfield well quick. Just shite. 

Downloaded Lies of P and loving it. 

Pre installed that and didn't realise it was out now. Will try it next week.

TeleMaster

nero1701 said:

I've literally just bought and installed Cyberpunk.

I'm interested in giving it another go but I did find the story a bit meh before I got a refund. 

nero1701

TeleMaster said:

nero1701 said:

I've literally just bought and installed Cyberpunk.

I'm interested in giving it another go but I did find the story a bit meh before I got a refund. 

I'm about 90 mins in, little slow going..more interesting than starfailled so far

CavemanGrogg

stickyfiddle said:

Turns out Cyberpunk isn't on PS+ as I'd thought it was, so I'll wait till it is

Back on Jedi Survivor. Took a good while to remember how everything works so I put it on the easiest mode and now I'm mowing down baddies just like a Jedi should

I believe it was removed due to all the bugs it had on release, I remember the price of the physical game brand new in stores dropped like a stone once Steam, Xbox and Playstation offered everybody who bought the digital download version from their market places a refund for the game.

nero1701 said:

I've literally just bought and installed Cyberpunk.

I just bought Need For Speed Hot Pursuit from the PS store for £4.00, in order to practice my racing skills for indoor carpet racing later today, so far I haven't managed to complete the tutorial first race, never mind finishing it in either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in order to complete the tutorial race.

Supposedly my favourite racing game, Need For Speed Most Wanted - the one from 2005, is being rereleased in 2024 for the current generation of consoles.

nero1701 said:

TeleMaster said:

nero1701 said:

I've literally just bought and installed Cyberpunk.

I'm interested in giving it another go but I did find the story a bit meh before I got a refund. 

I'm about 90 mins in, little slow going..more interesting than starfailled so far

It took me a few hours to get into the game, but once I figured out the mechanics, and game play, I was hooked, and played nothing else until I got every trophy in it.

punchesjudy

Rkphilpot said:

punchesjudy said:

As a big fan of Bethesda earlier rpgs I ditched off Starfield well quick. Just shite. 

Downloaded Lies of P and loving it. 

Pre installed that and didn't realise it was out now. Will try it next week.

If you like a good soulsborne game you should enjoy it. It’s a bit Sekiro, a bit Souls and a bit Bloodborne all in one. The parry timing window is a teeny bit too strict though imo. 

RaymondLin

There are lots of cool side quests in Cyberpunk, some are nothing more than killing some guy, but I like the boxing one.  

CavemanGrogg

RaymondLin said:

There are lots of cool side quests in Cyberpunk, some are nothing more than killing some guy, but I like the boxing one.  

That one was quite fun.

ThePrettyDamned

Finding demons souls a bit too clunky. It's good, but it's not dark souls. Very much feels like a concept note, an idea that would turn into dark souls.

I did the unthinkable and downloaded skyrim, and am playing the angriest orc. Heavy armour and a warhammer. I mag learn something to enchant it with fire. 

That would make it a warmhammer.