General Gaming thread

DefaultM

My brother had the N64 so I only ever got to play it when he was out and I snuck in his room. I remember booting chickens in Zelda, but mainly being really frustrated with the controller. I thought Golden Eye was unplayable but everyone seemed to love it.

Sporky

FarleyUK said:

Think I'm currently at 52 hours on Cyberpunk. What an awesome game that is - and a great example of devs listening to (the well deserved) criticism and correcting it. Would have been nice if it was actually released in this state, but hey-ho.

If you've never tried it - or played it on release and dropped it - take another look.

i got about five hours in and gave up. Dull, dull, dull. Derivative setting, on-rails shooter sections, tedious go-and-talk-to-pompous-NPCs missions. I dare not imagine how awful it must have been on release if people think it's much improved now. 

TeleMaster

Sporky said:

FarleyUK said:

Think I'm currently at 52 hours on Cyberpunk. What an awesome game that is - and a great example of devs listening to (the well deserved) criticism and correcting it. Would have been nice if it was actually released in this state, but hey-ho.

If you've never tried it - or played it on release and dropped it - take another look.

i got about five hours in and gave up. Dull, dull, dull. Derivative setting, on-rails shooter sections, tedious go-and-talk-to-pompous-NPCs missions. I dare not imagine how awful it must have been on release if people think it's much improved now. 

I agree. After the opening scenes where the story is set up there was no logical reason why the guy would run around doing little side quests all day long. It was a complete immersion killer and the whole game felt completely pointless beyond the main quest. It was just really poor writing. No amount of patches can fix that. 

Stratavarious

Interesting re. Cyberpunk… was considering picking it up cheap for PS5 but I got similarly bored with all the similar format side missions in AC Odyssey.

Barnezy

Any GT7 players out there? 

Would be great to setup a few Fretboard races! 

Rkphilpot

Stratavarious said:

Interesting re. Cyberpunk… was considering picking it up cheap for PS5 but I got similarly bored with all the similar format side missions in AC Odyssey.

Is say it's a lot more varied with side missions than AC. But each to their own, I'm enjoying it.

Stratavarious

Rkphilpot said:

Stratavarious said:

Interesting re. Cyberpunk… was considering picking it up cheap for PS5 but I got similarly bored with all the similar format side missions in AC Odyssey.

Is say it's a lot more varied with side missions than AC. But each to their own, I'm enjoying it.

I might risk it then.

TheMarlin

I started cyberpunk, but got to the listening/scanning section (where you find the hidden whatsit in the dead guy room) and got very bored. Then gave the game away to my nephew. 

I started another playthrough of TLOU2 with the £10 PS5 upgrade.  Doesn’t really add much, graphics are a. It nicer, but otherwise the same game. It’s quite short, so should get through it in a few days, the back to finish Ghost of Tsushima. 

Ghost OT is a fabulous game. Its better than Days Gone, which is a hell of a complement. 

joneve

TheMarlin said:

I started cyberpunk, but got to the listening/scanning section (where you find the hidden whatsit in the dead guy room) and got very bored. Then gave the game away to my nephew. 

I started another playthrough of TLOU2 with the £10 PS5 upgrade.  Doesn’t really add much, graphics are a. It nicer, but otherwise the same game. It’s quite short, so should get through it in a few days, the back to finish Ghost of Tsushima. 

Ghost OT is a fabulous game. It's better than Days Gone, which is a hell of a complement. 

TLOU2, short?!? I played it for about 3 hours and only just got past the intro haha. 

Elwood

Started another Elden Ring play through - in preparation of the DLC dropping this year.

Fantastic game - got through Margit and looking forward to getting onto the next boss.

RaymondLin

Elwood said:

Started another Elden Ring play through - in preparation of the DLC dropping this year.

Fantastic game - got through Margit and looking forward to getting onto the next boss.

I need to finish that, I only just made it through up the lift....I got myself very OP too from farming and grinding (killed Margit 1st attempt, 5 hits) but since I am so bad I still struggle with fights and die often.

Elwood

RaymondLin said:

Elwood said:

Started another Elden Ring play through - in preparation of the DLC dropping this year.

Fantastic game - got through Margit and looking forward to getting onto the next boss.

I need to finish that, I only just made it through up the lift....I got myself very OP too from farming and grinding (killed Margit 1st attempt, 5 hits) but since I am so bad I still struggle with fights and die often.

I do like the variety in the game - so many builds with summons and different things to help with the difficult sections. I was Dex/Int first play through & going to try a strength build with massive sword this time.

Well worth sticking with/1

Sporky

I'm redoing The Talos Principle, then Road to Gehenna, in preparation for The Talos Principle 2.

Interesting taking a third run through; I don't really remember the puzzles, but I have found some odd ways to solve them. RTG, as I recall, requires loads of "wrong" approaches. 

RaymondLin

Elwood said:

RaymondLin said:

Elwood said:

Started another Elden Ring play through - in preparation of the DLC dropping this year.

Fantastic game - got through Margit and looking forward to getting onto the next boss.

I need to finish that, I only just made it through up the lift....I got myself very OP too from farming and grinding (killed Margit 1st attempt, 5 hits) but since I am so bad I still struggle with fights and die often.

I do like the variety in the game - so many builds with summons and different things to help with the difficult sections. I was Dex/Int first play through & going to try a strength build with massive sword this time.

Well worth sticking with/1

I went for intelligence/magic build with a huge health pool (it goes half way across the screen).  Thr problem is I haven't played it for so long I have lost the rhythm of it. 

DefaultM

I'm on the free trial of Nintendo Online. I think anything pre SNES is unplayable for me, but I'm enjoying Donkey Kong Country for the 50th time.

strumjoughlamps

DefaultM said:

I'm on the free trial of Nintendo Online. I think anything pre SNES is unplayable for me, but I'm enjoying Donkey Kong Country for the 50th time.

Mighty Bomb Jack
Exciteabike
Punch Out
Balloon Fight

All decent games

ThePrettyDamned

RaymondLin said:

Elwood said:

RaymondLin said:

Elwood said:

Started another Elden Ring play through - in preparation of the DLC dropping this year.

Fantastic game - got through Margit and looking forward to getting onto the next boss.

I need to finish that, I only just made it through up the lift....I got myself very OP too from farming and grinding (killed Margit 1st attempt, 5 hits) but since I am so bad I still struggle with fights and die often.

I do like the variety in the game - so many builds with summons and different things to help with the difficult sections. I was Dex/Int first play through & going to try a strength build with massive sword this time.

Well worth sticking with/1

I went for intelligence/magic build with a huge health pool (it goes half way across the screen).  Thr problem is I haven't played it for so long I have lost the rhythm of it. 

That's basically my experience of elden ring - and possibly open world games in general - whereas dark souls/bloodborne never get boring despite linearity. 

I want to give elden ring another go but I can't be bothered to get through the first... I don't know, 30 hours? Again! 

Ladyprettydamned has been using the ps5 extensively playing sims4. Last night I bought her a pet pack for it. I've never really "got" sims but she's absolutely loving it - any fans here? 

TimmyO

nero1701 said:

Late to the game..

I'd bought Zelda BOTW 3-4 years ago and just didn't get on with it, how wrong I was. It’s so much fun, I'm reall enjoying the story and the baddies are just at the right level!

Similarly I got it a year or 2 ago and didn’t get on with it at first (well, until this week!) - when I HAD played it occasionally it seems I’d not understood the first ‘mission’ To find the shrines - I thought they were those massive towers in the distance which (it turns out) you can’t get to at that point in the game. Doh. No wonder I found it frustrating. 

I’ve now only just been given the glider thing. 

Penn

Tried SimAirport, don’t know why I wasted the money. Don’t bother! 

ThePrettyDamned

I'm playing the tomb raider remastered trilogy with ladyprettydamned tonight. So far it's great! We loved the (frustrating) originals, this is really bringing back some memories.

Only 1 out of 3 secrets on the first level.