General Gaming thread

TeleMaster

Stratavarious said:

Is it me

Heresy?

Yes. 

And. 

Yes. 

stickyfiddle

Stratavarious said:

Is it me, or does Zelda Breath of The Wild suck?

Too bitty, endless weapon chasing.. They seem to have crammed too many random things from the franchise in.  Just can’t seem get into it after hours of playing.

Heresy?

Nah, it's you. Takes most people a few hours (including me) but it grabs most of us in the end. 

RaymondLin

Stratavarious said:

Is it me, or does Zelda Breath of The Wild suck?

Too bitty, endless weapon chasing.. They seem to have crammed too many random things from the franchise in.  Just can’t seem get into it after hours of playing.

Heresy?

The weapons is stressful until you get the Master Sword but it's not a big issue really.  There are a million ways to kill things in the game due to the in game physics engine. 

TeleMaster

So much blasphemy. I am shook. 

beed84

Stratavarious said:

Is it me, or does Zelda Breath of The Wild suck?

Too bitty, endless weapon chasing.. They seem to have crammed too many random things from the franchise in.  Just can’t seem get into it after hours of playing.

Heresy?

It’s you. BOTW is the kind of game you bask in. Given all its beauty, I recommend you take your time with it and enjoy every moment. I completed the main missions years ago and just booted it back up again. I still have a load to do but I quite like roaming around and exploring the never ending splendour. It’s simply stunning.

monquixote

Stratavarious said:

Is it me, or does Zelda Breath of The Wild suck?

Too bitty, endless weapon chasing.. They seem to have crammed too many random things from the franchise in.  Just can’t seem get into it after hours of playing.

Heresy?

It's has the highest Metacritic score of any current gen game so I think it's probably you. 

RaymondLin

I think I have broken the start of Elden Ring with my farming.  Killed Margit in 4 or 5 shot.  lol

ThePrettyDamned

RaymondLin said:

I think I have broken the start of Elden Ring with my farming.  Killed Margit in 4 or 5 shot.  lol

I think the best way to play for you now is a full lore run - read everything and explore everything.

I'm a few runs from being good enough for that, but it's one of the best things about this type of game. 

CavemanGrogg

So I bit the bullet today and bought a copy of Horizon Forbidden West, the PS4 version with the free upfate to the PS5 version, bugger me is it a big game, two bloody discs.  The first disc is the ''Data Disc'', and the second is the ''Play Disc'', only they don't really work like that, the Data Disc contains less than 50% of the installation data, and the Play Disc has the other half, and by Chritst does it not take ages to install.  It took that long to install, that by the time it was ready to play, I don't have any time to give it a try before the women I'm sort of seeing comes round.

Heartfeltdawn

CavemanGrogg said:

So I bit the bullet today and bought a copy of Horizon Forbidden West, the PS4 version with the free upfate to the PS5 version, bugger me is it a big game, two bloody discs.  The first disc is the ''Data Disc'', and the second is the ''Play Disc'', only they don't really work like that, the Data Disc contains less than 50% of the installation data, and the Play Disc has the other half, and by Chritst does it not take ages to install.  It took that long to install, that by the time it was ready to play, I don't have any time to give it a try before the women I'm sort of seeing comes round.

It's a very different kind of installation process when ladies are involved. 

CavemanGrogg

Got to say from what I've experienced of Horizon Forbidden West so far, I'm really impressed.  I haven't had much time to play, and I'm the kind of player who explores every nook and crany, so I think I'm still doing the turtorial, but so far I'm extremely impressed.  The machines AI is much much improved and smater, I thinkk I've killed 10 of them - well the only trophy I have is for stealth killing 10 and I haven't figured out if the game keeps a running tally yet , the world, it''s simply visually stunning, and huge.  The gameplay has been massively improved apon aswell, it doesn't feel anywhere near as clunky as Horizon Zero Dawn, but rather very smooth and fluid, comparing it to Horizon Zero Dawn, I'd say your character - I can never reember her name, moves as well during the turtorial as if not better than you do once you max everything out and are wearing the super old world suit that requires you to find 4 batteries and solve a few puzzles in an old world cavern ruin to acquire.  And environmet interaction has finally been added, you now can ineract a hell of a lot more with ruins from the old world, like prying open the boots of the ruined cars scattered around the world.

Sporky

Anyone else planning on one of these?

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/horizon-forbidden-west-tallneck-76989

stickyfiddle

I'm really enjoying HFW. It doesn't do anything particularly new, and I don't think the story is quite as good as HZD (so far - I'm just about to get the third computer personality thingy) but it's a really satisfying gameplay loop and one which I'm liking. 

@Sporky I don't think I need a Lego tallneck but I will be there on day 1 for the BTTF Delorean. That one does look a bloody good kit, but my cats would eat all the pointy bits  

Sporky

stickyfiddle said:

@Sporky I don't think I need a Lego tallneck

I'm pretty sure you're wrong, but OK.  

I am very much enjoying HFW. Aloy talks too much, the sound has to be forced to mono or half the voices disappear, and there's that standard "I'm trying to save the world, but yeah, I can spend two days finding your lost cat" thing, but so much of it is so good that none of that matters. 

stickyfiddle

I was actually quite impressed that one of the first things they patched was making Aloy talk about her stash less. Seems the playtesters way underestimated how much us normies would pick shit up. Apparently they've just added an option to disable the "picking stuff up" animation for berries and wood etc. Sometimes it's the little things  

meltedbuzzbox

Stratavarious said:

Is it me, or does Zelda Breath of The Wild suck?

Too bitty, endless weapon chasing.. They seem to have crammed too many random things from the franchise in.  Just can’t seem get into it after hours of playing.

Heresy?

I loved it until I got to about 75% of the way through. At that point it felt a bit repetitive and I ended up grinding out the end. 
It was a good game, I enjoyed most of it but I wouldn't say its heresy if you dont like it. I very nearly left it incomplete. 

I am very much like that with Gears of War/Halo/Destiny and a few other franchises. Its just the same endless repeated boring shite to me

Sporky

stickyfiddle said:

I was actually quite impressed that one of the first things they patched was making Aloy talk about her stash less. Seems the playtesters way underestimated how much us normies would pick shit up. Apparently they've just added an option to disable the "picking stuff up" animation for berries and wood etc. Sometimes it's the little things  

It's not awful, but I'd like a "Disable Aloy spoilers" toggle to stop her explaining the puzzles to me as soon as I walk into a room. I'm OK at puzzles, and part of the joy is working out what the puzzle is, then working out the solution. She just goes straight into "I could use my blah blah blah to do something to that blah blah blah". Or "I should use my Focus". I KNOW BUT I AM LOOKING AT ALL THE SHINY AND ALL THE BLINKINLIGHTS!".

Also her hair is distractingly wiggly ALL THE TIME.

Still really enjoying it though.

carlos

Bidley said:

Disco Elysium - one of the best and most unique games I've played in years.

It's just a point and click... but what a story! And the characters! And the world building! All top notch.

stickyfiddle

Sporky said:

stickyfiddle said:

I was actually quite impressed that one of the first things they patched was making Aloy talk about her stash less. Seems the playtesters way underestimated how much us normies would pick shit up. Apparently they've just added an option to disable the "picking stuff up" animation for berries and wood etc. Sometimes it's the little things  

It's not awful, but I'd like a "Disable Aloy spoilers" toggle to stop her explaining the puzzles to me as soon as I walk into a room. I'm OK at puzzles, and part of the joy is working out what the puzzle is, then working out the solution. She just goes straight into "I could use my blah blah blah to do something to that blah blah blah". Or "I should use my Focus". I KNOW BUT I AM LOOKING AT ALL THE SHINY AND ALL THE BLINKINLIGHTS!".

Also her hair is distractingly wiggly ALL THE TIME.

Still really enjoying it though.

It wouldn't surprise me if that was on the way. 

PolarityMan

Sporky said:

Anyone else planning on one of these?

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/horizon-forbidden-west-tallneck-76989

Why has that giraffe got a starship enterprise on it's head?