General gaming discussion

[Ian]

Wildermyth is an impressive thing. Sort-of procedural RPG storytelling still managing to create some top stories and character moments is quite a feat, and I love the amount of strange stuff that can happen to your characters. I've got a ranger who literally can't use a bow any more because one arm got transformed into a taloned crow foot/arm claw thing and the other, in a separate side-quest, she bunged into an element forge and it gave that arm a fire enchantment which is basically a flamethrower so she's now basically a totally unique class, which holds its own without breaking the combat. A very cleverly put together game.

[Shindig]

I am now in the late-game grind for Monster Hunter World. I think I'm tapping out.

[randomlegend]

Are you not doing Iceborne? Where are you actually up to? The post-story stuff in the base game isn't necessary (or honestly particularly worth doing) before starting Iceborne.

[Shindig]

I'm up to the Pink Rathian hunt and I feel like the defender gear has outstayed its welcome. I've got the base game and have no intention to buy Iceborne.

[randomlegend]

Lol you've got fucking miles to go yet, that's about 2/3 of the way through.

Defender gear is the best gear in base game. Time to GIT GUD.

[Shindig]

Meh. Maybe I just don't care enough to plough 100 hours into this. I see the appeal but there's a couple of dumb things I get irritated by:

- Two big monsters fighting should not break off their scrap within seconds for them both to turn their attention on you. They love to do that.
- Having to clear smaller monsters during a hunt just to activate the scout flies again. Mildly irritating.

I may go back to it but I'd rather play games I genuinely like.

[randomlegend]

Yeah fair enough. I can definitely see it's not a game everyone is going to fall in love with.

I do honestly think the defender gear somewhat ruins the experience though.

[randomlegend]

- Having to clear smaller monsters during a hunt just to activate the scout flies again. Mildly irritating.

If you run far enough away they will deaggro but yes this is annoying.

[Yevrah]

I spent four/five hours playing God of War (2018) tonight. Am I the only person in the World who thinks it's a bit shit? I loved the PS2 and PS3 ones, for their exploration, combat, World and enemies, whereas this just felt like walking into one samey section after another, engaging in boring combat, against tanky or tedious as fuck adversaries, before moving onto another section to rinse and repeat.

[Baz]

I played it once, for a similar length of time, ejected the disc and sold it.

[Shindig]

I'm not that keen on the combat. It's got that Sony prestige whiff about it. Everything looks nice but the fights are all in these 'tighter than they should be' arenas and Kratos has lost some of his mobility. I whacked it on easy to just to enjoy the story.

[Baz]

So who is getting Hogwarts Legacy?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've already pre-ordered it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've started on Gotham Knights to try and sneak that in before Hogwarts.

Haven't played too much yet but it seems alright. Fast travel would be nice (it has it but it seems a little annoying to unlock from checking) and it feels a little clunky especially when moving and combat can be a little wonky at times but the story is alright so far.

It's absolutely not as good as the Arkham series (especially the first two) but I don't think it deserves the hate it's been getting.

[Baz]

The Series S/X can now emulate 360 games.

PS3 next, no doubt. What a console.

[Mike]

So who is getting Hogwarts Legacy?

It’s getting some good reviews!

https://opencritic.com/game/13898/ho...legacy/reviews

[Yevrah]

Some of those look quite suspicious.

A gigantic love letter to one of the most beloved and relevant universes of youth literature, and one of the best games of the year.

Alejandro Morillas
IGN Spain

Best game of what year? We're only six weeks into this one.

[Ian]

Yeah I've not having these "stellar" reviews so far.

[Yevrah]

I just saw a few minutes of the gameranx (iirc) one. Now the game itself looks shit, but even in the video (in the first 90 seconds no less) the reviewer is telling us how if you're a hardened gamer you might find things to take issue with, but don't worry, it's an amazing game.

Aren't 'hardened gamer's' basically their entire viewer base? I'm smelling bullshit here.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've been geeking out just exploring the castle so far, on my way to Hogsmeade now though.

[Dark Soldier]

I'm watching a streamer play it and it looks like utter piss, hut then I'm not the target audience as wizards and all that crap are generally for nonces.

[Disco]

It looks like another fairly average open world action game, because everyone was crying out for another one of those.

[Yevrah]

Talking of which (even though it isn't really open World so far) I'm persevering with God of War and it's one of the most up and down games I've ever played. It seems to veer from incredible set pieces to downright awful boss fights (like some of the worst I can recall) and they've genuinely copied and pasted the same boss about four times so far.

It's good, I think, but I genuinely don't understand how it got the praise it did and for me, it doesn't seem finished.

[Boydy]

I hated God of War. Gave it about half an hour but I couldn't get on with the combat at all. It felt shite. Probably didn't help that I came to it off the back of Middle-earth: Shadow of War which has excellent combat.

[Dark Soldier]

Fucking love God of War.

The sequel is an absolute mess though and I've given up after 10 hours.

[Yevrah]

What's wrong with it DS?

[Dark Soldier]

It's a seemingly endless loop of cutscene > a few fights down open but linear areas > retrieve new person > cutscene, rinse and repeat.

They haven't refined the combat, only chucked more stuff on. Thr AI literally tell you the answers to puzzles (not that they're difficult) within 5 seconds of discovering them, and they never shut the fuck up trying to assist you. Its full of bloat and maximising systems and add ons to armor and smug writing and please stop.

It's gorgeous to look at, it just feels like it's a regression from the quite tight first.

[phonics]

I’ve never liked god of war so not to defend itThere’s an option in the menu to stop them answering the puzzles.

[Dark Soldier]

On Ragnarok? As last time I played it there wasn't, it launched without. Caused backlash as on Horizon they had that option


Guess that patched it in as I've not touched it since before Christmas, which is some relief at least.

Edit: Can't find any news of that on Ragnarok.

www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/11/16/no-you-cant-turn-off-god-of-war-ragnaroks-annoying-puzzle-hints/amp/

[phonics]

Maybe it was a different game. My bad.

[Dark Soldier]

Ah no worries, that being implemented would make me give it another crack is all. The puzzles are the easiest shit in the world and they waffle on at ya like you're mentally stunted.

[Shindig]

Metroid Prime Remastered looks pretty good.

[Dark Soldier]

Played through it last year with mouse and keyboard on emu and it's still a banger. I'll emu this anyway. Fuck giving Nintendo money.

[Shindig]

I already have it on Gamecube. I need to get Echoes played.

[phonics]

Prime is over-rated imo but anyone that hasn't played Dread needs to get that in their life.

[Ian]

Metroid Prime is ace and this is definitely going on my wishlist.

Dread is also on there and may be bought soon with a voucher I've got.

[wullie]

I don't know if I've fallen into some ironic quicksand now but I've bought Power Wash Simulator and I'm loving every nonsense second of it.

[Gray Fox]

So, new Zelda does look very similar to BoTW. Is it an expansion or are we talking full featured game here?

[Shindig]

Full game but very much in that mould.

[Pepe]

Can't wait.

[Ian]

I went back to BOTW after about a month away from it and it didn't give me the spark of renewed enthusiasm I was hoping for.

It's a technically spectacular thing that increasingly left me quite cold. I can get to Hyrule Castle now though so I may as well try and see it through.

I don't know if I've fallen into some ironic quicksand now but I've bought Power Wash Simulator and I'm loving every nonsense second of it.

I'm scared to try it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Found a bug in Hogwarts. I'm somehow now below the map.

[Shindig]

Nah, that's just magic.

[Ian]

No no, JK reviews the save files, decided you're trans and sent you to hell.

Nae luck mate.

[Shindig]

Are you saying Hogwarts is an re-education camp? I mean, I guess all schools are.

[Dark Soldier]

Bought Harry Potter don't know why so I'm off to get a Nazi tattoo

[Mike]

We can get matching ones. My partner is playing, and was being all nice to everyone, so I said when I play I'll be a dick. The game, and all the people in it are so lovely that I haven't been able to bring myself to be a dick yet.

[Yevrah]

So gents, real talk time. Is it good?

[Dark Soldier]

I've only done an hour or so but its stunning to look at. Ended up at Slytherin cos they seem nasty

[Mike]

It's a secret souls game...