Did you read his dev blog post? Quite techy but interestingOriginally Posted by Mike
Did you read his dev blog post? Quite techy but interesting
Papers, Please is great and I'll give anything Pope does a go but I am sad he's said he probably won't attempt anything on the scale of Obra Dinn again.
I also can't decide whether that would stand up to a replay.
Spider-Man is so god damn good. What a great podcast game. I just piss about doing the challenges instead of doing anything main line.
Along the same lines of cheapish games you'll play through once, currently enjoying Arcade Paradise. You're some 90s loser who is barely trusted by your dad to run his launderette, there are some old arcade cabinets out the back and an opportunity presents itself so you do the day job to fund the purchase and upgrade of what becomes a pretty snazzy backroom arcade.
In addition to the fun of chucking litter in a skip (you can upgrade your bin bag capacity too if you save enough money) and putting a load of washing on, you can play all of the games you install as well, including a GTA/Pacman hybrid, a Mr Driller ripoff, a Dance Dance Revolution machine I'm saving to get next and so on. Really well done, once finished will never look at it again. Lovely
I'm enjoying it enormously.
I reckon I could happily stick a podcast on and just swing about. It's very zen.
Which Spider-Man is this?
The Insomniac one which has been remastered and released on PC.
I met John Romero last night and got to frag him in a Doom 2 deathmatch, pretty cool.
The best hair in game development. Still.
How did that come about?
He lives in Galway or something. Probably went down to Barrow to look at some lakes.
You’ll have access to the non remastered version on PS+ Extra. I’ll be honest I’ve not looked up if it’s worth stumping up the extra cash for.
It comes with the DLC but otherwise it'll just be graphical I think so the answer is: no, it's not worth paying extra for.
Runs like a dream on my PC though and the loading times but a lot of other games to shame. It's fired up in no time. A proper effort to get it ready for PC release from Insomniac.
Arcade Club in Bury held an event, £15 a ticket. My mate is a mega Doom fan so I tagged along.
Got Saints Row for the PS5 on release, fuck knows why I bothered.
Just watched a video review of it and it does look proper shit. The reboot angle had me interested, but it looks like they've just churned out the same shit they've been doing for years.
It's like they had no idea what to do with it.
Bit late to the party but playing through GTA 5 on the PS5, considering its about 120 years old now it's still worth a play through if you never touched it before if only for watching the Trevor cut scenes.
Shoulda let us know lad, I live about five minutes away.
Can't say I expected Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed to be one of the better things I've reviewed this year. Still essentially the PS2 game but with completely redone graphics. Looks surprisingly nice and colourful and the humour manages to mostly work. The boss battles are a bit shit, though.
I haven't watched F1 in at least 10 years but I've dipped my toe into F1 Manager and I'm enjoying it so far despite having a limited knowledge.
Started at Williams, partly because I like a zero to hero story but also because I knew their expectations would be low.
Qualifying went poorly in our first race and it saw Albon in 19th and Latifi in 20th. In the race I thought we did ok and Albon was up into 17th shortly after everyone had pitted for the first time. Sadly his rear tyres decided to get shredded and after taking an earlier than expected pit stop we only managed a 19th/20th finish in the race. The highlight was Latifi locking up at three corners on the final lap.
Qualifying for the second also went poorly with another Albon 19th, Latifi 20th showing. However I decided to tweak both cars a little and Albon started hot by overtaking Stroll earlier, however he and Stroll exchanged places for a couple of laps. However, I activated the ERS at the right time and Stroll ate our dust. Next up was Vettel who we seemed to trade positions for ages with us both using a similar pit strategy. Unfortunately Vettel overtook Albon right as Mick Schumacher decided to go head to head with a wall and the safety car came out.
When the safety car went in I tried to push both cars but the Aston's had too much and they slipped away and I thought we were getting another bottom two finish (albeit an 18th/19th as Mick was now out). I kept pushing Albon hard though as I thought he had the pace and thankfully Vettel locked up at a corner and Albon flew past and Stroll (who, like Latifi was on a one stop strategy) fell down to 19th. I kept pushing to keep them at bay and they were never able to eat into the 3.5s gap we had over them. 16th for Albon and 17th for Latifi.
Can you create your own team on this?
I really fancy a long term game but not sure I'd have the time / patience.
How long is it taking to get through a race weekend? Then how long does the behind the scenes stuff take up to the next race?
No.
Practice and Qualifying doesn't take too long (especially as you can simulate them although it's better not to). The actual race does take some time but you can use 16x speed at non-vital moments and the game will bring it back down to 1x when something happens that needs your attention. I'd say a race weekend takes up about 1.5-2 hours total.
Stuff behind the scenes doesn't take too long. I usually send out the couple of scouts I have looking at other drivers, I'll get my engineers working on a part/manufacture a part and read a couple of emails. I'm sure others do a lot more but it doesn't seem that there's too much to really dive into out of the race.
Sad that its over.
I'm just working my way through the DLCs.
I’ve heard they’re not very good. Update me if they actually are.
I'll keep you posted. So far the first bit is... Fine? I'm mostly in it for the costumes.
I think I might like the challenges more than the Taskmaster ones, though Screwball needs launched into the sea.
I tried to play Starcraft BroodWar. I have never played a game. Sadly I'm the only one who hasn't ever played a game playing.
Have you arrived in 1998? I don't understand.
They remastered it and it’s free with Amazon Prime.
I was playing one of those dodgy versions of Goldeneye at the weekend, is there anything similar for XBox One? Not just a FPS where it's online and running about getting killed and reappearing, but something along the sneakier lines that Goldeneye was.
Perfect Dark should be available somewhere - it's made by the same team (mostly) and plays very similar. Or Hitman for the classic stealth-em-up shooter
That one rings a bell. Was it a sort of sequel to Goldeneye, or a follow-up made by the same people?
Completely different story/world, but essentially a follow-up without the film tie-in. It's a great game
OK so I'm done with Cyberpunk now (comment in propa thread incoming).
Now started on Disco Elysium. The idea is cool, and I see where they are coming from.
But I think I need something with a bit more action to play in between a little.
So - hit me with Storydriven RPGs that aren't extremely difficult?
I have already played these:
Outer worlds
Fallout NV
Fallout 4
Witcher 3
Cyberpunk
Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2
Horizon Zero Dawn & Forbidden West
Tales of Arise
FFVII Remake
Mass Effect Legendary Edition (1, 2 & 3)
Wasteland 3
Skyrim?
Control perhaps, although it's not super RPG-ish.
Played Skyrim (a million years ago) and yeah Control as well
All of the Yakuza games (well, not the zombie one).
A lot of the things on that list were heavily influenced by Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 so those would seem decent suggestions.
My real recommendation is "shut up and play Disco Elysium" but failing that.... not really an RPG but it's an open world-y thing along the lines of Horizon Zero Dawn (which I also don't think is really an RPG) so you could try Shadow of Mordor, I expect it's knocking around cheap somewhere.
Also Perfect Dark was better than Goldeneye.
Elvis
Oh I intend to play it. But I want to do something else as well.
Cheers for the suggestions. It all seems a little...barren when it comes to games that aren't very old.
Are there no cool JRPGs I've missed?
(nothing too silly, like I tried Dragon Quest but that was just too childish).
I've heard the Yakuza games are really good but never tried them myself.
And Shadow of Morder has the nemesis system so it's worth trying it for that alone if you never played it.
+1 for Shadow of Mordor. I'm not really a Lord of the Rings fan (seen the films, they're alright, might give the upcoming TV show a go) but those games are great fun.
The story is a lot more lol than anything in actual LOTR, for both better and worse.
Plus they teach the stealth kill mechanic in the creepiest way possible.
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Think this is the end of my story. I'm now 1 in 15. Back to Starcraft 2.
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