What are you playing right now?

[Mark Celibate]

Been playing Mario Wonder recently…IMO, the best 2/2.5D Mario to date. Only gripe is that the non-Special World levels have consistently been easy as $hit. Although I’m only through 2 worlds so far IMO

[baseline bum]

Been playing Mario Wonder recently…IMO, the best 2/2.5D Mario to date. Only gripe is that the non-Special World levels have consistently been easy as $hit. Although I’m only through 2 worlds so far IMO

Better than Super Mario World and Super Mario 3? Wow. Gonna have to check it after the Spurs choke this game away to Portland's G-League team.

[Mark Celibate]

Better than Super Mario World and Super Mario 3? Wow. Gonna have to check it after the Spurs choke this game away to Portland's G-League team.

I think it's better than Super Mario World for sure, feels like the natural evolution that expands on a lot of ideas; although I wish they brought back the secret exits. That sh!t was an awesome feeling the first time you stumbled upon one in the original SMW. Getting a secret exit, cutting through a part of the map that you assumed was off limits, and taking a pipe to a secret fortress to fight those weird Reznor Rhinos.

I'll review again after finishing it along with the Secret World. It looks similar to Star World in that you access different areas of the map based on which world you come in from. So far, I've done one secret level and it was pretty well designed and very difficult as expected. I assume, just like the rest of the Mario games post 2010ish, there's probably an optional Kaizo type level at the very end you play if you've collected everything.

Mario 3 was my favorite and is still pretty close; just a different type of game. If I want to play through a quick game, that's overall challenging from start to finish without all the extra bells and whistles, SMB3 is still the best in that regard.

It is funny though what is considered "hard" now vs back in the early 1990s. There was one level I did yesterday, had moderately difficult platforming, that I breezed through on the first try that's apparently at "controller throwing" hard level for younger gamers. :lol was surprised to see so many commenters on a YouTube video saying they burned through 30+ lives on what seemed like a pretty mid-tier level rofl

[baseline bum]

It is funny though what is considered "hard" now vs back in the early 1990s. There was one level I did yesterday, had moderately difficult platforming, that I breezed through on the first try that's apparently at "controller throwing" hard level for younger gamers. :lol was surprised to see so many commenters on a YouTube video saying they burned through 30+ lives on what seemed like a pretty mid-tier level rofl

You want hard play Japan Super Mario Bros 2. I cut my teeth on VS Super Mario Bros in the arcades as my parents wouldn't buy me an NES since they thought it was a fad after Atari went under, and that game had a bunch of Japan Super Mario 2 levels. I'd go to my friend's house and say oh god this level is really hard when they were playing Super Mario Bros on NES and then see no, the NES game didn't have wind and forward moving hammer bros and impossible jumps like VS Super Mario Bros did :lol

[DJR210]

Can you shoot 'em in the prick? :lol

You can actually, complete with the same reaction from the 1st movie

[Mark Celibate]

You want hard play Japan Super Mario Bros 2. I cut my teeth on VS Super Mario Bros in the arcades as my parents wouldn't buy me an NES since they thought it was a fad after Atari went under, and that game had a bunch of Japan Super Mario 2 levels. I'd go to my friend's house and say oh god this level is really hard when they were playing Super Mario Bros on NES and then see no, the NES game didn't have wind and forward moving hammer bros and impossible jumps like VS Super Mario Bros did :lol

rofl

I think I finally beat Lost Levels legitimately (no save states) for the first time last year. I got good enough to where most of the levels really weren't THAT bad, but the late stage castle ones were just brutal. I seem to recall some crazy platforming jumps on those levels like jumping down onto a platform directly below you, which was ridiculous when the game physics actually took into account acceleration by gravity when falling and having no gamebreaking items like capes or raccoon tails to make jumping easier. Another one I remember was having to jump onto a pipe on the very edge with the piranha plant coming out of it. The last one, World D-4, IMO is the hardest Mario level I've ever played. It was so bad it was the only one I had to save state through for the longest time until finally beating it legitimately last year. :lol haven't touched the game since

The US version of Mario Bros 2 (Doki Doki Panic) gave me much more trouble than 1 and 3 for the longest time until I realized where all the mushroom/potion locations were. Then it got stupid easy. I was basically playing the game in 'minimal health' mode the whole time unknowingly :lol

[spurraider21]

nice thing about miles morales being a short game is that you can breeze through NG+, even on the harder difficulty (which tbh doesnt feel any harder, especially with the OP skill you gain in NG+ that basically gives you a free life)

ive already gotten all the annoying trophies out of the way. once i wrap up the main story on NG+ i'll have plat

i dont usually hunt plat, but its not that hard for these spiderman games, and i did so in the first one, so felt i may as well carry on with it. heck, i think my only platinums are spider-man, god of war, sekiro, god of war: ragnarok, and soon to be miles morales

will jump into god of war DLC next

[Joseph Kony]

Really curious about Asgard's Wrath 2, it's getting a lot of 10/10 reviews and is supposedly the first really legit VR game. I hear it runs just as well on the Quest 2 vs the 3 but still hard to stomach dropping $250 at minimum just to play 1 game

[baseline bum]

Really curious about Asgard's Wrath 2, it's getting a lot of 10/10 reviews and is supposedly the first really legit VR game. I hear it runs just as well on the Quest 2 vs the 3 but still hard to stomach dropping $250 at minimum just to play 1 game

Just buy a Fleshlight and get a Naughty America VR subscription tbh

[baseline bum]

Been playing Mario Wonder recently…IMO, the best 2/2.5D Mario to date. Only gripe is that the non-Special World levels have consistently been easy as $hit. Although I’m only through 2 worlds so far IMO

Finished the first world and so far it's cool but I wouldn't put it above Super Mario Maker 2's built in levels so far. And yeah even the four star level in World 1 was easy as hell. Much better than Super Mario U Deluxe though. I'm way too early to rank this but so far of the 2D/2.5D Marios I have played I'd rank them

1. Super Mario Bros 1 / VS Super Mario Bros
2. Super Mario World
3. Super Mario 3
4. Super Mario Maker 2 (built-in levels)
5. New Super Mario Bros (DS)
6. New Super Mario Bros Wii
7. Super Mario Land 2
8. US Super Mario Bros 2
9. Super Mario 3D World
10. Japan Super Mario Bros 2
11. New Super Mario Bros 2 (3DS)
12. Super Mario Land
13. Mario Bros
99. Super Mario Bros U

Gotta admit I never played Yoshi's Island as that crying baby annoyed the shit out of me.

Also don't get the VS Super Mario Bros on sale for Switch. It's terrible and has way too much lag to feel representative of the original arcade. Wish Nintendo would have done a Switch port of it.

There was also a SMB1 inspired game someone wrote for Atari 2600 a few years ago called Princess Rescue. Whoever programmed this JFC it's impressive for the hardware.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXlX8T1FrhI

[Mark Celibate]

Finished the first world and so far it's cool but I wouldn't put it above Super Mario Maker 2's built in levels so far. And yeah even the four star level in World 1 was easy as hell. Much better than Super Mario U Deluxe though. I'm way too early to rank this but so far of the 2D/2.5D Marios I have played I'd rank them

1. Super Mario Bros 1 / VS Super Mario Bros
2. Super Mario World
3. Super Mario 3
4. Super Mario Maker 2 (built-in levels)
5. New Super Mario Bros (DS)
6. New Super Mario Bros Wii
7. Super Mario Land 2
8. US Super Mario Bros 2
9. Super Mario 3D World
10. Japan Super Mario Bros 2
11. New Super Mario Bros 2 (3DS)
12. Super Mario Land
13. Mario Bros
99. Super Mario Bros U

Gotta admit I never played Yoshi's Island as that crying baby annoyed the shit out of me.

Also don't get the VS Super Mario Bros on sale for Switch. It's terrible and has way too much lag to feel representative of the original arcade. Wish Nintendo would have done a Switch port of it.

There was also a SMB1 inspired game someone wrote for Atari 2600 a few years ago called Princess Rescue. Whoever programmed this JFC it's impressive for the hardware.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXlX8T1FrhI

Worth playing through atleast once, but I'd put it in the middle of the pack or maybe even lower half as far as 2D Mario games go. It was a great game at the time, but hasn't really aged very well IMO. Whenever I've tried to play through it again, I end up not finishing and it's a pretty short game.

I'm about halfway through with Wonder and I'm realizing that it's just intentionally meant to be more of a 'fun' game than challenging. On World 4 and I've already got 99 lives and outside of just being carless, I couldn't imagine dying more than once on any level. Even the 4 star levels are a joke for the most part, although there are some cool puzzle based mini levels that I was actually stumped on for awhile. I stand corrected, there are a few levels with secret exits but they are usually pretty obvious and just consist of getting and then not getting the Wonder Seed.

Even playing four Special World levels, only one was actually hard, two were easy, and there was one hilarious one that just had a bunch of 'jump out of nowhere' enemies that was easy once you memorized where they were. Still really like the game, but it feels more like just watching a movie where I'm wondering what the he11 they're going to come up with next vs actually feeling accomplished when completing a level.

[Leetonidas]

Finished the first world and so far it's cool but I wouldn't put it above Super Mario Maker 2's built in levels so far. And yeah even the four star level in World 1 was easy as hell. Much better than Super Mario U Deluxe though. I'm way too early to rank this but so far of the 2D/2.5D Marios I have played I'd rank them

1. Super Mario Bros 1 / VS Super Mario Bros
2. Super Mario World
3. Super Mario 3
4. Super Mario Maker 2 (built-in levels)
5. New Super Mario Bros (DS)
6. New Super Mario Bros Wii
7. Super Mario Land 2
8. US Super Mario Bros 2
9. Super Mario 3D World
10. Japan Super Mario Bros 2
11. New Super Mario Bros 2 (3DS)
12. Super Mario Land
13. Mario Bros
99. Super Mario Bros U

Gotta admit I never played Yoshi's Island as that crying baby annoyed the shit out of me.

Also don't get the VS Super Mario Bros on sale for Switch. It's terrible and has way too much lag to feel representative of the original arcade. Wish Nintendo would have done a Switch port of it.

There was also a SMB1 inspired game someone wrote for Atari 2600 a few years ago called Princess Rescue. Whoever programmed this JFC it's impressive for the hardware.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXlX8T1FrhI

Why do you dislike Super Mario U Deluxe so much :lol

[baseline bum]

Why do you dislike Super Mario U Deluxe so much :lol

Only 2D Mario I have ever gotten bored by.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Been playing Rogue Trader and enjoy it. If you do not like 40k lore or reading I would not recommend it.

[spurraider21]

just got into the Valhalla DLC of god of war. its much better than i thought considering it was free. thought it was basically going to be combat challenges but they actually have a surprisingly good amount of story/cutscene content where it feels like a proper DLC that you might ordinarily pay for.

im not super familiar with or crazy about the roguelike structure but its growing on me some

[Mark Celibate]

Only 2D Mario I have ever gotten bored by.

:lol ok, I've beaten all of Mario Wonder with the exception of the Penultimate Bonus Level and f*ck this level rofl

It's a 10 room badge gauntlet with no power ups and a checkpoint in rooms 4 and 7. Just a meatgrinder of deaths until you memorize the rhythm/patterns of each level. Two rooms were particularly hard; one where you have the Spring badge and you have to precisely jump over the fireball rope things that move in a circle. And the last one with the Invisible badge which I'm currently stuck on. About halfway through the room I had to keep hopping up and down on those flying balloon things and legitimately had no idea where I was and of course get knocked back three rooms after dying. Taking a break now , but man this one is a grind. Only other level in the game that really took some time to beat was the Jump! Jump! Jump! level. Rest were pretty easy.

The last world's levels leading up to the last Bowser fight were pretty awesome as far as presentation tbh

[baseline bum]

:lol ok, I've beaten all of Mario Wonder with the exception of the Penultimate Bonus Level and f*ck this level rofl

It's a 10 room badge gauntlet with no power ups and a checkpoint in rooms 4 and 7. Just a meatgrinder of deaths until you memorize the rhythm/patterns of each level. Two rooms were particularly hard; one where you have the Spring badge and you have to precisely jump over the fireball rope things that move in a circle. And the last one with the Invisible badge which I'm currently stuck on. About halfway through the room I had to keep hopping up and down on those flying balloon things and legitimately had no idea where I was and of course get knocked back three rooms after dying. Taking a break now , but man this one is a grind. Only other level in the game that really took some time to beat was the Jump! Jump! Jump! level. Rest were pretty easy.

The last world's levels leading up to the last Bowser fight were pretty awesome as far as presentation tbh

Damn :lol

Was playing it again last night and it has some really creative levels, but the second special level I got to was a real bastard, though now I forget which one it was. First one was fun where you had disappearing and reappearing blocks and had to make a bunch of wall jumps.

[Mark Celibate]

Damn :lol

Was playing it again last night and it has some really creative levels, but the second special level I got to was a real bastard, though now I forget which one it was. First one was fun where you had disappearing and reappearing blocks and had to make a bunch of wall jumps.

the wall jump one kicked my ass the most out of all of them. The fact you had to go really fast made it so that the last row of blocks would disappear on me right before making it to the end.

I finally beat the penultimate level, and had to do it twice because I missed the top of the flag the first time rofl. The last invisibility section was such a clusterf*ck, but the rest of the rooms weren't that bad. :lol you re-do them enough times to where you can eventually speedrun them without too much trouble. Final reward for beating it was 'meh'. Only thing I really think was lacking were better boss fights, but 2D Mario games always just rehash the Koopalings or Bowser Jr so that was to be expected I guess.

[baseline bum]

the wall jump one kicked my ass the most out of all of them. The fact you had to go really fast made it so that the last row of blocks would disappear on me right before making it to the end.

I finally beat the penultimate level, and had to do it twice because I missed the top of the flag the first time rofl. The last invisibility section was such a clusterf*ck, but the rest of the rooms weren't that bad. :lol you re-do them enough times to where you can eventually speedrun them without too much trouble. Final reward for beating it was 'meh'. Only thing I really think was lacking were better boss fights, but 2D Mario games always just rehash the Koopalings or Bowser Jr so that was to be expected I guess.

It was the one with the hippos. Funny enough I beat it the first try firing the game up again an hour ago. :lol

[baseline bum]

the wall jump one kicked my ass the most out of all of them. The fact you had to go really fast made it so that the last row of blocks would disappear on me right before making it to the end.

I finally beat the penultimate level, and had to do it twice because I missed the top of the flag the first time rofl. The last invisibility section was such a clusterf*ck, but the rest of the rooms weren't that bad. :lol you re-do them enough times to where you can eventually speedrun them without too much trouble. Final reward for beating it was 'meh'. Only thing I really think was lacking were better boss fights, but 2D Mario games always just rehash the Koopalings or Bowser Jr so that was to be expected I guess.

One thing I gotta say is super annoying in this game is every time you beat a level some stupid NPC has lines of meaningless dialogue you just mash A to get through ASAP. Would be so annoying if they put this crap in say Super Mario 3 instead of only having shit like that after clearing out a castle.

[baseline bum]

God I can't wait for February 2nd


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBiO4Fdv7wk

[Mark Celibate]

One thing I gotta say is super annoying in this game is every time you beat a level some stupid NPC has lines of meaningless dialogue you just mash A to get through ASAP. Would be so annoying if they put this crap in say Super Mario 3 instead of only having shit like that after clearing out a castle.

yeah that and the 'break rooms' just seemed like unnecessary filler material imho

[baseline bum]

yeah that and the 'break rooms' just seemed like unnecessary filler material imho

Got through World 4 and four of the special world stages and would probably consider this better than the Super Mario Maker 2 built in levels and definitely above New Super Mario DS, but think it still has a long way to go to be able to catch up to Super Mario 3 or Super Mario World. Still gotta hand it to Nintendo though, it's gotta be difficult to keep 2D Super Mario fresh after nearly forty years but they have definitely accomplished that in Wonder.

[Mark Celibate]

fwiw, Worlds 5 and beyond are really good...game gets noticeably better after World 4 IMO

[baseline bum]

LOL died 17 times on that special stage where you have to play as a goomba

[spurraider21]

god of war DLC was pretty awesome. took some getting used to until you really learned whats going on. with that said, i didnt have the patience to play it on Give Me God of War difficulty, so I played on Give Me No Mercy instead. was still quite a challenge. was fun because it really incentivizes/forces you to use and master all 3 weapons, incentivizes you to try out all the different shields, different relics, etc.

got all the trophies and maxed out the available stats. still gonna do another run or two just so i can finish topping off all the available upgrades. if i feel the urge to get into god of war combat, i'll definitely just jump back into this mode, hike the difficulty, and do a few runs. but in no way intend to start the DLC from scratch in give me god of war. i imagine that would feel like complete shit when your character is underleveled

another hour or so of this, then onto Horizon forbidden west

generally speaking, even though the axe has been my favorite weapon in the god of war franchise, i found it to be the weakest of the 3 in valhalla when it came to potential builds. the spear definitely had some easy mode builds if you get the right upgrades for the spear throws since you can just play everything safe and try to cheese at a distance

the blades had probably the single nastiest build, if you get all the upgrades for the triange > r2 attack where you spin the chain and then slam the blade down. the DPS on that is unmatched, but requires you to stay in melee range and tank hits here and there.

the other biggest surprise was discovering a completely OP relic that i completely overlooked in the main game. in the main game i usually just used the realm shift relic until i unlocked the broken hilt from the berserker king. but theres one that gives you more or less immunity for about 10 seconds, called unstoppable aura or something. you take basically chip damage from everything and become very hard to stagger. so i would just proc that, mash triangle + r2 blades attack. tank a few hits but just eliminate anything in front of me. completely bonkers build, and if you get the perks that give you a lot of relic refresh opportunities, you basically cant die as you can keep that aura on for a majority of the match.

[baseline bum]

god of war DLC was pretty awesome. took some getting used to until you really learned whats going on. with that said, i didnt have the patience to play it on Give Me God of War difficulty, so I played on Give Me No Mercy instead. was still quite a challenge. was fun because it really incentivizes/forces you to use and master all 3 weapons, incentivizes you to try out all the different shields, different relics, etc.

got all the trophies and maxed out the available stats. still gonna do another run or two just so i can finish topping off all the available upgrades. if i feel the urge to get into god of war combat, i'll definitely just jump back into this mode, hike the difficulty, and do a few runs. but in no way intend to start the DLC from scratch in give me god of war. i imagine that would feel like complete shit when your character is underleveled

another hour or so of this, then onto Horizon forbidden west

generally speaking, even though the axe has been my favorite weapon in the god of war franchise, i found it to be the weakest of the 3 in valhalla when it came to potential builds. the spear definitely had some easy mode builds if you get the right upgrades for the spear throws since you can just play everything safe and try to cheese at a distance

the blades had probably the single nastiest build, if you get all the upgrades for the triange > r2 attack where you spin the chain and then slam the blade down. the DPS on that is unmatched, but requires you to stay in melee range and tank hits here and there.

the other biggest surprise was discovering a completely OP relic that i completely overlooked in the main game. in the main game i usually just used the realm shift relic until i unlocked the broken hilt from the berserker king. but theres one that gives you more or less immunity for about 10 seconds, called unstoppable aura or something. you take basically chip damage from everything and become very hard to stagger. so i would just proc that, mash triangle + r2 blades attack. tank a few hits but just eliminate anything in front of me. completely bonkers build, and if you get the perks that give you a lot of relic refresh opportunities, you basically cant die as you can keep that aura on for a majority of the match.

LOL weren't you just talking shit a few pages back when I said I played through the game on Give Me No Mercy? :lol

[spurraider21]

LOL weren't you just talking shit a few pages back when I said I played through the game on Give Me No Mercy? :lol
the game itself yeah :lol

the game itself is a different experience imo, with the enemies that enrage on gmgow, on top of the fact that in gmgow+, the berserkers and gna have entirely different movesets. that doesnt seem to be the case in valhalla

to be fair, i did my first playthru on give me no mercy. but immediately did gmgow before ng+ dropped

im also gonna use the excuse that i got a 7 week old so i cant grind as many hours :lol

[baseline bum]

the game itself yeah :lol

im also gonna use the excuse that i got a 7 week old so i cant grind as many hours :lol

Quit acting like you're the one who pushed him out lol

[spurraider21]

Quit acting like you're the one who pushed him out lol
nah but i get a lot of the night duty and the fucker wont sleep. i still gotta work during the day but dont get nights to myself anymore so time to play is harder to come by. and on weekends got the 2 year old running around and im never gonna play games when i got a kiddo wanting to fuck around

[baseline bum]

nah but i get a lot of the night duty and the fucker wont sleep. i still gotta work during the day but dont get nights to myself anymore so time to play is harder to come by. and on weekends got the 2 year old running around and im never gonna play games when i got a kiddo wanting to fuck around

WTF the boy's not ready yet?

[spurraider21]

WTF the boy's not ready yet?
he still cant even wipe his own ass

realistically my window to game is weekdays between about 10am-12pm when i start work (live on east coast but work on PST). i can squeeze in time on some nights but at my own peril of being sleep deprived the next day

[baseline bum]

he still cant even wipe his own ass

Better watch out before he runs off back to LA

[spurraider21]

Better watch out before he runs off back to LA
one of my wife's residency interviews was in riverside. right now thats our only avenue back to socal if it works out. find out in march where we're going

[spurraider21]

i was able to do clear a full run on show me mastery (valhalla's version of gmgow), but yeah, i dont intend to replay the whole thing from scratch on that difficulty before being leveled up and all that.

ive unlocked everything in the dlc but there is one cosmetic shield rong that is only unlocked if you clear a full run on show me mastery while also carrying the burden thing that slowly drains your health over time

i tried it once, got stuck with a crappy build and got my shit pushed in right before final boss. its a bitch for sure... but i think doable with a decent build. one thing is with that burden, DPS matters a lot more, and cheese spear builds just dont kill fast enough to make it work.

[spurraider21]

Forbidden West is nice so far. forgot how much i like horizon. playing on Very Hard like i did with the first game (2nd hardest setting they offer) and the combat feels about right. spending my early upgrade points to get all the stealth strike damage upgrades and will kinda go from there.

with that said, for a game that emphasizing climbing, platforming and such, i still find the jumping to be wonky. like when theres a wall/ridge that i should be able to hang on or climb over, ill have to jump toward a couple of times to get it to work. as opposed to the more tomb raider/uncharted type stuff where you kinda easily lock-on to the intended jump target

probably the biggest upgrade from the first game is the facial expressions during dialogue. was pretty awful in the first game, and distractingly so, but they did much better this time around

[ElNono]

Forbidden West is nice so far. forgot how much i like horizon. playing on Very Hard like i did with the first game (2nd hardest setting they offer) and the combat feels about right. spending my early upgrade points to get all the stealth strike damage upgrades and will kinda go from there.

with that said, for a game that emphasizing climbing, platforming and such, i still find the jumping to be wonky. like when theres a wall/ridge that i should be able to hang on or climb over, ill have to jump toward a couple of times to get it to work. as opposed to the more tomb raider/uncharted type stuff where you kinda easily lock-on to the intended jump target

probably the biggest upgrade from the first game is the facial expressions during dialogue. was pretty awful in the first game, and distractingly so, but they did much better this time around

That game has waaaaaay too much dialogue tho... After the first 20 mins, I found myself skipping all of it.

[spurraider21]

That game has waaaaaay too much dialogue tho... After the first 20 mins, I found myself skipping all of it.
This is true. I usually just pay attention to main quest stuff (even though i try to attack all the side content). Skip through the rest. Did the same with Witcher 3, Assassins Creed Odyssey, etc

[baseline bum]

TLOU Part II, PS5 native version barely looks distinguishable from TLOU Part 2, PS4 version in BC on PS5 in performance mode. Just like Ghost of Tsushima, no reason to blow $10 for the PS5 native upgrade.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnZ12o-vrc

[Joseph Kony]

TLOU Part II, PS5 native version barely looks distinguishable from TLOU Part 2, PS4 version in BC on PS5 in performance mode. Just like Ghost of Tsushima, no reason to blow $10 for the PS5 native upgrade.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnZ12o-vrc

i'm going to regardless so i can play the "lost levels" and the no return mode which looks pretty fun tbh. that's worth the $10 for me

[Joseph Kony]

in anticipation of LoU2R, I am playing thru LoU again but on PC for the first time. i was worried given all the terrible reviews on performance but it's not as bad as i thought. some framerate drops here and there and some weird character glitches but nothing egregious thus far. whats annoying is i bought this game from the Epic store because of the coupon and points I had but for some fucking reason it wont backup the save to the cloud so I cant play between my PCs which is one of the reasons i got it on PC to begin with :pctoss

[spurraider21]

i still havent played part 2 yet :lol

my self imposed deadline for that is to finish the game before the next season of the show comes out

[baseline bum]

in anticipation of LoU2R, I am playing thru LoU again but on PC for the first time. i was worried given all the terrible reviews on performance but it's not as bad as i thought. some framerate drops here and there and some weird character glitches but nothing egregious thus far. whats annoying is i bought this game from the Epic store because of the coupon and points I had but for some fucking reason it wont backup the save to the cloud so I cant play between my PCs which is one of the reasons i got it on PC to begin with :pctoss

The PC port of TLOU Part 1 is awesome now. At launch it was horrendous, worse than Arkham Knight PC at launch.

[Joseph Kony]

i still havent played part 2 yet :lol

my self imposed deadline for that is to finish the game before the next season of the show comes out

gotta get on that shit man. LoU2 is my GOAT. i assume you know what happens in the golfing scene already?

[Joseph Kony]

The PC port of TLOU Part 1 is awesome now. At launch it was horrendous, worse than Arkham Knight PC at launch.
yeah hence why i waited. glad i did because i got it for less than $20. i wonder how it runs on the handhelds. I was thinking of getting an ROG Ally

[spurraider21]

gotta get on that shit man. LoU2 is my GOAT. i assume you know what happens in the golfing scene already?
yeah couldnt really avoid it

im currently playing Forbidden West. ill get on TLOU2 at some point

[Joseph Kony]

yeah couldnt really avoid it

im currently playing Forbidden West. ill get on TLOU2 at some point

figured. didnt want to spoil anything if not :lol

but i cant imagine anyone playing the first game thinking Joel was going to never any feel any repercussions for his actions, especially considering how fucked up the game is and how almost everyone you meet along the way dies. he kinda had it coming tbh. what sucks is I wish it had never leaked, because it would have been 100x better if i never knew and saw it unfold without any pre-knowledge. even still, 10/10 game for me.

[spurraider21]

figured. didnt want to spoil anything if not :lol

but i cant imagine anyone playing the first game thinking Joel was going to never any feel any repercussions for his actions, especially considering how fucked up the game is and how almost everyone you meet along the way dies. he kinda had it coming tbh. what sucks is I wish it had never leaked, because it would have been 100x better if i never knew and saw it unfold without any pre-knowledge. even still, 10/10 game for me.
if you asked me before TLOU2 came out, i probably still would have guessed he died, but differently

after already having the Winter chapter mostly playing as Ellie, in addition to Left Behind, it was pretty clear the second game would have a lot of Ellie playtime, and that could allow them to have Joel die. after all, TLOU was never about happy endings and fairness, etc.

i would have guessed that ellie found out about joel's lie, basically told him to fuck off, he shows up anyway to help when she needs it, she still tells him to fuck off after he saves her in some manner, and then she sees him die and regrets it, or something along those lines. a little more hollywood-y

[baseline bum]

gotta get on that shit man. LoU2 is my GOAT. i assume you know what happens in the golfing scene already?

Is it bad that my mind went to darker places when I first heard about Joel and a golf club?

[spurraider21]

Is it bad that my mind went to darker places when I first heard about Joel and a golf club?
lovers quarrel, maybe?

[Joseph Kony]

Is it bad that my mind went to darker places when I first heard about Joel and a golf club?
:lol you thought he was gonna fuck ellie with it or something?

[baseline bum]

:lol you thought he was gonna fuck ellie with it or something?

Nah Dina getting jealous of his relationship with Ellie

[ElNono]

Just got my code for this, but not sure I'm ready for a replay yet...

[baseline bum]

Just got my code for this, but not sure I'm ready for a replay yet...

You misspelled rapelay

[Leetonidas]

No Return is fun and but man it's hard as fuck on grounded. I can breeze through the campaign on grounded but the randomized enemies and shit make it 10x harder

[ElNono]

I'm playing Elden Ring again...

[HemisfairArena]

I'm playing Elden Ring again...

Of course you're still playing video games,,,,,:lmao,,,,explains alot,,,,

[Joseph Kony]

Of course you're still playing video games,,,,,:lmao,,,,explains alot,,,,
:lol like crying about black people on a Spurs boards political forum at all hours of the night is such a better use of time

[ElNono]

Of course you're still playing video games,,,,,:lmao,,,,explains alot,,,,

:lol of course I play videogames. I even get paid to do so.

lmao, this loser probably burns his nights playing $1 bingo at the nursing home.

[Mark Celibate]

Of course you're still playing video games,,,,,:lmao,,,,explains alot,,,,

technically any hobby is wasting time since it takes away from doing alpha-bro stuff. Video games and winning spurstalk cyber-arguments are no different than pouring your time into riding ATVs and playing golk, kek

>2024
>enjoying anything
>not constantly building wealth 24/7

[HemisfairArena]

:lol of course I play videogames. I even get paid to do so.

lmao, this loser probably burns his nights playing $1 bingo at the nursing home.


sure you do, loser,,,,sure you do,,,this is fuckin' awesome,,,how pathetic your life is,,,,:lmao

[baseline bum]

^ Every accusation is really a confession with Trumptards

[Joseph Kony]

it's funny because Nono probably does have a pretty sweet life while you know boomersfail is a miserable fat piece of shit that hates the world :lol

[spurraider21]

gameplay in forbidden west is good fun. game is also massive, as expected

my main issues:

1) waaaaay too much elemental variety. the first game already was pushing it and they dialed it up to 11 in this one. if you are going to have a limited weapon wheel, its a really frustrating system, since you never really know what you're going to need, and its not exactly easy to upgrade weapons.

2) too many weapons. ties into #1. which hunter bow is better? the one with fire and shock? or the one with plasma and acid? etc etc. really tough to figure out what is worth leveling up. especially when i have green tier weapons and i know down the line ima get blue/purple stuff. why waste limited upgrade materials at all? and then as a result play thru early stretches of game with weak equipment. this was an issue in assassins creed odyssey, witcher 3 as well, iirc

3) this one is partially my fault, as im the type who likes to fully explore every unlocked nook and cranny of areas that i unlock as a go, before progressing with the main story. but i keep encountering stuff that i dont have tools to reach. which is fine, happens in every game. but its damn near everywhere, and you have to trek through machines/danger just to reach the little question marks on the map, and i dont like running long distances thru trouble just for an inaccessible point

im ok with some of that, but seems like 20% of the POIs arent even accessible when you encounter them

[ElNono]

sure you do, loser,,,,sure you do,,,this is fuckin' awesome,,,how pathetic your life is,,,,:lmao


^ Every accusation is really a confession with Trumptards


it's funny because Nono probably does have a pretty sweet life while you know boomersfail is a miserable fat piece of shit that hates the world :lol

:lol the amount of projection and insecurity is off the charts

[ElNono]

gameplay in forbidden west is good fun. game is also massive, as expected

my main issues:

1) waaaaay too much elemental variety. the first game already was pushing it and they dialed it up to 11 in this one. if you are going to have a limited weapon wheel, its a really frustrating system, since you never really know what you're going to need, and its not exactly easy to upgrade weapons.

2) too many weapons. ties into #1. which hunter bow is better? the one with fire and shock? or the one with plasma and acid? etc etc. really tough to figure out what is worth leveling up. especially when i have green tier weapons and i know down the line ima get blue/purple stuff. why waste limited upgrade materials at all? and then as a result play thru early stretches of game with weak equipment. this was an issue in assassins creed odyssey, witcher 3 as well, iirc

3) this one is partially my fault, as im the type who likes to fully explore every unlocked nook and cranny of areas that i unlock as a go, before progressing with the main story. but i keep encountering stuff that i dont have tools to reach. which is fine, happens in every game. but its damn near everywhere, and you have to trek through machines/danger just to reach the little question marks on the map, and i dont like running long distances thru trouble just for an inaccessible point

im ok with some of that, but seems like 20% of the POIs arent even accessible when you encounter them

I also liked the burning shores expansion, tbh

[DisAsTerBot]

Anyone play lords of the fallen? Might grab it on sale

[Leetonidas]

For some reason I couldn't get into Forbidden West the same way I was immersed in HZD. I still haven't beaten it :lol I feel like the enemies were way more bullet spongey than the original and it just felt tedious to play unlike the first. The story is interesting but still pales in comparison to the original. I'll jump back in at some point but probably not any time soon

Then again I felt like Ragnarok was a chore to play also :lol

[baseline bum]

For some reason I couldn't get into Forbidden West the same way I was immersed in HZD. I still haven't beaten it :lol I feel like the enemies were way more bullet spongey than the original and it just felt tedious to play unlike the first. The story is interesting but still pales in comparison to the original. I'll jump back in at some point but probably not any time soon

Then again I felt like Ragnarok was a chore to play also :lol

Damn I thought Ragnarok was better than 2018.

Still playing Mario Wonder and damn the last couple of levels in the special world are rough.

[spurraider21]

For some reason I couldn't get into Forbidden West the same way I was immersed in HZD. I still haven't beaten it :lol I feel like the enemies were way more bullet spongey than the original and it just felt tedious to play unlike the first. The story is interesting but still pales in comparison to the original. I'll jump back in at some point but probably not any time soon

Then again I felt like Ragnarok was a chore to play also :lol
i just unlocked the ability to get rid of the red crystals that block paths, so now i'll have a chance to backtrack and clear those, though i still dont have a way to deal with the "metal flowers"

i agree about the immersion part of it. HZD was amazing because you were learning about the world and the exposition dumps about zero dawn were really fascinating. figuring out why humanity is the way it is, etc.

you dont really get much of that feel in forbidden west. there isnt really that same wonder. at least not yet for me, in the earlier parts of the game


Damn I thought Ragnarok was better than 2018.
purely from a gameplay/combat experience, yeah ragnarok is just better than 2018. the only real downgrade i can think of in that department was the hand/shield combat was removed, though the addition of shield types helps negate that a little

[baseline bum]

I finally beat the penultimate level, and had to do it twice because I missed the top of the flag the first time rofl.

Ah crap, am I going to have to go back and get the top of the flag in every single level to 100% this? :pctoss

[baseline bum]

Finally beat Super Mario Wonder. Best credit sequence since NieR Automata :lol

[Mark Celibate]

Finally beat Super Mario Wonder. Best credit sequence since NieR Automata :lol

you beat the final final level brah? Badge test marathon?

[baseline bum]

you beat the final final level brah? Badge test marathon?

Fuck no that level is a nightmare :lmao

I'm down to 63 lives right now

[Mark Celibate]

Fuck no that level is a nightmare :lmao

I'm down to 63 lives right now

:lol eventually you die so many times that eight out of the ten rooms you can speedrun blindfolded...The fire-rope room (I think room 6) and of course, the last Invisibility one are much tougher than the rest. I admit I leaned my cartridge against the screen when doing the last room to mark where on the plane Mario is supposed to be. Still challenging since you have to guess how high he is to time the jumps perfectly, but makes it doable in a reasonable amount of time IMO.

[baseline bum]

:lol eventually you die so many times that eight out of the ten rooms you can speedrun blindfolded...The fire-rope room (I think room 6) and of course, the last Invisibility one are much tougher than the rest. I admit I leaned my cartridge against the screen when doing the last room to mark where on the plane Mario is supposed to be. Still challenging, but makes it doable in a reasonable amount of time IMO.

I'll probably keep playing until I beat it, but only because I'm not going to start up a new game one week before Persona 3 Reload drops on Game Pass. Otherwise I'd probably casual that shit and stop once the credits rolled. :lol

[baseline bum]

:lol eventually you die so many times that eight out of the ten rooms you can speedrun blindfolded...The fire-rope room (I think room 6) and of course, the last Invisibility one are much tougher than the rest. I admit I leaned my cartridge against the screen when doing the last room to mark where on the plane Mario is supposed to be. Still challenging since you have to guess how high he is to time the jumps perfectly, but makes it doable in a reasonable amount of time IMO.

Also the next to last level was no picnic :lol

LOL it trolling you saying it's the final level and then nope you get the final-final

[Mark Celibate]

Also the next to last level was no picnic :lol

LOL it trolling you saying it's the final level and then nope you get the final-final

Oh yeah the wall jump level, I can pretty much re-create that whole level in my head from having to re-do after dying in the last room so many times.

tbh that invisible room kinda spoils the ending a little bit since you pretty much have to use some kind of gimmick to beat it in order to track Mario on the "x-plane". I know the devs probably assumed players would do that and it meant it as a troll portion, but I'd imagine only the most seasoned basement dweller with ultra Neckbeard powers can beat a level straight up where Mario is invisible and needing to land 15 hairpin jumps in a row in order to complete it rofl. I imagine there's somebody out there who did it though... cheeto stains on his shirt and 100 4chan tabs open on his laptop at the same time tbh imho

[baseline bum]

Oh yeah the wall jump level, I can pretty much re-create that whole level in my head from having to re-do after dying in the last room so many times.

tbh that invisible room kinda spoils the ending a little bit since you pretty much have to use some kind of gimmick to beat it in order to track Mario on the "x-plane". I know the devs probably assumed players would do that and it meant it as a troll portion, but I'd imagine only the most seasoned basement dweller with ultra Neckbeard powers can beat a level straight up where Mario is invisible and needing to land 15 hairpin jumps in a row in order to complete it rofl. I imagine there's somebody out there who did it though... cheeto stains on his shirt and 100 4chan tabs open on his laptop at the same time tbh imho

You ever play the Kaizo Mario games where you have to make pixel perfect jumps off shells after making pixel perfect throws and all? (Kaizo = 改造 = remodel)

I'm not hardcore enough for those. It'll be funny when Super Mario Maker 3 comes out on the next Switch to see how nightmarish people can make levels with invisibility added in.

[Mark Celibate]

You ever play the Kaizo Mario games where you have to make pixel perfect jumps off shells after making pixel perfect throws and all? (Kaizo = 改造 = remodel)

I'm not hardcore enough for those. It'll be funny when Super Mario Maker 3 comes out on the next Switch to see how nightmarish people can make levels with invisibility added in.

:lmao I downloaded a Kaizo hack one time and didn't even last 8 seconds. I think it was a level where you're immediately falling, surrounded by spikes, and had to continually hop on bullet bills just to tread water or something. Never again. I assumed those were all TAS runs until I saw a YouTube video of a neckbeard actually grind through 100 deaths and beat a Kaizo level in 15ish minutes. I was stunned tbh :lol

[baseline bum]

DJR210 man, you see the Tekken 8 discount on the RUNE store?

[baseline bum]

Oh shit there is an Elden Ring XBox controller coming out February 25th, must the day the DLC drops. JFC spring 2024 is so stacked.

[spurraider21]

forbidden west is massive af. good thing the combat is fun. reminds me of AC Odyssey where you are just hunting for question marks on the map. but the gameplay in this is significantly better. story is fine, but im constantly getting side tracked with other content.

one thing i had been putting off because i knew i hated them in zero dawn were the hunting grounds. also, playing on Very Hard really fucks up the stealth challenges in hunting grounds, since even with all the stealth attack abilities unlocked, you STILL cant one shot kill any of the enemies. only way to complete it is to use stealth strike, drop a smoke bomb (i never use smokes in game), then quickly run behind and stealth strike again. if it werent for the time limits it wouldnt be that hard to weaken an enemy, disengage and find cover, then stealth strike again.

but with the time constraint, smoke bomb is the only method. i figured dumping all those skill points into both stealth strike upgrades would have at least given me that benefit, but no

[baseline bum]

Damn, Persona 3 Reload looks even better than I was hoping it could be when it was first rumored.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5zrIUbHXX0

[spurraider21]

man, upgrading weapons is rough. needing very specific machine parts from some big baddies. its tough enough to fight them, but remembering to knock off their tooth and a random gizmo behind their shoulderblades without destroying them... or defeating them but having to leave in tact the big explosive sac that otherwise could have made the fight half as long

its a bit of a chore, but luckily the combat is fun and the added strategy prevents the fights from becoming too trivial/monotonous. supposedly there is an "easy loot" option which basically means if you kill a machine you get literally everything from it, but tbh that feels really cheap and i refuse to do that. the strategy behind it makes the fights more engaging, but having to do them multiple times because between my good gear i need like 9 of the same part to upgrade them all. feel like theres too much overlap between required materials

also, it might be intentional, but im finding it hard not to become overleveled. im at a point where the recommended level for the current main quest is 20 but my character is 33. ive also gone around and done several cauldrons and stuff. but if i just blitz through the main quests earlier, then im going to just be massively overleveled for all the side quests/errands which often give you really good loot/weapons, in addition to skill tree tokens.

so sure, i could have run through the main quests back when i was level 20 but then id have a bunch of level 11 side quests still available. basically im just attacking every quest, whether it be a main quest, side quest, errand, salvage contract, rebel camp, relic ruin, etc, in order of recommended level. but the game has made it so you wind up pretty overleveled by doing so.

the last main quest i did was level 18 recommended and had me fight the big snek, and i think i died maybe once. but then afterwards i did the level 30 cauldron and the boss was the same snek and that thing was pushing my shit in. its electric attack would literally one shot me from full health so i had to take off my better armor and put on one just for shock resistance to allow me to barely survive that big attack if i ever slipped

[daboom1]

Damn Death Stranding 2 looks lit af tbh :tu

[DJR210]

DJR210 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=42671) man, you see the Tekken 8 discount on the RUNE store?

Lol nah, but I figured it would get the 100% discount pretty quickly. Tekken 7 did too. What is the RUNE store though?

[baseline bum]

Lol nah, but I figured it would get the 100% discount pretty quickly. Tekken 7 did too. What is the RUNE store though?

RUNE's just the group cracking the weak Steam DRM these days

[daboom1]

Never tried Watchdogs but I am enjoying Legion right now. It's pretty impressive imo

[baseline bum]

Reck man, check Persona 3 Reload. Persona 3's awesome story, setting, and characters but with Persona 5 level of graphics and polish.

[Reck]

Reck (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=14412) man, check Persona 3 Reload. Persona 3's awesome story, setting, and characters but with Persona 5 level of graphics and polish.

yeah I’ve seen some gameplay. Looks great. It’s on my wishlist.

I’m not paying 70 for it. :lol

[baseline bum]

yeah I’ve seen some gameplay. Looks great. It’s on my wishlist.

I’m not paying 70 for it. :lol

If you haven't played P3 on PS2 it's probably worthy of full price. Might take a while to come down in price since it's the best selling game Atlus has ever released despite also being on Game Pass day 1. Think it has the best story of the three modern Persona games though P4G has the best characters IMO. Persona 5 still has the best soundtrack of the three though.

[baseline bum]

DJR210 man, the developer accidentally released a Denuvo-less version of Lies of P today, so def hit the high seas for it because it's awesome :lol

[DJR210]

DJR210 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=42671) man, the developer accidentally released a Denuvo-less version of Lies of P today, so def hit the high seas for it because it's awesome :lol

It's that a souls like game?

[baseline bum]

It's that a souls like game?

Yeah but unlike most Souls clones this one is actually outstanding. Runs great too, was playing at 1800p60 locked on my RX 6700 XT. Graphics are nice too.

[baseline bum]

yeah I’ve seen some gameplay. Looks great. It’s on my wishlist.

I’m not paying 70 for it. :lol

Just finished a first playthrough of P3R, and it's hands down the best game in the series. A must play if you liked P5. Put about 80 hours into it, so nowhere near as long as Persona 5 Royal (which I put 130 hours into my first playthrough), but still a ton of great content there.

[Leetonidas]

Tried to play Helldivers 2 but got bored pretty quickly. Not my thing

Now to see if Armored Core VI is any good

[spurraider21]

finished campaign of Horizon Forbidden West

very good game. some big improvements to the first game. i do think the weapon variety was excessive. plasma elemental type felt very worthless. was never worth using even against enemies weak to it like the late game bads. most things that were weak to plasma were also weak to acid, and acid just just much better.

biggest gripe is the farming it took to upgrade late game weapons was just not enjoyable. its not that it was hard. was just time consuming and a... grind. in a game that already has a billion side quests, errands, rebel camps, rebel outposts, salvage contracts, relic ruins, survey drones, melee pits, etc etc etc, having me run around and having to reset at campfires just to farm the same big snek, elephant, or dinosaur 9 different times really just isnt engaging

ill wait for the DLC to go on sale before getting into that, though ive heard its good

[baseline bum]

Elden Ring DLC trailer drops tomorrow

1760076880764449173

[baseline bum]

Holy fuck, Shadow of the Erdtree and SMT V Vengeance both coming out on the same day


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZenOn7WUo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDiRwSeXbZM

Between these two, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Persona 3 Reload, Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, Rise of the Ronin, and Metaphor: ReFantazio RPG fans are eating good in 2024.

[Neo.]

holy diver

this game is brutally difficult

[baseline bum]

holy diver

this game is brutally difficult

From the first level it looks harder than Japan Super Mario 2 but not as tough as Silver Surfer on the NES rankings. Or does it get harder than Silver Surfer later on?

[Cry Havoc]

I'm having an absolute blast with Helldivers 2. Early GOTY candidate for sure.

Hiixop4_Gl0

[Neo.]

From the first level it looks harder than Japan Super Mario 2 but not as tough as Silver Surfer on the NES rankings. Or does it get harder than Silver Surfer later on?

after the first level, it's pretty tough. the third level is where it drives me insane. id say it's undoubtedly the most difficult nes game I've ever played. silver surfer is pretty easy compared to this.

[Leetonidas]

Armored Core VI has been pretty enjoyable. Boss fights can be pretty intense and upgrading/customizing your mech is fun. Solid pickup on sale

[baseline bum]

Ugh the fight with Elizabeth in Persona 3 Reload is a fucking troll

[spurraider21]

in LA for a month so no gaming for a bit

but having just finished Forbidden West before leaving (dont have DLC, will get that later when on a good sale)... probably will jump into Jedi: Fallen Order next. gotta start chipping away at that backlog.

then maybe one more short game like Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice then def want to play Ghost of Tsushima

have some behemoths like Dark Souls 2 and 3 that i want to get through before touching elden ring, but those almost feel like a chore to boot up :lol


the games i might end up buying and cutting the line of my backlog are TLOU Part 2 (gotta play that before the next season of the show) as well as Spiderman 2. that one just looks like great fun, especially having recently played Miles Morales and remembering how fun the gameplay of that series was

[baseline bum]

in LA for a month so no gaming for a bit

but having just finished Forbidden West before leaving (dont have DLC, will get that later when on a good sale)... probably will jump into Jedi: Fallen Order next. gotta start chipping away at that backlog.

then maybe one more short game like Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice then def want to play Ghost of Tsushima

have some behemoths like Dark Souls 2 and 3 that i want to get through before touching elden ring, but those almost feel like a chore to boot up :lol


the games i might end up buying and cutting the line of my backlog are TLOU Part 2 (gotta play that before the next season of the show) as well as Spiderman 2. that one just looks like great fun, especially having recently played Miles Morales and remembering how fun the gameplay of that series was

Might as well wait until June 21st for Elden Ring since that's when the DLC comes. Though I'd skip it forward beyond Dark Souls 3 in your queue. And probably 2 also since I have heard 2 isn't as good as 3, but I haven't played 2. 3 is great but Elden Ring is a better game and you're never going to finish your backlog anyways. Spiderman 2 I think I'm waiting for either $30 on PS5 or a Steam release.

Also wouldn't bother with the $10 TLOU Part II PS5 native upgrade, as the PS4 game runs perfectly and looks great at either 1800p60 or 1440p60 (forget which it is) in performance mode on PS5. Even better game than the first IMO. Also wouldn't bother with the $10 PS5 native upgrade for Ghost of Tsushima. All it adds is a bunch of annoying vibration in the DualSense and better lip sync with the Japanese voices. Which you should use, Jin Sakai sounds angry as fuck in the Japanese voice but kind of faggy in the English voice, but even being able to understand what he says in Japanese the lip sync didn't bother me at all in the PS4 version in BC and it runs 1800p60 in the graphics mode playing the PS4 game in BC on PS5.

[baseline bum]

Finally finished a second playthrough of Persona 3 Reload with a kill of Elizabeth so I'll probably move on to the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth demo tonight or tomorrow and see whether I want to buy at launch. Probably will since the reviews look stellar and there is nothing I want to play ahead of it right now anyways after Sega locked the Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth New Game Plus behind a $15 paywall.

[spurraider21]

Might as well wait until June 21st for Elden Ring since that's when the DLC comes. Though I'd skip it forward beyond Dark Souls 3 in your queue. And probably 2 also since I have heard 2 isn't as good as 3, but I haven't played 2. 3 is great but Elden Ring is a better game and you're never going to finish your backlog anyways. Spiderman 2 I think I'm waiting for either $30 on PS5 or a Steam release.

Also wouldn't bother with the $10 TLOU Part II PS5 native upgrade, as the PS4 game runs perfectly and looks great at either 1800p60 or 1440p60 (forget which it is) in performance mode on PS5. Even better game than the first IMO. Also wouldn't bother with the $10 PS5 native upgrade for Ghost of Tsushima. All it adds is a bunch of annoying vibration in the DualSense and better lip sync with the Japanese voices. Which you should use, Jin Sakai sounds angry as fuck in the Japanese voice but kind of faggy in the English voice, but even being able to understand what he says in Japanese the lip sync didn't bother me at all in the PS4 version in BC and it runs 1800p60 in the graphics mode playing the PS4 game in BC on PS5.
If i don’t play ds 2 and 3 before Elden ring I’m basically committing to never playing ds2 and likely ds3

if wifey’s residency doesn’t bring us back to socal I’ll still have loads of time to kill at nights after the kiddos are asleep

I can get thru the backlog. Esp since i think I’m done sinking ~2 years into cod

[baseline bum]

If i don’t play ds 2 and 3 before Elden ring I’m basically committing to never playing ds2 and likely ds3

if wifey’s residency doesn’t bring us back to socal I’ll still have loads of time to kill at nights after the kiddos are asleep

I can get thru the backlog. Esp since i think I’m done sinking ~2 years into cod

LOL you'll never get through your backlog. I see no reason why playing Elden Ring commits you to never playing Dark Souls 3. They're pretty different games. It's like saying I'll never play Spiderman because I want to play GTA.

[spurraider21]

LOL you'll never get through your backlog. I see no reason why playing Elden Ring commits you to never playing Dark Souls 3. They're pretty different games. It's like saying I'll never play Spiderman because I want to play GTA.
its harder to go back to older games in a series. its like playing GTA5 then going and playing San Andreas. imagine playing GTA V, and having San Andreas and GTA 3 in your backlog. GTA 3 will never feel right (unless its a game you've played before and like for nostalgia's sake)

[baseline bum]

its harder to go back to older games in a series. its like playing GTA5 then going and playing San Andreas. imagine playing GTA V, and having San Andreas and GTA 3 in your backlog. GTA 3 will never feel right (unless its a game you've played before and like for nostalgia's sake)

Meh I played Super Mario Odyssey before I played anything beyond the first stage of Super Mario 64 and still really enjoyed playing through the full game of the latter. Or Persona 5 on PS4 before Persona 1 on PSP. Or NieR Automata on PS4 before Nier Gestalt on XBox 360. Or Dragon Quest XI S on PS5 before Dragon Quest 1 on Super Famicom. Or Shin Megami Tensei IV on 3DS before Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne on PS2. Or Zelda Breath on the Wild on Switch before Zelda Wind Waker on Gamecube. A good game is a good game and worth playing in any order.

[spurraider21]

Meh I played Super Mario Odyssey before I played anything beyond the first stage of Super Mario 64 and still really enjoyed playing through the full game of the latter. Or Persona 5 on PS4 before Persona 1 on PSP. Or NieR Automata on PS4 before Nier Gestalt on XBox 360. Or Dragon Quest XI S on PS5 before Dragon Quest 1 on Super Famicom. Or Shin Megami Tensei IV on 3DS before Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne on PS2. Or Zelda Breath on the Wild on Switch before Zelda Wind Waker on Gamecube. A good is a good game and worth playing in any order.
different strokes

to me its hard to go backwards because the warts are way more noticeable, going backwards from QOL perspective. its doable, but just less enjoyable imo. i woulda been annoyed playing HZD after HFW, losing the glider, among other things

[baseline bum]

Just got the FFVII Rebirth Twin Pack. If you preorder you get Intergrade free, but you only got two hours to do so and then it goes up $30 more if you want both. Played enough of the demo to convince me I want this at launch, and then turned it off to wait for the real thing. Probably should have ordered this earlier in the day since it's a 150GB download. :lol

[Leetonidas]

FF7 Rebirth is awesome. Really enjoying this adaptation so far

[baseline bum]

FF7 Rebirth is awesome. Really enjoying this adaptation so far

spurraider21 will be proud. Bought Rebirth full price at launch to play after finishing Persona 3 Reload but haven't touched the game other than downloading it because I want to buy Persona 5 for a third time in the Steam sale Thursday and play that instead after how great Persona 3 Reload was. :lol

Ugh fucking Atlus won't let me upgrade my PS4 version of Persona 5 Royal to the PS5 version to get the 60 fps and I don't want to spend full price a third time on the game so will wait for Thursday since this always drops to $30 in the big Steam sales.

Maybe should just do a 78th playthrough of Persona 4 Golden instead as a compromise? :lol

Really do want P5 in 4k60 though. Fucking EMPRESS retiring from cracking Denuvo so can't pirate this game I already bought twice.

[baseline bum]

Speaking of Persona 3 Reload, can't wait for the DLC in September


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRIkpLo42GM

[Cry Havoc]

If i don’t play ds 2 and 3 before Elden ring I’m basically committing to never playing ds2 and likely ds3

if wifey’s residency doesn’t bring us back to socal I’ll still have loads of time to kill at nights after the kiddos are asleep

I can get thru the backlog. Esp since i think I’m done sinking ~2 years into cod

That makes no sense. I actually think Dark Souls 3 is the superior game. ER does a ton of things better but the back 1/3rd of it really drops off with incredibly tedious areas and weird difficulty spikes, whereas DS3 is just sublime the entire way through.

[baseline bum]

That makes no sense. I actually think Dark Souls 3 is the superior game. ER does a ton of things better but the back 1/3rd of it really drops off with incredibly tedious areas and weird difficulty spikes, whereas DS3 is just sublime the entire way through.

Wasn't my experience at all, thought Elden Ring was rock solid the entire way through. The only huge difficulty spike I found was right before the end of the game if you wanted to fight one of those optional tree minibosses that jumps up and drops scarlet rot but that was only because he was in a really confined location right at a doorway and you had two miniboss knights or something (been a while since I played it so forget the exact enemy type) attacking you at the same time, so I can usually only kill that boss maybe 20% of the time. Best to just run past it.

[Cry Havoc]

Wasn't my experience at all, thought Elden Ring was rock solid the entire way through. The only huge difficulty spike I found was right before the end of the game if you wanted to fight one of those optional tree minibosses that jumps up and drops scarlet rot but that was only because he was in a really confined location right at a doorway and you had two miniboss knights or something (been a while since I played it so forget the exact enemy type) attacking you at the same time, so I can usually only kill that boss maybe 20% of the time. Best to just run past it.

Eh. The Haligtree alone is/was the opposite of fun for me. As were several of the laboriously repetitive dungeons you could explore that felt incredibly samey. Oddly enough, Malenia wasn't even close to the toughest boss in the game for me, that went to the Valiant Gargoyles. Worst boss fight in the entire Dark Souls series of games. Not even remotely enjoyable. I got Malenia close on my 5th try and took her out on my 13th or 14th. Not bad.

ER is still an utterly fantastic game, and if anyone else had released it it would be an unimaginable feat. But I just feel that Ds3 was tighter, more balanced, and more focused.

I want to play through both again and see if I still feel that way, though.

[DJR210]

Still chipping away at Ghost of Tsushima.. all these hours in and still unlocking moves and upgrades.. it's almost as this game has too much shit at your disposal lol

[Cry Havoc]

Still chipping away at Ghost of Tsushima.. all these hours in and still unlocking moves and upgrades.. it's almost as this game has too much shit at your disposal lol

Really excited for the PC port! I'm curious to see if the visuals will be even further upgraded.

[Cry Havoc]

Steam Spring Sale is on! Discounts are super meh this time around.

[Thread]

Techmo Super Bowl, first time in quite a few years and I'm getting slaughtered.

[DJR210]

Really excited for the PC port! I'm curious to see if the visuals will be even further upgraded.

I'm sure the PC version is gonna look great at native res and all the extras on

[baseline bum]

Really excited for the PC port! I'm curious to see if the visuals will be even further upgraded.

Amazing game. Just don't play it like an old school AC game because it's kind of boring like an old school AC game if you play it in stealth like one. Much better to go in loud and challenge everyone at the door when you hit a Mongol camp. Also much better with Japanese voices. The English voice sounds kind of soft and doesn't match what's happening at all (eg your people being slaughtered by the Mongols). JP voice in angry as hell and fits way better. Don't know how an American studio butchered the English voice acting but knocked it out of the park with the JP voice acting.

[Thread]

Techmo Super Bowl, first time in quite a few years and I'm getting slaughtered.

...but, I made the playoffs and won the Super Bowl about an hour ago! I used the Eagles & Cunningham was the catalyst.

"Who's the wild man now!"

[Leetonidas]

Graphical issues aside Dragons Dogma 2 is really good so far. Reminds me of a cross between Dragon Age and Skyrim

[Reck]

baseline bum (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=131) I bought P3 along Cyberpunk Ultimate edition and Star Wars Skywalker Saga with that Spring deal they got going on.

Persona 3 surprised me. Didn't think it would drop in prices so soon. 130 bucks haul. Not bad.

Got that Stellar Blade on my sights too. lol

[baseline bum]

baseline bum (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=131) I bought P3 along Cyberpunk Ultimate edition and Star Wars Skywalker Saga with that Spring deal they got going on.

Persona 3 surprised me. Didn't think it would drop in prices so soon. 130 bucks haul. Not bad.

Got that Stellar Blade on my sights too. lol

Nice, P3 is a blast. By far my favorite story of the 3 modern Personas.

[Mark Celibate]

Anybody here ever play the old Megaman X games?

The switch has the legacy collection for X1 - through X4 for only $20. I decided to give it a go, since I never really got far when it was first introduced on SNES, and was blindsided by how hard it was rofl. Completely different experience getting annihilated by the get-go over and over compared to the more mainline Nintendo games. Ended up barely beating X and X2 even with most of the upgrades. Blows my mind that some guys are able to actually beat those games with "No Hits" or doing a minimal run with only the X buster and no upgrades

[baseline bum]

Anybody here ever play the old Megaman X games?

The switch has the legacy collection for X1 - through X4 for only $20. I decided to give it a go, since I never really got far when it was first introduced on SNES, and was blindsided by how hard it was rofl. Completely different experience getting annihilated by the get-go over and over compared to the more mainline Nintendo games. Ended up barely beating X and X2 even with most of the upgrades. Blows my mind that some guys are able to actually beat those games with "No Hits" or doing a minimal run with only the X buster and no upgrades

Only played the first X back in the day. Strange I don't remember it being as hard as the NES games though.

[Mark Celibate]

Only played the first X back in the day. Strange I don't remember it being as hard as the NES games though.

I've heard the NES ones were brutal. I guess the X series isn't too bad if you get the enough sub tanks and health upgrades to grind it through. But in the beginning stages of the game before you get the upgrades, it's almost expected that you'll get your a$$ handed to you many times by the first boss encounters until you learn the attack patterns since it's a small area and they're fast as he11. Same with the Sigma final bosses, I always game over'ed atleast once before finally grinding it out enough to win. Maybe if I replayed the game enough times, I could try and do a minimal run with enough muscle memory.

[spurraider21]

gonna dust off the ps5 after a couple of months of either being out of town or just flat not having time to play

next game up is Hellblade followed by Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order

[FrostKing]

https://i.ibb.co/jR6hWJN/20240420-164140.jpg

Cleaning storage

[Joseph Kony]

watching the fallout series gave me the itch to play Fallout 4 again. but every time i try to do something i end up getting sucked into base building for an hour :lol

[baseline bum]

watching the fallout series gave me the itch to play Fallout 4 again. but every time i try to do something i end up getting sucked into base building for an hour :lol

C'mon man you got no excuse for that shit since it's well known how garbage the base defense is. Go find your son and stop dicking around building your trash city.

[Joseph Kony]

C'mon man you got no excuse for that shit since it's well known how garbage the base defense is. Go find your son and stop dicking around building your trash city.

:lmao hey man, my settlers need to have a recreational area to relax at after a hard day of gathering mutfruit and killing radroaches, my old man son can wait

[baseline bum]

:lmao hey man, my settlers need to have a recreational area to relax at after a hard day of gathering mutfruit and killing radroaches, my old man son can wait

As long as you give Piper Nora's ring we good.

[Joseph Kony]

As long as you give Piper Nora's ring we good.
idk if Cait would like that :lol

[DisAsTerBot]

Anything I want with my new beastly computer!!!

[baseline bum]

Anything I want with my new beastly computer!!!

Persona 5 Royal is on sale for $24

[Leetonidas]

Anything I want with my new beastly computer!!!

But can it run Crysis?

[baseline bum]

Anything I want with my new beastly computer!!!

Some really graphically impressive and fun games worth checking:

* God of War
* Ghost of Tsushima
* Spiderman
* Spiderman Miles Morales
* Red Dead Redemption 2
* The Last of Us
* Horizon Forbidden West (should probably play Horizon Zero Dawn first though)
* Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart

Should play Elden Ring, Persona 5 Royal, Yakuza 0, and NieR Automata too even though they're not that graphically intense.

Elden Ring is IMO the best game out on PC right now. God of War is probably the best combination of graphics, top notch gameplay, and interesting story.

[Joseph Kony]

Some really graphically impressive and fun games worth checking:

* God of War
* Ghost of Tsushima
* Spiderman
* Spiderman Miles Morales
* Red Dead Redemption 2
* The Last of Us
* Horizon Forbidden West (should probably play Horizon Zero Dawn first though)
* Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart

Should play Elden Ring, Persona 5 Royal, Yakuza 0, and NieR Automata too even though they're not that graphically intense.

Elden Ring is IMO the best game out on PC right now. God of War is probably the best combination of graphics, top notch gameplay, and interesting story.

Cyberpunk 2077 as well tbh...Phantom Liberty expansion was excellent and the game has been fixed since launch

[baseline bum]

Cyberpunk 2077 as well tbh...Phantom Liberty expansion was excellent and the game has been fixed since launch

Yeah it's extremely impressive graphically but I haven't played it other than for an hour stress testing my gpu when I first got it, so couldn't recommend it.

[Joseph Kony]

Yeah it's extremely impressive graphically but I haven't played it other than for an hour stress testing my gpu when I first got it, so couldn't recommend it.
need to get on that man, youre missing out

[DisAsTerBot]

But can it run Crysis?

lol

[DisAsTerBot]

Some really graphically impressive and fun games worth checking:

* God of War
* Ghost of Tsushima
* Spiderman
* Spiderman Miles Morales
* Red Dead Redemption 2
* The Last of Us
* Horizon Forbidden West (should probably play Horizon Zero Dawn first though)
* Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart

Should play Elden Ring, Persona 5 Royal, Yakuza 0, and NieR Automata too even though they're not that graphically intense.

Elden Ring is IMO the best game out on PC right now. God of War is probably the best combination of graphics, top notch gameplay, and interesting story.

Badass. I’ve been playing spiderman and it looks amazing (pun intended!) I’ll check out some of the ones you listed. Been meaning to check out remnant 2

[DisAsTerBot]

I know cyberpunk has a big following but I’m not sure it’s my kind of game

[FrostKing]

https://i.ibb.co/D9tXB0P/Screenshot-2024-05-06-143824.png

[koriwhat]

I know cyberpunk has a big following but I’m not sure it’s my kind of game

too involved imo

[Joseph Kony]

Ghost of Tsushima finally on PC :tu

[baseline bum]

Oh wow digital deluxe version of Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne is $14 on Steam now. Definitely picking this shit up.

[FrostKing]

Starcraft II

First time playing this series. Downloaded the free online content.

[spurraider21]

finally moving into my new home over the weekend. gonna play one of Hellblade, Star Wars Fallen Order, or Cyberpunk first

[baseline bum]

finally moving into my new home over the weekend. gonna play one of Hellblade, Star Wars Fallen Order, or Cyberpunk first

Second should be Elden Ring when the DLC drops on June 20th

[spurraider21]

Second should be Elden Ring when the DLC drops on June 20th
before i get into a behemoth sized game like that, im going to have to go out and get TLOU part 2 so i can make sure ive played through that before season 2 of the show drops in 2025

[baseline bum]

I know cyberpunk has a big following but I’m not sure it’s my kind of game

Supposedly a PC port of God of War Ragnarok being announced today at Sony's State of Play. Would definitely start with God of War 2018 which is an extremely impressive port though.

[baseline bum]

before i get into a behemoth sized game like that, im going to have to go out and get TLOU part 2 so i can make sure ive played through that before season 2 of the show drops in 2025

Isn't Cyberpunk a behemoth game too?

[baseline bum]

Ghost of Tsushima finally on PC :tu

Ragnarok and Until Dawn are rumored to be announced today too.

[Joseph Kony]

Ragnarok and Until Dawn are rumored to be announced today too.

Thats nice and all but ...WE WANT BLOODBORNE

[baseline bum]

Thats nice and all but ...WE WANT BLOODBORNE

And I wanna fuck Angie Dickinson, see who gets lucky first

[baseline bum]

Watching this Sony State of Play makes me think I should sell my PS5 as soon as I beat FFVII Rebirth

[spurraider21]

Isn't Cyberpunk a behemoth game too?
Not elden ring/dark souls level of behemoth based on howlongtobeat

[spurraider21]

And I wanna fuck Angie Dickinson, see who gets lucky first
Sharp as a fucking cue ball, this one

[Leetonidas]

Been playing a lot of XDefiant lately. Pretty fun alternative to CoD and it's free so that's always nice

[baseline bum]

Sharp as a fucking cue ball, this one

I get it, he drives a Lincoln.

[spurraider21]

got so giddy getting all my old consoles out of storage for the first time in years, started playing InFamous 1 :lol

[baseline bum]

got so giddy getting all my old consoles out of storage for the first time in years, started playing InFamous 1 :lol

Fuck that shit, get Elden Ring you pansy

[baseline bum]

Been playing through Demon's Souls and just progressed to 5-2, the most annoying level in any FromSoft game I have ever played where the whole area is poison diarrhea water, like Blighttown from Dark Souls if it was 4x bigger. A perfect remake of the game though. Plays exactly like the PS3 original but with out of this world graphics this time, god I can't wait to see what Bluepoint remakes next.

[baseline bum]

Blue Dragon in Demon's Souls has to be the shittiest boss ever. Not because it's hard or anything but because cheese is the only way to fight it.

How to beat the blue dragon:

1. Buy 500 arrows
2. Get your health to less than 30%
3. Equip rat ring to make your attacks stronger
4. Equip ring of magic sharpness to make your magic stronger
5. Cheese dragon to half health with long distance magic attacks (eg soul arrow)
6. Dragon flies away; chase him up to top of first staircase
7. Let him blow fire, wait 1 second then run; the 1 second wait makes him blow fire in the same area a second time
8. Stop in one specific spot at top of second staircase where dragon can't hit you. You're right in front of the dragon not hiding behind anything so he should be able to hit you with fire, but the game is programmed so the dragon will never hit you in this one specific area.
9. Pull out bow and shoot dragon in the toenail 300+ times until dead.
10. Congrats, you beat the shittiest designed boss ever via cheese; the only way the boss can be beaten.

Demon's Souls is such a great game but the two dragon fights are so shitty and require cheese. There is legit no way other than cheese to fight them.

You can skip steps 2-4 but then the fight just takes way longer and way more arrows and magic.

Thank god FromSoft didn't put these kind of lame bossfights in any of their other games.

[Cry Havoc]

Blue Dragon in Demon's Souls has to be the shittiest boss ever. Not because it's hard or anything but because cheese is the only way to fight it.

How to beat the blue dragon:

1. Buy 500 arrows
2. Get your health to less than 30%
3. Equip rat ring to make your attacks stronger
4. Equip ring of magic sharpness to make your magic stronger
5. Cheese dragon to half health with long distance magic attacks (eg soul arrow)
6. Dragon flies away; chase him up to top of first staircase
7. Let him blow fire, wait 1 second then run; the 1 second wait makes him blow fire in the same area a second time
8. Stop in one specific spot at top of second staircase where dragon can't hit you. You're right in front of the dragon not hiding behind anything so he should be able to hit you with fire, but the game is programmed so the dragon will never hit you in this one specific area.
9. Pull out bow and shoot dragon in the toenail 300+ times until dead.
10. Congrats, you beat the shittiest designed boss ever via cheese; the only way the boss can be beaten.

Demon's Souls is such a great game but the two dragon fights are so shitty and require cheese. There is legit no way other than cheese to fight them.

You can skip steps 2-4 but then the fight just takes way longer and way more arrows and magic.

Thank god FromSoft didn't put these kind of lame bossfights in any of their other games.

IMO the Valiant Gargoyles were the epitome of terrible boss design.

Poison attack you can't see if you're looking at the bosses because of the camera angle, said poison damages and staggers you, two bosses with massive gap closing moves that are hard to dodge, huge combo attacks, and a lot of health.

That poison though. It requires no build up, starts damaging you as soon as it hits. I hate it so much.

[baseline bum]

IMO the Valiant Gargoyles were the epitome of terrible boss design.

Poison attack you can't see if you're looking at the bosses because of the camera angle, said poison damages and staggers you, two bosses with massive gap closing moves that are hard to dodge, huge combo attacks, and a lot of health.

That poison though. It requires no build up, starts damaging you as soon as it hits. I hate it so much.

I enjoyed that fight. The only fight I didn't like in Elden Ring was on the way to Malenia you have one of those trees that jumps and releases scarlet rot in a small hallway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ca4psucD18&start=1382

But you can't tell me this isn't a worse bossfight than anything in any other FromSoft game:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifK7MD2kfFk

[spurraider21]

just started Jedi Fallen order. playing on grandmaster difficulty and so far even then the parry window is much wider than something like sekiro.

[Joseph Kony]

i'm not sure if it's because i had a kid or if i'm just getting older or if it's just nothing good has come out lately, but i've really lost my luster for gaming over the last year or so. Feels like the last time i played and really got lost in game was in 2020 with CP2077 and LoU2.

[baseline bum]

i'm not sure if it's because i had a kid or if i'm just getting older or if it's just nothing good has come out lately, but i've really lost my luster for gaming over the last year or so. Feels like the last time i played and really got lost in game was in 2020 with CP2077 and LoU2.

JRPG fans eating good in 2024 between Shadow of the Erdtree, Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, and Persona 3 Reload, with Mataphor ReFantasio in October and Persona 3 Reload Episode Aigis in September. If you don't like Japanese RPGs though ouch, a pretty trash year with

1. The check coming due for Sony pissing all that time and money away for four years on live service trash
2. Microsoft having a reverse Midas touch with every studio they buy
3. Nintendo obviously holding out their best games for the new system next year.

[spurraider21]

Fallen Order is really good tbh

going to Dathomir really made me have to "git gud" particularly on the grandmaster difficulty, which feels very sekiro-ish. the higher difficulty doesnt make the enemies any spongier. they just hit harder and are more aggressive. thats difficulty done well.

[Joseph Kony]

JRPG fans eating good in 2024 between Shadow of the Erdtree, Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, and Persona 3 Reload, with Mataphor ReFantasio in October and Persona 3 Reload Episode Aigis in September. If you don't like Japanese RPGs though ouch, a pretty trash year with

1. The check coming due for Sony pissing all that time and money away for four years on live service trash
2. Microsoft having a reverse Midas touch with every studio they buy
3. Nintendo obviously holding out their best games for the new system next year.

i never got around to getting much into Elden Ring, it had came out right after I finally beat Dark Souls 3 and i got kinda burnt out on souls-like games. i put maybe 20 hours into it, and sometimes i want to go back and pick it up but i have no fucking clue where i left off so i feel like i need to start a new character which i dont have time to dedicate to

FFVII rebirth i enjoyed for a couple weeks after it came out but idk...just didn't keep my attention. i got to the part where you're leaving Junon on the ship to Costa del Sol and my interest waned.

wife is going out of town with my daughter to visit her family next week for about 2 weeks so im going to try to go back and beat Rebirth during that time period. kinda thinking about firing up Witcher 3 though

[ElNono]

Shadow of the Erdtree is the only thing worth a damn right now, and I finished it. I ended up installing Nioh and playing it through at the moment.

[spurraider21]

Fallen Order is really good tbh

going to Dathomir really made me have to "git gud" particularly on the grandmaster difficulty, which feels very sekiro-ish. the higher difficulty doesnt make the enemies any spongier. they just hit harder and are more aggressive. thats difficulty done well.
oh wow, Zeffo was miles easier than Dathomir. guess i was supposed to do zeffo first lol. zeffo was massive though. and the lack of fast travel is pretty annoying tbh. i get basically all the way through Zeffo, eventually acquire the push ability and the little droid dude's hacking/splice ability. then remember all these points in the map where i can use these to open new areas (metroidvania design), but its a real bitch to basically do a full lap around the whole map and then have to trek all the way back to the ship.

and im gonna have to do it again, because even after doing a full lap and opening new areas, there are now even further areas that i cant access. see objects highlighted red and red doors on the map. not looking forward to having to head all the way back again later. yes there are some souls-esque shortcuts i opened along the way, but not nearly enough to make traveling easier

[spurraider21]

Shadow of the Erdtree is the only thing worth a damn right now, and I finished it. I ended up installing Nioh and playing it through at the moment.
Nioh is somewhere in my backlog, think ill get to it sooner than later

how've you been tbh

[DJR210]

i'm not sure if it's because i had a kid or if i'm just getting older or if it's just nothing good has come out lately, but i've really lost my luster for gaming over the last year or so. Feels like the last time i played and really got lost in game was in 2020 with CP2077 and LoU2.

Same. I think it's just being older, attention spans and free time are less, so now it better be a really good game to warrant my time. I just finally decided to play RDR2 on PC lol

[baseline bum]

Same. I think it's just being older, attention spans and free time are less, so now it better be a really good game to warrant my time. I just finally decided to play RDR2 on PC lol

It's a great port. My scrubby 1660 Super was able to run it 1080p60 using Hardware Unboxed's optimized settings and it looked incredible. It's such a long game I haven't tried it since upgrading to a 6700 XT though. Definitely one of those games like Witcher 3 that are so big you don't want to do a second playthrough but amazing on that first playthrough.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=385eG1IEZMU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3xQ33Cq4CE

[spurraider21]

nothing but impressed with Fallen Order the more I get through it

i still think the lack of fast travel is a big nuisance in a game with some gargantuan maps/planets with different layers, tombs, etc... there are shortcuts you can make use of but its still a chore. with that said, they at least make use of this mechanic (or lack thereof) with some special encounters. ie a path you've safely traveled throughout the game now suddenly out of nowhere has a miniboss that has never appeared before. keeps it from being a series of long stale runs.

but the combat, the metroidvania layout, skill tree, etc... just very well made. the boss/miniboss fights are nice. playing on the highest difficulty it feels like an easier more arcade-y version of sekiro, but with cooler platforming. still plenty challenging and always have that anxiety of "where is that next bonfire." no walk in the park but definitely not sekiro levels. i guess other main criticism is you go out of your way to find these chests and they have nothing but cosmetics which i dont care for. only reason i care is the xp. and you still have to go out of your way because may be one of the valuable stim containers

[baseline bum]

I couldn't get into Fallen Order and dropped it after five hours. Not into Star Wars at all though.

[Leetonidas]

I really enjoyed Fallen Order tbh. Need to beat Jedi Survivor still

[spurraider21]

I really enjoyed Fallen Order tbh. Need to beat Jedi Survivor still
yeah i think Survivor will be a must-play for me given how much im enjoying Fallen Order

i really like the combat difficulty in the game. im not dreading every encounter like do with a FromSoft game, but its definitely enough where i have to be dialed in and work for it. the platforming stuff is fun too

[DJR210]

It's a great port. My scrubby 1660 Super was able to run it 1080p60 using Hardware Unboxed's optimized settings and it looked incredible. It's such a long game I haven't tried it since upgrading to a 6700 XT though. Definitely one of those games like Witcher 3 that are so big you don't want to do a second playthrough but amazing on that first playthrough.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=385eG1IEZMU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3xQ33Cq4CE

I have it essentially ultra, 4k60, only turned a couple settings to high to get it there. I'm still blown away at the details in this game considering it's age

[baseline bum]

I have it essentially ultra, 4k60, only turned a couple settings to high to get it there. I'm still blown away at the details in this game considering it's age

Damn you running a 4080 or a 7900 XT or some shit?

[DJR210]

Damn you running a 4080 or a 7900 XT or some shit?

nah an OC 3080 and a OC 9600k. i can check the settings i had to adjust next time i fire it up.. really the only time it slows down is to around 50 fps at night in Saint Denis with a ton of light sources active

[ElNono]

Nioh is somewhere in my backlog, think ill get to it sooner than later

how've you been tbh

Doing good, scrah. Just been a hell of a busy year. Hope you're doing ok in Nevada.

[vy65]

Was able to get started on BM Wukong, and it looks amazing so far.

[vy65]

Loving Wukong. I’m not big into Souls games, but this is easy enough to be accessible but hard enough to be worth it. I’d put it up there with GOW in looking incredible. Highly recommend this one, easily the best game of 2024.

[spurraider21]

finished fallen order. loved it. but final boss was underwhelming. susceptible to the basic force slow to get free hits. at least when you fight shirtless dual light saber guy, he was basically immune to force stuff (only wasnt if you used a force push while he was already in the middle of an attack sequence, which is kind of like a parry and therefore earned)

overall awesome game tho. grandmaster difficulty was challenging enough but never as brutal as fromsoft games can be.

up next... probably something quite small like Hellblade

after that probably flipping a coin between Cyberpunk and Days Gone... i still have Elden Ring sitting in its wrapper, but that game just feels daunting. not in difficulty, just in size/scope. i dont have the time for several hours long gaming sessions anymore. so i just feel like a month will pass by and the amount of actual progress ive made would be minimal

and after a full game of lightsaber stuff followed by what i assume is mostly melee combat in hellblade, would be more refreshing to play a shooter anyway

[vy65]

finished fallen order. loved it. but final boss was underwhelming. susceptible to the basic force slow to get free hits. at least when you fight shirtless dual light saber guy, he was basically immune to force stuff (only wasnt if you used a force push while he was already in the middle of an attack sequence, which is kind of like a parry and therefore earned)

overall awesome game tho. grandmaster difficulty was challenging enough but never as brutal as fromsoft games can be.

up next... probably something quite small like Hellblade

after that probably flipping a coin between Cyberpunk and Days Gone... i still have Elden Ring sitting in its wrapper, but that game just feels daunting. not in difficulty, just in size/scope. i dont have the time for several hours long gaming sessions anymore. so i just feel like a month will pass by and the amount of actual progress ive made would be minimal

and after a full game of lightsaber stuff followed by what i assume is mostly melee combat in hellblade, would be more refreshing to play a shooter anyway

:tu

I thought fallen order was much better than survivor, fwiw. Survivor was incredibly underwhelming.

The Phantom Liberty expansion for CP77 is amazing. Highly recommend that.

[spurraider21]

:tu

I thought fallen order was much better than survivor, fwiw. Survivor was incredibly underwhelming.

The Phantom Liberty expansion for CP77 is amazing. Highly recommend that.
i dont have fallen order yet. and only game(s) that i can see myself buying to jump ahead of my backlog would be TLOU part 2 (before the next season of the show drops), and maybe spider-man 2 at some point just because that series is freakin awesome

and GTA6 because rockstar

[playblair]

my aunt bought me madden 25 ..........gamespot charged her $70

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/OEgAAOSwo~9my3rU/s-l1600.webp

[Joseph Kony]

finished fallen order. loved it. but final boss was underwhelming. susceptible to the basic force slow to get free hits. at least when you fight shirtless dual light saber guy, he was basically immune to force stuff (only wasnt if you used a force push while he was already in the middle of an attack sequence, which is kind of like a parry and therefore earned)

overall awesome game tho. grandmaster difficulty was challenging enough but never as brutal as fromsoft games can be.

up next... probably something quite small like Hellblade

after that probably flipping a coin between Cyberpunk and Days Gone... i still have Elden Ring sitting in its wrapper, but that game just feels daunting. not in difficulty, just in size/scope. i dont have the time for several hours long gaming sessions anymore. so i just feel like a month will pass by and the amount of actual progress ive made would be minimal

and after a full game of lightsaber stuff followed by what i assume is mostly melee combat in hellblade, would be more refreshing to play a shooter anyway

I liked Days Gone but it is a slow burner and takes awhile for the story to get interesting. I'd go with CP2077 next after Hellblade tbh, one of the best games i've played in the last 5-10 years and as vy65 said Phantom Liberty is legit, a masterpiece imho

[Joseph Kony]

been playing Stellar Blade for the last few days. tiddies aside it's actually pretty solid, reminds of DMC/Nier but with some Souls-like elements.

[baseline bum]

been playing Stellar Blade for the last few days. tiddies aside it's actually pretty solid, reminds of DMC/Nier but with some Souls-like elements.

Damn making me want to buy it even though I'm currently playing Infinite Wealth with Rebirth and SMT V Vengeance in my backlog too, plus will buy a month of PC Game Pass next month for Persona 3 Reload Episode Aigis probably. Gonna have to hold out until it's $30 or I have finished those three. Same thing for Spiderman 2.

[baseline bum]

i dont have fallen order yet. and only game(s) that i can see myself buying to jump ahead of my backlog would be TLOU part 2 (before the next season of the show drops), and maybe spider-man 2 at some point just because that series is freakin awesome

and GTA6 because rockstar

TLOU Part 2 is a masterpiece but you probably missed your chance to get it cheap now that it has that unnecessary PS5 remaster when the PS4 version was already great running 1440p60 on PS5. It's significantly better than the first IMO, which is saying a fucking lot because the first game was one of the biggest things that got me to buy a PS4 in 2016 and as soon as I played it I knew the system was worth every penny I paid for it.

[baseline bum]

ROFL Concord only sold about 25,000 copies after PoorStation dropped probably $100 million into making that trash ass game.

[Leetonidas]

ROFL Concord only sold about 25,000 copies after PoorStation dropped probably $100 million into making that trash ass game.

:lol already shutting down on the 6th. What a massive fail

[baseline bum]

:lol already shutting down on the 6th. What a massive fail

ROFL Jim Ryan tearing down what was an incredible brand last console gen. He's the Playstation Don Mattrick.

[Reck]

Haven’t played a video game since late March. I’m thinking of buying Astro Bot, apparently it’s totally on par or better than the GOAT of GOATS Super Mario 64.

[Leetonidas]

Space Marine 2 is pretty badass. Kinda gives shooter from the 2010s vibes, in a good way.

[Reck]

BaselineBum What’s with Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio releasing a Yakuza game like they’re Call of Duty?


https://youtu.be/JD_K05bgjSg?si=kzNgiX01ZsAityW-

Looks interesting but I can’t keep up anymore.

[baseline bum]

BaselineBum What’s with Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio releasing a Yakuza game like they’re Call of Duty?


https://youtu.be/JD_K05bgjSg?si=kzNgiX01ZsAityW-

Looks interesting but I can’t keep up anymore.

RGG is smart in that they reuse their engine and their assets so they're not reinventing the wheel every game and can keep pumping out quality games like everyone did in the NES through PS3 gens. I don't know why more studios don't. I mean was anyone complaining when GTA III, GTA Vice City, and GTA San Andreas came out within a three year span and all played pretty similarly? Did anyone complain about getting Persona 3 and Persona 4 only two years apart? Or Final Fantasy IV and VI only a couple of years apart? Or Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas two years apart? Or Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Elder Scrolls Skyrim five years apart? So stupid that studios want to wait 7-10-15 years to make new games in the same universe as their previous one. RGG is one of the few devs that takes that old-school PS2 gen approach to their release schedule.

Also Yakuza / Like a Dragon is a great series to play as a patient gamer since the games get really cheap within 2-3 years. Play through the old ones while they're cheap to buy and by the time you get to the new ones they'll probably be $5 to $10 too.

[baseline bum]

Jeez last year XBox was at Tokyo Game Show showing off Like a Dragon Gaiden and Persona 3 Reload as Day 1 XBox Game Pass games. This year? Some 20 year old Katamari game that goes on sale for $5 all the time and some remake of the Mana games that has been out four years? Game Pass is fucking dead.

[NASpurs]

My backlog is out of control but I really want to get Metaphor and Silent Hill 2 Remake. Problem is I know they'll stay in the back log for a while. I guess the smart thing to do is to wait until they're on sale. I rather pay $70 for the 2 in a couple of months instead of $130 for both right now.

[Leetonidas]

Beat Space Marine 2 campaign recently, that was pretty enjoyable.

Playing Star Wars Outlaws now and it kinda sucks. Like the game itself is not....terrible, not that great either, but holy shit the stealth takedown animations are hilariously bad and the plot so far just seems dumb. I do like the syndicate system and how doing certain things can lower your rep with them vs others but feels like it could be improved upon and it's kinda simplistic. Game overall just does not have the polish you'd expect for a AAA SW title

[baseline bum]

My backlog is out of control but I really want to get Metaphor and Silent Hill 2 Remake. Problem is I know they'll stay in the back log for a while. I guess the smart thing to do is to wait until they're on sale. I rather pay $70 for the 2 in a couple of months instead of $130 for both right now.

Silent Hill 2 Remake is $0 on the Rune store tbh if you're a PoorC gamer. Methaphor I badly want to buy but with three big JRPG in my backlog (Infinite Wealth, SMT V Vengeance, and FFVII Rebirth) plus really wanting to jump on Dragon Quest VIII sometime soon too as well as the new Persona 3 Reload DLC so it would be moronic for me to buy this full price. So I probably will. :lol

[Joseph Kony]

I played the original Silent Hill when i was a kid, never played any of the sequels though. Is Silent Hill 2 worth playing? looks like it has pretty good reviews on Steam so far

[Joseph Kony]

after owning the game for 7 years i FINALLY got around to beating Super Mario Bros U Deluxe on the switch. what an annoying game

[baseline bum]

after owning the game for 7 years i FINALLY got around to beating Super Mario Bros U Deluxe on the switch. what an annoying game

I couldn't get past the first world in that; such a bland game. Thank god Wonder was great but U bored me to tears.

[Reck]

There’s finally a boxing game out that looks halfway decent.

[Joseph Kony]

I couldn't get past the first world in that; such a bland game. Thank god Wonder was great but U bored me to tears.
you got bored to tears like 5 minutes into it? :lol

i just bought Wonder, gonna play it this weekend

[baseline bum]

you got bored to tears like 5 minutes into it? :lol

i just bought Wonder, gonna play it this weekend

First world, not the first level :lol

Wonder is amazing, probably the best 2D Mario since Super Mario World on SNES.

[Joseph Kony]

First world, not the first level :lol

Wonder is amazing, probably the best 2D Mario since Super Mario World on SNES.
ah gotcha. yeah the acorn plains are definitely the most vanilla of the worlds in U Deluxe but they get better. fucking hate the ice world though, that shit was annoying as hell

Good to hear though, SMW was my favorite as a kid and part of the reason i got U Deluxe to begin with. hoping it lives up to the hype

[baseline bum]

ah gotcha. yeah the acorn plains are definitely the most vanilla of the worlds in U Deluxe but they get better. fucking hate the ice world though, that shit was annoying as hell

Good to hear though, SMW was my favorite as a kid and part of the reason i got U Deluxe to begin with. hoping it lives up to the hype

Super Mario Maker 2 is also very worth getting just for the built in levels, which are the only ones I have played since I use a hacked Switch that can't connect to anything Nintendo any more. Though it lets me play games up to a month early when they leak, like TOTK. :lol

Also the fact you made beating U sound like a chore doesn't exactly make me want to progress any further. :lol

[Joseph Kony]

Super Mario Maker 2 is also very worth getting just for the built in levels, which are the only ones I have played since I use a hacked Switch that can't connect to anything Nintendo any more. Though it lets me play games up to a month early when they leak, like TOTK. :lol

Also the fact you made beating U sound like a chore doesn't exactly make me want to progress any further. :lol

Ok so i got Wonder the other day and have played it a bit. am i missing something or is this game extremely easy? like i'm breezing through all the levels i've played so far. there is no level timer. feels like there are barely any enemies. It's kinda boring me because of his simple it is. i hope it gets more difficult because U Deluxe was like LoU2 on grounded permadeath compared to Wonder so far

[baseline bum]

Ok so i got Wonder the other day and have played it a bit. am i missing something or is this game extremely easy? like i'm breezing through all the levels i've played so far. there is no level timer. feels like there are barely any enemies. It's kinda boring me because of his simple it is. i hope it gets more difficult because U Deluxe was like LoU2 on grounded permadeath compared to Wonder so far

It's kind of like Super Mario World where you discovered hard missions in the star world by finding hidden exits in the easy levels. The hard levels in Wonder can get pretty difficult.

[Joseph Kony]

Finally beat Stellar Blade. 2nd to last boss fight was a bitch and a half though. Really enjoyed it, a lot more to the game than just big tits and the story was actually interesting. Definitely gave me Nier Automata vibes

[Leetonidas]

Playing the Dead Space remake on PS5. Never played the original. Enjoying it but idk why people think this game is scary because it's not even remotely scary and just relies on jump scares basically.

[Cry Havoc]

Just snagged Total War Empire for my new phone.

It's marvelous. Feral is the best mobile port developer in the business, and even I cannot believe they crammed the full PC experience into a mobile port, made it better, fixed many of the bugs, and even improved the graphical fidelity.

We're gonna be playing BG3 on our phones in 5 years. Insanity.

If you haven't tried it, Balatro is sensational. Pick it up on the Steam Fall Sale that starts in 3 days.

I'm also liking NBA 2k25, they finally brought the next gen engine to PC and it plays really well after some tweaking (single player only).

GOTY for me personally is probably still Helldivers 2. Easily the most fun I've had this year with any title.

[baseline bum]

Get in here spurraider21

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[spurraider21]

Get in here spurraider21 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=31905)
havent turned on my PS5 since playing Fallen Order

thats one way to pull me back in

[spurraider21]

just bought TLOU Part 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Spider-Man 2

i still have a backlog, but these are the games i'd probably put before most of what i have. need to play TLOU before season 2 drops :lol

[Leetonidas]

Last of Us Pt2 is one of the GOATs. Might have to fire it up before season 2 again myself

[William Hung]

PS5 has some good deals.

RE 8 Village $19.99
Outlast Trials $19.99
Plague Tale Innocence $9.99

[spurraider21]

Last of Us Pt2 is one of the GOATs. Might have to fire it up before season 2 again myself
Got survivor for 20, spiderman 2 for 30, tlou pt2 for 40

spiderman 2 was selling for 40 most places. Walmart alone had it for 30. The others i just got from best buy

[Leetonidas]

Got survivor for 20, spiderman 2 for 30, tlou pt2 for 40

spiderman 2 was selling for 40 most places. Walmart alone had it for 30. The others i just got from best buy

Solid haul :tu kinda surprised LoU2 was $40 on sale though, game is over 4 years already

[baseline bum]

Solid haul :tu kinda surprised LoU2 was $40 on sale though, game is over 4 years already

Sony remastered it and jacked the price up to $40 for the original PS4 version so they could sell the remaster at $50. The PS4 original I bought for $20 was already perfect on PS5 after the 60 fps patch so this was the most unnecessary remaster yet but it gave them an excuse to jack the price up due to the success of the TV series.

[baseline bum]

Got survivor for 20, spiderman 2 for 30, tlou pt2 for 40

spiderman 2 was selling for 40 most places. Walmart alone had it for 30. The others i just got from best buy

First time I have seen Spiderman 2 for $30. I would have bought at that price before but the typical sale price has only dropped to $48 until now and I wasn't buying at that price. But now I figure no reason to pay $30 for it on PS5 since I can just pirate it on PoorC for $0 in January. :lol

Ghost of Yotei is about the only thing keeping me from selling my PS5.

[baseline bum]

ElNono man you see this shit? Even 10GB cards like the 3080 getting skullfucked at 1080p by weaker 12GB cards :lol

Ouch never would have thought I'd see the day a 6700 XT would wreck a 3080 with raytracing turned on

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[ElNono]

ElNono man you see this shit? Even 10GB cards like the 3080 getting skullfucked at 1080p by weaker 12GB cards :lol

Ouch never would have thought I'd see the day a 6700 XT would wreck a 3080 with raytracing turned on

1864829722221514798

It's the stupid game:

The game reserves and presumably uses a fixed amount of graphics card memory (the "pool") and if this amount is not sufficient, the game stutters. It doesn't matter whether that much VRAM is actually needed at the time, which has the disadvantage that the game sometimes runs worse than it theoretically could when there is a shortage of memory, but has the advantage that the memory allocation and usage hardly change during the game. So if the graphics card memory is sufficient at the start of a game, it will probably be sufficient at the end too.

Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to say how much VRAM the game actually needs. The game allocates around 14 GB in the benchmark with the Hyper preset, 13 GB with Giga and just over 12 GB with Ultra - so the differences are small. With a 16 GB graphics card, there were no problems with the Hyper preset in Ultra HD even after a long time of playing. However, it is unclear whether this also applies to a 12 GB graphics card.

With 8 and 10 GB there are big problems even in Full HD
8 GB is clearly not enough for the hyper textures even in full HD, it's nothing more than a stuttering orgy. And the giga textures are still too much for an 8 GB graphics card, which run much better than hyper, but still stutter a lot. And the ultra textures are still too much, even if the average frame rate is right, the game still stutters a lot. Only from the medium setting onwards do 8 GB accelerators no longer have any problems - yes, even high textures are still too much.

With a 12 GB VRAM, WQHD can be played well with the hyper textures and even at higher resolutions, corresponding graphics cards are stable, at least for short periods of time - and experience shows that memory consumption does not increase further when playing games with the id-Tech engine.

However, the maximum performance is not yet available with 12 GB in Ultra HD. The frame rate only increases to the maximum with a 16 GB graphics card, even if the frame pacing is no longer disrupted with 12 GB.

....


Even though Indiana Jones and the Great Circle uses hardware ray tracing throughout, AMD graphics cards perform well. The two fastest Radeons in particular perform well. In WQHD and UWQHD, the GeForce RTX 4080 Super and Radeon RX 7900 XTX work at exactly the same speed, and only in Ultra HD does the Nvidia graphics card pull ahead by 9 percent. Since all Radeons fall behind in Ultra HD, it is conceivable that the additional pixels are a bit too much for the ray tracing capabilities of the AMD GPUs, which then have to struggle accordingly. In this regard, one should not be fooled by the Radeon RX 7800 XT, which suddenly moves closer to the GeForce RTX 4070 in Ultra HD. The latter simply runs out of 12 GB of memory, and the FPS drops accordingly.

Even in Full HD there is a lack of VRAM
Even in Full HD, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle quickly runs out of VRAM, even when the textures are reduced by two levels to the Ultra setting. Graphics cards with just 8 GB run slightly faster than with "Hyper", but are still slow: GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600 only manage a barely playable 30 FPS. And the GeForce RTX 3080 with 10 GB is hardly any better; the former high-end graphics card doesn't achieve more than 36 FPS even with the textures reduced by two levels.

Graphics cards with at least 12 GB achieve their normal performance, the Radeon RX 6700 XT easily achieves 60 FPS in Full HD, while the actual competitor, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, idles around 30 FPS. The Arc A770 also has problems despite having 16 GB of VRAM - so there is no limitation in this regard. The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a whopping 61 percent faster, but the 60 FPS mark remains far away despite sufficient memory.

[ElNono]

FYI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbvxohT032E

[spurraider21]

https://i.gyazo.com/476ef92f2d5ecfaa917f28668217078b.jpg

[spurraider21]

Jedi Survivor for PS5 selling for 9.99 at BJ's

https://www.bjs.com/product/star-wars-jedi-survivor-playstation-5/300000000000433425 (https://www.bjs.com/product/star-wars-jedi-survivor-playstation-5/3000000000004334255)

best buy was able to retroactively price match so i didnt have to decide whether it was worth it do go do an in-store return to save ~$10 :lol

[Joseph Kony]

so I've been playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard for the last few weeks when time allows. game is bad or just very mediocre. it is terrible as a DA game and it's so bland and shallow but it also has a decent story and is somewhat entertaining. some of the characters are fucking insufferable though and the dialogue is ass. i dont get much time to play these days so i've only put in about 23 hours, but not sure if i'm going to finish it or not. Think i might just buy Black Myth Wukong and play that instead

[baseline bum]

so I've been playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard for the last few weeks when time allows. game is bad or just very mediocre. it is terrible as a DA game and it's so bland and shallow but it also has a decent story and is somewhat entertaining. some of the characters are fucking insufferable though and the dialogue is ass. i dont get much time to play these days so i've only put in about 23 hours, but not sure if i'm going to finish it or not. Think i might just buy Black Myth Wukong and play that instead

No reason to compound a bad purchase by spending time on it too. Might as well just move on to something that'll be an enjoyable use of your time.

[Joseph Kony]

yeah you're probably right. Black Myth Wukong it is

[baseline bum]

yeah you're probably right. Black Myth Wukong it is

Oh shit


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54dabgZJ5YA

[spurraider21]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djtsw5k_DNc

[Joseph Kony]

Oh shit


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54dabgZJ5YA
:wow :wow

[baseline bum]

:wow :wow

CDPR says 2027. TLOU Part II PC coming April 3rd 2025. FFVII Rebirth PC port I think January 30th. New Naughty Dog game shown off too.

[baseline bum]

Finally a sequel to Dying Light where you play as Crane


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tkwem4M1uw

[Joseph Kony]

CDPR says 2027. TLOU Part II PC coming April 3rd 2025. FFVII Rebirth PC port I think January 30th. New Naughty Dog game shown off too.
2027??? lame. That Naughty Dog game looks interesting but of course the main is another non-binary looking female :lol i'll still play it but i'm sure the neckbeards are raging about it already