Currently Playing in 2019....

Back on Mad Max on Xbox one. I don't like it much as someone does on here but it's still fun enough to play for bit till I get fed up of it and play something else before coming back to it

Seven wrote:Back on Mad Max on Xbox one. I don't like it much as someone does on here but it's still fun enough to play for bit till I get fed up of it and play something else before coming back to it

Okay I did something on accident and made me laugh:

twitter.com/SevenFisher/status/1044062730762801152

Whoops

Still Warframe. Sunk about 20 hours into it now, and I'm just building my second frame and first decent weapon.

It's really gotten its claws into me, this one. The core gameplay loop is simple and short, it's a third person Destiny-lite, with interesting movement and combat mechanics. The amount of stuff tacked on top is insane. I thought I'd seen most of what the game had to offer but after watching a few videos that's clearly not the case.

Considering it's free, I might be playing this for a while.

Also, I was playing alongside a guy who had 3160 hours in the game. Three thousand hours. Insanity.

Seven wrote:

Seven wrote:Back on Mad Max on Xbox one. I don't like it much as someone does on here but it's still fun enough to play for bit till I get fed up of it and play something else before coming back to it

Okay I did something on accident and made me laugh:

twitter.com/SevenFisher/status/1044062730762801152

Whoops

Hime wrote:

Drumstick wrote:The Mummy Maze thing on Captain Toad is annoying. Got to level 38 so far.

I've found this game to be such a disappointment. As I said earlier in the thread instead of the puzzles becoming more clever they just seem to add in more bullshit to increase the difficulty.

I found that about 90 minutes of play per day was the sweet spot. It certainly isn't a game I could play for hours on end. It's cute, it's charming, it may have some replayability.

When you say BS, which sort of things do you mean?

Seven wrote:Back on Mad Max on Xbox one...

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Seven wrote:...I don't like it much as someone does on here...

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Seven wrote:Okay I did something on accident and made me laugh...

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Tafdolphin wrote:Still Warframe. Sunk about 20 hours into it now, and I'm just building my second frame and first decent weapon.

It's really gotten its claws into me, this one. The core gameplay loop is simple and short, it's a third person Destiny-lite, with interesting movement and combat mechanics. The amount of stuff tacked on top is insane. I thought I'd seen most of what the game had to offer but after watching a few videos that's clearly not the case.

Considering it's free, I might be playing this for a while.

Also, I was playing alongside a guy who had 3160 hours in the game. Three thousand hours. Insanity.

Is the term Destinty-lite right, when I think it came out a year earlier?

jawafour wrote:

Seven wrote:...I don't like it much as someone does on here...

I'm with you on Mad Max, but I think you already knew that. One of my favourite open world adventures.

Pedz wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:Still Warframe. Sunk about 20 hours into it now, and I'm just building my second frame and first decent weapon.

It's really gotten its claws into me, this one. The core gameplay loop is simple and short, it's a third person Destiny-lite, with interesting movement and combat mechanics. The amount of stuff tacked on top is insane. I thought I'd seen most of what the game had to offer but after watching a few videos that's clearly not the case.

Considering it's free, I might be playing this for a while.

Also, I was playing alongside a guy who had 3160 hours in the game. Three thousand hours. Insanity.

Is the term Destinty-lite right, when I think it came out a year earlier?

It is what it is, a fairly accurate description using a better known example as a comparison. There's no implication of timeline.

But if you want to get super picky, Warframe upon release is not the Warframe we have now. Warframe 2018 is Destiny-lite, Warframe 2013 was a floaty corridor shooter.

I don't think there's anything lite about warframe compared to destiny; they add way more stuff more frequently and aren't grabbing bastards about.

Tafdolphin wrote:

Pedz wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:Still Warframe. Sunk about 20 hours into it now, and I'm just building my second frame and first decent weapon.

It's really gotten its claws into me, this one. The core gameplay loop is simple and short, it's a third person Destiny-lite, with interesting movement and combat mechanics. The amount of stuff tacked on top is insane. I thought I'd seen most of what the game had to offer but after watching a few videos that's clearly not the case.

Considering it's free, I might be playing this for a while.

Also, I was playing alongside a guy who had 3160 hours in the game. Three thousand hours. Insanity.

Is the term Destinty-lite right, when I think it came out a year earlier?

It is what it is, a fairly accurate description using a better known example as a comparison. There's no implication of timeline.

But if you want to get super picky, Warframe upon release is not the Warframe we have now. Warframe 2018 is Destiny-lite, Warframe 2013 was a floaty corridor shooter.

Wasn't being picky. Was a genuine question as my experience with Warframe was making a character.

Pedz wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:

Pedz wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:Still Warframe. Sunk about 20 hours into it now, and I'm just building my second frame and first decent weapon.

It's really gotten its claws into me, this one. The core gameplay loop is simple and short, it's a third person Destiny-lite, with interesting movement and combat mechanics. The amount of stuff tacked on top is insane. I thought I'd seen most of what the game had to offer but after watching a few videos that's clearly not the case.

Considering it's free, I might be playing this for a while.

Also, I was playing alongside a guy who had 3160 hours in the game. Three thousand hours. Insanity.

Is the term Destinty-lite right, when I think it came out a year earlier?

It is what it is, a fairly accurate description using a better known example as a comparison. There's no implication of timeline.

But if you want to get super picky, Warframe upon release is not the Warframe we have now. Warframe 2018 is Destiny-lite, Warframe 2013 was a floaty corridor shooter.

Wasn't being picky. Was a genuine question as my experience with Warframe was making a character.

Ah right, sorry. It's definitely an intimidating game to start, and I actually watched a few videos before jumping in. This series especially helped me get past the opening hump.

Trelliz wrote:I don't think there's anything lite about warframe compared to destiny; they add way more stuff more frequently and aren't grabbing bastards about.

This is also very true.

Bought myself a 2014 XBox 360 'E' (500GB!) this weekend at CEX (£65). Remarkably good condition (very minor scratches on the top) and works perfectly. My old 'core' 360 (2006!) was still working but didn't even have HDMI output (component only). The new 'E' is basically my FF XIII player (all the games, all the DLCs), but with a 500GB capacity knocking about it's going to be fun filling up the HDD with most of my 360 game collection... Happy days. I just wish I'd bought one of these while I could still get them new and boxed, factory-fresh.

I've soared past the point I last reached with Horizon Zero Dawn and am genuinely surprised at how much everything has opened up. Enjoying it far more now. That said, it continues to nark me that I can't climb cliff faces ala BotW/AC Origins.

Gemini73 wrote:I've soared past the point I last reached with Horizon Zero Dawn and am genuinely surprised at how much everything has opened up. Enjoying it far more now. That said, it continues to nark me that I can't climb cliff faces ala BotW/AC Origins.

Yes, the climbing was a little on the strawberry floating annoying side. I thought you could just climb the damn things anywhere, but oh no, only specific places that you have to hunt around for.

Drumstick wrote:The Mummy Maze thing on Captain Toad is annoying. Got to level 38 so far.

Eventually did it, all 50 levels.

Got that crown.

I never finished the Mummy Maze in Treasure Tracker, did (and loved) eveything else in that game though, I'll probably pick it up again if I ever see it cheap.

I'm currently on with Crash Bandicoot, nearing the end of Crash 1 (I think I am anyway!) as I'm 8 or 9 levels into the third island. While I'm enjoying it on the whole there is the odd bit where it really does fustrate me and I keep plummeting to my death

Drumstick wrote:

Hime wrote:

Drumstick wrote:The Mummy Maze thing on Captain Toad is annoying. Got to level 38 so far.

I've found this game to be such a disappointment. As I said earlier in the thread instead of the puzzles becoming more clever they just seem to add in more bullshit to increase the difficulty.

I found that about 90 minutes of play per day was the sweet spot. It certainly isn't a game I could play for hours on end. It's cute, it's charming, it may have some replayability.

When you say BS, which sort of things do you mean?

Just the the puzzles seem to be very samey with the only change being the amount of enemies in the level.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - PC
Having recently replayed both Prey and Dishonored 2 I had an itch for some more immersive sim goodness and decided to return to the latest (and possibly last! ) entry in the DX universe last night.

Now I know that this game is in no way perfect, the story is weak and half finished, there's no decent antagonist, the characters are all a bit dull, it doesn't have enough locations and those it does have are all fairly samey, some of the mechanics are much more inherently "gamey" than they were in the original 2000 DX. But in spite of all that there is just something about the core gameplay loop of this that just taps directly into my pleasure centres!

Put me in an interesting setting with loads of scope for to exploration at my own pace, systems to hack and manipulate, emails to read, enemies to either evade or find clever ways to eliminate, and don't try to hold my hand the whole time and you will see me smiling all day long.

I ended up playing this until silly o'clock in the morning as I just get so absorbed into the experience, as I say there is lots wrong with the game but Prague remains a fantastic hub to explore and the team behind both this and Human Revolution are still some of the best at telling stories through incidental details and world-building. The number of interesting peeks into the world you can discover even before progressing hardly anything main-plot-wise is still impressive, and so much of it can just be learned by really looking around the places you can explore.

With this and the recent Arkane games getting a relatively muted response in terms of sales it does make me sad to think that these types of experiences are going to become more and more rare. Hopefully Cyberpunk will fill some of the void!

Decided to take my PSP with me on the bus to and from work. Started playing Breath of Fire III. Forgot how good it was.