Ahhh… the old classics. Being chased by combine harvesters, turning people into chickens, it never gets old.
It is, of course, le gaming thread. Any and all games are welcome, so come on in and have a chat. What’re you playing this week?
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Obsessed with Cult of the Lamb rn
MediEvil, what a game. I must play that again some time soon.
Not been playing much myself recently, between working and prepping for Bloodstock I’ve not had too much spare time. There’s been an update to the Gran Turismo 2 A-Spec mod so I’ll most likely install that ready for the weekend. Among a few other things, they’ve added in the rest of the 1999 F1 cars now so the whole field is there.
*I have managed to find a bit of time to put into Forza Motorsport 4 on Xenia again, but it’s a bit of a struggle trying to play it. There are graphical glitches and it likes to crash. Still nice being able to use the best sounding virtual Ferrari F355 again though.
Just started Balatro. Getting used to the game mechanics at the moment.
I think it may end up being a proper time-sink like Slay the Spire and Inscryption were!
Can’t see well enough to play games at the moment, but I am busy setting up an emulation station for when I can.
Mini PC with a Ryzen 7 and 1TB SSD.
8TB Fire Cuda for a couple of legal ROMS.
Twin Arcade-X Arcade controller for arcade, 80’s micro computers and pinball.
8BitDo SN30 for 80’s and 90’s consoles.
Razer Raiju for PC and 00’s and newer consoles.
Sinden Light Gun with Recoil for all lightgun games.
All mounted on a mobile TV stand with an old 42″ LCD TV (lower latency, no power saving, no image processing)
I’m just about to start playing Yakuza 4 Remastered (Like a Dragon) again. Over the past 5 years I’ve finished every Yakuza/Like a Dragon/Judgment title on Xbox with every achievement. After finishing Pirate Yakuza earlier this year I decided to start the series again, but this time on Steam.
Also playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 Remastered, despite being far worse at it now than I used to be.
I purchased **Tears of The Kingdom** bloody ages ago but never got around to playing it. However, as I now have the Switch 2 I decided to get the upgrade patch and give it a blast.
I’ve not got particularly far having only just done Great Sky Island and then dived down to the Kingdom of Hyrule but I’m having fun playing around with the various abilities.
I’ve also been playing **Mario Kart World**. I’ve still to complete the single player GPs and Knockout Tours at 150cc but I’m slowly grinding my way toward it.
Finally, I’ve been putting in the occasional hand or two at **Balatro**.
I got Bug Fables years ago from a friend and am just getting round to it now.
I last played Thousand Year Door when it came out (_twenty years ago_…) so it’s quite lovely experiencing all these mechanics again. There’s a lot going on in this game, I have to say.
Loved this one. Along with a bit of Crash and Spyro. Currently been playing No Man’s Sky. Having fun but don’t know what I’m doing half the time.
Haven’t been on it much in the last few days but still playing **Clair Obscur: Expedition 33** and loving it. No idea when I’ll next get to play it though.
I also bought **Crash Team Racing** last week and tried to play it at the weekend, holy hell I am absolutely shit at it.
Cyberpunk released on Mac recently; great timing since my PC is dying a slow death.
Finding the game totally overwhelming. No idea who anyone is or why we’re doing stuff, what shards are – 3 hours in and discover I have a backpack. Wondered where the weapons went that I was picking up.
Because of the dying PC I installed a bunch of emulators on my Mac, but my word things haven’t aged well. Mercenaries and Freedom Fighters felt janky when they released, now 20 years on just couldn’t get into it at all.
I’ve also Gamepass to stream games from, and Cyberpunk has killed Fallout 4 for me. It’s one of my favourite ever games but in comparison I’m just plodding along in an empty shell of a grey world.
If anything it’s helped me release some of the rose-tinted memories and move forward to another generation of gaming.
Installed **Terminator Dark Fate** since I had a bit of an RTS itch and my word I’ve not been able to put it down, I actually dreamt about it last night it’s getting that bad…
It’s horrendously balanced, ridiculously frustrating at times and simply unforgiving but my word it’s a gorgeous game. Nothing like taking a small army to face the endless legion of Terminators.
Got myself a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 & have been playing plenty of games on it from various consoles. Super Mario World, Jade Cocoon, Morrowind, Bloody Roar, Jade Empire, Wipeout Pulse, TMNT: Splintered Fate.
I have been playing a bit of Robocop: Rogue City.
It is a lot of fun, really makes you feel like an indestructible tank of a machine!
Having a play through of some of my old favourites over the past few weeks including C&C, Red Alert, Dungeon Keeper(s) but this week it’s Imperium Galactica 2
Recently finished cyberpunk 2077 after avoiding it at release. Fantastic bitter-sweet game. I knew very little about the ttrpg and the world but after spending far to many hours in the game I can confidently say I have scratched the iceberg. The world building is fantastic and really immersive. I found myself getting genuinely emotional at certain points in the game, something I’ve never done before. For those that haven’t played it I highly recommend it.
I’m wrapping up some side quests in Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. Once again I’m going to really miss this game when I’m done with it, it’s been a lot of fun.
Pirate Yakuza didn’t drop enough in the Xbox sale for me to pick it up (I’m waiting for £35 or less), but I did pick up Judgement/ Lost Judgement on sale. I’m looking forward to jumping into them, although apparently there’s no karaoke which is a shame.
I’ve also got the new AI Somnium Files game ready to go – I need to be in the mood for some puzzles before I make a start but I’m excited for some escape elements to be in the game too.
Enjoying **Everspace 2** at the moment.
It’s the true spiritual successor of Freelancer.
It’s a fantastic mix of space combat and looting. It’s one of those games that does the small stuff *really well*, and has a fantastic combat system. Decent selection of ships classes and weapon types. Bomber with corrosion mines being a personal favourite.
Like space? Like ARPGs? You’re sorted.
Mostly playing visual novels at the moment as I’ve got a pretty large backlog to get through.
At the minute its a mix between SteinsGate and Tsukihime on the Switch, but I also have the full SteinsGate series + some others I want to at some time try out as well.
I’ve also been putting some time into Wuchang Fallen Feathers, and even after some hours I still cannot tell whether I like the game or not, which is odd I enjoy other soulslike games!
I’ve actually been playing a classic from my childhood I always forget about: C12 Final Resistance. Fantastic little game from the PS1, would highly recommend checking it out and used copies are cheap enough online.
Still addicted to space marine 2 co op, for the emperor!
Been playing Deep Rock Galactic with my brother and a friend on the occasional weekday evening and we are having an absolute blast.
Every mission feels like the stakes are crazy high. When the voiceover hits saying “SWARM, we’re detecting many hostiles descending on your location!” the call to action is epic. You drop everything you’re doing, be it mining or traversing a cavern, and huddle together on one location. The engineer downs his sentries, the gunner sets up a shield and reloads his minigun, the driller digs out an emergency hole, then you just let loose and watch the bug parts fly.
What. A. Game.
Back on **~~RibAorld~~** **RimWorld** having bought Anomaly and Odyssey and it’s fun. Doing my usual Cold Tribe start and we’re just getting into Spacer tech so I can look at this new ship and figure out how it’s going to work.
Bought and rinsed **RoboCop: Rogue City: Unfinished Business**, it’s short, and a bit janky in spots, but man it’s got soul. I’m also just a big fan of RoboCop as an idea more than the execution so always willing to give it a pass.
Medievil 1&2 were goated games, so many fun memories of them.
I wish I had more time to play video games 😔
Found myself back on **Increlution**, a bit of a weird one, it’s a time-loop incremental game with minimal (well, no) graphics.
I just found I’ve not got the motivation to play much else. I’ve been enjoying a bit of **Hellclock**, but I feel like I’m just padding time now until I find a game that really grabs me again.
I’ve bought RDR2 but haven’t installed it yet, but I don’t feel quite in the right mood for that either.
I’m currently filling out my Pokédex in Pokémon Sword and Shield before progressing to the next gym
I recently revisited that great classic Total War: Medieval 2. Went for full map completion, absolute domination of England throughout the standard map and the Americas, no faction left standing. Which meant having to kill off both the Mongols and the Timurids.
The Mongols were a challenge, but very doable once I’d whittled down their generals to a couple of not so good ones, and killing off their original doomstack armies helped a lot too. Managed to finish them off once and for all just outside Antioch in one huge fight with my best utter bastard of a killing machine general. Took most of my army to do it, even experienced as they were and the very best I could bring. But victory is worth it. And then the Timurids turned up the next turn!
They’re more of a slog due to their elephant artillery. I managed to grab some mercenary ones which helped hugely in fields battles, but had to capture them in forts, hold them in choke points, whittle down whatever I could and fight a fighting retreat deeper into my territory. Throwing massive amounts of assassins at them took care of a couple of generals, I’d managed to take a couple out of the field and in forts, but they’d still managed to get as far down as Ceasarea in Turkey with their last two generals before finally being stopped in one final epic battle that was on a knife edge throughout. Got out of that one with a quarter of my army and a very scarred general who managed to survive somehow.
And then came the Americas. Steam roller Vs chaff. Not even a challenge!
Good times. 😎
Might have to do it again but as Milan, just for a different change. Then maybe the Moors.
Sea of stars is hotting up!
Ive finished heavy rain and now playing big city little kitty. Meow!
Trying to get more into Space Marine 2, love the look of it and love playing as Space Marines but it’s not clicked yet. I’m glad I picked Helldivers over it at release.
But I know I’ll just end up playing League of Legends, just like I have for the last decade.
Well I’ve been playing wow.. last week I was playing wow.. 20yrs ago I was playing wow
I’m carrying on with Yakuza 6, currently in chapter 4 and really enjoying it, the story is fantastic.
Slowing down on Fantasy Life now, but I’m intending to go finish mastering the lives sometimes.
Been mostly focusing on Final Fantasy recently, after I played through the series in 2022/23, I’ve started a long term project of getting the platinum trophies for all the mainline games. I already have the plat for VII, and I’m two trophies off in X. Near the end of I now, just need to get the chests and bestiary entries from the final dungeon and finish the game, then it’s on to II. Dreading IX though, jump ropes….urgh
Just got back into playing snowrunner. It should be relaxing as its pick things up from 1 place drive to another and drop off. Honestly spent more time stuck in mud and swearing at myself than actually driving.
Looking forward to Helldivers coming to xbox as thats going to take up a few weekends.
Last race in the Endurance Tour in Forza Motorsport – 37 laps of Road Atlanta in LMDh. Fucker crashed on the last lap.
So I recently bought and finished ***Chants of Sennaar***. It’s about 8 hours or more, where you decipher pictographic languages based on context clues. There’s a little bit of maths involved with the fourth language.
I really enjoyed it while it lasted.
Watched a few let’s plays and noticed some people complained about the first puzzle being confusing. No, it’s not. Take your time, look at the lever carefully, and if needed, open and close the door a few times.
I just finished Stray because it looked like a whimsical cat adventure to distract myself from… everything.
I didn’t come here to feel.
That said, it’s an amazing little game with much more depth than expected and would highly recommend.
Might pick up tales of the shire…IGN panned it but r/cozygamers are generally saying it’s pretty good except for the switch version.
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