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Who doesn't want to defeat the evil mind control carrot!
Cuphead is beautiful to look at and ridiculously difficult to play. I still love it. At the opposite end of the scale, Jusant, recently added to game pass is a chilled climbing game.
I wanted to like cup head, but as said, it's such a brutally hard game to play, and for me that kinda ruins it, as it takes all the fun out of it.
Rayman legends, or maybe psychanoughts, is more my lane for that kind of thing.
I'm replaying Cyberpunk 2077 at the moment thanks to the updates/DLC and having just built a new PC and I'm coming to the conclusion that it really is one of my favourite games of all time. Now that the launch woes have been resolved, and I'm playing it with all the fancy ray tracing options on it is incredible. I've just started the DLC too, and it's a step up from even the base game in terms of presentation.
Honestly the story and characters in this world are incredibly well done. It has so much heart, and every character has depth and feels human, flawed, believable. There are a lot of moments of downtime too, where you're just talking to a character about things that aren't just related to "go shoot up these Arasaka goons". It just makes the world feel way more believable.
"I heard some really good things about The Day Before recently."
It's been canned by the developers a week after release on steam. Failed to deliver on it's promises and got slaughtered in the reviews and by livestreamers.
Any more of these? Got a Christmas xbox on the way and looking for ideas, particularly of any obvious non-game pass games worth picking up. Although I'm going to try game pass as it looks good value.
Faced by a steam list of modern games that I've never got round to playing I just bought the original Fantasy General for £2, and what a great game. UI is disastrous of course and it's got that classic oldschool wargame thing of never quite explaining how it works- do I get a bonus for being attacked over a river? Is rough terrain good or bad? Who knows? But the basic game is fantastic, 1996 was a good year
I was going to recommend Frostpunk even though it's a bit old now but **** me it's expensive now. I paid a few quid for it back when it was relatively new, now it's about to get sequelled and it's £25 even without the DLC, that can piss off. Still, one of the best games ever. Wait til its cheap and get it then.
Assassin's creed, the London one - nice open world, no pressure constraints to finish or undertake anything
Star Wars - Fallen Order & Jedi Survivor are the only 2 games I have ever finished the option to then continue as open world and go explore, do further quests/collect etc is great
1997 was a good year too - the original fallout came out. If anyone's not played it, get it, and get past the slightly janky 90s interface. It's one of the best computer role playing games ever made.
Talking of janky, give Escape from Lavender Island a go if you have any taste for wieirrd.
Assassin’s creed, the London one – nice open world, no pressure constraints to finish or undertake anything
It's a good looking game, fun just to swing around the rooftops, but I found there was too much repetition in the missions, which seems to be the issue plaguing most of the more recent AC games.
Just saw Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX is on sale for £2.99 in Nintendo Store.
Steam Deck - I tend to do “slow” gaming on this platform.
Stray is my #1 pick. It’s not very long, but it’s lovely.
Prefer Mud Runner to Snow Runner, I think the controls on Snow are just harder…
Power Wash Simulator is just mindless, but also strangely satisfying.
Working my way through Humans Fall Flat too.
High on Life is hilarious, but a bit hectic on the deck so I never finished it - need to get back to that.
PS5/console
Ive been CoD fan for years, and have been playing MW2 as my go to game for ages. This years episode hasn’t swayed me into parting with whatever exorbitant fee they want this time around, so I’ll continue to dip in and out of Warzone and DMZ but that’s it.
Played a bit of Gran Tourismo lately - still gorgeous.
Loved Ghost of Tsushima, Assasins Creed Valhalla and Red Dead Redemption so I’ll probably spend this years blockbuster cash on something like that.
Assassin’s creed, the London one
Syndicate.
With the caveat that I haven't played the most recent ones - I stalled at Odyssey - it's been my favourite of the series to date.
I really enjoyed Assassin's Creed Valhalla - less AC like that a lot of the other games
Just finished AC Mirage..distinctly underwhelmed. Now playing Lara Croft Rise of the tomb raider. Quite enjoying it.
Can’t beat a Stimpee Day Z Youtube video as he roams around betraying and murdering every poor trusting unfortunate he meets.
Yeah, that tells you pretty much everything you need to know.
Paid particular attention to his voice. But I dont really trust anyone anyway.
Just got Baldur's Gate 3 - hoping to lose a lot of hours in this game. Pretty good so far
Been playing Dave The Diver after that guardian recommendation.
It's quite engaging.
Now playing Lara Croft Rise of the tomb raider. Quite enjoying it.
I forget which is which, but the last 3 tomb raider games are all good, and can be had really cheap.
This is free on epic as part of the christmas give-away at the moment untill 4pm tomorrow...
https://www.ign.com/articles/ghostwire-tokyo-review
No Idea whether it's good or not though.
Worst case it's shite which, given it's by Bethesda and I've never heard of it, probably means it's at best forgettable.
But may well be worth getting for nothing. I felt that way about Tomb Raider (the first of the reboot), it was alright but honestly not all that difficult, the hardest bit was the stupid button bashing or memorising the sequence for danger cutscenes.
I forget which is which
Rise is the middle one.
I also realy enjoyed STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order.. it's 6 quid on epic at the moment...
I want to play the new one but I'm not paying £20+ for it.. I'll wait a year for when it's cheaper!
Just finished AC Mirage..distinctly underwhelmed.
Ahh that's dissapointing.. I loved Valhalla, followed by Odessy (the greek one) and Origins (the Egyptian one).
I enjoyed the ones you mentioned, I just found Mirage to be too much “ Rinse and repeat “ , couldn’t really engage with it.
I found that with origins, didn't bother finishing it..I pretty much completed valhalla though, and I'm still playing Oddesy...(I kind of did them backwards) although that is getting a bit rinse and repeat now...
I might wait until mirage is super cheap on that basis!
Been enjoying Serious Sam HD. Proper mindless nonsense but always fun to waste some time (and several hundred enemies).
I'd agree with what tetrode said about cyberpunk just finished my second play through, I spent an embarrassing amount of hours in it imagine a cross between Fallout and GTA and you'll understand so will probably take a break from the PS5 for a while.
Or until "Still wakes the deep" comes out, a horror game set on a north sea oil rig in the 70's
^ that looks intersting, unless it's another 'Calisto protocol' which has been acuratly described as a 'shuffling through small gaps simulator'.
Just had a moment of Christmas pressie to myself weakness and am now downloading Cyberpunk 2077/Phantom Liberty.
That's my intermittent gamer self sorted for most of 2024 I reckon.
Cyberpunk is a really good game to be fair...assuming your PC is good enough to run it at decent settings, it got slated on release as I think it was so demanding that Sony pulled it as the playstation simply couldn't run it properly.
It's been patched and fixed a lot now though, so you should be ok, depending on what platform you are running it on.
Fingers crossed. I can fairly easily run RDR2 and Borderlands 3 at pretty high settings (my laptop was specced for audio and video editing so is not too shabby), and they're only a year or two older than Cyberpunk.
Since 2.1 came out, reviews have been pretty favourable and it seems like it's finally the game it should have been at launch.
If not I'll have to take the (sale price) hit for my hubris!
It's still a very demanding game, hardware-wise, so don't get excited about runing it on ultra at 4k on a laptop, that's just not going to happen!
If you want some unsolicited cyberpunk advice i'd say try not to get sidetracked near the start and do main story missions until Keanu turns up or after "the heist" but its really hard to do as the city at the start is a tangled mess of spaghetti streets designed to get you lost and the day night cycle makes it seem like two different cities.
Yeah on Cyberpunk graphics, I can run mostly high in 1080 with a 5600XT but if I want proper nice at native (I run WQHD 3440X1440) I will need to upgrade to a 7800XT and a new power supply. That's the sharp end of £600 so, er, naw.
The biggest bugbear is the fact that you can't run it at 1080 with fullscreen (without it being a stretched mess), you have to do it windowed, people have been asking for this since it came out but I guess it's not happening.
Outer Worlds Spacers choice (base game and all DLC) free on Epic right now.
Lies Of P
In case this hasnt been posted Epic are going their free game each day although im not sure when it ends. just need to buy it for nothing and itll be added to your library so can do it on the PC or your phone.
In case this hasnt been posted Epic are going their free game each day although im not sure when it ends. just need to buy it for nothing and itll be added to your library so can do it on the PC or your phone.
A new one every 24hrs for 17 days I think, currently on day 3, 4?
Outer worlds is free at the moment untill it resets to something else in 4 hours... a really good game IMO.
Well worth bagging some, as you say you dont have to install it, just claim it, so it's in your library for a rainey day.
Grabbed Fallout 3 + DLCs from Epic the other day, but can't get it to run on Windows 11, even with recommended admin and compatibility tweaks...
Ah bugger, missed a good one!
It's a pretty ancient game... fallout 4 is the only decent one really.
might be some usefull info here?
https://itechhacks.com/how-to-play-fallout-3-on-windows-11/#Final_Words
I'm still playing through 4, just need to get my shit together and build the warp pad or whatever it is to get into the second act. Keep getting distracted. Who's Shaun again?
Fallout: London is out next Spring. A free mod for Fallout 4.
Looks really good.
Really enjoying Cyberpunk 2077, only got it recently and it is superb.
Still playing Skyrim after 10 years.
And replaying the Battletech career mode, great fun, huge stompy mechs with big guns
Really enjoying Cyberpunk 2077, only got it recently and it is superb.
It's a very good game now it's been patched up a bit. Very demanding on the hardware to run it a decent settings though.
Valheim.
I've played too much of it since November. Can't see myself playing anything else in 2024 or 2025
PSA: Baldur's Gate 3 is 21.14 on Moldova GOG store at mo. 👍
Use a free VPN and you might need to use incognito in browser etc.
Great price for a brilliant game. 👍
@mattyfez Already spent way too many hours in The Commonwealth. not played Fallout 3 yet so even though it's old I thought it was worth a look.
FWIW New Vegas is probably the best of them all in terms of story and gameplay. 4 is just better technically and has all the crafting stuff.
@HansRey spent a loooooong time with Valheim on it's original early access release. Keep wondering whether to reinstall and start again now thye've released a couple more biomes.
Anyway... Got Cyberpunk running OK (only in 1080 but that doesn't really bother me on a laptop screen) and just starting to get into it now, so I guess my limited gaming time is all tied up for a while now...
Not really gamed in years, but the kids (ahem) got a Switch for Christmas.
The wife bought me Zelda: botw, only played it for 30/40 minutes but wow, I'm blown away. The last Zelda game I played was on a Gameboy btw.
Which Mario game should someone that grew up with 8 and then 16 bit systems be looking for?
Wreckfest looks good,
If you want a classic 2d style Mario game get Mario Wonder. It’s brilliant and you can play it with your kids, my 4 year old loves playing it!
Started again on Fallout 4, April was the last time I played it and I'm pretty sure it's been a few years since I actually progressed. Might have found a glitch where nobody would give me the signal attenuator for my warp plate, there was a mission to rescue Rex from Super Mutants but no clue where he was. Ashamed to say annoying radio guy got the power fist treatment once I'd recruited his seamstress buddy. Signal attenuator, caps and ammo now mine. I'm sure Rex will be fine.
Modding the living daylights out of it is the best thing about fallout 4!
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4?tab=popular+%28all+time%29
Yeah, I've just never got around to mods as I know I'll spend even longer faffing rather than Just progressing!
I'm grinding my way through fallout 4, in a "I paid for it so I'll finish it" fashion. But I'm not enjoying it - the dialogue is awful, and all speech options lead to the same place in the end, which to me is the antithesis of what a fallout game should be.
Baldur's Gate 3 is now my career...
I love a good FPS. All the Far Cry series are excellent, particularly 5.
Just rerun Doom 2016 over xmas and then got Doom Eternal on the Steam xmas sale. Superb.
'A plague tale' is free on epic today, well worth getting.
Not sure if it has already been mentioned, but I've been playing It Takes Two with my eldest son over the Xmas break. Very very good game - and it was a bargain at the random price of £8.74 from the online store!
You have to work together to solve puzzles, and I'd (probably) pay the full price for a game this good.
Epic has the Guardians of the Galaxy game free now - well worth getting if I remember the reviews correctly 🙂
Got a playthrough of BG3 done - phenomenal game. Not played a turn-based combat game for decades, but really took to it. Level of quality is I think the highest I've seen in a game overall - just in terms of effort gone into all aspects with no real thin parts at all. I didn't realise it was actual D&D rules - perhaps that helps, I imagine they must be very refined and tested.
Got a leisurely tactician playthrough up and running (did a blind balanced run first as I had no clue). Got Minthara and Helsin on the books now that I've looked a few things up.
There's a re-spec option rob that you will soon discover - no spoiler, as it's a fundamental game mechanic that can't be missed afaik. So no worries about builds, character etc.
@funkmasterp - come to this thread late. Not really a gamer, but new PC and curious boys, 4 and 5, got me onto Steam and a couple of exploration/puzzle games. King Boo, nice but short. Had a lot of fun playing "A Short Hike" - a very chilled-out exploration/puzzle game. Nice place place to be!
I downloaded Jusant the other day but only had a brief play, will get into it with them. Seems like a controller might be needed, though - left/right mouse clicking for climbing could get boring!
Anyone got any other recommendations for PC/Steam games in the same vein?
Jusant is a DONTNOD outing, the same people who made one of my all-time favourite games, Life Is Strange. I'm less convinced about the £23 price tag for a game with 6-10 hours gameplay so I've wishlisted it for when it's on sale, cheers for the tip.
It's worth picking up a controller. I have a wired Xbox 360 controller with a USB breakaway, it works flawlessly as do most wireless versions it seems. Seems you can get knockoff versions sub-£15 from the usual places. I expect PlayStation controllers to be similar.
Cheers Cougar, I sprung for a wireless XBox earlier after having a poke around. Reviews of the knock-offs I found were a little patchy, and I saw the XBox on sale.
I didn't really check the hours of game play on Jusant - didn't know that was anything to look for! Just looking for kiddie-friendly and well reviewed.
Jusant is on Xbox game pass, I've played it, pretty chill experience.
There's a lot of good stuff on game pass, it's well worth a look, especially if you've not previously bought a lot of games. I think there's a PC only version?
I sprung for a wireless XBox earlier
I use an Xbox one X/S pad for PC, via bluetooth... it just works without much fuss as it's all microsoft, I don't think the 'elite' xbox pads are worth the extra unless you have money to burn!
The analogue sticks can go bad over time if you are too rough/heavy handed with them though - they don't need any force/pressure to operate, but some people seem to wrench them about quite violently!
new PC and curious boys, 4 and 5, got me onto Steam and a couple of exploration/puzzle games. King Boo, nice but short. Had a lot of fun playing “A Short Hike” – a very chilled-out exploration/puzzle game. Nice place place to be!
I downloaded Jusant the other day but only had a brief play, will get into it with them
Jusant reminds me of Journey on the PS3. Different gameplay but similar vibe imo. Steam has so many bargains it can get overwhelming. Unravel two is a nice little co-op puzzler but does get pretty tricky.
Tekken 8 on the 4k projector tonight. Amazing.
Tekken was the only game I had on the original station and now my son my plays it since Tekken 6 (xbox).
Needs a lot practice and button basing aint any good.
Been working through a backlog of wishlist games that I bought when they were on sale but hadnt played.
The Outer Wilds, wow.
Stanley Parable, very very silly - in a good way, only a few hours worth of play but glad I got it.
Titanfall 2, enjoyed the campaign, my lad says MP is good too but I dont really do multiplayer
FF7 remake, I was disappointed when after lots of hours, I hadnt left midgard I realised that its not the whole game. Found live action fights frustrating but once I got into the mechanics, it got a lot better. Decent, looking forward to the second part, assuming it's on PS+
Forbidden west - some massively annoying mechanics/problems and the story hasn't gripped me like zero dawn but Im still working my way through it
Still need to finish shadow of war, good but arguably too big as I have picked it up a few times and sort of petered out. Not touched the DLC/extras
Nier Automata is still waiting...
And I need to get back to the STW:Elite Dangerous club sometime before the new ships get released - assuming they'll have me
I bought Doom Eternal in the current steam sale for under £9. I wasn't sure how well it'd run on my Linux system, but runs perfectly well so far. Had to turn vsync off (I didn't even try playing with vsync on, as just the menu system was very laggy). Wasn't sure if I'd like it much either. I was a fan of Doom I & II, didn't get on with 3, but fared a bit better with Doom 2016.
Doom Eternal though, loving it, lots of FUN! The very first section was epic and took me right back to some of the later levels in Doom 2. The gameplay is manic though, but forces you into it which is kinda what I need to play games like these. So not used to it, can't spend long playing... I'm too young to die (sirromj - age 49 3/4).