Games you're playing, and games...

tomparker95 · 20 Mar 2024 at 12:20

Uncharted 3.. Completed 4 so now going backwards

Boomstick777 · 20 Mar 2024 at 18:08

Currently playing MW3, Ratchet and Clank, Zelda TOTK and God of War. PC getting the Sony games is epic!

ic1male · 20 Mar 2024 at 21:13

Glad I stuck with Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction on PS3 cloud streaming. It's actually very good!

PaulM · 20 Mar 2024 at 21:17

Started playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3. The first two were good, this one’s been a bit slow getting going but apparently it picks up around chapter 3 so will keep going for now

Mobius 1 · 21 Mar 2024 at 18:33

Currently playing the demo of unicorn overlord. Quite enjoying it. It may be a purchase. My only complaint is the timer during battles but that’s more of a me issue.

HungryHippos · 21 Mar 2024 at 19:27

Mobius 1 said:
Currently playing the demo of unicorn overlord. Quite enjoying it. It may be a purchase. My only complaint is the timer during battles but that’s more of a me issue.

It's very cool honestly! the game introduces the systems slowly but it's worth getting sort of familiar with some of the basic tactics you can set after you start reaching level 10 or so at least when new abilities start to come in.

I highly recommend going into the options and enabling both settings for "always run on overworld map" and "always pause at start of battle".

This lets you sort out which units to deploy without starting the timer.

Once the battles start, you can pause at any time and arrange movement orders etc.

If you like a bit of a challenge then I'd also suggest playing on expert when it lets you pick, if you're not that familiar with strategy games then stick with normal, but expert felt like a good challenge without being punishing.

Mobius 1 · 21 Mar 2024 at 19:42

HungryHippos said:
It's very cool honestly! the game introduces the systems slowly but it's worth getting sort of familiar with some of the basic tactics you can set after you start reaching level 10 or so at least when new abilities start to come in.

I highly recommend going into the options and enabling both settings for "always run on overworld map" and "always pause at start of battle".

This lets you sort out which units to deploy without starting the timer.

Once the battles start, you can pause at any time and arrange movement orders etc.

If you like a bit of a challenge then I'd also suggest playing on expert when it lets you pick, if you're not that familiar with strategy games then stick with normal, but expert felt like a good challenge without being punishing.

Thank you for the tips. I’ve enabled both of those before playing

I’m playing on the medium difficulty, and finding it a little easy, but the two dudes on horses literally crush any mob. Apart from thieves. So I may put it more difficult.

Just got to the angel and the church.

HungryHippos · 21 Mar 2024 at 19:52

Mobius 1 said:
Thank you for the tips. I’ve enabled both of those before playing

I’m playing on the medium difficulty, and finding it a little easy, but the two dudes on horses literally crush any mob. Apart from thieves. So I may put it more difficult.

Consider restarting if you buy full and going straight to expert!

Cavalry is OP early on but it does tail off, I'd say there is a rock/paper/scissors thing going on but there are at least 10-12 different class types, and some counter other types.

Josef (your level 20 guy) is also a clutch of sorts early game as well. I challenged myself not to use him at all early on, you can get by without him. Chuck Alain/Clive into one squad and Lex/Chloe into another. Alain/Clive is my main pushing squad usually and I try and gear them up to be my ace team. You could put his gear on Alain though if you wanted to

It's imo also worth trying to have squad leaders with different effects, for example if you have an archer as squad leader they can give ranged fire support in battles, and same for mages with magic fire support if nearby. Clerics do the same but post battle remote healing. Varied squad leaders lets you build squads to help counter things.

RobDogDog · 22 Mar 2024 at 11:07

Battlefield Hardline single player. For a shortish game, I've been playing this on and off for months lol. It's picked up a bit towards the latter episodes and I'm enjoying it much more than the start of the game.

Fonz-Valo · 22 Mar 2024 at 13:32

RobDogDog said:
Battlefield Hardline single player.

I loved the TV show style whenever you retrurned to play this game "Previously on Hardline!" I'll never understand the hate this game got from people, I loved the whole copos and robbers vibe to it.

Currently been plyaing Sonic Generations via Xbox backwards compatibility, despite playing this at 1080 60fps at launch on PC it's nice to play it upscaled to 4k on the xbox

Great game only let down by the later Sonic 06 and Colours inspired stages in my opinion

Earth[Tera].bin · 22 Mar 2024 at 22:21

Rise of the Ronin - quick play of the tutorial stage, seems like it'll be quite entertaining. Visually though it looks a little rough around the edges, as if it's been in development since the PS4 lol.

Scort · 23 Mar 2024 at 15:10

Picked up The Long Dark for something a bit different, seems like quite a relaxing game at times, playing on survival mode at the moment, and enjoying it.

HungryHippos · 23 Mar 2024 at 15:45

Earth[Tera].bin said:
Rise of the Ronin - quick play of the tutorial stage, seems like it'll be quite entertaining. Visually though it looks a little rough around the edges, as if it's been in development since the PS4 lol.

Yeah the graphics aren't great, and the framerate has issues sometimes.

Still enjoying it, but can't help but feel I'm in a budget version of Ghost of Tsushima.

The combat is a lot more interesting though I think as the enemies are more varied in what they do, and the GoT combat was sort of basic by comparison.

manic111 · 23 Mar 2024 at 17:15

Scort said:
Picked up The Long Dark for something a bit different, seems like quite a relaxing game at times, playing on survival mode at the moment, and enjoying it.

Great game!

Dandaman · 23 Mar 2024 at 17:27

Been playing Rise of the Ronin most of today, fun game but the frame issues really spoil the fun when you're battling more than one enemy at a time.

Scort · 23 Mar 2024 at 18:43

manic111 said:
Great game!

It does seem pretty good - had a pretty tense moment when trying to get back to a cabin I found, whilst almost getting hypothermia, and having not much food - saw a wolf take a deer down so trued to shoo it away with a flare. It didn't go great lol, walked away with a couple of kgs of raw meat, and a lot of wounds

Plainsong · 23 Mar 2024 at 19:17

I kind of want to like survival games but always end up frustrated when, well, I don’t survive. And they never seem to have any kind of ending but that’s probably because I suck at them.

Amatsubu · 23 Mar 2024 at 22:48

Alternating between Tekken 8 and Rebirth.

Rebirth is massive, such a departure from Remake's more confined structure as expected, will probably end up being a bit too big for its own good but I'm enjoying it so far.

Earth[Tera].bin · 24 Mar 2024 at 10:39

HungryHippos said:
Yeah the graphics aren't great, and the framerate has issues sometimes.

Still enjoying it, but can't help but feel I'm in a budget version of Ghost of Tsushima.

The combat is a lot more interesting though I think as the enemies are more varied in what they do, and the GoT combat was sort of basic by comparison.

Yeah, not played anymore myself but I've heard it feels a little uninspiring. I'll dive back in later today maybe. Too busy playing the damn Piano in FF7

HungryHippos · 24 Mar 2024 at 12:32

Earth[Tera].bin said:
Yeah, not played anymore myself but I've heard it feels a little uninspiring. I'll dive back in later today maybe. Too busy playing the damn Piano in FF7

I'm liking it on the whole still, just wish I was playing it on PC with a proper 60fps lock minimum as it would make the combat smoother.