@RogerRoger We’re actually playing Psychonauts as part of the Xbox Game Club this month so I’ve played the first couple of hours and our lovely host @ralphdibny has finished it!
We started Psychonauts this month. I thought it was brilliant and more or less 100% it. Then I played the VR spin off Rhombus of Ruin last night which was a decent if not brief affair.
I, as well as others have written up some thoughts of both games in that thread. Please do mosey on over and post some of your thoughts as you play. Alternatively, I could copy and paste some of my thoughts over to this site 😅
Doom (2016) is brilliant, really didn’t think it’d be my kinda thing but loving every minute. I’ll look forward to playing Doom: Eternal when Doom:Returnal/Infinite/???? releases 😎
@colonelkilgore If you finish the first one quickly enough you could always join in with Doom Eternal since the rest of us are playing it for Game Club. You’d have to be really really fast though 😂
@nessisonett sadly that’s my one day this week when I can game done and I probably won’t get anything else done until next week now. One day my goofy schedule will coalesce with Game Club… I have faith ✌️
Far Cry 5 - and loving it. From almost binning it after a few hours due to finding the AI and spawning almost unbearable, I have done a complete 180 on it, and now find that where once it frustrated me, I now have turned those things into positives to be exploited purely for fun. The main story has taken a back seat to me just jerking around in the open world, wandering around and doing anything that I stumble across. I love the setting and it's so good to explore. The perks are interesting, the vehicles feel solid, the gunplay is huge fun, the specialists are hilarious when used to full effect. Taking out camps by stealthing out around the perimeter, taking out guards with the bow, sneaking in and freeing some hostages, looting, cracking safes, planting explosives, then making a gateway in a nearby seaplane - it's been a good while since I had as much fun just letting things happen around me, and seeing what they lead to. Reminds me a little off the open world hi-jinks from Saints Row 3, another game I loved exploring away from the main story - the worlds in both games feel so alive, vibrant and interesting. Far Cry 5 is fast becoming my personal favourite this year thus far.
@Jimmer-jammer couldn’t have said it better myself… it really is ridiculously well designed and perfectly balanced. Since logging off my mind keeps drifting off of whatever TV show the missus and I are watching… it ends up back on Mars, subconsciously working about the ultimate rhythm of mod-use, glory-kill and chainsaw-hack. Just so damn good!
I'm just getting going with Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (I don't know why they gave this one a tagline either).
It's pretty noticeable the change in graphics and overall look of the game following the pretty rough remake of Y3-5 but after playing a few PS5 specific games, dropping back to 30fps feels pretty weird..
So I purchased Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen when it was on a deep sale on PSN and I've been playing it for the past few weekends. I had bought it back on the PS3 but was never able to get into it back then. I don't know if it has been because I'm older or have just become more experienced with games that demand patience and persistence, but I'm loving Dragon's Dogma this time around. The story is nothing to write home about. But dat combat tho! chef's kiss I've learned that if I got to an area and get my butt handed to me, I'm just not supposed to be there yet. I'll come back and get revenge later after I level up some or get to that area during a story mission. I'm playing as a fighter and my main pawn is a mage. After finding a YouTube vid discussing inclinations (which I had no clue of really when I played DD on the PS3), I know the kind of pawns to look for when I'm filling out the rest of my team. I bring along another fighter and a strider. This has been a successful combo so far. Really glad something in me wanted to go back and give this another try.
@SavoyPrime I really enjoyed Dragons Dogma back on PS3. I’ve considered a replay on the PS4 remaster, which can be bought on the cheap now, but my PS4 backlog is enormous so I have prioritized games I’ve never played before. But I still don’t know why the pawn system hasn’t been replicated or refashioned by another game yet. I loved the whole system of making your own pawn but also borrowing other players pawns.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@SavoyPrime heard a lot of great things about Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen… I had planned on playing it last year but played MGSV instead and haven’t returned to clear it from the backlog since. I do really want to play it though… and your post only amplifies that.
Although I started Doom on Wednesday (& am loving it), I’ve also started Everybody’s Golf as a side game. I really like it so far and plan on slowly chipping away at it by playing maybe a round a day as it only takes about 20 mins. I prefer the stick-swing of the old Tiger Woods games but this does have its strengths.
@colonelkilgore I played it a bit earlier than I expected to since I have other games in my backlog I wanted to tackle first. But it is one of those things where I was a bit worried if I waited too long to play DD, that the servers would be taken offline and I wouldn't have any pawns to use except for my main one. And I didn't want to risk taking that route lol
@SavoyPrime I know that feeling bud, I’m constantly rescheduling old games that have online requirements ahead of games which do not, to ensure I don’t have anything close out on me.
I take it the servers are still up and that there are a smorgasbord of pawns available at the moment?
@colonelkilgore They sure are and the game appears to be quite active still. I never have a problem finding the very specific pawns I need. I usually change them out every five level-ups or so.
@RogerRoger An interesting expedition into PS Plus games there. I’ve claimed all… I think it was 5 now… COD games they have offered on PS Plus over the last couple years. I got as far as downloading WWII and it still sits on my external HDD unplayed.
So far your early impressions don’t have my champing at the bit to jump into the series yet.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
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