Topic: What (Non-PS4) game are you playing??

@carlos82 I think people complained that Skyrim was more restrictive than Oblivion and Morrowind in many respects, didn’t they?

@kyleforrester87 possibly, its a long time ago now and I can't quite remember. That would be even more ironic given how open worlds have gone much further backwards in those regards since then. Now it's often just go to the marker and there's basically nothing to do anywhere else in the world until that is done. I lost count on the amount of times in Skyrim I was given a quest to retrieve an item that I already found

@carlos82 look at the original Deus Ex versus the modern games too.

@carlos82 I like that some games now realise you might already have the item and tinker with the dialogue to acknowledge it.

Final Fantasy IX Switch.
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@carlos82 @kyleforrester87 Yep, Skyrim tones down the RPG freedoms compared to Morrowind and Oblivion. I finished Morrowind last month and was blown away by how fresh it feels. It did almost everything right about 10 years before open worlds properly took off on console. Games like Cyberpunk, GoT, Spider-Man, they have an illusion of freedom compared to Morrowind. Breath of the Wild owes a lot to it as well.

@kyleforrester87 cracking game Deus Ex, I'm gonna have to add it to my PS2 shopping list

@carlos82 get Half Life on that list too, great memories playing the PS2 version of that!

@kyleforrester87 will do, I forgot how many great games were on PS2 and most are only a pound or two

@kyleforrester87 @carlos82 I completely forgot that Deus Ex and Half Life were on PS2. Both masterpieces in their own right but games I’ll always associate with PC.

@nessisonett @carlos82 I read back in the day that Deus Ex on PS2 was soso, never actually played it on console myself, but Half Life was brilliant (it taught me to use 2 analogue sticks, I remember it being horrible at first thinking I’d never get used to it) Also a big fan of Red Faction 1 and particularly 2.

Never played Black, I heard that was good.

@kyleforrester87 The PC version of Deus Ex is still up there with my favourite games of all time, alongside Thief 2. Not that I’m old enough to remember playing them when they came out but we had a PC growing up and my dad had games like those, Oblivion and then like Zoo Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Plus Deus Ex gave the world the Mega64 video which is iconic.

@kyleforrester87 @nessisonett reading the reviews its not as good as the PC version but I've never got on with a mouse and keyboard and I remember playing a little bit on console and it played well.

Black is a really good shooter, I think its from the Burnout people and has plenty of destructible objects. I picked up Timesplitters 2 the other day and its so much fun

@carlos82 Oh man, Timesplitters 2 was probably my most played game as a kid. I was totally spoiled with the sheer amount of content and fun to be had, I don’t think I’ve found a shooter with so much to do since. Although Siberia’s red room and Notre Dame were terrifying back then, they seem a bit dodgy now!

@RogerRoger Considering the PC version uses more than half the keyboard, I dunno how they managed to put it onto console.

@RogerRoger I had Medal of Honor: Frontline on the Cube and the cheats were amazing. You could put hats on every enemy that ended up being more elaborate as the game went on, leading to Nazis in hot dog suits, with life sized windmills on their heads and fighter planes on their heads! The game was actually really good as well, I loved the campaign and the soundtrack was excellent too. Plus you could play as a granny with a shotgun in the multiplayer while extremely harrowing music played.

@RogerRoger My favourite track from that game’s soundtrack is probably Arnhem, honestly that soundtrack blows games from this generation out of the water. It’s a level of quality that you’d expect from something like Band of Brothers, which is still my gold standard when it comes to WW2 media. I really should go back and play the PS1 games as I have great memories of Frontline.

@RogerRoger Yeah, it’s one series that I can’t really play on Vita unless I find one of those L2/R2 grips for a decent price so I’d have to play it on my PS2 as well!

Currently We happy Few on Series S. Just finished Uncharted 4 last week (Played all 4 uncharted games in sequence). I'll get back to play Gears 5 when the new campaing releases, I guess it releases tomorrow (15th December 2020), I'm excited to get back to Gears.

Cyberpunk 2077 60FPS, Ray Tracing, No Issues. PC version is the definitive version.