DrVenture69

Got my Oblivion plat last week and im slamming Days Gone Remaster. Not sure what to play before Death Standing 2 comes out, but i might finish off Doom 2016 and maybe Eternal ready for Doom Dark Ages in a couple of months, hopefully on sale.

Have a great weekend folks!

@RobN just had a quick look, they've got "Repeated Button Presses" as tap/hold (it default to tap), but nothing to turn off hold for getting on the bike, crafting items etc. It's a weird omission since they got some great dead-zone settings (very handy if you get stick drift). Oh well, I've put up with it for the last 57 hours, it'll be fine!

I'm replaying through at the moment, but I wished they'd patch out having to hold down a button to do something, rather than just a click. It is a great game though.

I love its got a Japanese setting, i hope there are some deep pulls from Japanese mythology, like Silent Hill and Junji Ito had a baby

I was going to replay SH2 in October, i was im playing this now! Hey, maybe we’ll even got a Pro patch for SH2 (he said bitterly!😂). TBH, i didnt have any major issues with it

I'm on backlog duty so I haven't bought anything but good to hear Doom is getting some love. I need to finish my 2016 playthrough, and probably hate-playing Eternal (I just didn't like the constant arena feeling), then I'll get to Doom Dark Ages.

@themightyant i wont spoil it, but the deeper you get in, you can unlock things that make it easier, unlocking the garage door is a biggie, and there are methods of changing the rarity of rooms too. But yeah, im still trying to power up the pump room. Its almost zen now, i just play it as an evening chill out game

@themightyant i know what you mean, ive had a week of root cellars and no shovels or the magnifying glass has disappeared from this mortal coil (seriously look at everything with a smudge using the magnifying glass). Its the Dark Souls of puzzle games😂

@themightyant i was getting Copilot to give me hints for the safes and by the end of it, i was like “dude, just give me the code”. I think ive legitimately solve a couple but a lot are impenetrable. I actually found most of the Lorelei puzzles easier to solve than the blue prince safes. I did crack the boudoir safe

@Onearmbandit im betting Sawmill horde is going to be “fun”!

@themightyant OMG, same, 125 hours in and ive got a spreadsheet with 7 tabs. Im dangerous close to a corkboard, pushpins and red string!😂. Might be worth a look at Lorelei and The Lazer Eyes too if you havent. Loved that game too

Finally wrapped up the Oblivion platinum after 200 hours and a game breaking bug (PSA, don't visit Kvatch before giving Jauffre the Amulet of Kings!).

I'm on the Days Gone remaster now, which isn't messing about in Hard Mode so I'm going for super stealth mode. I really want to slam it before Death Stranding 2 comes out.

Have a great weekend Folks!

Im about 120 hours in on Oblivion and still loving it. Just finished the Shivering Isles which is huge. It’s cool that if you start the Sheogorath quest after finishing Shivering Isles, the dialog is different.

Ive put over 100 hours in to The Blue Prince too. I just cant stop playing it, so much depth once you dig under the surface (literally).

Also playing a bit of Forza, and hopefully Days Gone soon.

Have a great weekend folks!

120 hours in and ive had about 5 crashes. The most annoying bug is having to come out to 3rd person when casting a light spell. I have notice the frame rate is worse in The Shivering Isles on Pro, but not a show stopper

@Olskeezy well said!

I havent had PSN for a couple of years, so its been pretty irrelevant for me. I had £25 from it though

@Superstar74 takes me a month to grind up 20M but I’m only playing offline

Forza’s fun but i still come back to GT7 once a week for my VR fix. Only 9 cars left to get, all about 20M. I wished we could get another circuit or some more challenges but still, its very well supported after 3 years!

I was there day one for doom. I bought my first pc to play it and it’s still a fantastic game. Ammo conservation, the secrets are just perfect. It’s still remembered after 30 plus years for a reason. I think Doom 2016 got damn close, but i just couldnt get on with Eternal, just felt like going from little arena to little arena. I hope Doom Dark Ages gets a few patches and lives up to the name

i just put 79 hours in Blue Prince before unlocking room 46 (and cannot wait to go back for more tomorrow), im starting to think this is going to be a 500 hour one for me. Like Elden Ring level.

Loved the first one so much, the exploration was superb. Wasnt a huge fan of the Mads Mikklesen levels (love him as an actor though), but when Patience by Low Roar kicks in as you crest a hill, omg so good!

I dont want to see any videos, just go in cold. Cannot wait!

Wowsa, i thought Vampire Survivors had a lot! Loved this on PC back in the day. My Japanese archers would tear through anything

@Northern_munkey awesome, thanks mate. I think im sold!

How’s the rubberbanding and handling? I love gt7, but not so much when cars feel too “floaty”. Id heard the rubberbanding can be an issue at higher AI difficulty levels too.

Im pretty sure im getting it though, ive only got 9 cars left to get in gt7, need moooore!

I do wished headphones would always include a jack. The H9’s dont either. The headband on the H9’s came away after 3 months, and the coverings on the earcups are going now after just over a year, so not great, they do allow dongle and bluetooth audio at the same time (so podcasts/spotify while still hearing the game audio)

Yeah, i dont know if i want to support Ubisoft after canning all the developers.

I’m only getting it if I can use Tobias’ registration from Arrested Development: A nu start.

I played the original a couple of weeks ago, just got out of the sewers and wandered around a bit. At 4K it still looked pretty good. At that point I was expecting the remaster to be a fake.

Seeing the remaster looked incredible. It’s still Oblivion, but looking at the vistas or the sun coming up through a trees leaves is just gorgeous.

The more I’ve played it, the better it feels. Getting the skeleton key, now I can throw fireballs. It feels good through levelling empowerment rather than BG3 level quest complexity (they’re obviously very different games).

Plus I’ve really not seen any major drops except near Kvatch on the Pro (about 25 hours in)

Sort and grouping would get my vote (collapsible sub headings for books, keys, potions). I’m loving this game the more I play it

Sorry for your loss @GirlVersusGame, that’s heartbreaking

I need to finish Oblivion first, but it’s downloaded and I’m looking forward to it in a couple of weeks. Those hordes were so much fun

@GirlVersusGame I just looked at the sigil stone and thought “Ooh, shiny!” Then promptly forgot about it (I’ve still got two of those Great Welkynd stones which I’ve done nothing with). I’ll have a go at upgrading! I love Kahjit Christ btw, I’m going to be shouting “Save me, Cat Jebus!” from now on (this is a nightmare to type with auto correct on!)😂

I was playing it most of the weekend on the Pro and the only time the framerate tanked was in the Kvatch Oblivion game when I trying to open the castle gate and it was throwing loads of Flame Atronachs and those little lizard fellas at me.

I have had two “Something went wrong crashes in about 25 hours, other than that it’s been great.

I haven’t seen any backwards flying dragons (I know, that was Skyrim!), but I have seen people standing on horses or walking over tents which is top tier Bethesda jank and I love it

Just goes to show there’s still an audience for this kind of game. I’d love to see Morrowind get the same treatment

Loving the Oblivion remake. It definitely is a nearly 20 year old game, but I’ve got into the loop of strengthening the character and saving up for all the training.

I did have one slow down of the game rate near Kvatch Oblivion gate, but restarting the PS5 fixed it, so I’m guessing it’s a memory leak which hopefully they can fix, other than that it’s been fine.

Also put 50 hours into Blue Prince in the evenings. It’s showing a fair bit more depth than I thought it had at the start. Just had a load of new rooms appear including going underground.

I’ve downloaded the Days Gone remake but I think it will have to wait until after Oblivion.

Have a great weekend folks!

@SRB-GAMER , the local area maps are a bit weird, if you press R2 on the overworld map to zoom in, at some point it goes into a local area map, the slider on the right of the map shows you. It’s not very intuitive and took me a while! I’d prefer another control to go straight to a local area map (and the ability to remap to touch pad). Still loving it though, I really clicked with it today. Edit: Yeah what @Lup said!😂

Oh gawd, this, Oblivion and the Days Gone remake in the same week!

I’m playing on pro and it hasn’t given me a splitting headache (I’m usually the first to moan about frame rates, ff16 in the standard ps5 was a rough experience before the first big patches). Dunno, maybe it’s good frame pacing, that’s a thing right?

I’m in performance mode, I’ve left the screen space reflection on, but I’ve set the first person pov to 100. I’m about 15 hours in and I’ve explored a fair amount of the north side of the map

My first elder scrolls game was Daggerfall, still got the cd. It was so janky! I played the original Oblivion for a couple of hours last week and this looks fantastic by comparison. The only issue I’ve seen so far is clicking on things to search/pick up can take a few tries. I’ve not seen any major framerate issues (I’ve got as far as Frost Spire manor, but haven’t been through an Oblivion gate yet. Loving it!

@GirlVersusGame the link from the Bethesda site worked for me if you get stuck

Thanks @Titntin, @Scarface82G1, @RobertPayne556, @ThatVsmBro

Did they say anything about the Shivering Isles dlc? Edit: Copilot tells me yes, so that’s a definite hard maybe (including horse armour ftw!)

@Northern_munkey ive heard loads of people talking about it here, ive dropped it on the old wishlist. I think LotF has got its hooks back in me at the moment!😄

@Northern_munkey yes you dare!😄. Ive had a little look already😉. I need a magic hammock to clone myself to play all the games i want to!

Ive put about 20 hours into Blue Prince this week, its a weird game and doesnt seem terribly keen of rewarding you… until it does. There loads of doors i have no idea how to get through, and a couple of keys have popped but ive no idea where theyre used. Ive got a permanent room now too! It just keeps me coming back. Ive slammed loads of Vampire Survivors Adventure today too.

Also played a bit of the fantastic Lords of the Fallen v2.0 which looks superb on the pro, with a flawless frame rate. Dodging seems better now (and thanks to @Northern_munkey for singing its praises last year, that lead to me giving it a try).

My only problem now is what to play next, with Oblivion and the Days Gone upgrade landing next week (hopefully!)

Have a great weekend Folks!

Itd be awesome if it does come out next week, ive got one week of my holiday left

I hope they keep all the secret finding from the original. I need that stake gun too (almost wrote steak gun, mmm steak gun. Now fetch me my Beef Wellington canon!)

@GirlVersusGame Cheesehome 😂. I hope it does happen for PS5. Up until today, whenever i saw an article here, i was singing a little song to the tune of Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” that goes “It’s beginning to smell a lot like bullsh*t”

@GirlVersusGame i do miss decent manuals. That Baldurs Gate manual with the 5 disk cardboard holder. Still remember getting that. Ive just found the Forgotten Realms “The Archive” manual which is the size of a decent sized novel😂. I think we both have the same problem😂

@GirlVersusGame so cool you’ve got the receipt too! Interestingly my manual cover is the same colour as the box, a kind of cream colour. So the ps3 version is slightly different. I definitely hear you about going back to the ps3 controller. Ive never sold a video game so ive got two plastic crates of these😄

I’ve just spent a couple of hours playing the disk based version on PC, and the graphics actually look pretty good for a 19 year old game when turned up to max. I’m playing it on a 1080ti and the frame rate is actually pretty good too, although could do with some mouse smoothing, or dare I say it, motion blur.

Cookie cutter dungeons and fetch quests aside, the only issues I’ve had were not being able to install Shivering Isles because of SecureROM. The upside to levelling feels like any class can max out all stats if you use the skill enough, I think that’s the case, but I’m literally 2 hours in and haven’t played it for at least 17 years!