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One of Playstation's biggest games - I don't know this game.
One of PC's biggest games - I don't know this game.

I thought we were getting a Burnout remaster but I might try this one. Few games have ever rewarded me for my dangerous driving.

Hopefully people give the Satisfactory demo a try, it's a good sampler to get hooked and it's never been a full priced game.

Day one. I've played every Cities Skylines DLC and most PC mods. Depending on how advanced they make the mechanics it could be a good entry-point for people into Cities Skylines itself, it can be very overwhelming for new players but perfect for anyone who likes micromanagement and OCD levels of perfection. A physical Lego set for a special edition would be a day one buy too, it's my favorite Paradox franchise. Surviving Mars coming in as a close second.

I'm still making my way through these three, it looks like I'll need to add another Quantum of Solace to the collection. I wasn't aware it was a thing for PS2. I played three of the original Playstation ones not too long ago, 007 Racing (awful) Tomorrow Never Dies (wooden) The World is Not Enough (quite balanced and good voice-acting) I think Nightfire has been my favorite so far.

@FinneasGH Seventy is really good for advanced power and spaghetti chaos is what I called my first city in Cities Skylines, traffic-flow completely brokedown and my city went bankrupt. It's easier to embrace chaos on Satisfactory, those big beams on the right connect to each of my factories in the world and bring all of the completed pieces back to my main hub.

I'm really OCD about organizing things in games, those containers house all of those finished components, it was my favorite build so far. Storage like that becomes really useful if you are building across the world and need a main hub. It's a shame the game is so buried on the PSN store, I'm sure there are a lot of people who don't realize how good and relaxing the game is. I followed it from PC onto console and dropped my PC world for PS5, it plays so much better than expected.

That's the the result after I fixed all of the spaghetti chaos in Cities Skylines, the sequel itself is utter chaos, it's still in limbo for a console release and so very buggy on PC.

@Zuljaras How was Darkwing Duck? I remember when you first bought it, was your original from childhood a bootleg?

@FinneasGH Congrats getting to Nuclear in Satisfactory isn't easy, any idea how many hours it took you to get there?

@bowzoid There are quite a few secret Satisfactory players on here, many won't admit the addiction.

I wrapped up my first PS5 colony on Rimworld, it reached three-hundred hours and nothing the game threw at me could stand up against sixty heavily armored colonists and all of those defenses.

It might look quite small but that's eight images stitched together, the game won't zoom a whole map back and I used the whole map for my base. There was also five-hundred animals, console handled it all extremely well even when hoards of enemies swarmed the map, everything from pirates to wild cats, manhunting rabbits to marines.

And so I started fresh this weekend with nothing, just living in a cave, it's already growing quite fast. I prefer the building from nothing to something. Cave life has been fun, now I'm building into the mountain, it's in a canyon too meaning raids funnel right in. Eventually I'll switch to hydroponics and move my fields in there too, most likely my horses too. I hope everyone is having/had a great weekend.

Disco Elysium is one of the best games I've ever played, I can slot the drama off to the side if it means a similar gaming experience. There just isn't anything else quite like it, that alone is why I'll give it a chance. I do expect review bombing, people are very passionate about the original, time will tell.

I still have the originals and really like them but I'd prefer a new game in the series. Less flashy and neon, more gritty and focused on character development rather than hardware development. I feel like a player can choose to be good or bad in most games but are usually penalized for choosing the latter. Spiderman 2 gave me a taste of the bad but left me wanting more. Prototype did bad very well too, I'm not sure they make games like that anymore.

@Northern_munkey If Crimson Desert is on disc? Bozzer will help with that.

@WavesOfActivity It looks like a cross between Vampyre and Disco Elysium, I might have to give it a try.

Great selection, now I just have to figure out how to jam this into a PS5.

@16BitHero It's one of those very rare games where every playthrough is genuinely different, I think the story-teller mechanic is one of the best I've seen even compared to games like Dwarf Fortress. It's a lot more forgiving when you understand the mechanics, my first couple of colonies were destroyed but I learned something new from each attempt and each wipe.

That was three in a row, first bandits wiped my colony, then a killer squirrel broke in and murdered everyone while they slept, and of course the foxes came. I swear the game knew I love foxes, I didn't want to shoot them. You can never be sure what will happen and when it does it's fast. That storeroom above became a target for giant insects, they tunneled up and ruined everything. This current one is doing really well, but I'll probably jinx myself saying that. I've started putting up turrets, next will be fire suppression systems.

Funnily enough I prefer the console version now more than PC and a lot of PC players asked for the console UI, it's really smooth. It's one of my favorite forever games, PS5 handles it perfectly. I'd like to see Dwarf Fortress, Kenshi and Project Zomboid make the jump to console. Those are some of my other favorite forever games, and again each playthrough is unique.

I've been working a little on and off on my Rimworld colony. The main goal was to prepare for winter (hard snow and frost kills everything) by harvesting all of my rice, potatoes and chocolates. I may have overdone it but it's hard to tell sometimes and twenty colonists are a lot. They went through so much of the chocolate already.

I've upgraded all of the bedrooms to stone and marble, crafted the comfiest beds and should have enough weapons crafted to do some exploring of the world map too.

The biggest issue so far was these three guys. They decided to raid the beer storage, fight each other, then fight my alpacas but they had assault rifles and my alpacas didn't so I lost a couple. That's about it, happy gaming weekend Folks.

Testing a couple of survivor-like games after really enjoying Vampire Survivors. Soulstone Survivors seems to be the best one so far, it's fast, colourful and packed with things to unlock. Halls of Torment would be a close second but constantly crashes on PS5, it seems fine on Steam. Happy gaming weekend Folks.

@Northern_munkey bozzer looks truly innocent, sounds more like house gnomes or something.

@THEBrew True, I was thinking about the person not the money. I don't see how spending so long on something only to watch it turn to nothing wouldn't get to a person. Maybe that's how game development is now, it does seem to be the Ubisoft way which is probably why I haven't played one of their games in so long.

It's hard to want to try an Ubisoft version of AnimalCrossing or Minecraft when I already play both. Either way I can't imagine spending three-years working on anything to one day be told it was all for nothing, someone needs to study the mind of a Developer who goes through that. It can't be healthy.

@AnginaPectoris That's one of the best things about the game. I was addicted for the first month and had to stop playing. I'd like to play it again if it were an offline game with all of it's content in one package. I worry more about the addictive aspects of the game than I do on worrying about people having fun playing virtual dress-up. Most people I know who play it are there for the fashion, the entire in-game economy is based around dress-up. It's not just girls either, it has a very varied player-base.

@Buckeye4Life2015 That's weird timing, I just bought that game too after going down a rabbit-hole of similar sounding games. I found someone called WorthAbuy and he made it sound really good, I also went for Halls of Torment and Soulstone Survivors. That's what I love about gaming I'm still finding new genres and those genres support Indie studios, I don't really focus too much on Triple-A so this new genre is very invigorating.

@JonnyAces I tried it last month for the first time and it quickly became one of my favorite games of all time. I wish I played it sooner. It didn't take that long either, I delayed it by wanting to spend more time in it's world.

@Northern_munkey Thank you, adding it to the basket. It looks like Diablo, it's hard to know what's a genuinely good game now compared to so many of the low-effort ones. Soulstone Survivors looks a little blinding, it has the colours and aesthetics of the Greek Mythology Ubisoft game (I forget the name) but after an hour I think I'd have a seizure or something. Halls of Torment looks like Diablo 2, which is one of the better games. Imagine if they made a Judge Dredd one with all of the environments, characters etc. He'd be the perfect character it too because that gun has so many different attacks. I can picture the trailer.

@Logonogo Thank you, it's a new genre that I only recently tried, I think two days ago. I'm always looking for new Indies to try and this kind seems perfect for audiobooks and music.

I just bought it but only because I started Vampire Survivors yesterday or the day before and I'd never played anything like it before. @Tjuz said it might be good, he's not wrong. I played Slay the Spire and got pretty much no where but I really like this Developer and maybe I'll get around to actually playing it. I wish they'd do a physical set for Vampire Survivors with art and things, I love the aesthetic so much.

@Northern_munkey Do you know other games like Vampire Survivors where you walk along and automatically attack like that? and that have so much loot? I thought Ball Pit was football and hard-pass, I just saw a trailer and now I'm interested.

Edit: It went to wishlist but never gave me a basket option, maybe it's a time-zone thing, that dates match. Is it out in the UK yet?

I saw NorthernMonkey mention this some weeks ago and I passed thinking it was football but I just started Vampire Survivors and now I'm interested in this one too. Especially ' between runs, you slowly build up a settlement that ultimately leads to a bunch of long-term permanent progression'.

@DrVenture69 If you didn't know Dellamorte Dellamore then maybe you don't know El Día de la Bestia in English Day of The Beast. It's one the best Spanish horror/comedies you'll ever see and nineties too. I'm not sure how to sum it up so I used the internet 'Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope?'. I've seen My Vampire and a lot of Asian cinema in general, the knock-offs especially. I really like bad movies it's just there's Bollywood Robocop dancing in a cardboard suit on a beach. One of the more unique ones from memory.

I've started and apparently got lucky, a friend seems to think so. It's a little strange playing a game where you press no buttons and I was for a couple of minutes until I realized you just walk and sort of duck and dodge while automatically attacking. Of course I died but I still have the gold. It was that big man with those long green arms, I see why people like it. I liked Dead Cells, this seems more relaxing.

@DrVenture69 Oh brilliant, it cuts down on a lot of travel. I didn't find the ladder until maybe a week into the game, I was kicking myself because I'd been walking all the way back and forth to sell all of that people meat. Now it's the first thing I use each playthrough. I'd love to see a cheesy movie based on the game, it would be very Evil Dead and if you ever heard of an Italian movie called Dellamorte Dellamore? in English 'Cemetery Man', very that. It's a horror/comedy starring Rupert Everett, when people get buried in his graveyard they come back as zombies and he has to deal with them, Italian horror is some of the best and Cemetery Man is no exception.

I didn't do any gaming yet this weekend but might later so that technically would count as the weekend @Tjuz recommended Vampire Survivors as something casual but with a lot of loot/reward, I'm going to try it in a while and see how it goes.

Mixed feelings. I like the idea of a female Solid Snake and I'm really interested in the aesthetics, but it feels like everything I just mentioned is the real hook and there might be very little there. It looks a little sparse, maybe I'd watch someone else play it. The word 'bases' got my attention, I like clearing bases over and over again and most games pull that loop off by including various ways to do that, something tells me that one doesn't. Stealth is so rare now, that alone should be reason enough for a playthrough, I'd have to see more to be sure.

I'm done with all of their DLC packs, if they released a new game I'd buy it day one. Frequent DLCs and now currency makes the game feel cheap and lazy. I'd love to see a next'gen Sims, faster, smoother and with more options for creativity and building. Outside of Sims Pets it just doesn't do it for me anymore and I was very big into the series. It's a shame how far it's fallen, there's still so much potential and it's all going to waste.

It's gone from my wish-list, I had a look here and sure enough saw why. I'll always have Palworld.

"make sure that the authenticity of it is captured on a human level so that it feels really real and infuse that with epic scope"

I prefer when Uwe Boll did it backwards and spliced images of House of the Dead into the movie of the same name.

It can't be worse than Payday 3.

Edit: I just watched the trailer, it looks dreadful.

I'll be there for the intimacy of closed spaces. I never play the series for the shooting, I play it for the story and the familiarity. Few other series feature something so relatable, but probably not day one. In brighter days, perhaps Spring.

I like Lana too much to not like the song, I'm biased when I say 10/10 and this is already added to my playlist.

@PuppetMaster You are the first person I've seen to mention Elseworlds. I mentioned it a couple of weeks or months ago when describing Gotham by Gaslight and I was surprised by how many people didn't know it. I've read maybe three volume collections, each one is different because of each I suppose universe? It's the best creative freedom I've seen like Batman Dracula, I love those books. It's easier to follow Elseworlds than some massive series of normal stories, except for maybe Court of Owls and some others.

I'd never heard of Monster Train but it looks like Slay the Spire so I might give it a try, maybe Skuirrel with a Gun too. I didn't know that Horizon Zero Dawn had been remastered, another big maybe.

I recently played all three back to back, it was an experiment in modern Triple-A gaming, which I tend to avoid. I can't remember the first game other than I wanted more Kingpin and less of those challenges from that social media lady (those were painful) I do remember Spiderman 2 and I did enjoy that game, but only the second-half of the game.

Everything that happened in the first-half of the story was painful to me, it felt like I was completely out of my depth and didn't understand why. I asked some others who were playing it and they said it was politics, they were right. When I hear a superhero ask someone if they voted for Trump? I lose all immersion in the game and play something else. I'd play a third one, but not if they do that nonsense. I game to escape that nonsense, it felt like there was a little too much of that something and it honestly dragged the game down for me until Venom did show up and then 'wow this is great'. Things got darker, more raw, I felt something. But the run-up to that something was like trying to ski uphill. It's a shame because behind all of the fluff Spiderman 2 did have a great story, it just took so long to get there.

I liked Miles Morales too. Those extra powers and abilities added a lot of depth to combat and traversal. I liked Harlem, the culture and the sense of community. I ended up caring more about Miles than Peter, easily. There was something going on in Harlem, it tied into character development. Meanwhile Spiderman 2 did offer a bigger more fleshed out world but those combat/crime events were a waste of time. In the first game I responded to them because I wanted to test new abilities and get those tokens. In the second game I felt like 'well tough luck citizens enjoy being branded/robbed/etc'. The events were over in seconds, I didn't even have to tap a button to stop a vehicle, it felt so watered-down and those tokens were flung at me for the most simple of actions. There was no challenge.

I hope that's not the formula for a third outing. There was far too much time-wasting that led to practically nothing. Like those bird drones, I followed each one and the reward was pretty much non-existent. The world itself was really well built. I found myself heading straight to the Upper East Side to see where I used to live and it was incredibly accurate, I'd never seen a studio pull something off at the scale. I just wish the story hadn't been so much of a slog, I was dipping in and out to read the graphic novels in the hopes that they'd keep me invested and they did. A lot of my gripes with the game were mirrored by others playing at the same time. I don't know enough about Wolverine to have any real expectations. Other than it needs to be fast, gritty, violent and visceral.

Fingers crossed that it is good as or even better than the graphic novels, I've read all of them now. I might even prefer them to the Dark Souls graphic novels, I've got a couple of region specific ones too but the main one is available on the usual places like Amazon. I originally bought them separate and now they do them as a set, I'm pretty sure they included some art-cards as a bonus. It would be 1-3 then 3-6. I'd definitely watch a live animated one. I'd recommend the Dark Souls graphic novels too, there's a very big meaty omnibus.

Brilliant I genuinely did want to play this one. I have to admit I'm questioning if there really is a studio behind it or it's some guy in his basement. So many of the visuals look like Mods laid over Palworld, I spent a while comparing the different characters to Pals too and some of them were almost identical but for colour inversions. It seems to still be on my Steam wishlist.

For the longest time I wanted to play a Bioshock Spin-off game where you control a Big Daddy and a little sister. Pragmata isn't that but I have to admit I'm interested. I'm definitely going to get around to trying it eventually.

People have been talking about this for the last couple of weeks on Vkontakte, I was waiting for it to pop up again in Western news sites/articles. I've been hearing very good things, there aren't many games that cover such familiarity so I'm always interested in a new Metro game. I mainly played them on PC but I've tried them on console and they weren't bad. I tend to avoid shooters but for this and Stalker/Tarkov I make an exception, Смерть шпионам too. I'd like to see the fourth one come to console, I've been following the Developer diaries for code name RedWolf. It's a kind of Hitman/SniperElite, in some ways I prefer it to the former, so we'll see. Lots of games like that never see Western releases, Metro/Stalker are the exceptions.

@DrVenture69 Oh brilliant, if you haven't noticed there's a ladder in the basement on the right that leads directly to town. It means no long walk back there to trade, lots of new players miss that. I have maybe three hours on this new playthrough and opened the church. That's when you start to get science points (the blue skill spheres) That's about the same time that the DLCs activate too. It's pretty easy to raise your graveyard ranking if you work on unlocking the wooden crosses and the wooden frames that go around the graves. Though it's also pretty easy to unlock stone headstones too.

I haven't exhume anyone yet either. Eventually I'll dig them all up and replace them with better prepared bodies, that's also how you keep your rating up. Things will speed-up once you get some iron going too. It's a lot easier to source and forge ores in that game than so many similar games. I think they were aiming for a kind of Stardew Valley for Dads.

@Carnage Thank you I find the surface web disturbing and enlightening too, there's so much politics on this side and I understand none of it. Over there people are just people and no one cares who a person votes for or whatever else happens on social media. For me it's chatrooms, a kind of localized discord, and I like talking to random people. It's even better than Spotify Weekly Discover, people share some really obscure music. We even have our own Youtube, except it's movies and such. Black hats don't care about politics either, they want to make a name for themselves and get paid while doing it. The rest is all pornography which I'm completely immune to, all of the really bad material comes from specific directories.

If you can name an App it was either banned or restricted by my country, it's all a lot of people have now. I started seeing more and more Iranians over the last couple of months too. There's a very big whistle-blower community. I have met some crazy people, one that sticks out was a three hour chat with a lady who was convinced I'd been promised to Satan because I'd been offered a legacy connection through the female wing of Freemasony. I never did join but I did consider it, Masons do a lot of charity work which I respect. I'd been talking to some people around it and she laser focused in. The conspiracy movement have a big presence over there too, I need to find some snaps of that conversation. It was wild. Three whole hours is a long time and she never stopped.

I knew I kept some snaps. She'd been telling me about how there is some kind of black goo that does something, I don't remember, it's tied into A.I. (apparently) she was absolutely bonkers, I had to hide from her for a couple of weeks. She kept looking for me to deprogram me from 'Satan's Plan'. The last I heard she moved and now lives in the forest.

This was near the end. She wanted to introduce me to some of her crazy content creator friends because get this, she said women who are ugly aren't listened to but because I'm pretty (her words) I can do what they do too and create content with them to win people back to humanity. One of the craziest parts of the night was when she said I'd also been promised some kind of God in space. My friends told me to go to bed and stop talking to her, I couldn't help it, she was just incredibly crazy.

That was all crazy Covid speak, she wouldn't use the actual word because 'A.I. was tracking her', there was also something about seeing the pyramids move, it went on and on. It's a wild place over there but interesting too. Other than that I suppose it's all drugs, market places, services for hire, most stuff you won't find without a directory and I tend to stay with my group.

@FuriousMachine I'm starting to think it ended up in the what are you reading thread, I'm going to find it, I'm on a mission to find that band again. I'm still trying to re-sync and kick the chronic jet-lag, I can't remember yesterday but I can remember music, just not that track. If I find it then I'll re-post because now I'm curious if you'll remember it too.

Either way I requested logs of my entire listening history, that will be fun. The search continues. I can visually see that music video clearly from start to finish but like most things the words aren't there.

@DrVenture69 How is Graveyard Keeper going for you?

@FuriousMachine I'm about 99% sure it was you, you'd just gotten back from seeing some friends. I posted the video and you said you heard that band while you were away. I looked for maybe three hours last night, I don't even remember how I found it the first time. I'll look again tonight and then let you know if I find it. When I say a few months ago it could have been even longer, I remember the video clearly but the time of year not so much. I'll comb back through the music thread too, if it's going to be anywhere it would be there. There were mountains and such too, that kind of Winter landscape and we got talking about Norway/the forests etc.

@CutchuSlow It depends on the group but the S groups/top tier keep their word. It's all about reputation and they'd lose respect among other groups and brokers if they took the fee and leaked or sold it on to another client. For some of them it's not even about the money, it's having pulled it off. Groups won't collaborate with other groups if they no someone did go back on the deal. Most who engage in RaS/random or Extortion rarely work alone. The same group won't target the same company again.

At their height Lockbit hit seven thousand different companies/targets per-day. They never run out of targets, nothing is stopping a fresh unaffiliated group hitting Rockstar or TakeTwo again. Most companies won't even admit there was a breach, they prefer to pay and save face. It's also up to the brokers to ensure that whichever group did hit a target won't do it again, fixers get a fee too. Like a lot of people I moved over there are after the invasion, it's the only place I can talk freely, it's lawless but also safe. There are your usual black hats and white hats, weird folk too, but a lot of normal people too. Most of the gamers I meet are there for the piracy, which is worse than people think. Companies can monitor the downloads on some trackers, that internal peer 2 peer isn't being counted.

I'm glad to see Sony pulling the plug on those ports. There's a virtual system being tested at the moment that doesn't crack Denuvo rather it runs the game over Denuvo. It's impressive for what it is, but it's going to cause a lot of damage once they iron those bugs out. Hacker boys are a little weird though, we were once in a chatroom and they dumped top secret specs for American tanks and artillery, just for those lulz. My side is Russian so we have a balance, they tend to leave my nationality alone, I would say a wise choice, we have bigger numbers. It's the UK groups that seem more interested in going after game studios, I've never understood why. The others go after banks and financial institutions, they are a safer bet.

@Almost_Ghostly I didn't expect you to say Muse, outside of Absolution and Drones I haven't heard much of them. And I adore Nevermore, they just signed with Reigning Phoenix. I've seen most of their roster live, Opeth, 69 Eyes (maybe my favorite Gothrock band) Sonata Arctica, Helloween, Amorphis (they grew on me with each show) Belphegor and Deicide. It's a great label with really good people, I expect great things for Nevermore under them. Definitely more tours, they hit the road again maybe one week or two ago.

@FuriousMachine It's a long-shot but do you remember the name of that band we talked about maybe before Chirstmas? The music video opened with Runic looking lettering, there was an exterior and then most of it focused on the lead singer at a writing desk or something? I've been looking for it all night and I could have sworn I added it to my playlist but I can't find it. You said something about hearing it while you were away somewhere, I'd just posted it too. I don't think it was in English, possibly Finnish.

Maybe I don't play enough newer titles but I don't think I've ever seen any game get this amount of patches in so little time. I'm still going to wait for the one that mentioned new skills and the area being retaken by the enemy. I'm glad I only played for a couple of hours, patience will definitely pay off on this one.

@CutchuSlow It depends on the group, most get paid, brokers and fixers get out-sourced and there are a quite a few now who specialize in being that go-between. It's rarely the first number, sometimes it takes weeks depending on the broker and depending on the group. Most take half, I've rarely seen the first offer accepted nor is it expected. ShinyHunters have been around for years. Other than this site I rarely use the surface web, groups like that are very well known over there. I prefer those networks to get around certain Government restrictions/censorship/to have breathing room, chatrooms too. LAPSUS$ have collaborated with them on a number of Ops, they aren't light weights.

Hopefully it gets resolved before a sampler hits Telegram, though that's generally a pressure tactic to make the mark pay faster. It's hard to know how this one will turn out, they tend to get paid and move on. They are a kind oh hybrid group, very experienced. They offer how you say EaS extortion as a service, hopefully it ends with the least amount of possible data collateral. Either way I'll be following this one. If you want an example of 'has anyone paid?'

Lockbit came away with nintey million American dollars, their Stealbit system was state of the art. They fractured and returned to the scene not that log ago. LockBit 5.0 is currently doing the heavy lifting, there are a lot of groups over there, companies you never heard of are paying up all day long like a cash register.

Edit: my mathematics were off it was over one hundred million American dollars 2,200 BTC. Some groups are maybe three times this, it's an unseen industry that no one really knows about until it affects something that means something to that person I.E. game studios, they've become premium targets. It won't stop.

I quite like the larger game cards.