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[Gandih42]

Finished The Witness a few days ago. Some of those last puzzles really fried my brain good (pro-tip: don't stay up to 2 AM wracking your brain against a timed puzzle-gauntlet) but I must say that I really loved the game. Considering how many puzzles there are, a surprisingly low number of them got frustrating. I still might go back to it a bit more to collect all the "videos" and do a few more of the post-game puzzles. Whatever "story" you might say it has is certainly obnoxious in many ways, but I kinda dig the spirit of it. Sort of a:

Spoiler

Goldberg Variations on the feeling of "Eureka!"

Cool stuff.

Otherwise, it's back to more SMT V:V. I feel like I've almost gotten my Godborne team ready to go - next session I'll probably finished my first CoC playthrough and move on to my 3rd cycle. I might just do a "Law" CoV run before I switch to Godborne so I can get some specific Essences for a Nahobino build I want to try, and get my team closer to 150 for Godborne.

Then on Friday I'm finally cracking open Space Marine 2 with a buddy who's really into the miniatures. It's been sitting temptingly on my desk for over a week now.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Finished 13 Sentinels just in time before it left PS+! Holy shit guys.

Awesome story, and I actually really enjoyed the battles. Lots to unpack, but wow, this one totally flew under the radar.

Spoiler: Strong Vibes

 

[eerik9000]

Platinumed Astro Bot on Monday, I guess now I will play Disco Elysium until I get a PS5 Pro.

 

[engstra]

Yeah same disappointment for me.
The story that was so interesting in Zero Dawn has been replaced with a very weak one to appeal to Gen Z and "broader audience". All characters have become a caricature and the story was completely stupid.
The combat also was a huge letdown. Too many weapons & ammo and the whole system went to a confusing pile of crap where it was perfect on the first title.
They also introduced lame & unneeded changes that made the fights completely frustrating & unbalanced like now Aloy knocked down for 10 seconds everytime you take a hit, made me want to throw my controller everytime lmao.

I'm not sure what's meant to particularly appeal to Gen Z in there but story is just so convoluted. Basically fighting against an alien invasion.

It's weird how they overcomplicated the weapon system so much. Like what's wrong with putting in some missions where you get introduced to new weapons, forcing you to use them?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Finished 13 Sentinels just in time before it left PS+! Holy shit guys.

Awesome story, and I actually really enjoyed the battles. Lots to unpack, but wow, this one totally flew under the radar.

Spoiler: Strong Vibes

Me and you both

 

[Danjin44]

Awesome story, and I actually really enjoyed the battles. Lots to unpack, but wow, this one totally flew under the radar.

Unfortunately lot of people did and most people GAF know…I did my best inform people on this game.

Some listen but most people ignored it.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Unfortunately lot of people did and most people GAF know…I did my best inform people on this game.

Some listen but most people ignored it.

I always listen to you onii chan

 

[adamsapple]

Played through Observer: System Redux over the weekend.

It's .. fine. Probably Bloober's most competent game I've played yet. But it had some glaring issues.

The game can get a little too visually busy, like continuous segments of a lot of flashing, pulsating shit on screen that can give even the best of eyes migraines. And while I appreciate Rutger Hauer's inclusion, they could have literally used anyone else. Rutger clearly sounds like he's just reading lines in a single 2 hour sitting. It's kinda like how they promoted David Duchoveny for XIII and his voice acting was probably the worst part of the game.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Been replaying Mafia 3. Still some of the most satisfying gunplay out there to me and I fuckin love the story and writing. Really hope Hangar 13 retained these music licenses. Losing Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" at the title screen would send me into a gross depression pit.

 

[Roberts]

I love Blasphemous 2 a lot but I think I will put aside for a while - Benedicta is kicking my ass so much it isn’t funny anymore. Previous bosses didn’t give me much of a trouble but I must have tried to fight her at least 25 times and I don’t think I ever got half of her health.

 

[Hoddi]

I've been playing a lot of CoD recently and had a day off today. I just upgraded my PC to a fancy new Ryzen 7950X3D and

 

[adamsapple]

Not worth making a topic so will just post the question here.

Does anyone else find the stick design of the Dualsense controller odd in the sense that prolonged play can make your hands start feeling cramped? Never had that kind of issue with the Xbox pad.

And before someone points at my tag or something. I've never had that issue in Dualshock 4 for the many years I've used that either. It's something that I've only noticed with the Dualsense. The grip area is too girthy (ayeoo)

 

[EerieArcade]

It's pretty tough. The game expects you to die a lot and does an excellent job with progression that makes each run part of the game's story (like Hades) while preserving certain upgrades you've acquired, that made a big difference to me. If you finished OoE, I hear that game is very difficult too, so I wouldn't worry unless you really dislike 3rd person action and bullet hell games. If your concern is more the difficulty + monotony wasting your time, that is what kept me from Returnal until I tried it out on PS+. The game seems more intimidating than it is once you get going. It also has suspend functionality built in, like Fire Emblem, where you can take a break and not have to do a run in one sitting - but it gets erased once resume so you can't cheese it.

The only time it feels like a regular roguelike in terms of progression is in an optional free DLC mode (a tower). I ended up enjoying that too, but not as much as the main game.

I've played for a couple of hours. I'm enjoying it so far. I really like the atmosphere and vibe. Still getting used to some of the systems and mechanics.

Suicide of Rachel Foster
Played through this over the weekend. I like these kinds of games and found this to be decent enough. The story wasn't overly gripping but the setting was great; Always enjoyed a spooky wintry locale. Worth the £1 I paid for it.

Picked up a copy of Spider-Man 2 on the cheap. Think I'll play this alongside Returnal.

 

[stn]

I'm on Stellar Blade (PS5), and recently started Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn DLC (PS4). Both are great.

 

[Celcius]

I've been playing a lot of CoD recently and had a day off today. I just upgraded my PC to a fancy new Ryzen 7950X3D and

Are you going to reach out to support?

 

[LavitzSlambert]

I've played for a couple of hours. I'm enjoying it so far. I really like the atmosphere and vibe. Still getting used to some of the systems and mechanics.

Suicide of Rachel Foster
Played through this over the weekend. I like these kinds of games and found this to be decent enough. The story wasn't overly gripping but the setting was great; Always enjoyed a spooky wintry locale. Worth the £1 I paid for it.

Picked up a copy of Spider-Man 2 on the cheap. Think I'll play this alongside Returnal.

Nice! Yeah it took a little while for certain things to click for me (weapon upgrades, how certain cutscenes/events work, and the proc generated areas/loot). The game carries with its atmosphere in the meantime.

Not worth making a topic so will just post the question here.

Does anyone else find the stick design of the Dualsense controller odd in the sense that prolonged play can make your hands start feeling cramped? Never had that kind of issue with the Xbox pad.

And before someone points at my tag or something. I've never had that issue in Dualshock 4 for the many years I've used that either. It's something that I've only noticed with the Dualsense. The grip area is too girthy (ayeoo)

I find the entire DualSense uncomfortable in general, the proportions of the handles and how it affects where your fingers naturally rest on the buttons and sticks just feels off. Hard to describe but it feels like I'm holding it further up and latched onto the sides. DS4 is my favorite controller of all time, ergonomically.

 

[Duchess]

Finished Armored Core 6.

I got the "good" ending? Well, the one I imagine that most players would naturally lean towards. Final boss was a complete push over; took me just a couple of attempts. I was expecting a two / three phase battle, but nothing more came.

Overall, I thought it was a good game, but I don't feel any need to continue playing further. For me, the hardest bosses were:


3. Ibis <== 4 attempts
2. V. II Snail (Arquebus Balteus) <== 7 attempts
1. Balteus <== 35+ attempts

 

[Hoddi]

Are you going to reach out to support?

I sent in a request but I'm not stressing over it. I also have the game on PS5 and it will probably show up on Gamepass at some point anyway. I have enough COD games to play and a new one coming next month.

I also think I know what caused it and I'm not entirely blameless. I was testing out the 3D cache on the CPU and AMD has a driver control that you can enable/disable. I think doing so moves things around in memory and the anticheat flagged it.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Finished Armored Core 6.

I got the "good" ending? Well, the one I imagine that most players would naturally lean towards. Final boss was a complete push over; took me just a couple of attempts. I was expecting a two / three phase battle, but nothing more came.

Overall, I thought it was a good game, but I don't feel any need to continue playing further. For me, the hardest bosses were:


3. Ibis <== 4 attempts
2. V. II Snail (Arquebus Balteus) <== 7 attempts
1. Balteus <== 35+ attempts

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Pre-patch Balteus was no joke. All his missile attacks were homing missiles.

Loving NG+ Wukong after finishing Space Marine 2. Need to resub to Plus at some point to play coop.

 

[The_hunter]

Not worth making a topic so will just post the question here.

Does anyone else find the stick design of the Dualsense controller odd in the sense that prolonged play can make your hands start feeling cramped? Never had that kind of issue with the Xbox pad.

And before someone points at my tag or something. I've never had that issue in Dualshock 4 for the many years I've used that either. It's something that I've only noticed with the Dualsense. The grip area is too girthy (ayeoo)

Not anymore, but when I first got the PS5 my muscles would get tired from aiming in overwatch 1 as I had not played FPS games in a very long time.

 

[adamsapple]

Not anymore, but when I first got the PS5 my muscles would get tired from aiming in overwatch 1 as I had not played FPS games in a very long time.

Yeah, if you keep playing then it doesn't feel that jarring but I'm someone whose frequently switching between the Xbox pad and Dualsense and every time I go back to the DS after a bit, it's takes a bit to get used to it again.

I find the entire DualSense uncomfortable in general, the proportions of the handles and how it affects where your fingers naturally rest on the buttons and sticks just feels off. Hard to describe but it feels like I'm holding it further up and latched onto the sides. DS4 is my favorite controller of all time, ergonomically.

Spot on.

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On topic, going to get and start Pacific Drive in a couple of days. The trailers look wild.

 

[EerieArcade]

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
WoW. I've played this for two hours and I love it. Enjoying it as much as I did Ecclesia.

 

[adamsapple]

Say what you want about them, but man .. Ubisoft nailed it out of the fucking park the gunplay in The Division games.

So good.

 

[Roberts]

So I finished The Case of the Golden Idol together with a friend and we had an absolute blast playing detectives in this weird, cynical story. Not so much a critique of fascism as an outright mockery of it. The last two twists just made me lol in a way that games rarely do. We will buy DLCs because I don't think we had enough of this.

Almost done with Blasphemous 2. Not better or worse than its predecessor but this is a must for any metroidvania fan. I like that each bosses requires a totally different approach and almost none of them can be cheesed.

 

[amigastar]

Endless Space 2
love it Turn based games ftw.

 

[peek]

Still on The First Descendant right now, but finally thinking im hitting the wall. Put in like 400 hours. Highly recommend to anyone who is into looter shooters.

Thinking bout jumping back into good ole vampire survivors haha. Always a fun time.

 

[Big Baller]

Not worth making a topic so will just post the question here.

Does anyone else find the stick design of the Dualsense controller odd in the sense that prolonged play can make your hands start feeling cramped? Never had that kind of issue with the Xbox pad.

And before someone points at my tag or something. I've never had that issue in Dualshock 4 for the many years I've used that either. It's something that I've only noticed with the Dualsense. The grip area is too girthy (ayeoo)

Nah, its your hands. I do hate that the thumbsticks get sticky

 

[adamsapple]

Playing some Division 2 after almost 1500 days, as the game was so kind enough to let me know after logging in. The gunplay is so satisfying in this. I don't think I've ever played past the 'ending' where the new faction takes over the city but I might put in some time this time around, maybe even get the New York DLC.

Also, as someone who has drives into D.C frequently for work, getting a kick out of seeing some of the monuments, though the game gets one thing really wrong.

D.C streets are no fucking way as open as the game shows lol, they're cramped as hell.

 

[[Sigma]]

Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream open beta test
Helldivers II

 

[Alex Anderson]

I just got to the credits on Astro Bot. Still got some cleaning up to do before I take the disc out (few stages, bots to rescue, gatchas).

Next, I'm going to finally open my copy of 3D All-Stars and play Super Mario Galaxy for the first time.

 

[Celcius]

Just finished Persona 3 Reload Episode Aigis yesterday

 

[Punished Miku]

Rider's Republic is my favorite extreme sports game ever made. It just has it all. Basically its Forza Horizon but with multiple totally different sports to switch between at will, and they're all the best ever for that sport in a game.

 

[Jesb]

Grinding with outlaws. It’s putting me to sleep.

 

[Roberts]

Can't seem to beat Eviterno in Blasphemous 2. He is the penultimate boss in the game, right? The first phase is easy but he destroys my ass in the second one. I pretty much only used Veredicto until now, but maybe it is too slow for such a fast boss. I would say that most bosses are easier than the ones in the first game, but not this one.

 

[Markio128]

I’m currently playing through Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, and loving it.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Rider's Republic is my favorite extreme sports game ever made. It just has it all. Basically its Forza Horizon but with multiple totally different sports to switch between at will, and they're all the best ever for that sport in a game.

Keep seeing this cheap.
I'm really tempted to give it a shot.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Age of Mythology: Retold
Loving it so far, brings back youth memories when the RTS genre was popular.

 

[Duchess]

After finishing AC6, I had a hankering to go back to Elden Ring for a bit.

I'm now doing an astrologer playthrough, using a guide.

(I already beat the game last year, but needed help against Elden Beast)

 

[Superkid93]

7 hours into Astro Bot. For me, its just absolutely perfect in every way. Will platinum.


I got around to finishing Jedi Survivor last week.....man, i just didnt like it as much as the first in almost every aspect.
Compared to the first i thought the story was pretty lackluster and the combat took an obvious step backwards.

Was there any point to the Gardening that i missed? what the hell was that?

 

[Big Baller]

Keep seeing this cheap.
I'm really tempted to give it a shot.

Its on GP finally. I bought it years ago but never got into it.

 

[Punished Miku]

Keep seeing this cheap.
I'm really tempted to give it a shot.

It's a great game but just be aware it is always online. Only buy it on a deep sale. Hopefully they patch that out someday like The Crew. I just started playing a few of the user created levels, so there is a lot of online functionality that is well done.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

It's a great game but just be aware it is always online. Only buy it on a deep sale. Hopefully they patch that out someday like The Crew. I just started playing a few of the user created levels, so there is a lot of online functionality that is well done.

I wasn't aware it was always online, thanks for pointing that out
I'll give it some thought

 

[//DEVIL//]

Played through Observer: System Redux over the weekend.

It's .. fine. Probably Bloober's most competent game I've played yet. But it had some glaring issues.

The game can get a little too visually busy, like continuous segments of a lot of flashing, pulsating shit on screen that can give even the best of eyes migraines. And while I appreciate Rutger Hauer's inclusion, they could have literally used anyone else. Rutger clearly sounds like he's just reading lines in a single 2 hour sitting. It's kinda like how they promoted David Duchoveny for XIII and his voice acting was probably the worst part of the game.

never heard of this game but the graphics art style is something i enjoy. what kind of games is this ?

 

[Nintendo's Witch]

SF6 and COD.

 

[Parazels]

Fallout 4. Can't stop and it's a problem.

 

[DragoonKain]

Started High on Life a few days ago and really liking it. Has a Borderlands type vibe with the humor and areas. The guns talking is entertaining sometimes and annoying others because they never STFU. I like how there are minor puzzle solving and platforming elements to the game and each weapon is unique.

 

[adamsapple]

never heard of this game but the graphics art style is something i enjoy. what kind of games is this ?

It's a walking sim, think Soma.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Slowly diving into UFO 50. Tried like 5 or 6 games and so far, managed to beat 2 of them, Ninpek and Magic Garden. Only beat them tho, getting the cherry (beating them with special conditions) is another, much harder thing to do.

 

[//DEVIL//]

It's a walking sim, think Soma.

Ty. I am out lol

 

[Dafegamer]

Finished ASTRO BOT, 6 Bots until Platinum. Main Game 9.5-10/10, almost a masterpiece, challenge levels and that Dillo can fuck off. One of the best 3D Platformers ever. Certainly the best non Nintendo 3D Platformer. After some consideration I'll put it below Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Galaxy 1-2 but on par with Super Mario 3D World and Banjo Kazooie. Better than Sunshine and 64 imho
Trying my replay of The Witcher 3, didn't grab me the first time but it's for free on PS+ so why not. Planning to get Silent Hill 2 next month. I also have The Plucky Squire installed but impressions from Gamers doesn't exactly sound glowing on this one, but will still try it out myself