R(ob)’s Comments (group member since Jun 21, 2021)

R(ob)’s comments from the The Video Game Forum group.

Yea C4 is very good. And go OLED for sure. I was just looking at TVs myself but stopping myself from pulling the trigger as my gaming TV is only just over two years old but I want that sweet OLED picture. For me I’m interested in the Samsung S90D.

Still played Dragon Age. Absolutely loving it. Superb game and dare I say best looking game on my Pro.

This is my future release games that interest me:

Fable
Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Death Stranding 2
Ghost of Yotei
Mafia:The Old Country
Doom: The Dark Ages
South of Midnight
GTA6

I played Indiana Jones on Xbox and it’s an excellent game. I wasn’t aware of a new Robocop game.

Death Stranding 2 will probably be a release day or soon after purchase for me. I really enjoyed the first game. I have £130 of PS Store credit so hopefully that’ll cover two new release purchases, just.

Started Dragon Age The Veilguard, about 5 hours in. I honestly thought after enjoying Avowed so much it would be a difficult act to follow. I’m probably enjoying DA as much. And it looks really nice on PS5 Pro.

Completed Avowed. Loved it. Best game I’ve played in a while. Really liked the varied areas and sense of immersion. Combat was fun too. Probably an 8/10 on the r-score-o-meter if I’m being objective but for how much I enjoyed it ignoring the flaws it’s a 10/10. Next I’ll give Dragon Age: The Veilguard a try, see if it sticks like Avowed did.

I’m not a see and do everything kind of gamer. I’ve done some side quests and companion quests and near the end of the campaign after about 20 hours - probably underestimated how much I had left. I hope like most open or semi-open world games you can continue doing side quests after completing the campaign, as I normally do that if I’m enjoying a game, I go back and do a bit more.

One crash for me now after around 17 hours. I’m nearly at the end of the campaign, probably only another couple of hours to go. I might even play it again - I’ve loved it. Although I might try DragonAge on ps plus first.

I’ve played around 13 hours of Avowed, Error. Not one single crash for me and otherwise no bugs whatsoever. Like you really enjoying it.

My Avowed character fancied a bit of fried chicken. He was surprised to see chickens are invincible but walking mushrooms are not. Crazyness.

Technically better after 6 months of patches then. I was more meaning if you steal, attack some random NPC, stab a chicken nothing happens in Avowed - no consequence - not very RPG in that sense. Plus the enemies are not very varied.

More Avowed for me. About 8 hours in. Best game I’ve played in a while. I think because I don’t play many RPGs it feels like a refreshing change. I mean I have played the likes of Fallout 3/4/NV, Mass Effect 1-3, Skyrim, Fable 1-3, Outer Worlds but that was a while ago. Avowed though absolutely loving it. Not one crash or bug yet either. It’s not a perfect game - it could do with some polish in certain aspects - but for fun and world immersion 10/10. Prefer it to Skyrim even if Skyrim might be technically the better game.

I’ve started Avowed. About 3 hours in. So far got to say I’m really enjoying it. Love the combat - especially the spells - and the world exploration. Story isn’t doing anything for me but everything else is a lot of fun. Great artwork and graphics not too bad. Frame rate not so great but it’s not spoiling it too much. It definitely has its hooks me. Can’t wait to get back to it.

I’ll check if I’ve got a spare PS3 controller. I can’t remember how many I have. If I’ve got more than two - I’ll need to check when I get chance - I’m happy to send you one. Although when I dug out my PS3 all the controllers were very creaky and seemed not that great - all seemed to have dodgy thumbsticks - but I think that’s how bad they were back in the day and just forgot.

I think Control had it right on the difficultly setting - albeit it was patched after so many people complained the game was too hard. Sliders to make the game as difficult or easy as you like.

After a bit of googling and YouTube I think my next game will be Avowed. I’ve read some reviews and watched some you tube vids and it looks pretty decent. I did the same for Stalker 2 and came away with the overwhelming impression that’s it’s a very frustrating game even on easy difficulty. I know that’s the way it’s supposed to be but I’m leaning very much away from frustration nowadays.

It does have some new modes added but yea another remaster not really needed. I didn't hear the rumours of a Day's Gone remaster but to me seems one of the lesser Sony exclusives albeit it has its core fans but on the whole very mixed reception back in the day and not only for the launch bugs but quite a few people didn't rate it. Personally I enjoyed and completed it - thought it was a solid decent game - but nothing special. It's an easy cash-in as a remaster from PS4 to PS5 is little work and easy money. I'd be more interested in a Killzone (2, 3, SF) or Resistance (1-3) remaster but PS3 to PS5 takes a lot more investment.

The first last and only time I’ve played Nintendo was Wii Sports 😀. Perhaps next gen if I go dual platform I’ll go PS6 and Switch 2 seeing as MS are moving to publishing cross platform.

Welcome Jesse. You may be the only Nintendo gamer in the forum 😀.

Completed Sniper Elite Resistance. Loved it. The final big map was superb too - dark, atmospheric, lots of different areas. After I completed the campaign I wanted to defeat an invading Jaeger Sniper which I did twice in one game. Loved it - cat and mouse fun. 8/10 for fun but 7/10 for polish where it just needed a bit of polish on going up steps lol and walking over rocks where it seemed to be a bit of a glitchy issue.

Next I’m really not sure. It’s one of Avowed (out in around a week), Stalker 2 and a replay of Horizon Zero Dawn. It’s all about XBox at the moment.

And my missus has turned into a bit of a gamer since she has access to my old PS5. She loved the two God of War games. She finished them both. She really didn’t like Uncharted 4 and gave up on it after 6 hours - said it was too slow with all the long cut-scenes. Now she’s playing Plague Tale Requiem which she likes - says it’s more tactical. I won’t suggest she tries Metal Gear Solid lol.

DeckardCain's Sandals wrote: "Might have to invest in a disc drive so I'm not left with an expensive brick every time the server is down."

Is your console set as the primary console? It could be you haven’t changed your primary console since you got your Pro?