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Hi guys. Sorry I haven't been on here much. Work is stupid busy, even working from home.This heat hasn't made me happy at all - don't even feel like gaming cos I just feel too worn out all the time. I've left Halo Infinite for a while after trying to defeat the first two Spartan Assassins. I always get one quite easily, but the second one on the hoverbike keeps killing me and I have to start all over again!! Hope this isn't a gamebreaker for me, but I have a new strategy to try at the weekend (thank you YouTube) so fingers crossed.
Thankfully the heat has died down a little, but I hear we've got more on the way in August. Ugh!
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This heat hasn't made me happy at all - don't even feel like gaming cos I just feel too worn out all the ti..."
Hi AG.
Yeah, the heat has been terrible here too.
Lots of fires all around. Its really bad.
I got covid in the middle of a heat wave and it was terrible.
I never knew if i was with fever or it was just the heat affecting me.
Probably a lot of both! Hope you're feeling better now.Is Stray free - or was I imagining that?
Been playing a bit more Diablo 2, Disgaea 6 and Akiba's Trip since finishing Stray but I think I'm in the mood for a shooter, so I'm considering picking up the Witch Queen for Destiny 2. Surprised it's taken me this long, I do like a bit of Destiny and usually pick up the DLC day one but wasn't really feeling it at the time. Think I'll crack while it's down in priceI had thought I'd give God of War one last chance but no, deleted before it had even finished installing. Even the thought of playing it is a chore. Ragnarok is a definite no for me now, I'll wait for it to be on PS+
Now getting dat itch to play Uncharted 2 Remaster. It looks like you only need to speed run 3 chapters.
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This heat hasn't made me happy at all - don't even feel like gaming cos I just feel too worn out all the ti..."
Is that tovarus and hyperius? Yea they were tough. Can’t remember how I beat them but it took me several attempts. Think one of them I luckily cheesed as he was stuck in a room on a platform, he couldn’t hit me, and I kept on shooting him in the room as he couldn’t escape as I was constantly shooting him. More luck than by design. Other than this boss fight there was two others that were tough, one being the final boss but think that was the easiest of the three that I would classify as a little tough. All other boss fights I had no issue with. All doable on normal difficulties, especially if I can eventually do them albeit after a few deaths.
Thanks for the warm welcomes!I don't play video games too often-
I'm more so a 3DS and Horror Game junkie lol
Yep, that's the two. About to embark on them again, will let you all know.
Played a wee bit of The Witch Queen in Destiny 2. It's been quite a while since I played D2 and there are a few changes that left me scratching my head. Biggest of all - definitely don't like the infinite bullets for the primary weapons. Also played quite a bit of Danganronpa S, which I quite like. Has me considering replaying the other games
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Reached the 75 hr mark on Dying Light 2.
I have 4 main missions left and i will do whatever its in my power to stick with them so that i can finish the game already.
I shamefully rehawed GTAV for the X...
Getting a little tired of Danganronpa S. Developed 30 characters and not sure I could be arsed doing any more. It's fine in small doses but very repetitive. Played a wee bit more of The Witch Queen as well, and it's growing on me a little. Still not sure about some of the changes Bungie have made but still a mostly solid shooter.
Think I'm going to have to find something meaty to play alongside as I don't seem to be able to concentrate on them for long.
Still stuck on Outriders. I'm right near the final boss. The campaign must be the longest of any shooter ever. Other than a couple annoying choke points, I've enjoyed it (again). My pyromancer class has a skill called F.A.S.E.R. beam. This thing is basically the Iron Man laser blast and can wipe out as many lesser enemies as you can line up, leaving behind only bones and ash. It's super satisfying.
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I've been playing mostly Destiny 2 & Diablo 2 with a bit of Disgaea 6 and Danganronpa S. I'm currently looking for a game that doesn't begin with D
Still playing Wonderlands and still enjoying it. I must be getting towards the end of the main campaign but have loads of side missions to do so might concentrate on them tonight.
Getting back into the swing of both D2 and erm D2 (Destiny and Diablo). There's a few games out in the next few months I've half an eye on (Two Point Campus, Saint's Row, Soul Hackers 2, Diofield Chronicle, Valkyrie Elysium, Goat Sim 3 and maybe even The Last of Us remaster remaster) so think Diablo and Destiny can hold off any hawing urges for the time being.... Visions of Monday and the first thing I utter - I may have hawed....Kind of interested in Rimworld.....
Might reinstall Borderlands 3 and polish off the DLC to stave off any temptations
If you play the BL3 DLC again Deck, would you be able to possible help me with one of the side quests in the Western themed DLC. The quest is called The Quick and The Quickerer and it glitched on me as an NPC is supposed to do something at the start but doesn't. Thought if I joined someone else's game whilst they did the quest, it would register as me completing it too.
Asura's wrath has abated... 100% complete.Had a little blast of Shredder's Revenge. Fun but I got bored fast.
Really can't decide what to play. I'm tempted to stick with PSVR and finish the whole backlog. Round it out with Saints & Sinners and No Man Sky.
Can't believe Sony are charging full price for TLOU Part1. I hope it absolutely bombs. They are being proper arseholes these days. I'm not buying Ragnorok either. Callisto Protocol will be my only day one new game this year. That might not even happen as I'm expecting my first child 1 week before it comes out.
Hope you all are having a grand time.
Get all your gaming time in now Ron ;)
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Havent been posting all that much due to work.
My colleague is in vacations so its that time of the year when i barely have time to breathe.
Anyway, i finished Dying Light 2 last time with 82 hrs.
I think everyone should give it a try as its an amazing game.
You can get lost in the open world quests and challenges or just exploring and finding stuff along the way for hrs and hrs.
That itself it pretty fun and addictive but when you decide to go for the main missions, then there´s a ton of thrill in the set pieces they created. There were a couple of missions that i consider amongs the best i ever played in a game.
I also love the "humanity" and personal touch the devs added to the game in constrast with DL 1 where all felt a bit supeficial.
There were some genuine touching moments in there and some really really hard decisions to make if you get invested in the story and the world.
In conclusion, although i have DL1 regarded as one of my favourite games ever, i think DL 2 is even better in pretty much every department.
Its a realyl great game.
I give it a solid 9/10 (and 8,2 ME Andromedas)
I've been playing Destiny 2 and No Man's Sky. Had more left to do in the previous DLCs in D2 than I'd realised, so haven't touched The Witch Queen stuff yet. Still pissed off I can't replay the base campaign despite paying good money for it (not that it was great) but otherwise I'm enjoying being back playing it.Knocked off all the find all fauna on planets trophies in NMS pretty quickly and easier than expected (well apart from one planet that took over 2 hours for the last animal). The extreme survival trophies look to be the most time consuming (and tedious) but reckon I can stick with it for the plat so I'm not tempted to revisit ever again. Some of the improvements are decent though.
Gave up on the Borderlands 3 idea, pretty sure I'd start a new character and give up on it before I'd get anywhere near the DLC. Maybe at some point in the future but atm happy playing through D2 and NMS
Glad you enjoyed the game Glass.I've been getting short bursts of gaming time in the evening recently so went back to Shredder's Revenge. Really nostalgic. I did get bored initially but short bursts keeps it fun. There's only really one part that's very frustrating. Probably replay it to get a few more achievements and that'll do. Don't fancy maxing out with all 7 characters. There's an achievement for finishing the final boss without getting hit which seems extremely challenging.
Probably move onto that new gamepass game which looked like a painted movie.
Despite me thinking Sony are being buttholes recently I kind of like their new PS plus and am considering it to play Returnal and FFVII Intergrade. But by the time my gamepass sub runs out Ragnorok will probably be on there!
Started up Octopath Traveler recently. Played long enough to meet a few of the characters. The game is pretty and I like the combat system. Not sure how much I enjoy the approach to storytelling and the partially voice-acted dialogue. I had less than hour of play in when I met my first companion. The set-up was essentially 30 min of old-school RPG cutscenes. The type of thing that would have played out in 5 minutes in FFVI. Anyway, it may grow on me.
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A little pissed off with No Man's Sky. First of all a tree spawned right in front of me and the ship got stuck and ended up killing me. Fine, not a big problem. But I think I'd read that death resets the extreme planet survival counter. I'd only glanced at it and thought it would have reset to the last save but no, the counter just wont move anymore. So either it's glitched or it went back to 0 and I'll have to get it back up to the point I'd reached before dying. Might leave it for a few days and come back to it. I've only that trophy and kill a load of sentinels to go.
lol I was trying to get a trophy that doesn't exist. I was convinced you had to kill sentinels for a trophy in NMS, so spent about an hour killing them yesterday. After a while I wondered why the trophy wasn't popping, so had a look and ......nope, doesn't exist. The rest of the trophies are all counted in the in game milestones, the only extra one is the sentinels, so I think I probably assumed I needed that too. Only the survive on extreme planets left, just going to let the game run occasionally while I'm doing other things and it'll pop eventually. Only done 10 sols out of the 32 needed (I think) so it'll be a while yetDecided while I'm in the mood I'd try and knock off the PS4 versions trophies as well.....but forgot I'd not played it on the PS5, so no saved game, and none uploaded to cloud, so have to start from scratch. Think I'd still rather try and get the 2 plats while I'm in the mood though
Getting near the same point in the PS4 version of NMS as I am in the PS5 version but thinking that's probably a bad thing - instead of having to wait around on extreme planets for ages in one game, I'll have to do it twice. The PS4 version has the option of uploading to PS5 (can't do the opposite) but I don't trust the trophy will just pop (it might well do but other games have been a bit weird about what trophies pop immediately and which don't when transferring between PS4 & 5) so don't want to risk losing the progress, so I'll stick to earning them properly. I'm still enjoying it at the minute so it's no big hassle and I reckon by the end of the weekend I'll have pinged at least one of them.
Just preordered Callisto Protocol for £43 from Game Collection plus they gave me £6 in reward points to spend on next game I buy...in 2024.
Still enjoying Wonderlands. I've been trying to clear all side missions before finishing the main story but think I'll just finish the main story tonight.
The plat is looking very doable but with a silly grind. For one trophy you need to upgrade every thing to max which costs approx 306 million credits. I'm near the end of the main story having done loads of side missions and I've earned approx 4 million.
The plat is looking very doable but with a silly grind. For one trophy you need to upgrade every thing to max which costs approx 306 million credits. I'm near the end of the main story having done loads of side missions and I've earned approx 4 million.
Double pinged No Man's Sky (PS4 & 5). First one was fine, messed around with the base creating stuff and the extreme survival trophy popped quickly enough. But once was enough and wasn't in the mood to do the same for the PS4 version. So built a small hut and just left it for hours while I replayed the first Gears of War on the Series S and a bit of Fallout 3. Before that I wouldn't have been opposed to playing a bit more NMS but sitting around on the one planet for countless hours doused any enthusiasm. I know they probably want you to earn it cumulatively rather than in one sitting though. My fault, not the gamesAfter that jumped around games a bit. Finally picked up the Modern Warfare reboot (the one that's not the original or remaster) but bloody hell they made the digital version a bit of a hassle to install. First pick what you want to install, fine, not a bad idea. Picked them all, as I'd probably give the MP and spec ops a wee go but mostly focus on the campaign. Hours later when it was supposedly finished installing, couldn't connect to the server first time so kept in in offline mode with the intent to start the campaign.... of course it said no, the campaign pack was actually not installed but then brought up a menu showing that everything was installed. Connected to the server and guess what? It said they'd installed nothing at all..... what the hell was it doing all those hours and why ask what I wanted to install in the first place if they were going to ignore it? Fine.... clicked on the single played to download first - 10gb wont take that long..... Had a look 10 minutes later it had jumped to 20gb, and finally jumped to 23gb.
Kind of lost a bit of motivation to play it after that, but from the little I did play, it definitely felt a bit more interesting that the other unfinished CoD's I've sitting about.
Not really sure it's 100% what I'm in the mood for though
Congrats Deck. I managed to plat NMS a few years ago but didn't like it. It was the fauna trophy that made it even worse for me. Would always take me ages to find the last animal.
You must be near 200 plats now?
Played a bit of Wonderlands over the weekend. Finished the main story and only have one side quest left (although not sure where that spawns). Then it's time to grind the end game content for money so I can max all the upgrades.
You must be near 200 plats now?
Played a bit of Wonderlands over the weekend. Finished the main story and only have one side quest left (although not sure where that spawns). Then it's time to grind the end game content for money so I can max all the upgrades.
Up to 193 plats, I still seem to have the usual - no pings for ages then a few in quick succession. I was thinking number 200 should be something significant so I'm toying with the idea to go for the Grid plat when I get that far lol. Should probably reinstall it now, that way I'll probably have it done in about 6 months time ;)The fauna trophy in NMS is a wee bit easier now but yeah I still had quite a few planets I found most of the animals immediately but one or two just wouldn't spawn. And it was the one that put me off attempting the plat when it was first out
Yeah I'm starting to think what plat 200 should be even though it's a little way off for me (at the rate I get them).
It'll show as a milestone forever on PSN Profiles so want to make it a decent one.
It'll show as a milestone forever on PSN Profiles so want to make it a decent one.
Think I'm going to attempt to ping Disgaea 6 next. I've stuck 170 odd hours into it on and off and only have a few trophies left. Looks like a wee bit of a grind though, I mean one of them is reach level 99,999,999 which looks a bit ridiculous.If it takes less time than I expect I'll consider knocking out the PS4 version too, but more likely I'll probably give Two Point Campus a go after that. Enjoyed Two Point Hospital and don't think it's hugely different from it.
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Still in working hell but i´ll be on vacations in two days. Thank god!
Been playing Death Stranding for the last days.
Its a difficult game to understand in terms of concept and what is going for but i cant say im not enjoying it.
I get the vibe of the whole thing and im willing to go with it and take it as i think the developers wanted me to.
Just returned from some vacation days. I attended a few concerts and spent a few days out in nature. Still managed to game a bit.I'm bouncing between a lot of things right now (Octopath/Hades/Flight Simulator). I decided to give Sea of Thieves a chance, and surprisingly I enjoy it a lot. The simply act of navigating between locations and sailing itself is very relaxing. I'm just playing solo which seems very doable. Tried playing with randoms for a bit but it was easier and more fun on my own.
I also finally did the thing where I fly by my home town in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Very much surreal. The details were incredible for such a small rural area. The golf courses and sports complexes were visible and true to life. The landscapes retained all of their characteristic features. Very, very cool tech involved with this.
Ping! Disgaea 6 (PS5). Thought getting to level 99,999,999 would be the hard part but no, there was a daft difficulty spike for the very last fight, so had to grind a little more before I managed to finish it off. Still, it hasn't put me off starting the PS4 version. And having a good idea what to now I should be able to knock a significant chunk off the sub 180 hours I spent on the PS5 version.... I hope
Making decent progress on the 2nd Disgaea 6 ping. Only a few trophies left but still a fair amount of hours to put in to get them. Still instead of just under 180 hours, it's looking more like 60ish so pretty content with thatTempted to pick up Cult of the Lamb. Always thought I'd make a decent cult leader. Only problem is no followers.....or compelling ideal......or charisma.....and I'm generally not pleasant to be around.... plus I don't like deceiving people. Apart from that it's a perfect job fit
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I think once I'm done with Disgaea I'm going to need a few wee palate cleansers before getting stuck into something meatier. I'll probably pick up Saint's Row later in the month (despite not being completely convinced by what I've seen of it so far) and Soul Hackers 2, so probably better to fill the time in between with smaller efforts. That said I've reinstalled Grid for the thousandth time......
Only one trophy left in D6 but as it's a bit of a grindy one I took a slight break and gave Cult of the Lamb a wee go. Only played about an hour but like what I played. It's jumped to the top of the play next list after I'm done with Disgaea
I almost bought Cult of the Lamb this weekend too. Looks great. I'll look forward to hearing more about your experience Deckard.Instead, I reinstalled Dragon's Dogma and played it all weekend. If the sequel is at least as good as the original, it will be an all time great (for me).
I played a wee bit more of Cult of the Lamb yesterday and definitely enjoying it. Still early days and I think longer term it'll likely come down to how needy your followers get as to whether it becomes tedious, but early on at least it's been good solid fun.Still no 2nd D6 ping yet, by rushing through the rest of the game, it'll take a bit more preparation to polish off the final battle. Hopefully should pop later
Currently playing It Takes Two with the missus on X1S. What a fantastic game! Solid mechanics, great heartfelt story, genuinely funny, genuinely fun :)Solo have just completed Dead Space through backwards compatibility. First time playing it since about 2010 when the plat pinged on the ps3. It's as fantastic as ever. Have also re-bought Dead Space 2 :)
Have sold my ps4 after moving all my game data to an external HDD and my saves onto a usb stick. Got £150 for it, with 2 controllers all cables, 2tb hdd installed, a handful of games and all boxed. Not too bad considering it was the original shape (not the half glossy launch model though).
All ready for a ps5 hopefully later this year/early next. Have already ordered a 1tb ssd for the ps5 because it (WD Black with heatsink) was £99 on amazon so snapped it up.
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Will put it away until I get a PS5 which could possibly be this year.
Ping! Disgaea 6 (PS4). Took a wee bit longer than expected but still managed to knock over 100 hours off the PS5 time.And stuck a good few hours into Cult of the Lamb now. Doesn't really do anything special but it's a solid, fun and at times stylish wee game. No complaints about it here.
Also had a couple of races in Grid..... had a look at how far I'd travelled on the PS5 and it's a little depressing how far I still have to go. Still enjoyed the drive and will have a go now and again but really don't have great hope for me ever getting that around the globe trophy
Finally got around to playing This War of Mine. Imagine what's happening in Ukraine right now. I'm finding it very challenging but am close to sacking it off due to how depressing it is.Since Hades is leaving game pass I will likely switch to that.
I was playing Hades for a bit a few weeks ago too. I have played it before but thought I'd try to grab some more achievements. I really don't know what else to do for progress. I escaped 50 times including 20 in a row but nothing seemed to changed. It's still a great game, but I think I'm done done with it now.
It was called "Broadcast" and i had to reach the top of a huge skyscrapper to mess with some antenna.
Somehow the developers managed to mix most, if not all, of the game mechanics into one single mission and it was amazing.
I did it all, sneak, fight, puzzle climbing, activate power points with a very cool cable mechanic used to activate powerstions in the world, dive underwater, fight/escape Volatiles, get super scared, etc etc.
It took me aprox 2 hts to reach the top and by the end i was so excited i had trouble going to sleep afterwards.
These guys truly put a lot of effort to bring some humanity into the game in contrast to the first one.