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Gave Humanity a go. Didn't really have much interest in it as it looked like a modernish take on Lemmings. Only really gave it a go for the VR mode and, although it's not one to showcase the PSVR2, I definitely played it longer than expected because of it. Might stick it on every now and then for a change of pace
DeckardCain's Sandals wrote: "Gave Humanity a go. Didn't really have much interest in it as it looked like a modernish take on Lemmings. Only really gave it a go for the VR mode and, although it's not one to showcase the PSVR2,..."I fancy that , i just picked up psvr 2 so intersted in a few games. Resi 8 is amazing
Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "I whish i could convice myself to stop playing new games and replay some of my old favourites for a change.I´ve been wanting to replay games like Alien Isolation, Soma, Days Gone but my huge backl..."
Ive deciced to stop buying new games too (non VR ones) i have so many games i woudl love to play again and i pay for gamepass and never touch it. ive playeed like 10 mins atomic heart and that Tokyo horror game , i forget the name. I shoudl really invest more time in to game pass games
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I´ve been wanting to replay games like Alien ..."
Im actually playing Atomic Heart through gamepass.
I have gamepass for more then 1 year and the only game i played so far was Fallout 3.
How was the Tokyo game mate?
I always find plenty to play on GamePass. I've been working my through the Legendary Edition versions of Mass Effect. Played a fantastic Metroid-like - Ghost Song - a few months ago. Chivalry 2 is unbelievably fun medieval combat. Empire of Sin was a great gangster tactics game. Metal: Hellsinger was a blast. These are just games I've really enjoyed over the past year or so off the top of my head. I haven't even made it to half the games I'd like to try out.Persona has it's hooks in me now, so I have three long and highly regarded JRPGs to enjoy.
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No doubt there are huge savings to be made with gamepass and the ps+ tiers....but you just don't get that new car smell ;)
Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "BauerRAT wrote: "Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "I whish i could convice myself to stop playing new games and replay some of my old favourites for a change.I´ve been wanting to replay ..."
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Ghostwire Tokyo , thats the name , i just couldnt remember .
Erm ive not played much, but seem s ok weird. I would have much prefered The Evil Within 3 which it was going to be.
I may go back to it
im not sold on Gamepass, im sure its just a me thing, i just dont feel in invested in anything i download and what i did get into got took off before i could finish it Doesnt help it seems to be dumping ground for just crap games , i tried The Last Case of Benedict Fox recently, bloody awful. I was going to try Redfall , but i couldnt face it it lol
I was similar with Gamepass, downloaded a few but just couldn't settle. I unsubbed from it a few months back and have pretty much abandoned my xbox at the minute.
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Somerville
Atomic Heart
High on Life
A Plague Tale Requiem
Gears 5
Deathloop
State of Decay 2
Unpacking
The Ascent
Aliens Fireteam Elite
The Gunk
Halo Infinite
Forza Horizon 5
Sniper Elite 5
Dirt 5
Back 4 Blood
Control
Maneater
Psychonauts 2
Doom Eternal
Zombie Army 4
Prey
Rage 2
The Outer Worlds
World War Z
Crackdown 3 (ok, I'll accept defeat on this one lol)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
And quite a few hidden gems or released later to games pass such as Omno , Chivalry 2, Recompile, Metro Exodus, Destiny 2
Honestly nearly all of the above have been on games pass on release. It's saved me a fortune and most I planned to play anyway.
Gave Red Matter 2 a wee go at the weekend. I didn't play too much, but was impressed by it more than a lot of VR I've played. Also gave a VR2 mini golf game a go, and even it was a decent example of how much better the VR2 is than the first. Even forgetting the visual side of it, with the new controllers and the cameras mounted in the headset, there's just a lot more freedom.
R(ob) wrote: "Perhaps we like different games but I've played loads, most have been on my wishlist and have come onto games pass on release day. Some examples of what I've played on games pass:Somerville
Atomi..."
Nice .. i think if i wasnt primarily on the PS5 and fought tempation to buy games on release and forced myself to actually commit to game i start even if it isnt amazing in in the first hour, like i would if i bought it , i would get on better with gamepass.
It think i was just expecting a world of amazing games i couldnt play anywhere else . Instead i got games ive already played and shite like hifi-rush and redfall.
BUT as i say i could try harder with gamepass ... but when i see reviews for redfall saying "good enough fo gamepass" it makes me worry ..... but it did give me Goldeneye so its not all disappointing.
DeckardCain's Sandals wrote: "Gave Red Matter 2 a wee go at the weekend. I didn't play too much, but was impressed by it more than a lot of VR I've played. Also gave a VR2 mini golf game a go, and even it was a decent example o..."I really want that looks amazing
Ive been playing Pavlov this weekend, superb stuff
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Yea I don't disagree with you on Redfall - massive disappointment, even I've not bothered to play it, but there has been a lot of good games on games pass over the last couple of years. And on my game wishlist most have come onto games pass fortunately for me. You can get most of these games on PS5 but I find they either come onto games pass quite often on release, or relatively soon after (within the first year). PS+ extra doesn't appear to be as laden with such good games as early but there have been some good games on it too. So, I tend to wait it out, mostly but not always - I cracked on Jedi Survivor but that will definitely be on games pass within a year.
What i do like about Gamepass is the ability to try games i woudnt normally buy. like that Hunter call of the wild. I dont think its for me, but its nice to be able to try it. Ive just downloaded Age of Empires and Crusader Kings is it ? ... to try and broaden my gaming horizons. Again i wouldnt risk buying them, so GP is ideal I do need to cut down on my game spending so i really should utilise gamepass more really.
im looking forward to Texas Chainsaw Massacre coming out on it
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Its just another layer added to my huge backlog.
But there´s some cool games in there that i have on my wishlist and i intend to play them eventually.
But i confess that the constant news on games that run worse on the Xbox X kinda annoys me enough to consider buying them for the PS5.
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Anyway. Over the weekend I progressed a bit further on Jedi Survivor - still loving it. The recent "performance patch" basically did very little - slightly improved but still a lot of stutter due to the frame rate. I started Humanity too. Initially impressions are it's an excellent puzzle game, with very chilled music, but then I got further into it and found it got a lot more difficult - especially rescuing the golden big fellas with the humans - and I found it kinda stessful lol. You can pause the game to plan ahead but still you're up against time before all of your humans start to fall off the edge if you don't put your direction markers down quick enough. A cracking game but not sure it's my thing - I'll give it more time and see if it clicks.
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I think its due to bad optimization mostly.
I remember reading recently Ghostwire Tokyo running considerabily worse on the X which is weird since the game launched on the ps5 last year i think.
Ive never heard this games running worse on X thing ?I thought it was more powerful ?
Im 6 trophies of Jedi Plat, but last ones are very grindy, i need to pretty much 100% every planet
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I thought it was more powerful ?
Im 6 trophies of Jedi Plat, but last ones are very grindy, i need to pretty much 100% every planet"
I think its only due to bad optimization as supposedly the X is indeed a bit more powerfull.
I´ve read this for a couple of games but i dont think its a big deal.
Im currently playing Atomic Heart and it runs pretty well apart from some ocasional frame drops.
Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "BauerRAT wrote: "Ive never heard this games running worse on X thing ?I thought it was more powerful ?
Im 6 trophies of Jedi Plat, but last ones are very grindy, i need to pretty much 100% every..."
is Atomic Heart worth a play? i have it downloaded
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I thought it was more powerful ?
Im 6 trophies of Jedi Plat, but last ones are v..."
Im enjoying it quite a bit.
As Rob said, its very Bioshockish. Its not an immersive sim but it feels like one, if you know what i mean.
The world itself is very well crafted.
I keep going back and forth to the save rooms everytime i feel like its worth to save again which adds to the immersion , as everything starts feeling familiar after a while.
The enemies are a bit harder then usual which also adds a bit of survival horror to the game.
Im still in the first underground area (4 or 5 hrs so far) though and havent yet seen the open world at the top.
I also found a skill which has been very helpfull when dealing with enemies. Its called Mass Telekynesis and allows to suspend enemies in the air leaving them defenseless while it lasts. Since i started using it it became a lot less chaotic when im attacked.
Cheers Chaps, i do love me some Bioshock ill give it a crack
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Awesome Rob.
I´ll definitely keep that in mind as i have a feeling Mass Telekynesis wont be very helpfull when facing giant bosses.
BauerRAT wrote: "Ive never heard this games running worse on X thing ?I thought it was more powerful ?
Im 6 trophies of Jedi Plat, but last ones are very grindy, i need to pretty much 100% every planet"
I've read lots of times that the SX tends to hit a higher resolution than the ps5, but the ps5 runs games at a more consistent 60fps...by all accounts the differences both ways are negligible. Both beast machines.
Same with the ps5 being a better 4k blu-ray player - you can only tell if you have both machines set up on identical tvs, side-by-side, and you have terminator eyes lol
I still have the boy's PS5 sitting downstairs collecting dust (they don't really play much). Temped to just hop on the thing and buy Returnal. By the time I finish up Persona 5 (amazing btw) It will probably be time for Diablo 4. I'm not going to be able to resist that one and it will probably eat up a month or more.
Cheers for advice on Atomic Heart R In other news i am livid, despite spending 54 hours on jedi Survivor i cant get teh plat , one of the trophies has glitched. Seems it s happened for quite a few people.
This is why i dont trophy hunt, its annoying as fupp.
oh well it was a brilliant game none the less, now on to Horizon Forbidden West
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In other news i am livid, despite spending 54 hours on jedi Survivor i cant get teh plat , one of the trophies has glitched. Seems it s happened for quite a fe..."
That sucks mate.
Hope they fix it and you get the trophy.
I myself still enjoying Atomic Heart.
Still in the underground facility and no glimpse of the outside open world but no complaints so far.
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i really loved ratchet and clank , it was my first game in the franchise . great fun
I've not been able to settle on much the past few days. Don't want to commit to anything too meaty with Diablo around the corner, so have been jumping between games, which is starting to irritate. Gave Thymesia a wee go, not top quality but seems an OKish cheapo soulslike. Might try and stick with it and see if improves
DeckardCain's Sandals wrote: "I've not been able to settle on much the past few days. Don't want to commit to anything too meaty with Diablo around the corner, so have been jumping between games, which is starting to irritate. ..."Yeah i wonderd about that Thymesia , looks like if you ordered Bloodborne from Wish.com ;)
I really wish i got Diablo games, ive got one on my switch and i just dont get the hook. Ive played a good few hours but just seems slash slash. No real story to speak off? . I guess its all about the loot ?
As i say i wish i got it , cause the whole aesthetic is really cool.
Im clearly in the minority its massively popular, so sure its just me.
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I liked Diablo 2 more then D3 but i cant tell you exactly why.
D3 was that perfect game to switch of the brain, kill monsters and level up. If you get in the mood it can become really addictive but i always go back to D2 when i think of the franchise.
I havent seen anything of D4 tbh. Does it look good?
Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "BauerRAT wrote: "DeckardCain's Sandals wrote: "I've not been able to settle on much the past few days. Don't want to commit to anything too meaty with Diablo around the corner, so have been jumping..."Yeah everyone said its addictive, but never grabbed me .
new one looks the part.
I see xboxs name all over it, is it going to Gamepass does anyone know ?
Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "BauerRAT wrote: "DeckardCain's Sandals wrote: "I've not been able to settle on much the past few days. Don't want to commit to anything too meaty with Diablo around the corner, so have been jumping..."I played one of the betas and had a fantastic time with it. It will be Diablo, but there is a return to the darker aesthetic of II rather than the neon explosions of III. There are still acts, but just one giant overworld they plop you in the middle of to start. It looks and feels great to me, but it doesn't really shake up the Diablo formula all that much, other than how your dungeon crawling is structured.
I see Alan Wake 2 has appeared on the store to pre order. Maybe I'll replay the first one again to keep me occupied
DeckardCain's Sandals wrote: "I see Alan Wake 2 has appeared on the store to pre order. Maybe I'll replay the first one again to keep me occupied"Gutted to read its not getting a physical release
A few years ago, the lack of a physical version probably would have annoyed me, but these days I'm completely digital, so it's not a big deal for me.
Plus if it means Alan Wake 2 for £50 rather than £70, I'll take it
DeckardCain's Sandals wrote: "Plus if it means Alan Wake 2 for £50 rather than £70, I'll take it"If digital meant cheaper i would be ok with it , but it doesnt on my bloody PSN store lol
Im still old school, i have warmed to digital and i do buy more, but i still like my boxes. Resi4 remake cost me £45 from game collection had a lovely 3D box art and just looks great . Its £60 on the store i believe
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I need advise on how to deal with the topside open world village area in Atomic Heart.
I got there and 5 minutes after i was Benny Hilling through the area just trying to stay alive.
Ended up ignoring all threats and cameras and ran like a baby to my objective marker.
Damn...that area was brutal...
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I see.
Thanks Rob.
I still dont have vehicles but i´ll surely ran through the map and wont bother too much exploring. I really hate having to be in constant stress in games.
Thats i would love to play survival games but i end up not doing so.
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Don't think you need to worry about the Alan Wake 2 price R. On the PS store, the likes of Exoprimal and the Alone in the Dark remake are sub £50. Then again, I've a knack of guessing the exact opposite of what happens
I´ve been wanting to replay games like Alien Isolation, Soma, Days Gone but my huge backlog always puts me off.
On other note, so far i cant say im not enjoying Atomic Heart.
It has a Bioshock feel to it that im finding really interesting.
The game is quite difficult as the robots i´ve met so far hit really hard but that puts in more serious and tense tone to the game, imo.
This may very well fall apart later on but so far...yeah...im liking it.