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Apr 20, 2024 03:18AM
Changed my mind about Dave the Diver, it's pretty well done and fairly addictive
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Now I’m struggling for my next game. I have a kinda nothing really grabbing me back log. So it’s one of Callisto Protocol, Dead Space remake or Immortals of Aveum. I played Dead Space back in the day. Anyone have any thoughts good or bad on the other two? Is Immortals rock hard?
Callisto - I really didn't get on with the combat, really wanted to like it but just didn't enjoy the fighting. Immortal - I was playing it on easy, and wouldn't say it was difficult. The enemies take a wee bit much off your life bar per hit but I hadn't died much, very close on occasions but nothing frustrating. There was one level I wasn't fond of, managed it fine but lost a bit of enthusiasm after that. I do plan on returning at some point so it can't be that bad. The start is a bit slow but once you get going there's worse out there.
The Dead Space remake is defo worth a play, absolutely no complaints from me on that one
And yes, games like Terminator Resistance make you wonder whether reviewers actually enjoy gaming. It gets more right than it does wrong, enjoyed it and Robocop a lot more than a lot of AAA titles
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Yea Terminator and Robocop are both excellent games and I really enjoyed both and both are better than most. Kinda old school but no bad thing for me.
Seeing as I have games pass and ps plus extra nothing has come on either service in months I really want to play. The basic ps plus has been better than either.
Ping! Severed (PS Vita)I decided to stick with this over the weekend and glad I did. Hit another difficult bit on Sat night that I just couldn't see me getting past, only to do it first try with ease this morning. I mopped up trophies for 100% locations, finding all secrets etc and then needed two attempts on the final boss.
Was great to see this plat ping after seven years and two weeks. I do like trophies (as you may have noticed) but nothing beats going back to an old, previously abandoned game and cleaning it up. It always bugged me sitting at 25%. I'm not really sure why I gave up on it all those years ago as its a good game.
On #238 now and one step closer to #250
Glad you liked Terminator Resistance R and congrats on another plat.I've been watching quite a few YT vids about how and why AA gaming is doing so well atm. RoboCop and Terminator are always brought up as good examples.
There have been some absolute crackers of late that have destroyed some recent AAA offerings. Remnant 2, Helldivers 2 and Outriders have been some of my favourite games over the last 12+ months and all AA.
Hopefully the AA scene carries on like this as its the place for single games these days.
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Over the coming months I think there are only two games I'm interested in. Still Wakes the Deep (AA) and Starwars Outlaws (AAA). I cannot think of anything else I'm itching to play.
I really like the look of Star Wars Outlaws too. Although Ubisoft are being very Ubisoft about it with their £100+ special editions. Will just go for the standard edition and probably a little while after release in case of bugs early on.Only other game I'm hyped for is Space Marine 2. Not sure who makes that and if that is AA
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More Dave the Diver the past few days for me. 30+ hours so far and no sign of it ending, have a feeling its going to be one that outstays its welcome a little. Mostly decent stuff though
And first ping in what seems like a lifetime - Cities: Skylines (PS4). The 1001 nights trophy finally popped
Congrats Deck, must have took you 1001 hours. Must be an ultra rare on PSNP too.
Finally completed Dragon's Dogma 2 last night. I know I thought I'd be done a week ago, but I guess I hadn't even really started the main quest line. I had no side quests for longest time, then they started popping up left and right as I'm trying to push through to the end. Oh well, I'll just try to tackle them when I do a NG+ run. It feels a bit like Elden Ring, in that I'm sure I missed a ton of content even though I put in at least 60 hours (and probably a lot more). Great game. A real adventure. 9/10
R(ob) wrote: "Yea Space Marine 2 for me as well but no idea when it comes out since they delayed it. I might play Outlaws on Ubisoft plus on Xbox as they put all new games on there and only for a £17.99 month su..."I'm really looking forward to Space Marine II. It's slated for 9th Sept.
Ping! (last night) RoboCop Rogue City. Finished the campaign then booted up a ng+, installed a mega board into the auto-9 which enabled both full-auto and no reloading as well as a huge damage boost, basically maxed out all the skill trees and just powered through about half the game again in just a couple of hours to sweep up the last couple of trophies I had missing from my first (proper) playthrough.
Brilliant little game. A few performance hiccups here and there but still fantastic fun and for my money the best FPS gunplay since Killzone 3.
Now back to HorizonFW to finish off Burning Shores.
I downloaded Fallout 4 again last night as I'm in that kind of mood after the show. I noticed all the DLC was on sale for less than £12 so picked that up. Will do all the Far Harbour, Nuka Cola stuff soon.
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Finished the campaign then booted up a ng+, installed a mega board into the auto-9 which enabled both full-auto and no reloading as well as a huge damage bo..."
Have you played Terminator Resistance from the same developer as RoboCop? Both games are good but I'd have to say my favourite of the two is Terminator.
Equinox80 wrote: "I downloaded Fallout 4 again last night as I'm in that kind of mood after the show. I noticed all the DLC was on sale for less than £12 so picked that up. Will do all the Far Harbour, Nuka Cola stu..."I have done almost the exact same - reinstalled off the disc and bought the season pass on sale - but it's nothing to do with the show, (will watch it at some point but haven't got round to it yet) it's because of the current gen upgrade being released tomorrow.
It's still not clear to me whether the upgrade will just be a patch to make it look and run like current gen game (e.g. like Day's Gone or God of War 2018) or a full conversion to a free-of-charge native current gen version (e.g. Resident Evil 2 and 3 etc). And if it's the latter then what occurs with the dlc? Will it be a free goty edition? Will find out tomorrow i guess.
Yes, part of my going back to Fallout 4 is because of the upgrade too.I'm not sure what the upgrade will be. Probably the first of those two options you mentioned is my guess.
The Fallout 4 upgrade is dropping at a good time for me. Feel like I'm playing Dave the Diver for the sake of it, rather than actually wanting to. That said I may have just hawed Lords of the Fallen (2023) in the May sale (PS really could do with rethinking their sale names...). Did like the 2014 game but had a few too many doubts about the remake to pay full price
Ping! - My Name is Mayo 3Finally got round to completing the best trilogy in gaming.
I actually feel I deserve the plat after that walking section.
Congrats on that one, up there with Grid in terms of platisfaction I'm sure ;)
Haha. Platisfaction!! That's brilliant.
Played the tutorial area of Lords of the Fallen and looks like I had nowt to worry about. Pre-release, i remember the developers were saying things like "re-imagining" and "not made by the original team" which set off more than a few warning bells. They made it sound like a completely different beast.....which it is to be fair, but not in a bad way. Kind of miss the clunky character movement and weird dialogue but, early on at least, the combat is pretty satisfying. It is the type that will live and die on its boss fights, so we'll see, but it's a promising start. Started as the character with a bucket for a weapon, I can't seem to resist picking the most underequipped character in souls types for some reason
Looks like the Fallout 4 upgrade is available to download now. Wasn't there this morning when I looked
And it's a PS5 version rather than a patch of the PS4 one, so maybe more trophies? Find out later I guess, I'll replay it either way
I don't think there are any new trophies. I've read about the patch on pstrophies.org and they made no mention in the article and there's no listing in the bit on the website that shows new lists for new games.To me it looks like a patch for the PS4 game but it detects if you're playing on PS5 or Xbox Series and you get the performance upgrades and options.
Tbh I'm still as unsure as I was before reading the article.
Just stuck it on and yes, there's a 2nd plat possible
Not that I got around to getting the first F4 ping...
Really?? That's good, I think. I can't believe an article on a trophy centric site made no mention of this. I fancied mopping up the DLC trophies of the PS4 version but not sure I fancy going for the plat again though.
You seem to be able to transfer saves, don't know if that'll autopop trophies, but I've decided just to start from scratch
Hmmm, I might look into the autopop option.
Spent a wee bit of time yesterday evening obsessively compulsively clearing out Sanctuary Hills for materials in Fallout 4. Think I'm ready to start wandering next time I play. And typical of the developers - 2 minutes in, my character lost his head literally during a bit of dialogue. Can't think of too many other developers that are as consistent as them in including glitches and bugs ;)
Looks like the new update for Fallout 4 renders old save files obsolete. I can't play the DLC without starting a new main game and playing quite far through. Nice one Bethesda!
Not great if the dlc was all you were after. That said, the map doesn't seem half as intimidating as it used to. I was playing plenty of other games alongside it over the weekend and still managed to uncover about a quarter of the map. Compared to some others, it's not excessive in size. Kind of lost a bit of enthusiasm when I was one shotted by that deathclaw in the basement ;)
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I did consider the Fallout 4 DLC too but only if I can transfer my save file. And I looked at RE4 remake as it's on sale on the PS Store but after a bit of research even on lower difficulties it's still a really challenging game so that's put me off.
I'm hoping the DLC save file thing is sorted out with an update. Originally I could have access to the PS5 version with my PS+ version but they've fixed that now apparently. As I couldn't play Fallout 4, I started the PS4 version of Hot Wheels Unleashed 2. Not really in the mood for it but will be OK completing a handful of races every night over the next week or so.
I'd not been completely sure I was on the mood to replay Fallout 4 over the weekend. but it seems to have clicked rightly now. Not touched the story since leaving the vault, happy just re-wandering the wastes again
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Everyone´s been playing F4 i see. lol.
Im loving the show but i honestly havent felt the itch to replay any of the Fallout games. Probably cause im currently playing Elex 2 (really enjoying it) so the itch is kinda scratched.
Plus, im afraid the new update screws all the mods i have instaled so i havent even updated the game yet.
I also finished RE 3 Remake and i honestly dont think is as bad as everyone said.
Its a very solid Resi game. Maybe not as good as RE2 Remake but pretty good imo.
I finished with 10 hrs so its double the time i was expecting based on the initial reviews.
I do have a HUGE itch to play Far Cry 6 or Avatar Frontiers of Pandora...I´ll probably start FC 6.
So...it turns out there is a huge epilogue for Dragon's Dogma 2. I had to sink in a bunch more hours this weekend, but now I have earned the true ending. It gave me tons of game stats when the credits rolled this time.Total play time 124 hours.
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Awesome mate.
How good is it?
I really enjoyed the first one.
Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "Error wrote: "So...it turns out there is a huge epilogue for Dragon's Dogma 2. I had to sink in a bunch more hours this weekend, but now I have earned the true ending. It gave me tons of game stats..."It's more Dragon's Dogma. If you liked the first one, you will like this as well. It's really just a more refined take on the whole basic premise from the first. I'm really hoping for a DLC similar to the original Dark Arisen version with Bitterblack Isle.
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I´ll get it eventually.
Have you watched the Dragon´s Dogma show on Netflix?
I found it surprisingly good.
Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "How´s everyone doing?Everyone´s been playing F4 i see. lol.
Im loving the show but i honestly havent felt the itch to replay any of the Fallout games. Probably cause im currently playing Elex 2 (..."
I really enjoyed Resi 3 when I played all the remakes / modern (from Resi 7 onwards) games last year...although it was the 'worst' of the Resi games I ploughed through...but that's only because Resi 7, 8, 2remake and 4remake are all awesome, and 3remake is just really good lol.
I did think that 3 was the best of them all graphically though, and yeah, a really fun blast. Took me about 8 or 9 hours I think. Great 'little' game.
R(ob) wrote: "Phil, psn: p4tiny wrote: "Ping! (last night) RoboCop Rogue City. Finished the campaign then booted up a ng+, installed a mega board into the auto-9 which enabled both full-auto and no reloading a..."
I will be getting Terminator Resistance Enhanced in the near future!!
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Everyone´s been playing F4 i see. lol.
Im loving the show but i honestly havent felt the itch to replay any of the Fallout games. ..."
I still havent played Resi 4 Remake but i have it in my backlog.
I feel the same way as the Dead Space Remake. I know they´re probably as good as everyone says but i´ve played both Resi 4 and Dead Space so many times (i think 4 times each) that im reluctant to play the remakes. I mean, how diferent can they actually be? Will i get bored halfway through because i know the stories so well?
Given me the urge to play Resi 6 ;)
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haha.
I hated it until the moment i stopped thinking i was playing a Resi game and changed the chip to a simple action game. Thats when i started having fun.
I remember loving Chris´s campaing cause it was a hell of a third person shooter.
Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "Phil, psn: p4tiny wrote: "Glassmoon - The Benny Hill of Plats wrote: "How´s everyone doing?Everyone´s been playing F4 i see. lol.
Im loving the show but i honestly havent felt the itch to replay ..."
Dead Space remake is one of the absolute best games I have played on ps5 - better than any of the modern Resi games (Resi 2remake being extremely close). I have played it multiple times and got the plat - and I'm a Dead Space veteran, played the original multiple times on ps3, got the plat back in July 2010 (almost 14 years ago! my first ever plat!) and have played the 360 version on my X1S.
For what it's worth, it's the same basic story as the original, but there are subtle changes and lots of gameplay tweaks to bring it up to current standards. Any Horror/action/sci-fi single player gaming fan owes it to themselves to play Dead Space remake, whether you're familiar with the original or not, honestly, knowing the original inside-out doesn't detract at all from the remake.
However, the best horror game I have ever played is still Alien Isolation.
