What games are you playing currently?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I don't know I am having fun but somehow finding this game a step down from Zero Dawn. There is lots of fun here but I'm finding it too different from the previous one. Still now I have started it I have to finish it.

Also they removed the ability to whistle and calling a mount has become limited to 1

 

[StarMan]

Horizon: Forbidden West arrived today. Just spent about 90 minutes tweaking settings and HDR in resolution mode. Performance mode has got some issues to be sure.

@Gingerbread Demon - I think Aloy looks great. The character animations look phenomenal (cut scenes and in-game).

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Horizon: Forbidden West arrived today. Just spent about 90 minutes tweaking settings and HDR in resolution mode. Performance mode has got some issues to be sure.

@Gingerbread Demon - I think Aloy looks great. The character animations look phenomenal (cut scenes and in-game).

I have no problem with the look of Aloy I think it's just some camera angles made her head look a funny shape. I'm playing on story mode because I always do a first run of most games on easy then do harder later. Good thing about this game is that you can change all that without having to start over.

Spoiler

I still maintain they changed a bit too much of what I liked from the first game and made it too much like what everyone else is doing rather then sticking with what worked in Zero Dawn. Also I'm at the part where the game kind of jumped the shark a teeny tiny bit. We know now what the signal was that made the Faro Swarm go nuts. Big implications for the first game.

 

[wayoung]

Did anyone get Total War: Warhammer 3? Pro reviews are positive, but user reviews have been mixed. I really enjoyed the last 2.

 

[StarMan]

@Gingerbread Demon I think I might've caught a HFW spoiler in your previous post. I stopped reading after catching some of it. Any chance you can tag it?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

@Gingerbread Demon I think I might've caught a HFW spoiler in your previous post. I stopped reading after catching some of it. Any chance you can tag it?

I fixed it thank you ....... Just slipped my mind that people would be spoilt being a new game and all. Sorry

 

[StarMan]

I fixed it thank you ....... Just slipped my mind that people would be spoilt being a new game and all. Sorry

All good! What I glanced wasn't enough to bother me. More of a "ahhh shit - scroll!" moment. Cheers.

I'm giving it a go on hard. Just did a replay of Ghost of Tsushima on hard and enjoyed the extra challenge. I know towards the end of HZD I felt overpowered. I'll just have to stay sharp early on while I build up skills and weapons.

Also, the devs are working on a patch to address visual elements in the game (shimmering, HDR, pop-in problems) as well as an assortment of other issues reported. I think the game looks amazing in resolution mode even though it's a tad buggy and I can't quite get the HDR right. Can't wait to see how it looks once they launch the patch.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Oddly my TV has HDR by default but I tend to enjoy my games without that turned on.

 

[BigFoot]

I personally love HDR.

 

[FPAlpha]

Did anyone get Total War: Warhammer 3? Pro reviews are positive, but user reviews have been mixed. I really enjoyed the last 2.

I have and i like it.

So far about 10 hours in with Cathay and it's a Total War game alright. If you have already played any of the TW games you can skip the prologue campaign, that just teaches you the basics but can be blasted through in an hour or two for completeness sake.

There have been some small detail changes such as Diplomacy ( there's a button now that let's you automatically add just enough money to make the deal happen if you have the money, no more guessing).

The other part that was heavily reworked was Sieges but i didn't play that much, it is tedious and boring to me ( though cities/fortresses tend to look great and have some variety to them).

Cathay gameplay mechanics are interesting - it's all about balance with them ( Yin/Yang). On a strategic scale some buildings/research/Lors give you points for either state ( Yin or Yang) and if you manage to be in complete harmony the bonuses are significant.

On a tactical scale something similar takes place - close combat units usually belong to Yang, shooter units to Ying but if they are close enough together they each give the other bonuses. It's a rather defensive force but can pack a punch in almost all fields - your Legendary Lord can transform into a dragon which gives you a massive boost early in the game and can decide the battle easily.
I guess in mid/late game when more powerful units get to the battlefield you would have to be more careful.

All considered i really like it so far - they didn't reinvent the formula ( but why would you), tweaked it here and there and introduced some new features that i have yet to explore fully.

 

[Rincewiend]

All good! What I glanced wasn't enough to bother me. More of a "ahhh shit - scroll!" moment. Cheers.

I'm giving it a go on hard. Just did a replay of Ghost of Tsushima on hard and enjoyed the extra challenge. I know towards the end of HZD I felt overpowered. I'll just have to stay sharp early on while I build up skills and weapons.

Also, the devs are working on a patch to address visual elements in the game (shimmering, HDR, pop-in problems) as well as an assortment of other issues reported. I think the game looks amazing in resolution mode even though it's a tad buggy and I can't quite get the HDR right. Can't wait to see how it looks once they launch the patch.

It does seem they upped the difficulty compared with Zero Dawn...
It runs reaaly nice on my base PS4, but i'm glad i replaced the internal HDD with an SSD last year...
Love the new robot designs, Otters and Kangaroos are 2 of the new ones...

 

[Owain Taggart]

Shenmue III on PC. Such a beautiful game. Although kind of jarring when you consider how old 1 & 2 are even when you consider the remasters. You really feel the 18-year gap between the 2nd and 3rd game. Makes me wish the first two would be completely remade, and I've seen that Sega at one point was working on remaking them on the Unreal engine before they abandoned that for the remasters they released in 2018.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Hey sort of gaming related but just wondering if the Focus as it's shown in Horizon Zero Dawn was real and very affordable would you buy one?

 

[Owain Taggart]

Maybe. Sort of like an AR device? It could be useful to highlight contacts and a realtime terrain gps system.

I guess one thing I'm wondering about is if you have access to different type of mounts this time around. First time I saw the ostrich-like thing in the first game, I was disappointed when I realized I couldn't tame it. And I was thinking, different types of mounts would add to different strategies, with different mounts having different characteristics such as speed and agility. The differences in the mounts in the original game were mostly visual, as they were the same animal.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Maybe. Sort of like an AR device? It could be useful to highlight contacts and a realtime terrain gps system.

I guess one thing I'm wondering about is if you have access to different type of mounts this time around. First time I saw the ostrich-like thing in the first game, I was disappointed when I realized I couldn't tame it. And I was thinking, different types of mounts would add to different strategies, with different mounts having different characteristics such as speed and agility. The differences in the mounts in the original game were mostly visual, as they were the same animal.

Well in this game the new machines like the burrrowers act like Watchers from the old game even down to the sound effects. They recycled a lot of those for different creatures. You can ride Chargers like the old game but now can also ride Bristlebacks, Clawstriders, and Sunwings. So there's even a flying mount now.

 

[Random_Spock]

Been playing Pokemon Legends Arceus, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shield. Just started the first one and it's a pretty good Pokemon take on a BOTW type game, working on training my Pokemon in the second one and doing some Shiny Pokemon hunting in the third.

 

[JD]

I should be starting Horizon tomorrow. It’s all downloaded and ready to go

Which one, there are two?
I finished up the main Assembled storyline in the PS4 Avengers game, and so now I'm focusing on the original Uncharted.
I'm not sure if I'm going to do any of the Avengers Initiative stuff, but I'm definitely going to check out the story expansions. Can you do the Initiative stuff by yourself or is it multiplayer only?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

So far I like Forbidden West it's fun despite what I think were story parts I didn't like. I'm going to do more sidequests, things I didn't really take the time to do in the last game.

 

[Owain Taggart]

One of my favourite things about the original game were the sidequests. They filled in the lore and didn't feel like filler, and I only wished there were more of them.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I also started Far Cry 6 and playing it on a system with 32gig ram and an APU, which surprisingly is doing well at 1080p medium settings without a dedicated gpu card, I even got it to run on a Ryzen 3 laptop but at 1080p low