What games are you playing now?

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Chorus is amazing! It wasn't really grabbing me at first, it felt too much like a "normal" space shooter (if there is such a thing), but after unlocking a few abilities it's really slick. It's challenging, not too challenging but I have absolutely no idea how anyone could finish it on permadeath mode. I remember it reviewing quite well but I think it's underrated now, I feel like it passed most people by. The graphics are great, audio, voice acting, plot etc. all solid, it does have a little jank like mission triggers not quite working correctly but overall I think it's great. Definitely recommended if you get the chance.
 
I found some 12 hours to play and finish Tomb Raider (2013). I played/finished the original on the Xbox 360, and the Ultimate Edition on the Xbox One X, and now on PC. It may last 15 hours of play if you are a completist, and I find this length perfect instead of so many 40+ hours bloated 1 player games out there.

It's still of the finest adventure games there is, but due to the heavy influence of the Uncharted series, I don't think it's necessarily one of the best Tomb Raider games, because there is little tomb raiding to do. Fortunately, this would be corrected from the 2nd game in the Survivor series, while keeping the heavy cinematic action, fine voice acting, and high production values, and only 2 years after! We need to go back to those development times.

8.0/10 on PC just because of some random fatal bug for which I had to dig up a 9-year-old video on YouTube. 9/10 in any other platform.
 
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I’m also jumping back into the Tomb Raider games. Played the first of the Survivor trilogy when it was first released and again a couple of years ago. Now I found that I’d bought Rise at some point on PS but never started it, so it’s downloading now. Think I might have Shadow as well (maybe through Plus) so I’m all set to catch up before Atlantis & Catalyst.
 
Finished Chorus and I don't even know what to say, I thought it was amazing. Not perfect by any means, but that's up there with Hellblade and Titanfall 2 for games I didn't expect to enjoy anywhere near as much as I did. I kept asking myself "is this getting silly now?" but it never fully crossed that line, even at the end I thought that while yes, it was full of tropes, the game had done enough for me to continue to take it seriously even if the antagonists were entirely made of tropes. But as far as power fantasy goes it's hard to top that.

Edit: followed Chorus up with the only game I possibly could've, Arctic Eggs. Not gonna lie it had me quietly raging at times, the cockroaches especially. I found I kept finding and losing the knack to it, and I actually think it's because it made me hungry for eggs and I don't have any. 3.1 hours later and I'm all finished and in no hurry to go back, but I liked how weird it was.
 
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Played Small Radios, Big Televisions today, just over an hour and a half long, it's an entirely OK puzzle game that I'd had my eye on since 2016 but only bought when Warner Bros started removing their games from Steam. Not much to say about it, really.

I then spent some time going through my Steam library, and it turns out I've played almost all the games I've bought since 2023, I didn't go any further back than that though (I'm just checking now... Oops, 2022 was not a good year). That's pretty good going! I was trying to get my Deck down to fewer than 100 games installed but I just installed a few more of those unplayed games and I'm back up to 103. I swear I've never had fewer than 100 or more than 110 games installed at any given time since I got it.

Anyway, on to MGS 3 now, I'm excited. I dipped into MGS 2's missions yesterday and did about 6% of Snake's (that's about 30 missions) but it just made me want to play MGS 3 rather than more missions. So here I am, doing exactly that.
 
I've been playing the Game of the Year... of last year: Astrobot. It builds upon and expands on Astrobot's Playroom with an adventure that has you trying to repair your PS5 "starship" and rescue your fellow bots after being attacked by a green alien foe (hidden message?).
 
Wanted to play a Christmasy game but realised I don't really have one. Miles Morales is probably the closest, weirdly. Will probably reinstall that and just swing through the snow.
 
Hogwarts legacy is free on Epic so I decided to give it a try to see what all the fuss is about.

Played about 2 hours and you can tell it's a well put together game with a lot of attention to detail and a lot of time put into the world but I never liked Harry Potter and the whole Goblins and spells thing and no matter how good the game is i doubt this will changed my mind. Oh well back to BF6 and GT7...
 
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Wanted to play a Christmasy game but realised I don't really have one. Miles Morales is probably the closest, weirdly. Will probably reinstall that and just swing through the snow.
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MM is my favorite of the bunch.

Yakuza games are often set around xmas.
 
I reinstalled Avatar Frontiers of Pandora and started a new game to experience the new third-person mode. A very good game that now feels renewed with this update that runs great on PC.
 
Finished MGS 3, if I'm honest with myself I didn't enjoy it as much as I remembered enjoying it 20 years ago. Up to The End is good, but from The End to the end it's pretty dull, briefly frustrating and then it ends on a high note with The Boss fight, then the never-ending ending is dull again.

I'm pretty sure most of the long chats happen right at the end, The Boss recapping her life is like come onnn let's just fight so I can go home! Basically, the pacing is thrown way off. Early in the game it's good; you do a bit of stealth, fight a boss and it maintains a good tempo. Then, after the Volgin fight, you do a chase, fight Volgin again (on rails, repeating the same actions maybe 10 times), fight Volgin again (except you barely even need to move, again repeating the same actions over and over), do another chase, then a chase but on foot this time, listen to lots of talking, fight The Boss, listen to lots more talking and then find out you're a pigeon.

I had the same criticism of MGS 2, and MGS. MGS 4 as well. Not MGS V though because instead of trailing off in the third act, the third act just doesn't exist.
 
Giving Baldur's Gate 3 one last try. I saw that there are now console mods, so I should find some good ones that'll interest me.
 
Finally remembered that Nobody Saves the World exists so figured I'd check it out as I'd heard it was good, and it is!

Which is good, because I was struggling to find something after MGS 3, I tried the System Shock remaster but something about it repulsed me, tried Marathon 1, 2 and 3 but the extremely narrow field of view made me feel too claustrophobic. I also tried Hot Brass quickly but the controls were a bit too complex for me to dip in so I'll have to give it another go some other time.

I just got Mouthwashing in the Steam sale so I think that'll be next, but who knows.
 
I am trying out some new stuff on Steam on my new "budget" gaming laptop:

1. AC Evo - handling needed a lot of tweaking on controller but I've got it closer to the level I need and finished the first 3 Academy licences.

2. Picked up most of the DLC for American Truck Simulator (I only had the base game with my last laptop) and do 2 or 3 deliveries each day (started a new save). So far I'm focusing on areas I remember from my Route 66 trip (Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Seligman, Kingman, Roswell, Vegas etc). Don't have Illinois yet (or the other states from the last 2 years) so can't try out the Chicago area.

If I ever get to the end of that, or bored of it, I can buy all the DLC for Euro Truck Simulator in the next sale :lol:

3. I found I can run The Crew 2 pretty much on max settings so the map is nicer to cruise around than on Series S.

3. Installed some other stuff via GamePass but not played yet:

Indiana Jones
Forza Motorsport 23

Wondering what other games would be good tests for the graphics card (5050).

Not bought AC Rally yet (read it's very difficult) or Tokyo Extreme Racer (which is not on offer in the Steam sale).
 
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My son was Ratchet & Clank PS4 so I decided to play. I haven't played in awhile so I didn't remember where I was in the game. I thought my son was ahead me but he wasn't. I am basically at the end of the game just have to find one last Ryno card. I also stated Yakuza 3 Remastered.
 
Made some big progress in Disney Dreamlight Valley:
  • Unlocked Mulan, Mushu and Cinderella
  • Upgraded my Hourglass Staff to earn more Mist and Ancient Materials. I think once I fully max it out, it will let me continue with the main story in the DLC.

After I finish the main story of Rift in Time, I'll probably get the next expansion: Storybook Vale.
 
Gave Hogwarts another couple of hours but still cant get into it. Uninstalled.

Started Silent Hill 2 the remake again, such a great game, forgot how scary and tense it was. Just made it to the hospital and it only gets more intense from here on. Lights off and headphones on for this one.

Also GT7 and BF6 as usual.
 
I spent the morning playing "WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS THING???" A PC exclusive game, of course, where you have to figure why a game that was running fine last week is now crap in some scenarios, while other games don't, even if they are more graphically intensive. By process of elimination, the culprit was apparently a bad MOBO utilities update, but we'll see.

TypeRDC5
Gave Hogwarts another couple of hours but still cant get into it. Uninstalled.
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Yeah, if you are not into the Harry Potter universe, nothing there will make you enjoy it. I guess the same can be said of other themed franchises (Star Wars, Avatar, Lego, etc.)
 
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Nacho Libre
I spent the morning playing "WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS THING???" A PC exclusive game, of course, where you have to figure why a game that was running fine last week is now crap in some scenarios, while other games don't, even if they are more graphically intensive. By process of elimination, the culprit was apparently a bad MOBO utilities update, but we'll see.
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I have played that game at work a few times with users laptops 🤣🤣 Sometimes for a couple of days and remotely as well.
 
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Gave Hogwarts another couple of hours but still cant get into it. Uninstalled.

Started Silent Hill 2 the remake again, such a great game, forgot how scary and tense it was. Just made it to the hospital and it only gets more intense from here on. Lights off and headphones on for this one.

Also GT7 and BF6 as usual.
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I can’t seem to get into Hogwarts legacy either. What things bother you about it?
 
Nacho Libre
I spent the morning playing "WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS THING???" A PC exclusive game, of course, where you have to figure why a game that was running fine last week is now crap in some scenarios, while other games don't, even if they are more graphically intensive. By process of elimination, the culprit was apparently a bad MOBO utilities update, but we'll see.


Yeah, if you are not into the Harry Potter universe, nothing there will make you enjoy it. I guess the same can be said of other themed franchises (Star Wars, Avatar, Lego, etc.)
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I haven't played that game (yet) on my laptop, but I know its just a matter of time...

I found Grid Legends PC was available via EA Play, along with F1 23, so I've downloaded those as well.

The graphics on Grid Legends on PC don't seem much better than Series S to me, at first glance, so I've uninstalled it again. I own the complete edition on Xbox anyway.

Currently waiting for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and Clair Obscur to download (both are "Xbox Play Anywhere" games).

Edit: FM23 - if I turn off Ray Tracing i can get 50fps on ultra settings at 1920x1080 which i am happy with (plus you can turn motion blur off on PC!!!)
 
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I can’t seem to get into Hogwarts legacy either. What things bother you about it?
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Im just not a fan of Harry Potter in general.

I was told by multiple people that aren't fans of Harry Potter they loved the game and that I would too but I cant get on with the characters or the world.
 
Nacho Libre
Yeah, if you are not into the Harry Potter universe, nothing there will make you enjoy it. I guess the same can be said of other themed franchises (Star Wars, Avatar, Lego, etc.)
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I loved Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars Battlefront and the Spiderman games and im not into those either so I was hoping it would be the same with Hogwarts but it turns out Goblins and magic wands are a deal breaker for me lol
 
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Im just not a fan of Harry Potter in general.

I was told by multiple people that aren't fans of Harry Potter they loved the game and that I would too but I cant get on with the characters or the world.
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Interesting. I am a Harry Potter fan, but the characters didn’t do it to me either. The dynamic is so different from the characters in the movies. And I was expecting when belonging to a house that you would have a clique to hang out and do missions with, but you’re a lone wolf in this game.
 
Deadpool VR for the Quest 3S. Assassins Creed Valhalla for the PS5. CrossOver trial for my Mac to see how some racing sims run on it. So much for reducing the backlog instead of buying new stuff.

I actually made a list of all the games I'd bought and still haven't played much. Even excluding the racing/multiplayer, forever games (NMS, Stardew, etc) and the "free" PS Plus stuff, it runs to hundreds and hundreds of hours. The ones currently installed on PS5:

AC Valhalla, Astro Bot, Canis Canem Edit, Days Gone, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn, Kena, Okami, RDR2, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Robocop Rogue City, Sleeping Dogs, South Park: TFBW, Stray, The Division, The Witcher 3.

The 2026 master plan is to finish at least one of them every month, and not buy anything new (hopefully 007 and GTA get further delays).
 

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